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OPINIONS
Gainesville Daily Register
Tues., Oct. 25,1988—3'
William Buckley
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Nuclear neglect
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homeless people are homeless by poor people behind.”
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Charlotte Blair, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mills,
has been announced as the Val-
ley View Future Farmers of
America Sweetheart. She was
chosen on the penny-per-vote
basis. When the votes were
counted, it was found the junior
class had collected $42.25.
***
Lee Mitchell, athletic coach
for Gainesville College, will
speak at the J.M. Lindsay
Parent-Teacher Association
meeting tonight. Attention will
be directed to Mr. Mitchell’s
idea that all elementary
schools need some sort of
physical education program.
***
Donald W. Reynolds,
Chairman of the Board
Warren G. Flowers,
General Manager
Eric Williams, Managing Editor
David Scott, Advertising Manager
Floyd Ferguson, Circulation Manager
LOCALLY OPERATED MEMBER
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Between 1957 and 1985, two
congressional committees re-
cently learned and disclosed,
there were at least 30 serious
accidents at the nation’s nu-
clear weapons production fa-
cilities in Savannah River —
accidents, the experts say,
that were among the most se-
vere ever experienced at any
American nuclear facility.
Yet they were kept secret
from the public.
The Energy Department
first tried to blame the Du-
Pont Co., which operated the
plants. But the company did
report each accident at the
time to the government agen-
cy in charge of nuclear bomb
manufacture. The Energy De-
partment now claims that it
was lower-level officials who
hid DuPont’s information —
not just from the public, but
from their superiors as well.
Whether the fault was at
the bottom or the top, govern-
ment management of nuclear
weapons production has
clearly been a shambles. Ev-
eryone from the Energy De-
partment to the White House
now acknowledges as much;
and all three Savannah River
reactors, as well as the gov-
ernment’s plutonium process-
ing plant in Colorado, are
now shut down because of
safety concerns. But even be-
fore the latest revelations, a
congressional report had de-
scribed a pattern of Energy
Department mismanagement
that had resulted in radioac-
tive leaks, water contamina-
tion, dangerously outmoded
facilities and inadequately
contained wastes at a dozen
sites across the country.
Where was the administra-
tion then?
Estimates are that it will
cost more than $100 billion
just to clean up that legacy of
inattention — and more to
“A year since the crash I still feel safer here with money than on Wall Street.”
Paul Harvey
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To the Editor: DO contribute to the tax base is the GISD schools used to be excel- lemhere.
I would like to make two points in NOT the way to go about it. If the lent) to see what percentage have Parallel between 2 and 3: It
this letter. working family is continually gone to some sort of university or seems that many are willing to help
1. The lead article in this morn- forced to bear higher taxes so that college and what percent have the elderly (as am I — within
ing’s Register on the AARP refer- the elderly will not have the pay stayed here at home — on the limits), but are UNWILLING to in-
endum concerning a $30,000 tax theirs, there will soon be no tax base streets, unemployed, under- sist that our schools be as good as
exemption prompted many at all; the taxpayers will all be employed and hopeless. the next guy’s (and unwilling to pay
thoughts in my mind about concern “looking at Gainesville through the I would also like to know the for it), which is what good schools
for the elderly vs. tax dollars. The rear-view mirror.” Who among us drop-out rate... there seem to be far require. Do you not understand
elderly need our help and support, is not on a “fixed income?” My sal- too many school-aged youth on the that, as overused as the saying may
and that seems to be freely given in ary doesn’t rise from week to week streets during the day when they be, the youth are the future of this
Cooke County — more freely given —does yours? should be in the classroom. These country (and this county!) ? While I
than in any other place I have resi- 2.1 would love to see a follow-up are things I don’t know. What I DO understand that the GISD taxing
ded — but if Cooke County is to on the last five to six graduating know is that everything my daugh- entity and that of Cooke County are
grow, raising the taxes of those who classes of GHS (I understand that ter studied in GHS during her last separate, I do feel that the majority
two years of high school, she had of those that voted for our schools
learned by the ninth grade in the will also be those that vote for the
school she had previously attended, incresed tax exemption. Although I
I do know that her school counselor shall vote against it, the refer-
© 1988 by NEA. Inc
Helping Dan Rather give a less biased view of the news
The “Evening News With Dan shrugged them off, returning to the deficit of $152 billion. The ad- (about 65 percent of the total) would increased that year by only 1.2 per- (The Guest Economist): “The
Rather” continues in its bias theme of his talk.” If Dan Rather ministration’s forecast was $146 increase only at the rate of inflation, cent, the lowest annual increase in bottom line is taxes are going to
against the Reagan administration, can’t see the difference between billion. The Gramm-Rudman goal i.e., would be frozen in real terms, federal spending in 25 years. In that nayet8°UP. 2, .
