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White's first bill
to close loophole
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■ AUSTIN — Aides to Gov.
Mark White shy the first
piece of legislation he signs
into law will be a bill to close a
ttgal loophole that threatens
Bi cost the state $100 million
in revenue.
I On a nearly unanimous
vote Monday, the Texas
■ouse passed emergency
legislation aimed at closing a
Hiophole in laws used to reg
elate the way Texas sells
mineral rights on state-
dwned lands.
I Since 1939, Texas has
Hsed sealed, competitive
Bids to sell mineral rights,
parlicularly For oil and gas.
Such lease sales annually
merate millions of dollars
sVate revenues,
but, according to Land
Commissioner Garry
Mauro, an Arlington lawyer,
John Foster, discovered and
used an antiquated statute
that-allowed developers to
get around the bidding pro
cess by filing “prospector
permits.”
A prospector permit,
Mauro said, allowed a per
son to pay a $2 filing fee for
the right to look for oil and
gas on specified tracts of
state land. If a discovery w'as
made, the prospector was
obligated only to pay the
state a $2 bonus for each
acre of land leased and a
one-eighth share of oil royal
ties.
In contrast, leases made
under the sealed-bid process
routinely yield bonuses of
$ 10 to $40 an acre and royal
ties ranging from one-fifth
to one-third of production.
“Had others (besides Fos
ter) been able to take advan
tage of this loophole in our
laws, it could have been dis
astrous and cost the state
millions of dollars in lost oil
and gas revenues,” said the
bill’s sponsor, Sen. Tati San-
tiesteban, D-El Paso.
Foster’s company stands to
make $5 million more on the
Eastland tract than they
would have had they used
the sealed-bid method,
Mauro said.
The Senate passed the
same bill last week and
White is expected to sign it in
the next few days.
Foster and his company,
West Texas Minerals Inc.,
were the only parties who
tried to utilize the prospec
tor permits, Mauro said.
White to fight drugs
with laws, more agents
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AUSTIN — Gov. Mark White
Tuesday promised tougher laws
and additional drug agents to
perpetuate and expand the Tex
ans’ War on Drugs program
during his administration.
White, speaking to the first
Texans’ War on Drugs Youth
Leadership Conference, urged
several hundred youths from
across the state to open another
front in the battle against drug
usage and trafficking by build
ing and exerting peer pressure
against narcotics abuse in their
schools and communities.
The governor repeated his
stated intention to increase the
Department of Public Safety’s
narcotics division squad beyond
its current 169 agents. He also
indicated that the use of federal
military forces to combat drug
trafficking may become more of
a factor in the future.
“We now have the ability to
utilize military forces, military
radar, military air surveillance,”
White said.
He said he will seek a mix of
stronger laws and increased en
forcement personnel as the best
method of combatting “the mul-
ti-billion-dollar nightmare” of
drug abuse and trafficking.
“It does absolutely no good to
pass a law' and not have it en
forced,” White said.
White indicated he will work
more to expand the laws enacted
during Clements’ administra
tion than change them.
“My predecessor and I dis
agreed on many issues, but one
we did agree on is the war on
drugs,” White said.
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^JUSTIN —? A man who tele-
7® phoned policis Monday to in-
j Jilin whether they had a war
rant for him on bank robbery
■rges was arrested a few' hours
later at a motel, authorities said
rgesday.
^Kary Faubion, 31, of Freder-
—icksburg, w r as charged with
ihoto by
ind
ravated robbery in the Jan. 5
holdup of the Gibraltar Savings
|||.oan Association in northwest
Austin, Lt. Olan Kelly said,
senior# hie is in the Austin city jail
U a unii urt( * er $75,000 bond.
~ IlFaubion was arrested after a
Hn telephoned the Travis
Bunty Sheriffs of fice, wanting
to know if they had a warrant for
i for bank robbery. He would
say wheTe he w r as.
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that the suspect might be in
le Oak Hill area southwest of
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Sheriffs office spokesman
Curtis Weeks said Deputy Sher
iff James Scroggins stopped at a
motel on U.S. 290 southwest of
Austin Monday night and found
that Faubion had checked in at
9:30 p.m.
Since the suspect had earlier
threatened to “shoot it out” with
police, Weeks said Scroggins cal
led in three other officers and
broke into the room. He said
Faubion did not resist arrest.
Kelly said a man w'ho identi
fied himself as Faubion called
Austin police earlier and said he
planned to surrender at 8 a.m.
Faubion was charged in a
heist in w'hich a bandit placed a
package said to contain a bomb
on the bank counter. He was
given an undisclosed amount of
cash and left.
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