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CHc )U IX MY CHOICE I Council to vote next week on MLK birthday BRAZOS TRAILS By BILL FOSTER Publisher, The Waco Citizen Small business questions The HOT Trade Show was just that for another year. Emory Oney and his committe did another great job. It shows that small business is hot in Waco and getting hotter. Across the nation small business voted to suggest to congress that the Constitution be changed to limit the terms of U.S. Senators and Representatives, in a mandate survey put out by the National Association of Small Business (NFIB).

The vote was 66 per cent for yes, no and undecided Another question: Should businesses be required to modify jobs for and make facilities accessible to all types of disabled persons. The vote was No and Yes, only with only undecided. Other questions followed: Should manufacturers be required to sell their products to retailers who do not sell the items at recommended prices. NFIB members voted no by a to for with still undecided. Should the federal government set fees that are reimbursed by Medicare? said yes, no with undecided.

Should present federal law be preserved in the way that utilities refund surplus taxes? said no, said yes and were undecided. In the latest ballot coming up apparently big government is trying to put it on small business even more. A bill is before Congress for payroll taxes to be increased to provide health care coverage for the uninsured. Another question asks should the top income tax rates be increased to help meet next budget deficit target? I voted no on this one too. 1 think big government could cut spending like we all have to do, whether in business or family purchases.

Should small business owners be exempt from paying 11C A taxes for part time employees? 1 voted yes on this. I really think small business should get out of being the nation's tax collectors and record keepers for all employees. Small business gets nothing for doing this. No tax breaks, tax credit, etc. nothing.

But if we do it wrong or do it, we could be in all kinds of trouble with big brother. Now with the IRS computerized, it doesn't need small businesses to do this anymore. The IRS might do a better job going direct to the employees. We could turn in their names and S.S. numbers when they go on or off the payroll, then the big IRS computer could go after the taxes itself, direct.

It does anyway, but now through us small businesses. Think about this Phil Gramm. You're good at figuring these things out. Let small business go about its job and produce more jobs, and then you would have more money to help meet your deficit requirements. We should spend time running our businesses instead of doing the nations tax collections and record keeping.

The last question on the ballot: Should the war on Drugs be funded by selling savings bonds? undecided on this one. I think there should be enough money confiscated by the law enforcement people to fund the drug program. Just one raid in California brought in $20 million or was it $30 million? This doesn't count the cars, planes, boats houses and all that other stuff that is confiscated that could be sold. This would bring in millions more. I watched a story about all this seized property on C- Span the other day.

They have stuff everywhere. Why not just sell it. One of the agents was being raked across the coals for not selling some old cars, and letting the storage run up the cost so that they were going to lose money when they did sell them. Maybe the government just needs to get its act together as small business has had to do long ago. If small business wasn't so ei'ficient, it continue to grow, and be the nation's largest employer.

snow The Waco FRIDAY Your home-town community newspaper VOLUME 62 WACO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1989 664100 NUMBER 77 MY Cl 1- i I RI I MY Ht IK MCE DRUG I MV IGFREl MY CHOILI DRUC MY CHOICI DRUG FREI vf MYCHOIC MY HOICE E' MY CHOICE FREE' MY CHOICt. FRF I MYCH DRUG CHOICI FREE! MY FRI MY 'MY CHOICE CHOICE DRUG FREI Red Hi I bon Day Sunday Sunday will be a Red Letter Day in McLennan County. Or should we say red ribbon day. This is when the average Waco citizen can show their support for the War on Drugs. If you wear a Red Ribbon that day this means you are against alcohol and drug abuse.

There will be several rallies around the country that you are urged to attend, to pick up your red ribbon and show your support for the people on the front lines that are fighting this war. Here are the rallies you can attend: -Indian Spring Park in Waco at 1:00 p.m. -City Hall in McGregor at 2:30 p.m. -The Community Center in West at 5:30 p.m. In McLennan County this program is being supported by District Attorney Paul Gartner, and the McLennan County Drug Task Force and the Telephone Pioneers ol America.

Local officials and Baylor foot ball players are scheduled to attenc each gathering. Local school will provide entertainment Everyone is invited to attend t( show support for local effort: against drugs. Across Texas it is supported Governor Bill Clements and tht National Federation of Parents foi Drug-Free Youth. These rallies start a month campaign to build grass roots support for the War on Drugs in Texas. Waco City Councilman Lester Gibson charged his fellow council members with not the issue" in regards to a holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

is Gibson said, I believe it would be an advantage to the City of Waco to have the holiday, but the council is still not dealing with the real issue of MLK, want to play tokenism to birthday, by the either or Good Friday, idea," he told the council. Following his comments the council agreed to have the item on the agenda next week as an additional holiday. City employees now receive 8 holidays annually and this would be the ninth. Gibson said he misunderstood the concept last week with the MLK, Jr. or Good Friday floating holiday idea.

Councilman Sam Jack McGlasson was not present. ANIMAL ORDINANCE The almost year-old proposed animal ordinance was also discussed, and the council agreed to continue their discussions on Halloween, October 31. Discussed was the need to update the ordinance, problems with en- dorcement and budget restrainsts. Councilwoman Jean McReynolds noted the council needed to deal with some of the health problems caused by animals. Councilwoman LaNelle McNamara said he preferred a licensing program for animals, which is proposed in the recommended draft ordinance.

