The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 1988 Page: 2 of 24
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THE SILSBEE BEE (UPS 496-600)
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R.L. READ...............Editor and Publisher
f LEONA WHITMAN . Society and Personal Editor
WENDI JACKSON ...............City Editor
LINDA WALKER...... Subscriptions-Classifieds
PORTLAND GRIFFITH.............Office Sales
BARBARA P ARET.......Special Feature Writer
RICHARD WEATHERSBY ............ Controller
— COMPOSITION DEPARTMENT —
BILLY JOE WILLIAMS.....Supt. of Composition
JAMES JOHNSON...........Printer-Pressman
MIKE MINTON...................Composition
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Explorations
) by Wendi Jackson
My shopping buddy and I
don't get to go shopping to-
gether much, so when an
occasion arises when we can bot
My shopping buddy and I
don’t get to go shopping to-
gether much, so when an
occasion arises when we can
both escape to the mall we take
it and run with it. We go early
and leave late, usually about
the time our feet and our
checkbooks have been run into
the ground by overuse.
We started shopping togeth-
er about two years ago and
have developed a shopping
rhythm. Translation: We both
finally acknowledged that we
cannot do any serious clothes
shopping until we have had
something to eat.
The find few times we shopp-
ed together it's a wonder we
got anything bought. Neither of
us wanted to suggest eating too
early and look like the food-
aholics we really are, so we had
to shop half-heartedly around
until one of us could stand it no
longer and had to suggest
lunch.
Gradually we realised we are
soul sisters when it comes to
food and shopping, so we gave
up our pretenses and admitted
our shortcomings.
“Sue," I said. *1 am a pig. I
admit it. I have to eat before I
can buy a single thing. If we do
not get something to eat, we
are going to go home without a
single bag and with leftover
money. It could be a tragic day
for shoppers everywhere.
Sue, dedicated shopper that
she is, averts this impending
tragedy by beading directly for
the nearest restaurant.
We usually go to a cafeteria
so we can lie to ourselves and
true, if I
, ate those
roll and could ignore the
dessert section. By the time we
leave, we have to try on clothes
about a size larger than usual.
Our saving grace is that we
usually work the food off pretty
fast. Face it, we get a lot of
exercise. We walk miles, some-
times in the same store; we lug
heavy armloads of clothes
around the store before finally
giving up and going to the
dressing rooms; and we get in
and out of dozens of outfits
before the day is over. We even
get mental exercise trying to
figure out what 26 percent off
of the last marked-down price
is (usually teacher Sue’s job).
As I said earlier, we don't
often get a chance to shop
together, thanks to restraints
such as money, work around
the house, money, previous
plans and money. When we do
g«t to shop, we do it right,
scouring stores from one end of
the mall to the other for the
perfect bargain (after lunch, of
course). Sales racks fear for
their lives when we appear and
clerks do best to just stand
back out of our way-unless we
need help, in which case we,
like most shoppers, grouch
about the lousy service.
We compare prices, moan
about our fat, exchange sizes
(usually up, sometimes down),
debate color choice and give
opinions for hours on end.
And towards mid or late
afternoon, we start throwing
sideways glances towards the
cookie* and ice cream places.
Demon air currents start blow-
ing the aroma of fudge towards
us, and visions of tacos start
dancing before our eyes.
Sooner or later, one of us will
break.
“Are you hungry, too, or am
I the only crazy oner
We should save our breath.
We both know the answer to
that one.
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STATE CAPITOL
HIGHLIGHTS
Two-Edged Sword
Nuclear Partner Out
The majority owner of the
financially troubled Comanche
Peak nuclear power plant end-
ed a court fight with one of the
two remaining minority owners
and increased its stake in the
$9.1 billion project.
Attorneys for TU Electric
and Brazos Electric Power Co-
operative, Inc. last week ended
five months of negotiations and
announced a settlement calling
fw TU Electric to buy Brazos’
3.8 percent share of the plant
TU EU
Electric plans to assume
construction debts and make
cash payments totaling $229
million.
The move boosts TU Elec-
tric's share of the facility to
about 96 percent and ends a
two-year Dallas court battle.
The settlement will not dam-
age the utility's vow to hold the
impact of the troubled project
to a 10-percent rate increase
after completion of the two
generating units, said Dick
Ramsey, TU spokesman.
State Wms, Exxon Loses
SUBSCRIBE TO THE
The Texas Supreme Court
ruled Exxon Corp. doesn't get
any of the millions in settle-
ment that the state won from
Mobil in 1968.
