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PACE FOL'R-A—Sfly (Ofcto.) Hm»M, 8—d.y, May J, 1991
OPINION
Auto parts, licensing fees get house action
HOUSE NOTES
By State Representative Mike Tyler
The House this past week examined
amended bills and conference
committee substitutes for bills that
pertained to regulation of industrial
waste disposal sites, consumer protec-
tion, and smoking as a factor in
employment or advancement in the
workplace.
The House on Wednesday adopted
a House/Senate conference committee
substitute for SB 28 by Rep. George
Vaughn and Sen. Ray Giles. That
measure would further restrict the
licensing of, and would raise licensing
fees for, industrial waste disposal
sites.
The House unanimously endorsed a
joint conference committee substitute
far HB 1146, a telecommunications
measure by Rep. Gary Bastin and Sea
Dave Herbert, and sent it to the Senate.
The bill would forbid the use of an
unattended automated system to dial a
telephone number and play an unsoli-
cited recorded message intended to
sell any goods or services or to convey
information about any candidate for
local or state political office.
The House approved a House/
Senate committee substitute for HB
1466, The Aftermarket Crash Parts
Regulation Act, and sent the bill to the
Senate. That measure, by Rep. Lany
Rice aqd Sen. Bemest Cain, would
require disclosure before non-original
manufacturer equipment could be
used to repair damage to a motorist's
vehicle.
The House adopted Senate amend-
ments to HB 1042, which would
permit a Board of County Corranisian-
ers to donate surplus equipment or
other machinery to a political sub-
division in that county needing the
machinery or equipment “to benefit a
significant pan of the public...” The
bill, by Rep. Jeff Hamilton, was
referred to the governor for his
consideration.
The House endorsed a conference
committee substitute forHB 1379, by
rep. Jessie Pilgrim and Sen. Bernice
Shedrick, and referred it to the Senate.
That measure would authorize the
Oklahoma Historical Society to sell
those of its 89 properties that are
declared surplus, or that are deter-
mined “to be beyond the means of the
Society to maintain properly.” The bill
stipulates the sites could be sold only
WASHINGTON <NEA) - In 1980,
this country enjoyt*d a 75 percent
stiare of the global market for semi-
conductors. the thumbnail-size chips
that are the foundation of modern
computer technology Japan's share
at the time was limited to 24 percent
By 1990. this country's share had
shriveled to 36 5 percent less than
half of what it was a decade earlier
Japan's share, however, had more
than doubled to 49 5 percent — in
great measure because that nation's
government has long targeted the
rapidly expanding industry as crucial
to its export-driven economic growth.
Japan's government played a simi-
lar role in snatching control of video
recording technology from the United
States after the California-based
Ampex Corp. invented the means of
preserving television images on mag-
netic tape
Ampex introduced the videotape
recorder (for commercial use) in 1956
and the videocassette recorder (for
home use) in 1970 Although the firm
held virtually all the patents in the
field, mass production in this country
was thwarted by a lack of interest in
commercializing the technology.
But government and corporate
leaders in Japan recognized the
VCR's sales potential, assumed con-
trol of the product and now ship mil-
lion* of units to the United States —'
and other countries around the world
— every year.
Now unfolding are similar develop-
ments that could allow the Japanese
to dominate future production and
marketing of advanced technologies
ranging from flat panel displays
already widely used in portable com-
puters — to high-defimtion television
In the future. Japan's reliance upon
public-private cooperation to target
and aggressively pursue the develop-
ment of nascent technologies is likely
to help it assume similar control of
superconductivity. X-ray lithography,
robotics, optics, biotechnology and
other 21st-century advances
One indication that President Bush
has belatedly recognized a crisis in
the making was the recent White
House designation of 22 technologies
considered crucial to the country's
economic prosperity and national se-
curity — a move that could lead to in-
creased federal funding in those
fields.
But dominating the domestic de-
bate for years have been opponents of
the government-industry cooperation
that might make this country compet-
itive in many fields. That approach,
they argue, constitutes “picking win-
ners and losers’ — a task anathema
to free-market economists and
politicians.
