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4-A_THE BAYTOWN SUN_Tuesday, October 12, 1993
OPINION
Sun editorial
Deadline is
approaching
rTlhe deadline for submitting nominations for
I volunteer awards to be made in conjunction
X with The Baytown Sun’s “Together We Can”
edition is rapidly approaching.
Oct. 18 is the last day nominations will be ac-
cepted. The names of the award recipients will be
published in the “Together We Can” edition on Oct.
22.
The John Sylvester Award will be presented to the
volunteer of die year. Other awards will be given to
the outstanding volunteers in religion, health, educa-
tion and the community in general.
There are many volunteers who help make this
community a better place to live.
If you know someone deserving of an award for
outstanding work in the volunteer field, please nomi-
nate him or her for an award.
Nominations may be mailed to Volunteer Awards,
The Baytown Sun, P.O. Box 90, Baytown, TX
77522.
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“Is it true that the first people to wear their
caps the way we do were baseball catchers?’’
; From Sun files
Hopper first-graders
plant bluebonnets, ’83
" : From The Baytown Sun files, this is the way it was:
In 1933
T.L. Langston, a mainstay of the Barbers Hill football team,
is lost to the Eagles for the rest of the season after suffering a
broken ami during practice.
Jane Britton, who is not yet 2 years of age, is believed to be
the youngest East Harris County resident to have a permanent
wave. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Britton, she was gi-
ven a the curls at Dolores Beauty Salon in Baytown.
;; Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Coe and Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Pender-
graft are new members of the Tri-Cities Bridge Qub.
In 1973
Charle Kana, 60, is shot to death during a robbery at his
liquor store at 2511 Market, next door to the Elks Lodge.
REL students Denly Murph, Mary Margaret Jones and Bar-
bara Heinrich receive letters of commendation from the Na-
tional Merit Scholarship Corp.
In 1983
< Gulf Oil Corp. ’s plans to reorganize under a Delaware hold-
ing company will have no effect on Gulf Chemical Co.’s Ce-
dar Bayou Plant, says plant manager Larry Lucchesi.
The school district is taking steps to fight drug and alcohol
abuse in the community, says deputy superintendent Don
Treuhardt.
Speaking to the Baytown Lions Qub, Harris County District
Attorney emphasizes problems of overcrowding in the prisons.
Native Baytonian Herbert W. Williams Jr. becomes director
of Region 7 office in Houston for the Texas Air Control
Board.
Mark Alexander and Marie Dykes, first-graders at Hopper,
are pictured as they help plant bluebonnets in school flower
beds.
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Gary Dobbs........................................................Editor and publisher
Wanda Orton.............................................................Managing editor
Bruce Guynn............................................Associate managing editor
LETTER POLICY
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MINI THOUGHTS
Just remember this: Praise can do wonders for the
sense of hearing.
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History must not repeat itself
Gary
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troops” ^as advisors to help a country which
needed our assistance.
Ten years later, the U.S. withdrew its
troops after painfully discovering that we
would not be able to win this war to protect
the world from the spread of Communism.
57,000 Americans lost their lives in that
senseless conflict. Several hundred thousand
more were wounded either physically or
mentally. The world did not fall to the
Communists.
In fact, nothing changed. Life continued
on as usual for everybody — that is every-
body except the families of 57,000 soldiers,
airmen and sailors who died.
Those families never celebrated Thanks-
giving, Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries
or anything the same way again.
It’s time to bring our troops home before
they give their lives in a meaningless war.
We will not change Somalia. We will not
end the suffering. We will not make the
world safer. We will not compromise our
national security. We will not loose face.
After all, who will we lose face to — the
remnants of the Soviet Union? Bosnia and
other former Eastern Communists Bloc
countries? Iraq? Iran? Libya? African out-
laws?
We cannot forever guarantee the safe
passage of food to the hungry no matter how
noble it may be. We cannot police the
What we will lose is the lives of men and
women whose only mission should be that
of defending the U.S. against those who
would imperil our way of life. Somalia does
not qualify. Our people will give up their
lives needlessly because we have forgotten
about Vietnam.
57,000 died in the Vietnam war before we
came to our senses and had the courage to
bring the troops home.
Nearly two dozen Americans have already
died in Somalia. Now their families join
those of the Vietnam war who no longer en-
joy the presence of their loved ones.
Congress will be considering a resolution
concerning Somalia later this week. Pick up
the phone today and call your Senators and
congressman. Let them know that we do not
want our troops sacrificed for a senseless
cause. We understand that more troops may
be committed to insure the safe withdrawal
of all personnel. But, we want all our troops
home as quickly as possible. To be quite
frank, March 31st is not soon enough.:
You'll find the appropriate phone number
listed below.
We need to keep history from repeating
itself.
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm (GOP), 370 Rus-
sell Senate Office Building, Washington,
D.C. 20510, phone 202-224-2934; Houston
713-229-2766.
IIS Sen Kay Bailey Hntrhicrm /OOPl
703 Hart Senate Office Building, Washing-
ton, D.C. 20510-4303, phone 202-224-5922;
or locally 1919 Smith St., Suite 800,
Houston TX 77002, phone 713-653-3456.
