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Corsicana Daily Sun from Corsicana, Texas • Page 16

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Computers organize Terrorist Targets Twice during the coming week, homegrown American terrorists are likely to attack some U.S. business or government target. For these terrorists, the bomb is a favorite weapon and was used 104 times in this country last year, according to a Conference Board analysis. About 65 per cent of these bombings were directed against business. DON'T MISS Gospel Artist Shirley Caesar in Concert at Corsicana High School Aditorium Sunday, 3 p.m.

August 21st Fortickets 872 4492 Sponsored by Taylor's Memorial Church of God and Christy Card of Thanks The family of Mrs. JL. (Laroe) Butler express their gratitude to the nurses and doctors who attended to her during her long and terminal illness at Memorial Hospital and to the many for their prayers, visits and gifts. Husband, Joe Lowell Butler Sister, Mrs, 0 rider Brothers, C. Hobart Brooks and Lloyd W.

Brooks NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE is hereby given to all persons that the City Commission will hold a Public Hearing on the 2nd day of August, 1977 at 2:00 p.m., in the City Commission Room, Corsicana Government Center, Corsicana, Texas, to consider the Budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1977, and ending September 30, 1978, and at said hearing all interested persons will be given opportunity to be heard. A copy of the proposed budget is on file in the City Secretary's Office and may be inspected during normal working hours. CR.Ballenger City Manager complamers Open 7 Days A Week 2j Come Enjoy Sunday It Pays To Advertise Dinner With Us CHOOSE FROM 3 MEATS 6 VEGETABLES BREAD INCLUDED $2.75 Open 6:00 A.M. For Breakfast $7 million for Wallace in 1976. His company, Richard A.

Viguerie Co. of Falls Church, is by far the largest and most effective in the field, accounting for about 70 per cent of all political direct mail. Viguerie reasoned that if people were interested enough to contribute to one conservative cause, they likely would care for another. People who gave to Wallace are now contributing to continue the causes he espoused, from anti gun control to anti busing. As people respond to the various mail appeals, their names are filed as future prospects.

Those who don't respond eventually are dropped or downgraded to reserve status. All the while new names are being sought. Lists are bought from other organizations, political campaigns or magazine subscription rolls, all carefully selected for mutual interest. By merging and upgrading the various lists he has han PIZZA WAREHOUSE WATCH FOR INSIDE DINING OR ORDERS TO GO PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF NEIGHBORHOOD REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION The Community Services Board of Directors has designated the following representative areas and it calling selection procedures to fill in the following designated representation areas and groups. 1.

Northwest Corsicana Area: west of highway 75 north of highway 31 inside of city limits zone. 2. Northeast Corsicana Area: east of north highway 75 north of highway 31, inside of city limits zone. 3. Southeast Corsicana Area: east of south 12th St.

south of highway 31 inside of city limits zone. 4. Southwest Corsicana Area: west of south 12th St. south of highway 31 inside of city limits zone. 5.

East Navarro Area: outside of Corsicana city limits zone north on I 45 to Chambers Creek and east of Chambers Creek; South of I 45 to Richland Creek and northeast of Richland Creek. Communities include: Rice, Chatfield, Roane, Powell, Elm Plat, Kerens. 6. Mexican American Hispanic Representative '(Selection procedures to be held in a meeting or by mail ballot. Eligibility for Candidacy 1.

reside within the designated areas or (a member of designated membership group, See H6 above). 2. over eighteen (18) years of age. 3. can not be related to any employee of the agency.

4. not served a full five (5) years term immediately prior to this election. Filing Deadline: All applications for candidacy are to be delivered to CSI Administrative Office, 200 S. 7th by 5 p.m., Friday, August 12, 1977. Candidacy applications are available at CSI, 200 S.

7th Corsicana. For information call 874 5697. Election will be held Friday, August 26, 1977 from Noon to 7 p.m. Eligible voters will be residents over eighteen (18) years of age who reside within the designated areas and who would qualify under CSA low income schedule guidelines. Polling places will be posted in local communities and publicized at least ten (10) days before election date.

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874 5542 874 4212 IM0GENE CURRY AOELLE COX NETTIE MAE BROWN 874 5714 EVANGELINE BYRN JANE MILLER SIDNEY MM I FR CALESTA PEARSON OPEN SUN. THRU. By DON McLEOD WASHINGTON (AP) In this dawning age of computer politics the voice that counts is the one that's heard, and that means turning out those cards and letters at the push of a button. The advanced state of computer art has given pressure groups formidable strength which sometimes has the tail wagging the dog on important policy questions, legislation and elections. This trend is causing alarm among some who fear the views of an organized minority being imposed on an unsuspecting majority on critical issues facing the country.

