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STATE CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Lyndell Williams
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN-The night before he
quit the campaign trail, Albert
Gore made an Austin fundraiser
with the Democratic Party power
elite who had backed him from
early on.
The names read like a list of All-
Pros: Bill Hobby, Jess Hay, Buddy
Temple, Gib Lewis, even former
Gov. Mark White.
For them, the evening was a
prop-up for a future race for
the 40-year-old Tennessee scion,
whom they had recruited and
endorsed as their hope for the
conservative wing.
Despite die excellent teeth in
dieir heads, they and Gore could
bite off no more than a distant
third in the primaries.
They were outnumbered, out-
hustled, outorganized and over-
whelmed in the precincts across
America.
Gone With The Wind
In quitting, Gore urged die
party to return to a centrist
position. That will probably not
occur.
As the baby boomers and
children of the ’60s age to a higher
notch in America’s establishment,
they are changing the makeup of
both parties, never to be changed
back. Gone with the wind.
If the Republicans attract a new
breed of white collar voter, the
Democrats draw millions of new
minority voters.
In Texas, the Hispanic bloc
tested the waters first with state-
wide candidates, and then Jesse
Jackson’s national litmus for black
voters blew Gore and the aristo-
crats out of the water.
Return to a centrist position?
Look instead for the Hispanics
to rim a national candidate in
’92, while Texas blacks field a
statewide candidate in '90.
One I-ast Chance
Some foster the belief that
the power elite will have one
last chance this year at the
national convention, if they can
persuade Jackson to let a southern
conservative have the VP slot.
Who knows? Stranger things
have happened, but the deal is
Jackson’s to broker, not theirs.
Jackson played by their rules
and won the marbles. He ran the
gamut of primaries and earned a
spot on the ticket. It’s his to trade
away, and why should he?
Like him or not, anything less
is grand theft.
School Financing
In the lawsuit which pits poor
school districts against the Texas
Constitution, Attorney General
Jim Mattox predicted the state will
win.
But he said die court victory
is not necessarily the proper
victory, and urged the Legislature
to remedy the disparity between
rich and poor school districts.
Mattox’ prediction came after
the appeals court directed State
District Judge Harley Clark, who
ailed the present system unconsti-
tutional, to explain why he gave
no consideration to the section that
Mattox cites as authorizing the
system.
Other Highlights
• A report from Comptroller
Bob Bullock said for the first
time in Texas history, the state
has figured its net worth, at least
$43.8 billion.
• The state approved bonds
to build privately-run prisons
at Kyle, Bridgeport, Venus and
Cleveland which may open within
a year.
• The U.S. Census Bureau
says Loving County with 100
residents is the nation's smallest in
population, but the richest in per
capita income, $34,173. Overall,
Texas ranked in the middle.
• A federal-state survey shows
Texas farm value this year fell
three percent to their lowest levels
since 1980, an average value of
$466 per acre.
Texas Railroad Commission asks
FERC to revise Order 500
Railroad Commission Chair-
man Janies E. (Jim) Nugent and
Commissioners Kent Hance and
John Sharp told members of the
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission here today that
changes in its Order 500 must
be made soon to prevent further
harm to natural gas producers
and markets, and possible waste
of gas resources.
Following up on written com-
ments filed last fall, the Rail-
road Commissioners warned
FERC commissioners that their
Order 500. which took effect
January 1, endangers the de-
velopment of a free market
system for natural gas in the
U.S., places an undue burden
on already hard-pressed pro-
ducers. and threatens the health
of both interstate and intrastate
gas markets.
“One of our concerns is the
way Order 500 and its amend-
ments forces producers to give
pipelines take-or-pay credits in
exchange for the ability to
transport gas to market," said
Nugent. “Not only must pro-
ducers give the credits, but the
pipelines get to choose the
contract against which the cre-
dits will apply. This volume-for-
volume trade with no regard for
price ensures that pipelines may
back out the highest-price gas
contracts First. Further, produc-
ers who do not have extensive
take-or-pay exposure may find
themselves less attractive as
transportation customers.”
Commissioner Hance pointed
out the crediting mechanism re-
quires producers to shoulder the
burden of pipelines' take-or-pay
liabilities at a time when pro-
ducers are least able to do so.
“Order 500 diminshes all pro-
ducers’ incentive to replace cur-
rent production through ex-
ploration and development,’’ he
said. “But smaller independent
producers, who are currently
the most economically disad-
vantaged, encounter the most
problems under the crediting
scheme.”
Another concern voiced by
Hance is that producers may in
some cases have to give credits
to both an intrastate and an
interstate pipeline for the same
gas.
Commissioner Sharp said the
crediting mechanism may also
damage the producing ability of
the state's gas reservoirs by en-
couraging uneven production.
“Each reservoir has an opti-
mum production rate,” he said.
“If that rate is exceeded, or if
production simply varies dra-
matically within certain parts of
a reservoir or field, the result
may be to reduce the amount of
gas that can ultimately be re-
covered. Order 500 has the
potential to reduce orderly state
production programs to a sham-
bles.”
