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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday, July 31, 1989
SUN
EDITORIAL
Courts no place for
kid game disputes
As busy as judges are, it is a pity that a Harris County
jilrist felt a responsibility to hear a Houston father’s
complaint that a young boy on a losing team in Little
League play lived outside the league boundary and for
that reason the game at issue should be replayed or that
the winning team be disqualified from playoffs.
There is not question about the judge’s authority to
hear arguments in such a dispute, but he probably could
have saved himself the distress of having to make an un-
popular decision if he had advised those involved to seek
a non-judicial solution to their problem.
The sometimes heated dispute flared after North
Houston’s 8-5 playoff win over the Northside National
Little League All-Stars. Northside lodged a protest over
participation of North Houston player David Lezcano,
who lives outside the team’s eligibility area.
Little League officials in Williamsport, Pa., agreed
the youngster was ineligible, disqualifying him from
further play. However, they argued Lezcano’s play did
not alter the outcome and the win was allowed to stand.
It was then that James R. King Jr., father of Nor-
thside’s Jason King, 12, brought suit. James King said
Lezcano, 12, a center fielder, caught three fly balls, had
two hits and scored two runs. The game was called
because of rain after a regulation number of innings.
The elder King argued the lawsuit will teach boys the
importance of playing by the rules. He said he wants to
fight the rule that decisions from: Little League head-
quarters are final.
It is best for all concerned that disputes involving
children’s games be resolved outside the courtroom,
parents sometimes become too much involved in their
children’s games. That is especially true of Little
League, the finest organization ever formed for
teaching young boys good sportsmanship.
Jack Anderson
No friend to farmers
WASHINGTON - New Agriculture
Secretary Clayton Yeutter was billed as the
best qualified American for the job. It turns
out he may be the best qualified to ensure big
profits for corporate farmers and
foreclosure for the rest.
Yeutter has spent his first six months in of-
fice boosting the interests of corporate
agriculture, thumbing his nose at family
farmers and, as a sideline, promoting the
Republican Party at the taxpayers’ expense.
A former trade representative in the
Reagan Cabinet, Yeutter is a cheerleader for
free trade, even if it means the demise of
some American farms.
If Yeutter had his way, the production
quotas would be dropped and many small
peanut farmers would be out of business
within a year. Yeutter’s friends, big food
companies that use peanuts in their pro-
ducts, would revel in the lower prices.
In an ideal world, American farmers
should be able to stand on their own in na-
tional or international competition without
federal price guarantees. But in the real
world, neither the free market nor free trade
is free. The free trade philosophy that Yeut-
ter has pushed so adamantly has opened
American markets to foreign producers of
virtually every agricultural product. Yeutter
When Yeutter isn’t busy working against
farmers, he is speaking against them. They
ask for help from the drought and he tells
them to ask their state and local govern-
ments.
And when it comes to stirring up public
anger against farmers, no one does it better
than Yeutter. At a recent speech to the
American Seed Growers Association, Yeut-
ter said, “The federal deficit would double or
even triple if all requests for farm aid were
honored.” That typical Yeutter hyperbole
only worsens the perception Americans have
of their food producers.
MEMO MADNESS — Secretary of Health
and Human Services Louis Sullivan seems to
be reveling in the trivia of his office. Soon
after he was appointed, Sullivan cut off
privileges in the department’s executive din-
ing room for some agency officials who had
eaten there for years. Sullivan then began
papering his staff to distraction. He recently
* can make no guarantees that American pro-
Yeutter has offended people on both sides ducts will be as freely welcomed overseas;
of the political aisle. Rep. David Nagle, D- The farmers might forgive Yeutter his
Iowa, told us Yeutter’s first six months were shortsightedness if he showed a little more
a “disaster.” Nagle said, “Our worst concern for their welfare when he traveled
nightmare would be to have the archenemy the country. Instead, he plays Republican
of the American farmer as secretary of politics. On a trip to Nebraska in May, Yeut-
agriculture, and that’s exactly what we have ter’s pretense was to tour drought-ravaged
with Secretary Yeutter.” farms, some of which had so little water they announced, in a memo, that every memo
A Republican congressman told our couldn’t fill their toilets. Instead, Yeutter at- sent to his office should be accompanied by
reporter Tim Warner that Yeutter is more tended three Republican fund-raisers and another one-page memo summarizing the
often an adversary than an advocate for drummed up $15,000 for the state GOP. He contents of the memo to follow. Sullivan’s
farmers. One Democratic congressional managed to stop for about 45 minutes at one underlings are fuming over the busywork.
