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PAGE FOUR—Stpoip* (OUa.) Herald, Tharaday, September M, INI
Sapulpa Herald
Notebook
Ed Livermore
BEING PRESIDENT of the US must
be a thankless job.
AS IF HEARING it from every side
because he is trying to do what the
people asked last November ...
(balance the budget, etc.) ... Ronald
Reagan finds little to cheer about
looking to neighbors across the border.
MEXICO HAS issued a number of
displeasures with US policy. And the
same thing, perhaps worse, is coming
from Canada
THERE ARE several bones of
contention between this country and
our neighbors to the North. The most
prominent include:
CANADA IS pursuing a plan to end
foreign domination of its energy in-
dustry through a process known as
“Canadianization.” American oil
companies complain that it is a not too
subtle attempt to force them to sell
their assets to Canadians.
PRESIDENT RONALD Reagan is
considering relaxing U.S. en-
vironmental standards, a move that
Canadians fear would lead to an in-
crease in pollution-caused acid rain
north of the border. “The U.S. does not
seem to realize how emotional this
issue is up here,” says a government
official.
PROBLEMS HAVE arisen in
financing a 40-billion-dollar pipeline to
carry Alaskan and Canadian natural
gas across Canada to the U.S.
mainland. Canada has started work on
its part of the pipeline, but U.S. backers
say that lack of U.S. government
guarantees has made it difficult to line
up financing.
THE U.S. has failed to ratify a treaty
that would end a dispute between U.S.
and Canadian fishermen in the
George's Bank area off the East Coast.
The pact was hammered out during the
Carter term, but Reagan wants to
renegotiate on the ground that the U.S.
made too many concessions.
CANADA, IN U.S. eyes, is lagging on
defense spending. Ottawa now lays out
1.9 percent of its gross national product
on defense, second lowest in the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Washington would like NATO Allies to
spend at least 3 percent of GNP.
THE PRESIDENT seems to be
holding up well under attack from home
and abroad, but we’U bet he often
wonders why he left that serene ranch
in the California skies.
PAUL HARVEY
Column
Dr. Karl Menninger, in his book
“Sparks," expresses fascination with
circumstantial evidence linking
anxiety to head colds.
He does not presume to explain it.
There are phenomena which medical
science has to accept without ex-
planation.
Another example is warts.
There's a scientist at Cornel
University who thinks “warts are
wonderful.”
Professor Lewis Thomas, a
pathologist, waxes almost poetic and
describing the “splendor of the com-
plexity of their architecture.”
Under a microscope, he says, “the
purposeful cellular arrangement sits
there in a turreted mount of dense,
impenetrable horn, impregnable.”
And yet "you can think them away."
I said he said, “you can think them
away.”
This special quality of warts,
Professor Thomas considers more
amazing than cloning or acupuncture
and even less explanable. “One of the
great mystifications of science.”
This will not be news to your grand-
mother. She knew two generations ago
that a wart could be rubbed with a gold
wedding ring and made to disappear
overnight.
Before specialists—when der-
matologists were just called “doc” —
the GP’s tutored by sir William Osier
learned to paint warts with gentian
violet and assure the patient the wart
would be gone in a week. They never
saw it fail.
Several medical researchers, good
clinical investigators with proper
controls, have been fascinated by the
wart.
One researcher took 14 patients with
seemingly intractable generalized
warts on both sides of the body. Under
hypnosis it was suggested that the
warts on one side of the body would
begin to go away.
Within weeks they did. Results were
definitive, indisputable. In nine of the 14
patients, all or nearly all of the warts
had vanished on the suggested side-
while on the control side there were Just
as many as ever.
Dr. Thomas suspects the unconscious
mind needs carefully phrased specific
instructions in order to cut off the blood
supply to one wart while leaving
another intact.
He believes that whatever the
rejection process, it is not a haphazard,
disordered occurrence. Whatever is
responsible for wart rejection has the
accuracy and precision of a surgeon.
