The Ingleside Index (Ingleside, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1992 Page: 2 of 12
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Richards on education: "The ox
By Lyndell Williams
Texas Press Assn.
AUSTIN — “Our ox is in the
ditch,” Gov. Ann Richards is fond
of' saying, as she did last week
while blasting President George
Bush’s proposals to improve the
national economy.
In Texas, public education’s ox
is in the ditch:
• Texas property taxpayers
are paying millions in new reform
taxes which the Texas Supreme
Court ruled :s illegal, but must be
paid anyway.
• More than half of Texas
high school seniors have failed
the basic* skills performance
exam.
• Japanese leaders accuse us
of having a 30 percent illiteracy
rate.
Undeniably, Texas education
is in a ditch, despite billions in tax
dollars jacked up by the Legisla-
ture since former Gov. Mark
White began the reforms in 1984
Last week, state leaders sig-
naled they are well aware that
voters have taxes and education
on their minds.
Retreats from Threat
Gov. Richards and other leg-
islative leaders backed down on
their threat to let the justices
write a new school finance law.
Richards, Senate education
chairman Carl Parker and others
tried to pressure the High Court
into accepting their latest try at
straightening out the mess.
The court didn’t fall for it; it
ruled the Legislature’s plan to pay
for education was unconstitu-
tional. Try again.
Last week, Richards and Lt.
Gov. Bob Bullock echoed the
need for Texans to stamp their
approval on any legislative plan.
It’s the only way to get the con-
troversy out of the courts, their
aides say.
Richards said it is very likely
she will call the Legislature into
special session instead of waiting
until the next regular esseion in
January 1993.
Another Committee?
“Were going to take our time,
so that when we do it, we try to get
it right,” Richards said, explain-
ing why no date has been set.
“I’m saying you’ve got to come
up with a proposal that not only
passes the Legislature but will
pass the voters of Texas,” she
said. “And that’s not easy."
Richards said she will probably
appoint another blue-ribbon task
force, such as one recommended
by the NAACP and LULAC.
Governor Boosts Pact
National and state issues are
harder to separate these days
The governor was in Washington,
D.C. last week boosting her pet
issue, the free trade pact with
Mexico.
Richards said she was looking
for a Congressman with enough
bravery to author a “social pact
with Mexico” as well, which was
badly needed, in her opinion.
She cited job training as one
social issue for the pact.
The President proposed to
spend £210 million to address en-
vironmental problems, with Mex-
ico committed to spending £500
million.
Later, following a meeting be-
tween governors and Bush, she
criticized the Bush administra-
tion for not laying “down any play
whatsoever” for an economy that
“was in terrible straits.”
The governor admitted,
however, that his proposed
national budget was “very good
for Texas.”
AG Wants Drug .Money
Attorney General Dan Morales
is attempting to secure drug
assets, possibly totaling more
than £750,(XX), that were seized
by Midland County’s sheriff out-
side of the county lines.
The attorney general’s office
said the state could demand the
assets seized by Midland County
Sheriff Gary Painter.
Morales intervened in a lawsuit
that Midland County Judge
Charles Seltzer filed against Pain-
terclaiming that 90 percent of the
money seized in stings since 1988
came from outside Midland
County.
Capital Highlights
is in the ditch"
Justice Quits One Post
Texas Supreme Court Justice
John Cornyn, elected as a Repub-
lican last year, settled the con-
troversy over his holding two
judicial posts by quitting one.
Cornyn caught repeated flack
from Democrats for also presid-
ing over the 4th Administrative
Region, which includes courts in
22 South Texas counties.
Appointed to that post in 1989
by then-Gov. Bill Clements, he
vacated it last week, opening it for
a minority appointment by Gov.
Richards.
Regulation Cost Cut
The Public Utility Commission
voted to lower the assessment
paid by consumers on their utility
bills that goes toward covering
the cost of utility regulation.
“The actual decrease for utility
rate payers will be approximately
£40 million,” Commissioner
Marta Greytok.
The assessment is levied on
telephone and electric cus-
tomers. ,
Other Highlights
• State Rep. Paul Hilbert, R-
Spring, was charged with public
intoxication after officers found
him unconscious in his car along
a Harris County tollway. His
attorney, Fred Freed, said Hilbert
had been suffering the effects of
flu and medication when he was
arrested.
• The federal probe into the
plane crash which killed former
U.S. Sen. John Tower apparently
was caused by the failure of hyd-
raulic gear in the propeller con-
trol system.
