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PAGE FOUR—Sapulpa (Okla.) Herald, Monday, March 1, 1993
Editorials
Alienation
Bits and pieces of information coming from the Oklahoma
Water Resources Board suggest that the last group the
OWRB is interested in serving is the people of Oklahoma.
The state agency seems to be delighted over the position it
has acquired related to the sale of water from the Sardis
Reservoir. It apparently doesn’t want any involvement of
Sardis-area residents or their elected representatives in the
negotiation of the water sale.
And the Sardis Lake Water Authority believes that water
needs of the immediate area are not primary considerations
when other plans are being made.
Excess water from Sardis must be sold. It is foolish to think
otherwise. It is a valuable commodity, one that will become
increasingly valuable in the future....
The most recent accomplishment involving Sardis water is
an example of the problems and potential dangers encoun-
tered by Sardis-area residents.
The Sardis Lake Water Authority has received a $3.7
million loan to provide water for additional customers. The
authority has no assurances, however, that it will be able to
fulfill its obligations to customers during a time of drought.
The conflict that exists in the minds of Sardis-area resi-
dents is directly related to the high-handed attitude of
representatives of the OWRB.
I he agency should want the confidence of Sardis residents
as it conducts negotiations. Instead, it appears to be doing all
it can to alienate them.
The Daily McAlester News-Capital And Democrat
Patronage costs
In times of state budgets, new ways to generate revenue
without raising taxes should be the order of the day. A good
way to pick up considerable cash would be giving operation
of tag agencies to the Oklahoma Tax Commission or the
Department of Public Safety.
In Oklahoma, tag agent jobs are political patronage. Sena-
tors dole them out in 74 of the state’s 77 counties. The agents
make a profit from operating the tag offices. The amount
must be considerable because when a tag agent is stripped of
the job, they fight like tigers to get it back.
Such is the case in Delaware County, where Jane Allen
was replaced by Delbert Hendren by Sen. Rick Littlefield, D-
Grove. Allen was appointed to the tag agency post by former
state Sen. Clem McSpadden. Allen claims Littlefield called
her in December, informing her of his decision. Allen kept
the license plates and computers used at the agency.
Allen says she believes state senators should not control
who gets to be tag agents, even though that’s the way she got
the job. We agree. Using an appointment to repay a political
favor is bad business. It is unfair. It is costly. Historically, tag
agencies have been a hotbed of waste and corruption. Most
tag agents are honest, hard-working people. But those who
aren’t cost Oklahoma mightily. Remember former state legi-
slator Finis Smith and his wife? They were convicted of
multiple counts of defrauding the state through a tag agency.
Oklahoma should operate its own tag agencies, as most
states do. By cutting out the middle man, the state would
receive a large infusion of revenue without raising license
and transfer fees. The governor has proposed raising vehicle
registration fees so state troopers can have a pay raise. That
raise and more could easily be covered from tag-agent profit.
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Barb Wire
Clinton’s wife took back her maiden
name and half the west wing.
Hil lary Clinton is in charge of a medi-
cal health plan and makes it tough on
bottle blondes in Little Rock.
About the only airlines that aren’t in
trouble are the ones that have already
gone undei.
American Airlines lost more money
than most third world countries have
for a budget.
The U.S. won’t let foriegn AIDS
patients in, but will let our AIDS
patients leave.
The big question hasn’t come up at
the White House: Has socks been
neutered?
Opinion
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Jay. D. Hair
Old forests in danger
Scything the Pacific Northwest's
ancient forests down to the remain
ing centuries old stands has taken
decades, but the cut has been unre
lenting. "Saw-timber volume of the
Douglas fir region is being depleted
about lour times as fast as it is being
replaced by growth." the government
reported B0 years ago in its first area
survey.
With that harvest now risen to
crisis. President Clinton has
promised to convene a forest summit
to map a future for the region's old
growth timber The summit can come
none too soon The Northwest is
gripped in controversy over logging
jobs, dearcuts and the threatened
Northern spotted owl. The courts arc
running the public forests Federal
agencies that manage the fotVsts are
at each others' throats Congress has
already tried and failed to find a so
lotion
now be made
Throughout the I98(ts. timber in
dustry giants reduced employment
through automation and moved op
erations to private stands in the
South even as 70,000 acres of North
west ancient forest were clearcut,
each year. Their timber is selling
today at an all time premium. Hut
thousands of individual loggers, small
null owners, their lamilies and com
mumtics stand to bear the brunt of a
decision to stop the cut
In January' the administration con
taeted 2.0011 individuals and organi/a
lions seeking advice on how the
summit should proceed The environ
mental community responded with a
set of principles and a proposed
process, says Jim Owens, executive
director ol the Western Ancient
Forest Campaign.
