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Lowell Ponte says, “If the
CBW teams had been real ter-
rorists the president would
have died.”
You and I will assume that
subsequent and ongoing
security tests have left our
national leaders less exposed.
Now we come to the chilling
recognition that terrorists
with an atomic bomb would
hold hostage a whole city, in-
cluding Washington, D.C.
Our newly formed Nuclear
Emergency Research Team
(NEST) is contemplating
countermeasures. There
have already been 15 in-
there are no longer any direct
taxes or individuals All
taxes are now levied on cor-
porations April 15 arrives,
and you and I are free to go
out to a movie because we no
longer fill out the hated 1040
forms. Instead, corporation
officials are sitting up late,
filling out their income tax
returns
It has been a good year and
the XYZ corporation issues a
check to the IRS for, say. 11
wages, or, if it is unable to
pass along the higher costs,
go belly-up in the first esse,
consumers pay higher prices,
i.e., taxes. In the second case,
workers pay in lower wages
and benefits. In the third
case, workers pay with their
livelihoods
follow may be of help in this area. Not every
aspect of the game makes good conversation.
If the rules are not followed no one will listen.
Rule No. 1. It is easier to weep with those
who weep than to rejoice with those who re-
joice. No one wants to hear about birdies, but
everyone will listen to a good story about a tri-
ple bogey on a par five. Don’t tell how you par-
red the course tell about the time you hit five
balls into the water on Number 10.
Rule No. 2. If you can’t say something
creative keep your mouth shut. The old ex-
cuses are worn out. Everyone uses the one
about not having time to play and, therefore,
you can no longer shoot par. Tell them you
were distracted on your back swing by the
sound of grass growing. A little spice gives
variety.
Rule No. 3. Never claim you play for exer-
cise. That is the lamest excuse of all. No one
plays golf for exercise. Why do you think they
invented electric carts? Some fools play golf
to win money. Some folks play golf to feel
superior to their friends. Some folks play golf
out of a need to be punished. The smart ones
play golf so they can talk about it-and then
they talk about it. Can I tell you about my last
round? I hit a slice you wouldn’t believe...
Warm Fuzzies,
Doug Manning
GOLF
Spring is almost here and with it comes the
time when young men think of love and the
rest of us think of golf. Every year at about
this time I begin going around swinging im-
aginary clubs and conjuring up great rounds
in my mind. Someone asked me what I did for
a hobby. I told them my hobby was talking
about golf. I don’t play the game. I am not
even sure I enjoy playing the game. I enjoy
talking about playing the game.
I made this discovery a few years ago. I was
sweating and cussing my way through another
miserable round and asked myself a fatal
question like, “Why am I here? It is hot, the
mosquitoes are having a field day, I can kick
the ball further than I can hit it, and I am
miserable. Why would anyone put themselves
through such agony?” Like a flash I had the
answer. I am here because I love to talk about
playing. Even a bad round is good for an in-
finite number of conversations. I can bore the
whole world with how bad I played and why.
It dawned on me that there may be millions
of others who are just like me. They hate the
game but love talking about it. If there are like
souls perhaps someone should give some tips
on how to set up the conversations. The golf
magazines tell us how to play. I want some
help in how to tell about it. Some of the rules I
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
75 YEARSAGO
The owners of the moving picture show were swamped
in their efforts to entertain the crowds last Friday night,
following an arrangement with the ladies to give a part of
the proceeds for the benefit of the benevolent society and
the public school library.
The Hereford Concert Band kept the crowd at bay on the
outside while the moving picture ground out the shows in
the other side of the doors. Such a jam! Women nearly
fainted, children most suffocated and men swore politely
under their whiskers. But they all waited to get a chance
to get their cents worth.
so YEARS AGO
Quota at workmen for Deaf Smith County on CW A
payrolls was cut this week to 220, effective Friday. This is
exclusive of the adult schools and farm mortgage survey,
employing more than a dozen persons. Although an-
nouncement came out of Washington Sunday that special
concessions would be made in areas where agriculture
and industry could not absorb unemployed, no word has
been received here.
Their eleventh voluntary rate reduction since the firm
started operations in Hereford was announced last week
by the Texas Utilities Company. The new schedule applies
to commercial users of electricity.
» YEARSAGO
Drifting snow, accompanied by winds up to 80 miles per
hour, threatened the county with a blizzard Friday but
fear of serious damage was lifted when northerly winds
died down at about midnight.
From . 10 to .25 of an inch of moisture was reported in the
county Temperatures ranged from a high at 40 to a low of
22. Throughout the day, wind velocity was between 55 and
60 miles per hour
The recent drop in price supports for maize may in-
crease interest in farm storage for grain in Deaf Smith
County. Faust Collier, manager of the county Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Office, predicted this
week
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many years. The more
ludicrous the spending pro-
gram, the more outrageous
the waste of taxpayers'
dollars, the more grateful the
special interests are to their
pals In Washington for
wrangling the cash out of the
hands of working Americans.
