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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, June 22, 1983 Houston plans Hispanic market, built Mexican-style United Press International HOUSTON — Mayor Kathy Whitmire and a Dallas develop ment company have announced plans for a $16.6 million Mex ican-style market on the city’s east side. T he “mercado” project was proposed years ago and has lan guished ever since. But Encore Development Corp of Dallas said its new plans will create 500 new jobs in the predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. The mayor said the project would be initiated through a proposed $3 million federal Urban Development Action Grant. The city also would pro vide $500,000 in Community Development funds. The project would be built on a 407,000 square-foot site near downtown Houston bounded by Buffalo Bayou, Jensen Drive, Runnels Street and the Houston Belt and Terminal Railway tracks. The market would be de signed around a renovated 80- year-old warehouse and manu facturing site. It would include specialty boutiques, three re staurants, bakeries, candy stores, a produce market, three Spanish-language cinemas and meeting and exhibition “We’re working very IbI make it authentic,”saidClt W. Arnold of Encore. Arnold, who said then the project is to reach Hiss first, other Houstoniansst and tourists third, saidm tion is tentatively schedul begin in November with pletion expected a yearlai Cranston pledges ‘jobs for all’ Jason James takes his bike through its paces at Bee Creek Park. James is a fifth grader at South Knoll Elementry School. United Press International DALLAS — Sen. Alan Cran ston says he added the nation’s employment situation to his presidential campaign platform, which so far has emphasized nuclear disarmament, because the two are linked. “Under Ronald Reagan’s budget we will spend $3 trillion on the military. It’s hard to strengthen the economy with that much going to military spending,” the California Democrat said Monday at a news conference. “Twenty million people un employed or underemployed and several others homeless and hungry is a national disgrace,” he said. Cranston defeated other con tenders in a Young Democrats straw poll in Alabama. Cranston arrived Sunday at the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport. He stressed both his desire that there be “a job for every American who needs one” and the need to negotiate with the Soviet Union to achieve a nuc lear freeze. "We are in a vulnerable posi tion because of our dependance on Arab oil,” the liberal Demo crat said, “and we will be in se- riousjeopardy if we must import more strategic materials for de fense.” The Alabama victory was th third for the athletic Califoi nian, who turned 69 Sunday. “If I did well in Alabama I cai do well in Texas,” he said. “ have won three of our strav polls this year and came ii second in thefourth.Byii* it gets to a vote in T exas,tit will he narrowed downs candidates.” joining Cranstonaiilv l erence were wealthy Bn suranee executive Be Rapoport and veteran labor organizer Pandit ratio. Cranston said he was Texas to raise money ai supporters for his camf replace Reagan. He n getting commitments it totaling about $20,000. United F TNNEj families of had liver ti the surgery wavs to donors will health ins to pay for i The ap; at the Univ Hospitals i a medica Beihesda, ering whe plants she tlieraputic, Relations perimental ■The me Nauonal Ii conference criiical bee insurance < cover exp dures. Liv< about $250 sity of Min H John 1 Bn., hosy Energy attorney views regulations United Press International TULSA, Okla. — An Oklaho ma City energy industry attor ney says the federal government should get out of the oil and gas business and let the industry take care of its self. “The solution, in my opinion, does not lie with the Legislature at the federal level,” attorney Barth Walker said Monday, “or the state level. The solution lies in the private sector.” Walker’s comments came during a Regulatory Practices Committee meeting at the Inter state Oil Compact Commission’s three-day meeting in Tulsa. The committee focused on a current natural gas glut and its effect on the energy industry. “There is no supply and de mand problem,” Walker said. “We have the supply. The prob lem involved is a ddritract problem.” On the federal level, Walker said, the subject of natural gas regulation “is too darn political.” On the state level, he said, legislation cannot address a problem that involves other states. “I think state legislatures have to recognize it is not a problem they can solve; they should stay out of it,” he said. “The states cannot direct a solution at an in terstate purchaser.” Government regulators should “step aside,” he said and let free enterprise take over. “Congress does not have the guts it takes to work out a prob lem from the standpoint of a solution,” he said. “This is not a time for pillow talk.” Walker’s comments followed a presentation by Jack E. Ear nest, senior vice president and general counsel for Texas East ern Corp. of Houston concern ing the current natural gas sur plus. Earnest said the natural gas industry is faced with a surplus of 2 to 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas per year and the glut could continue for two to three years. “I don’t think anybody really knows where the future demand is,” Earnest said. “Hopefully the bubble is going to be gone in two to three years, and off our backs.” Earnest said “what we do in the regulatory arena” is crucial to the industry’s future. “I’m a pessimist when it comes to thinking we are going to have meaningful (federal) legisla tion,” he said. A major controversy is take- or-pay contracts — long-term contracts in which producers promise a determined amount of gas to one purchaser in ex change for the purchaser’s promise to buy a determined minimum amount on a regular basis. With the drop in demand for natural gas, some purchasers have protested the contracts, attempting to get out of the deals. Help possible for dry West Texas United Press International AUSTIN, Texas — State agri culture Commissioner Jim Hightower said Tuesday his office is seeking federal disaster assistance for a 27-county area of West Texas that has been hard hit by a drought. Hightower called the 1- month drought “an economic and ecological disaster that no longer can be ignored.” Governor Mark White’s office was asked to initiate the action by seeking a formal “dis aster declaration” for the area from President Reagan. “What we’ve got out in West Texas is the makings of a new Dust Bowl,” Hightower told a news conference. “Overall, the area is in the fourth year of be- low-normal rainfall,and this year it’s powder dry out there.” Hightower said the affected area is larger that the state of Pennsylvania, and the drought is wrecking an agricultural eco nomy that produces sales of $500 million in a normal year. Hightower said because the dry conditions have left ranges with little or no grass to feed livestock, many ranchers have been forced to sell their herds or move them into New Mexico or Colorado. The affected counties are Dawson, Andrews, Martin, Ho ward, Mitchell, Nolan, Loving, Wikler, Ector, Midland, Glass cock, Coke, Ward, Crane, Up ton, Reagan, Irion, Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton, Terrell, Pecos, Reeves, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Brewster and Presidio. Free speech suit filed against mall United Press International AUSTIN — An anti-nuclear group Tuesday filed suit against an Austin shopping mall, claim ing its members have been de nied access to public areas of the mall to hand out leaflets and solicit petitioners. The complaint said members of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign had been thwarted in their efforts at the Barton Creek Square mall. The suit, filed by the Amer ican Civil Liberties Foundation, claimed the mail’s policy violates the Texas Bill of Rights. “As far as we know, it is one of the first such suits under the Texas Constitution,” said Jim Harrington, a lawyer for the AGLET. 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