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Page 4A, CLEVELAND ADVOCATE, Friday, December 7, 1990
Editorial
Viewpoint How much Xmas shopping done in Cleveland?
“All of it. I do all my shop-
ping here.” - Barbara
Jackson, Cleveland
“I do all my Christmas
shopping in Cleveland.” -
Gloria Martin, Cleveland
“I've done about half of my
Christmas shopping here.”
- Shirley Jones, Cleveland
“I've done about a third of
my Christmas shopping in
Cleveland.” - Johnny Mc-
Gowen, Coldspring
“I haven't done any of my
Christmas shopping yet,
but will do some here.” -
Frankie Arnold, Dolen
“I haven't finished but it's
all been done here.” -
Kate Croft, Tarkington
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
CAPITOL COMMENTS
Arabs can’t be whipped
Dear Editor,
I would feel a lot easier if President Bush knows that you
cannot whup an Arab, nor subdue him. He will look into the
gates of his heaven as he uses his dying breath to bite the leg of
the foot that is stomping him to death.
Also his sympathetic brothers outnumber us by the millions
and that fact is being downplayed.
May God help us! Our stupid and belligerent politicians may
be our undoing. Actually, besides their desire to control their own
privately owned petroleum products, what else have they done
to us?
Thanks,
Bob “Countdown” Roberts
RURAL COMMISSIONER
* By LEE GROCE
Reader answers letter
Dear Editor,
I think Mr. Nichols had better stop and think he will be old
some day. Then he wouldn’t like it if they took his license from
him.
The elder people have as much right to drive as he does.
Maybe if he drove the speed limit it wouldn’t bother him.
So think about it son. Just think about it.
Thank you,
Viola Eason
EDITOR’S NOTE — Master Nichols, whose letter to the editor
appeared in the Cleveland Advocate, doesn’t have the ‘‘right" to
drive at all — he’s too young.
By MARK STILES
County’s powers outlined
By LEE GROCE, Pct.2
County Commissioner
You can avoid jury duty
A county in Texas has no
power or duties except those
which are clearly set forth and
defined in the state constitution
and statutes.
The county’s resources and
its elected officials efforts have
been channeled into issues
such as the criminal justice sys-
tem, human services, mental
health, and road systems.
However the role of the county
is changing. Many counties are
recognizing the need to play a
more diversified role in their
area. Counties want to be par-
ticipants in the economy.
Many county governments,
because of an increasing con-
centration of the population in
urban counties and a loss of
population in rural . counties,
have reorganized internally and
are performing services once
the exclusive domain of the city.
Counties can bring together
many communities under the
same jurisdiction and therefore
become the logical unit of
government to provide area and
regional coordination in such
areas as: solid waste, criminal
justice, fire and emergency
medical services, road main-
tenance, water/waste water
treatment and data collection.
The consolidation of services
on a county or region-wide
basis have potential cost
LEE GROCE
savings in these provisions of
services and less administrative
overhead cost.
The county is interested in
expanding the economic base
and developing new sources of
revenue just as any other taxing
entity. Broadening and enlar-
ging our current tax base with-
out it becoming a burden will
require the combined efforts of
taxing entities within the county.
Liberty County being located
between Harris and Jefferson
counties, two very aggressive
and economic bases, needs to
take the lead in combining the
efforts of all entities to reach our
common goals.
By MARK W. STILES
State Representative
Everyone anticipates that
they will be called for jury duty
at some time, but what happens
when you are asked to serve in
a county where you no longer
live?
Frequently, people are baff-
led when they receive jury
notices from counties where
they used to live. Not cancelling
voter registration often leads to
clerical problems as well. The
voter registration lists for coun-
ties are rarely accurate because
of the excess of names of peo-
ple who were once registered
voters, but don’t live in the
county anymore.
District clerks and other of-
ficials are having real problems
certifying jury wheels due to the
fact that people rarely remem-
ber to cancel their registration
when they move or when a re-
lative dies. Part of the problem
stems from the voter regist-
ration process. So much emp-
hasis is placed on registering for
the next election, that
sometimes it can appear as if
recruiting is overdone.
In other words, voter regist-
ration has worked so well re-
cently that people are simul-
taneously registered to vote in
several different counties,
simply because their regist-
rations were never cancelled.
Current voter registration lists
are generally the sole and mand-
atory source of constituting the
jury wheel. Names are drawn
from these lists to make up
juries for each county. The
deadline for registering to vote
in an upcoming election is 30
days prior to the election.
Each year between Ofijfc 1
and Oct. 15 county offWals
meet to reconstitute the jury
wheel after the new voter regist-
ration lists are compiled. This
process assures that citizens
who have registered within the
last year will be included in the
new jury wheel.
Thus, more people are being
included in jury wheels, but
there are still lots of people^rho
are registered in more coi|Bes
than they live in.
Another version of this pro-
blem occurs when the same
person is registered under (jjfcre
than one name: first under her
maiden name, then under her
married name. In addition to
remembering to register to vote,
people need to be reminded to
cancel their registration when
they move and to make sure
their name and address are lis-
ted correctly. ^
To cancel your voter rffist-
ration in a county where you no
longer live, you need to contact
the county’s Voter Registrar,
which in most counties is the
tax-assessor collector. Also,
remember to vote on Nov. 6th.
MARK STILES
Cleveland
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