LETTER TO THfc EDITOR
Answer To Corruption
Is Not Shorter Terms
lb the editor:
Why c.ut Israel's Shamir wax in
dignant when the united States
wants simply to postpone guaran
teeing the loan to his government ol
Millions and billions and billions ol
lollars? Because lie thinks the U..Y
Israeli lobby has our Congress in
nis pocket, that's why. Because it
costs congrcssjieople jiioiinous
sums to get leelected so ihey need
to accept enormous election contri
buttons Ironi many lobbyists.
Why will large numbers ol am
grcsspcople vote for the B J.
(Stealth) bomber when n is absurdly
expensive, no longci needed, and
doesn't work? Because the North
a) p company which makes it, for
ihe 1990 elcciion gave lust the U S
^naiors campaign conu ibutions to
tailing SI 23,550! Big supporters got
over S6,(KK) each for just this one
useless weapon. That's .vhy the
U.S. Senate voted to spend S27 nil
lion more on the B2. I he senators
needed to accept the money because
gelling elected costs such huge
?>ums.
Why may our Alaskan wilderness
risk rape and our unspoiled North
Carolina beaches nsk iuin Irom oil
and gas drilling? Because a power
ful oil and gas lobby gives large
campaign coninbuUons, which 1011
grcsspeople need to lake
Why is ihe cilif.cn who cares
about the ecology at the mercy ol
auto lobbies ihai light controls on
lais, power lobbies thai lighi .olar
and wind and wave power, develop
eis who light wetlands protection,
liuiibennen and cailli men lobbies
who appropriate oui public land7
And on and tin, lobby alter lobby.
Hie answer to congressional cor
ruption is not shorter tenns- those
an. a Republican plot to try to lake
over eoiiuol ol t. ongicss. Hie many
talented experts we have in
v ongrcss .ue valuable, needed.
What we should demand is election
reform, the umc and money spent
on electioneering to Ik severely
minted. I .ci KAl money be lorbid
dcn. i .el UK public, perhaps togeth
er with the TV stations, pay for a
reasonable amount ol TV speech
inaking by candidates only. No
Willie Horion-lype ads. Let the con
gresspeople be relieved of now nec
essary, incvssant, degrading, cor
rupting money-raising. The taxpay
er will be saved tens it not hundreds
of billions ol dollars ol wrunglul
lobbyist-directed spending.
t)ui /lh District Representauve
Charlie Rose is chairman of the
House Committee on House
Administration, which will be deal
ing with upcoming election reform
bills. That puts readers ol this
newspaper in a key position to al
Icei this initially important issue.
Belly Stone
Wilmington
Energy Funds Available
Some Brunswick County families
will receive help .vnh their heating
bills this winter.
ITic N.C. Department ol Human
Resources Division ol Social
Services will onlinut it\ low in
.uiiie energy assistance (>iograni tor
needy families m 1992
\ one-time payment to house
holds that qualify aiII tx made
February, according to a news re
lease from the Brunswick (..imnty
Department ol Social Sei vices. No
county funds are involved m the en
ergy payments.
Persons that receive food stamps
m October will receive an applica
uon in the mail and do not need to
report to the DSS office in Bolivia.
Othei households that cannot ap
plv by mail must do so at the DSS
ollice heiwecn < >ci 1 4 and Nov >()
bitterly persons or the handicap|x-d
< hi send someone to apply or m?iy
.hi tne DSS office for assistance
For more information, call
Brunswick County DSS, 2>3-439l,
or Caie-Line, I <<00-662- 7030,
which is also a number for the hear
ing impaired.
Seedlings Offered Foi Reforestation
Application loi ins arc being of
ic red foi forest Un codlings by the
Brunswick County olhc. oi Me
Division of Forest Kesuun.es .md
the Cooperative Extension. tccuul
ing to County Extension Uirectoi
Milton Coleman in a recent news
release.
Coleman -.aid tandow nets are be
ginning to realize the value ol
prompt reforestation with good
slock auU are using the seedlings loi
erosion control and windbreaks as
well. He is expecting high demand
to cause certain species, especially
the genetically inipioved lots, to sell
out quickly.
Species available include these
softwood species: loblolly pine
(piedmont), loblolly pine (coastal),
loblolly aine (improved piedmont),
loblolly pine (unproved coastal),
longleal pine, longleal pine (im
proved) diortleal pine (improved),
Virginia pine (improved), wnite
pine (two yeais old) and red cedai
Hardwood species offered are
black walnut, black locust, sweci
guni (improved) and yellow poplar
Coleman recommends that peo
pie with questions about the pro^i
>pecies to plant, planting instiuc
lion n and methods of sue prepara
tion contact die county rangci or
county forester, or call the Co
operative Extension Service it }S.\
4423.
seedlings are allocated in the or
dci applications are received, so
< olcinan suggests that buyers order
a* \ooil as possible. Applications
must be received no later than lour
weeks prior to shipment date Full
payment by check or money order
must accompany the completed ap
plication and both must be mailed
to the Director of the Division ol
Foicst Resources, PO. Box 2/b/H,
Raleigh. N.C. 27611 Complete re
funds aic given for orders canceled
pnoi 10 Jan. .H), although no cancel
lations arc honored after that date.
Please Re-Elect
K> -S>W
Jody Simmons
Alderman
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Shallotte - Nov. 5
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Some Deficits
Worth Noting
liV BILL fAVKK
For the last scveial years wc have heard a great deal about econoinn
deficits how our government continues to spend tar more than n takes in
and how this adds to the national debt. There are deficits of other kinds
tvhich may in the end prove to be lai more alarming than the one in
volved with economics.
Some ot the ecological delictus are the ones now shaping our future
lile on this planet. For example, we burn or cut more trees worldwide
than we plant and in 1990 this amounted to a 42-million-acrc deficit. Hie
drea deforested this decade will exceed the total cropland of the United
States il the present rate continues.
Another deficit has to do with farming and erosion. Soil erosion far
exceeds the natural formation of soil and the deficit is estimated to Ik: 24
billion tons ol topsoil each year.
Water deficits are another area ol concern since many countries are
now tunning water deficits. We are pumping out underground water faster
than it is being recharged. About 21 percent of U.S. cropland is irrigated
using this source and it is contributing to the water deficit. Water tables
are falling in many parts ol the world, particularly hi India and north
China.
ITie loss of plant and animal species is another major deficit area, i he
destruction ol rain forests and other major areas ol habitat contribute to
this irreversible dclicit. Ibe list of threatened and endangered species
grows steadily in this country. In Australia some IS species ol mammals
have been lost and more are listed as endangered. In the Aial Sea, 20 ol
the 24 commercially important fish have been lost since 1960. Some
species, like our Carolina Parakeet and our Passenger Pigeon, are gone
torever. Others can be saved with considerable ume and commitment to
doing so. Each time one species of plants or animals is lost we lose some
ol the variety and diversity of life on our planet and wc contribute io that
deficit.
So. without minimizing the importance ol our concerns about our eco
nomic deficits, we need to raise our consciousness and our concerns
about the very real environmental delicits confronting us. If we fail to do
so, wc may soon find ours lives far worse off than we would ever be from
the economic deficits lacing us.
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