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When it rains, it pours... and pours
No serious flooding reported locally
By MARY GRANT DAVIS
News-Telegram Staff
Reports of heavy rainfall across Hopkins County indi-
cated amounts varying Monday night and Tuesday morn-
ing from 3 inches to 4 inches.
No serious problems of flooding were indicated, but
Ernest Teague, resident engineer for the highway depart-
ment, said the situation may change with more rainfall on
saturated ground.
“We’ll just have to wait and see what happens if the
rain continues,” he said.
By mid-morning Tuesday, rain was continuing to fall in
a steady stream, and temperatures were dropping rapidly.
The forecast calls for cloudy weather through Wednes-
day. Numerous showers and thunderstorms are expected
through the period, some with locally heavy rainfall.
Lows tonight may fall as low as the low 30s. Highs
Wednesday should be in the 40s.
In Sulphur Springs, officials at the water plant said the
city received 3 inches in the 24-hour period between 8
a.m. Monday and 8 a.m. Tuesday.
In rural areas amounts varying from almost 2 inches to
5 inches were reported.
The Sabine River Authority's gauges read 2.36 inches
in the Miller Grove area, 2.83 inches in the Brashear-
Cumby area, 2.68 inches south of Sulphur Springs near
State Highway 154, 3.23 inches near Yantis and 2.24
Please See RAINFALL, Pg. 14
Levee holding back Trinity River
By JAY JORDEN
Associated Press Writer
A Trinity River levee, strength-
ened with sandbags, was keeping
flood waters from four days of
heavy rains at bay, but emergency
crews and nearby Dallas residents
today nervously watched weather
reports for more storms.
The river is at flood stage again,
and authorities fear it could inundate
homes in the South Dallas areas of
Rochester Park and Cadillac
Heights.
The Trinity was on the rampage
there during Texas’ worst flood of
the century, which claimed 13 lives
and caused millions of dollars in
damage in the spring of 1990.
“The unusual situation we are in
is a spring storm pattern, only in the
fall. It is something of concern to
us,” said Skip Ely, a National
Weather Service meteorologist in
Fort Worth. , -
“We have a very potent rain situ-
ation this week, with the potential
for more flooding.”
In the low-lying Dallas neighbor-
hoods, about 400 city workers were
on standby to evacuate residents.
Crews cleared clogged storm drains
of debris with pitchforks and
brought in pumps and sandbags to
combat street flooding.
“More sandbagging is intended to
secure the levee, and there have
been other modifications,” said
Bobby Martinez, assistant director of
the city’s Office of Emergency Pre-
paredness.
The Great Wall
Sixth-graders at Sulphur Springs Middle School are shown Tuesday their math objective in social studies. The wall will be on display at
morning placing a scale model of the Great Wall of China on display the mall for the next two weeks.
at the VF Factory Outlet Mall. The students built the wall as part of -Stall photo by Larry Barr
Congressional
mail costs top
million mark
Gorbachev and
Bush (very
MADRID, Spain (AP) — President Bush and
Mikhail Gorbachev met tpday to “synchronize
our watches” about arms control and the Soviet
economy, and to provide a forceful push to end
thd hostility between Israel and its Arab neigh-
bors.
At a joint news conference, Bush said he and
the Soviet leader had agreed to renew arms con-
trol talks in the wake of unilateral cutbacks that
each man announced fallowing the abortive anti-
Gorbachev coup last August.
"Our schedules are very close,” Bush said of
the U.S.-Soviet arms proposals. He said the two
men want to go forward with ratification of two
existing arms control treaties covering long-range
nuclear weapons and conventional forces in
Europe.
Gorbachev bristled when a Soviet reporter
asked who was in charge in Moscow while he
was in Spain.
“I’m still the president,” Mid the man who is
confronting challenges to his power from restive
republics.
“Nobody’s taking my place.”
It looked like Bush didn't want anyone to,
either.
It’s also the season for con
artists, swindlers police say
By BOB MERRIMAN
News-Telegram Staff
Halloween usually signals the beginning of the
holiday season, with Thanksgiving and Christmas
decorations and sales.
Artfl, police chief Donnie Lewis says, the holi-
day seasoti means the coming out of con artists.
“There are all lands of con games and all kinds
of peoplefunning the scams,” Lewis said. “They
roam from place to place, and they’re after one
thing — your money.”
