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REAGAN'S $2.6 TRILLION WAR BUDGET
$4 Daily, Every Man, Woman, Child
By H. M. BAGGARLY
B EN SARGENT of the Anita American
■•is one of our favorite cartoonists.
Formerly of Amarillo, the young man used
to be a reader of The Tulia Herald; in fact,
he used to write an occasional letter to the
editor. *
Now his daily cartoons are syndicated
and appear in many papers.
A recent cartoon of his is a lulu!
II E PICTURES a caricature of Governor
■■ Clements in an easy chair. He is
holding a small bone in his hand which he
is using to reward a dog who has fetched a
rolled newspaper and is running at top
speed towards the governor.
The newspaper is labeled " Redistrict-
ing Bill."
Clements is saying. “First heard about
th' breed from Ron Reagan. ‘Want some-
thin' docile?’ he says. Get yourself a
renegade Democrat."
How true! How true!!
MURING OUR childhood, our mother
■^embroidered a motto which read,
"Enough Is As Good as a Feast.” Later we
gave the framed motto to the late Myrtle
Nolte of Tulia who kept it hanging in her
kitchen.
We wish we had extra copies to give
to Exxon, DuPont, Mobil, the air con-
trollers. the postal workers, and all the
rest.
B!T BY BIT the REAL Reagan la
■■ beginning to emerge as our pre-elec-
tion fears are taking place.
Many Republicans entertained the
same fears.
Behind the sheep's clothing we are
beginning to see the wolf.
First, we began to see his contempt
for the poor as he advocated taking away
the minimum Social Security checks and
giving them to Exxon.
And now. . . his approval of the
neutron bomb—the most contemptible
weapon in the history of warfare. It
destroys leas property but more people!
Even the militant Alexander Haig
opposed the neutron bomb, indicating that
it was too uncivilized.
Reagan makes Goldwater. the 1964
hawk, look like a dove!
AVING KNOWN little about Sandra
Day O'Connor, Reagan's nominee to
the U. S. Supreme Court, we had no strong
feelings about her appointment.
Supreme Court appointments are per-
haps a President's greatest opportunity to
influence a nation, to exercise power, to
mold society.
This function of the Presidency was
perhaps the greatest argument against
electing a man President of Reagan's
philosophy.
*3 a,
E LIKED O'Coanor’s looks and the
fact that she was opposed by Jerry
Falwell was one in her favor!
However, we note some negative as-
pects to her confirmation that have emer-
ged.
According to some law journals, for
the highest court in the land Reagan has
picked a person barely qualified for the
post almost entirely because of her sex and
not on the basis of individual merit.
■RESPITE THE many Mod words of her
Bwfriends. Judge O'Connor's record is
not even close to Supreme Court quality, it
is noted by top lawyers.
"She was not an exceptional lawyer or
legal scholar, nor is she an outstanding
judge. The Arizona Bar rates her perfor-
mance as rather poor. In a 1980 State Bar
of Arizona poll, lawyers ranked her eighth
among ten appellate judges, and in earlier
years she scored no better as a trial judge.
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Although undeniably intelligent and hard-
working, she has had no experience with
the constitutional and statutory problems
that routinely come to the Supreme Court,
nor even with more mundane kinds of
Federal law. Her work as a state trial and
intermediate appellate judge has focused
on routine local matters like landlord-
tenant. worker's compensation and cri-
minal law. Nor was her prior legislative
experience Federal."
So it is reported in a law journal.
LIFETIME appointment to the U. S.
Supreme Court is perhaps the ulti-
mate appointment for a lawyer. It offers
wealth, prestige, an opportunity to mold
history, security.
It is inconceivable that ANY lawyer in
the nation would turn down the appoint-
ment, meaning that, unlike other govern-
ment appointments, a President has the
opportunity to pick the "cream of the
crop.”
Yet we seldom get the best!
