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Polish Food Crisis Worsens
A'*-
By TOE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Poland’s martial law regime says a
Solidarity union leader will be tried for
urging that government officials be
hanged. Meanwhile, the regime reported
severe grain shortages and indicated
military rule will continue at least
another five weeks.
Radio Warsaw said food shortages
were worsening, with dally purchases of
grain running “far short of the country’s
requirements, despite indications that
there is plenty of It in the Countryside.”
It accused farmers of selling less than
half the grain for which they had con-
tracted.
Deputy Premier Jerzy Ozdowski was
quoted as saying hoarding In anticipa-
tion of price hikes was the most rampant
form of speculation at the moment.
Without elaboration, he said the govern-
ment would deal with the issue next
week. - \
In a move to recover the actual cost of
moving goods, the government more
than doubled charges for transporting
freight by rail, truck and inland water-
ways, Radio Warsaw said.
Attempts oyer, the last dozen years to
make prices reflect actual costs have
triggered bloody riots, brought down
several Communist leaders, and led to
the formation 18 months ago of the now-
suspended independent Solidarity union.
Radio Warsaw indicated the state of
emergency imposed Dec. 13,1981 would
continue at least another five weeks, and
censorship would remain in force.
Western news dispatches have been in-
frequent and subject to censorship since
martial law was, imposed, and reports
from Poland are difficult to verify.
Western reporters must piece together
information from travelers, diplomats
and other sources.
Uncensored reports reaching the West
late Friday said eight prominent Polish
intellectuals and cultural figures cir-
culated a petition in Warsaw warning
Premier Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski of
possible tragedy unless martial law is
lifted.
The appeal said martial law “was
aimed at depriving society oWts voice
and subjugating the nation to military
dictatorship. History proves, however,
that the Polish nation will not submit to
such a fate, that following a short period
of apparent peace, a struggle for
freedom will erupt with renewed
strength."
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• Some accounts say 50,000 people in-
cluding Solidarity leaders and opponents
of the regime, have been interned, more
than 10 times the number acknowledged
by the government.
Capt. Wieslaw Gornicki, a press aide
to Jaruzelski, told the French newspaper
France-Soir in an Interview lb
Copenhagen that all those interned “will
be liberated without the least punish-
ment except for one - Marian Jurczyk,
one of the vice presidents of Solidarity.”
Reagan To Double Excise Taxes
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EXXON EMPLOYEES J.J. O’Neill Jr. of the turnaround and construction depart-
ment, and Searcy Reedy of the specialties department, admire the new world’s safe-
ty record set by refinery employees Saturday. 1
Exxon Crews Set Safety Record
WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Reagan, under increasing pressure to
hold down the 1983 federal deficit, is
agreeing to double the federal excise
taxes on tobacco, liquor and gasoline
and shift major highway, welfare and
education responsibilities to the states,
administration sources say.
The sources, who asked not to be iden-
tified, said Friday that some of the
! revenue from the new taxes would be us-
ed to help states meet their added
responsibilities.
Although they refused to give further
details, the sources said the decisions
were made Friday during meetings bet-
ween Reagan and his economic advisers
and were designed to hold down the
deficit in 1983.
After the private meeting Friday,
White House spokesman Larry Speakes
refused to discuss the session. “We’re
not going to conduct the president’s
decision-making in a fishbowl,” he said.
Reagan already has settled on about
$31 billion in cuts in domestic programs
and a big increase in funds for the Pen-
tagon in his 1983 budget
But without tax increases, the result
would be a deficit that officials estimate
at nearly $110 billion, a level that fs in-
tolerable to administration officials and
congressional Republicans,
"There’s a consensus on the need to
narrow the deficit, We are committed
and the president is committed to doing
so,” said Rep. Tom Evans, R-Del. He
said that would require a balanced ap-
proach to the budget, and “that means
looking at revenues and expenditures.”
Evans and a group of House
Republican leaders are expected to meet
with Reagan at the White House on Mon-
day- Sources said they likely would urge
the president to re-examine the proposed
$215 billion defense budget for 1983 as
well as adopt some form of tax increase.
These sources, who asked not to be
identified, said that with the exception of
Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y,, virtually all
Republican leaders of the House view it
essential that Reagan increase govern-
ment revenue.
Treasury estimates earlier this year
said a”doubling of the three major excise
levies would yield another $5.4 billion an-
nually by 1984.
A doubling would put the federal ex-
cise tax on gasoline at 8 cents a gallon,
on cigarettes at 16 cents a pack, on wine
at 34 cents a gallon, on bcer at <18 a bar-
rel and on liquor at $21 per gallon.