staffer summed up his “unofficial” opinion farm in Elwood, Neb
of Yeutter with a raised middle finger. The taxpayers picked up Yeutter’s $1 057
Farmers are more likely to raise a whole airline ticket to and from Nebraska and’the
fish when the name Yeutter comes up. The state GOP paid for the short trips to the three
secretary has made no secret of his agenda fund-raisers and the farm. Yeutter’s
to get rid of any quotas that protect farmers spokeswoman Kelly Shipp told us there was
but distort the free flow of trade. nothing illegal about the trip. She said Yeut-
Peanut farmers are a prime victim of ter flies coach to save the taxpayers’money
Yeutter’s knee-jerk philosophy. Production But according to travel vouchers for the
quotas keep American peanut farmers from Nebraska trip and another jaunt to Iowa, the
flooding the market and that keeps the price fares were in the first-class range. When con-
just high enough so the farmers, currently fronted with those vouchers, Shipp admitted
recovering from a drought, don’t go under. Yeutter sometimes goes first class.
MINI-EDITORIAL - Throughout the Cold
War, Americans paid through the nose for an
arsenal to protect against the Soviet
bogeyman. Now, the administration is cozy-
ing up to the bogeyman with offers of aid to
underwrite business and clean up the en-
vironment in the Eastern Bloc, and loans
with terms that the average American can
only dream about. It looks like the Evil Em-
pire is now on the dole. Where is Ronald
Reagan when we need him?
United nature Syndicate
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By the ASSOCIATED PRESS
On July 31, 1777, the Marquis
de Lafayette, a 19-year-old
French nobleman, was made a
major-general in the Continental
Army after offering his help to
the rebelling American colonies.
Lafayette later played a role in
the British defeat at Yorktown.
. On this date:
In 1498, Christopher Columbus
discovered the island of
Trinidad.
In 1556, St. Ignatius of Loyola,
the founder of the Society of
Jesus, died in Rome.
In 1875, the 17th President of
the United States, Andrew
Johnson, died in Carter Station,
Tenn., at the age of 66.
In 1948, President Harry S.
Truman helped dedicate New
York International Airport at
Idlewild Field. (The airport was
later renamed John F. Kennedy
International Airport.)
In 1982, 46 children and seven
adults were killed when two
buses and several cars collided
on a highway, near Beaune,
France.
In 1987, Iranian pilgrims and
riot police clashed in the Moslem
holy city of Mecca in Saudi
Arabia, resulting in the deaths of
some 400 people.
Five years ago: The U.S.
men’s gymnastics team won the
team gold medal at the Los
Angeles Summer Olympics in an
upset over the Chinese that in-
cluded perfect 10 performances
by Mitch Gaylord, Bart Conner
and Tim Daggett.
Today’s Birthdays:
Economist Milton Friedman is
77. Sportscaster Curt Gowdy is
70. Actor Don Murray is 60. Ac-
tress France Nuyen is 50. Ac-
tress Susan Flannery is 46. Ac-
tress Geraldine Chaplift is 45.
Movie producer Sherry Lansing
(“Fatal Attraction,” ‘The Accus-
ed”) is 45. Tennis player Evonne
Goolagong Cawley is 38.
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“Wa come in peace. Where’s the landfill?”
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Bloch still collecting pay
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By BARRY SCHWEID
WASHINGTON (AP) - It is
now more than six weeks since
Felix Bloch was ordered to sur-
render his pass to the State
Department on the suspicion the
veteran diplomat was engaged
in espionage for the Soviet
Union.
But the suspended bureaucrat,
still collecting his pay, is free to
travel to visit relatives in New
York’s Westchester County —
trailed by FBI agents,
themselves reportedly trailed by
Soviet agents. He also is evident-
ly free to leave the country.
It could be that the FBI and
other investigators simply do not
have the evidence to arrest the
54-year-old Bloch and are hoping
the Soviets will try to make con-
tact with him.
To a reporter who knew him
casually, Bloch is a most unlike-
ly spy. Courtly and pleasant, he
was engaged in the European
Bureau in the driest of jobs.
Bloch headed the Office of.
Regional Political-Economic Af-
fairs, which has nothing to do
with the NATO military alliance
and conventional and nuclear
weapons issues.
Instead, he was concerned
with trade and development —
and with two Western groups
headquartered in Paris: the
Organization for Economic
Development and the Coor-
dinating Committee on Strategic
Materials.
The first is devoted to joint
development efforts both in the
wealthy West and in the im-
poverished Third World. The se-
cond seeks to restrict the sale of
security-sensitive material to
the Soviet Union and the Eastern
bloc.
