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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1986
Page
4
Tom Nickell leads the Freedom Newspaper in its mission to improve the Permian Basin community. The editor reflects on local struggles and progress while urging residents to engage in civic efforts and support quality journalism.
The piece argues U S non military aid exceeds 146 billion since 1946 with 10 billion in 1985 alone. Cato Institute analyst James Bovard criticizes Food for Peace as fostering famine, depressing local farming, and subsidizing cronies. It cites aid to Egypt and Israel and inflationary effects abroad. It urges leaving foreign citizens alone.
The piece reflects on aging in America, urging tender care for elders and highlighting the shifting duties on families. It discusses varied elder experiences from frailty to mental decline, and notes society’s unpreparedness to manage long lives and changing roles as demographers and sociologists flag the aging trend.
In a San Antonio perspective, Harlan argues aging is a state of mind not fate, urging acceptance of growing older as natural. He warns against overemphasizing elder abuse programs, calling for personal responsibility and societal shift in attitudes, with aging as part of life. He notes his own background as a Texas lawyer educator and columnist.
Rooney surveys comic tastes from Carson and Rivers to Chaplin, Burns and more, weighing longevity and personality. He recalls writing for Bill Cosby, notes eras of standouts like Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, and Danny Kaye while pondering why certain talents endure or fade.
Today in Texas History on this date in 1822 Stephen Austin wrote to Mexican authorities proposing that more settlers be admitted to his settlement. He also urged that Indian trade be made a monopoly for a chartered company.
Federal lawmakers including Rep Larry Combest Rep Ronald Coleman Sen Lloyd Bentsen and Sen Phil Gramm are listed with office addresses in Washington D C. State officials Rep Larry Don Shaw Rep Kelly Godwin Rep Tom Craddick Sen John Montford Sen Bill Sims Gov Mark White are shown with Austin and Lubbock mailing addresses. The roster covers key Texas political figures and their contact points.
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