Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 46, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 12, 1977 Page: 4 of 16
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PAG* POU COUNTY BnWM WAT JOW u wn
Editorials
Economy cut
Th* ban on clcareuttinf practice* In T«x**‘ fonr
national forest* made permanent racantly will
clearly cut Into the PoDt County economy.
The ban prohibits Umber producer* from entering
forests and simply cutting doom an aroa of trees as
they see fit
None of Texas’ four naUooal forests enter into
Polk County, but much of the lumber taken from the
forests is brought into the county.
If much less Umber is brought into the county,
mills will have less work to do and need less
workers. Without Umber from the forests, some
•mall mills may even have to close down.
Hundreds of Polk County residents depend on
these mills for employment to make a living.
Hundreds of businesses in the county depend on
these people in order to keep their establishments
alive.
The ban on clearcutUng, however, was apparently
made because of the environmental damage caused
by the pracUce of chopping down trees freely.
But there are many arguments, which are equally
Justified, In favor and against the environmental
Impact of clearcutUng.
However, if government officials realised that
clearcutUng has more than just environmental
effects, they may reconsider banning the pracUce.
All they have to do is watch how the ban will affect
the economy of Polk County.
Thought need
Is Andrew Young, U.S. ambassador to the United
NaUons, a refreshing change of pace in an other-
wise, ponderous and stuffy diplomatic corps, or does
ho have a politically terminal case of foot-in-the-
mouth disease?
Sides on the questions were forming even before
Mr. Young made his most recent assertion that the
United States tends to be paranoic about com-
munism, parUcularly communism In Africa.
Ambassador Young has been in the news before
*'" with his statements that Cubans provide stabiUty in
Angola, for his contention that former Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger left Great Britain in a bind in
Rhodesia, and for the damaging, hip-shooting ob-
servations that Britain “invented racism” and was
"chicken" on the problem.
Each of the previous pubUc statements resulted in
apologies, retractions or disclaims from President
Carter, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, or from the
ambassador himself.
In assessing Mr. Young’s performance, their is a
tendency to polarise on the extremes - to say that
Mr. Young should be either truthful or hypocritical
as if the two were mutually exclusive. Or, alter-
natively, that he must either speak out freely or
conform to the restrained, slippery language of
diplomacy.
Our suggestion to Mr. Young is that he should by
all means continue to speak out but only after he has
met some self-imposed criteria, oamely that he
think things through, form his thoughts precisely,
enunciate them carefully and ask himself if
speaking out would be in the best Interests of
humanity and the United States.
Had he done this during the few months that he has
been at the United NaUons, we believe that Mr.
Young would agree that all dictatorships provide a
stabiUty of sorts but that Isn’t desirable, that
Communist conspiracies and weapons are killing
Africans and making It harder for Uwoe unfortunate
people to develop their countries, and that whatever
her blemishes. Groat Britain is a cradle of
democracy.
WedonotbeUevethat Mr. Young fully realises the
impact that his views aro having, particularly In
Africa and other underdeveloped nations, la the long
run, they cannot help but create acceptance of
Cuban mercenaries, communistic imperialism and
the mistaken beUef that ends justify means. This is
particularly true because at this time Mr. Yeung’s
opinions are about the only guide to what the Carter
Administration might be thinking about Africa.
Given his background, Mr. Young has the
potential for becoming a highly effective spokesman
for the United States among the underdeveloped,
nations.
It would be a ahame if he forfeited his potential
because of an inabiUty to link his ample Intellect to
his tongue before he begins trteMng
Letters policy
Tbs Falk County Enterprise ett-
CQursgss Ms renders to submit
letters to tbs editor for public*
lion.
aied by a name tad address amf
caa be written oa say subject or
Issue.
Tbs letters will be published
under tbe Letters to tbe Editor
V
lea rs pruOMny <*
rr plain it to you this way, I
stators: where else should yea be. town
bate la this bouse of batatas?
LET ME HEAR YOU SAY “GLAD
TO BE HERE!”
Paul Louis
When bigots congregate
mutton, brothers sod stolen. As I lean
•ear tbe edge at my pulpit. I see there to
s questioning look oa assay at year
tores I am here to dispell that look, as
return. you to the path of carreer
'^LEtTVe*HEAR YOU SAY LET’S
DO IT UP RIGHT!"
