The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1981 Page: 4 of 24
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American live In a
year, more than 80
will be manufactured, i
bottles - about 22 per,
beachesi
tered on parks,
We drain, smash and toss aways mountains of
bottles and cans, believing, like characters in a
slapstick comedy, that we will come out unscath-
ed amidst the debris. And When outraged confer-
vationists or budget-pressed mayors want to
spoil the fun by banning throwaway vessels,
ww people cry inconvenience, and even tyran-
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Unlike the Boston tea party, when colonials
threw boxes of tea into the harbor to protest
“taxation without representation,” some
Americans are now protesting higher taxes -
through higher municipal service costs - caused
by container wastes.
: Today a citizens gorup, Californians Against
:Waste, is launching a grassroots effort to get a
can and bottling initiative onto the November
1982 ballot. Numerous bottle and can bills have
been proposed in the Legislature, but strong lob-
bying efforts by interest groups killed each one.
Volunteers will soon begin collecting the 346,119
signatures of registered voters necessary to put
the Can and Bottle Recycling Initiative to a vote
of the people.
• The arguments agalilst recycling are conve-
nience and freedom. Why should consumers
have to pay a 5-cent deposit on a bottle, and then
’lug it back to the store to get a refund? People
•sboudl be free to do what they want with a con-
tainer, and not be held hostage to a deposit.
; Freedom is a compelling argument in a coun-
try where patriots polluted Boston harbor to win
•it. Our disposable society has, in many ways,
jfreed us from the onerous burdens of more
ifeudal societies where each consumer transac-
tion was tied down by unnecessary customs and
; rules.
; But what has freedom come to mean in
.America? Freedom to cover our purple moun-
;tain majesties with broken glass? Freedom to
;send beer bottles bursting in air?
; Our freedom to dispose of containers is quickly
[disposing of the natural beauty of 0#lm^ |llil
holding us hostage to unnatural wastes.
; The bottle initiative is a reasonable solution. It
will encourage the people who use containers to
recycle them, and not throw the extra hurden on
municipal and parkservices
Jack Anderson
Unused SS Money
Hinders Program
WASHINGTON - Everyone knows by
now that the Social Security trust fund is in
big trouble — mainly because there are too
many people drawing benefits and too few
people making payroll contributions.
But there’s another problem. It’s a minor
one, but it’s Indicative of Social Security’s
status as a kid brother who can be kicked
around fey the really big spenders of the
federal government. Here’s what happens:
Social Security gets the money from
payroll deductions and puts it into its trust
fund. So far, so good. But when Social
Security dispenses benefits, the checks are
actually dispersed by the Treasury, and
Social Security has little more to do with the
checks.
So what, you say? So this: There are some
$203 miHlon worth of Social Security checks
out there that have never been cashed. But
the agency has to write them off its books as
money paid out. , ‘
There are any number of reasons why the
checks weren’t cashed. They may have
Utah, concluded that throughout Social
Security’s collection apparatus, "the poten-
tial and awareness of fraud was of little im-
portance in the handling of cash receipts.”
»The auditors uncovered "the most
flagrant practices” at the 1,500 district of-
fices where most senior citizens make their
deposits. The pattern of sloppy handling
was noticed at the six national program
centers as well. “During our review,” the
auditors reported, “we found numerous
deficiencies and weaknesses in the control
of cash collections in program service
centers. . . Personnel seemed to place em-
phasis on processing workloads on time
with awareness of fraud a secondary con-
sideration.”
Although the auditors failed to uncover in-
stances of actual fraud, they noted with con-
cern that “internal controls in place were
not conducive to a sound system of checks
and balances . , . (and) the security
measures and facilities used to store cash
and related records were deficient.”
'§^^”55 NUMBERS GAME: ’rt* true measure of a
saved $15 million annually t|.«WBgd ttyllJMK ; foythay havebeenstoim, rtjectod'attoe j^ugae problem is human misery. But
penditures. In Oregon, a similar law cut highway bank and then destroyed. The recipients another crag8 yardstick - the
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Treasury hasn't had to pay out the money.
SO Social Security is deprived of the use of
the undisbursed funds.
So far, the uncashed benefit checks total
$203/million; General Accounting Office
auditors estimate another $112 million will
accumulate over the next four years. At cur-
rent interest rates, the use of these millions
could be putting hundreds of thousands of
dollars in the Social Security trust fund,
where it rightfully belongs; -
And refillable bottles are 30 percent cheaper
than average throwaway containers. - -1
It is time California disposed of the non-
returnable bottle system. A signature for the
recycling initiative will be A step toward freeing
ourselves from that empty vessel of disposable
culture: the broken bottle. :
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SHE’S LEARNED 50 TOR IS HOW
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• AND IF THE CHECKS outstanding are
never cashed - a likely possibility inmany
. cases - the hard-pressed trust fund will
have been bilked out of millions in windfall
income by Big Brother at the Treasury.
