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se 6 THE E age 6 TIIFSnAN THE BATTALION THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1980 I*************-****** tap® 8 *' 4 Harris County pupils give Clements advice on floods state stal NOW Has Your Favorite Double Albums & Tapes on SPECIAL! % United Press International AUSTIN — Gov. Bill Clements received proposals Wednesday to allieviate flood problems in south Harris County from 13 students in two Friendswood schools. The youngsters from Westwood Elementary School and C.W. Cline Primary School are among pupils who wrote 1,000 letters to Clements asking help with flooding problems in Friendswood-Clear Lake. Todd Travaille, a fifth grader at Westwood, read a proclamation from Friendswood Mayor Ralph L. Lowe, and also read his thoughts concern ing a Friendswood flood last July 25. “The flood has almost completely changed some of our lives, ” he told Clements. “Every time it rains even a little, people are afraid that it will all happen again. One of the kids says her little sister is so afraid she can’t go to sleep when it rains.” Travaille said the group recom mended new construction in the area be limited. He said construction companies should study effects their projects will have on the area and insure it can handle water affected by the new construction. Other proposals would require surrounding counties handle their own water “rather than dumping it all on Friendswood,” and provide more money to work on clogged creeks. “We know the solutions for our problems will have to come from many people, not just the governor,” Travaille said. “But we feel it is im portant for you to serve as a leader in seeing that some of these ideas are carried out.” Texas superport jj 3601 E. 29th St. t Next to Dyer Electronics* £ Post Oak Center % Sun Theatres 333 University 846-i The only movie in town 846-9808 ms ^ 4 jtiheaic CLAJjf When you want Quality in a haircut 209 E. 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Among alternatives proposed at the Jan. 10 meeting was building the port in smaller, usable stages rather than all at once to reduce the initial building cost and minimize the need for startup financing. “We did work out a different finan cial plan but they (potential users) rejected it,” Jackson said. “I have no idea how the board’s gonna react.” Jackson declined to elaborate: “I’m not being evasive, I just don’t want to make any prior comment. I’ll make my report to the board tomor row in the open meeting. TDPA planned a floating terminal to serve supertankers too large for existing onshore ports. The terminal would pump crude oil from the tank ers through a pipeline to onshore dis tribution facilities near Freeport. The idea was to finance the project with bonds backed by binding use agreements signed by oil and che mical companies. Experts figured TDPA needed promises to import a total of 1.4 mil lion barrels of crude oil daily through the port to make it financially feasi ble. TDPA gathered promises total ing only 550,000 barrels a day. Casey has said oil and chemical companies are hesitant to commit themselves to the project because both the federal petroleum regula tory climate and the international oil-trading atmosphere are unstable. Meanwhile, the $600 million Louisiana offshore oil port, or LOOP, was about 60 percent finished 18 miles south of Grand Isle, La. It will be capable of serving ers as large as 600,000 tons, LOOP spokesman TerryTm y\]sj' said LOOP and the Texas pr)< rarv board were not direct competitors^ 0 ] an to nar they would serve different refe controversi markets, hut Casey has wans Bernardo G failure of TDPA could shifttlelil ste;K ] name economic boom to Louisiana Onshore Texas ports tosenety oil tankers — although notlW imum 500,(KXJ-ton supertanw could use an offshore temUl have been proposed at C®;; Christi and Galveston. Branch Pul Deeport, a $550 to deepen Corpus Christi de from 45 to 72 feet and huildatEc port on Harbor Island, wasstSj: pushed by the Nueces Count; gation District, but it had strong opposition. The $358 million Galvestonfn osal, to deepen the Galveston(i nel from 40 to 56 feet and Wi tanker berths on Pelican Islanij distribution facilities nearL City, depended on a local ret; dum April 5. N\ Critics: Commission helps gouge Texans Unite< SAX AN second time nuclear fore enough sign force a cityv Antonio’s pa