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By Jim Earle
“Is there something about this pool that makes you nervous?”
Slow Sunday business
nags Austin retailers
Pollution
A&M prof helps develop plan
that could stem contamination
By PETE HERNDON
Reporter
S. Charles Maurice, an A&M eco
nomics professor, says pollution can
be contained by treating it as a mar
ket commodity.
Th© pollution problem, Maurice
says, stems from the fact that no
property rights have been assigned
to air or water pollution.
Under a plan published by Mau
rice and Charles W. Smithson, a for
mer A&M economics professor, the
government could sell pollution
shares.
Maurice SayS factories would buy
these shares allowing for a specific
amount of pollution under this plan.
“People don’t throw trash on their
own yards,” he says. “They pay a fee
to have garbage men come pick it up
and carry it away.”
Maurice says factories pollute the
rivers and air, but they don’t have to
pay any fee. This allows manufactur
ers to pollute at will, he says.
He says factories that pollute
more than their shares allow would
have to buy shares from factories
that pollute less. Environmental
groups could also compete in this
market and simply hold their shares,
Maurice says.
The second method Maurice and
Smithson proposed would be to set
up a pollution tax comparable to the
progressive income tax.
The more a manufacturer wanted
or needed to pollute the environ
ment, the higher their tax bracket
would be, Maurice says.
He says production efficiency
would not be hurt by either plan.
“You don’t want Zero pollution,”
Maurice says, “because costs would
skyrocket. Sophisticated pollution
control equipment is costly.
“But manufacturers should pay
the full cost out-of-pocket for the
pollution required to produce their
goods,” he adds.
Maurice says the biggest problem
with the proposals would be getting
effective legislation to enact them.
Massachusetts passed a law similar
to the shareholding proposal several
years ago to help clean up Chesa-
C eake Bay, Maurice says, but it failed
ecause factories on the Pennsylva
nia side of the bay did not have to
comply.
Although he says the proposals
would have to be federal in nature,
he does not see Congress passing
any bills like his proposals in the
near future.
“Simply put, right now the facto
ries upstream have more political
clout than the fishermen down
stream,” he says.
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Kinda Krazy, a dress
shop in a heavily populated resi
dential area of north Austin, ap
peared deserted Sunday afternoon,
until a lone salesperson popped out
of chair in a back corner.
“It’s very slow today,” said Jill
Murphy. “In fact, I’ve had only one
sale.”
Since the Legislature voted to re
peal the Sunday closing law, many
Austin retailers began Sunday open
ings in May after assurances from
authorities that they would not be
prosecuted for jumping the gun,
since the repeal is not effective until
Sept. 1.
However, according to an infor
mal survey by the Austin American-
Statesman, businesses in the small
commercial centers “are ushering in
the new era with silent cash regis
ters."
Many independent retailers are
remaining dosed on Sundays.
Business is brisk in the major
shopping centers and large discount
operations such as K-Mart, Target
and T.J. Maxx.
In West Anderson Plaza, along
one of the busiest residential shop
ping streets in the city, only three of
19 retailers were open Sunday af
ternoon. At Greystone Ltd., a men’s
clothing store, there were two
salesmen on duty, compared with
five during the week.
Owners of Highland Mall and
Barton Creek Mall are allowing ten
ants to decide whether they will
open before Sept. 1.
After Sept. 1, the mall officials say
they will enforce lease agreements
that require tenants to open during
mall hours.
Two Texas tourists
allegedly beaten,
robbed in Mexico
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Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Only days af
ter Mexico kicked off a campaign to
attract U.S. tourists, a man and a
woman from Austin said they were
kidnapped, beaten and robbed by
men who said they were federal po
lice officers.
Dr. Henry Selby, a University of
Texas anthropology professor, and
Lucy Garretson, research director
for the Austin American-Statesman
newspaper, said they were attacked
in the Mexico City suburb of Neza-
hualcoyotJ Saturday night.
The incident came just as Mexico
was renewing efforts to lure U.S. vis
itors.
Selby and Garretson said they
were robbed of $500 and a camera
by two men who said they were
members of Mexico’s Federal Judi
cial Police.
“We were standing in front of a
hotel waiting for a room when they
approached us,” Selby said. “They
snowed us their badges and then
forced us into the back seat of a
Volkswagen.”
When Garretson challenged one
of the men about his credentials, she
said she was slapped in the face. One
of the men also hit Selby twice in the
temple with a leather-covered night
stick.
Selby and Garretson said they
chose to report the incident to the
U.S. Embassy instead of Mexican po
lice.
Vince Hovenac, an embassy
spokesman, said the incident would
be reported to Mexican authorities.
The embassy recently published a
report about crimes against U.S.
tourists in Mexico.
Selby said that at one point during
the abduction, his attackers spoke of
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico John
Gavin, who has complained to Mexi
can authorities about assaults on
U.S. tourists, often by men posing as
policemen.
Legislative battle over offshore revenues begins
Associated Press
WASH/iVGrOiV — ff a/I parties
agreed on nothing else, they did
concur Monday that Congress
should settle a seven-year, $6 billion
dispute over offshore oil and gas
revenues that are supposed to be
shared by seven states and the fed
eral government.
Texas Gov. Mark White testified
Monday that he is sticking to the
states’ demand for 37.5 percent of
the revenues, incl uding royalties.
The governors of Alaska and Cali
fornia also submitted testimony op
posing what a congressman who fa
vored it dubbed the “27 percent
solution.”
Interior Committee Chairman
Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., said he ex
pected the committee to be told in
the House budget resolution to write
legislation solving the issue so the
amount of federal revenues can be
determined.
The law that sparked the dispute
was meant to compensate states for
drainage of their resources when the
federal government leased its off
shore lands bordering the states’ off
shore property.
About $>6 billion has been depos
ited in an account while the
Interior Department and seven
coastal states — Alaska, California,
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama and Florida — argue over
what Congress meant in the 1978
law by “fair and equitable” division
of revenues.
The states started out seeking a
50-50 split. The Interior Depart
ment last year offered them 16%
percent. The states countered with
37.5 percent.
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