Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 13

CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Tue March 231976 HA Tap equipment more of natural gas tax load from Texas Texas Briefs Clayton Wyatt Hundreds of police and volunteers had spent several days searching the area Texas site pushed for solar facility AUSTIN The Public Utility Commission of Texas wrote President Ford on Monday urging that Texas be selected as the site for the proposed federal Solar Energy Research Institute The Energy Research and Development Administration will select the site by early December Denton joins call for special session AUSTIN Rep Lane Denton D-Waco Monday Joined the clamor from legislators and others for a special session on energy relief Denton a candidate for railroad commissioner' said Texans paid $1 billion more for utilities last year than in 1974 "I am not sure that the people in our state can wait until the next legislative session for relief I will be happy to give you specific cases of hardship if you so he wrote the governor He enclosed three bills he introduced in the 1973 and 1975 legislative sessions as specific matters that a special session could take up SyTMJ HOUSTON A federal court Jury heard testimony Monday that wiretap equipment and a log book disappeared in 1973 from the Houston police department Joe Humbarger of the police communications division testified he and James Fowler a communications officer packed the devices and the log book showing who had used the equipment in a box and stored them in room 605 at police headquarters Humbarger testified as a government witness in the trial of nine police officers and a former officer who are charged with illegal wiretapping Both Humbarger and Fowler have been granted immunity from prosecution Humbarger said the equipment and log book were stored after the arrest of two narcotics officers Carlos Avllia 31 and Antony Zavala 33 who later entered pleas of guilty to charges of illegal wiretapping Under cross examination Humbarger 53 said the department still uses body microphones which are legal He said he would not "touch another piece of electronic surveillance equip- ment for all the tea in Caddo Mills farmer gets hero award DALLAS Jerry Don Wood a 29-year-old Caddo Mills farmer who led AUSTIN (AP) If Texas natural gaa had been taxed last year on a rate" Instead of a percentage of Its price Texas consumers would have saved 925 million Speaker Bill Clayton said Monday Clayton and state Rep Joe Wyatt held a joint news conference to announce that Wyatt's House Ways and Means Committee will begin work April 1-2 on bills to shift more of the gas production tax burden out of statd Wyatt D-Bloomington said one proposal would cut the tax added to through" gas costs from 14 cents to 85 cents per 1000 cubic feet in gas such as Austin and San Antonio Clayton and Wyatt said they want to have bills ready in case Gov Dolph Briscoe calls a special session on energy tax relief doubt seriously there will be a' special session but I want us to be prepared if this becomes such a crisis the governor calls a special Clayton said Rep John Wilson D-La Grange says Briscoe might call a special session if legislative leaders show him a package of workable energy relief bills Briscoe said last Tuesday he has no plans for a session but might change his mind if convinced one could accomplish anything Texas levies a tax of 7M per cent of the price of natural gas at the wellhead Federal regulations limit the interstate price of gas to 52 cents per 1000 cubic feet (mef) while the unregulated intrastate price runs as high as 5185 Clayton said this price differential means Texans paid $2030 million in production taxes last year while out-of-staters paid $592 million He said a flat rate of 336 cents per mef would have produced the same total amount of revenue but easterners and northerners would have paid $254 million more The Texas consumer's share would have dropped by the same amount he said But since production is declining a flat rate based on quantity would cause revenue to decline Wyatt said his committee would look at a combined "flat rate" and percentage of price approach To maintain the current revenue level from the tax a flat rate of 3 cents per mef coupled with 4 per cent of market value would be necessary he said He said a changeover from a tax rate based purely on price would not be an unmixed blessing to all Texans Man wins fight loses opponent AUSTIN (AP) James Chapman won his fight in the Texas Supreme Court Monday to keep the name of Ed Palmer II a potential opponent off the ballot for district attorney in an east Texas race Palmer mailed his application Feb 2 prior to the pm filing deadline But Calvin Guest state Democratic party chairman refused to accept his filing application and place Palmer's name on the May 1 primary ballot Guest said Palmer had not complied with the requirement that the application be postmarked on or before Feb 1 The Tyler Court of Civil appeals overruled Guest and ordered that Palmer's name be put on the ballot and Chapman appealed to the supreme court a posse of citisens in the chase of fleeing bank robbers was presented the Texas Hero of the Year award Monday Wood father of two small children was leaving the State National Bank of Caddo Mills Sept 17 when he notice two men putting on ski masks as they entered the bank He notified law enforcement officers then grabbed a rifle from his car and took up a post along the street When the robbers came out of the bank Wood and Larry Boat a town barber opened fire and shot out a tire of the getaway car Boy's body found at sewer plant HOUSTON The body of a small boy was found Monday in a 30-foot deep tank at the Jacinto City sewage treating plant Police said the body had been tentatively identified from clothing as David Gonsales 30 months who had been missing since Feb 17 The Gonsales family lives abouttwo blocks from the plant Runoff expected in race between RRC candidates pre-inventory MONTHS FREE LESSONS WITH ANY PIANO OR ORGAN WURUTZER 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Woodrow Bean 58 El Paso a member of the State Board of Education and Williams 55 Val Verde Newton and Denton whom many consider the front runners at least partially because their campaigns are better financed oppose the pass-through fuel allowance granted by the present Railroad Commission to Lo-Vaca Gathering Co Denton and O'Rourke contended hotly for the endorsement of the Texas AFL- CIO and Denton won the highly Influential sanction O'Rourke has said he wants to be Texas' "advocate" In Washington on energy matters Wendlandt whose campaign has been limited because he has no primary competition was author of the so-called Wendlandt Plan when he was a commission examiner looking into the Lo-Vaca gas curtailments He recommended that Lo-Vaca and its parent company Coastal States Producing Co repay contract customers such as Austin San Antonio and the Lower Colorado River Authority' for excess charges made for gas before any stock dividends are paid By GARTH JONES AUSTIN (AP) most active political race this year for the Railroad Commission apparently won't be settled 1 until November With a little over a month before the May 1 primary voting there are indications the fight between eight Democrats will end up in a runoff election on June 5 Then the Democratic winner will meet Republican Walter Wendlandt 48 Aus- tin a former division head of the Railroad Commission at the Nov 2 general election This is the first time in 35 years that Texas voters will have a direct hsnd in electing a new member of the coitimls- sion to replace retiring Ben Ramsey In previous years retiring commission-'ers usually resigned before the end of their terms and successors were appointed by the governor An appointee then was able to run as an incumbent at the end of the six-year term 600 Bicentennial events scheduled in Texas AUSTIN (AP) More than 600 Bicen- tennial happenings are scheduled in Texas during the next six months the State Department of Highways and Pub- lie Transportation said 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