Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 3

3-A Tuesday, January 17, 1984 Political workshop White Oak OKs sewer permit for $850,000 industrial plant Steelworkers hear economist rip Reaganomics By MARISA COOK Staff Writer LONE STAR The U.S. recession might end if Americans put money back into the economy and industries stay in the United States, economist Walt Sharp told about 15 East Texas steelworkers Monday morning at the start of a twoday political workshop. Sharp, director of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at North Texas State University in Denton, is helping inform steelworkers on national issues and the political process as the election year gets underway. He is part of a team-teaching project sponsored by the United Steelworkers of America. Billie Carr will conduct two workshop sessions on the political process today at 9 a.m.

and 6:30 p.m. at LocaUJnion 4134 Hall in Lone Star. MONDAY, SHARP SAID a recession occurs every time a president tries to balance the budget This decreases consumer buying, which increases the nation get involved" with industrial waste flowing through the sewer plant "The kind of system we have is strictly for residential. And we are not capable of treating that kind of effluent water." Cline said he was concerned that the industrial waste would destroy sewer system's capability of treating the city's regular sewage and would kill bacteria needed to treat the sewage. He told Keeley the water board suggested the plant dump its industrial waste into Bumpus Creek.

"We would not do anything to the city's water that would harm anyone in any way," Keeley said. According to Keeley, the plant will filter industrial wastes from the water it uses. "We do not intend to dump chemicals in a creek," he said. "We will install to holding tanks our plant for the chemicals to drain into." Keeley added the sludge from the plant will be packaged and taken to a special landfill in Arkansas. "We (city) will be responsible for the city's waste water treatment plant if anythine happens," Cline By MARISA COOK Staff Writer WHITE OAK City officials in a special session Monday night agreed to issue an industrial sewer permit and thus pave the way for a Garland company to open an $850,000 plant off Cherokee Trace.

Universal Carrier Co. Inc. will operate the facility which will employ 10 workers to do electroplating for Stemco. The plant also will produce wire display racks for stores. White Oak resident Don Abies will be plant manager.

1 Mayor Marshall Cline said the council approved the water permit after members of Kindle Stone Associates Inc. of Longview OK'd the company's in-house waste water cleaning system. "They've worked with the company before," Cline said. "And they know the company can be trusted." Ron Keeley, who represented the Garland-based company during last Tuesday's City Council meeting, asked the council for an industrial sewer connection to the city's treatment plant He said the connection is necessary for plant operations. But Cline told Keeley members of the Water Quality Board in Kilgore advised the city "not to allowing our high-wage industries to filter out of our country which results in less consumption therefore, decreases the amount of monev going into the government's coffer." said industries here close' down when the country buys foreign products and moves industries overseas.

"As one industry closes down well that's less wages which means less consumer buying and less tax revenue for the government. This effect ripples throughout the economy," he said. "For example, when consumption went down, people weren't buying cars. So not onlv did automobile factories have to cut back their work force," Sharp said, "but they also had to cut back ptf orders which forced their suppliers basic industries to do the same." Sharp said the recession also has American businessmen to "hold onto" their investment money instead of putting it back into the business for expansions. "Why spend money on expanding the business if the demand isn't there?" he asked.

"They'll save it until consumption increases." SHARP SAID ANOTHER way the U.S. government lowered spending was by cutting back on federal programs, which left state and local governments with less operating monies. "And state and local governments, in trying to maintain the same level of services they have in the past, must increase local property taxes to do so," he said, and the burden lands on the taxpayer. Unemployment insurance benefits is one federally funded program that's in trouble, Sharp said. As industries continue to cut back their labor forces, the country goes broke from unemployment insurance benefits, he said.

"Once you get the money back into America, things will improve. And it doesn't matter whether or not it's a Republican or Democratic administration," Sharp said. But if things don't change, in four years the country could have a $500 billion deficit, he added. al deficit he said. ur national income is derived from three1 sources: said.

