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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday, April 9, 1984
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. William Rusher
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Warfare pendulum swings
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solution — Is to stop producing comical. Expecting to spend an could strike at Russia whereas
and deploying these terrible agreeable hour or two ex- they couldn’t strike at us. — By
weapons right now. patiating * on the horrors of all means share the defensive
But that is in fact not the only nuclear warfare, they suddenly technology with the Russians, so
conceivable solution. It isn’t find you agreeing with them and they can be secure, too.
even the best one, even assum- inviting them to join in working The Soviet Union would mere-
ing the Russians could be trusted for a future entirely free of the ly construct “killer satellites’’
to halt production (which specter of nuclear annihilation, that would knock out our defen-
couldn’t be verified). Worse 'yet (since President sive satellites. — They might
In one perspective, the history Reagan spoke approvingly of the try, but if so the technological
of warfare is a series of pen- defensive-satellite concept in a race would be conducted in earth
dulum swings between the TV address a year ago, and orbit, where this country holds
dominance of offense and the called for funds to research and the high cards,
dominance of defense. Nuclear develop the idea), they find The cost would be too great. —
weapons swung the pendulum themselves being urged to rally Not necessarily as great as the
far over toward offense. But our behind Mr. Reagan on pain of be- eost 0f our present system of
ability to place sophisticated ing convicted of nostalgia for the <-mutual assured destruction.”
satellites in earth orbit, capable Good Old Days of mutual But sureiy we would be foolish to
of spotting ICBMs on launch and assured destruction if they ec0nomlze on a defensive
destroying them within seconds, refuse. system that would render
now swings the pendulum sharp- The rhetoric of m defensiv^.....pqcJeaaCBMs obsolete. , »■ .
The argument for a nuclear dominance t0W3rd defens,ve satellite is . positively it wouldn't work. — On the
freeze (or whatever), is at bot- , ... ’ awash with virtues: The concept contrary, there is every
tom a criticism of the current is strictly non-nuclear (it would evidence that it would; but why
doctrine of deterrence (“mutual ay,knock out ICBMs with high ex- this bitter resistance to even try-
assured destruction”), *2&Si Plosives or laser beams) and ing the .idea? Why did NBC’s
An example Of the high cost Of maintaining the 50 per- decorated to taste With allusions Sat iKS Dreventpurely defensive wouldn’t kill ‘‘Today-’ show, the-very morn-
cent retirement pay rate was the $16 billion paid 1.3 to the horrors of nuclear wa^ muen as^a slngle.Russi'an)., ing after Mr. Reagan’s sugges-
retlrees in im. Thisis unmatched in aiiyother branch fare What if - for whatever acainst this country from ever Nuclear-freeze proponents, feel- tion, rush a scientist from M.I.T.
of fprieral <5ervief» reason: accident, misunderstan- ing their world crumbling about onto the program to fight the
Of federal service. ding or sheer homicidal mania reaching their targets. And that them frantically improvise proposal tooth and claw? What is
,Juhe Pentagon comra^sion. schcdtlled to conduct the _ deterrence fails to deter? «riU^r^U Latn«terihtri^ifpri arguments against the proposal, the matter with these anti-
ABC-TV’s “The Day After” of- Statee of Se quesu^ >"^h has it, answer: nuclear pretesters? Do they
expected to recommend 20-year veterans receive a pen- fered an answer caiculated t0 QED To construct such a defensive want a nuclear'safe future or
S10notaDOUtJ5 percent Of base pay. scare the daylights out of us. One Watching nuclear-freeze pro- system would be dangerously
If approved by Defense Secretary Caspar alleged solution — implicitly put ponents grapple with this destabilizing, since it would
Weinberger, the commission’s recommendations would forward as the only conceivable counterproposal borders on the create a situation in which we
save more than $2 billion during its first year and more
in future years.
At a time of runaway federal deficits, $2 billion is a
substantial saving. Much more could be saved by reduc-
tions in military spending. That’s where much of the
waste in government occurs.
The recommendations also would be designed to help
reverse the drain of talented officers in their early 40s
who leave military service after 20 years.
Thought should be given to raising the minimum
military retirement age from 20 to 25 or 30 years. The
higher retirement age would be a deterrent to wholesale
enlistments.
NEW YORK - Today’s col-
umn is addressed primarily to
people who, from time to time,
find themselves arguing with ad-
vocates of a nuclear freeze (or
Military pension cut
for future justified
some variant of that theme). I
have good news for you: There
exists, ready for immediate use,
an argument on your side of the
question that is 100 percent
sound and absolutely
devastating. I have devoted a
Billions of dollars in military pensions have been paid goodly share of my life to study-
over the years at the rate of 50 percent of a retiree’s base ln8 the black arts of argumenta-
pay at the time of retirement. [ion (I even11w.r°t® a b2?k "?*
The 50 percent figure is too high and should have been SL^nts”) and i° am
reduced long ago. One of the reasons retirement pay prepared to testify that, in 45
was fixed at 50 percent was to attract more people into years of debating public issues, i
military service. The program achieved the objective have never encountered a more
until military leaders decided it was attracting too decisive riposte,
many who wanted only to serve the required time and
return to civilian life with a good basic income.
