The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. SIXTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1989 Page: 2 of 12
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November 30,1989‘?
STATE CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By lyndaii W.n.am*
TEXAS PACSS ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN-Rebellious sure sena-
tors ambushed the turn carrying
the pro-business workers ’ com-
pensation package. adding several
amendments sponsored by Inal
ami Ub8r unions
The once-eontenatiie, no»-
liberal package »ji approved and
. mm id tV House in wlut is.
ibough nuiuv. the first setback for
Luneduvi 1.1 Ckw Bill HobN in
rears
TV undctiJogs in the hatslc
•ere suie Sens Carl Parker
and Kent Cape non. two key
Vsnenatas for Hobbs m the past
Both *ere rclcialcss in their attack
<4 Hobby's reform package
A disappointed Hobty said the
approved version will increase
insurance rates for rnipiovers
Effort to Fail Again
Speaker Gib Lewfis uiJ the
tsauae. aireadv a failure in previous
regular and special sessions. *is
tank to square one * with failure
•gam a real possibility
Some c4 die sinking points
a What role, if any. trial juries
•dll have in deciding (he size of
financial awards.
• Whether coverage will he vol-
untary or mandatory, and whether
Large companies can self-insure,
and
" •Whetliei. and how. the med-
ical profession will standardize
•wards for injuries
Business At bal
The Senate vote was the liberal s
home field advantage Tins week
the action is m the House, where
pro business forces will be ai bal
After Thanksgiving, the House
battle started in the Business
and Commerce Committee, where
pro-business forces hope ao rein-
state the HobN plan
Gov Bill Clements, who waits
at the cud of Use lute with a
veto stamp, etpnrsscd hope fee a
conservative result
The governor speculated that
liberal senators facing primary
elections dm spring were postur-
ing lor campaign leverage
Clements several limes has
threatened to keep senators in
special session until Christmas if
they do net pass a satisfactory bill
Take Inmates Or Hiy
Oikc agam. a judge has ruled
dial the Tetas Department of
Corrections has an obligation to
either tiousc state cunvkts or pjy
local jails for the cost if doing u
State District Judge Joe Hart
of Austin wrote *1 hold that
responsibility he the proper care,
treatment, feeding, clothing and
management ot (t*c TDC-leads
prisoners is on the slate, not lie
Counties
Attorney General Jtn« Mattos
said Hart’s mlmg is unrealistic
"There |s just nor enough room
in tlie inn VX,- .an'I violate tlie
federal court order proliibiiiug
crowding and rake additional
pnsoucts
Rossaiuca Salarar. press secre-
tary id Clements, said *Tl»c gos-
eiuor believes that the sloeisum
sluHild be appealed on all fronts “
Ann Snell, die Austin lawyer
w|k) represents I I counties (tut
joined in tlie will Travis. Bciar.
Collin. Dallas, El Paso. Gahe-
snm. Hidaips. Hunt. Lubbock.
Tairant. anJ Vicioria said “I feel
good about u Tlie state lus hi fol-
low die law like every b«vdy else
Insurance loss Struck
In an unrelated ease, anotlicr
state district judge ruled uncon
stituinmal a new law allow mg in-
surance companies lo bill (lie slate
for attorney fees incurred m stung
trlter umiramc firms and agents
for fraud
Marten applauded the ruling,
saying the btU was "a shameful
piece of spoils legislation *
More Hissing Ksam
State education officials an-
nounced more high school stu-
dents arc passing the sate gradua-
tion cram, especially the juniors
The number of passing juniors.
