Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 80, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 6, 1985 Page: 4 of 80
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PUC acts prompting dose took
am* mm in trend fell months
mart ^"particularly rankled
sane is that recently the same PUC
staff rapped the knuckles of the feili-
ty companies for charging
ihtarcs wane higher
The cosamiasMaers tried to jastify
the numerous trips, but not
irrrmrily the expenses, by saying
they want the Texas PUC to build
some ‘national visibility.” One
atoerrn remarked, “they’ve sure
got visibility now, at borne anyway ”
A recent state auditor’s report
criticizes fee beleaguered prison
system for continuing to allow huge
project overruns before getting ap-
proval from the prison board.
The report reveals little progress
has been made to correct the over-
run problem which baa scandalized
the prison system over the past fho
yews. It cites:
-A jump in construction costs
from $2 million to IP million at the
Pack 1 Unit near fiavaaota.
-About 3M items worth $193,000
written off as stolen or tael
-Some till miffion worth of fixed
assets are subject to less or theft
because of improper markings
Two pels
Two recent statewide polls
reported 1) the number of self-styled
Republicans in Texas fe about the
same as the Democrats, and 1) Tex-
ans don’t trwt government, pur-
tksdarfy the feds.
One survey found the GOP fe
Texas to be « percent white, while
the Democrats are 5& percent white.
the sulfur dioxide emissions from coil-fired
power plants and coal-burning industries Of the
Ohio River Valley and Midwest. New England
governors and provincial leaders in Canada have
bees clamoring for across-the-board reductions in
those emissions, but the Reagan administration
has argued that more study of the problem was
needed to justify the expense of national action to
clean up the smokestacks.
The problem has been studied enough. Now we
have to do something about it. And it appears
Drew Lewis, the president’s special acid-rain en-
voy, agrees. In a meeting with New England
governors, Lewis told them that he would recom-
mend a cleanup program. He refused to be
specific about the scope of the program, bid he ad-
mitted that “saying sulfates do not cause acid
rain is the same as saying smoking does not cause
lung cancer.”
New England officials naturally are relieved at
the news of the administration’s turnaround, bid
the Canadians are more skeptical. Lewis’ Cana-
dian counterpart on acid rain would say only that
be was “cautiously optimistic” about U. S. inten-
tions It’s no wander the Canadians have doubts.
Instead of reducing emissions, as we promised to
do in 1980, the Reagan administration allowed
revisions of state air plans raising the limits on
sulfur dioxide. Consequently, the acid rain issue
has become an irritant in our usually-excellent
relations with Canada, one of our closest allies
and our largest trading partner.
But it’s not too late to patch things up. By admit-
ting that there is indeed a problem, the ad-
ministration has taken the important first step.
Lewis warns that the fight to dean up acid rain
won’t be easy because mdustries and sane
Washington lawmakers are opposed to emission
reductions. He also says the administration’s
goals w ill be more “moderate” than the proposals
by environmental groups that say up to $6 billion
must be spent to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions
in the continental United States by 10 million tons
by 1995.
Add ram is a national problem, not just one
peculiar to the northeastern Rust Belt, and all of
us must work to solve it. We owe it to ourselves
and as* friends.
By District 3 senator
Propositions 1 and 2 examined
AUSTIN
The next few reports
will be devoted to Propositions 1 and
2 which are commonly known as the
"Water Plan”. Before discussing the
specifics of the plan, 1 think it ad-
visable to provide you with some of
the history and background of our
water problems in Texas.
_ Probably no other state fe the na-
Klem and Jordache. Bid there are no pro- uon confronts the diversity of water
bets fa what have become known as problems that Texas faces. In our
Sr drugs winch offer heroin-like hiphc and *rea of the state we have the
* lMalas___m tv,IC .vuintr^ problem of too much water at tuxes
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High-tech killers
POLK COUNTY
ALVIN HOLLEY, PUBLISHER
Telephone Number 327-4367
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 80, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 6, 1985, newspaper, October 6, 1985; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth781884/m1/4/?q=divorce: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.