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Serving the Lamar community for 61 years
It’s Wednesday
February 6, 1985
Vol. 61, No. 33
Bill Franklin, Lamar-Beaumont president, and Joe Ben Welch, higher education may cause an increase in the tuition for state
Lamar-Orange president, participate in discussion about budget universities, including Lamar.
cuts at Friday’s Board of Regents meeting. Cuts in state budget for Photo by david cruz
Regents OK vice president
By ALAN PACE
UP staff writer
Regents approved Friday the
appointment of Dr. Josh Crane to
the position of vice president for
academic affairs at LU—Port Ar-
thur.
The newly created position is a
result of administrative restruc-
turing necessitated by Lamar’s re-
cent conversion to system status.
Crane’s appointment is effective
immediately. He has served as
dean of academic programs at
LU—Orange since July 1982.
Before coming to LU—Orange,
Crane was chairman of the speech
and communications department
at Texas A&M University for five
years.
He was previously director of
speech communication and drama
at the University of Houston—Vic-
toria campus.
A graduate of Guilford College in
North Carolina, he earned the
master’s degree from the Univer-
sity of Florida and the doctorate at
Ohio State University.
At LU-Port Arthur, Crane will
work directly under president Sam
Monroe.
Regents also approved an offer
of 8850,000 from the Port Arthur
Navigational District for river-
front property owned by LU-
Orange.
Also covered at the regent’s
meeting, held at 10 a.m. Friday on
the Eighth Floor of Gray Library,
were a number of construction
bids for the Lamar campus.
Regents approved a bid of
$118,660, by Goodell-Wilson of
Beaumont, for renovations to the
exterior of the Services Building,
which contains the Lamar post of-
fice and police station.
That project will be paid from ad
valorem tax funds.
Regents also approved the ar-
chitectural firm of Gordy and Huf-
fhines Architects Inc. to secure
bids for the re-roofing of the lower
section of the McDonald Gym roof.
Cost is estimated at $185,000.
Also approved was the low bid of
$14,490; by Sentronic Inc. of
Brunswick, Ohio, for turnstiles for
the Montagne Center.
A bid of $39,112.64, by Benco
Roofing and Construction of
See REGENTS, page 4
Chancellor supports tuition increase
C. Robert Kemble
By ALAN PACE
UP staff writer
Speaking at Friday’s regent’s
meeting, Chancellor C. Robert
Kemble clarified the position of
the Council of Presidents concern-
ing proposed tuition increases for
Texas universities..
Kemble, who chairs the council,
said a “substantial” increase in
tuition would be acceptable, with
three stipulations:
—Money generated by increased
tuitions should be “retained by the
individual institutions” and not
pooled into a general, shared fund.
—Up to 25 percent of the funds
should be applied to need-base
scholarships to supplement
federal financial aid programs “to
insure that no deserving student is
deprived of a collegiate
education.”
—The remainder should be applied
to academic and academic support
needs, particularly to faculty
salaries.
“While recommending, with
reluctance, tuition increases, we
urge that the Legislature also look
-at all other reasonable approaches
to additional revenues,” Kemble
told the House Appropriations
Committee.
The council, Kemble said, also
recommended the state provide
programs encouraging better
university management.
One proposal would permit
universities to keep unused fun-
ding and savings for the next fiscal
year.
“In the past,” Kemble said,
“state funding policies have ac-
tually been a disincentive to good
management.”
Kemble said Lamar saved
$500,000 last year through better
energy management. However,
under current policies, such sav-
ings lead to a recommendation of
less money for the next fiscal year.
Greater management flexibility,
Kemble said, “would provide in-
centive for good managers such as
our three presidents.”
Kemble said he approves of Lt.
Gov. Bill Hobby’s budget in-
itiative, which would reduce the
original 26-percent cut proposed
by the Legislative Budget Board to
6 percent.
“The legislators know a 26-per-
cent cut would be devastating to
higher education in Texas, as well
as to the state’s short- and long-
term economy,” Kemble said.
The plan proposed by Hobby
calls for a tuition hike and in-
creases in some state fees to offset
Texas’ $1.2 billion revenue short-
fall.
Reagan nixes
oil stockpiles
in salt domes
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi-
dent Reagan’s $973.3 billion budget
sent to Congress Monday contains
several changes that could affect the
region, ranging from the end of cer-
tain farm price supports to ter-
minating subsidies to guarantee air
service to small towns.
The budget would:
•End subsidies to guarantee
Essential Air Service to 146 com-
munities nationwide, 27 of them in
the region, even though the so-called
EAS payments were promised
through October 1988 as an incentive
to Congress to pass airline deregula-
tion in 1978.
•End most of the subsidized
Farmers Home Administration
Loan and grant programs that
financed over $10 billion in water
and sewer and community projects
in the past 10 years. Reagan pro-
poses giving rural areas block grant
assistance through the Department
of Housing and Urban Development.
• Declare a moratorium on oil
stockpiling in the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve in huge salt
caverns in Texas and Louisiana. The
reserve was begun as a defense
against oil-supply interruptions and
is expected to contain about 489
million barrels by 1986.
• Rework farm price supports by
phasing out the dairy program,
eliminating honey price supports
and terminating peanut and tobacco
allotments.
• End the Urban Development Ac-
tion Grant (UDAG) program that
provides startup funds for commer-
cial construction, the Job Corps
federal training program and
General Revenue Sharing funds.
•End the Small Business Ad-
ministration, which provides credit
and low-interest loans to businesses,
on assumption there is sufficient
private-sector loan money
available.
• End health professional training
subsidies, saying there no longer is a
serious shortage of doctors, nurses
and other health specialists.
