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New Focus training sessions
draw 149 participants
The first week of training for a
program designed to combat negative
behavior was so successful that orga-
nizers ait planning a second training
session in October Max Livingston,
coordinator of the New Focus pro-
gram for the West community said.
Forty five adults turned out last week
for the 17 hour training session and
104 seventh - twelfth grade students
participated on Wednesday.
"There are a lot of good things
coming horn this," Livingston said,
"and if everyone rolls up their sleeves
and goes to work, we can help the at-
risk students make good choices."
New Focus is a community-wide
effort geared to changing negative
behavior of young people to positive
behavior. The goal of the program is
to guide young people toward making
responsible choices, an integral part
of the effort to combat any negative
choices.
Training participants included
W.I.S.D. personnel plus youth work-
ers, ministers, representatives of the
West community and interested par-
ents.
"New Focus training provided an
effective, broad-based comprehensive
model with the insight class format,
parenting/teacher skills that promote
internal management, in intervention
and prevention program for the school
district and a networking plan for the
community," stated Livingston. "The
training stimulates community com-
mitment, which serves as the driving
force for community solutions to com-
munity problems."
With the fust round of initial train-
ing Dr. Steven Russell, a certified
alcohol and drug abuse counselor in
Grand Prairie who developed the pro-
gram for McKinney, conducted the
sessions.
"There were people of all walks of
life there. We left ready to do some-
thing about the problems" said
Livingston.
The group discussed a various top-
ics and intervention processes, includ-
ing an overview of chemicals, child
sexual abuse, adolescent eating disor-
ders, suicide and the internal manage-
ment process which changes negative
behavior to positive behavior.
The next step will be to train high
school students who will start youth
support groups in the schools. Ses-
sions are tentatively scheduled this
month for counselors and staff mem-
bers who will work with the students
in their training sessions.
Russell has been retained by the
school district for a year to provide
training and has agreed to conduct
another weekend long session. He said
he also anticipates other people, un-
able to attend last week's session will
want to participate.
The New Focus training sessions
cover two days and will be conducted
on October 19 and 20 from 8 a.m. until
5 p.m. both days. Cost of the work-
shop is $150 per person, $225 for a
husband and wife. Financial assis-
tance is also available for those want-
ing to attend.
For more information or to register
please contact Max Livingston at826-
4446 from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. or Hank
Masur at 826-3711.
Th« skin is tbs largest organ of the body, accounting for about 16 percent
of total weight.
Denton releases Toll-Free Numbers
for State Services
State Representative Betty Demon announced a series of toll-free
numbers for constituents to get information or assistance.
Child Abuse Hotline............................................... 1-800-252-5400
Department of Agmg Hotline..................................1 800-252-9240
Lawyer Referral Service......................................... 1-800-252-9690
Runaway Hotline.................................................... 1 -800-392-3352
Voter Registration.................................................. 1-800-252-8683
Parks and Wildlife.................................................. 1 -800-792-1112
Drug Smuggling Hotline.....................................1-800-BE-ALERT
Comptroller of Public Accounts.............................1 -800-252-5555
Governor's Hotline...................................................1 -800-252-9600
Department of Health............................................. 1-800-252-9106
Abuse Prevention Hotline...................................... 1-800421-0353
Elderly Handicapped Hotline..................................1-800-252-5400
Missing Persons Clearinghouse..............................1-800-346-3243
Suicide Prevention..................................................1-800-6924039
Cancer Information................................................ 1-800422-6237
Insurance Board.......................................................1-800-252-3439
Child Support Enforcement................................... 1-800-252-3515
Fair Housing........................................................... 1-800-669-9777
Income Assistance, Food Stamps........................... 1 -800-252-9330
Medicare..................................................................1-800442-2620
Go venoms Citizens' Assistance................................1 -800-843-5789
State Property Tax Board....................................... 1-800-252-9121
Denton also said that during the upcoming Special Session, informa-
tion about specific bills can be obtained by calling 1-800-253-9693.
"By utilising these toll-free numbers, individuals can have more ac-
cessibility to state government," Denton said.
