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N««l, SwtiMl, TNI SHSKIKi.llMrtdiy, March 17,19M
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MIKE MINTON.....................Composition
TexansConcemed About State Taxes
Airing Views To Tax Equity Panel
STATE CAPITOL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Lyndell Williams
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
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What do Itexano think about
taxes? This question is crucial
to the work of the Select Com-
mittee on Tax Equity as they
consider ways to Improve Texas
state and local tax system.
The 13-member committee was
created by the 70th Legislature to
review the Texas tax system In
the wake of four years of state
fiscal problems. It expects to re-
port Its findings to the Governor
and Legislature later this year.
In an effort to begin answering
the question of what Texans
think about taxes, the commit-
tee has been conducting a series
of public hearings across the
state.
The committee began with a
hearing In Austin last October
and has since traveled to Dallas.
Fort Worth, Houston, San Anto-
nio. Beaumont and Tyler. Hear-
ings are scheduled for April In
Amarillo. Abilene and El Paso.
Hearings are also planned for
Corpus Christl and Harlingen in
May.
The committee has heard from
over 200 Tfexans on a wide varie-
ty of tax Issues. The opinions ex-
pressed have been as diverse as
the people appearing to speak.
Some have expressed concern
about the overall fairness of the
tax system. Others have norc
specific concerns - and com-
plaints - about focal property
taxes or the tax bill recently
passed by the Legislature.
One issue that has come up at
all meetings Is whether any fu-
ture government revenue needs
should be met by broadening the
sales tax base to Include services
and other Items currently ex-
empt. The state Included this op-
tion to a limited degree In the tax
bill passed last year. Representa-
tives of the the services added to
the sales tax base at that time.
Including land surveyors. Insu-
rance agents and credit reporting
services have appeared to protest
the Inclusion of these services
under the sales tax
Also receiving attention Is lo-
cal government finance. Repre-
sentatives of local government
have told the committee that
revenue is needed at the local
level to replace lost federal funds
and to maintain aging roads and
bridges as well as keep up with a
growing population. The proper-
ty tax the primary source of rev -
enue for local government, la
rapidly reaching its limits tn
many areas.
A number of witnesses have
also argued that the real need is
to cut spending at both the state
and local levels.
Although the committee is
traveling to all regions of the
state, people who are unable to
attend one of the public hearings
but would like to share their
views, may do so by writing to
the committee at P. O. Bax
12666, Capitol Station, Austin,
Texas 78711
The committee expects to for-
mulate findings and recommen-
dations for the Legislature and
Governor before the 71s; legisla-
ture convenes In January. 1989.
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Disabled Should Not
Wait To Apply
AUSTIN-Texas Secretary of
State Jack Rains was both
right and wrong about the
election, but no more in error
than just about anyone else in
the state who tried to predict
the Super Tuesday primary.
Rains, a Republican, predict-
ed a massive GOP turnout
which would match the Demo-
crats for the first time in Texas
history.
The Republicans set a record
all right, but the diverse Demo-
cratic ticket also hiked their
numbers beyond what Rains
had forseen, to an almost
three-to -one match.
Some Republicans are saying
many of their ilk crossed over
to the primary to vote for local
friends, and pulled the lever for
liveral Rev. Jesse. Jackson
while in the enemy booth.
JACKSON FOR REAL
The Republican cross over
element has enraged liberal
Democrats, and it occured this
election, particularly in Deep
South states with weaker GOP
organizations.
How well did Jackson do in
Texas? He only finished first in
just a few minor cities-like
Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth,
Beaumont, Odessa and Mid-
land
large voter turnout in the
Central Texas area. Riley, in
line for a committee chairman-
ship, seeks his third term.
• A former state chairman for
Texas Mexican-American De-
mocrats, Juan Maldonado, has
forced a runoff election with the
incumbent, Renata Cuellat, in a
South Texas House district
race.cuellar heads, and Mal-
donado has savvy Valley oper-
ative Mike Lopez on his team.
• The chairman of the Texas
Department of Human Services
said care for the mentally
retarded would be better with
fewer, more highly populated
state schools.
He opposes a scheduled 20
percent hike in Medicaid funds
as a waste of taxpayers' money
and has told the governor so.
•The Human Services Board
delayed its plan to file liens
against the estates of dead
Medicaid recipients to recover
funds. The legality of the new
law will first be tested in
attornew general's opinion.
This controversial issue, by
the way, is regarded as one
factor in the defeat of Sen.
Jones, whose vote for the new
law was targeted by unfavor-
able campaign advertising.
• Harris County Democrats
are upset with their new party
chairman, an unknown who
slipped past the field to victory,
they say he is a disciple of
right-winger Lyndon La-
rouche, and legal action is
being considered by party reg-
ulars wanting him out.
3-Day Washington, D.C. Gala
To Honor Lady Bird Johnson
Accent On
Health
Texas Daportmant of Health
Robert Bernstein, M.D., Commissioner
*
Workers in the Beaumont
area suffering from a physical
or mental impairment which
prevents them from working
should consider applying for
Social Security disability bene-
fits when it appears the cond-
ition will last 12 months or
more.
