The Canyon News from Canyon, Texas • Page 2

page two Editorials, columns, letters, end other comments We understand NO, NO-DON'T BEG ME TO STAY-VOU CANT CHANGE MY MINDA PERSON CAN TELL WHEN outhwestern public Co. have it both Last summer, the electric utility told the Public Utilities Commission lights in would have gone out had thecompany not formed TIJCO, the wholly-owned fuel subsidiary, several years ago. SPS officials, in unctuous and sanctimonious tones, told commissioners and the media TIJCO was formed to assure SPS had an adequate supply of fuel for its generators and that SPS would not be dependent on the caprice of other companies for that fuel. Now, SPS, after considerable criticism, says it is divesting itself of TIJCO, not because of the public outcry against the operations, but because in the best interest of the public. SPS officials are saying that the sale of TIJCO to Cabot Corporation is a good deal for us consumers liecause it means a good part of fuel supplies will come from a firm which has a stable and secure financial position.

This implies, of course, that Pioneer Corporation, where SPS gets some of its fuel, is not stable and secure. Or it implies that Pioneer and other fuel suppliers are not as stable as Cabot, which has never been in the fuel supply business around here. The SPS way of handling the sale of TUCO seems to fit a pattern of SPS dealings with the public about its operations. The public is told one thing one time when one story seems appropriate. Then SPS changes the story later when it seems auspicious to change.

The truth seems to vary according to situation. Consider other incongruities in official line: is a fact, and there are tapes to prove it, that Brae Biggers of SPS told city commissioners in 1975 that TUCO would not make a profit. He said it not once but twice. Since that time, though, city commissioners have learned that TUCO made a whale of a profit for SPS at consumer expense. SPS officials now try to sweep the matter under the rug by asking in mock horror whether anybody would actually imply they tried to deceive the consumer.

may never have said it in words which can he dug up and referred to, but everybody, including the PUC staff, has believed for years that the expense passed through to consumers on their monthly bills due to fuel costs was an actual expense incurred by the company for purchase of fuel in the field. Now, SPS officials have admitted the expense is only an estimate, generally an overestimate which benefits the company. Thus it is that we suspect the sale of TUCO is the result of, first, public outrage at the profitability of the fuel subsidiary; and, second, the result of that outrage, namely the tightening of regulation by the PUC to ensure that if TUCO is profitable it is only minimally so. in other words, SPS made the money it wanted to make out of TUCO, can see no way to continue making that kind of money in the future, and wants to nd itself of a public relations liability. Nevertheless, the pattern of SPS operations is clear.

We back public officials who say they will never again accept a word about profits and losses when it comes time to seek rate increases. We think they have ample reason to be Don 't stop probe ISi OW IS no time to stop the investigation of the assassination of President John Kennedy. It ih not only tantalizing, but ridiculous, to end a congressional probe of the affair just at the time when evidence seems to he coming together to show that a conspiracy of possibly substantial complexity surrounded the death of the late president. The pjniei, now out of business, heartTtestimony in its final days from ucotHlics experts who swore to beliefs and presented evidence that pointed to second gunman involved in the 1963 shooting. In Dallas, a newspaper carried out its own analysis of home moves in of the assassination and concluded it is very possible two persons can be detected in the window of the Dallas School Book Depository.

Conservative commentators have pointed in the past to the cogency of evidence gathered by at least one investigator into the assassination, evidence supporting a conspiracy theory. All the evidence available, then, indicates the greatest murder mystery of the Century is still not solved. Of course, there are those who will argue that public austerity must prevail over mere curiosity about the events of a decade and a half ago, that the millions which would he required to determine the truth nlsiut the assassination wouldn't he worth it. But hose are the same folks who would, undoubtedly have government remove itself from financing research into thesex a bits of the fruit fly. The immediate living of money is more important than truth.

We would say the expenditure of public funds for continuation of the investigation into the death of President Kennedy is justified on at least grounds, none of which is quantifiable and therefore easily defensible against those who believe truth is ascertainable by, well, by counting thenumber ofangels on the head of a pin. First, the continuation-of the-probe justifiable because the American concept of justice demands that those conspire to murder or murder be found and brought to trial. To give up on an investigation when evidence indicates a prior conclusion is wrong and to give up just because of the money involved, is to say that, yes, there is a limit beyond which justice has no meaning. Second, the continuation of a probe is justifiable on the basis of the characteristic American demand for truth. To leave the investigation at the present point is to opt for expediency and to deny the necessity of actually knowing what happened.

Why do we need to know what happened? That leads to the third justification. A continued investigation could eventually get the American people beyond the death of John Kennedy, still a haunting question in the national conscience. To deny that we need to know the truth about the assassination, however, is to embrace the false and is to underscore the perceived failure of America to value anything beyond the fleeting affairs of the The good shepherd By C. N. COSBY ndbr FAVORABLE onditions, sheep-raising is a ewarding enterprise, if a roper shepherd flock rela- ion is maintained.

