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n
Population boom
declines in Texas
as growth tapers
From Staff and Wire Reports
n,
is growing at
e rate it grew during
about hal
the boom years of 1980-82, and pre
liminary figures for 1986 suggest
growth may be stabilizing, according
to a report released Thursday by the
Texas Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion.
“The state’s population is still gro
wing,” said demographer Steve
Murdock, professor and head of
Texas A&M’s rural sociology depart
ment.
“It grew from 14.2 million people
in 1980 to 16.4 million in 1985, but
the rate of growth has slowed sub
stantially.
“In 1980-81 and 1981-82, a pe
riod of very rapid growth in Texas,
the annual rate of increase was about
3.6 percent per year. But for 1984-
85, the growth rate was about 1.8
percent, or about half of what it was
in the boom years of 1980-82.”
The study shows that 17 of the
state’s 26 metropolitan statistical
areas — geographical areas of
50,000 or more inhabitants — expe
rienced net out-migration between
1984 and 1985. Six of the metro
areas were
declines because
the excess of births relative to deaths
— was not enough to offset net out
migration between 1984 and 1985.
The population trends in the
state’s 254 counties show that 146
counties had population decreases
during the 1960s. By contrast, dur
ing the 1970s only 44 had declines in
population, and in 1980-82 only 41
counties lost population.
The trend reversed in 1982-84,
with 68 counties showing decreases
in their population. From 1984-85,
the number of counties showing de
clining populations increased to 110.
In terms of net out-migration, 180
counties experienced out-migration
in the 1960s, 84 in the 1970s, 57
from 1980-82, 93 from 1982-84 and
147 from 1984-85.
The report said, “Prospects for re
newed population growth at a level
approximating the 1970s and early
1980s do not seem bright. Unless the
state economy makes a rapid turn
around, it appears that the Texas
boom in population growth is over,
at least temporarily.”
Rita Hamm, research associate for
the rural sociology department, said
the slowdown was primarily a result
of the bad economic conditions in
Texas.
Murdock said net in-migration av
eraged about 177,000 people per
year during the 1970s but went to
364,000 from 1981-82. For 1984-85
it decreased to about 101,000 peo
ple.
“Now, about two-thirds of the
growth is from natural increase with
only about a third resulting from net
in-migration,” Murdock said.
experiencing population
cause natural increase —
Even at 1.8 percent per year, the
growth rate for Texas is substantially
higher than that for the nation as a
whole, which has been growing at
about 1 percent per year. One of the
reasons for Texas’ above-average
rate is that its rate of natural increase
has held steady at about 1.2 percent
per year during the 1980s.
The report said there is little
doubt that the slowdown in Texas
population growth is real, extensive
and pervasive. The causes for these
patterns appear to be largely eco
nomic and it seems unlikely that
such growth will return to the levels
of the 1970s and early 1980s until
the Texas economy shows a substan
tial recovery.
In Advance S
Orchestra concert will feature pianist jl^
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By Karl Pallmeyer
Music Critic
The Brazos Valley Symphony
Orchestra will present “ ‘Pic
tures’ for the Ear” and an award
winning pianist Saturday at 8
p.m. in Rudder Auditorium.
Under the direction of conduc
tor Franz Anton Krager, the
BVSO is scheduled to perform
Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at
an Exhibition” and F'ranz Shu-
bert’s “Overture to Rosamunde.”
Pianist Lin Wang will join the or
chestra for Frederic Chopin’s
Concerto No. 1 in E Minor for Pi
ano.
Wang, 18, won the Gold Medal
at the Brazos Valley Young Artist
Competition last month. When
she was 8, Wang had a music tea
cher show her how to read music
so she could begin playing the pi
ano. She received no formal in
struction until she was admitted
to the Preparatory School of the
Shanghai Conservatory when she
was 10.
Wang is one of four pianists
from Shanghai, China, currently
studying music at the University
of Texas under a special program
set up by UT music professor
William Race.
students’ education. LastSepi
bei, four pianists, inclm
Wang, came to study musicurl
Race at UT. Another ChincseJ
dent will join the program]
September, he said.
Chopin’s Concerto No. lj
Minor for Piano was actual!
second, and last, piano cond
he wrote. Both works werto
posed early in his career, buJ
first piano concerto wasn’t f
lishen until after the second
M ussorgsky wrote "PictuteJ
an Exhibition” in memory(
friend, Russian artist Alti
derovich Hartmann. Thecotl
sition was inspired by somtj
Hartmann's drawings. Ti
BVSO will perform MauriceSl
el’s orchestral transcripitonoll
work.
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Princess of Cyprus" was wnsT
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the Chinese to teach music at the
Shanghai Conservatory, savs he
saw several young, talented pia
nists there and wanted to bring
them to America to study. He
worked out a program with UT
to have the school sponsor these
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Speaker to discuss U.S.-Soviet relatta
Can we trust the Soviets? Is
world domination the Soviet
goal? What are the Soviets really
after?
