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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Tuesday, February 5, 1985
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Indoor puLlic ban is proposed
AUSTIN (AP) - A state ban
on smoking in most indoor public
places would be an unfair
burden on owners of
restaurants, hotels and bowling
alleys, lobbyists told a House
committee.
The “Clean Indoor Air Act”
authored by Rep. Erwin Barton,
D-Pasadena, would allow smok-
ing only in designated areas of
public places. It would require
separate smoking and non-
smoking areas in workplaces.
Barton also asked the House
Committee on Public Health to
raise the legal age for buying
cigarettes from 16 to 21.
Texas Restaurant Association
lobbyist Richie Jackson told the
committee Monday that small
restaurants would have trouble
setting aside the no-smoking
areas required by the bill.
"Free enterprise incentives
are the most effective means,”
he said, adding that many
restaurants have set up smoke-
free zones because it’s good for
business.
Herbert Wilson of the Texas
Hotel and Motel Association also
said the. state should no.t force
rio-smoking areas On private -
businesses.
The committee sent the
smoking-area bill to subcom-
mittee and took no action on the
cigarette purchase age. Several
committee members said they
would amend the bill to set 18 as
the minimum age.
The American Cancer Society,
Texas Medical Association,
Texas Retailers Association and
the Legislative Task Force on
Cancer backed the Barton bills
as effective measures.
“There’s mounting evidence
that inhalation of tobacco by
non-smokers increases the risk
of lung cancer,” said James
Dannenbaum of Houston, chair-
man of the task force appointed
by House Speaker Gib Lewis to
look into cancer in Texas.
Frank Jackson of the Texas
Medical Association said
“anything that discourages peo-
ple from smoking will save the
state money."
Texas retailers back the
public place smoking ban as a
good way to‘protect merchan-
dise. Consumers now wind up
paying for goods damaged by
smoke and ash, said Mickey
Moore, Texas Retailers Associa-
tion lobbyist. The law would be a
relief for “merchants who are
reluctant to offend customers”
by asking them not to smoke, he
said.
Texas Association of Business
lobbyist Ronnie Volkening said
the ban could be costly for
employers who might have to
hire engineers to help set up the
“artificial segregation” of
smokers and non-smokers.
Joe Ratcliff, vice president of
the Texas Association of Tobac-
co and Candy Distributors, said
government should not be in-
volved in Such efforts.
“In trying to regulate social
policy there haven’t been very
many successes,"
It is pointless for legislators to
pass laws mandating healthier
lifestyles, Ratcliff added.
“You might as well tell the
commissioner of health to tell us
to fall out in the morning in our
pajamas for exercises,” he said.
“You cannotpass a law and say
‘Don’t do this’ and suddenly all
the health problems disappear."
A ban on smoking in grocery
stores would be "almost totally
impossible,” according to Texas
Retail Grocers Association lob-
byist Johnnie B. Rogers. He also
testified that grocery checkers
would waste time checking in-
dentification if the legal age for
buying cigarettes is raised to 21.
J. Manley Head, representing
the Texas Bowling Centers
Association, said, “There’s no
way in the world we could put up
non-smoking areas in a bowling
Guerrillas mar Papal visit
C LIMA, Peru (AP) - Guer-
rilla saboteurs blacked out
Lima’s airpqrt shortly before
Pope John Paul II’s plane land-
ed, and then cut power to the
sprawling capital of 5 million,
police and airport control
tower officials said.
Moments later, a huge ham-
mer and sickle — the symbol of
the Maoist Shining Path Move-
ment — was set ablaze on a
mountainside north of Lima.
The show of sabotage ap-
peared to be a dramatic rejec-
tion of the pope’s call for an
end to violence In Peru.
In the fourth and final day of
his visit to Peru, the pope was
going Tuesday to the shan-
tytown of Villa El Salvador and
the Amazon city of Iquitos. He
then travels to Trinidad-
Tobago, the last stop on his 12-
day, four-nation journey.
Police tightened security
after the Monday evening in-
cidents which started, ac-
cording to police and airport
control tower officials, after
two explosions occurred nor-
theast and east of the city as
the pontiff’s twin-engine jet
returned from northern Peru.
The officials said the runway
lights went out at 8:45 p.m., but
the pontiff’s plane landed safe-
ly in the darkened military sec-
tion of Lima airport. They said
power at the airport was
restored almost Immediately
by a back-up generating
system.
Shining Path guerrillas have
caused blackouts in the past by
blowing up utility poles, and it
was believed those might have
been the explosions the air con-
trollers saw. But the con-
trollers were unsure if the
blasts caused the airport
blackout.
The chief Vatican
spokesman, Monsignor Pier-
franco Pastore, gave a dif-
ferent account of the incidents,
saying the pope’s plane was on
the ground 10 minutes before
the runway lights went out.
Officials of Electrolima, the
state utility, blamed the power
outages in the city on the Shin-
ing Path. They said the power
was cut when a main line that
delivers electricity was down-
ed in Huancayo.
It was the tenth blackout in
the capital in 2years that has
been blamed on the guerrilla
group. There was a 70-mlnute
blackout in parts of Lima the
day the pope arrived.
house.”
In unanimous votes, the com-
mittee sent to the House bills set-
ting up a Texas Cancer Council
and requiring reporting of
cancer data to a state registry.
phone firm
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a setback
DALLAS (AP) - A judge for
the Public Utility Commission
dealt American Telephone &
Telegraph setback in its bid for a
$123 million rate hike when he
told the company it hadn’t
documented the need for more
revenue.
But Phillip Holder, an ad-
ministrative judge for the com-
mission, stopped short of killing
AT&T’s application for higher
long-distance business rates
Monday when he rejected
several requests to dismiss the
application.
Holder told the company thdt
its application does not contain
enough information to support a
rate increase. AT&T lawyers
said they would try to provide
the utility commission with
more data by mid-April.
AT&T’s request would raise
bills for business customers
while slightly reducing long-
distance rates for residential
customers.
Among those seeking to have
the application thrown out were
the state attorney general; the
commission lawyer who
represents consumers, several
private long-distance companies
and the Texas Municipal
League.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 82, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 5, 1985, newspaper, February 5, 1985; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1099803/m1/8/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.