The people running the scams are difficult to
arrest, he said.
“They’re here, then they’re gone. And it is
impossible to get your money back.”
Everyone should beware of telephone contests,
he said.
‘They’ll tell you you’ve won a fabulous prize
or a trip, and all you have to do is send them mon-
ey,” he saidj “Don’t send any money.”
The pigeoh drop is also popular with con artists,
he said, with the victim as the pigeon.
“If someone comes up to you and says they
found mohey on the street and they want to share
it with you, you can bet it’s a swindle,” he said.
Also popular this time of the year are roof
repair, driveway repair and remodeling scams.
“Check with local lumber companies and local
contractors if you are approached by people
promising those kinds of services,” he said.
“Especially if the so-called builders are not local
people.”
Con artists prey on elderly people, Lewis said.
“If you have elderly relatives, check on them
now and then. This is the time of year when they
are most likely to be approached by con artists.”
Telephone solicitations are more and more pop-
ular with the perpetuators of scams, he said.
“A lot of con artists can make as much money
by telephone as they can going door to door,” he
said. “I have never found a phone scam yet that
paid off.
“A lot of the phone scams want you to send
them a check. Don’t do it.”
Also, he said, never give out:
■ Credit card numbers.
■ Bank account numbers.
■ How much money is in bank accounts.
“You will never get something for nothing,” he
said. “If you are not 100 percent sure about some-
thing, check it out.”
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Texas congressmen spent more
than $1 million in taxpayer-
funded postage in the first six
months of 1991. Constituent
mailings ranged from less than
$400 by Rep. Sam Johnson to
more than $125,000 by Rep.
Tom DeLay.
DeLay, R-Sugar Land, spent
$125,051.48. He was the only
one in Texas’ 27-member dele-
gation to spend more than
$‘iOO,000 in Jranking fees in the
period surveyed by the National
Taxpayers Union, a non-profit,
non-partisan watchdog group.
Johnson, R-Dallas, used the
least, $365 in “fire” postage, in
the month after he took office.
Nine Texas members spent
less than $9,000, and nine others
spent between $9,000 and
$50,000 in the six-month period
ending June 30, according to
records from the clerk of the
House. Eight spent between
$50,000 and $100,000, records
show.
Under regulations imposed
last year, House members are
limited to three first-class mail-
ings a year. They are given an
allowance, averaging $178,000,
for mass mailings.
Members are allotted a mass mail-
ing budget equal to three times the
number of residential addresses in
their district times 29-cent postage.
In Texas, the allowances range
from $338,702 for Rep. Dick Armey,
R-Lewisville, to $160,820 for Rep.
Henry B. Gonzalez, D-San Antonio,
NTU said.
The bulk of DeLay’s expenditures,
which accounted for 47.8 percent of
his $261,669 allowance, resulted
from the cost of mailing two newslet-
ters to constituents, said Trish Brink,
DeLay's press secretary.
Ms. Brink said DeLay’s two
newsletter mailings probably came
earlier in the year than those of many
other House members.
Franking Costs
WASHINGTON (AP)—Here are the amounts
spent by each Texas congressman on postage
for constituent mail for the first six months of
1991, as reported by the National Taxpayers
Union.
Sam Johnson, R*Dsllu..................................365.92
Ralph Has. D-ftodtwall ............................-W1121
Johnflrxant, D-Dallas..........................,..,,.,10,080.44
Joa Banon, R-Ennis.. ..«*•»,*.80,808.95
Bill Archar, R-MouSton.................... 98,029.65
Jack Fields, R-Houston................................80,465.03
Jack Brooks. D-Beaumont.............................4,396.16
J J. “Jake" Pickle, D-Austin..................... 4,861.70
Chet Edwards, D-Waco................. 5,396.74
Pete Geren, D-Fort Worth—......................58,59959
BUI Sarpakus, D-AmarUlo..........—..........30,857.18
Greg Laughiin, D-West Columbia................49,985.91
Klkadela Garza, 0-Mission —................10,739.66
Ron Coleman, D-EI Paso...............................8,080.82
Charles Stenholm, D-Stamtord------------------...7,52450
Craig Washington, D-Houston.......................3,135.42
Larry Contest, R-Lubboek..........................57,293.18
Henry B. Gonzalez, D-San Antonio .............41,517.69
Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio.......................73,642.36
Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land —.................125,051.48
Albert Bustamante, D-San Antonio...............3,641.94
Martin Frost, D-Dallas— ...............- 36,442.74
Mike Andrews, D-Houston.......................65,748.88
Dick Armey, R-Lewisville............... 43,476.58
Solomon Ortiz, D-Corpus Christ!.................,37,55878
“I’m sure by the end of the year,
it’ll probably round out. I’m sure it’s
attributed to the newsletters and the
town meeting notices,” she said Mon-
day.
