Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, September 11,1985 CRISIS IN CENTRAL AMERICA A Talk And Slide Presentation With Phillip Russell and Frederico Hollmann Thursday, Sept 12 7:30 PM College Station Community Center 1300 Jersey, Room 106 Co-Sponsored by Student Peace Action and Brazos Valley Peace Action Comptroller seizes Dallas businesses Associated Press AUSTIN — The state comptrol ler Tuesday began seizing Dallas businesses for delinquent sales tax receipts and said similar seizures are planned in other cities this week. Comptroller Bob Bullock said the closings were a last resort, but nec essary. “Some businesses just persist in not paying the tax money they col lect from their customers,’’ Bullock said. “Each and every one of the businesses we are seizing has been given ample opportunity to pay the money they owe.” At least one Dallas business was closed Tuesday, said John Moore, spokesman for Comptroller Bob Bullock. Others could face the same fate, he said. Bullock said that in addition to the seizures, enforcement officers are filing liens and freezing bank ac counts of delinquent merchants. “Most Texas merchants follow the law and pay the taxes they collect,” Bullock said. “We’ve only got a few bad apples we’re about to remove from tne barrel. “In today’s competitive business environment,” he said, “we owe it to the honest taxpayer who pays his taxes promptly to see that his com petitor does the same.” - Sales tax receipts collected by merchants at the time of sale are le gally due the state. “These merchants have a clear-cn choice: they can pay the nionn when it’s due or they can make hard for themselves by not and see their business shut down, Bullock said. “It’s the governmem money, but it’s their choice.” Under state law, after thecoitf troller padlocks a tax-delinm business, he is empowered to set company’s assets at auction to the taxes due. Mattox: Cameras can be barred from public meetings t^r Wed./Sett.U Y ao-z. fDK IliFO CALL. 43i-82 c lk Associated Press AUSTIN — State and local offi cials are free to prohibit television news cameras from covering public meetings, Attorney General Jim Mattox said in a legal opinion made public Tuesday. The state’s 1973 Open Meetings Act says public meetings “may be re corded ... by means of a tape re corder or any other means of sonic reproduction.’ The Texas Association of Broad casters said the Mattox ruling could affect television coverage of public meetings throughout the state. Earlier this year, Titus County commissioners voted 4-0 to bar tele vision cameras from their meetings. The action came after County Judge Bill Harper had invited a small Mt. Pleasant television station to video tape and air the commissioners court meetings. Daily Tribune, “It says the same thing that it said before.” The camera invited into the court room by Harper belonged to EVP Network, a Mt. Pleasant operation that leases air time from the local ca ble company. ciation of Broadcasters lawyershm reviewed the law and see no »j Mattox's opinion can be challenged “He has precedent on his side's fortunately,” McLane said. "Ourj torneys said, ‘Don’t bother.’ However, Mattox said, “sonic re production,” as mentioned in the Open Meetings Act, does not in clude TV cameras. “I thought they were doing a serv ice for the community,” Harper said Tuesday. “We meet at a time of day i lo “This provision does not give members of the public a right to vi deotape meetings,” Mattox said in answer to a question raised by Titus County officials. “In the absence of a specific provision permitting a mem ber of the public to record its meet ings by videotape, the commission ers court may prevent the videotaping of its meetings held pur suant to the Open Meetings Act.” when a lot of people cannot be in the courtroom. This was an opportunity to see how the commission func tions. I can’t see anything wrong with that.” But the commissioners did, and they approved the rule that barred cameras as of April 8. Commissioner Loyd Clark, who pushed for the ban, did not answer calls to either his office or home Tuesday. Asked about Mattox’s opinion, Clark told the Mt. Pleasant The commissioners court pro ceedings were broadcast in their en tirety after the local news on EVP’s channel 10. Gale Johnson, FVP’s office man ager, said, “When things got sticky or issues got hot it was videotaped. Things were being shown that the commissioners didn’t like.” The videotaping was done with a single camera, mounted on a tripod near a wall. It was not interfering with the proceedings, she said. “With video, what you see is what you’re doing,” she said. “We didn’t change anytning. They got tired of be I it. They didn’t want to be TV stars.’ FVP plans a court challenge of the camera ban. Bonner McLane, TAB executive vice president, said the Texas Asso- U rider the “sonic reproductioi law, “You can carry a microphone! but you can’t carry a camera in,’’I Lane added. “This (controversy) was just a k calized situation,” he said. "Howli it will get carried I don’t know someone else gets mad at the lod TV station, they could dothesam thing.” The Titus County cominissionta believed the cameras turned tlis meetings into a forum for people complain and get air time, accortij to McLane. The TAB will ask the 1987 lature to revise the Open Meerint Act to include videotaping of puk meetings, McLane said. The Society of Professonal Jon nalists also wants the 1987 Legs lature to rewrite the law. WHOLESALE DIAMONDS For every $1000 dollars you spend on Texas Coin E. Diamonds and diamond jewelry and 14k gold chains you will receive a $1000 U.S. Tresury Bond. *At absolutely no cost to you. 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