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PAGE FOIIR-A—Sapulpa (Okie.) Herald, Sunday, November 1, 1M1
Sapulpa Herald
Notebook
Ed Livermore
THE FAVORITE indoor cry
of the taxpayer is a plaintive
lament: “why doesn't someone
do something?”
THUTH IS he or she can't.
Especially when trying to get a
problem solved in congress.
TAKE THE price support
program on tobacco for
example. The federal govern-
ment is spending millions
advising us on the hazards of
smoking. Yet, price supports
for tobbacco continue.
THE HOUSE refused by a
vide margin (231 to 184) last
.veek to chop down the tobacco
ilotment program. A week
irlier the same House used
ie ax to whack away the sugar
ad peanut programs. Why the
difference? The sugar and
peanut boys didn’t have the
clout of the tobacco lobby. Nor
the money with which to deck
the halls of congress!
THE TOBACCO program is a
depression-era setup that ar-
tifically raises prices and
restricts tovacco farming to
those who inherit, rent, or buy
allotments. How’s that for a
closed-shop deal?
OVER THE SENATE, that
paragon of virtue and arch-
activist for cutting government
spending is none other than
Sen. Jesse Helms, head man of
the tobacco forces in congress.
ONLY IN Washington can
water be made to flow uphill.
Sapulpa Daily
Congressman
JAMES R
JONES
Reports
By .t fusing to change an out-of-date
law last week, the House of
Representatives has reinforced a
dangerous trend toward a Congress
made up of millionaires and
professional politicians.
The law my colleagues refused to
change limits the amount of income a
Member can earn outside his or her
salary. And there is nothing wrong with
some restrictions of this kind. We must
be sure that Congressmen devote their
time and attention to their legislative
duties, and that they are not tempted to
violate our very strong laws against
conflict of interest.
But there is a serious problem with
the law as written: the limits have not
kept up with inflation; more impor-
tantly, they make an unnatural
distinction between earned income and
unearned income. Under current law, a
Congressman's outside earnings from
work he performs or articles he
publishes or speeches he makes are
limited to 15 percent of his salary.
Income from investments, however, is
not limited at all.
This means that the hard work a
Congressman might actually do
himself, advising his family’s small
business, defending an old client in
court, speaking to a group from another
tate or another nation, is very limited
in comparison to the very wealthy
Congressman who can keep all his
investments and make an unlimited
amount of money. It seems only fair
that earned and unearned income be
treated equally.
A I noted before, I believe the intent
of the limits is good. They were adopted
by the House in 1977, with my strong
support, as part of a tough code of
financial ethics in the aftermath of
scandals involving the improper use of
federal funds by some Congressman. I
voted for the legislation to strengthen
financial disclosure requirements, to
place a limitation on outside earned
income, to prohibit unofficial office
accounts, and to tighten restrictions on
the franking privileges of
Congressmen. The new code of
financial ethics was to be applied to
Members of the House and Members of
‘he Senate, and House Members have
beyed the law limiting outside ear-
nings since March, 1977. The Senate,
however, has not yet implemented the
law, and does not have a limit on out-
side earnings, aa long as that income is
fully reported.
No one has ever charged that the
Senate is more prone to fiscal
misbehavior than the House because it
lacks these limits. In fact, It may be
that the Senate is leas prone to financial
scandal, because the Senators are able
to supplement their income in an open
and legal way. And those that might
neglect their duty to their constituents
in their pursuit of profit are promptly
voted out of office.
I have always supported the
traditional American concept of the
"citizen-legislator,” who could have
outside earnings, aa in the Sonata, as
long as they are fully reported. People
who are actually involved in the
business and professional communities
have a much better idea of how these
communities work, what their
problems are, and what they support or
oppoae. Congreaamen who are involved
are less likely to lose touch with the
everyday world of their constituents, or
so the Founding Fathers believed. I
have to admit I agree.
Right now, only the millionaire
Members of Congress have no
restrictions on earnings, because these
earnings are from Investment, not from
work. Somehow, it doesn't seem fair to
penalize those Members who have not
amassed huge fortunes. And I can’t
believe that there is less of a temptation
to conflict of interest from large in-
vestments than from a job or oc-
cupation.
