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(EDITORIAL
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Economic Trend
Is Heartening
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announcement that the Con-
increased only 8.4 percent in
Washington’s
sumer Price Ini
May was like th
that signalled the end of a blazing heat spell
Although uncomfortably high Jt was still a relief
adex
he^O degree temperature reading
4T
?eiv
annuali
cent Nit
compared with,.what had beeH, a short while
before t
For the first time since the sping pf 1978, the
“ jal inflation rate has remained uRder 10 per-
juring three consecutive months. This
simply means that consumer prices a*e still ris-
ing but not nearly as test as the 13.3 percent in
1979 and the 12.4 percent last vear. Clearly, the
declining inflation rate is cooptig the overheated
economy. NN
Earlier this year, the President’s economist
had predicted — and hopefully at that — ah ipfTl
tion rate of inore than 11 perceriHor 1981, with
drop to the current 8.4 percent no'- sooner
1982. Indeed, the battle against inflation is goings
so well now that it tends to become self-fufiUing
eost-oMlving-escalators in wage j6om^
Recline, the savings in labor/ cost are
Ki in moderated price increases' to the
consumer. Moreover, economists-, believe the
Reagan administration's prospective tax sa
ingfl, incentives, and regulatory rehet„will.in-
crease production, lower cost and
decline ofinflation. ‘ I
Remarkably, the nation’s healing from infla-
tion is being matched in other segments of the
ecdnomy. Although prolonged hjghtoterest rates
have now slowed the economyT^onvenllpnal^
x ecOqomic wisdom is still boggled by the startling "
8.6 percent first-quarter jump in the inflation ad
justed gross
pared with only
years. —t-----X
Moreover, the united States'-"registered ■ an „ v...........
astonishing $3.1 billifttifirst-quarter surplus in its control ’u*e Federal pyrse strings coidbard-
foreign trade balance — thejargest in fiveyefars: ly wait/benefits for the poor. But
le trade surplus in turn helped ^rr-HW£.e,Jo !he-v f?iled dqwn nSffifiao^ram
strengtherhqn increasingly robust U.S. dollar on -ler 0,1 °Per;itors after the rei
A lot of the people who come to Texas
from less fortunate states fgil to understand
what1 makes Texas so special in the eyes of
its native residents. * *
“These people seem to think they live in
an independent republic,” these poor
benighted Yankees mutter under their col-
lective breaths.
Well, why shouldn’t ttiey?
Texas has a past more glittering than just
about any state in the Union.-In the earliest
-y^ar
part
mise of opportunity and adventure.
iprs of the 18th century, Texas — then a
part of MexiGo — already held forth a pro-
And when Texhg was faded in 1835 with
the same problems\that the 13 original col-
onies had faced almost 60 years before, her
sons chose to fight for their independence.
ra^c surplus
dherbqri incr
markets-D
man mark
and 13
lyrare
Shawn Balfhrop
If You Don't Like It
Here, Yankee Go Home
a gathering of peoples from
and other states
motley crew. jBqt
-were a meager and
theyj won their in-
waxes stronger, as do Dallas and other
Texas cities.
And yet the Yankees who flock to this area
continually deride its customs and its
history, and the native pride of the Texan
for his state. They don’t like the state, they
say, and they don’t like the people.
. I can well understand "the attitude of the
'Texan who comes to regard these Yankee
interlopers as foreigners. I am tempted
myself to equate these people with those
foreign students who flock to the United
States to receive an education, but at the
same time condemn the country without
trying first to understand its ways and
customs. '
I am not from Texas, haying been raised
in Kentucky and schooled in Missouri. But I
too came to Texas in search of opportunity.
And having been a history buff for most of
my early years, I can well understand Hie
| pride that goes with being Texan. ' i
dependence,, alone and unaided. At the same - j {tad g r^reshing to find a people with so
time they managed to write two of the finest ^ much pride in their state and their heritage!,
chapters in American history, both at the And they have so much to be proud of, in th«
T&lamo-and later at San Jacinto. 1
Alamo-and later at San Jacinto
It. would also do well to remember that
before Texas was a state, it was a republic. \
And when the Civil War rolled around, Sam
Houston’s dream was not to secede and join
the Confederacy, but to secede andformari.
independent republic Oncedpia'
present as well as the past.
Perhaps the re’ason the recent im-
migrants cannot understand Texas pride is
that they feel their home states aren’t much
to be proud of.Or perhaps they simply don’t
ward .to understand the heritage that *
part of Texas. - s \ ::X\
Even now, almost a century and a,half
later, Texas -still holds the promise of op-
portunity. X>
While other states are suffering ecpnomic
decline, Texas''^bolds-tmt-^ of
But that’s no reason to deride Texans fdr
their pride and their heritage. It’s like I’ve
always been told - you’re best off not talk-
ingdown something you don’t understand.