Thank you. and amen. Let's tun so
the first hymn is today's service. "Are
Yea Able to Distinguish. ' Hymn 34V.
Let us stand.
"Are you able to distinguish between
the boys and lay-ay-dies, or do your
eyes deceive you. till you ask what da I
sea a eT
"Yea. we are able, to distiaguish the*
and more; and If weirdo* lose our favor,
may we all fall through the floor-r-r ”
Now that's what I call singing,
brothers and sitters.
LET ME HEAR YOU SAY SOUNDS
GOOD, SO GOOD!"
Yesair. it does sound good to me. tat
I’m not here to tell you what sounds
good No-o-ow*y. I'm here to tell yon
what sounds bad. indeed, gnrveusfy
terrible in my ear of ears. *
What's that bad. you ask? Well I’m
going to tell you.
It’a bigotry. Big oh tree. And I’m
telling you it's everywhere and it'* gotta
atop
LET ME HEAR YOU SAY "WE'Li
STOP IT NOWI"
Oh-h-h, but you didn't sound sincere
that time, brothers and sisters. No-o-
oairree. I'm not just talking about tbe
blacks and the whites and the browns
and the red* and the yellows and tbe
in-betweens. I'm talking about Capital
B- BIGOTRY.
Lissen up now That flashy Andy
Young's done left his home m Georgia
and he’s highstrpping all over creation
tailing everybody that black’s where it's
at this year-in Africa. Britain, and here
in the U.S. and A. But Brother Andy’s
wrong. Wrong I say.
Thera ain't no color at all on the
Lord's Top Tan Hit Parade. He don’t
cure. Why do you? I'll tell you why you
05
Awh Young says Pre*>i
Jotavon. Nison and.
He said Abe Lincoln
tank Hr even sand sometimes he’s
*eB anaen far an honest man
•R Bnafaer Andy uroe back
week wUfa tbe new Racist of
fHe’ltas. Tins week the 13th.
nl ZM Wewdeuts were racist '
11 say nb-nato. an was. I say look
v and sasaers m the eye. not
, and ask them please pass the
sugar Ask three please because soon
■e re *C gewog So be eating from the
same table m rite Hoase of the Lord.
LET ME HEAR VOL SAY LET S
EAT?”
Naa taf's wfeas I cal I resounding
Amen*
ag. before you all
i back dace.
Tsi talking about
h's anything
you do or think or say that makes you
look down your nose at someone else.
Look at Sister Anita Bryant down
there in sunny Florida. Just been a
singing them songs and drinking that
orange juice for years. Until now .
You saying "hold on. preacher, don't
commence to telling us that queers are
cool." I ain’t going to te!i you no such
thing.
But I am going to tell you that being a
bigot ain't much of a cut above betng
limp-wristed on the Judgement Da-.
Sister Anita been raising a storm
about how them boys been living tn sin
with each other in Florida. And I say to
you that it's the Lord's business and
none of yours. Sin wasn't set aside for
the gays, it's spread just about every-
where. You people staring at me are
thinking. "! wouldn't want my son to
marry one." and I’d have to agree with
you there.
But let's lay down this cloak of
hatred misunderstanding and just plain
ignorance and learn to live with our
feOow men and women, regardless of
what they look like, love like or smell
like.
LET ME HEAR YOU SAY “WE LL
DO BETTER NEXT TIME!’’
A bide better, but not as good as the
"Let's Eat!" Understandable, consider-
ing the lateness of the hour. Let us all
go now with this thought in our minds:
Andy Young can hold a torch with
some of those Klansmen when talking
race and Anita Bryant squeezes fruits,
too.
What's that? Am ! bigoted? The man
asks. Preacher, are you bigoted?"
Let me affirm before this congrega-
tion that I am indeed the greatest bigot
ever? I HATE BIGOTS, which includes
rvervoae in the world and myself.
LET ME HEAR YOU SAY “GOOD
FOOD. GOOD MEAT. GETTING
LATE. LETS EAT!"
Amen, brothers and sisters.