First an example of intonation, those two ways of relaying the is $136 billion; but, under the law, it No additional revenues, beyond context, a $2 billion deficit increase But the bottom line is based not on
Listen: “Quayle himself cam- news, he should be at least one allows for a $10 billion divergence those naturally forthcoming from for 1988 would hardly appear to be 5fonpmcsDut on political sloth,
paigned in the Midwest today, ig- heartbeat away from his post as before imposing automatic cuts, steady economic growth, would be discouraging. What Dan Rather and Ray Brady
noring questions about his principal news purveyer for a huge One should pause here to say that required to realize a budget surplus Dan Rather brought in the econ- might nave said is: Look, the tig-
qualifications to be a heartbeat network. projections of deficits are almost by 1993. The fair freeze proposal has omists almost all of whom said you ures establish that if you do not in-
away from the presidency. He Then the subject went to the defi- always crazily inaccurate, by as been endorsed in principle by Geo- can’t do it (reduce the deficit) with- crease spending beyond the present
mostly picked up where George cit and to taxes. Quoth Rather: “On much as 50 percent or more. But rge Bush’s economic advisers. out extra taxation. CBS’Ray Brady level, we can have a surplus by 1993,
Bush left off accusing Dukakis of one of the key economic issues of the continuing: The administration To understand the background of summed it up as follows: “The and in the years after that, hack
being soft on crime.” campaign, the Congressional Bud- forecasts a gradual reduction in the story, reflect on this: Govern- arithmetic — $285 billion a year aWa at the deficit. But politicians
Now the gentleperson who wrote get Office is out tonight with its deficits to $53 billion in 1993. The ment revenues from taxes in 1980 goes for national defense, but that’s don 1 tend to act that way. The
those words either knows nothing latest estimate on the federal bud- CBO disagrees, making that 1993 came to $517 billion. The estimate of already been cut and further cuts difference . . WeenMr. Bush and
about the malleability of rhetoric get deficit for this year. It is down figure $121 billion. Gramm- revenues for 1988 is $913 billion, here could be limited. Social Secur- Mr. Dukakis is that Bush represents
(unlikely) or is simply engaged in slightly to $151.8 billion. This is still Rudman calls for an eliminatiuon of Now, outlays in 1980 were $591 bill- ity — $427 billion. Cutting that is a party that truly resists an in-
being unnleasant about Quayle, higher than the rosier deficit pro- the deficit altogether by 1993. ion. In 1988, an estimated $1,065 bill- political suicide. Interest on our crease in spending, except when
Here is how the identical data might jections from Reagan-Bush ad- Now if the government pursued ion. debt—$148 billion a year. No way to military emergencies require it,
have been communicated without ministration economists.” what is called a “fair spending In 1987, we had the largest cut that- Everything else $196 bill- while Dukakis party is tradition-
bias: “Quayle campaigned in the Key issues ... slightly ... still freeze,” not only would there be no year-to-year decline in deficit in ion, but that’s already been ally associated with increased
Midwest today bearing down on the higher ... rosier projections. You deficit in 1993, there would be a sur- history ($71 billion, to $150 billion), squeezed way down. The result is a Spending- SO that 1t 1S fair to con-
charge that Dukakis’ record on get the lilt. plus of $32 billion. Under the fair some of it the result of stock selling budget that’s about $150 billion in c'ude that a Republican victory
crime has been weak. Hectored by Here is the story. A few months spending freeze, Social Security in time to take advantage of the the red, pushing the nation even would improve the chances of mov-
the usual questions about his own ago, the Congressional Budget Of- and debt interest would be un- lower capital gains tax. What is not more deeply in debt with seemingly mg toward budget balance,
qualifications for office, he fice projected a 1989 fiscal year touched, while the rest of the budget well-known is that federal spending only one way out.” Ihankyou, Ray. I hank you, Dan.
H.B. Newberry, Cooke
County Agriculture
Stabilization and Conservation
Office manager, was elected
president of the Kiwanis Club of
Greater Gainesville Monday
evening. Newberry will suc-
ceed Wilson Kaden, first presi-
dent of the club, on Jan. 1,1959.