And besides, you Yankees are giving the
N7
While Detroit wanes, Houston . rest of us immigrants a b;
xeesare givi:
ad nariie. .
accept the conchfsj.ons ma
weight-of scientific evidence, it
attempie/r to discredit
by the
ely
that evidence;;
■ended
states a suppressed portion of the Federal
, 38 percent against the Frenchlranc. " longer JustifiedrTheSe abuses became so reqWr^iranHiigs^ievery^tfff cigaret-
nd/ No,ton . obvious that federal officials feaUywoke up tes and in every advertisement are largely
in we are and cut off the handouts But their Tardiness ineffective.
•, . . . \ will cost thetaxpayersimililons. • • "Documents obtained from B&W (Brown
11 imports, we What the pdrnmTstraficm was so slow to and Wrlkainson Tobacco Co- establish that
oreign in- N abolish was a subsidy lhat had been added as early asTm the company had a plan to
' / in the fine Mint to encWraee. domestic OiL
Herbie Freeman Became LP
Pol.i ceCh ief 20 Years Ago
unusual U.S. fiscal arid monetary rest
The stronger dollar also reduced inflation by
reducing the cost of imported goods, which
wise wouia
turn influences domestic producers to restrain the subs;
idies. known as "tertiary incen-
tives.,” were available in the form of credits.
They were approved with virtually no over
sight and-qmckly rah up laalmost Si billion
*»my associate Jack Mitchell has learned
the incentive program made sense when
oil pride controls were in effect Without a
. spend moretatoftrSt a barrel of crude than
; But the need for such a program disap-
peared on January 28. when President
Reagan decontrolled oil prices. That gave
the oil men what they bad lobbied for; they
got the monkey of price controls off (heir
backs. Overnight, wt)at heretofore would
have been marginal-operations became
abundantly profitable.
Yet, incredibly, the Department of
Energy' neglected to end the subsidy pro-
gram. For reasons that confusedpven in-
dustry executives, companies were allowed
an extra-60 days to apply for multimillion-
dollar incentives. Some of the extraction •
^?Mur:iit in |cupaim. - ^ projects that were being underwritten
Soon aftg'F+heTi-ewrdfTJaRhSadr' s ouster was^“~“might not be completed for years - tong
learned, the rabble was in the streetsshouting
for his execution. Fighting broke out between
rival groups of moderates and extremists.
each project that recovered oil that other the section that was suppressed by court
wise would have been prohibitively costly to ordeFaf the lutrafto companies’ request, <
Here’s an excerpt from an infernal B&W
sealed by the courts
From The Baytown Sun files, this is the
way it was 40 and 30 and 20 years ago:
JULY 6,1941
Mrs. Mundina Franke and her daughter,
Avis, are hbftored'satp yviener ro^st by Mrs.
R.J. Donnelly, assisted bv Ruth Jean Don-
nelly and Bobbie Cherry. The Frahk family
is leaving to make their homein Kilgore.
A.J. Newman is hostess to the
Carswell Air Force Base at Fort Worth after
spending a 10-day leave in Baytown.
Janice Manteris is hostess tp a barbecue
and square dance at her home.
Pvt. Ted W. Smith of Highlands is station-
ed at Lackland Air Force Base. *
: JULY 6,1961 v
erbie” Freem
H.F. ‘‘He;
tant police chief in
their prices and compete more efficiently
*!To be sure, tough adjustments are still being
made in the economic recovery by way of ab-
normatty high rates-an interest and unemploy-
ment, And the hearteninf-economic trends we
now enjoy could be checked or reversed if Con-
gress fails to enact the administratiotvs-tax and.
budget cuts. But basically; the United States has
renewed its economic leadership of the Western
World. / - ■ *
Khomeini's Way
Another weird act has taken place in Iran
under the direction of. religious leader Ayatollah
RuhollahKhomenini.
President Bani-Sadr has been forced out as the
nation’s top military commander His job^s
president is in jeopardy.
memo — sealed by tpe counts —j dated Aui
21, 1969: ‘‘Doubt is our p'rofetr since it
the best means of competing with the 'body
of fact' that exists in the mind of the gener.
public”
As the FTC staff noted: ‘‘Documents per-
taining to the marketing of Kool cigarettes
demonstrate that the company is aware of
the consumer' misperception about the
utilizes it in the development of advertising
strategies for Kbqis.”
Sure enough, a B&W internal document
refers to the "pseudo-health
menthol has achieved. Notes the |
“By characterizing The health;
mentholated cigarettes as pseudo.' B&W
admits its knowledge, that menthol is of no
health benefit to smokers;” t
A 1975 marketing plan for B&W’s Viceroy /
cigarettes makes this candid recommenda-
tion on the health issue: "Start out from the
basic assumption that cigarette smoking is
dangerous to your health - try to. get
arpund it in an elegant manner, but don’t try’
to fight it - iCs a losing war.”