But perhaps the most disturbing
aspect of this limitation is that it
discourages average citizens from
becoming involved in out political
process and running for the Congress.
As House Republican Leader Bob
Michel said, “In my foraging around
the country from time to time for
candidates to serve in this body among
those who are successful businessmen,
particularly small businessmen, they
prefer to hold onto their family
businesses and participate in the
decision-making," rather than turning
their firms into investments. The only
ones willing to do otherwise, it seems,
are millionaires and professional
politicians. Where, I wonder, does this
leave the concept of the “citizen-
legislator?" Where does it leave our
nation?
Today's
Almanac
By United Press International
Today is Sunday, November 1, the
305th day of 1961 with 60 to follow.
Today is All Saints Day.
The moon is moving toward its first
quarter.
The morning stars are Mercury,
Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
The evening star is Venus.
Those born on this date are under the
sign of Scorpio. J. W. Packard,
American Inventor, manufactuer and
philanthropist, was born November 1,
1863.
On this date In history:
In 1164, the UJS. Post Office
Department introduced the money
order.
In 1911, the Hapsburg Monarchy of
Austria-Hungary was dissolved.
Weima became the capital of Autaria
and Budapest the capital of Hungary.
In I960, two Puerto Rican nationalists
tried to force their way into Blair House
in Washington in an attempt to
maasainate President Harry Truman.
In 1970, a total of 146 people dUd whan
fire swept a dance hall In 8alnt-
Laurent-du-Pont, Francs.
A thought for the day: Early
American patriot Thomas Pains said:
“Whan we are planning for posterity,
we ought to remember thst virtue Is not
hereditary.”
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Dear Editor .
People of Sapulpa; Remember the
story about two men lost on the desert?
They came to a shack with an old water
pump. There was a sign that read
“PRIME THE PUMP.”
They did not know whether to spare
water they had (and ration wh at was
left) or prime the pump and maybe
have lots of water.
We have come to the time to prime -
or skimp on water - the choice is ours.
Committee for more water
Arden Meek
Dear Editor:
No matter what the economic base of
a community of people it must have
water to survive. In the days of the old
west it was true but the issues were
simpler. There were fewer people, and
water was plentiful. You could build a
town where there was water and you
could not where there was no water (at
least one that lasted very long.) If you
don’t agree that demand has increased,
that supply has decreased and
distribution more complicated today
there is no reason for you to read on.
And so, here we are in Sapulpa
wrestling with a potential life and death
issue for our community. We have the
opportunity to initiate a program that
will provide another 50 years of virtual
certainty of water supply.
Conservation is important but not a
complete answer; its like asprin for a
heart condition. In a healthy growing
city like ours demand will only increase
and require increasing conservation
which means less and less per capita.
We are all disturbed about the
financial drain of taxes partly because
the benefits of this money lost to our
personal use are often not readily
apparent. Not so in this issue. You will
see, feel and drink the results of this
tax. The sales tax method is the fairest
way to spread the cost. My family (we
live outside the city limits) wiil spend
just as much in Sapulpa. But if we
continue to have increasingly serious
water problems it makes moving to
Tulsa an attractive alternative. How
much would we spend in Sapulpa then?
How many pennies would we have to
save ourselves in tax as a community to
make not saving those pennies worth
wrtching our businesses decline, our
jobs disappear, our property values
atrophy and our social fabric rent of
energy.
The two proposals we will decide
upon November 10th are the most
practical, affordable, time efficient,
well researched and thoughtfully
conceived, of any alternatives
available. Your neighbors, business
associates and elected officials have
worked tirelessly and without com-
pensation to solve this problem for you
and me. The negative opinions that are
surfacing may be well intended but are
uninformed, not based on fact and are
often self-serving.
Further, our identity as a city is not
jeapordized but enhanced by con-
tracting with Tulsa for treated water
commitments. They need a strong
Sapulpa for collective strength in
regional water planning. Their water
problems are not supply but
distribution to a healthy, growing
economy. They wisely voted a bond
issue to solve those problems and the
results will be accomplished by 1963
when our contract with them comes
into effect. There is no principal to be
defended of “us agin’ them.”
