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The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
Thursday, March 30,1972
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MEMBER!
1972.
GOLDEN WEST FREE PRESS, INC. KERMIT, TEXAS
109 S. Poplar Zip Code .79745 Telephone 586-2561
Second Class Postage Paid at
Kermit, Texas 79745
M. M. Donosky .........................Publisher
Bill J. Beckham ............. Vice-Pres. and General Manager
Elgin L. Maikell .........................Managing Editor
Maud Green ...........................Editor
Jane Inskeep ....................... .Advertising Manager
Marie Butts ........................ . Circulation Manager
Gerry Smither............................. Staff Writer
Elgin L. Maikell ...........................Sports Editor
Don Cox ..................................Press Supt.
This newspaper is dedicated to the spirit of civic progress; to the
unification of the townspeople in a common purpose for the
betterment of our community; to our churches, schools and
homes, that Kermit shall ever be a good place in which to live
and rear our children. And, above ail, -honesty, decency, justice,
tolerance, faith in Almighty God — These shalj be our citadel.
What Is He Learning?
The average American pre-schooler spends 64 per cent of
his time watching television. By the age of 14, this child will
have seen 18,000 murders on TV. By the age of 17, some
350,000 commercials. In the course of his life the TV will have
consumed 10 years of his time. These facts were compiled by
Dr. Gerald Looney of the University of Arizona.
In his remarks to the American Academy of Pediatrics,
Dr. Looney declared that television, “the electronic intruder,”
has replaced both parent and teacher as the primary educator of
children. Just in terms of time alone, Dr. Looney points out, the
American pre-school child during his critical pre-school years
spends more time watching TV than he would in the classrooms
during four years of college. And what is he learning?
—Lloyd Shearer in Parade
Keynesianism
Gone Haywire
The prospect that the Nixon Administration will have
rolled up deficits totalling $124 billion from July 1969 to July
1973, with a staggering $45 billion in 1971-72 and $36 billion
in 1972-73, is giving pause to a number of economists and
legislators. But not to buyers of stocks and bonds or even
purchasers of stamps, coins, clothing, furniture, autos and other
commodities that could be expected to rise with the inevitable
inflation.
John Maynard Keynes, the British economist who
originally advocated deficits as a way to prosperity, would have
some second thoughts about his theory if he were alive today.
The physician who prescribed a teaspoonful of medicine twice a
day would be surprised to see his patients drinking whole
bottles at a time. It is Keynesianism gone haywire. The people
are responding to the alarm that is being sounded over the land
land.
The President estimates that the national debt at the end
of the next fiscal year — that is, to July 1, 1973 — will be
$493.2 billion, with an annual interest charge of around $25
billion. With the people already groaning under the heaviest
peacetime taxes in- our history (the Vietnam War is no longer a
serious financial burden), the possibility of a “value added tax,”
which is in fact a Government sales tax, becomes a new hazard.
The people’s money is as important as many of the issues
that are being blown up out of proportion by some of the
Presidential candidates today. This is an issue that cannot be
kicked under the nig. The citizens have a right to know why
billions more in Government outlays are being proposed in the
guaranteed annual income and other welfare projects with the
budget already dangerously out of balance.
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DAVE LLEWELLYN
Supernatural
Power
I’m tired of trying to con-
vince people that Jesus came
'back to life after being dead
and buried three days.
He did. The facts are avail-
able and rational explanations
have been given for all of the
objections that people have
been raising (thinking they
are new discoveries) for the
past 19 centuries. Few of the
people who say they cannot
believe because of intellectual
difficulties ever make any
real effort 'to investigate the
question.
They wouldn’t believe if
Jesus came back and told
them, Himself.
Unbelievable Power
In fact, Jesus told a story
about this: A rich man for
years neglected a beggar
named Lazarus. After they
both died, the rich man in hell
saw Lazarus with Abraham
in paradise. He asked Abra-
ham, “I beg, father, that you
send him to my father’s house
—for I have five brothers—
that he may warn them lest
they also come to this place
of torment. ... If someone
goes to them from the dead
they will repent.”
