Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 41, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1977 Page: 4 of 16
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PAOX 4A-THX POLK COUNTY ENTEIPUSF SUNDAY MAY 22. 1*77
Editorials
So far so good
Freshmen at high school, freshmen on the job,
freshmen at speaking, freshmen at college and
freshmen at building that work bench all usually
have it rough.
But one freshmen has fared well despite the ob-
stacles which have confronted him.
Jim Browder, state representative for District 18
which includes Polk County, Is serving in his fresh-
men term in the Texas House of Representatives.
He is a typical freshmen In that he is young, a
former businessman and ambitious.
However, many freshmen simply use their first
term as a time of getting acquainted with state of-
ficials and never really confront some of the
problems facing the citizens in their district.
But this trend of lackadaisical freshmen is
diminishing in politics and the unexperienced
legislators are becoming more and more a part of
* - the actual law-making process.
Browder is a good example. He has sponsored
several bills which directly relate to his home
district and definite problems which citizens here
battle.
He has also put his foot forward into statewide
issues which face all Texans by co-sponsoring bills.
Browder has also welcomed any and all questions
and problems from members of his district.
He has also kept in touch with news and views in
his home territory and responded by voting the way
residents of his district would.
n In all, Browder has performed well in his first five
months as representative of citizens here. But we
must never cease to keep watchful eye on the young
legislator because he is OUR representative.
For now, so far, so good
Congratulations
The Polk County Enterprise congratulates all
graduating seniors in the county.
We wish them all the luck in the world in their
future endeavors and hope that they will represent
the county well in wherever they are in the up-
coming years.
These students will face some of the most critical
years in the history of this nation and to put it
simply, "It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of
people."
Congratulations.
Paul Louis <• v
Problem with presidents
"This is the end. Billy Bob. I'm
(•ding fut tnd won't be back for the
tummer rerun*. Goodbye old pal.”
"Uh huh And what'i the problem
this time? You past due with the
payment* at the bank? Or maybe that
new girl of your* i* past due. It that it?
You reduced to counting the day*
•gain?"
"That'* not funny, but that * not it.
It'* gloom, detpair and misery. The end
of the world. I think I’ll ju*t chuck in the
towel and call it a life I've had all I can
take.”
"Say, Leroy, you are in a bad way.
Wanna tell me about it?"
"It'* just awful. Billy Bob. I was
ree taxed in front of the old tube with a
couple of cold one* waiting for Charlie's
Angels to come bopping across the
screeu and then-then-”
"Than what?"
"Then I saw-it was too awful to be
true! It was like a come again
nightmare. Billy Bob I saw him and he
was talking and he was there and I
couldn't get the TV to turn off and-”
"Damn boy. sounds like you got
yourself • bad case of beer or maybe the
heebie jeebies. What'd you tune in on.
reruns of a Cosell-Ali mouth off?"
"Worse, worse. It was Nixon! He was
on TV and it was just like the old days.”
"Oh yeah, I remember. He’s on with
this British Johnny Carson named
Frosty and they're supposed to talk
about what a good guy Nixon was. Is
that what you saw?"
"Why didn't you tell me that was
going to be on? You know I don't read
nothing in the TV Guide except for the
movie previews. This was a friggin'
nightmare, that pasty faced crook
staring out at me.”
"I really don't see what all the fuss
was about, Leroy. Just an ex-President
telling the folks what he thought it was
all about a few years back. Tell me, did
he say anything about how he was a
victim of Watergate?"
"Oh yeah, all kinds of stuff like that.
Said he was maybe guilty of bad
judgement but that he didn’t do
anything really wrong. Said since he
was the President he could do anything
and make it legal.”
"Anything? Like say to a guy. go rob
this bank or steal that file?”
"Yeah, he said he could do that and
did do that and it was the Presidential
thing to do and that was that as far as he
was concerned. I can’t stand it, Billy
Bob. That man cheated us for so long
and got off scott free. And now he gets
to come on TV for free to tell us how he
mistreated us."
