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of Better Business Bureaus' Foun
dation have been set up to tell
businesses how to be accessible to
people with disabilities.
"The goal is to bring together
leaders of the business communi
ty and leaders of the disabled
community," Barbara Bode, exec
utive director of the Council of
Better Business Bureaus' Founda
tion, said.
The guides explain the public
accommodations provisions of the
Americans with Disabilities Act
which is the first comprehensive
civil rights law for people with
disabilities.
The guides apply to owners
and managers of retail stores, auto
sales and service businesses,
restaurants and bars, health and
outpatient facilities, grocery
stores, and fun and fitness centers.
"Virtually every business has
to become accessible to the extent
that it does not create an undue
burden," Bode said. "There are
'cheap and easy' ways businesses
can comply."
All guides follow basically the
same format. There are a number
of questions posed in the guides
and what each business must do
to comply.
For example, retail stores do
not have to print their price tags
in braille for their seeing impaired
customers, but they must be will
ing to read them aloud.
"In the auto sales and service
businesses, an interpreter may be
required for hearing impaired
customers if he or she is serious
about buying a car and the trans
action can not take place through
writing notes or using comput
ers," Bode said. "During test-dri
ving, portable hand controls can
be placed in cars in ten minutes if
someone with a mobility impair
ment wants them. The dealer is
required to buy these controls or
at least have them available.
"In restaurants and bars, the
whole issue is treating the handi
capped like any other customer,"
she said. "Restaurant owners
must serve handicapped cus
tomers in the same way, but be
willing to accommodate those
with disabilities."
Health and outpatient facilities
must be as accessible as anywhere
else. Bode said. There may be a
need for an interpreter in cases
such as explanations of complex
medical problems.
Grocery stores need to focus
on widening and clearing aisles
without giving up valuable space,
she said. Help should also be
available for people who have dis
abilities.
Fun and fitness centers cannot
keep people with disabilities out
of the centers, and they must al
low trained service animals. Bode
said.
"The whole idea is to make
things more convenient but not to
put an unfair burden on business
es," Larry Lightfoot, executive di
rector of the Better Business Bu
reau of the Brazos Valley, Inc.,
said. "New structures will have
to be built in accordance, but
without unfair or unjust expense."
The compliance deadline for
mid-sized businesses was July 26,
and the deadline for small busi
nesses is January 26,1993.
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against property tax for public schools
Texas farm profits will fall
14 percent this year as result
of many problems, study says
DALLAS (AP) — Profits on
Texas farms will fall about 14
percent this year because of bad
weather, lower prices, higher
costs and lower government
payments, a Texas A&M study
says.
Earnings will fall to about
$2.4 billion this year from $2.8
billion in 1991, said Carl Ander
son, professor and cotton mar
keting economist with the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service
of the A&M System.
If the forecast holds true,
1992 would be the second
straight year of declining profits
on Texas farms.
Total income should remain
steady, but the continued de
cline in profitability and infla
tion is taking a toll on farm and
ranch land value, he said.
The average value of agricul
tural land and buildings in the
state will be about $466 an acre,
the lowest level since 1980.
Land values peaked at $694 per
acre in 1985.
"While the income look is
rather dismal, that doesn't
mean that the agricultural sec
tor in total is shrinking or des
tined to be pushed aside," An
derson said.
"What it does show is
people and resources now in
agriculture are getting very low
returns, and that we really need
to put forth every effort to ex
pand our share of the interna
tional market," he said.
Too much rain and unsea
sonably cool temperatures
slowed the progress of crops in
many parts of the state.
The state's biggest crop, cot
ton, grown in the 25-county re
gion around Lubbock, was hit
hardest. ff
About half of the 3 million
acres of cotton planted there
was destroyed and replaced by
other crops. Estimates of the
loss to the region's economy
run as high as $1.5 billion.
"I don't know if you’d say it
is bad, but it is not real good,”
said Kary Mathis, who leads the
Agricultural Economics depart
ment at Texas Tech. "The cotton
sector was severely hurt by
weather for the second year in a
row . . ." Jag
Prices Texas farmers have re
ceived for all commodities have
fallen 2 percent in the past two
years while production costs
nave increased 3 percent, An
derson said.
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taxpayers said Tuesday he will go to the U.S.
Supreme Court in his fight against the county educa
tion district property tax for public schools.
Lawyer Jim Keahey said he hopes to file a petition
with the court Wednesday. The 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in New Orleans Monday refused
to stop collection of the tax, which has been found to
violate the state constitution.
If Keahey does not succeed in having his petition
heard at the U.S. Supreme Court, or if a ruling is un
favorable, he said he will go back to state court and
pursue appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court again.
"Until these issues are settled in federal or state
court, I suggest everyone wait to pay their 1992 CED
(county education district) tax. Bills go out Oct. 1
and the last day to pay without penalty is Jan. 31,
1993," Keahey said. "Once the CEDs have your
money, there's little or no chance of getting it back if
we win."
But Ron Dusek, spokesman for Attorney General
Dan Morales, said the issue is settled, at least for
now, "and the law is people have to pay their taxes.'"
"Responsible citizens wouldn't even consider not
paying their taxes," he said.
Lawmakers created the current school finance
system in an effort to meet a Texas Supreme Court
mandate to equalize school funding.
It was designed to shift hundreds of millions of
dollars from wealthier to poorer school districts
within new taxing regions made up of one or several
counties.
But the Texas Supreme Court in January ruled
that the plan violates the Texas Constitution by im
posing a statewide property tax, and by levying a
property tax without voter approval.
However, the state Supreme Court gave lawmak
ers until June 1, 1993, to fix the system. And it de
layed the ruling's effect so that it would not interfere
with the collection of 1991 and 1992 property taxes in
the 188 new county education districts.
