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PAGE FOUR—Sapulpa (Okie.) Herald, Monday, June 8, 1992
The public speaks
Question:
What is your opinion of the new way of
collecting toll on the Turner Turnpike?
Opinion
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By the Herald Staff
What do you think of the new
system of taking tolls that is being
instituted on the Turner Turnpike on
June 17?
Response to that question varied but
the majority seemed to feel it was not a
good change.
“I guess it’s okay,” said Maurice
Gregory
Hill of Bristow. “I haven't really heard
much about it.”
Hill said he uses the turnpike fairly
often.
“We’ll get on at Kcllyvillc and go to
Tulsa,” he said
Bemiccc Gregory of Sapulpa
disagrees.
“I don’t think much of that idea,”
she said. “I think it is just more trouble
to people who are driving the
turnpike.”
Charlene Cox of Sapulpa says she
thinks the price is getting ridiculous.
“If the new way of collecting tolls is
supposed to be more efficient, why is it
costing more money?” she said.
Basil Baker of Bristow said he
didn’t have time to tell everything he
Balm-
thinks about the new toll system.
“I live in Bristow. We take the turn-
pike frequently to Tulsa. I didn’t see
anything wrong with the way it was.”
Baker said he feels the new system
will make things much more
complicated.
"I just deplore it,” he said. “Only
people who don’t use the turnpikes
could make rules like that.”
L M. Boyd
Clam lives
150 years
A Princeton professor reports the
clam is sexually active all of its life.
Other clam experts say they can
figure out the age of a clam by check-
ing its shell’s growth rings. They now
know many a clam lives 150 years.
Intensive research goes on.
Report is an eagle in Florida's
Busch Gardens eats sausage, but only
if it’s encased to look like a snake.
In Scotland, I’m told, it would not
be unseemly to order your breakfast
oatmeal topped off with Scotch.
According to the market research-
ers, only two out of five kitchen
mechanics ever set the timers on their
ranges.
ODD DRAWER
A Never-Use-Again drawer is
where you put unsentimental items
you want to keep even though you
know you’ll never use them again.
Such as old wallets not entirely
emptied, keys to forgotten locks, and
address books with names from other
times in other places. What else is in
your Never-Use-Again drawer?
“Nude” is the third most popular
shade of nylon stocking. “Taupe” is
second. “Black” is first. So say the
marketers.
Q.DId you ever find out If
Mozart had an affair with Marie
Antoinette?
A.That whimsical notion arose
because he said he intended to marry
her someday. He was 6 and she was
7.
Understand a lot people in Europe
eat crows. Or used to.
GOURMET REPORT
Many a reporter would like to
study up to become the newspaper's
restaurant critic. But that distinctively
refined specialty wears thin-makc
that wears fat-quickly. So says one so
assigned. “Gourmet dinners become
tiresome,” adds this worthy. “You get
so what you really want is just a good
pizza and a beer.”
Another way to lose weight: If
you’re right-handed, cat with your
left hand. If you’re left-handed, eat
with your right hand. A diet authority
says that ought to do it.
It was in a 1980 decision that the
U.S. Supreme Court formally ruled
that the game of basketball is a
contact sport.
The cucumber and the cantaloupe
are related. A cross of the two, when
preserved in the traditional manner, is
called a “pickclope”.
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CHEROKEE
TRIBE NAME: Cherokee is theapproved anglicized form of the
name rendered "Tsalagi” in the Cherokee language, a name
found spelled in nearly fifty different ways in historical records.
LANGUAGE: Cherokee is distantly related to the Northern
Iroquoian language including Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida and
Seneca-Cayuga.
CULTURE: Generally, Cherokee culture and spirituality is
based upon respect for the forces of nature and the
environment.
HISTORY: Traditional and historical evidence prove the tribe
once lived on the upper sources of the Ohio River south of the
Iroquois, who were their bitter enemies. The Cherokees later
entered the Tennessee region.
Westward expansion of the European colonies in the 18th
century forced the Cherokees to concede more and more land to
settlers. In 1835, the Treaty of Echota provided for the forced
relocation of the entire tribe to Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
Seventeen thousand Cherokee people took the tragic walk
across what is now known as the 'Trail of Tears" to Oklahoma.
The journey claimed 4,000 lives by the lime it ended in March,
1839.
Despite much struggle, the Cherokee Nation prospered in
Indian Territory.
