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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1981
Page
8
In Our Opinion the President defends selling 8.5 billion dollars in air defense gear to Saudi Arabia. He argues protecting Saudi oil is vital to the industrial West and warns against letting Saudi Arabia fall to insurgents while noting past U.S. reliance on Iran under the shah.
Questioned is how much of the Carter era vow to safeguard Persian Gulf stability and Saudi Arabian oil the United States can enforce independently. The piece weighs military, economic, and diplomatic limits facing U S actions in the region.
The piece traces U S debt from Hamilton to modern times, noting a trillion ceiling, World Wars costs, Johnson era inflation, and a shift to printing press money for Vietnam and the Great Society. It argues most debt is internal, but foreign holdings pose risk, and urges action on spending cuts tied to Reagan era debates.
The piece mocks a Republican controlled Senate embracing larger living expense tax breaks as President Reagan prepared a speech on personal sacrifice. It laments Washington's inertia and arrogance while sparing no one, from political leaders to pork barrel politics.
Liberal mayoral candidate Debbie Pillsbury advocates consolidating city and county services to curb duplication. She cites past county takeovers of welfare and health departments and a county wide sales tax as steps toward merging consumer affairs parks courts and police as funding shrinks from federal and state grants.
Park for Camillus Onondaga County will fund upkeep through fiscal 1982 but proposed improvements costing 265000 have been shelved. The park serves neighborhood residents with a pool as its main attraction for informal recreation and family picnics. The town wants the park and the county is prepared to sell it for $1.
Members of the Adirondack Mountain Club's Onondaga Chapter carved and cleared a 32 mile trail link in the Finger Lakes system. They funded and built the path for campers hikers skiers and snowshoers. The trail was dedicated by surveyor Charles Embree state forester Frank Bulsiewicz and chapter president Judy Trimble at Chippewa Falls Cortland County.
Norma Boyle of Syracuse appeals for traffic light control on the Fish Avenue side of Valley Drive to protect schoolchildren at Van Duyn Elementary. She cites missing crossing signs and a broken button, risking accidents and “Russian roulette” crossings after school, urging driver and parent cooperation and urgent action. The letter highlights PCB wastes risks in a separate environmental note by Stuart Raleigh of NYPIRG and recalls nursing care insights from a volunteer anecdote, followed by praise for the Highland Forest Trail Races and sponsor acknowledgments.
In reply to Mrs Earl Stone, ED Coningsby of Skaneateles confirms a single sunflower in their garden measured 19 inches in diameter or 57 inches in circumference. He notes his plant matches the inquiry about large sunflowers.
A reader lambastes critics of President Reagan over fiscal policy and social programs. The writer argues Hoover and Truman were steadier, claims relief programs are abused, and defends Reagan's push to weed out unworthy beneficiaries. The letter notes the author is over 70 and relies on Social Security.
The driver of TLC Van 23 stopped to help a woman who fell on the curb on Salina Street. He carried her to his van placed her in a seat and comforted her until she felt better. The note thanks the driver for his kindness.
The discovery of barrels containing toxic chemical wastes at the former Brown Manufacturing Co. highlights the failure of current disposal methods. Many industries choose easy but dangerous routes to shed poisonous by products, dumping them on unsuspecting citizens.
In a pointed display of his waste crusade the senator from Wisconsin William Proxmire filibustered at a cost to taxpayers of sixty four thousand dollars. The piece urges the senator to practice what he preaches or close up shop. Ronald Kelley
Assemblyman Michael J. Bragman urges voters in the 118th District to approve the Secure Correctional Facilities Bond Issue. The plan allocates 350 million to the Department of Correctional Services to add 4,078 beds via three new 512 bed facilities and renovations for 2,542 spaces, with 125 million statewide for local corrections and Onondaga County projects. It notes overcrowding, probation funding gains, and alternative sentencing measures while stressing the need for both prison space and nonincarceration programs.
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