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PAGE 4A-THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE. THURSDAY JUNE 29, 1989
EDITORIAL
State Capital Highlights
Legislature tackles workers' comp
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By LYNDELL WILLIAMS
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN - On the heels of the veto
deadline, lawmakers returned to
Austin last week hoping to quickly
wrap up unfinished business on
workers’ compensation reform.
But many cynical observers said
they might be deadlocked for the full
30 days, the maximum length for a
special session.
Gov. Bill Clements promised to
call special sessions until the House
and Senate agree on an acceptable
bill.
Business and labor forces failed to
reach a compromise in the regular
session and allay fears insurance
premiums will keep rising while
benefits for workers diminish.
Right to jury trial
The critical issue is how to resolve
claim disputes, with the House
favoring an administrative system
while the Senate insists on retaining
the right of a jury trial.
On the first daqy of the special ses-
sion, Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby had some
harsh words for business leaders
who oppose jury trials.
"Who appeals to the courts
most?” he said. “The insurance car-
riers - they appeal 57 percent of the
time, and yet the idiots who repre-
sent the business community say we
don’t want a trial by jury. You know,
this is really kind of silly."
One bill the governor inked was
the school finance package, which
lawmakers hope will delay court-
ordered reforms in the public school
funding formula.
Looming on the horizon, and
potentially extremely expensive for
taxpayers, is the Texas Supreme
Court hearing of the appeal of a state
district judge’s ruling that the pre-
sent formula is illegal.
Attorneys for poor districts, which
are pitted against rich districts in
the case, said the Legislature’s $450
million appropriation doesn’t come
close to a resolution.
Political campaigning
Midland Entrepreneur Clayton
Williams, better known as the
cowboy in the TV ads for a firm he
founded, entered the GOP race for
governor last week amid a wind-
storm of party criticism.
Some Texas Republicans, in-
cluding the party secretary, are
making sure everyone knows about
his numerous political contributions
to liberal Democrats, including
Treasurer Ann Richards and At-
torney General Jim Mattox. They
charge the funds will show up in the
1990 elections.
Williams, a legendary
businessman who has founded
several companies, said he gave the
contributions "as a businessman
and job creator,” but has been a
Republican since the day President
Harry S. Truman fired Gen. Douglas
MacArthur.
Meanwhile, Fort Worth state Sen.
Hugh Palmer said he will not run for
the congressional seat expected to
be vacated by Jim Wright this sum-
mer, but will stay on his course to
replace U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm.
Other Highlights
•The son of state Sen. Tati San-
tiesteban, D-El Paso, got his proba-
tion extended after being charged
with DWI for the fifth time in almost
as many years.
The senator criticized media at-
tention given his son while, the judge
explained that a jail sentence for the
wealthy senators son would force the
wife and children on welfare.
•A Houston pollster who usually
works for Republican issues releas-
ed his survey which indicates some
78 percent of Texans approve of
border fences, tolls and limited en-
tries to stem the flow of illegal aliens
across the Rio Grande River.
One Democrat who responded was
Dallas Congressman John Bryant, a
candidate for attorney general, who
said the fence could negatively im-
pact the border economy.
•Austin police have a suspect in
the poisoning of the 609-year-old
Treaty Oak, which is given a 50-50
chance of survival.
So far, the historic tree has receiv-
ed hundreds of get-well cards,
poems, flowers and balloons.
Reward for the tree’s attempted
murder now totals $H,OOOl
T-Wheeler
Health craze takes toll
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Vetoes $11 million
Shortly before lawmakers conven-
ed, Clements signed more than 1,000
bills into law, and vetoed several
others.
In all, the governor trimmed the
budget with veto power by more
than $11 million and eliminated
three state agencies.
The biggest zap was $3 million
from Agriculture Commissioner Jim
Hightower’s agency, a parting shot
for the liberal who took more heat
than any other public official in re-
J cent memory.
It’s no secret that budget writers
have grumbled for years about the
way Hightower spends his ap-
propriations.
