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The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
Thursday, December 6,1979
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☆☆☆☆☆ Time Is Running Out
The Big Three
Since everyone is already analyzing the 1980
presidential election, it isn’t premature at this time to
specify the three states most political observers now
"say will be the decisive states in the November, 1980
presidential election.
They are California, Ohio and Illinois-and they,
many say, will determine the outcome of the election
regardless of whether President Carter or Senator Ted
Kennedy is the Democratic nominee.
The oddsmakers and pollsters at present give
Senator Kennedy a clear edge in the Democratic
nomination derby. Kennedy is strong in big states
which send so many delegates to the convention, states
such as New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan,
Pennsylvania, etc.
Carter has political delegate strength in Florida and
Texas, and the South, and is on good terms with many
state chief executives and party leaders in Dixie.
If Kennedy is the Democratic nominee, that is if the
^pollsters are right, thpn he’ll win or lose according to
the outcome in California, Ohio and Illinois, considered
the key Democratic-Republican swing states.
Those Americans who
claim that we have
overwheming military
strength and are superior to
the Soviet Union, or at least
their equals, are either
grossly mistaken or are
lying.
More than 170 retired
generals and admirals have
warned President Carter
against an “increasing Soviet
challenge.” Referring to
SALT II, they said, “we
oppose a ‘deal’ that freezes
the current imbalance and
reinforces permanent Soviet
strategic superiority.”
Admiral Zumwalt, former
head of our Navy, recently
stated that the general
public in the United States
did not know “that a
nuclear exchange in 1981
on present trends would
result in about 160 million
dead in the United States
but only about 10 million in
the Soviet Union.”
The American people
must be told the truth
before huge Soviet bombs
drop on New York and
destroy everything for 40
^ oj miles around. Hie Soviets
have 308 of these big 25
megaton bombs. We have
If you remain in Me and My words
remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and
it will be given you.
—John 15:7
'og none, except a few
fck outmoded 5’s and 1,000
w minutemen, inadequately
JgNtiKVgr**tt* pr“s ru»„ing out on
the American people unless
we establish immediately a
powerful nuclear deterrent.
Our citizens want peace and
will not use a first strike.
However, the Kremlin
criminals, with their huge
arsenal of nuclear weapons
and armada of Suv'"iQ,-,riQC
will press the first strike
button whenever it is to
their advantage. According
to Admiral Zumwalt, if our
present defense trends
continue the final
showdown will come
between 1981 and 1983.
When the preacher in the pulpit or on television
emphasizes what his ministry is doing for overseas missions
every widow in the audience is led to feel that her
contributed “mite” makes her personally important, part of
a worldwide ministry.
And, after all, we are admonished by Scripture to “go
unto all the world” with the Gospel message.
Thus a church “with outreach” is fulfilling its mission.
Recently, however, a new church emphasis on resettling
Indochinese in the United States has further loosened purse
strings in the pews.
You do what you are divinely guided to do but don’t let
yourself be used!
Americans generally are getting fed up with parasitism, are
rightly resentful of the Welfare Cadillac, the professional
unemployed and food stamps misused to buy booze.
Hard-working, behaving, dues-paying Americans have had
enough of red ink on their books because of goldbricks on
their backs.
Yet now we are urged to extend our charity to other than
homefolks.
And some of the outsiders now inside are using our
freedoms to demonstrate against our government.
Some bring with them old world ways in diametrical
contradiction to ours. They buy and sell their teen-ager
daughters; they skin and eat dogs and cats; they ravage our
fishing grounds.
Transporting them here is cruel to them and a rude affront
to our own jobless.
Recent resentment against Iranian students flared into
violence in some cities, resulted in deportation of many. That
should be a warning.
There is no more toxic way to pollute our environment
than recklessly to overpopulate it.
And there is no more effective way to subvert our
political, economic and social system than to dilute it.
The import-anybody promoters, whether for mercenary or
entirely altruistic motives, are playing a dangerous game with
our already precarious balance.
Again —
When the preacher in the pulpit or on television
emphasizes what his ministry is doing for overseas missions
every widow in the audience is led to feel that her
contributed “mite” makes her personally important, part of
a worldwide ministry.
And, after all, we are admonished by Scripture to “go
unto all the world” with the Gospel message.
Thus a church “with outreach” is fulfilling its mission.
