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ill to hike drinking age
iiaises opposition, support
state
Ml United Press International
V AUSTIN — College students
I
p
iTii
jheir “basic adult right” to
would be unfairly denied
ising the legal drinking age
2j,but supporters of the age
l/i d claim young drinkers’
^ Be of their rights is causing
pen carnage on Texas
pays.
festimony before a House
Littee Wednesday on a bill
iise the drinking age from 19
u = i21 pitted two well-presented
^•igilments against each other: a
Stitt (table decrease in traffic
et,tl iths versus the rights of 19-
®oi j20-year-old adults to drink.
it the end of the lengthy de-
cSti |, members of the House Li-
•vett. )r Regulation Committee —
J14 p appeared to be leaning to-
\ rejection of the age hike
—voted to send the measure
a subcommittee for further
J-
lundreds of college students
ring bright red stickers
ng “Don’t raise the legal
iking age” packed the House
ted
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gallery for the hearing, coun
tered by supporters of the bill
who wore stickers reading “21,
Yes!” and carried brightly-
A Corpus Christi high
school student, who said
her best friend had been
killed last year by a 20-
year-old drunken driv
er, said many young
people were in favor of
the bill.
colored balloons.
Strongest support for the
legislation came from Col. Jim
Adams, director of the Depart
ment of Public Safety, and mem
bers of the Governor’s Task
Force on Traffic Safety. College
students were the bill’s most voc
al opponents.
Paul Begala of Houston, pres
ident of the University of Texas
student body, called the bill “an
insult” that would remove “a
basic adult right.”
“Capriciously changing the
drinking age to try to keep
young adults from drinking will
be about as fair and about as
effective as trying to make it
illegal for state officials to drink
simply because there have been
a few who have not been able to
drink responsibly,” Begala said.
Adams said the state could ex
pect a 28 percent reduction in
traffic deaths for 19 to 20-year-
olds if the bill were passed.
“The youngest DWI driver
we arrested in Texas in the past
several years was 10 years of age.
It starts early,” Adams said.
A Corpus Christi high school
student, who said her best friend
had been killed last year by a
20-year-old drunken driver,
said many young people were in
favor of the bill.
“I’m 17, and I would like to
tate revenue
stimate falls
United Press International
AUSTIN — State Comptrol-
Bob Bullock announced
ursday that dwindling sales
Jreceipts have forced him to
jsh nearly $1 billion dollars
1 a revenue estimate he has
tady reduced twice.
fBullock made the surprise
louncement at an early-
rningbreakfast for freshman
|slators. The comptroller se-
kly criticized both houses of
[Legislature, asking, “When
(you going to get to work?”
|Tm probably going to ruin
Ur breakfast,” Bullock said.
1 going to lower my revenue
dmate another $953 million
Jars.”
‘The lowered revenue esti-
ke was the third issued by Bui-
eBraniff, union get
ew labor contract
United Press International
rdWALLAS — Howard Putnam,
Tident of Braniff Interna-
( |al, Thursday announced a
ijdmark labor contract”
“l ( wing the bankrupt airline to
pen its key maintenance base
bring some 100 employees
. to work.
[Putnam, appearing before
International Association of
:hinists, said Braniff and the
r group took only three days
icgotiate a five-year conces-
contract.
This allows the Braniff enti-
to stay alive and keep an
oing business and also allows
:o bring a few folks back to
k,” he said.
on#
“Initially, we will recall about
20 employees. By mid-summer,
we expect to bring back close to
100,” he said.
The contract provides an av
erage hourly pay rate of $9 —
roughly $18,000 a year — far
lower than previously provided
in the IAM’s past contracts with
Braniff.
With the new contract, Put
nam said, Braniff would reopen
its maintenance base at Love
Field, Dallas’ inner city airport.
Under a recent agreement with
Peoples Express Airlines, Bra
niff obtained rights to refurbish
the planes it is selling to Peoples
Express and provide mainte
nance services for four years.
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say that I feel like my life is just
beginning,” said Penny Young.
“I don’t want to wind up like
Mary Helen. If you raise the
drinking age, deaths will de
crease and my chances will be
better. I’m in favor of anything
that will help my dreams come
true.”
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lock. In January he slashed the
revenue estimate by $1.5 billion
and in March by a further $867
million.
Bullock said falling sales tax
revenues accounted for $603
million of the latest decrease.
The veteran Democrat then
launched into a sharply worded
criticism of lawmakers, saying
they had done nothing to
address the state’s appropria
tions problems.
“I know you don’t like what I
said this morning — well I don’t
like what you’re are doing over
there,” he said. “I have never
seen a greater vacuum of leader
ship in the House and Senate on
these appropriations matters in
my 26 years of state govern
ment.”
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