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Page 4, August 1,1985, Hondo Anvil Herald
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Anvil Herald
Viewpoint
A page of comment and opinion
There ? some sort of afflict-
ion a loose in the land, and I'm
not talking about AIDS. Every-
where you turn, somebody is
griping about a job or that
job's pay.
Baseball players are on the
verge of a strike the average
pro salary is $365.000--and
football players are staying
away from camp by the
busload They all want some-
thing
After reading the sports
pages Tuesday morning, I
went thumbing through the
rest of the paper hoping to
i heer myself up. It wasn't to
be
< >n an inside page of the
San Antonio Light, I ran
across a story about a fat lady
who wants legislation enacted
to benefit her and all theother
porkers like her.
Seems this Arizona woman
got her back up because she
was refused a job at--get this—
a snack bar. This 5-2, 343
pound group picture is pushing
the Arizona legislature to
pass a bill banning weight
discrimination. If she can get
a permit from the highway
department, she'll probably
Enough's
show up in person to push for
the bill.
In rejecting her application,
the city of Mesa said she had
some good experience (obviously).
but had too many physical limita-
tions to manage thecitvs Center)
nial Hall snack bar Results of
her physical exam (how did
they weigh her, at the feed
store?) recommended no pro
longed walking or standing,
no repeated squatting or bend
ing, no working in cramped
quarters (say, a normal sized
back yard) and no work
requiring normal agility.
She's got a lot of gall to go
along with everything else
she's got a lot of. Here's a gal
who could pass herself off as a
Buick wanting to go to work
in a snack bar. for crying out
loud. We all know why she
didn’t get the job; the place is
probably supposed to turn a
profit.
I know I've been pretty
tough on Shamu, or whatever
her name is, but come on. now.
If a business has a sound
reason for not hiring someone,
that’s their business, and no
government interference is
Editorial
Is this smart?
Fourteen percent of the electrical energy in the I’nited States
is generated by nuclear plants.
Ninety-four such plants are licensed to operate and 33 more
are being built But since 1978, no future nuclear electric
generating plants have been planned in the United States.
Around the world, 26 countries are producing nuclear
generated electricity, and seven more plan to join them by 1990
Countries that lead the United States in the percentage of
nuclear generated electricity are France with 59 percent; Belgium
51 percent; Finland and Sweden, each 40 percent; Switzerland.
37 percent; -Japan, 23 percent, West Germany, 17 percent; and
the United Kingdom. 17 percent.
France can build a nuclear generating plant in about six
\ ears. half (he average time it takes the United States to build
one
•Japan has 28 nuclear plants operating, is planning eight
more and has firms working on new designs that could far
outpace the United States in nuclear technology.
Coal, natural gas and oil are much more abundant in the
United States than in many countries. Gas and oil have better
uses than fueling power plants.
( dal provides 56 percent of U S electricity. But as demand
increases, so will the need for supplemental energy sources
The United States, which pioneered in nuclear research, is
now lagging behind many other nations in nuclear applications
As time goes on. if present attitudes and policies prevail, the
lag will increase.
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Publisher's Notes
enough
By Vic Parker
needed We’ve got enough of
that already.
Should a bill be passed to
take care of short people?
Skinny people? Tall people?
The next thing you know, the
government will be setting
quotas on blue eyes and
pinstripe suits.
It s doubtful the Arizona
Legislature will go along,
unless she threatens to sit on
it It’s disturbing, though,
that such an outlandish thing
can even make the wires.
While it would take a couple
of major leaguers to make a
valid comparison, they belong
in the same ballpark with this
gal Their efforts aimed at
righting imagined wrongs tear
at the fabric of society.
The whole thing is screwy.
Sometimes I wonder if we all
haven't followed Alice down
the rabbit's hole and discover-
ed that the Queen of Hearts is
making the rules
Old Philosopher
I tear Editor.
There are a lot of things in
the world that're none of my
business One of them is a
computer I read about that
can do over one billion mathe
matical operations per
second You almost ha^e to
repeat that to get a hold on ..
Over one billion a second.
There's bound to be a use for
such a machine but it'd take
another computer o find out
I guess you could figure up the
square root of the national
debt with it. if you're tired of
working crossword puzzles
The article I was reading
about that monster computer
quoted a scientist saying that
with it you can do in one
second what it took a vear in
1952.
I did some figuring with a
lead pencil and found that if
you can do a year’s work in
one second with that
machine, you could work 60
second at age 21, run up 60
years worth of work in one
minute, and knock off for the
rest of your life If that thing
can be adapted to a farm. I'm
interested. How much elec-
tricity does it use?
On the other hand, by the
time you got say 10 seconds
in. or 10 years worth of work,
suppose the billion a second
computer blew a fuse. How
long would you have to wait
for a repairman
While it may be true that
man has perfected a machine
that'll do a year’s work in one
second, this is offset by men
who are now doing in three
hours w hat some men used to
do in one.
But what is more disturb
ing. the man who made that
one-billion a-second machine
is now working on one that'll
go at the rate of eight billion
calculations a second
Anybody who can think up
a problem that needs solving
at the rate of eight billion
answers a second would not
be welcome in my house
Yours faithfully.
