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Thursday, December 22, 1987/The Battalion/Page 7 jobless rates “ state post le change AUSTIN (AP) —Jobless rates Texas showed little change the T month and remain higher r^fSan last year or the traditional c vet ages, the Texas Employment ^ hnimission said Wednesday. ■There is very little change on ©' average,” said John Kruse, ; labor market analyst. “The in story is that Texas unem- Rment rates are still higher al- nost everywhere than a year ago ■ higher than they have tradi- » « iqnally been in this state. IvJn “Some say we have seen the ■st and others say even if we do T^Bworse it won t be much worse. Hink they are saying it has bot- Hed out or close to bottoming 5 ■ which is a form of optimism, slppose, in view of the gloomy me nployment rates.” ■lie unemployment figures for |; Han areas of Texas as an- ilHnced Wednesday by the TEC Vor December, compared with re- /ise<'• November figures (in pa- iertfheses) included: -' Abilene 8.7 (9.0) Amarillo 6.1 (0.4) ^^^lustin 5.9 (5.9) Beaumont-Port Arthur 12.4 “—TlS) ^Brazoria 10.5(10.6) ^Brownsville-H arlingen 14.8 14. > ^Iryan-College Station 0.2 (0.2) I^Borpus Christi 1 1.9 (12.2) IBallas 5.8 (5.9) k jHl Paso 11.1(11.2) Hort Worth-Arlington 6.5 (6.6) ^ ^ftalveston-1 exas City 10.6 11.0) Tlouston 9.7 (10.0) Temple-Killeen 7.7 (7.7) Laredo 16.9 (17.0) ■.ongview-Marshall 1 1.5 (1 1.2) ition Lubbock 6.0 (6.4) g for ■d do* you helpri , a foiiHt tudtc | Media.* e set asiT McAllen-Ed inburg-Mission W.'S (20.7) Midland 10.5 (1 1.1) dessa 14.9 (15.8) an Angelo 6.7 (7.2) lan.TE Ian Antonio 7.8 (7.9) ak.art'Mfyler 9.3 (9.0) Victoria 9.9 (10.2) Waco 8.1 (8.1) Wichita Falls 7.8 (7.9) The statewide average for De- beds (t cetnber unemployment was 8.7 ■cent, compared with 8.8 per cent in November. SA youth arrested in Pennsylvania, linked to drug sale PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) — A 16- year-old San Antonio boy arrested at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport with three handguns and more than $14,000 in cash may be involved in the sale of marijuana in Pennsylvania, police say. The boy was being held Wednes day at a Pittsburgh youth detention center pending a Jan. 30 juvenile de linquency hearing before Common Pleas Court Judge Joseph Jaffe. He was charged with possessing prohibited weapons, possessing si lencers for weapons, possessing a gun without a permit and carrying a gun in an airport, authorities said. Allegheny County Police Sgt. Thomas Miller said the boy and an unidentified accomplice are sus pected of completing a marijuana deal sometime before he was ar rested Friday as he was attempting to board a Trans World Airlines flight to San Antonio. No drugs were found on the youth, but police dogs trained to sniff for narcotics reacted when they smelled the money in the boy’s pos session, authorities said. Miller said records found in the boy’s baggage indicated a deal had been completed recently for 205 pounds of marijuana. Police said they found two .22-cal iber pistols, a 9mm pistol, two silenc ers, a bullet-proof vest, a woman’s gold watch worth $10,000 and an other watch worth $7,000 in the boy’s carry-on and checked luggage. Police said the watches were pur chased Jan. 15 at a Midland jewelry store by two youths, one matching the boy’s description and the other matching the description of a boy spotted at the airport checkpoint. Police said the second youth ap parently boarded the Texas-bound flight in the confusion caused by the boy’s detention at the checkpoint. The boy’s attorney, Michael Hea ley of Pittsburgh, said he came to western Pennsylvania to meet friends and had been in the area for about a week. Healey said the cash came from the estate of the boy’s father, who was slain in October in Mexico and was involved in businesses that in cluded construction, grocery stores and vitamin retailing. “I almost think he wanted to get caught,” Healey said. “He’s really mixed up about the death of his father,” he said. Healey said the boy has no police record, but has been undergoing psychiatric treatment. Former representative quits GOP in disgust WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Rep. Ronald E. Paul, a fiscal conser vative during his four terms in Con gress, resigned in disgust from the Republican Party, saying Wednes day his convictions were shattered by Ronald Reagan’s economic policies. “My struggle has been to mini mize government,” said Paul, a resi dent of Lake Jackson who rep resented the 22nd district near Houston in 1976, then again from 1978 through 1984. “Very early in the Reagan years, I knew it was all or an* to der, ini nic disasj hospiu