On the other hand, the new ability of individuals to have their voices heard effectively through computer targeting is moving millions of Americans into political activity. Behind this revolution is the computer and direct mail expert. Names, addresses, telephone numbers and other vital data can be stored and then retrieved selectively to command from just the right constituency the pressure to influence the right politician at just the right time. Campaigns can be financed for office or a crusade for a cause by identifying the people most likely to be sympathetic, sending them a form letter carefully drafted to raise their ire, fear or public spirit and getting checks from them by return mail. These computers file information on magnetic tape, call it up instantly and then write, address and mail letters.

They can do in a few hours a mailing job which would take a hundred clerks weeks to accomplish. The more sophisticated ones can target a lawmaker's district with precision, pinpointing his political supporters, his campaign workers and the sources of his campaign contributions. The computer expert trying to sway a vote in Congress can pick out the wavering swing votes and bombard them with sacks of mail from the voters back home. An outcry from the voters in his district can have more influence on a congressman than any lobbyist or organization, no matter how big or powerful. "The votes are taken here, but the real leverage on congressmen is back home," says one practitioner of the art.

Within about 16 hours of learning that a vote is upcoming up on a pet issue, a special interest group, working with computer experts, can call up the names of the right people to contact. And within 24 hours they can have letters in the mail to each name. The more active groups will follow the letters with phone calls to reinforce the appeal to write to a senator, a congressman or the White House. Such groups can have letters hitting the target's desk within 60 hours of the first alert, telegrams and mailgrams much sooner. This year, this very kind of pressure has been credited with killing or endangering legislation and nominations which had been considered fairly safe prior to the orchestrated opposition.

More than 500,000 pieces of mail were delivered to the White House opposing the common situs picketing bill, and at least as much was received on Capitol Hill, most of it generated in a direct mail campaign directed by Richard A. Vi guerie, the ranking master of computer politics. The most recent mail storm was over President Carter's proposal to make voter registration easier. The White House alone received some 50,000 pieces of mail against it, virtually all of it uniform post cards or petitions obviously originated by a computer drive. The vote which has given the White House and congressional leaders the most worry, however, was the narrow confirmation of Paul Warnke as chief U.S.

arms negotiator. The key vote which gave Warnke ambassadorial rank was 58 to 40. well below the two thirds Senate majority it will take to approve any treaty he brings back. As these examples illustrate, conservatives aroused and organized by the George Wallace and Ronald Reagan presidential campaigns have taken a big lead in computer politics. The innovator behind this is Viguerie, who raised more than THURS.

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Notice To All Veterans Answer to Previous Puzzle dled, Viguerie can mail effectively to a pool of 30 million people. He sends 100 million pieces of mail a year, and his success has spawned a host of imitators. The moderate to liberal side has nothing close to matching this massive mailing pool built by the conservatives, but setbacks suffered this year have prompted it to mobilize. The leading firm on this side of the fence is Graver, Mathews, Smith Co. of Arlington, headed by Roger Craver, one of the key people behind the remarkable growth of Common Cause, the self styled citizens' lobby.

Riding a crest of growing public discontent during the Vietnam Watergate era, Common Cause quickly developed a 250,000 membership and proved that moderates and liberals are as susceptible to mobilization as conservatives. George McGovern reinforced this view with the success of his direct mail fundraising in 1972, and the Craver firm raised $1.5 million for Morris Udall in 1976 on a shoestring and a computer. Building an effective list is critical to the process. It's difficult without the impetus of a presidential campaign or a Common Cause phenomenon to produce spontaneous subscription. The first step for the beginning group without a mailing list is to buy one, usually from a magazine with a readership believed to be in general sympathy with the group's aims.

"But in many cases the best lists are not available for rental," says Tom Mathews, another Common Cause veteran and one of Craver's partners. "It is not impossible to start with a rented list, "but it's hard and you've got to have a very hot issue." The problem is that most groups with lists like to use them to get better lists. So, they don't just sell them, they demand a name for name trade. A new group without names to trade has a hard time getting any. This is why firms like Vi guerie's and Craver's are so important.

With some lists of their own to deal with and the ability to broker marriages between others of mutual interest, they are the only avenue for the average group to break into the field. Much of Craver's business is to help build new groups and strengthen them to compete with the successful conservative groups. One of these is New Directions, a citizens group modeled on Common Cause but oriented toward foreign policy. The Warnke episode led officials at the White House and in the Senate to contact Craver about concocting an antidote before they were slapped down on a really critical issue. Senate pulsetakers estimate that a direct mail campaign switched five to 10 votes against Warnke, and they fear the same pressures could kill chances of curbing the arms race or settling the Panama Canal dispute.

Craver suggested beefing up New Directions, launched last fall to middling success, as a counter lobby. A mail campaign already has brought in 5, 000 members and is expected to reach 25,000 by the end of the year and 50,000 in 1978. Once a pressure group reaches the 50,000 to 75,000 range, it is strong enough to have an influence on government if properly handled. 0Tn UjY ISITI I IRI A DJ OR KV A El OiS BEG Ia "Si AS AJ TT BlO TJ be SHfw a A I 1 OlNlQ JL 0 UT QjOO.N JU JU. v.

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