The Railroad Commissioners
urged FERC to step back from
the regulatory process long
enough to study the take-or-pay
situation to see if a problem
really exists, how widespread it
may be, and w hether regulation
will help the problem. If FERC
continues to feel regulation is
necessary, the Railroad Com-
missioners said state conserva-
tion commissions were in the
best position to determine whe-
ther a crediting mechanism
would harm production or inter-
fere with correlative rights in
the reservoir.
FERC commissioners and
staff were also extended an
invitation to visit Austin to
review the Railroad Commis-
sion’s methods for oil and gas
regulation and its experience
with contractual relationships in
the oilpatch.
Other modifications to Order
500 recommended by the Rail-
road Commissioners include
permanent exemption for cas-
inghead gas from the crediting
scheme as well as exemptions
for gas produced under min-
imum production or take levels,
gas released by intrastate pipe-
lines, gas sold by processing
plant operators, and gas sold by
gathering system operators.
Benjamin Franklin was one
of the first people to man-
ufacture playing cards in
America.
In 18th-century England,
eyeglasses were often
worn purely as fashionable
accessories, not as aids to
vision.
, cMe iIntvmdum. RECORQ
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CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO , TEXAS
THURSDAY 28 APRIL 1988
Amarillo woman named
to board of regents
Governor Bill Clements ap-
appointed Amarillo business-
woman Becky Love Dodson to
the West Texas State University
Board of Regents Friday, April
15 according to Clement’s ap-
pointments officer, James Huff-
ines.
Dodson, whose term ends
August 31, 1991, will fill the
vacancy created by Margo
Fields Johnson, w ho resigned to
move to California.
A former WT student, the
4()-year-old Dodson is president
of Amarillo Imports Inc. She
serves on the boards of the
United Way of Amarillo and the
Amarillo Area Foundation and
is a member of the Foundation's
executive and investment com-
mittees. She recently completed
a term on the board of directors
of the Amarillo Chamber of
Commerce.
Dodson is an alumna of
Leadership Texas and is a
former member of the Texas
Women’s Alliance and the Tex-
as and National Automobile
Dealer's Associations.
She and husband Maxey have
two daughters.
Other members of the Board
of Regents are T. Boone Pick-
ens, chairnmn; Leo Forrest of
Hereford, Nolan Henson jr., of
Happy, Dee Osborne of Hous-
ton, Edward Scott of Amarillo,
Lennie Sims of Wellington,
Edward Toles of Dallas, and
Burk Whittenburg of Amarillo.
Museum Memos
BY DEBBIE INNIS
We salute National Secretary
Week with an exhibit in our
front window. Stop by and see
it.
Remember our Kite Flying
Contest in May — fun for all!
We will have an art display
starting May 10 by local artist Jo
Westbrook and her husband,
Kerry Westbrook. This display
of metal work and painting is
the cooperative effort of the
couple.
Watch for details about the
Explorers and Pathfinders pro-
grams coming in June. These
will be of special interest to the
youth.
Sunday, May 15, will be our
TER1 BOONE
Teri Boone
president of
High Riders
Teri Boone w as elected Presi-
dent of the High Riders at Texas
Tech for 1988-89 at a meeting
held Tuesday, April 19.
High Riders is a service
organization for women, the
sister organization of Saddle
Tramps.
At the yearly honors banquet
held Saturday night Teri was
awarded the Alumni Active
Award. She was also honored
for her grade point, her sen ice
record and for having been
tapped for Mortar Board, Senior
Honor Society.
noontime dinner for the public
at Canadian Elementary School.
Mark your calendar and join us
after church that day. This is a
money-making project to benefit
the Museum.
We still have a display of
sweat shirts painted by 4 lH
members. Those on display
were painted by Jerrod Billen-
willms, Denise Lee and Bessie
Ann Reed. We also have some
of the 4-H leather work on
display. We enjoy having this
kind of work on display.
Shirlene Vines and Lawrence
Pundt have brought in articles
to be catalogued and exhibited.
Old timers will appreciate the
old Texaco sign from John Cay-
lor’s business and the old
harness.
Two tour groups were at the
Museum Tuesday, Barbara
Parks’ Second grade and a
busload from Allison I.S.D.
We will have a window' dis-
play for National Teachers’ Day
May 3.
Kite-making
contest at
Museum
Entries in the River Valley
Pioneer Museum kite-making
contest will be accepted at the
Museum from Tuesday, May 3,
to Friday, May 6, at 5 in the
afternoon.
The kites may be fashioned
from either paper or plastic.
Suggested materials are light-
weight paper such as brown
wrapping paper, butcher paper,
gift wrappings or newspapers.
Plastic such as trash bags,
grocery bags, trash can liners or
clothing bags may be used.
Ribbons will be awarded to
1st, 2nd and 3rd places in four
age divisions, grades K-3,
grades 4-6, grades 7-8 and
grades 9-12 and in two categor-
ies. paper and plastic. In addi-
tion there will be one major
prize in each category.
All projects must be the
original work of the entrant, not
a commercial product.
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 28, 1988, newspaper, April 28, 1988; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth520480/m1/27/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.