U.S. Rep. Gene Green (Democrat), Dis-
trict 29, 1004 Longworth House Office
Building, Washington D.C., 20515, phone
202-225-1688; Houston phone 713-923-
9961.
U.S. Rep. Mike Andrews (Democrat),
District 25, 303 Cannon House Office
Building, Washington, D.C. 50515, phone
202-225-7508; Houston 713-229-2244;
Pasadena, 7134734334.
U.S. Rep. Jack Brooks (Democrat), Dis-
trict 9, 2449 Rayburn House Office Build-:
ing, Washington, D.C., 20515, phone 202-
225-6565; Beaumont phone 409-839-2508.
Gary Dobbs is editor and publisher of'
The Baytown Sun.
A hurdle to health-care reform
” health-care field.
Home health-care providers claim they
have to overcharge for the drugs and
equipment they provide to compensate for
the costs of providing nursing support staff
and uncompensated care for those who
cannot afford it. Others see the unregulated
Tack stale industry as a recipe for over-
J charges and abuse.
Anderson “You have shown me some of what is
most incredibly wrong with health care in
this country today, namely, greed,” wrote
John Figueroa to his home health, care
company, according to the New York City
Department of Consumer Affairs in 1991.
Figueroa, who was receiving treatment for
AIDS, wrote the department after learning
that his home-care company was charging
him more than $80 for a drug that cost
$39.35 wholesale, and was paying almost
$10 for a sterile water Solution that cost less
than $2 in a pharmacy.
AIDS patients like Figueroa have become
some of the saddest victims of inflated costs
in home health care. Since many hospitals,
especially in big cities, do not have the
facilities to care for the growing number of
AIDS patients, many patients are treated at
home with life-prolonging medications. As
the AIDS epidemic worsened, the price of
these medications went through the roof.
For example, Pentamidine is one of the
main drugs used to guard against the onset
of AIDS related pneumonia. Rarely used
before the spread of AIDS, Pentamidine cost
about $25 per vial in 1986. By 1991, when
its use had become widespread, the whole-
WASHINGTON — If Sarah Weber rep-
resents the new face of health care in
America, then health-care reform has even
one more hurdle to leap.
Sarah, 10, lives in Cleveland Heights,
Ohio, and has a medical history that no one
would envy: Seizures, cerebral palsy and a
malfunctioning intestinal system.
Despite all this, Sarah was able to receive
her care at home rather than a hospital due
to the newest wave in health care: Home
infusion. Although she needs more than a
dozen drugs to keep her alive, Sarah is
tended to at home by her mother, Marie
Kostos-Weber, who has become her daught-
er’s full-time nurse.
Sadly, a hospital would have been cheap-
er.
Sarah Weber’s care costs $100,000 per
month, substantially more than it would
have cost to keep her in Cleveland’s Mount
Sinai Hospital. Cases like hers have also
become a large reason why insurance com-
panies and the federal government are
finally waking up to the problems that have
sprung up in the fastest growing area of the
Today in history
1492: Columbus arrives in
By The Associated Press
On Oct. 12, 1492, Old Style calendar; Oct. 21st New Style,
Christopher Columbus arrived with his expedition in the present-day
Bahamas.
On this date:
In 1861, the Confederate ironclad Manassas attacked the northern
ship Richmond on the Mississippi River.
In 1870, Gen. Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Va., at age 63.
In 1915, English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans
in occupied Belgium during World War I.
In 1933, bank robber John Dillinger escaped from a jail in Allen
County, Ohio, with the help of his gang, who killed the sheriff.
Today’s Birthdays: Comedian-activist Dick Gregory is 61. For-
sale price had climbed to $100 per vial, and
was retailing for as much as $300 per vial.
As health-care costs spiraled in the 1980s,
home health-care companies grew exponen-
tially. With the advent of new technology,
and with insurance companies pressuring
hospitals to release patients as early as
possible, home care became an attractive,
low-cost alternative to extended hospital
stays. In many cases, medicines could be
administered by family members or by the
patients themselves after receiving training
from a skilled nurse. Often, home care ends
up costing patients and insurance companies
far less than they would pay for hospital
care.
But while.home care grew as an industry,
state and federal regulatory agencies failed
to catch up. In some states, getting into the
home health care field became as easy as
opening a 7-Eleven franchise: All that was
needed in many cases to provide home
health care to Medicare and Medicaid
beneficiaries was a supplier billing number.
“Some of these companies have been
misunderstood,” Jack Thompson of Health-
infusion Inc., told our reporter Deborah
Acomb. Thompson expects the Clinton
administration’s health-care reforms to be a
boon to the industry. “1 don’t think it needs
additional regulation. Home care is a cost-
effective solution” to rising health care
costs. _____________•__________
United Feature Syndicate
present-day Bahamas
merSen. Jake Gam, R-Utah, is 61. Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti is
58. Spoitscaster Tony Kubek is 58. ABC reporter Chris Wallace is
46. Actress-singer Susan Anton is 43. Baseball player Sid Fernandez
is 31. Actor Adam Rich is 25. Actor Kirk Cameron is 23.
BIBLE VERSE
Hate evil, you who love the Lord. Who preserves
the souls of Godly ones, He delivers them from the
hand of the wicked.
—Psalms 97:10
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