The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1987 Page: 2 of 30
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*H» 1, Section 1, THE SIISIIE BEE, Thnrtdey, Septembnr 17,1917
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EDITORIAL STAFF
R.L. READ ..................Editor and Publisher
LEONA WHITMAN .... Society and Personal Editor
WENDI JACKSON .7..................City Editor
JOYCFDUKfJ.....' News-Photography
JOYCE DUKES.......... Subscriptions-Classifieds
PORI LAND GRIFFITH............... Office Sales
BARBARA PARET........ . 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
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There never was a more
twisted, sinister, evil instru-
ment of torture devised than
the seemingly innocent and
helpful telephone. No physical
torture can compare to the
constant mental frustration of
waiting for the phone to ring,
hoping the phone won’t ring or
being put on hold for 20
minutes.
Working for a newspaper, I
come in frequent contact with
the ringing demons. Nothing is
more frustrating than waiting
for several persons to return
calls left at their offices, and it
seems like the closer it gets to
deadline, the fewer people that
are in their offices, or even in
town.
I have a tendency to drop
everything I’m doing when the
phone rings so I can listen to
see who it’s for, especially
when I desperately need some-
one to return a call. This
particular trait makes it aw-
fully hard to keep a train of
thought sometimes. (As if I
needed a distraction to break
my train of thought-my train
jumps its tracks frequently and
without provocation, leaving
me staring at a blank piece of
paper as if the typewriter will
supply the words if I just stare
at it long enough.)
It's worse on Wednesday
mornings before deadline. The
phones ring oti tneir nooks
around here, distracting me,
the great procrastinator who is
trying to finish about seven
articles in 10 minutes, from my
effort to beat the deadline
(which if I ever do manage to do
it, would probably send several
people around here into a dead
faint).
It's even worse on Wednes-
day mornings when I'm waiting
for an all-important phone call.
That’s when the monster sit
ting on the window ledge has
its most fun. It rings and rings
and rings, but it never rings for
me...unless of course, it is
someone I don’t know who has a
great story idea that has to be
explained in detail RIGHT
NOW, deadline or no. The
panic that ensues on my end is
not good for my blood pressure.
As for praying that the phone
won't ring, it’s an old but very,
very true joke about the phone
ringing every time you get into
the bathtub. What's ijqydways
said is that how many times the
phone will ring during a bath is
directly proportional to how
warm and relaxing the bail
feels and how tired the person
in it is. It seems to be a real
triumph for the telephone if it
can drag you out of your bath
for wrong number; or worse
yet, someone trying to self you
vinyl siding or encyclopedias.
Telephones must also be
great television watchers. How
else would they know to ring at
exactly the moment that a show
you’ve been waiting to watch
for months comes on? The other
night James and I were watch-
ing a television show. Right at
the point that boy decided he
was in fact crazy about girl and
girl was on the verge of
deciding the same thing about
him, the phone rang. James
groaned and went to answer it.
No one was there. The phone is
proabablv still giggling about
that one.
Being put on hold is another
favorite of mine. It's not the
sitting there that bothers me,
mind you; in fact, it usually
provides a little breather or
time to come up with an
additional question or two. The
problem is, by the time some-
one gets back to me, sometimes
I’ve waited so long my mind has
drifted to other things and not
only do I not remember what
I’m calling about, I've momen-
tarily forgotten who I’ve been
waiting for. Now there's a
feeling to remember.
I guess, though, for real
torture, nothing beats spending
a week with a telephone that
doesn’t work. You never realize
how much you depend on the
monsters until they take a
vacation and leave you in the
lurch.^Suddenly nothing works
like it should-you can’t call
friends about going out to eat,
you can’t call in sick, you can’t
call your mother with a prob
lem and you can't reach your
house to say you're going to be
late.
All of that does tend to fade
into insignificance in light of the
idea that you can now take a
bath without interruption. You
can fill up the tub with bubbles
and sink in with a good bood for
a leisurely soak without fear of
leaving a trail of wet carpet
should the phone ring. You can
also watch television without a
ring to keep you from seeing
the last 10 minutes of a two-
hour mysteryYou can take an
uninterrupted nap, wash dishes
without drying your hands
frequently to answer the ring-
ing, go into the yard without
having to run at breakneck
speed back into the house and
find out what happens in the
next chapter of a book without
trying to convince someone on
the phone that if you wanted to
buy a particular magazine you
would have already done it.
