Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 152, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 9, 1985 Page: 4 of 11
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Port I iivaca nr, Tuesday, April 9, 1985
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card customers. This bill af-
—Give the state the right to
enter privately-owned land in
order to gain access to land-
locked state tracts to develop
minerals.
In The House
On a more positive note, the
House voted last week to:
ly from Mexico These have always
taken a good share of the market at
Texas Sen Phil Gramm may be
getting into a congressional battle he
can't win
Determined to help the Pentagon
save money. Gramm is pushing
closure of 21 military bases already
on a list prepared by other Senate
Republicans The question is how
much cooperation, if any, Gramm
and other GOP senators will get
from senators whose districts in-
clude military installations will not
lie answered until the opposition
jells
Not only will the proposed closure
be opposed by senators whose
districts have military bases, but by
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South Dakota
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arbitrary assumptions." she adds "To
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policy they have a hole card their
man can play whichever way looks
smartest in 1988 As one points out. if
Cuomo's liberal war paint proves
, inconveniently hard to remove, “He
his wallet's on the right." Aides point could come out and saY. Sure- I m Mb-
to various speeches and public papers ' J “* u
over the years in which Cuomo did
indeed take relatively conservative
The New Republic, reporter Fred political advisers think that in foreign
Barnes tells us that Cuomo now *' “ 1 ~ 1 “
aspires to be known simply as a "pro-
gressive pragmatist.”
In the words of one close Cuomo
associate. “His heart is on the left, but
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terns during the past 20 years
The result In the late 1950s. the
poverty threshold for a family of four
was 49 percent of the median income
for all families of that site During
the past decade, however, that figure <■
prohibited fishing in the 200 mile
zone it claimed, with the effect of
sending Brownsville shrimpers
north.
Now the costs of fuel, labor, boat
and insurance up. and a catch skim
py, imports caught with low-cost
labor and subsidized fuel have forc-
ed the price of shrimp down to a
level that may be below cost for
many.
Some of the problems have no
remedy, as in the insurance cost,
and possible solutions to others are
incompatible with both national
free-trade policies and the instincts
of fishermen
All this sounds like their voice of
doom, but the tenacy of those in the
industry has carried them through
many near-disasters They are sur-
vivors.
Houston. But it’s the local is-
sues which can provoke some
heated debates, as d-------
strated once again.
however, and those people require
very different forms of assistance
than individuals who suffer intermit-
federal welfare programs vary wide- tent financial setbacks
Sen. Gramm included his base
closing project in a package of
legislative proposals he said are
designed to penalize defense con-
tractors who charge too much, bring
down contract wages, add more
competition to bids and make it
easier to dose liases
Installations targeted tor closing
are on a list prepared by Sen Barry
Goldwater. R-Ariz . and includes
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but there is and Medicaid
considerable disagreement over what
formula to use
The Census Bureau s efforts to con-
vene a i „
the agency on how to measure non-
The federal government’s official
tandard foi measuring poverty,
has not been substantially
for two decades, ought to be
I argues Courtenay Slater, a
chief economist at the Com-
merce Department.
The preseni fixed standard is
h.,sed on purchasing patterns of 1955.
average family spent one-
weapons, drugs or alcohol, or
chronic bad liehavior.
cannot Deal in price It mariculture
ever makes a complete
breakthrough in inducing shrimp to
spawn in ponds, then the whole
market will eventually be taken over
by shrimp farms
Already mariculture is a com-
petitor, but from foreign countries
where the present high use of labor
is not a major factor
All this is stacked on the problems
of an industry that has been battered
already by three swift blows in suc-
cession First, a few years of pro-
sperity brought so many boats into
the Gulf that, with all operating in
local waters, the catches are often
too thin to be profitable
Close on the heels of fleet
overbilding-is still one of the biggest
problems-was the oil embargo and
diesel fuel that tripled in the space of
two years Then Mexico in stages
those who serve on appropriations
committees overseeing military
operations that often anchor the
economy of areas where bases are
located
critics who suspect that the initiative
is an effort to disguise the extent of
poverty
In addition to the Census Bureau s
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—Give committee approval
to a bill which directs the State
demon- Board of Education to consider
shortening the six weeks eligi-
bility period of the controver-
sial “no pass, no play” rule.
The bill also provides for sus-
- — • pension or expulsion of stu-
"* —"increase "the penalty on dents for assault, possession of
checks returned for insuffi-
cient funds, up to three times
the amount when the writer of
a hot check refuses to pay.
—Give committee approval
to a $200 million fee hike pack-
age on items such as wrestling
and boxing |»ermits, personal-
ized license plates and vehicle
inspection fees.
—Offer a $96 1 million pack-
age of enticements to bring a
battleship home port to the
Texas coast.
