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AUSTIN (AP) — One of the nation’s largest produc
ers of computer memory chips, Micron Technology
Inc., is considering building a manufacturing plant in
Texas, it was reported Monday.
The Boise, Idaho-based chip maker has focused its
attention on the Bryan-College Station area, although
officials say other Texas cities also are being consid
ered, the Austin American-Statesman reportedf.
State travel records show that Micron officials met
for two days in Bryan in May with William Lauderback,
executive director of the Texas Department of Com
merce, and other economic development officials.
Micron officials also have discussed the project with
Austin development officials and representatives of
other Texas cities, unnamed sources told the newspa
per.
Micron is one of only three American companies to
make dynamic random access memory chips, or
DRAMs. The devices, which can hold millions of pieces
of information on a half-inch piece of silicon, now are
part of nearly all personal computers, facsimile ma
chines and laser printers.
The United States led the world in DRAM produc
tion throughout the 1970s, but since has lost 90 percent
of the market to Japanese companies. Currently, Mi
cron, Texas Instruments Inc. and Motorola Inc. are the
only U.S. companies to produce DRAMS in volume for
resale.
Kip Bedard, a Micron spokesman, confirmed that
the company has looked at Texas sites but declined fur
ther comment.
“We are still exploring the options on where the next
facility will be built,” Bedard said. “We’re in the early
stages of planning.”
Phil Brewer, the state Commerce Department’s na
tional business development director, also declined de
tailed comment.
What s Up
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STUDENTS OVER TRADITIONAL AGE (SOTA): will meet at 7 p.m. in 704Ryj
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CATHOLIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary;
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“Things look to be going positively,” he said. “It’s a
project that’s in the mill and that’s about all I can say.
They have asked for extreme confidentiality on this
project.”
Micron has 2,900 employees and reported annual
sales last year of $300 million.
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Dr. Michael Burditt of Victoria
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ous, not only to every physician, but
to every patient, also,” Burditt said.
“My concern is the effect of the deci
sion for every doctor and for every
patient in this country.”
Administrative Law Judge
Charles E. Stratton had ruled that
Burditt let his fear of a malpractice
suit cloud his judgment when he or
dered a poor, sick woman who was
about to give birth transferred to an
other hospital 160 miles a-
way.
“We’re going to be fearful of
transferring patients in the future,”
Burditt said at a news conference
Monday. “It will severely limit any
patient’s access to needed technol
ogy, or physicians who are accus
tomed to using that technolo
gy-”
Burditt also raised concerns about
doctors in rural areas.
“I would be scared to death if I
was practicing in a rural setting,” he
said. “I would be concerned I’d get
over my head and lose a patient for
lack of being able to transfer the pa
tient to needed technology or a bet
ter-trained physician.”
Burditt was chief of DeTar Hospi
tal’s obstetrical department when
Rosa Rivera showed up at the Victo
ria hospital’s emergency room on
Dec. 5, 1986. Her blood pressure
was a dangerously high 210 over
160.
Burditt was called by phone to
treat the indigent woman, but told
nurses the patient “sounds like more
than I can handle,” and he “did not
want to take care of this lady.” Bur
ditt said she should be transferred to
a better-equipped hospital in Galves
ton.
Burditt drove in, examined her
and ordered the transfer despite the
objections of nurses who feared it
would violate the then-new law
against patient dumping. The law
specifies that hospitals must treat pa
tients in medical emergencies or in
active labor.
Burditt said he would choose his
patients until DeTar, a private hos
pital, paid his malpractice premi
ums. But he also stayed to deliver a
baby of another poor, uninsured
women who was seven months’ preg
nant and bleeding.
Rivera bore a healthy 6-pound
baby boy in the ambulance parked
on the roadside 40 miles east of Vic
toria. She and the baby were]
turned to DeTar, where
doctor treated them.
DeTar, which nearly lost itstj
bility for Medicare funding,
$5,000 fine after an investigation!
the Dallas regional office of diet
partment of Health and Hti
Services.
Burditt’s attorney, Edward
nem, said they first will try an
ministrative appeal, but will
help in a federal court, if
sary.
Ganem said Stratton’s 42f
opinion gave scant consideration
testimony by Dr. Burditt andi
nesses at a five-day hearing in Vi
ria.
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AUSTIN (AP) — Austin voters’
decision to build a $69 million con
vention center is a message that they
are tired of economic stagnation and
willing to do something about it,
supporters say.
“The voters said, ‘Hey, we’re not
g oing to sit around and stick our
eads in the sand and bemoan how
bad the economy is. We’re going to
do something about it,’ ” said Allen
Kaplan, a political analyst who
worked on the convention center
campaign.
