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OPINION
Sapulpa Daily Herald
PAGE FOUR-A
Sudsy. May 1, IMS
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Herald
Publisher Emeritus
IT WAS TOO bad the Citizens
Against Apathy had to call off their
seminar scheduled for this weekend.
No one registered to attend.
NOT MANY people are pathetic
toward procastination. Actually
there's not a great amount of
research on the subject. “I guess
they just didn't get around to it" was
the way a psychology prof told it to
us sometime back
WE'Ll. TRY to have a little more
on this subject later Maybe.
THE LOCAL school system must
be doing some of the things needed
to further learning as suggested by
this week's report by the National
Commission on Excellence in
Education Sapulpa High School this
week had four recent grads initiated
into Phi Beta Kappa at OU That has
to be some sort of a record for a high
school the size of the Rig .Blue. A
credit to the schools, parents, and
the four winners: Gretchen Zum-
walt. Ronald White. Holly Benedict,
and Doug Shipman
MORE TO it than the surface
facts, surely, but seems iroruc that
Budget Director wants $18 million
more appropriated for his office
next year ... so he can save
money."
OKLAHOMA CITY-Approval of
a plan to get the Department of
Human Services through May and
June and a committee's approval of
a beer drinking age bill dominated
this week's action in the House of
Representatives
The resolution lets the department
have the $29 million the Legislature
agreed to transfer to the department
sooner and authorizes cost cutting
measures which will save the
department an estimated $20
million
To head off the possibility that
DHS clients might see their benefits
reduced, the plan authorises the im-
mediate transfer of $9 million to the
department and another $20 million
on June 25.
The Leglslatare had originally in-
tended to give the department the
$29 million on July 1 to start the new
fiscal year.
The money is in the form of a loan
and the plan directs the department
to start paying it back, at the rate of
$3 million a month, beginning Feb. 1,
1984
Cost cutting measures include an
order to reduce personnel through
attrition or layoffs without affecting
vital services.
The personnel reduction includes
a review and reduction of ad-
ministrative personnel in the depart-
ment and at the Oklahoma Teaching
Hospitals The resolution states the
House's intent that administrative
personnel expenses be reduced by
an average of 8 percent
It also directs the closing of any
children's institutions which are no
longer necessary or are a financial
burden. The resolution also
authorizes cutting construction per-
sonnel. selling or leasing property,
selling livestock and equipment, and
disposing of the Whitaker State
School meat packing plant.
It also authorizes the department
to hold at fiscal 1982 levels the reim-
bursement rates connected with
Medicaid for inpatient hospital ser-
vices and payments to nursing
homes
Reimbursement rates for doctors
in the Medicaid program would be
held to the fiscal 1983 rates
The resolution also repeals
previous House and Senate resolu-
tions banning reductions in people or
programs and the changing or clos-
ing of institutions
The resolution was scheduled for
consideration by the Senate on
Thursday.
In related action outside the
Legislature, the Public Welfare
Commission, the department's
governing board, appointed Robert
Fulton as the department’s perma-
nent director. He will succeed
former US. Sen. Henry Bellmon,
who announced he would step dowr
from his temporary appointment ai
director in June.
Fulton is currently the chief
counsel for the U.S. Senate Budget
Committee He assisted Bellmon
when he first became temporary
DHS director.
In committee action this week, the
House Government Operations Com-
mittee approved a "do-pass" recom-
mendation on a committee
mM::> for a Senate bill rnlsing
the minimum beer drinking age to 21
with no exceptions.
The committee substitute also
contains additional provisions
relating to beer consumption and
No recession in a broom market
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Althoigh
1982 was a bad year for some
segments of the economy,
Americans bought aboiX as many
broamcorn brooms as ever.
Make what you will of this
statistic, pointing out, if you must,
that there were no sweeping
changes in the broom market.
Dick West
I personally suspect the nation
was sweeping more dirt wider the
rug than usual, but that is neither
here nor there Even though the
Gross National Product has been
going up. Americans as a whole
clearly are not as gross as they
might be
The raw figures on broom
production and consumption just
released by the U S. International
Trade Commission must be viewed
as heartening. President Reagan, to
whom the report was addressed,
widoubtedly was buoyed by it.
Reagan, you know, is wont to
blame previous a<kninistrations for
creating an economic mess. Despite
high unemployment and other
dispiriting trends, however, there
has been no flagging of the people's
willingness to clear up after
themselves.
