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Page 2A—ALLEN AMERICAN—Thursday, July 26, 1979
The Allen American
opinions
dear editor
Ways to beat the heat...
Open letter given
to commissioners
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Mrs. Carrin Patman of Ganado, number of conservative Demo-
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TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
“2kk
dear editor)
13 girls make the
Flag Corps number 1
Alcohol killed an uncle of mine....
he was run over by a beer truck!
State Comptroller Bob Bullock
Monday said gas line-weary Tex-
ans will save both fuel and money
if they vacation in Texas this
crats to cross party lines is they
are proud of three Texas Repub-
licans: announced presidential
candidates John Connally and
Geroge Bush and dark-horse Gov.
Bill Clements, often mentioned as
BUDDY CAMPER
Editor & Publisher
PAT CAMPER
Business Manager
SUE NEWMAN
Photographer
Publication No. USPS151180
Phone 727-3352 Allen, Texas 75002
JEANNE FORD
Advertising Manager
omasasanzes
Open Records Act applies to
advisory panels and was told the
law was not clear.
Dear Editor,
The following is a copy of an
open letter which was presented to
the Collin County Commissioner’s
Court by a group of interested
citizens representing the feelings
of those who must travel Stacy
Road.
changes may be ahead.
Texas Education Agency com-
missioner Marlin Brockette an-
nounced he will retire later this
year, and two deputies will leave
with him.
Gov. Bill Clements has appoint-
Sweating at the typewriter with
the thermostat set at 78 degrees
and the sun blaring through the
window is no way to produce a
column.
So shortly before presstime I
shifted away from my typewriter
and began sifting through a stack
of mail on my desk. Amidst all the
bills was a letter from in-laws Joe
and Brenda Mitchell of Valdosta,
Georgia.
The letter contained a squib from
their hometown newspaper giving
10 ways to beat the heat.
ed especially for those sufferers
who will try any thing... at least
once:
1. Give up reading torrid novels
that make your blood race; in-
stead opt for something dull and
sedate, like Richard Nixon’s ac-
count of the Watergate incident.
2. Practice mind-over-matter:
pretend you’re living in Nome,
Alaska. Erect “Polar Bear Cross-
ing” signs in the year, eat frozen
fish and wear fur-lined underwear.
One second thought, the fur-lined
underwear might require a bit too
much mind-over-matter for the
novice.
3. Watch “Dr. Zhivago.” There
are at least 48 1/2 minutes of
snow scenes.
4. Play strip poker. Play to lose.
5. Hike down to your local gas
station and watch the gas prices
rise. It has a chilling effect.
ABC
1330 Ave.
of the Americas
New York, N.Y.
10019
PBS
475 L’enfant
Plaza Southwest
Washington, D.C.
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CBS
51 West 52 St.
New York, N.Y.
10019
“Public Not Allowed”
Clements’ new committee met
last week and ran into a collision
over the open meetings law with a
House Education Committee offi-
cial.
Saying the public was not
allowed to attend, Clements’ of-
fice manager Allen Clark asked
The 402
American
Respectfully awaiting
your decision,
Donna Klauer
Anne McCoy
Jon D. Goodman
J.D. Goodman, Jr.
Joyce Goodman
Jeanie Herald
R.L. Herald
Bill Alexander
Sherley Hesser
Jim Hesser
Carol Frank
Eldon Harrison
Beverly Harrison
Tom Collier
Norma Collier
Jack R. Gilley
Alton Snyder
Cindy Snyder
Thomas C. Thompson
Betty Thompson
Jimmie McElroy
Ruth McElroy
Ronnie Dunn
Roderic H. Klauer
Mary E. Macksey
David Box
Nell Box
Stephen F. Palstring
Verlin W. Fisher
Kathleen L. Fisher
NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N.Y.
10020
able compromise between those
who want a binding primary and
those who don’t want any kind of
presidential contest on the pri-
mary ballot.
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camp they marched over 15 hours
everyday with the camp staff,
plus the extra hours we spent
practicing on our own because I
asked them to.
They were rewarded when we got
the blue ribbons we wanted, but
their extra effort deserves extra
thanks and appreciation.
Thanks girls,
Vicki Younger
Captain
Allen Eagle Flag Corps
Want to express your views of television pro-
graming? Here are the addresses of network head-
quarters.
I hope it is of some help.
