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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
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^Brazoria 10.5(10.6)
^Brownsville-H arlingen 14.8
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^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)
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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
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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.
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VIEW OF THE DOGANA AND SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE by Michele Marieschi (1696-1743)
oil on canvas, 21.25 x 32.5 in.
Texas A&M University Art Exhibits
presents
Five Centuries of Italian Painting
1300-1800
From the Collection of
The Sarah Campbell Bla^fer Foundation
January 22-February 21, 1987
J. Earl Rudder Exhibit Hall
8:00 am to 11:00 pm daily
Opening Lecture
by
Dr. Carolyn Valone
Chairman, Department of Art History
Trinity University
77ie Language of Renaissance Painting
Rudder Tower, Room 301
Thursdat/, fanuari/22, 1987, 7:30pm
Opening Reception
Rudder Exhibit Hall
Immediately following lecture
Docent guided tours of the exhibition are available by calling 845-8501.
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