But Abraham replied, “If
they do not listen to Moses
and the prophets neither will
they be persuaded if someone
rises from the dead.”
Is there any evidence that
could convince someone
against his will? I think not.
At least, not until he dies and
enters the spiritual world and
finds out the truth. That is,
not until it is too late.
When Jesus died and re-
turned to life, Matthew re-
corded that “the tombs were
opened; and many bodies of
the saints who had fallen
asleep were raised; and, com-
ing out of the tombs after His
resurrection, they entered the
holy city (Jerusalem) and ap-
peared to many.”
People Who didn’t want to
believe probably found ways
to explain them away. Just as
determined unbelievers today
would explain away, if they
knew about it, the evidence of
Christians who have been
raised from the dead in Indo-
nesia in this decade.
Believable Power
They might accept astrology
(“Oh, I don’t believe it, but I
read my horoscope just in
case”). Or witchcraft, or pro-
phetic powers. But Christian
supernaturalism? No.
There are several reasons;
(1) Non-Christians’ spiritual
powers are better publicized.
This is partly (because Chris-
tians are afraid of offending
other believers by acknowl-
edging the evidences of God’s
supernatural power which they
have experienced.
(2) Non-Ghristians’ spiritual
powers can be used by people
for their own benefit, while
God’s powers are used by
people only for God’s pur-
poses. However, people who
use demonic powers will have
to face, like Dr. Faustus,
Jesus’ question: “What will a
man give in exchange for his
life?”
(3) Christian supernatural
power needs some explanation
and understanding. Satanic
power is old, too. There is real
power in both. But God’s saves
lives and Satan’s destroys
them.
This Sunday we celebrate
God’s power in Jesus’ resur-
rection. His power is still op-
erational for those who are
willing to believe it.
Copyright Dave Llewellyn 1972
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News
They’re Not
All ‘Meanies’
Here you are: In Cincinnati, two unions have asked for a pay
cut. Carpenters and millwrights — unions in the building trades
— have asked that their projected pay raises of 11% be cut to
5.5% to conform with the President’s anti-inflation efforts.
They’re not all meanies.
AFL-CIO President George Meany offended a lot of union
members with his unbecoming conduct at that last labor
convention.
A top Missouri labor leader, President Tom Walsh of the
Building and Construction Trades Council, says Meany acted
“childishly.”
Among other purposeful slights Meany referred to the
President’s appearance as “an act.”
Returning to the rostrum, Meany announced, “Now we’ll
have act two.” ' * v
Since then we’ve seen act three.
Meany-men, including Sen. Hubert Humphrey, have sought to
recover the fumble by selling the silly notion that President
Nixon “planned his own embarassment.” They suggest that for
political purposes the President purposely put himself in a
position to beget public sympathy.
The fact is that the President, against political advice and at
considerable risk, went to that convention. He had to know that
he might have been booed, humiliated. He might have been
shouted off the platform — or worse.
He wasn’t, of course. His uncompromising, forthright speech
was interrupted by applause repeatedly. This from men who can
respect a philosophy with which they may not agree if it is
sincere, honest and consistent.
I’d like to restate that my antipathy toward what happened
in Miami does not reflect a personal vendetta. When George
Meany went to the hospital last time, though it may have been a
false alarm, suddenly I was re-reminded that we are all in his
debt. All those years when patriotism was in very short supply
in our country, George Meany and I have fought on the same
side. I hope we still will.
An ex-Bronx plumber, he still goes after all enemies of our
country with the Constitution in one hand and a pipe wrench in
the other.
I respect that.
But George Meany, that you are a crusty old goat who means
well does not excuse boorishly bad manners, does not excuse
calling the President “a stunt man.”