The ordinance would also create a grievance board whereby animal problems could be cleared through an unbiased procedure. City attorney Annette Jones, said the manpower to enforce the ordinance was one of the main problems, noting the three-man force could not handle what is on the books now A TRAINED GOLDEN RETRIEVER used in the Waco area to sniff out gunpowder, narcotics and alcohol was a big draw at the Heart O' Texas Trade Show held at the Convention Center during the past weekend. Tina Bingham, Narcotic Interductor, demonstrates how Thyco sniffs out the unwanted elements from a truck. Owned by ICCI, Institute of Criminal and Civil Investigation, Thyco is available for hire by schools or commercial businesses who want to have their facilities sniffed for drugs, alcohol or guns. ICCI is located at 611 Bowden.

(Bill Foster Photo) Magazine clerk found guilty, gets probation Sheila Renae Finch, 10, has been missing since 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, when she rode her bicycle to a grocery store at the corner of 26th and Button to call her aunt. Sheila reached her aunt on the phone, and asked her to take her to Sul Ross School to enroll. She never returned to her grandmother's home at 2812 Ross after making the call. Her aunt went to the home and waited for her to return when she did not the grandmother called the Waco Police Department asking for help to locate the child who had returned to Waco to live from Ft.

Worth. She was wearing a long sleeve red sweat suit top with 1 pants when she left her grandmother and was riding a pink and white with a white seat and white tires. Waco Police, using about 20 officers, combed the neighborhood in South Waco, where Sheila lived on Wednesday, questioning residents and searching for the 10-year-old student. On Thursday the Department of Public Safety helicopter entered the search flying over area and also other parts of town. Sgt.

Roy Halsell, Public Information Officer for the Waco Police Department said late Thursday, are making progress by the process of elimination through the information we The body of Sheila was discovered shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday by a brother and sister planning to fish in the outer area of Speegleville Park II. Sgt. Halsell said the body was fully clothed but he declined to answer questions about visible evidence at the scene. The body was found on the bank of Lake Waco under some trees about 30 feet from the nearest road.

Sheila was identified from the clothing she was wearing and from photos. No family members were brought to the scene. Justice of the Peace Alan Mayfield pronounced Sheila dead at 4:45 p.m. and said the cause of death would be determined after an autopsy is completed at the Southwest Forensic Lab in Dallas. The body was transfered to Dallas by the Waco Mortician Service.

Mayfield confirmed the child was fully clothed and he also said the scene was was clearly murdered and it was apparently a violent he said. body had been there some time, but I have a time for the Mayfield also said he could not tell if she had been sexually molested. Sgt. Halsell denied that the family had learned of the death from a television cut in about 4:25. know a detective notified the family when the body was found and By CAMELIA FOSTER Sale of obscene magazines drew a guilty verdict with a light sentence which was probated by the McLennan County jury on Thursday that heard the case.

The trial which began Monday in County Court-At-Law 2, with Judge Mike Gassway presiding, also drew a $2,000 fine for the defendant which was probated along with the one year probated sentense which was lowered to six months by the jury of four men and two women. Stephen James Petry, 32, was arrested in May after he sold two magazines to an undercover policeman with the W'aco Police Department at the Adult Theatre located at IH 35 and Lake Brazos Drive. Prosecuting the case for the state were Assistant District Attorneys David Sibley and John Roberts. Representing the defendant was Hill Dunnam. Sibley was Mayor of Waco hen the city adopted an ordinance regulating sexually oriented businesses in the city.

Dunnam had a specialist on obscenity testify, Dr. Joe Scott from Ohio State University, testified that following a survey of 300 people living in 90 counties of Texas, he determined that Texans have become more tolerate of sexually explicit material and that the country as a whole was more tolerant. The survey was made in 1987, the doctor who has also worked for the Kinsey Institute, told the jury. He said studies show that Texans more readily accept pictures of nudity in videos and magazines than in the past, in fact 73.6% of those Wayne Hoskins, Judge Smith on anti-drug program Waco Police Drug education officer Wayne Hoskins and Judge Walter Smith will be speaking on Drug Abuse from the legal side and what concerned Waco citizens can do Tuesday, Oct. 24, 7 p.m.

at the First United Methodist Church. It is one of a continuing number of program the church is sponsoring in an effort to attack the drug prpblem from all fronts. The church has formed an Operation Torch Drug Task Force, headed by Dan Coulon. Some 90,000 red ribbons will be distributed in McLennan County to be worn by people who are against drugs. McLennan drug task force headed by DA Paul Gartner is promoting this method.

The Governor has also joined in the war on drugs by declaring a War on Drug week, and Wear your Red Ribbon week. polled said that it was more acceptable but should only be available to adults. Dunnam presented the jury with a large number of magazines which he had purchased throughout this area of the state which also carried pictures of explicity sexual acts. Petry testified that he is paid $13.50 per hour for working 40 hours per week at the store, where he continues to be employed although he is also a student at TSTI, having enrolled in the electronics school in September. He testified that he was denied an education grant by the Texas Rehabilitation Commission after news of his arrest was printed in the newspapers and shown on television.

Petry is the father of two children and his wife testified tht she is expecting a third child. Medical records were introduced by Dunnam from Scott and White, that indicate Petry has rheumatoid arthritis and is taking medication for the condition and that he had to quit a previous job due to the strain of climbing and If Petry should violate the conditions of his probation he could serve the year in jail and also the $2,000 fine could become due. A NEW MEMBERS Brunch will be held October 24th from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce.

All new members are invited to visit with the Chamber staff..