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Battalion/Page 7
September 9, 1982
State brochure
raws tourists
United Press International
SANTA FE, N.M. — If one-
hird of the Texans responding
o a new brochure lauding New
1 Mexico actually visit the state,
he $50,000 campaign will more
han pay for itself, Commerce
*> ind Industry Secretary Russell
^utrey said.
I Autrey said Tuesday
llthoysands of Texans have re
ponded to the eight-page color
abloid about vacationing in
—'Jew Mexico, which was distri-
mted with two Dallas newspap-
:rslast month.
|Kr >As a rule of thumb, Autrey
aid. about one-third of the peo-
ile requesting travel-related in-
jormation actually visits the
tate.
He said the average family
dsiting the state consists of 2.3
oebple who stay two to three
lays and spend at least $100 a
lay.
Autrey also said the response
las been so overwhelming that
he Travel and Tourism Divison
I ; tjs thinking of expanding the
1 ampaign by distributing the
■j :oloi tabloid with other news-
'S, lapers, primarily in Texas and
PP Dlualmma. It is also considering
& i Spanish-language version for
insertion into Mexican news-
iapers, he said.
i M Bhebrochure, which features
’ :olor photograpihs of New Mex-
^■■and a September-through-
i December calendar of events,
' • ’ vas inserted into the Sunday
;• 1 :ditions of the Dallas Morning
t4>A 'levs and the Dallas Times
derald on Aui'. 22.
jThe two newspapaers have a
. ^ iunday circulation of 470,000,
\utrey said.
>f ,'/ On Aug. 24, the Tourism and
Travel Division received 1,078
)f the prepaid information
D,vl(1: :ards that were included in the
abloid, he said. By Sept. 3, the
division had received 5,686 of
the cards.
It is still receiving from 100 to
150 of the request cards a day,
he said.
And it is no secret why the
division chose Texas for its new
advertising brochure, a project
devised by Epstein Enterprises,
the Albuquerque firm that has
the state’s advertising contract.
“Texas is our biggest market,”
Autrey said. “Our biggest re
sponses to national ads always
come from there.”
The front page of the tabloid
featured six photographs of the
state depicting mountain, snow
or skiing scenes with the words,
“Switzerland? No, New Mex
ico.”
Other pages continue the
theme, comparing New Mexico
to the moon, California, a
world’s fair and Europe. The
back page shows a bright scene
of sun and clouds with the
words, “Yes, New Mexico, Yes.”
The purpose of the advertis
ing campaign is to show the
state’s diversified landscape and
recreational opportunities, Au
trey said.
A survey is currently being
conducted to determine how
well the tabloid achieved its goal
of informing Dallas-area resi
dents about the state, he said.
The post-tabloid survey results
will be compared with one con
ducted prior to the tabloid’s dis
tribution in the two newspapers,
he said.
If the advertising campaign
’ 1, it will b
is
successful, Autrey said, it will be
used to help persuade the Leg
islature to expand the Travel Di
vision’s promotional budget
next year. The current fiscal
year budget stands at $277,000,
he said.
Police officers told:
quit moonlighting
United Press International
HOUSTON — More than
300 Houston police officers
have been ordered to quit off-
duty security jobs until they pass
a mandatory firearms proficien
cy test, which they either failed
or did not take.
Police Chief Lee Brown
ordered the punitive action
Tuesday, a week after the Sept.
1 deadline to take the test had
passed.
requires all peace officers to pass
an annual firearms test. Hous
ton police were told last year
they must take the test or face
the loss of extra employment
privileges, or dismissal from the
department.
But many police officers said
the deadline caught them by
surprise since they thought they
had until December to take the
test.
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Former Klan leader cleared
of illegal assembly charge
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NEW ORLEANS — The con
viction of a former Texas Ku
Khix Klan leader who con
ducted paramilitary manuevers
on public lands was reversed
Tbesdav in a 2-1 decision by the
Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of
als.
011 Appe
Former Grand Dragon Louis
Beam was convicted by a district
ationii P urt; > n Dallas of conducting an
nsoof assembly on public property
e th;i without a permit. Beam and 24
)0 acie other Klansmen camped out,
rees and conducted military-type
maneuvers on the LBJ National
Grasslands in northern Texas
1 are Jan. 31 through Feb. 1, 1981.
ral kit Beam appealed the convic-
tadit don saying the regulation about
|ry f( public assembly was “unconsti-
nsula tutionally vague.”
Texas Attorney General
Mark White intervened in the
had si
lawsuit, saying camps such as
Beam set up are illegal.
[.j White quoted a Texas law
which states: “No body of men,
other than the regularly orga
nized state military forces of this
state and the United States, shall
eer sfj associate themselves together as
f ire S a military company or organiza-
heTf ion or parade in public with
•jufii firearms in any city or town of
this state.”
The Klan argued that it oper
ated survival training camps
under the guise of its “Texas
Emergency Reserve.”
A ranger in charge of the
grasslands at the time of the inci
dent testified that several other
f roups, including a troop of Boy
couts, using the grasslands at
the same time as Beam and his
men, were not required to have
permits.
The appeals court ruled evi
dence in the case did not suffi
ciently prove Beam conducted a
public assembly. Circuit Judge
Jerre S. Williams dissented,
saying Beam’s actions did consti
tute a public assembly.
“This was not a camping trip,”
Williams wrote in his dissenting
opinion. “This was an organized
specific activity by a militant
group which obviously consti
tuted an assembly.”
Williams said Beam’s men set
up camp, posted sentries and
carried weapons with blank
ammunition. At one point, he
said, the sentries were ordered
to turn away strangers by telling
them the Klan members were a
local guard unit.
Williams said the actions of
Beam’s group were those of a
militant organization and con
flicted with use of the National
Grasslands by others.
A deposition filed in Beam’s
case revealed that the KKK has
previously operated at least five
camps in Texas. Beam is also
part owner of land used for the
Klan’s Camp Puller, near Ana-
huac on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Beam was also a defendent in
a Houston lawsuit filed by Viet
namese fishermen. In that suit a
federal judge barred the Klan
from threatening, intimidating
or harrassing Vietnamese
fishermen.
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