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PAGE FOUR—Sapulpa (OUfc) Herald, Taaaday, Jut 10, 19*
OPINION
Can U.S. expert
stop killer bees?
The children are playing, / The poor
baby deep*. / The killer bees are com-
ing, / to sting them on the (beeps).
— Ode to an imminent invasion
WESLACO, Texas (NEA) - Ever
since the United States was warned 30
years ago that swarms of so called
‘killer bees* had gotten loose from a
research laboratory in Brazil and
were slowly heading toward the
North American continent, there has
been a good lot of nervous waiting,
not to mention a measure of hype.
Now it appears the terrible crea-
tures, shudder, are almost here.
Authorities at the U.S. Department
of Agriculture report that the bees
have advanced to a point roughly half
way up the Mexican isthmus, and
since they travel at a rate of 200-to-
300 miles a year, they should be ready
to cross the Texas border by the
spring of 1990.
When they do, they will undoubted-
ly be met with more worry and ex-
travagant publicity, but also by a lev-
el-headed scientist named William
Rubink. Dr. Rubink, a research ento-
mologist with the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, is directing a federal
program that essentially is the na-
tion's first line of killer bee defense.
Rubink’s job is to trap some of the
bees in the early assaults, so they can
be investigated for possible weak-
nesses. To do this he has placed a se-
ries of ‘Rubink Tubes" in acacian for-
ests on both sides of the Rio Grande.
The tubes are artificial hives that
have been chemically scented to lure
the invaders.
They should be ready to
cross the Texas border
by the spring of 1990.
there is grave concern that killer bees
(he prefers to call them African bees)
will arrive in such numbers that they
may disrupt the nation's $200 million
a year honey industry, and, in addi-
tion, damage the $20 billion worth of
pollinated field crops.
Certainly, the bees have the capa-
bility to wreak farm havoc. They are
stronger than American bees and re-
produce at twice the rate. When they
initially got loose in Brazil (in 1957),
they went straight for the domestic
hives, replaced the queens with their
own royalty and soon dominated all of
South America.
Agriculture experts say this is bad
because the African bees produce a
large number of rather shiftless male
drones. The males do not gather hon-
ey, instead they eat a lot of it. Since
they are plug lazy, they do not fly
among the flowers, and that means
they can not be relied on to pollinate
farm crops.
So, all eyes are on Rubink right
now. He says he will probably be the
first one to catch the invaders be-
cause he has placed his Rubink Tubes
here on the southernmost rim of the
country. Once he succeeds, the De-
partment of Agriculture will be able
to learn how the African bees interact
with the American buzzers.
"Make laws? We may eventually get back to that sort of thing, but right
now we have too many ethics inquiries going on to be bothered with
much else.”
The 1992 campaign
In politics, it’s never too early
MANCHESTER, N.H. (NEA) -
George Bush had barely completed
his first 100 days in office when presi-
dential hopefuls, like the swallows re-
turning to Capistrano, began arriving
back in New Hampshire. As hard as
this might be to believe, it appears
that, to a number of potential candi-
dates, 1992 is just around the corner
On the first really nice weekend of
1989, Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-
Colo. was making her third swing
through the state in the past year. The
congresswoman almost jumped into
the 1988 contest, spending several
months “testing the waters’ before
tearfully announcing that she could
not raise the money she needed to run
a credible campaign.
But she's running now. Since the
first of the year she has made appear-
ances in about 17 different states and
raised more than a half million dol-
lars for her own political action com-
mittee, “The Fund For The Future." It
will form the basis for her campaign
committee when the time is right.
During two days in New Hamp-
shire, Schroeder delivered two com-
mencement speeches, met with Dem-
ocratic Party activists in four
separate communities, gave a couple
of local newspaper and television in-
terviews, spoke at a fund-raiser for a
local chapter of the National Organi-
zation for Women, and still had time
to press the flesh on main street.
Her message was hard hitting.
George Bush, she charged, is caught
Rep. Richard Gephardt made innumerable trips to
New Hampshire between 1985 and 1988. Maybe
it’s gotten to be a habit, because he has been back
twice this year.
in a ‘Cold War mentality" and he is
letting Mikhail Gorbachev win the
battle for the hearts and minds of
Europe.
Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri
made innumerable trips here between
1985 and the 1988 primary. Maybe it's
gotten to be a habit, because he has
been back twice this year So has his
fellow 1988 Democratic presidential
primary candidate Bruce Babbitt, the
former Arizona governor. On one of
his two trips, he toured part of the
state by bicycle.
All this makes it a good time for the
local Democratic Party and local
Democratic candidates, to raise mon-
ey. They can get some of the party’s
heaviest hitters to give a speech or be
guest of honor at an event. The party
and the local candidates get the mon-
ey, and, in return, the national politi-
cians collect political IOUs they can
cash come primary time
In recent weeks Sens. Bill Bradley
of New Jersey and Jay Rockefeller of
West Virginia have been raising funds
for local candidates, as have Govs
Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Richard
Celeste of Ohio.
