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★ EDITORIAL PAGE ★
“Freedom of the press is the\»taff of life
for any vital democracy— Wendell Wilkie
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‘Nixon Interviews’
New Entertainment
ABOUT THE ONLY thing the
Nixon Interviews proved was that
the former President could use
a few acting lessons, thdt
evision is still his worst enemy.
During the “unrehearsed” inter-
view last Wednesday, the first
of four, the last fifteen minutes
were Richard Nixon’s in which
a dramatic oratory by the ex-
president enlarged the screen.
MUCH IN THE same genre as
the death scene in “Rich Man,
Poor Man” in which one of the
Jordache brothers finally died,
or as in those overblown inane
parting sequences, good-bys,
which “Roots” based its em-
otional appeal upon, Nixon it
appeared was trying to cast him-
self as a human-being, guzzling
with human passion and human
frailty. v
HOWEVER THE performance
fell short of its mark, even con-
sidering the watery glassy eyes,
the stuttering just at the right
moments, body language, and all
those other props actors use to
create the “most favorable” im-
pressions. Nixon’s oratory was
pat - something beforehand writ-
ten and rewritten to be used
at a most commanding moment,
near the end of the interview —
near the end where the climax
of any well-written novel or play
is located. The writing was good
enough to be placed as a script
for any modern-day soap opera,
and was much better than Agnew’s
second - grade * ‘Canfield Decis-
ion,” but the actor just was not
believable, his quality hieing
sporadic]. Even interviewer David
Frost ijrade a buffoon of his part
in the melodrama, appearing too
sincere, too concerned, and too
interrogative to be believable.
THE END result on the screen
was one which would rank with
being an amateur comedy, a spoof
of sorts, one which even Sat-
urday Night Live and The Not
Ready For Prime Time Play-
ers would have problems top-
ping.
BUT AT THE price of $600,000,
Nixon is better off being over-
payed for acting rather than being
given the privelege of stealing us
blind in other, more frustrating
ways.
—W. Leon Smith
S,T ATE CAPITAL
Hiqhtiqhi’S
Sideliqhts
AND
by Lyndell Williams
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN — Texas has a
brand new world filibuster
champ — Sen Bill Meier of .
Euless. <
Meier, 36, with 43 hours
of (nearly! continuous
oratory, broke the old re-
cord set in 1972 by former
Sen. Mike McKool of Dal-
las.
A scholarly Fort Worth
area lawyer, Meier is a
sharp contrast to McKool.
He stands six feet two in-
ches tall and weighs in at
- 190. McKool is five feet
three, and was 53 at the
time he set his 42 hours, 33
minutes filibuster record.
Meier's strenuous verbal
attack was leveled against
a Section of a workers’
compensation law revision
bill which closed job injury
records of the state Indus-
trial Accident Board to
firms which copy and sell
the data to employers
"This is nothing more
than the first chink in the
Open Records Act," said
. Meier. "What do you say to
other agencies which de-
mand similar exemptions?”
Although unsuccessful in
stopping or altering the
bill he opposed, Meier said
he thinks his filibuster
served a purpose.
"You can talk to the
House through a filibuster
— and to the people of the
state," said Meier "I hope
the bill doesn't go through
the House with the same
meteoric speed it went
through the Senate.
Sen. Ray Farabee of
Wichita Falls, sponsor of
the workers' compensation
revision, said the bill
would close job injilry files
only to those who would
use them for commercial
purposes. He said other
sections would save emp-
loyers $35 million in in-
surance premiums.
Budgets Move
The House finally agreed
on a $15.3 billion biennial
state budget bill after a
tedious eight solid days of
debate, during which
$362.1 million was shaved
from Appropriations Com-
mittee spending proposals.
Senators this week got
r down to work on their own
version in order to get the
heavy financial duties of
the legislative session in
the hands of a conference
committee as fast as possi-
ble.
The Senate, meanwhile,
is awaiting debate on an
$820 million school finance
bill. 4
Injections OK’d
A bill to substitute
deadly injections for the
electric chair as the legal
means of executing con-
demned criminals in Texas
has been sent to the gover-
nor.
Texas, thus, may become
the first state to carry out
court-ordered death pen-
alty sentences by means of
drug injections.
Assuming signature by
Gov. Dolph Briscoe, the bill
(HB 945) by Rep. Ben Z.
Grant of Marshall would go
into effect 90 days after the
session closes May 30.
The legislation changes
the method of execution in
Texas for the first time in
more than half a century.
Tax Reform Dead?
A far-reaching property
tax reform bill passed by
the House appears doomed
in the Senate.
Hearing was delayed
until late this week, and
the sponsor Rep. Wayne
Peveto, irate over con-
tinued opposition of some
senators, threatened to
force their bills off the
House local calendar in re-
taliation.