This research raises some unan-
swered questions concerning human
organ transplants. Are the intruding
organs rejected by some mental
process?
Is immunology something we might
accomplish mentally?
After all, a mental process that can
reject a wart selectively is both potent
and technically advanced beyond our
understanding. There is something in
each of us that’s smarter than we are.
^ond
j The Great Oil Strikes of 1926
t In one four-month period, between
March 1, 1926 and July 20, 1926,
Oklahoma oilmen uncovered three
major oil fields —Earlsboro, Seminole
City, and St. Louis—within the Greater
Seminole Field of east-central
Oklahoma. All eventually ranked
pmong the top 100 oil fields in the
United Slates.
* Earlsboro, just across the Seminole-
aPottawatomie county line in Pot-
tawatomie County, was discovered by
toe Morgan and Flynn Oil Company on
iMarch 1, 1926 when its No. 1 Ingram
•was brought in as a 200-barrel-per-day
•producer.
The find was confirmed later that
year when the Gypsy Oil Company
completed its No. 1 States with an
initial daily flow of 8,050 barrels of
crude.
! Oil men flocked to the region as word
■at the strike spread and by the end of
•1927, Earlsboro had produced 37,775,722
•barrels of oil, with some wells having a
•reported intitial flow of as much as
*14,000 barrels daily.
; Six days after the discovery at
Earlsboro, the Indian Territory
Illuminating Oil Company, better
known as the ITIO; completed its No. 1
James and opened the rich Seminole
■City Field.
A short time later, Robert G.
Garland’s Independent Oil and Gas
company completed the No. 1 Fixico as
a 6,120 barrel-per-day producer in the
same general region.
By February 28, 1927, the Seminole
City Field was producing 253,192
barrels of crude oil daily from 211 wells.
Located on the Seminole-
Pottawatomie county line, the St. Louis
Pool was located by the Darby
Petroleum Company and the
Independent Oil and Gas Company on
July 20, 1926.
Although the discovery well flowed
only 125 barrels of oil daily, continued
exploration uncovered a huge reservoir
of crude which produced as much as
100.000 barrels of oil per acre.
So great was the flow from these
three fields that in the year of their
discovery, 1926, Oklahoma ranked
second among the oil-producing states
with a cumulative statewide output of
179.195.000 barrels of crude.
As the production from these fields
began to grow in 1927, Oklahoma
jumped to first place with a total state
production of an astounding 277,775,000
barrels of oil.
By 1949, SL Louise, Seminole City,
and Earlsboro had produced so much
oil that they were ranked 25th, 44th, and
65, respectively, among the nation’s 100
most prolific fields.
As of that year the total output of the
three fields was an Incredible
458.233.000 barrels of crude.
Sapulpa Daily
HERALD
Kditorial*-Cominenu-Ob<ervaiion>
Commentary
Supply and demands
h~'
Donald F. Graff
In Washington
An end to
the honeymoon
Robert Walters
There’s something missing from the
budding great debate over military
spending.
Certainly not figures they’re being
tossed around by the megabillions.
But there is a notable disinclination
on the part of the administration to
discuss the subject in terms of the
supply side economics with which it is
in other respects so Infatuated.
Strange? Probably not when you
consider that heavy military outlays
are about as far from a supply-side
stimulus as you can get. They are
demand economics with a vengeance.
To put it very briefly, supply-side
economics postulates achieving growth
through increasing the supply of goods.
Producers are encouraged through tax
reductions and other incentives to boost
outpuL More goods available will be a
brake on price rises, slowing inflation,
and encourage consumer purchasing,
providing a stimulative feedback to
production.
It’s a cycle of effect and countereffect
that, theoretically, produces an ever-
expanding and healthy economy.
Theoretically and conceivably if
you’re Lealing with toaster ovens and
station wagons. But a tank is
something else again. There is a
market for it, but rigidly limited one
that is not governed by the interaction
of supply and demand, or vice versa,
but by fiat.
