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State to request funds
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Associated Press
AUSTIN — Some Texas farmers
and ranchers, driven off the land by
the depressed agricultural industry,
may be entering job retraining pro
grams this fall, state officials said
Tuesday.
The Texas Department of Agri
culture hopes a share of the $7.5
million in federal funds Texas
should get this fall for dislocated
workers can be used for training, ca
reer counseling and job placement
for farmers.
Agriculture Commissioner Jim
Hightower said:“Texas continues to
lose more than 100 family farmers
and ranchers a week.”
mbryoIraiH At the department’s request, the
>p lOpera state’s Job Training Coordinating
Council has agreed that retraining
services are needed by the displaced
uals shorn farmers and ranchers, Hightower
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He said seven states — Iowa, Illi
nois, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma,
North Dakota and South Dakota —
already offer such assistance to
farmers.
Andy Welch, a spokesman for the
agriculture department, said TDA
officials will make a formal proposal
to the Job Training Coordinating
Council in August for extending job
training services to displaced farm
ers and ranchers. A request for
funding also will be made at that
time, he said.
Hightower said he hoped some of
the state’s federal job training
money then will be made available so
programs for farmers and ranchers
could begin on Oct. 1.
Job training, counseling and
placement would be overseen by the
Texas Department of Community
Affairs and provided by local agen
cies statewide. The agencies cur
rently provide similar services for
ut 50 i Bother displaced and unemployed
workers.
Hightower noted that the nation’s
farmers have continued to face diffi
culties while other sectors of the
, h — economy have improved.
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t " a L,y 0| | | more than they receive to produce
tS «i! ever y ma j or commodity grown in
he expen v, p exas — cotton, grain sorghum,
^ wheat, corn or rice.”
Hightower said farmers deserve
the chance to get training for an
other type of work since current
government farm policies keep the
prices paid to farmers artificially
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Democrats
must change
Associated Press
TOKYO — San Antonio Mayor
Henry Cisneros said Monday the
Democratic Party has been “caught
off base” by changes in U.S. society
and must begin to address public is
sues this changing U.S. scene has
brought to the lore.
Cisneros, a leading contender to
become Walter Mondale’s running
mate on the Democratic ticket last
year, also said he had no plans to run
for national office in 1988 or for
some time.
The Texas mayor arrived in To
kyo Sunday for an eight-day visit to
encourage Japanese businessmen to
invest in his region. His 14-member
delegation also will travel to South
Korea and Taiwan.
At a press conference, Cisneros
said his party had been left behind
by the recent technological changes,
massive movements in population,
entrepreneurial explosion and trend
toward decentralization.
He said the party has remained
tied to the declining industrial base
in the United States amid the trauma
of social change. But the party can
regain its former strength, Cisneros
said, by expanding the Republican
Party concept of supply side eco
nomics to include more investment
in cities, education and research.
“I think the Democratic Party is
yet the best vehicle to address the
equity issues, the long-term issues,”
he said.
But he cautioned that the party
may have serious problems if it can
not win the national office in 1988.
He added that the current top Re
publican contenders for the presi
dency — Vice President George
Bush, New York Congressman Jack
Kemp, Kansas Sen. Robert Dole and
former Tennessee Sen. Howard
Baker — are now all stronger than
Democratic hopefuls.
Cisneros’ list of hopefuls includes
the Democrats’ standard-bearer Ari
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Sen. Bill Bradley, Delaware Sen. Jo
seph Biden, Colorado Sen. Gary
Hart, Teyas Gov. Mark White and
New York Gov. Mario Cuomo.
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