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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1975
Bullock issues report
on Constitution finance
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Tex. — Comptroller
Bob Bullock issued a new financial
size-up of the proposed new Texas
Constitution Tuesday, saying its
costs would depend entirely on fu
ture decisions of legislators and local
governments.
While the 1876 Constitution was
written deliberately to hamstring
government, the new one “would
give elected governing bodies all
the free rein the voters and the tax
payers will let them have,” Bullock
said.
He said there also are mandatory
Carrillo
prosecutor
burdened
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Tex. — A Senate com
mittee Tuesday voted to recom
mend that an unprecedented bur
den be placed on prosecutor Terry
Doyle in the impeachment trial of
District Judge O. P. Carrillo.
The administration committee
also voted to recommend relaxing
restrictions on extra strong lights
that might be needed by television
cameras to show the trial.
The committee agreed to remain
silent on the question of whether
attorneys in the trial might talk to
reporters. It was decided, however,
that none of the 31 senator-jurors
“may discuss or comment on any
matter relating to the merits of the
proceedings before the court, ex
cept with other members of the
court and the presiding officer.”
Over Doyle s objections, the
committee voted to recommend
that the prosecution establish
“beyond a reasonable doubt” that
Carrillo has committed the acts for
which he was impeached by the
House Aug. 4-5.
One of Carrillo’s attorneys, Ar
thur Mitchell of Austin, had asked
the committee to recommend that
language, and Sen. Oscar Mauzy,
D-Dallas, proposed the change.
It still must be approved by the
committee on Wednesday, after the
trial begins, and also by the full Se
nate sitting as a jury.
Doyle, a former House member
from Port Arthur, said an impeach
ment prosecutor has never faced
such a burden before — either in
Texas or any other state.
The standard of proof, he said, is
have the impeachment charges
been proven to the “satisfaction of
the Senate.” But Leon Jaworski,
special counsel, said to assure that a
federal court would uphold any im
peachment conviction, “You should
assume the greater burden.”
Jaworski indicated that as the
Watergate prosecutor facing “un
precedented ’ situations, “we
played in on the safe side so we
wouldn’t be faced with a new rule to
slap us in the face.”
“I think you’re making a serious
mistake, said Doyle. “You’re chart
ing a new course in constitutional
law.”
An absolute prohibition against
special lighting, presumably for TV,
was eased at the request of Lt. Gov.
Bill Hobby, who read a letter from
Joel Smith of KPRC-TV in Houston,
telling how difficult it would be to
film the impeachment trial without
such lighting.
“I’d hate to see it degenerate into,
‘Will you hold that up please until I
get the lights fixed’ ” said Doyle.
Hobby is on leave of absence as an
executive of the Houston Post that,
with KPRC-TV, is owned by the
Hobby family.
The committee also agreed to
permit live broadcasting of the offi
cial proceedings.
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provisions in the document on
which voters will decide Nov. 4,
that “would have substantial, long
range cost implications.”
But he omitted references to the
Texas Water Plan and the Trinity
River Canal that appeared in his
original analysis of the constitution
in May.
Minimal-cost items directly cited
by Bullock in his new report add up
to $82 million a year-mostly through
a provision that would guarantee
each Texan “equal educational op
portunity.”
“Even without the constitutional
mandate, the 64th legislature set in
motion a $100 million spending
program for equalization aid for a
two-year period. That should be
considered only a minimal exam
ple,” Bullock said.
Restructuring of the court sys
tem, absorbing more judges within
the state-financed part of it, would
add $3.6 million a year, he esti
mated.
Adding “instructional materials”
besides textbooks to items for which
the Available School Fund causing
further demands on general re
venue fund money,” the report
said.
Sales-tax revenue would decline
because of a proposed constitutional
exemption for food, Bullock said.
He said some food items such as soft
drinks, diluted juices and candy are
now taxed, “but the language of the
proposed constitution could pro
hibit this.”
The comptroller, while not speci
fically mentioning any project such
as the water plan, said the proposed
constitution mandates environmen
tal protection and water storage.
“The language of the proposed
constitution is clearly mandatory
enough to lead to increased state
expenditures — whether direct
costs, state bond issues or revenue
bonds — of significant, long range
proportions,” Bullock said.
Fire ants spread as poison barriers drop
A Texas A&M University entomologist said the last barrier
to fire ants may have disappeared in Texas.
Dr. Brad Vinson who has been involved in fire ant research
said it is too late to eradicate fire ants, but they could still be
controlled.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week
stopped the production of a poison deadly to the ant. However,
MIREX, the only control chemical now allowed in Texas by the
EPA for use on fire ants, is a similar compound. In a check with
the MIREX manufacturer in Baltimore, spokesman John Mag-
liocco of Allied Chemical Company said the production and
supply of MIREX wouldn’t be affected by the EPA ruling.
Fire ants have taken over because the eradication program
was put off too long Vinson said. “Also the trouble with the
eradication is that it gets rid of all the other ants as well, so when
the fire ant returns, it has no competition and spreads even
faster.”
Jack Bowmer, agronomist with the Texas Department of
Agriculture, said that 75 counties and over 40 million acres of
Texas are infested with fire ants. The area is roughly bounded by
Hondo, Corpus Christi, and Texarkana plus the Dallas area.
The fire ant area borders on the edge of the lush, fertile,
Lower Rio Grande Valley. The fire ants are working their way
south and are somewhere in the 50 miles between Corpus
Christi and the start of the lower valley growing area. They are
moving south at a rate of about 15 miles per year.
“Sometimes they set for a couple of years and then the
conditions get right and they really snowball, Bowmer said.
“All it takes is one fertile queen and you’ve got a new mound.
“A sample of what is in store for the valley is occurring in the
truck farming area south of San Antonio,” Bowmer said. “There
the fields are infested and are causing a real problem where the
crops have to be picked by hand. The fire ant will grab you with
its mandibles and sting in a circle. A pustule forms and the tissue
rots much like a spider bite.
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