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5-year plan
to manage
Matagorda
is debated
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and
Wildlife Commission Wednesday
delayed until Oct. 11 a vote on a pro
posed 5-year master plan to manage
and develop environmentally sensi
tive Matagorda Island.
Two environmental groups, the
Sierra Club and the Audubon So
ciety, requested the delay, saying
they needed the additional time to
study alterations made in the plan.
The plan must be forwarded to
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
but Parks and Wildlife Department
spokesman Jim Cox said the state
“has been assured by federal officials
they have sufficient time to hash it
out a little longer.”
The initial plan was criticized at a
public hearing on Aug. 3 by conser
vationists, who called for tougher re
strictions on cattle grazing, public ac
cess and hunting on the island that
was once used as an Air Force bomb
ing range.
President Reagan ended a 7-year
fight over 1,157-square mile island
off the South Texas coast a year ago
by signing an agreement that gave
Texas control of the island.
Conservationists opposed the
transfer of management from the
federal government, claiming Texas
had a poor track record in managing
natural resources.
Under the state plan, there would
be limited recreational activities, in
cluding camping, interpretive pro
grams, hiking, boating, fishing,
hunting and beach-related activities.
There would be no causeway or
vehicular traffic and private devel
opment would be barred.
Slouch
By Jim Earle
“Do you think I can get that much stuff in my head in less
than six weeks?”
Desegregation
Houston school board to reach settlement
United Press International
HOUSTON — Following three
days of negotiations, Houston school
board members Wednesday night
continued negotiations with the
NAACP to reach an out-of-court set
tlement in a 28-year-old desegrega
tion lawsuit.
Houston Independent School Dis
trict board chairwoman Tina Reyes
said the district had met the major
demands of minority groups in
volved in the suit.
“The high points are basically the
original points of the desegregation
plan (adopted by the district). To
just continue to work to maintain
those there are some specific kinds
of goals that we’ve outlined for the
next five years,” she said.
Included in the goals are raising
the level of minorities in inner-city
magnet schools to 60 percent, hiring
more Hispanics as teachers and ad
ministrators and continuing renova
tion of schools, especially in minority
areas.
The school district in June pre
sented testimony asking that the law
suit finally be dismissed.
Testimony scheduled to begin
Monday had been delayed until
Wednesday in U.S. Judge Robert
O’Conor’s court if the settlement was
not reached.
O’Conor ruled in 1981 that the
Houston district is “unitary,” saying
it had done everything possible to
desegregate. At that time, he said
the court would monitor HISD for
three years.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
and the Mexican American Legal
Defense and Education Fund op
posed the dismissal until the conces
sions concerning enrollments at
magnet schools and minority hiring
were made. The testimony would
have come in a hearing to determine
if the case should be dismissed.
The desegregation suit was filed
in 1956 on behalf of two black stu
dents, Delores Ross and Beneva Wil
liams, who were denied admittance
to all-white schools.
Lucky crickets not so lucky
for presidential household
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Crickets are
regarded as good luck in some
households, but to the family in resi
dence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. the
noisy little insect in the bedroom was
akin to a plague of locusts.
After two nights of lost sleep, the
man of the house took charge of the
great cricket hunt at the White
House and Mrs. Reagan reported to
her staff today that the cricket was
chirping no more.
Nonetheless, Sheila Tate, the first
lady’s press secretary, quoted Rea
gan as saying, “Anticipation being
what it is, I stayed awake most of the
night, expecting to hear it.”
The Reagans first heard the insect
at 4 a.m. Monday. It kept Mrs. Rea
gan awake most of the remainder of
the night, tossing, turning and get
ting minimum comfort from the folk
belief that a cricket in the house
brings good fortune.
Steps were taken Monday morn
ing. The White House usher’s office,
in charge of housekeeping, sent a
squad to remove potted plants from
the bedroom on the theory the fo
liage was providing a cricket home.
Wrong. At 4 a.m. Tuesday, Mrs.
Reagan awakened to the same chirp
ing sound.
On Tuesday morning, President
Reagan took charge. At his direc
tion, maintenance crews opened the
air vents in the room and sprayed
them.
Mrs. Reagan told her staff, “The
president kept saying it must be in
the vents.”
Tate said that when she remarked
later that the president “must have
been right,” the first lady replied,
“The president is always right.’'
TVA cancels four nuclear reactors
United Press International
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The
Tennessee Valley Authority
canceled four unfinished nuclear re
actors Wednesday and accepted a
$2.7 billion loss because of projected
cost overruns of nearly $ 14 billion.
“You don’t eat that kind of money
gracefully but we are trying to mini
mize the impact,” TVA Chairman
Charles “Chili” Dean said.
The three-member board for the
nation’s largest electric utility voted
unanimously to cancel two reactors
at the Hartsville Nuclear Plant near
Nashville and two reactors at the
Yellow Creek facility near luka,
Miss.
The board also voted to use a
$150 million budget surplus to wipe
out all but a .4 percent increase in
electric rates starting Oct. 1. The
typical residential consumer’s
monthly bill will go up 19 cents —
from $46.87 to $47.06.
TVA stopped construction on the
reactors two years ago with work less
than half-finished after a $2.7 billion
investment. The agency has spent
$12 million a year since then main
taining the plants in case work was
resumed.
A staff report said the reactors
would mount combined cost over
runs of $13.8 billion if construction
was finished — more than TVA has
spent building its entire power sys
tem.
TVA Director Richard Freeman
said the seven-state federal utility —
once the nuclear industry’s best cus
tomer — likely would build a coal
plant if new power capacity is
needed for the rest of this century.
“The cost of finishing these plants
is no longer competitive with coal-
fired plants. We should cancel now
and cut our losses,” Freeman said.
Consumer groups praised the
TVA Board for canceling the reac
tors but ridiculed the agency for
ever starting Yellow Creek and
Hartsville, once envisioned as the
world’s largest atomic plant.
“At Hartsville, you’ve taken a little
piece of paradise and plopped the
world’s largest white elephant down
on it,” consumer activist Jeannine
Honnicker said.
The $2.7 billion already invested
in the reactors will be written off
over the next 11 years, accounting
for 2 percent to 4 percent of electric
rates for the agency’s nearly 3 mil
lion consumers, officials said.
Nationally, eight reactors have
been abandoned this year with
TVA’s cancellations and 51 reactors
have been scrapped since 1974—the
year before the Arab oil embargo
lowered electricity demand.
All reactors ordered in the United
States since 1974 now have been
canceled and no new ones have been
ordered since the 1979 accidental
Three Mile Island.
A spokesman for the Atomic In
dustrial Forum conceded more reac
tors in the United States are likely to
be canceled this year because of cost
overruns.
TVA has tried with no success to
sell its canceled reactors to foreign
nations, including China, Taiwan
and Turkey.
The combined cost of building
Yellow Creek and Hartsville was first
estimated at $3.5 billion.
TVA Power Manager Hugh Par
ris said Yellow Creek now would cost
$9.6 billion to finish — a 13 percent
increase from last year’s estimate
The cost of finishing Hartsville has
jumped by 25 percent in a year to
$5.1 billion, he said.
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