Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 175, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 31, 1987 Page: 3 of 14
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SOMEWHERE IN the: background, up in the trees,
are two men trimming branches away from power
lines. The project, sponsored by Central Power and
30s Monday night, said Don Ocker, a
forecaster with the National
Weather Service in Brownsville
forecasters were predicting lows
in the mid 20s in Starr County and
western sections ot Hidalgo County,
and in the mid-30s in the eastern halt
of the Valley.
A hard freeze could severely
damage the watermelon and can-
taloupe crops in Starr County, and
the cold weather could also heavily
damage any fledgling cotton plants.
Ocker said.
The Valley's citrus crop should not
lie damaged if the weather reaches
anticipated record cold because
most of the oranges and grapefruit
have already been harvested, he
said
Citrus trees, however, could lie
damaged by the high winds and low
humidity that prevailed in South
Texas on Monday. Ocker said
The Valley's cabbage and onion
crops are not expected Io be hurt, he
said, and new gram plants also
should survive
“It will be a record cold for all of
South Texas," he said "We have no
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Without a companion pact on
shorter range systems, the
agreement would leave the
Soviets with about 130 missiles in
the 300-mile to 600-mile range in
• Europe and the United Slates
with none Chirac had sought
assurances that the United States
would be willing to build up to
Soviet levels of such weapons
A lew hours before Chirac ar-
rived, a senior U.S official told
reporters al the White House that
such a buildup is envisioned
The key questions remaining
are what levels each side would
have and how the West will meet
the Soviet strength with rebuilt
older rockets or a new generation
of weapons, said the official,
speaking on condition of
anonymity
"There are two ways you can
get equality,” the official said
"One is conversion and the other
is new systems, and the (NATO)
alliance hasn’t decided how ”
freezing temperatures in the last
week in March on our records. "
The weather service has been
keeping such records in Brownsville
for the past 20 to 30 years.
Jerry Parsons. Bexar County
Agriculture Extension Service
vegetable specialist, said such a
freeze could damage most fruit
crops as well as tomatoes, peppers,
beans and corn
"They may have Io replant." he
said ol farmers whose tender, young
plants become victims ot the rare,
springtime freeze in the county for
which San Antonio is the seal
Strawberries in the Poteet area
south ot San Antonio are particular-
ly susceptible to a hard Ireeze,
Atascosa County agriculture agent
Doug Andrews said
Andrews said farmers had tieen
lixiking forward to one of the largest
crops of strawberries in several
years.
"But if it'll get down to 28
(degrees) or so and hold lor a tew
hours it'll nip the blooms and freeze
Ihv berries," he said
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determine how the bill would apply
to certain situations "It will take
some time tor people to develop
their policies and their solutions."
he said
The vote on a motion to suspend
the rules tor final passage was 20-8.
Brooks needed 23 votes, or iour-
lilths of those present
He needed only two-thirds to get
the bill up today
Lobbyists play
spending game
with legislators
AUSTIN iAP) There are so
many lobbyists in Austin, they have
to line up for the privilege ol wining
and dining law makers
"In order to take a senator to din-
ner now," a veteran lobbyist com-
plained. "it's a two-week wait "
Entertaining legislators is Ing
txismess in Texas, where the beer
wholesalers lobby reported spending
$14.(MM) on an inauguration day
reception in Austin, the Dallas Mor
mng News said in a special two-part
report on lobbyists
This past week alone at separate
receptions, Brazoria County of-
ficials served shrimp, the cattle in
dustry served steak and the Fran
chised New Car and Truck Dealers
of Texas served liquor and hors
d'oeuvres
But nights on the town are only
part of the picture Favored
lawmakers are taken on hunting and
fishing trips Florida goll outings.
Super Bow l weekends
There are tree movie passes and
weight 1111 i ng and racquetball
privileges at a posh downtown
Austin health club The beer lobby
last session provided one committee
chairman, then Rep Billy Hall ot
Laredo, with the use of a van. infor-
mally dubbed "the Hallmobile." the
Morning News reported
In January alone, lobbyists, at-
tempting to influence legislation to
meet the wishes of their special
interest clients, reported spending
$207,000 to entertain legislators The
previous six months, during which
the Legislature met in special ses-
sion, lobbyists reported spending
nearly $7(hi.(MM) to wine and dine
lawmakers
The scope of the entertainment
proves "that the entire political pro
cess in Austin is awash in special-
interest money." said John Hildreth,
executive director ot Common
Cause in Texas
"Lavish and constant entertain-
ment has become the norm, he told
the newspaper
lobbyists and lawmakers both
agreed that such functions help
them know each other better, in-
creasing the likelihood that a
telephone call will lie returned, a bill
will tie read and a client's position
will tie considered
"It's just human nature that if I
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day:
Former classmates and col
leagues ol Marine Lt Col Oliveri.
