Theater memories still play on mind's screen
JERRY AULDS
      The jangling telephone snapped me out of my reverie and ruined my concentration. When I got my act together and located the phone, the voice on the other end first messed up, then later made, my day and this column. "I enjoyed your story on the old Normana Theatre on Saturday," Carl Sanders rumbl...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
      Recognize children's needs Editor, the Leader-News: Young children of the El Campo community deserve the best that we can give them. Week of the Young Child, held April 13- 19, is a time to recognize the needs of young children and thank the adults involved in their education and care.
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CAPITOL COMMENTS
Effort under way to lighten burden for Texas taxpayers
SEN. KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
      Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once observed that "Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay." Today's tax burden on American families is too high. Yet many in Congress are trying to take even more money out of t...
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      This Week's Poll Question: Will recent airline flight cancellations affect your upcoming travel plans? Look to Saturday's Viewpoint page for results of this online poll.
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