“The newsletters and town meet-
ings are one of our most effective
ways of keeping in touch with our
constituents, letting them know what
he is doing up here for them,” she
said.
Rep. Albert Bustamante, D-San
Antonio, will keep well within his
$202,414 mail budget by issuing only
two newsletters this year, said press
secretary Ben Harrison.
“The congressman just decided
that that's what he wanted to do,”
Harrison said.
To play or not to play: The public will decide
Poll suggests public favors
Texas lottery by 2-1 margin
A USTIN (AP) — A new opin-
/\ion poll released by a pro-lot-
tery group suggests that the gam-
bling gime is hitting a winning
number with Texans.
The opinion survey, made public
Monday by the Lone Star Lottery
Committee, 'showed 67 percent in
favor, 27 percent opposed and 6
percent undecided.
The lottery proposition is one of
13 proposed constitutional amend-
ments to be decided by voters on
Nov. 5.
Lyda Creus, spokeswoman for the
lottery committee, said the 2-to-l
results in the survey were no sur-
prise.
"Absolutely not,” she said. “It’s
what the polls have been saying
consistently.”
Although the Legislature rejected
lottery amendments again arid again
from 1983 until deciding this sum-
mer to place the question on the bal-
lot, opinion polls have shown strong
public support for the game.
Ms. Creus said the poll found
support for the lottery among all
age groups and income levels.
Lottery amendment on the ballot for Nov. 5 election
AUSTIN (AP) — Voters in Texas,
where lotteries have been prohibited
for 146 years, will decide Nov. 5
whether to amend the constitution
and allow the numbers game.
Backers say a Texas lottery would
be a billion-dollar bonanza for a state
government forced to raise taxes
repeatedly since the devastating oil
and real estate busts of 1986.
But opponents, including such tra-
ditionally powerful gambling foes as
the Baptist church, argue that state-
sanctioned wagering is the wrong
way to fund government services.
If opinion polls are correct, Propo-
sition 11 will find a winning number
of voters and Texans could be playing
a state lottery by summer.
A Texas Poll,
conducted in
February for Harte-
Hanks Communi-
cations Inc., found
76 percent of 1,002 ,
Texans surveyed
favoring lottery. Only 19 percent were
opposed and 5 percent undecided.
“A lottery is the one thing they do
favor,” said state Rep. Ron Wilson,
th? Houston Democrat who spon-
sored the lottery amendment. J session earlier this year. At the same
“If you ask them how they fe^l time, major tax increases were
about a sales tax, we’ll get run out of approved in 1986, 1987, 1990 and
the room. If you ask them about this year.
ited taxes, they’ll hang So when cash-strapped lawmakers
met in a budget-balancing special ses-
sion this summer — facing a project-
since statehood, in
1845, have prohib-
ited lotteries.
Texas today is the
largest state in the
nation without
one, while more
than 30 states and the District of
Columbia operate lotteries.
Lottery legislation died in 1983,
1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990,
and during the Legislature's regular
income-related taxes, they’ll hang
most of us,” the lawmaker said.
All five Texas constitutions enacted
ed deficit of about $5 billion — the
lottery amendment finally won the
two-thirds majority needed to place it
on, the ballot.
The state comptroller estimates that
a Texas lottery would generate about
$1 billion profit every two years once
in full operation. ,
It would bring in a projected $462
million for the 1992-93 budget cycle
if games begin by July 1992.
First-term Gov.'Ann Richards, who
wound up signing a $2.7 billion tax
increase to balance the 1992-93 state
budget, pushed lawmakers hard to
give voters a chance to speak on lot-
tery.
Please See LOTTERY, Pg. 14
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fifth la Class 4A
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