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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1978
Texas’ growth continue
in small metroplex area ^
United Press International
AUSTIN — “Texas’ population
growth during the past 15 years can
be attributed to the Sunbelt phe
nomenon and the shift of people to
small metropolitan areas,” a Univer
sity of Texas Bureau of Business
Research associate said.
“In the 1970s Texas and the South
have suddenly become focal points
of national population growth,” John
Burghardt said. "The principle
source of growth has shifted from
natural increase to in-migration.”
Burghardt said population decen
tralization is apparent during the
past few years in Texas: the growth
of large metropolitan areas has
slowed, while the growth of small
metropolitan areas has greatly ac
celerated.
He said the population shift to the
Sunbelt has attracted much atten
tion because it occurred suddenly
and dramatically.
“It also raises difficult public pol
icy issues,” Burghardt said. "As the
geographic distribution of popula
tion shifts, the regional balance of
political and economic power in the
nation is bound to shift also."
According to the research as
sociate, the nation’s population
grew at an annual rate of 1.3 percent
from I960 to 1970, while the South
grew at a 1.4 percent rate. Texas
population grew at a 1.6 percent
rate. Burghardt said in-migration
contributed .2 percent of the state’s
growth.
From 1970 to 1975 the na
tionwide growth rate slowed to less
than 1 percent, while the South and
Texas increased to 1.6 percent and
1.8 percent respectively.
“Clearly the recent high average
growth rates in Texas and the South
represent not a reversal but an ac-
celleration of past trends, Burg
hardt said.
He said recent statewide' trends
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in population reflect major naliSAN AN I
trends. However, he said tliejily barter e
had to be divided into six repijt Billy Bee
clearly examine Texas grmitli ilonel Sand
terns. Wave form
In West Texas, Burghardt gVen the g
there is clear evidence of a m^r of a firm
of rural decline. In north etWsince Ft
Texas the growth has dedinedf 11 Instates
a previous high of 3 percent l)H>ne by tl
percent. car
In hast I exas a slow growtlBI .
in the 1960s has acceleratedi-
the 1970s and the Gulf Coastn
has maintained the same gn
rate this decade that it hadtlie
decade.
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Burghardt said Central Tit uij regional
accelerated its growth rate tolBeer,
percent from 1.6 percent durinjH
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1960s. If
region had experienced thegml
change in growth, jumping from |
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United Press International
DALLAS — Twenty-six Iranian
teenagers have been turned away
from the Dallas Independent School
District because of a quota estab
lished by the district’s superinten
dent, the Dallas Morning News has
reported in a copyrighted article.
School Superintendent Nolan
Estes internal memo dated April 10
limited the number of non-resident
students from any one foreign coun
try who may enroll in the school dis
trict. Iranian students are the only
category in which the full quota of
10 has been met, The News said in
the report released today.
The article called Estes mandate
"an apparent effort to halt an influx
of Iranian students into Dallas
schools. A quote from W.H. Ful
ler, deputy assistant superinten
dent, offered substantiation to the
evaluation.
"These guys (the Iranians) are
conniving. Many of them come up
and ask for an 1-20 (immigration
forms the school district must fill
out) for their brother or cousin,
Fuller said Thursday.
Fuller said some of the Iranian
students who seek admission say
they are in Dallas because there are
so few schools in Iran. The students
do not live with their legal guardians
and are in the United States with
student visas.
Ry Gene
was intended to keep the Iraurdav.
out. lie said it was solelx intei Hill said if
to cut through ad in in istrativep approved I
lems and cut down on expensehedule mi
though foreign students arecbilliam P. 1
$50 montl
trict
tuition fee totkajlton to
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Texas Education
Day ton Tay lor said the only L PV J*
school district can lawfullv everyv
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enrollment is to prove that
overcrowded.
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"We ll take a few of them, even
though we feel they re coming here
just to go to school, he said. “1
think it’s good to give the school dis
trict a cultural balance. But I think
we need a few students from other
countries.
Estes Thursday denied that the
new policy establishing the quota
“Unless a district is so croil
that they can t take any moreJ
dents, they can t just say tltfl
going to limit the schools eiiij
ment, Taylor said.
TEA staff attorney Jay Brintlp
T he New s any objection to theJ
icy must be settled in the coJ
since TEA guidelines do not«1
such a policy specifically.
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Pushers to testify against sheriff
United Press International
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dealer convicted for selling heroin
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testified Monday he paid the Fannin
County sheriff a $600 monthly bribe
to allow him to do business in the
county unmolested by law officers.
Jerry Sewell told a federal jury
that Sheriff Raymond Taylor told
him tynd other drug associates he
would help us out. The amount was
something I came up with myself.
The convicted felon testified the
“agreement lasted “close to a
year.”
Sewell was the first witness called
to testify in Taylor’s federal trial
which opened yesterday. Charges
against the sheriff range from rack
eteering to soliciting and accepting
protection money from narcotics
dealers, gamblers and pimps.
The U.S. Attorney’s office has
said it wall cite as many as 180 overt
acts to support the belief that
Taylor, who was suspended from his
job April 5 following his indictment,
supported the booming drug trade
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pcies to
fcnd-rat<
in the Northeast Texas county. B farmx
Sowell was convicted in 1 rty spoke
Tex., for delivery of heroin. HeB
sentenced to 10 y ears in prisouBpearin
many as four other convictedfelBnittee 1
may also he put on the stand agiB Bidal
the sheriff , including the owneile rights
Bonham music store, Jimmie 1% are He
non. ;||fl
Assistant U.S. Attorney iBhese ri
Baynhan said he would call aboudhe farm
to 80 witnesses and told tlK , ]l s t°
that some are pimps and someBworker
prostitutes. 11,1 1
Defense attorney F.R. 'Bill
Files countered by saying flieB
eminent case was based on rdiilv (J ffJ
witnesses like pimps, prostituP
bootleggers and pushers. L „
”TTh‘ first thing wo are goingli I (
is bring in people from Faai
County who will testify thissW
a good and law abiding citizen,
said. “We aren’t going to
convicts or prostitutes.”
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