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6A THE TIMES HERALD Friday Nov. 14, 1980 PORT HURON, MICH. Cros-tex school budget story misleading Leiicrs trative salaries, either. Total costs charged to administration including the superintendent's, principals' and secretaries' salaries; fringes, supplies, insurance, elections, etc. for 1979-80 were Woman's home should be castle peii.se way also increased.

Oar administration costs per f'upil at Croswell-Lexington in the ia.st study which was were lower than any Sanilac County or St. Clair County or, in fact, 524th in cost per pupil in Michigan mit of 529 K-12 districts. (1978-t VI) Bulletin No. 1014, "Mich- igan K-12 public school rank- by selected data" put out bj the fitatc Department of hiiuc.ttion.) JACK I). CALDWELL superintendent, Croswell- Li xuifitou Schools Cromwell (Editor's note: Superintend-cut Caldwell is correct in the figure listed for ad-'" 'ii salaries in The limes Herald budget article included other items.

But it lid not include all adminis Editor, The Times Herald: Regarding the new proposal that the health department wants to push down our throats, and that's what it is to me. They say a man's home is his castle. Well, so is a woman's. In the first place, some people can't afford to keep their homes up to standard, especially the people on fixed incomes. Every time we turn around the Detroit Edison, the gas company and Bell telephone are asking for a enter my home without a warrant up your own state property.

Like the new Secretary of State office recently put up in Imlay City. Under the new law, you have some faults to correct right there in your Everybody wins in oil compromise Ah issue of broad importance to Michigan that Ms been argued bitterly for a dozen years is, at lone last, nearing a resolution acceptable, apparently, to even the most extreme partisans on the question. Agreement was reached this week between oil interests and environmentalists on a bill permit drilling, under rigid controls, that will Seek to tap 77 million barrels of oil believed to lie under the Pigeon River State Forest in the northern Lower Peninsula, about midway between Gaylord and Cheboygan. The compromise was submitted immediately to the House Committee on Economic Development and Energy, which is expected to substitute it for S.B. 1119, a measure more favorable to the oil industry which has already passed the Senate but faced a tougher time in the House, plus the threat of a governor's veto.

The issue is important to all of Michigan because it has encompassed, since it first arose in 1968, all 6f the classic arguments between maintenance of wilderness areas in a hunting, fishing and tourist state, on the one hand, and the pressures for greater energy independence and economic development, on the other. Until this year, environmentalists had been able to keep the oil developers at bay. Bolstered by a 1979 State Supreme Court decision that turned down 10 drilling permits in the area because of alleged threats to the only elk herd east of the Mississippi, the environmentalists felt they had slammed the door, not only on Pigeon River drilling but on oil exploration generally in Michigan's wilderness areas. I But they didn't reckon with ballooning energy problems or the state's massive economic downturn. Nor did they anticipate expert testimony from an unexpected quarter: the threatened elk browsing Contentedly within the shadow of producing wells, sunk before Pigeon River became a cause celebre.

The Dendulum auicklv swune the other wav. I'-uuor, lite 1980 81 well-LcMih Ketc hciii rof artick1 tAjfi; expenditure; There part of the minis! iv owe-VH wiv flu. t.iteJ $219,726 u'i, over the The aihu iiwh-' v. saKfiK part of i.i tendeni ii i On' empii-v were I the ui: i to be i loan Health inspectors Editor, The writs' ri-' Michl Health This c-- -1 A If: ft askfl 1 1 1 1 lem he nav I is: "I moU' scr Arijta! r.i-lc. appear v-- growth i 1 grow manage In exiled who v-t, to me id a a II Natl Bailor, moment the fid' In VU.u' i i then 1 the give tiu-ii V.I' fat lems know.

I playwl A reader he desei i 'i Jim uoo.l as a.t- i i First, drilling permits were granted on private property aajaceni 10 me stale torest. men, on interests were instrumental in framing S.B. 1119, which would Dermit oil drilling under substantial rights." state controls, and pushing jome environmentalists notably, the Michigan United Conservation Clubs even agreed to most Of the bill's Drovisions. feeling that in the state's ff bum razors $316,338. For 1980-81, they are budgeted at $331,592, up 4.8 percent.) raise, and they get it every time.

Never mind asking if the taxpayers can afford it. We are being taxed to death, too. I can see the health department expecting nursing homes or people who own apartment houses to be inspected because they get away with a lot. But leave my home alone. We are in the great country called America, not Russia.

VIRGINIA MARTINEZ Port Huron own store. "The City of Imlay owns a house next to the municipal offices with backed up sewers, an old furnace, and a pull chain light over the kitchen sink along with many other faults that do not come up to the law. They rent that house every day. It sure is substandard housing. Also the city chief of police lives in a house that never did meet state standards.

His house is far from perfect. And some other city property in this town. When the state and the city fixes up their property, I'll think about fixing up mine. "You can take your new household inspection law and blow it up your elbow. I'll make you some trouble when it comes time to enforce it.

Your law is contrary to the laws of the land. Who dreamed up that health code anyway? The governor had no business signing in such a law in the first place. What was Milliken thinking of when he signed it? You will have trouble with that law. I'll make sure you do. The state is just looking for a way to get into a man's house without a warrant under the pretense of a health inspection.

Enter mine without a warrant and you are in trouble." FRANCES WILCOX Imlay City my hand. "An electric razor. I never thought of that. But wouldn't an electric razor give them all a clean shave?" "You would think so," my friend said. "But we have evidence that the Soviets have been unloading bum electric razors on their clients in the Middle East.