“It wasn’t for free, Leroy."
"Good. 1 hope they soaked that guy
for a bundle, making up those stories he
told."
"Wrong again. Nixon’s getting paid
hundreds of thousands of dollars to spill
the beans."
"I’m sick all over again. Last time 1
enjoyed watching Nixon on TV was the
night he resigned. Man did I get
skunked. Happiest day of my life since
that last old lady walked out on me. And
now this. Nixon says he's still not a
crook and 1 say we got took again."
"Come on, Leroy, it’s not as bad as
all that. Nixon's gone. Ford's gone--”
"Carter’s in.”
"You just never are satisfied, are
you? Just who would you want for
President?”
"Somebody I could trust. Somebody
that wouldn't lie to me and wouldn't
start wars or try to make them bigger
and somebody who would really
straighten out this economy and cut all
this spending and clean up the air and
water and leave morality to the
moralists and--”
"But who could do all that? I mean
who would be good enough to figure all
that stuff out and then strong enough to
put it all into practice? Nobody could do
that. Leroy.”
"Nobody?"
“Name somebody."
"Anybody could do it, Billy Bob. Just
that nobody wants to.”
"How you figure that?”
“It’s just like Nixon said on the TV.
The President can do anything he wants
to, just because he’s President. Nixon
was a low down snake but he
understood his power. I just don't like
the way he used it.
"But get somebody that didn’t want
all that power like Nixon did and he
could just tell a guy to break into the
General Motors offices and steal all the
blueprints for crummy cars, and wiretap
the homes of the congressmen who keep
voting to spend all the taxpayers'
money to find out what they really do
with it ail and lower the prices on food
and oil and country-western albums
with a flick of his Bic and declare that
starting on a certain day the guys that
dumped filth in the water would have to
statTdrinking it and--"
"But the President could never do all
that. There’s laws and checks and
balances and Congress and the power of
the people and you have to ask before
you do all kinds of things like that.
You'd make the situation as bad as it
was with Nixon, Leroy.”
“Yeah, but you remember how
almost everybody thought Nixon was
the greatest thing since flush toilets
when he was on top? It's all in how you
play the game, Billy Bob. The next
President could learn from Nixon’s
mistakes and then he’d be in a position
to do it up right."
“You’re crazy. If some President did
all those things you'd still complain
about him. You’d never be satisfied.”
‘ ‘ Satisfied? What’s that got to do with
anything? Hell, Billy Bob, if a
President is all it takes to satisfy me I’d
have stopped with Millard Fillmore.”
“Fillmore?”
"Yeah, Fillmore. The 13th President.
1 like him because he didn’t do anything
to make anybody remember his name.
Definitely my kind of President. We
could learn a lot from his exampfe.”
Letters & to the Editor
County mini-bus service commended
1 tow jttst arrived home via the Polk
Tto mini-bus la an invaluable service
la ttoee at ua who am unable to drive
too la physical handicaps and to many
oMmty peeaoni who do not have
transportation for essential trips such as
doctor appointments and grocery
I tow Mao da and neighbors who i
wWng to assist mo and 1 call on th<
wtoolt is necessary
However, H ie difficult to continue
OOB on ttoee people over an extend
period of time. Also, I try to plan shea
However. 1 still need the assistance
tto mlai-bea on many occassions
1 fool that many of the elderly wou
to in dire circumstances without tt
service and 1 wonted to let those wi
Ml fortunate enough that they do n
toed ttoee services to know how mu
the mini bus means to those of us who
do need it.
1 also wsnt to commend the personnel
that works with the mini-bus for their
kindness and consideration and extra-
ordinary efforts to meet each persons
need.
I have even been transported home in
a personal vehicle by the mini-bus
driver after having made several calls
without finding a ride home from the
Livingston Convalescent Center.
1 have attempted to pay their
personnel and it was not accepted.
Therefore, I am making this effort to
commend them for this program for the
elderly and handicapped. I am eligible
for this service as 1 am legally blind.
