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PAGE 4 ■ FRIDAY, APRIL S, 2005
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It's time to tackle the
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Make a wish, a
plant wish list
plants in my garden.
article on yellow bells. They like
■ WISH LIST, page 9
Sealy
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What kid growing up didn’t
make a wish list for Christmas?
Gardener magazine ran an article
about them in a new column
called “Texas Tough." It received
that designation because it will
bloom from spring to frost and
The Sealy News has several deadlines for its We are only responsible for photos for 30 days The Sealy News is a member of the National
semi-weekly editions. The deadline for editorial after it runs. Submissions are run on a space Newspaper Association, the Texas Press
With some luck I’ve been able to the plant because it’s a low-main-
cross off a number of plants on my tenance shrub that attracts but-
wish list. One of them is yellow terflies and hummingbirds. The
the minute the Social Security sys-
tem takes less in from workers
than it pays to retirees, it will have
Entered at the post office at Sealy, Texas, under the Camille Klotz
Act of Congress of June 2, 1897. Periodical Rate Codi McCarn
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By JENNIFER JONES
From My Garden
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struck, starved, locked in a closet
and generally abused.
Bonnie Finney’s blue ribbons
postage paid at Sealy. TX 77474.
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Bellville
Dawn Alexander thing we can all agree on.
By KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
U.S. Senator-Texas
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bells (Tecoma stans.). The
JulylAugust 2004 issue of Texas
A lot of the time abused kids gence agenda? and privacy rights—all at our
are the products of broken I find it quite telling which expense.
homes, but not always. Abuse is a issues you chose to champion This is not a partisan issue,
plague carried across socio-eco- over the last two weeks, while an Ultimately you don’t even have to
nomic barriers on the cruel winds innocent, handicapped, American oppose President Bush’s judges to
of excess and frustration. Kids woman was allowed to be tor- oppose the “nuclear option.”
try our patience, damage our car- tured to death by court order. This is about supporting
pets and leave their rooms messy, Satan is alive and well in checks and balances and oppos-
all of which comes in the bargain; America, and he couldn’t have ing absolute power in the hands
but no child deserves to be done it without you! of one party. And that’s some-
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than it provided to retirees. The Social Security is determined not Selman Elementary to com- designs a new toolbox with
excess money was placed in some- only by demographic trends; it is
thing called the “Social Security affected by the promises made I pppp"T. "T.Ip Em,AP
Trust Fund.” when the program was established. [_^ | | ERS I 0 HE EDITOR
Unfortunately, by law, the Trust We have a window of opportunity -- V V
I’m still doing that, only now it’s a isn’t bothered by heat or periodic
gardener’s wish list of plants. A dry conditions or many pests or
number of them were added when diseases.
I read about them in books or Yellow bells is also known as
magazines. Others were on the esperanza and is a deciduous
list because they reminded me of shrub with a spreading habit. It
my childhood or people or places can reach 3 to 6 feet high and
that I’ve known. wide. While it prefers full sun, it
All of the plants on my list are can tolerate a little shade. Yellow
easy to grow. And most are tough, bells isn’t picky about soil, grow-
being heat and drought tolerant, ing in any kind from sand to lime-
While we have to deal with diffi- stone.
cult or demanding people in our The November 202 issue of
lives, I will not tolerate difficult Southern Living magazine ran an
Fund is required to save the excess to remake the program so the April is Child Abuse remind us that protecting chil- Urge senators tO vote
payments in U.S. Treasury bonds promises made today will be ful- TP"" "9 mM-- remireg a°willinoness tn 6 iv "Y-
which are, for lack of a better word, filled tomorrow without mortgag- Prevention Month I6t,a and hn duwdltAE for chil against nuclear option
“IOUs” from taxpayers. The money ing the future of our children and April is Child Abuse J™n Next month the Senate will
itself has been spent. This means grandchildren. Prevention Month, and all over Family Outreach and other most likely vote on what the
the country people are wearing nonprofits carry the banner of Republicans call the “nuclear
blue ribbons observing that fact. blue ribbon distribution, but any option."
