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WASHINGTON (AP) — Farmers
counting on $2 billion in congres-
sionally approved disaster aid will
have to wait until June to get it,
Agriculture Secretary Dan Glick-
man says.
In a letter sent Tliesday to Sen
ate Agriculture Chairman Richard
Lugar and House Agriculture
Chairman Larry Combest of Texas,
Glickman said administering the
aid is “far more complex than past
natural disaster assistance pro
grams.”
He said the agency is inundat
ed with aid disbursements during
this tumultuous farm year, includ
ing assistance packages of $50 mil
lion for hog farmers and $200 mil
lion for dairy farmers.
“Getting these payments out as
expeditiously and as fairly as pos
sible is a top personal priority for
me,” Glickman wrote.
Combest, R-Lubbock, fired
back that the delay was “unac
ceptable.”
“There are now billions of dol
lars that should already be in the
hands of farmers and ranchers,”
Combest said, noting that farmers
need the money as they go into the
planting season.
Many in Congress have com
plained the USDA is moving too
slowly in administering aid to
farmers. Congress approved the
money as part of a $6 billion emer
gency package late last year amid
free-falling commodity prices.
Prices have done little to rebound
since then — making some mem
bers of Congress angry at the slow
dispersal process.
Judge sets trial date for third m
accused in Jasper dragging dea
HOUSTON (AP) — The second of
three capital murder suspects ac
cused of dragging a black man to
death in East Texas will be tried in
May, a Jasper judge ruled Wednes
day.
Jury selection in the trial of
Lawrence Russell Brewer, 31, ac
cused in the June 7 kidnapping and
dragging death of James Byrd Jr., is
set to begin May 3.
John William King, one of Brew
er’s two co-defendants, was con
victed in Byrd’s death and sentenced
to death Feb. 25. A third defendant,
24-year-old Shawn Allen Berry, has
yet to be tried.
Brewer’s trial location is still un
certain.
Jasper County District Attorney
Guy James Gray wants to have
Brewer and Berry tried in Jasper.
However, Brewer defense attorney
Doug Barlow has filed a request to
move his client’s trial, arguing that
pre-trial publicity and Jasper Coun
ty’s small jury pool will
work against his case.
Jasper County, located 1
northeast of Houston, has
34,000 residents. The county
Jasper is about 8,000 strong.
The crime's horrific nature
lured reporters from arouni
world to Jasper. Byrd, whoh
cepted a ride in Berry's pickup J
was taken to a wooded area *1
he was beaten and chained icj
back of the vehicle.
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Counties could benefit from research, development taxbm
The Texas N
AUSTIN (AP) — Economically disadvantaged
counties, from East Texas to the border region,
would benefit from tax incentives under legisla
tion that also would provide tax breaks for re-
search-and-development work.
While the research tax break would apply
statewide, job creation and investment tax cred
its would be granted only in the disadvantaged
areas, and the research tax break would be dou
bled there.
Currently, 92 counties would meet the bill’s de
finition — unemployment higher than the state
average and per capita income below the state av
erage.
“Our economy has moved away from agricul
ture and oil to services and high-tech. Unfortu
nately, not all areas of the state are benefiting from
this new economy,” Sen. David Sibley, R-Waco,
said Wednesday.
“By directing development toward the eco
nomically distressed areas of the state, the state
as a whole will become stronger,” he said.
According to the senator’s staff, the bill cur
rently would apply to an arc of counties stretching
from the Texas-Louisiana border down the Gulf
Coast and up the Rio Grande. Some others scat
tered throughout the state also would qualify.
The tax breaks would cost the state about $100
million in the 2000-2001 budget years, rising to
about $725 million by the 2006-2007 budget peri
od, Sibley said.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman
Rene Oliveira, D-Brownsville, is sponsoring the
bill in the House.
“I think it benefits the whole state,” he said. “I
think we are foolish if we don’t think it benefits
the whole state.”
All three proposed incentives would expire in
2007 unless renewed by the Legislature. The pro
posals:
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credit on their state franchise tax. Tax an d 01
would double in the counties designated “strT ow ' n g a loss
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jobs created and their wages. A corpora*-
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time jobs in the strategic investment areas.!* 1 ' 0 * 1 * ias * e d t0
job would have to pay 110 percent of the Corest,
ty’s average wage and include paid healthbL 1 hoy’ 1 ' 6 a P
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