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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Tuesday, August 30, 1988
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Erosion threatens
gulf barge traffic
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) -
Within 10 years, the Gulf of Mex-
ico will break through a rapidly
eroding barrier island and clog
the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
with sand, officials said.
The waterway that serves as
an economic lifeline along the
Texas coast is threatened by the
vanishing Sargent Beach area
on a 10-mile long barrier island,
S?0 miles southwest of Freeport.
' “If you think the oil and gas
bust of a few years ago was bad
(on the Texas economy), wait
until the (waterway) is plugged
up at Sargent Beach, and there
is no barge traffic between
Galveston and Corpus Christi,”
said Ron Dansby, president of
the Texas Waterways Operators
Association.
It is eroding at the rate of 100
feet per year, due to natural
wave action and currents, said
commercial marine operators
and Texas A&M University
marine agents.
Since the arealias been reduc-
ed to a width of 600 feet, they
said the low-lying beach will
breach in six years.
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers estimated the Gulf
will break through the island in
10 years.
Texas’ $36 billion transporta-
tion industry on the waterway
generates 145,000 jobs in the
state, according to a Texas A&M
study.
Corporations would be faced
with finding alternatives to low-
cost barge transportation for the
shipping of millions of tons of
petrochemicals, fuel oils,
gasoline, ores, diesel fuel, grain,
sand and gravel, officials told
the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
The intracoastal waterway
stretches from Brownsville 426
miles east to the Sabine River at
the Louisiana border. It then ex-
tends another 874 miles along the
coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi
and Alabama, to St. Marks, Fla.
At Sargent Beach, the water-
way lies between the mainland
and the 600-foot-wide barrier
island threatened by erosion.
Marine extension agents will
study the situation at a public
workshop at 1:30 p.m. Wednes-
day at the Aransas County Cour-
thouse in Rockport.
The meeting “is designed to
clearly outline the problem
which the Texas Gulf Coast
faces and the options for resolv-
ing it before it becomes a crisis
of staggering proportions,” ac-
cording to the meeting notice.
In 1986, the most recent repor-
ting year, there were 72.9 million
tons of cargo shipped on the
Texas portion of the waterway
alone, said Ken Bonham, chief of
public affairs for the Corps of
Engineers in Galveston.
Growth in economy
expected to slow down
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Analysts agree that growth in
the U.S. economy is likely to
slow down in the months ahead,
but they disagree on whether it
will moderate enough to stave
off further interest rate in-
creases.
The Federal Reserve Board,
fearing that too-strong growth
will fuel a resurgence of infla-
tion, began pushing up short-
term interest rates in late
March. Its most dramatic move
came Aug. 9 when it boosted the
discount rate, its key bank len-
ding rate, by half a percentage
point.
Economists believe it takes six
months to nine, months before
the full effect of a Federal
Reserve action is felt, but they
haye been anxiously sifting
through each new set of govern-
ment statistics for an indication
of whether the Fed has tightened
enough.
More evidence of the
economy’s health was due Tues-
day with release of the govern-
ment’s Index of .^Leading
Economic Indicators for July.
The index, the government’s
chief economic forecasting
gauge, in June predicted robust
growth, climbing 1.4 percent for
the best gain in 18 months.
However, it had dropped sharply
in May following three con-
secutive increases from
February through April.
In advance of Tuesday’s
report, most analysts were look-
ing for a sharp 0.7 percent to 0.8
percent dip, perhaps indicating
a pause in the pace of economic
expansion.
That could be greeted as good
news by the stock and bond
markets, where inflation fears
have pushed prices down.
For several months following
the stock market crash last Oc-
tober, many economists believ-
ed the United States was heading
for a .recession. But the
economy, as measured by the
gross national product, proved
resilient, growing at an annual
rate of 3.4 percent in the first
three months of the year and 3.3
percent in the second quarter.
Michael Evans, a private
economic forecaster in
Washington, said GNP growth
likely will slow to an annual rate
of 2.5 percent in the second half,
closer to what the F’ederal
Reserve considers sustainable
without quickening inflation.
He said growth in U.S. exports
and increases in investment
spending by businesses likely
would slow.
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Students lack complex task skills
AUSTIN (AP) - As Texas
public schools have focused so
much attention on basic skills
during the 1980s, some students
are having trouble mastering
more complex tasks such as
problem-solving, analysis and
interpretation, new research in-
dicates.
Gilbert Garcia Jr., now an ad-
ministrator with the Southwest
school district in San Antonio,
found in a study that ninth-grade
students in only eight of 976
Texas school districts passed 70
percent or more of the higher-
achieving students whose scores
dropped when tested on high-
ordered thinking skills.
“If allowed to continue, this
trend may represent a serious
problem for the school district
and society. We’ll be graduating
mediocre students,” Ms.
Mangino said.
The eight districts that Garcia
found to be doing the bfest job of
teaching complex skills also em-
phasized the basics, which in-
clude activities such as adding
and subtracting, spelling and
punctuation, said Victoria
All are small-town or suburban
districts, except for Randolph,
located on Randolph AFB in San
Antonio.
Those districts additionally re-
quired plenty of reading and
writing and problem-solving ac-
tivities that made it necessary
for the students to reason artd ex-
press themselves logically,
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ordered thinking skills lesletLon^ Bergin, deputy commissioner
the Texas Assessment of Basic
Skills exam.
A similar study was conducted
by Evangelina Mangino of ninth-
grade students in the Austin In-
dependent School District. She
found that it was the high-
for curriculum at the Texas
Education Agency.
Those districts were Highland
Park, Humble, Irving, Plano,
Randolph Field, Richardson,
Carroll in Tarrant County, and
Midway in McLennan County.
START YOUR ENGINES !
HOUSTON RACEWAY Park near Baytown is an impressive sight bracket racing this past weekend. The Inaugural Fram Supema-
wlth its three-story tower looming over the FM Road 565 horizon, tlonals, a major event in this year’s 16-race, $15 million Winston
Gathered on the “starting island” at the track are owners Don drag racing series tour, will be held Oct. 6-9.
Gay Greg Angel, Glen Angel and Gary Angel, and official starter ' (Sun staff photo by Jim Kyle)
Barry Kaylor. The cars on the track were the first to run in - ■
Happy "21st” Janna
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 260, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 30, 1988, newspaper, August 30, 1988; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1052121/m1/13/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.