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Page 2 Camercn, Texas, Herald, Feb. 8, 1973 1M EAST FIRST STREET CAMERON, TEXAS 76520 Frank M. Luecke, Editor and Publisher Frank M. Luecke and Don Scarbrough, Owner ALL DEPARTMENTS: A 817 607-6671 Entered as sacond clast mattsr at the Post Office in Cameron, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 1,1879 Published Every Monday and Thuraday Annual Subscription Rates: Milam Trade Area S6.60 Elsewhere S7.60 More Than New A new phase of downtown development began this week With removal of old sidewalks around themall-park- block. Engineering and architectural landscaping are apparently complete for the final phase of building back the mall-fountain area and off- street parking.

Downtown streets and sidewalk are included in this phase and are due removal replacement with modern counterparts. For some parts of downtown, it will be the first new curbing sidewalk levels and heights in this century. These improvements will enhance what has been done in building improvement or removal. The pluses will begin to show more dramatically as these surface improvements are added to the cleared lots and blocks. The finished product will be a new face with a lot more to back up the cosmetology.

Style And The 60s manifested a lot of style and form, j- The 70s are requiring considerable re-examination of the substance or the lack of JiTo resolve problems of urban crime and sprawl and national inertia and ennui, the country will require form and substance of its people. It is an extraordinary portunity for intelligent application of solutions. It will require style to interest the young, substance to bring on the adult. It will be a time when we say good-bye to anti-de- luvian thinking, yet we will require strength the concluded Vietnam war sapped. Style? Yes.

Substance? Yes. Either without the other will not make it. Low ixri i juts FROM THE Congressional Record jg By JOE CRUMP THE FAMILY LAWYER. (A Column for Readers Who Time to Review the Congressional Record Daily) CONSUMER PROTECTION TOP PRIORITY XHEP. L'rise in enthusiastic support fCw swift legislative action the bill which I have just Consumer Protection Act of 1973.

I have joined with my many colleagues who have sponsored this legislation because share a common concern fOr providing a realistic and solution to many of problems which plague the American consumer. Consumer Protection of 1973 is in many ways Landmark legislation. It citizens with effective mfcans of fighting the unfair aijd unconscionable acts perpetrated on the consumer some businesses and some (Mvernment agencies. I bifclieve it will be the strongest possible consumer protection legislation to emerge from the Congress I here are in fact more than 200 consumer programs ip; 39 different Government agencies and new office is designed to coordinate the various cshsumer programs through- the Federal bureaucracy. office will assure that consumer piograms are raving in the same direction and that there will be no duplication of effort remember that not too lOflg ago, the was just a catchphrase that schoolchildren hear in their economic class.

Today, however, it is ap active, viable, sophisticated organized group which is to have consumer problems resolved quickly and fairly and enable buyers to receive top value for their dollars there is no single Federal agency with the statutory authority or manpower to hold hearings or initiate such extensive investigations. now, consumers have had no formal or effective voice on consumer problems. Various agencies throughout the Federal Government protect the interests of many special interest groups. Farmers, laborers, and businessmen are all represented by various Federal agencies or departments. However, the single largest interest group in the country-the American without direct and specific representation public confidence in consumer management and protection must be restored, and I believe the passage of the Consumer Protection Act of 1973 will be an effective first step in restoring this confidence GRASS ROOT COMMENT The Consumer Protection Act of 1972 passed in the House but died in the Senate.

Rep. Holifield(Calif.) claimed that by Ralph Nader played into the hands of interests opposing the bill. Undoubtedly, Ralph Nader will again be on hand to debate the merits of the 1973 Act OLD PHILOSOPHER POIPH, YOU'RE A GOOP MN fWUtCS Wake Island Cla imed By Marshall Islanders Dear editar: Now that the 10-year-old Viet Nam war is over--not only was it the longest war in history of the U. but it's the only war in the history of the world I guess where both sides claim they won- everybody is saying we ought to get back to domestic issues. And the first rattle out of the box I ran into an issue which certainly is a domestic one.

According to an article I read yesterday in a newspaper my banker handed me in lieu of a loan, there is a move on to allow housewives to qualify for Social Security. The argument is that a housewife works as hard as a woman in an office or a factory and therefore ought to be covered by Social Security benefits. This no doubt is a fine idea, but I got to thinking, If they qualify for Social Security, they also qualify for unemployment comptmsation? Now an area that may be too big for even the Supreme Court to handle. Where is the man with nerve enough to sit in judgement over when a housewife is working and when employed? Oh, I know some housewives work 40 hours a week some maybe even 60, but on the other hand there are those well you show me the man who's going to into that situation. always contended that there never was an office, however obscure or dangerous or under-paid, some man run for, just as there never was a man, however sorry, some woman woman marry, but you find me the government bureau brave enough to go into a home and write down how many hours a housewife is working, especially if its agents went in right in the middle of a soap opera or busted up a bridge game.

