Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 98, No. 186, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 15, 1989 Page: 4 of 24
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• Sunday, October 15,1989
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Donald W. Reynolds, Chairman
Charles C. Drew, General Manager
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Brenda Baker, Office Manager Sukena Fidaali Taibjee, Spotlight Editor
H.S. Caldwell, Press Room Supervisor
are reluctant.
Only two of the 35 Arkansas state senators and 18 representatives
belong to the GOP. (One is the senator from Bentonville-Wal-Mart
headquarters.) Clinton had no trouble getting fellow Democrats to
approve proposals also made by Oklahoma Republican Gov. Henry
Bellmon. Some are stalled in our legislature.
One such would allow parents to choose which Arkansas district
their children will attend-if the receiving school agrees and so long
as the move does not contribute to resegregation. Clinton argues this
gives schools an incentive to keep quality high.
Oklahoma's Senate passed a similar law this year, but it’s stalled
in the House Education Committee. Norman Rep. Carolyn Tho-
mpson, committee chairman, says the bill presents pupil transport-
ation difficulties, and some committee members express concern
about its racial hazards.
Another new Arkansas law requires dissolution and merger of any
school district whose pupils don’t improve on state-required tests.
(We passed a similar legislation last spring.)
Another stalled Bellmon proposal passed by Arkansas requires the
state to revoke drivers' licenses of student drop-outs younger than 17.
Thompson thinks this has a good chance. Still another Arkansa law
could penalize parents of truants up to $500. Thompson rates pros-
pects for similar Oklahoma action as dim. Legislators resume our
special session November 6.
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The idea drew little opposition before the vote, except from a
teachers union and a minority group. It was touted as an investment
to shield Oklahoma City high school students from drugs and other
criminal influences.
But a $5.2 million bond issue designed to underwrite the program
failed, to the dismay of members of the capital's school board and
law enforcement officials who had endorsed it. The proposal, one of
several efforts to curb juvenile delinquency and crime in Oklahoma
City, failed by a 7,620 to 5,390 vote -two percent shy of the 60 percent
margin it needed.
For 20 years from the time Creek, Lincoln and Okmulgee County
voters sent Sapulpa’s John Young to the State Senate until they
replaced him-Young almost had apoplexy each time pensions were
discussed. He would sputter to his colleagues about the tremendous
“unfunded liability” they were creating.
Just as well--for his sake--that voters retired Young in 1986. He’d
really have blown his stack last week. Finance Director Alexander
Holmes said he finds supplementary benefits being paid to 881 higher
education retirees are not funded at all -but are paid by diverting $6.7
million a year from current budgets.
Holmes said the funds are spent primarily by OU and OSU on
faculty who are being paid more than $40,000 a year at the time they
retired. He had no idea how much such costs might rise when others
retire. He urged a study.
We asked Gov. Bellmon if such practices do not create an illegal
debt against the state. Bellmon looked concerned, then wondered if
they were binding contracts. “If they don’t have the money, they
can’t pay,” he mused.
Arkansas-our neighbor to the east-has been gaining national atten-
tion for what it’s doing, or trying to do, to solve the quality of edu-
cation problem. Its photogenic governor, Democrat Bill Clinton, had
a big hand in arranging the recent education summit between Presi-
dent Bush and the nation’s governors.
We’ve just visited Little Rock to see what Clinton and his legis-
lators have been doing educationally. A special legislative has been
called but-it turns out-not to address education issues. Clinton may
yet add the subject, but only three matters were included in the call of
early October.
The three were prison overcrowding (a perennial with us), equal
tax treatment of retirees (which we made a stab at this year), and the
drug problem (another perennial with us), said Mike Gauldin, the
governor’s press secretary.
Gauldin went to Arkansas U at Fayetteville from Sevier County,
southwest Arkansas. Our McCurtain County abuts Sevier. Fayet-
teville is close to our Adair County. So Gauldin has a nodding ac-
quaintance with Oklahoma.
Gauldin says Arkansas legislators passed about 95 percent of
Clinton’s education proposals during the regular session earlier this
year. He adds wryly that few requiring new money were funded. Bob
McCord, editorial writer for Little Rock’s Arkansas Gazette who
attended the governor’s meeting, agrees.
McCord thinks Clinton may yet push for new funds in the special
session. It could be for an extra cent on the present 4 cent sales tax, or
new pressure for more local taxes-ad valorem reform. Legislators
For unknown reasons, parts of
these primitive structures may re-
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By Carter Bradley
and Ralph Sewell
OP A Capitol Bureau
Passage of laws that will solve Oklahoma’s many environmental
problems won't happen unless legislative leaders overcome organ-
izational hazards embedded in the lawmaking process.
After a year’s study, Gov. Henry Bellmon’s Environmental Con-
cerns Council has determined that environmental responsibilities
are scattered among too many state agencies. It found that economic
growth can be stifled by the conflicts between agencies that share the
job of enforcing laws relating to specific environmental problems.
