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OPINION
Sapulpa Daily Herald
PAGE FOUR-A
Wednesday, October $, 1M3
SAPULPA IS developing several
very nice parks, if vandals and
thieves would leave them alone
Not long ago, a professional
basketball goal was removed from
one park and several picnic tables
were damaged at Davis Park
Now a slide has been stolen in
broad daylight from Davis Park
POLICE ARE investigating the
theft of the slide, but the fact so-
meone took the blooming thing is
intating
If it isn't tied down, somebody is
going to take it, the old saying goes
The slide proves it.
Who wants a playground slide?
Why tear up a park just to get a slide
that only children can use?
THE VALUE of the slide is not
that much, but it's the principle of
the thing that is so upsetting City
Manager Nellie Skaggs and the
parks people have worked so hard to
provide a clean, well appointed
place to have fun at Davis Park, only
to have somebody steal or tear up
what they place there
Should those responsible be ap-
prehended. the city should prosecute
to the limit and, to use an old expres-
sion, throw the book at the culprits.
The only way to stop the van-
dalism and thefts in the park system
or within the school district is to
What other editors say.
Claremont, N.H., Eagle Times
He looks like a light bulb But
when you turn him on nothing bright
happens
James Watt, this country’s In-
terior Secretary, has been making a
buffoon of the position since his 1980
appointment
He's an Earl Butz without hair.
He thinks the way to be a big hit is
to hit on people Butz felt the same
way He was soon sent home. Watt
should follow suit
Reagan should not have to worry
about members of his cabinet
making statements that embarrass
his atknimstration. The president,
whether you agree with his policy or
disagree with his policy, is
nonetheless fully involved with the
Midwest, Central America, the
economy, unemployment, his
standing with women, Hispanics and
every Democrat in America. His
time should not be spent pulling the
covers over his head because one of
his department heads can't open his
mouth without putting in his foot.
Berry's World
Let s en/oy our present relationsmp We ll all
be coping with the turbulent teen-age years
before we know it
Ed
Livermore
Notebook
Emeritus
to
Congress shows TGIF syndrome
make an example of the persons
responsible
CITY POLICE Chief Jack McKen-
zie says the vandalism and thefts
that occur in parks and recreational
areas in Sapulpa are mostly acts of
unsupervised kids," although the
theft of the basketball goal and post
sounded like a larger group of kids.
Hopefully Jack is wrong because if
he is right, then the young people in
Sapulpa are being taught the wrong
standards in the home, school or
church
In today s society one does not
spank a child at school for fear of
legal action from the parent Nor
does a policeman attempt to ques-
tion a juvenile without the parent be-
ing present or an attorney nearby.
THE RESULT is a breakdown of
respect for authority Then comes
thefts such as slides and basketball
goals or, as in one case this year, a
burglary involving teenagers who
tell officers making arrests "you
can’t do anything to me.”
The entire problem is the fact
nobody tries to teach respect for
other peoples things Until that is
done, we are going to loose things
like basketball goals and slides.
And our parks will not be safe nor
pretty, unhappily
HAVE A nice day
THE US is seeing deregulation of
airlines in the raw. The plight of
Continental and Eastern is on page
one daily.
UNTIL CONTINENTAL started
cancelling some flights - and before
Braniff went bust — one could fly
almost anyplace in the land, at most
anytime of the day, and for a price.
But that couldn’t last forever
DEREGULATION PER SE isn't
the only problem with the airline
business For years eager beaver
management types, fresh from Har-
vard with their MBAs, have put
numbers together and recommend-
ed signing high union contracts, pro-
viding more and more perks for
everyone on the payroll. Including
top management. It was easy ... just
pass it all along to John Q. Public.
BUT JOHN Q. didn't continue to
respond and trimmed his travel.
Then price-cutting took over by
airlines as they tried in vain to pro-
tect cash flow, needed to pay bis
salaries, etc.
THE REST is history. It happened
to the auto industry in much the
same manner.
AFTER THE Continental and
Eastern crunch, what’s left? Prices
will likely stabalize, but the airline
industry has started trimming off
the fat. Some of those fancy con-
tracts will go along with a few of
those bright Harvard MBAs
IN THE long run there will be
thousands leas jobs in the airline in-
dustry, just as in autos and steel.