Would a woman with seven kids ages 1 to 8 get no more Social Security credit than one with two away at school, a maid and a 26- inch color T. V. set? Such problems like that might make the Viet Nam war settlement look like it was play, and I doubt if you could get Henry Kissinger to tackle it. Yours faithfully A. Texans Escape Epidemic Privacy in Public Places Fire engines roar up to a house across the street, and you hurry over to watch the excitement.

If a newspaper photographer snaps your picture and you wind up on the front page of a local newspaper, has your of been violated? The answer is no. Even though the right of privacy has expanded in recent years, it does not override the freedom of the press to report legitimate news. As a spectator at a public event, you were part of the news. All the photographer did was to record what anyone who was there could have seen anyhow. Even if a person specifically forbids publicity, he does not thereby become immune.

In one case, the irate father in a custody fight ordered reporters to the story. But the story appeared pictures. The man claimed invasion of his privacy, but a court decided that he had no legal kick coming. are said the court, one, willingly or not, becomes an actor in an oc- currance of public interest. When this takes place, he emerges from his seclusion, and it is not an invasion of privacy to publish his photograph with an account of such On the other hand, an item of information does not automatically become newsworthy just because a newspaper sees fit to print it.

For example: A newspaper published a notice by a hardware dealer, complaining about a certain unpaid bill. This time, when the customer sued the newspaper for invasion of his privacy, he won a judgment. The court said that in any fair sense, this private debt was simply none of the business. A public service feature of the American Bar Association and exas State Bar Association. Written by Will Bernard.

1973 American Bar Association By Jon Anderson SAIPAN Leaders of a nation of 20.000 people are challenging S. on a territorial claim they are ready to take to the United Nations or world court for settlement. Wake Island, an almost forgotten American outpost in the Pacific now controlled by the U. S. Air Force, is suddenly being claimed by the neighboring Marshallls- lands.

The 20.000 Marshallese, living on a string of tiny palm fringed atolls in the central Pacific, form part of the U. S. administered trust territory of the Pacific, most of which will gain their independence in some form or other in the near future. The U. S.

annexed the atolls of Wake in 1899 and the island reached its pinnacle of glory as the site of the first major land battle between American and Imperial forces in the World War II. Now the Marshallese claim the island is in fact Enen-Kio, for centruies a food source is not a permanent settlement for their ancestors. Their claim to Wake is now being considered by the congress of Mironesia, highest lawmaking body for the vast Pacific trust territory, in the capital Saipan. Chief Marshallese spokesman on the issue is Senator Ataji Balos, a member of the Micronesian congress, who says: necessary I will go to the United Nations and the International Court of Justice to press our claim for Enen-Kio. U.

S. is there by occupation, but we own the The 33 lawmakers of the congress, only six of them from the Marshall Island group, are being asked to adopt a resolution that is and always has been the property of the people of the Marshall Is lands and forms and inter- gral part of the trust The claim to wake is based on oral legends and songs passed from through generations and remembered today by only a few of the older islanders. Dwight Heine, a lese well-versed in his peoples' traditions and also a specialist consultant to the U.S. appointed territory high commissioner, says Wake was never a permanent settlement because it was too small and dry. But ancient Marshallese did make many voyages to the island and considered it food source, as well as the surrounding waters.

The atoll also has religious significance as a source of a sacred bone wing used in traditional Marsh- allese tattooing ceremonies. Never particularly important from a military standpoint, Wake was the scene of fighting at the oubreak of the Pacific war. Japanese troops attacked the atoll on the same day the famous attack on Pearl Harbour was carried out in 1941. When small garrison finally surrendered two weeks later the name became a rallying for U. S.

Marines throughout the Pacific. Before and since the war Wake was unimportant stopping place for trans-pacific military and civilian Pan American Airways established a seaplane 1935. But modern long- range jets have since made the stop unnecessary. PANAM pulled out in 1971 and the U. S.

federal Aviation Administration, which had controlled the island, pulled out its personnel and handed over the facilities to the air force, which maintains a 9,800 foot runway and navigational equipment. It is estimated several hundred Americans still live on Wake, although some military officials now believe the island may soon become obsolete in strategic planning. If so Wake, like another nearby Marshallese atoll Eniwetok. could be handed back to local ownership. HOUSTON Texans appear to have escaped a serious flu epidemic this year, but they can expect a true epidemic of influenza around 1975 according to Dr.

Vernon Knight, chairman of the department of microbioligy and immunology at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr Knight said there have teen several obvious cases of the flu infection in Texas this year, but the cases reported were not numerous enough to be classified as an epidemic. te The type of influenza virus that hit Texas and the rest of the nation in 1973 is ficially designated 42 72, better known as the London or England flu Dr Knight said that this same virus did result in isolated epidemics throughout the nation, especially in California and on the East Coast Dr. Knight said that Texans did experience a flu epidemic in 1972, and that there is a strong probability that the scourge was caused by the same England strain which resulted in flu outbreaks this year. Thus, some persons in Texas retained immunity to the viral strairf and were hot afflicted with t.ie'temporarily debilitating disease in 1973.

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