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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. “
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polls this year and came ii
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candidates.”
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suranee executive Be
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labor organizer Pandit
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supporters for his camf
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totaling about $20,000.
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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.
Harrington said state courts
in California, New Jersey,
Washington, New York and
Massachusetts have interpreted
their state constitutions to pro
hibit mall owners from limiting
free speech.
Bob Weeman, manager of
Barton Creek Square, said the
denial of the anti-nuclear
group’s request to solicit signa
tures was consistent with mall
policy that bans any political or
religious activities at the shop
ping center, which is private
property.
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