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i-THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14, 1992
Perry viewpoint
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The Houston Home Journal
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JAMES B. KERCE
Editor & General Manager
BRIGETTE HAMILTON TERESA HAWK
Managing Editor Advertising Manager
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The Clinton years
For the first time in decades the nation is to have a fed
eral government in charge of one party. Those in both par
ties who deplore what President Bush calls gridlock gov
ernment now await results of needed efforts to solve major
problems, many of which have not been attacked in recent
years with coordinated federal efforts.
Mr. Bush was the victim of recession, pure and simple.
Most Americans see him as an honorable man-even those
who supported President-elect Clinton. A majority would
likely agree Mr. Bush can't be blamed for the international
economic slowdown. But leaders pay the price for domes
tic hardship and suffering, whatever the cause and who
ever is to blame.
Mr. Clinton has a unique opportunity and a unique
problem. The media has convinced millions the Reagan-
Bush years were irresponsible years. Clinton offers solu
tions. If, working with Congress, he can improve health
care and education, build a healthier economy, add jobs
and begin to reduce the deficit and the international trade
gap, he will have accomplished a remarkable turnaround at
a critical period in U.S. history.
If he does that, in four years (or six or seven), he could
go down in history as one of the greatest presidents.
That will not be easy, since much depends on world
conditions, on the efforts of many Americans, on lajjpr
and business, and on a willingness by Americans to make
some sacrifices.
The president-elect won not just because of the reces
sion. He won because he represented the majority view on
key, controversial issues. He didn't oppose all abortions,
he didn't favor federal aid to parochial schools; both issues
are decisive, emotional issues with millions.
Pro-choice Americans feared the Supreme Court would
reverse Roe vs Wade if Mr. Bush filled another vacancy or
two on the Supreme Court. The majority supports
separation of church and state, provided for in the
Constitution, opposes federal, taxpayer money subsidizing
religious dogma taught as fact.
The majority deplores this country's health care system,
which leaves millions with either no healthcare or inade
quate care. The majority is concerned with the fact that in
the last 40 years the nation's educational system has failed,
the number of illiterates increasing by millions.
Governor Clinton offers hope, or assurance, to most
Americans on one or more of these issues. His task is an
enormous one: all Americans hope the new president can
succeed. He deserves a fair chance, which he has won at
the polls, and the cooperation of Congress and the bureau
cracy in the next four years.
If he fails, voters will have a chance to seek another
leader, and solution, in 1996. But the majority hopes he
will succeed, rightly so.
Costume party provided a fun
drug-fee environment
Dear Editor:
On Wednesday night, October 28, a D.A.R.E. costume
dance was held in the Perry National Guard Armory. This
dance was sponsored by the Perry Police Department.
D.A.R.E. studentsfrom all area Perry schools, in grades
five through eight were invited to attend.
The D.A.R.E. dance provided a safe and fun activity for
the students to enjoy, in a drug-free environment. The par
ent volunteers and I were delighted with the great turnout.
Approximately 4(X) students attended in costume. Everyone
seemed to have a great time.
I would like to recognize and thank the following volun
teers and businesses: Sandy Stokes, Michelle Hudson,
Tina Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Dent, Beverly Broome, Mike
Roberts, Terry Stringer and Kentucky Fried Chicken,
Quincy's Taco Bell, Waffle House, Perry Chamber of
Commerce, Perry National Guard Armory, Chief C.F.
Simons, Lee Ann Landrey, Phyllis Taylor, Melanie Burris,
Wendall kersey, Billie and Reba Hathcock, Kim Hathcock
and any other volunteers that I possibly forgot to name.
The volunteers and donations made the D.A.R.E. dance
possible. We are very lucky to live in a community that
supports a drug program such as D.A.R.E.
Anyone wishing to get involved in the D.A.R.E. pro
gram please contact Officer Bill Hathcock at the Perry
Please see LETTERS, page 5A
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Perry Scrapbook
The Perry Fire Department answered a call to 1321 Smoake Ave. in May of 1973 to
extinguish a kitchen grease fire. There were no injuries, but heavy smoke damage
was reported.
STREET TALK: What do you think of Atlanta's Olympic mascot
Cliff Howard
"It’s crazy. It’s strange.
What is it?”
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Patty Coone
"What is it?"
Is this what our founding fathers really had in mind?
Last week we looked at the attack
upon religion by the state and its
desire to relegate the church to a
small backwater of society. We
saw how the Bible presents
absolute values that speak to all of
life and should be heard.