Citing wiidide and salmon stocks
being pushed Inward extinction as
legislative and administration
changes to implement the summit's
findings. This process is designed to
minimize the political pressures that
have polarized previous attempts to
resolve the issue Owens believes the
work could be complete by year's end
The timber industry favors a more
ol the same approach Mark Key. Na
tional Forest Products Association
vice president lor forest resources,
says the summit should consist ol
members of the administration and ol
the Northwest congressional delega
tion. who should gather information
and submit a plan lo Congress which
would make the final decisions This
approach would not only maximize po
litical pressures, hut is almost exact
ly the one that resulted in abject
failure to produce a solution only a
lew months ago
Both sides do agree that job re
training and other assistance should
Mr. Clinton’s challenge is to convert years of confrontation into
answers that will serve the Northwest, the ancient forests and the
nation as a whole.
Resolving this acrimony is the
president's demanding forest summit
goal
The basics have been clarified
during years of simmering conflict
Gone is H5 percent of the low and
high elevation ancient forest that
once covered HO million acres of
Oregon. Washington and Northern
California west of the Cascade Mono
tains, Felled to dearcuts. much ol the
land was belatedly converted to tree
farms that won't yield a crop until
well into the next century Some of
that land is so steep and eroded that
foresters can't get much more than
scrub to grow there Hither way. the
ancient forests, once gone, won't be
seen again
Of what's left, 17 million ancient
forest acres are public land where the
decision to conserve or to cut must
"representative of what's happening
to many species," Owens says, the
forests have lost their integrity in
much of the Northwest We have nat
ural systems throughout the area that
are unraveling " To keep the threads
from coming completely apart, envi
ronmentalists are urging above all
that the summit base its decisions on
scientific evidence Once such an as
sessment identifies those forests that
should best be spared Irom logging,
including those on the east side of the
Cascades, they should be placed in
permanent ancient lores! reserves.
To make these assessments, a blue
ribbon commission, chaired by a
former president or U S. Supreme
Court justice, should gather evidence
for recommendations to a Cabinet
level committee named by Mr Clin
ton. This group, in turn, should ylfer
be provided to those who lose work in
any transition that curtails logging in
Northwest ancient forests
The issues facing the summit, how
ever President Clinton formulates it.
are contentious Chances lor eonsen
sus are vanishingly small The timber
industry, for example may try to use
the process to wedge open an assault
on the Hndangered Species Act. a
tactic environmentalists will oppose
Environmentalists will urge a ban on
raw log exports to keep timber-relat-
ed jobs at home, a move the industry
will light
Mr Clinton's challenge is to face all
this squarely, structure a summit that
will get the job done, and convert
years of confrontation into answers
that will serve the Northwest, the an
cient forests and the nation as a
whole.
Ben Wattenberg
NYC needs the Post
In recent weeks New York City was
in danger of becoming one more mono
chrome, monotone, monotonous me-
tropolis. The New York Post, one of the
so-called “racy tabloids," almost died I
offer here a belated Valentine and a Get
Well card to an old friend
When I was a boy in the Bronx in the
1940s my father (now 93) brought the
Post home every evening, along with
The New York Times and a Yiddish
paper. I would grab the Post from him.
(lop down on the floor, and consume it,
cover to cover, sports first, then the gos
sipers. the news and the great colum
nists
(I wanted to be like Brooklyn Dodger
center fielder Pete Reiser when I grew
up. letter, I wanted to be like the Post’s
Jimmy Cannon, the supreme sports
writer of the time. Now I appear in the
Post, on the op-ed page, but even there
it is an honor.)
The Post is known for its screaming
and poetic front page headlines'. “Heud-
less Body in Topless Bar" and “Best
Sex I Ever Had" (Marla Maples on
Donald Trump). But its uniqueness is
found on the editorial and op-ed pages.
In the '40s New York had nine
newspapers. The Post was the only
one that could be called “liberal."
Today only The New York Times is
stable; the Daily News almost per-
ished, but is recuperating; Long
Island's Newsday is moving in,
slowly. And only the Post could be
called “conservative.” There are a lot
A
of New Yorkers, and Americans, who
have made a similar political journey
Being a conservative paper in a lib
eral media town means, for example,
supporting the citizen revolt to oust
Joseph Fernandez, the chancellor of
New York’s public schools Fernandez
bought the politically correct propose
tion that first graders deserve books
pushed by the gay lobby, with titles
like "Heather Has Two Mommies,"
"Daddy's Roommate” and “Gloria
Goes to Gay Pride." The other papers
supported Fernandez But he is now
history, dumped by affronted parents
Being a conservative paper in a lib
cral media town means voicing outrage
and pushing the story of a black activist
boycott of a Korean store, and winning
awards for it It means being the only
paper to support the non liberal 49 per-
cent loser in the 1989 mayoralty race
(Rudolph Giuliani, a likely winner in
• 993)
Since 1950, while the population of the
U.S grew by about 40 percent, the
number of daily newspapers declined by
12 percent Many big cities have lost
their alternative voice Los Angeles is
now a one-paper town, so is Dallas, St.
Louis, Buffalo, Sati Antonio, New Or-
leans. Cleveland, Austin, Oakland and
Miami, just for starters. These commu-
nities can offer, in print, only a one-way
vision of what’s going on.
