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Mayor says bills
should include
affects on taxes
AUSTIN (AP) — Houston Mayor
Kathy Whitmire told state lawmak
ers Monday that legislators should
be required to say how their bills
would affect local taxes.
Whitmire and several others rep
resenting school districts, counties
and cities testified before the House
State Affairs Committee in favor of a
measure by Rep. Dan Morales, D-
San Antonio.
“City goverment and other local
governments all over the state have
been facing a continually difficult
budget crunch these past few years,”
Whitmire said. “And the result has
been an increase in the local prop
erty tax burden.”
Whitmire, who is also president of
the Texas Municipal League, said
additional costly demands by the
Legislature are hard for commu
nities to bear, and contribute to high
tax rates that make it hard to attract
new businesses.
She said legislated improvements
in solid waste disposal, wastewater
treatment, pollution controls, bridge
repairs and other areas create a tre
mendous burden on local taxing en
tities.
“Some of them are very good
ideas,” Whitmire said, but urged
lawmakers to pay more attention to
“which taxpayer’s pocket the money
is going to come out of.”
Committee member Terral Smith,
R-Austin, asked Whitmire if she
thought cities should reimburse tax
ing districts whose rates are affected
by ordinances the cities pass.
“I would imagine we probably
should, but I’m not that sure we
have the ability to affect the other
taxing jurisdictions,” Whitmire said.
Smith said, as an example, that
Austin has a watershed ordinance, a
roadway ordinance and is consid
ering an endangered species ordi
nance, all of which do or would af
fect other taxing entities in the area.
“I think the point I am making is
that those who are going to have to
raise the money ought to be the
same ones making the decision on
whether or not to spend it,” Whit
mire said.
Morales said his bill and a pro
posed contstitutional amendment
came out of the Select Committee on
Tax Equity, which found Texas has
the 10th highest city tax rate per
person, but ranks 43rd in state taxes
per person.
Paper: Application
change won’t lower
welfare rejections
DALLAS (AP) — Some federal
officials doubt that changes in wel
fare application procedures alone
will reduce Texas’ soaring rejection
rate, the highest in the country,
according to a confidential memo
obtained by the Dallas Morning
News.
The newspaper quoted unidenti
fied officials as saying the state’s
high rejection rate won’t come down
unless Texas first hires more case
workers and simplifies rules that are
too confusing for employees to deci
pher.
An estimated 53,000 Texans
could benefit from the changes
which took effect Monday.
But state officials said Texas will
have to come up with more than $35
• million for increased aid and per
sonnel.
The changes, partly the result of a
federal lawsuit, were designed to
benefit people who qualify for wel
fare, but who have been unable to
make their way through complex pa
perwork.
Zeke Salinas, director of manage
ment studies for the state Depart
ment of Human Services, said appli
cants who meet the financial needs
for welfare are often denied benefits
simply because they missed appoint
ments or have been unable to satisfy
the sometimes bewildering paper
work requirements in time to meet a
30-day deadline.
To be eligible for Aid to Families
with Dependent Children, the
welfare program financed by tlJ
federal and state governments, 1
family of three in Texas may earn till
more than $574 a month.
State officials estimate the proct I
dural changes for those applying
AFDC, food stamps and Medicai(|
could result in a 10 percent to]
percent increase in the numbero[|
people on the welfare rolls.
The Legislative Budget Boardev|
timated last year that an increased
1 percent in the approved AFDCci l
seload requires an increase of abo®I
$3.5 million annually in state expen
dilutes.
On that basis, a 10 percent in
crease in cases would costTexas$3i
million.
Even without the additional ap
provals, the budget board predicted
that between 530,621 and 545,®
people — or between 5.2 percem
and 8.1 percent more than last
— would receive aid in fiscal 1
which began Oct. 1.
In the 1988 fiscal year that ended
Sept. 30, Texas rejected about fj
percent of AFDC applicants, mort
than two-thirds of them onprocedu
ral grounds.
The state ranks highest of;
state for the number of rejections.
But the confidential memo
showed disbelief that the changes in
application procedures alone would
help reduce the state’s rejection rate
April 4, 1969 — first
artificial heart beats
HOUSTON (AP) — Twenty years
ago, Dr. Denton Cooley faced a dy
ing patient at St. Luke’s Episcopal
Hospital and performed what he de
scribed then as an “act of despera
tion.”
The medical world and Houston’s
Texas Medical Center haven’t been
the same since.
On April 4, 1969, Cooley per
formed tne world’s first implant of a
Local sheriff to speak at Aggie GOP meeting
Brazos County Sheriff Ron
Miller is scheduled to speak about
prison overcrowding at the Aggie
GOP meeting at 8:30 p.m. Tues
day in 308 Rudder.
Scott Kibbe, a junior journa
lism major and vice president of
programs for Aggie GOP, said
that now that presidential elec
tions are completed, the organi
zation is focusing on issues that
affect Texas voters.
“We want to show that not only
are national issues important, but
state issues are too,” Kibbe said.
“There are few issues as impor
tant to Texans as prison reform
and its solutions.”
Child Placement Center looks for volunteers
The Child Placement Center of
Texas is looking for volunteers to
answer their 24-hour adoption
Help-line.
Help-line wants trained, com
passionate people available to talk
to pregnant women in crisis. Vol
unteers may choose day-time,
weekend or evening shifts.
Help-line also receives calls
from people inquiring about fos
ter parenting, adopting a child,
and other adoption related activ
ities. Volunteers must undergo a
screening process prior to accep
tance into the program.
Volunteers must have good
communication skills, attend a
training class, monthly meetings,
and be discreet and dependable.
For details, call the Adoption
Help-line at 268-5577.
total artificial heart, inserting thede
vice into 47-year-old Haskell Karpoi
Skokie, III. He lived for about fi:
hours on the device, and then re
ceived a human heart transplant. Hf
died a little more than a day later,
Cooley’s troubles were just begin
ning.
He was censured by the Ham:
County Medical Society for “public
ity,” which meant violating the socit
ty’s guidelines about having a physi
cian’s name'Appear in a newsnape
in connection with the name or a pi
tient.
Criticism came from a variety of
sources, but so did praise for p
forming a groundbreaking proct
dure.
Karp’s wife, after initially defend
ing Cooley, later sued him for Jl:
million. She lost the case.
Cooley resigned his faculty pos
tion av Baylor College of
later that year because he said school
officials would not allow him to con
tinue his research on the artifri
heart.
Since those turbulent days in tht
late ’60s, the focus has shifted to tht
development of “partial artificial
hearts” that increase the heart's a
pacity to pump while allowingitlo
remain in place.
T he early optimism that modern
technology could devise a siraplt
substitute for the human heart te
faded. But Cooley’s implant of tht
heart designed by Dr. Domingo
Liotta, an Argentinian physician
doing research at Baylor, provided)
first step.