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State / National
Senate raises car registration fee
United Press International
AUSTIN — Legislation raising
the vehicle registration fee for
small cars by $5 a year and giving
the bulk of the money to Texas
counties sailed through the Senate
on voice vote Monday despite pro
tests it amounted to a $22.9 mil
lion tax increase in 1982.
Sen. John Traeger, D-Seguin,
the sponsor of the proposal, ini
tially proposed increasing the
share of the vehicle registration
fees kept by counties for handling
the registrations, but said that
proposal would have taken about
$50 million out of anticipated state
revenue.
To compensate for the ex
pected loss, Traeger revised his
bill and included a provision to
increase the registration fee for
vehicles weighing less than 3,500
pounds from the present $12 to
$17 a year effective July 1, 1982.
He said $22 million of the $22.9
million that would generate in
1982 would go to Texas counties,
and the remaining $900,000 to the
state. In 1983, the total revenue to
counties would total $45 million,
with $3.5 million going to the
state.
Sen. Carlos Truan, D-Corpus
Christi, tried unsuccessfully to
shift the proposed registration fee
increase from small cars to larger
vehicles — those weighing 3,500
to 4,500 pounds.
“I agree that the counties ought
to have increased revenues. My
concern is with placing the in
crease on those who have small
automobiles and are doing their
share to conserve energy while
allowing those with bigger auto
mobiles to retain the same fee,”
Truan said.
“I feel we ought not to penalize
the people who are driving small
automobiles and doing their part
to conserve energy.”
“The $5 fee is not going tolteep
a person from buying a small car,
Traeger replied. “He’s still going
to save.”
Truan’s amendment was re
jected 26-5.
Sen. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austir
told his Senate colleagues, ‘Tli
bill is a tax bill. Whether Gw
ernor Clements likes it or not, we
are increasing taxes.”
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Legislature has limits on bill
Measure spends all but $75 million
United Press International
AUSTIN — Speaker Bill
Clayton reports there is one factor
that severely restricts the changes
lawmakers can make in the prop
osed $26.5 billion spending bill
now before the House.
The bill, drafted after weeks of
public hearings before the
Appropriations Committee,
spends all but about $75 million of
the revenue expected to be avail
able during the next two years,
and if lawmakers add more than
$75 million to the plan, they’ll
have to raise taxes to support it.
“I think we can get through it in
two days,” Clayton said. “It’s in
better shape than I’ve seen it in
several years. The Appropriations
Committee did a good job of trim
ming. Also, we’ll only have about
$75 million on the table and that
minimizes the amount of increases
we can put in.”
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Heart-lung patient
breathing by himself
United Press International
STANFORD, Calif. — Charles
Walker, the latest recipient of a
heart-lung transplant at Stanford
University Hospital, was in critic
al condition Monday but was sur-
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viving without a respirator.
Walker, 30, “is breathingonk
own now,” said a spokeswoiuas
late Sunday. “He remains inro
tical condition, but his
are stable.”
The Binghamton, N.Y., S ™
mer Friday became the fiftli per
son ever to receive the double
transplant. The removal of the re
spirator, the test doctors said to
crucial to his survival, was made
late Saturday.
He was awake and visitingwl
his family Sunday, the spokes
woman said.
Walker’s girlfriend, Carole
Mitchko, a Binghamton, NT
nurse, said Walker “is doingwel
He’s bound to look sick from!
major procedure like that, buter-
ery day will be a plus.”
Walker, who at age 13wastoM
he had the lungs of a 90-year-oi
man, underwent the complicated
4 Vi-hour surgery just 54 daysafe;
Stanford surgeons performed
their first such procedure on Man
Gohlke, 45, a Mesa, Adz., news
paper executive.
Gohlke has set a world surviwl
record for a heart-lung transplant
recipient, and the state of lei
health gives hope that heart-lung
operations may become reason
ably safe.
Walker, whose blood was not
properly oxygenated because of)
congenital heart defect, received
the new organs from an undis
closed donor.
His condition prior to surgen
led to pulmonary hypertension
and resulting deteriorationofboili
his lungs and his heart. In recent
years he has been mostly bedrid
den and required weekly blood
transfusions. Without the trans
plant, he was given less thanont
year to live.
Three heart-lung transplants
were performed more than a de
cade ago at other institutions. lt(
longest survivor lasted only 2
days, and the procedure was ato
doned.
The drug suppresses the body *
immune reaction to foreign tissues
without devastating its ability t:
fight infections, the chiefkilleroi
transplant patients. And unlike
the steroids previously used, ike
drug does not inhibit healing of
the windpipe after it is cut in ike
lung transplant.
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