New York may be the most parochial-
insulated-liberal spot in America. Alas,
it is also home for the three big televi
sion networks, whose outlook is in
evitably shaped by what appears in the
papers If it became a one viewpoint city,
Americans everywhere would sense it in
their living rooms
Indeed, television has caused much of
the grief of newspapers Video can give
us the news quickly. But it hasn’t fig
ured out a way to have an editorial page
or an op-ed page
After a brush with death-by debt, it
looks as if the Post will survive One of
the heroes was Gov. Mario Cuomo, a fre
quent target of the Post, who led a
search for a last-minute buyer. The
unions cooperated A moment before
termination an investor was found,
Steven Hoffenberg. He too had financial
troubles, but now he has a healthy part
ner, Abraham Hirschfeld. Hoffenberg
says the paper is now ready to go into
“fast forward. "
The tough editorial policy will
remain in place, directed by Editorial
Page Editor Eric Breindel The new
editor-in-chief at the Post, super-star
columnist Pete Hamill, is no conser-
vative Hamill has always written like
a dream, and believes he can make a
tabloid sing the song of the city. And
why can't a noisy paper also entertain
and educate? I think he can do it.
New York, like many of our big
cities, is tense, violent and polarized
The frustration level is sky-high When
ail sides get their views heard, it’s
better. Cacophony beats monotony.
Joseph Spear
Reagan
has gall
I am certain it is me and not the
language that is deficient, but I cannot
find a word that adequately describes
Ronald Wilson Reagan
On the morning after Bill Clintog
declared war on the deficit, the
former president published a rebuttal
on the op ed page of his favonte news-
paper. The New York Times Below a
headline which read "There They Go
Again." the Old Cowpoke proclaimed
his desire to support Clinton But
shucks, the New Democrat was just
too much like the old kind and that
set the Gipper's blood to boiling “I
can't refrain any longer," he declared
as he drew his newly oiled six guns
and began firing
Bam The way this Clinton crowd
was criticizing the decade over which
he presided was unbearable “I hate
to confuse their economic thinking
with a few facts, but if they were to
look at the 1980s. they would find that
America experienced its longest
period of peacetime expansion in our
history '
Bam' Clinton's "promise of a tax
cut has not only been broken but it
has been reversed into a tax in-
crease "
Bam' "We must also listen for the
sound of the other shoe to drop The
Clintons' health program
Bam' “Deficits are caused by
spending By the very terms of our
Constitution, only Congress has the
power to spend '
Bam’ Bam' “It's the big spending
liberals controlling Congress who
need to ... ‘sacrifice' a few of the pork,
barrel measures they've been slipping
past the taxpayers.”
Despite his reputation as a
straight shooter. Old Ron has always
had a little trouble with his aim and
someone has had to trudge along
behind to patch up the wounded in-
nocent It gets to be a grind after a
while, but what the hey Here goes.'
The 1980s were prosperous only
because Ronald Reagan mortgaged
the future, and the bill is coming due
now When he assumed office, the ac-
cumulated debt of 200 years stood at
$997 9 billion He went on a borrow-
and spend rampage and by the time
he departed, the national debt was
$2 9 trillion He tripled the damn thing
and ran the annual interest up from
$96 billion to $241 billion His loyal suc-
cessor drove the debt up another tril-
lion and ran the annual rental up to
$300 billion
I know you saved us from the Com-
mies. guys, but was it necessary to de-
stroy the country in order to save it1
Ah, Ron. I think you forgot the
jumbo tax hike excuse me, "rev-
enue enhancement" package — you
laid on us in 1982
Health program'' I forgot, Gipp,
what was yours? The DCS'' Oh yes.
the Don’t Get Sick plan
The notion that Congress is re
sponsible for the deficit is the mother
of all misconceptions. Presidents
submit budgets, Congress tinkers with
and approves them In eight years,
Ronald Reagan never once — not
once proposed a budget that paid
for itself In eight years, the budgets
he submitted lo Congress called for a
cumulative total of $1 1141 trillion in
deficit spending In eignt years. Con
gress actually gave him $48 1 billion
eliminating
“pork barrel" spending would signifi
canliy reduce the deficit is the step
mother of all misconceptions Go
ahead, cut it out No wait, cut out the
entire domestic side of the govern-
ment — $214 billion worth of agencies
and bureaus Cut out the White House
the Congress, the Cabinet depart
ments, the whole bloody mess Know
what you’d be left with this year
alone7 A deficit of about $113 billion
L.M. Boyd
leas than he requested
— The notion that
Testing
armor
Makers of military armor centuries
ago testing their metal clothing by
firing guns at it. Dents in same were
called “dent marks.” Men who
bought such armor wanted dents not
holes.
Noted that sage Logan P. Smith: “ I
have been a success: for 60 years I
have eaten and have avoided being
eaten.”
Q. The more money you have, the
more likely you are going to be
injured in a home accident, accordiM
to the statisticians. Why?
A. The more money you have the
more likely you’ll go to a medial
facility for treatment, thus mitpy
y°u case into the records.
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