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HOUSTON (AP) — When the news first broke last
k_,eek that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ann
lichards had been caught in the San Francisco earth-
uake while raising money for her campaign, one ques-
ion quickly popped into many inquiring minds:
What was a candidate for the Texas governor’s office
lloing raising money in California?
Richards was doing what all the gubernatorial candi-
liates are doing — trying to finance a highly expensive
Campaign. By some estimates, this year’s race will cost
P candidates a combined $45 million to $50 million.
That would be the equivalent of a $3 contribution
rom every man, woman, child and infant in the state.
Richards, the current state treasurer, is likely to lead
Candidates in the chase for out-of-state contributions,
he Houston Chronicle reported Sunday.
“It’s a little different for her,” Dan McClung, a Dem-
jcratic political consultant, said. “She has something of
national following that makes it possible for people in
Los Angeles or Chicago or New York to pull 15 or 20
xople together (for a fund-raiser) because she’s an in-
eresting person.”
Richards gained national attention as keynote
ipeaker at last year’s Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, and she currently has her autobiography on
he market nationwide.
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’ ivas toppled by the earthquake, Richards gathered 50
people at a private home in Los Angeles for a $500-a-
)erson affair. Richards, uninjured in Tuesday’s temb-
or, returned to Dallas for an in-state fund-raiser.
During the first half of this year, Richards raised
391,142 in cash contributions for her gubernatorial
:ampaign. About one-sixth of that total was from out-
f-state contributors.
By comparison, her announced opponent in the
Democratic primary. Attorney General Jim Mattox,
raised $644,645 during the period, including $28,300
from out of state. Almost half of Mattox’s out-of-state
contributions came from labor unions.
By the time Richards’ campaign has concluded,
about 20 percent of her money probably will have come
from out of state, she said.
“One of the things that’s advantageous about that,
too, is the opportunity to get to know people out of
We have reached the point,
hopefully, in this state where we realize
our economic future is beyond our
borders and not just in pulling ourselves
up by our bootstraps constantly
internally.”
— Ann Richards,
state treasurer
state,” she said. “We have reached the point, hopefully,
in this state where we realize our economic future is be
yond our borders and not just in pulling ourselves up
by our bootstraps constantly internally.”
Richards said she also hopes that some of her politi
cal fund-raising efforts will result in more movies being
shot in Texas.
“It’s good, clean, solid employment,” she said. “I’ve
already started talking to producers, directors, any op
portunity I get when I’m in California.”
So far, Richards has obtained $1,000 from singer
Barbra Streisand; $5,000 from television producer
Norman Lear; and $10,000 from “Family Ties” pro
ducer Gary Goldberg.
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MALONE (AP) — The former
mayor of this Hill County com
munity of 315 people said he will
ask for a federal investigation if a
grand jury does as he expects and
shrugs off the recent death of a
black burglary suspect at the
hands of angry residents.
James Oliver King, 24, of Waco
was chased into a pasture by seve
ral white residents, including cur
rent mayor James Lucko, after
68-year-old Emma Piel, a widow,
yelled that King had just burglar
ized the home where she lives
alone.
Malone, a town of 350 about 30
miles north of Waco, has no po
lice force. Its only police officer
was fired last year because the city
no longer had funds to pay him.
When Hill County sheriffs of
ficers arrived at the scene of the
Oct. 9 incident, they found Lucko
and two other men restraining
King with his face down in a dirt
field on the edge of town.
As the captors pulled King up
so deputies could handcuff him,
deputy Coy West got his first look
at King’s face.
“His eyes were half open,
rolled back in his head. He was
deceased,” West said. “When we
first got there, they (King’s pur
suers) were proud they caught
somebody breaking into an old la
dy’s house. After they found out
he was dead, they were really
shocked.”
John Parker, a pathologist with
the Southwest Institute of Foren
sic Science in Dallas, ruled the
death a homicide, caused by sus
tained pressure on King’s chest
and abdomen, and strangulation.
The office of Hill County Sher
iff Brent Button of Hillsboro
completed an investigation, and
the case has been referred to Dis
trict Attorney Dan Dent
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HOUSTON (AP) — Drilling ac-
ivity in the area southwest of San
Antonio has surged in the past five
Months, creating a mini-boom in
Dimmet, Zavala, LaSalle, Frio and
iUascosa counties.
Some of the rigs going up consist
ina t of drilling holes that are vertical for
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shift into a horizontal direction
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Industry experts believe horizon
tal drilling could make billions of
barrels of additional oil reserves eco
nomical to develop and produce at
prices as low as $12-$ 15 a barrel.
The United States has estimated re
maining oil reserves of about 35 bil
lion barrels. This is only about a 10-
year supply at the current produc
tion rate of more than 3 billion bar
rels a year.
