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the heart of the 1988 federal budget
are two paragraphs authorizing the
Federal Aviation Administration to
spend S25 million on a new “indus-
tiial - ’ airport near Fort Worth that
the agency says isn’t needed.
House Speaker Jim Wright, D-
Fort Worth, requested the recom
mendations to fund the North Fort
Worth Airport in a conference re
port accompanying last month’s
$603.9 billion spending bill.
Wright, who has represented the
Fort Worth area in Congress since
1954, contends the airport, which is
less than 20 miles from Dallas-Fort
Worth International Airport, rep
resents a new and innovative way of
using federal dollars to spur eco
nomic development.
“This will be the First industrial
airport, the first airport from the be
ginning designed to cater to man
ufacturing rather than strictly pas
senger movement,” Marshall
Lvnam, Wright’s chief of staff, said.
“The large number of aerospace
and high-tech companies in Fort
Worth and Dallas make this an ideal
location,” Lvnam said.
Under the plan, thousands of
acres of I arrant County pastureland
would be turned into an industrial
park with the new airport — capable
of handling 747 jumbo jets and huge
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The 350-acre airport site would
be donated to the city of Fort Worth
by H. Ross Perot Jr., aeronautical
enthusiast and son of the Dallas elec
tronics billionaire, whose investment
group owns 16,300 acres surround
ing the proposed site.
“(The FAA) had studied the need
for a general aviation airport, but
the city and we fell that just a
straight general aviation airport
would not be an economic boost for
the area, would not bring in new jobs
to the city,” said Rick Salwen, coun
sel for the Perot Group in Dallas.
“The city went to the speaker and
said, ‘Here.is a way to counter some
of the problems Texas has encoun
tered in the past few years,’ ” Salwen
said.
But to get the FAA to move on ihe
project, legislation was needed to
broaden the criteria under which the
agency can commit federal funds to
building an airport.
Hugh Lvon, assistant manager of
the FAA’s airports division in the
southwest region, said in an inter
view earlier this week that there is no
aeronautical need for such an air
port.
“Until now, we have been limited
to do that which has been docu
mented as necessary for aeronautical
purposes,” Lvon said. “This would
require us to build an airport based
on the economic stimulus it would
provide instead.”
Lyon said the FAA had been
searching for 10 \ears to find a site
for a general aviation reliever air
port in northeast Tarrant County,
which he said would cost the govern
ment around S4 million to S5 mil
lion.
“What they elected to do was seek
special legislation to change the cri
teria FAA follows to allow for con
struction of a demonstration project
based on economic development
rather than aeronautical reasons,”
Lvon said.
Scientists attempt to reveal
mysteries of distant planet
AUjSTIN(AP) — Astronomers are
mounting a major effort to unlock
the secrets of Pluto, a mysterious dis
tant planet that is shrouded by meth
ane snow and chilled by summer
time temperatures of minus 378
degrees.
Astronomers said Tuesday that
Pluto remains the least understood
of the sun’s planets, although its
mysteries may yield in the coming
months as the small, distant planet
makes its closest approach to the
telescopes of Earth in more than two
centuries.
Pluto, the most distant of the sun’s
planets, swings to within 2.8 billion
miles of Earth during 1988 and
1989, its closest visit since 1740.
During that time the planet and
Charon, its only known moon, will
eclipse each other while astronomers
watch.
“This is one case where Nature
was kind to us in that we didn’t have
to wait more than a century for the
eclipses,” Richard P. Binzel of the
Planetary Science Institute in Tuc
son said.
Binzel, speaking at a meeting of
the American Astronomical Society,
said that during the eclipses astro
nomers should be able to confirm
the size of Pluto and Charon, learn
something about their composition
and even gather hints about the sur
face features of the small planet.
‘We know Pluto and Charon are
very different from each other,” he
said. “Charon is a much darker body
and Pluto has a reddish tint.”
Pluto was discovered in 1930, but
“This is one case where
Nature was kind to us in
that we didn't have to wait
more than a century for
the eclipses. ”
— Richard P. Binzel of the
Planetary Science
Institute in Tucson.
the planet is so far away and so small
that little was learned about it for de
cades.
Pluto studies intensified while its
248-year orbit carried it closer to
Earth.
Astronomers didn’t discover Cha
ron, which orbits the planet every 6
days, until 1978.
Since then, astronomers have dis
covered that Pluto appears to be cov
ered with a methane snow that is
now melting and evaporating
slightly as the planet slowly ap
proaches its closest point to the sun.
“The methane atmosphere is ex
panding now and is very extensive,”
Laurence Trafton of the University
of Texas said.
Trafton said Pluto is so small that
its gravity is not strong enough to
hold the methane vapor and mole
cules of the gas are shooting out into
space.
Some of the gas is smashing into
Charon at speeds of more than 700
mph.
“Phis may be an example of a
double planet system where the at
mosphere of the two bodies interact
with one another,” said Trafton.
Charon orbits only 12,000 miles
above Pluto, in contrast to the
240,000 miles separating the Earth
and its moon.
Also. Trafton said, the total mass
of both Pluto and Charon is only 20
percent of the mass of Earth's moon.
Pluto is only twice as large as its
moon.
Alan Stern of the University of
Colorado said he and Trafton plan
to conduct a caref ul search for other
moons in orbit around Pluto because
astronomers are puzzled why none
have been seen.
