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<br />Hhats. on how
<br />±Ao snuff habit
<br />j�`Since a great deal of pressure is
<br />ifing put on the general smoking
<br />', public to quit.: lighting up, I
<br />1 thought . I ought to pass along_
<br />` { ,some helpful hints, on how to stop.
<br />a I JSo let me light up this cigarette
<br />.hefts so, we can get started. .
<br />I'm an expert on the subject of
<br />quitting smoking,because I've
<br />"been asking the magic question
<br />"Got any matches?" since I was
<br />i about 13 years old. All the troubl
<br />,;began when a bunch of .
<br />friends and I marched into he .
<br />i IGA grocery store up in 0 ono,
<br />1 Maine, with a handful of ange
<br />and bought a p k of
<br />t Parliaments.
<br />'Then-- we smoked the whole
<br />pack in about an hour and turned
<br />{ ourselves green. I've been smok-
<br />I ing ever since. Still, these days I
<br />r+ ,Am more beige than green.,
<br />As I said, I'm pretty knowledge-
<br />' able about quitting smoking. I've -
<br />quit several thousand times for an .
<br />hour or more. I quit when I went
<br />Into Army basic training and
<br />managed to stay quit.for,about a;
<br />i, dozen weeks. '
<br />Then the Pueblo crisis came
<br />along, and there was talk' about
<br />i ;calling up. the reserves and send-
<br />- =ing them to Korea. I was in the re-
<br />y --serves, so I started smoking
<br />again. The thought of enraged Ko-
<br />reans made me nervous.,.
<br />Probably the best way to quit
<br />smoking is to look around you and
<br />consider all the irritating know -It -
<br />who have quit smoking.,We
<br />are talking about . the reformed
<br />"'smoker, the one who smoked for
<br />W,25 years, -quit, and is now on a
<br />I� M 'mission sent, from above to .get
<br />a ` everybody else to follow suit.
<br />± �r Y"Tell ;yourself 'this: "If these'
<br />smarty -pants types can quit,.I can
<br />"'quit. And If I quit; I wont have to
<br />a w i.'; ` � 11sten to all this harping about
<br />'`stinky smoke ever again.
<br />"-;Fhink'about'this,'too. if you quit•
<br />i smoking, you, too, can become a
<br />i .'typical reformed,„smoker.''And
<br />you can turn around and give all
<br />the smokers a ration of garbage
<br />about their smelly smoke., And
<br />+ that's probably a lot of fun. .: a
<br />t Another thing to think about is.
<br />+ j that there are a lot of people no.
<br />` better, or worse, than yourself,-'
<br />r who have quit. Even Fidel Castro
<br />". has quit smoking cigars. And if a
<br />guy who once got thrown out of a
<br />{ New York hotel for plucking
<br />',.'chickens in his room can,. stop
<br />r smoking, it shouldn't be so diffi-
<br />cult for you, should it? Besides,
<br />anything a lousy coinmie can do,
<br />' you can do. Get after it. Be a good
<br />' Murcun.
<br />AnnfhPr wqv In ntiit ,mnkirw is
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<br />American -Statesman Staff : ail
<br />.•A stateft ce group has recom-
<br />mended tflTc Austin State' Hospital ... a�
<br />hire a uniformed security force of ; A
<br />10 to 15 guards, close most of 'its ": nl
<br />gates, .and cut down the lush rose r et
<br />bushes that surround the 188 acre- r:al
<br />mental hospital. —
<br />The Texas Capitol Police said the A
<br />security measures: would reduce r q
<br />crime and injuries at the mental i
<br />hospital, which houses about 700 lu p
<br />venile and adult mental patients. st
<br />-'The Capitol Police study of secu- e
<br />rity problems at the mental hospital
<br />was prompted, by ;American-
<br />Satesman.,reports:-Qf sexual_at-- e
<br />cks on female patients by -51
<br />outsiders earlier this year. The p
<br />study was conducted in November
<br />cit-ays
<br />�425000 `�
<br />oJver z®nnJLg
<br />By Robert Cullick
<br />American -Statesman staff
<br />The city has paid $925,000 to a .
<br />family that owns land in East Austin
<br />;because of a 1980 zoning decision
<br />that the landowners said destroyed
<br />'the value of the property..•
<br />City Attorney Paul Isham said the
<br />city paid the James Ehrlich family
<br />from the claims, account of the Le-
<br />gal Department:' ;1 :a
<br />The action ends several years of
<br />-court cases that went last fall to the
<br />'-Texas Supreme Court,,which ruled
<br />•-against the city: • "
<br />The. issue arose because the City
<br />Council, during the tenure :of for
<br />;;mer ;,;Mayor Carole Keeton ' Ry
<br />.slander; rezoned -an 8.6-acre tract
<br />;between `,East', Second ` and East
<br />, Fourth *streets` from,an industrial
<br />!!category t0 residential•. against ,the•- •-
<br />!wishes of .the;EhTlich�family jl;f
<br />,, --, The family' sued,- saying the; re
<br />zoning reduced the .value of the
<br />�projerty, to. $25,QQO...4Ad• thaLb -
<br />cause there was no market for rest-;
<br />dential development in East Austin,' i
<br />the land.could,no4,be.developed.,
<br />Judge Hume. Cofer ordered -the.
<br />city to pay the difference between
<br />the value of the -property as Indus- :1
<br />trial land and the. ,$25,000 value. {
<br />The land still belongs to the Ehrlich
<br />family.
<br />Isham said that once the decision {
<br />.was final, the city considered pur-
<br />chasing the property. Isham said
<br />that the Ehrlich family's asking +
<br />price was based on its value as in- i
<br />dustrial property, even though the
<br />Ehrlichs claimed In court that the
<br />land was worth only $25,000. To use j
<br />the property for Industrial develop-
<br />ment, it must be rezoned by the
<br />city, which already- paid for the
<br />,;. ht to �nnP it fnr rPciriontirvi ncr'.
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