North and Rear Adm John M
Poindexter said money is flowing in
lor the legal delense expenses ol the
two embattled officers $(»5,(MMl so
far in unsolicited contributions lor
North and an undisclosed amount
lor Poindexter. Poindexter.
Reagan's lormer national security
adviser, and North. Poindexter s
aide, have emerged as key figures in
the controversy
smoking
ban bill
AUSTIN i AP) - Sen Chet Brooks
said he would seek final Senate
passage today of a bill to prohibit
smoking in public places except in
designated smoking areas
His bill was tentatively approved
on voice vote Monday, but Brooks
laded to get enough votes to win
final passage and send the measure
to the House
Approximately 40 states already
have adopted public smoking laws,
according to a printed analysis of
Brooks' bill
Asked if his bill might be con-
sidered as government "meddling,"
Brooks. D-Pasadena, replied, "No,
not at all unless you want to say
we re going to try to save as many
people as we can from cancer and
heart disease."
The proposed Texas Smoke Free
Indixir Act would make it a misde-
meanor. punishable by a line of upto
$2(M>. to smoke in a prohibited area
Brooks said, however, based on
experience with city ordinances that
restrict smoking, "Very seldom are
any penalties brought against
anyone "
Bars, tobacco shops and
restaurants with a capacity of 25
persons or less would be excluded in
that they could designate their en-
tire area as smoking areas
The bill was amended to give
operators ol stores of less than 4,ouu
square feet the option ot allowing
smoking everywhere in the store or
now here in the store This was aim-
ed at drive-in grocery stores.
The bill also was amended so that
it would not apply to "service lines."
such as at concession stands in the
Astrodome at Houston or Texas
Stadium at Arlington
"We are trying in this bill to be
even handed and recognize both the
smoker's rights and the
non-smoker's rights." Brooks said.
"We've tried to draw it in a way so
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WASHINGTON (AP> President
Reagan, pressing a campaign to get
the spotlight olt the Iran-Contra al
fair, says he is concentrating on
what his administration will ac-
complish in the future and not dwell
i ng on the crisis
The president, addressing hun-
dreds ot cheering administration ap-
pointees on Monday, said that lor
four months the White House has
"endured a relentless barrage" and
"ceaseless attack" that weakened
his support in Congress
"But now we've heard irom the
Tower board and we have a clear ac-
count ot what tixik place instead ol a
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get to know a guy, he'll have a leg
up," said Sen John Whitmire.
D-Houston.
Lobbyist Gary Pearson says win
ing, dining and treating lawmakers
to pleasure trips are an important
part of his business
"It's to build a friendship, to get to
know a member and him to get to
know the lobbyist personally," Pear-
son said
A lormer assistant to House
Speaker Billy Clayton, the 30-year-
oid Pearson lobbies for coal,
chemical and parking lot interests
He said he takes legislators deer
hunting at a client's lodge, deep sea
fishing on a client's yacht at
Freeport on the Texas Gulf Coast
and has access to a skybox at the
Houston Astrodome Last
December, one month before the
1987 legislative session opened.