In such a beautiful month, it blue ribbon will do. This is about radical
seems contradictory to remind And when someone asks you Republicans grasping for
people of such a terrible, ugly why you’re wearing it, tell them absolute power so they can
fact that each year hundreds of and remember that one person appoint Supreme Court justices
children in these United States can make a difference, that favor corporate interests
die and tens of thousands of oth- Bonnie Finney did. and an extreme right agenda
ers suffer the degradation and over the rest of us.
pain of abuse. Austin County CPS Board 1 sincerely urge our senators to
The blue ribbon campaign stand up for the centuries of
began in 1989 when Bonnie An, • 44, + 4L, checks and balances that have
Finney, a Norfolk, Va., grand- •Pen -e--r TO -ne made this country great, and
mother took a stand against child President oppose the “nuclear option.”
abuse by tying a blue ribbon to Did it work? Despite Senate confirmation of
her truck. Finney’s grandson, Pretending that Terri Schiavo almost 95 percent of President
Michael Wayne “Bubba” didn’t exist? Bush’s nominees, radical
Dickensen, died after being Talking about freedom in Iraq, Republicans are threatening to
abused. and “vigilante” citizens guarding eliminate the filibuster to gain
Children are easy victims, the borders that you have complete control over the
Younger ones are smaller, weak- neglected to guard until now? Supreme Court. They want to
er and more susceptible to the Using the press conference you use the Court to pay back big
tantrums of adults and older called to announce her death as a donors by rolling back worker
kids. platform for pushing your intelli- protections, environmental laws,
America’s Social Security system to draw on those bonds, which will
is headed for trouble, two trains have to be made good by taxpayers,
rumbling toward a collision. One This shortfall is predicted to begin
train rumbles on tracks laid down as early as 2018.
by financial promises made when Inaction is out of the question,
this New Deal-era program was According to the Heritage
established. The second travels on Foundation, if Congress does noth-
a path set by long-term demo- ing to reform the system, Social
graphic trends. To avoid the Security will need general fund
wreck, we need to change the infusions to make up the difference
courses of the trains, and the time in tax revenues and benefit pay-
to do it is long before the conduc- ments amounting to $72 billion in
tors on these trains can see each 2020, $275 billion in 2030, $429
other. billion in 2050 and $719 billion in
Without significant changes, the 2070. The long-term projections of
question is not whether this acci- Social Security’s financial health
dent will happen, but when. The will continue to worsen because,
demographic trends pushing us with each passing year, a surplus
toward disaster are simple: year passes and a deficit year is
birthrates are going down while added in the calculation.
people are living longer. This was Compounding this problem was
not a problem in 1935 when the fact that changes in Social
President Franklin D. Roosevelt Security also weakened the finan-
founded the Social Security pro- cial health of the system,
gram. With an average life Originally, initial benefits at the
expectancy of 64, only 54 percent of time of retirement were linked to m, AmAmum „HAl, I, a
workers were expected to live long inflation, but in the 1970s they KFMFMRFRW-FN
enough to collect their checks, were pegged to the rise in wages, --hlvIhlvIHkliwwIIV
Today, the U.S. Census reports the which tend to go up faster than YEARS AGO memorate Earth Day, hinges on two sides.
.iS* expectany is The pricesheSouplrdwithdemngraphy • The New Jerusdlem Baptist 35 EARSAGO 55 YEARS AGO
Department of Health and Human the Baby Boomers, the Social Church celebrated its ribbon- • Kollatschny J.D. • Dr. Virgil Gordon s 13-bed
Services reports that by 2050, Security system is headed for a dis- cutting. Sartwelle, and Loyd hospital opened.
American men will live an average aster. • Austin County held a Pro- Steinhauser were honored by • Montana in Technicolor,
of 79.7 years and women will live Numerous proposals to save Life march. the Sealy FFA. featuring Errol Flynn, played
even longer. Social Security are on the table, * Norbert Reising was named • Two new rides and attrac- at the Texas Theatre.
These trends will be amplified and I look forward to talking with employee of the month at Acme tions opened at Astroworld. • Schneider Oil Well shoed
when 76 million Baby Boomers hit my fellow Texans and working with Brick. • A study showed that promise of good production
retirement age. Born between my colleagues to craft policy • Matt Fuller received his 450,000 people were killed the • G.R. Borgel was the presi-
1946 and 1964, they will begin changes which will honor present religious award for Boy Scouts, previous year in car accidents. dent of Citizens State Bank,
retiring in 2008, and threaten to commitments, while providing a • Margaret Leener won the • A six pack of Coca-Cola cost • A top of the line mattress in
swamp the Social Security system, permanent solution. John Phillip Sousa award at 35 cents. 1950 cost $49.
For many years, there was no While we may not agree on what Sealy High School. • Ben Ramsey ran for • Esso (Exxon) introduced
problem with Social Security, the best options are at this point, it • Jerry Rodriquez joined the Railroad Commissioner of their own Motor Oil.
because the abundance of workers is unacceptable to pretend there is Sealy Rotary Club. Texas. • A 12 oz. package of
paid far more into the program no problem. The financial future of • Six trees were planted at • J.W. Lewis (of Sealy) Strawberries could be pur-
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Griffin, Joanie & Horecka, Bobby. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 2005, newspaper, April 8, 2005; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1531484/m1/4/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Journalism%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.