The Daily Sentinel from Scottsboro, Alabama (2024)

June 1, 1979

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The Daily Sentineli

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Scottsboro, Alabama

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Friday, June 1, 1979

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2

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PAGE 2 THE DAILY SENTINEL SCOTTSBORO ALABAMA RIDAY JUNE 1 1979 VIEWPOINT EDITORIALS AND OPINIONS gas plan in Senate Highway department at work COMMUNITY CALENDAR On becoming American By GRA Registration Bible school Book sale No meeting Area Weather iddlers Homecoming of less than 10 is scattered Sunday and Monday ana) NO MEETING is scheduled next week by the Jackson County Commission The courthouse will be closed Monday which is their regular meeting day SYLVANIA ATHLETIC Club will present an old time fiddlers convention on June 9 7 pm with prizes offered in a number of categories irst prize for blue grass and country bands will be $200 with a $100 second prize Door prizes will be offered Ad mission $2 for adults and $1 for children There is of course no question of right to that retreat if such is his choice The essence of his new home is that he and his celebrated companions in dissent in their old home are now free to go their own ways as they themselves choose The second event involves 329 people On a recent day when the doings of the dissidents were front page items (Vins and Moroz lunched with Mayor Edward Koch at New city hall while outside mem bers of municipal unions demon strated against the plan to By ROBERT BAUMAN Chairman American Conservative Union In a simple ceremony hands held high they pledged their new allegiance and heard presiding Judge Mark A Costantino tell them that is you nothing nothing is too The judge could well have been echoing the editorial message to Alexander Ginzburg which concluded: upon millions of refugees from despotism have found a new home and fresh purpose in the United States Perhaps he will But to repeat these are two unrelated events Or are they? Agricultural Weather Thundershowers mainly first when I noticed the oil I was a little excited but been around the business long enough to know not to get too optimis Russ Smith vice presi dent of a Tulsa Okla oil drilling firm He discovered a 25 year old capped well underneath his driveway But the oil is not worth recovering from me this award may surprise the Army but it is well Sen William Proxmire Wis who gives mock awards for bureacratic bun gling talking about his rare award of merit to the Army for an honest readable presentation on its needs and failings SKYLINE CHURCH of Christ will have Vacation Bible School June 4 8 7 8 pm Classes for all ages through adult Everyone is in vited Jesse Tubbs is the minister Quote'Unquote What people are saying close some city hospitals) The New York Times also reported a naturalization proceeding in Brooklyn federal court Two such take place there every week giving the country some 30000 new US citizens every year and making the Brooklyn court the its busiest naturalization center This particular group was almost as diverse as the population of America itself There were 49 Jamaicans the largest contingent from one country In all 55 coun tries were represented The new Americans included former Cubans Greeks Chinese Irish Pakistanis and Syrians And Russians The Daily Sentinel is successor to The Progressive Age (established 1889) The Jackson County Sentinel and the Sentinel Age Publication offices 704 East Laurel Street Scottsboro Alabama Second Class Postage paid at the Post Office in Scot tsboro Alabama 35768 The Daily Sentinel reserves the right of reproduction and publication of all news and advertising contents of this newspaper Tq reach all depart ments Phone 259 1(121) Office Hours: Daily 8 am to 5 pnt Saturdays 8 am to 1 pm Closed Sundays PAGE ONE CONTINUED SUMMER ENRICHMENT Program Registration now through June 4 in Mathematics Reading Language and Art for grades 1 8 from 8 am to 12 pm Anyone wishing their child to participate should register at Brownwood Caldwell Page Elementary Schools or the Junior High School Two unrelated events one a major news story and the other not The first involves five people Alexander Ginzburg Georgi Vins Valentin Moroz Eduard Kuznetsov and Mark Dymsh*ts celebrities who gained their celebrity the hard way They are Soviet Jews dissidents who were allowed to leave the USSR in excxange for two Soviet spies in US custody a post Cold War deal that has made them tem porarily at least headline names Their arrival in the United States drew the attention of millions right up to the president whose guest Reverend Vins a Baptist pastor was at a Washington church service Their futures in freedom are vareid Kuznetsov and Dymsh*ts have continued on to Israel Moroz has been offered a teaching post at Harvard And Ginzburg has ac cepted an offer to join an even more celebrated fellow exile Alexander Solzhenitsyn in the well fenced bit of Russia in Vermont Taking note of decision and also his muted reaction to being in the United States as expressed in a remark that it amounted to being exiled from his homeland having been The Christian Science Monitor had an editoral suggestion Would it not be better before joining Solzhenitsyn in self imposed isolation to see something of America to get to know at first hand the people and the charac teristics of his new home? the democratic