Social Security disability
benefits can be paid to workers
under 65, disabled widows and
widowers 50-60, and to unmar-
ried adult children who become
disabled before reaching 22.
Under Social Security, a
person is considered disabled if
he or she has a condition which
prevents him or her from doing
any substantial gainful work
and which has lasted or is
expected to last at least 12
months or result in death.
While no payments can be
made to a disabled worker,
widow, or widower for the first
5 full months of disability,
applications should not be de-
layed.
Before a person applies for
disability benefits, it will be
helpful if he or she gathers
certain information. This will
help speed the application pro-
cess. All it takes is a telephone
call to start the process.
This includes:
* The person's Social Security
number.
* Date last worked.
* Date person became sick or
injured.
* Names, addresses, and tele-
phone numbers of doctors, hos-
pitals, or clinics that provided
treatment for the condition and
dates of treatment.
* Military service serial num-
ber or VA claims number if
available.
* List of kinds of jobs perform-
ed in previous 15 years.
* Names, Social Security nu-
mbers, and dates of birth of
spouse and children.
* Workers' compensation or
other public disability benefit
number, if any.
A person should not delay
appling if all this informaiton is
not available. Renumber a
claim may be filed by tele-
phone. The people in the
Beaumont Social Security office
may be able to help. The office
is located at 8870 Eastex Free-
way.
Sincere Thanks!
Th« faculty and *taff of Kirby Elementary
School would like to take this means to thank
our parents for their overwhelming response
during Texas Public School Week. 551 parents
and grandparents visited our school and
expressed their support of the job we re
doing at Kirby School.
We cannot stress enough the importance
of a parent's positive influence on their
child's education. We're proud that the
parents of Kirby Elementary willingly accept
.#*•*»■ responsibility in this partnership to
responslbili
te the youth
Sincerely,
Leonard E. Barnett
Principal
MAINSTREAM SWIMMERS
Texas Blacks worked their
way into this new leverage via
thier determination to swim
deeper into mainstream wa-
ters. Months ago. sophisticated
Houston operative AllanParker
sail in quiet discussion, "Don't
tell me Jesse can’t win. He
can."
Before the election was over,
Parker was dubbed “The Gen-
eral” by friend and foe alike.
The voters proved him correct.
Die-hards can smirk that
Jackson is a liability in what is
still a prejuduced region. But
the fact is many white Texans
feel comfortable dealing with
Parker and other top Blacks at
the Democrats' national con-
vention.
History was made last week.
The old political ways are dead.
Politicians who don't believe
that will drv on the vine.
Perhaps the crossovers
have setter reason to smirk if
they had as many Blacks on
their side of the battlefield as
the Democrats. In 1990, maybe
it will be ‘recruit, not smirk.'
ELECTION HIGHLIGHTS
•Hispanic Texans flocked to
the candidacy of Mike Dukakis,
who carried the state overall.
Their block is well-positioned.
.The upset-of-the-season was
defeat of veteran state Sen.
Grant Jonea by his former
House deskmate. Temple Dick-
son. The defeat did not bide
well with Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby,
Jones' long time friend, and not
Republicans are trying to res-
urrect a candidate against
Dickson, even a write-in.
.The fallout from the Texas
Supreme Court scandals almost
took one casualty, incumbent
Ted Z. Robertson, who eked
out a win over John E. Hum-
phries. Justice William Kilgar-
lin also survived.
•The amendments to keep
the judicial election system and
to make English the official
state language won in a tidal
wave.
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
- State Rep. Randall Riley haa
hired powerful politician oper-
ative Kent Olson of Williamson
County known for producing
Radium Found In Jewelry
Mode From Watches
Austin -Lady Bird Johnson
grew up listening to the wind in
the pine trees of the East Texas
woods. On her walks she
watched the wild flowers and
the daffodils in the yard and
when the first one bloomed,
she’d have a ceremony.
Mrs. Johnson has been cele-
grating the land and its natur-
al beauty ever since.
Her role as a conservationist,
however, has not really been
well understood, says a Univer-
sity of Texas at Austin histor-
ian who has written a book
which examines for the first
time the former first lady’s
accomplishments.
In “Lady Bird Johnson’s and
the Environment," Dr. Lewis
L. Gould argues that Mrs.
Johnson carried out her duties
as first lady with such purpose,
savvy and effectiveness that
she belongs in the front ranks
of modern first ladies, second
only to Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Although passage of the
Highway Beautification Act in
1965 was the legislative apex of
her efforts, Lady Bird Johnson
also articulated a wide range of
conservation issues, framing
policy initiatives and focusing
public opinion,” writes Gould in
the new book published by the
University Press of Kansas.
“While the Highway Beautif-
ication Act was imperfect legis-
lation that did not bring about
the sweeping regulation of bill-
boards, Mrs. Johnson's identifi-
cation with the cause made the
appearance of the roadside a
national issue and kept it in the
public eye," writes Gould, add-
ing that the law did draw
national attention to the prob-
lem of junkyards and outdoor
advertising.