One of Nixon's appointees, who was
not confirmed by the Senate, was later
arrested on a morals charge. Others who
were confirmed have demonstrated their
inability to interpret the law without
personal prejudice.
If sex was the over-riding issue in this
most recent nomination, consider the
quality available, Barbara Jordan. Sarah
Hughes, or even Mary Lou Robinson! None
of these is an extremist, either to the right
or left. And certainly they have impeccable
professional credentials.
Many former Presidents, particularly
Democrats, have named judges not of their
own political party. But that was before
Reagan!
M EAD IN A downstate paper recently
^Mthat Texas has only ONE Democrat of
national stature these days—Phil Gramm!
If that's true, heaven help us!!
■ DEAL1SM IS one thing. . . reality Is
B something else! Once we asked a high
school class if it was a safe principle
NEVER to contract for any good or service
unless one had the money to pay for it.
Every hand went up.
Then we asked what would they do if
a member of their family was stricken with
a heart attack and they lacked the cost of
medical attention.
■ HE DEBATE between ideological
B Democrats and Republicans often in-
volves similar questions. We must admit
that IN THEORY the Republican gospel
often makes much more sense than the
Democratic gospel. Such cliches as "less
government." "lower taxes." "less regula-
tion.” "free enterprise,” and all the rest.
MAKE SENSE as IDEALS, just as "never
contracting for a service unless one can
pay for it" and "staying out of debt.”
But when we are faced with REALITY
instead of IDEALS and THEORY, then wc
are compelled to rethink out principles.
The reason so many young college
students tend to be Republican or "conser-
vative" is that they are TOO YOUNG to
have had the opportunity to face reality,
too young to know the world and its
problems. They tend to be idealistic!
BREE ENTERPRISE has become as
■ sacred-sounding as John 3:1b at a
Baptist revival. And who could argue witn
it. . . unless you interpret it as a pen dT
foxes, chickens, rabbits, cats, dogs and
lions? Or a pen filled with Exxon, an
independent filling station operator, a
gasohol producer, a solar heat producer in
need of funds to perfect his invention, and
a small inventor of a product that would
eliminate the need for all fossil fuel?
■ UST TO PUT things in perspective, be
4w reminded that the military buildup
demanded by Reagan is three times the
si/c of the defense increases during the
Vietnam war. . . and at the height of the
Vietnam war each day we were burning
more oil. flving more missions, than at the
height of World War II!
There are ample grounds for the
charge that these huge increases will push
up the deficit and fuel inflation. In his
Slate of the Union speech. Reagan right-
fully decried the mounting deficit which is
approaching $1 trillion. He illustrated how
large this sum is bv saying that it
constituted a stack of thousand-dollar bills
67 miles high. We should be aware that a
similar stack of bills equal to the Reagan
defense expenditures proposed last Jan-
uary would be 100 miles high.
(Continued On Page Nine)
Senator Bill Sarpalhis
■l^hl Reports
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NEW MONEY - NEW JOBS
AUSTIN - In the waning
hours of the special session
of the Legislature, after a
battle of more than six
months, we were able to
pass a bill that should pump
hundreds of millions of
dollars into the economy of
the Panhandle.
That bill provides for a tax
exemption for gasohol that
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BROWSING 00WN
MEMORY LANE
S YEARS AGO
School holds line on
Budget, tax rate. . . T. C.
Measles heads irrigation
gas users group. . . Tulia
Hornet football team pre-
sents plaque to Fuzz.v Rea-
gor in appreciation of new
scoreboard donated by First
National Bank of Tulia. . .
Death claims Ed Daniel. 73.
. . .Hazel Irene Owens. 65.
earns diploma after 49
years. . . Hatcher Brown of
Canyon, former Tulia High
School coach, presented
plaque and THS belt buckle
citing him as "teacher,
coach and motivator". . .
Chclle Morrow wins first in
ribbon race at Little Rustler
Rodeo held in Lockney. . .
Sheriff's Posse wins first
place trophy in Silverton
parade.
