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Summers past reflect social demise
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• Chickasha Daily Express
•Friday, September 13,199
•Page 4
Three years ago, the American Soci-
ety of Newspaper Editors elected
Katherine Fanning, then the editor of
By Hodding Carter III
Summer is over, a statement of bit-
tersweet reality that this year was
punctuated by an end-of-August story
in The New York Times lamenting the
“fading to black" of New Jersey’s last
drive-in movie. Drive-ins were born
in the Garden State when Richard
Hollingshead Jr. of Camden opened
Majority.”
Consonant with these changing de-
mographics, the American Newspa-
per Publishers Association earlier
this year elected Cathleen Black, pub
lisher of USA Today, as its president
The Chickasha Daily Ex-
press welcomes letters from
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available to as many writers
as possible, brief letters are
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a candidate for public office,
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in the final two weeks prior
to the election. We reserve
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A LOCALLY OPERATED MEMBER OF THE
DONREY MEDIA GROUP
Donald W. Reynolds, Founder
happy to have the kids off their hands.
“Doing your own thing" was a phrase
that applied with a vengeance to the
folks as well as to Junior and Sis.
Barely encountering each other at
meals, spending little or no time at
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BY JACK ANDERSON Since the merits of their case had were decreased.
AND DALE VAN ATTA never been heard, the rangers sued Yosemite's new superintendent,
WASHINGTON—Park rangers again and began paying the higher Mike Finley, asked the Interior De-
in Yosemite National Park got a rents. The government had offered a partment to make the decrease
slap in the face from James Watt settlement—if the rangers would retroactive to 1983 when the fuss
last month when they opened their drop the legal battle: They would began. The government promptly
mail—bills for thousands of dollars not be billed for the difference in refused.
in back rent for their housing in the their rent that was accumulating RECOUP—The failed coup in
park. Now they can either pay up while the first case was in court, the Soviet Union has not put all of
voluntarily or have the money The rangers figured they had a the hardliners to rest. The Kremlin
taken out of their government pay- strong case, so they went for broke is still riddled with extremists who
checks. and rejected the offer. yearn for a return to the stern fa-
The letters marked the end of a But the second suit didn't fare thering of Josef Stalin. While most
punishing legal battle that started any better in court The judge threw of the Soviet people see the coup as
nine years ago when Watt was the case out, saying he didn't want the final nail in the coffin of com-
Ronald Reagan's unpopular Interior to try a case that had already been munism, these extremists saw it as
secretary. He decided that National through the court system once. Re- an amateur effort. They believe
Park employees living in govern- fusing to give up, the rangers took their country can still be returned to
ment-owned housing in the parks their case to a federal appeals court, the Stalinist ice age with the right
should be paying rent that matched They lost there too. people masterminding the over-
the prices in the surrounding hous- The federal government didn't ac- throw of reformers. The hardliners
ing market. Up until that point, the cept victory gracefully. The interior blamed the coup leaders for being
rangers had paid below market Department decided to collect the too soft, and for making the huge
rents. rent increase that was not paid dur- mistake of not muzzling Boris
The idea may have made sense to ing the three-year court battle when Yeltsin at the same time they iso- • . • AgpAA p
Watt, but to the rangers, it the judge had held the government lated Mikhail Gorbachev. A special \Momem A(CVACC n 6 06W5IVVIIl
amounted to a pay cut. Like the landlords at bay. paratrooper unit had been training V¥ Vl l l vl l - • •
military, the rangers had settled for So it was that after nine years to take Yeltsin into custody, but he t
lower salaries because they knew and two failed lawsuite, about 300 foiled them by getting to the par- b-NeiSirnkie that I am I read
one of the perks of the job included rangers opened their mail last liament building and then staying nine newspapers a day. All of them
breaks on housing. month to find a bill from Uncle visible throughout the coup. are published in the East.
Watt's decision to let the market Sam for rent he considers to be six EnTAPIA, E, TALn That’s not to suggest that a few of
be the guide hit especially hard in years overdue. The rangers told our MimiEr -miLcineron the nation’s more distinguished news-
« Which is smac dadin ms™ “a EKannrdzunibenley’hasproposna HEKasstt:
ponmvedhousingmncnuaimaiifor- wentangemswereogivem3daysnd amggandosarordemgcracytrorine ■ ■ A — the christian science Monitor, asits
nia pay up or have the money taken out 19/610 a series ui nine educated about the founding of features section and deputy copy desk president.
