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United Press International
AUSTIN — A $377.4 million in
crease in state revenue from the
sales tax and taxes on oil and gas
will not be enough to pay for the
record $19.78 billion spending bill
pending in the Senate, Lt. Gov.
Bill Hobby said Thursday.
Comptroller Bob Bullock told
Hobby, House Speaker Bill
Clayton and Gov. Bill Clements
that statistics compiled from the
first six months of the current fiscal
year provided a basis for him to
raise his previous estimates of the
amount of revenue available to the
Legislature for the remainder of
this year and the 1982-83 bien
nium.
“The result of these revisions is
to increase my estimate of funds
available for certification by
$137.9 million this year and an
additional $239.5 million during
the 1982-83 biennium,” Bullock
said.
Increases in anticipated sales
tax revenue accounted for $147.2
million of the increase. Bullock
estimated President Reagan’s de
cision to decontrol crude oil prices
will result in an additional $77.1
million in state taxes, and natural
gas tax revenue will be $101.3 mil-
Franchise
cancellation
requested
United Press International
HOUSTON — Former Texas
Democratic Chairman Billy Gold
berg and his company want a fed
eral judge to cancel a city cable
television franchise given a com
petitor because a jury found the
competitor violated antitrust law.
Goldberg and Affiliated Capital
Corp. filed the request Wednes
day with U.S. District Judge Carl
O. Bue. The request asks for can
cellation of Gulf Coast Cable Tele
vision’s franchise, one of five the
city granted in 1978 and 1979. A
jury in Bue’s court last month
found that Gulf Coast, the city and
Mayor Jim McConn conspired in
violation of antitrust laws to deny
Affiliated a share of the cable tele
vision business in Houston.
The jury said McConn and Gulf
Coast owed Goldberg and Affili
ated $6.3 million damages. Gold
berg did not seek damages from
the city. Bue has not yet affirmed
the judgment. In such a federal
civil case, the judge could alter the
jury’s decision. Only the judge can
order injunctive relief such as can
cellation of a franchise.
lion higher than Bullock had pre
dicted.
Hobby said even with the addi
tional revenue, the state will be
$134 million short of the $19.78
million needed in the preliminary
spending bill pending in the
Senate.
Hobby said Bullock’s latest re
venue estimates reflect a pro
jected surplus at the end of the
current fiscal year Aug. 31 of $526
million, and projected major fund
revenues of $19.1 billion for the
1982-83 biennium.
The Legislature has already
approved in this session $80 mil
lion in emergency appropriation
bills, Hobby said.
Legislators can expect Bullock
to update his revenues again be
fore the session ends June 2, and
any significant increase then could
cover the projected $134 million
deficit and allow the lawmakers to
escape the decision of cutting
spending or raising taxes.
“As always, I will continue to
watch the estimates closely and
will inform you immediately
should it be necessary to revise
them any further,” Bullock told
the three top state leaders.
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Texan could lose home, acres
Land may not be farmer’s
United Press International
JEWETT — An elderly Texas farmer
may lose land he has worked more than 50
years because of the greed or miscalcula
tions of a soldier who guarded baggage dur
ing a battle for Texas’ independence.
And because the property is part of an
area rich in oil and lignite coal, 81-year-old
Jesse Johnson cannot purchase the land he
believed was his for 53 years.
The tangled web threatening Johnson’s
home began in 1836, when Thornton P.
Kuykendall was awarded 640 acres for
guarding baggage at the Battle of San Jacin
to, which led to the Republic of Texas’ inde
pendence from Mexico.
Kuykendall first located in 1853 and filed
a claim for 320 acres in Leon County. A
patent, or title, to that land was issued in
1857, along with a certificate for the unused
balance.
Kuykendall eventually filed for patents to
the entire 640 acres. Then, either through
greed or miscalculation, he filed for patents
to additional land in Leon County. Because
Kuykendall already had filed on 640 acres,
the land office did not issue a patent for the
property.
Kuykendall apparently never realized a
patent was not issued for his last claim, and
he identified the land as patented property
in later bills of sale.
In 1900, the Texas Legislature banned
further issue of patents, giving all remain
ing public land to the state’s public schools.
Johnson bought 120 acres of the Leon
County property in 1928. He built a home
on the land and farmed it.
In 1978, Johnson was notified the land
belonged not to him, but to the state. And,
as one land office spokesman said, the state
had to be compensated.
“Title has never passed from the state,”
said Herman Forbes, a land office spokes
man. “Unfortunately, the people (Johnson
and his wife, Malissie, 76) didn’t go through
an attorney when they bought the land. He
could have told them they couldn’t get good
title to it. We’re sympathetic with the
plight of the people, but we can’t give away
state land.
“That (eviction) is what it will amount to if
things get stirred up. It looks like we might
be forced to take action to collect some rent
or something. He can obtain agriculture
leases or grazing lease. Of course, we may
decide to put it up for auction for minerals. ”
Houston attorney Coy Spawn contends
title to the land became an issue only after
oil was discovered near the east Texas farm.
“Two years ago, some people came upon
Johnson’s property and asked to lease or
purchase it. Johnson said no, ” the attorney
said. “Not long after that he got a letter from
the General Land Office telling him to va
cate.
Johnson maintains the land is his by vir
tue of the 1928 purchase.
“We’re real sorry, but Mr. Johnson got
screwed, ” said Sara Speight, spokeswoman
for Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong.
“The constitution tells us what we’re sup
posed to do, and it says the Legislature shall
not pass any laws favorable to one single
purchaser.
“The laws say we can’t sell it (the land)
except at market value, and the Legislature
can’t make an exception for Mr. Johnson,”
she said. “The law also says we can’t sell
anything within five miles of oil production,
which Mr. Johnson’s land is, so we can’t
even sell it to him at market value.”
Johnson and his wife don’t know where
they will live if forced from the property.
Ex-hostage lea ves
the Marine Corps
United Press International
Sgt. Rodney “Rocky” Sickmann, one of the 52 Americans held
hostage in Iran for 444 days, has quit the Marine Corps, effective
Thursday.
He completed his four-year enlistment, and was in an 18-month
extension when he decided to accept a Marine Corps’ offer to cut all
nine Marine hostages’ military service short with honorable dis
charges.
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