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Oil PACs give
most money
to Texans
WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil in
dustry campaign contributions have
grown to more than $1.2 million so
far this year, and Texans lead the list
of recipients, records indicate.
Senate Finance Committee Chair
man Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, has
received more money — $159,525,
or about 13 percent of the total —
from oil industry political action
committees than anyone else in Con
gress, according to Federal Election
Commission records.
Speaker Jim Wright, D-Fort
Worth, with $23,500, and Rep. Joe
Barton, R-Ennis, with $22,500, rank
First and second on the House list of
oil-PAC money recipients, a study by
the Harte-Hanks Newspapers’
Washington bureau shows.
Vice President George Bush has
received $33,800 in oil money, more
than the $30,725 garnered by all his
presidential rivals combined, the
study shows.
The money apparently is paying
off on legislation that would help re
vitalize the oil industry, which is reel
ing from the 1986 price slide, the
Harte-Hanks bureau found.
Sixteen of the top 20 oil-PAC
money recipients — and nine of the
top 10 — in the Senate voted for a
repeal of the Windfall Profits Tax
this year, records show.
The repeal, which oil producers
have sought for years, passed 58-40
and now is in a House-Senate con
ference committee.
The oil lobby was less successful
on Bentsen’s proposal for a 50 per
cent cap on oil imports, which was
defeated 55-41.
But 11 of the top 20 Senate oil-
PAC recipients voted for it, while
nine opposed it.
Meanwhile, the top 10 recipients
in the House have sponsored or co
sponsored more than 50 bills that
would benefit oil producers.
“What the oil industry is doing is
buying access and votes,” said Craig
McDonald, director of Congress
Watch, an organization that mon
itors PAC money contributions and
their influence. “That ($1.2 million)
is a pretty good share of money.”
Texans are not the only recipients
of oil contributions. The 112 oil
PACs representing organizations
which have a full or partial interest
in oil and gas operations have con
tributed to 381 different members
of Congress and four presidential
candidates, according to the study
which covers campaign reports up to
Aug. 1.
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Cadet Ward Miller, a freshman biology major
from Philadelphia, Pa., introduces himself by
“whipping out” to senior Corps member Re
Heau, a computer science major from Houston
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Business gives elderly chance
to resume work after retiremer
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DALLAS (AP) — At age 67, with a
long, hard life of house-painting be
hind him, Ray Yates might be ready
to scale back into a rocking chair on
a ohady front porch somewhere.
Yates doesn’t see it that way. In
fact, he’d rather hawk hot dogs on a
100-degree sidewalk than rock away
his life.
“I’ve never been the type to quit,”
he says. “I just can’t sit around at
home all the time. I figure if I quit, I
won’t live much longer.”
So the lifetime Oak Cliff resident
hooked up with Hot Diggity Dog
Inc., a fledgling company that makes
hot dog vendors out of elderly and
handicapped people who can’t find
work elsewhere.
Yates says Hot Diggity Dog might
keep a lot of people like him off
front porches.
Hot Diggity Dog founder Scarlett
Rabalais says that’s the idea.
‘We want to put the elderly back
sip
handicapped,” says Rabalais, who lo
cates her hot dog stands at area
Sam’s Wholesale Clubs. “We’ve got
two stands and seven employees
right now and we have plans to open
stands in Oak Cliff and Grand Prai-
Rabalais says she got the idea for
the business in May, after her 52-
So Rabalais and her husband, A1
Rabalais, took their idea to Benton-
ville, Ark., the home of Wal-Mart
Stores and Sam Walton, the richest
man in the United States, according
to Fortune magazine. A1 Rabalais
says they never got to talk to Walton,
but Wal-Mart representatives gave
them permission to open their first
“JVe never been the type to quit. I just can’t sit around
at home all the time. I figure if I quit, I won’t live much
longer. ”
— Ray Yates, 67-year-old hot dog vendor
to work and help find jobs for the
year-old stepfather suffered a heart
attack and couldn’t find work.
“He worked for 22 years for that
company, and they retired him after
the heart attack,” she says. “And
with his age and health history, he
couldn’t find another job.”
hot dog stand July 3 at the Sam’s
Wholesale Club in east Dallas.
The second stand opened July 31
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in northwest Dallas and Scarlett Ra
balais hopes more will open in
Texas. Kelly Taylor, Hot Diggity’s
training manager, says the ;•
are instant hits.
“With our prices ($1.50 for ' '
and a Pepsi), we do real well
Taylor, 18. “Senior citizens af ■
azingly helpful, and they can
themselves. It’s really sad wher
can’t keep the things they’ve"
for all their life.”
T he Rabalaises, who dr ;
apartments and condominiuf'
Texas, California and Utah,jii'||
about $22,000 in Hot Diggity
it started. They also negotiatj
deal by which they buy all their
plies from Sam’s, and Wal-Maf
a cut of the profits.
Scarlett Rabalais says the
isn’t important.
“The critical thing,” she say
creatingjobs for these people.
To qualify to work for HotDi ’
Dog, a worker has to be at M
years old or have some sortofla
icap. Yates says the job is tailortfl
for older people.
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