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i-THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1993
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Perry viewpoint
The Houston Home Journal
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Cut NASA spending
The Clinton transition team has been vigorously study
ing ways to effect savings, to be used to stimulate the
economy and launch new programs without increasing the
federal deficit.
Many have suggested bigger cuts in defense spending,
others have proposed cutting foreign aid. A good sugges
tion-one which is eventually inevitable, is to curb auto
matic annual increases in spending for so many purposes.
The best place, however, to effect major savings, which
would have minimal impact on the economy and jobs, is in
the bloated budget of the National Aeronautical and Space
Agency-NASA. As only one example, NASA is now
spending billions to develop an unneeded, new rocket
engine.
Over a billion dollars has already been spent and three
more are to be spent. Meanwhile, improvements on rocket
engines now being used, and which are known to be reli
able, have made them quite adequate for all NASA pro
jects.
Some $2 billion in savings is possible on this single
project alone; more could be saved by reducing the number
of space shuttle flights, which tong ago outlived their use
fulness. Some recent flights have been little more than en
tertainment and fluff, involving play-acting, silly tests on
mice or insects, etc. Each of these costs hundreds of mil
lions of dollars.
There's no reason for continuing NASA's extravagant
show-business entertainment, long after the cold war has
ended. Work on a satellite station, the new multi-billion
dollar NASA spectacular, could be slowed or postponed.
The needs of the American people, now, for health care,
roads, jobs, education and security far transcend in impor
tance further NASA entertainment.
Congress & immigration
Congress has for many years failed to provide funds
and legislation to stop the How of illegal immigration into
the United States. It also changed immigration laws so that
Europeans now make up a very small percentage of emi
grants arriving annually in the U.S.
In no other major country has the majority been so un
caring about its race. Fair immigration laws which gov
erned entry into the U.S. until the 1960 s provide that each
ethnic group in the nation have its proportionate share of
annual immigration.
Thus, if Irish Americans comprised 10 percent of the
population Irish emigrants would comprise 10 percent of
new arrivals in the U.S. This system maintained the racial
mix of the nation-was fair to the U.S. ethnic groups.
In the 50s and 60s, however, special interest groups
(those seeking more than their normal share) convinced a
majority in Congress the United States should not base
immigration on the desires and interests on American citi
zens but on world needs!
The unorganized majority in Congress, representing an
unorganized majority in the nation, bought this do-gooder
bill of goods, incredibly, and opened the doors to a flood
of immigrants from nations which had had little or nothing
to do with funding this republic.
New arrivals began to come from the poorest, most
backward nations understandably. It was a utopian concept
but highly discriminatory to the Europeans-stock popula
tions whose ancestors had founded and built the nation for
300 years.
An absurd condition arose immediately. Europeans
seeking to come to America were seldom able to get in be
cause the total number of immigrants allowed was filled
early every year on a first come first serve basis from
massive applications in have-not countries.
Because of this immigration policy, so discriminatory to
European-stock Americans, and Congress; failure to enact
effective border control to prevent illegal entry, the U.S.
Census Bureau reported this month that the racial compo
sition of the nation is changing rapidly.
Blacks, the second race numerically in the U.S. today,
are to fall to third place in half a century as the flood of
Hispanics into the nation, legal and illegal, continues. (A
million illegals manage to cross the southern borders each
year and remain in this country.)
Non-Hispanic whites, who now make up 75 percent of
the population, will see their percentage of the population
decline to barely over 50 percent. Asian Americans will see
their percentage grow from three to 11.
Never before has a major nation provided for such a
rapid transition into minority status of its majority. One can
only wonder about consequences, considering history.
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Perry Scrapbook
In the June 21, 1973 edition of The Houston Home Journal Third District
Congressman Jack Brinkley was pictured congratulating new U.S. Capitol
policeman Howard G Whitehurst, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whitehurst of Perry.
The Perry patrolman completed his initial training June 1. He was a 1968 graduate
of Houston High School where he played fullback on the school's football team for
four years.
STREET TALK . What is your New Year's resolution?
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Monique Alford
"I plan to quit smoking
cigarettes."
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Elaine Mace
"To have better things in
life and to do better things
in life.”
A new year always brings a new beginning
She was a woman known to the
authorities as one of loose morals.
For some reasoh the scribes and the
Pharisees, in whom the religious
and political authority vested, had
decided not to make a case.
Though they saw her as little
more than an animal, she suddenly
became very important to them.
Perhaps a case could be made
against her, there certainly was
abundant evidence, and her case
could be used to trip up this teacher
of strange doctrines from Nazareth.
So they waited until the right
moment, caught her in the very act
of adultery, arrested her, and threw
her at this upstart rabbi's feet.