Francis Broemer
Livingston
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LL Lions thanked
fi the pdltori
1 would like to thank all of the
members of the Lake Livingston Lions
Club for furnishing all of my foster
children wtih puses to the carnival that
you sponsored.
You people have made three small
boys and one small girl very happy. This
was the first time that three of these
children had ever gone to a carnival, so
you can imagine the time they all had. It
wu like Christmas and the Fourth of
July rolled into one.
Mr. and Mrs. James Tywater
Chad. Baina. David and Donald
Livingston
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Tower Talks
New incentives needed
By U.S. Sen. JOHN TOWER
WASHINGTON - President Carter's
long-awaited "Energy Medicine Show”
finally made it to town, predicting a dire
future for the vitality of the American
way of life unless some extreme potions
are administered immediately.
Unfortunately, the “good doctor’s”
cures could be worse than the disease.
The President’s energy package,
delivered in two parts, went to great
lengths to convince us of a national need
to conserve dwindling petroleum
resources. Hardly anyone would deny
that conservation is part of the problem
today. As a Nation, we’ve paid scant
attention to sound conservation
principles, and this much of the
President's plan-“to make us be-
lievers"-is proper and in consonance
with the warnings those of us from
producing states have been sounding in
the Congress for over ten years.
Whether or not conservation should
be the centerpiece of a comprehensive
national energy policy, however, is an
entirely different matter. We’re a
Nation faced with an existing and
serious scarcity of fuel. Meuures aimed
solely at conservation don’t begin to
arrest uncertainties about what our
future energy needs may be.
The Carter plan proposes an
elaborate, federally managed system of
pricing mechanisms, tax incentives and
fuel conversion requirements centered
around a conservation ethic.
I remain convinced that a rational and
realistic energy policy must encourage
increased production of oil and gas
coupled with a greater reliance on coal
and nuclear power, among other
alternative energy sources.
The President's plan does appear to
give some needed support to coal use.
and to a lesser extent nuclear power, yet
there are inconsistent references to
environmental quality spoken in almost
the same breath. But the plan seems to
rule out the degree of oil and natural
gas production I believe we inust rely on
for the long-term economic growth of
Texas and the Nation.
Texans and Texas industry will suffer
disproportionately under the
President's proposals, j |
Extended and revised pice controls
on crude oil ate untealistii and would
discourage exploration and*production
It is absurd to continue exisfoig price
controls while taxing the consumer
price artifically up to the world oil
price-not to mention the bureaucratic
nightmare that would result.
It amounts to an added burden to
consumers nationally, and addresses
only demand-not supply. A more
intelligent approach would be to move
steadily toward price decontrol which
would both dampen demand and
provide the necessary capital to explore
for new sources and produce them.
Federal controls on intrastate
production of natural gas will likewise
retard production and merely spread
shortages around the Nation. The
President’s proposals wil lead to
Federal allocation of all natural gas and
will result in mandated reductions in the
industrial use of natural gas in Texas so
that gas could be redistributed for
residential use in other parts of the
country.
Gasoline taxes would severaly
penalize Texans, as well as consumers
in other western states who of necessity
must drive further distances, with no
mass transit systems available.
America has always been a growth
intensive country. And it’s the
President’s disregard for this tradition
in his energy plan I find particularly
disturbing. He seems to be calling for a
retreat from growth. America’s reliance
on ingenuity and technology have been
the keys to our industrial strength and
world preeminence, and that is
evidenced nowhere better than in
Texas.
1 don't believe energy policies that
preach conservation to the exclusion of
resource development and production
are in that spirit. We’ve always solved
our problems by rolling up our sleeves
and by relying on technological growth
as our ace in the hole. It should be no
different now.
POLK COUNTY
ENTERPRISE
ALVIN HOLLEY
Publisher
FRANK MAY
Editor
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May, Frank. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 41, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1977, newspaper, May 22, 1977; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth781311/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.