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ber 1,198!f U esday, November 1,1988 The Battalion Page 5 ormosa plant expected :o help high jobless rate &M iwestem Uni- onally recog- m shov :s. The fash- by Charli’s, tyle the hair safety nt and patrol are of com- Stoup said, inking A&M aid. The ste- campus are eople to ne- safety mea- i about pro- 845-1279 or )ay said the pro se. students ba- ssues and to he said, mostly at na- j candidates, local Demo- headquarters /er questions PORT LAVACA (AP) — Formosa lastics Group announced plans Monday build a $1.3 billion production facility at will employ up to 1,700 workers and expected to put a dent in a jobless rate at once hovered at 26 percent. The Taiwan-based company already is a plant at nearby Point Comfort that iinploys 166 workers, but groundbreak- g for a new expanded facility is ex- :cted to begin early next year and will •ovide up to 4,000 jobs during its three- :ar construction phase. Up to 1,700 workers will be hired at icPort Lavaca facility, which will have i annual payroll of $85 million, For- losa Chairman Y.C. Wang told about X) people, including a delegation from aiwan. Wang praised a Texas-size recruit- icnt effort, led by Gov. Bill Clements id Sen. Phil Gramm, that helped him decide to locate the new facility on the Texas Gulf Coast. “Their support moved me a great deal and I am extremely grateful,” Wang said through an interpreter. “There were many other states that would like to have the project in their state and we had deep consideration (of their proposals), but we were moved by the sincerity of your peo ple. “I feel very happy and at the same time I am very, very scared,” Wang said. “I must exert every effort in order that you won’t be disappointed. ” Clements, Gramm and state and area officials said the economic impact for the surrounding community would include 7,800 indirect jobs, $2.3 million annual increase in personal income and a $1.1 billion annual increase in the state gross product. The unemployment rate in Calhoun itate ruling requires uction of Roloff farm ou’ve got aboi that don’t cou pe rcent of tin igh school dispanics don't id. “Obviously id so therefore hat they CORPUS CHR1STI (AP) — The suc- |ssorto the late evangelist Lester Roloff infuriated over a state ruling that calls |r the auction of a 550-acre spread icre Roloff operated unlicensed homes |r youths. The Rev. Wiley B. Cameron said, e church does not belong to Caesar, wuld we render money to Caesar, or nder) redeemed people now able to lalk uprightly and not be a burden to the ite?” The state Supreme Court ruled in Sep- Imber that the church owed taxes to a ical school district after finding the urch had nullified its tax-exempt status allowing a for-profit business to oper- :e on the property. Roloff, a dynamic radio preacher [hose sermons were broadcast through- tit the nation, died in 1982 when his pri- Jiteplane crashed. I “The Farm,” as Roloff called it, is lo- iatedjust outside the Texas coastal city If Corpus Christi on Farm-to-Market 665. The property of People’s Baptist hurch, founded by Roloff in 1951, will auctioned Tuesday at the Nueces County Courthouse to satisfy a $75,250 judgment against the church for back taxes owed to the West Oso Independent School District. Last Friday, the church was about $1,000 short of halting the public auction by paying the taxes owed for 1978 through 1985, plus penalties, interest and court costs. Church and school district officials could not reach an agreement on pay ment of the back taxes. The West Oso school board decided last week that the church must pay the taxes in full. The property includes outbuildings for farm equipment, a guest house, resi dences for about 65 church and school staff members, a school for children ages 3 years to 18 years — and what remains of Roloff s controversial homes for drug abusers. Roloff’s 72-year-old widow, Marie, lives on the farm in the two-story home she once shared with the evangelist, but is reclusive. About 450 troubled youths and drug and alcohol abusers lived in five homes located on the farm, but today only 150 remain in three homes. County once was 26 percent, but has dropped to about 10 percent. “This means more jobs, more growth, more opportunity for our people,” Gramm said. “This is the beginning of a devel opment of a new major industry in Texas and America. This is a good , red-letter day for the state of Texas. ” Gramm said 70 percent of the plastics products will be sent overseas, but the remaining 30 percent will be available to process in the United States and could develop to as many as 100,000 new jobs in the United States. “If you want"to set in a context of things that we’ve all heard about . . . it’s roughly equivalent to terms of the eco nomic impact to a new homeport in Cor pus Christi,” Gramm said. “If we go through the full vertical in tegration, this will become the largest private industry in Texas and will be roughly equal in terms of economic im pact of getting the new superconducting supercollider,” he said, “So we are talk ing about a megaeconomic event.” Texas officials offered tax incentives, help with infrastructure and road con struction and aid in deepening the Gulf Coast channel so exports could be shipped out more easily. Formosa, which started in 1954 with a $670,000 from the U.S. government, now has 14 plants in the United States; most of the products are exported. Clements said the new Formosa plant would be the largest one-time investment by a petrochemical manufacturer in the state’s history and thanked Wang for his decision. “He is the private entrepreneur that we all talk about,” Clements said. The Formosa facility will include eight major plants spread over 600 acres of a 1,500-acre tract and will include an electric plant using gas-fueled turbines. Numerous businessmen said in inter views that announcement of a new fa cility would help merchants, who were struggling in a depressed economy. “There’s a lot of us hanging on,” said Lanny Marshall, who own Marshall Lumber and Hardware. “If this an nouncement hadn’t been made, I’m sure there would have been lots of businesses that would have shut down.’’ : of the reason! irce months In y to spread liii /isiting schools visited Bei ;ton. ranee before pping down s University t« Cabinet, Cavt predominanil an Antonio patrol officers estify in capital murder trial SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Two patrol officers testifying londay in a capital murder trial described the grisly scene tey found after entering a mobile home where four siblings ere hacked to death with steak knives. Leopoldo Narvaiz Jr., 20, is on trial in the April 15 deaths f the three sisters and one brother. The two officers, in separate patrol cars, testified they had nswered the call of a woman who said a man was attacking erfamily about 3:27 a.m. on April 15. Officer Sylvia Saenz said she entered the mobile home on lould striven Cecity’s south side and found the bodies. The three sisters to naked, and there was no evidence indicating they had e is a lifetinK )een sexually assaulted, she said. She testified that the boy had a 12-inch knife sticking in his I let it go tin |eck. The handle had been broken off, according to Saenz. The dispatcher told Patrolman Wayne Swindell that a st work mud every one o' room, reachfi to the higte ever, Cavazos rational potet- lean attendiif ’s got to go oi “As a forme faculty men' would s must mab s, loans azos said. I. educational vledged tW woman called and she said, “My sister’s boyfriend just killed my sister,” according to Swindell. Then the dispatcher said the phone line went dead. The door of the trailer was ajar, and Swindell said a win dow was propped open with a board in the back of the trailer. Beneath the window was an ice chest, said Swindell. He and Saenz knocked at the ajar door, got no response, in dicated they were police officers and then pushed the door open. He saw one victim. “At first I thought someone had fallen asleep in front of the TV,” said Swindell. Saenz walked in closer and saw another person lying on the floor on the other side of the room. Then they saw the boy, whose body was lodged between a couch and chair in the liv ing room. ‘Sex addicts’ existence, treatment questioned LOS ANGELES (AP) — As many as 6 percent of Americans may be so ob sessed with sex it interferes with their lives, but experts can’t agree how to treat these “sex addicts” — or even if they’re addicts. Eli Coleman, a pioneer in the field, isays there’s no question that sexual ad diction exists, and that his patients in clude men who are “masturbating 10 to 15 times a day resulting in physical in jury, hiring prostitutes on a daily basis, (or having) multiple anonymous sexual encounters without any regard to risk of health or commitments to family or relationships.” The concept has become increasingly popular in recent years, spurring the cre ation self-help groups modeled after Al coholics Anonymous. Mary Ann Miller, a psychologist who founded the Chicago chapter of Sex Addicts Anonymous, has estimated that up to 6 percent of Ameri cans are addicts. However, sociologists Martin P. Le vine and Richard Troiden wrote in the August issue of the Journal of Sex Re search that the sex addict theory amounts to “transforming sin into sickness.” “There’s no such disease as sexual ad diction or sexual compulsion,” said Le vine, at Bloomfield College in New Jer sey. “It doesn’t exist. You can’t be addicted to sex. Addiction is a physiol ogical dependency on a substance. ” He and Troiden, of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, wrote that the invention of sexual addiction and sexual compul sion as ‘diseases’ threatens the civil lib erties of sexually variant peoples like ho mosexuals. “Mental health professionals must re main cautious about endorsing concepts which may serve as ‘billy clubs’ for driv ing the erotically unconventional into the traditional sexual fold,” they cautioned. While not addictive in the chemical “It’s their sense of worthlessness that sense, this kind of behavior is patholog- pushes them to engage in sexual behav- ical and self-defeating, said Coleman, a ior that violates their values,” Levine psychologist in the University of Minne- said. “If you remove that behavior, you sota Medical School’s human sexuality remove the only comfort or antidote they “It’s their sense of worthlessness that pushes them to engage in sexual behavior that violates their va lues .... if you’re engaging in behavior that tradi tionally has been defined as sin, transforming it into a disease absolves you of any moral failing.” — Martin P. Levine, sociologist program. “These individuals display hy persexuality in response to feelings of anxiety, depression or loneliness. Many describe a sexual act as a ‘fix’ to some very negative feeling,” he said. “But this relief is short-lived and negative feelings recur.” Dr. Theresa Crenshaw, a San Diego physician and sex therapist who served on President Reagan’s AIDS commis sion, said the sex addicts she treats want help. “They don’t like the behavior,” she said. “It is not ordinarily a diagnosis superimposed from the outside . . . “It’s a compulsive behavior pattern the person continues to repeat in spite of disruption to marriage or primary relationships, in spite of self-disgust,” she said. Levine said self-help groups like Sex Addicts Anonymous and Sexaholics Anonymous simply try to stop the sexual behavior and don’t deal with the underly ing problem for those who are unhappy because their frequent sexual behavior violates moral standards. have for their misery. ” Coleman said he and other sexual ad diction therapy pioneers agree that un derlying feelings of worthlessness must be treated, and that none of them advo cate simply suppression of sexual behav ior. “There is no unanimity of treatment,” he said. “Some view this as a psychiatric conditon and treat it with medications. Others treat it with psychoanalytic or be havioral therapy. Others adapted the methods of treating alcohol addiction.” Levine said the sex addiction-compul sion concept “appeals to most Ameri cans because ... if you’re engaging in behavior that traditionally has been de fined as sin, transforming it into a dis ease absolves you of any moral failing.” Coleman insisted that sex addicts who seek treatment are accepting responsibil ity, and self-help groups do not relieve them of responsibility, but they do try to relieve them of shame. ' msmiiM./fiiiiim illllfl MllfUlf ■ . TIME: 8 :00 P.M. DATE; TUESDAY, NOV. 1 Ill U. PLACE: HO HECC . { U )) PROGRAM: DR. ZENAIDO CAMACHO ■ ^ BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE : TIME FOR A RESUME Kinko’s can help you prepare for your future. We have a wide range of papers and envelopes to give your resume the professional look it deserves. kinko's Great copies. Great people. 201 College Main 846-8721 How Can A Nuclear Holocaust Be Avoided? 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