This opinion says the cost of voting
“no” to the bond issue and the sales tax
to support it is shortsighted and crip-
pling. If we wait until the situation is
critical there might not be enough
water to flush what's left of Sapulpa’s
future down the indoor plumbing.
Read the paper, study the issues, visit
with informed people, call the Chamber
office for informatin and for heaven’s
sake VOTE.
Greg Pugmire
Sapulpa City Hall
VIEWPOINT
By DALE BLOCK
Halloween’s past—at last.
For some reason it seems
especially nice to have finished
with Halloween. We guess it’s
beacuse there have been lots of
tricks this year and the treats
have indeed been in short
supply. Water too. Rationing
(February 15—June 15)
through spring. The hsitorical
budget battles in Washington
which laid to waste most of the
federal funding programs for
cities. The unusually soggy
summer with its bomber-size
mosquitoes and cane-break
weed patches. The “great drug
raid” which in this case
resulted in the raid being on the
city tax coffers as drug items
were removed from the sales
tax list.
We have to confess that over
the past months we have
become confused as to when
“trick or treat” would be over.
Of course, besides being a
source of grave concern, the
above-mentioned items resolve
themselves into one common
denominator—loss of revenue
for the city. Revenue needed
and anticipated for the general
operation of the city, not to buy
a new this or that, but to simply
keep the “ole place” a hum-
min’.
Water rationing in the spring
meant reductions in the sale of
water. The soggy summer
meant folks didn’t need to buy
as much water to keep their
greenery green. And besides,
the people learned to conserve
water and no one should fault
that. More mosquitoes meant
more costs, more, if less-
effective, spraying. The loss of
sales tax revenue speaks for
itself. Couple these events with
the good news the Feds would
not be nearly as active In
solving local problems with
grant funds and, of course, the
omnious threat that the
General Revenue Sharing
program which has been so
important to American cities
was to follow the grant
program soon-into oblivion.
Yes, the tricks have been
many and the treats have been
few and far between; but we
could go a long way toward
balancing the books with a
positive vote on our water-
improvements bond issue
November 10. With that happy
thought In mind, we can really
look forward to the next
holiday—THANKSGIVING.
What other Editors say
Scrtppa-Howmrd Newspapers:
...House Speaker Thomas O’Neal
...moat partisan of politicians, In a mo*
partisan statement said In part:
“The recession...is a direct result of
the Reagan fiscal policy, the Reagan
money policy, the Reagan deficit, the
Reagan intsraat rataa. Instead of the
promised Reagan recovery, we have
been given the Reagan recession.”
O’Neill deserves congratulations;
rarely have so many misstatements
hern packed into a short paragraph.
Slnco the 1961 election may well tm on
the economy... the openhor’e words
hfiif examination. *
As to the “Rssgan fiscal policy”, the
president's tax cute took rffect Oct. 1 —
uiree wmki ago. now umj can n
responsible tor e recession that began
last April, wa leave to Deaaocrst
O’Neill to explain.
We assume the “Reagan deficit”
refers to the 166 billion in red Ink with
which the government ended the 1961
fiscal year Sept. 30. But that year wee
almost one-third over whan Rssgan
was inaugurated. He was able to make
only minor changes In the budget
(V-sfted by Prosidsnt Carter and cannot
in fatmaas be blamed for Its deficit.
OTteilL.. knows the so-caDsd Reagan
money policy and interest rates sew
dstarndnad by the independent Federal
Reserve Board, whose chairman, Paul
Volcker, was appointed by Car-
Ur. Volcker and Ms associates have
been doing a courageous, unap-
preciated job of fighting inflation
throurfi tifit money and high intsrsat
ntaa which O’Neill deplores.
The Barber
POLL
By Robert E. Barber
AN ANNOUNCEMENT by
the governor’s office that the
state’s chief executive will be
the keynote speaker at the
annual Harvest Banquet at the
Sapulpa First Baptist Church
apparently was the only in-
centive needed for potential
attendants to snare up the
limited number of tickets.
ACCORDING TO its pastor,
Rev. Joe C. Knowles, in excess
of 500 people have purchased
tickets for the event which will
also feature one of the state’s
leading evangelical singers,
Darla Morgan of Oklahoma
City.
FORMERLY THE
Stewardship Banquet, the
event will provide the op-
portunity for the church board
to announce its largest budget
in the history of the church, so
says Rev. Knowles.
