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Supercollider
maverick bid
gets support
GARDEN CITY (AP) — Backers
of a maverick bid for the lucrative
super collider project voted Wednes
day to press their suit, despite being
bypassed in the state selection proc
ess.
Members of Garden City’s super
collider commission met in the
Glasscock County courthouse to dis
cuss reviving their bid, which had
been voted down June 8, spokesman
Thane Akins said.
A June 8 vote in San Angelo by
board members ended in a 13-10 de
cision against an independent bid
for the federal atom-smasher pro
ject.
But Akins and commission chair
man Ralph McLaughlin of Big
Spring discovered bylaw violations
after the June 8 vote and called
Wednesday’s meeting for a second
vote.
On Wednesday, commission
members did not vote on whether to
resubmit their proposal to the De
partment of Energy, but they did
take steps toward that goal, voting to
accept $50,000 from an anonymous
donor to prepare the site proposal.
Members also voted to investigate
a proposal from an out-of-state pri
vate industry and banking firm that
has expressed interest in underwrit
ing the project and possibly subcon
tracting it back to the Department of
Energy.
Maverick bids have been discour
aged by the state, which has en
dorsed sites near Amarillo and Dal
las for the federal project that will
generate thousands of jobs.
The main issue facing Garden
City advocates now, McLaughlin
said, is an Aug. 3 deadline to get
their application in to the DOE.
The atom-smasher project will in
volve building an underground tun
nel 52 miles in circumference.
Commission members decided
Wednesday to change the bylaws in
order to award ten votes each to
commission member cities Odessa,
Midland, San Angelo and Big
Spring.
Each of four industrial boards
gained one vote apiece and each in
dividual who paid $1,000 in dues
gained a vote.
Tuesday, the Midland City Coun
cil voted to supply $7,000 to the Gar
den City group, said Midland City
Manager Fred Poe. He said officials
hope the bid would be an ongoing
economic development tool for the
area.
The Garden City group originally
was formed for general economic
development as well as capturing the
super collider, he said.
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/v*By signed an agreement Wednes-
|ay to station the aircraft carrier
Btty Hawk here, the final link in a
e ^ orel strategic home ports along
- a P hon l Gulf Coast from Key West to
ina, "‘“Corpus Christi.
The agreement calls for Florida to
Jmtribute $12 million and Pensa-
cor d injola-area governments $1.2 million
sa id ;t oward dredging Pensacola Bay to
ivirted ii Rmodate the large operational
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oj:> A dispute over how the costs
should be split between the state and
rial, h> local governments delayed signing
e store of the plan and prompted Escambia
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ida was ignoring the needs of the
^Panhandle’s western-most county,
lirth >| That talk died down after Florida
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i in "i pficials signed an agreement June
result 10 to bring the carrier here. Officials
in Escambia County and neighbor
ing Santa Rosa County have yet to
make any commitment toward pay
ing the local share.
Keith Eastin, prinicipal deputy as
sistant Navy secretary for ship build
ing and logistics, and Capt. A1 Stew
art, deputy director of facilities and
construction, signed Wednesday’s
agreement in the Washington office
of U.S. Rep. Earl Hutto, a Panama
City Democrat whose district in
cludes Pensacola.
“This was a momentous occasion,”
said Hutto, who called the Kitty
Hawk “the biggest prize in the Na
vy’s Strategic Homeporting plans for
the Gulf Coast.”
He also said the ship, expected to
arrive in the early 1990s, would be
one of the most significant economic
development opportunities the Pen
sacola area has had.
The Kitty Hawk, now based in
San Diego, is to be berthed at the
Pensacola Naval Air Station, replac
ing the small World War Il-era car
rier Lexington. The Lexington will
continue its role as the Navy’s only
training carrier at Corpus Christi.
The Kitty Hawk’s arrival is ex
pected to bring 2,200 military and ci
vilian personnel and 4,800 family
members to Pensacola, Brian
Keeter, Hutto’s press secretary, said
from Washington.
The Navy’s annual payroll here is
expected to increase by more than
$60 million and the ship should gen
erate up to 400 more private jobs in
repair and support businesses,
Keeter added.
The Navy has signed similiar
agreements with state and local offi
cials in other Gulf Coast commu
nities for the homeporting of 27
other warships. The ships would be
scattered throughout the area to
limit losses in case of an attack.
The second major ship of the
fleet, the battleship Wisconsin, is to
be berthed at Corpus Christi.
Smaller ships are planned for the
Houston-Galveston area, Lake
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The Mississippi, Alabama and
Florida ships, including a small
minesweeper that already has ar
rived in Pensacola, will be part of the
Navy’s 15th carrier battle group
built around the Kitty Hawk.
In addition to the state and local
contributions the Navy has been ap
propriated $16.2 million for the
budget year beginning Oct. 1 to
complete the Pensacola dredging,
Keeter said.
He said in the next budget year
the Navy expects to spend $14.3 mil
lion for berthing and pier work.
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