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September 8,1f
IRS payroll
coffer empty
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DALLAS — Nearly one Quar
ter of the state’s 5,600 Internal
Revenue Service workers were
furloughed Tuesday because
federal money to pay them ran
out, but local officials said they
hope tojury-rig funding to keep
skeleton staffs employed.
“I can’t recall this kind of ac
tion ever happening to our
office before,” said Peggy
Moore, Dallas district IRS
spokesperson. “But we have op
erated in the past years on stop
gap continuing funding resolu
tions.”
Moore said funding was stop
ped for the agency’s criminal in
vestigations, employee plan and
collection divisions, but skeleton
staffs will be maintained by
switching funds originally desig
nated for other purposes.
Even then, she said “such in
terim appropriations transfer
within the agency will take sever
al days.”
The furlough notices went
out early Tuesday she said.
The statewide breakdown is:
the Dallas district (which in
cludes much of west Texas) will
lose 525 workers; the southwest
regional office will lose 27 work
ers; Houston 360; the Austin
office 230; and the Austin ser
vice center 250. An estimated
1,392 Texas IRS workers of
5,635 were laid off, she said.
She said the agency told work
ers the furlough remains in
effect until the president signs
legislation providing funding.
“Then they come in on the
first work day after the signing,”
she said.
She said she knew of no addi
tional layoff plans.
The furloughs, which will vir
tually halt tax collections and in
vestigation, is the result of the
inability of Congress and the
White House to reach agree
ment on a supplemental
appropriations.
The president last month
vetoed a proposed $14.2 billion
supplemental bill passed by
Congress. Unless such a mea
sure is enacted, several agencies
will run short of funds by Sept.
31, the end of this fiscal year.
staff photo by DavidM
Very uneasy repose
Hammocks can be comfortable, but
getting into them isn’t as easy as it
looks, as Barry Stevens found out.
Stevens, an agricultural economics
major, took several falls before he
managed to stay in. The hammocks.
slung in the trees on the Quad, wert
supplied by companies 1*1 and £•!.
Stevens is a senior from Lubbock.
Private rocket
launching today
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ROCKPORT — Where the
cattle once roamed, former
astronaut Donald K. “Deke”
Slayton was to have pushed a
button this morning and ignite a
rocket that carries the hopes of
American private industry.
Pioneer commercial satellite
launch company Space Services
Inc. of Houston is banking
almost $5 million that their 43
foot Conestoga I will rocket 326
miles out over the Gulf of Mex
ico on a suborbital test flight.
SSI is aiming at competing
for business with the National
Aeronautics and Space Admi
nistration and with the French
Ariane program to push private
industry’s satellites into low
earth orbit by late 1984. SSI
hopes to become the first private
American firm to commercialize
space.
Launch was scheduled for 10
a.m. Six hours earlier a final
countdown was to begin in a
sandbagged trailer on the deso
late cattle grazing land owned by
Dallas oilman Toddie Lee
Wynne.
His cattle have been driven
from the launch area near the
southwest tip of Matagorda Is
land.
Promotors of America’s first
commercial rocket test-fired a
miniature version Monday to
test radar equipment and said
signs were good for a scheduled
launch today despite some mal
functions.
A check of ground equipment
on barren Matagorda Island re
vealed a false alarm signal.
“Rather than find out what
caused the spurious signal,” he
said. “We decided to rewire that
piece of equipment. That
caused us some delay.”
“All went well,” Walter Penni-
no, spokesman for SSI said-
.“The rocket looks like a stove
pipe and we calibrated our sys
tem by tracking the missile’s
metal skin.”
SSI’s first experimental en
gine test 13 months ago ended in
an explosion and fire.
The firm hoped to use a suc
cess today to begin marketing a
satellite launch capability. That
capability looked bleak when the
explosion in August 1981 cost
SSI $1.2 million. The company
says this test brings its expendi
tures to $6 million.
This time the firm is using a
more reliable solid fuel system
and the knowledge of longtime
space industry contractors.
Space Vectors Corp. of North-
ridge, Calif, and Eagle En
gineering designed and en
gineered the vehicle, and
DFVLR of Stuttgart, West Ger
many, is responsible for the
radar and telemetry during
flight.
Residents along the middle
Texas coast from Port O’Con
nor to Rockport expected to get
a spectacular view of the rocket
soaring out over the Gulf to 195
mile heights.
The 13,592-pound Conesto
ga was to lift off from a 3-foot
launch stool on concrete slab.
The booster was to generate
46,000 pounds of thrust in 60
seconds and then quit.
At the five-minute or halfway
mark in the flight, the rocket was
to dump 40 gallons of ballast wa
ter into the ionosphere and give
observers with telescopes an icy
indication that the flight’s high
est point had been reached.
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