Before getting into the details, let
us spend a moment defining our
terms.
Contrary to what the name might
imply, broamcorn is not a type of
corn. It only looks that way.
A commission spokesman iden-
tified broamcorn brooms as the
"common kitchen variety’' that
most sweepers think of as made of
straw.
All dear on that point? Very well.
Let us proceed
Last year, by the commission's
count, Americans wore out 2 million
dozen broomcorn brooms, "in-
eluding whiskbrooms ” That was
about the same number we made
stubble of in 1961.
Nor was there any wholesale
shifting to cheaper brooms,
generally made with plastic and
other synthetic fibers. Consumption
of what the commission calls
"competitive brooms" reminded
virtually unchanged at 1.6 million
dozen.
Meanwhile, production was up
about 4 percent and the domestic
broom industry, unlike the domestic
sales.
The bill, aimed at reducing the
number of traffic fatalities and in-
juries in which young drinking
drivers are involved, is expected to
be considered by the full House in
the near future.
The House passed earlier this ses-
sion a House bill raising the beer
drinking age to 21 which gives
municipalities the option to vote on
whether to lower it to 18,19 or 20.
This week the Senate Policy Com-
mittee voted to replace the House
bill with the Senate bill considered
by the House Government Opera-
tions Committee. It approved a “do-
pass” recommendation on that bill,
which is now up for consideration by
the full Senate.
In other action the House.
—Approved a House-Senate con-
ference committee report on a
House bill requiring law enforce-
ment personnel to launch an im-
mediate investigation when inform-
ed of a mixing child under age 16.
The report now goes to the Senate
for its consideration.
—Approved a bill striking law
causing homeowner’s insurance
rates to expire on a certain date. It
also strikes law giving State Board
for Property and Casualty Rates
authority to review and change
homeowner's insurance rates.
—Approved a bill creating the
Oklahoma Histone Preservation
Review Committee and creating a
state register of histone places.
—Approved a bill requiring per-
mission before entrance to posted
property
—Approved a Senate concurrent
resolution stating the Legislature's
intent that offenders be properly
placed in appropriate correctional
programs
—Approved a bill outlining pro-
cedures for establishing a solid
waste disposal site.
-Approved a House bill amended
by the Senate which modifies the
state minimum wage to follow the
federal minimum and requires
employers to pay adult workers at
least $2 per hour
As always, feel free to call me at
the Capitol (406-621-2711) or at home
224-4840
Biotech creating
life from nothing
Genetic engineering will produce
a whole new harvest of things:
Cornell is already on the way to
making plastic from waste paper...
Rubber from cornstalks. ..
Car fuel from sawdust
That's now: wait’ll you see what's
next!
Paul Harvey
If you could choose a time and
place in all history for yourself and
those you love-this would have to be
the time-and this would have to be
the place.
The wonder world of
biotechnology is creating life—
teensy specks of life-which will
change yours as nothing heretofore
has.
Including food, energy, medicine-
made from “nothing."
Within 25 years biotechnology-in
medicine alone-wili encompass a 23
billion dollar market.
A hormone to help undersize
children grow.
Vaccines against hepatitis,
malaria, rabies, venereal diseases-
Synthetic intrferon, our most pro-
mising cancer "cure" was derived
from genetic engineering
Now the best-educated prognosis
is that we are within 24 months of a
Todays
Almanac
By United Press International
Today is Sunday, May 1, the 121st
day of 1963 with 244 to follow
Hiis is "May Day.”
Hie moon is moving toward its
last quarter.
Hie morning star is Jupiter
Hie evening stars are Mercury,
Venus, Mars and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under
the sign of Taurus.
Actor Glenn Ford was born May 1,
1916. Also born this date were singer
Kate Smith, in 1909 and entertainer
Jack Paar, in 1918.
vaccine to prevent most cancers
On the farm:
Food crops that grow in salty soil,
resist insects and fertilize
themselves
Cattle nutured from handpicked
embryos-matunng beef cattle in six
months-developing milk cows the
size of elephants to produce more
milk, more calves. We can do that
now.
Enzymes to turn waste into useful
sugars and-or alcohol.
Microbes to separate metals from
ore or to extract and purify new oil
from old wells.
