Battalion/Page 5
November 3, 1982
local / state
emocratic representation
till heavy in U.S. House
United Press International
There will be 21 old faces and
lx new ones from Txas in the
,S. House of Representatives
text January, but the delegation
ill still be heavily Democratic.
It wasn’t until just a couple of
B tours before dawn this morning
hat the final race was decided,
,vith Fort Worth Republican Jim
tradshaw scraping together a
,500-vote victory over Demo-
ratTom Vandergriffof Arling-
on after having trailed most of
he night.
Nevertheless, the GOP’s bid
;o ransack a number of tradi-
imal Democratic districts failed
iramatically Tuesday, an appa-
ent victim of a recession that
as slow to arrive in Texas but
id so in the months preceeding
:he election.
All 21 of the incumbents who
sought re-election were success-
fulTuesday — including House
Majority Leader Jim Wright of
Fort Worth and the dean of the
Texas delegation, 30-year
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“It’s a great night for demo
cracy,” said Wright, who will be
serving his 15th term in
Washington. “We need a gov
ernment that counts for all the
people. The message here
tonight is to get Americans off
the umemployment rolls and
back on the payrolls.”
Democrats won two of the
three seats in which current
by Myra Retta
Battalion Reporter
The Center for Education
and Research in Free Enter
prise, that was established in
77, helps to educate public
school teachers in basic econo
mic ideas.
It was founded by Dr. John
|fv Allen, director of the center,
who first designed the American
RHAkii Economy Institute, which is now
apart of the center, to fulfill the
legislative requirement that
schools add economic
education to their curriculum.
The center has conducted
several programs designed to
ir longWI assist school districts in com-
oiYiote lit plying with the state economics
education mandate, said Dr.
(Lawrence C. Wolken, associate
director of the center.
“These programs prepare
the teachers to bring economic
(education into their clas
srooms," he said. “The prog-
rgnis have been well accepted
throughout Texas and even in
per parts of the country.”
.Since economic education is a
new addition to the public
school curriculum, some
teachers have received little or
jt training in economics, Wol-
ten said.
Day students get their news from the Batt.
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House members did not run
again and they won two of the
three of the districts added to
the state as a result of the 1980
census.
But because of drastically
altered districts in South Texas,
along the Gulf Coast and in the
Dallas area, a few Democrats
w'ere thought to be vulnerable.
The GOP aimed at Abraham
“Chick” Kazen of Laredo, Wil
liam Patman of Ganado, Martin
Frost of Dallas and Brooks —
chairman of the House Opera
tions Committee whose political
career appeared on shaky
ground two years ago when he
barely survived a primary scare.
But Kazen polled 55 pe
ff 1
xercent
of the vote against Jeff 5 Went
worth and Patman, Frost and
Brooks all did better than that.
Brooks, who will start his fourth
decade in Congress in January,
apparently ended the political
career of Joe Wyatt.
Wyatt, a former House mem
ber from the 14th District, res
igned two years ago after a bout
with alcohol and then tried to
regain a seat in Congress after
switching from a Democrat to a
Republican.
The COP did hold on to the
Five House seats it already had
— Bill Archer of Houston, Jack
Fields of Humble, Tom Loeffler
of Hunt and Ron Paul of Lake
Jackson all winning re-election
and Steve Bartlett winning the
Republican 3rd District vacated
by Jim Collins in his losing bid
for the U.S. Senate.
Two Democratic seats were
vacated by Jim Mattox (who won
his bid for state attorney gener
al) and Richard White, who re
tired, and they were both won by
Democrats. John Bryant, who
became one of the state’s most
effective legislators during his
stay in Austin, won the seat left
vacant by Mattox in Dallas and
Ronald Coleman of El Paso won
White’s " ’ .
Now you know
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NEW YORK — Champagne
producers say this fall’s harvest
has broken all previous records
for size, and the grape quality is
high.
Pickers in the region’s 62,000
acres of vineyards gathered the
equivalent of more than 250 mil
lion bottles of bubbly during late
September and early October.
“They hesitate to discuss eco
nomic topics in their clas
srooms,” he said. “One of the
center’s objectives is to help
teachers learn basic economic
concepts.”
Once this has been achieved,
he said, there still is the problem
of integrating these basic econo
mic concepts into different sub
jects and grade levels. The cen
ter provides specific techniques
and materials the teacher can
use to apply economics into the
classroom, he said. It offers
programs such as a four-week
summer course, conferences
and workshops conducted on
teacher in-service days.
The in-service programs
which include a general work
shop and special sessions, allow
the center personnel to direct
programs that meet the specific
needs of a school district or edu
cational service center, Wolken
said.
Besides publishing a bimon
thly newsletter and submitting
articles to scholarly journals, the
center has a library of economic
education material including
hooks, magazines, games, film
strips, films and videocassette
programs.
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