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Winners
“Together we will” was the theme for the Optimist Club’s
Oratorical contest. There were 14 contestants from
grades 7-10. Pictured are the female participants, (front,
1-r) Tina Tyus, Tonisla Hill, Vickie O’Brien, Joy Lynn
Fields, (back, 1-r) Martha Ann Yarbrough, Lucinda
Fuller, Pamela Sutton, and Belinda S. Sims. Ina Allison is
’ Roll Call Report
WASHINGTON—Here’s how
area House members were
recorded on major roll call
votes Feb. 24 through Mar. 2.
ETHICS CODE—Rejected, 79
for and 344 against, an
amendment striking from the
new ethics code a provision
limiting the outside income a
House member can receive.
Those voting against the
amendment supported the
limitation, which says a House
member can earn no more than
15 percent of his salary in
outside “earned income.”
Presently there is no limitation.
The 15 percent limit was a
key part of the overall ethics
code later adopted by the full
House on a near-unanimous
vote. The code, embodied in H
Res 287, applies only to House
members. A similar code is
under consideration in the
Senate.
The new code also requires
detailed public reporting of
outside income and gifts, bans
official travel by lame-duck
congressmen, prohibits
members from having
privately-financed office “slush
funds,” and restricts the use of
free-mailing privileges during
election periods.
Reps. Elliott Levitas (D-4)
and Lawrence McDonald (d-7)
voted “yea.”
Reps. Bo Ginn (d-1), Dawson
Mathis (D-2), Jack Brinkley (D
--3), John Flynt (D-6), Billy Lee
Evans (EM), Ed Jenkins (D-9)
and Dough Barnard (D-1) voted
“nay.”
ETHICS CODE—Rejected,
187 for and 235 against, an
amendment to prevent the new
ethics code from outlawing the
“slush fund” office accounts
that an estimated 40 percent of
the members maintain. Defeat
of the amendment left intact the
abolition of such accounts. The
amendment was proposed to
the new ethics code, later
adopted by the House (see
above vote).
Private office accounts
generally receive their funding
from friends of the Member.
The identities of contributors
and the amounts of their
contributions are rarely made
public, in keeping with the
secret nature of the “slush
funds.” Members with such
funds say they use them for
newsletters, newspaper
subscriptions and other
necessary expenses.
Brinkley, Levitas, McDonald
and Jenkins voted “yea.”
Ginn, Mathis, Flynt, Evans
and Barnard voted “nay.”
JOBS—Adopted 229 for and
158 against, an amendment
changing the formular for
allocating anti-recession public
works money. The amendment
benefits states having the most
unemployed persons in absolute
numbers, while cutting funding
for states having high
unemployment rates but
comparatively few unemployed
workers.
It was attached to HR 11,
which would disburse $4 billion
to units of government
nationwide for quick-stating
public works construction
designed to put people
immediately to work. The bill
was passed and sent to the
Senate.
It seeks to correct a problem
that arose out of the $2 billion
emergency public works act
implemented last year. In
1976, the allocation formular
was widely criticized because
hundreds of small towns got
funding while scores of urban
centers such as Pittsburgh were
overlooked.
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not pictured. Tonisia Hill, Vickie O’Brien and Ina Allison
placed in the competition and have earned the right to
compete in the finals on March 14. There were five male
participants. They are Ed Henderson, Robert Burns,
Daryl Odom, Brandy Brickies and Rodman Moreland
This amendment allocates all
of the $4 billion primarily on the
basis of actural number of
unemployed within a state,
scuttling a provision that only 65
percent of the money be so
allocated.
Ginn, Brinkley, Levitas,
Flynt, McDonald, Evans,
Jenkins and Barnard voted
“yea.”
SENATE
The Senate conducted only
one record vote during the
reporting week, a 91-0 tally
relating to U.S. support of the
Helsinki Declaration.
Christianity
The visionary thirties
By David Poling
How long we have lived
with that phrase “Never
trust anyone over 30.” It
was truth serum of the
Protest Movement, the
fighting phrase of the Six
ties, the last nod toward
vanishing youth. At 30, we
were told, The End. But
the world went on and wars
were extinguished and now
the 30s are a special
time in every person’s life.
In “Passages,” Gail
Sheehy contends that “in
the middle of the 30s we
come upon a crossroads.
We have reached the
halfway mark . . . even as
we are reaching our prime,
we begin to see there is a
place where it finishes.”
The Christian who is
starting midpassage
remembers with clarity
and excitement that Jesus
began his brief, powerful
public ministry in the 30s.
Most of his followers were
close to that age. And he
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was confidently able to
say, “I am the beginning
and the end, the Alpha and
Omega.” Life has its
measurement and in the
30s, the Christian starts to
see values fulfilled and
hopes enlarged.
It was not until her mid
30s that Georgia O’Keefe
found the assurance and
style to advance so con
fidently in the field of art.
Everyone in the world of
canvas and color was talk
ing Cezanne — the
“plastic” quality of his
Mont Sainte-Victoire. Then
one day O’Keefe, in a
determination that pointed
to her greatness in this
century, remembered “I
get out my work and have a
show for myself before I
have it publicly. I make up
my own mind about it —
how good or bad or in
different it is. After that
the critics can write what
they please. I have already
settled it for myself so that
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flattery and criticism go
down the same drain and I
am quite free.”
St. Paul was among the
first to invite a vision in
our early years, believing
that when one is in Christ
he is able to “comprehend
with all the saints, what is
the breadth and length,
height and depth and to
know the love of Christ
which surpasses
knowledge.” When a Chris-
tian catches this glimpse of
life in the 30s, the years are
not only bearable but
beautiful.
(David Poling’s biography,
“Why Billy Graham Is
Number 1" (Zondervan), will
be published this fall.)
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PASSAGES OF THE
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