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PAGE FOUR—Sapulpa (Okla.) Herald, Monday, April 4, 1994
Editorials
Juvenile justice
Whether a separate bureaucracy can handle Oklahoma’s
troubled juvenile justice system better than the Department
of Human Services remains to be seen. But we apparently
will find out, provided the people agree to $84 million a
year in new taxes.
The legislation contained in House Bill 2640 appears to
be so popular in this election year that it could get the 75
percent legislative majority required for passage without a
vote of the people. It passed the House 88-8 (with only 76
needed for the three-fourths majority) and goes now to the
Senate. Legislative leaders, however, apparently don’t want
to put lawmakers in the position of voting directly for a tax
increase, so the plan is to put it on the Nov. 8 general elec-
tion ballot.
Some House members object that the proposed tax
increases are higher than they need to be, but the people are
so concerned about juvenile crime they would probably
approve them.
... The proposal calls for an increase in the state income
tax and a 0.125 percent increase in the sales tax. At least
one other proposed sales tax increase is in the works.
Those small increases add up, and our sales taxes are
already high when you add in municipal sales taxes and the
sales taxes collected by many counties. Rising state sales
taxes tend to take a revenue source away from local govern-
ments and handicap merchants in border counties.
There seems to be a lot of things wrong with this legisla-
tion, but chances are it’s going to become state law.
—The Norman Transcript
Ban burning
It was just about a year ago that 13 vehicles piled up on
smoke-covered U.S. (Highway) 412 when the wind shifted
on workers burning a farm pasture, leaving several people
dead or injured.
Now, another so-called controlled bum has turned
deadly.
A fire truck en route to a runaway blaze in Woods Coun-
ty tumbled some 15 feet into a smoke-obscured canyon
ejecting two firefighters riding on the back of the truck. One
man was killed, another injured.
A “red flag” alert advising against open burning has
been issued by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture.
That doesn’t mean burning has been banned but anyone
thinking about a controlled burn should be aware that burn-
ing under current conditions can be extremely dangerous.
The main culprits: warm temperatures, dry vegetation, low
lumidity and strong, gusty winds ...
We don’t dispute that burning off farm pastures is a
necessary and accepted agricultural practice.
But not in these conditions.
It’s time to act, governor.
___—Enid News and Eagle
Berry's World
© 1994 By NEA Inc.
"Somebody on your staff called and said you need
some FIRE WALLS around here. ”
THE SAPULPA
DAILY HERALD
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Q. What’s the difference between
President Clinton’s health care plan
and Elvis?
A. Some people think Elvis is still
alive.
Depending on who’s telling this joke,
you can substitute “Cooper Breaux”
for the Clinton plan, or “single payer”
and accurately state the situation in
Congress right now. Also deader than
Elvis is the conservative Republican
notion that there’s no “crisis" in Amer
ican health care.
So, what’s alive? Watch “Rowland-
Bilarakis,” a simple, bipartisan pack-
age with 38 House co-sponsors calling
for reform of the existing health in-
surance system and expansion of com-
munity health centers to provide
primary care for the poor.
The bill would guarantee portability
of health insurance from job to job,
forbid denial of coverage based on pre-
very much alive. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-
Tenn., admits that his “Clinton light”
package is being ignored in the House,
but says that the Senate version spon-
sored by Sen. John Breaux, D-La., pro-
vides a perfect vehicle for bipartisan
agreement.
The problem is that if Cooper-
Breaux did pass the Senate, it proba-
bly would be unacceptable to the
House because it lacks a guarantee of
universal coverage.
Meantime, the Clinton White House
professes optimism that Congress is
“on schedule" to produce a bill con-
taining the “essentials” of the presi-
dent’s plan — universal coverage,
employer mandates, cost controls, and
drug coverage for Medicare recipients
— after it returns from August recess.
What others see as surprises and
stumbles — confusing signals and no
concrete proposals from the Senate Fi-
The Clinton White House continues to profess optimism that Congress will
produce a health plan that has all the essentials, including universal coverage.
existing conditions, permit small busi-
nesses to form large purchasing pools,
control malpractice awards and target
costly medical fraud.
The sponsors, Reps Roy Rowland,
D-Ga., and Mike Bilirakis,, R-Fla.,
intend their bill to be a consensus
starting point for health care negotia-
tion, but more likely it will be the end
point this October — reached only
when Congress confronts the bitter al-
ternative of going home to face the
voters in November without having
passed any health bill at all.
For the foreseeable future, Row
land-Bilirakis will remain a good pro
posal that is the enemy of every
group’s ideal. The measure probably
will have a chance only when sponsors
of alternatives give up hope for this
year.
