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Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, January 26, 1987
Advocate says walkin;
is best, safest exercise
Author promotes wellness ideas in lecture
By Susan Stubing
Reporter
“Fitness is a snapshot of a tempo
rary state. Wellness is a bigger pic
ture involving every aspect of life,”
Robert Sweetgall, America’s leading
advocate of walking for wellness,
told about 20 people Saturday dur
ing one of three “wellness week
ends” hosted by Texas A&M.
Formerly a DuPont Chemical en
gineer, Sweetgall quit his job in 1981
after a series of family deaths from
heart disease motivated him to begin
promoting health.
He now is a walking consultant
and author of three wellness books.
“It’s simple. It’s safe,” Sweetgall
said of walking. “It does the job by
producing a conditioning effect.”
Walking also is the only exercise
that anyone — regardless of age —
can do for the rest of his life, he said.
Walking at a fast pace can increase
one’s heart rate as quickly as jogging
and can burn as many calories,
Sweetgall said. The difference be
tween the two activities is that there
is less risk of injury in walking, he
said.
Sweetgall emphasizes walking for
wellness primarily to children, lec
turing on the physiology and psy
chology of walking; he has delivered
his message to over 140,000 school-
children.
"School systems today are a sad
story in America,” he said. "There is
too much emphasis on winning the
game.”
The majority of students are not
motivated to pursue an active life, he
said, and the elite athletes are
trained so intensely that they soon
get “burned out."
To impress students with;
portance of cardiovascular j
and lifestyle, Sweetgall bc^
First journey, an ll,000-i
walk’’ around the perimeter.
United States.
“I started to break dovtta
cally from running on ihi)|
Sweetgall said, “and I realtor
the one thing that saved me.
walking.”
In 1984 Sweetgall ventel
again, this time walking. Hsl
live was to walk through alll
in one year to emphasize ki|
the best source of exercise
Simple physical education pro
grams are declining, he said, with
many schools having less than 30
minutes a week devoted to exercise.
Sweetgall recommends students
exercise every day. He suggested us
ing homeroom periods and lunch
hours to provide activity for the stu
dents.
"1 like being alone,” Swkj
when asked if he ever gotkl
his trips. He said being al»
him tune to reflect, put::'
get her and enjoy nature.
“I just consider myselfvel
to see America as I havt
Sweet gall said. " Sometimeil
ing at 55 mph we missalou:;
Walking alniut four mphyoifj
it all."
Fort Worth gets more clout n
with 2 top political positia
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FORT WORTH (AP) — For the
First time in U.S. history, one city is
home to both the speaker of the U.S.
House and the statehouse, giving cit
izens in Fort Worth perhaps the
most political clout in the country.
“We’ve always been overshad
owed by Dallas,” said chamber of
commerce spokesman G.K. Mae-
nius. “But not any more.”
U.S. Rep. Jim Wright just suc
ceeded Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill as
Speaker of the House in Washing
ton, and state Rep. Gib Lewis was re
cently re-elected to the same post in
Austin.
Fort Worth Mayor Bob Bolen said
his stafFs research shows the twin
speakerships to be a First. The two
Democrats live in each other’s dis
trict, and their territories overlap to
include most of Fort Worth.
Lewis and Wright now wield au
thority to control committee and leg
islation assignments as well as politi
cal opinion. It’s the kind of power
that makes them prime targets of
people with special interests to press.
Although they represent a district
where the defense industry is key,
they say they won’t play pork-barrel
politics with their posts and are in
terested only in making sure their
hometown gets its fair share of state
and federal benefits.
But that doesn’t dim the glow
from city ofFicials delighted to have
such ready access to such influential
ears.
“This puts us close to the power
source and gives us input into the
political arena we wouldn’t have
otherwise,” Bolen said. “And it’s also
an issue of civic pride. They’re fam-
ily.”
The reporters who regularly dog
Wright and Lewis also can make a
difference to a city so bent on at
tracting new industry — especially
considering a recent Harris poll that
found that while local folks thought
a lot of their city, people outside Fort
Worth didn’t think about it much at
all.
“When somebody interviews Jim
Wright when he’s at home, it won’t
be Boston you see in the background
on national television,” Bolen said.
“It’ll be Fort Worth. And reporters
will be writing about us more. It will
mean more visibility now than ever.”
The limelight is nothing new for
the 64-year-old Wright, who was
First elected in 1954 to the 12th Dis
trict seat. His political savvy and lon
gevity helped him secure the post as
majority leader in 1976; since then,
he has been summoned regularly to
the White House and often speaks
for his party on national television.
Fort Worth has tended tc
Democratic than its Repuix;
neighbor to the east.
Lewis, who owns a label-making
Firm in Fort Worth, represents
Texas’ 89th District and won elec
tion to the speaker’s post in 1983.
While city officials hope Wright can
bring home a big chunk of federal
bacon, they’re relying on Lewis to
make sure the city holds its own in
Texas’ troubled economic times.
Yet while recent electio:
the power base is shifting sea
to the GOP, city officials frJ
parties say they think Lt-.|
Wright don’t need to worrf
being ousted from their sti '
pecially as long as they cod
speakers’ posts.
“I think they’ll lie thereasij
they want to be," Bolen said
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FORT WORTH (AP) — Sur
rounded by enough Firepower to
mount an assault on a small coun
try, the speaker of the Texas
House grinned when asked if he
thought of calling his new gun su
permarket “Gib’s Guns.”
Gib Lewis and three business
partners instead named the store
“Shooter’s Palace.” It seemed
right for a $2 million store that
includes every facet of guns, from
purchase to safety to repair to
practice shooting — and even to
stufFmg the bagged animals.
“It’s quite unique,” Lewis said
proudly while showing off the
emporium that opened quietly
last summer in a two-story ware
house building south of down
town Fort Worth.
“There’s not another quite like
it, to our knowledge, in the
world,” he said. “We have indoor
pistol and rifle ranges. We have
sporting goods, all type ammuni
tion, any type of pistol or rifle you
might want to buy. We have a
taxidermy studio. We book hunt
ing trips. Fishing trips, to go any
where in the world.”
Guns are Lewis’ favorite play
things. He has used them in all
parts of the world. He has hunted
in Alaska more often than most
folks have been to Houston, and
in the Soviet Union more times
than most politicians have gone
there to talk peace.
Many of the animals displayed
in this firearms equivalent of Nei-
man-Marcus were killed by Lewis.
But Lewis is a little t r° l
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about what he thinks has
media-created notion thaii
trigger-happy, macho kinds
who goes around .shoootini
cent animals. He was rti
even to pose with a riflefeB
might send the wrongmessii|
‘'This is a business co ?
Lewis said. “We’re heretos Pe<
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First-class, Cadillac opt'-,
where we have somethiogJ
to the people, as far ass 4
trolled environment. Wd
safety First, (teaching)peop-
to control and handle hand;-
Shooter’s Palace even
chain-operated, clanking £
ing gallery built in Bn>
N.Y. for use at Coney Isk
1927. For a buck, you car.
away with small-poweredi
the moving birds, bullseyes
and other beasts.
You also can shoot ontf
pet vised pistol range for!
per hour, and on theriflcsig
for $7.50 per half-hour.
“The main thing thatw
to stress is that we have fad I
for someone who purchase
tiai
of our pistols or one off
lies,” Lewis said. “We tead
how to use them safely.”
That includes classes forK
ing women how to use a pi®
There also is a compuif
shooting gallery where li"
force men t officers, se (1
guards and others can ft
reacting quickly to good-ga'
guy target situations.
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