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MO/E
Women slap $100 million suit
against State Farm Insurance
for faults in hiring practices
HOUSTON (AP) — Seven Texas
women on Thursday filed a $100
million suit against State Farm In
surance Co., one of the nation’s larg
est insurance firms, alleging State
Farm’s hiring practices for years
have discriminated against women
and minorities in the state.
The seven, in their class action
suit, accuse State Farm of discrimi
nating against minorities who
wanted to become sales agents,
claims adjusters and underwriters
and reserving those jobs for white
males.
“This is a very valuable job and is
a job that historically was passed on
by nepotism and cronyism in what
g enerally is described as a good old
oys network,” said Guy Saperstein,
an Oakland, Calif, attorney who won
a similar suit against State Farm in
that state last year.
“This case is like that case. It’s
brought on behalf of all women.
And we think it’s representative of
what happened to women in Texas.
There were a lot of tactics used to
discourage women.”
He alleged women were told they
would need a large investment in or
der to become an agent, that the
nighttime work could be dangerous
and that the long hours could dis
rupt their family life.
“None of those statements is
true,” he said. “What’s amazing
about the Texas case is meeting
these women and how it took me
back to California. Their stories are
almost identical to what I heard in
California.”
The Texas case, which stems from
complaints filed by the women in
1980 with the U.S. Equal Employ
ment Opportunity Commission, was
assigned to U.S. District Judge David
Hittner. Saperstein said he expected
I his is a very valuable
job ... that historically was
passed on by nepotism and
cronyism in what generally
is described as a good old
boys network.”
— Guy Saperstein,
attorney
it to go to trial within two years.
Jim Stahly, a spokesman for Bloo
mington, Ill.- based State Farm, said
he knew little of the suit, but insisted
the company had been cooperating
with the EEOC.
“In fact, all along the way we’ve
asked the EEOC to identify those in
dividuals who believed they had
been discriminated against to correct
any injustices there may have been,
but the EEOC has not provided us
with the names,” he said.
“We have a good record in
Texas,” he added, noting that the
company’s Texas region included
895 agents — 126 female and 125
minorities.
State Farm also has 2,337 employ
ees in the region, 1,540 of whom are
female and 929 minorities, he said.
Of 61 agents in training over the
last two years, 40 are either male
and-or minorities, Stahly said.
“We’re pretty proud of that and
quite confident that’s probably better
than most other insurance compa
nies in Texas,” he said.
Friday
INDIA ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 201 MSC for a free presentation^
a variety of entertainment.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more information conlac
the C.D.P.E. at 845-0782.
Saturday
CHINESE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION:will meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Big Sho»
ing Room of the LRD in the Evans Library for the screening of a movie with En
glish subtitles. For more information contact Chong Hsu Liu at 846-6977.
LATIN AMERICAN CATHOLIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION:will meet at 9at
in front of St. Mary's Church for a trip to Lake Somerville. Those intereslec
should bring a lunch. Any drivers would be appreciated. For more inform*
contact Luis at 846-8624.
Monday
MUSIC PROGRAMS:will hold a “Lyric Art Festival Concert" at 7:30 p.m. in Rud
der Forum.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS:will meet at noon. For more information contas
the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
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have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
Legislators want session
open to education bills; Court rules DISD coacll
Clements denies request cannot collect damages
for racial discrimination
Man accused of
running drugs
denied bond
BEAUMONT (AP) — Bond
was denied for a Missouri City
man indicted on charges of run
ning drugs from Houston to San
Augustine for distribution in East
Texas and West Louisiana.
Edgar Price was ordered held
without bond by U.S. Magistrate
J. Michael Bradford following a
two-hour hearing Wednesday.
Price’s attorney, Ralph Marti
nez of Houston, argued that his
client suffers from a back injury
and would not receive the atten
tion he needs in the Jefferson
County Jail.
Martinez also said federal au
thorities failed to prove Price was
a threat to society.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mal
colm Bales said Price was the
pipeline allegedly used first by
Lenard Jackson and then by Wil
lie Rav “Blue Tick” Edwards to
funnel cocaine from Houston to
San Augustine.
“He is the one carrying the poi
son to San Augustine,” Bales said.
Price, Jackson, Edwards and 22
other people were named in an
indictment on charges of conspir
acy to distribute a controlled sub
stance.
Twenty other people were in
dicted Tuesday in conjunction
with a June 2 federal drug sweep
in San Augustine.
Federal authorities accuse
Jackson, Edwards and Dave Hus
band of running three drug oper
ations that supplied cocaine to the
area.
Edwards and Husband have
been detained without bond, and
Jackson is free on an unsecured
$50,000 bond.
AUSTIN (AP) — Two legislators
Thursday urged Gov. Bill Clements
to open the special session to tax and
spending bills for public education,
saying the proposals could be the
only way to avoid court control of
schools.
Clements almost immediately re
fused the request from Sen. Carl
Parker and Rep. Ernestine Glos-
sbrenner.