Who am I kidding? By the
end of one day I'd be begging
the telephone company to re-
store my torture service. I
really don't know how people
make it without telephones.
I guess we all have our
weaknesses. Besides, Ed Mc-
Mahon might call to tell me I'd
won millions of dollars.
I hear the phone ringing now-
maybe it’s for me.
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Letters To
The Editor
STATE CAPITOL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Lyndell Williams ■ —
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN-With the ’90 elec-
tion three years away, Comp-
troller Bob Bullock took time
from bird hunting in South
Texas last Thursday to an-
nounce he will run for lieute-
nant governor. Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby, a Democrat, previously
stated he will not seek re-elec-
tion.
Bullock, the state’s chief fiscall
officer since 1975, made public
his plans in a two-sentence
statement which said he intend-
ed "to run for lieutenant gov
ernor in 1990. All visitors are
welcome."
A spokesman told reporters
Bullock is convinced he has
been comptroller long enough.
Hobby’s decision not to run
again prompted the comptrol
ler’s surprise announcement,
he added.
NO COMMITTEE NEEDED
Even though it’s the way
outgoing Chief Justice John
Hill, a Democrat, wants his
replacement selected, GOP
Bill Clements said that he, not a
committee, will make the ap
pointment.
Hill has campaigned long and
hard to have elected judges
appointed by a committee on
the basis of merit, and his
out front reason for stepping
down in mid-term is to continue
lobbying that issue.
But even though Clements
supported the concept last ses
sion, he won’t use Hill’s depar
auum/riOmCUKaMK'&C
f(Peoj)/e ’
Shades of Big Brother
____In his classic .novel 19.M file British w filer George Orwell
created a society where government reigned surpreme over the pri
cute lives ot all its eiti/ens Ihe world, unfortunately, is crowded
with governments that follow the Big Brother example outlined
in IW4
Americans are protected from such abuse of power by the l S
Constitution, whose 200th anniversary we are celebrating this year
The power of the federal government is tempered w ith specific limi-
tations on its power over individual citizens Under our democratic
form of government, where the majority of the electorate chooses
our leaders, the Constitution wisely protects the rights of those in
the minority----
The Iramers of our Constitution were well aware of the often
llagrant abuses ot power by colonial governments Many colonies
had adopted state religions supported by public tax dollars It the
members of a certain denomination or sect were predominant in a
colony, they were able to, and often did. outlaw the ujAi worship
ot other creeds While the crudest discrimination may have been in
Puritan-dominated New England, where followers of other faiths
were at times executed, other areas also had long records of dis
crimination. For example. Baptist preachers were jailed routinely in
Virginia ....................
By guaranteeing the basic rights of all, the l S Constitution es
tablished a watchword tor our nation: tolerance Mr Jones jnav be a
Baptist and a Democrat hut that doesn't keep him from respecting
his neighbor. Mrs Smith, who happens to be a Methodist and a
Republican It would never occur to either of them that laws should
be passed outlawing churches and political parties other than their
own.
Freedom to choose our own lifestyles and to grant others the
same right is the true spirit of America To forget those principles is
to begin to destroy that precious gift given to us 20(1 years'ago hv
our Founding Fathers the U S Constitution III
t his is (>fir of a series of columns crirbruling the 2<KHh anniversary of the I ’.S.
Constitution.
1987 PM Editorial Services
ture to make a trial run of the
merit selection proposal.
The new chief justice will
likely be a Republican who will
run for.election after his ap
pointed term. Two sitting
Democratic justices have al
ready tossed their hats into the
ring.
ENERGY POLITICS
Iiong time Railroad Commis
sioner Jint Nugent seems to be
a handy target these days for
lots of people interested in
energy policies.