And worse, obscured by all the reverberations is the
deliberate damage you can do to the President’s anti-inflation
efforts.
Union members lose as much or more than anybody when we
get paid off in worthless dollars.
Yet you continue to demand retroactive pay raises which
could turn the freeze to slush.
And when you protest that President Nixon lacks the ability,
the intelligence or the knowledge to control the economy, you
are saying of him precisely what the late Walter Reuther said of
you.
Try to remember how you felt.
A reader who was living in
a fog of uncertainty came to
my study. Looking at the
new electric typewriter he ex-
claimed, “What a beautiful
instrument!” Walking to my
desk, he said, “I’m going to
type a line or two.” Then he
sighed, “I wish I owned a
typewriter. It works perfect-
ly.”
“Yes,” I replied, “and to
think that someone threw all
the parts—bars, bolts, guides,
keys, nuts, rollers, screws,
springs and everything else in-
to a bucket, shook it, and out
came this typewriter.”
“I get the message,” he
admitted. “Just as there had
to be a designer behind this
design, so there had to be a
Creator behind this creation.”
No wise person argues the
existence of God. The Bible
takes God for granted. And
we are introduced to His
works in Psalm 102:24 and
25, “O God, Thou hast laid
the foundation of the earth:
and the heavens are the work
of Thy hands.”
Yesterday I saw a little
girl carrying a doll’s house.
It was beautiful. “Where did
it come from?” I asked. “My
dad made it,” she answered.
Then I thought of this world.
Where did it come from? My
heavenly Father made it!
By The Side
Of A Man
I want to walk by the side of a
man
Who has suffered and seen and
knows,
Who has measured his pace on
the battle line
And given and taken blows.
Who has never whined when
the scheme went wrong,
Nor scoffed at the failing plan
But taken his dose with a heart
of trust
And the faith of a gentleman;
Who has parried and struck and
sought and given,
And, scarred with a thousand
spears —
Can lift his head to the stars of
Heaven
And isn’t ashamed of his tears.
I want to grasp the hand of a
man ,,, . ,.:.v ;, uiAv/
Who has been through it all
and seen,
Who has walked in the dark of
an unseen dread
And refused to sag or lean;
Who has bared his breast to the
wind of dawn
And thirsted and starved and
felt
The sting and the bite of the
bitter blasts
That the mouths of the foul
have dealt ;
Who was tempted and fell and
rose again,
And has gone on trusty and
true,
With God supreme in his manly
heart
And his courage burning anew.
I’d give my all — be it little or
great —
To walk by his side today
To stand up there with the
man who has known
The bite of the burning fray
Who has gritted his teeth and
clenched his fist
And gone on doing his best
Because of the love for his
fellowman
And the faith in his manly
breast.
I would love to walk with him,
hand in hand,
Together journey along
For the man who has fought
and struggled and won
Is the man who can make men
strong.
Author Unknown
Computerized record-keep-
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Oregon more than $2 million
during the next 10 years, ac-
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Texas Press Association
AUSTIN — Texans have just
a few days more — until April
5 — to register to vote in the
May 6 primary elections.
Major state candidates,
including Gov. Preston Smith,
viewed with alarm registration
totals so far. They noted that
less than 3.8 million had
registered as of last weekend,
although there are nearly 7.7
million qualified voters in the
state.
Present registrations are
trailing the corresponding
period in 1968 by 294,000 and
the 1970 figure by more than
370,000.
In 1968, observed
gubernatorial candidate
Frances Farenthold, 64 per
cent of qualified voters were
registered before the primaries.
This year, only 48 per cent of
the potentially eligible are
registered. Former U. S. Sen.
Ralph Yarborough pointed out
that 63.4 per cent of those
qualified registered in 1970,
and the 1972 dropoff is
reflected in many “working
class” neighborhoods.
Nearly one million more
should register by April 5 if
previous patterns are followed,
Smith said.