In addition to the increase in the excise
taxes, other revenue-raising proposals
considered include some form ol
minimum Income tax on Individuals and
corporations.
. Exxon Baytown Refinery employees
are world champions in safety.
Saturday, more than 2,000 employees
worked 613 days accumulating 8.16
million work hours without an on-the-job
disabling injury to set the safety record
our employees’ continuing safety con-
sciousness every minute of every day,”
said Refinery Safety Head Jack Bonc-
zynskl.
Refinery Manager Marshall Sprigg
commented, “Safety is an integral part
Growth Forecast For Houston Area Economy
By TIM POTTER
The Houston region that includes
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recognized by the National Safety Coun- of the planning and execution of every Baytown should experience gains in
cil. The old reeord was held by
employees at the Yokohama Refinery of
Nippon Oil in Japan, who reached 8.15
million work hours without an on-the-job
disabling injury late in 1979.
Baytown employees achieved two
other safety records on Jan. l: they com-
pleted a full calendar year injury-free
for the first time ever and accomplished
Baytown Refinery’s best-ever All-
Injury-Index of 0.75.
"We’ire where we are now because of
job,
Monday, Tom Decker, corporate
secretary for the National Safety Coun-
cil, will present employees a certificate
of recognition for their outstanding safe-
ty achievement. Refinery Manager Mar-
shall Sprigg will accept the certificate on
behalf of refinery employees during
ceremonies at noon Monday in the Cen-
tral Shop.
In addition, all employees will be serv-
ed a barbecue dinner.
most sectors of its economy during 1982,
a Houston Chamber of Commerce of-
ficial said here Friday.
Leonard S. Patillo, executive vice
president and general manager of the
Houston organization, made the assess-
ment during his annual economic predic-
tions to the Baytown Chamber of Com-
merce.
Although he said 1982 would “not be
the best of years” for metropolitan
Houston’s economy, Patillo added, “we
again will out-perform the national
economy by a wide margin.' ’
Patillo predicted significant gains in
employment and per capita income.
Employment in metropolitan Houston
should grow by 4.5 to 5 percent in 1982, he
said. That translates to a gain of about
70,000 jobs, compared to 60,000 new Jobs
last year. Also, he said, unemployment
Should remain below 5 percent.
Along with an Increase in employ-
ment, Patillo predicted continued im-
provement in per capita Income. In 1960,
he said the Houston area ranked 77th na-
tionally in per capita income. But by
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1979, the area’s per capita income was Although the Houston region should
10th in the nation, Patillo said. rank first in the nation in housing starts
He said much of the higher income can in 1982, Patillo said, "our volume of
be attributed to an increase in white- starts is well below underlying demand,
collar employment. Technical Qur Inventory of new single-family
engineers, for example, account for
about one in every 33 new jobs.
But Patillo said gains in employment
and income will be tempered by a slight
rise in the inflation rate, a continued
slump in residential construction and
“insufficient housing.”
houses is the lowest since the depths of
the last recession, and multi-family
vacancies are scarce in many parts of
the region.”
But even without a reduction in in-
terest rates, Patillo predicted
With about 1,500 people migrating to metropolitan Houston should record
Houston each week, he sald many people about 25,000 housing starts in the next
will encounter a shortage of housing. y«*r.
Pearce Street Journal -
Taxing Thought
These days, It seems to take more
brains to make out your Income tax
return than it does to make the Income.
Some High School Seniors Facing Social Security Cuts
GROUND
m
By FRIEDA BEATY
High school and college students
receiving Social Security benefits will no
longer receive full benefits due to a new
law passed in Congress.
The recent change, passed In an effort
to reduced the Social Security Ad-
ministration’s part of the federal budget,
provides for the benefits to be phased out
by 1985, according to Pete Sandoval,
field representative with SSA.
Due to other student aid programs
established since 1965 when the first
benefits were available, the Social
Security benefits will be phased out, he
said. “Congress felt there were other
avenues students could take for financial
aid.”
Previously, checks were Issued to un-
marked full-time students when a
patent Insured under Social Security
died, or started receiving retirement or
disability payments.
Students who received benefits before
August 1981, will be eligible for add!'
In order to continue receiving benefits,
students must be enrolled fulltime at a
college or other approved post-
secondary school by May 1,1982.
Sandoval said the problem lies with
graduating seniors of May 1982. The
seniors do not graduate until the end of
May, making them ineligible for the
benefits. Unless they graduat ■»* mid
term, they will not receive any benefits
Jacinto College as full-time students,
senior counselor Carole Bergeron said.