Other vetoes wielded by the gover-
nor effectively:
Wiped out the Texas Aeronautics
Commission, Texas Conservation
Foundation, and Advisory Commis-
sion on Intergovernmental Rela-
tions.
•Scrubbed a bill outlawing lie
detector tests for sexual assault vic-
tims, because it also outlawed the
tests for prison system internal in-
vestigations.
Eliminated provisions that set up
Attorney General Jim Mattox to
transfer money from his child sup-
jort program to administration.
School funding threat
By ALAN MILLER
It was a first for Susie as far as we
knew.
She was picketing the T-Wheeler’s
dinner table.
Carrying a sign saying "No More
Oat Bran.”
Wondered if we knew what it was
like to prowl under the dinner table,
and find nothing but crumbs of oat
bran muffins. Said for the past seven
years she had been savoring morsels
of liberally buttered bread,
sometimes even a morsel of meat,
and now it was nothing but oat bran.
Had the cook gone on strike, she
wanted to know.
We assured her that wasn’t the
case at all. That aif family doctor
had said oat bran was good for us.
Butter was bad. Jelly and jam was
worse. ‘ c
Susie wondered why so many peo-
ple were eating oat bran. Did it have
something to do with farm sub-
sidies?
We said it had something to do
with cholesterol. If you ate lots of oat
bran, your cholesterol went down.
That was good for your heart and
circulation. You could live to be a
hundred years old.
Susie said living to be a hundred
seemed to be a long time. Did that
mean she would never see a morsel
of meat scrap again in the
T-Wheeler household.
Was it always going to be oat bran,
lettuce leaves and kiwi rinds that
she found under the dinner table.
Letter to the editor
Long may wave
If so she was going to start hitting
up the neighbors.
She said there was a nice gray-
haired gentleman living next door
who offered all kinds of goodies.
That he never heard of oat bran or
cholesterol.
And that he sure looked like he
was going to live to be a hundred.
We reminded Susie there was a lot
riding on this cholesterol problem.
Oat farmers in the Midwest were
getting rich.
There were authors out there
writing books and getting rich.
There were people running fitness
centers getting rich watching folks
run the fat off their bodies on tread-
mills.
Susie marveled that it was a whole
new industry wasn’t it?
We said for a lot of folks it sure
beat picketing nuclear plants, laying
down in front of atom bomb carrying
trains, and worrying about red-
cockaded woodpeckers.
We said even red-cockaded
woodpeckers like oat bran.
Even doctors were getting on the
bandwagon.
Instead of Valium and pain killers,
thousands of patients who felt puny
were now cramming their little
mouths full of oat bran. Running five
miles a day, and sporting new runn-
ing shoes.
Susie was amazed to know that oat
bran might replace the defense in-
dustry as the prime mover of the
U.S. economy.
We said all things are possible.
Think how much oat bran we would
have to grow if the Chinese and the
Russians ever found out how good
oat bran was for your well-being.
Shipyards that had bpen dormant
since World War Two would be
operating again. We would have to
recruit thousands of sailors to
transport oat bran all over the
world.
Susie said all we would have to
make sure of was that the ship cap-
tains were teetotalers.
We reminded Susie that one of the
good things about oat bran was it
was biodegradable. It floated and
would be easy to scoop up If a ship
tore out its bottom. And it was non-
toxic. That was why humans were
eating it by the ton.
Susie was still upset that her life
had changed too drastically. The
dinner table was full of fresh fruit.
No fat. No smell of chicken-fried
steak. No pecan pie.
We said all those things were true.
Our wardrobe was expanded to in-
clude suspenders to keep our pants
up.
Some tailor was going to get rich
as we dropped from a 42 to a 40 to a
38.
Susie had one zinger to go.
Told us to quit bragging and go
find a tailor somewhere.
Charlie Chaplin was a clothes
horse compared with the outfits we
wore to the office.
She swore that an oat bran diet
was making her fur fall out.
We said we’d get her a new flea
collar, and hit for the wash house,
with your picket sign.
This conversation was ended.
To the editor:
The Supreme Court ruling that
flag burning is considered
freedom of speech rubs me the
wrong way. I wrote this poem
about Old Glory while in high
school at Groveton, Texas in
about 1935, and I am still proud of
it.