Okay. Among politicians
the decision has been made:
Taxes will go up. Now comes
the more difficult part: Who
win pay the higher taxes?
The taxpayers, who, unfor-
tunately for the politicians
are also voters. are not ex-
cited about paying higher
taxes. They kind of liked the
1N1 tax cuts, and many of
these uncooperative souls
feel that their taxes are still
too high
Now some clever politi-
ciana believe they have come
up with the answer to this im-
passe. They won't raise taxes
on the American people-"Oh.
no, we won't do that," they
sumers. Hmmmm What
started out as a scheme to tax
only corporations has just
cost us 31 million. I thought
we weren't supposed to be
paying taxes anymore
If taxes are raised on the
XYZ corporation, It will need
more money. It will raise the
price of electric toothpicks
You and I will pay more
money for our electric
toothpicks It looks like prices
went went up, and they did.
but what really happened is
that our taxes have been rais-
ed This wasn't the plan
For companies of all sorts,
large and small. taxes are
simply another cost of doing
business, like the cost of labor
or materials. And when costs
go up, one at three things can
happen. The firm can raise
prices, lower its employes’
The Weakly
Reeder
■ a partial view of the news •
By REED PARSELL
Reaction from the Reagan re-election camp
has varied concerning the sudden political rise
of Gary Hart and corresponding tumble of
Walter Mondale. On the one hand, the presi-
dent’s campaign chiefs have expressed glee
over the advent of a two-man race bound to
create tension within the Democratic Party.
However, many figure the Colorado senator
would be a tougher foe in November than the
former vice president.
“Our hopes are that it’s a nice, long, hard
primary fight in which Mondale wins the
nomination,” said Edward J. Rollins, cam-
paign director of the Reagan-Bush '84 Com-
mittee. With the exception of his adjective
“nice,” he seems to have captured half the
ideal strategy for a Republican repeat this
fall.
Having concentrated solely on Mondale
prior to the New Hampshire primaries,
Reaganists believe they have enough am-
munition to fell Fritz in a general election. One
of their arguments would be what other
Democratic candidates have continually con-
tended: Mondale is trying to represent too
many small-interest groups through too many
promises.
Another supposed strike against the former
Minnesota senator is his close link with the
Carter presidency. Regarding that four-year
Democratic stint, Reagan has said, “We've
shown that America’s problem wasn't a great
national malaise’ at all, but a failure of
leadership in the nation's capital.”
Hart’s surge has caused Republican
workers to adopt a “two-track strategy,” one
official claimed. A campaign against Hart
would be tough for several reasons, including
his recently-accentuated ability to make the
right moves. There are also the physical com-
parisons to JFK, comparative youth and,
strangely enough, some characteristics
Reagan has successfully - yet unwittingly -
employed.
Though birth records place his age at 47,
Hart claims he is only 46. This ambiguity,
perhaps representative of the candidate's
loose philosophies, is more acceptable thanks
to the president's frequent bumbling of facts.
“Reagan has lowered the country's expecta-
tions about accuracy - he gets some things
dead wrong, embellishes others beyond
recognition,” explained Mary McGrory of the
Washington Post. “Hart seems to have
Reagan's capacity for directing people's at-
tention from the fine print to the big slogan. ”
Thoroughly researching each possible
November foe may indeed serve to make the
Republicans well prepared. And the impor-
tance of Democratic unity should be well
understood by both that party's front-runners.
George McGovern's 1972 campaign, directed
by Hart, and the 1960 Carter-Mondale bid each
failed in part due to weak or nonexistent sup-
port from some majaor party officials
Another telling factor - the other half of their
ideal strategy - should not be forgotten by
Republicans in their quest to dig up muck
about Mondale and Hart. Reagan's own per-
formance in the White House and how it is
perceived during the next seven months
should be an equal if not greater concern.
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pounds of enriched uranium
has “disappeared” since
1947, enough to make 85
atomic bombs.
Our CIA has evidence that
the Soviet Union has
delivered nerve gas to other
nations - Egypt, for one -
from which nations such
weapons might easily fall into
terrorist hands.
Our White House was
secretly tested by our Army
to determine whether
chemical or biological
weapons coudl be fed into the
ventilation system.
Americans aware of the
potential for high-tech ter-
rorism struggle with two
obligations.
They know they must warn
us - if necessary frighten us -
about this vulnerabilty. At
the same time they do not
want to provide a “cookbook
for terrorists.”
Lowell Ponte who was in
the Department of Defense in
the Sixties remembers that it
was necessary to go public -
to “scare people" in order to
secure safeguards on
radioactive materials.
Now he believes we should
be warned - for example -
that “terrorists almost suc-
ceeded in poisoning the drink-
ing water system of
Chicago."