Pearson said he took a small group
ot lawmakers skiing in
Breckenridge. Colo , where a client
has a condominium
"You don't think at ski season that
I'm not popular'’" he said
Other perks in Austin include
Speaker's Night at the Broken
Spoke, a South Austin honky-tonk
where a different lobbyist buys the
beer and pays for the band every
Tuesday night Legislators get a
written reminder every week Irom
the host lobbyist
The Trial Lawyers Association
serves tree lunches on Tuesday and
Wednesday
Of the perks available to
legislators, tew are more popular
than hunting and tishing vacations
And among the organized hunts, lew
are more lavish than the cattle lob
by's annual trip to the King Ranch,
according to legislators
Lobbyist Ed Small of the Texas
and Southwest Cattle Raisers
Association said about 20 law makers
were treated to hunting and
horseback riding during a week at
the ranch last December
Small said the hunt was organized
several years ago by John Arm
strong ol Kingsville, then president
ot the cattle raisers association, to
persuade a reluctant state senator to
support a brucellosis program
Smail said the senator ultimately
voted tor the program, and the hunt
has continued every year since
Reagan says Iran affair settled
barrage ol speculation, assumptions
and rumors. " Reagan added
"We can get on with the business
that brought us here and institu
tionalize the improvements that
we've made so that someone doesn't
take us back down the spend-and
spend. tax-and tax path we were on
tor a century or so." he said
Invoking a lootball metaphor, the
president said that lor his remaining
two years in office, "We re not about
to tall on the hall and wait tor the
clock to run out Instead, we're go
ing to have the greatest fourth
quarter in presidential history
Reagan spoke at Constitution Hall
Wintry weather that gripped
Texas over the weekend set record
temperatures and killed peach crops
over a wide area of the state, costing
growers hundreds of thousands ol
dollars.
Many producers of other
agricultural products were hoping
they would not wake up this morning
to find their crops destroyed by the
late cold snap
"It ta hard freeze) would do a lot
of damage," Uvalde County
agricultural extension agent Darrell
Smith said Monday. "We’re really
worried about it.”
Smith said crops in the South
Texas County apparently survived
near freezing temperatures so tar,
but some — particularly wheat,
oats, corn and onions - could be
severely damaged if temperature
forecasts proved accurate
National Weather Service officials
predicted temperatures would dip
into the middle 20s early this morn-
ing as an arctic front continued to
push through the area
“It’s almost a total loss." said
Parker County peach grower Hugh
Murphy, estimating his loss at
$30,000 to $40,000
Some growers took last-minute
precautions Monday night in an at-
tempt to keep the cold from wiping
them out completely Safety
measures included burning slacks ol
tires in orchards and running water
near the base of trees to provide
warmth and protection
The Rio Grande Valley's cotton
and melon crops could be devastated
if temperatures drop into the 2(»s and
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there will be no mean confrontation
or angry confrontation between the
(store) operator and public," he
said.
The bill would apply to govern-
ment buildings. Brooks said, in-
cluding the Senate chamber He said
presumably the Senate caucus
would decide if there would be a
smoking area
Asked d a person could smoke in
his or her own office. Brooks said.
"Of course."
He also said the state proposal
would serve as a minimum restric-
tion. and cities could adopt stiller or-
dinances.
Seventeen Texas cities have
adopted ordinances and 14 others
are known to be in the planning
stages, the bill analysis stated
So many possible situations were
questioned that Brooks was asked if
it might take a couple ot years to
WASHINGTON <AP> - Presi-
dent Reagan is assuring French
Prime Minister Jacques Chirac
that the United States will aug
merit its nuclear forces in Europe
to prevent any Soviet advantage
in shorter range missiles
Reagan and Chirac meeting
today at the White House also
were conferring on ways to
reduce two major sources ol inc
tion between Western nations
'• trade imbalances and
disagreements on how to combat
terrorism
Chirac arrived at Andrews Air
Force Base late Monday lor his
first visit to the United States
since he took oil ice in March 1986
in a power sharing arrangement
with Socialist President Francois
Mitterrand
In interviews before his depar
ture from Paris. Chirac express
ed concern about the East-West
military balance that will emerge
il the United States and the Soviet
Inion proceed with an agree
men! already reached in pnn
ciple — to eliminate
intermediate range nuclear
missiles Irom Europe
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as congressional auditors released a
report saying the Pentagon gave the
CIA a $2 1 million discount on anti
tank missiles that ultimately were
sold to Iran
However, the report Irom the
General Accounting (Hlice the in
vestigative arm of Congress said
there was no apparent eilort to in
tentionally lower the price ol the
weapons to create a slush lund to aid
the Nicaraguan ( ontra rctiels
The report also concluded that the
president and not Delense
Secretary Caspar WeinluTger or
other Pentagon officials is respon
sibile lor not having told Congress
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Surber, Chester C. & Fulghum, Gary. Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 175, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 31, 1987, newspaper, March 31, 1987; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1280585/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.