Unlike lost other animal husban- rv, it produces revenue from wo sources instead of one. iside front an annual wool- lip of eight to 10 pounds per ead, reproduction is more tpid than that of cows or orsea. Young ewes breed nrlier and the lambs mature tster. As a meat supply, lutton sells on a. par with eef on most markets.

Raising sheep is somewhat ke raising children. The to great extent, spends on the care and con- bestowed upon them, ike children, they are roblem-proned. If one to roll over on its back in cow-trail four or six inches it will very likely re- ain there until it dies if it not helped to get up. Then, the flock has been without di air awhile, it must be it out for them, near their HU i while they absent. If they were it when the first portion hit ground, they would arnn-nd it in such bers as to trample some to death.

Again, like little hoys, their faces need to be cleaned occasionally, if they happen to be of a breed which grows wool down to the end of the nose. If it is not clipped, occasionally, from around their eyes, it will so.cover them over until their vision is obscured. As a result, they cannot see to graze or keep in contact with the rest of the flock, and becoming lost, wander aimlessly about, not knowing where they are. Few days ever went by in a row that some individual in our little flock did not need some sort of attention. It might be a claw hooked in the edge of an eye, a piece of barbed wire wrapped around a leg, or an empty bucket wedged over one's head, or something no one ever thought of before.

Such problems can become very distressing to a sheep, but relieving them is a minor operation. By crowding the one needing attention, along with enough others, into a small pen, so as to limit their freedom of action, a person can easily wade into the compact group and catch that one needing care. When a feet are lifted off the ground, he seems to get the notion that resistance is useless, and he ceases to struggle. So by setting him down on his bottom and hold ing his back and shoulders against legs with one hand, leaving the other free for what performance is necessary, he can usually be attended to in a matter of minutes. It is during lambing time that constant observation is most needed.

Prenatal care is as essential for the being of newborn lambs as it is for newborn babies. If ewes are denied a milk producing diet prior to giving birth to their young, they may have little or no milk for the si-rival, and consequently, may disown it entirely. It seems there is a connection between a full udder and a concern for the young offspring. It is. therefore, necessary under such conditions, to have someone with the flock day and night, during lambing time, so as to discover any ewe that might be in labor, and put in solitary' confinement to keep her from getting separated from the newborn creature, or will(See COSBY.

Page 3) One farmer's view By JOHN GRABBER YOU noticed how the statement has reached or surpassed nuclear parity with raise many eyebrows, but when it is in connection with farming seems to make panic buttons light up, some politicians go into convulsions and even Bob Bergland says that is no longer a fair need to take into consideration the cost of Glory maybe we can him the true meaning of parity yet! It sure is disgusting to hear so much hollering going on about the nation not being able to afford to for to hear labor unions negotiators talk about to keep their particular union earnings in parity with the rest of the like to ask those of you who are union have you lived better since unions insisted that you get a decent wage? Has it helped you to be able to buy your own house? Camper? Boat? Do you think it has helped create jobs in the housing industry and other suppliers of cars, boats, Do you honestly think it City would hurt your paycheck or your chances of advan cement if farmers get to make a decent living? Do you think farmers hide, absorb, or otherwise take the money they earn out of circulation? Does it hurt the local economy when farmers are doing good? Are there more jobs available when farmers are hurting? Would anyone of you consider it fair if the Secretary of Labor, after encouraging you to produce all you could, then cut your take-home pay to of other words, let you do the needed work, but cut your take-home pay by to insure that you work too threaten to let a flood of cheaper labor take your place so you quit? you then be forced to work all the hours you could in order to make ends meet? Do you think that would tend to make more money available? More prosperity? More jobs? Friend, that is where farmers are at and this is the whole problem in a nutshell. well aware that inflation, the money supply, redistribution of wealth, the creation of new wealth, incentive payments, are all subjects that can be (See FARMER, Page 3) Heretics found in women's clothing By HYSTERIA PUELLA note: Ms. Hysteria is sitting in this week for regular columnist Carroll Wilson.) EXT TIME in Boston, thumb your nose in the direction of Northeastern University. That's where Dr. Helen H.

Lambert, an expert on brain hormones, teaches. Dr. Lambert describes herself as a feminist. Ha. Boycott Dr.

Lambert. Cut off her research fu nds. Boot her, if you please, out of academia altogether. What kind of unscientific boob, after all, would assert there are differences between men and women? That the whole argument is spurious is best illustrated by the fact that of those researchers who claim there are differences between the sexes, none can say why there are differences or what causes the differences. Just listen to this reactionary garbage, printed recently in the Houston Chronicle, an obviously anti-feminist paper in a part of the Southwest which has never been known for its truthful insights.

The author of the article has assimilated research reports from throughout the nation to conclude that there are of difference on which there is widespread agreement among behavioral There are the alleged differences: "Women are more likely to express their emotions and display empathy and compassion in response to the emotions of others; as a whole are more skillful than women at visually perceiving the spatial or geometric features of objects; "Girls score higher than boys on tests of verbal ability, such as comprehension and production of language, analogies and spelling; "A similar developmental difference holds fQiiimathematical abilities, except that in this case boys achieve the higher scores; "Females tend to be more anxious than males about risking failure; "Boys tend to be more physically active than girls, doing more running and jumping. At play, they range farther than do girls. Now listen to what Dr. Lambert says: deny that there are certain biological differences. These may extend to behavior as What drivel.

