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Bell drops requests
for bonded rote hike
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by Paul Dime 1
United Press International
AUSTIN — Southwestern
Bell Telephone Tuesday
dropped all attempts to imple
ment a $280 million bonded
rate increase, saying it would
wait instead for a final decision
on its $1.3 billion rate request.
Bell had gone to court Mon-
day hoping to have a district
judge overturn an order of the
Public Utility Commission that
prohibited the telephone com
pany from collecting the higher
rates.
Attorney General Jim Mattox
also had issued an opinion say
ing Bell should not be allowed
to Bond higher rates until April.
“We don’t believe the law is
being interpreted correctly,”
said Paul Roth, Bell vice presi
dent revenue-public affairs.
“However, to pursue the point
further would be time con
suming and it is highly unlikely
the legal issue could be con
cluded before the entire rate
case is resolved.”
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Bell had wanted to put a
bonded, refundable rate in
crease of $280 milion into effect
Feb. 23. The increase would
have raised residential bills
$2.75 a month and business bills
$3.85.
But that move was blocked by
the PUC ruling.
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At issue was whether Bell’s
overall rate case was governed
by the old Public Utility Regula
tory Act or revision of the act
passed in the last session of the
Legislature.
The old law allowed utilities
to implement bonded rates 125
days after a rate request was
filed but the new law — which
took effect Sept. 1, said utilities
must wait 185 days before put
ting bonded rates into effect.
Bell had claimed its case was
governed by the old law because
it filed its case in June. However
the PUC and the district judge
ruled that Bell’s rate request was
not complete until Oct. 19, after
the new law was in place.
District Judge Mary Pearl
Williams said Bell would have to
wait until at least April 22 be
fore it could implement bond
rates under the new law. How
ever, the commission is ex
pected to have decided Bell’s
overall rate case by then.
Polls show consumers support family farms
Hightower blasts farm policies
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Testify
ing on the 1985 farm bill, Texas
agriculture commissioner Jim
Hightower Tuesday blasted the
Reagan administration for poli
cies that are designed to keep
farmers’ price low.
Hightower told the House
Agriculture Committee that in
1983, 65 percent of the U.S. net
farm income went to just 1 per
cent of America’s farmers.
But he said consumers sup
port fair prices for agriculture
producers.
“Poll after poll shows that
consumers believe in the family
farm system, that they want
small and medium sized farm
ers to make a profit,” he said.
“But they believe, and righdy
so, that their food dollars and
their tax dollars are going to
benefit everyone but that small
and medium sized family
farmer.”
Despite claims that a national
recession has ended, Hightower
said the farm economy contin
ues to contract.
production and establiq
datory production contni
treat small and medium
f.ii mers fairly.
“The media says the farm cri
sis is the sleeper issue of the
year, but in the heartland of this
country it is already wide awake
and demanding attention,” he
said.
Hightower called for legis
lation to set prices on the cost of
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Coast Guard crew 'surprised' in sinking
of disabled tanker in the Gulf of Mexico
United Press International
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NEW ORLEANS — Rescue
workers who failed to save at
least two crew members of a dis
abled tanker that sank in the
Gulf of Mexico mistakenly be
lieved there was no threat of the
ship going under, the Coast
Guard said Tuesday.
Coast Guard cutters, heli
copters and a jet searched Tues
day for two other men feared
lost in the sinking of the Ameri
can Eagle, which broke up in
the stormy Gulf and went down
unexpectedly Monday about
180 miles south of New Or
leans.
Three other men had died
Sunday in an explosion that
ripped through the empty 661-
foot tanker, but officials said
they believed the ship — which
carried a crew of 24 — was in no
danger of sinking.
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Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty
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no threats of it sinking at the
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Kosch said a Canadian ship
reached the side of the Ameri
can Eagle on Monday, but ap
parently thought the tanker was
in no danger and left two hours
before the sinking.
The Coast Guard considered
evacuating the vessel early
Monday, but decided with en
couragement from the ship’s
owner — the American Foreign
Steamship Corp. of New York
— to let tne men wait for a tug
boat from Port Arthur, Texas.
“The Coast Guard has the
authority to r take people off a
boat if it is deemed to be a life-
threatening situation,” a Coast
Guard spokesman said. “But it
was a surprise to everybody. We
thought the vessel was safe.”
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deck.”
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Houston Police Captain Bill
White said law officers in Hous
ton arrested three suspects and
police in New Orleans arrested
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