The Yosemite rangers decided to of their paychecks in monthly in- teleyised debates speeches and n- nation in the East, but unim. chief. All three are women. Although at presentwomen.com-
h 3 -- terviews with presidential candidates pressed that the founders were all The change was even more amph- prise only 32 percent of news staffs,
on Sunday nights, free of commer- white males. fied by the fact that the features edi- more and more women are moving
cials. If Americans are wise to None of this holds true today. As tor’s predecessor was on maternity into high-level editorial and executive
nhoto opportunities and sound-bite Bob Dylan melodically philosophized, leave. positions on major newspapers,
pnoto opporiumues anu sou u K times a-changin." New Are these changes influenced by the As the female presence in journal-
campaigning, they will welcome Eh ‘ longer dominates Ameri- fact that the News & Observer’s man- ism increases, have you noticed any
this format as a way to help them ca‘S intellectual underpinnings; ge- aging editor, Marion Gregory, is a change in the high quality of your
make informed choices. The Har- nius has become more dispersed. And woman? Not really. In the nation's newspaper? I doubt it. Professionally,
vard proposal is also a way for tele- white males are under accelerated 330 journalism schools and depart- it goes about its job as diligently as
vision to redeem itself. As a pressure to share power. ments, two-thirds of the students are ever. It informs, educates and enter-
medium it has failed miserably to Nowhere in America are these women. tains. It exposes charlatans regard-
medium, it has taiiea miseraoiy to . taking place more dramati- I noticed this while teaching jour- less of race, creed or gender. It en-
distribute the kind of information cally than in newspapers. I reflected nalism at the University of Delaware, ables you to stay on top of the world’s
that distinguishes a nation of in- on this recently as I was reading one Seven years ago, my classes were 50 sometimes kaleidoscopic changes,
formed voters from a nation of of my nine newspapers, the Raleigh percent male. In the last couple of This is not to imply that the millen-
(N.C.) News & Observer. (I also read years, the demographics had shifted nium in journalism is at hand. But
that city's weekly Carolinian, a black to 67 percent female. The shift was women journalists are increasingly
newspaper.) also noted by two journalism profes- making their impact felt.
The News & Observer announced sors, Maurine H. Beasley and Kathryn if you don’t believe it, ask my syn-
three new editorial appointments - T. Theus, in their book about women dicate editor. Invariably, she's right,
chief of the copy desk, editor of the in journalism education, “The New © 1991 NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE assn
landlords at bay.
So it was that after nine years
and two failed lawsuits, about 300
rangers opened their mail last
month to find a bill from Uncle
Sam for rent he considers to be six
years overdue. The rangers told our
reporter Jan Moller that the bills
went from $1,500 to $5,200, and
the rangers were given 30 days to
pay up or have the money taken out
of their paychecks in monthly in-
fight back, and sued the interior stallments with interest. Many of
Department claiming the formula them canceled vacations and bor-
for the new rents was flawed. In rowed money.
nine years in and out of court, their The fuss created at Yosemite
argument has never been fully ex- may have prompted other parks
plained to a judge. around the country to modify their
Their first suit was thrown out own rental formulas for rangers. As
of court in 1985 by a judge who a final irony, a recent rent study
said the rangers had failed to bring comparing rente at Yosemite with
their case forward quickly enough, those in the surrGunding area found
During the time that the case was that the Interior Department was
pending, the judge had restrained the charging too much as the landlord,
government from imposing the rent The buildings were dilapidated and
increases, so the rangers had a three- not worth what the government
year grace period. thought they were, so the rents
self-destructive as to be caught in the year — if China fails to make specific © 1991, newspaper enterprise assn
------------- reforms.
One can only wonder: If President
Ford had posted his loyal party chair-
A man, young George Bush, to be our
MARTIN ambassador to Baghdad instead of
SCHRAM Beijing, would America's president
today be bowing, toasting and pushing
most favored trade perks for nuclear
powermonger Saddam Hussein?
