Panola County Post (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 27, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 9, 1988 Page: 4 of 20
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PANOLA COUNTY POST
Bentsen blow
PERSPECTIVES
below the belt
EDITORIALS
Piney Woods Diary
A short column for a long night
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Warren T. Biggs
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Editor's note: During the time in-
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the news story in question, Mr.
Biggs was a board member. He
resigned before the story was pub-
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Some East Texas foks I taked wih Thursday were incensed at
what they perceked was a to* blow Lloyd Bentsen threw at Danny
U.S. Senate: Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C. 20520, or: Federal Building, 300 E. 8th
St., Austin, TX 78701
Sen. Phil Gramm, Senate Office Building, P.O. Box 777,
Tyler, TX 75710
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— Lyndon B. Johnson
While renting in the US. Senate
To us. a teak became a person who works
long hours at uncreative. boring work — not
toiling at hard sweaty labor, but performing the
sort of dreary, repetitive, mostly sedentary
drudgery that leaves one just as tired
Tve been leaking all day,* means simply that
one has worked long without any visible results
or personal satisfaction. On occasion one may
feak for money, although by rights it should be
piddling. Good pay, being a worthwhile reward,
takes al but the most unchallenging work out of
the leaking category. Everyone has leaked at
some time or other.
Letters To The
IF FOLKS DON'T LIKE
HI COMING BACK HOME
TO CAMPAIGN
EVERY TWO TEARS,
WHYDON’T THEY JUST
t/ore h/m out ?
One comersation began innocuously enough when I mentioned
that Bentsen was a pretty nee guy, and that I really had no quarrel
with many of his votes as Texas senator
"No, he’s not nice anymore.* the
lady said. Not after last night." •
To the national media, the
Newspaper Week
October 2-8
by
ted
leach
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I wil wrte about how my dosest triend has
been away this week and about how I miss her.
There is a sweet bite to this sadness, for I
know that by the time you hold this newspaper
in your hands, dear reader, she wil be flying
back, with her sik clothes wadded in her sui-
case, and I wil be soothed and rested and
ready to take her in my arms.
But she is not here now. sho is asleep in
Macon. Ga., where she visiting some old friends
of ours. I hope you wil not blame mo i l wish I
were there too.
Four years ago ths month we became
friends. For the past year we have been
marned Together we have lived through a
strange but not unhappy year. We started the
year out in Carthago, in a little country church,
and now we’re back, with our hoods spinning
These have not boon easy weeks for her.
these weeks of readjustment I am working too
late far too often and leaving her atone We are
used to being together, to working together, and
things are different now. Not bad, just different,
the house is not correct yet, and wo have a
thousand books or so sti strewn across the
..................................Publisher
..................Assistant Publisher
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.......................Managing Edi lor
..........................Lifestyle Editor
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.......................Office Manager
Composing Room Supervisor
"Quaylo should have told Bentsen that neither Michael Dukakis,
Bentsen nor Jim Wright. for that matter, was a John F. Kennedy.*
Loyd C. Grissom.......
Tod Leach................
Tanya Andrews........
Phil Martin .............
Dorothy Neville.........
Candy Foster...........
Janet Bay singer.......
Darla Watson...........
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the page and into the gray and grainy night.
When I booted up this machine, and prepared
this file, I thought that I would write about my
impressions of Michael Dukakis — about his
fresh hancut and his dusty wingtip shoes, the
way his jacket wrinkled in the back — but I think
that wilt hotd untit Wednesday's paper now. it
seems we've all had enough of politicians for
tonight
So I will wr te what I want to write, what I feel.
The examples could go on and on — like the
expletives "Eekelr and "Gonder!" These were
words we used to convey strong negative feel-
ings when we were forbidden to use profanity.
They worked admirably — in fact, when I
went away to college I experimented briefly with
"Hellr and "Damn! and coarser words too
numerous to mention. It wasn't long before I
returned to eekel and gonder. Stronger, you
know.
If we could harness some of the nonsense
word power children generate, I have a feeling
our language might be immeasurably enriched.