UNVARNISHED TRUTH ABOUT GAMBLING
Jhe United States has 3. 5 million compulsive^
gamblers... 1 million high school students and
*^~nJ 650,000 college students are compulsive gam- ■
blers t0°- $290 billion was sPent on gambling
jn the U. S. last year. In the more than 30
states with lotteries, $20. 8 billion was spent
last year on tickets... seductive ads promise
untold wealth: "It only takes a dollar and a
dream." The majority never win, the big win is a""^
^ carefully nurtured fantasy... gamblers — legal and il-
5^; legal— are $200 billion in debt, and gambling is^^gsS
growing.jT
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a report in
Parade Mag- |
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Ip' Blume and
Valerie C. Lorenz, both
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contributed to the above
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Another Point of View
By Keith Peck
The state legislature recently completed its session amid self congratula-
tions for a job well done. Was it? Not from where I am sitting. The legislature
was presented with a golden opportunity to demonstrate intelligence and
statesmanship in solving the state's fiscal problems. Unfortunately they did
neither. The latest panacea is the proposed state lottery which will be presented
to the electorate in November. Remember how pari-mutual betting was
suppose to solve our problems five or six years ago? Last I heard, the state's take
wasn't even enough to pay the expenses of the commission set up to regulate
it. A state lottery could be another expense instead of a solution.
Ten years ago Colorado voters approved a state lottery to pay for paries and
outdoor recreation. This year the legislature is considering raising sales or
income tax to raise money for parks and recreation, temporary of course. Of
course! It is axiomatic. The more money a political entity takes in, the more
they spend.
Lotteries tend to do well at the outset, but once boredom sets in, revenue
declines. Those lotteries that have been in existence several years have not been
able to produce steady growth. Even bigger jackpots can no longer guarantee
player interest. The odds of picking six correct numbers out of a possible fifty-
three is twenty-three million in one. Texas will be one of the last states in the
nation to adopt a lottery. (If they do.) Before we vote we should take a long
hard look at the experience of all other states. It doesn’t look like a good idea.
Notice I have not addressed the moral issues, only the practical and logical
ones. However, I think it is morally wrong.
If the Governor thinks she can persuade me to invest in her lottery, she is
wrong. I will vote against it and if it passes, I will not spend one cent to buy
a ticket.
Mary Ann Bacak Murphy
Mary Ann Bacak Murphy, age 72, passed away after a short illness on
August 28,1991 in Dallas.
Mass of Christian burial was conducted at St. Elizabeth's Church, August
29, with burial following in West at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.
She was preceded in death by her husband Joe Murphy and one son, Tommy
D. Murphy.
She is survived by: one daughter, Mary Ann Bradshaw of Dallas; two sons,
James Murphy of Red Oak and Johnny Murphy of Balch Spring; one daughter-
in-law, Kay Murphy of Frost; five grandsons; five granddaughters; two great-
grandchildren; two brothers, Ignac A. Bacak Jr. of Ennis and Ludwick Bacak
of Quinlan, Texas; three sisters, Lois Urban, Lillian Hlavenka of Dallas and
Stacie Ann RoesslerofWacoand one sister-in-law,Lillian Bacakof Cedar Hill.
Dolores J. Jelen
Dolores Josephine Jelen, 39, of Plano passed away Wednesday, September
11,1991 at HCA Medical Center.
Rosary was recited at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Ted Dickey Funeral Home in
Plano. Mass of Christian burial was celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Mark
the Evangelist Catholic Church in Plano, Rev. Richard Brown as celebrant.
Burial followed in Calvary Hill Cemetery in Dallas.
Mrs. Jelen was bom February 4,1952 in Waco, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Hynek. She was a graduate of Abbott High School and of North Texas State
University. On August 9,1981 she married Frank Whitfield Jelen in Abbott.
She was employed with the U.S. Government as an accountant until 1982,
she then became a housewife.
She is survived by her husband Frank; a daughter, Sarah Jelen of Plano; her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hynek of Abbott and two sisters, Carolyn Dvoracek
of Denton and Mary Lillian Lenart of Plano.
Pallbearers were: David Dvoracek, Dennis Dvoracek, Dale Dvoracek,
Steven Lenart, John C. Polansky and Richard Skerik.
A Smoke-Free Society by the Year 2000?
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by Dr. Jean J. Boddewyn
In many ways, the anti-smoking
movement may be declared a success
— hut will it last? The odds are that
the movement will soon peak — well
short of former Surgeon General C.
