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Hobby Says Billion-Dollar Tax Hike Is Needed
AUSTIN (AP) - Lt. Gov. BUI
Hobby says Texans face a $1.5
bUlion tax hike to pay for prisons,
highways and schools. But Gov.-
elect'Mark White says he is “com-
mitted” to avoiding a tax hike.
Hobby told legislators at a pre-
session conference Friday that
Texas, whichhasn^diad a tax in-
crease in 12 years, will be up
against tUe budgetary wall in the
1984-85 biennium.
“A tax increase of a billion and
a quarter, a billion and a half, is
really needed to adequately ad-
dress these needs, brought on
primarily by growth,” Hobby
said.
But White, in, a press release,
said he is “committed to see that
state government continues to
live within its revenues without
Increasing the tax burden on the
ppnplp of Texas.”
Among the big-dollar items fac-
ing Texas are massive expen-
ditures to fix state highways,.br-
ing state prisons into compliance
with court orders and meet the
rising cost of education.
%
Hobby said* state agencies have
requested $3.25 billion more than
the state wUl have available for
the biennium. The $3.25 billion is
above the $5 bUlion increase in
revenues forecast for the state
during the biennium.
“They’re not irresponsible re-
quests, They all ought to be dane
but they won’t be,” Hobby said.
“Obviously, aU of it is not going to
happen. But the figures do docu-
ment a need for a substantial, as
the Republicans call it, revenue
enhancement.”
White said, “It seems that
every biennium the budget re-
quests of the agencies always ex-
ceed the anticipated revenues.”
The governor-elect, who will
have veto power over the 1983
Legislature, said, ‘“I will
cooperate with (the Legislature)
in trying to make certain in these
difficult times that we do not com-
plicate the challenges before us
by adding to the tax burden on our •
people.”
Sen. Grant Jones, .an Abilene
Democrat who chairs the Senate
Finance Committee, sided with
Hobby.
“A tax bill is necessary or we
are going to have to ignore some
very serious problems,” Jones
said?
Hobby offered no suggestions
on what tax should be raised or in-
itiated to meet the growing needs.
Jones talked about raising tne
state gasoline tax, removing
some exemptions from the sales
tax or increasing vehicle registra-
tion fees.
Texans now pay a five cent per
The Baytown Sun Invites
MR. & MRS. DURWARD BAILEY
Baytown
v To See
“CLASS REUNION”
At The Bay Plaza I
(This Pass Good Through Dec. 13)
(This Pass Good For 2 People)
®fje paytoton §>un
gallon state gls tax, the nation’s
lowest. ’ ■ '
Robert Dedman, chairman of
the state highway board, has pro-
posed raising the tax to 10 per-
cent. Dedman told the lawmakers
Friday that state roads are a
mess.
“We have 17,000 bridges that
“aredfflfdesperate state of repair
and we don’t have adequate funds
to repair them. We have potholes
all over the state,” he said.
Dedman also said the needs are
immediate.
Weekend
Volume,, 61, No. 31
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Sunday, December 5, 1982
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BHA Offers To Hold Hearing
On Bay Terrace Apartments
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GIFT FROM A CAR ING SON
CHRISTMAS IS always a special time for families
and Bess and Jim Haggard have found that“all
those years of sending (son James) to college paid
off.” The younger Haggard,, now an attorney in
Huntsville, decided to surprise his special parents
with an early Christmas gift Friday — a brand new
Cadillac, which was delivered complete with rib-
bons and bows. The Haggards say it has been their
son’s dream, since he was 18 years old, to buy them
a luxury car as a way of showing them his apprecia-
tion of their parental efforts. „
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
By TIM POTTER
The Baytown Housing Authori-
ty is offering to hold a public hear-
ing on a controversial apartment
complex if the civic association
opposed to the development first
agrees to withdraw its lawsuit to
stop theproject. ’
But the attorney for the Mollie-
Knowlton Civic Association Inc.
said the group will probably re-
ject the proposal. -
BHA Director Bill Eiland said
he expected to mail the offer Fri-
day to representatives of the civic
association. The group includes
about 38 families who live near
the 130-unit Bay Terrace Apart-
ments, which are being built on a
seven-acre tract on the north side,
of Nolan Road near Highway 146.
Residents living near the site;
have said the apartments would
reduce their property values and
increase crime and traffic in the
area. —-----7“J=a”
The housing authority would
administer federal rent subsidies
that would be given to low-income
, tenants of the apartments. -
If the civic association accepts
the offer; people living within 6ne-
fourth of , a mile of the, project
would be given notice of the hear-
ing 30 days before it would be
held, Eiland said.