77 percent, outperformed the *90
senior class which passed only 59
percent (higher dun the 55 percent
last year)
Tlie scores indicate gnwtng
improvement, hui TEA commit-
snmer Dr Vv S KirK expressed
concern for the seniors who failed
and nntst retake the minimum
skills csanunation
lawmakers Rip Judges
A group id la» makers urged the
Tesas Court of Criminal Appeals
"to get oft thur rear ends” and
gram a new trial m a death row
innutc they feel was railroaded by
local police
Clarence BianJIcs. a black
janitor, was founJ guilty in 1980
if the rape and strangulation tf a
lb year-old girl ai Conroe High
School
An adnumsiraior for die court
saiJ there is no undue delay
since the vase was not ifhcially
uibnuttcd until lamury 1989
Tlie lawmakers, composed of
hljik. Hispanii and liberal while
Democrats, lease a House resolu-
tion seeking (handle)‘s new trial
Other Highlights
• State R.p ( hra Harm, K
Arlington. said lie will be a
candidate for tlie Senate seat being
vacated K Sen Bob McFarland,
R -Arlington Harm. 41. is m his
rhird term in (he House
■ fictional atiS'tis'bilc liabil-
ity insurance covers ptlicyholders
when tlicy arc driving borrowed or
reined vehicles, die State Board if
Insurance saiJ
a Houston Ijw.cr Jeff Steen,
who w-js aitoc in gelling voters to
approve the pan iiiumcl wageung
referendum in I9S7, lus been
asked to consider accepting the
piisitiou if executive director if
the Texas Racing Commission, die
//ouiton Chionii It reported
Booster Club to hold open house December 4th
TV Reagan County All Spans
Bocatrr Club will host an open
bain Monday. December 4th at
7fl0pjn at the RCHS Gym Play
cn and coaches of grades 7th A 8th
Owls 8th Grade 32. Rankin 24
TV 8th Grade Ow Is opened the ir
mm hi Big Lake on November 20
wMi • victory over Rankin 32-24
Coach Rob Taylor reported a good
Ant game ’We had a slow sun.
roaring only one Tint quarter point
TV team loosened up in the second
quarter, adding 12 points to the
■core.* Coach Taylor said "The
furd quarter was the turning point
aa our defease did an outstanding
Job Umjpng Rankin to one point,
while the offense totaled 9 more
TV Owtoouucared the Red
ID-7 at the final stanza to win
M-J4"
Owla scoring - Steven Bull 7.
Joat Bonilla 3. David Dc La Cru/ 4.
Vidor Eaqsavcl 4. Jaime Carrasco
3. aad Jacob Pina 3.
Scone by quarters
Owla 8th Grade I 12 9 10- 32
Rank mi StJ) Gradfe 5 II » 7 -24
Team members this year are
Cory Minaon, Jaime Carrasco. Jet-
•ah Ellison. Jeffenc Ellison. Sic
vaa BaB. David De La Cruz. Jacob
Flat, Joat Bonilla. Enseal Barrera.
Victor Esquivel, Juan Rivero.
Bryan Janes, Benuo Gomez. Jer
om Evans. Chase Kane. Cody
RCHS Boys Vanity basket ball
taa is entered a hie Inon County
ln»Bauon Basketball Tournament
ai Mertzon aarting today through
Saturday TV Owls will play
Manrod at 500 p m today in the
new Irion County gym
CMker One round games will be
MHh *i Inon County JV at 5 00
ML today la Ac aid gym Water
VaBay mill play McCamey at 8 00
pan. today m the old gym. and Eden
wii play btaa County at 8:00 p m
hi da mew gym
Pblt round warnen play at 5 :00
pan. and ROOpm Friday »the new
gym Bn* round tororx play at the
man* daro hi He old gym If hie
Oadl wbi hide first round they pfay
« 8.00 pan. Fnday m the new gym
BplM «W Bdro-inoa Cdaaty arm-
Qmnaa TatariVj roll V m the
aaarran. Ccrooiatioa final «nll be
■ 260 pan TV hard place game
will be highlighted along w uh high
schix)! JV and Varsity. Come out
and show your suppixt for these
young athletes and our fine coach-
ing staff
Taylor, and Jason l~aurrndine
1XXX
Owls 8th Grade 34. Grape Creek
27
The Kth Grade Owls record goes
to 2-0 with their win Monday eve-
ning over Grape Creek 34-27 at
Grape Creek Great defense pres-
sure kept Grape Creek wore less in
the first quarter while the Owls
scored 10 points
The next two quarters the Ow ls
missed many oppurtuniiics u> pul
the game out of reach but coutdn t
buy a basket In the last quarter the
Owls oulscurcd ihc Eagles 11-10 to
bang on for a 34-27 victory. TV
boys were hustling but the Thanks-
giving layoff hurt the offensive
output Defensively, the pressure
the Owls pul on the Eagles forced
many turnovers while the rebound-
ing was controlled by the Ow Is.
