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By Cheryl Clements
Reporter
Texas A&M Bus Operations is re
placing the old intra-campus shuttle
buses with new air-conditioned
buses that should provide a comfort
able ride and save on future repairs.
Bill Conaway, assistant manager
of bus operations, said the current
Carpenter brand buses aren’t per
forming as well as expected. The
buses are only a few years old and
are already in need of some major
repairs, he said.
“The Carpenter buses should
have a life of about eight years,”
Conaway said. “They are three years
old now, and the problems we are
having with them will only get worse.
Instead of buying more of the Car
penter buses ... we have decided to
pay a little extra and get a much bet
ter type of bus.”
The new buses cost $38,000 com-
E ared to $30,000 for the Carpenter
uses.
They have air-conditioning, AM-
FM stereo with an intercom system
and cloth seats rather than the vinyl
covering that the Carpenter buses
have, he said. The Diamond buses,
however, have five fewer seats than
the Carpenter buses, Conaway
added.
The bus system, unlike many Uni
versity departments, produces its
own income.
“The bus system gets very few'
funds from the University,” Cona
way said. “If we had to operate off
the money the University gives us we
would not last a month.
“The campus buses get their in
come mainly from bus pass fees and
the revenue from allowing organiza
tions on campus to charter some of
our buses.”
Clements criticizes leadership
White pressed to call session
HOUSTON (AP) — Republican
gubernatorial candidate Bill Clem
ents pressed incumbent Gov. Mark
White on Monday to call a special
session of the Legislature to deal
with the state budget crisis, insisting
White’s failure to do so shows a lack
of leadership.
“He is devoid — literally devoid —
of leadership,” Clements said at a
news conference.
“If he was the leader the people of
Texas have every right to expect, he
would call a special session immedi
ately, charge agencies and depart
ments to set their priorities and start
scrubbing that budget.”
Clements said he has been advo
cating a special session of the Legis
lature since February, contending
the time lost since then has caused
the anticipated state budget deficit
to grow.
“The projected budget shortfall
of $1.3 billion is now estimated at
$2.3 billion,” he said.
Clements said the Legislature
needs to be summoned to pass laws
implementing a constitutional
amendment approved last year that
allows the governor, as part of a spe
cial commission, to scrub the state
budget.
In Austin, White campaign
spokesman Mark McKinnon said
Monday the governor was working
toward a consensus among lawmak
ers before calling them for a special
session.
“Bill Clements obviously hasn’t
been reading the papers lately or
talking to members of his own
party,” McKinnon said, adding that
Gov. White is working with the legis
lative leadership on developing a
plan before he calls a special session.
Clements called the consensus
idea absurd, saying Senate leaders
favor a tax increase while House
members are against higher taxes.
“There’s no meeting of the
minds,” Clements said. “I think he’s
in a dilemma.”
He said the budget shortage could
not be tied totally to falling oil prices.
He blamed increased state spending
for part of the problem.
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A&M business study center
signs Chinese agreement
By Patricia Dearman
Reporter
An A&M administrator headed a
delegation to the People’s Republic
of China to negotiate and sign
agreements that will encourage eco
nomic trade and communication be
tween Texas and China.
Dr. William H. Mobley, dean of
the College of Business Administra
tion, negotiated and signed the
agreements on behalf of the Texas
A&M’s Center for International
Business Studies.
“China needs Western technology
and has great marketing and cultu
ral opportunities for the United
States,” Mobley said.
Joint research, management de
velopment, and exchange program
agreements were signed with China
National Offshore Oil Co. and the
University of International Business
and Economics in Beijing.
Mobley says the Center for Inter
national Business Studies, developed
nine months ago, has obtained sup
port from more than 20 top cor
porations with international inter
ests.
According to an international
business studies publication, more
than 285,000 Texas jobs depend on
the export of manufactured goods.
Mobley said the center isn’t limit
ing its research to China, but is fund
ing 12 different international re
search programs.
“Clearly we are in a world econ
omy,” Mobley said. “The United
States has to be more competitive if
we are going to be significant in
world trade.”
Buyers urged to hold on to counterfeit tickets
AUSTIN (AP) — Authorities are
asking people who bought coun
terfeit tickets to the Farm Aid II con
cert to save the phonies and contact
law enforcement officers.
“We’re not promising we can get
their money back, but the more peo
ple who contact us the stronger the
case we’ll have,” said Mike Simpson,
Travis County Precinct 2 constable
and Farm Aid security chief.
Simpson said 20 victims had con
tacted the Travis County sheriff s of
fice by Sunday. He said as many as
200 people may have fallen victim to
the counterfeiters.
A man, a woman and two juve
niles were arrested Friday afternoon
near the concert site.
They had been selling fake tickets
for several hours.
The tickets were sold along U.S.