“That’s a deal that’s much too
complicated and too comprehensive
and so forth to be considered in the
special session,” Clements, who con
trols the legislative agenda, said.
The Legislature in the regular ses
sion approved a $450 million school
finance proposal for 1990-91 that
was designed to equalize funding be
tween poor and wealthy school dis
tricts.
Clements signed the bill into law,
but he vowed to veto any tax in
crease, including a proposed 7 cents
per package increase in the cigarette
tax, which might have provided ad
ditional school funds.
On Wednesday, the Texas Su
preme Court agreed to review
Texas’ system of financing public
schools, which, in some minds, lends
urgency to that issue. Oral argu
ments were set for July 5.
Parker, D-Port Arthur, said he
and Glossbrenner, D-Alice, believe
Clements’ refusal to accept a tax bill
“could very well turn out to be the
most expensive, costly no-new-tax-
session ever, anywhere in the United
States.”
“The price of no new taxes, in my
opinion, is having the courts throw
out our entire system of public
school funding,” Parker told a news
conference.
If the high court should abolish
the school finance system, Parker
said, the Legislature would have to
raise “$3 billion right away to fix the
system all at once.”
Clements said, “I think it is ter
ribly important that the court makes
its view known on this subject before
we then take additional action.”
Parker and Glossbrenner pro
posed spending an additional $378
million on public schools in 1990-91,
with an extra $ 1 billion in each of the
next two bienniums.
To help pay for the school fund
ing proposal they suggested a 10-
cent increase in the cigarette tax,
plus an extension of the professional
fees on lawyers, accountants and the
like; a $2 automobile window sticker
to deter auto thefts; and an aviation
fuels tax, which would be shared by
schools and airports.
The auto sticker, which would in
clude the license plate number,
would be purchased when a driver
renewed the plates.
DALLAS (AP) — A former high
school football coach who success
fully sued the Dallas Independent
School District for reverse discrimi
nation has no right to collect dam
ages from the district, the U.S. Su
preme Court ruled Thursday.
Norman Jett, who was transferred
from South Oak Cliff High School in
1983, has the right to have the case
reviewed by the 5th U.S. Court of
Appeals. But an attorney who ar
gued the case for the district says it is
unlikely Jett will get any compensa
tion from the review.
“There still may be some minor
skirmishes, but in essence it’s over,”
attorney Leonard J. Schwartz said.
In a 5-4 vote Thursday, the high
court ruled that civil rights laws ap
proved in 1866 and 1871 forbid vic
tims of discrimination from collect
ing damages unless they can prove
that the governmental body fol
lowed a “policy or custom” of dis
crimination, rather than the isolated
actions of an individual supervisor.
Jett, who was coach at South Oak
Cliff High School from 1962 to
1983, claimed he was fired from his
job by a black principal because he is
white.
Repeated calls to Jett at his home
Texas, by the A:
were not immedii
HUD to investigate apparent diversion
of $80,000 in housing funds for poor
in Trinidad,
ciated Press
returned.
A Dallas jury concluded jell
the victim of racial discriminaii
and ordered the school district*
South Oak Cliff principal Fredcn
Todd to pay damages, but the
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals mi
Jett was not entitled to damii
from DISD.
“The principal has settled
case,” Schwartz said. “He's alia
been released from the case.!
only question was the school distil
liability.”
Jett said he reached a $75,001)!
tlement with Todd.
But the Supreme Court ruled
spite the fact Jett was the targe
racial discrimination, he failed
prove the school district policial
tered the bias.
“It’s a good case in that now,
standards by which one sues, wl
be the same, regardless of thesis
tion — whether it involves wo®
blacks, or handicapped,” Sch»i
said.
The attorney said he did not
lieve the ruling would have am
feet on the hiring standards of
district, since equal opportunities
required under Title 7 practices
AUSTIN (AP) — The U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development will investigate the apparent
diversion of $80,000 to $90,000 in housing funds in
tended for poor families living in five federally subsi
dized apartments in Austin, it was reported Thursday.
The Austin American-Statesman said the money was
to cover the monthly rental and utility bills of the fami
lies who lived in the 99 units of the housing complexes
known as Interregional Apartments. The apartments
were shut down by the city in September because of
building code violations.
“It may be a while before we can get to it, but it is
scheduled for investigation,” Johnny O. Lee, the HUD
regional inspector general in Fort Worth, said. “Right
now, it’s waiting in line with a lot of other cases. . . . It’s a
question of time and manpower.”
The principal owner of the Interregional Apart
ments is San Antonio investor Benard L. Lifshutz, who
said he was aware that some subsidies had been taken
but he was not involved.
Another partner in me project, who is iisieu as
Chuck McGinnis of Austin in city records, could not be
located, the newspaper said. Lifshutz said he and Mc
Ginnis are no longer business partners and he has not
talked to McGinnis in months.
According to a letter from the city to the HUD in
spector general, the apparent diversion of federal util
ity subsidies took place between August 1986 and Feb
ruary 1988.