Everett Koop's goal of "a smoke-free
society by the year 2(XX).”
The anti smoking movement is now
well-entrenched at all levels of gov-
ernment. Morally, it fits in with the
health consciousness and neo-puritani-
cal sobriety of our times. In addition,
there are strong economic interests
wedded to the anti-smoking cause —
not only anti-smoking leaders and bu-
reaucrats whose careers depend on its
success, but also politicians eager for
“sin taxes" to plug huge budget defi-
cits, and public and private organiza-
tions anxious to link job-related dis-
eases to smoking instead of to stress,
chemicals and dust in order to limit
their legal liabilities.
Still, the anti-smoking movement
will stop short of "a smoke-free so-
ciety by the year 2(KM).’’ The first
reason is that people who choose
to smoke enjoy it. Hence, a sizable
number of adults, perhaps 20 percent
to 30 percent of the population, will
keep smoking.
Second, the anti-smoking move-
ment is already a generation old —
starting with the Surgeon General's
Report of 1964. Historically, social
movements find it difficult, if not im-
possible. to keep their momentum for
longer than that.
After major initial successes, dimin-
ishing returns and zealotry become
evident. It is obviously one thing to
segregate smokers from non-smokers,
but another to forbid all smoking at
work and even at home. It is one thing
to ban tobacco commercials on tele-
vision and radio, which are difficult
media to control in terms of viewing
audiences, but another to ban adver-
tising in all media -- even those that
do not reach minors. It is appropriate
to shield youth from tobacco advertis-
ing, but questionable to prevent adults
from seeing advertisements for a le-
gal product, on the grounds that chil-
dren could see them too.
For the true believer, every addi-
tional crossing of "t's” and dotting of
"i’s” is crucial, but, for the general
public, it becomes marginal and a sur-
feit of rules. When the zeal of activ-
ists becomes excessive, the lesson
learned from liquor's prohibition
(1920-1933) becomes too obvious for
comfort. Even non-smokers come to
think that the crusaders are overdoing
it and become concerned that the
health reasons used to justify extreme
restrictions could be — and indeed
have been — applied a& well to people
who are fat (some 59 percent of
Americans are overweight) or do not
exercise enough. The July 1991 court
decision in Canada that declared its
tobacco-advertising ban unconstitu-
tional and an unacceptable piece of
"social engineering and stale moral-
ism” also reflects the growing reaction
against paternalistic politicians, bu-
reaucrats and zealots
A third reason the anti-smoking cru-
sade may lose momentum is that ex-
cessive restrictions breed undesirable
consequences such as smuggling and
cigarette-tax evasion, and lend a "for-
bidden fruit" allure to smoking.
Finally, long crusades suffer from
displacement — meaning that other
issues come to loom larger, more
urgent or threatening: crime, pollution
and homelessness. The fear of being
burglarized or mugged is certainly
felt more tangibly by people all
over the country than that of being
exposed to passive smoking. A grow-
ing number of people will reach the
conclusion that enough has been
achieved to curb smoking, and that it
is time to move on to other, far more
critical issues.
Notwithstanding these reasons, the
anti-smoking movement will remain
very active because it is in the nature
of activists to keep pushing. However,
the movement’s effectiveness is peak-
ing because its methods are bringing
up serious questions of individual free-
doms. in the forms of invasion of pri-
vacy, of discrimination based on
lifestyle choices, and of curtailing the
right to advertise legal products valued
by many consumers. M
Dr. Jean J. Boddewyn is a professor of
marketing and international business at
the Baruch College of the City University
of New York. He has published extensively
in academic journals on the regulation of
advertising around the world and has
served as a consultant to the World Health
Organization.
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CARD OF THANKS
We gratefully express our heartfelt thanks and deepest appreciation to all
our relatives, friends and neighbors for their kind concern and expressions
of sympathy at the death of our mother and grandmother
Wilma Kizer
who passed away September 5,1991.
Our thanks to Father Ed Karasekfor serving the Mass and Msgr. George
Doskocilfor the rosary. Also special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Payne
and the staffofAderhold for the arrangements, thepallbearersand to all who
sent flowers, cards, food and memorials and to all who paid tribute to her
memory by attending her funeral.
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