To put it another way, a tank is a dead
end. There may be substantial supply-
side effects in. other areas of public
sperdings-highways and bridges enable
workers to get to factories to produce
more goods, improved water supplies
benefit production facilities and the
productivity of the people who work
them. But there is nothing productive
about weapons. A tank has no purpose
other than to destroy, or be destroyed.
What massive military spending
essentially means is the concentration
of productive resources on a demand
task par excellence.
OK, OK, so there is an economic
stimulus to localities in which arms
plants are located. Increased
Today’s
Almanac
production means more Jobs, larger
payrolls and more consumer spending
by the beneficiaries. Economic
stimulus.
True to an extent. But the stimulus is
limited to a proportionately very few
localities, often at the expense of the
consumer-based economies of others.
Jobs are one aspect of this effect, and
according to one study 26 states with 60
percent of the U^. population ex-
perience net employment losses when
military spending spurts.
There is also the inflationary effect to
be considered. As one high profile
critic of the administration program,
economist Lester Thurow of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
points out, the build up as initially
projected over the next several years
would be three times that undertaken
during the Vietnam War.
And no one should need to be
reminded at this point that it was that
effort, without accompanying tax hikes
to finance it and to curb consumer
competition for resources, that kicked
off the inflation that continues to afflict
us with the economic miseries.
Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of
the Council of Economic Advisers, has
argued that the consequences will not
be slower and will acount for a smaller
proportion of the economy. But he's
had a difficult time selling that line
outside the administration and even to
some inside it, such as The Knife
himself, Director David Stockman of
the Office of Management and Budget.
MIT’s Thurow is also concerned that
the resources to be commandeered by
the military effort include the very high
technology skills and facilities that are
vital to the new industries most
economists regard as essential to
holding and expanding the American
position in world trade.
That brings us back to supply, and the
question as to what may be In shortest
supply in Washington at the moment:
A willingess to address the full con-
sequences of the arms plans, or to level
with the public?
L.M. Boyd
WASHINGTON (NEA)—Voters with
long memories may recall that one of
the most frequently asked (but never
fully answered) questions posed to the
candidates in the 1980 presidential
campaign Went something like this:
How can Republican presidential
nominee Ronald Reagan, if elected,
fulfill his incessantly repeated pledge to
simultaneously cut taxes, Increase
military spending and balance the
federal budget?
As the first anniversary of his
election to the White House approaches,
President Reagan and his senior policy
advisers finally are providing some
answers:
—They convinced Congress to slash
drastically both personal and business
taxes only a few months ago—but now
they’re talking about possible increases
in tobacco, alcohol and other taxes to
offset the revenue shortfall they
created.
—They insisted for months that the
defense budget not only would be im-
mune to federal spending reductions
but would enjoy a 7 percent increase—
but now they're forced to substantially
scale down that Increase.
—They.,, repeatedly promised a
balanced‘federal budget by 1964—but
now they're backing away from that
commitment, haplessly explaining that
their expectations for economic growth
during the next few years were ex-
cessively optimistic.
In other words, all three components
of the president’s principal campaign
pledge—lower taxes, higher military
spending and a balanced budget—now
are endangered.
What went wrong? First, Reagan
relied upon economic assumptions so
hopelessly unrealistic that his program
was virtually doomed to collapse upon
its first confrontation with the real
world, where conditions never match
any president’s expectations.
Second, the president paid a very
high price for his month-long August
vacation in terms of losing the Initiative
and momentum he had captured during
his first six months in office.
That phenomenon involves in-
tangibles such as expectations and
perceptions—but those elements are
inordinately important in the murky
world of politics where reality often is
subordinated to imagery.
Finally, in an exquisite display of bad
timing, the president allowed the initial
reports of backpedaling on all of his
fiscal commitments to surface dta time
when he was basking in the California
sun, unavailable to apply the personal
charm and political savvy that were so
crucial to his successes in earlier
months.