Negative economic reports
leave investors cautious
Keahey then filed the class-action lawsuit in fed
eral court, saying continued collection of the levy de
nies taxpayers due process, violating the U.S. Consti
tution.
U.S. District Judge James Nowlin in Austin sided
with taxpayers on that point, but refused to issue an
injunction stopping collection of the tax.
Keahey then appealed to the 5th Circuit, which
said the federal court did not have jurisdiction. It va
cated Nowlin's judgment and sent the case back to
him, with an order that he dismiss it.
NEW YORK (AP) - Stock
prices finished mixed in subdued
trading Tuesday with little news
to extend the market's five-day
rally and leaving investors cau
tious ahead of key economic data.
The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials fell 11.08 points to
3,384.32.
Advancing^issues narrowly
outnumbered declines on the
New York Stock Exchange.
Volume on the floor of the Big
Board came to 166.74 million
shares as of 4 p.m., up from 164.44
million in the previous session.
The Dow's five-session rally
had progressively lost steam, and
the average edged up just 1.62
points on Monday.
Most of the good news about
second-quarter corporate earnings
is already out, and the marketis
nervous ahead of the July unem
ployment report, scheduled foi
release on Friday, Dodge said.
Economists expect a gain of
110,000 in nonfarm payrolls foi
July and a decrease in the unem
ployment rate to 7.7 percent. In
June, payrolls fell 117,000 and un
employment reached 7.8 percent
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trim interest rates. That has
helped push stock and bondj
prices higher.
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expected economic data released
Tuesday. The government said its!
chief forecasting gauge of future
economic activity, the Index of
Leading Indicators, fell 0.2 per
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Republicans gave President Bush
boxing gloves on Tuesday to in
voke a fighting
Bush
image as he and
his top aides
worked to re
gain control of
his lagging
campaign. But
many GOP in
siders ex
pressed dismay
over recent
events and
Bush's contin
ued slide in the
polls.
Bush and Vice President Dan
Quayle participated jointly in a
meeting with Senate Republicans
designed to signal party unity af
ter weeks of bad news on the
economy and in the polls.
In a good-natured gesture.
Bush was given a pair of boxing
gloves — one labelled "Democrat
ic" and the other "Congress" —
and a plaque with an oversize
Olympic gold medal marked
"heavyweight champion."
Afterwards, Senate Republican
Whip Alan K. Simpson, of
Wyoming, said, "George Bush is
fully engaged, ready to let her
rip."
Later, Bush met at the White
House with a group of Republican
business leaders. They emerged
from the session with much the
same message.
"The president has the fire in
his belly and is ready for the
fight," said PepsiCo Chairman
Donald M. Kendall. At the same
time, Kendall conceded, "There's
no question that the president
wants help. That's why we're
here."
"He won't do it, but what he
needs to do is a little confession
and avoidance. If the issue is how
have you been as president for the
past four years, he's going to
lose," said John Sears, who man
aged Ronald Reagan's 1976 pri
mary challenge against President
Gerald Ford.
"Bush needs to get that off the
table and to say, 'things didn't go
as I planned. But I've learned a lot
and I can do better,"' Sears said.
Eddie Mahe, a GOP consultant
and sometimes adviser to the
Bush campaign, said that this
week's flap over the criticism of
Clinton by the campaign's politi
cal director, Mary Matalin, was "a
sideshow."
He said that Bush needs to rely
more heavily on advertising. "The
first thing they've got to do is per
suade rank and file Republicans
who are expressing doubts that
they should not have those
doubts," Mahe said.
Bush commercials focusing on
the family, law enforcement and
government spending began run
ning Monday night.
Bush's meeting on Capitol Hill
with 38 Republican senators "was
not a gripe session," said Sen.
Connie Mack, R-Fla.
Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas,
chairman of the GOP senatorial
campaign committee, said Bush
and Quayle "will carry the ball
across the goal line. If anything's
certain in American life, that's cer
tain."
Bush and Quayle both attend
ed, apparently foreclosing any
talk about whether Quayle should
remain on the ticket.
Bush was asked by reporters in
Senate GOP Leader Bob Dole's of
fice about estimates that uptoa
third of the party's senators may
pass up the GOP convention later
this month in Houston.
"I don't know that's trueat
all," Bush said. "But I'll tell you
one thing — the Republican sena
tors at the Republican convention,
people are going to be able to see
them. They're not going to be hid
den in the basement."
The GOP lawmakers applaud
ed the apparent reference to the
relative lack of participation in the
Democratic convention of Democ
ratic congressional leaders.
Bush said as he left the Capitol
that it "was a great meeting, very,
very positive . . . upbeat."
"We are getting ready for our
convention and much more, were
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Workers install bullet-proof glass
for podium at GOP convention
HOUSTON (AP) - Bullet
proof glass went up on the speak
er's platform Tuesday as the
Houston Astrodome continued to
be transformed into a convention
hall for the Republican National
Convention.
The panes of glass form a
waist-high rail at the front and
sides of the podium.
"It was deliberate to have it
clear and transparent for an open
effect," Mike Miller, director of
operations for the convention,
said.
Crews lifted the panes from a
truck and slid them into place on
the platform, then'peeled off pa
per stickers that warned: "Cau
tion: Install This Surface Toward
Threat."
Other security measures out
side the Astrodome neared com
pletion as workers were installing
a 9-foot-high chain-link fence be
tween the stadium and the park
ing lot.
And bulldozers began clearing
a vacant lot across the street from
the stadium for use as the "offi
cial" demonstration site.
"We're still ahead of sched
ule," Miller said. "Almost every
thing is in place except for chairs
and the raised floor. Obviously, 2
lot of things still need to be cov
ered and decorated."