—Send to the Senate a bill
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Meanwhile, their colleagues readers of this column know. 1 keep
in the Senate acted to: particularly sharp eye
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ed by jiersons armed with mod-
ern electric “stun” guns.
—Let state banks charge a
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back of the Senate chamber.
Hobby told students in the gal-
lery, “Texas is so low that if
tuition is tripled, Texas would
leap up and become 48th.”
An imi
s plan dedicates nine percent
or financial aid, as opposed to
25 percent included in a House
Texas
Gov. Bill Hobt
tion of time-share interests by
the Texas Real Estate commis-
sion.
—Add fines up to $2,500 for
dentists who violate state
rules.
One of the most striking inconsis-
r. tencies in the federal standard is the w ,
its own standards of need for eligi- conflicting treatment of the two basic ent's standard of living
pro-
of Management and Budget issues its
own poverty thresholds
Eligibility standards for various
eral on domestic issues, but look how
conservative I am on foreign policy
Just how much of all this tergiver-
positions on certain issues, notably sating American voters will buy is
crime. (He is. however, pledged to
veto again and again the death penal-
ty bill annually passed by the legisla-
ture )
And what about that speech out in
San Francisco9 Aw, shucks, that was
just a little bit of campaign oratory
He did what he had to do to get Mon-
dale elected." explains Alan Char-
lock, a friendly political scientist
(Not that it elected him.)
Certainly Cuomo makes no bones
about the wide gap between his rau-
cous campaign style and what he
regards as his commendably moder-
ate record as governor "You cam-
paign in poetry, you govern in prose,”
is his winning way of putting it
According to Barnes, Cuomo's
mass and serial murderers.
—Include gang rape as an
aggravated offense under the
sexual assault statute, punish-
able from five years to life
imprisonment.
Wave Wanderings
Shrimpers have a capacity for survival
prices that depressed those caught
by our boats.
Imports are still a major problem,
but two added afflictions beset them
One of these is shared increasingly
by almost everyone in business or
practice Fishing is a rough life, full
of unpredictables, and the sea and
the equipment carries a number of
risks People get hurt, they fall over
board and drown
And nowadays, there is a much
bigger chance that the injured one
w ill sue. and more chance a jury will
award heavy damages This means
liability insurance for trawler
owners is going the way of medical
malpractice insurance It burdens
the weak profit margin, it may put
some fishermen out of business.
And for the future, they have one
potential competitor, they know they
Wave Commentary
Gramm lauded for base plan
bases least needed in the U.S. Many
of these have lieen marked for deac-
tivation since Harry Turman was
president
None of the bases on the closure
list is in Texas, which is going to
make Sen Gramm s package
harder to sei) Why no Texas bases is
likely to be the opposition's bat-
tlecry Neither are any of the
facilities in Sen Goldwater's home
state
If the bases arc eventually closed,
it would mean a savings of at least $1
billion a year Even if he loses.
Gramm's efforts to cut federal spen
ding deserve applause
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Shrimpers have a remarkable
capacity for survival, considering
the array of obstacles against them
Each year, however, finds tham
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Mattox Opinion
Texas Attorney General Jim
Mattox filed a lawsuit last
week seeking a special master
to oversee the charity opera-
tions of a Houston hospital for
the poor.
Mattox charged that theft
and mismanagement of money
from the multi-million dollar
Hermann Hospital Estate has
occurred, presumably by some
of the directors and executives
requiring licensing and regula- of the hospital.
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another question Personally. I am
satisfied that at San Francisco last
summer we saw the real Mario
Cuomo, but will the public remember
that savage performance9 Can Mario
Cuomo. Mark II — with his heart on
the left and his wallet on the right,
campaigning in poetry" and govern-
ing in "prose" make them forget
the groin-and-eyeball stuff9 Or will
they see only a shrewd, swivel-hipped
opportunist, zigzagging downfield
toward the White House9
GTON(NF.A) The Bible
ave the poor always with
iloesn 1 offer any guidance
lentify them and there-
es a problem for welfare special-
demographers and politicians
As if the student protest
weren’t enough excitement, the
next do, a representative and
a senator both from Houston,
got into a scuffling match by
the tourist desk just outside
the governor’s door.
The governor, who was with
them when the finger-pointing
and lapel-grabbing began, re-
treated into his nearby offices.
A third lawmaker stepped in
just as blows were about to l>e
exchanged and broke it up,
leading the senator away from
the scene.
