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Thursday, May 5, 1983/The Battalion/Page 5
Texas House refuses
debate on alcohol bill
United Press International
i, AUSTIN — The Texas
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buse Wednesday overwhelm-
igly rejected a move to force a
committee to allow floor debate
m a bill banning open contain-
K of alcoholic beverages in
automobiles.
| Till The House Liquor Regula-
f fibh Committee had voted 6-3
mesday against the measure,
, Bing it for the remainder of
‘Sllbthe legislative session.
I Rep. Carlyle Smith, D-Grand
■ Barie, a sponsor of the open
‘Container law, Wednesday
ni attempted a rarely-used — and
|Ven more rarely successful —
fcrliamentary move to force the
w '"jBnmittec to report the bill to
35 ^ H° use f° r debate.
lcoro Smith’s effort failed by a vote of
Welcc 12 l 2-17.
I Opponents of the move
Bued it would disrupt the tra-
, Konal House committee sys-
J 11 " hem and set a bad precedent,
leed^jijip Smith claimed the move
Is necessary to allow consider-
mon of a crucial bill.
Iluesday, members of the Li-
lor Regulation Committee re
lied the challenge of member
Bry Shaw, D-Big Spring, to
Bke a “potent, positive impact”
on Texans’ attitudes toward
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drinking and driving by approv
ing the bill.
The committee voted 6-3 to
reject Shaw’s compromise prop
osal, authored in subcommittee
and much less restrictive than
the original measure. Shaw’s
substitute bill would have prohi
bited consumption of an alcoho
lic beverage by a person operat
ing a motor vehicle.
Violation would have been a
Class C misdemeanor, punish
able by a maximum $200 fine.
The vote against the bill came
after Rep. Erwin Barton, D-
Pasadena, moved to make the
bill more unpalatable to more
members by amending it to also
prohibit those operating boats
and airplanes from consuming
alcoholic beverages.
Barton’s amendment failed to
pass, but the only three votes
against it came from the com
mittee members who voted for
passage of the measure to the
full House.
Shaw’s bill would not have
banned open alcoholic beverage
containers from the entire pas
senger compartments of motor
vehicles, as the earlier version
did. A similar bill passed by a
Senate committee but awaiting
floor debate would outlaw open
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AUSTIN — Hoping to get a
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lone Co.’s plans for a massive
rate hike request, the Public
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HOUSTON — Because of the
:onomic pinch in the oil and
industry worldwide, the
[984 Offshore Technology
inference executive commit-
1 voted Tuesday to hold only a
ihnical conference next year,
it restart the traditional tech-
jical conference-exhibition in
1985 at the Astrodome complex.
The changes in the OTC
icdule are “responsive to the
mditions of the offshore and
and gas industries,” said
inald G. Russell, committee
airman.
I “The offshore industry and
he oil and gas industry worl
dwide are in a state of adjust
ment to the decline in demand
and prices for oil and gas worl
dwide,” Russell said.
“The Offshore Technology
Conference was established in
1969 for technology exchange
purposes,” he said. “The deci
sions taken by the OTC execu
tive committee represent evi
dence of OTC’s continued com
mittment to ensure that OTC is
responsive to this industry’s
needs.”
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which runs through today, this
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alcoholic beverage containers
within 5 feet of a driver.
“We’re not beat,” proclaimed
Marinelle Timmons, the state
director of Mothers Against
Drunk Drivers. “It would have
been more suitably received in
another committee.
“This was an unfavorable
committee,” said Timmons, who
last week accused the committee
of delaying tactics designed to
kill the measure.
Supporters of legislation to
strengthen state drunken driv
ing laws have termed an open
container law the cornerstone of
the legislative package. Last
week Lewis sent a letter to com
mittee chairman Rep. Billy Hall,
D-Laredo, requesting that the
full House membership be given
the chance to vote on the law.
Hall, Shaw and Rep. Frank
Tejeda, D-San Antonio, voted
for the measure. The opposition
was led by Rep. Froy Salinas, R-
Lubbock.
“This is not the answer,” Sali
nas said. “I think it is bad public
policy.”
Salinas said the Legislature
should try to address the prob
lem of driving while intoxicated
by strengthening existing laws.
request in the range of $1 bil
lion.
Under the court-ordered di
vestiture of American Tele
phone & Telegraph Co. on Jan.
1, 1984, Southwestern Bell will
provide local service and “ac
cess” lines for long distance ser
vice.
Long distance service would
be furnished by AT&T in com
petition with long distance spe
cialty companies, such as MCI
and U.S. Telephone.
The PUC asked Southwest
ern Bell to file testimony on its
proposed access charges no later
than May 23, and interveners
must file by May SLA second
hearing was set for June 8.
Good friends will help you study angles
when all you can think about is curves.
It didn’t take a genius to tell your mind wasn’t
on your studies. But it did take a couple of
smart roomies to do something about it.
So out came the calculators. And the
f doughnuts. And they started drilling you
until you knew physics as well as
you know yourself.
When it was all over, you
showed them that there was
one more thing you knew
something about-gratitude.
Tonight, let it be Lowenbrau.
Lowenbrau. Here’s to good friends.
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