El Toro, Cont’d
Our county has grown to such an extent that John Wayne Airport cannot accommodate the air traffic needed. Consequently, passenger and commercial revenue and jobs are lost by our county.
El Toro and its surrounding no-home buffer zone contains 18,450 acres. The base already has four good runways in place, approved by the FAA, and plenty of room for service buildings, parking and expansion. It seems wise, also, for El Toro to be maintained as an airport in any event, in the case of U.S. military involvement.
George and Ruth Brinck
Costa Mesa
Forget Memorials,
How About Pay?
As one of those veterans who went to war to make the world safe, etc., etc., I have a suggestion for all the do-gooders trying to build more shrines and memorials. Just give us the money we lost,that would be the difference in what we would have earned had we been able to stay home and what the government paid us for our services. To many of us today, that would be greatly appreciated.
History has been so bastardized by liberals and socialists that it isn’t even being taught any more in the public schools. We who offered to lay down our lives on a daily basis never thought we would see the likes of what parades today for truth in this country. We never thought we would see the kind of trash in the White House we have today. From Bill to Hillary to Reno, they resemble the absolute worst of anything a veteran could conjure up in his mind on the worst night in combat.
Frank Callaghan
Infantry Sergeant
Korean War
and publisher (of course!)
Yorba Linda
Baseball Green
On May 14 we projected the 1999 Major League baseball standings based exclusively on each team’s opening-day payroll. The premise was that a team’s ability to field a winner is based substantially on a team’s ability to pay top dollar for players. Now that the season is over, we thought it would be interesting to review our initial predictions and see how the original premise held up.
Overall, the original premise is compelling. It should come as no surprise that the team with baseball’s highest payroll, the New York Yankees, repeated as World Series champion. Four of the top five payroll teams in the American League made the playoffs and three of the top four in the National League played in the post-season.
Paul J. Much
Jeffery S. Phillips
Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
Chicago
Editor’s note: The Angels and Dodgers were among baseball’s worst six teams based on the HLH & Z; method. The Angels’ payroll should have translated into 83 wins; instead, they won only 70. The Dodgers were projected for 97 wins (second only to the Yankees), but they only won 77.