During a closed meeting Mon-
day, the BHA Board of Commis-
sioners authorized Eiland to
make the offer.
But Eiland said the board will
not hold a hearing unless the civic
association drops its lawsuit.
The group filed a petition in a
district court on Nov. 8 to stop
construction of the project.
“ Although the civic association
contends that the board should
have held a public hearing before
the apartment site was approved,
Eiland and Norma Wilder, chair-
woman of BHA board, insist that
the board is still not legally re-
quired to hold a hearing. I
A public hearing is “just a way
to eliminate all this money that’s
being spent by both sides in legal
fees,” Eiland said. In the past, he
said, the civic association has
complained it was not allowed to
give inputabout the project site.
Although the civic association
has not yet received the formal of-
fer, it will probably reject it, said
Doug Sandvig, the group’s, at-
torney........... -----
- , Officers of the civic association
could not be reached Friday to
comment on the offer.
But Sandvig said, “I don’t think
there is any chance of getting a
fair and impartial hearing at this
stage of the game."
“The court is probably the
worst place to decide whether it’s
a good project or a bad project,
but that’s,the situation were forc-
ed into,” Sandvig said ■
“ A non-profit subsidiary of the
BHA, consisting of BHA board
members, approved the sale of
about $4.5 million in bonds on
Aug. 19 to help finance the pro-
ject. The apartments would be
privately owned by a limited part-
nership related to the developer,
Brockman Builders Inc., of
Monroe, La.
According to a state law that
became effective in September
1981, the BHA board should have
held a public hearing before the
site of the project was approved,
Sandvig says.
But Eiland and the developer
ment of Housing and Urban
Development approved tfie Nolan
Road site before the law went into
effect. Also, Mrs. Wilder said the
Jaw requiring the public hearing
doesn’t * apply because the
development is privately owned.
The developer has already
(See HEARING, Page2-A)
- - AUSTIN (AP) -'1 Texas
Education Agency budget
adopted by a state-panel would
hike teacher salaries at least 9
percent, with the increase. A
> x weighted to attract new teachers
to the profession. -
The state Legislative Budget
Board accepted its staff recom-
mendation of maintaining the
mlrro"t vparly pyp^rtoncp a»nlp
with raises ranging from 7.6 per-
cent annually to 10.4 annually,
depending on experience level.
Budget board Assistant Direc-
tor Homer Scace was sym-
pathetic. to the State Board of
Education’s attempt to cut down
on the number of teacher pay
steps to make the starting salary
more attractive.
“This is designed to draw
talented young people into the
profession.” said Scace. “We
have the prospect of an increase
in students and the pipeline of
new teachers is simply running
dry.”
Mid-careec salaries also were
increased more than the 9 percent
average to keep teachers m
school systems.
State salary incmses may be
supplemented by local school
district funds. ......
The smallest increase would go
to teachers with the most ex-
perience. K fe&thdf' WIUl fi B'.A'.11
get $1,322 per month instead of the
current $1,111 per month starting
salary, a 9.1 percent annual in-
crease.
A teacher with a bachelor’s
degree and 17 years experience
would .see a monthly salary in-
crease from $1,926 to $2,228, or a
MU percent annual increase
when pro-rated over 12 months.
And a teacher with eight years
$1,855 per month, or a 10.4 percent
annual increase.
The teacher raise recommend-
ed by the Education Board was
only slightly higher in total, but
would have “compressed” the
pay scale so teachers would have
gotten bigger immedfate in-
creases but waited longer for the
next raise.
Under the Board of Education’s
1984-1985. Under tile budget board
proposal, they get $6.5 million
more for the biennium.
But, with the compressed pay
scale under The Education Board
proposal, a teacher could get as
much as a 39.9 percent salary
jump in 1984.
The 12-member budget board
agreed with its staff and voted to
perlence. A teacher with a B.A. experience wouiu see a monmiy ;- propg3ai, eeacnei^v-‘as° a"Wi^e; ---s)mplyplug the extra money into.,
degree but no experience would increase in salary from $1,523 to would get $6.6 million more in - thecurrent pay system;
Texas Delegation Urges Gas Bill Amendment
Pearce Street Journal-
No Consolation
When we read that a guy got a
phone bill for nearly $24,000, it
reminded us that transcontinen-
tal telephone service began in the
U.S. in 1915, but wei don’t suppose
that helps the man with the big
bill.------"
-PLPforFH
AR0U1VD
TOWN
RANDY AND ANNE Andrews
have some exciting news to share
.. .Randy Stroud already knows
wh#*to order fot a certain
customer ... Leon Waltman of-
fers the perfect Christmas gift
idea for a youngster.