Presently there are 46
biotechnology firms in the United
States, more than 3,000 related
patents have been approved. Pro-
duct sales could total three billion
dollars within five years. No fledgl-
ing industry in world history has
grown that much that fast.
Biotechnology makes something
of nothing and compounds itself.
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L.M. Boyd
Thai premier student of the mind, Karl Jixq, said, “A
man thinks he desires many women, but really wants
only one write. A woman thinks she desires only one hus-
band, but really wants many men."
Q. How does the male mall recognize the female?
A. Doesn't have to. Each la both. After they mix and
match, both lay eggs. Then both take off, leaving the
offspring.
The mother with three or more children tends to live
longer than the mother with an only child. Statistically.
What every do-it-yourself husband needs is a get-it-
done wife.
MURDER AND SUICIDE
Murder peaks when suicide is lowest. Suicide peaks
when murder Is lowest. Explain that.
Q. Says here “J” Is the fourth least used letter of the
alphabet. What are the three used even less?
A. Q. X and Z.
If you weigh IK5 pounds, sir, your head most probably
weighs about I) pounds.
Maybe the best lines Mark Twain ever wrote were
those he put on the tombstone of Suiy Clemens: “Green
sod above, lie light, light light. / “Gootfciight, dear heart,
goodnight, gootkiight.”
All roses are bisexual. But discreet.
SCHOOLTEACHERS
That women who teach school are more Ukely than
most to stay married to the same partners has been re-
ported by the statisticians. But they make no attempt to
explain why. Our Love and War man will try. Teaching
trains a person to wall long enough after asking a ques-
tion to hear the answer. This facilitates conversation.
And what's marriage without conversation? Nothing.
King George I, onetime monarch of England, neither
spoke nor wrote the English language. Further, In Ms
13-year reign, he dithi’t even bother to try to learn It.
Some king.
Q Where’s that California street officially named
“Wong Way”?
A. In Wlversldr. Thought t mentioned that.
Some sea scientists contend porpoises first immobil-
ize the fish they find to eat by emitting high frequency
sounds.
Over the bar in that C asablanca saloon known as
Nick's Place Is a sign with simple Instructions: “Brace
Yourself."
Considerably mure passports are Issued 'o women
than to men.
auto industry, was not hard hit by
imports.
Although most broomcorn is
imported from Mexico, interna-
tional trading in the finished product
was pretty much of a standoff.
That an agency of the federal
government has been making
reports such as this for more than 20
years is, of course, a tribute to the
powerful broamcorn broom lobby.
As executive order requiring the
statistical compilations was issued
during the Johnson administration
and is still on the books. Few in-
terest groigis can match that ac-
complishment
A commission spokesman ex-
pressed surprise that the broom
industry did as well as it did during a
recessionary period. Sales had
previously declined and broom
manufacturers were expecting
another slump last year.
A good broom, by the way, now
costs $5 to M. no small item in some
household budgets.
“What with outdoor-indoor car-
peting. electric brooms and the like,
there's never going to be real ex-
plosive growth," one market analyst
told me
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bright Including whiskbrooms
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JOHN HOPPER , headman at
Central Vo-Tech, stole the show Fri-
day at the conclusion of the Sapulpa
Area Chamber of Commerce
Retreat
Instead of making a presentation
about how me Vo-Tech system
works in Creek County, Hopper in-
troduced a young man who is proof
the program is a viable link in
education.
Kevin Fanner, a junior at Sapulpa
High School and currently president
of VICA for North Central
Oklahoma, made Hopper's presen-
tation. The young man presented his
prize winning address that tells the
story of how vocational education is
aiding young people.
KEVIN DID so well before the
Retreat, he was invited to speak
before the Oklahoma House and
Senate before the applause died.
And we asked him for a copy of the
address to reproduce in this space.
Before we turn the Comer over to
Kevin Farmer, let us say Kevin is a
leader at Sapulpa High School. He is
a licensed lay minister with the
Church of God of Prophecy, has
toured with "The Overcomers," a
religious singing group, has started
two years on the Chieftain football
team, and will represent Oklahoma
at the National Skill Olympics in
Louisville, Ky., this summer.
And with that, here is Kevin
Farmer's address, delivered Friday
to the Chamber of Commerce
Retreat.