What undoubtedly conjured up with the aid of a government grant and using test materials with the usual male bias. People, we all know, are people. They want the same kinds of things and they work from the same motives. To say otherwise is to deny the rights to equality of those toward whom the denial is aimed, because, after all, denial of truth implies contemptible motivation based on visceral intuition, not science, with an ulterior goal of corrupting the social influences of a decade of street-fighting aimed at assuring differences are not recognized. So there.

our world Change what you can, avoid frustration By ANN BROWN ife inconsisten cies can be a source of endless frustration if we dwell on them. For instance: The only people who know the value of youth are the ones who no longer have it. Young families with several children usually live in small houses with tiny rooms. When they can afford a spacious house with a room for each child, the children are likely to be all gone. By the time the average worker can afford beef steak he no longer has teeth to chew it.

Young people usually eagerly anticipate retirement. But when retirement age approaches, the majority of able-bodied people prefer to keep working. The most valuable physical ability to see, hear, walk, talk, and fully appreciated only after they are lost. The one constant we can depend on is change. Man is prone to spend his health to get wealth, then he spends his wealth in a vain effort to regain his health.

About the time he feels he is prepared to dies. Man not only does not profit from the mistakes of others, he rarely learns from his own blunders. The constantly recurring wars in the world are ample proof of that axiom. Learned men continue to work and plan and strive for peace in the world. But until man learns to live in peace with himself, with his own wife and children, brothers and sisters, friends and neighbors, what chance does he have for peace in the world? Voltaire, the French philosopher and author who was the forerunner of the Revolution, raged all his life against inconsistencies.

He denounced the church and the Bible for apparently accepting them. Shortly before his death, Voltaire predicted from his home in Switzerland that in a hundred years the Bible would be an obsolete book found only in museums. Today, exactly 200 years after the death, the headquarters of the Geneva Bible Society is located in house. As long as man is inconsistent, life will be also. To accept what we cannot change is the first step toward mental and emotional health.

Changing the things we can change will keep us much too busy to fret over the ones we cannot. thru the looking Cars, like cats, are crazy and perverse C'ARS ARE perverse. If they can be counted on at all, it is to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. 1 must admit to a totally unAmerican attitude. A pretty bumper just turn me on.

I can't get excited over chrome and horsepower snarling testily under some painted steel hood. IM CIAD XXI ARE HERE AT THE PEGGING OF THIS YOU'LL HAWE THE SEEING THE POKE WHOSE POKER PtRECT5 THE DESTINIES OF TEXAS fc THEY SL'RE R)R LEGISLATORS TALKING ABOUT THE THERE THEY ARE, FOLKS UNgittMKtf WING THE BIDDING OF THE PEOPLE WHO SENT THEM HERE LABORING DAY AN NIGHT TO MAKE THE STATE'S LAWS MEET THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE mki I ask only that a vehicle transport me from point A to point with efficiency and dependability. That seem an unreasonable request of a machine that cost several thousand dollars and that requires a thousand or more yearly to keep it going. But my cars are more often than not unwilling to comply with even that simple demand. Maybe they feel unloved.

At any rate, the beast in the garage has suddenly started to clamor for attention, like a small child who finds his interest centered awpv from him for an instant. After some months of putt-putting docilely around, my car has suddenly started to chug-chug. with a decided stammer in its get-along. Well, I can understand that. Maybe some new spark plugs or something simple will make it feel better.

I delivered it into the hands of someone trained in the care and feeding of small automobiles in early morning and returned for it late that afternoon. There it was, its hood up, soaking up the winter sunshine. And nothing, said the mechanic, was wrong with it. It chug-chug for him. Of course not.

It drove like a new car, he said. it back Monday if you have any more trouble with it and look at it he said. Of course I had trouble with it. The thing drove like a new car until we got around the corner and then it returned promptly to chugging and coughing. The speedometer is another perversity.

Sometimes it works. And sometimes it When it the meter speeds up to triple time. It is disconcerting to find you are driving 85 mph in third gear in a 30 mph speed zone. I know the gizmo must be wrong, but I have this nagging vision of a police officer pulling me over and saying: did you know you were going 85 in a 30 mph speed This is not the first perverse auto had. Cars, like cats, are all crazy.

I had one car that ate spark plug wires and drank oil. I drove it for 100,000 miles and it had no other bad habits but it had to have its mutiliated spark plug wires replaced frequently and what it did with all that oil, I never figured out. I think it blackmarketed it to a Plymouth down the street. Another car had a congenital birth defect that gave it a shimmy at 62 miles per hour. It was a built-in speed monitor.

When it was new, I tried to have the problem corrected but the car would never reveal its characteristic to the mechanic. After about the fourth trip back to the dealer with the same complaint, the shop foreman took to simply nodding his head and humoring me. He thought I was crazy. But I And, beside, I could see that car standing over there snickering at me behind its grill..