Baxter Bulletin from Mountain Home, Arkansas • 38

Thursday, December 21, 1978 Page 2 Section TIIE BAXTER BULLETIN Sale of speed' may be controlled by Medical Board 'AHk(on)8(oS RI0WS Clinton proposes teacher pay raise Delegates chooso Dr. Leflar to chair convention again Phillips said. The regulation proposed by the Medical Board Wednesday would allow doctors to prescribe amphetamines for narcolepsy an uncontrollable urge to sleep and hyperkinesis hyperactivity. Persons receiving amphetamines would be required to obtain the opinion of a second doctor before they could get a refill of their prescriptions. The drug ring being investigated by authorities pays fat people on drugs to plead with a doctor to give them amphetamines, said Larry Marting, an investigator for the Health Department's drug control bureau.

He said 30 amphetamines that would cost up to $10 at a drug store are sold at between $5 and $15 per pill on the street. "The profit motive is good," Martin said. LITTLE ROCK (AP) Public school teachers' salaries should Increase by $2,400 during the next two fiscal years and an additional $127 million should be earmarked for public schools through 1981, Bill Clinton says. Clinton unveiled his proposed budget for the state Department of Education before the Legislative Council last week. The budget calls for a $67 million increase in spending for fiscal 1980 and a $60 million increase for fiscal 1981.

Clinton told the council that the aim of LITTLE ROCK (AP) Doctors would be barred from prescribing amphetamines for weight control under a regulation proposed by the state Medical Board on Wednesday. Eugene R. Warren of Little Rock, the board's attorney, told the panel that there are "terrible abuses" in Arkansas of amphetamines, which also is called "speed." In a related development, a state Health Department official said last week that some drug dealers pay fat people to get amphetamines from doctors so that drug dealers can sell the pills on the streets. "It's going on all over the state," said Don Phillips, director of the Health Department's bureau of pharmacy services. Federal and state authorities are investigating a ring of such drug dealers, his budget recommendation was to upgrade Arkansas' public education system to the level of adjacent states.

The Board of Education has recommended an $82 million increase in spending in fiscal 1980 and in increase of $54 million in fiscal 1981. The board proposal calls for teacher salary increases averaging $1,400 in 1979-80 and $1,040 in 198041. The budget recommendations include increases in spending for programs for' handicapped students and specially gifted or talented students, he said. Private land won't he condemned Bumpers says Red tape cutback experiment includes Arkansas communities wilderness area" without Congressional authority. There are exceptions, but, in Arkansas, these apply only to Belle Starr Cove, Dry Dreek, and Richland Creek Wilderness Areas.

Even there, Bumpers said, land could not be condemned unless the Forest Service could prove that the landowner had changed his land in a way that would damage the wilderness area. "I just want to assure people," said Bumpers, "that I will resist any effort to condemn lands of people who live within National Forest areas unless there should be a compelling national interest, and I don't foresee this. I could never stand idly by while people have their homes and farms taken from them." Fears of landowners that they would lose their land to "wilderness" designations have been inflated, Senator Dale Bumpers said in a press release issued this week. "During the public comment period on RARE II (Roadless Area Review and Evaluation), a lot of people got the idea that the Forest Service was about to take their land away from them," Bumpers said. "Since some of the information going around was erroneous to begin with, and then exaggerated on top of that, I can easily see how people began to fear the worst Fortunately, things are not as bad as they may have seemed." Bumpers explained that the 1964 Wilderness Act prohibits condemnation of private land within a "designated three federal agencies before qualifying for the grants.

Under the rural initiatives program, the agencies will devise one application form and have a joint review of the proposed projects. Charles Bennett, who handles the sewer grant program for the state, said it takes three to four years for a community to get federal money to build a treatment plant after making its application. He said delays are caused by the cumbersome procedure that the Carter administration's program is designed to improve. LITTLE ROCK AP) Arkansas will be one of eight states to participate in a demonstration program aimed at cutting red tape for communities seeking federal water and sewer projects. The program will be part of President Carter's rural initiatives program and was announced Thursday by Bill Clinton and state Rep.

John E. Miller of Melbourne. The federal program is designed to streamline the procedure used to apply for grants for water and sewer projects. Now, communities must apply through assigned at least one topic that falls within the province of that particular committee. With the assistance of a research staff that will be hired by the convention, each delegate will examine all aspects of that issue, Dr.

Leflar said, and present a draft resolution about it to the committee. The committees then will debate the proposals, polish them and submit them to the full Convention when it opens May 14. Equal rights question Dr. Leflar is sure than an equal rights provision will be one of the issues that will be argued in the convention. He would vote for one, he said, but he doen't have any idea whether the majority of delegates would.

Apart from the ERA issue, other areas of citizens rights that are sure to receive the delegates' attention are the right to privacy, freedom of information, gun control, and criminal records, among others. In the area of state and local governmental organization, there are many questions that will come up, Dr. Leflar said. Most of them are issues that have been discussed for years, such as annual legislative sessions, correlation of House and Senate districts, the number of votes that should be needed to override a veto, the number of votes that should be required to change a state tax levy, the question of four-year terms for state constitutional officers, and even possible county officers, and reorganization of such state bodies as the Highway Commission and the Game and Fish Commission. The delegates also should consider the taxing powers allowed by the constitution, Dr.

Leflar said, as well as other taxation matters. For instance, he anticipates a proposal to set the state income tax as a percentage of the federal tax a person pays, thus simplifying greatly the state tax return form. Dr. Leflar said that the new constitution should contain as little detail as possible as far as the day-to-day operation of government is concerned. It should not, for instance, spell out salaries for state and local governmental officials, as the present one does.

