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Sandboarders are drawn to West Texas di
By Aline McKenzie
KRT CAMPUS
MONAHANS, Texas — In
the early morning, it's as if
humans had never set foot here.
Pristine sand dunes rise to 70
feet high amid the scrubby West
Texas vegetation. Damp with
dew, they're marked with the
tracks of nightly visitors—
insects, birds of various sizes,
the resident mammals: skunks,
jackrabbits, coyotes, deer.
But new tracks are about to
take over.
Every day, the dunes at
Monahans Sandhills State Park,
near Midland, Texas, are open as
a playground for people. Both
locals and out-of-towners come
to “sandboard” down their
slopes, riding rented plastic
disks, wheelless skateboards,
and sandboards both homemade
and professionally constructed.
The first people arrive short
ly after the park opens at 8 a.m.,
to enjoy the cool before the
afternoon heat strikes.
The Massey family, from
Bangs in Brown County. Texas,
is enjoying the chance for its
three children to frolic in the
sand. Brandon, 8. and Keelan. 3.
are riding disks, leaving long
gouges down the dune.
Logan. 18 months, is doing
things his own way. He crawls
down the dune backward, leav
ing a smooth track punctuated
w ith handprints.
“I think we've got a big prob
lem." said Brandon, who's dow n
the dune w ith Logan.
"1 think you’ve got a big
problem." said his father. Chad.
30. a lead operator for 3M. Chad
is enjoying his spot at the top of
the dune.
One of the downsides of the
sport is that for every slip-slid
ing trip down a dune, which
Jennifer Jimenez, 18 of Odessa, Texas, surfs the sand
at Monahans Sandhills State Park in West Texas.
Boarding on the sand dunes is a popular per
sport m the deserts of West Texas.
takes only a tew seconds, there's
a slogging, slippery hike back
up. Over a stay of a tew hours,
that can add up to a lot of strain
on the legs.
I his is really tun except
when you come back up." said
Rebecca Anderholm, 15. a
ninth-grader from College
Station, Fexas, who is visiting
w ith her Girl Scout troop.
"I think you notice it more
as an adult than as a kid. the
going-uphill pan.” said Duane
McVay. 45. associate professor
of petroleum engineering at
Texas A&M. whose wife is the
troop leader.
As the morning progresses,
the sands are showing the wear.
Dunes that are farther from the
parking lot are still relatively
pristine, but the ones nearby are
pockmarked with footprints and
gouged w ith the marks of disks.
There are pits w here children
have dug holes and finger-
shaped trenches where people
have taken breaks, stretching out
their legs and scooping sand
over them.
By early afternoon, the sand
is hot and dry. w ith a texture like
Hour, and the dozens of people
who were on the slopes have
largely thinned out.
It's more difficult to slide
when the sand’s like this. The
visitor center even has posted a
notice that it's not responsible for
sliding conditions after I p.m.
Tanner Cash and Craig
Shelton, both 13 and visiting
with a Boy Scout troop from
Lone Oak. Texas, lake a break
from sliding, instead digging
holes 2 to 3 feet deepiJ
the layer where thesaii
cool, and burying then-1
to their waists.
Finally, sunset app J
People have almost
the dunes, either b:J
park or following ottaJ
at the edge of the sani-1
kites, barbecuing.
Suddenly, the wind pal
and nature begins to liJ
its own. The strong »ml*
sheets of sand that bare J
the surface, erasing tka
footprints and filling ik I
that people have dug
Make a new footprl
within a minute itvaribfcl
the leeward side, atk-J
beetle emerges and k
walking around, leas
perl ike track.
Cigarette tax increase eyed for school moi
By Kelley Shannon
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — It takes smoker Linda
Martinez only a split second to voice her
opinion about the governor’s proposed $1-
per-pack cigarette tax increase.
‘‘I’ll pay it.” said Martinez, a 54-year-old
Austin woman who has smoked for 35
years. "Plain and simple — nicotine is an
addictive drug, and just like any addict on
the street, we are addicted."
"I’d rather pay it on the cigarettes than
on the house taxes." Martinez added.
Those views may resonate with some
Texas legislators who returned to the Capitol
last week for a special legislative session.
Republican Gov. Rick Perry called the ses-
sion. he said, to reduce Texans’ property
taxes while eliminating the state’s share-the-
wealth education funding system, known to
some as Robin Ihxxl.
One Perry proposal to replace lost prop
erty tax revenue is a $1 increase in the
state's cigarette tax. to $1.41 per pack.
Health advocates applaud the plan.
Along with generating revenue, they say, it
could help control health care costs by
reducing smoking.
“People don’t like taxes, but this is one
that does have a gtxxl public health benefit
and certainly fits well with some of the state’s
goals, certainly on education and on health,"
said Kelly Headrick, a lobbyist for the
American Cancer Society’s Texas division.
But the tobacco industry claims raising
the tax would send smokers to nei^
states, Mexico or onto the Internet ’
to illegal cigarette smuggling.
"That obviously threatens lej
retailers and wholesalers in the^
Texas,” said Jamie Drogin, spokes*!
for Philip Morris USA.
"As the cigarettes get moreei[
consumers seek out alternative sec. 1
w hich to buy cigarettes.’ I
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impose a larger burden on the [Wj
also say it would be a dwindlingmt
dictable revenue source because of^
ing declines in the number of smo ft
as education costs rise.
Perry' estimates his cigarette t»[4
would generate $2.4 billion overt ^
three fiscal years.
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