Wednesday, February 20, 1985/The Battalion/Page 11
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By Jim Earle
“Is this volume control?’
Texas leaders sell
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Associated Press
l , AUSTIN — Gov. Mark White, Lt.
Gov. Bill Hobby and House Speaker
Duarte SI Gib Lewis will join Sen. Phil Gramm
of College Station in Washington to
day to sell the Texas Gulf Coast as
the best place for a new Navy home-
port.
Several Texas cities, including
Houston-Galveston and Brownsville,
are competing with locations in Ala
bama, Florida, Mississippi and Loui
siana for the battleship port that will
bring millions of dollars in business
;r,im ly an jj 0 bs.
but saidto ^| so pugging Texas at the meet
ing with Navy Secretary John Leh-
demonstr man will be the state’s other senator,
s econom yoy^ Bentsen, House Majority
Leader Jim Wright of Fort Worth
and former U.S. Sen. John Tower of
Texas.
Two Texas House members on
Tuesday filed a bill they said would
give the state leaders some “concrete
proposals” to show Lehman. The
proposed National Defense Im
pacted Region Assistance Act lays
out a program that could mean $300
million over five years if a Texas city
gets the port.
Rep. Ed Emmett, R-Kingwood,
said White and the other state lead
ers needed a solid plan to bring to
the Pentagon on Wednesday.
The facility could bring a $60 mil
lion annual payroll and 3,500 civil
ian jobs.
Officials testify
bond deadline
met by Mattox
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Bonds allegedly
threatened with disapproval by At
torney General Jim Mattox were be
ing sought for schools, jails, flood
control and other public projects, a
string of officials testified Tuesday
at Mattox’s commercial bribery trial.
However, none of the 17 officials
said approval of their bonds was
withheld.
Two said their lawyers advised
them of a possible “problem” in
gaining the attorney general’s
needed approval, and a third said he
was told the bonds might not be is
sued by a June 30, 1983 deadline.
Mattox is charged with threaten
ing the bond business of the Hous
ton law firm Fulbright & Jaworski,
which owns another firm that does
bond work — Dumas, Huguenin,
Boothman & Morrow of Dallas.
Under state law, the attorney gen
eral must clear such bond issues.
Prosecutors called officials from
Texas cities, counties, school districts
and flood control districts to explain
why they needed the millions of dol
lars from bond sales being handled
for them by Fulbright & Jaworski or
Dumas, its Dallas firm.
The officials also said changes in
federal law meant that after June 30,
1983, the bonds would be more dif
ficult to sell and more expensive to
issue.
Fulbright & Jaworski lawyer Wiley
Caldwell earlier testified that Mattox
telephoned him on June 15, 1983,
threatening to “go to war” unless
one of its attorneys stopped trying to
question his sister, Dallas lawyer Jan
ice Mattox, in a case involving Mobil
Oil, South Texas rancher Clinton
Manges and the state.
At the time, Fulbright & Jaworski
had 17 bond issues pending before
Mattox, with a total value of about
$1 billion.
On Tuesday, former Lavaca
County flood control official Robert
Gindler of Hallettsville testified that
the district’s bond lawyers told him
in June 1983 of possible difficulty in
getting approval from Mattox.
He was told “there was another
lawsuit pending involving Mobil Oil,
the state and Clinton Manges ...
There had been some conflict be
tween Mr. Mattox and the law firm
that actually owned his firm,”
Gindler said, referring to Fulbright
& Jaworski.
Gindler said the district wanted to
issue $550,000 in bonds to pay for
flood control work. If they failed to
meet the June 30 deadline, he said,
“Our bonds would be much more
difficult to sell.”
Also testif ying was Jesse Logan of
Austin, finance director for the
Lower Colorado River Authority,
which was^seeking to restructure its
debt by issuing $329 million in new
bonds.
Asked if he knew about a conflict
between Mattox and the Fulbright &
Jaworski firm, Logan replied, “Yes.
On the 21st (of June), we learned of
that type of problem.” -
In cross examining the officials,
Mattox’s lawyers made it a point to
note that in each case, the bonds
were approved and sold before the
June 30 deadline.
Jim Walker, city manager of Bed
ford, was asked if the city had en
countered any trouble in issuing the
bonds.
“Not to my knowledge,” he re
plied.
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