In fact, federal policy-makers al-
ready engage in that practice The
Energy Department, for example, is
prepared to spend $8 billion on a su-
perconducting supercollider — even
though many members of the scientif-
ic community argue that the project
allocates far too large a share of the
government's limited resources to
high-energy physics
Similarly, the White House sup-
ports the modification or elimination
of many restrictioas and prohibitions
on export sales of military aircraft
and other major weapons systems.
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Today in History
Today is Sunday, May 5, the 125th
day of 1991. There arc 240 days left in
the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
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One hundred years ago, on May 5,
1891, Carnegie Hall (then named
“Music Hall’’) had its opening night
in New York City with a concert that
included works conducted by Peter
Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Walter
Damrosch.
On this date:
In 1494, during his second voyage
to the New World, Christopher
Columbus first sighted Jamaica.
In 1818, the political philosopher
Karl Marx was bom in Prussia.
In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died
in exile on the island of St. Helena.
In 1904, Cy Young pitched the
American League’s first perfect game
as the Boston Red Sox defeated the
Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0.
In 1912, the first issue of the Soviet
Communist Party newspaper Pravda
was published. (In the Soviet Union,
where the old-style calendar was still
in effect, the date was April 22nd.)
In 1925, John T. Scopes was
arrested in Tennessee for teaching
Darwin’s theory of evolution.
In 1926, author Sinclair Lewis
rejected the Pulitzer Prize for his novel
“Arrowsmith,” telling the selection
committee in a letter that “all prizes,
like all titles, are dangerous."
In 1942, sugar rationing began in
the United States during World War II.
In 1955, West Germany became a
sovereign state.
In 1955, the baseball musical
“Damn Yankees’* opened on
Broadway.
In 1961, 30 years ago, astronaut
Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s
first space traveler when he made a
15-minute sub-orbital flight in a
capsule launched from Cape Canaver-
al, Fla.
In 1980, a siege at the Iranian
embassy in London ended as British
commandos and police stormed the
building.
In 1987, the congressional Iran-
Contra hearings opened with former
Air Force Major Gen. Richard V.
Secord the lead-off witness.
In 1987, the federal government
began a yearlong amnesty program,
offering citizenship to illegal aliens
who met certain conditions.
In 1988, the Most Rev. Eugene
Antonio Marino became the nation’s
first black Roman Catholic archbishop
during an installation Mass in the
Atlanta Civic Center.
Ten years ago: Irish Republican
Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands
died at the Maze Prison in Northern
Ireland in his 66th day without food.
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groups that agree to maintain the sites
”in the best interest of historic
preservation..."
The House concurred with a Senate
Amendment to kB 1513, the Munici-
pal and County Industrial Develop-
ment Bonds Act by Rep. Danny
Williams and Sea Ted Fisher, and
sent the measure to the governor.
The bill would regulate the sale and
issuance of of city and county indust-
rial development bonds. Among other
things it would raise, from 6% to 14%,
the “cap” on the interest rale that cities
and counties could pay investors who
buy the bonds. The House unanim-
ously adopted Senate amendments to
HB 1734, by Rep. Danny Williams
tnd Sen. Dick Wilkenon, and sent the
bill to the governor for his
consideration.
That measure decrees that whenev-
er state prisoners are to be employed
on a public works project, preference
shall be accorded inmates who have a
high school diploma.
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That initiative is specifically de-
signed to provide assistance to a de-
fense industry fearful of losing do-
mestic sales because of constricted
Pentagon budgets in future years
But the Bush administration has
displayed little similar concern for
other industries Indeed, it has al-
lowed Japanese corporations to pur-
chase approximately 20 of this coun-
try's manufacturers of
semiconductor production equipment
and materials
Says the chairman of one of the nu-
merous federal advisory commissions
that in recent years have warned of
the dire consequences likely to stem
from the current approach:
“If this vital industry is allowed to
wither away, the nation will pay a
price measured in millions of jobs
across the entire electronics field,
technological leadership in many al-
lied industries such as telecommuni-
cations and computers and the techni-
cal edge we depend on for national
security.’
Rep. Mel Levine. D-Calif., is far
more blunt in his analysis: "We have a
frightening situation in which the
ideologues in this administration are
trying to dismantle the most impor-
tant programs which focus on the
kev technologies of the future."