The state and South Texas
rancher Clinton Manges joined
By Lyndell Williams
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
J
AUSTIN-While leading
Texas Democrats in Atlanta
wondered about Jesse Jackson,
those roaming Capitol halls
discussed who would run to
replace Sen. Lloyd Bentsen,
should the Democrats win the
White House.
Texas Republicans, mean-
while, said their chances of
winning a special election which
Gov. Bill Clements would set in
1989 are much better than they
were in 1961, when John Tower
won a narrow victory to replace
Vice President Lyndon John-
son.
Some of the GOP leadership
also called on Bentsen to resign
his Senate seat, saying it was
unethical for him to run for two
offices at the same time. Not
likely.
Two top Democrats from
opposite wings of the party
already have indicated their
willingness to run: conserva-
tive Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby and
liberal Agriculture Commission
Jim Hightower.
Republican hopefuls kept
silent, but the Democrat's list
of possibilities include every-
body.
to sue Mobil for not developing
oil and gas leases in Duval
County in a case that rocked
the oil industry establishment.
The Court ruled Exxon chose
not to participate in the action
against Mobil and was not
entitled to share the proceeds.
Texas Land Commissioner
Garry Mauro said the ruling
makes it clear that surface
owners of state oil lands have a
“fiduciary responsibility” to the
school fund which benefits from
profits.
Former Lawmaker Indicted
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Letters To
The Editor
The election amendment
which Texas Democrats pushed
through the Legislature to let
LBJ run for President and U.S.
senate at the same time may
have been tailored more for the
man than for keeping the Texas
Republican Party down in the
dugout.
Now it could turn out to be a
two-edged sword.
Should the Democrats take
the White House, the momen-
tum could also carry forth to
win the special election the
next year.
But it didn’t work that way in
1961, when Tower won it and
laid the foundation for the rise
of the Texas GOP. They could
wind up with two senators in
1989.
Could things go wrong for
Bentsen and the Democrats if
they don’t take the White
House? That answer lies with
independent voters and how
they vote for a senator in
November.
fa Environmentalists
And Congressmen
Helping Economy?
Editor:
in the Texas House in 1980.
Stewart now lives in France,
and flew there after pleading
not guilty and posting a $5
million personal bond.
State Bar Liaiton Quits
A former state representa-
tive was indicted for allegedly
funnelling over $40,000 to the
Nicaraguan Contras.
Maco Stewart, a millionaire
attorney, bank director and
grandson of the founder of
Stewart Title Company, served
Supreme Court Justice
Franklin Spears resigned last
week as the High Court's
liaison to the State Bar of Texas
after the court approved its
new budget totaling over $19
million.
Spears had wanted the bar to
explain expenditures on lobby-
ists, liquor and travel, and in
resigning said he no longer had
the support of the majority of
the court.
Spears may have made him-
self a lame duck last month
when he indicated he will
resign from the bench in Sep-
tember.
Other Highlights
What the great depression
could not destroy, the present
day environmentalists and our
congressmen are accomplish-
ing. The massive increase in
the number of Hardin Coun-
tians dependent on “food wel-
fare” is a direct result of their
policy of turning Hardin County
into a National Park.
House Bill 3544 introduced
by our own (?) congressman
Charles Wilson is a document
which says, in essence, that
private lands are up for grabs-
that regardless of what has
gone on before, if someone
decides they want to change
things and do something with
the lands that better reflect
their personal philosophy, they
can do so.
Hardin County’s Economy
has for years been based on oil,
gas, and timber related act-
ivities. Sawmills need timber-
lands for the production of raw
materials for their continued
operations and sometimes,
clear cutting is the most econo-
mical way of harvesting these
products. Clear cutting is in-
deed unsightly-but the new
growth trees are a thing of
beauty as proven by the en-
vironmentalist push to have a
tree farm near Lufkin made
into a National Park.
Hardin County, particularly
at this time, needs a thriving
wood-based economy to help
the ailing oil and gas industry
to maintain a reasonable life-
style for its citizens. We do not
need additional timber-related
industries closing like the
Kirby Plant in Silsbee which
resulted in the loss of ap-
proximately 800 jobs.
Representative Wilson, who
plans to retire in 1990, states
that the proposed grab of an
additional 14,000 acres to be
included in the present Big
Thicket Park is his personal
idea. Perhaps he wants the Big
Thicket Park to be his personal
legacy to the people of his
district. We suggest that he
consider all of his constituents
in determining what that
legacy will be. We do not want
that legacy to be lengthening
souplines. '*
^American Viewpoints
A tool is but the extension
of a man’s hand, and a ma-
chine is but a complex tool.