Thanks,
Jon D. Goodman
5947 Velasco Av.
Dallas, Texas
Farmers Seek Explanation
Leaders of an agriculture group
said Agriculture Commissioner
Reagan V. Brown didn’t go far
enough last week in explaining
why he refused to back a proposed
agriculture products commission
to advise the governor. The group
also charged Brown made ethnic
and racial slurs when he lost his
temper in a meeting with them on
the issue.
Brown subsequently apologized
publicly to black leaders for the
slur he felt was made in a private
meeting in his office.
The farmers later met with
Clements and said he told them he
would consider forming the advi-
sory agriculture group.
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“Forget what you’ve heard about
people who are born savoring the
steamy climate of the sub-tropics
and those who entered the world
with the sole purpose of subject-
ing their bodies to the undulating
waves of heat emitted by the
burning earth,” the article stated.
“There are, for example, those
who tolerate summer to the point
chairman of the SDEC rules
committee, says she is convinced
SDEC will vote for a convention
plan but leave room to add a
nonbinding presidential referen-
dum to the primary ballot to be
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8. Call your mother in Des
Moines and ask her if she’ll send
you to summer camp just once
more. Tell her you know of a good
camp on the French Riviera.
9. Give up the 2-martini lunch.
Make it a 62-martini lunch. Pour
the martinis into a wading pool
and dive in.
10. Avoid people who make your
blood boil. Tell your mother-in-
law you’ll see her in 1985. How-
ever, be more diplomatic with
your boss.
Education Shake Up
Dramatic changes have already
taken place in the state’s public
education system and more
Dear Editor,
I would like to recognize 13 girls
who gave their all to make the
Allen Eagle Flag Corps number
one. They are lieutenant Lisa
Stewart, Lynn Byerly, Barbara
Todd, Kim Wiley, Brenna Ander-
son, Linda Ball, Darlene Sliber,
Wendy Sager, Lisa Cox, Jill
Randolph, Jill Rushing, Kathy
Shinners, and Lisa Smith.
These girls put forth effort the
two weeks before camp that not
even I expected from them. At
Clements has refused to take
sides in the primary matter, at
least publicly.
A possible Clements opponent in
1982, Speaker of the House Bill
Clayton also refuses to take a
public position other than neutral
in the issue of. the Democratic
primary. Clayton, by the way,
attended the Southern Legislators
Conference in Louisville, Ken-
tucky, last week with Reps. Dan
Kubiak, Bill Presnal, and Bob
Davis.
While President Jimmy Carter is
shaking up his administration,
Texas Democrats are busy select-
ing a method of picking delegates
to the 1980 presidential nomina-
ting convention.
Some party leaders favor a
presidential preference primary
like the Texas Republicans are
going to have. Others favor
picking national convention dele-
gates through the state conven-
tion route. The State Democratic
Executive Committee is scheduled
to approve an official plan on July
28, and many Capitol insiders feel
the decision is more important
than is generally believed.
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education system. He campaigned
last year with a promise to return
to basic education in Texas.
Recently he has stated it may be
necessary to change the make-up
of the State Board of Education
from an elected one to one
appointed by the governor with
Senate confirmation.
Legislation to phase out the
elected officials will have to be
introduced in the next legislative
session if Clements decides to go
ahead with the plan.
where they consider the season
necessary only to keep spring and
fall from bumping into each other.
And then, there are those few
disgusting individuals who be-
come so adept at tolerating sum-
mer they can turn in peak
performances without so much as
flicking an air conditioner switch.
“Ernest Hemingway is a good
example; he navigated the swelt-
ering summers of Key West, Fla.,
and turned out prize-winning
novels. James Michener was also
seemingly unaffected by the torrid
temperatures as he wrote chapter
after chapter about Hawaii and
the outlying Polynesian islands.
“Most people, however, aren’t
interested in that degree of exper-
tise. They are the ones who will
try anything from keeping their
entire summer wardrobe in the
refrigerator to figuring an annual
medical checkup is worth the trip
just for the cold stethoscope.
summer.
Texas continues to have the
nation’s lowest gasoline tax rate
at five cents a gallon, Bullock
said, adding that short, instate
trips will conserve more fuel than
long, cross country vacations.
The highest gasoline tax rate is
12 cents a gallon in Washington.
Bullock said gasoline tax rates in
the nation’s nine northeast states
are nearly double the Texas
rate—averaging 9.5 cents a gal-
lon.
“Smoke-Filled Rooms”
State Sen. Oscar Mauzy,
D-Dallas, is among the Demo-
crats who favor a binding primary
in which delegates would be
apportioned according to popular
vote.
