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HOUSTON (AP) — Compaq
Computers Qorp. officials said
Wednesday they have rejected plans
to expand into other major U.S.
markets and will accept a local incen
tive package that will help the com
pany create 5,000 new jobs.
Expansion plans for the computer
manufacturing Firm, which was cre
ated in 1982 and last year posted
sales of $1.2 billion, include an addi
tional 1.4 million square feet on 85
acres of adjoining woodlands at its
north Harris County headquarters.
Compaq President Rod Canion
said the company also expects to in
troduce new product lines as its
workforce and production grow.
The company began in 1983 pro
ducing only portable computers,
breaking into the desktop market in
mid-1984, Canion said.
Compaq began construction of
more than 1.3 million square feet of
office and manufacturing space in
June 1986. When Finished in six
months, the expansion is expected to
create 1,000jobs, Canion said.
Plans revealed Wednesday should
eventually create 4,000 new jobs in
the company, including engineers
and software designers, marketing
and sales, accounting and support
staff, Canion said.
“How rapidly we add those people
and exactly how many in which year
will depend on Compaq’s continued
growth,” Canion said. “With our
projected growth rate, we think it
should take about four years.”
Compaq now employs about 4,800
people worldwide, 3,700 in the
Houston area.
Local government and business
leaders hailed the company’s plans
as a boon for a struggling, oil-based
Houston economy. Compaq’s deci
sion to proceed with the $137 mil
lion expansion was made after the
company was offered tax benefits
and other incentives estimated at
$7.75 million.
Houston Mayor Kathy
said she has often touted Comp;
“an example of the entrepren;
spirit that exists in Houston.
“But what you’ve done tot
turn that around a little bit,
Compaq brag on Houston and
people all over the country]
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Dallas council blasts
CBS, cartoon mouse
DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas City
Council Wednesday unanimously
passed a resolution condemning
CBS-TV for airing a Mighty Mouse
cartoon in which the caped super
hero sniffs a light-colored substance,
saying the episode favorably depicts
drug use.
“What else do people snort up
their noses but cocaine,” said coun
cilman Charles Tandy, who is an
anethesiologist. “I know of only one
other thing, and that’s a type of
medicine for asthma, but I don’t
think this was that.”
Tandy, who introduced the reso
lution, said his attention was drawn
to the cartoon while he was attend
ing a medical convention in Chicago
three weeks ago.
CBS officials previously have den
ied that the revered children’s favor
ite was shown using drugs in an
April 23 episode of “Mighty Mouse:
The New Adventure.”
A woman at CBS in New York
said late Wednesday afternoon that
no one was available to comment on
the Dallas council’s unanimously-
passed resolution.
“There has been no release or
statement about Mighty Mouse
within the past couple days that I
know of,” said the woman, who
would not give her name.
The council urged in the resolu
tion that CBS immediately begin
running anti-drug public service an
nouncements aimed at children.
Tandy showed council members
reproductions of cartoon cells in
which Mighty Mouse sits around a
campfire listening to friends’ stories,
then produces a powdery substance
from inside his cape and snorts it.
OfFicials of the American Family
Association first accused Mighty
Mouse of overt drug use last month.
CBS responded with a letter to the
group saying the character was en
joying a pink mass of crushed stems,
tomatoes and flowers that a former
girlfriend had given him. The net
work said there was “no change of
mood or behavior’ after the fiowers
reached his nose.
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