“AMONG THOSE entering the
American work force today is a new
line of professionals. These profes-
sionals have taken a different ap-
proach to education, for they’ve
leaned a skill and are qualified for a
job in industrry upon completing
school. Today's new professional,
the skilled student, has not only a job
skill though, but has developed a
pride and satisfaction in what they
do, because they recognize both
their usefulness and the usefulness
of higher technology, for industry
and for the bettermen of our national
strength and welfare. Having been
trained in a technical school, they
now set out to face and conquer fron-
tiers of quality workmanship, better
efficiency, and stiff competition.
They are the result of both changing
educational ideas and changing
economic conditions And challeng-
ed with keeping abreast of
technology, they use their education
to help turn the wheels of industry
"America's attitude towards an
education has been slightly altered,
due to the economic conditions of our
country in recent years. Twenty
years ago a college education was
considered irreplacable. It was the
attitude of many that it was ab-
solutely necessary in order to have
both financial security and a produc-
tive life. This attitude resulted in the
current statistic which reveals that
one of four adults in the United
States holds a college degree. Unfor-
tunately, thousands of these are
right now unemployed, because job
openings can’t be found. In fact, the
unemployment rate may be the
single most influential factor in the
rising interest in vocational
technical education.
"In spite of the inability of many
to find jobs though, jobs actually go
begging in various industries and
areas. The biggest obstacle facing
workers today is not the absence of
job openings, but it is the lack of skill
— skill necessary to fill the "new
skilled positions" made available by
higher technology.
"CURRENTLY, EMPLOYERS
are demanding experienced workers
to take retraining courses in order to
remain employable. So If In an effort
to Inform employaes of rapid
technological changes, qualified and
trained individuals must go back to
school, what are the chances of an
unskilled worker being hired? The
answer is very slim. Employers,
naturally, prefer to hire trained ap-
plicants rather than have to provide
the training themselves. In the eyes
of the employer, the skilled student
coming out of a vocational technical
school stands head and shoulders
above the unskilled as a prospective
applicant.
"Industry, however, is searching
for something more than job skills
alone. Employers yearn for skilled
workers with high working stan-
dards and high work ethics, such as
taught by the Vocational Industrial
Clubs of America, or VICA. VICA is
the motivating force maintaining
high standards among students with
vocational goals. Its effectiveness in
producing skilled students ready for
immediate, responsible employ-
ment in industry is recognized by the
respect and appreciation from
employers in industry. Over 200
labor and management organisa-
tions have issued statements in sup-
port of VICA’s goals and purposes in
producing new professionals. Nearly
as important as the basic skills
necessary in order to complete a job
are high principles, honesty and the
ability to cooperate with labor and
management for these are things
which develop a true professional;
"A deep respect for the dignity of
work; The ability to plan together,
organize and carry out worth ac-
tivities and projects through use of
the Democratic process. An en-
thusiasm for learning. An
understanding of the functions of
labor and management organiza-
tions and a recognition of their
mutual interdependence. Along with
a sincere interest in, an esteem for,
trade, industrial, and technical
education.
"STUDENTS WHO participate in
VICA activities can grow spiritually,
mentally, and socially, while
developing the skills necessary to
become a professional. They have
an opportunity to experience total
development, to become leaders,
and to be successful in reaching the
top of that mountain called
potential
“I believe a man was once quoted
in reference to such a mountain as
saying: Being cognizant of the fact
that most people reach the foothill of
their own personal mountain. A few
reach the timberline, still fewer
reach the snowline. And a precious
few reach the peak of the mountain.
I want very much to be among that
least number. I know the view from
the top is great.'
“Today's new professionals see
the current economic limitations, as
well as the opportunities their voca-
tion holds for them, and in spite of
the conditions around them, in spite
of the steepness of the mountain of
opposition which lies ahead of them,
they dedicate themselves, through
diligent study and ardent practice,
to become a worker whose services
will be recognized as honorable by
their employer and fellow workers.
"THE POWER behind the power
of technology. This is today's new
professinals conquering new
frontiers."
Our thanks to Kevin Farmer for
allowing us to publish his address.
Young people like Kevin are the one
tiling Sapulpa and communities like
Sapulpa has going for it.
Providing a reason for the Kevin
Farmers and others to return to
Sapulpa after their formal education
and become a part of the community
is a major undertaking for com-
munity leaders such as the Sapulpa
Chamber of Commerce.
Think about it, and have a good
Sunday.
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