That will not add to the gross na-
tional product. Job retraining will be
the largest industry in the US before
we realize It.
WASHINGTON (UPI) - In most
ways the U^. Senate is an eminently
isuque body, but it does share a few
characteristics with less prominent
groups, including the TGIF syn-
ckome
Robert Shepard
Like office workers, store clerks,
construction workers, doctors and
business executives, senators are
prone to view Friday afternoon as a
time to wind down from the week's
labors and. if at all possible, make
an early departure for home.
(Thank God It’s Friday.)
Senate Republican leader Howard
Baker was reminded of that fact one
recent Friday afternoon when the
Senate was stumbling its way
through consideration of the State
Department authorization bill.
As is usual when he is off the floor
attending to other business. Baker
was keeping one ear tisied to a small
speaker in his office where he is able
to follow the floor debate and catch
any unexpected problems that
might require his attention
At the time. Sen James McClire,
R-Idaho, was speaking for an
amendment concern 11*5 the Soviet
Union's compliance with arms
control agreements During a pause
Senate Democratic leader Robert
Byrd rose to offer an amenefcnent
that would put the Senate on record
as calling for the firing of Interior
Secretary James Watt, thereby
threatening to open a whole new
debate when several senators had
already left for the day
A few moments later. Baker
arrived on the floor, saying it
suddenly dawned' on him that the
Senate was no longer talking aboik
the State Department tall, and that
perhaps I should come to the floor
and find out what is going on.”
"I think what is going on is Friday
afternoon, and I think that what I
have said so many times has proven
true once more there is not a man
or a woman alive who can make the
Senate do something it does not want
to do." Baker said.
"I think what I heard on the
squawk box in my office was the
Senate saying we adjourned, and
wondered how long it will take
Baker to find out," he said to a round
of Laughter
"I do not like to say this, but I do
not think there is any way we are
going to finish this bill today," he
continued
Looking to the bill’s Democratic
and Republican floor managers
Baker noted, “I do not see any
energetic shaking of the head to the
contrary.”
Baker then proceeded to isido the
tangle that began to develop when
Byrd offered his amendment to
McClure's amendment In short
order he was able to clear the way
for the Senate to drop consideration
of the State Department
authorization bill until the following
week and enable all senators to
begin their weekend
The House, it should be noted, has
a similar aversion to working
Friday afternoons. And Mondays in
both chambers rarely see any
significant bills that might require
the attendance of all members.
Weekends clearly are important
to members of Congress and one of
the moat chilling threats Baker or
House Speaker Thomas O’Neill can
make to their respective chambers
is that of a business session on
Saturday
The threat alone usually is enoigh
to whip the recalcitrant members
into line and allow business to be
completed before the weekend
Perhaps more than average
citizens, members of Congress value
their weekends because they often
must fly back to their home states or
districts to deal with matters there
or to campaign for re-election. So
Friday afternoon or Monday
morning sessions that complicate
airline connections are clearly out of
favor.
That is a fact of congressional life
and one that the leaders, such as
Baker, must live with.
Compliment not intended as an ad
A columnist has a wonderful op-
portunity to make a fool of himself in
public and many of us frequently use
it. Unlike most people, a writer’s
work is out in the open where
everyone can see it. People not only
read, they can cut it out, read it
again the next day and save it in
their pockets to show to friends.
Andy Rooney
Several months ago I wrote a col-
umn saying that electric power was
a better buy than almost anything
else we spend our money on.
Maybe," I said jokingly at the
end of the column, "the electric
company will read this and offer to
give us one month free."
Well, I didn't get a month's free
electricity but I was instantly
adopted as the utility companies’
spokesman
Since I wrote the column, it has
been reprinted in more than 100
power company pamphlets and
distributed with their bills. This is no
way for a writer to make friends.
Todays
Almanac
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 5, the
278th day of 1983 with 87 to follow.
The moon is approaching its new
phase
Tbe morning stars are Mercury,
Venus and Mars.
The evening stars are Jupiter and
Saturn.
Ibose bom on this date are under
the sign of Libra. They include
Chester A. Arthur, 21st president of
the United States, in 1830, rocket
pioneer Robert Goddard in 1882 and
actor Donald Pleasance in 1921.
On this date in history:
In 1918, Germany's Hindenburg
Line was broken as World War I
neared an end.