The ■ eargument theoretically nearer disaster So far,
was of minor importance: there are no solutions
whei ■ ! ■ f them had re- For at least two decides, they
q ■ " '-y general’s have been plagued by imports, chief-
je>-■ *egarding minor- I *7 ~ -----
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tuition from $4 per
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The essential statistics are
wobbly, in large part because Wash
mgton policy-makers are not sure
how to define poverty," says S Anna
Kondratas in a study comissioned by
v the ve ig< u’)y spent one- the Heritage Foundation, a conserva
■ rd •>! n fisHl Today the five research organization
sue notes in The Journal of the Insti-
tute for Socioeconomic Studies
By Lynde 11 Williams
State Capital highlights
AUSTIN—The dull, busi-
atrnosphere of the
legislature, which has
mplaints from Capi-
ers hungry for a little
las interrupted last
week by all the hubbub anyone
could want.
Hundreds of University of
tudents. upset with Lt.
s plan to triple
tion, marched
tn campus to
ickily for Hob-
1 in a hallway
confrontation,
leaped into
:r, the stu-
and filled
where they
booed as Hobby
tin his proposal,
ick to his guns,
the follow ing day
was reinforced by
d of Regents. The
nt Lobby, which
tuition hike, also
s for the confron-
about his long devotion to the "family rancid and angry,
VillUCS " xsio all lr nnw what thoco Maoei/xmatA
fecting only in-state banks’ are. don't we9
attempts to give consumers a Then came
break by eliminating interest address, and he dropped the other America today, Cuomo charged.
whprp the ACCOUDt* is Th*» “familv” h4‘*»n t^lic - lav* fmrva the “chimno r»itw nn a
iportant provision of paid off monthly,
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is used in defining the poor?
welfare program has its own rules for has dropped to 33 percent kind benefits ought to be "cashed out" ly, while the two most expensive pub-
determining poverty status and One of the most striking inconsis- Or assigned a dollar value when lie assistance programs — Aid to
eligibility Finally, each state sets tencies in the federal standard is the assessing a potential welfare recipi- Families with Dependent ( hildren
its own standards of need for eligi- conflicting treatment of the two basic ent's standard of living but there is and Medicaid rely upon the states'
bihty for state programs " types of means-tested benefits pro- considerable disagreement over what varying standards of need
The government's official poverty vided to the poor — cash payments, formula to use Finally, little effort has been made
standard was formulated in the mid- which account for slightly more than The Census Bureau's efforts to con to distinguish between chronic and
1950s by Mollie Orshansky, an official 20 percent of all assistance, and non- vene a meeting of experts to advise episodic poverty Almost 25 percent
with the Social Security Administra- cash or in-kind benefits, which the agency on how to measure non- of the nation's population experienced
tion Although the figures are adjust- account for just under 80 percent of cash benefits have been frustrated by poverty during the 1970s. but in most
ed annually to reflect changes in the all welfare aid critics who suspect that the initiative cases that situation was a temporary
cost of living, the basic formula has When individuals’ incomes are cal- is an effort to disguise the extent of one caused by death, divorce or a
not been revised to reflect fundamen- culated to determine whether they poverty recession-induced layoff
tai shifts in social and economic pat- officially qualify for assistance to the In addition to the Census Bureau's Between 2 5 percent and 3 percent
poor, cash payments are included but poverty income guidelines, the Office* of the populace is persistently poor,
non-cash assistance such as food
stamps, housing subsidies and medi-
cal aid — are excluded
Many experts argue that those in-
NEW YORK (NEA) - As regular
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police officers to Gov. Mario Cuomo He fooled me
deadly force when assault- once, and the second time will be my
fault.
In his 1982 race for governor. Cuo-
mo was displayed in television com-
mercials surrounded by his large and
handsome Italian family, bragging
.. delivered with a
Well, we all know what those passionate conviction that hadn’t
been lavished on those themes since
Cuomo's inaugural the depths of the Great Depression
’ .. ~ was
shoe The "family" he had been talk- far from the "shining city on a hill"
ing about, it turned out. was "the that Mr Reagan envisioned On the
family of New York” — all 18 million contrary, he said, "this nation is more
of us — and under the new governor's "A Tale of Two Cities,”' in one of
expansive plans for state aid of vari- which "millionaires" got “tax breaks"
ous sorts not a single one of our little from the first Reagan administration,
brothers or sisters was to be over- while in the other a mother was
looked or slighted The New Deal "denied the help she needed to feed
Apply the death penalty to returned with a vengeance to the New her children” The San Francisco
York of the mid-1980s Democrats waved their little flags
I wasn't especially surprised, there- and shrieked with glee
fore, when Cuomo set the Democratic But now 1988 looms ahead, and a
convention in San Francisco on its ear certain amount of retooling is being
last summer with a brutal attack on done on the political chassis of Mario
Ronald Reagan and his administra- Cuomo Mark II. so to speak, has
tion It was the old Politics of Envy, moved to the right In an article in
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Surber, Chester C. & Hildebrand, Linda. Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 152, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 9, 1985, newspaper, April 9, 1985; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1288478/m1/4/: accessed May 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.