Texas Nude > Lanny S Citizens Cor Power, said about 4,000 required for a $75 million the cost. Sinkin ma United Press International AUSTIN — The Texas Railroad Commission is too concerned with protecting oil and gas companies to worry about consumers being gouged, critics charged Wednesday. Jim Hightower, a former Texas Observer editor running for a spot on the three-member panel that over sees the oil and gas industry, and representatives of the Texas Con sumer Association, American Agri culture Movement, Citizens Orga nized for Reform Now (ACORN), labor unions, senior citizens and in dependent service station operators ^barged the . Railroad Commission sides with the industry at consumers’ expense. “Texans know they are being gouged on energy prices, and they are wondering why their own gov ernment won’t fight for them,” Hightower said. “The answer is that the public’s defender — the Texas Railroad Commission — is curled up in the lap of the very industries it is supposed to he protecting us from.” Hightower and the consumer groups staged a news conference outside the hotel where the commis sion met with officials of the nation’s largest oil companies and some of the state’s biggest utilities. “The railroad commissioners are having a secret rendezvous with the oil companies and the big utilities, Hightower said. “What’s going on here is an annual gathering that the commission calls The State of the Oil Industry Meeting. What it really is, is an exclusive club meeting of the national energy establishment. ” Hightower and the consumer group spokesmen complained they were not invited to testify about problems Texans face in paying for gasoline, electricity and natural gas. "The Railroad Commission is sup posed to regulate the energy indus try,” said Conrad Path, a senior citizen spokesman. “Today, howev er, the commission only represents the industry, and in effet, says to hell with the consumers. ” Jack Jackson, ACORN spokes man, said low and moderate income families cannot understand why natural gas costs more in Texas than anywhere else. Hightower said the Railroad Com mission sent personal invitations for Wednesday’s meeting to major oil companies such as Exxon, Gulf, Shell, Texaco and Mobil, and utili ties such as Southern Union Gas and Sar El Paso Natural Gas. "Not surprisingly, mosto vitees happen to be contribtt* the incumbent commisskaaii election campaigns, Hijk Unitec said. ' cjSAN AN jim Nimriit. the incuinbenlELeighton Sn tower is challenging, deniethji of the Oregc ms were sent to oil JjAy was nan p.iiiics .uni said thehearingwft|4ntonio Syn for anyone to testify. troversial Fr "Even he could have appe was fired las and testified had he wanted to: Smith, 43, with facts." Nugent said of W Leonard i tower. Suit against Engl wife refusedf or S( ALTERATIONS IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF OLD TEXAS WHERE MOTHER TAUGHT DAUGHTER THE FINE ART OF SEWING -A SO HELEN MARIE TAUGHT EDITH MARIE THE SECRETS OF SEWING AND ALTERATIONS "DON'T GIVE UP - WELL, MAKE IT FIT!" AT WELCH'S CLEANERS WE NOT ONLY SERVE AS AN EXCELLENT DRY CLEANERS BUT WE SPE CIALIZE IN ALTERING HARO TO FIT EVENING DRESSES. TAPERED SHIRTS, JEAN HEMS. WATCH POCKETS. ETC (WE RE JUST A FEW BLOCKS NORTH OF FED MART.) WELCH’S CLEANERS 3819 E. 29th (TOWN & COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER) United Press Intcrnaliona! AUSTIN — The Texas Sup United Court Wednesday refusedto«K: DALLAS er a Bexar County man’s SISirfed up with damage suit against his wifempects in his juries he suffered when acarslei himself as ar driving slammed into him in:: the highest j driveway. ; Stephen l Michael D. Bruno of Urn sex, near Do 1 Cats filed the suit against his* las Morning an effort to collect from aninsurii in California company for the injuries he sift run his ad: in the Nov. 9, 1975, accident, for sale to hi On that date, Mrs. Bimufor a new life attempting to move a carpark to work on a the family’s slanting driveway,s| accidentally accelerated theveraR forward at a high rate of s:er crushing her husband between® car and another parked vehicle A trial court ruled againstBmffl damage claim and a Waco CourtB Civil Appeals affirmed that decs; so Bruno appealed to the Supra Court. The Supreme Court upheldtt- lower court decisions. AROUND THE WORLD IN 5 DAYS INTERNATIONAL STUDENT’S WEEK. 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