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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Thursday, January 18, 1990
SUN
EDITORIAL
High Court rulings
could be landmark
How the U.S. Supreme Court rules during its current
session on the burning issues of abortion rights and so-
called right-to-die cases could affect the lives of millions
of Americans well into the next century.
Speculation is widespread as to how the court will
handle what may be two of the most momentous and far-
reaching issues in U.S. history. How far states may go in
limiting abortion, and whether a woman has a constitu-
tional right to terminate a pregnancy are fundamental
questions raised in several appeals.
The right-to-die issue is likely to boil down to parents’
rights against states’ rights, in the case on appeal, Mis-
souri has claimed jurisdiction over a young woman diag-
nosed as “brain dead” and the responsibility to use special
feeding devices to keep her alive over her parents
objection.
Should the justices narrow abortion rights, or decide
the right to an abortion is not protected by federal law, a
long list of provacy rulings by lower courts could be
threatened.
Pro-abortion advocates fear the high court might strike
down the landmark abortion decision, Roe vs. Wade, in
which case very law relating to abortion probably would
have to be changed.
In the right-to-die debate, some states recognize living
wills that allow authorities to forgo use of equipment to
sustain life when a person’s brain no longer functions.
The issue in the case on appeal is whether the court, in
the absence of clear direction from the victim who could
not give it, can order the state to disregard its law guaran-
teeing life support and withdraw nourishment to meet pa-
rental wishes.
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From Sun files
1935: Proposal for tunnel
backed by chamber board
From The Baytown Sun files, this is the way it was:
55 YEARS AGO
Goose Creek Chamber of Commerce directors endorse the prop-
osal for a tunnel under the Houston Ship Channel about 2.5 miles
below the Lynchburg Ferry. President J.E. Mears presides at a meet-
ing attended by C.E. Nash, C.E. Armstrong, Carl McKinney, John
Hill McKinney, W.W. Sloan, John M. Kilgore, Fred Lintelman and
CL Fortinberry. Kilgore heads a committee to seek a site for the
tunnel.
Clarence Boehme, 17, of Baytown suffers an arm wound in a
shooting accident while hunting near Wooster. / •
45 YEARS AGO
First Lt. William Hollis Wilson is reported killed in action. He
was a bombadier on a flying fortress based in England/ His plane
was lost over France. /
Pelly Mayor C.H. Olive and Aldermen A.C. Carlton and, P.G.
Sanders study a garbage disposal project at Ellington Field, where a
system of treating and burning garbage is being used. /
35 YEARS AGO £ f
James L. Hutson, five-year trustee, resigns from the school board.
Max Altman is the new chairman of a merchants committee in the
Baytown Chamber of Commerce.
20 YEARS AGO
For Baytown the year 1970 holds “prosperity, progress and prob-
lems,” says Dave Moore, Baytown Chamber of Commerce manager.
He said any money invested here in the 1970s will net returns many
items over and that the city is regarded as the “hot spot of the
nation.”
Baytown Barracks of World War I Veterans starts a membership
drive, hoping to reach most of the estimated 250 WWI veterans in
Baytown. Sam King is commander.
A station wagon crashes into the garage of the E.L. Gunn home
on Lindenwood.
Valerie Provost, Miss Drew High School, will reign at the annual
Coronation Ball at the school. She will be crowned by B.S. Griffin,
Drew principal.
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By BUCK A. YOUNG
One of today’s best-selling
books is a paperback titled “All
I Really Need to Know I
Learned in Kindergarten.” I
guess I was in a slower'learning
group since I did not enter the
age of enlightenment until at
least the third grade. Being
deprived of kindergarten (it did
not exist then), it took at least
two grades for me to learn the
way to the playground and
bathroom, not to mention deve-
loping such elemental skills as
reading and writing.
During that enlightening year
with Miss Lois Locke at Anson
Jones Elementary, I was
exposed for the first time to
history and geography. I not
only learned those subjects, they
became part and parcel of my
being.
My geography book
described ancient Persia and the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers, so I
renamed two converging gullies
in my neighborhood.
I saw pictures of great bridges
spanning mighty rivers, so I
built a wooden structure across
one of the gulleys. It washed
away with the first heavy rain.
Chunks of oil field Concrete
foundations became the ruins of
Ur, and I rode flashing chariots
across imaginary deserts. I
relived all my reincarnated
lives.
I was a soldier with Alexan-
der the Great and fought in
Egypt and Persia. I rode an
elephant with Hannibal across
the frozen Alps. I was at Carth-
age when the Romans destroyed
that cjty-state. I manned a long-
bow for Richard the Lion-
hearted at Jerusalem during the
Crusades. I stood on the Plains
of Montreal during the French
and Indian War with the eagle
feather of an Iroquois warrior in
my hair. I felt the disgrace at
Waterloo with Napoleon and
fell at Little Round Top at
Gettysburg with the last gasps
of the Confederacy bleating in
my ear. I made the charge up
San Juan Hill with Teddy
Roosevelt and lay in the mud at
Verdun, France, while a million
men died around me. I was, and
am, War Incarnate, the sum of
all the battles fought throughout
man’s bloody history.
