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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.
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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.’’
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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
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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.
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