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Crack widens to China Editorials -j WeMternism may into China. 3 School budget may too tight.countybudKt't may be too hxme. Hhouid be addrenned in aKfncy. HKN rHK a decade ago cracked the door to the great wall which haH isolated that nation's people from the rest of the world for ho many years, they may have allowed just enough room for the from the box of WestiTnism to seep in Kvidence accumulated by the press indicates culture may be ravelling at the edges as that Westernism begins permeate the countryside. laughing again in Peking, for example.

il Robi'rt Moskin in the most recent World Press Rn uii says humor has returned to ('hina He the Third World Media Service as reporting that while the new jokes real knee-slappers, they do poke fun at the hypocrisy of their society Another rejM)rter cited this as an example of typical Chinese humor, an example gleaned from the People's Daily: the biggest country in the it Cuba. Its government is in ow Its graveyards are in Angola And its people are in In addition to an ease up on humor, the government is also easing up on communications The Monsoon Hong Kong reported earlier this year that televisi(m sets are now the newest status symbols in of neither thecity nor the hospital diatrict, but a step-child of both, seems to solve problem. As envisioned by members of both bodies, the agency will be headed by the city manager and hospital administrator. They will run the thing. The creation resulting from the city- hospital agreement will, however, be unique in this county.

In no other cooperative enterprise have the parties formed a separate entity to handle service delivery. Thus, the new agency is a pace setter, something which could set a precedent. It is not hard to envision the creation of a fire-fighting agency patterned after the ambulance service, and controlled by one or two or three persons not elected by the people. In fact, hard to envision other similar cooperative efforts resulting in the creation of nearly autonomous agencies which report to elected persons only once (See CHINA Page 3) Don't care care who shot J.R. On local budgets lARLY LAST week, the Canyon School Board passed a budget fof next year which includes a 9.295) tax increase.

A week or so from now, the Randall County commissioners court is expected to pass a budget which will include no tax increase. About those budgets, a few notes: Brutalized by the state legislature a year ago, the school district has had to face the hard job of deciding whether the public will stand for a substantial tax increase this year, not only to meet demands but also to replace the funds cut by the legislature. The has decided to hold taxes to a minimum, primarily by cutting services and programs. Unfortunately, there has historically been very little fat in the CISD budget. For at least a decade, the board has mandated strict austerity.

By voting to cut back even further and to raise taxes the minimum, the board has put itself in the position of putting off for later years restoration of funds cut this year, and the capital improvements needed to replace worn out equipment. Growth in real expenditures to enhance programs will have to wait for an even later time. And by putting all those things off for the future, the board has exercised a little wishful thinking. The board has to hope that inflation will continue, because inflation will continue to increase values on property. Higher property values mean higher tax income, likewise, the board has to hope for a speedy end to the recession, so that new growth can take place, because new property values also lead to higher overall tax income.

And in the meantime, the board is in the (See BUDGKTS, Page 3) Problems OF a special governmental-type entity is probably the best compromise available to oversee and run an ambulance service for Canyon and the rural area, given the intractable stance of the hospital bonrd. The South Randall County Hospital District board and the Canyon city commission, who agreed two weeks ago to join together to form the separate agency were so elated at reaching the compromise, though, they may have failed to deal with some issues which could have significance in the future. Superficially, the formation of the separate agency, which will be a branch (See PROBLEMS. Page 3) City desk On Kurds. gender.

Miss Piggy, puns and riddles. Time to get to serious business By AHKOI.I. ILSO.N TIME TO get down to business. It is said that in Kurdistan, the merchant.sdo business in a complex tonal language, and some merchants are so proficient that they can actually handle more than one transaction at a time. So it is, according to Mike Kossbach of Houston, that an American tourist watched a display of the talent by a Ms.

I.yp, so named becau.se of her outstaiuiing ability to handle more than one tonal transaction at a time. After seeing her simultaneously overcharge two customers, the tourist was heard to say. "Well, how to bill two Kurds with r.i After the editorial on June 20 in the Globe- Times, 1 figure have a lot more thaii ever before in the authority of the editors. From every indication, the editorialist who penned the June number has a direct tie in tu a lie in so firm that the editorialist knows that ('kkI is a male, and always has been and always will be. If been lucky, the editorialist would have levitated heavenward after this revelation, and no longer be inflicted with the earthly drivel which so often makes up the subject matter of the page.

Surely the Amarillo editorialist feels a duty to reveal more to us mortals about those mysterious attributes of (lod which somehow elude others of us who have only Biblical revelation to go by. uJ Is it true Americans really have no more heroes? Perhaps they're not of Achillean stature, but there are still a few heroic characters a-ourul The editors of Xext suggest that the '70s produced pretty good specimens. list includes John Wayne and Jane Fonda, il you can accomnu)date those i'andidates in the same mental image. But it also includes a couple 1 endorse. One is the character in Woodward and hook on tht Watergate scandal of the Nixon administration.

