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October 11,11
DAVID WAYNE
CUNNINGHAM
Texas jobless rate hits 8.4%
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United Press International
DALLAS — The Texas un
employment rate jumped to 8.4
percent in September, the high
est in the 12 years a state-by-state
breakdown of seasonally ad
justed figures has been kept, a
Labor Department spokesman
said Friday.
Bureau of Labor Statistics re
gional chief of analysis Nick San-
tangelo said the rise was wide
spread and general throughout
the state’s economy, but men in
manufacturing jobs were the
hardest hit.
“The major area is durable
goods manufacturing,” San-
tangelo said. “Of the job losers,
almost two-thirds were men,
who you normally find in manu
facturing.”
Santangelo said the rate
jumped markedly from the 6.7
percent recorded in August,
which was itself a dip from the
previous all-time high of 7 per
cent recorded in June and July.
He said public attention has
been drawn to big layoffs at ma
jor manufacturing plants —
Lone Star Steel in East Texas,
Mostek Corp. and Texas Instru
ments in Dallas — but a slow
down in large plants was spilling
over into smaller, associated
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companies.
“When you cut down at large
companies, what you get is a
bunch of layoffs at peripheral
companies with 20 to 50 em
ployees,” he said.
Dale Crumbaugh, an analyst
with the Texas unemployment
office in Houston, blamed the
high unemployment rate on a
decline in drilling activity and
layoffs in oil related companies.
“The state’s economy is
undergoing a very strong
adverse affect from decline in oil
drilling activity and fallout from
the national recession. Up until
this year, Houston and the state
have been cushioned from na
tional recessionary trends be
cause of the energy industry.”
The news brought quid-
lions from politicians.
“I am deeply concernaj;
more than 600,000 Texa~;
out of work,” said Demoq
gubernatorial candidate,!-
ney General Mark White*
“Unemployment in Tea;
risen to 8.4 percent andtk.
disgrace.”
Santangelo said theint;
in unemployment ink
Mexico’s economic ptoi*
have spread to Texas.
“Another impact is free
peso devaluation—althotr
don’t have any figures if
where there havebeenmat
duct ions along the horde;;
cause of loss of retail trade
I
Santangelo said itwask;
sible to plot any long re
trends from the record lit
“It’s t oo sharp a oneie
change to plot a trend,"ki.
“To look at this one shar
crease and plot a trend base;
that one month is not staiisa
smart.”
Bomb suspects
waive hearings
United Press International
DURANGO, Colo. — The
suspect who prosescutors say
masterminded a $15 million ex
tortion plot against a Texas che
mical plant and another defen
dant waived their rights to pre
liminary hearings Friday.
John McBride, 46, who fed
eral authorities say planned the
scheme, and Timothy Justice,
30, both agreed to return to
Houston for their trial, a spokes
man said just before the hearing
was scheduled to begin.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat
Murphy said he learned of the
decision shortly before noon
and it would be up to the FBI to
decide when to transport
McBride and Justice to Houston
for trial. Both are being held for
$1 million bond.
Two other defendants in the
case — Michael Worth, 34, and
Theodore McKinney, 45 —
were being held for $1 million
bond each in Phoenix, Ariz.
Their hearings are scheduled
for Nov. 12.
The evidence gathered
against the four defendants for
the hearings include drawings
of the Gulf Oil chemical plant at
Baytown, Texas, a submachine
gun and an Irish Republican
Army terrorist handbook.
The FBI searched the homes
of McBride, Worth, and McKin
ney in Durango after their
arrests for allegedly conspiring
to extort money from Gulf Oil
by threatening to blow up the
company’s Cedar Bayou plant
near Houston.
The searches of the three
Durango homes also uncovered
several typewriters, rolls and bits
of wire and tape, and
cash.
In Houston, U.S. Adi
Dan Hedges said all four
dants in the extortionplotn;
be prosecuted and
Houston.
Meanwhile, Coloradoai
ities used the federal inf
tion to intensify their proto
an unsolved $128,C“
bery from the vault of their
dard Metals mill near
Colo., about 50 miles nonl
Durango.
Ron Taylor, an agent I
Colorado Bureau of Inv
tion, said Justice, Worth
McBride were suspects to
June gold heist, whichhet
bore “ remarkable” similanK
the extortion plot against:
Gulf plant.
Taylor noted the goldi
stolen from a company n
while officials searched for:-
bombs which an anonym:
telephone caller said hath
planted inside the mill. A
revealed one bomb had
planted.
Taylor said Justice,!
time reserve police offica
Durango, was a securityg*;
Standard Metals the night#!::
gold robbery and as a sttf
guard, was present every2
the vault was opened
Federal investigatorssaid|
tice confessed to plantinj
bombs in the Texas rel
which resumed normal i
tions Thursday withaful
force for the first time in
than one week. A Gulf syd
man estimated the
down cost the company}!.)'
lion.
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