“It sends a very positive signal that
Austin is not giving up on itself,”
Kaplan said.
Austin residents on Saturday
OK’d building the downtown con
vention center by a margin of 56
percent to 44 percent.
Backers of the convention center,
including the mayor and other city
government leaders, touted its tour
ist-drawing aspects. That message
got through, said Jim Butler, direc
tor of the city’s economic devel
opment commission.
“People are realizing that tourism
is as good an industry as we are
going to find to try to bringjobs and
money to Austin,” Butler said.
The convention center election
followed a vote to build a new, $728
million airport near Manor that will
replace Robert Mueller Municipal
Airport, located about 5 minutes
from downtown.
“I think people decided to look
beyond past problems and take a
risk, to look beyond all the hard
Strike-bound Eastern loses $129 million
DALLAS (AP) — Eastern Airlines
lost $129.3 million in the second
quarter as the strike-bound carrier
ate up profits generated by other
Texas Air Corp. subsidiaries, the
company said Monday, giving the
nation’s largest airline holding com
pany a $109.3 million deficit in the
second quarter.
Revenues at Houston-based
Texas Air declined from $2.13 bil
lion in 1988’s second quarter to $1.4
billion in the latest period, reflecting
the virtual shutdown of Eastern last
March.
Losses in the 1988 period were
$255.9 million. Some of that also was
attributed to Eastern, which was op
erating although losing money.
The news did little to Texas Air’s
stock price, which dropped 12.5
cents to $16.25 in heavy trading
Monday on the American Stock Ex
change.
off all debts, including refunding
customers the price of tickets that
weren’t used because of the strike.
The airline said it has exceeded its
early goals on revenue passenger
miles and available seat miles and
has surpassed projections on load
factor, boardings and flights.
Eastern’s $129.3 million loss in the
quarter ended June 30 came on rev
enues of $89.6 million and included
a $250 million gain from the sale of
its Northeast shuttle service to Don
ald Trump. The loss does not in
clude a $11.3 million charge for pay
ments to preferred stockholders.
In the same quarter last year, East
ern lost $89.8 million before a pre
ferred stock payment of $14.2 mil
lion on $1 billion in revenues.
So far this year, Eastern has a net
loss of $384.5 million on revenues of
$710.2 million, compared to $120.8
million on $2 billion in revenues in
the first half last year.
Houston-based Continental Air
lines, Texas Air’s other major sub
sidiary, posted a net income of $32.1
million on revenue of $1.3 billion in
the quarter. That compares with a
net loss of $ 150.9 million on $ 1.1 bil
lion in revenues in the same quarter
last year.
In the first half, Continental —
which itself emerged from
ruptcy in 1986 — had net incomei
$15.6 million on $2.5 billion ind
nue, compared with last yen]
$231.5 million loss on $2.2
revenue.
Last year’s results include a ill
million accounting charge again]
Continental’s income.
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times we’ve had,” Mayor Lee Cooke
said.
Miami-based Eastern, which
Texas Air bought in 1986, filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
from creditors on March 9, five days
after machinists and pilots went on
strike. Since then, efforts to sell the
airline have fallen through and
Texas Air has filed plans to resur
rect the carrier as a much smaller
company.
GRAPEVINE (AP) — Two American Airlines flights
had problems leaving Dallas-Fort Worth International
Airport on Sunday, with one flight aborting its takeoff
ancl the other returning after a cockpit indicator light
came on, officials said.
No one was injured in the two incidents, which oc
curred about nine hours apart, and such emergencies
were not unusual, said DFW spokesman Angel Biasatti.
More than a dozen such incidents occur at the airport
every month, she said.
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The bonds for the convention
center project are expected to be
sold in early October, then the city
will buy land for the project. The
mayor has said he hopes to break
ground on Dec. 27, the day Austin
celebrates its 150th birthday.
The convention center will consist
of 100,000-150,000 square feet of
exhibition space. Considering time
needed for land purchase, design
and construction, the convention
center would not be operational be
fore mid-1992.
“We are steadily building our op
erations and, notably, our customer
base,” Eastern President Phil Bakes
said. “We are more confident each
day that Eastern will be well posi
tioned to enter the next decade as a
revitalized, financially healthy major
airline.
Off-duty Dallas police officer wounds suspect
“We anticipate emerging from
bankruptcy by the end of 1989,” he
said.
Eastern filed a bankruptcy plan
on July 21 which anticipates paying
DALLAS (AP) — An off-duty
Dallas police officer shot and
wounded a man who apparently fled
from another officer after his car
was stopped on an East Dallas street
Monday, police said.
Officer M.K. Swofford had just
finished playing golf and was driv
ing away from a park in his police
cruiser when he spotted another
Dallas officer on what appeared to
be a traffic stop, police spokesman
Ed Spencer said.
