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Texas Attorney General Mark White criticized government
regulations in a speech given Wednesday to the 21st annual
County Judges and Commissioners Conference in College
Station. Battalion photo by Lynn Blanco
White says
‘fairness’ key
By ROBIN THOMPSON
Battalion Reporter
Good government, within limits, can play a beneficial role in
everyday affairs. Attorney General Mark White said Wednesday.
White discussed those limits in a speech at the 21st annual County
Judges and Commissioners Conference in College Station.
“We’ve got too many lawyers writing too many rules and regu
lations in Washington,” he said, receiving applause from the audi
ence of about 500 people.
White blasted the unfairness of the laws regulating natural gas.
“We are forced to buy coal in a free market and forced to sell gas in
a regulated market,” he said.
White said that “fairness” is the key word. “When we sell natural
gas at reduced prices, we don’t get full tax incomes from resources we
ship out of the state. ”
He warned the audience that if regulation is not stopped, Texas
will lose a great deal of its ability to grow and prosper.
White also criticized the Environmental Protection Agency for
“rewarding those states who have done the least to clean up their air
and water.”
“They have punished states, like Texas, who have done the most to
clean up their air and water,” he said.
“Were not going to let some Environmental Protection Agency
guideline destroy our economy, progress and growth,” he said.
On the other hand. White said that Texas is on sound economic
footing.” “If there was ever a success story in government, it has to be
Texas,” he said, commending the commissioners and judges for their
work.
Ag commissioner says
Wexas exports important
By CRAIG ROGERS
Battalion Staff
Texas farmers are important not
bnly to Americans living in cities,
but to foreigners as well, Reagan
Brown, the state commissioner of
Agriculture said Wednesday.
Brown spoke to 500 county judges
and commissioners at the 21st An
nual County Judges and Commis
sioners Conference in College Sta-
ion.
Texas is the third largest exporter
bfagriculture products (California is
prst) and is respected for its agricul-
ure, Brown said.
While in Europe on agricultural
business, Brown was given special
Jreatnient over other state agricul-
lural commissioners, he said. He
Received this attention “not because
: is Reagan Brown, but because of
he Texas farmer.”
Brown emphasized the impor-
Jance of farmers in general. “If we
lon’t feed the cities, we would have
|revolt,” he said.
But in spite of their importance,
brmers are misunderstood, Brown
aid.
He told the conference of a
pman who said, “We don’t need a
ate commissioner of agriculture
liymore. We don’t need farms; we
lave supermarkets. ”
A big cause of misunderstanding
the fact that most people are at
bast two generations removed from
peir farms. Brown said currently
nly 3 percent of the Texas popula
tion lives on farms.
One misconception the public has
about farmers concerns food price
increases.
“Last month food prices werit up
$41 and farmers only got $2 of that,”
Brown said. He added that he
doesn’t know where the money
goes, pointing out that grocery
stores barely break even.
Brown called for greater coopera
tion among farmers to work to be
understood by the public.
He also called on the judges and
commissioners to run their counties
efficiently. He stressed clean gov
ernment.
Brown added that the county
judges and commissioners that their
job is the hardest political job in the
nation.
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United Press International
HOUSTON — The superinten
dent of the Harris County home for
juveniles has been fired and the dis
trict attorney’s office is investigating
three children’s charges he sexually
abused them, officials disclosed to
day.
Robert J. Cuellar, 37, was fired as
superintendent of the Burnett-
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Roger Engels, assistant chief
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“We felt that action was necessary
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