There’s another potential problem at the
troubled Social Security system. “Program
integrity” auditors earlier this year
discovered widespread sloppiness in the
handling of Medicare premiums and
welfare overpayments sent in to Social
Security.
This involves millions of dollars in checks,
cash and money orders from older
Americans participating in the Social
Security, Supplemental Security Income
and Black Lung programs. These payments
to the government, though individually
modest, often represent a serious chunk of
the senior citizen’s budget. The least the
Social Security bureaucrats could do would
be to see that the money is handled careful-
ly-
Yet the audits, which my associates Tony
Capaccio. and Lucette Lagnado examined
with investigators for Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-
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there’s another, crass yardstick — the
money it costs to take care of the wretched
exiles.
Pakistan has been flooded with refugees
from neighboring Afghanistan ever since
the Russian invasion nearly two years ago.
This would obviously be a strain on
Pakistan’s economy without help from out-
side. And that’s what the United Nations has
been providing.
But U.N. officials suspect that Pakistan
has been deliberately exaggerating the
number of Afghan refugees to increase the
relief funds it gets from U.N. agencies. The
Pakistanis insist there are 2.4 million
refugees in their country. TheU.N. ’s High
Commission on Refugees estimates ther are
only 1.7 million, and some U.N. officials say
privately there may be as few as l.l million.
Pakistan has reluctantly accepted the
U.N. figure, which translates into about $190
million in aid. The Pakistanis have agreed
to an updated head count, btit they have in-
sisted that the census be conducted by its
own local officials - the very people who
would be able to pocket any surplus
resulting from an overestimate of the
refugee population.
A FERTILIZER OPEC? U.S. farmers
spread 5.39 million tons of phosphate on
their fields last year. At the current rate of
use, domestic suppies of the fertilizer will be
exhausted in a few years. The National
Academy of Sciences predict that by 1990,
three-fourths of the world’s supply of
phosphate will come from Jordan, Egypt,
Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Another OPEC
could be in the making — the Organization
of Phosphate Exporting Countries, charging
whatever the traffic will bear.
a permanent Middle East
opeaal dropped from sight
•Bar It was immediately and emphatically
rejected by Israel, Egyptian President An-
war Sadat alao dismissed the plan as un-
workable. But recent events have focused
new attention on the Saudi solution
The Fahd guidelines, which are based In
part on several United Nations resolutions,
would guarantee the right of all Middle Eaat
states - including Iarael - to exist In peace
as wed as the right of all peoples of the
region to religious freedom. These
guarantees would be made by the United
Nations and its member states, U.N.
peacekeeping forces would be on hand to
implement the agreement.
Israel would be required to withdraw
from all lands occupied since the 1167 war
and to dismantle its settlements on those
lands. What makes the plan anathema to the
Israelis is its call for the creation of an in-
dependent Palestinian state with East
Jerusalem as fts capital. *
Saudi Arabia has not given up on the plan.
Saudi leaders emphasized to former Presi-
dent Nixon during bis recent visit to their
country that they considered the plan
workable and would attempt to rally the
other Arab states behind it.
In the Arab
This has set of! a
cepta the right of Israel to live in peace — •
view not shared by most of ths hardHat
Arab states. Syria, Libya, Algeria and South
Yemen already have turned thumbs down
on the plan for that reaeon.
The plan has alao been rejected by one
faction of the PLO. Some experts believe
that the recent assassination In Rome of
Majed Abu Sharar, the PLO information
minister, may have been the result of a split
within the organisation brought about by
Anfct’l acceptance of the plan But
Arafat’s band has since been strengthened
by the full diplomatic recognition given the
PLO by the Soviet Union.
FAHD STRESSED the importance that his
country accords the proposal when he met
with Western leaders - including President
Reagan - during the economic summit in
Cancun, Mexico.
Lord Carrington, the British foreign
secretary, said after meeting with the
Saudis that “the right of Israel to live within
secure boundaries should be accepted by
the Arab world and the right of the Palesti-
nians for their own legitimate state in the
area should be recognized by Israel.”
*. That statement contrasted sharply with
Britain’s Middle Eaat policy and caused an
Immediate flurry In diplomatic circles.
After a series of quick meetings, a British
spokesman said that Lord Carrington had
not been announcing any change in policy
and that his reference to a Palestinian state
had been "a slip of the tongue.”