M. Boyd
Picket
fences
YMCA part of Sapulpa
during railroad boom
MUSEUM NOTEBOOK
Seaside is a young Florida town on
the gulf between Pensacola and Pana-
ma City where every house is required
to have a picket fence painted in one of
13 shades of white. With no fence
identical in shade to any other fence in
the same block on the same street.
"Erotiphobia” is the polysyllabic
version of “fear of sex.” Incidentally,
if a word doesn’t have more than three
syllables, it’s not Polysyllabic.
Not once in more than a century has
Great Britain had a major bank failure,
say the money watchers. The U.S.
banking system was based on
Britain’s. For awhile there.
Some birds lay pear-shaped eggs.
Especially cliff-nesting birds. Clever
rascals! Their eggs roll in circles, so
not off the cliffs.
Debate continues over why some
women seem to invest more wisely
than most men. An authority on the
matter says, “Women think of money
as a tool, like a can opener. Men think
of money as both a tool and a status
symbol, like a fuel-injected turbo can
opener.”
Q. How many unmarried couples
over age 45 arc living together in the
United States now?
A. About 400,000 according to
informed gucsscrs.
You say you’ve never heard of a
beaver without a tail? Such there be.
Native to the Caribbean island country
of Dominica. Thai’s also the habitat of
the worlds largest sort of parrot.
Would you go for a steamed spleen
sandwich on deep-fried bread? That’s
said to be a popular specialty in Sicily.
It was Martin Luther King, Jr., who
said, “That old law about ‘an eye for an
eye’ leaves everybody blind."
Sugar
You’ve heard that a spoonful of
sugar will cure the hiccups. A medico
says, “What docs it is not the sweet-
ness, but the rough texture sending a
barrage of signals through the throat’s
nerves.”
If you drink three and a half cups of
coffee a day, you’re keeping up with
the national average, according to the
latest statistics.
by VIRGINIA NEVIN LANE
Dean Coale, band master, gave me band pictures for the museum! Big Beauti-
ful Blue Band of 1990, and one of the band at the Phoenix Fiesta Bowl.
I wanted them framed before they got lost or tom and Jack Foley, Jim
Hubbard, Glen Cole, Ed Higgins, Jim McReynolds and Nancy McCullough
footed the bill for the framing, which we got from Shirley at Indian Territory
Gallery at a discount. Bless all their cotton-pickin’ hearts.
If you had someone in the band last year, come in and point him/her out to us.
Thirty years ago today Alan Sheppard took a 15-minute joy ride into outer
space. He says that the 33 hours he spent on the moon 10 years later weren’t as
exciting, (I can imagine) although more satisfying. I wish everyone could have
an exciting 15-minute slice of life to think back on and savor as he docs.
We have destroyed many objects of histoi ical interest. One, our depot and
another our YMCA
Sapulpa became an important “Y” with the extension of the Frisco line to
Oklahoma City in 1889 (the year Oklahoma was opened to settlement) and wiih
the leg south to Red River and Denison in 1901.
The railroad bought land from the Indians and built a combination Harvey
House and depot, one of the most beautiful in the nation, and in 1901 offered to
pay two thirds of the cost of a $6,000 YMCA building.
This was built in 1905 and included a reading room, a lecture hall, sleeping
rooms and a gym. Also a swimming pool. The building was located not far from
the depot.
In 1929 the roundhouse was moved to Tulsa and in 1934 the YMCA building,
no longer useful (so they said), was tom down.
The first YMCA was started in 1844 in London, England, by George
Williams, a 22-ycar-old dry-goods clerk. What began as a small gathering of
clerks for prayer and Bible study became an international movement with
sophisticated facilities containing gyms, libraries and swimming p<x>ls.
For 140 years the YMCA have been an integral part of American life with its
programs dedicated to improving the mind, body and spirit, as depicted in their
old logo. The YMCA is the country’s largest provider of day care, health and
fitness services and single-resident occupancy rooms.
Today YMCAs can be found in 103 countries providing everything from
computer classes to refugee resettlement, day camp to agricultural projects.
By the way, has anyone seen a firefly (lightning bug) lately?
Berry's World
Barb Wire
The public may now be more inter-
ested in louring Walter’s bathroom
instead of the Blue Room.
State employees can no longer take
home state vehicles, even riding
lawnmowcrs.
Some state employees abused stale
vehicles as seen by “Oklahoma State
Car Parking Only" signs at Disney
World.