I suspect the trick is getting ahold of the words
in that brief moment when children have be-
• come old enough to define their coinage, but
are not yet old enough to have forgotten it or
become too embarrassed to use it.
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cause it conveys a specific concept more
precisely than any standard dictionary word.
To this day, if I were to tell my sister I am ‘all
in a gumbel.” she would know exactly what I
mean.
To be all in a gumbel is akin to being in a
jumble, but it's not the same thing, and I don’t
think gumbel is a variant of jumble.
A gumbel in our private usage was a mess
that is more than a mess. A gumbel, to be
authentic, has to include elements of disorder,
confusion and possible disaster.
To be in a kitchen full of dirty dishes is not to
be in a gumbel. The surrounding may be offen-
sive. but you know exactly what you ought to do
about it.
To contemplate a desk covered with due bills.
Editor:
Lam no longer a member of the
board of directors of Don Griffith
Construction Company., Inc., nor
was I a member of the board at the
time of your article on September
21, 1988
Thank you for making this correc-
tion.
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floor
I meant to get a lot done on the place while
Sha was gone, but this has turned into one of
those weeks we al have sometimes, one of
those weeks where nothing gets done as quick-
ly or as quietly as I should.
So she wi come home and the house will
look no ditferent, but she! pretend she doesn’t
mind the clutter or the broken pane of glass I
stil haven’t got around to fixing.
My closest friend wil understand because
she always understands, because I only have to
think I to know its crossed her mind.
And she will give me comfort, and she’l listen
when rm silly, and she’u talk when I get quiet
and shell calm me when m blind
I close my eyes and see her sleeping, and
something rolls and splashes in the black
waters within my gut, and my eyes go moist and
i ll wasn’t 4 sum, and I wasn’t al atone rd feel
ashamed for being so sappy and so lonely and
so young.
I will write that I is good to bo in love.
And that ought to be enough
an interest in those out- -
landish private words
families coin for their
own private use.
I'm not talking about
the baby talk that
sometimes lisps its way -
into a family's per-
manent vocabulary. I'm
talking about the word
that somehow, at some L
time. is pulled out of the
blue, and survives be-
EONF POST
I told them of feelings I had while watching the debate — that
given the hypothetical situation where the president dies, would I
rather have the old heart of Lloyd Bentsen, or the young heart of
Danny Quaylo just a beat away from Jim Wright
You do, of course, realize Wright is just two heartbeats from the
oval office, no matter which party wins the election. That is a very
chilling thought to any freedom fighter
And on another debate subject. I thought Quayle’s National Guard
duty was a non-issue by this time, but the subject came up again
Wednesday.
What seems to be the hang up about the National Guard7 is
"regular* military the criterion for judging manhood, or statesman-
ship?
How many would challenge the bravery of the most decorated sol
dier of World War II. Audie Murphy? He was once a member of the
Texas National Guard, when he finally got old enough, I suppose.
Guardsmen have served this country with distinction, on many
fronts. Raising that issue by professing not to raise that issue was a
ploy I thought backfired on Bentsen.
■ we're talking qualifications as the major issue, no doubt George
Bush is more experienced in national and international affairs than
Michael Dukakis, whose experience is confined to the state of Mas-
sachusetts.
Recent reports indicate Tip O'Neil’ won’t privately support the
Duke because he's not one of the boys. That may be his most
redeeming quality, unless, of course, Dukakis is to the left of Tip.
The only way the liberal establishment media can escape the ob-
vious edge Bush has in experience is to keep the heat on Quayle on
non-issues. Now that those tactics are wearing thin, the polls indicate
the mood of the country is changing, coming back to the East Texas
way Of thinking
Par
“The country weekly has a
sense of identification with
its readers that is possessed
by no other type of
newspaper. At the same time,
I believe that the country
weekly acts as a form of so-
cial cement in holding the
community together. The
country weekly newspapers
have helped me keep in touch
with the type of ‘grass roots’
thinking which every public
servant should bear in mind
constantly. I believe that
America would be poorer
should any catastrophe ever
remove the country weekly
from our life.”
