Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 22, 1988 Page: 3 of 18
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At the movies: Jerry Lewis
starring in “Rock A-Bye Baby”
at the State Theater, and Clark
Gable and Burt Lancaster star-
ring in “Run Silent, Run Deep”
at the Hi-Ho Drive In Theatre.
Reprinted from
Omaha World-Herald.
The Joint Select Committee on
Workers Compensation appointed
by the Legislature to study workers
compensation in Texas.
Mr. Albert cites as his source Mr.
Jim Kaster, the Employers Rep-
resentative on The Industrial Ac-
compensation system well since
1913 (when employers first induced
the Legislature to adopted a
workers compensation act). There
is no evidence and none was at-
tributed to Mr. Albert that jury
trials have any affect on insurance
premiums.
Mr. Albert is incorrect when “He
notes that the amount of workers
compensation due in injury cases is
set by law.” The opposite is true.
The Workers Compensation Act
only limits the maximum amount
9.2 million to 11.5 million. While
they are but 11 percent of the
working-age population, they
gained 15 percent of the new jobs.
Meanwhile, the black jobless rate
has been cut almost in half!
Again:
Have the news media been show-
20515.
U.S. Rep. Charles Stenholm, 17th
District, 1232 Longworth House Of-
fice Building, Washington, D.C.
20515.
U.S. Senate Lloyd Bentsen, Room
240, Russell Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C. 20510.
self
the
Gainesville Daily Register
Donald W. Reynolds,
Chairman of the Board
Warren G. Flowers,
General Manager
Eric Williams, Managing Editor
David Scott, Advertising Manager
Floyd Ferguson, Circulation Manager
that can be recovered and leaves to
the discretion of the Industrial Ac-
cident Board or a jury the amount
due for the particular injury. This
very fact belies the position that a
jury should not be denied.
It may be the Republican Party
line, as it is of all insurance com-
panies, that jury determination
should be abolished in all claims for
injuries and damages of the ordi-
nary person. Such a position would
be reprehensible.
I write this letter only to correct
the misstatements that Mr. Albert
made, so that he not be allowed to
advance his candidacy on what
must be an innocent misreading or
a misunderstanding of the ccorrect
data on his part. H. Mack Barnhart
______________________________City
U.S. Rep. Dick Armey, 514 Can-
non Office Building, Washington,
D.C.20514.
State Rep. Richard F. Wil-
liamson, P.O. Box 2910, Austin,
ing us black America through the
that the upwardly mobile class of wrong end of the telescope?
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Coral M. Bailey, former resi-
dent of this city, has been pre-
sented his 35-year service pin
from the Shell Oil Co. Bailey
started with Shell in Arkansas
City, Kansas, and is now dis-
trict superintendent in Glen-
dive, Montana. While Mr. and
Mrs. Bailey resided in Gaines-
ville at 910 S. Dixon St., Bailey
served as Shell’s production
foreman here.
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“And ANOTHER thing — smoking is fast be-
coming socially unacceptable."
FCC’s ruling: People with old-
fashioned sets will continue
to get old-fashioned pictures,
not the high-tech sharpness
that the new television sys-
tem offers. But that problem
is relatively minor: Viewers
who don’t want or need a
movie-quality television pic-
ture shouldn’t have to invest
in new equipment. As was the
case with black-and-white
television, each person will
be able to decide what’s im-
portant to him.
The new high-definition
sets aren’t on the market yet
and won’t be for a few years.
The Japanese are apparently
ahead of U.S. manufacturers
and plan to display summer
Olympics broadcasts on 50 of
the new televisions in depart-
ment stores across Japan.
The high-definition system
could be in Japanese homes
by 1990.
The FCC was just doing its
job when it set guidelines for
the development of the sets in
the United States. That is
something that needs to be
done early in the game,
rather than later, when it
may be too difficult or too ex-
pensive to make the neces-
sary adjustments.
Berry's World
The Federal Communica-
tions Commission recently
did a good deed for the televi-
sion viewers of the nation,
though most might not notice
it anytime soon.
But here it is, in all its
technological hocus-pocus: In
essence, the FCC decided that
existing televisions should be
able to receive television
shows broadcast using a new
system called high-definition
television, which offers
movie-film picture clarity
and top-notch sound. The
agency’s action means that,
when broadcasters move to
the new system, expected
over the next decade or so,
you won’t have to buy entire-
ly new equipment to receive
it.
Thirty years ago, television
was switching from black-
and-white broadcasting to
color. At that time, the FCC
made a similar ruling: People
who owned existing black-
and-white sets should be able
to receive the new color
shows (in black and white, of
course) without buying new
equipment. That’s what hap-
pened — some television
owners didn’t switch for dec-
ades, and black-and-white
sets continue to be made and
sold.