assisiei " argued at education trial gbandJi' = /clue of more state money it Gaston At’STIN (AP) — Whether more ate money will increase the quality u f education in Texas public schools rmlar ecame a j ssue Wednesday in a 11 Ill! :hool financing trial involving 115 istricts. , “We say that money makes the jfference,” said Rick Gray, attorney 67 property-poor districts that Bithallenging the state’s distribu- lonpf school money under the 1984 hoot reform act. “II a school has more money, it a t> etter job of teaching,” »111 Kray said. Jim Turner, attorney for some of he 48 wealthier districts, said, “l ire (AP date has evidence that no additional causinMollars will buy you a better educa- i natuifionj” jheld* Attorneys have estimated the trial teraprojlljast at least a month, thread State District Judge Harley Clark ommented. “I do think that funds nt otfnt ! iroyided a school district have an ef- threattf 'ecton the quality of education,” he learninflid. “Not the only one, but part of ederal inf” Josion. Dr. Richard Hooker of the Uni- - Fred' ersity of Houston, a school finance expert, was the first witness pre- ;deralRented at the opening of the trial »ct the'Tuesday. He remained on the stand dland h Wednesday. Hooker was asked, from his own parole bbery. experience, whether he could teach as well in a school with a limited bud get as in one which provided all nec essary teaching assistance. “I could not, no matter how many hours I worked,” Hooker said On cross examination, Hooker said Edgewood in the San Antonio school district, one of the original property-poor districts bringing the suit, had an annual expense of about $3,600 per student each year, more than the statewide average of $3,345. He said the San Antonio dis trict had a local tax rate of 56.5 cents per $100 property valuation. Hooker said it would take at least $1,000 more per student to provide a quality education in Edgewood. During questioning, Hooker agreed that Dallas and Houston school districts are considered “rela tively wealthy” and have a better ed ucation standing than Edgewood. The state introduced evidence that the Dallas district spends $3,545 per student, with a tax rate of 53.9 cents per $100 property valuation, and Houston spends $3,589 per stu dent, with a tax rate of 68 cents. O’Hanlon repeated the state’s contention that the amount of state money school districts get is a matter for the Legislature, not the courts, to decide. In a three-page letter of resigna tion sent to the Republican National Committee, Paul detailed the actions and lack of actions that caused him to spurn membership in the GOP. “I guess it’s something I’ve been thinking about for months, if not for years,” Paul said in a telephone in terview. Since Reagan took office as presi dent six years ago, Paul said he has grown weary of ineffective attempts by the Republicans to x educe the size of the federal government. “How is it that the party of bal anced budgets, with control of the White House and the Senate, accu mulated red ink greater than all pre vious administrations put together?” Paul asked. “All Republicans rightly chastised (former President Jimmy) Carter for his $38 billion deficit,” he said. “But they ignore or even defend deficits of $220 billion, as government spending has grown 10.4 percent per year since Reagan took office, while the federal payroll has zoomed by a quarter of a million bu reaucrats.” Paul’s colleagues described him as a fervent backer of a return to the gold standard and a fiscal conserva tive who sought to reduce govern ment activities any way he could. “I think it’s frustration because he thought all this would be solved with Ronald Reagan in power,” said Texas GOP chief George Strake. “Now he’s a lonesome wolf out in the prairie. It’s like trying to form a third party.” Paul called Reagan’s defense buildup of recent years a drain on the economy that won’t provide a shield from aggression, ridiculed the Gramm-Rudman deficit-spending bill as a “gimmick,” and termed the president’s request for a line-item veto a “smoke screen.” “President Reagan, as governor of California, had a line-item veto and virtually never used it,” Paul said. In conclusion, Paul said that Rea gan’s actions have made quitting the Republican Party the only reasona ble thing for him to do, and on that note, he turned in his party mem bership. u ler THETA CHi FRATERNITY SPRING RUSH ’87 TOGA PARTY Aggieland Inn Thursday, January 22 8:00 p.m. for information 696-2685, 764-2922 Domino’s Pizza Presents SUPER SUNDAY 12” 1 item Pizza $4. 95 16” 2 item Pizza and 2 16 oz bottles of Coke® or DOMINO’S PIZZA DELIVERS® ® FREE. 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