Police Chief Wayne Henscey
still not smOking after successful-
ly completing the Great
American Smokeout observance
■ ;. Michael Rios is surprised by
wife Gay and friends on his birth-
day.
The John Turhers, frdm
California, visiting the Ron
McLembre fafinily in Baytown...
Glenn Carlton makes big plans
... Randy Busch talks about
fund-raising efforts.
Church News ...._______6-8C*
Classified .-.........., ■ 1-6D
Comics.....: 777T ~ ...5C
Crossword Puzzle........5C
Dimension...........Z. 1-2B
Editorial................4A
Movie Theaters.......... 4C
Obituaries............... 2A
Police Beat..............2A
School Lunches..........ID
Sports.................1-3C
Youth Booth.............3B
WEATHER
BAYTOWN AREA weather
will bp partly cloudy and
cool through Saturday with
a 20 percent chance of rain
Saturday night. Low Satur-
day night will be in the low
40s. Temperatures will be
warmer Sunday, with a high
in the mid-60s.
_ Py FRIEDA BEATY
WASHINGTON (Sp) - Texas
U.S. Representatives are set to in-
troduce an amendment on the
House floor that will assure Texas
a 90 percent return on President
Reagan’s proposed gasoline tax
increase, U S. Rep. Jack Fields
' said Friday.- - -.
Fields said the Texas delega-
tion will introduce the amend-
ment on the House floor Tuesday
in an effort to get Texas an in-
creased share of the money the
state will put into the program.
The amendment calls for Texas
to get at least a 90 percent return
on all money collected from the
proposed federal gas tax.
„„ Texas Senators and Reptesen-.
tatives have joined forces to
assure Texas will get its fair
share of the returns.
Fields, along with Rep, Bill Ar-
cher and other Texas represen-
tatives, publicized the amend-
ment in a Friday morning news
■ conference: --............... .......; ■
“If we get this amendment
passed ij will help the state in a
said.
Fields calls the proposal, as it
stands, “inappropriate” because
the state would receive only 68
cents for every $1 contributed.
Even if the amendment is approv-
ed, Fields says he still has reser-
vations about the benefits of the
entire proposal.
Fields claims the administra-
tion’s reversal to allow cities,
such-as Houston, to use money
raised by the increase for new
mass transit systems is a great
improvement.
Although themasstransitprfc,
posal will not directly affect.
Baytown, Fields says it will help
the northern part of the 8th Con-
The increase, called for in the
amendment, will however help
the Baytown area as it will bring
in more money for the east belt.
“Basically we are looking for a
better return on our money
because, as it stands, the proposal
Js.unaceeptable,^ - *—
“We are going to make a fight
and do the best we can. If there is
any increase at all we will have a
victory”------------------------
Personally, Fields says he
prefers to see no tax but rather
the elimination of federal pro-
gmams to free up money-for. the
refurbishing program.
“If there is a need for money I’d
rather see us get it from Austin so .
we can keep 100 percent of the
money in Texas.”
If the federal gas tax increase
becomes a reality, Fields believes
the state legislature will be “a liU 'V
tie slow” in adopting a state
gasoline tax increase.
Chief Goodfellow Warns Drive Is Jeopardized
GOODFELLOWS
December 5,1982
Previous Balance.......... 326.00
Cory & Mika Roundtree......5.00
Rob’t. E. Lee High School
Anchor Club..............10.00
Lisa, Susan & Laura Robella 30.00
Berniece French Moses.....50.00
Lucretia & Richard Donnelly 25.00
M.O. Jackson........ ......50.00
Total....................496.00
By CHIEF GOODFELLOW
, While you’re getting ready for a
big Christmas party for your
family, take a moment to reflect
on the plight of some of your
fellow Baytohians who aren’t as
fortunate'asyouare. ,•
Even though we live in the
world’s most prosperous country,
there is widespread poverty
among our people. Problems are
compounded by the severe
economic crunch that continues
to plague the nation.
Although some Baytonians are
unemployed because of the reces-
sion, many others are working
and continuing to maintain their
normal standard of living.
Sometimes we take the good
things of life too much for
granted. We don’t give thanks
enough for what we have, nor do
we share enough of our bounty
with those in need.
This Christmas, Baytonians
whose life style has not yet been
again have an opportunity to help
provide- a merry Christmas for
several hundred underprivileged
youngsters.
Baytown Goodfellows, who are
trying to raise enough money to
pay for the 1982 party for deserv-
ing children, need the help of
everyone to make Chrisynas a
reality foAhem.
Contributions are slow coming
in and it’s going to take more
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