Since his son was injured in an auto
accident. Sen. Albert Gore of Tennes-
see has not been able to come north.
In a recent mailing to influential local
Democrats, Gore said his son is well
on the road to recovery and that he
would be up to see them soon. In the
meantime, he sent along the text of a
recent speech blasting the job being
done by George Bush.
Massachusetts Gov. Michael Duka-
kis has also been too busy to make the
short drive up Interstate 93. So he did
the next best thing. He recently had
New Hampshire party leaders down
to his house in Brookline for a
barbecue.
The Republicans, meanwhile, are
looking even farther ahead than the
Democrats. Unless something unto-
ward happens, George Bush will be
unopposed in the 1992 GOP primaries.
So the next open GOP presidential
primary will not be until 1996, but
that has not kept Republican politi-
cians away from New Hampshire.
Vice President Dan Quayle was the
guest of honor at an annual charity
ski event hosted by former governor,
now White House chief-of-staff John
Sununu. Marilyn Quayle has been the
guest of honor at a statewide Republi-
can women’s flower festival.
Both Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar
and New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean
have made the trip north, as has drug
czar William Bennett, a favorite of
New Hampshire conservatives.
No one is yet taking any of this ear-
ly presidential jockeying very seri-
ously Among politicians the No. 1
topic of conversation is whether Sun-
unu might change his mind and return
home to run for the Senate seat being
vacated by retiring Republican Sen.
Gordon Humphrey. Despite a long-
standing dream of serving in the Sen-
ate, Sununu has said that he is com-
mitted to remaining at his White
House post until the end of Bush’s first
term. ,
But local insiders have heard that
Sununu has gotten off to a somewhat
rocky start in Washington, and think
he still might return home at the end
of the year to run for Senate.
THE WAGMAN FILE
75
( *** fm ROBERT
, WAGMAN
Theresa Saldana’s quest for justice
Naturally, there is a certain
amount of risk in the mission. Rubink
is often stung in the conduct of his
work, and therefore he may very well
become the country’s first killer bee
casualty. Judging from the advance
hyperbole then, including ominous
media conjectures, the poor man
would seem to be in a heap of trouble.
The bees have a ferocious reputa-
tion. They were originally brought to
Brazil from the wilds of Africa, and
they are easily agitated and highly ag-
gressive. There is a story that people
in Suzano, Brazil, once battled a horde
of the bees for seven days and seven
nights, using flamethrowers and frag-
mentation grenades.
There is also a story about a bee at-
tack on a prison in Brazil. The insects
are said to have swarmed into the
yard and into the cells. The assault
was so vicious that many inmates
thought it was a new form of police
torture, and they are reported to have
shouted out confessions to every
crime they ever committed.
And yet Rubink says the bee stories
are greatly exaggerated. He admits
that as many as 400 people may have
been killed by the bees, but that’s only
a dozen or so a year over the last three
decades. He says the foreign insects
are not in fact any more lethal than
the good old native variety — “and
their sting is just the same.”
Rubink claims the real danger of
the invasion lies elsewhere. He says
L.M. Boyd
Goth is three times heavier wet than
dry.
DOORBELL FIXER
Can you fix a faulty doorbell? If so,
you never need be out of a job. Half the
doorbells don’t work. Walk door to
door. Push each bell button. If it rings,
say, “I fix doorbells but you don’t need
me. Excuse, please.” If it doesn’t ring,
say “I fix doorbells, $25 an hour, one
hour minimum. You want me to fix
yours?" In hand is a note from a young
fellow who says he makes a good
living doing that.
After that, the scientists will deter-
mine whether anything can or should
be done. If necessary, Rubink says,
the government might try to combat
the bees as they fly over the border,
perhaps by cross-breeding them with
genetically inferior insects to produce
descendants who are relatively docile
and harmless.
Otherwise, the bees will presum-
ably keep moving north. They have
already journeyed 3,000 miles, across
10 countries, from the Equator to the
Tropic of Cancer, from San Paulo to
Mexico City. Rubink believes they
eventually will be stopped by the un-
suitable northern climate, but that
might not be until they reach Canada.
In any case, he adds, don't panic.
The republic has survived menacing
invasions from the south before.
There have been poison ants, for in-
stance, and creeping kudzu. Besides,
we are already coexisting with sting-
ing insects that are larger than the
killer bees, and every bit as disagree-
able. They are known as hornets.
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Slasher movies have made ex-
tremely good livings for their authors
the past few years, and I've got a
great idea for one.
There’s this struggling young ac-
tress, see, and this crazy guy watches
her in a movie and becomes obsessed
with her Only it's not a harmless kind
of obsession, like a crush or some-
thing. Instead of trying to get a
chance to talk to her, or maybe ask
her for a date, he decides the only way
he can win her is by “sending her into
eternity," there to join her after his
exit from this world.