CHARACTERISTICS: Liberal, just and shrewd in business
dealings, the Cherokee people were most often described as
steady and dignified and were noted for their bravery and
courage in defense of their country and in the maintenance of
their rights as a people.
MOST FAMOUS MALE: Sequoyah
MOST FAMOUS FEMALE: Chief Wilma Mankiller
CURRENT TRIBAL ROLL: 129,301
KEY POPULATION AREAS: 14 counties in northeastern
Oklahoma surrounding the Tahlequah area.
TOP EVENTS: Sept. 3 - 6: Cherokee National Holiday
Tahlequah; Oct. 17 - 18: Tahlequah Intertribal Festival
Tahlequah.
TRIBAL HEADQUARTERS: For more information write the
Cherokee Nation, P. O. Box 948, Tahlequah, Oklahoma 74464 or
call 918/456-0671.
Brought to you by this publication and
the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department
505 Will Rogers Bldg., Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4492
Information provided by the Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission
Sound familiar? A ‘tru’ man of our time
Does this sound familiar?
As the presidential campaign
opens, it becomes apparent that it
will not be a two-party contest. Many
Americans want to nominate a man
whose positions they do not know. The
incumbent president is trashed by the
press, his coalition is flying apart, and
his approval ratings are down below
40 percent.
We re talking about 1948, not 1992,
but there are lessons that apply. The
man with no positions is not Ross
Perot, but Dwight Eisenhower. The
president is not George Bush, but Har-
ry Truman. And the story is vividly
told in David McCullough’s wonderful
new epic biography, “Truman* (Si-
mon L Schuster, 830).
Old Harry is in the pits as the elec-
tion year begins. But he understands
America. He knows Americans want
to like their president, and that they
like plain people, not politicians, and
certainly not congressmen. He knows
that the president can control some
events, to his benefit. He know* that
most Americans admire common-
man Democrats, not liberal Demo-
crats. And he knows that Americans
like "outsiders* — even if he’s the
president whose party has controlled
the White House for 10 years!
So Harry Truman geta in his choo-
choo-train for long "whistle-stop"
trips, bashing the Republican Con-
gress, and everywhere he goes, the
crowd yells “Give ’em hell, Harry.*
Which he does. "You are the gov-
ernment," he says. “The government
belongs to you and me as private citi-
zens.... This is a crusade of the people
against the special interests.... And:
"You are the government, I am only
your hired servant...."
(And you thought Ross Perot made
that stuff up all by himself.)
The crusading president takes
tough actions. He desegregates the
armed forces and eliminates dis-
BEN
WATTENBERG
crimination in the civil service. A
third-party candidate, segregationist
Strom Thurmond, challenges him.
(Truman will low some small South-
ern states because of his stand - and
will win some non-small, non-South-
em states, like Ohio, Illinois and per-
haps California - by the margin of
the heavily pro-Truman Negro vote.)
Pundit Arthur Krock writes: The
president’s influence is weaker than
any president’s has been in modem
history.’ But Truman decides to stand
up to the Soviet blockade of Berlin.
The resulting Berlin airlift sends a
We need sense of community
muscular signal that America is in
the global arena to stay and to play.
It’s good policy and good politics,
even though it disturbs the soft-on-
the-Soviets former vice president,
Henry Wallace, who mounts s presi-
dential campaign, fervently backed
by trendy Lefties.
Truman blasts out his homespun
liberal credo: “We must fight isola-
tionists and reactionaries, the profi-
teers sad the privileged class.... Our
primary concern is for the little fel-
low....’ He denounces Wall Street
"bloodsuckers’ sod the “Republican
gluttons of privilege ... cold men ...
cunning men... (who) want a return of
the Wall Street economic dictator-
ship.” And always, Truman reminds
the voters of how far they’ve come
economically, after enduing hard
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There are lessons to be learned.
George Bush should blast out his
own credo, if he can figure out what It
la. Say something bracing, Mr. Presi-
dent, even that America never had it
w good. Bill Clinton can trot out a lit-
tle more class warfare if he can keep
It away from gitchy-goo leftism. Ross
Perot should learn that isolationism is
a big-time loser. And the scribbling
class might remember that even
weak presidents have power.
How does it end? In early Septem-
ber of 1941, SO pundits are surveyed.
By 80-0, they predict Dewey will win.
