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PAGE 2-B THE GATESVILLE MESSENGER, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 18S3 Editorials Counsel Comparison Tuition Tax Credit Concept Has Many Flaws so endanger the financial foundation of public education just as he and most Americans are calling for improvement of the public schools. In the face of all those arguments, the Supreme Court's latest ruling cannot justify enactment of tuition tax credits. share of federal education funds. The last point, is the most important. Tuition tax credits represent a serious, direct threat to the very concept of public schooling, which his been one of America's fundamental strengths.

Itjs ironic that Mr. Reagan would VI FORTUNE TELLER Dr. Max Archer, O.D. eye examinations contact lenses There are so many things wrong with the idea of tuition tax credits that the Supreme Court's shaky 5-4 decision upholding a similar concept as constitutional hardly justifies their enactment by Congress. The court's ruling in a case challenging a 26-year-old Minnesota law is not likely to settle the underlying issue, which has been argued before the high court 19 times in the last 35 years.

With just the right case and a bit more enlightenment on the part of a. single justice, the decision could easily go the other way. Even if it did prove constitutional, it would be bad public policy to force all taxpayers, regardless of their religious beliefs, if any, to subsidize the particular religious education of certain children. A large majority of the nation's private schools are church-related and promote a particular religious viewpoint. Diverting taxpayer funds into that purpose, albeit indirectly, through tax credits is unfair.

Consider other flaws in the concept: While easing the alleged burden of "double taiation" on private school parents who pay both tuition and public school taxes, the tax-credit plan would inpose a double burden on public school parents, many of whom are less affluent. They would, in a fashion, be subsidizing the private schooling of children whose parents shun public schools. The tax credits would illogically aid both rich and poor families of private school students, President Reagan has cut college student loans for affluent families, saying the federal government cannot afford to subsidize them. Why isn't the same line of reasoning valid for tuition tax credits? The tax-credit scheme backed by Mr. Reagan would either add billions to the federal deficit over the next few years or else rob public schooling of its rightful complete glasses prescription, services vTf2r For Appointment Call: 665-6201 The GAllEiiyL The Music PUce iN CatesvUIe Radio hoalt AUTHORIZED DEALER THY WOKD 15 7KUE FROM THE It BEGINNING SLUMO 107 Sout1i7 865-2059 A Mode Industry RECORds qWTER ACCESSORIES TURNTAblES trdti-r'r I'-'rYt tdiUli im Cowhouse Philosopher mmmmmmmmmittimmm Your Are Invited To He Has A Dream Eastwood Baptist Church 2518 Main Street A.

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Evening Worship 7:00 p.m. 'Serving The Lord With Gladness' lab. When it comes to ingenuity, Medical Plastics Laboratory is tops. It seems that nearly anything anybody could dream up, MPL has been able to make. Its products have won international recognition and acceptance.

It hasn't been easy. A mountain of trail-and-error has gone into developing the right plastic compounds, into searching out on-the-dot temperatures for molding, and into mapping and mastering intricate design, production and assembly details. Hand-in-hand with research-and-development has been continual refinement of the company's products. Medical Plastics is a happy, combination of imaginative management, inventive minds, and skilled workers not afraid to tackle exacting tasks. These attributes have enabled it to skirt the peaks and valleys experienced by many industries.

It's Gatesville's good fortune to have MPL. The amount of money it has piped into the local economy over the years runs into megabucks. Not only that, its achievements have added a lot of lustre to the town's name. Innovation. That's been the Medical Plastics Laboratory touchstone since it began pioneering the creation and manufacture of anatomical reproductions in plastic more than 30 years ago.

Beginning with a plastic skull and then a plastic skeleton, an endless series of medical and teaching aids has streamed from its assembly line. Its catalog lists hundreds of anatomical models, most of which contribute significantly to educational and experimental work in the health care and allied fields. In recent years emphasis has been on "patient simulators," such as Choking Charlie, a plastic mannequin used to practice dislodging food from the throats of choking victims, and Mr. Hurt, the model of a man's head with more than a half-dozen serious injuries. Another MPL brainchild, just being introduced, is a reproduction of a human knee which doctors can use to learn andor sharpen arthroscopic surgery techniques.

It was demons-strated at last week's Lions Club meeting by Charles Wise, company president, and Danny Smith, a artist who is director of research and development at the. Editor's note: The Cowhouse Philosopher on Us Johnson grass farm oat on Cowhouse Creek reports on an odd dream this week. Dear editor: I don't know if it was all the news I've been reading about arms control between the United States and Russia, like whether they could agree to reduce their nuclear weapons from enough to wipe out each other's population 10 times down to just 5 times, or if it was something I ate, but the other night I had a dream. I dreamed that way back in the early days before Columbus discovered PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to TEX. REV CIV STAT ANN art.