290, the highway which carried
thousands of concertgoers to Farm
Aid II.
He said the four were arrested af
ter several people with counterfeit
tickets told law officers where to find
the quartet.
The man was carrying more than
$5,000 when arrested, Simpson said.
The suspects were released with
out being formally charged, Simp
son said, but the investigation is
continuing.
Simpson said if authorities can
build a strong enough case against
the counterfeiters, they could be
charged with a felony rather than
misdemeanor theft.
Simpson said the fake tickets were
printed on slick paper and didn’t
have raised lettering, like the legiti
mate tickets which sold for $20 each.
He also said numbers on the fake
tickets were printed upside down.
Despite the “minor defects,” Sim
pson said the quality of the phony
tickets was generally good.
He said some people who pur
chased the counterfeit tickets proba
bly were admitted.
Most fakes were sold for a face va
lue of $20 each, although a few were
scalped for slightly higher prices, he
said.
Proceeds from genuine ticket
sales went to the Farm Aid fund,
Simpson said. Organizers said
$800,000 worth of tickets were sold,
along with about $500,000 in contri
butions raised through telephone
pledges.
Simpson said counterfeit tickets
always are a problem at large out
door concerts.
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doctor jailed
in porn case
slashes neck
NEW BRAUNFELS (AP) —An
Air Force doctor charged with vi
olating federal child pornogra
phy laws was in stable condition
Monday after slashing his neck
with a razor blade, a jailer said.
Capt. Mark Russell Player, 24,
underwent surgery and was in
the intensive care unit at the Mc
Kenna Memorial Hospital a few
hours after the incident, accord
ing to a nursing supervisor who
refused to give her identity.
Player was arrested last week
and held in lieu of $100,000 bond
on charges of possessing a roll of
35mm color film of a young boy
engaged in sexually explicit con
duct.
Comal County Jail Supervisor
Walt Sumner said a jailer found
Player half-sitting on his bunk at
about 6:30 a.m. Monday.
Player had used a razor blade
to slash his carotid and jugular
veins, Sumner said. A nurse on
duty gave him immediate atten
tion and Player was transferred to
the hospital, Sumner said.
In a federal indictment, Player
was accused of mailing the roll of
film June 2 from San Antonio to
a processing plant in Minnesota.
Texas white-collar workers
face rising unemployment
DALLAS (AP) — Job opportuni
ties practically leaped at Joseph
Sanders III from the pages of Dallas’
newspapers seven years ago, as they
did for thousands of white-collar
workers who swarmed to Texas in
the state’s oil-fed boom days.
But now those ads are thinning
while lists are filling with people like
Sanders — white-collar workers who
are being laid off by both the small
est and largest of companies.
Sanders, a Buffalo, N.Y., building
executive who had worked 22 years
with the same northern company,
hadn’t even been considering a job
change before his Dallas visit in
1979.
But “the ads were incredible. I
had 10 interviews in a week,” he
said.
Hired by a local construction com
pany, Sanders, 51, found a steady
working role in a city where building
was constant.
But today, he’s out of work and
struggling to get interviews.
“I thought it was going to be sim
ple, believe me,” he said.
But after weeks of trying, “you
send out resumes like they’re going
out of style and you get no calls.”
The downturn in the petroleum-
based Texas economy has affected a
much wider group than the rough
necks watching wells shut down. As
oil prices have fallen, the further
downturn in an already soft econ
omy has taken a toll on the financial,
management and development in
dustries.
In Dallas, mid- and upper-level
executives and office personnel are
paying the price along with the his
torically vulnerable laborer'.
The state’s unemployment rate
soared to 10.5 percent in June, and
the six-county Dallas-Fort Worth re
gion’s unemployment rate has risen
from 3.9 percent last spring to 5.2
percent this year.
Texas Employment Commission
analyst Don Johnstone told the Dal-
“I thought it was going to
be simple, believe me .. .
you send out resumes like
they’re going out of style
and you get no calls. ”
—Joseph Sanders III, un
employed white-collar
worker.
las Times Herald that a significant
factor is “white-collar people out of
work who didn’t used to be.”
It’s a trend that has highly creden-
tialed professionals in a number of
fields struggling to make career
changes at reduced salaries, or
straining to get interviews — when
corporate recruiters once flocked to
their doors.
“When I was working, I had head
hunters (recruitment firms) calling
me all the time. Now the same guys
are avoiding me,” said Errol Brous-
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ternational sales manager for Mil-
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service company.
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among executives are those in the oil
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Economic hard times have caused
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Because of a glut of office space
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the prospects just aren’t good for the
immediate future.
“People have begun to cut back on
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You can’t afford to keep people
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$50,000 a year on your payroll.”
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number of unsolicited resumes is
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many cases, their skills are not trans
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