Owls scoring - David Dc La Cruz
6. Cory Minton 5. Jaime Carrasco 4,
Jcramic Elluon 4. Jacob Pina 4 On
defense, the Owls' press looked a lot
better and the rebounding looked
better
Score by quarters:
Owls Kth Grade 10 6 5 II - .34
Grape Creek 0 6 11 10-27
will be at 5:00 p m. and Ihc champi-
onship game at800 pm
TV Owls 1989 90 basketball
varsity squad includes No. 10. Ken
NeiJI, 511*. junior. No. II. Robert
Subia, 5‘ 11 *. senior, no. 12. M ichacl
Good lot. 5V. fresh.. No 14. Mark
Elk ms. 573*. senior: No. 15. Jason
Kohutek. 6‘0\ junior: No. 20.
Tommy Moms. 5'10*. senior. No.
22. Robert Faick. S’l 1 1/2*. senior.
No. 24. Joac Avaloa.6tr.soph. No.
30. aarun Custer, 61". senior. No.
32, Jrok Mcmll. 6TT. senior. No.
34. Kenny Baggett. 5*8*. junior. No.
40. leffery Moms. 511*. junmr.
No. 42. Willie Black. 58*. junior,
and No 44. Rodney Benson. 65*.
senior
The Owls arc coached this year
by Noe Franco who began hi* firm
year here aa head basketball coach
Coach Franco moved to Big lake
from Anson. Hu aasuanu arc Russ
Shut bet and Robert Sexton
TV long awaited window flags
several people asked about have
arrived and arc for sale from tV
Reagan Couniy All Sports Booster
Club. Limited amount of 72 for
sale Get yours early or give one a<
a gift for Christmas Fly the *Owl
Spinl*.
Tickets arc still on sale fur tV
19* color, remote control TV we
w ill V giving away. TVsc money
projects arc used by tV RC All
Sports Bixnlcr Club to pay fix tV
sports banquet May 1 Slh. 1990
Our spec ul thank s to die parents,
coaches, and volunteers who
showed iVtr Owl Pndc by making
stencils, flags, yard signs, cooking
hamburgers, selling tickets, etc
during Use Owls 1989 football sea
son CongratulaUims on a fine sea
son.
Continued
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Scurry 1.259.740; and Kent
975.504
Te xas oil and gas wells produced
438,178.660 Mef (thousand cubic
feetJ of gas in September, compared
to tV August gas production total of
461.397.148 Mef. September pro
duction was down two percent
compared to September I988's
production
TV state's lop pmduemg coun-
ties rank ordered by preliminary
September production were Webb
23.132 828 Mef; Zapata
21.797.359; Pcco* 19.598.106;
Panola 12.989.939; Hidalgo
12.466.569. Hemphill 8.621.775;
McMullen 8.472.425; Crockett
6J855.959; Nueces 5.917.726; and
Matagorda 5.890,750.
Texas gas production m Septem
her came from 186.164 oil wcilsand
46.008 gas wells.
Reagan County's production of
gas amounted to 2.896.756 Mef in
September, and ranked IV couniy
131st in statewide production in
8“
Reagan county ranked 24ih in ml
production statewide in September
So far in 1989 Reagan County wells
have produced 5053,070 barrels of
oil. Total oil production m 1988
was 7J59.737 barrels Total pro-
duction for tV past few years ts as
follows 1987 7.949.580 bunch.
