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WASHINGTON — Texans are
losing thousands of jobs, billions of
spending dollars and millions of dol
lars in oil and gas tax revenues be
cause of the nation’s trade imbalance
and the strong U.S. dollar, accord
ing to a new study.
The study, conducted by two
Southern Methodist University pro
fessors, was released over the week
end by Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-
Texas.
Bentsen, a member of the Joint
Economic Committee and a leading
sponsor of trade legislation, said the
study is an attempt to show that in
ternational markets and economic
policies do have an effect closer to
nome.
The study backs Bentsen’s conten
tion that l/.S. industries are being
forced to compete against foreign
manufacturers who enjoy unfair ad
vantages.
“Texas businesses have been play
ers in the world marketplace for de
cades, and they can meet these chal
lenges if allowed to compete on a
level playing field,” concluded the
g rofessors who authored the study,
ernard L. Weinstein and Harold T.
Gross.
The implications of the changing
world marketplace, in the meantime,
are “severe” for the state’s three big
industries — energy, high technol
ogy and agriculture, they said.
‘‘Generally they are manifested in
three fairly distinct ways — job
losses, purchasing power losses and
state tax revenue losses,” Weinstein
and Gross reported.
The professors said Texas is no
longer the “archetypical Sunbelt
state” but instead is being “buffetted
severely by changing patterns of
world commerce and today boasts an
unemployment rate that exceeds the
national average.”
Texas’ October unemployment
rate jumped a percentage point over
September, to 8.1 percent, while the
national figure remained the same,
at 7.1 percent.
“The problem is that we don’t
have an effective trade policy, and
we don’t have a good energy policy,
and the farm policy is not working,”
said Bentsen in a statement released
with the study.
The strong dollar is making it
harder for Texas industries to sell
Student Leader Profile
Class of '87 president working to get students involved
Cindy Webb
By MEG
CADIGAN
Stuff Writer
When Class of
’8 7 President
Cindy Webb got
involved with her
class council as a
freshman she
says the size of
Texas A&M sud
denly seemed less
overwhelming.
“ W h e n y o u
come down and
you’re not in
volved and you
don’t know anyone, that’s when it seems really hu
ge,” Webb says. “Now it doesn’t seem like 7,000
people are in your class. It seems like there are 100
people you know really well.
Webb was the Class of ’87 Social Secretary her
freshman and sophomore years. She says one activ
ity she enjoyed the most during her stint as Social
Secretary was working on the annual class ball.
“Getting involved (with Class of’87) gave me the
opportunity to work with some really wonderful
people,” she says.
Webb, a junior finance major, says she decided
to run for class president this year because she
thought her ideas, as well as her interest and expe
rience, could help the class.
Webb says she would like to promote unity in the
Class of ’87.
“One of our goals this year js to make sure the
PR gets out, and gets out on time,” Webb says.
“That way everyone at least knows what’s going
on.”
She says the class has been successful in thisarei
so far. However, Webb says she would like to set
more class members involved in council attivities,
Webb’s interest in social and civic activities didai
begin with her college career. As a high schoolsti).
dent in Mansfield — population 10,000 — her fa
vorite project was working with a school counseloi
on a Christmas project to feed needy people.
“We had about five families that were veryneedil
and we took everything (food and supplies) to I
them,” Webb says.
She says the counselor has been working on t
n ect every year for more than 20 years.
t was something that, he always said, youti
it over to God and pray to God, and He will alwau |
come through," Weob says. “And He alwaysdit
Webb says her hobbies are reading, aerobics
swimming, waterskiing and stitchery.
“I also spend a lot of my free time just visiting,
she says, “fm a visitor.” . .
So it’s not suprising that her impression of ABII
as a f riendly school drew her here.
“It’s just the atmosphere here,” she says. “Eve
ryone is so friendly and caring, that it just seemed
like the places for me.”
Once at A&M. Webb says she found all of die
Aggie traditions a little confusing. She says her fa
vonte tradition now is Muster.
“I think that’s the most uniuue thing atm
A&M," Webb says. “That’s something that will be
done for every single Aggie."
As to her plans for next year, Webb says, “li
would be ham to give up working with the class.”
She says she will probably run for of fice again.
In the not-too-distant future Webb says she plans
to go to graduate school and work in finance, eithei
on the corporate or banking side.
goods overseas while imports in
crease, according to the study.
The state has lost 120,000 jobs
since April 1981, most in the energy
industry, the study said.
With the loss of jobs, many of
them high-paying, there are $2.b bil
lion fewer dollars in the state to
spend at the establishments of Texas
merchants, the professors said.
A decline in drilling activity has
reduced the state’s major sources of
revenue — severance taxes on oil
and gas production and sales taxes
on manufactured equipment.
It has been estimated that for ev
ery dollar-a-barrel drop in crude oil
prices, Texas loses $40 million in
severance taxes, $30 million in fran
chise and other taxes, and $30 mil
lion in taxes on sales of oil field
equipment, the study said.
Domestic drilling activity has
fallen to 1978 levels and capital ex
penditures are down 30 percent,
they said.
According to figures from the Oil
and Gasjournal, said the professors,
the number of refineries in Texas
rose by 11, from 45 to 56, between
the years 1975 and 1980.
But between 1980 and 1984, 23
refineries closed in Texas.
“Automated refineries abroad
possess a critical advantage over
tage
labo
American refiners, whose labor costs
are increasingly the only variable
cost over whicn control may be exer
cised,” the study said.
Texas’ high-technology industry
has seen a turnaround after years of
growth because of over-production
of semi-conductors and computers,
the strong dollar overseas, andtiB
petition with japan, the studysa f
Thousands or workers haveb K
laid off because of the slump. E
professors said, noting (hat Di K
based T exas Instruments pom I
$3.9 million loss in the secondiji 1
ter of this year.
TI recorded a $85.9 millionp®
during the same period last year F
„ Agncultu re has been uliablet®
fectively sell its products abroad®
spite its competitiveness in term:®
technology and resources and®
government-backed loans and slip
dies, said the study.
The professors said this "sukJ
strongly that recently ills mav!
tributed principally to the eflecil
the strong U.S. dollar.”
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