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United Press International
,vill serve® SAN ANTONIO — Gov. Bill Cle-
her thaniments says education in Texas is not a
i too farlDemocrat vs. Republican issue, but
I probl(|hc and John White, national Demo-
ilson sai cratic chairman, have opposing
;)s to the views about the Department of Edu-
c been h (cation that are right in line with their
Respective parties.
. junior,pf Criticizing federal control of edu-
n’t thinkjeation, collective bargaining for
md yearlljteachers and the recently created
:ufif (trainlDepartment of Education, Clements
t really “generated enthusiastic response
acks alllfrom the 2,000 people attending
Monday s State School Administra-
ed of doctors and School Board Associations
nnores c* joint conference,
i McCki In what might be the closest thing
csthejuWyet to a Republican-Democrat de-
-s underrate, Clements, who is heading
GOP presidential candidate Ronald
:1 given ^Reagan’s state campaign, addressed
II “pan withe conference after a speech by
ing some White.
of “sitlT Polite silence marked White’s re
late with>marks, which included a reminder
that President Carter had created
onfidentlthe Department of Education, which
m will ' the Republican platform calls for eli-
in three mination of, to meet the needs of
^education in the country and he saw
0^09^0 need to eliminate the agency.
“I don’t think there is a single per-
n in this room who would disagree
lat we have to reverse this trend
■U i toward centralizing education deci-
^ons in Washington, and that the
jpser control is to home, the better
we can make education for all of our
children,” Clements said.
He also said he would veto any
legislation submitted to him propos
ing collective bargaining for the
state’s teachers.
White underscored the amount of
federal funding for education re
ceived by the state, which he said
began 15 years ago during a Demo
cratic administration.
“I know Texas received $677 mil
lion in federal funds for education
last year.” White said. “And with
that money comes some strings, I
know, and in some cases with more
strings than I like.”
White also said he approved of the
education of illegal aliens as long as
the federal government funded the
additional costs.
Clements later expressed dis
appointment he and White did not
conduct an actual debate of educa
tion issues. However, he declined a
Houston television station’s invita
tion for a debate with state leaders of
the Carter campaign.
Mike Casserly, news director of
KPRC-TV, said in a letter to Cle
ments his station would provide time
for the debate. The invitation was
handed to the governor following his
speech.
Clements rejected the invitation,
but added, “If President Carter will
come here, why, you can ask me and
I’ll be happy to debate him.”
Idaho still cranks calls
United Press International
EDGEMERE, Idaho (UPI) —
History cranks on in northern Ida
ho’s Hoodoo Valley — to the tune of
four short rings and one long.
Members of the Hoodoo Valley
Telephone Co. have not gathered
formally for more than a decade.
Nevertheless, the lines are open and
four families still use old handcrank-
ed phones to communicate with one
another.
It’s not easy keeping such an oper
ation going in this modern world,
though.
“People steal the phone insulators
off the poles because they’re anti
ques,” says LaVelle Gomick, secret
ary of the telephone cooperative for
more than 25 years. “We had to get
the sheriff to get them to stop.”
And the three dry-cell batteries
each phone needs to operate are be
coming difficult to obtain, she says.
The phone lines also are in poor
shape, mostly because fewer people
have had to do more work to keep the
system operating, since membership
in the cooperative has declined.
At its peak more than 20 years ago,
the cooperative served 27 families in
the Idaho Panhandle valley, about
three dozen miles northeast of Spo
kane, Wash.
But it was in the late 1950s that
modem technology doomed the ven
ture, Gornick says. A major tele
phone company updated its equip
ment and would not allow the
Hoodoo cooperative to hook in, she
says.
“They cut us off,” Gornick said ab
out General Telephone Co. “We
even went into some legal hassle
over that.”
The cooperative was first orga
nized with nine members in 1915.
The central switchboard was at the
general store at Clagstone. The total
initial capital expenditure was
$413.06.
phone and was responsible for its re
pair. Members also were expected to
maintain lines running across their
property.
The telephone system bound
together the community of Edge-
mere in more ways than one. In case
of a fire or other emergency, five
short rings would summon all mem
bers to an early-day conference call.
Each member owned his own
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