Slate employees say they’re saving
the state money by taking home cars so
the batteries won’t go dead.
Bcllmon was tough on taking home
state vehicles, especially tractors.
Wallers drives a Buick with an
extended roof so he won’t need
another one for his ego to ride in.
Walters is a small town boy who
made good, or the opposite of
Bcllmon.
A recession would be over faster if
they laid off some government.
Just to make sure he stays out of
trouble, David Walters called David
Hall for advice.
Travel abuse cues up bull detector
^-
Curmudgeons have a special appre-
ciation for a travel abuse scandal It
affords a wonderful opportunity to
fine-tune their bull detectors.
Take the controversy swirling
around White House Chief of Staff
John Sununu Thanks to The Washing-
ton Post and U.S. News & World Re-
port, we now know that Sununu has
been hopping across the continent
aboard a military aircraft for all
sorts of political and personal pur-
poses. including ski trips and many
visits to his home state of New Hamp-
shire, which he reportedly hopes to
represent in the U.S Senate some day.
In the past two years, he has flown
a military plane on nearly 80 trips —
only four of which, he says, were per-
sonal and required reimbursement.
The taxpayers are coughing up $3,945
for every hour His Royal Personage
Sununu is aloft in his Air Force C-20
twin-engine jet - more than $500,000
to date. He has even flown to Boston
to see his dentist. His goldanged
dentist!
Mind you, there are dentists aplen-
ty in Washington, DC., and the best
dentists in the universe are at the
nearby Institute of Dental Research,
where Sununu could go if he had a
unique problem But HRP had to fly
to Boston. He “reimbursed” us, you
understand. He got an entire con-
founded jet plane for the cost of a coa-
ch ticket There’s a formula for calcu-
lating it: GC minus SR equals IYETP.
Government Cost ($14,000 for two
trips to the dentist), minus Sununu’s
Reimbursement ($900), leaves an In-
Your-Ear-Taxpayer Payment of
$13,100
I digress. Sorry. The point is, the
bull that's being flung about to ex-
plain Sununu's free travel is some of
the finest stuff to be found on the
planet. Curmudgeons can hone in on it
and calibrate their detectors to a hun-
dredth of a degree.
At first, the White House said Sun-
unu was required to fly the Pentagon
plane because he had to maintain
“immediate voice contact” with the
White House. The president might die,
said press secretary Marlin Fitz-
water, and Sununu “has responsibil-
ities under the various rules and regu-
lations for putting together the
government and making sure things
flow well and that sort of thing." I got
my relatively simple, short-range de-
tectors tuned on that one.
Then Fitzwater claimed that a 1987
memorandum signed by Ronald Rea-
gan — a respected authority on ethi-
cal matters — "authorized” the chief
of staff to take military aircraft. But
overnight, the White House reas-
sessed HRP Sununu's importance,
and the next day announced that the
policy “required” the aircraft be
used. I got my medium-range detec-
tor with the rechargeable battery
tuned up that time
While all this was going on, a lot of
mediocre sludge was being shoveled
at the public. Sununu flies commer-
cial every chance he gets, somebody
said. Very unnotable slop. “So what if
he combines some skiing with legiti-
mate business," one official told U.S.
JOE
SPEAR
News Weak, very weak. “If we’re go-
ing to investigate travel for the ad-
ministration," said Rep Steve Gun-
derson, R-Wis., then “we ought to also
scrutinize the Congress"
That's a sound idea, especially in
the springtime, when the lawmakers
are smitten with the wanderlust vi-
rus They routinely hop aboard mili-
tary aircraft and head for the world’s
hot spots - London. Paris, Rome -
and the excuses they offer to explain
their galavanting are often hooey of
extraordinary quality But pointing
fingers at Congress is an unsophisti-
cated diversionary tactic and of no
use in calibration exercises.
The purest stuff was offered up by a
former assistant to the president who
told The Washington Post that early
in Bush's tenure. Sununu had to be
persuaded to use the military planes
The chief of staff “wasn’t convinced it
was necessary," said the former aide,
and he only agreed to do it after the
president tried to reach him on a com-
mercial flight and couldn’t.
I got my super-deluxe, ultra-high-
frequency modulating detector per-
fectly tuned with that one.
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