View from the Interior
Th* old saying, "ooe man’s medicine
Is soother man’s poison," applies very
nicely to the subject at off-road vdbdcs
(ORV’s) and to the people who own and
operate them - especially when these
machines are operated on the pnNk
lands that belong to all at us.
There ere a few who think they have a
constitutional right to operate ORV’s
anywhere they wish, with no interfe-
rence from anyone. Others believe ORV
owners are intent on destroying onr loot
remaining frontier and should. he
banned from the land completely.
LUCKILY, THESE EXT1EMES re-
present minority views. The great
majority of recreational vehicle buffs
are reasonable, thoughtful people,
whose Ideas of fun happen to toctodt
notions of getting away, once in a while,
from the city’s bustle and the highway's
Hustle to explore the backways. And
most of their critics concede that ORV’s
ORV's may use public lands
By CECIL ANDRUS, U.S. Secy, of the Interior
an areas.
at saddle ground.
nfl conflicts to be
problems that
as Secretary of the
vehicle travel is a
at the public lands. It is
■sc. and it’s not the
hum-
habitat and
derice from the
»that must be
TDK, and hke all the
taf most be properly
don’t allow timber
M random on public
caatiemen to graze
I Vac at the public
a tat (her not only
help meet the nation’s needs, but so
that the basic resources -- the land itself
- is protected for ail people.
1 believe that decisions affecting all
uses of the public lands (including the
decision not to use some of them at all)
must be based on a careful weighing of
both the benefits and the environmental
costs involved. I am also heartened in
the effort to resolve conflicts on public
lands in the West by the emerging role
of this Department's Bureau of Land
Management.
Unlike the National Park Service or
Agriculture's Forest Service. BLM until
a few short years ago was not so much a
conservation or resource management
agency as a land disposal office.
IT’S THE OUTFIT that granted all
the homesteads, gave lands to build the
nation's railroads, deeded mining
claims and otherwise encouraged the
Letters to the Editor
T* the
Your publication of my letter oa Jety
29. 1976, regarding the publication of •
"Turner Family History," mull
the location of a number of
Al Bay (Teasel ttos
totMAJLI
arrivals
shown.
eefc Baptist Church
fan 12 miles north-
on FM road 172$. to
Turner L. Hutson
Ft. Worth, Ter.
early settlement of our frontiers. An
after all die good lands were taken up
after the trig national parks, forests ani
°*heT Federal preserves were carvei
««- the Bureau was left with th
leftover*, and with no mandate as t
their final use or disposition.
But mandates stem from the people -
sad change with the times. Today
operating under its new Organic Act
8 taking its rightful place as j
mayor resource agency, in charge o
•ho®** 450 million acres of outdooi
America.
As other uses of the public lands have
historically been accommodated, so wil
** °f off-road vehicles be accotn
rr.odaied. But. armed with a decision
®akmg process that gives full attentior
to protecting die resource, and which
t»vites foi! public participation, and
with both the authority and the will to
manage properly this growing activity,
•ewin continue to make the tough
‘frrissans on which areas should remain
fpen to ORV travel, which areas should
be totally dosed, and w hich ones can be
used under a watchful eye and careful
stewardship.
In pan your article can partially he
credited with the scheduled "Tamer
Reunion." This will be the first family
reunion for this branch at the Turner
family-based on todays knowledge.
I would appreciate your help in
reaching the many descendants, of the
brothers Simeon D. and James G.
Turner, who are known to live to U.
Sea Jacinto, Tyler and surrounding
counties.
ftfttocnt information regarding the
• follows.
POLK COUNTY
ENTERPRISE
ALVIN HOLLEY
Publisher
frank may
Editor
Dnte: 18 June l<r? (Saturday)
at this
aB past ecsmeoasies
Store hours mistaken
Ibtai
tn writing the Houston Post recently.
I inadvertantly stated that the super-
market to Ace was locked up oa
Sundays. It should have read locked ep
at night thus making P.O. Bones
inaccessible at night.
1 wish to apuiigkc to the owners of
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(fair Howuesgton
lwtogs*«e, TX
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May, Frank. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 46, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 12, 1977, newspaper, June 12, 1977; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth781584/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.