These issues and more will be
addressed at the MSC Political
Forum’s program on U.S.-Soviet
relations to be held Monday in
601 Rudder at 7 p.m.
Ambassador Ralph Earkl
chief U.S. negotiator at tht j
neva Salt II talks and direct: I
the l S. Arms Control and Du I
mament Agency, is the fcatia |
speaker.
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Man calls donations'the real issue'
Tyler evangelist blasts Swaggart
HOUSTON (AP) — Tyler evangelist Garner
Ted Armstrong says Jimmy Swaggart should
stop criticizing fellow preacher Jim Bakker about
his present troubles.
Swaggart should follow Jesus’ command to “let
he who is without sin among you cast the first
stone,” Armstrong said Wednesday.
The evangelist said the real issue behind the
Bakker controversy may be the competition for
donations from TV viewers. He said the two
evangelists are “paying the price for living under
the trappings of power and large incomes.”
“You’ve got to understand that these people
are all competing for the same market,” Arm
strong told the Houston Chronicle. “You can’t
put a price tag on the Gospel.
“The limelight and multimillion-dollar bud
gets of TV evangelism can be a corrupting influ
ence. These people are not above this type of
thing.”
Swaggart, Bakker, Oral Roberts and other TV
evangelists have similar programs and all ask for
donations, something Armstrong said he has
never done during his 33 years on television and
radio.
Armstrong became well-known when he was
the evangelist for “The World Tomorrow” TV
program, but was ousted in a power struggle at
the California-based Worldwide Church of God
in 1978.
Armstrong said he had not read about the
Bakker controversy until Wednesday.
“I never watch those people,” said Armstrong,
Armstrong said he w;
Swaggart initiated an im
the Assemblies of Got
Swauvart and Bakker ar<
“The limelight and multimillion-
dollar budgets of TV evangelism
can be a corrupting influence.
These people (Jimmy Swaggart and
Jim Bakker) are not above this type
of thing. ”
— Tyler evangelist
Garner Ted Armstrong
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Swaggart has denied accusations from
ker’s organization that he attempted totaket
Bakker’s $172 million PTL evangelistic mi®
near Charlotte, N.C.
Armstrong, 57, now president of the Ti
based Church of God International, wasoia
by his father, the late Herbert W. Arms®
nine years ago in a widely publicized dispute
fiscal policies at the Worldwide ChurchofGot iCounty
Armstrong’s father, who died in 1986,«!
him after accusing him of trying to takeow ring op
who still has a weekly, half-hour TV program
showing in 14 U.S. cities. He estimates his total
audience to be far less than the 2 million it was
when he was host for “The World Tomorrow.”
church. The younger Armstrong deniedthti
gations
“The use of blatant, teary-eyed funtka
appeals (by TV evangelists) leaves a vtn murder
taste in my mouth,” Armstrong .said, Tman
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Bush's son: Iran deal causes problems for hi
AUSTIN (AP) — The continuing
controversy over the Iran-Contra
arms deal creates political problems
for George Bush’s presidential bid,
his son said Thursday.
George W. Bush said he fears con
gressional investigations and news
reports might distract the public
from his father’s qualifications.
“The Iran thing has created
enough confusion so it takes away
one of our strengths, and that is get
ting people to see what George Bush
is made out of and what his worth
is,” George W. Bush said.
“What it does, it tends to confuse
voters so they don’t focus on George
Bush’s strengths,” he said. “He is the
best-qualified guy to run the govern
ment.”
The younger Bush is in Austin to
announce leaders of the vice presi
dent’s Texas campaign staff.
He said he worries about Demo
crat-controlled congressional com
mittees investigating the sale of arms
to Iran and diversion of profits to
the Nicaraguan Contra rebels.
“You’ve got to be concerned about
it because the ball is now in the com
mittees controlled by the Demo
crats,” Bush said. “And they’re going
to make as much political hay out of
it as possible.”
Leading Bush’s Texas presi
dential campaign will be Tom
Loeffler, former congressman and
unsuccessful gubernatorial candi
date, and Republican Party activist
Penny Butler of Houston.
Loeffler said the Iran controversy
makes the race tougher but pre
dicted the vice president will win the
1988 GOP nomination.
“We know we have a challenge,”
Loeffler said. “It’s not going to be a
cakewalk. But I know who’s the
front-runner, and I know who in my
judgment is the most qualified man
in America to be president.
“We’re beginning the process of
getting another Texan elected to the
presidency of the United States.”
Saying his father’s main Republi
can competition is Kansas Sen. Bob
Dole, Bush said the southern “Super
Tuesday” primary will be a tremen
dous advantage to the vice presi-
deiit, who also sought theG0f|
iclemiai nomination in 19
More than a dozen southern
will hold their primaries on M* 1
1988, meaning that for tlj 1
time, about half the GOPN
Convention delegates will be
that early, Bush said.
“It’s an incumbent’s dream |
said. “On Super Tuesday,yo"']
16 or 17 primary states on
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money and organize acnq
board for a one-day primary j
never happened before.
“T he people who have !
around the circle once, and tj
pie who have paid their duel
party . . . have got an enoriit*
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