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State taxes pass
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AUSTIN — State tax collec
tions of more than $1 billion
made May the highest monthly
total in Texas history, and Qpm-
ptroller Bob Bullock said the re
venue proves the nation’s econo
mic clouds have not reached the
Sun Belt.
“The sun is still shining in
Texas and Texans are making
hay while it does,” Bullock said,
commenting on the economic
situation.
The state deposited
$1,013,475,464 in its treasury
during May, $25 million above
the previous high of $988 mil
lion recorded in February.
Part of May’s record tax pay
ments came from quarterly pre
payments made by the state’s
largest taxpayers, along with
month-end minerals tax collec
tions, he said.
Major taxpayers retain a per
centage if they prepay their
taxes. In turn, the early pay
ments allow the state to begin
earning interest on the funds.
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HOUSTON — A state district
judge has filed a $24 million
damage suit against the Hous
ton Chronicle and the Houston
Bar Association based on a judi
cial evaluation poll that ranked
Judge Jerry McAfee the most
unsatisfactory judge in the
county.
The suit, filed Monday,
claims the Chronicle published
“defamatory falsehoods” and
that the bar association, after
conducting its poll, released “in
print, certain statements which
were defamatory falsehoods”
relating to McAfee’s conduct.
Both the newspaper and the
lawyer’s groups should have
known the statements were
false, McAfee said.
Bar president William Key
Wilde said his organization
would “vigorously” defend the
suit.
“We have a right to rate
judges and will continue to do
so,” he said.
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Jack Loftis said editors at the
paper “consider the results of
the Houston Bar Association
poll as being newsworthy and of
interest to the community as a
whole.”
The bar association last year
asked its members to rate 108
judges, including federal, state,
county and municipal judges.
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Kansas and Nebraska cities
were turned into ghost towns
by flooding and 100-mph
winds caused by storms that
knocked out power for more
than 45,000 people Tuesday.
And hundreds of New En
glanders were still homeless
from once-in-a-century rains
that killed up to 22 people and
inflicted $100 million in
damage.
Lightning sparked a fire in
a downtown department store
in Greencastle, Ind., early
Tuesday, and thunderstorms
unleashed golfball-sized hail
on parts of southern Illinois
and St. Louis late Monday.
Severe thunderstorms,
with winds up to 100 mph,
lashed Missouri and Kansas
early Monday, taking down
trees and power lines, bashing
windows and overturning at
east 65 utility poles.
More than an inch of rain
swept by 80-mph gusts bat
tered Kansas City in 15 mi
nutes, clogging intersections
with up to 3 feet of water and
debris.
At least 45,000 residents in
the Kansas City metropolitan
area, which includes seven
counties in Missouri and Kan
sas, were without power. Tur
ner White, of Kansas Power
and Light Co., said power may
be restored Tuesday.
At least 22 people were
either dead or missing in New
England in the wake of storms
that dumped up to 11 inches
of rain in Connecticut — a re
cord for total rainfall in June.
In Connecticut, where floods
forced 1,300 people to flee
their homes Sunday, a state of
emergency remained in
effect.
Damage was estimated at
$100 million.
At least 200 people re
mained in shelters late Mon
day because high floodwaters
swept away dams, at least 13
bridges and untold numbers
of homes, the Red Cross said.
Rain began to thin by night
fall and the National Weather
Service said most swollen riv
ers were beginning to recede.
Eight people were known
dead in Connecticut and three
others were missing since!
storm began Friday. Fivept
pie were killed and two oil*
missing in Rhode Island,l»
people were missing in 1
as were two i
sachusetts
Maine.
Kansas Power & LightCt
suffered its worst damageii
decade, Craig Daniels,aw
pany spokesman, said.
He said 39 poles supp®
ing a 230,000-volt line 1*
tween the Jeffrey Enerji
Center and Manhattan
been blown down. Bet
the center and CouncilGrat
26 poles were down, he
“Boy, we do have danuj
to no end down here/’Osaj
County Sheriff Robert Ma>
ters said. “1 tell you, if)«
want to see a ghost town,iii
Burlingame.”
Marvin Seley, the onlysup na j or
east $
ressm
plier of lumber and
Burlingame, said he new
attracted as much businesss vould
he did after violent windsmi
baseball-sized hailstones
bled through town, knocks
out most of the main streeti
north windows.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A
federal bankruptcy judge called
Missouri farmer Wayne Cryts a
thief and ordered him and four
others to pay $287,708 for the
soybeans he took last July from a
bankrupt grain elevator.
Judge Charles W. Baker
levied the “coercive award”
Monday and said it would in
crease by $1,500 every day that
Cryts refuses to pay. He also re
commended Cryts and four
other be prosecuted for criminal
contempt.
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