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I. Texas, Monday, Jwm 23, HtO—7.
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Kennedy gains a bit
in state demo meeting
, By GARTH JONES
Associated Press Writer
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP)
— President Jimmy Carter won
most of Texas’ delegates to the
Democratic national con-
vention, but Sen. Edward
Kennedy’s backers will have a
say in everything that happens.
“We improved our position in
this convention and we are in
better shape for New York,”
said Billie Carr, of Houston, a
member of the National
Democratic Committee and
stateide Kennedy campaigner.
The Democratic state con-
vention ended Saturday nigit
with Carter getting 104 of
Texas’ 152 delegates, or 68.4
percent.
However, Kennedy increased
his holdings to 38 delegates, or
25 percent. It had been
estimated after county con-
ventions he wodld get only 35 or
36 delegates.
Kennedy also won three
positions among Texas’ eight
members of the powerful
National, Democratic Com-
mittee. Currently there is only
one Kennedy member.
Ten uncommitted delegates
will go to New York.
In a meeting of the national
convention delegation following
the state convention, State
Democratic Chairman Billy
Goldberg announced that seven
Texans would serve on each of
seven national convention
committees. One each com-
mittee there will be five Carter
backers and two Kennedy
backers from Texas.
Delegation leaders will be
Goldberg, Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby
and former Attorney General
John Hill, serving as co-
delegation chairmen. Honorary
delegation chairmen are Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, and
House Majority Leader Jim
Wright, D-Texas. All five are
Carter supporters.
The final hours of the two<iay
state convention were enlivened
by floor debates and record
votes over gay rights and the
DNC membership.
The Lesbian-Gay Caucus
supported two resolutions that
would repeal Texas sodomy
jaws and condemn
discrimination against
homosexuals. Both were ap-
proved in committee and
supported on the floor by for-
mer Houston Mayor Fred
Hofheinz, head of the Kennedy
caucus, and U.S. Rep. Mickey
Leland, D-Texas, of Houston.
The resolution that urged
repeal of state laws against
homosexual acts among con-
senting adults failed by a vote of
2,073 to 1,692. The second
resolution failed on voice vote
after long arguments.
Dallas moderate Millie
Bruner, named to the national
Democratic committee by a
convention nominating com-
mittee, fought off a challenge
from current DNC member
Carrin Patman, who was
bumped by the committee. The
convention upheld Ms. Bruner’s
nomination by 2,217 to 1,569.
In a second DNC contest,
Jesse Jones of Dallas, another
Carter backer, was successful
in defending his committee
appointment against Doug
Seale of Wellington, an un-
committed delegate supported
by the American Agriculture
Movement.
Other members of the
national committee include Ed
Ball, Galveston; Leland; Juan
Malvonado, San Juan; Sylvia
Rodriguez, San Antoni'); Sue
Pate, Beaumont; and Mrs.
Carr. Malvonado, Ball and Mrs.
Carr are Kennedy backers.
About 50 proposed resolutions
were referred to the convention
body by a screening committee
that met most of Saturday.
Among those approved was
one that put Texas Democrats
on record for strict party
loyalty in the hotly contested
Texas House speaker’s race.
Numerous references were
made during the convention to
the appearance of Rep. Gib
Lewis, D-Fort Worth, at a
reception for new legislators at
the state Republican convention
in Fort Worth.
The resolution said Texas
Democrats oppose any speaker
candidate who "endorses or
aids the efforts of any
Republican candidate to defeat
a Democratic candidate for the
Texas House of Represen-
tatives or who makes prior
commitments to the Republican
governor or any group of
Republican legislators in return
for support in the speaker’s
race.”
“It will probably have little
effect on the speaker’s race,”
said Rep. John Bryant, D-
Dallas, a candidate for speaker,
after the party action.
Lewis said the resolution was
a “shallow desperation effort”
that would only alienate House
members who must decide die
contest next January.
Other resolutions approved
would:
—Oppose transportation and
storage of nuclear fuels in
Texas.
—Urge legalization of bingo.
—Allow free public schooling
of the children of aliens.
—Endorse abortion rights
aecoring to the U.S. Supreme
Court decision, including
funding for the needy.
—Approve collective
bargaining for state and local
government employees.
Resolutions that failed in-
cluded one backed by Kennedy
and backers of independent
presidential candidates that
would free delegates to the New
York convention of any pledges
and allow an “open con-
vention.”
The platform committee
refused to approve the
proposal, but it was brought to
the floor on a minority report
and defeated by a resounding
voice vote.
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GOP expresses unity
HOUSTON (AP) - Listening
to a call from state Republican
leaders for unity in this election
year, the 3,875 delegates to the
Texas GOP convention settled
most of their differences in
caucus, keeping them off the
floor and leaving with no major
divisions in their ranks.
There was a brief flareup
over a tough anti-abortion
resolution that eventually was
approved. Some delegates
grumbled about the fact they
would be represented at the
Detroit national convention by
those pledged to George Bush,
who has unofficially ended his
campaign for the nomination.
But that was settled in a May
primary when Reagan won 61
delegates and Bush 19. Bush has
said he would ask his sup-
porters to vote for Reagan on
the first ballot.
Housing costs
in West
higher
By LOUISE COOK
Associated Press Writer
Looking for a house? Don’t go
West young man. Not unless
you have plenty of money to
spend.