Chicago: Two members of
a neo-Nazi organization
brewed a batch of typhoid
bacteria apparently planning
to dump the deadly germs in-
to the city’s water supply.
Los Angeles: Police and
FBI agents, without alerting
the citizenry, carried out a
frantic secret search for a
cude atomic bomb. An extor-
tionist had claimed to have
planted the bomb on the
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million. Just where did that Philosopher on his Deaf
21 million come from? Well, Smith farm comes up with hi
corporations, unlike the idea for a television program
federal government, cannot for politicians,
just print the money in the
basement The money comes Dear Editor:
from somewhere How did I guess the two least used
XYZ corporation earn words in a politician's
money? It sold electric vocabulary when he's being
toothpicks. Lots of them. To interviewed are "yes” and
whom? To consumers You “no.”
and me. Thus, every penny of Apparently there's no way
that 11 million in taxes came on earth a reporter can
from the sale of electric phrase a question a politician
toothpicks. It came from con- will answer with a list-out yas
premises of a major oil com- stances of attempted nuclear
pany. blackmail in the United
In Rome police arrested States. Each, fortunately,
five terrorists who were plot- proved groundless. But each
ting to use heat-seeking also proved that our nation is
missiles to shoot down an engaged in a ceaseless
airliner. “game of Russian roulette.”
From a weapons plant in (e) 1984,Los Angeles Times
Oak Ridge, Tenn., 1,700 Syndicate
There is no free lunch. The
corporate income tax, just
like property taxes paid by
businesses, is simply a hid-
den tax an individuals. Politi-
dans like these taxes because
people honesty believe that
they don t eventually end up
paying these taxes But this
isn't so. The politicians will
continue to play this shell
game of hidden taxes only as
long as we keep our eyes dos-
ed and let them get away with
M YEARS AGO
Strong support of the proposed interstate highway route
from Amarillo to Las Cruces was voiced here Tuesday
night when approximately 85 people attended a public
meeting to discuss the feasibility and necessity of such a
highway system
The Hereford City Commission, working from a
relatively light agenda, annexed two blocks to the city on
a first reading Monday night and approved heating and
air conditioning bids for the dub house at Pitman
Municipal Golf Course.
Miss Hereford's crown for 1974 rests on the blonde hair
of Susie Hickman, who was awarded the title to climax the
annual Miss Hereford pageant Saturday evening and who
now looks forward to appearing as a Mia Texas contes-
tant next summer
1 YEAR AGO
A capacity crowd witnessed an emotional Rocky Lee ac-
cepting the Citizen of the Year award from the Hereford
ILons Club Thursday evening at the Bull Bam as the Deaf
Smith County Chamber of Commerce held Its annua, ban-
quet.
Mounting signs of a rapidly recovering economy
already have convinced the Reagan administration that
its month-old economic forecast for 1983 is too pessimistic.
Just as outside economists have contended
Civilian unemployment held event at 10 4 percent in
February as large numbers of jobless Americans awaited
further signals of improved hiring prospects before
resuming their search of work, the government reported
today.
On your payroll
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By RICHARD L. LESHER promise They will raise
President taxes on corporations in-
WASHINGTON -- Our stead That way. you see, the
politicians in Washington people won't have to pay
take one look at the federal higher taxes, only the cor-
deficit that they have created porations will This is a neat
and announce in unison that a trick. But if it were true that
nice tax increase is just what the government could tax
the doctor ordered. Yes, they corporations and not people,
say, that would fix things, a why wouldn't we take this to
tax hike its logical conclusion and only
The idea that they should tax companies? Then you and
reduce federal spending has. I wouldn't have to pay any
a priori. been ruled out as taxes at all Only those nasty
"politically impossible.” corporations would pay
Translated. this means that taxes Besides, corporations
the politicians do not want to don't vote.
anger the special interest Let’s see how this would
groups they have showered work Assume for a moment
our tax dollars upon for too that nirvana has arrived and
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I was listening to a politi- he thinks. but what he thinks ly to yes or no answers*' The
clan being interviewed the will please the most and of- moment one tries to
other evening. After a few fend the least. For example, fillibuster, turn his
minutes I saw Ns round- the answer to "Du you favor microphone oft Maybe he
about answers were never go- school busing?" would be could be allowed an Uh.
ing to come out yes or no, so "Uh. I favor uh whatever will yes" or an "Uh. no," but
to while away the time I uh give a quality education to anything beyond that, silence
started counting the number uh all children." him
at times he said "M” and I got to thinking. Why I believe the public would
"ah.' In three minutes I doesn't a TV network arrange go for such a program The
counted 14. a public interest broadcast only trouble is. would any
You see, the Me at “Ms" where all the participants, candidate show up?"
and “aha” gives him time to whether Presidential can- Uh. I doubt it.
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