MEMBERS OF the audience
Thursday night asked their
questions—no matter how
insequential to the issues they
may or may not have been.
After all the bickering, at-
tempts to explain why this
method or plan is better or
more feasible than the other,
and all the dust had settled, the
bottom line remained: we still
need water.
ONE OF THE main ob-
jections to the proposal of
obtaining water from Tulsa
seems to be just that: obtaining
water from Tulsa. Most people
don't like to be dependent on
anyone else, and rightly so.
But, all other alternatives, as
the panelists pointed out at the
forum, are either too expensive
and beyond our bonding
capacities, or they would
require too much time, or both.
Friends, we don’t have time.
THE PASTOR also revealed
that George Nigh is a leading
Baptist layman in his
hometown church, the Council
Road Baptist The banquet this
year will be held in the high
school cafeteria at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday in order to ac-
comodate the crowd.
IT'S GOOD to see that kind of
interest in a local church and
that the governor has the time
and interest himself to share in
the brotherhood.
WHETHER WE like it or not
we need water and if we want it
bad enough, we’ll pay the price
and swallow a little pride if
that’s what it’s going to take.
The question now is: how much
time is it going to take? There
have been previous water
studies over the years.
Evidently, the studies didn’t
take. Like getting inoculated
for smallpox, rabies, or
someother disease. If the shot
takes, it’s bound to leave a
scar.
SPEAKING OF interest,
approximately 60 townspeople
showed an interest by attending
the “Town Hall’’ meeting
Thursday night to hear the
issues explained concerning the
proposed water bond con-
struction and third penny sales
tax. As a result of this meeting,
we are more convinced than
ever that the town needs to pass
both issues on the ballot come
November 10 — that’s only nine
days away.
THIS LOCAL boy hasn’t been
long on the block, but it doesn’t
take a soothsayer to figure out
that this city can’t afford more
scarring. That makes for a
tough hide.
LET'S PASS these proposals
next week and get on with the
program. Nobody but nobody
likes taxes. So you may or may
not like the idea of Tulsa
supplying water. You would
like to see Sapulpa continue to
grow? You do like water?
PAUL HARVEY
Column
Your taxes are less - yours!
You’d never know it from what you
hear and see in headlines:
REAGAN TAX CUTS FAVOR RICH;
THE RICH GET RICHER;
REAGANOMICS PUNISHES POOR
PEOPLE.
I don’t want to believe the headline
writers maliciously mislead - but those
headlines sound like inciting to riot.
When the truth Is that 60 percent of
the president’s new tax cuts cut your
taxes; yours!
Under the new tax law there are
significant tax savings for each of us.
Starting January 1 you will be
allowed to take more of the dollars you
have been paying in federal income
taxes and use those dollars to build a
retirement income for yourself.
Up to $2,000 a year which you have
paid In taxes you may now set aside for
your own retirement.
It can make you a millionaire!
If you are 30 and set aside $2,000 a
year, earning 14 percent interest
compounded daily, at age 65 you will
have $2 million!
In addition, the All Savers Cer-
tificates, available now, allow you and
me to earn interest on the money we
save and pay no taxes on the first
thousand dollars of that interest.
Such certificates are available for aa
little as 6600 - sometimes leas.
If you can save aa much aa $8,237 at
12.14 percent you’ll make almost a
thousand dollars Interest in one year -
tax free!
People who earn no wages at all will
be encouraged by the new law* to wean
themselves away from unemployment
pay and welfare and to become
workers, earners, savers and Investors.
And there are several additional
Inducements: Interest exclusions, more
generous Keogh accounts, which any
savings Institution can explain.
If you can contemplate buying a
house, mobile home, car or boat - you
can do It tafore December 31 and
deduct from your taxable income the
aottrs sales tax.
Bspsnaivs medical or dental work,
done this year, can reduce your taxes
this year.
After 50 years of preoccupation with
relief programs for people living off
other people’s taxes, this ad-
ministration la offering relief for
taxpayers.
Federal income taxes for the average
American - for the median-income
American, Mister Common Man, have
Increased in just ten years from $933 to
$2,801!
Your taxes have been going up far
faster than your income has been going
up.
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