10 YEARS AGO
Trial is slated in Kesler
murder...Tulia Rodeo opens
tonight...Tulia Wheat Grow-
ers. Inc. hold annual meeting
...Alan Johnson. 74. dies...
Dallana Carlile marries Tony
Loper.. . Deborah Milligan
weds Richard Combest...No-
va Dee Smith and Donna
Barnes selected as Kress
High drum majors...Pioneer
boosts price of irrigation
gas...Cindv West is entry in
Wheathcart Pageant.
15 YEARS AGO
The Bail Hill farm, five
miles north ot Tulia. reports
16.1 inches of rain since July
24. 7.1 inches of which have
fallen since Sundav...Death
claims Alvin Roberts. 45.
The former Tulia police chief
died in a Hale Center hospi-
tal from encephalitis...Eight
cars crash in five separate
accidents that left three per-
sons scriouslv injured at Tule
Creek bridge north of Tulia.
None of the persons involved
were from Swisher County...
Charlie Herring delivers first
1966 ntilo to .Tulia Wheat
Growers...Swisher men are
30 tons overweight.
20 YEARS AGO
Hollcn Scott, city electrical
employee, electrocuted in an
accident near Star Grain
Co...Open house set tor Hap-
py s new post office and
clinic. H. M. Baggarly of
Tulia is to be master of
ceremonies...Mr. and Mrs.
Alvin Wesley. Happy, ob-
serve 50th anniversary ...Kay
Evans and Bobby Berry arc
married...Norman Lynn Burk
and Wanda Carlcnc Cox are
married...Mr. and Mrs. A.
M. Currie of Happy observe
golden wedding....Faye Ma-
rie Hutto and Russell Rucker
are married.
25 YEARS AGO
22 country editors endorse
Ralph Yarborough for gover-
nor in strongly worded reso-
lution...Pat Timmons wins
"Valuable Player" award...
Hollis Cagle resigns as city
manager...Mildred Hulsey
visits Nassau. Bahamas....
Arch Johnson of Happy suf-
fers stroke.
30 YEARS AGO
Billy McAnetiy new- Dis-
trict 2 president of 4-H...
Dynamite blast kills Canyon
youth. Ray Needham. 19,
member of seismeograph
crew working on S. M.
Rodgers ranch...Masonry
work started on new Baptist
Church... Mrs. Amanda
Tucker honored with two
parties on her 87th birthday..
Mariese Ferguson of Tulia.
maintenance foreman with
Texas Highway Department,
receives award for 25 years
of service with the depart-
ment.
35 YEARS AGO
Allan Shivers and Beau-
ford Jester win Democratic
runoff for lieutenant govern-
or and governor... R. C.
Westfall. 70. dies after he
was run over by car on south
side of courthouse square...
Last rites for E. L. Cantrell
said...Donald Watts painful-
ly injured in saw accident in
W. W. Bonev workshop. He
lost all fingers on left hand...
American Legion at Happy
building home...H. M. Bag-
garly is new news editor of
Herald... Funeral held for
Aubrey C. Ratliff. 69. broth-
er of Mrs. A. C. Wimberly.
40 YEARS AGO
Shannon Black named
Hornet editor...W. C. Smith-
ce, father of Mrs. Bruce
Gerdcs. dies...Thomas Ed
Bandy. 19. son of Tom Bandy
of Happy, stricken with polio
...Kathcrin Mebusof E! Paso
and Lloyd Miller of Tulia are
married.
45 YEARS AGO
Frances Wilkins president
of senior class. Lula Marjorie
Conner heads juniors; Ed
Harris, sophomores; and Pat
Wiman. freshman.
50 YEARS AGO
2000 oldtimers attend pic-
nic at Wayside...Led by
Capt. Woodrow Toone. 27.
candidates answer first call
for football training issued by
Coach W. N. Anderson. They
arc Tub Ramsey. Reddell.