Under the state’s new voter
registration system, which
candidates Farenthold and
Yarborough lauded as one of
the nation’s best, citizens have
until 30 days before any
election to register and become
eligible to vote.
The U. S. Supreme Court
threw some confusion over the
registration system with a
ruling that 12 months’ state
and six months’ local residency
requirements for voter
eligibility (like those of Texas)
are unconstitutional.
The High Court said 30
days’ residency is sufficient for
any state. Secretary of State
Bob Bullock took the case
under study. Special legislative
attention may be necessary.
TPA POLLS NORTH AND
EAST TEXAS — Editors and ’
publishers were polled at the
annual meeting of the North
and East Texas Press
Association in Palestine last
week.
First question was — “Who
will carry your county in the
primary?” In the Democratic
Governor’s race,- the newsmen
voted: Barnes, 25; Briscoe, 20;
Smith, 8 and Farenthold, 3.
Republican gubernatorial
candidates rated were: Fay, 12;
Grover and Reagan, 9 each.
In the Lieutenant
Governor’s race it was: Hall,
27, Connally, 14 and Hobby,
12.
The editors selected Sanders
28 to 19 over Yarborough in
the U. S. Senate primary.
Asked whom they would
vote for personally, the tally
read: Briscoe, 19; Barnes, 14;
Smith, 8 and Farenthold, 5.
They selected Hall, 26 over
Hobby, 10 and Connally, 7. In
the U. S. Senate primary they
voted for Sanders 18 to 7 over
Yarborough. In the 1972
General Election they voted
for Tower 21 to 5 over
Sanders.
SPEAKER’S BATTLE
LOOMS — House Speaker Gus
Mutscher, appealing a bribery
consent conviction in
Sharpstown stock scandals,
announced he will step aside as
speaker,'
The long-expected move set
the stage for a head-on battle
for the key presiding officer’s
post when Governor Smith
calls a special legislative
session.
Reps. Rayford Price of
Palestine and L. DeWitt Hale of
Corpus Christi both claim
majority support to take over
the gavel during the special
session. Hale has agreed to
serve only as interim speaker
and pledges he will not seek
the job in the 1973 regular
session. Price is considered the
leading candidate for speaker
in 1973, but he wants to take
over at the first opportunity to
enhance his long-term chances.
Most other speakership
hopefuls line up behind the
Hale interim bid. Rep. R. B.
McAlister of Lubbock,
radio-televisiiOn executive,
announced he also will seek the
speaker’s position in 1972.
SHORT SNORTS
More than $1.5 billion in
bonds have been approved by
the attorney general in the last
15 months without a challenge.
Alabama Gov. George
Wallace launched a campaign
for Texas Democratic delegate
votes in the presidential
contest.
Texas construction indexes
jumped to previously
unachieved heights due to new
office-bank buildings and
apartments.
A liberal group threatens a
rump or challenge Texas
delegation will go to the
national convention unless new
Democratic rules are altered.
Washington
Roundup
16th
DISTRICT
T he Ho u s e
Representatives will sink its
teeth into one of the most
important pieces of legislation
it will handle this session as
debate starts this week on the
$24.6 billion Federal Water
Pollution Control Act.
Society has become
CON GRES SMAN
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RICHARD C WHITE
years that a constant flow of
waste, mostly untreated, is
dumped into the nation’s lakes
and rivers from farms,
factories, and cities —
transforming our waterways
into vast sewers.
The water is not only dirty,
Virginia Payette
A New Era?
BY VIRGINIA PAYETTE
We may be entering a new
era in the solution of national
problems — and the only
surprise is that nobody has ever
thought of it before.
It’s so logical, so effective
and so final (at least
temporarily): whenever a
political potato gets too hot to
handle, just freeze it.
What better way to buy
time while you scramble for a
solution? And if you don’t find
one in a hurry, well... freezes
lend themselves to “phases.”
They may not clear up the
crisis at hand, but just moving
from I to II gives an illusion of
progress.