During a Dallas County hearing
last week, Mauzy argued that
failure to hold a primary would
signal the voters that Texas
cheer you up to find it reached 116
degrees in Phoenix, 112 in Las
Vegas and 101 in Albuquerque.
But it may depress you to
discover it reached only 57 de-
grees in San Francisco and Anch-
orage and 58 in Jeneau, Alaska.
7. Fill your waterbed with
crushed ice.
Education Committee clerk Rock
Fritz to leave a meeting of the
governor’s advisory committee.
Allen said the committee wanted
to talk “about personalities, as-
signing people to committees.”
Fritz checked with the .Texas
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used as a guide at the state pa vice presidential choice should
convention. The plan is a reason- ’ Connally and Bush both falter.
Nine states—Arkansas, Georgia,
y Iowa, Michigan, Montana, Ne-
braska, Pennsylvania, South Da-
kota and Washington—have re-
cently increased gasoline tax
rates.
Bullock also said consumers who
are seeing their budgets chewed
up by inflation benefit from
Texas’ low sales tax rate. The
state’s four percent sales tax is
lower than the tax rates levied in
18 other states and equal to the
rate set by 10 states.
The highest sales tax rate—sev-
en percent—is levied by Connec-
ticut.
Vacations may never be free,
Bullock said, but Texas’ lower tax
rates will stretch holiday dollars.
STATE CAPITAL
“Gentlemen:
“For more than five years the tax
paying citizens of Fairview, Allen,
Lucas, and other surrounding
areas have been promised and led
to believe by County and State
government officials and elected
representatives of this district,
that Stacy Road improvements
and paving were eminent. This
trust and confidence has been
betrayed, since we still have no
safe and acceptable route to our
homes.
“Stacy Road is a major
East/West artery connecting
U.S. Hwy. 75, State Hwy. 5 and
FM 1378 and as such, is so
important an artery and roadway
that the State of Texas has
considered it a prime candidate for
State funding as a Farm-to-Mar-
ket Road. Its importance as a
major artery and roadway is
further exemplified by being a
major identifiable exit from U.S.
Hwy. 75. It also must be traveled
by emergency vehicles traveling
from the East side to the West
side of Fairview, and also must
serve as a defined route for school
buses for the Independent School
Districts of McKinney, Allen and
Lovejoy.
“Traffic has dramatically in-
creased on Stacy Road over the
past five years as a result of the
extreme growth rates of the
surrounding communities. We the
concerned citizens of this area
know that Stacy Road and Stacy
Bridge are completely unsafe and
unacceptable. The bridge has
totally deteriorated to the extent
that wooden planks have com-
pletely separated from the wooden
bridge frame. The bridge abut-
ment has washed away and errod-
ed into the traffic right-of-way.
There are no guard rails to
prevent a skidding vehicle on the
rock road surface from plummet-
ing into the creek bed.
“On the road, deep chuckholes
are an ever-present problem, not
only to our safety, but also
because of the resulting damage
to our vehicles. After a rain, the
surface of the road becomes
dangerously slick to the extent
that loss of control of vehicles is
frequently experienced by drivers
using Stacy Road. During the
past month a head-on collision has
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Democratic Party was heading
back to the days when decisions
were made in “smoke-filled
rooms” and by manipulating the
precinct-to-state convention pro-
cess.
State Rep. John Bryant said “it
would be a very bad mistake” to
not hold a primary. The Dallas
legislator said Democrats would
be hard-pressed to explain to
voters why the party is not
holding a primary when the
Republicans are gearing full
steam for theirs.
One reason the Republicans are
so eager to hold a primary which
they feel will attract a significant
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occurred on Stacy Road, com-
pletely attributable to the unsafe
conditions of the road. We dread
the day that a tragic accident,
especially one involving a school
bus loaded with our children,
should occur because of the unsafe
conditions of this road.
“It is obvious, from the
qualifications of Stacy Road, that
a paved surface and safe bridge is
warranted. We now understand
that the previously allocated
State funds for paving Stacy
Road are insufficient and in
jeopardy, and that the State
program could not proceed before
1981 at the earliest. Merely re-
rocking Stacy Road and adding
more lumber to the wooden bridge
as an interim solution is obviously
a futile and questionable use of
our tax dollars.
“Therefore, we the concerned
citizens and voting constituents of
this area of Collin County demand
that Collin County assume its
responsibility and proceed im-
mediately with a county funded
program to pave Stacy Road and
replace Stacy Road bridge.”
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