Truman says to an aide: “I know ev-
ery one of these SO fellows. There isn’t
one of them has enough sense to pound
sand in a rat hole.*
The polls tighten. Could this four-
man race end up being decided In tbs
House of Representatives. No. Tte
dominoes fall in rows, as they usually
do. Truman, the common-sense Dem-
ocrat, the outsider, the incumbent (a
Uttle bit of Bush, Clinton and Perot)
wins the popular vote 50 percent to 45
percent. The electoral vote goes SOS-
189 for Truman.
And wise-guy actress Tallulah
Bankhead wires Truman: Tbs people
have put you In your place.”
If it is true as Plutarch said that no-
ble spirits shine in times of disaster
and ill fortune, then our sense of de-
cency is surely being tested by the
sturm and drang of January and May.
I speak of storms and riots, and
please bear with me while I try to pull
it all together.
Let's begin with the drang of May.
In effect, we are told, the Los Angeles
rampage lifted the lid on a refuse con-
tainer and let us peer at the rot and
ruin we let our cities become during
the greedy ’80s. The riots inspired
thousands of urban dwellers to join a
save-our-cities march on Washington,
during which scores of mayors and lo-
cal officials demanded that Congress
pass a |3S billion urban aid package.
“This is a matter of national securi-
ty,” said Baltimore Mayor Kurt
Schmoke. "Love us! Love us as much
as we love you!"
The sturm of January was a north-
up th
and devastated the beaches of Mary-
easter that swept
East Coast
land and Delaware. Dunes, roads,
businesses and homes were ripped up
and washed away. A federally subsi-
dized 844 million beach replenish-
ment project in Ocean City, Md., suf-
fered a serious setback as sand that
had recently been pumped from the
sea washed back into it. And how did
the unaffected react to the affected?
When the U S. Senate was consider-
ing 82 billion in emergency funds for
the cities — less than 6 percent of
what the U.S. Conference of Mayors
says is needed - Sen. Trent Lott, R-
Miss , denounced the legislation as a
‘political Titantic." Rep. Newt Ging-
rich, R-Ga. — the loudmouthed legis-
lator who thrives on driving “wedges”
between interest groups — whined
that "there is no political base in this
country for taxing rural and suburban
voters and sending the money to big-
city mayors.*
When the tides receded and coastal
communities asked for more help,
Baltimore Sun columnist Roger Si-
mon bemoaned Maryland’s practice
of ‘pouring tax money into the waves
at Ocean City.’ An environmental
writer suggested in a Sun article that
Uncle Sam suspend support for beach
restoration. “Is it reasonable to ask
an individual in Butte, Mont., or Mem-
phis, Tenn., to finance some beach-
front communities’ indulgent desire
to play ‘chicken’ with nature?” he
asked.
Well, yes, it is. And the question it-
self gets to the heart of something
that has gone seriously wrong In
America. For whatever reason — and
I attribute it mainly to the rapacity
and meanness that seem to be inte-
gral to the Reagan-Bush years — we
have lost all sense of community.
America has become a Balkanized na-
tion in which genders, tribes and reli-
gious groups despise and do battle
with one another.
As incongruous as It may sound,
federal assistance for Inner cities and
for coastal communities amount to
exactly the same thing: insurance. In
the generic sense, insurance is a so-
cial device in which risks are pooled,
so that the peril faced by any individ-
ual is shared by an entire group. When
disaster strikes, the Individual does
not have to bear it alone; others assist
on the premise they will be assisted if
the need arises.
None of us can help who and what
we are, and arguably we cannot help
being drawn to the environments we
live In. Some love the sea, some love
the cities. Some love the hills of San
Francisco, some love the plains of
Kansas, some love the rolling fields of
Tennessee.
In recent years, the federal govern-
ment has distributed millions of dol-
lars in disaster relief to victims of
California earthquakes, Kansas tor-
nados and Tennessee floods.
Should I, an East Coast resident, be
asked to finance a Tennessean’s de-
sire to play chicken with floods?
I believe so. It is s social contract,
without which America becomes s
continuously playing “Road Warrior*
movie.
Note: In the interest of full disclo-
sure, The Curmudgeon owns up to the
fact that he is a co-owner of some Del-
aware property which suffered no
damage during the January storm.
Barb Wire
In some places, it’s legal to go fish-
ing in the nude, but you better make
sure no snapping turtles are around.
The Pentagon has new war rules for
the press and will pass out free Lot
Angeles street maps.
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