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Space Center move unsure
1,900 future jobs at risk
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP)
— Up to 1,900 potential jobs could
be lost at the Johnson Space Center
if the complete space station pro
gram is moved to Washington as an
nounced earlier, the center’s direc
tor said Thursday.
But Director Jesse Moore said
NASA Administrator James
Fletcher is going to “rethink” the
proposal to move the program from
Houston to Washington.
Fletcher announced last month
that the space station management
center would be moved from Hous
ton to NASA headquarters in Wash
ington.
“He has agreed to come to the
Johnson Space Center,” Moore said
of Fletcher. “He has not agreed to
change anything. 1 did not get any
kind of new commitments out of Dr.
Fletcher, hut I do think Dr. Fletcher
is giving some additional thought to
this structure.”
Moore said Fletcher is expected to
meet with JSC officials July 25.
Moore explained during a news
conference that the estimated total
of 1,900 jobs is based on an assump
tion of how many people could be
hired as the space station program
progresses.
Fie said the $1.4 billion program
is in its infancy and doesn’t expect a
deployment until 1992 or 1993.
Fletcher has said that only about
100 jobs would be transferred to
Washington and not necessarily
from Houston.
The 1,900 potential jobs involve
the systems engineering, analysts
function and systems integration
function departments. Integration
function is the combining of all the
elements of the different space sta
tion sectors.
Moore said he expressed concern
to Fletcher on Wednesday that a
well-structured space station pro
gram might be better kept in Hous
ton.
“We really wanted to make sure
our center expertise here at Johnson
was fully utilized in the development
part and operational part of the
space station program,” Moore said.
He said the decisions handed
down by Fletcher “didn’t have a lot
of details associated with them.
There still is a fair amount of detail
that needs to be worked out.”
The director said he also ex
pressed concern to Fletcher about
the manned system and habitability
area, flight operations, and the dis
tributed sub-systems area.
Explosion
hits college
in Beaumont
BEAUMONT (AP) — A major
explosion Thursday blew out walls
and windows of the administrative
building of Lamar University, injur
ing one person slightly but heavily
damaging the one-story building, a
Beaumont fire department official
said.
“The only reason there were no
serious injuries or deaths is because
there wasn’t anybody there,” fire
Capt. David Hooks said.
The explosion erupted just before
4:30 p.m., Thursday, after gas
leaked from a line in the boiler
room, Hooks said.
Officials were able to plug the
two-inch leak and contain spot fires
within an hour after the explosion
was reported, Hooks said.
He said one person suffered mi
nor injuries but he did not know the
identity of the person.
The explosion apparently also
blew lines in the university’s tele
phone system as he said he could not
reach university police by phone
about the fire.
Brazos Valley SPCA sponsors weekly dog dip
By TRACEY BABER
Reporter
The Brazos Valley Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is
having a dog dip Sunday from noon
until 5 p.m. in the Manor East Mall
parking lot.
A flea dip costs $3, and a bath and
a dip costs $6.
The BVSPCA has sponsored dog
dips every summer since the chap
ter's organization four years ago.
Angela McCoy, BVSPCA vice
president, said the dog dips average
$1,500-1,800 and are the organiza
tion’s sole fund raiser.
The organization bathes and dips
about 50 dogs each Sunday and rar-
_elv turns a pet owner away.
“If the dog is very aggressive to
the handlers or other dogs we will
refuse to dip or bathe the dog,” Mc
Coy said.
Also, puppies under six months
old and dogs over eight years old
only will be bathed.
Owners are asked to bring a leash
to control their dogs.
Money raised at this event is used
to fund the BVSPCA’s Spay-Neuter
Subsidy Program.
The BVSPCA will send a $5 re
bate to anyone who has their cat or
dog spayed or neutered, a senior cit
izen is eligible for a $10 rebate, Mc
Coy said.
The owner is required to send a
copy of the veterinarian’s bill to the
BVSPCA within 30 days.