1986-9.129.613; 1985 9.792.015;
and 1984-9.402222 barrels
Reagan County daily produc tion
has dropped from an average of
26.827 barrels per day m 1985 to tV
current average of 172561 barrels
per day at of September 1989.
Owls play today in Irion County
Boys Basketball Tournament
Our readers write!
Letters to the editor.
Soldiers could be put to good use here ! ♦;
If soldiers could be stationed
fifty feet apart along the total length
of our southern border with Mexico
without spending one nickel more
on equipment or salaries for person-
nel than we are already spending I
think every American would ap-
prove the project Believe it or not
tV above can be accomplished and
this is how.
Recall all our troops from Ger-
many and South Korea (where tVy
are no longer appreciated) and su-
ltan them with present equipment
(by military unit) aksng the birder
from Brownsville. TX to San Di-
ego. CA with tV mission of inter-
dict-drugs and illegal aliens
TVy arc already on tV payroll
and the equipment ts paid for so
tVre would he noextra expense just
a change in tVir place of employ-
ment. TV only difference is they
would be protccung OL K border
instead of those of foreign coun-
tries. Any added expenses whkh
might be incurred would certainly
be dwarfed by tV benefits pro-
duced It just might return tV con-
trol of the border to tV US at mini-
mal costs.
TVre is only one drawback, this
would solve a problem without
spending extra Billions of dollars
which in our society is taboo. It is
too drastically different from tV
established policy of solving every
problem by drowning it in
MONEY i,
Sincerely.
Neal D. Shepard
Dear Commissioner Sabers.
Docs an employer have to pay
unauthorized overtime to an
employee-’ Is it legal to have a
contract or company policy
which denies payment of over-
time unless the overtime has
been authorized'’
S.W
Austin. Tx
Dear S.W .. According to thr
l _S. Department of laibor.
payment cannot be denied if
thr osrrtime «a* actually
worked, rrgirtlltss of whether
it wax authorized or not. It is
vimply up to the employer to
control itx workforce and
ensure that the osertime hours
are not worked.
Iherr is nothing to present
an employer from basing a
policy which forbids unautho-
rized osertime. but the penalty
for siolating the policy must be
something other than the com-
pany's refusal to pay for the
time worked. For example, a
written warning or reprimand
to the employee would be
appropriate.
Dear Commissioner Sabers.
Can a person who ts on the
pavroll as a full time employee
be paid as an independent
contractor for providing a dif-
ferent type of service on occa-
sion? How would this be
handled0
I’ K .
Bastrop. Tx
Dear P.R.. It is certainly
possible for a business to con-
tract with one of its employees
to proside a sersice different
from the one he or she pro-
sides as an employee. Let us
say. for example, that sour
employee works for sou as an
accountant but is a good car
penter and maybe esen has a
small carpentry business on
the side. Should you contract
with this employee to do some
carpentry work for your com
pans, leasing to him all meth-
ods and details of performing
the work, it would probably be
correct for sou to consider him
a self-employed independent
contractor insofar as those
sersice are concerned. This
means that you ssould not
report payment made to him
for the carpentry work to the
IF( . Vlso. rather than taking
out federal taxes, you would
issue him a 1099.
It is important to be sure
that sou do not count as an
independent contractor anyone
oser whose work you base the
right of direction and control. •
If you are unsure about the
status of a worker or whether
taxes should be paid on certain
sersices, contact your local
I!( tax office and request a
written appraisal of your
situation.
Commissioner Mary Scott
Nabers represents all Texas
employers If you have any
questions you want answered,
please write Commissioner t
Nabers at TEXAS BUSINESS
TODAY. 614 TEC Building.
15th and Congress. Austin,
Tx 78778
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Werst, David. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. SIXTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1989, newspaper, November 30, 1989; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth656320/m1/2/?q=mission+rosario: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.