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The Battalion
Page 5
Job prospects up in Rio Grande Valley
vJR's treat-
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BROWNSVILLE - A new
study shows the Rio Grande Val
ley's fourth-quarter employment
prospects ranlc among the best in
the nation.
Across the valley, 41 percent of
companies surveyed for the Man
power Inc. study said they would
hire personnel, while only about 7
percent said they expected to cut
back.
Another 42 percent plan to stay
at current levels, with the remain
ing 10 percent undecided, accord
ing to the study by the Milwau
kee-based temporary employment
41 percent of companies plan to hire
personnel in coming year, study says
company.
The region is generally plagued
by double-digit unemployment.
The unemployment rate in July
was 12 percent in Cameron Coun
ty, down from 13.7 percent in
June.
In Brownsville, residents are
most likely to find jobs in con
struction, durable goods manufac
turing, wholesale-retail trade, fi
nance-insurance-real estate, ser
vices and public administration,
according to Manpower.
For the first half of this year,
the Brownsville Manpower office
showed a record high in helping
people find part-time employ
ment, said company spokes
woman Kelly Stanton.
"We have been extremely
busy," she said. "I see that more
companies are starting to hire
back workers, particularly in the
automobile-related industry.
There is also a lot more activity at
the Port of Brownsville today."
Stanton said Brownsville em
ployers are more optimistic about
hiring than last year.
The survey shows 43 percent of
Brownsville employers surveyed
said they will boost staff sizes,
with another 10 percent saying
they expect to trim back.
The study showed that 33 per
cent of those employers had earli
er expressed their willingness to
hire new workers for this year's
third quarter, while 17 percent ex
pected work force reductions.
Manpower officials said that
only 13 percent of employers, for
the same period a year ago, re
ported intentions to hire staff.
Lawyer to drop rape case against commissioner
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — A prosecutor planned to wait
until Friday before dropping a sexual assault
case against Dallas County Commissioner
John Wiley Price to make sure the alleged vic
tim "does not want to change her mind."
Assistant District Attorney Mike Gillett said
Wednesday that the woman who said Price
raped her two years ago last week asked for
the case to be dismissed. The trial had been set
for Sept. 8.
'We are concerned about the victim and in
tend to do what she requests," Gillett said.
He said the request would not be filed until
Friday "to make sure she does not want to
change her mind, as we are ready to try the
case if she chooses to go forward."
Price, 42, did not return telephone calls
from The Associated Press to his office Thurs
day. His assistant, Cheryl Smith, said the com
missioner was tending to county business and
unavailable for comment.
Neither Price's attorney, Billy Ravkind, nor
Gillett returned repeated telephone calls
Thursday.
On Aug. 23, 1991, Price was indicted on a
rape charge stemming from an incident in
April 1990 involving a county employee. The
charge followed a story alluding to the matter
in a February 1991 issue of D magazine.
Ravkind told The Dallas Morning News
that prosecutors also plan to dismiss a felony
criminal mischief charge involving an alterca
tion with a KXAS-TV cameraman.
Price still faces a misdemeanor criminal
trespass charge and two misdemeanor assault
charges.
He is accused of trespassing at WFAA-TV
studios during a protest last year. He is also
accused of assaulting a jogger and a movie
producer.
All three cases are scheduled to be heard
Sept. 21.
Lamar faculty unconfident in leaders
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEAUMONT — The faculty
senate of Lamar University-Beau-
mont has voted "no confidence"
in the Lamar University System's
chancellor and board of regents in
the wake of the ouster of a former
school official.
Senate President Kathleen
Murray said Chancellor George
McLaughlin and the regents have
created a leadership vacuum at
the campus, manifested most re
cently Monday with the removal
of John Idoux as executive vice
president for academic and stu
dent affairs.
"The problem that I see is that
we have been left without experi
enced academic leadership at a
time that the university very bad
ly needs it," Murray told the
Beaumont Enterprise in Wednes
day's editions.
Faculty Senate members, who
are elected by their academic col
leges, approved resolutions of no
confidence in the regents Wednes
day by a vote of 27-2 with one ab
stention, and no confidence in
McLaughlin by a vote of 27-1 with
two abstentions.
In a prepared statement,
McLaughlin criticized the senate
action.
Ted E. Moor Jr., chairman of
the board of regents, called the
senate's decision "very disap
pointing."
The regents accepted a letter of
resignation from Idoux after an
executive session Monday.
But Idoux said he wrote the let
ter at the chancellor's request in
March and rescinded it less than a
month later.
He filed a lawsuit Tuesday
against McLaughlin, Lamar Uni
versity and eight of the nine mem
bers of the board of regents, ex
cepting Mona Britton Plunk, who
joined the board Aug. 27.
Idoux, who served as interim
president of Lamar's Beaumont
campus from August 1991 until
March, contends the regents fired
him because he refused to autho
rize the payment of $10,000 to A1
Barbre, former women's head bas
ketball coach at the Beaumont
campus.
Barbre resigned last year under
fire after reported violations of
National Collegiate Athletic Asso
ciation rules and university and
athletic department policies.
The faculty senate will put the
confidence vote to the university's
full-time faculty in secret balloting
that will run until Tuesday.
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