Ask President Nixon.
When inflation got to where
it might prove embarrassing to
the party in a critical election
year, he put wages and prices
on ice, hoping his economists
were right when they told him
it would to the trick.
It didn’t quite, but we
moved into Phase II. Nowadays
we still have inflation ... and
Mr. Nixon is still cooling it.
Meanwhile, on the back
burner, the school busing
kettle boiled over the President
shoved it into the freezer, too.
He calls it a “moratorium,” but
it’s right there on the shelf
with wages and prices.
And it’s working already.
His plea to Congress for a
freeze on any new
court-ordered busing got a
chilly reception from both the
segregationists and the
integrationists.
Southerners who have
painfully complied with court
orders, first to end segregation,
and then to effect integration,
are noting that Northern
schools will now be able to
avoid enforced integration via
the school bus.
And civil rights leaders
complain that Mr. Nixon has
dashed cold water on their
hopes for equal education
opportunities. If Congress goes
along with his request (and it
looks likely), they are afraid it
will bring back “separate-but-
equal” systems that often
turned out to be more separate
than equal.
The President’s busing
freeze assuredly won’t solve
me basic problem, as what
pen-stroke will? But, since
most of the electorate is as
much against busing as he is, it
will carry him through what
could have been an awkward
time when school opens in
September.
(Which, in case you’d
forgotten, is just 4,781
campaign speeches before the
balloting in November.)
It will be interesting to see
if the President’s sure touch
can yield some kind of
nine-month freeze for that
other unpleasantness that
won’t go away: unemployment
figures that keep thumbing
their little noses at the
planners.
Labor leaders would love to
be of help here. They have all
kinds of ideas on how to keep
men on the job, work or no
work. Maybe we’ll even have a
temporary “moratorium” on
firing.
Then there’s that sticky
business with the ITT. And the
troubles the Justice
Department seems to be having
with generous fellows who
think a six-figure donation
buys a little extra
consideration.
Before the situation
becomes desperate, the
Administration might like to
“freeze” Jack Anderson. And
there’s a chilling thought.
but; dangerous. Beaches are
being Closed and rivers are
posted as hazardous to human
health. A 1970 Public Health
Service report, found that 30
per cent of the nation’s
drinking water contains
potentially hazardous amounts
of chemicals. Scarcely an
uncontaminated body of water
remains in the United States.
The Federal Water Pollution
Control Act os 1956
established a permanent and
comprehensive national water
pollution control program. As
awareness of the problem
continued to grow, this act was
amended to broaden and
strengthen programs in 1961,
1965, 1966, and 1970.
However, the water
pollution problem has seemed
to continue compounding itself
across the country.
The federal Water
Pollution Control Act of 1972,
which we will be considering
this week, is a comprehensive,
well-funded, and all-out effort
to solve this problem with
definite goals and definite
dates cited.
The bill declares it a
national goal to eliminate the
discharge of pollutants into
navigable waters by 1985. An
interim goal is to achieve water
quality suitable for swimming
and fish propagation by 1981.
To achieve these goals, the
Act calls for the expenditure of
$24.6 billion over the next
three fiscal years for research
and related programs and
grants for waste treatment
works. It also calls for stringent
standards and enforcement
procedures, arid a tough new
set of permits and licenses,
under the jurisdiction of the
Environmental Protection
Agency, to replace the
antiquated 1899 Refuse Act.
Since the proposed Act
involves such sweeping and
massive aims accompanied by
the expenditure of vast sums of
money, and involves definitely
stated goals for accomplish-
ment of these aims, there are
bound to be a lengthy series of
a m en dme nts of fere d
accompanied by strong debate.
However, I am hopeful that
we Can pass this measure
substantially as it is before the
Easter recess, and that a
conference committee can
bring the previously passed,
but weaker, Senate version of
the Act more in line with this
one.
Much of the future of this
country depends on it.
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