In 1960, an Eastern Air Lines
Electra turbo-prop crashed into
Boston Harbor, killii^ 61 people.
In 1965, Pope Paul made an un-
precedented 14-hour visit to New
York to plead for world peace before
the United Nations.
In 1975, Sen. Frank Church, D-
Idaho, charged that the CIA tried to
kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro
during the administrations of three
presidents.
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‘‘If you need money that much,”
one reader wrote, “why don’t you
sell blood?"
“Greed, misuse of ratepayers'
funds, incompetence and lack of in-
tegrity are all part of nuclear sup-
ports’ stock-in-trade," Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Hocker wrote. The fact that
I’d never mentioned nuclear power
and that nuclear power had nothing
to do with the article didn't stop the
Hockers from disliking me for being
nice to the power companies.
It turns out that there are a lot of
people in this country who make
hating their local utility company a
full-time job. A doctor in Harrisburg
wrote me an angry letter saying that
he pays 81200 a month for electricity
I called the power company there
and they knew the doctor well. He’d
been complaining to them for years.
The spokesman admitted the doc-
tor's bill was high and he couldn’t
explain it. He said that his company
had offered to go into the doctor’s
home and office and check things out
for a possible short circuit that could
have been consuming power, but
that the doctor wouldn't let them in.
I have no knowledge or opinion of
the case beyond that, but I was sur-
prised at how many power-
company-hating nuts there are out
there. I’ve hated a few power com-
panies myself in my time, but you
have to do something else with your
life. There’s just so much time you
can spend complaining about any
bill before you pay it and proceed
with other matters.
I am, nonetheless, very embar-
rassed about the use of my column
by the power companies and never
would have allowed it to happen had
I known. They all did it properly,
though. They got permission from
the Tribune Company Syndicate and
paid anywhere from $35 to $125 for
reprint rights, so 1 can't complain,
but I can wish it had never been
done. In every case it was used as if I
had been paid to write it as an ad-
vadvertuement for them. I’m not in
that business.
People in the news business write
so many negative stories that
readers get tired of them. When a
story is negative, though, there’s
seldom any question about the
reporter’s integrity. A favorable ar-
ticle is more suspect. If a food writer
likes a restaurant, you wonder if he
paid for the meal You’re not
suspicious if the review is bad.
It ought to be just as permissible
for me to say some specific good
things about a product or an
organization as it is for me to com-
plain about one.
Our electric bill at home has
almost doubled since I wrote that
column and I'm at a loss to unders-
tand why. Why did it cost us $42 for
electricity in July when we were not
home for a single day? I’m not
changing my opinion, though, that
electricity is still cheap compared to
most things we buy.
I explain the $42 with the two anti-
burglar light bulbs we left burning
(ss if they fooled anyone) and in
spite of being embarrassed to be in-
cluded with your power company
bill, I’m not going to return the
money the utility comapnies paid to
reprint my column. I’m just going to
pay my new, higher electricity bills
with it for awhile.
River name becomes catchphrase
L.M. Boyd
rhe River Spree runs ihrough Germany's Berlin.
Beer halls and night spots luted ils (tanks, once A client
claims that’s where we got the expression -to go out on
a spree.” Maybe so, maybe so.
Cincinnati’s has to rewrite it, somehow State health
officials there are authorized to poison rats, but aren't
allowed in the sewers. Sewer district employees are al-
lowed in the sewers, but aren't authorized to poison
rats.
Listed in the latest volume of the “Pharmacopoeia of
the United States" are about 210 drugs that were used
b> the American Indians before Christopher Columbus
ever showed up here.
MALPRACTICE
Q. I note in print that more physicians in New York
Slate are sued for malpractice than doctors elsewhere.
Why do the bunglers gather there?
A. that s not it. New York has more ambulance-chas-
ing lawyers, that’s why.
Q. Says here Teddy Roosevelt was the first U.S. Pres-
ident to drive a car. I thought William McKinley did
(hat?
A. McKinley rode in one. A hearse. His Iasi ride.
Q. How much is a major league baseball suppose 10
weigh? ^
A. Between S and S 1/2 ounces.
DRIVE-IN SUPERMARKET
First ol the drive-in supermarkets Just opened im In
Los Angeles. Customers phone in their orders oui of a
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out of their cars. Our Chief Prognosticator thinks you'll
see a lot more of these in this computer age.
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