The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 58, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 8, 1986 Page: 4 of 42
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WASHINGTON — Favors are with the $425 million spent in themselves. Even before a
part of a politician’s stock in 1972. Ellen Miller, the center’s freshman member of Congress rose from an average of $10,000
trade. He’s expected to produce director, told our associate Les has settled into his Washington per candidate in 1974 to $89,000
‘in the next
Family issues
in forefront
last year; in the Senate races,
the average went from $47,000 to
$405,000.
office, he’s already collecting
money for the next election (and
government contracts, public- Whitten
works projects and jobs for the presidential-election year, 1988,
people he represents. They, in it will almost certainly be well so are his opponents),
turn, may contribute to his elec- over $2 billion,
tion campaign. __________
This is a clumsy, capricious I > '
system, highly vulnerable to Given the high cost of campaigns, it's dif-
jor economic issues of 1986, as well as during the re- oadTng Xs tor'c«“b„£ {icult for a politician to get elected without
maining years of the decade. Given the high cost of cam- Selling his SOlll to Special interests.
Women’s pay averages 64 cents to every dollar a man paigns, h’s difficult for a poiiti-
makes. Economists predict this will rise to 80 cents by ?*a“t0 gefelecte<* without sell-
tht> vpflr oonn nnooihi,,cnnBflP HnmmriinrtnnimmfoeonU ing his soul to special interests. - Congressional campaign ing Senate race has soared from
the year 2000, possibly sooner, depending on how far and Then, when the campajgn con_ spending alone totaled $77 $598,000 in 1976 to almost $3
how fast the issue is pushed in the next five years. tributors come around to collect million in 1974 and $374 million million last year. The average
Women, particularly working mothers, crowded the on their “investment,” it winds last year. may be $5 million next year. Sen.
workplace during the early 1980s and are the fastest up costing the taxpayers billions _ The disease is spreading Jesse Helms, R-N.C., spent $16.5
growing segment of the U.S. job market. °f ^llars in special-interest some candidates for state million to squeeze by his
With the rapid influx of working women came new p®:!*8’ _ ... . legislatures spent more than $i Democratic challenger, Jim
demands, forcing business and industry into a catch-up um°Zy Sr Jamoa m financ ,1!il!l0“ln 19®lLtfew Sears T’ ' * * '
situation. DurinI the last half of the decade, family
issues are likely to head the nation’s business agenda, noises about reforming the Senate in a major state.
In personnel offices across the land, such issues as syste™ by curbing the runaway
child care, parental leave, flexible benefits and job ad- com"
V ancement, to name a few, will be hotly debated during 1{>0ur iegisiatorstieed awaken- year- almok io times that 1974
the remainder of the decade. ing, inspiration or encourage- total.
The largest statistical leaps are for working mothers ment in this venture, a forthcom-
who already make up 60 percent of the female work in8 report by the non-partisan “less (reliance) on traditional
force. By 1990, a predicted 65 percent of new job entrants Center for Responsive Politics political tools, the grass-roots
willbe women should be stimulating. We’ve ob- networks, canvassing or
a cf.irhr Voin puiM taine<t a draft of this exhaustive rallies,” the study discovered,
A study by Yale University s Bush Center in Child report, which is to be released “in favor of more expensive
Development and Social Policy predicts that about 80 later this month. Here are some -sophisticated techniques (like) funding and 23 Per?ent in Senate sidered, “the inspectors are as-
percent Of two-parent families will be working by the of the mournful numbers that polling services, computers, races founded that the Marine house is
makedear the «gaKy ol Ike direct mail aud high tech' _ Cmporate PACs have ja^tomUoMl.glvMltaex. ;
situation. advertising.” erown , 790 Dercent since 1974- lraorainarycosls
- Campaign spending for the Another cause of the huge in- fabor PACs which made ud on*
1984 federal, state and local elec- crease in campaign spending is fhird of thp tota> jn <974 con.
tions was $1.8 billion, compared the length of the campaigns stituted ontf one-tenth last year.