• © 1991 NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN
home actually talking rather than foreign policy has become a diplo-
watching and listening to television’s matic smorgasbord — and the world
insidious pap, family members be- has just tasted both the perseverant
came so many ships passing in the best and boneheaded worst of his
one on June 6, 1933. New Jersey's night. offerings.
last, the Route 35 Drive-In closed just drive-in just outside Rockport, Maine. All of which probably seems to be a None were on the main-course
the other day, which gave many of us But the 1950s weren't the 19308, far leap from the closing of New Jer- menu at the Summit of the Swellest
at least momentary pause. Unlike the and the 1960s were even less so. The sey’s last drive-in, and it is, except for Seven in London, as the leaders of the _
drive-in, however, the social revolu- drive-in, like the car upon which it de- one point. The drive-in is dying na- wealthiest industrial nations debated act of torpedoing the prospect of A _ TD T ANTNTIACm
tion that Mr. Hollingshead's inspira- pended, had become an avenue of es- tionwide because it can't even hold whether now is the time for all good peace talks as the whole world watch- UU U K LAIN U U AU D
tion reflected and served shows few cape from the family — and its rules, the young customers on whom it had democracies to come to the aid of a es. Israel will participate, cautiously,
indications of dying out. That ought to What is more, Mother and Dad didn’t come to rely and it can't hold them be- dying commie country. But the sum- in a regional summit and bilateral By Jeffrey MeQuain
give us all the chills. need the car to create a family enter- cause there are so many other com- miteers did get to sample Bush’s re- spinoffs. Jordan’s will-o’-the-wisp
That social revolution was — is — tainment center anymore. Television mercial attractions competing for cent smorgasbord of decisions: a new king, the littlest Hussein, will play, EFFETELY describes anything
the demise of the family unit or the had become the diversion of choice, their attention. None of those attrac- plan for the Middle East, favored too; he’ll hold the Palestinian card. In done weakly or without vigor. You
center of life for most voting Ameri- perched in the living room or den. As tions _ from VCRs to malls _ has trade for China, no more sanctions for the end, we’ll see a demilitarized, au- will have its pronunciation complete-
cans. The product of many causes, cars got smaller in the energy-con- anything to do with the family unit. South Africa, and of course, no nukes tonomous West Bank and Golan ly correct if you rhyme EFFETELY
from industrialization and urbaniza- scious 1970s, television sets got larg- Few have any enduring value. They for Iraq. Heights. The ultimate religious time with COMPLETELY.
tion to the automobile and the person- er. Who wanted the hassle of loading are the cotton candy with which our Here’s the best and worst of what bomb, the status of Jerusalem, will be RENOVATION refers to work that
al mobility it created, its effects have up all the kids, messing up the inside society stuffs its young in place of they sampled: left to a future commission to ponder, repairs or renews. Applaud the cor-
been devastingly simple The time of the car with soft drinks and pop- more nutritious fare. • NEW MOVES IN THE MIDDLE Peace can happen. rect spelling of this noun: RENOVA-
that families spend doing things to- corn and fighting off the bugs for the Small wonder that the phrase you EAST - This is the Best of Bush, a • KOWTOWING TO CHINA - This TION ends with OVATION,
gether has declined to the point of privilege of an uncomfortable night of hear so often from America’s teen- tribute to timing and tenacity. And is the Worst of Bush; actually, it’s tied
near extinction. The forces that pull cramped entertainment? Particular- agers is “There’s nothing to do" Sur- much of the early credit should go to with many other policies. (See Bush, Q. I know there’s an EXACTA in
families apart and individual family ly so while your sofa and recliner sat runded by “things to do ” they are Secretary of State James Baker. His Baltics, 1989-present; Bush, Yugosla- horse racing, but what does it mean?