There, of couse, lies one of
the few problems with the
I read the article authored by you attributed to Mr. Kaster were made for denial of the right of the injured
on the front page of The Register on by him (San Antonio Express-News worker to avail themselves of the
Sept. 12, stating the results of your April 24, 1988) but subsequently Jury System is an attempt to deny
interview with Mr. Bobby Albert, withdrawn by him (San Antonio to a citizen of Texas a very basic
the Republican candidate for the Express-News on April 20,1988inan right for all Texans. The jury sys-
Senate of the State of Texas. article by Chuck McCollough) when tern has served the Texas workers
Gainesville High School foot-
ball coach Dub Wooten,
speaking to the Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce Thursday
night, said his concept of the
benefits of football can be
broken down into five phases.
These, he said, are discipline,
self-denial, the will to work, the
desire to fight back and team-
work.
Letter to the editor
cident Board. The amounts tion from any cited facts. His call
* (Employee’s Attorneys 5%; In-
surance Attorneys 8%)
(I attach supporting documents).
Mr. Albert advocates the
DENTON — Back in 1913, No-
tre Dame, thanks to a feller
named Knute Rockne, un-
leashed the first effective serial
attack in a football game. The
results were amazing and the
Irish licked Army 35-13.
Gainesville’s Leopards took a
cue from the late Mr. Rockne
and Notre Dame here Friday
night to strike through the air
for a rain-spattered 6-0 triumph
over the stubborn Denton High
Broncos.
billion. Beatrice.
For the Wall Street Journal, other black-owned companies
Joseph Perkins offered this com- making economic history are John-
parison: In five years, all U.S. busi- son Publishing, Philadelphia Coca
nesses grew 5 percent. Black-owned Cola, H. J. Russell Construction and
businesses grew 7.9 percent. Motown Industries.
The 1980s have been a boom de- Bart Landry, black social scien-
cade for blacks. tist, visiting scholar at the Joint
Most debates have tended to focus Center for Political Studies, says
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Most black Americans aren't poor
Have the new media been show- “proportion of blacks in poverty.” blacks has grown by one-third dur-
ing us black America through the But Perkins discovered that most ing the decade of the ‘80s; now
wrong end of the telescope? blacks are not poor, most are not on numbers 4.8 million
Jackie and Jim McLean built welfare, most black teen-age girls In 1985 nearly 1 million black fam-
their Baltimore-based travel ser- do not get pregnant and most blacks ilies claimed annual earnings of
vice into the largest in the state, are not criminals. Have the news $40,000or more.
Now this husband-wife team oper- media been showing us black Three hundred thousand had
ates 14 offices in four states. America through the wrong end of earnings between $35,000 and
In 11 years they have built their the telescope? $40,000
company into a $25 million firm Black Enterprise Magazine re- The “middle class” now con-
with more than 300 corporate cli- ports “gross sales for the top 100 stitutes more than 40 percent of all
ents black firms rose by nearly 15 per- black households. The black middle
Jackie and Jim McLean are cent in one year while the Fortune class is now larger than the black
black. Already theirs is one of the 50 500 companies were improving working class or the black poor
largest black-owned businesses in sales onl v 2 8 nercent ” ,
the United States. But everywhere, In the upper middle class about
black-owned businesses are on a Black businesses have achieved two-thirds of all black households
roll! explosive growth since 1985. are stil headed by two parents. The
Black economist Andrew Brim- it was Reginald Lewis, a black maoriy have both spouses work-
mer estimates that black busi- Wall Street attorney, who sue- mg full time.
nesses took in $12.4 billion in 1982. cessfully orchestrated the billion- Total black employment, this
By last year they’d grossed $18.1 dollar leveraged buyout of past 5% years, has increased from
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Kissinger ranks second only to Burnham in constancy
The story (written by E. J. Dionne A. Kissinger, the former secretary Treaty, none of them causes for cel- non-stop on television and in the to opposition to the terms of the Ought the right to welcome advice
Jr. of The New York Times) is that of state. When Mr. Bush’s aides told ebration. The second question has press. He has written articles and treaty. In opposing those terms, he by Henry Kissinger to George Bush
George Bush, having made his conservative leaders that the vice to do with justice, and here one columns in Time and Newsweek agreed with every Republican on, the matter of relations with the
peace with the American right, is president was planning to name Mr. registers surprise, and dismay. and for his syndicate. And the body presidential candidate except Geo- Soviet Union? I not only hope Bush
now free to tomcat among Repub- Kissinger as a member of a cam- Henry Kissinger did not go from of the advice he has given in these rge Bush and one-half of Dole (the will be advised by Kissinger, I pray
lican liberals, if the expression is paign advisory committee on the State Department to a Trappist times is, on the subject of detente other half of Dole was also opposed thathewill.