— The average cost of a winn-
— The center found a disturb-
ing connection between the
issues before Congress and the
PACs’ contributions to
members. For example, while
defense spending was growing in
the early 1980s, the 20 largest >
defense contractors’ PACs in-
creased their contributions by
225 percent, to a total of $3.6
million last year. And $440,000
went to members of the Senate >
Armed Services Committee.
Pay equity for women is expected to be one of the ma-
WATCH ON WASTE: The State
Department recently laid out a
cool million to build a 16-room
house for the Marine guards at
the Manila embassy. An inspec-
tor general’s report questioned
whether the department got its
money’s worth. While noting
— PACs are edging small con- that the building looked “im-
tributors out of the picture. In pressive,” the report said there
1974, 46 percent of House cam- wasn’t adequate closet space in
paign contributions and 38 per- the small bedrooms, while the
cent in Senate races came from "open interior has considerable
donors of $100 or less. Last year wasted space." The kitchen
small donations made up only 19 lacks “institutional-type ap-
percent of House candidates’ pliances,” and all things con-
— Winning a close House elec-
tion in 1974 cost, on average,
$90,000; last year the price tag
was $450,000, and in 1986 it will
probably top $500,000.
— PACs gave almost $113
million to federal candidates last
— These increases result from
turn of the century.
The U.S. is advised in the study to look to other coun-
tries for ideas of what may be happening in America. A
key area is paid parental leave policies.
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Joseph Spear assisted United Feature Syndicate
columnist Jack Anderson in writing today’s
story.
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LOS ANGELES — “Suppose a of the articles written by Field-
meteor hit your house and killed ing, a faculty member at the erous medical studies have
you,” says Dr. Jonathan E. University of California at Los demonstrated an association be-
Fielding. “Would the fact that Angeles School of Public Health tween smoking and cancer of the
nobody knew exactly how the who served as Massachusetts’ mouth, larynx, esophagus, blad-
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Cigarette smoking has been identified as
the single most important source of
has not been proven to be the preventable premature deaths.
cause of numerous debilitating
— and often fatal — afflictions-
whose origins have never been
precisely identified. . After examining hundreds of cent of the 412,000 yearly deaths
“The mechanisms by which scientific studies. Fielding fromallformsofcancerareat-
lung cancer, heart disease, em- reached these compellling con- tributed to smoking,
physema and perinatal prob- elusions: Chronic obstructive lung dis-
lems occur are unknown,” in- “Cigarette smoking has been eases: Chronic bronchitis, em*
sists the Tobacco Institute, the identified as the single most im- physema and similar diseases
industry’s leading trade associa- portant source of preventable annually account for 62,000
tion. “It is not known whether morbidity and premature mor- smoking-related deaths,
smoking has a role in the de- -tality in each of the reports of the
U.S. surgeon general produced
since 1964.
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Fire: Although technically a
public safety rather than public
health problem, fires often are a
direct result of smoking - and
they kill or injure people at a ter-
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velopment of various diseases.”
There is, however, an over-
whelming amount of epidemio-
, the acreage and subdivide the Servicemen who have return- logical evidence illustrating the mortality from cigarette smok-
land into 40-acre tracts on which ed home will be honored at a link between cigarette smoking >"8 exceeds 350,000, more
farm families on relief will be banquet at First Baptist Church, and the incidence, distribution than the total number of Amerj-
placed from 30 South Texas Guests will be introduced by J.T. and frequency of numerous life- can lives lost m World War I,
Adams, president of the Men’s threatening afflictions. Korea and Vietnam combined month*
Mose Sumner plans a new Brotherhood, and music will be Fielding is more familiar with andalrnostas many as were lost
budding oh Texas Avenue to led by C.D. Dias. . that data than most of his fellow during Worid War II."
house offices of Gulf Cities ,nwlD. . physicians because, several The evidence relating to 4,000 people annually. Smoking
INMural Gas wrtr years ago, he emb'arMd-UPon a ^peciffe diseases is equally dfr : ^^inltShlfv ~r~
Drew’s Store. Cost will be bet- mas'ter'ofMTscuU^Locfe comPrehensive review of all vastating. hpar{ ' ^ homese<iapartments^ ambile ’
Veen $12^°JeaSaGO 1357- Carlos Worley Jr wil1 be fects*of smoking™the4Mialth ^ estimated 30 to 40 percent of the homes, hotels and motels.