However, the secularist cries,
"There is a wall of separation!"
Today, that has come to mean an
exclusion of religion for all aspects
of public life and institutions in
America.
The news is full of stories like
the students at a Kentucky high
school where officials were going
to cancel graduation ceremonies
rather than risk "establishment of
religion” problems.
We hear of a Delaware school
teacher who was dismissed because
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"I don’t like him.”
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Lynn Taylor
”1 don’t have any problem
with it. They're making a
lot of fuss over nothing."
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he would not participate in school
sponsored "New Age' seminars due
to his Christian beliefs.
Wc read of citizens in a rural
Illinois county who were being
threatened by the ACLU that they
must remove a sign that said, "The
World Needs God," from their
courthouse.
Citizens in San Diego are crying
out because a 79-ycar old historical
landmark is going to be removed
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Aythea Pennymon
"It was a waste of
money... they could have
found something more
creative or different.”
lrom city-owned property simply
because it is a cross.
Students at Ohio Stale University
and the University of Virginia were
being harassed and discriminated
against due to pro-life beliefs and
associations.
Two pastors from Buffalo, NY,
were sued for "civil contempt" for
distributing pro-life literature on a
public sidewalk.
A 57-ycar old grandmother in San
Antonio, Texas, was handcuffed,
strip-searched, and thrown in an
unheated jail cell for the "crime" of
passing out religious tracts on tnc
public roadway across from a high
school.
Is that what the founding fathers
had in mind? Let's look at some of
their reasoning.
| The Houston Home f
Journal
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column I
Take a new
look' at our
public schools
By CAROLYN LEE HART
During the week of November
j 15—21, 1992, Georgia and the na
tion will celebrate American
Education Week. Although educa
tion has been brought to the fore
front by the election of Bill Clinton
and Al Gorc to the White House,
American Education Week still
serves as yet another reminder of
how much has been accomplished
and how much has yet to be done.
The recent mandate for change is in
perfect timing with American
Education Week because the new
administration represents a catalyst
for re-building and re-tooling
America's public schools.
This year’s theme is "America's
Schools: Take A New Look!" It is
asking us to once again put
America's schools at the forefront
of our concerns and to be aware of
what will ultimately occur if re
sources arc not soon diverted to our
neighborhood schools. It is asking
us to throw off our indifference
toward increasingly multi-cultural
classrooms, classrooms that will
educate more than 90 percent of our
future workforce.
Take A New Look" is also urg
ing everyone to once again become
involved in their neighborhood
schools. Education is a team effort.
That team must consist of parents,
students, teachers and administrators
from all levels, the business sector,
elected officials and the commu
nity-at-large.
Parents especially, should be vis
iting their children's school on a
regular basis, meeting teachers, ad
ministrators, working with their
PTA and sitting in on their chil
dren's classes on occasion.
Each community must also
"Take A New Look!" at their
schools. Steps must be taken to
uplift all parts of the community,
but especially the schools. The
neighborhood school is the nucleus
of the future of a community. The
neighborhood school is where the
future citizens and leaders of a
community will develop their foun
dations. These foundations will be a
factor in determining whether our
children become productive, con
tributing members of our local,
state, national and world societies.
Our public schools were given a
mandate to provide a good education
to every child that walked through
their doors. But along the way the
focus was lost. America became
distracted. For too long our atten
tion and vitally needed resources
have been diverted from our public
schools.
When America's public schools
are compared to those in other
countries, they are primarily
comparing apples and oranges.
America's public schools educate all
races, religions and socio-economic
levels. America's public schools
educate the children of not only the
best and the brightest, but those
whose parents may be child
abusers, drug addicts, neglectful,
illiterate, or working two to three
jobs to make ends meet. America's
public schools see it all, yet they
continue, many with limited
resources, to take children the world
may not recognize as geniuses, and
bring out the genius within them.
America's public schools will
play a huge part in what America
becomes and its ultimate place in
Please see HART, page 5A
To review the mind set of our
forefathers at that critical time in
the founding of our nation, let's
look at part of George
Washington's "Inaugural Speech to
Both Houses of Congress on April
30, 1789:"
"Such being the impressions un
der which I have, in obedience to
the public summons, repaired to the
present station, it would be pecu
liarly improper to omit, in this first
official act, my fervent supplica
tions to that Almighty Being who
rules over the universe, who pre
sides in the councils of nations and
whose providential aids can supply
every human defect, that His bene
diction may consecrate to the libcr-
Please see SHIPLEY, page 5A