Swofford pulled up behind the
on-duty officer to cover him, then
saw a man get out of the stopped car
and start running, Spencer said.
Swofford chased the man and
caught up with him in a wooded area
near a creek, Spencer said.
The men struggled, and Swoffof
said he was about to be overpower^
when he fired his gun, Spencers«
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MIDLAND (AP) — U.S. Deputy
Marshal Gail Boggs of Midland was
in his element.
On the phone with a sidekick, Pe
cos U.S. Deputy Marshal Steve Balog
Boggs couldn’t resist cutting up.
“This is a collect obscene phone
call,” he said, breathing heavily, then
laughing — his face turning red.
Boggs’ apparently got an earful
from the other end of the line. He
laughed heartily.
“We’ve been cutting up for years,
but people don’t appreciate it,” he
said later.
Actually, Boggs’ humor is well
known around Midland’s federal
courthouse, U.S. District Clerk John
Neil said.
“He is probably one of the best
known and best-liked men in the
courthouse . . . When he comes in
here just about everything he says is
amusing,” Neil said.
Until about two years ago, Boggs
handled the Midland marshal’s of
fice on his own. His career with the
U.S. Marshal Service — which began
July 1, 1970, and will end July 1,
1990, with his retirement — is dot
ted with humorous incidents.
On March 23, a court proceeding
was halted temporarily when Boggs,
with a raspy voice and Texas charm,
told U.S. District Judge Lucius Bun-
ton that it was his 61st birthday.
Bunton, apparently impressed,
stopped the proceedings and or
dered court personnel and two crim-
they transported was unheard of.
The marshals kept a watchful eye
glued to the rearview mirror and pe
riodically checked their passengers’
handcuffs and chains. They kept up
a stream of conversation.
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rhe nation’s oldest law enforcement agency has
grown from 16 marshals appointed by President
George Washington in 1789 to about 2,000 deputy
marshals today.
“It was a closer family then .
could name all the marshals,
said.
The nation’s oldest law enforce
ment agency has grown from 16
marshals appointed by President
George Washington in 1789 to about
2,000 deputy marshals today.
inal defendants to sing “Happy
Birthday.”
They did.
Despite humor, he generally con
siders himself a serious man — a
trait evident when he admits he’s re-
- ady for retirement and reflects on
how times have changed since his
first romantic days as a marshal.
Those were the good of days,
according to Boggs.
It was a time when marshals drove
their own cars — using the back seat
to transfer federal inmates from
prison to prison across the county.
Plexiglas, steel grating or any
other safety equipment to separate
deputy marshals from the prisoners
“We had to talk to them in those
days; we needed to know what they
were thinking,” Boggs said, remem
bering the daily threat of escape.
The U.S. Marshal Service cele
brates its bicentennial this year, and
on Sept. 24 the U.S. Marshal Service
Museum will open in Oklahoma
City. More than 100 deputies were
killed in Oklahoma territory be
tween 1870 and 1895, said William
Jonas, U.S. marshal of the Western
District of Texas.
Typically Boggs, who also is
sponsible for enforcing certai
courtroom procedures, finds a ^
to brighten that task. The depi
marshal keeps a rack in the MidU
U.S. District Clerk’s Office drap
with dozens of ties, mostly gaud
polyester varieties in shades of ruS
lime green and mustard yellow. Ort
is speckled with Texas longhorns.
Boggs, red-faced and gray-hairf 1
loans the ties to those who mist* 11
enly walk into U.S. District Jud?
Lucius Bunion’s courtroom with®
the required neckwear.
Marshals were on the road trans
porting inmates for weeks at a time.
“You used a lot of Tylenol in
those days,” he said.
Through 200 years of change,
U.S. marshals have retained their
strong suit of being generalists,
Jonas said.
But he lets courtroom special®
choose their tie. Then if it looks b*
on them, it’s not his fault.
Now, transferring inmates is a
luxury with special vans and buses.
“The stress and strain isn’t there
like it used to be,” Boggs said.
Neither is the camaraderie
the attitude among marshals.
Marshals maintain the security for
the federal courts, court personnel,
juries and witnesses. The U.S.
Marshal Service also transports and
houses U.S. prisoners, serves papers,
executes warrants and participates
in the national Witness Security Pro
gram, which gives certain witnesses
new identities.
He and Carlos Trevizo, the oh
two deputy marshals in the Midi#
Odessa division, work in whatiscof
sidered one of the busiest marsh-
districts.
The Western District of Tesi:
with 94,000 square miles and sevi
marshal division offices, accourf
for about 25 percent of U.S. Marsh:
Service arrests throughout the
tion, Jonas said.
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