1446c S3(1975), Lone Star Gas Company hereby gives NOTICE of the Company intent to implement a new schedule of rates effective on the latter ot 'July 1, 1983 or such other date as new rates become effective in the City of Gatesvl lie be charged for natural gas service to ies-dential and commercial customers in ihe environs areas (outside incorporated limits of Ggtesville The rate schedule is expected to furnish a 5 53 increase in the Company gross revenues in the environs of Qatesvi lie Collectors To Meet Tuesday America two Indian tribes constantly suspicious of each other and always preparing to fight, decided to hold an arms reduction conference. They were spending so much time preparing to defend themselves they had no time to hunt. After arguing four months over what wigwam to hold the conference in, the chieftains finally got together in a neutral clearing. THE AGREEMENT finally hammered out, or as the smoke-signal network put it, tomahawked out, required each tribe to reduce by 30 percent its number of bows and arrows, mutiple arrowheads, rock clubs, spears and able-bodied warriors. The discharged warriors were to be put to work planting corn, to give full employment to tribeswomen pulling weeds.

The agreement was sealed by passing around a peace pipe. Each chieftain took a long puff. In those days there was no surgeon general to warn against it. Six months later scouts from one tribe reported the other tribe was hard at work doubling its supply of bows and arrows, multiple arrowheads, etc. CHALLENGED, the treaty-breaking tribe announced that it was ignoring the agreement because it was invalid the tobacco in the peace pipe had been adulterated with hackberry leaves, in clear violation of the Geneva Conference agreement painted on the walls of a cave just outside the city limits.

Who put the hackberry leaves in the tobacco is now being investigated by the Tribal Ethics Committee. A report is expected in two or three hundred moons. Yours faithfully, J. A. Weighing Options Members of the Coryell County Collectors Club are scheduled to meet 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday at Dyer Restaurant in Fort Gates. Club president Charles L. Treadway said a dutch-treat chicken fried steak dinner will follow the group's business meeting. A Statement of Intent has been hied with the Railroad Commission of Texas and is, available lor inspection at the Company business office located at a te 5 i 1 1 1 Any alfecled person desiring to contest such changes in rates can hie a complaint with the Director of the Gas Utilities Division Railroad Commission of Texas Dowei 12967. Capitol Station.

Austin Texas Jim Buth Gets Insurance Award 6 Lone Star Gas Company A U. S. Supreme Court ruling against the Reagan administration's nullification of a rule requiring automatic restraints in new cars may be a blessing in disguise in permitting a fresh examination of this time-worn safety controversy. The high court recentlyruled 9-0 that the administration acted illegally in October of 1981 in killing a Carter administration regulation requiring air bags or automatic (self-enclosing) seat belts in new cars beginning last year. The decision both reinstates the rule and gives the administration another opportunity to revoke it.

The court said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration failed to adequately justify WAVERLY, Iowa Jim R. Buth of Catesville, district agent for Lutheran Mutual Life Insurance has been awarded the 1983 national sales achievement award by the National Association of Life Underwriters. This is the second year Buth has earned the award, which is designed to recognize life underwriters who have excelled in their profession. Buth, an associate of the Eugene Zimmerman Agency of Austin, joined Lutheran Mutual Life in 1979. ii) mm CORYELL REVISITED The only legal execution ever performed in Coryell County was that of Jim Leeper and Ed Powell, convicted of murdering a cotton farmer.

The hanging took place Sept. 29, 1891, in Jhe yard of the county jail irj Gatesville scrapping the rule in 1981- 4 1963 Capbr Nm Smt The administration had canceled the automatic crash protec-. tion requirements to the cheers of Detroit on the grounds that they wouldn't add significantly to the use of passenger restraints and would male cars more expensive. Scotching of the insurance industry-supported rule was condemned by followers of Ralph Nader as an example of the administration's willingness to sacrifice Americans' health and safety on the altar of deregulation. But a case can be made against the required installation of air bags at a cost of up to $800 each.

They would be of little use in side or back-ended collisions, and highly expensive to reinstall after inflating in an accident. Automatic belts could be -detached or cut off by motorists. -Then Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis was derided for using this possibility as ammunition against the Carter rule, but it's hardly farfetched. Americans stubbornly resist being belted in their cars. Only about 15 percent of drivers voluntarily buckle up despite agreement that plain old seat belts, if used, would be about as good as anything that could replace them.

Which leads to another option: forgetting the automatic restraints rule and working for congressional passage of a law to make the wearing of existing seat belts mandatory everywhereV under the penalty of a harsh fine. We doubt that citizens would be any happier under such a crackdown than, say, paying for an airbag-equipped car. But and it's an important but all the options must be weighed against the tragedy of highway victims for whom difference. mm CUD Tomorrows Systems Available Today Qolden Qrain Corporation Your Local Daair Southwest Feed Systems Inc. P.

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