The Council proposes establishment of a centralized environ-
mental control agency. A bill to that effect probably will be intro-
duced during the 1990 legislative session, according to Tulsa attorney
Ross Swimmer, coordinator for the Council. The plan already has
drawn objections from officials now involved in regualating air and
water quality, sewage, solid or toxic waste disposal, wetlands and
other wildlife habitats, and other matters.
Each session, dozens of bills are filed to authorize various depart-
ments to deal with environmental concerns as a part of their mis-
ssion. In each chamber, the bills are assigned to a variety of
committees that are not primarily responsible for protecting the
environment. Members of such committees often tend to go along
with "empire building" proposals of agency bureaucrats under their
jurisdiction. Confusing and overlapping assignments may result.
According to some of the 80 members of the Council, the legis-
lature’s committee system contributes to the disarray. No one com-
mittee in either the House or Senate is authorized to review all bills
that could have significant impact on the environment. Role of such
committees could be comparable to that of the appropriation and
budget panels of each chamber-to see that the state’s environmental
resources-like its budget-are properly managed.
Swimmer, who headed the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1985
to last year, was hired by Bellmon to be Council Coordinator. That
job ended with the issuance of an 80-page report. (Bellmon now has
asked Swimmer to oversee Oklahoma's compliance with a new fed-
eral law regulating tribal gambling enterprises.)
Swimmer sees education of the general public as an essential first
step toward the legislative actions that the Council seeks. Oklahoma,
he says, could move ahead of other states in dealing with environ-
mental problems in a manner that would encourage long-term econ-
omic growth.
Council Co-chairman Bill Talley of Oklahoma City says the group
expects Bellmon and his staff to develop some specific legislative
proposals designed to carry its recommendations into law.
CATASTROPWIC
AELTH CARE
Proponents argued that if high school students were fenced in,
behind gates to bar non-students from parking lots and buildings,
student life styles would change. If confined inside a “closed ca-
mpus” all day, students would be protected from drug pushers,
sponsers hoped. Some even predicted the plan would result in fewer
teen-age pregnancies.
During the bond campaign, the Oklahoma City council dramatized
a growing truancy problem by voting to allow police officers to arrest
and detain children found on the streets during school hours.
with the disease should have genetic the youngster could be helped by radi-
counseling before choosing to have a ation therapy, without the need for
DEAR DR. GOTT: A 13-year-old family. surgery. In any case, I encourage your
nephew suffers from a branchial cleft no, : , ncn,e Lro;n five children to have genetic counsel-
cyst that is the size of a tennis ball. .Iwonderifyourgrandsonissbrain ing to arrest the transmission of the
What is the cause, result of surgery tumor may be yet another manifesta- disease
and the outlook for him’ tion of von Recklinghausen s disease.
DEAR READER The developing Ask your doctor about this. Perhaps © 1989 newspaper enterprise assn
embryo has five mounds of flesh,
called branchial arches, that eventu-
ally grow to form the upper and lower
jaws, portions of the neck and the car-
tilage beneath the thyroid gland.
These arches are separated by
grooves or clefts.
L-rmf.nl hormAnI, give you more information, I am great service last month by con- resources through both regulatory
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By Robert J. "agman we will cheer him. Or he can redefine in the audience do see him as the par- sure to mention the title. toward the crisis facina America's The aovernors are als com
u. .the old standard of presidential bold- ty’s standard-bearer in 1992. His re- DEAR DR. GOTT: Can you provide "c,rn—iSanI n!?, naS llegyennos °
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (NEA) - ness by continuing to speak softly and ception in California will be critical information on neurofibromatosis? I education systemi. Only one mitted to the ideas of greater
New York Gov Mario Cuomo, the po- carry a big tennis racket ” to any 1992 presidential bid. The state have it, my five children have it, and governor, busy with a special choice for parents and Students,
tentia front runner for his party s Cuomo said that Democrats, espe- has moved its presidential primary now my grandson has a tumor on his legislative session, failed to attend active and sustained parental and !
grsstsmamyornisttlpwpemocrats comomie s ^t^^ a "dear READER Neuroriromato n™uS sum is businesscommunityinvolvement i
sunaommmdmznamauszanahetadslb: groups The President and his ad- ability (or teacher and principals:
George Bush. and AIDS or else Bush “will be re- Perhaps even more interesting was sociated with nerve tumors, bone de- visors went to each group to learn and alternative teacher certifica-
Inahluntspeechdeliveedrecent d vealed as an unconverted, conserva- Cuomos reception the next day be- formities and peculiar, tan (cafe-au- from the governors tion programs, among other ideas
tpe-tineroratesnemonuwosis tive Republican . UU1 fore a largely student audience at the lait spots of the skin. The disease is The President said it best, This is Finally, the president and the
frApmorans W begih rousing “peea, tosmrpbylea SenversptssRegtandnngUoos: gowycausingweaknersgdemrnescon nota Rep ublican or Democrat governors agreed to keep track of
formulating and implementing their his presidential ambitions as well as east of iLs Anuetes Y’ blindness issue. And it s not administration each of the goals and to report
own agenda^ The New York governor his place in the Democratic Party’s To another packed house in a bra- Treatment consists of surgical re- versus the governors. It's an annually on their progress
deiver i this message at a Packed • movalof the tumors or radiation ther- American issue.” I left the summit with both oo- !