Sen. Tom Creighton of
Mineral Wells said he
would make no effort to
move the measure out of
his Senate committee until
sponsors can show him 21
votes to pass it on the floor.
AG Opinions
Legislators are pre-
vented from representing
prison inmates for a fee in
private interviews with the
Board of Pardons and
Paroles, Atty. Gen. John
Hill stated.
Hill said the board can
forbid lawmakers from
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crete, workable solutions.
Your views on these matters,
or any other issue before the
Legislature are invited at any
time.
representing the inmates
for pay in proceedings
which are either non-
adversary or non-public.
In other recent opinions,
Hill concluded:
The legislature is free to
change the name of the
Texas Railroad Commis-
sion to the Energy and
Transportation Commis-
sion.
The family code requires
the reporting of sexual
abuse, failure to provide
adequate food, clothing and
shelter, and any conduct
sufTipient for termination
of a parent-child relation-
ship.
Courts Speak
In spite of soaring gas
rate increases since 1973,
the Texas Supreme Court
held Lo-Vaca Gathering
Company and Coastal
States Gas Producing
Company don’t owe Lower
Colorado River Authority
any damage awards.
An Amarillo policeman
was upheld by the Sup-
reme Court in an appeal
from a discharge order by
his chief for testifying that
a convicted robber had a
good reputation for telling
the truth.
The high court upheld a
New York Life Insurance
Company decision not to
pay off on a policy covering
a 22-year-oid Texan who
died in 1975.
Short Snorts
State Insurance Board
Chairman Joe Christie is
fighting a bill passed by
the Senate to rescind board
control over health insur-
ance policy standards.
Mixed drink collections
for the first quarter of 1977
totalled $12.5 million — up
23.8 per cent over the same
period in 1976.
Cullen Smith of Waco is
new president-elect of the
State Bar of Texas, and
John Compere of San An-
tonio is president-elect of
the junior bar.
Atty. Gen. Hill named
Ruth Forbis Kirby of Lit-
tlefield to the State School
‘Land Board and Liz Car-
penter of Austin to the
board for lease of State
Park Lands.
Construction in Texas
reached an all-time record
level during March, Uni-
versity of Texas Bureau of
Business Research re-
ported.
With only slightly over two
weeks left in this 65th regular
legislative session, the House of
Representatives is now meeting
late into most evenings and
considering the mountain of
bills that have been reported out
of the various committees.
The two week debate on the
apporpriations bill has put us
behind in considering many
pieces of legislation that have
been scheduled for debate for
nearly three weeks. The Senate
is now in possession of the SI5.4
billion expenditure bill, and a
conference committee should be
appointed soon to iron out the
differences in the House1 and
Senate v<*sions of the bill. ?; jr
Regardless of how many bills
get passed, the 65th Legislature
will have the distinction of being
colorful. In the Senate, a
recordbreaking filibuster was
undertaken by Senator Bill
Meier and in the House a Dallas
member went on an unsuccess-
ful fast to force his bills to be
heard by committee chairman.
The more acceptable
approach to passing legislation
is through hard work with
members of the various commit-
tees who are responsible for
reporting legislation to the
House with a favorable or
unfavorable recommendation.
One of the major bills still to
be considered by the House is
House Bill 1977 to reorganize
the administrative agencies of
state government. Introduced
by Representative Fred Orr of
Dallas, the bill is a response to
the average citizen's growing
concern about governmental
agencies due to the unstemmed
proliferation of the administra-
tive level of government.
The intent of this legislation is
to mold the many agencies of
Texas government into units
that are economical and service
directed. It is an attempt to
relieve the ^bureaucratic com-
plexity of our government and to
address one of the most
pertinent issues confronting the
Legislature today - bureaucra-
tic unaccountability.
Proposal* to insure govern-
ment accountability have been
on the publit agenda fbr years.
Studies come along regularly on
the subject, but little seems to
be accomplished. Presently
there is no means of insuring
responsiveness at the admini-
strative level of ‘government.
The growing size and complex-
ity of government certainly
makes the budgetary process
difficult, if not antiquated, and
generally represents the only
true confrontation between rep-
resentatives of the people and
those agencies that make up
state government.
Hopefully, reorganization will
become an ongoing process to
insure an efficient government
for all our people. To quote the
Hobby-Clayton Commission re-
port, “It is a process which
should be incorporated into the
day to day business of state
government...resulting in con-
BOB BULLOCK
Comptroller of Public Account!
DEAR MR BULLOC K:
My husband and I plan to
purchase a small grocery
store. Mow do we find out if
the current owner has paid all
Iris slate taxes? If he hasn't
paid his taxes, will we be
liable for them? \
I'm glad you asked dial
question. It could save you a
im of grief further down die
road the answer to the last
[tun of your question is yes —
i <>u will be liable for any
unpaid taxes.
1 on should withhold the
Miles tax owed, if any, by the
current owner from the
purchase price of the store
until he furnished you a
receipt front the Comptroller
showing that all his taxes
hare been paid in full.