No one in Russia will buy them because they will hardly cut any kind of beard, so every time a leftist leader comes to Moscow they give him one as a gift. Ara-' fat shaves every day with one, and so does Rajai and a lot of the other people in that part of the world. But even on the adjustable high setting it's the best they can do." "Why do you people want to keep this a secret?" I asked. "I should think it would be to our advantage to publicize the fact that the Soviets are unloading rejected electric razors on their friends." "Because every morning when Arafat and his cronies shave it causes them excruciating pain, and for the moment we want to keep it that way." wan fed named Spanish language network. According to the National Association of Spanish Broadcasters, SIN is the only Spanish-language TV network in the U.S.

and 10 of the 13 existing Spanish language stations are affiliated with SIN. SIN's corporate structure is complicated. According to the publication Hispanic Business, a wealthy Mexican family named Azcarraga owns half of Telesistema Mexi-cana, the dominant force in Mexican television, which owns 75 percent of Televisa, the Mexican network, which owns 75 percent of SIN. SIN's president, Anselmo, owns 25 percent of SIN and 24 percent of the Spanish International Communications Corp. (SICC), which owns the Spanish-language TV stations in San Antonio, Los Angeles, Miami, Hanford, and Patterson, N.J.

The other major owners of SICC are Fouce Amusement Enterprise of Los Angeles, 25 percent; and Laura Investment 20 percent. Laura is said to be the U.S. investment arm of the Azcarraga family. SIN also owns GalaVision, the Spanish-language cable pay-TV system serving 39 U.S. cities with movies and sporting events.

new economic and energy best thev could do. A few for better terms, however, with: oil interests to write rtrntertinn Piiarflntees into That was the compromise It's still possible that the sociation, Gaylord, the only hadn'i better try to twit to Victor Warner, Mich i Department of Health, i Ji-ar Mr. Warner: Ynii have all you can do to i iSp.n-l public places and keep ii" iv st'in," one of the oth- nu were tipped off i in the agency, i link I have to answer jvo oeen working on this now. There si i people in 'The Com- including the CIA bar-r. nuw what we've been t).

it iooks as if one of he working for M'r, fviu.1- he is. To get to the Uus. we'll tell you what 1 1 ii the approach will and will try to 'h ds of all the various pn Rene Anselmo i i onvinced that the i iioiia' medium to speak ii i Mil- 'tmerican Hispanics 1 1 1 ingredient that i ills from gaining rec-ii ill'- And this is what I mi i is doing in becoming i helps unite, educate fiwi inspire "20 million people to tike tin ir ncntful position in our i ct i 1 irticipate in our 'i i I ,11 int often lodged in si is that it's too st. I'll read you your a I I Thrift i i JL mental groups that hasn't embraced the compromise, may fight it. But with the strongest groups including both the MUCC and the West Michigan Environmental Action Council in the compromise camp, continued opposition is regarded as futile.

The Shell Oil which we know if you tell us what you know." "It sounds good to me," I said. "It seems there are a lot of leaders in the Middle East who don't shave every day. By the same token they refuse to grow beards. They prefer a four- to six-day growth, but no more. My source believes they're all using the same razor blade." One of the CIA men was taking notes.

"He's on the right track," he said. "Did your source tell you how they manage to get the razor blade back and forth?" "Arafat seems to be the bag man. He's always traveling somewhere and my man believes he has the razor blade hidden in his turban. We've never seen a picture of Yasser without his headdress. It would be the obvious place to keep it." The men looked at each other before one spoke.

"Suppose we told you it wasn't a razor blade but a Soviet electric razor." I hit my head with the palm of companies seeking to drill in the area, and the various environmental groups that have dealt with the Pigeon River question deserve the appreciation of all Michigan residents for pproach to an emotional nificance for the state's future. The compromise reached will give Michigan and its residents the best of both worlds: Protection of a fragile wilderness and access to more than $3 billion worth of oil. The drilling also promises to pump millions of tax dollars into state coffers and will provide for massive-new purchases of private land for additional state recreation areas throughout Michigan. it through the Senate. short climate, it was the extremists held nut hnne and negotiated furiously greater environmental tho nonrlino locricl'itinn reached late Wednesday.

Pigeon River County As one of seven environ heads a consortium of oil a realistic, responsible issue that holds great sig wins. lotion Dept. 8 a.m. to 7 o.m. weekdays, 7.

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MN i 1 news with i I i serve tbt biiistun i In New York, independent channel 47, WNJU-TV, outpulls the SIN station by catering to the large Puerto Rican audience. "We program to the market," said Carlos Barba, the vice president and general manager who makes all of the programming decisions for both the station in New York and for channel 57 in Los Angeles. In L.A., he plays to the Mexican segment of the Hispanic population. SIN carries a heavy schedule of soap operas called novellas that are made in Mexico with top Mexican stars. It also features Mexican variety shows (including one called "Always on Sunday" that lasts seven hours), soccer and boxing.

Individual stations carry local news. Some carry only the network offerings. Critics also claim that SIN wants to Americanize its news programming because of its problems with the federal government. The Federal Communications Commission is looking into a complaint that five U.S. Spanish-language TV stations are illegally controlled by Mexican nationals and the Justice Department is investigating alleged antitrust violations involving an un- The Times Herald (USPS 438-700) A GANNETT NEWSPAPER Vol.

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