The job took Bloch to Paris
where he was videotaped han-
ding a briefcase — contents not
revealed -s- to a Soviet agent.
Bloch was in the French
capital in mid-May to address
West European economic of-
ficials on the European Com-
munity’s effort to establish a
single integrated market by
1993. He also went to Madrid for
the semiannual meeting of the
European Community’s political
directors. At the end of May he
was in Brussels for President
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Bush’s meeting with Jacques gather evidence.
Delors of the European Commis-
sion.
If Bloch was under suspicion
of spying for the Soviets, why
was he allowed to roam around
this country and Western
Europe?
If he is a spy, why hasn’t he
been swapped quietly for an
American agent or some other
prize in Soviet hands?
After all, as President Bush
observed on Monday, “es-
pionage goes on” all the time.
Perhaps the FBI is engaged in
a waiting game with Bloch, who
apparently was first questioned
by the FBI on June 22, the day he
was suspended from the State
Department.
James Nolan, who worked for
the FBI for 28 years and then
headed the State Department’s
Office of Foreign Missions until
his retirement last year, said
Wednesday that “it’s not uncom-
mon at all” for time to pass
before an arrest, even when a
confession has been made.
Confessions can be challenged
in court, sometimes successful-
ly. The delay provides time to
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To The Sun:
I was very shocked as well as
surprised when I read the article
about Roxanne Gillum a couple
of weeks ago.
In order for someone to vote in
an election they must have a
voters’ registration certificate
and- name must appear on the
tax roll. If this was not true, why
was Roxanne allowed to vote?
According to the article there
was some question about where
she lived. If my memory serves
me correctly, back in November
there was a guy named George
Bush who lived in Washington
but came to Houston to vote in a
very important election.
Is this the same type of thing
Roxanne has been accused of do-
ing? Are we faced with dual
standards in this great country
of ours? The laws for the rich
and famous should be the same
as for “us common folks” and
vice versa.
If we would focus our energy
on the “real criminals” in
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Baytown and stop wasting time
trying to cause trouble for good
taxpayers, our city would be a
safer place to live.
Lee Haywood
Baytown
To The Sun:
What are Barbers Hill school
trustees doing? Taking lessons
from Mont Belvieu City Council
on how to waste money. A resort
retreat! C’mon.
Cissy Coon
t Mont Belvieu
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from Sun files
J.B. LeFevre
retired from
city in '79
From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was:
55 YEARS AGO
Beginning tomorrow morning,
Florence McElhany will be post-
master at Goose Creek. She va-
cated the position several mon-
ths ago when Doris Flowers was
named acting postmaster.
C.R. Myers, mayor of Goose
Creek, says he will very likely
run again for county commis-
sioner. He ran against Charlie
Massey, who was re-elected.
40 YEARS AGO
Acting Police Chief W.R.
Montgomery calls attention to
new stop signs at Highway 146
and South Main.
Homer S. Griffin, school dis-
trict employee, is injured in a
car wreck on Decker.
Sun Circulation Manager
Ralph McCamey tells plans for a
subscription campaign — the
first such drive since the war-
time scarcity of newsprint was
eased.
James “Popeye” Beavers is
the top performer in Junior
Olympics track meet at Rice
Stadium.
20 YEARS AGO
I.M. “Deacon” Jones is elect-
ed chairman of the Sterling
Municipal Library Board.
Bill Britt, manager of Texas
Eastern Transmission Corp.’s
Baytown area facilities since
1951, has been promoted to oper-
ating superintendent of the east-
ern natural gas system of Texas
Eastern. His office will be in
Shreveport. Moving up as mana-
ger of the newly combined Bay-
town and Cuero offices at Bay-
town will be J.C. Elmore.
Baytown police recover a sto-
len car that has been missing
since Oct. 30, 1967. The car was
pulled from San Jacinto River. It
had been stolen from E.C. Bates.
10 YEARS AGO
Retiring City Finance Direc-
tor J.B. LeFevre looks back on a
career that included a four-year
tenure as city manager. It was
his decision to return to his
former position as finance direc-
tor and he says he never regret-
ted it. He admits he didn’t like
the pressure and controversy
that goes with the top ad-
ministrative position.
Dr. William J. Wells III, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Wells of
Baytown, is appointed products
account manager for Celanese
Chemical Co.
Mrs. Douglas Wallace is
hostess to a meeting of Texas
Beta Psi. Next meeting will be
held at the Old City Hall
Restaurant.
Bible verse
A gentle answer turns
away wrath, but a harsh
word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:1
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