The Baker Hughes Inc. weekly
rig count shows an average of eight
rigs drilling in the five counties from
June through September, compared
to only two for the first five months
of the year. So far in October the rig
count has averaged 13.
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DALLAS (AP) — Holy shortage,
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lore
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Managers of Dallas-area costume
stores say they are swamped with re
quests for Batman and Joker get-ups
following this summer’s blockbuster
movie, but red tape involving copy
rights is keeping the Gaped Crusad
er’s uniform off of trick-or-treaters.
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“The problem is, he (Batman)
doesn’t exist,” Howard Hale, man
ager of the Magicland on Forest
Lane in Dallas, said. “The supplier
hasn’t been able to keep up with the
demand.”
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Because the Batman logo, under
copyright by DC Comics, had to be
sorted through, costume makers
didn’t have time to mass-produce
Batman and his arch-villain The
Joker.
Magicland was lucky to get three
adult Batman costumes during the
summer as the movie was bringing
in revenue at top speed, Hale said.
One has been sold and the two oth
ers are reserved for Halloween by
two men who ordered them this
summer.
The target formation in the
Southwest Texas wells has been the
Austin Chalk Trend, a geological
zone that crosses East, Central and
Southwest Texas. It was widely used
during the boom of the late 1970s
and early ’80s, but activity fell off
sharply from a combination of low
oil prices, complex geology and de
clining production rates.
The Austin Chalk formation is a
very dense limestone, Robert Berg,
geology professor at Texas A&M
University said. It lacks the large
pores and cracks where oil and gas
typically accumulate in other forma
tions.
Geologists and engineers believe
that in the Austin Chalk and certain
other geological formations, they
can extract oil and gas more effi
ciently, at a lower cost and in greater
volumes with horizontal wells. They
also believe they can extend the life
of existing oil fields.
Consultant Philip Crouse of Dal
las compared the new technology to
the development of the semiconduc
tor in the computer industry.
“It’s like a prairie fire. It will ex
pand through our industry,” Crouse
said.
Joseph exits
runoff campaign
against Black
HAMILTON (AP) — Former
Rep. Tom Joseph withdrew Sunday
from a runoff with Layton Black for
the District 54 Texas House seat va
cated by veteran Democrat Stan
Schleuter.
“After much consideration and
discussion with my family and cam
paign staff. I’ve decided to withdraw
from the runoff,” said Joseph, the
only GOP candidate in the field of
six in Saturday’s special election.
Black, 49, got 44 percent of the
vote compared to Josephs’ 22 per
cent. Much of Black’s support came
from the four rural counties in the
five-county district.
Joseph, 63, .said he and his wife
talked “until the wee hours of the
morning ... I just felt like it was a
pretty wide gap to close in two
weeks’ time.”
Black, a rancher and banker in
Goldthwaite, could not immediately
be reached for comment.
Joseph said he considers Black,
like himself, to be a fiscal conserva
tive and “probably would have
fought it out” against any of the
other Democrats.
“But Layton is a good conserva
tive, and the people have spoken,”
he said. “They’re just not ready for a
Republican. But I am happy they
will be represented by a conserva
tive, and I congratulate Layton on
his victory.”
“I’m a very conservative man,”
said Joseph, a rancher, attorney and
retired businessman who rep
resented Waco in the Legislature
from 1951-1958.“This race would
have cost the taxpayers a lot of
money, and I like to practice what I
preach. So I decided to pull out.”
Joseph’s withdrawal means there
will be no runoff and Black will be
sworn in for the special session of
the Texas Legislature that begins
Nov. 14. A runoff probably would
have been held on Nov. 7, the same
time as the state amendment elec
tion.
Schlueter, who held the seat since
1976, headed the tax-writing House
Ways and Means Committee for sev
eral years and rose this year as chair
man of the Calendars Committee.
Joseph said he spent most of his
campaign trying to get the “city
vote” in Bell County, home of the
three largest towns in the district,
Killeen, Belton and Temple.
“I carried Bell County pretty
handily, but... he carried all four of
the rural counties by a landslide, and
that’s what gave him the strong mar
gin of victory. In a runoff, nobody
knows what would happen, but I just
felt like I didn’t want it to be a city vs.
rural fight.
“It became of great concern to me
that the runoff had the potential to
become something that would be
come divisive in the district, and I do
not want that under any conditions,”
Joseph said.
By his stepping aside, Joseph said,
Layton will be able to line up a staff
and prepare himself for the coming
special session.
On Saturday night, Black gave
credit for his high percentage to his
campaign volunteers who include “a
Lampasas judge, some ladies in the
dress shop, a kid from Tarleton”
and the “regular people” w'ho urged
him onto the campaign trail.
He said he carried the rural vote
because he reflects the common peo
ple of the district.
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