It was early morning at the tem
ple and the people were already
coming to Him. There was some
thing about the way He looked at a
person, as if He could see right
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Sgt. W.B. Johnson
"My goal for the coming
year is to have better
health and enjoy my
family as much as
possible.”
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Jonathan Gilbert
"Do better in school and
state champ in wrestling.”
through him and yet it didn't make
one feel uncomfortable. Instead,
you felt like He understood and
cared. The words he said made
sense. He seemed to be able to
make the invisible God real and
personal.
The Pharisees made God distant,
cold, unyielding, and unforgiving.
No one could do all they required to
get God's approval. They made one
feel left out and unloved.
But this teacher was different.
He hadn't gone to any of the official
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Rodney Bridge Jr.
"To try and be a nicer
person, and keep myself
in better shape.”
Linda Woodard
"To grow a year older, a
year wiser and have a
profitable year."
schools. He didn't talk with their
high-brow accent and big words. He
used simple every-day words from
life and seemed concerned that they
be understood.
As He was teaching the people
about God, suddenly this woman
with the bad reputation was pushed
into the midst of the crowd, right in
front of Jesus.
She was frozen with fear. Her
dark, beautiful eyes looked down in
hopeless resignation. She sensed
that her future somehow rested on
the shoulders of this popular young
teacher.
The religious authorities shouted
out, "Teacher, this woman has been
caught in adultery, in the very act.
Now in the Law Moses commanded
us to stone such women; what then
do You say?"
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Staff writer
New Year's Day
brings a new set
of resolutions
As with most people, I will dab
ble in the yearly ritual of New
Year's resolutions. And as most
people do, I will probably break my
resolutions before the end of
January.
But yet again 1 will make a cou
ple of feeble attempts to stick to
my resolutions before I finally give
up and break them.
My main resolution for this new
year is to lose weight.
This was also my main resolu
tion for last year, and the year be
fore. I guess this deserves an expla
nation.
Unfortunately, many of the peo
ple 1 run into in Perry remember
me from my high school days,
when I was thin (you could of al
most called me skinny.)
But those days quickly disap
peared when 1 left for college in the
fall of 1990. It seemed that every
thing I ate instantly added a pound
to my middle. By the end of my
second quarter at UGA I had gained
20 pounds.
As I have said, when 1 left for
Georgia 1 may have been a little bit
skinny, but no one can add 20
pounds without it becoming very
noticeable. And it seemed that every
time 1 returned to Perry people
quickly noticed.
Soon people who remembered me
from high school would begin con
versations with "Gee you've really
put on some weight," or "You've
really porked up." (It seems some
Pcrryans arc not the most diplo
matic people you will ever meet.)
Luckily, my sudden weight gain
stopped at die end of my freshman
year. Maybe it was the fact that I
was now totally adjusted to college
life, or maybe it was the fact that I
got off of the cafeteria's starch and
cholesterol food plan. (As a public
service I want to offer this advice to
prospective UGA students: Do not
join the meal plan, eat bread and
water if you have to but avoid
Bolton Hall like the plague.)
By now most people are used to
me with my new dimensions. This
gives me a chance to enjoy
watching each new class of college
freshman come home for the first
time. Normally I get a kick out of
seeing formerly slim and slender
high school students return to Perry
with an extra five or 10 or even 15
pounds to hide.
But while I was able to arrest my
growth before it reached Hinden
berg-likc proportions, I have been
unable to return to my high school
physique. By now I have given up
on such lofty goals, but now I hope
to lose at least 10 or 15 pounds
from my peak weight.
As I have mentioned, this is
sounding familiar, as I was saying
the same things at this time last
year, and the scoreboard for the past
year finished at +1 pound.
My problem is that I don't eat to
sustain life, 1 eat for pure enjoy
ment. The thought of an All-You-
Can-Eat meal at Sonny's makes my
mouth water, the mere thought of
french fries can send me into hyster
ics.
So when I attempt to diet, I al
ways run smack into my love of
food. Usually my heart wins out
Please see COOPER, page 5A
put Jesus on the spot, to test Him
so that they could establish legal
grounds for accusing Him.
They didn’t care about this
woman. They had already written
her off as worthless and hopeless,
fit only for the trash heap.
Jesus didn’t answer them right
away. Instead, He stooped down and
wrote on the ground with His
finger. But they wouldn't let it go.
So He straightened up and said
to them, "He who is without sin
among you, let him be the first to
throw a stone at her."
Now Jesus knew that the
penalty of stoning for adultery was
rarely enforced in that day. In fact,
the Jewish Sanhedrin could not take
a life. Only the Romans could ap
prove and carry out a capital sen
tence.
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