A recent survey on
homebuying practices in 1979
indicates that housing costs are
highest in the West and lowest
in the South, with a difference of
more than $20,000 in the median
price.
The survey was prepared by
the U.S. League of Savings
Associations. It was based on
information about 14,000 con-
ventional mortgages on single-
family homes. The mortgages
were selected at random from
among those granted by 350
savings associations in the
second quarter of last year.
The survey says that even
before the current housing
crunch and record interest
rates, the American dream of
owning a home was becomming
harder and harder to achieve.
The median price of the new
and exiting homes studied was
$58,000, meaning that half of all
homes which were purchased
cost more than that and half of
them cost less. One-third of all
buyers spent more titan $70,000
on a hone last year. A similar
study two years earlier fou^d
that only about one-seventh of
all buyers had to spend $70,000
or more.
' The median price of a single-
family home in the West last
year was $73,000 and 31 percent
of the purchasers paid more
than $90,000. The median in the
South, by contrast, was only
-$52,000, and 48 percent of the
buyers spent less than $50,000.
The median in the Northeast
was $53,900 and the median in
the North Central region was
$55,000.
On a national basis,
homeowners today are slightly
older, earn more money and are
less likely to be married than
they were two years ago.
The biggest chunk of
homebuyers — more than six
out of 10 — have an annual
household income of between
$15,000 and $35,000, just as they
did two years ago. Fewer
people in the lower-income
brackets are buying houses,
however.
Gov. William Clements; Sen.
John Tower, R-Texas; Rep. Bill
Archer, R-Texas; and former
ambassador Anne Armstrong
took turns in lashing out at
President Carter and the
delegates gave them each
numerous cheers.
Clements brought the loudest
response from the crowd, which
interrupted his speech at least
50 times.
The controversial anti-
abortion resolution called for a
constitutional amendment
* “protecting the unborn child at
any stage of biological
development.”
Lila Rehkop of Athens, a
member of the resolutions
committee, said she opposed
the final version because it
made no provisions for special
cases and “there are.exceptions
to everything.”
Debate on the resolution, one
of 19 passed by the convention,
was stopped before opponents
had presented their arguments.
The convention also extended
a rule providing for presidential
primaries every four years. The
rule had been in effect only a
temporary basis for 1980, but
now is permanent.
Others resolutions opposed
the Equal Rights Amendment,
life-long appointments of
taxes, and the right to bear
arms. The delegates also called
for the abolishment of the
Department of Education.
A question that could have
spoiled the quiet of the con-
vention never came to* the floor
for debate. Some delegates
wanted a resolution setting
standards to be applied to
potential vice presidential
nominees, but later decided to
scrap it.
Clements told the delegates,
"We must seek what is right for
Texas in Washington, because
the man sitting in the White
House today is not right for
Texas.
“Not one Texan has escaped
the disastrous impact of Jimmy
Carter’s policies. We cannot
take any more of a man who
answers challenges by creating
more bureaucracies like the
Department of Education and
the Department of Energy.
“We can take no more of a
man who doesn’t know what he
is doing or where he’s going, so
I say it is high time that we tell
him where to go — right back to
Georgia.”
Tower said the president “has
brought about the humiliation
of the United States. Since
Jimmy Carter has been in of-
fice, it has become more
federal judges, forced busing, dangerous to be a friend of the
and supported the reduction of United States than an enemy.”
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Viewed on the way to a summit talk in Venice Sunday were
(from left) Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. West
German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, French President
Giscard d'Estaing, Italian Prime Minister Francesco
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Tuition boost draws dissent
By LEE JONES
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Sen.
A.R. Schwartz, DGalveston,
says anybody who wants to
increase state college tuition
had better count on a stiff fight
from him.
Another senator, Lloyd
Doggett, D-Austin, said he is
“not too enthused" about a
proposal to double the tuition
paid by Texas undergraduates
and graduate students.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, who
presides over the Senate, heads
a special committee that
recommended the tuition in-
crease last week. The recom-
mendation included boosting
medical school tuition from $190
to $3,600 a year and dental
tuition from $400 to $2400
Gov. Bill Gements and the
Texas College Coordinating
Board also want a tuition in-
crease but have not issued
specific proposals.
Schwartz said in a telephone
interview he would use all the
tricks he has learned in hts 21
years as a senator — including
a filibuster if necessary — to
defeat a tuition increase. -
He said the preferred tactic
would be to organize 11 senators
to deny a tuition bill the two-
tbtrds majority needed to reach
floor debate in the Senate.
Changes in the Senate, in-
cluding the retirement of Sen.
Tom Creighton, D-Mineral
Wells, and the defeat of Sen Bill
Moore, D-Bryan, will make it
easier to block passage of a
tuition increase, he said.
"The only thing the geniuses
over at the Coordinating Board
or in die Legislature can think
of to raise new money is, ‘Why
don't we extract more money
from students? They are no
great political force and it's
easy,’ ” Schwartz said.
He said the tuition increase
reflected “the prevailing Texas
philosophy, which is tax
anybody who doesn’t have a
lobby representing them in the
Legislature.”
“This is-purely and simply a
student tax. They want to
burden those who are trying to
get an education when we are
not taxing uranium or coal and
are virtually giving away our
oil and gas in terms of the
percentage taxed,” Schwartz
said.
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