Also, many of those now in retirement are below age
45 and hold jobs in industry and other fields.
A Pentagon commission is expected to recommend a
substantial reduction in retirement pay for future
military personnel who leave the service after 20 years.
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don’t they? What is going on in
their sick little minds?
You get the idea. Go to it!
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From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was 40 and 30
and 20 years ago:
-^4jPRIL9,1944
N.H. Jackson of Mexico City
arrives here for a visit with his
mother, Mrs. J.L. Jackson, and
his sister, Beulah Mae Jackson.
Mrs. J. Pennington of
Haynesville, La., is visiting in
the home of her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs; O H.
Dawson.
Forty new homes are
available now for sale and for
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We believe the long-standing military practice of pro-
moting congressmen who held officer rank at retire-
ment. This serves no purpose except to increase
military pensions of those who perform no service in
return.
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Readers' views
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Board Of Regents To The Sun: m
ToTheSun: The article (by Leonard p
This is what I am certain your Stasney on Lee College s 50th an- p
readers hope is the last word on niversary) was not one for
Saturday’s Lee College regent celebration but was a very aJ
race. And a true “horse race” it politically biased article.
was, with fewer than 300 votes To state that the “small
separating the first and last group” of faculty members who
place finishers. ihave “become quite critical” of Ul
First, I congratulate the win- Dr. Robert Cloud are “self-
ners, Don Coffey, Dr. Walter serving” is absurd. On one occa-
Buttrick and my longtime board sion in particular, this “small
colleague, John Adams. They group” has,consisted of 54 per-
worked hard and they won. I am cent of the faculty. Second, this
pleased that the support of each “self-serving” group includes
was broad-based and truly com- some of the finest educators,
munitywide. I am confident that Since the article singled out1
this diversity of support will per- the Texas Department of Cor-
mit each the objectivity rections program as the excuse WASHINGTON — Conscien- contracts worth $167 million. Ames had known about a serious
necessary for the decisions they for teachers not being available tious Pentagon employees trying And he made no secret of his backlog in Un-negotiated con-
will make as they participate in to students, I have to say that to save the taxpayers a few belief that even more could be tracts, but had done nothing to ...
the leadership of the college. this }s absolutely not true. I have million dollars often wind up cut- saved if his bosses would get clear it up. The Pentagon consumer research agency s
I would also like to con- been taught by faculty members ting their own throats instead of their acts together. ____ routinely allows contractors to estimates. Current population is
- gratulate the other two can- who have not concurrently costs , All of the issues raised by go ahead with expenditures pen- estimated at 32,800 and there are
didates for thier efforts. Par- taught at TDC, and some of them , That’S what happened to Lambert have not been resolved ding final negotiations. 10,300 local households. Also, the
ticularly, I am sure that my good are never available to students. David Lambert, a Defense .yet. But the Pentagon’s famed . _ - .prf nointpri nut BaytOwp household has
friend Mjke Finley will not be Most of the faculty are more Logistics Agency watchdog at cost-cutter, Ernest Fitzgerald, aaet ipcome that 1S 17 Percent '
slighted if I take this opportunity than willing to spend extra time theIBM plant in Manassas, Va. who now serves as the Air £utflSti?TtteS^ « ? natten^ av®rf|f- j
to commend a young newcomer with students who are having Lambert’s tob is to keeD an Force’s deputy for managment , 1 f!nal t0;1116 con^ac‘ Baytown’s average household is
to the politic*! scene who im- problems, but I can assure you. on the taJ dollars that flow systems has reviewed . th^tetal SmtJact S Wi?$?’154 after ■
pressed all with whom he came that the extra work at TDC was into the plant. But when'he blew Lambert’s documentation and I? TIT tI L ^a^n's average is $5,246.