-FA
Quihi church
changes dates
Members o( Quihi Bethlehem
Lutheran Church have voted to
change the date of their annual
Sausage Supper to the second
weekend in October, instead of the
first weekend as has been the
practice the past few yean
This year s supper will be held
Saturday. Oct 12, with servu^ of the
usual fare to begin about 530 pm.
The supper will precede the regulv
second Saturday dance held at the
Quihi Gun Club
Column flows
Sometimes this column just
doesn’t want to flow Often,
it's downright difficult to even
think up a topic, much less
expound upon it until it seems
whipped
On my desk sits a notesheet
containing possible column
ideas, that have flickered
across this vast wasteland
between my ears at times
when there was no way to sit
down and verbalize
Wednesday, upon returning
to the office from a bowl of
Campbell’s Chunky Vegeta
ble Soup, I find a familiar face
hacking away at my
typewriter
It was none other than that
San Antonio Express-
News scoop himself. -Joe
Fohn. Joe, former Anvil Her-
ald ace and Montgomery
County Courier crimefigh-
ter. had stopped by the office
to dash off an article on this
.Sunday's Holy Cross Home-
coming at D’Hanis.
He had noticed my abbre-
viated list of column ideas,
and bless his heart, he came
up with a couple of other
timely and interesting sug-
gestions of his own.
Bat guano in the water
fountains," read one. The
other, a converse point, said,
Water in the bat sanctuary."
Boy, did that put me on the
spot.
Nothing has ever sounded
quite as potentially scandal-
STATE CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
ly Lyndetl Wiliams
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
Austin The South Afri-
cian confrontations are touih
ing sympathetic hearts in the
legislature, stirring some law
makers to explore how Texas
can accelerate fredom's
courseon the Dark Continent
Some state agencies, those
with pension funds to nuture.
have invested state dollars in
South African businesses for
years
Last week. Black Caucus
chairman Paul Ragsdale. D
Dallas, called for state leaders
to consider whether those
investments are safe in the
situation of strife
Should the white-rule gover
nment fall and revolt these
investments might not be rec-
overable, much less profita
ble, Ragsdale contends
Black Lawmakers urge the
governor to call a special
meeting of public funds' man
agers to evaluate the safety of
their portfolios
Texas Dollars Safe?
Ragsdale's maneuver is
obvious: only a few days ear-
lier. House Speaker Gib I -e w i s
nixed the idea of divestiture of
South African investments
and so Ragsdale is going over
Lewis’ head to the governor
With an election year
approaching fast, the gover-
nor cannot afford to alienate
blacks and a good many white
voters, too.
But Ragsdale is smarter
than the obvious political
ploy would suggest In the
often cold-minded world of
politics, the bottom line in
many connservative mindh is
the security of the Texas tax
dollars.
Skillfully, Ragsdale is
appealing to conservatives on
the pocketbook issue And,
playing the game by their
rules, he has raised a real
issue It s his way of also
appealing to pragmatists who
are unmoved by the more
obvious issue of man’s inhu
mam tv to man.
Delicate Budget
Nor is it a false cry of wolf: a
national report released last
week indicates that falling oil
prices and a weakening
national economy threaten
the delicate budget.
In plain English, further
economic setbacks leave
Texas with little budget mane-
uverability unless taxes are
raised, or services severely
cut.
If the average price of oil
falls more than $2 a barrel in
the next two years, a special
session to raise taxes will
likely be called, according to
Lt Governor Bill Hobby.
Hobby, by the way, drew his
first official '86 challenger
last week. David Young, twice
a candidate for statewide
office announced that he will
run against Hobby as a demo-
crat next year.
Like other states, Texas has
budgeted cautiously because
the uncertainty of federal
spending cuts, aide to the
states, tax cuts and fears of a
new recession.
Appointments
Two former state represen-
tatives are being appointed to
government positions.
The president nominated
Bob Maloney of Dallas, now a
Texas Appeals Court judge, to
a federal district court
judgeship
The governor has named
Lynn Nabers to head the
Texas Sesquicentennial Com-
mission for $1 a year.
The governor also picked
Odessa attorney Ray Stoker
to serve on the Texas High-
way Commission.
Speaking of Which
on
By Jeff Berger
ous as this bat guano bit It
made me wonder, out loud of
course, "Now, is this really a
problem, or was Joe, card that
he is, just pulling my leg?"
Maybe it's a story he's
working on for the Express-
News. Possibly for the Sun
day magazine. The Star
Who knows, his story might
go right alongside of the head
line, "Woman sticks toddler's
head in ceiling fan after boil
ing enema, beaten by legless
dwarf; Sibling axes father
thinking badger loose in
house, shooting spree ensues,
police baffled." Wouldn't that
make his day?
Anyway, I had to investi
gate. I called the Medina
County Office for the Preven
tion of Bat Guano in Water
Fountains (MCOPBGWF).
and talked to Chief Batman
Cooter Terhune.
When asked about the poten-
tially lethal problem. Terhune
replied, "Nope, no bat guano.
No wildebeest guano, neither
At least not this week ”
The world can rest at ease
And another column is over.
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