In the next instant, I was a
traveling companion to Marco
Polo in Cathay. I circumnavi-
gated the world with Magellan
and survived that first harsh
winter in Plymouth Colony. I
followed the crudely marked
path taken by Daniel Boone and
carved a state out of the wilder-
ness. I sat in Independence Hall
in old Philadelphia and heard
the thirteen colonies declared
free states, then repeated the
process at Washington-on-the-
of Mexican tyranny. I traveled
with John C. Fremont over the
California Trail and mapped a
route tens of thousands would
follow. I was an Irish railroader
and saw the golden spike driven
at Promontory Point, and then
was a starving Norwegian on
the bleak Dakota prairie
scratching out a meager living
raising wheat.
I panned for gold on the
Yukon River and watched the
Borealis arc across the
northern sky, and then ate dust
on the Cimarron Strip as I
staked out a claim on a piece of
silly-smelling worthless land. I
was, and am, Discovery Incar-
nate, the search for all that is
new and different.
But mostly, I was Superman
in a homemade cape, leaping
tall buildings in a single leap. I
was a half-naked Tarzan swing-
ing through the air on crumbling
poison oak vines. I turned my
toy pistols backwards and
became “Wild Bill” Elliott, a
peaceable man unless riled, then
predisposed to clean out a whole
nest of outlaws.
I was a gallant RAF pilot in
my lone Spitfire, engaging the
entire German Luftwaffe for
mastery of the skies over Eng-
land. I was every Indian chief
who ever fought against the
white man, but since I know no
Cherokee names, even though
I’m one-eighth that blood, I
became the greatest of the Sioux
warriors, Crazy Horse, and
single-handedly wiped out Cus-
ter’s comihand. I was, and dm,
Boy Incarnate, a ragtag, bare-
foot dreamer of dreams.
Some people say they never
enjoyed going to school, but I
did, even though I was deprived
of kindergarten. I guess it’s all a
matter of attitude.
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, Jan. 18,
the 18th day of 1990, There are
347 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 18,1912, English ex-
plorer Robert F. Scott and his
expedition reached the South
Pole, only to discover that Roald
Amundsen had beaten them
there. Scott and his party died
during the return trip.
On this date:
In 1778, English navigator
Capt. James Cook discovered
the Hawaiian Islands, which he
dubbed -the “Sandwich
Islands.”
In 1782, lawyer and states-
man Daniel Webster was bom in
Salisbury, N.H.
In 1788, the first English set-
tlers arrived in Australia’s Bo-
tany Bay to establish a penal
colony.
In 1862| the 10th President of
the United States, John Tyler,
died in Richmond, Va., at the
age of 71.
In 1911, the first landing of
an aircraft on a ship took place
as pilot Eugene B. Ely brought
his plane in for a safe landing on
the deck of the U.S.S. Pennsyl-
vania in San Francisco Harbor.
In 1919, the World War I
Peace Congress opened in Ver-
sailles, France.
In 1936, author Rudyard Ki-
pling died in Burwash, England.
In 1943, during World War II,
the Soviets announced they’d
broken the long Nazi siege of
Leningrad.
. \ In 1943, a wartime ban on the
sale of pre-sliced bread in the
U.S. — aimed at reducing de-
mand for metal replacement
parts at bakeries — went into
effect.
In 1970, Mormon president
David McKay died at the age of
In 1984, Malcolm H. Kerr,
the ninth president of the Ameri-
can University of Beirut, was
shot and killed outside his office
by two gunmen; Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility.
In 1988, an airliner crashed in
southwestern China, billing all
108 people on board, according
to the official Xinhua news
agency.
Ten years ago: The Com-
merce Department reported that
the nation’s “real” gross na-
tional product rose at a season-
ally adjusted rate of 1.3 percent
during the fourth quarter of
1979, *' .v
Five years ago: The State De-
partment announced it would
boycott future deliberations of,
the World Court on Nicaragua’s •
complaint that die U.S. was an
aggressor nation.
Cold War over but no one
ready to claim big victory
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By MIKE FEINSILBER
WASHINGTON (AP) — Not
with a bang, but-not with a
whimper either — that’s the
way the old order is ending. No
wonder people are subdued and
skeptical, holding their opinions
in suspension.
A decades-long worldwide
struggle between alien ideolo-
gies winds down. Multi-party
democracy is proclaimed where
it had been banished 40 years
earlier. The communist super-
power cuts its losses and allows
what once were called “satel-
lites” to float out of orbit.