And he that invents a ma-
chine augments the power of
a man and the well-being of
mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher
Editor’s Quote Book
Democracy is direct self-
government, over all the peo-
ple, for all the people, by all
the people.
Theodore Parker
Milton R. McKinney
You'd Hiro The doit
When You Find Thom
InTho
Soction.
THE
SILSBEE BEE
318-1*71
Gordon Baxter To MC
Rainbow Bridge Celebration
Area radio, personality and
writer Gordon Baxter has been
selected to emcee the 50th
anniversary celebration of the
opening of the Rainbow Bridge
on Sept. 8.
Baxter will lead a program of
speakers including federal,
state and local dignitaries,
highway department officials
and those associated with the
building of the bridge and
opening ceremonies 50 years
ago.
Baxter’s familiarity with the
bridge makes him a natural
choice to emcee the event,
according to celebration chair-
man Glenda Dyer.
The Port Arthur native was
15 when he attended opening
ceremonies 50 years ago, Dyer
said, and being a master story-
teller he has a collection of tales
about this “aristocratic lady” of
steel.
For example, Baxter rem-
embers coasting down the
brand new empty concrete of
the bridge on opening day.
“We must have been doing
about 110 miles an hour when
we hit the loose gravel of old
Highway 87 and many said it
was the longest, grandest bic-
cyle wreck they had ever seen",
he said.
radio station broadcast from
Beaumont.
Baxter has been writing
since 1967 and was first printed
in Bridge City. He now writes
for 10 Texas papers with a
weekly column carried in the
“Dallas Morning News,” “Hou-
ston Post", and others.
He does free-lance televesion
work and writing, has 13 books
published and travels inter-
nationally as an after dinner
speaker.
Also on the Rainbow Bridge
Celebration program will be a
performance of 1938-40 musical
selections by the Beaumont
Fire Department Band. In
keeping with the historic
theme, the Spindletop Antique
Car Club will display cars
manufactured before or in 1938.
An historical exhibit will be
shown including a series of 89
photographs of the building of
the Rainbow Bridge. A video,
whith interviews of men who
helped build the bridge and
others associated with the
bridge, will also be shown
during the program.
A birthday cake will be cut
by Mary Elizabeth Mills Harle
of Austin, who cut the ribbon to
open the bridge in 1938.
The one-day celebration will
begin Thursday, Sept. 8, at
8:30 a.m. at a tent on the
grounds of Sparkle Paradise,
near Bridge City. Breakfast
will be served. Tickets are
available at area chambers of
commerce and from committee
members.
On moonlit nights 50 years
ago, Baxter and a friend climb-
ed and crossed every steel
girder of the Rainbow Bridge.
“We would lay hidden in the
box beams that frame the
entrance into the overhead
truss and when (an approaching
car's lights) were just right, we
would swing down, hanging
from our hands and rubbering
horribly to the screams of
brakes," Baxter said.
Effectiveness is
the Bottom Line
Taxpayers are interested more
in how effective government ser-
vices are rather than whether there
is a surplus or deficit in their bud-
gets, according to a Texas A&M
accounting professor who is work-
ing on a project to standardize
reporting concerning government
services. Organizations such as
fire and police departments, hos-
pitals, mass transit and even uni-
versities might come under new
reporting guidelines now being
researched at Texas A&M and
elsewhere.
* The Supreme Court ruled
in favor of a doctor and five
clinics which were being sued
by the state for allegedly
selling a toxic chemical used as
a weed killer to persons want-
ing to lose weight.
* Gov. Clements repeated his
goal to work for a constitutional
amendment to allow lawmak-
ers, not judges, to fix problems
in public school financing.
* A new type radar to be
installed by Texas A&M Uni-
versity this fall will help detect
tornadoes and expand waring
times by up to 10 minutes, said*
Dr. James Scoggins, head of
meteorology.
Then there were the times
when Baxter would curl up in
the “massive gussets of steel”
and listen to the bridge sounds
as it cooled during the night.
“It groans, pops and gives off
loud bangs as the cooling steel
contracts," Baxter said.
Baxter was born on Christ-
mas Day, 1923 and served in
overseas combat during World
War H. After the war, he
began a raido career at KPAC
Port Arthur.
During his 43-year radio
career, which he describes as
“sometimes stormy,” he has
worked at nearly all the local
stations. He is now at KTX J in
Japser and also has a regular
program on KVLU, the public
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