Dick Rogers. Oscar Neal.
Red Baker. Joe McFarling.
Orville Speer and Ack Simp-
son...Last year's reserves
are Barnett. Vandergriff.
Grist. Caraway. Herring.
Wilson. Engleman. Wiman.
Eliff and Rutherford...Heard
and Jones move to a new
location.
55 YEARS AGO
lulia girls teaching in
other towns: Amy Lois Can-
trell. Kress: Mable Hale.
Farwcll: Leora Stallings,
Canyon; Thelma Asbury. Ty-
ler; and Mattie Jordan. Vega
...Feme Francy of Happy
weds Edgar Patching.
60 YEARS AGO
G. A. Tomlinson and fam-
ily move back to Tulia from
Canyon.
62 YEARS AGO
Tulia Young Business
League encourages new in-
dustry for Tulia...Grandma
Robinson, mother of Mrs.
Emma Cavit. visiting rela-
tives in Vigo Park. Her home
is in Mobile. Alabama.
THE LOCKNEY BEACON: We lost a
friend in the Lockney business community
this week when Thomason's grocery store
closed its doors for good.
Economists will tell you there are
myriad reasons why a business fails. The
reasons can range from bad parking facilities
to a bad economic climate and everything in
between.
But the surest way to kill a business,
whether it's on Fifth Avenue.in Manhattan
or Main Street in Lockney. is by not
supporting and patronizing it.
When we fail to support a local business
and it has to cease operation, there is a chain
reaction that involves a number of people.
Obviously the ones most seriously
affected by a business failure other than the
owners are the employees who lose their
jobs. Their loss of income is felt community-
wide.
When an individual suddenly finds
himself without income he is forced to at
least partially withdraw from the market
place.
That means lost income for everyone
ranging from the mortgage-holder, property
renter, the grocer, the utility companies, the
service stations, the clothing store, the
variety store and so on down the line.
In a small community the loss is felt
immediately. The chances are if we lose four
jobs in Lockney this week, we won’t have
four new jobs next week to take their place.
And we have another vacant building on
Main Street in Lockney. certainly something
wc don't need.
One wonders if perhaps we are all a
little guilty of killing off a locally-owned
business for the sake of saving a few cents
somewhere else.
But have we really saved anything when
wc reduce competition and lose the econo-
mic input that the failed business provided
the community?
We doubt it.
•
BEN EZZELL in The Canadian Rec-
ord: With admiration and enthusiasm, w-
applaud President Reagan's firm action on
the Air Controller's strike. It is long past
time when any small group of willful men
should be permitted to threaten the eco-
nomic well-being of multitudes to satisfy
their own egos and greed.
Our admiration and enthusiasm for the
President's determination would be great-
er. however, if he had met the Postal
Union's threat of strike with the same
firmness. . . and the same answers. . .
with which he has greeted the striking air
controllers.
If the government hadn't caved in
before the threat of the postal workers, it
seems probable that it wouldn't have had
to confront the strike threat of the air
controllers at all.
It is easy to understand why the air
controllers expected an easy victory for
their wage demands when the same gov-
ernment had been so quick to panic in the
face of the postal workers a couple of
weeks earlier. A strike by the postal
workers was just as illegal as a strike by
the air controllers.
If the postal workers had been told
firmly that if they walked out they would
be walking away from job security, pen-
sions and unemployment benefits, it's a
good bet (hat their strike would have
collapsed quickly. If it hadn't, there would
have been plentv of applicants to take their
jobs at the $9.25-and-up hourly wage of the
Postal Service, just as there are plenty of
applicants for the cushy jobs left by the air
controllers.
It's been a long time since an
American President had the political guts
to meet a strike threat against the national
interest with a firm "no." Harry Truman
did it when the railroad unions threatened
to wreck the national economy in 1950.
