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Young Conservatives
(AP) — Republican presidential
candidate George Bush pressed for
more aid to the Nicaraguan Contras
on Monday while Paul Simon said
the lack of a “celebrity star” has kept
the Democratic race muddied.
Bob Dole, the Senate minority
leader and Bush’s chief rival for the
Republican nomination, called the
U.S.-Soviet arms treaty “a milestone
achievement” despite his early reser
vations.
The Democratic candidates, ex
cept for Bruce Babbitt, were gather
ing in Boston for another of their
traveling road show debates — this
the third in as many days.
Babbitt temporarily halted cam
paign activities following the death
Sunday of his 89-year-old father and
returned home to Arizona.
New polls in Iowa and New
Hampshire, the early delegate-con
test states, showed the races still
heavily divided but with support for
Gary Hart dropping.
In New Hampshire, Hart dis
missed questions about polls showing
he’s lost half his support in Iowa in
recent weeks.
“I’m still ahead of where I was
four years ago,” Hart said.
Bush appeared before high school
students in Berlin, N.H., and said
the United States should keep pres
sure on Nicaragua’s Sandinista gov
ernment by continuing to aid the
Contra rebels.
“If you take the pressure off, the
Sandinistas will go back and do what
they have been doing,” he said, cit
ing press censorship and the lack of
free elections.
Referring to Nicaraguan leader
Daniel Ortega’s recent concessions,
including lifting the state of emer
gency, Bush said, “I’m very skeptical
about Ortega’s intent.”
Simon campaigned in Portland,
Maine, where he offered an expla
nation for the polls showing several
candidates clumped together tightly
in Iowa.
“It’s understandable people have
not chosen yet,” the Illinois senator
said. “There is no celebrity star
among the top three in Iowa today.
People are still sorting it out and we
have to get the message across.”
Rep. Richard Gephardt, Simon
and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Du
kakis were running a dead heat in
the latest Des Moines Register poll of
Iowa. Gephardt had 19 percent, Du
kakis 18 and Simon 17 percent — a
statistically insignificant separation.
Hart had fallen to 13 percent, Jesse
Jackson had 1 1 percent and Babbitt
10 percent.
Dukakis was leading in his neigh
boring state of New Hampshire with
37 percent in the latest Los Angeles
Times poll, followed by Simon at 19
percent. Moving up strongly was
Babbitt, to third place with 13 per
cent. Other Democrats, including
Hart, were in the singiedig;
Dole, the Republican lead;
Senate, delivered a strongt
ment of the treaty to elm
mediate-range nuclear i
tification hearings began]
Senate Foreign Relations (
tee. He referred to the prod
received f rom Bush to sunj
pact and said his earlier 1
was due to his study of the j
viet agreement.
“There’s a lot of sugges
the Republican leaders sb
on board,” Dole said. "IfelJ
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few days to make ourownc
dent investigation.
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think I can say ... it’s a go
Dole said, adding that
treaty is a milestone achieve
Dole leads the six-man (
in the latest polls in IokJ
holds caucuses Feb. 8. BiiJ
the Republican polls in Nnj
shire, where the nation’s f
mary will be held Feb. 16.
Republican Jack Kempo
to hammer away at Doleonj
cial Security issue and said]
Moines he wanted to dek|
Kemp has accused Dole old
ing Social Security taxesandi
fit freeze; Dole says he wa.' |
make the Social Securitysra
Boulter confident,
gains state support
for Senate position
Guest Speaker:
Ambassador H. Eugene Douglas
Former Amb.-at-Large for Refugee Affairs,
and LB J School of Political Affairs
Wednesday
First Spring '88 Meeting 7:00 pm MSC 203
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
Beau Boulter of Amarillo said Mon
day he is picking up support from
within the Texas Republican Party
despite GOP challenges to his run
for the U.S. Senate against Demo
crat Lloyd Bentsen.
The Panhandle Republican said
the money is coming in at a rate of
$4,000 per day from across the state,
particularly from West Texas, and
that a growing number of leaders
within the GOP’s presidential cam
paigns are backing him.
“The Bush and Dale folks want to
beat Lloyd Bentsen, as do the Kemp
and Robertson people,” he said.
“And those people think that a sit
ting congressman on the budget
committee has a better chance to do
that than a Houston businessman
who’s never held office or a former
state representative.”
Others seeking a chance to go
against Bentsen from the Texas Re
publican Party are Milton Fox, a for
mer state representative from Hous
ton, Ned Snead, a Georgetown
businessman, and Wes Gilbreath, a
Houston businessman.
Boulter listed several state GOP
officials as having signed on as mem
bers of his steering committee, in
cluding Diana Denman, state party
vice chairman, Fran Chiles, national
committee member, Kay Danks,
party secretary, and Henry Santa-
maria, party treasurer.
State GOP Chairman George
Strake has thus far remained neu
tral.
“I’m not after the Robertson seg
ment, I’m not after the Dole seg
ment, I’m not after the Bush seg
ment,” Boulter said. “I’m after all of
them, and the leadership in each of
these campaigns, the grassroots
leadership. And we’re having not
100 percent success, but well over 90
K rcent success . . . of the people I’ve
en in contact with.”
