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United Press International Southwestern Bell’s investment
AUSTIN — Southwestern in Texas, below the 11.79 per-
Bell Telephone Co. asked the cent return authorized by the
Public Utility Commission Mon- PUC in 1981. The company is
day for a record $471.5 million asking for a return of 13.09 per-
statewide rate increase that cent.
would boost monthly rates for The company is not request-
basic residential service by ingany increase in longdistance
$4.60. charges or charges for using
The rate increase, the sixth coin-operated telephones,
sought by Southwestern Bell in The bulk of the increase —
the seven years the Public Utility $213.2 million — would come
Commission has been regulat- from the proposed increase in
ing rates, is the largest ever charges for residential service,
sought by a Texas utility, surpas- and another $90.1 million from
sing the $469.8 million re- increases in basic business ser-
quested by the telephone com- vice charges,
pany last year. “We’re asking for an increase
Paul Roth, the company’s vice in basic local residential rates be-
president for revenues and pub- cause they are priced far below
lie affairs, said current tele- the cost of providing the ser-
phone rates are producing ab- vice,” Roth said,
out 9.27 percent return on “Currently, on a statewide av
erage, the monthly cost of pro
viding local residential service is
about twice the basic monthly
rate we receive for the service.”
The proposal also includes in
creases of $38.4 million in ser
vice connection charges, $45.2
million in private line charges,
$41 million in charges for PBX
type equipment, $18 million in
additional charges for directory
assistance calls, and smaller in
creases for WATS service and
charges for returned checks
given by Bell customers.
Roth said the rate proposal
would allow customers only
three directory assistance calls
per month without charge,
rather than the current level of
10 calls per month. A charge of
25 cents per call would be levied
for each additional call.
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“The decrease in dirt Texas to'
assistance call allowance,ir foid week
creased one-time instaltLsial by :
charges, and the disbMier fo
check charge are examplepants to ‘
our efforts to assurethattlt the big c
tomer who benefits fronuB ,
vice, or who causes a cost*6 UC1
for it,” Roth said. jvi £es (
Roth said he expects tli(| tartec * 1
lie Utility Commission to' on
hearings on the rateincrafiF^ 1 ^ 11
quest in late August or JPk N e
September.
Of the $469.8 millionintrl iWylie
requested by Southwesternpiith, ah
year, the PUC appnKe agei
last
$243.7 million.
The company’s appealo!:
decision, and a 1980 rate
are pending in variousaprd
courts.
Rehabilitation
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course offered
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FORT WORTH — As with
most addictions, the first step in
curing a shoplifter is getting him
to admit he is a thief, says an
instructor in a course offered as
an alternative to prosecution by
municipal court.
Your Danskin
Headquarters
Manor East Mall
779-6718
Steve Gay instructs an eight-
hour class for shoplifters oper
ated by the National Corrective
Training Institute of Austin.
The classes, held at Texas
Christian University, counsel
students who have been charged
in Fort Worth Municipal Court.
If they take the class, they are
not prosecuted.
Gay said most shoplifters
have difficulty admitting they
are thieves.
was caught stealing a tube of
toothpaste variously said she
had a toothache, a clerk was slow
and her daughter was waiting
for her.
After getting a person to
admit his theft, Gay takes care to
“I like to hear them admit
they stole it,” Gay said. “If they
really did it, they will contradict
themselves and I’ll confront
them with their discrepancies.
There is no way they can correct
their behavior until they own up
to it.”
One woman in the class who
rebuild the person’s self-esteem.
One young woman said after
her arrest for the theft of a doll
that her friends abandoned her
and she failed to be initiated into
a sorority she had hoped to join.
“At first, I felt like I wasn’t
worth anything,” she said after
the class. “Now I can look back
and see I wasn’t such a low-life
after all.”
people this year
; eigiit-'
About 125
have taken the eight-hour class,
patterned after one in Kansas
City that processed about 800
Jping a
Jibe sc
people in 1981. Similar undone
are offered in several staleBntry c
eluding Pennsylvania, GkB Assoc
and Florida. »anizai
The National Coalitimlch is s
Prevent ShopliftingsaysavsH in tl
citizens who shoplift usualpdnesd;
it on impulse or becaustffiOne c
want to get even with store j|nd is A
high prices, they lack monrPiother
they are seeking thrills, groence
Many acts of shopliftinjBie in 1
isolated cases, a probation#nCOR
er with the Dallas MtiitNr home
Court said. Mai, A
“These basically are wet aba
offenders who have doneiKHers at
dumb things,” Don Babbssl
“We have people on fixei|
comes stealing food,
have people on very ed I
comes stealing things or vei)
tie value.”
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Two ‘aging’ kids
reunited in Africa
United Press International
DALLAS — A boy, 9, suffer
ing from a disease that has aged
him at 10 times the normal rate
is visiting his 8-year-old South
African friend who suffers the
same ailment.
Mickey Hays of Hallsville met
Fransie Geringer last fall at Dis
neyland and his mother, Cindy
Edwards, said it was the first
time her son realized he was not
the only sufferer of progeria, a
rare aging disease. Mickey be
gan his 17-day visit in South
Africa Sunday.
“Fransie is the first child he
ever met that looks like him,”
she said. “Kids would ask him if
he was from outer space and
things like that. He got to where
he didn’t want to go anywhere at
all.
“He felt like a complete loner
until he met Fransie. Now he’s
got someone with who he can
share his experiences and the
way he looks and feels. Standing
face to face with someone like
him was overwhelming.”
Since realizing his first dream
to visit Disneyland, Ed«
said Mickey set a new
visiting Fransie in Southi
“He started saving his
wance to go to South Afd
she said. “He and Fransit
written to each other andlli
ey talks about him almoste#
day. He really loves him
cial way.”
Word of Mickey's hopesc
to South Africa reached An
ican Airline employees a«
New Jersey couple.
Chuck Johnson, a PanAl
ican employee in Newj
and his wife, Barbara, a
agent, with American Airt
employees in Arlington ra<
the $7,000 needed toll
his mother and three fai
members to visit Fransie,
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