Old Glory
I was sitting by the window
Rather lonesome and blue
When my eyes caught sight of
the U.S. flag
And her colors that stay so
true.
Thirteen stripes and 50 stars
A field of royal blue
Make up the flag we love so
well
We salute and honor it too.
White for purity, blue for truth,
Red for the blood that flows
I’m grateful for the honor
And for every star that glows.
Lena Skains Reynolds
Star Route Box 621
Goodrich
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Funeral services today
LIVINGSTON - Funeral services
for Milton Thomas Potts, R, of Liv-
ingston, will be at U a.m. Juno M,
196$ from the Cochran Funeral
Home Chapel with the Rev. Edwin
Willis officiating. Interment wifi
follow In the Forest Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Potts wan bom July 88,1M
end died June 87, 1881.
Potts WM project superintendent
of Sam Houston Electric
Cooperative, Inc, from April of 1M8
until his retirement in Angnri of
Cochran Funeral Home will be in
charge of arrangements.
A full obitaary wifi appear in Sun-
day’s paper.
LVFDresponds to mobile horns ffre
LIVINGSTON-Threetrucks and been left on it
15 men from the Livingston "There was pretty extensive
Volunteer Fire Department damage to the kitchen area and
responded to a call at 1:18 a.m. Mon- than was aim heat and water
day to a mobile home fire on Colita damage to other parts of the house,"
Street. Sanders
‘‘It appeared to have started at the The department had the fire out by
stove," Aaiatant Fire Chief Roy 1:36 ajn. The mobile home is owned
Sanders said. “A frying pan had by Archie Jackaon.
New jailers sought
,rom i
commissioners arcrptwl a recom-
to be funded through the county’s mendstion from the ^«n gf
1989 budget. Polk County Memorial Hospital that
In other business, commissioners Dr. Kenneth Peters not be accepted
approved the hiring of three replace- for medical staff privileges. All
ment personnel in the sheriff’s of- medical staff personnel had to reap-
flee. Sheriff Leamon Cain said an in- ply for staff privileges following
vestigator will need to be hired to change of owner ahip of the
replace Detective Lt. Darrell from HealtfrStar Corp. to the county,
Longno, who has accepted a job in according to Hospital Administrator
Hourion, ami that two jailer post' James Meffbee. Peters, who now
tions are also vacant. The depart* practices hi Cleveland, had not had
ment is still interviewing proapec- staff privileges at the Uvtagrion
tive employees to fUl the three post- hospital since the ownership change.
LJH names honor students
LIVINGSTON - Livingston Junior
High School students named to the
All A or All A and B honor rolls for
the last six weeks of the 1988-88
school year are:
ADA’s
Kristal Allen, Mandy Anderson,
David Bush, Jamas Galloway,
Melanie Hill, Karen Lewis, Deborah
Long, Knren Muzny, Allison
Nadolski, A.J. Norris, Tiffany
Sebren, Angela Shanks, Tracy Shan-
non, April Spilkr, Lori Stubbs,
Russell Thomas, John Tompkins,
Lana Wherry, Craig Williams,
Bryan Wooten and Jill Wright.
Also, Rone Bratton, Kcnze Defee,
Alena Green, Kimberly Gulley,
Michelle Helm, Monica Leagana,
Melissa Nicks, Rhonda Reinhart,
Kim Staples, Tonya Alexander,
Eureka Gilkey, Temerra Jacobson,
Kaycee Jones, Tiffany Jones, Ron-
nie Loftin, Mary Marsh, Tiffany
Moore, Laura Musny, Lane Oliver,
Caroline Pace, Mary Pace, Aleatha
Singleton, Brandi Ttmbrook, Amy
Tucker, Paula West and Michelle
Whnrry.
A’SANDB’S
Shalena Austin, Adam Barker,
Jason Bennett, Michael Bryant,
Chris Burris, Kenyatta Carter,
Bradley Crow, William Davidson, Jo
Ann Dickens, April Doric, Phillip
Dunn, Gloria Gallier, Sherman
Jackson, Heather Kennedy, Charles
Leblanc, Thrersa Loftin, Jennifer
McKinney, Erich Morris, Melissa
Neeley, Silpeah Patel and Suzonna
Phillips.