in contact, including his op- not a hinderance . .. . the whistle on what he thought believes Lambert is right. Jg** «
ponents — Mario Delgado. His The article states the ad- was waste and mismanagement Fitzgerald said he is “outrag- ... . . y hip,
intelligence, drive and profes- ministration and Board of jn bandling hundreds of millions ed” over the proposal to fire gtiafc
sional manner with which he Regents has always welcomed 0f donars’ worth of defense con- Lambert, whom he .considers a
conducted himself definitely- constructive criticism, but this t t he was siapped down by conscientious auditor
mark him among the future group’s comments are almost his Pentagon bosses
leaders of our community. always in opposition ...” Has mv associates Indy Lambert has raised: _ In his ,etter to Long
I thank all those who sup- the administration and Boaitl of Ba5hwar’ a^Donald Goldberg <*-He signed a complaint to the > Lambert also accused his suoer-
rkrttdPxnre^mv’SnksTthe “cSmcGvfcrmdsrn^” D™s have learned that navy Cmdr' Charging that StumPf visors of poor management,
like to express my thanks to the constructive criticism . Does Hugh D. Ames is proposing to had ordered him to use a rubber- which he said caused low morale
citizens who Pelted me o on^only criticize in a way to {ire Lambert for being openly stamp auditing technique in-
serve six years on the board, to please. critical of higher authorities — stead of forcing the contractor to
my fellow board members and to I suggest that Stasney go sit in specifically Ames himself and justify expenditures in detail. He
the students, faculty and staff of the classrooms of some of the Lambert’s supervisor, John charged that this resulted in ex-
Lee College. I look forward to allegedly “self-serving”
witnessing the cpntinued ex- teachers. Here one will find the
cellence of the college in the true educators; the interested
and the interesting.
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APRIL 9,1954
Services will be held tomorrow
for Martha Ann Crumpler of
Mont Belvieu. A former Barbers
Hill teacher, she died early to-
day in a Baytown hospital.
Mrs. Henry Singleton is
elected president of the
American Association of Univer-
sity Women.
Cecile Treat, Jimmy
Richards, Betty Hart and Ken-
neth Welch are in charge of
decorations for the Lee College
Confederate Ball which will
feature a Johnnny Rebel theme.
Baytown’s population has
grown by almost 10,000 in less,
than two years, according to a
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Pentagon bosses slap down
man trying to save money
APRIL 9,1964 J
Jesse G. Beck, retiring from J
Humble’s Baytown Refinery, ;
posted a perfect attendance
record for 38 years on the job at {
Humble’s Baytown Refinery. j
A campaign to support the re- *
election of Gov. John Connally is *
formed in Baytown with head- !
quarters set up at 218 E. Texas. ;
Fred Hartman is named chair-
man of a committee for the cam- |
paign. *
Mrs. Dan Willson is elected ;
president of the Baytown Ser- '
vice League. "
“Supervisors tend to be Keith Kilcrease wins fist pla^g. J
____________________ tion of this charge by engineer- authoritarian and distant toward in an art show at Baytown Junior ‘
Mary Jane Bordelon for critizing his superiors and for ing supervisor Maj. George their subordinates. . .A majority High,
2001 Oregon giving copies of critical reports Olson substantiated Lambert’s ih°se surveyed^ ^would not
to the Pentagon’s inspector concern on this issue,
general and the Office of Special
Counsel. That office was set up that Stumpf had recommended
expressly to prevent retaliation labor costs that were roughly si°ns *)ave s^ious internal per-
against whistle blowers.
“He’s absolutely right,” Fit-
zgerald said. “It’s a big pro-
Here are some of the issues blem.”
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supported by an official docu-
ment known as the “Gatewood
Report.” I have obtained a copy
Stympf in d letter he sent to cessive costs. Fitz^ernld snys he of the report. Here ore excerpts i
Ames. is ready to back Lambert on this
The commander has accused issue. And an initial investiga-
Lambert of “insubordination”
future.
Bruce Causey
1705 E. Texas
Today
in history
recommend the IBM-Manassas
— Lambert signed a complaint (facility) as a good place to
work. . .All IBM-Manassas divi-
Z\)e Uaptotott &un
$100,000 higher than the contrac- s°nnel problems affecting
“You charge me with being, tor deserved. This is one of morale, productivity and depar-
ture intentions."
Leon Brown
Fred Homberger
Fred Hartman
...........Editor and Publisher
........Assistant to Publisher
Editor and Publisher, 1950-1974
dishonest, immoral, several charges under investiga-
unscrupulous, irresponsible, in- tion by the inspector general. A spokesman for the Defense
competent.. .Your letter is Fitzgerald said, “On a prima Logistics Agency said the pro-
replete with gratuitous in- facie basis, Lambert is accurate posal to fire Lambert was. based
Advertising Director suits. Ames wrote Lambert, on this issue.” on his “potentially libelous” let-
Lambert is admittedly no — In a letter to Ames — and a ter to his boss. The spokesman
' tfiplomat. He expresses himself report to Rep. Clarence Long, D- ' added that Lambert’s auditing
in blunt language. In the letter to Md. — Lambert suggested that method was unacceptable,
which Ames referred Lambert
* accused his superiors of being
unfit to serve in the U.S. govem-
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On April 9, 1959, NASA an-
nounced the selection of Scott
Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John
Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally
Sbhirra, Alan Shepard and
Donald Slayton as the astronauts
for Project Mercury.
On this date:
In 1865, Confederate General
Robert E. Lee surrendered to
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 138, Ed. 1 Monday, April 9, 1984, newspaper, April 9, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1152791/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.