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Newspaper
Destin Log
Location
Destin, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1983
Page
5
Readers propose trash cans and warning signs with fines in Corpus Christi, a $1,000 penalty enforcement, and a bottle bill as clean beach solutions. Respondents include Tammy Bowsher, Harry Collins, and Tom Stewart from OH TX LA.
U S Senator Lawton Chiles and Senator Sam Nunn push for a comprehensive crime control package in the Senate. The omnibus bill excludes the failed federal drug coordinator plan and notes pending habeas corpus reform approved separately.
Commentary outlines major elements including allowing federal courts to deny bail if release threatens the community, limiting parole credits, creating a sentencing commission, restricting insanity defenses, raising narcotics penalties, seizing crime proceeds, expanding money laundering controls, adding federal offenses for murder for hire and racketeering, beefing up child pornography and fraud laws, and donating surplus federal property for confinement facilities while anticipating Senate support in weeks ahead.
Karen MacGragan reflects on writing a Great American Novel drawn from a unconventional Florida childhood. She recalls eight years in a tin-roofed citrus grove with alligator lakes, hammocks of tropical flora, and hard chores under a blistering sun, shaping a vivid memory landscape.
A narrator recalls a rural life filled with shell collecting, olive and oyster shells, digging sand with a garden hose, learning to ride a bicycle in sand, and inventing curses. They describe a solitary routine, limeade making for guests, allergic reactions, a fall injury to their father, a woods fire, smudge pots at night, and lemon meringue pies from a Ponderosa lemon, wondering if a story exists within this memory.
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