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Democrat won't rule it out
Hance for governor?
Associated Press
Bryan-College Station
unemployment still low
By JEFF BRADY
Reporter
AUSTIN — Former Congress
man Kent Hance of Lubbock, an un
successful candidate for the U.S.
Senate in 1^84, is considering run
ning for any of several offices, in
cluding governor, it was reported
Thursday.
“Hance, who has a debt of more
than a half-million dollars from his
near miss race for the Democratic
nomination for U.S. Senate last year,
has been exploring with backers the
possibility of running for governor,”
the Austin American-Statesman
said.
The newspaper quoted Hance as
saying, “I haven’t ruled anything out
or in, including the Railroad Com
mission.
The American-Statesman also
said Railroad Commissioner Buddy
Temple, whose term expires next
year, “probably will not seek another
six-year term.”
Temple, who sought the Demo
cratic gubernatorial nomination in
1982 but dropped out of a runoff
with Mark Wnite, said he probably
will get out of politics for a time if he
doesn’t seek re-election.
“I’ve made no secret of the fact
that right at this moment I’m in
clined not to run again,” Temple
said. “But I don’t want anyone to
take that as a decision that I’m not
going to run, because it isn’t.”
Hance, a conservative, was the top
vote-getter in the Democratic Senate
primarv. but was edged bv liberal
Lloyd Doggett of Austin in the run
off.
A number of leading Texas Dem
ocrats have speculated that Hance
might be interested in running for
attorney general or lieutenant gov
ernor in 1986. But Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby, a friend of Hance, has indi
cated he will seek re-election.
Temple said he plans to consult
with long-time supporters before
making any final decision on his po
litical future. He served in the Texas
House and ran for speaker before
seeking election- to the Railroad
Commission in 1980.
“Part of my thinking is I’ve been
in it since ’72, and there have been a
lot of tough races,” Temple said.
Latest f igures from the Texas Em
ployment Commission indicate Aus
tin had November’s lowest unem
ployment rate in the state — 3
percent. Bryan-College Station and
Midland were tied for the second
lowest with 3.2 percent, says Walt
Baker, director of the agency’s local
division.
With one of the lowest unemploy
ment rates in the state, a secure job
environment provided by Texas
A&M and a good economy. Baker
says Brazos County offers job-seek
ers a community that is hard to beat
in terms of economic potential.
Surrounding counties in the Bra
zos Valley averaged approximately 7
percent unemployment. The na
tional rate was 6.9 percent.
The unemployment rate is calcu-
Many women in today’s society
are choosing to explore the rewards
and f rustrations of being single par
ents in a two-parent world.
The program, “And Baby Makes
Two,” reveals how many women feel
about marriage, their daily routines
and their decision to have children.
Women choosing to raise children
on their own mav, often as a result of
lated by dividing an area’s total work
force into the number of persons
looking for jobs. That figure is then
adjusted to reflect seasonal trends
and other variables.
Baker says there are a number of
reasons that the local unemployment
rate, normally around 3.5 percent,
has remained low. Those reasons in
clude Texas’ status as a right-to-
work state and the prime location of
Bryan-College Station, he says.
On the other hand, Edwin Latta,
the Executive Director of the Bryan
Development Foundation, says this
rate does not mean there are no peo
ple here to fill existingjobs. It simply
suggests that workers in the immedi
ate area who want to work can find
jobs.
Latta said the area’s biggest em
ployers are the University, local
school districts, industrial employers
divorce or separation, face emo
tional, legal and economic problems.
Clinical Director of Family Life
Counseling Services Dale Simpson
said the number of single parent
families has risen from about three
million in 1970 to more than six mil
lion in 1980. In Brazos County
alone, the number of single parent
families increased 140 percent be
tween 1970 to 1980, Simpson said.
Single mothers frequently en
counter custody battles, unemploy-
and hospitals, whose hiring has
caused the labor force to double
from 30,000 to 60,000 during the
last 10 years.
Between 1970 and 1980, Bryan-
College Station was the fastest-grow
ing area in the state statistically,
Latta said, and the sixth fastest-
growing area in the nation.
Latta said he attributes this eco
nomic development largely to the oil
boom of the 70s and to the growth of
the University.
However, the local economic up
swing has yet to fade, Latta says.
Within the last year, he says, 15 new
businesses have opened in down
town Bryan alone. And while the un
employment rate traditionally drops
in the months of January and Feb
ruary, Latta said he predicts contin
ued employment opportunity and
economic growth for Bryan and
Brazos County in 1985.
ment and depression as a result of
trying to raise children by them
selves, he said.
Many women who must return to
work usually have a difficult time
holding a job while raising a child.
Single women, however, can also en
joy the same rewards of motherhood
as married women.
“And Baby Makes Two,” a 30-
minute program, will be at noon
Monday in Lecture Room #1 of the
Medical Sciences Building.
Single mothers topic of program
By AMY BOWMAN
Reporter
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