SSrt'M00 fund-rarsenthatnettena apyto shrink them. Because neurof- At the conclusion of the summit, timism and a sense of pride White :
S^party brnmtatosis tinsmnherited ' citreis the President and the National Oklahoma s education system is 3
Contending that many Democrats Contending that DemOCratS hSVC as was the case in your family Adults Governors' Association (NGA) not perfect, we are already making
have acquiesced to what he called .. A, . - - agreed to take several actions that needed reforms
Bush’s “budgetary gimmickry," acquiesced tO the White HOUSC, the New York y .. rp should result in a better educated I believe Oklahomans will con- I
Cuom0 exhorted hisnfe Tlow.Detro governor exhorted them to shed their Letter l o citizenry tinue to give education the priority
timidity." ‘political timidity., ‘ p.:4. First it was agreed that the NGA status that it deserves Our
“If we choose to be silent because * --E —M-L•I and the Bush Administration will children-our future--deserve
we believe what the Republicans be- Saturday, Oct. 7, I took my develop a set of goals, for all In- nothing less!
lieve, then we should stop throwing girls to the free showing of
these expensive fund-raisers and -----------------------------------------------“Ghostbusters II”. I wish to
taqinauuiplexntlcipavnL hierarchy. “I’m not even thinking vado 90-minute performance, Cuomo thank the owners of the movie
they believe, we should say so and be about it, was his answer to the pre- delivered a stirring defense of tradi- theater for having the free show-
gin working aggressively and boldly dictable question1 about his presiden- tional liberalism and government in- ing. I wish to say to the people of
to improve this nation right now, in- tialambitionsthat opened a press tervention into many aspects of soci- Chickasha shame on you. I have
stead of waiting for the president to aoten Atte theezSeecn he ety. He did not flinch in asserting that never seen so much garbage on
stumble ’ ducked all further questions on the taxes may have to be raised to fund the floor of a movie house in mv
He acknowledged George Bush s subject witha wave of his hand,- the war on drugs and fight other So- life is this how the the eonie of
popularity and the difficulties Demo- ing.cIm. not even a leader of the cial ills. He seemed to win over his au- tePePto
crts are having in formulating a pol- Democratic Partv dience by advocating a national pro Chuckisha thank the theater
icy. But he said Democrats should be Later, in other interviews, Cuomo gram modeled after the “Liberty owners tor naving a free movie-
heartened by Bush's rejection of insisted that he was not calling for a Scholarships" approved in New York -DY trashing the theater. It
many of Ronald Reagan's views and tougher Democratic approach to state last year, which guarantee all would not break anyone's arms
programs Therein, he said, lies the Bush in order to lay the groundwork high-school graduates money for a or fingers to carry their own
basis for Democratic action for his own potential bid to unseat the college education. garbage out and the adults are as
, .. u . .. .. , president in three years bad as the children.
He (Bush) has dramatically ad- “People are going to write about Next time you go to dump a cup
vanced the cause of all Democrats the presidency, Cuomo said. “I can’t During the early part of the 1988 of soda dod or ovcorn on the
and progressives by candidly reject- stop that I wish I could The impor- presidential campaign, before Cuomo Mi-amPrsiPowould do
ing his predecessor s narrow view of tant thing here is not the messenger took himself out of the running, there m yrurse house
life in America, Cuomo said ' He s What s relevant is not the messenger were questions about whether his tra- thatin your house,
said that we are right, and for that we What’s relevant is not Mario Cuomo ditional Democratic message would Thank you for allowing me to
should be grateful to him Now he can I'm not talking about myself I’m travel west very well. From the reac- vent this frustration-I felt like
follow through with substantial gov talking about ideas ” tion to Cuomo’s speeches this time something had to be said,
ernment programs that give signifi- But it was clear from Cuomo’s re- around. it appears that it will. Sincerely,
cant resources to these problems, and ception at the fund-raiser that many © 1989 newspaper enterprise assn Carolyn Evans
appear as soft, painless cysts beneath
the angle of the jaw. Although they do
natarpresentaaniinnssgnry health The Oklahoma Legislature, volved in the education process, to ;
Surgical removal is the recom- which reconvenes on November measure the performance of the ;
mended treatment for branchial cleft 6, will give the state the oppor- nation's education system The
cysts. Simple drainage is not appro- tunity to be a national leader in goals will be announced at the
priatebecausesthe cystsrerform. The education. NGA's winter meeting in February ;
rperat are quitrosiandardcandsthe Similarly, America can become The second agreement was to
Your nephew would probably be a world leader in Education Presi- seek greater flexibility and ac- 1
grateful to have the cyst removed. To dent George Bush did the nation a countability in the use of federal
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