• Jack Kraft and Lois Tharp win senior warden and HiB Dillen-—That project originally was 565,000 deaths annually are Although the vast body of epi- -
men will attend a meeting of the "Whe top popularity titles of Mr hack, junior warden. limited to the revision of a attributable to cigarette con- demiological evidence confirms
East Texas Chamber of Com- ahy^Jliss Robert E. Lee of 1946. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post medical textbook, but Fielding’s sumption. Smokers die of coro- the strong statistical relation-
merce in Brenham. They are Thenewly organized Tri-Cities members gather at the home of work was so impressive that it nary beart disease at, a rate 70 ship between smoking and num-
W.W. Sloan, N.D. Stiles, J.H, - Chamber of Commerce ivill co- John S. Halk to put finishing was published in two successive percent higher than non-smok- erous fatal ailments, the indus-
McKinney, Joe Reid and C.P. —sponsor a banquet with the touches on his new home. Halk’s issues of the New England Jour- ers- try defiantly, insists that “the
Trotter. _ Jaycees at San Jacinto Inn. Ser- home was destroyed by fire in nal of Medicine, probably the Lung cancer: Approximately cause or causes of lung cancer
ving on the aggrangements com- 1955 in Cedar Bayou.i At 94, Halk medical profession’s most pres- 80 to 85 percent of the 131,000 and other diseases has not been
Highlands wins approval as mittee are M.W. Harper, O.E. probably is Baytown’s oldest tigious periodical. yearly deaths are attributable to scientifically proved.”
the site of 5,000-acre Rural Bauer Jr.,'R.C. Stephenson Jr., war veteran. He enlisted in 1890 In addition, the American Can- smoking, making cigarettes the
Resettlement Project. The L A-Wilkie, Dr. Clyde Spear and and served continuously 40 cer Society soon will be reprint- nation’s leading cause of cancer
years. ing and distributing 50,000 copies mortality
From The Baytown Sun files
this is the way it was:
55 YEARS AGO -
Humble’s Baytown Refinery
will return to the 44-hour work
week and reinstate its
employees who are now out of
work. The 40ihour week, in effect
since last fall, resulted in the
reduction of crews in sevepP
plant divisions. ~f
Five Goose Creek business
Smoking-related fires claim
counties.
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Robert Walters is a,cotumnist foe Newspaper
. Enterprise Association
federal government plans to buy Sam Davis.
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Today in history
Know ye that that the Lord he
is God: it is he that hath made
,, ' us, and hot we ourselves; we are
his people, and the sheep of his
• pasture.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS figures John W. Dean 111,
On Jan. 8, 1935, rock and roll Herbert W. Kalmbach and Jeb
legend Elvis Presley was born in Stuart Magruder from prison.
Tupelo, Miss. Ten years ago: Chou En-lai,
In 1642, the Italian astronomer Premifr °f since^Com- v
Galileo died mumsts took power in 1949, died _ >
In 1815, U.S. forces led by Gen. '
Andrew Jackson defeated the , , years a89T President
British in the Battle of New ^rters h^ would wi free to f
ZTwk“ngeneagerae“ »' 12S?iwSStS 5
In 1964, President Lyndon B. ’ jjj wSe^^retelS^K
pov"rt».”dKlared a "War °" uXXkrfnc? *
In 1965; 4e Star of India anfd Re^gan announced thaUhieLof
other stolen ffems wwe returned staff James A Baker m antf
to the American Museum of Tre ^ Donald T
Natural History m New York Ci- Regan would switch jobs;
Secretary of State George P.
In 1973, secret peace talks bet-- Shultz concluded talks with
ween the United States and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
North Vietnam resumed near Gromyko in Geneva; and an
Parts. ^ American priest, the Rev.
In 1975, Judge JOhn J. Sirica Lawrence Jenco, was kidnapped
I ordered the release of Watergate in Lebanon.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 58, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 8, 1986, newspaper, January 8, 1986; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153264/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.