President Truman seized the railroads and
put the Army in charge to halt the strike
and keep the trains rolling. The railroads
were returned to the management of the
owners in 1952. and in light of what's
happened to a lot of them since. Old Harry
might've been better advised to keep
them. *
But President Reagan has a better
answer. He won't nationalize the air-
lines. . . he'll just fire the striking
controllers and let Air Force people fill in
until other controllers can be hired and
trained.
Some segments of the national eco-
nomy are too vital to too many people to
permit them to be shut down by illegal
strikes. The time is overdue for the
President to call a halt to this sort of
national blackmail.
Too bad he can't roll back the postal
workers' settlement as well.
•
DALTON WOOD in The Lynn County
News: Everybody knows that honesty is
supposed to be the best policy, and greater
minds than mine have pondered the ques-
tion of “What is truth?" But while I agree
that telling the truth is the best policy most
of the time, there are times when some
kind of evasion, or outright fib. is the
kindest thing for all concerned.
We discussed in Sunday School one
day whether it is better to tell the truth,
flat out. every time or if it is sinful to tell a
kinder lie. For instance, suppose someone
calls you up and asks you to come over and
eat some chocolate ice cream in a few
minutes. Do you say. "Gee. that sounds
great, but I'm afraid we can't make it this
time. . . my wife just rolled up her hair."
(or I'm not feeling too well, or we're
expecting a call from President Reagan, or
we just finished eating dessert, or what-
ever).
Or do you tell the truth: "I’d really
rather stay home and watch TV, and
besides, I hate chocolate ice cream"? Or
"We'd like to come over, but we’re sick
and tired of hearing about your grand-
children." Or "everytime we come over
there your blamed cat rubs all over us. and
we can't stand cats."
Suppose your 12-year-old daughter
bakes cookies and hands you one that
tastes a little strange and then looks up
and asks you. all big-eyed, if you liked it.
and did it taste good. Do you tell her it
tastes terrible, but you love her anyway, or
do you brag about how good it is?
So maybe it is a sin to tell a lie. except
when it is necessary.
There arc some other examples of not
telling things like they arc that wc have to
deal with occasionally. For example, in
obituaries, we try to avoid printing that
someone "passed away" or "expired" or
"crossed over the Great Divide." Some-
times those things get past us. but usually
wc just change them to "died." It's a lot
plainer and sounds more dignified. I try to
tell our staff that only old quarterbacks
pass away, and that only subscriptions
expire.
I'm going to get in trouble here,
probably, but I also think it's kind of dumb
for people to say about their pets that "I
had to have poor little Poochie pul -to
sleep."
We have had several dogs we were
quite fond of. and couple of them we had
to have killed because that was the
merciful thing to do. So call it killed, or put
to death, or murdered, but it's not sleep.
JANNICE GRIFFIN IN The Quanah
Tribune-Chief: A school teacher was trying
to impress her students with the impor-
tance of being honest in all things.
"Suppose." she asked her class, "th.it
you found a briefcase containing a halt a
million dollars, what would you do?"
Johnny raised his hand ininiediatclv
"If it belonged to a poor family." he
said. "I'd return it."
•
G. K. GREAVES in The PortaJea |N.
M.| News-Tribune: Fruit Fly—It will take
some time to determine it the application of
Malathion at the rate of 12 to 14 droplets per
square foot will eliminate the Mediterranean
Fruit Fly in the San Jose basin of California
and it will take even longer to determine
whether any residual harm will come to
humans or other life.
We do understand now. however, how
much political risk is involved in either going
for the farmers' interests and spraying the
whole area, or in listening to the environ-
mentalists who raise unanswerable ques-
tions about the possibility of genetic or
environmental effects. Gov. Brown is a study
in how a public official can play both sides
against the middle in such situations.
People out here in New Mexico don't
tend to take the application of the insecticide
so seriously as do the people of California.
We're accustomed to having rangeland
sprayed against grasshoppers, but then, that
doesn't involve spraying densely occupied
urban areas.
It hasn't been too many years that much
more powerful insecticides were regularly
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