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due to bus strike
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DALLAS — Trailways Bus
System officials said Tuesday
they sold 73 percent more tick
ets this month than last Novem
ber and had called back all fur
loughed employees to meet in
creased demand from the 26-
day Greyhound strike.
However, they said there
were no long-range plans to
assume a larger market share
when the strike ends.
Spokeswoman Trisha Bar-
Oett at the Dallas headquarters
Of the nation’s second-largest
bus company said ridership on
the line had “about doubled”
nationwide since the
Greyhound strike began,
although exact figures would
not be available until Dec. 10.
She said about 500 employees
had been furloughed for the
slack fall season when 12,700
Amalgamated Transit Union
workers struck Greyhound. The
ensuing Greyhound cutback
handed Trailways an unseason
able windfall.
“We’ve brought back all fur
loughed workers,” Barnett said.
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“We have added a handful of
new routes, but they’re ones
we’d been planning for some
time and they’re not a response
to the Greyhound strike.”
Barnett said ticket sales for
November 1983 ran about 73
percent ahead of sales for the
same period last year. She said
the privately held company
would not release any figures re
garding income.
Reports during the Thank
sgiving weekend said the ATU
had approached Trailways offi
cials about hiring striking
Greyhound drivers, but Barnett
said there were no plans to do so.
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“I don’t think there’s been any
long-range plans laying around
the office (for expanding the
company),” she said. “We’re
handling it on a day-to-day,
week-to-week basis.”
She said Trailways would con
tinue its discount program, in
which riders get 20 percent off
tickets purchased between Jan.
16 and April 1.
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home base in Phoenix, Ariz.,
federal mediators called for a
meeting with union leaders rep
resenting workers who over
whelmingly rejected the bus
firm’s latest wage cut proposal.
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MIAMI — The Atlantic and
Caribbean hurricane season
ends today with only three of the
deadly storms taking form —
the quietest season in over half a
century.
Forecasters say an average of
six hurricanes are spawned each
year. There also are an average
of 10 tropical storms, but only
four formed in 1983, including
the three that later became hur
ricanes, making it the quietest
year since 1930 — which had
only two hurricanes.
Conditions were poor for
hurricane formation, forecas
ters say, but the next couple of
years are more likely to produce
the potentially deadly storms
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which pack winds of 75 mph or
greater.
“There’s been a significant
amount of westerly winds over
the Caribbean and in that area
where the seedling storms move
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Mineral leasing dispute
leading to court case
United Press International
VICTORIA (UPI) — A South
Texas river authority is taking
the Department of Interior to
court over the granting of min
eral leases around the Lake Tex-
ana project northeast of Victor
ia, a lawyer said Tuesday.
The Lavaca-Navidad River
Authority filed suit in Victoria
federal court asking that leases
f ranted on 8,000 acres of land at
1 an acre and one-eighth royal
ty interest be set aside in favor of
competitive bidding.
LNRA attorney Winston
Crowder of Houston said there
is a lot of oil in the vicinity and
mineral leases normally go for as
much as $50 to $200 per acre
initial bonus and as much as one-
quarter royalty interest.
Crowder said former In
terior Secretary James Watt’s
mineral leasing policy on federal
lands could cost LNRA hun
dreds of thousands of dollars
earmarked for retiring the $23
million debt on the Lake Texana
project.
Crowder said 42.6 percent of
the income by contract goes to
ward the debt.
LNRA is a state-chartered
agency, but Interior’s Bureau of
Reclamation obtained the land
for LNRA’s 16,000-acre Palmet
to Bend project, which includes
an 1 1,000-acre Lake Tea
through purchase and i
mnation proceeding!
“Take the differenctil
tween $1 an acre and, say,jl
an acre. That’s the dififtrt
l>etween $8,000 and $800,111
Crowder said. “And diat’sjl
the initial bonus.
"I 'd hate to say that Wattl
self did it. I don't knowtha
had personal knowledgeofl
but there was a great piishtdf
it done,” Crowder said. “ItM
line with what’s happenedl
Wyoming and up in wesa
Arkansas.”
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