The threat of nuclear super-
power war diminishes, by offi-
cial Pentagon calculation, and
perhaps has vanished altogether.
The Berlin Wall falls, the Iron
Curtain rusts. Missiles are
destroyed, troops and tanks
withdrawn.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, leader
of what no longer can be called
the Soviet empire, pronounces
the Cold War over. If it is over,
the West has won, but President
Bush says he is not ready yet to
go that far.
Historians -are saying that
1989 ranks as a historic year
with none since revolutionary
1848, when revolution sprouted
across Europe and no royal head
seemed safe.
And yet Americans act as
subdued as their president.
For more than 40 years, the
two giant powers of the world
stood toe to toe, sometimes
within a blink of war, locked in
a competition in which few
countries anywhere were per-
mitted to be neutral. By some.
calculations, the Cold War cost
110,000 Americans lives.
ir may not be over,
butt'fie’qBestion isn’t topic No.
1. Puzzling.
The television networks say
they can’t get audiences for
their specials or magazine prog-
rams on the revolutions of 1989.
“Anyone who has touched
this story saw their ratings go
down,” complained Richard
Kaplan, executive producer of
ABC News’ “PrimeTime
Live” to Washington Post tele-
vision critic Tom Shales.
Don Kellerman, director of
the Times-Mirror Center for the
People and the Press, which
takes a monthly reading on what
news is being followed closely,
says the fall of the Berlin Wall
— “a breaking story, highly
visual, you could see it acted out
on your TV screen” — was
Closely followed by 48 percent
of the American population.
That’s relatively high, rank-
ing with China’s bloody Tianan-
men Square crackdown or the
Supreme Court’s abortion deci-
sions. N
The close followers fell to 28
percent in the days after the
excitement at the wall had
passed and the revolution took a
more political turn.
“The story itself is so drama-
tic and its implcations are so
large that we would expect the
numbers to be larger,” Keller-
man says.
People comprehend the
importance of events in Europe
“when you ask them what’s the
most important story of 1989
that’s what they pick,” Keller-
man says. But people also lack
the geographical, political and
historical background to deal
with it, he says.
“East Europe is complicated,
it is confusing and the names of
the players change from day to
day and are hard names to
recognize if you haven’t dealt
with them.”
Gary Orren, a Harvard Uni-
versity specialist- in analyzing
public opinion, says the public
reaction has been subdued partly
because Bush himself has been
so low-keyed.
“Public opinion takes its cue
from the commander in chief,”
Orren says. “If he wanted to
give it the emphasis and the
glamour and the glitz, he could
be the cheerleader.”
Thomas Vail, editor of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, pub-
lished in a city thick with
Eastern European roots, says the
public reaction in Cleveland has
been restrained, but he is not
surprised: “It’s going the way
people want, it exceeds what
anyone can say.”
Additionally, he says, people
are holding their breaths.
“In
that came
people had such bad experiences
that they are waiting to see if
this is too good to be true. They
wonder if it is-, going to last,
whether Gorbachev can last.”
Orren agrees, putting it this
way: “There might even be
some sort of self-protection in
the way people are reacting, not
wanting their expectations
dashed by events. There’s a
reminder for everyone in Tia-
nanmen Square.”
Moreover, he says, in the
middle of a revolution people
often don’t know they’re in the
middle of a revolution.
By JEFFREY McQUAIN
Prattle involves empty talk or
meaningless sound. It ends with!
rattle — anybody guilty of;
prattle probably likes to rattle
on.
Use the slang cold turkey for j
a sudden and complete stop. For'
instance, cold turkey is how I i
plan to quit eating the Thanks-;
giving leftovers.
Q. When someone plans to '
if,” what i
“turn over a new leaf,” what
does that expression really!
mean?
A. The new leaf being turned *
over isn’t from a tree; it’s from a f
book (leaf means “page. Turn •
over a new leaf has been used»
for centuries to mean “reform” J
or “change one’s ways for the ’
better.” Now if you draw a J
blank about this>' expression, *
think of the new leaf as a blank J
page. *
To excuse or cover over with J
apologies, palliate (PAL-ee- J*.
ate”). It’s a good verb, not often»
seen — use palliate ^without
apologies. J
Take inventory to mean I
“itemized list” or “survey of as- J
sets.” the inventor of this noun *
left an easy clue: add y to inven- *
tor for inventory. , *• t
Q. My aunt uses “this here *
.wig uid! meatus. store” or “this here road” to I
the ethnic populations point things out. Is that use of !
me from those areas, “here” wrong?
Formal English would elimi- J
nate here from such phrases as *
“this here store.” You’ll here *
that here in informal usage, *
though, as well as there in “that | .
there road.” Try not to use here *
or there in these phrases, be- *
cause such usage in formal En- $
glish is neither here nor there. *
1
Bible verse
Ye know that he was
manifested to take away
our sins: and in him is no
sin.
I John 3:5
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