***
Some don't have to be homeless
Politicians are out-promising one choice. Nonetheless, they are cited Politicians deplored the fact that
another in their zeal to do some- — particularly during an election 32.5 million Americans are living
thing about “poor people.” campaign — as evidence of “below the povery line.” The an-
Media pictures of derelicts sleep- “shameful poverty in the midst of nounced figure at which poverty
ing in doorways are captioned “the plenty.” begins is $11,611 per family per
pitiful plight of the homeless,” and Let us remain sensitive to suf- year.
anything less than a response of fering whenever we encounter it. Heritage Foundation then tried to
complete compassion sounds heart- But let’s not imagine that any poli- explain that Census Bureau figures
less. tician in whatever office is going to do not include the non-cash fringe
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In Chicago, there is a roadway abolish poorness. benefits of being poor — medical
underneath the Loop designed pri- One of Chicago’s “homeless” was benefits, subsidized housing, food
marily for truck delivery of sup- adopted by a New Mexico ranch stamps. Census Bureau figures also
plies to the city’s skyscrapers. family, given transportation, a do not include so-called "under-
The loading ramps which line this comfortable, clean home and a sal- ground income” because that in-
underground thoroughfare are a ariedjob. come is unreported.
favorite place for the city’s home- He lasted but a few weeks before Family disintegration is central
less — whom we used to call he spent what he’s earned on a to the pathology of the poor.
“bums”—to spend their nights. ticket back to homelessness in Nobody has a better excuse for
When one of these men was cal- Chicago. being poor than the American
lously shot while he slept, some of us Last month the Census Bureau farmer. The farmer, however,
sought to warn vagrants that their announced that the median income keeping his family intact, has a
loading-ramp retreat was danger- for American families has im- ower poverty rate than our nation’s
ousandunnessary. proved five yearsma row. general population.
We traveled among them, in- The so-called “poverty rate” re- 6 M
viting them instead to spend their mained unchanged at 13.5 percent. The best way politicians can fight
nights at a Salvation Army shelter. And poverty among blacks lingering poverty is not with more
Dozens were invited; not one accep- increased substantially. government handouts, but by re-
ted * Sociologists protested that “the versing the policies which have had
' such a deleterious effect on family
structure among the poor.
implored her NOT to try and attend endum will probably pass, since the
a major university and to try CCC average age in the county is 55 —10
for a couple of years first (this from years away from that “fixed in-
a counselor talking with a come” time, and since most of these
straight-A student?) I DO know that same people no longer have chil-
something is desperately wrong dren in our schools.
with our schools if a counselor does I implore the citizens of Cooke
not have faith that his students can County to realize that our youth are
go on to a higher educational fa- tomorrow’s leaders — for the
cility without fear of failure after county and for the nation,
graduating from GHS. And I DO
know that this same counselor also E.M. Walker
MUST know there is a serious prob- Gainesville
build needed new facilities
and bring older ones up to the
same health and safety codes
that private industry must
meet. The administration has
not yet suggested where to
find that money.
Then, in September, anoth-
er congressional committee
discovered that it may not
even be possible to begin the
needed cleanup, since there
may be no place to put the
radioactive wastes removed
from contaminated sites.
After spending $700 million
carving out a radioactive
waste repository in the salt
beds outside Carlsbad, N.M.,
which was supposed to have
opened in early October, the
Energy Department an-
nounced that it was postpon-
ing that opening indefinitely.
The decision came after the
House committee released in-
ternal Energy Department
memos showing that the de-
partment’s own investigators
aren’t sure that the facility is
safe.
Far from learning from its
past experience, the depart-
ment tried to ignore these in-
vestigators’ memos, until
Congress got hold of them.
And one has to wonder
whether the new worse reve-
lations wouldn’t also have
been swept under the rug if
Congress hadn’t publicized
them.
Congress can’t allow that
mode of operation to contin-
ue. And it must make sure
that the overwhelming scale
of the problem doesn’t be-
come the new excuse for
making do with the same old
policy of cut corners, sealed
lips and crossed fingers. The
Energy Department’s
mismanagement has already
endangered the public’s safe-
ty and the nation’s weapons
programs. Enough is enough.
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Burrell I Dern of Muenster
was one of 231 long service em-
ployees honored by Phillips
Petroleum Co. recently at a
dinner in Bartlesville, Okla.
Dern, who began work for te
company in the production de-
partment at Smackover, Ark.,
and later served in various field
capacities in the Jal, N.M.
area, was honored for 25 years
of service.
***
If Gainesville football fans
were asked to vote for the
Leopard contribution to the
Daily Register’s Honor Roll
today, there’s not much doubt
that fullback David Magnenat
would be an overwhelming vote
of confidence. Fact of the mat-
ter, he might have been elected
mayor of the city had there
been an election here last Sat-
urday morning. Magnenat
made a tremendous individual
showing against Sulphur
Springs and his feats have been
relived by fans ever since
Gainesville’s 28-16 victory Fri-
day night.
***
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