“In the outer solar system, most of
the planets have lots of moons,”
Stern said. “Uranus has about a
dozen and Jupiter has several
dozen.”
Stern said telescopes in Colorado
and T exas will be used in the search
for other moons, and predicted that
“we’ll be able to Find one or to deter
mine that there aren’t any out
there.”
Binzel said the studies during Plu
to's close approach also should be
able to pick out specific surface fea
tures.
He said scientists already know
that dark spots scar the small plan
et’s surface.
Stern said astronomers feel a par
ticular obligation to study Pluto.
“Because no spacecraft has gone
to Pluto, it is the last of the astro
nomers’ planets,” he said.
Federal agents capture suspect
wanted on counterfeit charges
DALLAS (AP) — Federal agents
nabbed a man wanted from Arizona
to Florida on charges ranging from
theft to counterfeiting in a sting op
eration involving 500,000 credit
card accounts.
“It’s good we caught him,” said
Lee Parker, special agent in charge
of the Secret Service office in Dallas.
“He could have played havoc and
done unlimited damage to the credit
card industry if he had used 500,000
cards for fraudulent purposes.”
Janies Albert Lawhorne Jr., 26,
was held in Dallas County jail Tues
day without bond. U.S. Secret Serv
ice agents said thev arrested him Fri
day after he gave undercover
officers a $25,000 check to buy 180
computer discs containing informa
tion on the credit card accounts.
had at least 25 aliases and used other
counterfeit checks to buy everything
from a Porsche to a yacht, agents
^aid.
ie appeared befor
Magistrate William F. Sanderson on
fraud and counterfeiting charges,
Parker said. Sanderson ordered
Lawhorne held pending a hearing
Thursday.
The Secret Service had set up a
sting to catch a man named Jim An
drews who was willing to pay for
credit card names and numbers.
Lawhorne was arrested after the
transaction at a restaurant near
downtown, officials said. The cash
ier’s check he gave agents later was
determined to be counterfeit.
Lawhorne was believed to have
But an agent said the man called
Andrews looked familiar and a com
puter search of crime records con
firmed Lawhorne’s true identity,
Parker said.
“We knew who we had after we
checked the research photo file,”
Parker said.
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Undei the Perot plan, the cin J
Fori Worth would bear alloftheo
erational costs of die airport arl
would provide services. I he state
l exas doesn't have any specifier®
sponsibilities.
Perot would donate the lan
which Salwen said is worth betwei
S7 million and $10 million, andli \
federal government would provia
the funds to build the airport, j
eluding runways, terminal buildic;
and access roads.
“We'll be asking industry entitle
for a commitment at the time tin
FAA gives final approval for ilt
project," Salwen said. “We are hof
ing that final approval comes in it
March-April time frame.”
The congressional report direr
the FAA to “place high priority"
providing $25 million f rom the Fe:p]
eral Aviation Trust Fund for con
strut lion of the airport.
1 he multibillion-dollar trust flirt
is made tip of federal taxes levieda
the airline industry, includingatt
on airline tickets, ami is intended;!
be used to build and maintain th
nation’s aeronautical network.
State economy
shows firm can't
cut the mustard
DALLAS (AP)
— A compam
hoping to cash in
on a Texas tra-
dition with 500 n
rimy dog fran-
chises in five years
has been bitten
by a depressed 1
state economy.
prompting it to seek federalcoun
protection from it;
; creditors.
Visitors to the
State Fair of
Texas had enjoved the weineron
a stick, dipped in
cornbread bar
ter and fried, sine
e its initial ap-
pearance in 1942.
Fletchers Ini
fustries Inc.
tvhich began a m
ajoi conn dug
franchise operaifi
on four vears
ago, foundered w
hen the Texas
economy went bus
t in 1985. ’
“Had all this
happened am
other time or if th
e economy had
got just a little hen
ei. we wouldn't
he doing this.' sail
1 Jack Brennan
Fletcher’s vice pre;
sklent of opera-
tions. “We were
caught a little
overextended this
time out”
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lied for Chap-
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er’s to continue operating while
w orking out a plan to pay its cred
itors. shouldn't affect the family's :
original corny dog stands al ihe i
State Fair, officials said.
Fletcher's Industries, fran-1
chiser of 40 corny dog outlets i
statewide and six in the Dallas
area, claimed $190,000 in losses ;
in a two-month period.
Debts from two recent lawsuits,
strong competition and decline in
sales ended dreams of a nation- ;
wide franchise network, company :
officials said.
"We had everything geared up |
for a rapid expansion that we fell |
was justified by the successes of
the early stores,” Brennan said ;
“Then the bottom fell out. Our
sales started plunging and they i
wouldn’t respond to any efforts
to help them.''
Sales continued to drop and
operating costs cut profits dan
gerously thin, Brennan said. Sales
were beginning to rebound in the
first half of 1987 but never
reached projected levels, he said.
"We thought we- were seeing
the end of the dark clouds for
sure,” Brennan said. “Bui we
w ere wrong. F.verything went the
wrong direction.”
Fletcher’s recently closed four
of its corporate stores. The re
maining stores — including 10
franchises in Texas — are profit
able and there are no plans to cut
back theii operations, Brennan
said.
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