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May 6, 1982
85Weather guide illustrates
exas’ often-stormy past
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n ’ajorfrot' by Amy Polk
*1) a pre-Ur Battalion Reporter
forth; Texans have a saying: If you
larris, anilon’t like the weather, just wait a
a on ma/ew minutes and it’ll change.
Borne Texas A&M University
loradam, researchers now have shown
Katy; hat if you wait long enough,
;ph,anap/oull see almost everything,
lajor froiil. Researchers at the State Cli-
Bologist’s Office here have
teed, a mffimpilcd a new publication,
major frol
“One Hundred Years of Texas
Weather,” that summarizes re
cords of Texas’ weather during
the past 100 years.
John Griffiths, Texas state
climatologist and professor of
meteorology, and Greg Ains
worth, a former Texas A&M
graduate student, spent two
years of their spare time resear
ching the state’s weather history.
Some of the stranger weather
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Investigation hurts
trade with Mexico,
firm says
United Press International
Seniors
and Jr., a
vSk HOUSTON-A Washington
' . TBnd jury’s investigation of
major lni™ r g es 0 f iij e g a j payments by
LB. oilfield equipment firms to
Mexico’s national oil company is
' """ biting business between the
linger, ai tW(! countries, a local firm under
^.i 1 scrutiny contends,
rspie,airc|BD () cumerits filed in a civil law
ny 311 ' suit in Houston disclosed Tues-
ter,an i Crawford Enterprises Inc.
)m Mult 0 f Houston is being investigated
in,amam?f or payments to Petroleos Mex-
ouston; j canos j n the late 1970s.
Hughei ■rhe investigation reportedly
j or front liJ first major criminal in-
:kson, ai/iSicy under the 1977 Foreign
gy ma J 0, Brrupt Practices Act, which
p|ovides criminal penalties for
n, an accompanies and executives who
or front ' engage in bribery and kickbacks
overseas.
es, a bwh^l Crawford, which charged the
i; Bvestigation is hurting Amer-
4cCcllon|Jban foreign trade, issued a state-
'om Gilffi; ment saying its superior natural
er, a coitijjffis compressors and related ser-
from Sanlylce won its Pemex contracts.
■he statement denied any im-
«loahJr.,i proper payments,
from 8ip| “As a result, Pemex has cur-
■liled purchases from CEI and
in, an agri its American subcontractors and
ajorfront) competitors, and has begun to
shift its immense purchasing
»Smith,Bower away from the United
on majoti States,” a company statement
yder, a m The company also said Pemex
sciences *and the Mexican government
s had investigated similar charges
her,anaH .and found no wrongdoing in
s major Mrawford’s winning of Pemex
' contracts.
jpoliticalipf “Despite vigorous and repe-
msdn; Rated denials of any wrongdoing
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events in Texas include a storm
in February 1895 in which 10 to
20 inches of snow fell along the
Gulf Coast while the rest of the
state remained dry.
Another was in Thrall, where
38 inches of rain fell within 24
hours during a major storm
Sept. 9 and 10, 1921.
And one day in 1899, the
high temperature in the
Panhandle was minus 2.
Griffiths and Ainsworth ex
amined 1,200 months’ worth of
publications, including monthly
weather reviews and weather re
ports from newspapers dating
back to 1880.
Griffiths said the work was
compiled because the state has
no single-volume record of
weather history.
He said the climatologist’s
office often has been besieged
by inquiries about various re
cords and his publication will
serve as a good handbook for
those interested in keeping track
of extremes in the weather.
The College of Geosciences
published the handbook, which
is available from the Depart
ment of Meteorology or the
State Climatologist’s Office.
Garry Mauro hits Snelson
for changing tax stand
United Press International
Land commissioner candidate
Garry Mauro wasted no time be
fore attacking Sen. Pete Snelson,
D-Midland, in the wake of his
narrow victory over third-place
finisher, Rep. Dan Kubiak.
Mauro criticized Snelson
Tuesday for changing his posi
tion on the need for a state prop
erty tax and called him an old-
style politician.
“Old-style politicians believe
that it’s no big deal to change
critical political positions for
personal political gain,” Mauro
said. “But the people of Texas
expect consistency, honesty and
the strength to stand behind
your words and actions and to
keep them the same.”
Voters will decide June 5
which of the two will be the
Democratic nominee for land
commissioner.
During the last session, Snel
son was the author of a constitu
tional amendment that would
have authorized the use of a
property tax to fund construc
tion at colleges and universities.
However, Snelson now says
he opposes any property tax and
will work to abolish constitution
al provisions for the tax during a
May special session of the Legisl
ature.
Mauro said he hoped to pick
up support in Snelson’s home
base of West Texas, but would
concentrate his campaign in the
urban areas of the state.
Mauro indicated he expects
the support of Kubiak in his
ipport
run-off campaign. He edged
him out by less than 6,500 votes
to earn a place in the runoff.
Kubiak, who had the lowest
campaign budget of the candi
dates, said he may ask for a re
count of the votes if he can raise
the money to pay for the second
tally.
in connection with these allega
tions, the (U.S.) investigation
has continued for three and a
half years,” the statement said.
Crawford said Pemex de
cided in 1977 to capture the mil
lions of dollars’ worth of natural
gas it was flaring from its oil
fields and turned to Crawford
for help. The firm said Pemex,
relying on Crawford’s expertise,
was quickly able to begin suc
cessful capture of billions of
cubic feet of natural gas.
The Washington Post quoted
“knowledgeable sources” as
saying the grand jury was look
ing at a period in the late 1970s
when oil prices were rising and
Mexico bought equipment in
the United States to increase
production.
The Post said the company
experienced a sudden upsurge
in business with its Mexican con
tracts in 1978, doing between
$250 million and $600 million in
business between that year and
1980.
The papers that confirmed
the investigation were filed in a
civil suit brought against Craw
ford by a Mexican company,
Grupo Industrial Delta S.A.
Delta charges Crawford
failed to pay $25 million in brok
erage fees. The company says
Crawford refuses to participate
in depositions because of the
pending criminal investigation
in Washington.
A spokesman for the Mexican
federal attorney general said no
thing is being investigated in
volving U.S. companies in
Mexico.
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