Right now, all Elvises claim to be
nance Committee and independent
action by Reps. Pete Stark, D-Calif.,
and John Dingell, D-Mich. — the White
House claims are expected parts of a
process leading to a modified Clinton
plan.
The White House also claims its pri-
vate polls confirm what a Wall Street
Journal/NBC poll showed earlier this
month — while overall support for
President Clinton's plan has dropped,
below 40 percent, the public is enthu-
siastic about its components, espe-
cially universal coverage.
The White House says its polls also
show that 70-plus percent of Ameri-
cans believe President Clinton should
veto a bill that does not provide uni-
versal coverage, although the NBC-
Journal poll showed the public split on
the veto, at 47 percent to 43 percent.
The poll also showed that by 60-35, it
Letters to the Editor
We know very little about diplomat-
ic relations. All of ours are outspoken
and rude.
A chum who labors in the District
of Columbia grumps that anyone who
works in Washington is sentenced to
“capital” punishment.
Times change: Little kids now no
longer wonder where puppies come
from. All they want to know is where
the batteries go.
The sneezin' season will soon be
upon us. Most will just honk along, but
those who can afford it will suffer from
allergies.
The recent brouhaha in the CIA re-
minds us that there's a vast difference
between intelligence and intelligent
operations.
You can always tell when a celebri-
ty is around: No matter how dark the
day or the room, the big shot will be
wearing dark glasses.
Poor folks at the weather bureau: For
them it never rains or snows — pre-
cipitation is all they ever experience.
Shooting
Dear Editor:
In the four weeks since my
daughter called me from a Tulsa
Wendy’s restaurant and cried,
“Mom, I’ve been shot,” our lives
have been filled with pain and
outrage at what happened, especially
since it could have been prevented.
Marcus Muriel Thompson appa-
rently had already shot a woman in
a phone booth because she’d
“looked at him funny.” Yet the
charge of shooting with intent to kill
was dropped. He walked. So a year
later, he was free to walk into
Wendy’s and shoot my daughter
Ericka along with five others. How
many innocent people does he have
to harm before the system will stop
him?
I guess we could all breathe a sigh
of relief at Washington’s latest
attempt to convince us they care
about crime. Unfortunately, it’s
mostly lip service. The Brady law
couldn’t have stopped Marcus
Thompson, and neither could any of
the other anti-gun schemes politi-
cians are pushing as so-called
“crime control.” With armed body-
guards all around, politicians don’t
have to worry about crime and
protection. But the rest of us do.
What our families have been
through since Ericka was shot is
indescribable. It’s nights and days in
the ICU wonderig if she would live,
and if she did, what was ahead for
her? Imagine it’s your daughter
who’s shot. Imagine the outrage
you’d feel to find out that the
gunman had shot someone before
and could have been stopped — but
wasn’t.
Now that the sensationalism of
the Tulsa Wendy’s shooting is over,
the media have moved on to the next
gun story. But they missed the real
story and the real crime — that a
violent, dangerous individual was
needlessly allowed to hurt my
daughter and five others, and now
we’re left to pick up the pieces.
Susan Davis
Bixby
Secret plan?
Is there a secret plan of action in
Sapulpa and Creek County to under-
mine the independent business
persons? From reading the Sapulpa
Herald it would seem so. We have a
ridiculous ordinance against display
of merchandise on the sidewalks
which I will assure you has hurt my
business drastically. Then the coun-
ty harasses Paragon into shutting
down their second shift and laying
off several workers.
Next, I read in the Herald about
Mr. Bob Holmes being sued by the
county over his kennel. Heck, I grew
up in Sapulpa and as far back as I
can remember the Holmes family
has been raising Champion German
Sheppards (sic). He was there with
his dogs long before most of the
homes in that area were built. You
know you can’t move next door to a
pig farmer and not expect to smell
P'g-
It seems the Holmes family must
have upset all the powers that be as
the city is now harassing the Holmes
Appliance Store over the display of
their trampolines on Taft and South
Main.
Our city fathers need to cut us
independents some slack if they
want any business left in town other
than the mega-buck chain stores and
a place to buy books.
J.E. Williams
Sapulpa
Red Cross
Dear Editor:
The American Red Cross relies
on donor groups such as yours to
help meet our commitment to the
growing needs of patients in our
area hospitals. Blood donations
provide life support treatment of
victims of accidents to surgical
patients, and those who need special
blood components during therapy
for lesukemia, hemophilia, cancer
and other diseases.
During (a) recent visit, a total of
71 people presented themselves to
donate blood. Of these, 11 were
first-time donors. A total of 61 units
were collected.
We would like to commend
David Main, Geri Moss, Delora
Piercutt and the Central Area Vo-
Tech students for the outstanding
job they did recruiting, scheduling
and organizing the bloodmobile
visit. Our nurses really praised all
their organizational efforts...