members into separate orbits have empty at home, the boob tube s free starving for direction, connection and determination to build something per- via, 1991; Bush, Iraq, Jan.-Aug, 1990.) A. EXACTA is a term from betting
multiplied in numbers and power. fare available for the asking? concern You can’t get that from a sil- manentoutof that jerry-built alliance All have the same basic policy flaw: on horse races. The winner of an EX-
As with so many other components For teen-agers, the drive-in be- ver screen or a flickering set or from in the Persian Gulf War may be pay- lack of character. Bush, like Ronald ACTA must predict both the first-
of this particular social revolution. came the place to go to be with your alcohol and drugs That's something ing off. Syria’s Hafez al-Assad, the Reagan, refuses to tie his foreign poli- place and the second-place finishers
the drive-in was not initially a centrif- peers, your special turf. You could al- adults are supposed to have learned ally one should never turn his or her cy to a central principle, as Jimmy in their correct order. We get the term
ugal force, tearing youngsters out of ways get there since just about every- and it's something that has to be back on, seems to have accepted a Carter did in enunciating America's from a shortening of the American
the family orbit. In fact, it functioned one knew at least one person who had transmitted from One generation to Bush proposal that would end up with commitment to human rights. Spanish QUINIELA EXACTA for this
as a great family diversion, an outing “his own wheels,” thanks to a part- the next. The place for transmission is Syria negotiating face-to-face with Is- China continues to horribly mis- type of bet, and I’d be willing tobet
that all could enjoy at a relatively time job or indulgent parents. The in the home but in too many in- rael, which it officially insists doesn’t treat its citizens who dared to speak that any other definition for EXACTA
modest cost. While there were always drive-in showed movies your parents stances home is like the Route 35 exist. kindly about democracy; imprison- just isn’t exact.
movies aimed directly at the younger wouldn’t have watched on a bet and Drive-In, “fading to black.” Israeli Defense Minister Moshe ment and execution remain most fa-
set, and the occasional movie deemed encouraged experiments with drink, ©1991'newspaper enterprise assn Arens quickly called Assad’s response vored punishments. China also contin- EmLGguLlTcinLEc.h
unsuitable for them as well, most drugs and sex they would never have Hodding carter ill, former State Depart- “very encouraging.” Then Israel, ues to destabilize a fragile peace by * orsomenody wno,IHe nue s“‘,
were intended for a general audience, condoned. When you weren't at the ment spokesman and award-winning re- promptly and predictably, began selling arms to Syria, Pakistan and urnsinonnneousisnaaanu
The family car became the family movies, you were cruising by and porter, editor and publisher, is president dancing its tired diplomatic hora, is- Iran. Yet Bush continues to push for SVEKbAnITFe rrromtuNtronS,
theater. pulling into the other kind of drive- of MainStreet, a Washington, D.C.-based suing statements of great skepticism most favored nation trade benefits for hody misusing S-b-mbAm 15 ma
At the height of their popularity in ins, the ones that served up curbside television production company. and concern. Israel is right to be skep- this country where he once served be run out oi town.
the 1950s, there were over 4,000 hamburgers, fries and Cokes. “Happy ______________________-____________ tical _ but it will be tragically wrong with ambassador rank. Bush says INEI 1 IGIRI E deseribes somel
drive-ins out of 16,354 total movie Times" is one way to recollect those AT TH T A NIC IT Afi IT if it is seen to have destroyed an ap- sanctions and threats can’t lead a na- LiEttsicier.oreasilv understood,
screens in America, the Times report- days. A less sentimental and more ac- UUK LAlUUAUI parent breakthrough. Yes, Assad is tion to reform. Let him tell it to the thing.thasceno ts adjective be!
ed. This year, there are less than 1,000 curate tag would be Separate but an ally of convenience who has Soviet Jews and Nelson Mandela and Iin i iciri f should now be
drive-ins while there are almost 50 Times." By Jeffrey MeQuain supported terrorists and harbored Lech Walesa, ore INTELLIGIBLE snouia now o^
percent more screens overall. As a Mind you, the youth culture was not . hostages. But Syria now sees that its PREDICTION: Congress, led by nteutg"15
child of the 1950s. I can attest to their actually created by youth. It was An introduction or preliminary great benefactor, the Soviets, cannot Senate Democrats, will rekindle the . ,
former appeal. Even now, I associate partly a mass-marketing device and statement is a PREAMBLE. Usi g get bread to its people, let alone arms spirit of Tiananmen Square that Bush
“Stagin’ In The Rain” with a teen- partly the result of technology. But it the noun PREAMBLE of course, is to its misbegotten allies. Syria, its op- is so willing to let die. America will guage please witestoJeffrey MeAnuotneinsn
agers aching true love and fogged-up flourished because too many parents good for your Constitution. tions gone, may give peace a chance, end up with a good bill granting MFN oft auctions of a general interest will be an-
windows in an old Buick parked in a of all economic classes were only too ©1991. newspaper enterprise assn PREDICTION: Israel won’t be so but revoking the trade benefits in a swend in the column
Brenda Baker, Office Manager H.S. Caldwell, Press Room Supervisor
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