Boulter said he feels those people
newly attracted to the Republican
primary because of Robertson’s can
didacy are people who naturally will
vote for him because he is pro-life
and agrees with them on other
moral issues.
On the financial front, Boulter
said money has been flowing from
across the state, but he had no idea
how much. He mentioned fund-rais
ers set in the near future in Dallas
and Houston and said numerous
party officials are helping raise
money.
“We are getting some maximum
contributions, but most of our con
tributions are coming in in smaller
amounts,” Boulter said. “The thing
that most pleases me is that it is com
ing in from working people and
small business people.
“My financial base in the state is
going to be from people who can’t
afford to give $1,000.”
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DALLAS (AP) - Doit
poured in Monday to liel|
family of slain police office!
Chase and to transport
leagues to Wednesday’s fc
in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Greater Dallas C
Commission gave Chasesfi
a check for $ 10,000, and A
can Airlines offered ajetto
ficers and family members!
funeral.
Dallas billionaire H. Ross
and oilman Ray Huntoft
planes so the officers canal
the funeral. Greyhound
Inc. will provide a bus,ol
announced at a newsconft
Monday.
A limousine company oi
its services to the officer’s
while in Dallas, and a
store chain paid for bumper
ers with a thumb up tha
Support our Police.”
Motorists throughout
drove with their lights on
day in a show of support fe|
police department. A mem
service for Chase is scheduld]
today in Dallas, and a candl
vigil is planned for tonij
front of City Hall. A rai
planned at City Hall for Sum
Chase was killed Saw
morning when a homeless
wrestled his gun away and
him in the face as he pleade(|
his life.
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Restaurant owner sells busine!
to become city health inspectoi
FREEPORT (AP) — For two years
beginning in 1983, Jo-Ann Proctor
owned a fried chicken restaurant on
Brazosport Boulevard and, like all
food establishment operators, spent
days dreading an appearance by the
city health inspector.
That universal anxiety was mixed
with a good share of annoyance. In
the short time she served wings, legs
and thighs to the public, four differ
ent inspectors passed through her
doors.
“They never were able to develop
a relationship with business people,”
Proctor said. “You had made the
changes the first inspector said, then
another would want something
else.”
What she saw amid the different
faces rating her livelihood was an
opportunity to improve her home
town. Proctor, 38, knew she could do
the job and do it better.
The former office manager and
bookkeeper sold the food stand.
From there, she began a series of
training procedures which put her
on the other end of the stick, in the
hot seat as the city’s 10th health in
spector.
She admits the profession leaves
her scatterbrained as it stretches in
every direction and can take too
much paperwork and court time be
fore something is accomplished.
“I love it. You’re steadily learn
ing,” she said. “I love knowing all the
business people, knowing what their
problems are and working together
to solve them.”
It is a job that never ends. Last
Drilling rigs exploring for oil,
gas drop again in America
HOUSTON (AP) — The number
of oil and gas drilling rigs working in
the United States dropped again last
week, falling by 28 to total 1,026,
Baker Hughes announced.
The previous week, the count had
dropped by 48 to 1,054.
A year ago, the rig count totaled
837, Houston-based Baker Hughes
announced Monday.
Baker Hughes’ count reflects the
number of rigs working as of Friday.
The Houston-based oil toolmaker
tallies the number of rigs actively ex
ploring tor oil, and not rigs produc
ing oil.
The rig count is a widely-watched
industry index of drilling activity.
In December 1981, at the height
of the oil boom, the count reached a
peak with 4,500 active rigs.
But in the summer of 1986, the
rig count fell to 663 — the lowest
since Hughes began compiling fig
ures — as oil prices plunged to less
than $10 per 42-gallon barrel.
Among major oil producing
states, Texas had the biggest decline,
losing 19 rigs.
year, Proctor was in chargfj
specting the I 10 bars, restail
bakeries, convenience storesf
stands, day-care centers and lf|
tablishments in Freeport.
When the pile of residenij
plaints on her desk dwindled
isfactory level, she does codl
forcement work such as cori
owners to keep up abandonedj
erty and automobiles, resiof
lots, stagnant water and garaj?|
signs on city easements.
Recently it has become Mi
since the city is wading thrpiil
code of ordinances to update! 1
lions unchanged since 1962 '
of information sits on herdtj
help in conforming the codes'
places, such as retail seafoodk
don’t have governing codes,!
ing Proctor to start from scratdj
“The job is overwhelming 11
step back,” she said. “When'
bogged down in it, it isn’t sot
Three days after Proctors J
day on the job, Freeport recei' l
first dead fish complaint wh f i
entire Gulf Coast was assaul! f |
the toxic red tide.
For the next six months |
learned how to take and check'
samples for traces of the
plankton.
“The biggest part of myj 0 }
getting the mess cleaned up
said. “All those dead fish have 1 !
somewhere.”
Along the way have been I
1,000 written inspections, ""
doned vehicles, 496 calls on
weeds and 362 miscellaneous
On average, she makes about'*
inspections per day.