He needs newly appointed
Republican Kent Hance’s vote
to win the panel's gavel over
fellow Democrat John Sharp,
and it may result in a game of
hardball and name calling poll
tics between the two.
Last week, Houston Repubh
can Ed Emmett, a former
Hou£J»ziember, announced he
was if'1 ik after Nugent's seat
in the 'M election. Originally, it
» was Houston Democrat Clint
Hackney who was eyeing Nu
gent's spot, but now he's runn
ing for Ifhnce’s seat
For now, fiance is seen as the
swing vote on the three
member panel, and there is
speculation about what would
induce him to vote with Nugent
or Sharp. If Nugent, a conser
vative Democrat, switched par
ties, would that do it? Or, if
Hance held out to be chairman
with Nugent's support, could
he make it?
WAYWARD S21 million
State officials were wonder-
ing last week if the story o( a
wayward $21 million in Texas
Housing Agency bonds would
diminish voter confidence in the
massive bond proposals on the
November 3 ballot.
The $21 million wound up in
an uninsured West Indies bank
and was the indirect source of a
$1.8 million construction loan in
Indiana By last week, most of
the money was back in the Fort
Worth trustee bank. The re-
mainder should be home soon.
Following the incident. State
Treasurer Ann Richards said
the treasury should act as
trustee and handle any state
agency’s unspent bond money
to avoid a repeat of the near
disaster.
Thus far, no one has implied
impropriety, just a mixup in
communication about investing
the money.
PARI-MUTUEL BETTING
To date, more than a dozen
counties, including Harris, Bex-
ar and Tarrant, have placed th*
pari mutuel betting local opting
issue on their ballots.
A recent Texas Foil indicates
69 percent of Texas voters
favor the referendum.
■ Supporters plan to spend
$1.6 million to pass the issue,
and have lined up singers Willie
Nelson, Jimmy Dean and
George Strait for September
and October fundraisers.
Some say .the new industry
will generate $1.2 billion a
year, creat 8.000 construction
jobs and 11,000 permanent jobs
including breeding and training
facilities.
Troubled state cotfers will reap
an estimated $110 million in
taxes, five cents from every
dollar wagered.
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
* Speaking of fundraisers,
Atty. Gen. Jim Mattox recently
raised $600,000 at a Houston
fete to fuel his quest for the
($#• Highlight! Sot. 1 Pag. J)
Citizens Invited
To Visit Christian
Care Center
Silsbee. Sept. 14
Editor:
We want to take this oppor-
tunity to invite the citizens of
Silsbee and Lumberton to come
and see our new Christian Car*
Center located on Avenue P
behind the Read-Turrentina
School.
After many months of hard
work by scores of people the
renovation is complete and the
final move was completed last
Saturday.
I want to personally thank a
few who spent so many hours
during the summer months
renovating, plumbing, doing
electrical work, clearing the
grounds and painting. I could
not'ever include all who so
generously gave of their time,
but I would like to thank
especially: The Knights of
Columbus, Mr. Joseph Gas-
pard, Mr. Marvin Bonnette,
The Lions Club, Judge Pete
McKinney, Noble Guledge, Lin-
coln Skillern, and many other
men and women from different
churches.
Since we opened our doors
four years ago we have helped
more than 1000 clients get
through some very difficult
times. We have been able to do
this through the generous mon
thly donations of 15 churches in
Silsbee and Lumberton, and
the many individual contri
butions of money, food and
clothing.
We owe a great deal to our
executive director, Betty Jor
dan; to our operations director,
Lila Goins; food coordinators
Joann Cain and Ida Scott; and
all of the tnverviewers and food
pantry workers; to Arlene Rod
rigues, recording secretary,
and the receptionists.
This is your organization Sils
bee and Lumberton, and we
thank you for your prayers and
all of your support.
Lucy Roy,
President
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The word ye, in such expressions as "Ye Olde Shoppe,"
is pronounced like the word the The letter y in Anglo
Saxon indicated the same th sound as apparent in the
current spelling
Editor s Quote Book
I he t’hiel object of educa
turn ix not to leam things but
to unlearn them
G A Chesterton
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Silsbee, Texas 77656
409-385-0410
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