If vou're not careful when
buying a new business, you
might be getting more than
you bargained for — like
someone else s tax bill
DEAR SIR
I know that fertilizer used
As It Looks From Here
by
Rep. Omar Burleson
WASHINGTON, D. O- As
has been recently reported in
the press, retired FBI agent,
(John Kearney, has been indic-
ted in New York for directing
mail opening and wire tap
operations while searching for
fugitive members of the radical
Weather Underground from
1970 through 1972. This de-
lights a lot of the liberals here in
the Congress and some liberal
organizations and newspapers.
It seems that a faction in the
Justice Department, hostile to
the FBI, hopes to reach
higher-ups in the FBI through
prosecutiqn of middle-level su-
pervisors such as Kearney.
These people seem to feel that it
was a crime for agents to
investigate by whatever me-
thods they could, links between
subversives in this Country with
Cuba, communist China or try to
find out where the terrorists
which were so active in the early
1970's were going to bomb next.
And how far back should
investigations go to determine
law violations? Should an FBI
supervisor be prosecuted for
alleged acts in 1970 or similar
acts in 1951 or 1967? Technic-
ally, there were violations but
should we expect the subver-
sives, the bomb-throwers and
agents of foreign govenments to
come in and report their
activities to the FBI.
There is not a nation in the
world and, particularly, the
more developed countries, who
do not have agents in other
nations who collect information
by whatever method they may
employ. The left-wingers are
against crime all right but they
don’t like the FBI, the CIA and
other protective agencies who
act against these elements who
would destroy our Country. It
would seem that, the Justice
Department should be chasing
the terrorists who seek nothing
less than the destruction of
America. The "way-outers”
who are harassing the FBI talk
of the rights of terorists and
subversives and make culprits
o/ the FBI agents who try to
keep track of them in an effort to
find out wh'ere they will strike
next.
Legislation is being prepared
to place more restrictions on the
ability of our security agencies
to investigate foreign spying in
the U. S. They want to require a
Federal Judge’s permission
before wiretapping could be
used to monitor fgreign intelli-
gence activities. These liberal
elements would know where
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member 1977 ASSOCIATION
by farmers for then ciops is
exempt from the state and
local sales lax. But what
about (he lertilizer I use on
my lawn. Do I have to pay
the sales tax on that ’
No, you don 't have to pay-
sales tax.. All lertilizer is
exempt from the sales tax,
regardless of where it 's used
MR. COMl’TKOLl I R
I’m an artust. hut I sell my
paintings only at art shows; I
don’t have a place bl
business. Am I requited to
have a sales tax permit? *
Yes, you must have a sales
tax permit ij you sell more
than two paintings a year
Ask Bob Bullock , is
produced as a public service
to the taxpayers of Texas by
the Comptroller’s Office. The
answers here do not
necessarily apply in every
similar situation and should
be used only as a general
guide
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Rugg;#
Wive AS11P0NAUT rm?ade
go by Heee ? *
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they could find a like-minded
Federal Judge who would grant
an injunction against any such
plan of action-
^There is no question that the
activities of our Federal law
enforcement agencies should be
made accountable to authority.
Certainly, we do not want a
Gestapo. In fact, this is already
required under law. The whole
concept of law enforcement,
even in the case of subversive
activities, is not the invasion of
personal liberties. In a funda-
mental -sense, such invasion
would be a profound corruption
of the American law enforce-
ment system.
the fact remains that those
who would subvert our Nation in
the interest of a foreign country
or for the purpose of destroying
our Government can only be
controlled through techniques
which would not be employed
against the common criminal.
The burglar, the murderer or
the rapist is4he responsibility of
local and state police and not the
primary business of any Federal
officer. The terrorist, the spy
and the agent who would steal
our military secrets can only be
caught by our Federal law
enforcement agencies created
for that purpose.
Have you ever been uncertain about the proper way
to address an envelope or letter to any of the
following? If so, cut this from the paper for future
reference -
When writing to •
Priest
Bishop
Monsignor
Archbishop f
Cardinal
The Pope
Address envelope to - and include postal address
Catholic.........
Reverend Father Tones
The Right Reverend Bishop Jones
The Right Reverend Monsignor Jones
Archbishop of (area)
His Eminence John, Cardinal Jones
His Holiness, Pope Paul
Salutation:
Dear Father Jones:
Dear Bishop Jones:
Dear Monisgnor:
Most Reverend Archbishop:
Your Eminence:
Most Holy Father:
PROTESTANT
Minister
Pastor
Bishop
Dr . of divinity
The Reverend John Jones
Pastor John Jones
The Reverend Bishop John Jones
The Reverend Dr. John Jones
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Dear Mr. Jones:
Dear Pastor Jones:
Dear Bishop Jones:
Dear Dr. Jonas:
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