• The State Board of Insur-
ance agreed to a four percent in-
crease in rates for drivers forced
to obtain liability coverage from
the insurer of last resort, the
Texas Automobile Insurance
Plan.
Care About
ean
...because when you can’t
breathe, nothing else
matters.
AMERICAN i LUNG ASSOCIATION*
Letters to the editor
IngleSide-on-the-Bay doing fine
Editor:
I am often asked how our newly
formed community was getting
along. Like most small towns we
are broke* have our own village
idiot, and a small group against
everything constructive.
On the bright side, the mayor,
the aldermen, and marshal are
doing a great job. “So much with
so little”, aptly applies. Their jobs
are greatly enhanced by the sup-
port of the “By-the-Bay Citizens
Association”, a group of positive
thinking residents, and a fine
gentleman providing legal assist-
ance.
The extended help from Sena-
tor Carlos Truan, Representative
Robert Earley, the Texas Fores
Service, the Cities of Portland,
Refugio, Bayside, Fulton, John
Clary, and Naval Station Ing-
leside has been heart warming.
The technical assistance and
the material provided by some of
our surrounding neighbors as
well as some of the petrochemical
industries, has elevated our fire
department to a much higher
level.
We have a long way to go, but
thanks for asking, we are doing
fine!
John Hennigan
Ingleside-on-the-Bay
Six cities finish in the money
By Juliet K. Wenger
Coastal Bend Council
of Governments
HUD funds totalling
£1,769,600, distributed through
Community Development Block
Grants, will improve water and
sewer systems and deteriorated
housing in the Coastal Bend in the
coming year.
The Texas Department of
Commerce notified the Council
of Governments of six winners
who received the full amount of
grants requested and a seventh
who can be partially funded.
’ State scores changed the
priorities given by a Regional Re-
view Committee appointed by
the governor. State scores elimin-
ated Woodsboro which had been
: a winning applicant in the region-
al scoring, moved San Diego into
the winner’s circle, and gave Duv-
al County partial instead of full
. funding.
At the top of the final list of
winners were Falfurrias and
Mathis, two cities with a high per-
centage of low income residents
who are successful nearly every
year in competing for HUD funds.
Falfurrias, which had been
fourth in regional, was number
one in the final ranking. They will
receive £248,700 to put water,
sewer and gas systems into a low
income subdivision west of town
which has no utilities, other than
electricity.
Mathis held the number two
position in regional and state.
They will receive £300,000 to im-
seventh to titth position. It will
receive £300,000 for home re-
pairs to correct health and fire
hazards.
Bishop stayed in the money,
although dropping from fifth to
prove its water system which is
called inadequate and created
health and fire hazards.
Number three is Three Rivers,
which had been number one re-
gionally. It will receive £300,000
to put in a sewage system in an
area where septic tanks are pol-
luting a reservoir.
San Patricio County came in
fourth where they had been out of
the money at number eight. It will
receive £300,000 to put a sewer
collection system in Rancho Chi-
co, a subdivision where septic
tanks are overflowing into drain-
age ditches and creating a health
hazard.
San Diego moved up from
sixth position, it will receive
£220,900 for sewer system im-
provements where deterioration
is a health hazard.
Duval County, which would
have received £300,000 in its
sixth position in regional, now
may receive £100,000 in seventh
position. This may will pay for
deteriorating housing in the
Riolitas and Concepcion areas.
Twelve other aplicants failed to
score. They are, in ordoer of
priority which they received in
final ranking, George West,
Woodsboro, Ingleside, Rob-
stown, Freer, Austwell, Orange
Grove, Refugio, Brooks County,
Gregory, Alice and Benavides.
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State of the region
Texans Respond
Io Illiteracy
“One third of the adults in
Texas today lack the reading
and writing skills to function
in our society.
As illiteracy deprives them of
better, more productive lives,
it deprives us all of their con-
tribution to our communities
and to our state.
We must overcome the crisis
of illiteracy in Texas to im-
prove the lives of all Texans.”
—Henry Cisneros
Literacy Volunteers of America-Texas Responds to Illiteracy
To address the growing crisis of illiteracy in Texas today.
Literacy Volunteers of America has established a state
office in Austin, and LVA-Texas’ staff and volunteers are
working hard to improve reading, writing, and English
speaking skills throughout the Lone Star State.
These efforts are important, but they are not enough.
Texas needs your Kelp.
You Can Respond To Illiteracy io Texas
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more literate Texas. To find out how you can help, call
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Call now. Our future depends on it.
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