institutions nor the virtues and failings of its way of life can be lear ned from books or the the newspaper observed can they be reasonably and fully assessed from an imsulated Vermont IRST BAPTIST CHURCH Stevenson will have its first homecoming June 3 Rev George Bendin a former pastor will deliver the morning message After a covered dish lunch there will be a special singing Pastor Lenny Bolton extends an invitation to all members and friends sell their gasoline coupons if they wanted Who knows how many junked cars would have been illegally registered by en trepreneurs eager to receive and sell the coupons? With gasoline demand being heavier in some parts of the country than others what would stop people from buying up excess coupons in cities with access to mass transit and with an appropriate markup reselling them to gas starved rural areas? These questions were not addressed by the legislation nor was the problem of how to fairly allocate gas to states that have few cars but whose citizens must drive long distances The bureaucracy to handle the system would have cost some $2 billion to set up and required tens of thousands of new employees The Carter plan died under its own weight It proposed a cumbersome and easily abused system It needed last minute amendments to gain political support It failed to meet the needs of the nation It was ac companied by warnings of gloom and doom designed to scare people into accepting it The frenzy with which the Carter Administration pushed for it moreover was a public confession of the failure of the much touted Carter energy program It deserved to go down in defeat and we can all be thankful that it did Employees of the State Highway Department have been working this week in the area south of Section Here the employees are working with the vehicle which cuts grass and high standing weeds along the high ways The work done this week was along Hwy 35 WASHINGTON DC In an credible (for Congress) display of good sense the House of Represen tatives scored a victory for con sumers by overwhelmingly rejec ting the Carter gas rationing plan The 246 to 159 vole reflected Congressional impatience with the incoherent energy policy as well as a refusal to be led by the nose to support an obviously flawed proposal Some 2V years ago Congress asked the President to prepare a standby gas rationing plan to be used only in case of severe national gas shortages The product was a thick document proposing a coupon rationing system with allocations based on the total number of vehicles registered in each states Only 13 states can now produce that registration information on demand but that seem to bother Ad ministration planners amilies would receive a set of coupons for each car up to three they owned The wealthy owner of say three im ported sports cars would have gotten three times as many coupons as the owner of one 10 year old auto who needs it to commute to work every day The plan also allowed people to il uiaiLurnn i Sunday air Monday Tuesday Highs in 80s mostly 60s NEWSWATCH resettle the thousands of Viet namese fleeing their country the majority of member states are doing little to help although many have capacity to resettle and give new hope to these unhappy people from Mrs Thatcher said in a letter to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim Mrs Thatcher is concerned because more and more Vietnamese refugees are reaching Hong Kong a British colony that is already jammed with refugees from China there was not enough support to suspend the rules and bring the $12 billion education budget up for a final House vote The agreement by which the program to combat illiteracy was restored to the education budget called for passage of the budget first and then approval of a bill to provide pay raises for teachers and state employees The Senate worked for two weeks on the proposed constitution but none of the controversial sections of the document had been addressed before session Other changes made Thursday would increase the terms of sheriffs from four to six years lengthen the residency requirement for candidates for at torney general from three to five years increase legislative control over executive branch reorganization and add the boards of trustees of every state four year college to the constitution The House gets the next shot at the Constitution The same document must pass both chambers before it can be submitted to the voters in a referen dum Barron tried to get the Senate to keep recall in the constitution but he was outvoted 19 13 The provision would have allowed the voters by petition to force an election in midterm on whether a public official should be allowed to remain in office The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee earlier had removed from the constitution the provisions allowing the Legislature to earmark and unear mark tax revenues And the Senate agreed overwhelming Thursday with the recommendation James had proposed that earmarked revenues be removed from the con stitution to give the Legislature more flexibility in dealing with state budgets on a year to year basis But the power ful Alabama Education Association op posed the idea because it did not want MEMBER The Associated Press Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and Newspaper Enterprises Association any revenues now constitutionally set aside for education disturbed The restrictions placed on the initiative by the Senate would prevent its use on proposals relating to