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Christmas
fete draws
opposition
United Press International
TOMBALL — Residents of an
unincorporated community north
of Houston said they are not
Scrooges, but are opposing the de
velopment of a 100-acre Christ
mas festival because they fear a
threat to their rural environment.
“Most of the people moved out
here to escape city traffic. It’s
quiet. It’s peaceful,” said Poly
Cline, a resident near Spring
Creek Park.
Terrance Karn, with Festival
Village Inc. of Houston, said the
festival is planned on 100 acres of
land recently purchased by the
company and will be open
weekends between Nov. 14 and
Dec. 20. It will feature arts and
crafts, Christmas foods and enter
tainment. Proceeds will go to the
Houston Zoo.
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Lee Phillips and Lisa Sims stand on the auction block
Thursday evening in front of Sbisa Dining Hall ready to
be sold as a fund raising project for McFadden Hall. More
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
than 35 “sales” were made, and $335 was raised for the
dorm. Robert Becker was the high bidder for the two girls at
$3.10. Becker plans to use his “slaves” to clean floors.
Reagan s budget cuts
reduce state workers
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Reagan admi
nistration’s budget cuts could re-
j suit in elimination of 4,000 to
5,000 state jobs in Texas during
the next year, Gov. Bill Clements
said Thursday.
Clements, who campaigned on
j a platform of reducing the number
of state workers by 25,000, told
reporters he is not optimistic ab
out achieving that goal, and said in
j the first two and one-half years of
his administration the reduction
[has been only about 1,000
I workers.
But he said state agencies
(which rely heavily on federal
funds already are feeling the im
pact of the Reagan administra
tions’s budget cuts, and the cuts
will be reflected in a reduction in
the number of state workers.
“This time next year we may be
at a level of a net absolute reduc
tion of 5,000 to 6,000 employess,
and I think that is a desirable
trend,” Clements said. “These re
ductions will be very carefully
screened and selected, and it will
be a very painful process. I think
90 percent of these reductions will
come through attrition and not
through dismissals.”
Clements said another state
goal — that of completing three
new prison units by Nov. 15 to
house prisoners now living in
tents — will not be met, and said
the prisoners could be in the tents
until the middle of next summer.
“There will be prisoners in tents
this winter, and I don’t think that
presents any particular hardship
on the prisoners, the governor
said.
He said the prison construction
project, which was to provide
2,700 new beds for prisoners in
buildings located within existing
prison units, was hampered by de
lays in letting bids and delays in
architectural drawings, making
the proposed Nov. 15 completion
date impossible.
“Mr. Estelle (prison director
W.J. Estelle) now tells me those
quarters should be completed in
July of next summer, so there is a
significant delay,” Clements said.
“I am most unhappy about this,
and I have relayed my feelings to
Mr. Estelle and to the prison
board.”
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Tickets can be purchased at Rudder
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United Press International
HOUSTON — A judge has de
clared two paternal stepcousins
I are heirs of millionaire Howard
Hughes, ending the 5-year-old
j Texas trial phase of deciding who
; should inherit Hughes’ fortune.
But appeals remain.
In naming Avis Hughes Mcln-
I tyre and her late brother Rush
Hughes as first cousins and heirs
Wednesday, Probate Judge Pat
Gregory now has named 18 living
persons heirs to Hughes’ estate
estimated at $263 million to $1.2
billion.
Under a family agreement,
McIntyre and her late brother’s
heirs now could be eligible for 9.5
percent of the estate. Rupert’s
I three granddaughters get 19 per-
f cent and 14 heirs of Hughes’
mother get 71.5 percent under the
j agreement.
Although Gregory expects to
issue a final order in a few days and
has completed the trial phase of
the case, he said he expects
appeals to delay final division of
the estate for seven to 10 years.
Lawyers representing more
than 500 third and fourth paternal
cousins, the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute in Miami, Fla.
and former actress Terry Moore,
who says she married Hughes in a
secret ceremony, are appealing
rulings saying they have no claim
on the estate.
Also, the states of Texas and
California and Los Angeles Air
ways also have a claim against the
estate.
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The Chinese Student Association and The International Student Association
Proudly Present
THE EORCM ON CHINA ISSUES
Includes:
‘The Prospects for the “Four Modernization” Programme on the Mainland
‘Issues Which Taiwan’s Democracy Faces
Guest Speakers:
Dr. Teh-kuang Chang, Department of Political Science
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Dr. Ignatius J. H. Tsao, Department of Political Science
State University of New York, Oneonta, New York
Time: September 20, Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
Dr. James Tsao, Department of Political Science
Houston Baptist University, Houston, Texas
Dr. Richard H. Yang, Department of Chinese & Japanese
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Place: 601 Rudder Tower