Reagan could well regain the
Initiative he has temporarily lost, but
he faces a tough struggle against a
formidable array of ideological op-
ponents who have been searching in
vain ever since his inauguration for the
opportunity to effectively thwart the
president and his programs.
While the outcome of that battle for
control of the voters’ hearts and minds
remains very much in doubt, it’s
probably safe to assume that the
president’s protracted honeymoon
finally has come to an end.
The acerbity of the rhetoric critical of
the president already is rapidly
climbing to unprecedented levels. In
the October issue of Harper’s
magazine, for example, contributing
editor Walter Karp argues:
“I truly hope it is now obvious to
everyone that Reagan’s program for
cutting inflation and ending economic
stagnation is not an economic program
at all. It is merely a pretext for
carrying out certain fundamental
political goals that the American people
would never accept on their own
ruthless terms.”
Indeed, while the president was on
vacation, the Agriculture Department
revealed how it plans to Implement the
Reagan-promoted reduction in federal
funds used to subsidize lunches served
to low- and middle-income school
children.
The federally mandated serving of
milk for kindergartners would be cut
from 6 to 4 ounces, while the minimum
portion of hamburger for elementary
school children would be reduced from
2 to 14 ounces.
With similar actions scheduled to be
disclosed in the comming months, even
Reagan’s vaunted popularity will be
hard pressed to withstand assaults
based on claims that he is taking milk
from the mouths of babies.
(Bobby Newton Says^
Baseball players weren’t as worried
over the split season as they were over
the split paychecks.
Iran’s new government is in trouble.
They’ve spent their entire 1982 budget
on firing squads.
Think quick
Today is Thursday, Sept. 24, the
267th day of 1981 with 98 to follow.
The moon is moving toward its new
phase.
The morning star is Mars.
The evening stars are Venus and
Jupiter.
Those born on this date are under the
sign of Libra.
John Marshall, fourth chief justice of
the United States, was bom on Sept. 24,
1755.
On this date in history:
In 1955, President Dwight
Eisenhower suffered a heart attack
while vacationing in Colorado.
In 1959, President Eisenhower and
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met
at Camp David, Md.
In 1971, retired Supreme Court
Justice Hugo Black died at the age of
85.
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You're able to think about four times u swiftly, if aver-
age, u you can talk. This puts you way ahead of almost any
public speaker, broadcaster or ordinary conversationalist
directing words at you. It is said to be one reason so many
television presentations are criticised as childish. The pro-
ducers of same may fail to take into account that the audi-
ence can listen a lot faster than the actors can deliver.
Q. Can a brown bear mate with a polar bear to produce
cubs?
A. It happened in the Washington Zoo once, yea. But
nobody has ever heard of anything like that in the wild.
If it's exotic flesh, somebody is going to say it tutes like
chicken, count on that. The lizard called the iguana tastes
like chicken, I'm told.
The walletmakers say men prefer black billfolds, women
brown.
THIRD LIEUTENANTS
Q. The U.S. Army had Third Lieutenants during the
War of 1812. What did they do?
A. Nobody knows. There were 408 of them at peak
strength. They earned $23 a month, or $30 in the cavalry,
if they bought their own horses. But what they did is a
mystery. No detailed orders survive.
Q. Hu there ever been an unassisted triple-play in World
Series baseball?
A. Only one. William Wambaganss, playing second bue
for the Cleveland Indians, did it in 1920.
EVIDENT HEART ATTACK
TV announcers are frequently heard to apeak of an
"apparent heart attack.” Curious, this. A heart attack is
never apparent. The convulsion of the heart is not visible.
However, an “evident heart attack” is possible. So uy the
better word mechanics.
You wouldn't much care for the notion of eating a live
chicken, a live calf, a live pig, certainly not. But a lot of
people eat a lot of live food. What, nonesuch cornu to
mind? How about clams and oysters? Many a meditative
diner drops the lemon juice on the little living muscle to
ue it twitch.
New mothers in the 1950s toilet-trained their offspring
a* soon u possible after age 1. Now they do so after age 2.
Why this change?
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