Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 1980 Page: 2 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 19 x 14 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
PAGE 2
State Of The Region
by Juliet K. Wenger
C.B.C.O.G.
Texas 2000 is a project we are
going to hear a good deal about in
the next few years. It is
identifying critical issues the
State of Texas will be confronting
and will develop strategies to deal
with them. Government and
private enterprise are working
together to determine what the
best management practices would
be, then, how to put them in
effect.
Gov. Bill Clements instituted
the project, recruiting about 200
leaders from private industry to
work as volunteers. The Governor
heads a steering committee, made
up of himself, the Lieutenant
Governor and the Speaker of tne
House. Dr. Victor Arnold was
borrowed from the LBJ School to
direct the project.
The first phase of the project
has just been completed. This is
to compile information, largely
statistical, to show what has
happened in recent years and
where Texas stands at this time.
The statistics are published in a
report called Texas Trends and
are being computerized. The next
phase will be projections.
These figures show the Texas
population increasesd by 90 per-
cent during the ’70’s. In 1979
alone, there was an increase of
333,000. Of these, 133,000 were
births in Texas and 200,000 were
people moving in from other
states, enough new Texans to
" create a city almost the size of
Corpus Christi.
The population of Texas is now
the third largest of any state in
the Union, following California
and New York. Projections show
that by the Year 2000, Texas will
have grown from 14 to 22 million
people and will be second in size
only to California.
Critical issues have not yet
been developed, but some are
apparent. That population growth
is going to require the appearance
of 170 thousand new jobs a year.
Elementaiy and secondary school
facilities will have to double.
The report show^ that, fortun-
ately, the Texas economy is
growing at a 50 percent faster
rate than that of the nation, with
services, wholesale and retail
trade and finance as the fastest
growing sectors.
Today, every state agency is
operating with a data base it has
developed, with resulting incon-
sistencies. Now, a State Data
Center is being established. Into
this will go both the statistical
information developed by Texas
2000 and Census information. The
data base will be duplicated at
^awntanTr#
Owner - Editor. Steve Frishman
SOUTH JETTY is published
every Thursday by the South Jetty
Publishing Co., Port Aransas,
Texas. Subscription rate is $12.00
per year. 25 cents by the single
copy.
Subscription and Office Mana-
ger: Sue Frishman
Address all correspondence to:
South Jetty Publishing Co.
P.O.Box 1116
Port Aransas, iexas 75373
Office: 201 E. Cotter Avenue,
Port Aransas, Texas. Phone
749-6377.
Display advertising deadline:
MONDAY. 12 NOON, the week
of publication.
The publisher will gladly correct
»ny erroneous statement regard-
ing corporations, firms, or individ-
uals. when called to his attention.
Second Claas Postage is paid at
Port Aransas, Texas.
nine universities in the state. The
Governor’s Office of Budget and
Planning, the Department of
Rural Sociology of Texas A&M
University, the Texas Natural
Resources Information System,
and the Texas State library and
Archive Commission will provide
analytical and research assistance.
The 24 Councils of Governments
in the state will serve as local
affiliates.
This information will be used by
all state agencies and will be
available to local government and
private business so that there will
be consensus as a starting point.
The data will be continaully
updated.
Dr. Arnold says history shows
sound decisions result wher
information is accurate and avail-
able.
He says that private industry
has developed a sophisticated
system of pulling together infor-
mation, identifying opportunities
and threats and designing long
range management strategies to
benefit from the opportunities and
avoid threatening situations. In-
dustry volunteers have adapted
this system to the needs of Texas
2000.
The need for this to be a joint
venture of public bodies and
private business is stressed by
Gov. Clements. Dr. Arnold points
out that private industry must
provide the jobs and public
functions must provide support
such as a labor force educated to
meet the need.
The critical issues which will be
formulated will be state-wide
issues. For example, water will
obviously be an issue. The water
supply will not be viewed from a
standpoint of east, west, north or
south Texas. It will be seen as a
whole so that limitations will not
be a constraint to growth any-
where in the state.
Developing long-range manage-
ment strategies is compared by
Dr. Arnold to crisis management.
He says that when we wait for a
crisis to develop then react to it,
we are treating the symptom and
not the problem, and the problem
remains. It has happened too
seldom in government, but it is
daily practice for private business
to anticipate needs and prevent
the crisis from developing.
Other states are watching Texas
2000 with interest. Gov. Clements
has experessed the hope that this
can serve as a model for other
states, and to some extent, for the
nation.
An indication of the attention
Texas is receiving is the an-
nouncement that publication of a
Kiplinger Texas Letter will begin
in January. The Kiplinger Letter
is a barometer for the nation’s
economy. There is no Kiplinger
California Letter or New York
Letter. The conclusion can be
drawn that Texas is the state of
economic focus.
The Governor will soon appint a
Texas 2000 Commission that will
be representative of the state.
Hearings will be held in each
region of the state. When
statistical projections are avail-
able, the most critical issues will
i i i 1 1i .....
Lie lUtJiiuneu, mceinau vc suai«-
gies will be developed, then a
course of action recommended.
Hopefully, the recommenda-
tions will become policy. For
once, there should be built into
the system indications of whether
the strategies are working so that
we will not move indefinitely on a
course unless it is accomplishing
what the projections showed that
it would.
SOUTH J ETTY
Truan Again
Seeks license
Exemptions
Senator Carlos Truan today
announced that he has prefiled
Senate Bill 56, relating to fishing
license exemptions.
Truan was successful in getting
a similar bill passed in the Senate
last session, but the House of
Representatives failed to act on
the matter and for this reason the
entire process will have to be
repeated during the 67th Legisla-
tive Session.
As the law now stands, resi-
dents of the state of Texas under
17 years old or 65 years old and
older are exempt from purchasing
the $10.50 fishing license.
The bill Senator Truan is
proposing will change the word
resident as now stated in the law,
to person. This, in turn, would
exempt out-of-state visitors as
well as residents, which meet
these age requirements, from
purchasing a fishing license.
“This bill will encourage other
states to enact reciprocal legisla-
tion, which will allow senior
citizens to cross their statelines
without the concern or expense of
obtaining a fishing license,’’ said
Truan.
Retired band leader, Hal Was-
son, is working very hard to get
this bill, often referred to as the
Senior Citizens Fishing Bill,
passed not only at the state level
but at the national level. His goal
is that one day senior citizens,
such as himself, who travel all
over the United States, will be
exempt from purchasing fishing
licenses in all states.
“Much hard work remains
before we can be assured of
successfully passing this needed
legislation. It is very important
that my constituents attend public
hearings and write letters to my
fellow legislators showing their
support for this bill,’’ said Truan.
DECEMBER 11, 1980
Letter
Thanks to an unknown source,
we have been receiving South
Jetty since we left P.A. in June,
1980. We wish to send our
gratitude to whomever.
P.A. is our second home to us
snowbirds here in Fairplay, Colo-
rado. Because of unavoidable
reasons, we may not be able to
make the winter months in P.A.
this year. In any case, we would
like to send our love to a great
town with so many kind hearts.
The recent efforts put forth for
Linda Gates Memorial so over-
whelmed us, we had to send our
thoughts your way for all such
kind, sincere, people. If all towns
carried as much love, there would
be little, if any, wars.
Our smiles upon you all.
Linda, Larry, Egg,
Kathy, Brian, & Fessie
Fairplay, Colorado
c.j. jordan photo
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Frishman, Steve. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 1980, newspaper, December 11, 1980; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth601517/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.