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Thursday, November 14, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 7 Slouch \NTHOMS.Cm ;le agent, (righi) stomers. “Weprobably ought to put the kerosene in something besides a cottee pot, but I guess it doesn’t matter now. ” FW Mont Belvieu officials seek OOd White’s help with industries ent fares put intijj beginning of Noil that the low prictl to the studeniil lave any red-eyelli e looking at theM on’t offer any sen mute flight to D* .*p our costsdowti'l s competition draj factor in such a a Associated Press I AUSTIN — Mont Belvieu city of- licials Wednesday asked Gov. Mark White to help them persuade oil lompanies to buy homes near an un derground gas storage site where a lecent explosion killed two men. 1 “I wouldn’t say I’m more encour- tiged than before,” Mont Belvieu iMayor Fred Miller said after the llosed-door session with White. iWe’ll wait for the governor to come Back and see what he has to say.” 1 he governor said he was going to iget with the companies to talk about re carrying aboi'i; |j ie possibility of their buying out actor,’ Sheetssaid homeowners in the area, according lines seem to beer to Miller, t.” , 1, as the owner and: • “1 think he (White) understands iterwood Airport the problem better in Mont Bel- iding for extensioiRieu,” said Miller, adding that White vay to 7,200 feet.(promised to get back with city offi- iii in September,aijials within 10 days. “He appreciates new terminal on ( the position the people are in. He in- he airport. fdicated he would do whatever he r has yet been air could. He has to look at the problem he terminal cwk. to see what he can do. “I don’t know what the state’s role could be,” the mayor said. “All we want out of the state and out of the governor is some help to get the peo ple to the table to do what they should have done Five or 10 years ago, which is take care of the prob lem they created and get the people off the hill.” The city is preparing a $125 mil lion damage suit against industries in the Southeast Texas refinery town. Mont Belvieu, 30 miles northeast of Houston, is perched atop one of the world’s largest salt domes. A dozen oil companies store gases used in petrochemical production in the dome. The Nov. 5 blast at the Warren Petrochemical Co. plant occurred when an underground pipeline rup tured, spewing ethane, propane, iso butane and gasoline and triggering a series of explosions and a blaze that took firefighter six hours to control. Migration of people to Texas down COLLEGE STATION — The number of people moving from other U.S. states into Texas is down for the first time in more than 10 years, a Texas A&M University de mographer said Wednesday. About 32,000 people immigrated to Texas from other states between 1982 and 1984, said Steve Murdock, professor and head of the Depart ment of Rural Sociology in Texas A&M’s College of Agriculture. Murdock said the latest “in-migra tion” figures are “down consider ably” from the 300,000 people who moved to Texas from other states in the first part of this decade. About 170,000 people moved into Texas from other states during the 1970s, he said. “The state’s population is continu ing to grow from births and in-mi- gration, but the rate of growth in most places is substantially lower than before,” he said. Harris and Montgomery counties actually had a net loss of residents to other states, “a pattern which has not occurred for at least a decade and a half,” he said. Murdock, using figures from the U.S. Bureau of the Census informa tion, said Houston, Bryan-College Station and Odessa are among the Texas cities experiencing the largest declines in the number of residents moving into their areas. In 1980-82, the rate of in-migra- tion to Houston was 8.5 percent, compared to .13 percent in 1982-84. The rate of in-migration to Bryan- College Station dropped from 12.5 percent in 1980-82 to 5.9 percent in 1982-84. Odessa’s rate dropped from 12.7 percent to 3.6 percent during the same period, he said. “Of the state’s 26 metropolitan statistical areas,” he said, “sixteen showed declines in net in-migration while most of the others had insig nificant changes,” he said. “There’s no doubt that the areas showing the most substantial downturns are those dependent on gas and oil.” Among the cities where the num ber of residents moving in is gaining significantly are: Austin, which had a 6 percent rate of in-migration in 1980-82 and an 8 percent rate in 1982-84; and Waco, with a rate of .9 percent in 1980-82 and 2.7 percent in 1982-84. Amarillo also continues to gain residents from out of state, witn a 1.5 percent in-migration rate in 1980-82 and 3 percent for the next two-year period. ?/D '86 Future for Fort Worth shelter uncertain ilth ( lare Services it of Health wasw ossible speed toss programs assign# alth care formal] care for poverty leir babies. riced new store a Associated Press FORT WORTH — A shelter for transients may be doomed following the refusal of City Council to help it buy an old school building as a per manent home. 1 More than 30 churches pooled re- lources last year to open the Pres- lyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant ounty. The Rev. Robert W. Bold, chair- inan of the shelter board, said the ■20 homeless people who now pa- ronize the shelter will be forced back into the streets if the shelter is shut down. But his request for $100,000 in Community Development Block Grant money to help buy the old school building was rejected by the council. Three local foundations and two banks had said they would consider contributing the remaining $437,000 needed to buy the prop erty if the council agreed to give the sielter the $100,000 in grant funds, Bohl said. uwingDec. 14,198) sat SouthwestPtoy .toss from Ft Shiloil Luther s November Values gk\Nov\ 1 ' „ [SO n. Novk t" 5 ' ' soST 8 / “f/s t !h OVe mh e r If Cont e w trh tho offir r ? It at Luther’s rj * . ^ X T ires November 30,1985 DCat the Hogs on our big screen IV FINANCE’ UTV Delta Sigma Pi presents Crossroads A Business Student Forum Featuring Faculty Representatives from the College of Business ^Tiri November 20 7 p.m. MSC Room 212 Crossroads, a business student forum, provides an opportunity for all business students and stu dents interested in persuing a business degree to meet faculty representatives from the College of Business and the dean’s office. All students attending will have the opportunity to ask these faculty members questions and get answers that will help them make qualified academic and career deci sions. Open to All Students The link Between your education and you future career Dial One Eight Hundre Opportunity Will Answer -<\OW C ° W* a b\e- Ik ^cw' v ''*T 0 will!, »° pps ^°Vvo' ^ Mall tor Graduate Management Admission Council, 11601 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1060, Los Angeles CA 90025-1748 Cm interested. Please send me THE MBA: ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY. Name Address Phone, including area Code □ Information for Black students □ Information for Hispanic students C a W I • Toll 1-8 050- 842-5555 In California, 1-800-231-7292 “The council’s action could easily be interpreted as a lack of support for the homeless here,” said Bohl. “I think I got caught up in politics.” Councilman Jim Bagsby argued Tuesday that the shelter, which is in his district, would create further eco nomic hardships on his constituents. 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