Mo wonder the cigarette companies didn’t
waiit their internal documents made public/
’s Society of Christian Service of of police in -La Pt
jethodist Churea % -• tech, who resigned.
Mrs. Jewel Holt and her daughter; Miss -Police Chief, Roy Montgomery says of-
Katherine Holt, visit friends and relatives ip ficers will crack down on the sale of beer to
Corpus Christi and Austin , minors: ’
Mrs. MyrtlePerry and hqr daughter, Bery- R S. “Dick” Matdie, president of theHar-
nice, and Mrs. Eula Mae ffyrell leave to ris County Democrats, defends the action of
spend two weeks in Monterrey and San An- Woodrow Seals, Harris County Democratic
rnnkv -*.\V 1 Executive Committee chairman, in setting
an, former assis-
iytown, becomes chief
He replaces Carl
tonic.
Donald Williams and R.C. Ellis are spen-
dingthe weekend in New Orleans.
_______ JULY 6.1951 ______________
Cpl Curtis S. Jenkins, 22, of the Fifth
Sept. 23 as the date for appointing Seals’
successor. A proposed July rpeeting, ad-
vocated by (Hailes Evans, a member of the
executive committee, was called “Ulegai”
by Manne. Seals will become a U/S. district
attorney July 15 and w
man. Evans does not believi
n, .
1 Regimental Combat Team, is coming home
| from Korea. He was in combat a year and
was a member of a battalion that fought its
way out of a Red Chinese trap. Jenkins; with"
two companion!, slipped, through the am-
bushers and brought three wounded buddies
back to the American lines. -— 4
Cpl. Robert L. Cramer leaves for
Today In History
resign as chair-
tt , felieve the office
should be left vacant from July IS until Sept.
Steffanie Snead and Gayle Edwards win
first places In a doll show in the summer
recreation program. “.pT 7
after such projects would need any further
pricing sweeteners.
Oil companies that allegedly benefited
from the exfensibnT^QCR^'AaRt^ and At- UNtitElllTIffi ©OME: Reps. Norm Shum-
co, insisted they were merely holding the way, R-Calif., and Gerald Solomon, RJN.Y.,
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government to promises it had made
earlier.
But in fact, the government was alerted to-
the flood of new applications by executives
/of the oil industry itself. Representatives of
Exxon and Cities Service told the Energy
Department it was being taken for a ride. At
one hearing, a senior executive of Exxon
x went so far as to accuse fellow members of
the petroleum club of hvprocrisy for seeking
government subsidies after price decontrol.
,\ The losers in all this bureaucratic shilly-
shallying, of course, are the taxpayers, who
still support even other subsidies to oil com-
panies'that simultaneously charge OPEC--
level prices.
Footnote: Investigators for Rep. Toby
Moffett, D-Conn., intend to examine DOE’s
bungling. . \
BLOWING SMOKE: It’s understandable
that the cigarette industry was upset at the
government’s latest scientific evidence that
cigarette smoking is a health hazard. It’s
unconscionable that the tobacco companies
opposed the recent House resolution con-
demning the U.S. vote on the infant formula
cptroversy. Shumway read a prepared
statement on the House floor and it ap-
peared in next day's Congressional Record,-
Five pages later; Solomon's statement ap-1
peared — and it- was identical to Shum-
way’s. Solomon’s office said it was^jja
goof,” and explained that the congressman
had liked Shumwav’s remarks so much he
asked for a copy, then inadvertently gave it
to the clerk instead of his own prepared
statement, / /
— Sen. Nancy Kassebaurfi. R-Kan.. of-
fered Dr. Ernest Lefever her sympathy dur-
ing a closed session of his stormy confirma-
tion hearings for the State Department’s
human rights post. He had. she said,
become a “lightning rod,” and “like it or
not, you are very much in the news.” She
added: “If you think it is bad right now, it
may even get worse.” Lefever replied.
“Sen. Kassebaum. I don’t think it could get
worse.” The next day, he withdrew his
nomination.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Monday. July 6,
the 187th day of 1981. There
are 178 days left in the year.
- Today’s highlight In
history:' 1
On July 6,1923. the Union
of Soviet Socialist.
Republics was formed.
On this date: /
In 1699. the notorious
pirate, Capti William Kidd,
was taken into custody at
The Way
* " It Was
JULY 6,1775: Declaration
of Causes
Bible Verse
»
THIS IS a faithful saying,
and worthy of all accepta-
tion. that Christ Jesus
came into the world to
, save sinners; of whom 1
amchief. I Timothy 1:15
Boston. He was hanged
later in England.*
In 1837, the republic of
Texas sent an ambassador
to Washington
In 1919, a British dirigible
landed at New York’s
Roosevelt Field, becoming
the first airship to cross the
Atlantic.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 212, Ed. 1 Monday, July 6, 1981, newspaper, July 6, 1981; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1019511/m1/4/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.