Now that Liddy has proved that the prospect of a little money will make him assert his will and sing like a bird about his role in the nasty affair. Deep Throat is the only Watergate figure who made a fast buck on the scandal. Another of the heroes of the decade is Miss Piggy, who 1 must say is one of my ptT.sonal favorites, and my nominee for the woman to permanently retire the Miss America, Miss I'niverseand Miss World titles, thusending those spectacles once and tor all. The British press apparently has more fun with language than does the American press. The Wall Street -Journal recently carried an article on (See TIM Page Newsmen should not make news By TROY MARTIN From the canyon rim Cron kite was right.

Anyone have a grasshopper recipe? Aggressor always telegraphs punch. ALTER CRONKITE was approached to get into politics as John running mate. Cronkite played it smart in two ways when he refused. In the first place he undoubtedly would have been defeated. In the second place, he was right when he said news people should report news, not make it.

Back in the one of Gene associates at The Glohe-Neus, of which Howe was publisher, announced he would run for mayor of Amarillo. Howe congratulated him and told him he thought he would make a fine mayor. However. Howe added, he did not believe he would make a good mayor and a good newspaperman because Howe figured there would be ultimately be conflicts of interest. The Globe staffer decided he would forego his political ambitions.

H. M. Baggarly, erstwhile editor of The Tulia Herald, dabbled in politics so much that his column lost its credibility where partisian politics wero concerned. Even Baggarly drew the line short of actually stepping into the arena. President Lyndon Johnson called Baggarly three times trying to Tulia old ('ur- mudgeon into the Johnson government.

Baggarly declined because he knew (See RIM Puge 3) Training Mom the right way Through the looking glass She wrinkles her nose at natural cotton. By LAURIE TELFAIR EV ER TRUST an ironing board. You may think you have the upper hand, but get you in the end. Ironing boards and irons are one of the seamy sections on the underbelly of family life. Show me a man who gives his wife an iron for a gift and show you a guy found a peck of trouble.

never give a girl friend an iron. bet. In the land of romance and 'lived happily ever there are no irons. At one time, 1 gave up ironing. If a garment needed ironing, I simply didn't wear it.

I was tolerant of all, they happen to all of us at onetime or another. Starch was a pornographic word. Iron was a mineral found in liver and Geritol. But, alas, my children and the fashion-mongers ended my days of freedom. Somewhere along the line, we strayed from the comfortable path of wash and wear and permanent press and went back to nature with natural, wrinkling cotton.

Polyester was absolutely out. Wrinkles were here to stay. Furthermore, my kids wear wrinkled clothes. Since I iron, they learned to and they iron with a vengeance. Not even their undies have a wrinkle.

And, slowly, they re trained me. not going to wear that, are my daugiiter sniffed with disdain. all it very I said, looking doAn at pants legs that were shriveled like prunes. fal' out after worn them not going to be around the high are she said. really hate to have anyone see you looking like that.

It take but a minute to iron She was smiling but she had positioned her body in front (See IRONING, Page 3) rPS HIS LAST me MKPtTSNti What have they done for us? Our world Humanism is the most idolatrous the sins By ANN BROWN We all have our share of contradictions. Some are amusing: some are confusing. and some are downright disastrous. Our medium of exchange bears the inscription, God We Then why does the highest court in the land decree that the facts about God cannot be taught in our public schools? Why is it all right to open Congress with prayer but not a class in public school? It is forbidden to teach the truth about the Creator of the universe, but is perfectly legal to tax Christians to teach socialism, communism, and humanism in our schools. The apostle Paul discussed a similar situation in his letter to the Romans.

He said, themselves to be wise, they became fools who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the The most intolerable sin in sight (and He IS the Judge) is idolatry. All ungodly-isms are idolatrous, and are culminated in humanism. Humanists put man on the throne instead of God. Man is the center of the universe, and humanists regard the universe as and not (The Humanist Manifesto, P. 8).

If the universe developed without creation, how Rtrange that every single thing man uses IN the universe has to be from a can opener to a computer. Even a cleaning tissue has to be made. And man and the universe just In the preface of the Humanist Manifesto II, they say, in 1933, humanists still believe that traditional theism, especially faith in a prayer-hearing God, assumed to love and care for persons, to hear and understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them, is an unproved and out-moded Humanists profess a great love for humanity and contempt for God: deity will save us; we must save (Manifesto P. 16.V But what have humanists ever done for humanity? How many schools, orphanages. hospitals, etc.

have they established? The first institutions for human welfare in America were established by churches. But humanists have so infiltrated many of those institutions that they have becomeanti-Chris- tian. The classic example is the public school. Have busing, social promotion, and contempt for authority improved the educational process? Have they improved human welfare? If so. whose? Certainly not the teachers who were assaulted by students or their parents last year.

And how about the 77 who were murdered? All the humanist propaganda in the world will not change man from being the creature, nor God from being the Creator..