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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1979
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Mexican flights tax airports
EL PASO — The recent restoring
of El Paso as a commercial airline
stepping stone to Mexico is putting
a strain on the ability of U.S. Cus
toms and Immigration officials to
process passengers at the Interna
tional Airport.
American Airlines discontinued
its El Paso flights to Mexico 25 years
ago and during that time El Paso
residents wanting to travel to
Mexico had to fly to other Texas
cities to make connections, take
charter flights or cross the border
and board Mexican airline flights
landing in neighboring Juarez.
But following bilateral agree
ments between the United States
and Mexico, Frontier Airlines ear
lier this year reinstituted flights to
resorts on Mexico’s east coast. Dur
ing the first seven months of this
year about 1,500 Mexico-bound
passengers departed from El Paso
and another 3,000 returning,
passengers deplaned in El Paso, ac
cording to airport statistics.
Those figures are expected to in
crease even more as Frontier ex
pands its service and Continental
Airlines on Oct. 1 begins daily
flights to tourist cities in western
Mexico.
Frontier recently announced that
El Paso, Albuquerque and Denver
would be the first American cities
linked by air to the new beach resort
outside Vihutanejo, billed as the
former bathing place of women of
Aztec royalty. Frontier, which also
flies to Mazatlan, Cancun and
Guadalajara will begin the new
flight Nov. 8.
Continental will provide service
to Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, Man
zanillo, La Paz and San Jose del
Cabo, according to regional director
Wayne Curbo.
“We hope for increased domestic
service feeding those flights to
Mexico,” said Walter Jones, airport
manager.
Robert Van Epps, manager for
Frontier, predicted more charter
flights also would stop in El Paso,
the second largest city on the border
and second busiest vehicular port of
entry.
But officials said that already
some charter flights to Mexico have
been diverted to other airports be
cause of the shortage of federal in
spectors at the El Paso airport and
they predicted that later this fall the
personnel shortage will become
even more crucial when some Con
tinental and Frontier flights begin
arriving about the same time five
days a week.
Van Epps said that federal inspec
tion facilities at the airport are de
signed for a capacity of about 150
passengers an hour, but that the
combined capacity of Continental
and Frontier airplanes is about 230
persons.
Jones and airport architect Robert
Garland said they hope to have a
new inspection facility completed
by midsummer 1980, to alleviate
the bottleneck.
The enlarged 14,700 square foot
inspection station would contain
enough space for processing about
450 passengers an hour, more than a
747 carries. Garland said.
Power exec
got kickbacks,
broker says
United Press International
HOUSTON — An oil broker has
testified more than $50,000 in
kickbacks was paid to a former vice
president of Florida Power Corp.
for participating in a “daisy chain”
(scheme.
The broker, Raymund Granlund,
74, of Houston said in a deposition
Monday he paid Richard Raymond,
64, of St. Petersburg $57,000 in cash
in 1973 for being allowed to operate
as a consultant to Florida Power.
Granlund received $1.9 million in
commissions. He was convicted in
July of masterminding a fuel oil pric
ing scheme that defrauded Florida
Power of millions of dollars. He re
ceived a three-year sentence.
Raymond was acquitted of conspi
racy, mail and wire fraud charges in
March and testified he never re
ceived any money from Granlund.
Raymond’s attorney, Ron Caccia-
tore of Tampa, Monday said
Raymond told the truth during
Granlund’s trial and has “done no
thing wrong.”
The deposition will be used in a
civil case and any further criminal
cases resulting from information
gained from Granlund.
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DALLAS — Although he has yet
to announce his candidacy for presi
dent, California Gov. Jerry Brown
says he is the only one in the race
who supports a balanced budget and
opposes nuclear power.
Brown’s nuclear statements
Monday, which came shortly after a
giant anti-nuke rally in New York
and similar protests in other cities,
were received warmly by his South
ern Methodist University audience.
Terming nuclear energy “a dead
end,” the governor said he believed
nuclear power plants were too ex
pensive to build and maintain, and
too dangerous.
“I’m the only candidate taking a
strong stand against nuclear power, ”
Brown reminded his listeners.
Brown also pushed for a constitu
tionally mandated balanced federal
budget, a theme that dominated his
Sunday appearances in Dallas, his
first in-person effort to gain Texans’
support for his bid to become the
1980 Democratic presidential
nominee.
Brown said the government could
cut costs across the board, and
called for cooperation between gov
ernment, labor and industry.
Brown said he believed tax incen
tives, not cuts, would spur in
creased productivity, and combined
with lower annual increases in defi
cit spending, would improve the na
tion’s economy.
“The dominance the United
States once had on the world scene
won’t continue unless we increase
productivity and invest in new
technology,” he said, while calling
for a switch from consumption to in
vestment.
Brown said he favored creation of
a cabinet level post to promote ex
port of American products.
“If we don’t push (our exports) we
will get pushed out of the way, ” he
said.
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Stabbing leads to 20-year sentence for
two
United Press International
HOUSTON — Two 16-year-old boys have been sentenced to 20
years in prison for the April stabbing death of a 30-year-old man
attacked outside a rock concert.
Robert Robles and Paul Ojeda were convicted in district court of
the slaying of Bobby Lee Nentwig.
The attack occurred outside the Summit after a Rod Stewart per
formance.
Nov. 28 hearing set in gas rate increase request
AUSTIN — The Railroad Commission Tuesday set a hearing for
Nov. 28 in a rate increase request Southern Union Gas Company is
seeking to impose on customers in Port Arthur and four other South
east Texas cities.
Southern had filed a rate increase request with the commission last
February. But the cities — which also include Port Neches, Griffing
Park, Groves and Nederland — did not act and the commission sus
pended consideration of the request.
In July and August the five cities approved identical rate increases
for Southern. However, the increases were less than what Southern
had requested and the company appealed to the commission.
The commission also announced that any person or entity — other
than the parties already involved — must file a motion to intervene
within 14 days in order to appear at the November hearing.
Expenditure dates for November election set
AUSTIN — Secretary of State George Strake Tuesday announced
that the first deadline for a political committee to file contribution and
expenditure statements concerned with proposed constitutional
amendments on the Nov. 6 ballot would be 5 p.m. on Oct. 7.
Strake said general purpose political committees that file monthly
statements were not required to meet this deadline.
Since the Oct. 7 will be a Sunday and Oct. 8 is a holiday, Strake
said the deadline would be extended to Oct. 9.
The secretary of state said any candidates and political committees
involved in any elections held on Nov. 6 by cities or other political
subdivisions must also file statements during the October deadline.
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,* DALLAS — Frank Borman, a
•former astronaut and chairman and
■chief executive officer of Eastern
J Airlines, has become a director of
.'Electronic Data Systems, Inc.
; Borman, who commanded the
•Apollo 8 space flight, was elected a
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