THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1979
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ements firm on teacher s raise
United Press International
AUSTIN — Gov. Bill Clements
gavp officials of Texas’ seven largest
school districts an audience Monday
butltold them he isn’t going to give
in on his stand against any pay raise
higher than 5.1 percent for
teachers.
■Vou can talk all you want to, I’m
not going to change my mind,’’ Cor
pus Christi’s school superintendent,
;Dana Williams, quoted the gover-
norj as telling the school adminis
trators and trustees.
Superintendents and school
Hrd representatives from Hous
ton, Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso,
Corpus Christi, San Antonio and
Austin emerged from the meeting
shaking their heads at the gover
nor’s refusal to consider any bigger
pay raise for teachers.
^■1 wouldn’t say it was very good,’’
Dallas school superintendent,
■ Linus Wright, said as he emerged
from the 45-minute meeting with
Clements.
HVright said the governor seemed
surprised that the state’s urban
school districts already have
competency-based educational pro
grams, faculty advisory committees
and a number of the other proposals
Clements made in his campaign.
^■‘1 think we aired our differ-
73(l| I ences,’ said Sarah Haskins, Dallas
school board member and president
of the Texas Urban School Council.
“It was a very forthright, outspoken
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ideas on discipline and teachers.
“I think we did surprise him that
the seven urban districts are doing
many of the things that he wants to
do. I think it was a very fruitful ses
sion,” she said.
Jack McQueen, Corpus Christi
school board president, said Cle
ments “kind of started out lecturing
us.”
Houston Superintendent Billy
Reagan agreed Clements did most
of the talking but said the governor
did not lecture the school adminis
trators.
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United Press International
ASHINGTON — The so-called
“sunbelt” states will nearly double
their population and have almost
half the nation’s population by the
end of the century, if current trends
continue, a recent study indicates.
Recording to the new study, the
southern and western regions corn-
biped will have 150 million people
or|56 percent of the U.S. population
by the year 2000.
^KJniversity of Virginia de-
migrapher Jeanne Biggar made the
stu< y of the 15 “sunbelt” states for
th| Population Reference Bureau, a
IVashington-based nonprofit organi
zation specializing in population re
search.
^JBy the year 2000, if the growth
pattern of the 1970s continues, ” the
ji'study said, “the sunbelt will reach
3Wer ‘'112 million people and will com-
,uprise 43.2 percent of the nation’s
cea | pitoulation.”
^ftccording to the study, birth
aque.< Prates are down in all regions, so mi-
rgration is the key factor in what it
iRoonlafed a “radical change in the his
toric distribution patterns of the
UlS. population.”
^According to Biggar, the key fac-
A-A.I tor in the migration change is a shift
r i in the century-old south-to-north
flow of job-seeking blacks and poor
ites.
hat migratory pattern peaked at
Jfe end of World War II, the study
laid.
^ Bn the first half of the 1970s, the
itudy said, the South gained 2.6 mil-
^ ^ion new residents through migra-
|i|t>n, nearly all from the northeast
d north central regions.
Tie study defined the sunbelt as
luding Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas,
puisiana, Oklahoma, Texas,
plifornia, Arizona, New Mexico
Id Missouri.
Coal from Africa
may be cheaper,
says power exec
United Press International
HOUSTON — Railroad greed may force American industries to
import coal from Africa because it can be mined, shipped and trucked
7,000 miles cheaper than it can move by rail from domestic mines to
users, a utility executive told congressional investigators Monday.
“We are aware that our purchase of large quantities of foreign coal
under a long-term contract might not be in accord with the present
administration’s energy policy, but if we are forced into this position
by the greed of the railroads and the reluctance of the regulators to
regulate, so be it,” M.L. Borchelt, vice president of Central Power
and Light of Corpus Christi told the panel.
The price-gouging complaint was one of several made by industrial
and state government officials against railroads and the Interstate
Commerce Commission during the opening hearing by the House
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Rep. Bob Eckhardt, D-Texas, chairman of the subcommittee, said
rising transportation prices that discourage coal conversion could
frustrate policies to reduce oil imports while undermining efforts to
narrow the balance of payments deficit.
Eckhardt repeatedly badgered ICC and Department of Transpor
tation witnesses to justify a series of recent rate increases for already
profitable western and midwestern railroads operating in monopoly
situations.
“I’m afraid we re destroying the advantages the public could get
from the bountiful coal resources in this country,” Eckhardt said.
ICC Commissioner Betty Jo Christian told the committee recent
cases have involved extremely complex issues which did not lend
themselves to simple solutions.
“The simple fact is that any energy source costs money and in the
case of coal that includes not only the cost of getting it out of the
ground, but the cost of moving it from the mine to the user, ” she said.
“Neither the mine operator nor the (rail) carrier can be expected or
required to subsidize the consumer, and our standards are applied ith
this in mind.”
When two DOT witnesses testified the rail industry will fall as
much as $16 billion short of the capital needed to remain in business
through 1985, Eckhardt challenged the figures, saying more than half
the money was needed by only seven unprofitable railroads while the
western coal haulers enjoyed acceptable profits.
He said government regulators were too dependent upon the rail
industry to supply the statistics by which rates requests would be
judged.
“At the Burlington Northern, the primary carrier of coal to the
Southwest from the western coal regions, revenue from hauling coal
rose at an average annual rate of 45 percent for each of the years
1974-76,” Eckhardt said. “This was before most of the tariff increases
predicted on the 4R (1976 Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory
Reform) Act had been granted.”
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“The tone was one of concern and
conviction, strong on the convic
tion,” Reagan said. “I thought it was
overall a very productive session. I
thought we established a good rap
port with the governor.”
The school officials told Clements
local districts will be forced to use
local money raised from property
taxes to give teachers higher pay
raises if the state salary increase is
held to 5.1 percent — the amount
the governor is supporting for all
state workers.
“He said, ‘That will be a tough
decision for you to make, ”’
McQueen said.
School administrators told the
governor they consider a 7.1 per
cent pay raise for teachers a
minimum.
“We pointed out to him that it
would be very difficult if not impos
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adhere to 5.1,” Reagan said. “In the
urban areas, because of the compe
tition with industry and business,
it’s become almost impossible to
hire math, science and vocational
teachers.’
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ficials from urban districts — where
25 percent of the state’s school-age
children attend classes — discussed
issues such as competency testing
for students, discipline in the class
room, teacher involvement in deci
sion making and funds for compen
satory education.
“We have statistics to prove com
pensatory education is working in
the urban schools,” Haskins said.
“Our minorities are showing more
improvement than the surburban
districts.
Although Clements made no
commitment to increased funding
for such programs, she said, “He
definitely realizes that education is
at the crossroads.”
Haskins said urban school admin
istrators offered Clements their re
search facilities to develop data on
such programs, success of compe-
ences in employment benefits given
teachers and regular state employ
ees.
“There are many areas where
state employees have more benefits
for teachers,” she said. Teachers
have lower pensions, less insurance,
no Social Security and must have
more training than most state work
ers.
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