Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 3

Friday, August 19, 1977 THE 10NGV1EW MORNING JOURNAL longview, Texas Page 3-A Homosexuals Can't Marry In California The measure was sought by the County Clerks Association, which cited confusion from a change in law several years ago that removed a designation of brides and grooms as female and male and substituted the word "persons." SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. Thursday signed a bill banning marriages between homosexual.

The new law requires county clerks to deny marriage U-cenws to homosexual couple Longviewite Criticizes Proposed State Texts BACK-TO-SCHOOL SALE oSxconoN- ij95 2FOR1000 100 COTTON DENIM PREWASHED IT. HUE POCKET JEANS BOYS' 8-16 rREWASHEO 3 PIECE DENIM SUITS MEN'S 36-44 95 69 195 BROKEN SIZES 95 COLOR PATCH OVERALLS NEW SHIPMENT CAIS' KNIT TOPS S-M-l UP WAIST 25-42 GALS' 3-22 FASHION JEANS ALL ITEMS MADE IN U.S.A. 20 OFF being considered by the committee for adoption, with $30 million in publishers' contracts involved. "I don't know how this affects you who are listening. They say it is satire.

How many eighth grade children are going to think this is satire? It is the most sickening thing I've ever read in my lire," Mrs. Gabler stormed, throwing the book on the table. Her supporters applauded. "To take precious babies and even consider she choked. "Satire or not, it is the sickest thing I've ever read.

Eating babies is not funny." Quaglia said it was hard to answer all of Mrs. Gabler's complaints about the series of books because they were so subjectiveand he concentrated on her attack on the Swift essay, "To expect children after reading a brilliant satire to go out and practice cannibalism makes me personally sick. I just can't stand a mind that can make that kind of connection and I find it disgusting," Quaglia said, his voice quavering. Mrs. Gabler also said the whole series was full of blood, violence and a preoccupation with death.

Quaglia said, "Mrs. Gabler sees violence where there is no violence in a story. She sees death where there is no death in a story." AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) Textbook critic Norma Gaoler, near tears, flung a brown paperback book on the table and said, "Eating babies is not funny." 1 v- Mrs. Gabler, of Longview, strongly protested a series of seventh and eighth grade readers that include satirist Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal." Editor Anthony Quaglia, in turn, said Mrs.

Gabler's attitude "makes me personally sick." The exchange before a panel of the State Textbook Committee on Thursday probably was the most heated in the dark-haired grandmother's 17-year career of evaluating proposed textbook for Texas schools. Swift's essay, written in 1729, mocks Great Britain's landed gentry and the theorists who devised various wild schemes to deal with Irish overpopulation and food shortages that arose from the 'conversion of farm land to pasture for cattle. He suggested, tongue in cheek, the breeding of Irish infants as delicacies for gentlemen's tables. The essay was incorporated into "New Dimensions in Literature," a series of readers for bright seventh and eighth graders, published by McCormick-Mathers. i The books are among numerous volumes THE ONLY OUTHOUSE ON McCANN ROAD FRED'S OPEN 10 TILL 6 DAILY WESTERN CASUAL WEAR 1436 McCANN RD.

SPUR 63 BROOKVYOOD VILLAGE LONGVIEW hl'h Dillard's (Q) 1 We've Collected A Fashion Possible Fall Cause Cited HOUSTON (AP) A 15-yearold girl who was critically injured in a 30-foot fall from the Texas Cyclone roller coaster at Astroworld, may have been riding improperly, an Astroworld executive said Thursday. Bill Crandall, vice president and general manager of the amusement park said three days of intensive examination of the coaster showed that the coaster is safe when ridden properly. "Although the lap bar may have come up, this would not cause the accident if a person were riding properly," Crandall said. "The injured girl may have been riding improperly, perhaps by standing up to some extent which is clearly prohibited by signs and announcements at the roller coaster." Lorraine 15, remained in critical condition at Ben Taub Hospital late Thursday, suffering from scalp injuries, a concussion and broken ankles. Crandall said the nature of the accident and a lack of consistent eye witness accounts "makes it impossible for us to know exactly how the girl came out of the roller coaster." Crandall said as a result of the accident, Astroworld is installing seat belts for each seat of the ride and putting a safety chain locking device on each lap bar.

Installation of the new devices should be completed in time for the roller coaster to reopen Saturday, Crandall said. Gunther Winkel, the girl's father, would not comment on Astroworld's statement that his daughter may have been riding improperly, but said he is glad additional safety equipment is being added to the coaster. An Astroworld spokesman said those riding with Miss Winkel had been unable to give an accurate account of what happened "because they were all so concerned with their own ride." Port Lovaca Water Yellow PORT LAVACA, Tex. (AP) Now comes the message from this coastal community: "Don't drink the water." In fact, don't bathe in it, swim or even wash the dog in it if you can help it. Port Lavaca residents all 14,000 of them noticed the "yukish" stuff flowing from their taps late Tuesday afternoon.

By Thursday morning, the stench was stronger still, prompting switchboards at the Port Lavaca Wave newspaper, city hall and the police station to light up. "You think you've been busy? You should be down here," harried Public Works Director Claude Bradley told a reporter. City health officials said the condition was caused by a microscopic algae in bloom somewhere along the water supply canal between the Guadalupe River and the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority's water treatment plant at nearby Magnolia Beach. The officials said the water is "harmless" but admit "tastes like hell." Bradley said plant officials told him the cause of the problem is a microscopic "oil pod" contained in the algae blooms, which had been taken into the treatment system sometime Tuesday morning. But as bad as the situation seems somebody always benefits.

Soft drink suppliers reported business was booming Thursday, as did those selling distilled water and other canned or bottled liquids. Oil Hearings May Cease AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) The Texas Railroad Commission should cancel its monthly oil hearings unless producers make them "meaningful" by using them as a forum to publicize their problems, commissioner Jim Langdon said Thursday. Langdon spoke Up after the regulatory body went through its routine of setting the oil production allowable for another month September at 100 per cent of market demand. Except for two months last winter, the allowable has been at 100 per cent of market demand since April 1972.

Even at that level, it falls short of meeting the demands of oil refineries for Texas crude. The allowable will generate about 3.6 million barrels per day of production, but oil companies say they are willing to buy 3.9 million barrels of Texas crude daily in September, an increase of 1,167 barrels from August. "You know what it costs to produce oil and gas. I believe this message needs to be given every month along with your (purchase) nominations," Langdon scolded. Oil company representatives come by the dozens every month, hear the allowable set, and go home all on expense account, of course.

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