Texas senator s comment to
Quayle (*1 knew John Kennedy.
)
mb The emotional chmax of the
high-stakes debate.* and The
. most riveting moment of a prime-
time campaign debate *
To many others, it was a cheap
shot
Quayle didnt tout himself as
another John Kennedy Ho was
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some of them so old and dog-eared you don’t
know whether or not you've already paid them,
is to be in a gumbel.
To face a room or a closet full of old clothes
that you don't know what to do with is to be in a
gumbel. You're never sure which garments
should be washed and worn, which should be
given away, and which should be simply dis-
carded.
You get the picture. A gumbel is a mess that
must be cleaned up, and is threatening because
it involves decision-making, with possible penal-
ty or regret if you make the wrong choice.
If there is an accepted word in the English
language that means exactly what gumbel
means, I Ye never run across it
In my personal experience, such words are
likely to originate with children, and usually
remain their particular province. My mother
knew we had private words and she know what
they were, but she never quite got the hang of
using them right.
One summer there was a bird that hung
around our house saying something that
sounded distinctly ike ‘Feak ... feak ... feak.*
This was no songster. It spoke a tired, patient,
frustrated prose, worlds removed from the
joyous outpouring of birdsong. We never saw
the speaker, and we never hoard it after that
summer.
However, it gave us the noun leak,* and the
accompanying verb. to teak.*
Editor
Welcome
P.O. Box 518
responding, too often methinks. to the hyyothetical question of his
qualfications to be president, should somthing happen to George
Bush. He noted, at one point, that he had served as many terms in
the senate as JFK. before JFK became president,
Quayle said the "you’re no Kennedy* remark was ‘realty uncalled
for," to which Bentsen replied. "You are the one that was making the
comparison, senator ...and I did not think the comparison was wet
taken."
Bentsen’s original remark was disrespectful, beneath the dignity of
a statesman. That he questioned Quayle's comparison to JFK was
legitimate, but the stinging rebuke to Quayle was a personal affront
that left a bad taste in some folks' mouth, according to the feedback
rm getting
eaN, JRDoodles
W etAHAH!
For the first time in the 15 years, since a military
coup landed the brutal Gen Augusto Pinochet in
power, millions of Chileans stood on line Wednesday
to vote in a plebiscite for or against the despot’s
remaining in power for eight more years.
Most of the time, a right wing military dictatorship
and a single name on the ballot mean only one thing.
But not this time.
Despite reported voting irregularities and fragmen-
tary initial returns released by the government show
ing the General ahead, the people turned the beast
out.
Final figures released by the government showed
some 60 percent of the people voted to deny the 72
year-old General another term as president Rejection
of his candidacy was supposed to mean he would
remain in office for another 18 months; after which
free elections would be held. On Thursday, however,
in the wake of the "no confidence” vote, Pinochet’s
entire cabinet resigned, a move that could ultimately
hasten the country's return to democracy
Before the 1973 coup, Chile enjoyed Latin
America's longest and strongest democratic tradition
Since then, the Pinochet government had allowed its
citizens to cast ballots only twice — in a 1978 "consul-
tation” on the question of the legitimacy of the regime
and in a much criticized 1980 plebiscite that “ap-
proved" an authoritarian constitution written by
Pinochet lackeys.
Ironically, that 1980 constitution mandated Wed-
nesday's plebiscite, and the people of Chile were
freed by an instrument most observers felt was
drafted to hold them fast.
Gen. Pinochet probably never imagined the Chilean
people would walk for miles and wait for hours to cast
ballots to express the public will in an election which,
almost certainly, would be rigged anyway. But Wed-
nesday’s result was too overwhelming to be ignored.
In Pinochet’s Chile, it is a brave thing to call the
General’s bluff. It seems there are a lot of brave
Chileans.
"People power," that naive and wonderful force that
banished Marcos from the Philippines, appears to
have struck again. Another bad man has toppled.
Bravo.
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priortize, to write the
most urgent sentences
first, to organize your
paragraphs into an ap m
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sometimes something d.gai“dd
you wanted “ “H'S Phil Martin
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