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Corporate population declines
Shut-downs outnumber start-ups statewide, although Dallas-Fort Worth group growsBy Judith Harper
OF THE TIMES HERALD STAFF
More corporations shut
down in Texas in 1986 than
started up, according to Comp-
troller Bob Bullock's Econom-
ic Analysis Center.
The net loss of businesses
means an estimated 4,000 few-
er franchise taxpayers by Au-
gust 31, the end of fiscal 1987,
according to the center's May
1987 Fiscal Notes.
During fiscal 1986, business
shut-downs totaled 48,016
while 47,452 corporations start-
ed up - a net loss of 564. In
contrast, between 1980 and
1986, there were 364,817 new
corporation start-ups and
210,517 shut-downs, a real in-
crease of 154,300.
Dallas-Fort Worth experi-
enced a net increase of 1,818
corporations, giving it the most
start-ups in the state, while the
Gulf Coast region had the big-
gest number of shut-downs,
losing 2,277 more businesses
than it gained.
'Fessing up
Texas Attorney General Jim
Mattox last week obtained an
agreed judgment under which
Steakley Chevrolet/Subaru, a
Dallas automobile dealership,
will arbitrate consumer com-
plaints stemming from odome-
ters being rolled back by deal-
ership employees on
new-model demonstration ve-
hicles.
Mattox says that Steakley it-
self brought the rollback prob-
lem to the attention of the At-
torney General's Consumer
Protection Division in Dallas.
The rollbacks, which had been
occurring since 1985, were
done only on demonstration
automobiles.
"This is an example of cor-
porate responsibility at its
best," Mattox says. "As soon as
the company learned what its
employees were doing, they
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has approved the application
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Carrier and three other truck-
ing companies to provide a
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service to the Texas shipping
public.
Shippers can now tender
truckload lots of general com-
modities weighing 10,000
pounds or more to these truck-
ing firms for transport virtual-
ly anywhere in the state from
origin to destination with no
stops at terminals or additional
handling required.Proponents of the applica-
tion say the new direct service
will mean substantial savings
to shippers because it elimi-
nates the high fixed costs asso-
ciated with terminal opera-
tions.
The three other shippers are
Jones Transfer of Austin; Tex-
arkana, Inc. of Austin; and
Great Western Trucking Co. of
Lufkin.
In approving the application,
Commission Chairman Mack
Wallace and Commissioner
John Sharp voted to approve a
motion by Sharp which set the
minimum truckload weight
limit at 10,000 pounds and lim-
ited the amount of foodstuffs
requiring refrigeration to 85
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Shippers currently are able
to tender truckload shipments
under present rate tariffs.
These applicants have filed
proposed rate tariffs for truck-
load service with the commis-
sion to be considered at a pub-
lic hearing.
Public servers
The Texas Senate last week
approved the nomination of
William H. Quortrup of Dallas
to a seat on the Texas Air Con-trol Board for a term which
will end Sept. 1, 1989.
Quortrup, 59, is president of
Quortrup Petroleum Products.
He is a member of the Air
Quality Advisory Committee
for the North Texas Council of
Governments, a director of Re-
publicBank in Carrollton and a
past president of the Texas Oil
Marketers Associations.
Joseph Pena of Carrollton
was named to the federal offi-
cial's position on the Advisory
Commission on ritergovern-
mental Relations He wil suc-
ceed Dick Whittmng on of Dal-
las, whose term expired, and
will serve through Sept. 1,
1991.
Pena, 56, is regional admin-
istrator for the U.S. Small
Business Administration, Re-
gion VI, in Dallas. He has 28
years of investment banking
experience and is a member of
the Houston Chamber of Com-
merce Small Business Com-
mittee and the Houston His-
panic Chamber of Commerce.
Denison Resident Scott B.
Smith was tapped to fill the
unexpired term of Ruben H.
Johnson, who resigned from
the Finance Commission bank-
ing section.Smith, whose term will end
Feb. 1, 1989, is board chairman
of American Bank in Denison.
He was mayor of Denison
from 1982-83 and is a member
of the Independent Bankers
Association of Texas, Texas
Bankers Association and Texo-
ma Regional Planning Com-
mission.
The Senate also approved
the nomination of Dr. Charles
T. Ku, a Lewisville dentist, to a
six-year term on the State
Board of Dental Examiners.
He was selected to replace the
late Dr. Jack T. Clark of Fort
Worth and will serve through
May 10, 1993.
Ku is a 1974 graduate of the
Baylor College of Dentistry.
He is a director of the Dallas
Science Museum, former
chairman of the Flower
Mound Sesquicentennial Com-
mittee, past president of the
Lewisville Rotary Club and a
member of the American Den-
tal Association.
Dallas Lawyer Paul Eggers
was named chairman of the
governor's Drug Abuse Task
Force. The 12-member panel
will study drug abuse in Texas
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