Of greater Importance within the Arab
world were comments by Yasir Arafat, the
leader of the Palestine Liberation Organlza-
THE ARAB LEADER who has rejected the
Saudi framework in the strongest terms is
Syrian President Hafez Aaaad. But his coun-
try's dependence oo the Soviets and their
apparent support for the plan may at least
blunt Syrian objections
The key to the equation is Egypt. The
Saudis seem ready to make an all-out effort
to persuade President Hoani Mubarak
either to abandon the Camp David process
in favor of their plan or at least to accept
their plan as a framework tor the dtocua-
slons of the Palestinian problem that are
called for in the Camp David agreement.
The pressure on Egypt will intensify when
Arab leaders, including Mubarak, meet late
this month in Morocco.
Now even the U.S. State Department is
talking about the Saudi plan in more
favorable terms than it had used originally.
Spokesman Dean Fischer recently said that
the United States welcomed "certain
elements (of the plan) which underscore
Saudi Arabia’s dedication to the achieve-
ment of peace” but that there were “other
elements with which we have problem*.”
Meanwhile, the Israelis are viewing the
growing acceptance of the Saudi framework
— which Prime Minister Menachem Begin
calls a plan on “how to liquidate Israel in
stages” - as a threat to Camp David. In
response, they are assuming a wait-and-see
posture that may extend to postponing the
return of the rest of the Sinai to Egypt.
From Sun Files
First NASA Family Moved
To Baytown 20 Years Ago
From The Baytown Sun files, this is the
way it was 40 and 30 and 20 years ago:
NOV. 27,1941
L.T. Jones, chairman of the Retail Mer-
chants Committee in the Goose Creek
Chamber of Commerce, is in charge of ar-
rangements for the Dec. 3 Christmas
parade downtown.
Barbers Hill Eagles rolled to their 20th
win in succession and to their second
district championship in a row after beating
the Cedar Bayou Bears 41-0.
T.C. Dent Jr., a student at San Marcos
Academy, spends the Thanksgiving
holidays with his parents here.
Among Tri-Cities residents at the annual
University Of Texas-Texas A&M football
game were Mrs. Ouida Brunson, Donnie and
H E. Brunson Jr., Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Berry,
Mrs. M. J. Lyons andMiss Elayne Duke.
NOV.2MK1
Two Baytown servicemen are en route
home oft rotation leave from Korea. Cpl.
Richard A. Young of 1700 Maryland was
aboard an Army transport which docked
yesterday at San Francisco. Sgt. Daniel
Michalsky of 1605 Missouri is coming home
on a Navy transport which is slated to ar-
rive soon in Seattle.
Janice ManteFis, president of the
for a program about the newer medicines.
Speaker will be Dr. E.M. Yow of Baylor
University Medical School.
Pfc. Jesse Bishop, son of Mr. and Mrs.
E.T. Bishop, Highway 146, arrives in Ger-
many where he will be stationed in the Air
Force. Charles Morton Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. W.C. Morton, returns home from
Korea. W.J. SJolander, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Sam SJolander, is released from the
reserves after spending more than a year In
Korea. I ’ i;a
Hubert Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.S.
Johnson, is on his way from Korea to
Hawaii.
NOV. 27,1901
Baytown’s first permanent residents
brought here by NASA soon will move into
their new home in Plumwood. They are Mr.
and Mrs. Luther S. Turner Jr. and children,
Lynn, 4, and Leigh, 6 months, of1
Guntersville, Ala. The family selected
Baytown as their future home after a survey
of residential prospects within easy com-
mufinrr rllofonno nf NIACA’c tUMlf CAA milii/iVI
Baytown Nurses Organization, tells plans
muting distance of NASA’s new $60 million
installation at Clear Lake.
Patricia Hollingshead; daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William B. Hollingshead of
Baytown, has enlisted in the Women’s Army
Corps for three years.
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Today is Friday, Nov. 27,
the 33lst day of 1981. There captors in Tehran, I
are 34 days left in the year. Today’s birthdays:
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history:
On Nov. 27,1703, a coastal
storm in England took an
estimated 8,000 lives.
One year ago: U.S. and
Algerian mediators con-
tinued discussions aimed at
Merrick is 69; Caroline
Kennedy is 24.
On this date:
In the year 602, Roman
Emperor Maurice and his
five sons were beheaded in
Asia Minor.
in 1979, Iranian
militants warned that they
had mined the U.S. Em-
bassy complex in Tehran,
where 50 Americans were
being held hostage.
Ten years ago: Three
people were killed as guer-
rilla filters in Northern
Ireland launched a new
drive against the British.
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and brimstone: which is
the second death. Revela-
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1981, newspaper, November 27, 1981; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1019538/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.