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State races ‘most important
United Press International
AUSTIN — Rep. John Bryant,
D-Dallas, Saturday told liberal
members of the State Democratic
Party that legislative races in 1980
would be more important to Texans
than the presidential election.
“I don’t care what you feel about
Teddy Kennedy, Jimmy Carter or
Jerry Brown. The most important
races will be for state representative
and for state senate, ” Bryant said.
“I worked very hard for Jimmy
Carter and I don’t have any friends
in high office. It just doesn’t trickle
down that much. ”
Bryant, who plans to challenge
Speaker Bill Clayton in 1981, also
said he was glad some Democratic
legislators were switching to the
Republican Party. He said those
conservatives who are switching
were never really loyal Democrats
and simply used the party label to
get elected.
“The Democratic Party will be
stronger in proportion to the
number of imposters we get rid of,”
he said. “I’m glad to see them go.”
The meeting was called by Billie
Carr, national Democratic commit-
teewoman, and Ed Cogburn, a
member of the State Democratic
Executive Committee, to plan
strategy for the 1980 elections. But
the mood of the participants was
very much pro-Kennedy.
“Ready for Teddy” buttons, cam
paign literature and “Kennedy, ’80”
T-shirts were prominent among the
crowd. Supporters of all three prob
able Democratic presidential candi
dates gave reports on the status of
each one’s campaign in Texas.
Ken Gjemre of Dallas tried to
have discussion of the presidential
race deleted from the agenda, claim
ing the topic was irrelevant.
“(The issue) has no place in our
discussions,” he said. “Our job is to
work for legislation of this state.”
A Kennedy supporter. Cliff Reed
of El Paso, however, said many of
the participants had traveled to Aus
tin to exchange information on how
much support Kennedy has in
Texas.
“I came from El Paso because!
want to hear how the Kennedy ef
fort is doing in the state,” he said
Ronnie Duggan, publisher of the
Texas Observer, said progressives
could wrestle control of the state in
1980 by forming a strong coalition.
He said a Kennedy-Carter battle
would help local and state races be
cause more liberal voters, especially
minorities, would turn out.
“This is the first time we have a
chance to win control of the state-
from the court house to the state
house,” Duggan said.
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fuel from Mexico
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MEXICO CITY — Braniff Inter
national has signed an agreement to
purchase jet fuel from Petroleos
Mexicanos, the first time the Mexi
can oil monolopy has sold jet fuel
outside the Mexican borders.
According to reports in Mexico
City, the deal was signed Wednes
day and involves Braniff purchasing
the fuel, using some of it and storing
some of it for Mexicana Airlines and
Aeromexico flights in the United
States.
Pemex will deliver 60,000 barrels
of jet fuel, about 2.52 million gal
lons, per month to Braniff storage
facilities in Houston, Los Angeles
and San Francisco. Braniff then will
supply fuel to U.S. flights of
Aeromexico and Mexicana, which
scattered
have encountered
shortages.
Braniff then can buy whatever
fuel remains, at 62 cents a gallon,
well under the current price of 79
cents per gallon for U.S. refined jet
fuel.
“I would imagine there will be at
least 5,000 barrels a month left over
for Braniff,” a Pemex spokesman
said.
A Braniff spokesman in Dallas
said the company was pleased with
the agreement, but that the esti
mated $37,700 per month savings
were a drop in the company’s fuel
cost bucket. He said the 5,000 bar
rels was less than .5 percent of the
56 million gallons of fuel burned
monthly.
‘Oilspiir false alarm
turns out to be algae
United Press International
CORPUS CHRISTI — The Coast
Guard Saturday said what was
thought to have been another
oilslick drifting off the Texas coast
has turned out to be a huge mass of
algae.
“It’s easy to think this stuff is oil
until you can get a good look at it,”
said Chief Petty Officer Richard
Griggs. “On the overflight today,
we discovered it is a large concen
tration of algae. ”
The mass, 45 miles long and up to
2 miles wide, was spotted by a Coast
Guard helicopter Friday and then
inspected briefly by another
helicopter Saturday morning. It was
thought to have been an oilslick,
just 12 miles offshore and threaten
ing the Padre Island National
Seashore.
However, officials even then dis
counted the possibility of the oil
being from the blown-out Mexican
Ixtoc I well in the southern Gulf of
Mexico. The well caused the largest
oilspill in world history.
During August tons of the oil
from the Mexican well drifted onto
Texas beaches, but the seasonal
shifting of currents and breezes to
the north has pushed the Mexican
oil 150 miles south of the mouth of
the Rio Grande.
State briefs
Paper challenges closing of pre-trial hearing
United Press International
SAN ANGELO — A San Angelo newspaper has challenged a dis
trict judge’s decision to bar reporters and the public from a proceed
ing in a controversial capital murder case.
District Judge V. Murray Jordan closed a “pre-trial hearing’
Thursday in the capital murder case of Randy Lynn Woolls, 29, of
Medina.
Woolls is charged with murder in the June 16 stabbing, beating
and burning death of a Kerrville ticket taker, 43-year-old Betty
Stotts.
Jordan’s order was challenged immediately by the San Angelo
Standard Times Thursday. The newspaper filed a motion requesting
Jordan open the proceedings because they were not of a pre-trial
nature.
In its motion, the newspaper contended the hearing could not be of
a pre-trial nature since a jury had been selected to hear the case.
Testimony in the case was expected to begin Monday.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Former Texas Gov. John Connally thinksa
third-place finish is the best he can hope for in Connecticut’s first
Republican presidential primary next March.
Connally, during a weekend campaign visit to Connecticut, also
said he would be happy to finish third behind Ronald Reagan and
probably former CIA director George Bush in New Hampshire’s
showcase presidential primary next February.
“I think I can even run third if we’re tightly bunched,” said Con
nally, acknowledging Reagan’s solid organization and strong recogni
tion factor in New Hampshire.
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