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News Briefs
Bullock to seek fourth term as comptroller
AUSTIN (AP) — State Comptroller Bob Bullock, who
has directed state tax collection efforts for a decade,
said Monday he will seek re-election to a fourth term
next year.
“Times change and we change with them, but what
doesn’t change is the fact that the better the comptroller’s
office does its job, the better the rest of state government
can function,” Bullock said.
Bullock, 56, a Democrat, first was elected comptroller
in 1974. He won re-election in 1978 and 1982.
The comptroller noted the budget problems which
White says state colleges could be better
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas’ top political leaders told a
special committee on higher education Monday that the
state’s colleges are in good shape but could, and should,
be better.
“I have said it before and I say it again: educated
minds are the oil and gas of our future,” said Gov.
Mark White.
White, Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby and Speaker Gib Lewis
'poke to the 23-member Select Committee on Higher
Education, which was created by the 1985 Legislature
to make recommendations to the 1987 legislative session.
White said the committee meets under different circum-
stances from the so-called Perot Committee, which “met
in an atmosphere of crisis” to rescue Texas’ public
education system.
That committee’s recommendations resulted in the
public education reform measures of 1984.
To illustrate the "high quality” of higher education
in Texas, White mentioned Monday’s announcement that
researchers Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein of the
University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas
had won the Nobel Prize in medicine.
Woman gets death for husband's murder
ATHENS, Texas (AP) — A former barmaid was
sentenced to death Monday for killing her husband and
burying his body under a wishing well in her yard in
order to collect his life insurance and pension benefits.
Betty Lou Beets had been hospitalized overnight Friday
after the jury returned from six hours of deliberations
and convicted her of killing her fifth husband, Dallas
Fire Captain Jimmy Don Beets.
However, she displayed no emotion when the jury
recommended death by injection after 45 minutes of
deliberation Monday morning. Her attorney, E. Ray
Andrews, said Mrs. Beets had been “prepared for the
death sentence.”
Prosecutors contended Mrs. Beets killed her husband
so she could collect his insurance and pension benefits.
She will join two other women on Texas’ death row.
Mrs. Beets also has been charged with the slaying of
her fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker, a construction
worker who disappeared in November 1981, 11 months
after marrying her. No trial date has been scheduled on
that charge.
Health officials discover unfit drinking water
SEAGOVILLE (AP) — For the 500 impoverished
residents of the Sandbranch community in southeast Dallas
County, unpainted shacks, mounds of uncollected garbage
and the stench of hogs mixed with odors from a nearby
sewage plant are a way of life.
But a recent discovery by public health officials has
given the community's plight a new urgency. The only
water available to residents is highly contaminated and
unfit to drink, county officials say.
“I was appalled to see modem man surviving on this
water,” said David Lang, a bacteriologist for the Dallas
County Health Department.
“The types of bacteria there indicated the possibility
of typhoid and dysentery.”
County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who requested
the test, says the results have prompted him to launch a
campaign to “bring Sandbranch into the 20th century.”
But Price says the power the county has in such areas is
very limited.
As an unincorporated community, Sandbranch does
not have zoning or health ordinances and county govern-
ment does not have the authority to create such restrictions.
Terrorism supporters enjoy trade status
WASHINGTON (AP) — Of the seven nations identified
by the Reagan administration as supporters of terrorism,
three enjoy “most-favored nation” trade status with the
United States, says Sen. Lloyd Bentsen.
Bentsen, D-Tcxas, said that he has drawn up legislation
to overturn the reduced tariffs offered to Iran, Libya
and Syria as “most-favored nation" trading partners.
Along with four other countries — Cuba, North Korea,
Nicaragua and South Yemen — those nations “have
been described as supporting terrorism by our State
Department,” Bentsen said.
“For example, Lybia exports substantial amounts of
naphtha to us, coming into this country and paying half
the tariff that many other countries pay,” Bentsen said.
Bentsen said the U.S. imported almost $280 million
in goods from the three countries during the first seven
months of 1985.
Bentsen said his legislation would send the nations
“a strong message that there’s a price to be paid for
supporting terrorism.”
Committee accepts Piper award nominations
By NORANN McDONNELL
Daily Reporter_
Nominations are being accepted for the Minnie Stevens
Piper Professor Award for 1986.
The award is for teachers at Texas colleges and universities
who have achieved excellence in teaching.
Two NT teachers will be nominated to the Piper foundation
for the award. Selection for the two teachers will be made
by the faculty awards committee, said Dr. Fred Kern of
the School of Music.
The purpose of the award is to recognize excellence in
teaching. Other activities, such as research, publications
and administration will be considered by the foundation
when choosing the recipient.
An announcement of the winners will be made in April.
Ten teachers will win the award, which includes $2,500, a
gold pen and a certificate naming the winner as a Piper
Professor for 1986.
Students and NT faculty may nominate any full-time faculty
member for the award. With the nomination, a paragraph
explaining why that teacher was nominated for the teaching
award should be included by the person nominating him.
“The honor is well-known throughout Texas,” Kern said.
"I believe the recipient of the honor considers it the highlight
of his career.”
All nominations should be sent to Dr. Fred Kem in the
School of Music or taken to the Music Administration
Building, Room 247. The deadline for nominations is Oct.
17.
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NTSU Gift of Life Blood Drive
DATES:
Wednesday, October 23 & Thursday, October 24
TIME:
10:00 a.m. -7:00 p.m.
PLACE:
Silver Eagle Room - 3rd floor, Union Building
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Bus located in parking lot near Crumley Hall
ALSO ON:
Tuesday, October 22 • Bus only
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dogged state government recently and predicted tough
fiscal times ahead.
“While I have served as comptroller, the Texas
economy has gone through some powerful changes. But
we have come through those changes stronger and wiser.
We have never lost sight of the fact that government
must earn every dollar it gets and stretch every dollar it
earns.”
Bullock is the first person to enter the 1986 comptrol-
ler's race. He said he doesn’t know whether he will
face opposition in the primary or general elections.
Ptnlo by Bill Douthart
THE MUSIC MAN—John Nugent, Denton senior and the Denton Jazz Festival at the Denton Civic Center
member of the One O’Clock t.ab Band, performs at Park. Seven bands were featured at Sunday’s festival.
Campus
Calendar
Wednesday
Faculty staff week at the Syndicate and
the Rock Bottom lounge 4pm
Fellowship of ('‘instian Athletes will meet
in the Athletic Complex's Silver Eagle 5;30 p.m.
Room
Philosophy club will meet in GAr 1 104.
Student Council for Exceptional Children
will mee'. in Highland Hall lounge
Faculty/Staff Table Tennis Tournament at
the Syndicate.
Tuesday Night
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The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 15, 1985, newspaper, October 15, 1985; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth722973/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.