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3 THE BATTALION Rape 19 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1979 ^ m arrivals to suffer, expert says Adelphi offers new program iTexas boom may fuel bust oil b and ng.fra othse! United Press International The Texas economy is rocketing ard despite the threat of a na- recession. But while nisands move south toward ex uded relief from high energy costs J id inflation, one energy expert ars the boom that attracted them juld plunge them into poverty. Though some other experts do in such bleak terms. Dr. arlCook, Dean of Geosciences at eras A&M University, contends ie number of poor or marginally iployed people in the South will as retirees, illegal immigrants lom Mexico and unemployed rers from the North and Mid move to Texas to escape gas w, higher heating hills and spiral- 15 costs. Even with the Sun Belt’s eco- imic boom, it has a greater per- iatage of poor people than does . it Frost Belt,” he said. “This pro- jA jrtion will increase because infla- Y on and energy costs will rise as the jom continues. Many fixed- icomes retirees and marginally iployed workers will slip hack into ^ overty as the cost oflivinggoes up. The same factors that make a oom-town also bring the inflation pa idenergy problems many of these )es for trymg to escape. " Cook believes energy-related re- arch in social and economic areas . -necessary to find a way to prevent locate] tt |)oom from crashing down upon . rousands of urban Sun Belt work- 15 tied to the high-energy network ! fears, air conditioning and proces- ■ edfood. “It may be that such research can i ive energy and dollars while pre- was« iiving, perhaps even improving, ‘Whati ie quality of life," he said, andcu However, some experts across a role' ie state believe life is good in Texas his (11 id will remain so. They point to as inS irrentjob and industry figures as libit of ifir proof. ourtiij Dianne Dobie, a supervising ell, bor market analyst for the Texas ■teau. inployment Commission, says the ashisi ates unemployment rate has been lout in wer than the nation ’s for years de- zed to )itethe addition of nearly 1 million ispitali 1 the labor force during the past ve years. ewayl We don’t have the problems in h an eas that a lot of states have,” she chwei! lid. “We have a more stable 1 xinomy. I don’t think a recession heap is hit Texas that much." Taby. Cary Gleason, an official with the ially f ms Industrial Commission set up id gjj lattract new industry to the state, more' fe the major urban areas attract usiness and people simply because ofhisi [their size, and that Texas is con- Empi lining to get the lion’s share of new got 1 dustry and expansion, said. “Energy for industrial develop- startei lent is in abundant supply in Texas tastici •iwill be for a long, long time,” he I suit lid. “That’s on the minds of corpo- thesei He decisionmakers. There’s obvi- dtogo nslygreat interest in Texas." Tdon’tforsee an end to the boom the immediate future but on the s reins ®er hand, while some people say Has is left untouched by economic owntums in the country, that’s not 0." “Inperiods like the present, with ii?h inflation and slowing growth Mionwide, there may be some lowing in Texas in some sections of ^economy, but I haven’t seen any Dr. Tom Plant, a research as sociate with the University of Texas’ Bureau of Business Research, agrees a slowing of the Texas economy is pbssihle after several years of an upsurge that helped make the South the nation’s fastest growing region. “I would expect the growth of Texas to continue through the next seven or eight years, but perhaps at lower rates than we’ve seen in the past few years,” Plant says. “A lot of people are still moving to Texas and as for the quality of life issue, Texas is still attracting a lot of industry be cause of several factors.” Plaut says that while retirees, the underemployed and illegal aliens may be attracted to Sun Belt cities, history indicates it is not the poor who migrate in large numbers. “We really don’t have detailed in formation on the type of people moving in since 1970,’ he said. "We re all looking forward to the 1980 census to tell us what’s going on, but I don’t see where this area should be different from any other fast-growing area. The type of people who move in tend to be in their 20s, better-educated, higher- skilled and so forth.” Plaut also says he’s not sure the number of poor is as important as some other potential by-products of growth. “I don’t understand this poverty argument (of Cook’s),” he said. “I can’t see that effect as being too im portant. There other negative types of things that tend to arise — pollu tion and congestion, for example. I would think those things would be more important than the poverty ef fect.” Plaut also contends that an in crease in the cost of energy doesn’t necessarily foreshadow the end of the private auto. “No one can predict how high energy prices will go. But very high energy prices don’t necessarily mean the demise of the auto. There is a tremendous possibility that much more efficient automobiles can be built.” Another person who disagrees with Cook’s theory is economist John Morgan. Morgan lives and works in Houston, the fastest grow ing city in the nation. “The best statistic to look at is per capital personal income, which right now in Houston is the 11th highest in the nation,” Morgan said. “If you look at the period from 1970-77, you’ll see that the Houston area had one of the fastest growth rates of any major city in terms of per capital personal income.” “If this theory is correct, it would say per capita income would in crease at a slower rate than in the rest of the nation. But from 1969-77, the Houston per capita income went from $3,700 to $8,247 per person. That gave us a ranking of No. 16 in the nation. But according to his theory, our ranking should have ac tually declined because we would have been getting more poor people.” Morgan also believes the energy problems of the Sun Belt are less severe than in the North where gal lons of heating oil are a necessity, and the poor are likely to improve their situations by moving to such cities as Houston. “Houston and all major cities face the same type of problems cities in the North face with poor people,” he said. “We re always going to have our proportion of poor people” “However, there’s a greater op portunity here in Houston where perhaps the opportunities aren’t in the North. With Houston growing as fast as it is, there are a lot of op portunities for good jobs.” M SUNDAY SPECIAL Bar opens at 12 noon for NFL Football 50c hot dogs 12-5 p.m. HAPPY HOUR 4:30-6:30 Mon.-Fri. V2 priced drinks Woodstone Commerce Center 913 Harvey Road J m'-A Two premium reasons for using Maxell in every cassette deck. Yes, two. 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