Also, James Polk, Ryan Radial,
Lindsay Timbrook, Brandy Vickery,
Trudy Williams, Ardrix Wyatt,
Jeasamyn Boultinghouae, James
David, Justin Daria, James Greene,
Bridget! McGowen, Lisa Moore,
Justin Morris, Laahekta Phillips,
Amber Shook, Deborah Wharry,
Joanna Brown, Candte Cairaway,
Douglas Carroll, Marida Criswell
and Amber Davis.
Also, Eugene Dent, Willie Donoho,
Tommy Ener, Christy Evans, Brent
Ganzer, Joe Gulley, Julie Hawkins,
Michelle Hendricks, Misty Kincade,
Nancy Lester, Cheaney Lewis, Marc
McClendon, Robin Nye, Angela
Smith, Tommy Snook, Brenda York,.
Merit Bush, Jeremy Coats, Richard
Davis, April Dickens, Latoya Doric
and Tommy Frazier.
Also, Shane Fuller, Holly Gibson,
Benjamin Griffin, Jaffa Hall, Laura
Kennedy, Merideth Lovett, Jeff
Paules, Matthew Hawkins, Teel
Jones, Misty Kennedy, Troy
McDaniel, Bryan Myers, Wendy
Wiggins, Yolanda Wyatt, Russell
Barber, James Barnett, Gabriel
Castillo, Thomas Dixon, Fred
Grube, Kyle Harrell, Kristina
Howze, Charles Ivy, Sunn Lowe,
Stef ante McGaha, Nikki Oakman,
Cathy Paul and Latoahia Robinson.
Also, Sarah Rutherford, Leaime
Steimle, Tammy Tanner, Jennifer
City council
passes ordinance
GOODRICH - The Goodrich City
Council paand and approved an or-
(finance in a special called meeting
Friday to authorise the issuance of
the city’s combination tax and
revenue certificates of obligation.
The city piano to iaaae certificates
of obligation fer $43,8M to extend tbe
water line on FM ISM West
Wall, Misti Ellison, Heather Gallier,
Jodie Hall, Cory Jones, Farr ah
Momayezi, Buffy Robinson, Leslie
Wiley, Kerri Brits, Sarah DeaeDe,
"Freida Dina, Tonia Dousay, Bren-
da Fender, Jennifer Hargraves,
Tanya Harris, Laura Liles, Sara
Price, Harry Thompson and McUsm
Wildrep. .
Also, Kristina Wiedman, Joe
Brown, Shea Butch, Mkah Cart-
wright, Rutty Evans, Melinda Grif-
fin, Darrell Love, Chauncey Olivier,
Michael Prewitt, Devin Rupert,
Michael Shank, Amanda Straps,
Darrell Sullivan. Milton Thomas,
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Doug Allen, Veronica Gonzales,
Heather Greene, Dedra Johnston
and Jason Jones.
Also, Mandy Major, Karen
Pollard, Chad Greenwood, Steven
Kesringer, Tammie VanHowten,
Daniel Wright, Jason Brotthmd,
Aaron Brumbaugh, Cody Burns,
Panels Cummings, Christen
Daniels, Chester Dixon, Lisa
Ramey, Andy Hood, John Richard-
son, John Ptckririmer, Alicia Camp,
J.L Moore, Cariyn Pulley, Angie
Ybarbo, Brandy Rainwater, Joann
Bailey and Misty Burks.
Big Sandy ISD
to meet tonight
DALLARDSVILLE - The Board
of Tnuteee of file Big Sandy In-
dependent School District met in an
executive senton uunng a special
called meeting Monday to interview
prospective Doys inu giris coscnes.
Superintendent Thomas Foster
■aid that although the board did not
take any action, it (fid narrow down
its choices.
The board called another meeting
for Thursday at 7 pro. In which it
hopes to make tts final decision con-
cerning the coachea.
City council
approves costs
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