Debbie DoRemus
American Red Cross
Tulsa .
Health plan may pass
would be OK with the public if Con-
gress failed to pass a bill this year.
In spite of this, the White House as-
serts that Congress is under a “polit-
ical imperative" to pass a health bill
this year, and that whoever contributes
to failure to produce a bill acceptable
to the president can be tagged with
promoting “gridlock” over "change”
during the November campaign.
Republicans, however, appear to be
smart enough to avoid a direct con-
frontation in which, for example, they
filibuster a Clinton-style or “Clinton
light” proposal, providing Democrats
and the administration with the op-
portunity to label them obstructionist.
The most likely scenario for health
care is that three House committees
will produce rival bills that then need
to be amalgamated in the House Rules
Committee — probably promising uni-
versal coverage around the year 2000,
phased-in mandates for various sizes
of business, flexible price controls and
generous benefits.
Such a bill, slightly “lighter” than
Clinton’s, could pass with limited (or
no) Republican support.
The Senate, however, is likely to
pass a bill without mandates or price
controls and merely a promise to
attain universal coverage in the
future.
If a conference committee begins
working right after Labor Day to put
together a bill acceptable to both
houses, it well could plunge into Oc-
tober without success.
That’s the moment for “Rowland-
Bilirakis," possibly with a solemn con-
gressional promise to work on
universal coverage next year. Would
Clinton veto the bill? Not likely.
The Herald welcomes letters to the editor on nearly all subjects. AU letters must be
signed by the writer and include the writer’s address and telephone number for verifica-
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River in
Canada
In Canada, “downriver” almost
always means north.
Client writes: “I daubed a tiny drop
of super glue on No. 1 and No. 9 of
my touch phone’s keypad, and put a
few grains of salt on both. Now if
need be, I can dial 911 in the dark.”
A cosmetics consultant advises
young women with blue eyes to
enhance that color by wearing
lipstick with a touch of blue in it.
The aardvark gives off its own
perfume. An odor a little like the odor
of rotten fruit. Whether this attracts
other aardvarks of the opposite sex I
do not know. But it attracts insects. It
eats them.
AT THE WALL
Countless old Zippo lighters,
many engraved, have been left at the
Vietnam Wall Memorial. What I see
is a woman standing there, a man
behind her, and she steps forward,
and puts a worn lighter down. Her
eyes glisten, and she whispers some-
thing. To someone beyond the wall, a
goodbye maybe, maybe even a last
goodbye, then turns to take the wait-
ing man’s arm, and says, “I’m fine,”
and they walk away.
Rare is the civilized soul hereab-
outs who has ever seen a cashew in its
shell.
Q. In those dating services whose
clients trade photographs before they
meet, you said, it’s not the receiver of
the photograph but the sender who
benefits most. Why?
A. Shyness is what gets in the way.
The photograph helps. The surprised
sender says, “She’s seen my picture
and is still willing to go out with me.
Amazing!” Or something like that.
Every fifth grownup is on a diet.
WINDMILLS
Those who know all about wind-
mills say a 5-mph wind generates
only an eighth as much power as a
10-mph wind.
If “Philadelphia” weren’t Greek
for friendship,” the Pennsylvania
city might have been called some-
thing else, what?
Q. How often does a vampire bat
need blood?
A. Every three nights.
Two out of five private investiga-
tors are women.
A search of old records from the
end of World War I indicates the U.S.
Army discharged 262 men named
John J. O’Brien, and 50 of them went
home to wives named Mary. I guess
they did. Could be some just went
south, don’t know.
Q. How many Chinese picture
symbols would I have to leant to read
a Chinese newspaper?
A. About 2,000. To be highly
literate in the language, though,
you’d need to know about 50,000, it’s
said.
Q. Who first said, “There’s no such
thing as a free lunch?
A. The Nobel-laureate economist
Milton Friedman.
Certainly are a lot of place names
that honor John the Baptist. San Juan
here, San Juan there.
YOUNGER DRINKERS
Q. Who were the people who
strangled the young men who got
drunk?
A. Such was the code of the high-
classed Aztecs. Those of lesser rank
weren’t subject to such execution. It
was done in secret, incidentally. The
convicted just vanished. Nobody
ever saw them again.
“Wamble” is a word doctors use to
describe how your midsection seems
to behave when you’re seasick. Sort
of a rolling cross between “wobble”
and “ramble.”
The whiskers on your chin grow
twice as fast as the hair on your legs.
Sir.
Another of those animals that can
cock one ear forward and another
backward at the same time is the
kankaroo.
COCAINE
Widely advertised on the open
market hereabouts a century ago
were cocaine-laced cigars. Said to
raise the smoker’s spirits.
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