Recently, however, a new church emphasis on resettling
Indochinese in the United States has further loosened
pursestrings in the pews.
That is not traditional charity.
Anybody we can help we should help — but that does not
include bringing them home to live with us — or pretty soon
we’d not have a home any more.
Now, if your heart tells you otherwise, follow your heart.
But don’t let yourself be used.
VIRGINIA PAYETTE
Computer Age Arrives
By Virginia Payette
The unthinkable has final-
ly happened: A computer
terminal has taken up resi-
dence on my desk and is
nudging me, fumbling and
bumbling, into the electronic
age.
Which, I guess, makes it
official. If I can operate one
of these temperamental
contraptions, anybody can.
Although, at the moment,
there’s some question about
who is really in charge.
Oh, what the heck; let’s
tell it like it is. In a contest
of wills, I lose every time. I
still can’t figure out the dif-
ference between the
“command” mode and the
“interactive” mode, and
every time I get mixed up
my “Silent 700” (that’s its
name) slides into its mem-
ory bank and sulks.
But it’s a cute little thing.
Looks a lot like a typewriter
with ears. And what I do is
“input” my final draft into
this “electronic data
terminal,” where it vanishes
into some kind of invisible
storage bin.
Then I make a long-dis-
tance call to another com-
puter at United Feature
headquarters, which burps
out a signal to stick the
phone into Silent 700’s ears.
That done, if I remember to
push all the right buttons
and, if I’m in the right
“mode” (whatever that is),
my copy goes flashing into
New York at the rate of 300
words a minute. It’s all over
in 90 seconds.
Actually, I’m only using
about one-tenth of its elec-
tronic powers. What I really
need is some genius who can
translate the operator’s
manual into layman’s talk
for me. (Only an astronaut
could follow those instruc-
tions.)
Once I get the hang of its
space-age double-talk, I will
(they tell me) be able to
cross out words, flip para-
graphs up and down, and
correct mistakes with the
flick of a key. My problem is
I’m still trying to figure out
which key.
It’s a bit unsettling to
have tp,jp(}mit that you’re
one of the last ones on your
block to stick a toe in micro-
computer waters.
Because, like it or not,
home computers are taking
over our lives.
Have a few for instances:
You can, just by picking
up the phone and pushing the
right buttons, pay your bills
without ever opening your
checkbook.
Push another few keys
and you get the day’s news.
Just say the word (elec-
tronically, of course) and
your handy-dandy home
computer will control your
furnace, air-conditioning
and lighting systems to save
both energy and money.
You can buy a car with a
built-in computer that tells
you how many miles you’re
getting on your $l-a-gallon
gas and how much farther
you can drive on what’s left
in the tank. When it’s time to
fill ’er up and, no fooling, the
computer nags you every
few seconds with a loud
beep.
And they’re working on
one that will tell you when
to change the oil, replace the
brake pads or take the car in
for a new transmission.
Wouldn’t surprise me a bit
if, one of these days, they
come up with a chip that
will squawk out a warning
when the mechanic tries to
make repairs you don’t need.
Farmers are using barn
computers to evaluate the
nutritional content of live-
stock rations.
There’s a “talking wheel-
chair” for motor-and-
speech-impaired people that
has a button which, when
pushed by a finger or toe,
speaks for them.
Researchers are also
working on a computer that
will let a handicapped per-
son operate a typewriter
merely by moving his eyes.
The Dallas Cowboys are in
the playoffs year afater
year because Coach Tom
Landry has a locker-room
computer that tells him
which quarterback is going
to complete the most passes
and which 300-pounder will
never miss a tackle.
You can already loan your
brother-in-law money by
computer.
A nod from you and your
bank will flash the cash elec-
tronically to his bank, no
di/cover
Odessa...
a nice place for
Christmas shopping
and holiday
entertainment . . .
"THE LITTLEST ANGEL,"
children's Christmas musical,
December 15-16, 22-23,
2:30 p.m., Permian Playhouse.
"HALF A SCORE," writings
from the '70's, reader’s
theatre performance by UTPB
Drama Dept., December 14,
8 p.m.. Coffee House, UTPB.
For more information;
Odc//a Cultural
Council
214 W. 5th / Suite 206
Odessa, Texas 79761
(915) 337-1492
matter how far away he is.