Regents to consider revision of A&M investment policy
In three days of meetings begin- ceeds from the sale of bonds and re-
ning Sunday, the Texas A&M Board lated bond issue accounts to be
of Regents will consider revising the placed in a common account that
investment policy for the University would permit daily investment and
system. withdrawal.
The revisions would allow pro- The board also will consider es-
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By Karen Kroesche
Staff Writer
With the help of two Texas A&M
retailing experts, the Bryan-College
Station Chamber of Commerce will
present a one-day training seminar
July 29 to help local merchants im
prove their businesses in the face of
a depressed business environment.
Dr. Uarry Gresham, an assistant
professor of marketing at A&M and
a co-presenter at the seminar, says
only the best businesses will survive
in today’s increasingly competitive
retailing market.
“The good retailers . . . will be OK
regardless of the economic climate,”
Gresham says. “It’s going to be the
marginal businesses that are going to
get knocked out.”
Gresham and Dr. George Uucas,
also an A&M assistant professor of
marketing, will speak about trends
in the retailing environment, im
proving advertising and customer
service, and salesmanship.
Beverly Barron, director of com
munity affairs for the Chamber of
Commerce, says that the seminar,
entitled “Planning a Succesful Retail
Strategy,” is a timely one that should
help all types of businesspeople in
the area.
She says that with the economy as
it is, the chamber felt a succesful
strategy seminar for retailing busi
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The seminar will be held in the
Brazos Center from 8:30 a.m. to
noon. There is a $35.00 fee for
chamber members and a $45.00 fee
for non-members.
Barron says the chamber sponsors
several business-related seminars
each year. In the fall they will be pre
senting another symposium on
“How to Do Business with the Uni
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I to complaints about its child support
I guidelines by rescinding its formula
I for calculating the payments.
I Critics said the guidelines unfairly
I based the payments on gross salary,
rather than net, and left too little dis-
| action for judges faced with un
usual situations.
I “We just made a mistake, let’s face
it,” said Justice William Kilgarlin.
i “We want to rectify it. Sometimes it’s
I better to say you were wrong and
; start over again.”
The court will appoint a task force
! to make recommendations for re-
| vised guidelines.
The 1985 Legislature, concerned
■ with a wide variance in child support
payments ordered across the state,
instructed the Supreme Court to
come up with first-ever statewide
guidelines. The guidelines were ap
proved May 19 and went into effect
June 1.
“I got hundreds of letters from all
over Texas, from individuals and
lawyers,” Kilgarlin said. “A majority
of the lay people were certainly
men.”
Included in the guidelines was a
formula for calculating the pay
ments. For one child, it was 17 per
cent of the gross income of the par
ent ordered to make the payment.
For two children, it was 25 percent.
There also were percentages for
cases involving more than two chil
dren.
Dallas lawyer Louise Raggio said
the guidelines unfairly based the
payments on gross income, rather
than take-home pay.
“When it’s based on gross for a
union worker, after he gets through
with taxes and dues he has to pay, he
won’t have enough left for himself,”
she said.
Attorney General Jim Mattox said
the guidelines were good, although
they did have some problems.
“ The court was faced with the po
sition of whether to allow some ineq
uities to take place while they tried to
work out the problems or whether to
rescind them and attempt to work
out the problems,” he said. “I think 1
would have preferred them kept in
place and worked out, rather than
rescinded entirely.”
Mattox said the guidelines did not
adequately take into account the eco
nomic situation of the parent with
custody of the children.
“Seventeen percent is fair some
times and sometimes it’s not quite as
fair,” he said. “The guidelines had
provisions to adjust the support or
der, but the judges felt those
guidelines were so tight they had to
make up reasons to justify it.”
Mattox said statewide guidelines
are needed.
“There are some areas where the
judges do an excellent job, and there
are some areas where judges don’t
do much of anything,” he said.
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