ap propriatlons court jurisdictions ap pointments liquor laws and abolition of special local laws Sen inis St John of Cullman spon sored the amendment that killed the recall provision and added the restric tions to the initiative The amendment also prohibits the same Issue from coming up on initiative more than once every three years As passed by the Senate 3 percent of the registered voters could sign a petition proposing a new law to the Legislature If the Legislature failed to act on the petition at its next regular session the proposed law could be put to a vote of the people if an additional 5 percent of the registered voters signed a petition The home rule provision was changed to give the Legislature the authority to establish optional forms of government from which local gover ning bodies could get home rule As initially proposed the constitution set up home rule charters that would have enabled local governments to select their own form of government Sen Richmond Pearson suggested the home rule change saying he did not want to give home rule to local govern ments unless its officials are elected from geographical districts At large elections he said discriminate against minorities James had included in the con stitution only the boards of trustees of the University of Alabama and Auburn But the Senate added the trustee boards of Alabama State University Alabama Troy State the University of South Alabama Livingston Mon tevallo Jacksonville and the University of North Alabama One other change made in the con stitution Thursday by the Senate came in the declaration of rights The upper chamber voted to make the declaration read that are created equal rather than Area orecast Partly cloudy and a chance of thundershowers today and Saturday air tonight Winds variable less than 10 mph High this afternoon low 80s LowY tonight mid 60s High Saturday mid 80s Probability of rain 50 percent today and 30 percent Saturday Extended orecasts Scattered thundershowers and Lows RIENDS The Library are planning their second annual book sale Sept 1 3 The library is ac cepting donations now for this big fund raising event Begin now gathering your paperbacks hardbacks records and magazines you no longer want and take them to the library Proceeds will go to the riends library projects mu StNTINGL 1 hundershowers mainly over the east and south today Widely scattered thundershowers tonight and Saturday Rainfall totals for the 36 hour period ending 7 pm Saturday will be a half inch to 1 inch with local amounts near 2 inches possible over the southeast counties Sunshine 6 hours east to 10 hours west today 7 hours north to 11 hours southeast Saturday Drying conditions good most areas through Saturday Lowest relative humidities 50 to 60 per cent today and 45 to 55 percent Saturday Scattered moderate dew this morning and moderate to heavy dew tonight drying off by 9 am eacn uay Winds variable mph The outlook thundershowers generally fair Tuesday pi io ral si tm 1 Sentinel Hang on everybody off on our summer vacation Published daily Tuesday through riday afternoons and Sunday mornings by Scottsboro Newspapers Inc 1 MES HARKNESS President Editor and Publisher Tom George Advertising Manager Peggy erguson City Editor Edna Kirby Office Manager Bookkeeper Perry Sweat Circulation Director Production Supervisor Quake deaths JAKARTA Indonesia (AP) The death toll has risen to 27 from the severe earthquake on the island of Lombok east of Java and Bali a provincial government spokesman said today The quake Wednesday afternoon registered 67 on the Richter scale and damaged an estimate 1000 structures More than 40 persons were injured half of them seriously TV A those of other utilities in the eastern United States In his letter reeman specified Oak Ridge as an ideal site for such a facility because of its experience with and broad acceptance of nuclear energy Residents of the East Tennessee city some of them angry at opposition by reeman and Carter to the federally funded Clinch River nuclear breeder reactor project at Oak Ridge welcomed the nuclear waste dump proposal with the stipulation that the city could levy property taxes on the storage facility The breeder is an ad vanced design reactor so named because it produces more plutonium than it uses The plutonium can be used as fuel for other reactors The Department of Energy despite its own dilemma of what to do with nuclear power plant wastes never showed much interest in idea however It was announcement in April 1977 opposing the Clinch River breeder and fuel reprocessing plants one of which was to be built at Oak Ridge by the Exxon Corp that made disposing of radioactive wastes from nuclear fuel a problem Until then TVA and other utilities had assumed the spent fuel rods once removed from a reactor would be sent to reprocessing plants to be refabricated for use again David reeman said Thursday one reason he favors on site storage facilities is because there would be less capital risked if the nation should again turn to reprocessing in the future way we can build in he said it fits into the perspective of minimizing the risks of nuclear power by eliminating the tran sportation leg which is the riskiest aspect of the spent fuel He said widespread public opposition to trucking the radioactive wastes from nuclear plants in three states to a centralized dump played a role in his favoring the on site facilities I ok Egswg J'sfsv i ir (q 1 ill I.

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