Computers are permanent
equipment in doctors’ offic-
es. More and more, the fam-
ily sawbones is relying on
data banks to diagnose and
cure your mysterious symp-
toms.
They’ve also got (and this ^
is the real biggie) computers W
that will let machines repair
themselves. Thanks to
increasingly inexpensive
semiconductors and increas-
ingly expensive people, a
tiny $10 microcomputer can
do some jobs a $30-an-hour
mechanic does now. And it
doesn’t kill your whole day,
• waiting for it to show up.
The whole thing’s kind of
scary. Humbling, too. Noth-f
ing makes you feel dumber
than to have a bunch of
wires spit out a message
that says, “You’ve goofed
again, stupid.” Especially
when you realize its silicon
chip of a brain is no bigger
than your thumbnail -- and
it’s smarter than you are.
The Birch Log
The Trilateralist
Takeover
by John F. McManus
Belmont, Massachusetts — It was in the fall of
1973, three years before his election, that Jim-
my Carter cast his lot with the people who made
him President. The occasion was a private din-
ner meeting in London at which the relatively
unknown Georgia Governor met with David
Rockefeller, the awesomely powerful New
York banker. Mr. Rockefeller had just
launched his latest forum for international
influence called The Trilateral Commission.
Invited to sign on as a founding member, the
ambitious Georgia Governor speedily climbed
aboard the Rockefeller express. For him, it led
straight to the White House.
Brzezinski’s Brainchild
The Trilateral Commission was the brain-
child of Columbia University professor Zbig-
niew Brzezinski. In his 1970 book Between Two
Ages, the former State Department official
praised Marxism, viewed the United States as
obsolete, yearned for central planning of
America’s future, and proposed piecemeal
transition of national sovereignty to a commu-
nity of nations. The very first step in his
subversive plan called for entangling the politi-
cal, defense, and economic activities of the
United States, Western Europe, and Japan.
Subsequent steps included extending those
links, first to other non-Communist nations,
and then even to the Communists. His eventual
goal was world government.
Early in 1973, David Rockefeller created the
Commission exactly as Brzezinski had pro-
posed. To ensure minimum deviation from the
Between Two Ages plan, David hired Zbigniew
away from Columbia to be the first Trilateral
Executive Director. The two went to work to
gather several hundred influential leaders in
North America, Western Europe, and Japan.
Very little of the Carter-Rockefeller connec-
tion came to light during the 1976 Presidential
race. Candidat^Carter deceitfully insisted that
he was entirely' separate from the Eastern Es-
tablishment. But when victory was his, the
Trilateral-Rockefeller ties emerged. Carter
loaded his Administration with Mondale, Vance,
Brown, Blumenthal, Brzezinski, Warnke, Lin-
owitz, Young, and another dozen Trilateralists.
All came from the mere 75 Americans whom
David and Zbigjhad selected for membership in
their new attack on American sovereignty.
f
The Word Gets Out
It has taken a great deal of effort on the
part of a well-informed few to expose this
Trilateral takeover. But the news is getting out.
So much so that many politicians now find it
advisable to sever formal ties to Rockefeller’s
corps of elitists. Senators Chiles, Cranston, and
Danforth have resigned. So, too, have Presi-
dential hopeful George Bush and Republican
National Chairman William Brock. Even more,
the heat has become intense enough to force
Trilateral officials to defend the organization
from charges of political conspiracy.
In a Hartford, Conn., radio debate on No-
vember 5th, Charles B. Heck, Trilateral Commis-
sion Secretary for North America, portrayed
the organization as a “floating study group.”
But he was forced to admit that “a remarkable
number of members were appointed to high-
level Administration positions,” that “Presi-
dent Carter was a member from its beginning
in 1973,” and that Mr. Carter “met a number
of people that he appointed in Trilateral.”
After making such admissions, Heck lamely
sought to discount what he called a “miscon-
ception about our strength.” When confronted
with the fact that the President’s most recent
appointments — Paul Volcker to head the Fed-
eral Reserve and Hedley Donovan to be his top
domestic affairs adviser — were also Trilater-
alists, he offered no response. He would rather
keep the Trilateral influence in the shadows.
But Americans who wonder what’s wrong with
our nation’s leadership are beginning to recog-
nize the Trilateral connection.
© 1979 The John Birch Society Features
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