The delegates should examine various areas of the present constitution, Dr. Leflar said, to determine if some provisions can successfully be transferred to statutes. delegates should examine various areas of the present Constitution, Dr. Leflar said, to determine if some provisions can successfully be transferred to statutes. Dr.

Leflar still thinks the constitution rejected by voters in 1970 was a good one. "We would not have needed another one for a long while," he said. However, since it was defeated, he said, "Everything in it needs to be thought through anew." Oaklawn readies for race season The Perfect Christmas Gift CANDIES By Jim Clark of A News Service FAYETTEVILLE Usury, right-to-work, judicial reorganization and equal rights for women are all possible areas of controversy that delegates will face when the 1979 Arkansas Constitutional Convention opens next summer, according to Dr. Robert A. Leflar, the president of the Convention.

Dr. Leflar, who is emeritus distinguished professor of law at the University of Arkansas, was elected president of the Convention last week at its organizational meeting in Little Rock. He served in a similar position at the Constitutional Convention of 1968. The proposed constitution that resulted from that convention was defeated by the voters of the state in the 1970 general election. Dr.

Leflar believes the document that comes from this convention should fare better. The political climate is different now, he points out, both in the attitude of the general public as evidenced in the great amount of interest shown in the races for convention delegates and in the amount of support being promised by political leaders. The big danger to any proposed constitution, Dr. Leflar said, is the "single-issue" voter, someone who would reject the entire document just because one specific article does not meet his approval, or because a desired change was not included. There were two significant factors behind the defeat of the Constitution in 1970, Dr.

Leflar believes. One was the opposition of organized labor because the right-to-work provision was not deleted. The other, which perhaps was even more effective, was the opposition of judges in the state to the judicial reorganization that was proposed. Both of these issues are still alive, Dr. Leflar believes.

Judicial shake-up? Judicial organization may be a problem, he said. It involves several factors. Some people do not want the judiciary reorganized in any manner, of course. Among those who do see a need for reorganization, there is a great diversity in viewpoints. The method of selecting judges may be an issue, he said.

Should they be elected or appointed and then subjected to a referendum? Should Supreme Court 'justices be elected by district rather than having to run in the state at large? Should there be a provision establishing a judicial discipline commission, making it easier to remove corrupt, inefficient or senile judges? Usury change? The usury issue is the one most talked about so far this time, Dr. Leflar said, and the proposed methods of dealing with this issue vary widely. Some persons favor leaving the entire matter of establishing maximum interest rates up to the state legislature; others would set fixed maximums in the new constitution. In between are persons who think that maximum interest rates should be tied to some kind of national economic index. Many think the usury provision should be kept just the way it is now.

One minor problem which emerged early in the organizational meeting apparently has been solved. Dr. Leflar believes. This is the concern that women and blacks were not receiving enough important offices in the Convention. Though none was elected as a convention officer, several were named as chairmen or vice chairmen of important committees.

The committees are where the articles of the new constitution will be born. Each member of most committees have been HOT SPRINGS, opening day is two months away, some 300 thoroughbreds are already at Oaklawn Park, in Hot Springs in training for the upcoming. Feb. 9 through April 7 racing season, The 300 figure is more than the normal number of horses at Oaklawn for this time of the year, according to Oaklawn Vice President and General Manager W.T. Bishop.

He attributed the increase to the recent endings of racing seasons in "7 ft, fc turn HA. j9T Kentucky and other areas and to the recent fire which Chicago's Hawthorne Race Track and forced many horsemen to leave unexpectedly. Oaklawn's stable area opened Nov. 20 and on Dec. the track opened for training purposes.

By opening day, more than 1,450 horses will be stabled at the racing center. Oaklawn has received 3,500 stall requests from throughout the country, which is 2,000 more than the track can accommodate. "While such a situation means we have the difficult and unpleasant task of turning down a number of good and deserving requests," said Bishop, "it also means that we are assured of having the pick of the finest thoroughbreds in training." Bishop said the quality of horses racing at Oaklawn has steadily improved in each of the past 10 years and he was expecting this year to be no exception. "The best horses compete for the highest purses and our daily average purse distribution is one of the very highest in the country. We will award over $6,000,000 in purses during the 50 day 1979 season," Bishop said.

Ten years ago purses at Oaklawn averaged less than $40,000 a day, only one-third of what is expected in 1979. During the same period, Oaklawn's attendance has soared from less than 10,000 fans a day to an average of over 20,000 per day, one of the highest in the nation. "Our growth is the result of a decade of dedication on behalf of Oaklawn to have the finest racing program and facility in the country 7' noted Bishop. "Although Oaklawn set the goals, the credit for being able to achieve them must go to our fans for their layalty, enthusiasm, and support." Another factor Bishop noted is the position Oaklawn has taken on a number of controversial issues relating to racing. "We have opposed excessive racing dates, permissive medications and exotic wagering, being the only major track in this country to do so," Bishop said.

"We feel these things are not in the best interest of the sport, and most importantly we feel they are not conducive to the maximum enjoyment of the sport by our fans." Bishop declined to predict what this coming Oaklawn season's attendance would be. Over one million fans attended last year, and Bishop said early checks of reserved seat requests and other similar indications seemingly point to another record breaking year. MSB Great buy for a young man. ASSORTED CHOCOLATES Always a Christmas nuts, fruits, caramels, nougats, toffeescotch, crunches and chewy centers, dipped in the finest dark and milk chocolate 1 lb. $3.50 2 lb.

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