“We found out (about the law) for cer-
tain Thursday morning after talking
with several people in the Social Securi-
ty Administration and getting different
answers. Then we called the kids in and
told them.’
FRANK, JANET, Tammy and Kimberly
Bums return to Del Rio after a holiday
visit with family and friends in the
Baytown area... Bo and D’Eva Turner
enjoy some fried oysters... Tracey
Anderson takes some good-natured teas-
ing about "Mrs. Goodwrench."
Gwen and Mickey Pillow enjoy an
evening out ... Kim Darsee glad the
holiday season has passed ... Juli
Hogue glad to be back in school.
■\ Lincoln Tolleson recognizes a friend
from across the room... Sharon Fowler
misses her prediction... John and Bar-
bara Wadley do some after-Christmas
shopping.
Constable Jim Douglas talks about a
pint-sized addition to his staff ...
Dolores Richardson offers some helpful
suggestions to a friend.
V.H. “Buddy” McBride says he didn’t
Bill Blake is a
Lee College Will Continue
Hearing Impaired Program
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tlonal checks through 1985. The checks, after July 1982.
however, are frozen at the August 1981, Nine students at La Porte High School
amount and reduced by 25 percent each have been affected by the new law and
bird out of the nest before they’re
ready." ,
San Jac has been helpful, she said, by
making an exception for the students.
They are also providing mini courses for
them which begin in April.
Mrs. Bergeron says she doesn’t want
to say the move to make May 1 a
1 v “h
year until the benefits are el:
Sandoval added.
as of Thursday morning, most of them
decided to graduate and attend San
By SHAWN BALTHROP
A Lee College program which provides
interpreters to work with hearing-
impaired students will be continued
after May 1982, college officials have an-
nounced.
The future of that program was In
doubt last year when i
super oyi
Carol l
i about a drive
that pi
hen the college receiv-
ed word of cuts in Texas Rehabilitation
Commission funding for the program.
Since that time, however, college of-
ficials have been working with the com-
mission to come up with a plan that will
allow the program to continue.
In September 1981, commission
regional director Kenneth Vogel told Lee
College president Dr. Robert Cloud that
funding for the interpreter program
would be dropped at the end of May 1982.
Currently, that program provides five
full-time interpreters for hearing im-
students. The Lee College pro-
the gram is the only one in the statin which
Since then, however, Cloud said the
college and the commission have reach-
ed a tenatlve agreement on the continua-
tion of the program.
Although the exact details of the
agreement have not been determined,
Cloud said Friday that the commission
has agreed to contribute a flat dally rate
for the support of full-time interpreters!
on campus.
The college, which foots the office
space and maintenance costs for the pro-
gram now, has tenatlvely agreed to pick
up any remaining costs, he said.
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are that we will not retain as many full-
time interpreters as we’ve been hav-
ing.”
Cloud said he expects the revamped
program will include two or three full-
time interpreters, along with
time workers. He added that he
“no loss
a result
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Negotiators Take To Table
To Try To Avert Walkout
By TOE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Negotiators headed back to the
bargaining table today to try to avert a
walkout at the Shell Oil Co. refinery in
Deer Park while informational pickets
spread to another Texaco facility near
the industrial community of Port Ar-
thur.
Representatives of the Oil, Chemical
and Atomic Workers Union were to meet
at 10 a.m. with Shell officials to decide
whether to continue contract talks or to
Issue a 48-hour strike notice for its 2,100
members.
“We are still far apart on a number of
Issues — pay being one — but as long as
the meetings continue and as long as
there is give and take, that leaves the
posslbililty of good talks,” said company
spokesman Bob Gibson.
Gulf Oil Corp. In Port Arthur also was
scheduled to resume talks today.
In Port Arthur, about 4,000 union
members walked off their Jobs Friday at
tk........ largest Texaco plant and
employees of American
ton strike after their two-
year contract expired and talks stalled
on the issue of pension rights, said union
spokesman R.C. Graffagmine.
Union negotiators walked away from
the bargaining table Thursday after
Texaco officials refused demands for a
new pension plane and a contract exten-
sion.
However, Texaco spokesman Charles
Rentz said plant operations were conti-
nuing “as usual” with supervisory and
technical personnel working in three
shifts around the clock.
Union members, working in groups of
three and four, braved windy, chilly
weather Friday to picket the two
refineries.
Law enforcement authorities, who
monitored the plants during shift
changes, said picketing was peaceful
and orderly.
Informational pickets appeared Fri-
day at the Texaco plant in Port Nechw,
15 miles from Port Arthur. One union of-
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