Gould’s study of Lady Bird
Johnson and beautification be-
gan in 1982 when he offered a
course at UT Austin of "First
Ladies in the Twentieth Cen-
tury.” Mrs. Johnson attended
one session of the undergrad-
uate honors seminar in Novem-
ber 1982 and talked about her
own perceptions of her role as
first lady.
“While the first lady's comm-
itment to, beautification was
well known during the 1960's,
the range and variety of what
she tried to accomplish has not
at all been documented," said
Gould, who also is the author of
“The Presidency of William
McKinley” and “The Spanish
American War and President
McKinley," among other books.
“She hit upon a vein of
popular interest," Gould Says.
“It's hard to decide whether she
took it or it took her. The time
and the woman just came
together.”
Even before leaving Wash-
ington, Mrs. Johnson had plan-
ned to carry on her beautifica-
tion work. Projects included
the Texas highway-beautifica-
tion programs, the Austin
Town Lake Beautification Pro-
ject along the Colorado River
and the creation of the National
Wildflower Research Center.:
“Wildflowers are the stuff of
my heart," said the former first
lady, who on her 70th birthday
in 1982 donated $125,000 and 60
acres east of Austin to establish
the wildflower center. Match-
ing gifts from Laurance Rocke-
feller and others brought the
center afr initial endowment of
$700,000.
Beginning on April 28, ip
honor of her 75th birthday
(which was Dec. 22), the nation
will celebrate the legacy of
Lady Bird Johnson. In Wash-
ington, D.C., President and
Mrs. Reagan will preside over
three days of gala Jubilee
festivities, concerts and cere-
monies in Mrs. Johnson's hon-
or. Guests are expected to
include Jimmy and Roaalynn
Carter, Gerald and Betty Ford,
Richard and Pat Nixon, and
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Some new costume jewelry,
featuring old watch or clock
faces, may be novel to look at,
but could be dangerous to wear
or handle.
According to the Texas De-
partment of Health’s Bureau of
Radiation Control, used watch
and clock faces fashioned into
pendants, bracelets, earrings,
and men's tie clasps may con-
tain radium. Radium is a radio-
active element used to make
them glow in the dark.
Health effects which could
result from the jewelry range
from increased risk of cancer to
possible contact dermatitis.
Artisans crafting the jewelry
are at a higher risk than the
wearer because qf greater pos-
sibility of ingestion or inhala-
tion of the material, leading to
internal contamination.
David K. Lacker, chief of the
Burea of Radiation Control,
said that although luminous
dials on watches are manufact-
ured in the U.S., less hazardous
elements than radium must be
used. Although there are no
manufacturers in the U.S. that
use radium on new watches,
this is not necessarily true of
foregin manufacturers that
import timepieces into the U. A.
“Even if a watch does contain
radium, it is not considered
extremely hazardous if the
case and crystal are intact,"
Lacker said. "People are not
normally exposed to radium
unless the watch is broken or
taken apart for repair - or if its
parts are used for some other
purpsoe, such as in this
jewelry.”
Lacker said that in addition
to Texas, this new use of oid
watches in jewelry has been
traced to California, Oregon
and Pennsylvania. Radiation
control units in those states are
cooperating with the Texas
Department of Health and the
U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services' Center for
Devices and Radiological
Health to determine the
sources and distribution of the
“We suspect that the people
making and handling these
pieces may be unaware of their
risk of exposure to radiation,”
Lacker said.
Lacker said anyone who may
have bought items of jewelry
made from used watch dials
should have them tested for the
amount of radiation they con-
tain. Testing for radiation is
done at the Bureau of Radiation
Control in Austin, and at any of
the eight TDH Regional Offices
in the state. There is no charge
for the test;
If the jewelry is found to be
contaminated, the bureau also
will accept the item for proper
disposal.
Get Cajun
Flavor Without
The Salt
COLLEGE STATION-When
you crave intense flavors, but
have to watch your sodium
intake, cajun seasoning mixes
may be the answer, says an
Extension Service nutritionist.
“The unique thing about
Cajun foods is the large number
of spices used in cooking," says
Dr. Dymple Cooksey. “A dish
like blackened redfish will have
at least 10 spices, including
cayenne, white and black pep-
per, paprika, garlic, onion, bay
leaves, thyme, oregano and
ground cloves.”
The intense flavor from the
spices means salt isn’t nec-
essary to intensify the taste,
notes the Texas A ? M Univer-
sity Garicultural Extension
Service specialist.
Due to the popularity of
cajun cooking in restaurants,
she says that commercially
prepared cajun seasoning mix-
es have become widely avai-
lable in the supermarkets.
“For the person on a low-
sodium diet, homemade or
commercially prepared cajun
seasoning mixes are a good
alternative,” Cooksey says.
But she cautions consumers
to check the indgredients labels
on store-bought mixes since
some manufacturers include
salt in their products.
“Blessed are they that
mourn: for they shall be
comforted.”
Matthew 5:4
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