But company officialsgfeedt share in the responsibility if industriafwaste damages the city's consumption (consumer spending), investment ana overnment (taxes)," he explained. "Reagonomics sewer system. IKLMG delays sign-oh date cause of the complexitiesW the equipment needed to interlock the four-station system. We are now in the tried to balance the budget by trading lower government spending for higher investment spending." During Reagan's first year, he said, "we had a $57 billion deficit; the second year, a $125 billion deficit; and this past year the deficit nearly reached the $200 billion mark." Sharp said he doesn't blame Republicans for the country's economic ills; he blames Reagonomics and the attempt to balance the budget Because of this tactic, the United States is allowing smokestack industries to locate overseas where operation and labor costs are lower. "What happens if the country builds a new plant overseas?" Sharp asked the group.

"How many new jobs are created here? None. "I CANNOT AGREE with people who feel we should let our smokestack industries go overseas," he told the steelworkers. "It doesn't make sense. We are literally Therapist to speak on discipline By VAN CRADDOCK Assistant City Editor Changing technology and license delays are the rea-'sons Longview television station KLMG has pushed back its sign-on date, officials of the CBS Inc. affiliate say.

"But right now, we plan to be on the air some time this spring or summer." said Wes Ferns, vice president and general manager of Channel 51. Ferns said the station could be "starting any day" on construction of its tower and renovation of a former school "building for use as KLMG's studios should begin this month. The UHF facility originally was scheduled to begin broadcasting in August 1983, but financing and other delays pushed the proposed air date to February. East Texans wont be able to tune in KLMG by next month, however. "We have been faced with some tremendous changes in technology regarding satellite delivery systems as opposed to microwave or landline deliveries," explained Ferns.

"Also, we have been waiting to be sure we'd get the licenses for two other stations. That has mainly caused the delays." KLMG, owned by a group of Longview and Houston investors under the name KLMB-TV would be the main cog in what will be known as the East Texas Television Network. ETTN will be made up of stations in Longview, Nacogdoches (KDOG. Channel 19), Paris (KLPH. Channel 42) and Sherman-Denison (KOAV, Channel 20).

"I imagine well be changing the call letters for Nacogdoches," laughed Ferns, who was general manager of a Grand Junction, Colo, station prior to coming to Longview. "In November we acquired the licenses for the Nacogdoches and Sherman-Denison stations," Ferns said. "We have CBS affiliation for Longview and possible NBC affiliations in Paris and Nacogdoches. The Sherman-Denison (network affiliation) satellite is questionable at this point" The KLMG official noted the company "has been working very hard to get the four stations licensed be process of assessing the needs of our satellite stations. Before you start building, you need to know your equipment needs." Citing "a lot of changes in technology just in the past year," Ferns said the networks are going to satellite-delivery systems.

"CBS has been laying back, going through a testing period right now. They have picked nine stations in the Southwest to test the new satellite system. Later, all the CBS stations will go on satellite," he explained. KLMG is debating whether to put in a microwave system or to wait for a full satellite delivery system. If it is the latter, it could delay the station's air date to August.

The station is located in a former elementary school building located at 701 N. Access Rd. in south Long-view. Renovation of the 18,000 square-foot facility is expected to cost in excess of $500,000 according to KLMG officials. "The remodeling will take about 120 days, Ferns said, while erection of the station's tower could be done in 20-30 days.

The tower site is near the Sinclair community in Smith County. Once on the air, KLMG will serve about 188,500 homes in 12 East Texas counties. The four-station East Texas Television Network would cover an area from Southern Oklahoma on the north to Houston on the south, and from Shreveport, La. on the east to Dallas on the west KLMG will have about 55 employees when fully staffed, Ferns said. "We are still negotiating for our management team.

We have a director of engineering and a general sales manager, and we are negotiating with a news director right now," he said. "Our news director and operations manager are all but hired, and these announcements will be forthcoming." Ferns said he was aware that "people have been anxiously awaiting the station. But we're talking about a tremendous outlay of money, millions of dollars. We want to be certain that once we come on, it'll be something East Texas will be proud of." Marriage and family therapist Dr. Eugene P.