Former Acting City Manager John Ware told City
Council members in a memo last year that the exact
amount of money taken was hard to determine because
the owners’ records for those years “are virtually non
existent.”
City staff at the Department of Housing and Com
munity Services, which administers the federally subsi
dized housing program, said they believe the amount
was $80,000 to $90,000.
The department staff first learned of the problem
when Interregional tenants complained that their elec
tric, gas, and water services were being disconnected.
State justice
won’t seek
re-election
AUSTIN (AP) — Justice U
Ray of the Texas Supreme Com
announced T hursday that hew
not seek re-election in 19
that he can spend more time will
his family. He and his wife aretl<
parents of six children.
Ray, 64, also said he is “entli®
siastic about the prospect of o® (
more having a chance to won
from the lawyer’s side of tl*
bench.”
H is term runs to the end
1990, so he will serve out!
term.
Pipeline corporation assures
shareholders project remains
MIDLAND (AP) — Despite numerous financial, le
gal and regulatory problems, the president of a pipeline
company has assured shareholders a billion-dollar pro
ject will go on, according to a published report.
Cecil Owens, president of Pacific & Texas Pipeline &
Transportation Co., has written to shareholders that his
plans to complete his billion-dollar dream of a transcon
tinental oil pipeline from the Port of Los Angeles to
Midland were alive and well, the Odessa American re
ported in a copyright story.
He contends that the project still is on line even
though the last Texas remnant of the company’s $1.6
billion project — a proposed tank farm in Midland —
was auctioned on the courthouse steps last month.
Construction did not begin on the proposed 1,032-
mile project as planned March 1, and financial and reg
ulatory problems plaguing Pacific Texas surfaced
throughout the transcontinental route.
Owens apparently still plans to end the project in
Midland, even though the California-based company
announced in April that it was moving the eastern end
of the project to Jal, N .M.
The southeastern New Mexico town will be used only
as an additional terminal on the pipeline route giving
the company “access to all the existing lines that we
need for the transfer of our crude to other systems at
Midland, Texas, as we have always planned,” the letter
states.
“We are not changing the project terminus only add
ing a terminal,” the letter states.
Pacific Texas vice president Mike Owens also claimed
in April that the state of New Mexico offered economic
incentives to the company, but Lanelda Roily, public in
formation officer for the New Mexico Economic Devel
opment and Tourism office, said Tuesday that no in
centive package had been granted to the company.
Jal mayor Jim Pierson told the American that he has
not been contacted by the company since it initially an
nounced the move.
Cecil and Mike Owens did not return phone calls to
their homes in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Long Beach, Calif.
Pacific Texas, evicted from two offices in Midland
for failure to pay rent, also was barred from its San Pe
dro, Calif., office for the same reason.
But in the letter, Cecil Owens said Pacific Texas
closed its Midland office to consolidate it with an office
in Phoenix. The company also will maintain an office in
the Los Angeles Harbor area, the letter stated.
“These are cost saving measures, but also positive
moves for the betterment and compliance with the re
quirements of our project,” the letter states.
Owens also assured stockholders that Pacific Texas
has secured the necessary permits, but right of way
grants terminated in January by the Bureau of Land
Management have not been reinstated, according to
BLM officials.
Cougar
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mascot, even though it’s been raised
in captivity, is crazy,” Myers said.
School officials are looking at
other options, such as us borrowing
a cougar from the zoo on game days.
Liesl Owens, a senior journalism
major and managing editor for the
Daily Cougar, said the plan to bor
row a cougar from the zoo is not a
feasible one
“It’s ridiculous,” she said.
“There’s no way a zoo is going to
agree to that. I also think it’s ridicu
lous to have a live mascot to begin
with. There’s too much unpredict
ability with a cougar, or any animal
like that.
“Keeping a cougar locked in small
cage, even though she was raised in
captivity and would live the same
way in a zoo, is animal cruelty,”
Owens said. “At least in a zoo, they
would get proper care and the facili
ties are better.”
Each Shasta, dating back to 1947,
has been declawed, but many fear
that taking out the sharp nails does
not a safe-cat make.
Owens said in 1969 Shasta
clawed two children, and thereto
been several incidents which
quired minor stiches sown since
Smith is also concerned with;
unpredictability of such an an®
and the safety, not only for 1
lookers, but people working with
cougar.
Owens said the training fort
gar Guard members is someth 1
less than impressive.
“They don’t have much trait#
she said. “There’s a three-weeh 11
period where members watch I
the trainees work with the coor
They’re on the look-out for p#
who are mature and comfort'
with the cougar by their standard 1
Lance Peterman, a junior polh
science major, said he hopes
school decides to continue with#
mascot.
“Shasta is a sense of pride for
school,” Peterman said. “Shes
portant to us.”
Myers said it’s going to be ate
decision on all parts.
“But maybe we’ve readied
point like LSU did at one time,
said. “Where we have to give
little tradition that most everyh
loves, because change demandsi 1
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