still permitted. The idea, we gather, national security, some con- monastery. He wrote two huge and arms control in particular, sub- to the treaty’s terms). As recently I was for 25 years in near day-to-
is this: George Bush needed to nail servatives became apoplectic, books in which he recorded in great stantially to the right of the posi- as last week, to an audience of about day company with the foremost
down the conservative vote hard They see Mr. Kissinger as the ar- detail the events that led to the fall tions taken by George Bush. 5 million people on television, anti communist strategist of our
and fast, and did so in New Orleans, chitect of the policy of detente with of Saigon, and to the 1972 treaties, Bush is a dutiful enthusiast for the Henry Kissinger, answering a ques- time, the late James Burnham; the
But now he needs to go after the big the Soviet Union and of arms con- deploring a concatenation of cir- INF Treaty, as one would expect, tion put to him by George author not only of the volume “The
swing vote, the so-called Reagan trol agreements they opposed. cumstances that ranged from neo- That is the treaty whose floor man- McGovern, “Do you approve of the Struggle for the World,” but one of
Democrats, whose allegiance to “‘He represents all the great U.S. isolationism in Congress to ager in the Senate was Alan Cran- terms of the INF Treaty?” replied, the earliest minds that perceived
Reagan gave the GOP 49 states the foreign policy defeats of the ... ineptitude by Watergate burglars, ston, whose only reservation about “I do not” — and set forth his re- that that was what it was all about. I
last time around. 1970s,’ said Mr. Pines. ‘George In 1983, he led the commission that it was that we didn’t also give away servations. rank second only to James Bur-
Among those interviewed by Di- Bush cannot seriously be thinking of explored the crisis in Central our Coast Guard. The preposterous If Pines is saying that SALT I nhamtheinsight,theskills,theim-
onne to test out his thesis was Bur- turning to a discredited Kissinger America and succeeded in getting suggestion is being made that the turned out to be a bad arrangement, agination and the constancy of
ton Yale Pines, one of the principal for any advice.”’ all the Democrats on that comm- right wing has to fear arms control he has an interesting historical Henry Kissinger. The commission
officials of the Heritage Foun- There are two questions posed ission, with the single exception of advice given to Candidate George point to make. And certainly ABM, appointed by George Bush lists as
dation, which is the mecca of here by Pines. The first has to do Henry Cisneros of San Antonio, to Bush by the toughest opponent of in hindsight, was a mistake. But no co-chairmen Brent Scowcroft,
American conservatism. Here is with public perception; anditiscer- endorse a hard U.S. line there, in- SALT II and INF in public life one was more ardently in favor of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry
thestoryaspublishedonSept.il: tainly true that Kissinger is eluding the maintenance of pres- today. Henry Kissinger’s position developing anti-missile technology Kissinger. In enlisting the aid of
“Already there are rumblings on associated with the fall of Vietnam, sure through the contras. on INF, for reasons elaborated in than Henry Kissinger even then. Kissinger, Bush is doing his country
the right over a new spectre: Henry the SALT I Treaty, and the ABM But Kissinger talks more or less full in many statements, added up The question before the house is: and himself a singular service.
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Register photo: Student body
officers of Gainesville College
are Miss Patsy Turner,
secretary-treasurer; Bill
Hocker, vice president and Bill
Barnett, president. Mrs. Cora
Staniforth is sponsor of this
group, which will also be com-
posed of freshmen and soph-
omore officers and three
appointive members.
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I have practiced law in this city the true amounts were determined
for 20 years and I am certified by by The Joint Select Committee,
the Texas Board of Legal Sp- Mr. Kaster’s amounts are incor-
cialization in personal injury trial rect when compared to The Joint
law. I have represented both in- Select Committee’s amounts. The
jured employees and employers in comparison is:
the presentation and defense of MR. KASTER
work related claims. Your readers Worker—13.0%
are entitled to know that I address Medical—43.5%
Mr. Albert’s contention from my Attorneys—26.1%
experiences, profession and re- Ins.Co. 17.4%
search so that they could evaluate Policy Dividends 0%
my statements. JOINT SELECT
The statements attributed to Mr. COMMITTEE
Albert and the figures that he rec- Worker—41%
ited pertaining to the worker com- Medical—30%
pensation insurance payments in Attorneys—13%
Texas are factually incorrect, Ins. Co. —14%
based upon the determination of Policy Dividends—2%
abolition of the jury system for only Texas, 78769.
industrially injured persons with- U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, Senate
out any justification for such posi- Office Building, Washington, D.C.
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Williams, Eric. Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 22, 1988, newspaper, September 22, 1988; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1569835/m1/3/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cooke County Library.