Lang-ford will speak on discipline at G.K. Foster Kindergarten School at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, according to Ruth Maroney, Parent-Teacher Association president. Principal Nancy Ballard and the counselor Selton Nelson will also be featured. Concern about how to guide or "discipline" children effectively and humanely is common to all parents and teachers, Langford said.

Some parents and teachers seem so successful in child guidance and Langford said he believes one reason why is because their approach includes a knowledge of child development. When teachers and parents understand learning theories, sound pedagogy and above warmth, they will be successful in child guidance. "The absence of warmth renders any approach ineffective," he said. The basic assumptions of successful discipleneries include: Finding out the causes of the behavior, rather than reacting to the symptoms or the behavior itself. For example, every time anyone does anything, it is to meet an internal need, external need or both.

Positive approaches are more productive than negative ones. Langford said he feels that positive reinforcement of a behavior tends to increase the occurence of that behavior. Simply put, it's amazing that the teacher who yells and screams has a misbehaving class. Finally, approaches that foster internal behavioral controls rather than external controls or authoritarism to keep the peace. This approach fosters self-dicipline.

Langford will discuss parents and teachers accentuating the positive, being a model, and giving reinforcements. Anyone having classroom problems or problems affecting the family pattern can profit from the meeting, Langford said. Free child care will be provided for children two years to first grade. MM TV. JOIN Prosecutor to fight venue change DJJD HOUSTON (AP) A man who will prosecute a 16- ft wl a Freeze, snow in forecast It looks like Longview could become another skating rink, or at least get another snowfall, sometime tonight A spokesman at Chalk Hill weather station said the latest forecast calls for freezing rain and light snow during the night, with accumulations of snow of less than two inches.

Chances for precipitation tonight are 80 OF BENEFITS FOR A WORLD to death by injection. Assistant District Attorney Steve McCarthy opposed the change of venue motion and said he will present testimony from State District Judge ID. McMaster and Wilkerson's attorney, Robert Scardino Jr. He said the two would testify Jan. 30, although testimony in the hearing was scheduled today.

Randall is scheduled to go on trial Feb. 13. Since he is a juvenile, the maximum punishment he can receive if convicted is life in prison. Randall, Wilkerson and Kenneth Ray Ransom, a 20-year-old parolee expected to be tried in April, all were charged with capital murder in the slayings. year-old accused in the robbery and killings of four arcade employees says he will present testimony from the attorney of the teen-ager's co-defendant to show the boy can receive a fair trial in Harris County.

Defense attorneys for James Randall argued Monday that their client would not receive a fair trial in Houston because of publicity about the July 1 killings at the Malibu Grand Prix, a video games arcade and miniature race track. Randall is charged with capital murder. Richard James Wilkerson, a 19-year-old cousin of Randall's, was convicted earlier this month of killing the center's night manager. Wilkerson was sentenced You'll earn money market rates for your money while you enjoy the bonus advantages designed for very special people. Financial seminars, newsletters, economic updates, social events and planned escorted travel are added to the professional financial service that we believe Longview Bank and Trust customers deserve.

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1 "I did not see how justice would be served any better by putting them in county jail for a year," Johnson said. "But I did fine them the maximum." Alford, Graves and Greer resigned last year as part 6f a plea bargain agreement The three had been accused of receiving $500 in kickbacks from a supply 'company selling material to the county, Johnson said. Johnson said the three men had received a portion 'of a salesman's commission in exchange for a bid from the county. Johnson said the former commissioners could have taken the money if they had been private citizens instead of county officials. CASH CARRY MASTER CARD OR VISA FILE FOLDERS WASTE BASKETS METAL CARD CABINETS OFFICE FURNITURE PENS, PENCILS, MARKERS PAPER OF ALL KINDS AND MUCH MORE We'll fly Shreveport to Los Angeles where we'll join our personal escort to board our cruise ship.

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