The young actress goes blissfully
about her seemingly normal life as
the slasher begins to stalk her. Imag-
ine the tension building as we watch
him watching her, now and then tak-
ing out his hunting knife to hone the
blade just a little more.
The scene that everyone will pay
the big money to see, of course, will
be the one where the slasher finally
confronts the young woman as she
comes out of a music lesson, and rips
her open so savagely and so often that
the knife bends.
This would probably be good
enough to bring in the crowds once,
but it’s not enough to parlay into a se-
quel, “Woman-Slasher II." With that
in mind, I’ll have a passing delivery
man wrest the knife away from the
slasher, have the girl lose almost all
the blood in her body and almost die
on the operating table. Next I’ll write
in several years of physical therapy
and counseling as she struggles to re-
construct her life. Then I’ll have her
triumphantly resume her acting ca-
reer, marry and become pregnant.
But just when she thinks the night-
mare is behind her, I’ll have the crazy
man write a letter to a TV talk-show
host, saying he’s still going to kill the
woman. I'll include a few scenes of
him in jail, with his psychiatrists all
saying, “Ooooohhhhh, don’t let him
out; he’s paranoid and still very dan-
gerous." I’ll end the movie with the
girl hearing the news on television of
his pending release, despite the psy-
chiatrists’ misgivings. Then I’ll start
writing the sequel.
Great idea, huh? Well dam the luck,
it’s already been done, and in real life.
In 1982, Scottish drifter Arthur Jack-
son stalked and brutally attacked ac-
tress Theresa Saldana in just that
way. Jackson was convicted later that
year and received the stiffest sen-
tence California law allowed: 12
years in prison for attempted murder.
Until last week, Saldana believed
Jackson would be allowed to once
again stalk her and try to kill her.
SARAH
OVERSTREET
Garbage thrown into the oceans
annually outweighs the fish taken out
of them by three to one.
An elder insists tufts of cotton tied
to your screen door will keep the flies
out of the house.
It’s now claimed an infant is bom
with a fully developed sense of taste.
A snail has no nose.
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Today in History
By The Associated Proa
Today is Tuesday, June 20, the
171st day of 1989. There are 194 days
left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On June 20,1963, the United Stiles
and Soviet Union signed sn agreement
to set up a hot line between the two
superpowers.
On this date:
In 1632, the English Crown granted
the second Lord Baltimore settlement
rights to an area surrounding Chesa-
peake Bay, moat of which would lata
become Maryland.
In 1756, in India, a group of British
soldiers was captured and imprisoned
in t suffocating cell that became
known as the Black Hole of Calcutta.
Mow of the men died
In 1782, Congress approved the
Great Seal of the United States.
In 1791, King Louis XVI of France
attempted to flee the country, but was
caught
In 1837, Queen Victoria ascended
the British throne following the death
of ha uncle, King William IV.
In 1863, Weat Virginia became the
35th state.
In 1893, children’s rhymes
notwithstanding, a jury in New
Bedford, Maas., found Lizzie Borden
innocent of the ax murders of ha
father and stepmother.
In 1947, President Harry S. Truman
vetoed the Taft Hartley Act, but was
immediately overriden by the House
of Representatives. (The Senate voted
to override June 23.)
In 1947, reputed gangster Benjamin
"Buggsy” Siegel was shot dead at a
mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif.
In 1948, the variety series ‘‘Toast of
the Town,” hosted by Ed Sullivan,
premiered on CBS-TV.
In 1967, boxer Muhammad Ali was
convicted in Houston of violating
Selective Service laws by refusing to
be drafted. (Ali’s conviction was ulti-
mately overturned by the U.S,
Supreme Court)
In 1977, oil began flowing through
the recently completed trans-Alaskan
pipeline from Pnidhofc Bay. (The first
crude arrived in Valdez, some 800
miles to the south, 38 days later.)
Ten years ago: In a scene captured
on videotape and shown worldwide,
ABC News correspondent Bill Stew-
art was shot to death in Managua,
Nicaragua, by a merfiber of President
Anastasio Somoza’s national guard.
Five years ago: A sharply divided
House of Representatives adopted an
immigration bill designed to discour-
age foreigners from breaching U.S.
borders while granting amnesty to
millions of illegal aliens who met
certain conditions.
One year ago: The U.S. Supreme
Court unanimously upheld a New
York City law making it illegal for
private clubs to genaally exclude
women and minorities.
Today’s birthdays: Guitarist Chet
Atkins is 65. Singer songwriter Brian
Wilson is 47. Singer Anne Murray is
44. Actress Candy Gark is 42. Singer
Cyndi Lauper is 36. Rock musician
John Taylor is 29.
Thought for today: “History, in
general, only informs us whit bad
government is.” — Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826).
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