• Phase-out the Rural Electrifica-
tion Administration low-interest
loan program over the next five
years. Since 1936, more than $61
billion in federal assistance has been
provided to rural electric utilities
and telephone systems.
• Force the Southwestern and
Western Power Marketing Ad-
ministrations to catch up on loan
repayments, even if it means in-
See REAGAN, page 4
Postal Service ups
stamps to 22 cents
By LYRA KATENA
UP staff writer
The United States Postal Service
will increase the postage rate from
20 cents to 22 cents, effective Feb. 17.
A 22-cent stamp will be available
in the campus post office this week,
Jack O’Toole, Lamar postmaster,
said.
The stamp that will be available at
Lamar, he said, will be the com-
memerative stamp, which has 22
cents printed on it.
Some post offices will have a tem-
porary stamp, with a “D” printed on
it.
“Temporary stamps will be issued
in lieu of stamps with ‘22 cents’
printed on them,” he said. “These
are temporary stocks. It might be
possible that we won’t have them in
this area since it depends on the
stock.
“We will have commemorative
stamps with ‘22 cents’ printed on
them; and if we get enough of those,
we won’t need the non-denominated
stamps,” he said.
“We will have two-cent stamps to
supplement for the people’s 20s,”
O’Toole said.
The rate hike has been discussed
for several years, O’Toole said.
“When the post office had need to in-
crease postage rates, we wound up
in the black for the budget,” he said,
“but with new union contracts and
increases of cost in maintenance and
gasoline, it was desirable to go up on
the stamp.”
“Since Nov. 1, 1981, (the last
postal rate increase from 18 cents to
20 cents), the consumer price index
has risen 13 percent. Yet-22-cent,
first-class stamps will represent a 10
percent increase,” O’Toole said.
“To put the rate increase in
perspective, since December 1975
when the 13-cent, first-class rate
became effective, cost of living in
the United States has gone up over 90
percent,” he said.
At that time, the rate was increas-
ed to 13 cents from 10 cents.
“Keeping postage rates stable for
as long as possible has been one of
the keys of the postal service’s
positive financial performances for
recent years,” O’Toole said. “Rate
stability encourages the use of the
mail as shown by the 10 percent
surge in volume nationwide in 1984
to a 131 billion pieces.”
In May 1978, the 13-cent stamp was
raised to 15 cents; and in March
1981, the 15-cent stamp went to 18
cents. In November 1981, the 18-cent
stamp increased to 20 cents
O’Toole says he believes there will
be no problems with the reaction of
the public. “Most people understand
that everything else goes up and the
need is there for the increase of
postage,” he said.
“Our postal service is one of the
cheapest in the world and by far one
of the better post offices in existence
as for reliability,” he said.
“I think (the increase) is needed,”
O’Toole said. “Everything else is go-
ing up and the postage rates are go-
ing to go up, too.”
U.S. Navy considers Port Arthur,
Orange as possible base locations
BY GEORGANNE FAULKNER
UP staff writer
The U.S. Navy is considering Port
Arthur and Orange as the site Tor a
base that will dock the Surface Ac-
tion Group, Port Arthur Mayor
Malcolm Clark said.
The Surface Action Group is com-
posed of the battleship Wisconsin,
one guided missile cruiser, two guid-
ed missile destroyers and two
frigates, Dow Wynn, Port Arthur
port director, said.
Seventeen Gulf Coast port cities
are competing for the base. The
eight in Texas are Brownsville, Cor-
pus Christi, Freeport, Houston,
Galveston, Port Arthur, Orange, and
Port Lavaca. New Orleans and four
cities in Mississippi—Bay St. Louis,
Long Beach, Biloxi, and
Pascagoula—are five other sites
under consideration. Mobile, Ala.,
Tampa Bay, Fla., and Bradenton,
Fla., are the other cities competing
for the base.
The Navy will announce five
finalist cities based on submitted
proposals in March, Clark said.
If Port Arthur and Orange are
among the finalists, an election to
pass a bond proposal funding port
construction will be held, Clark said.
The Port Arthur and Orange pro-
posal was prepared by a steering
committee appointed by Clark and
chaired by Wynn.
The bond issue could raise $38.4
million for the intrastructure of the
base, such as barracks, Clark said.
In addition to the bonds, land for
the base will be given to the Navy,
Clark said. The proposed base site
consists of about 250 undeveloped
acres on Pleasure Island and Sabine
Pass.
The state will build or improve
roads or bridges to provide better
transportation for the Navy if a
Texas city is chosen, Clark said.
The port city will be home to 7,500
sailors and their families along with
a $60 million annual military
payroll, $9 million annual housing
allowances, $100 million in port con-
struction projects and up to 3,500
civilian jobs, Clark said.
In addition to payroll and jobs,
Clark said the base will bring in an
influx of businesses, such as supply
houses.
“It will be a tremendous boom to
the economy of this area,” Clark
said.
According to Clark, the base site
has not been chosen. “The Navy has
called back and asked for more
data. We’re approaching this with a
professional and business-like man-
ner,” he said.
Clark says he feels there is a good
chance that Port Arthur will receive
the base.
The Golden Triangle will not “die
without the base,” he said.. If
another city is awarded the base, it
will be a big disappointment, he
said. “We will have to roll up our
sleeves and go to work,” Clark said.
“There are other businesses to turn
to.”
Kent Matthews, Orange senior, walks Monday for an electrical engineering class, following a
past the statue of Mirabeau B. Lamar in the job interview.
quadrangle. Braving the rain and cold, he heads photo by david cruz
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