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Austin Amorican-Stnlpsinan citystate Tuesday, May 29, 1 979 B1 Why stay wet and cold? The city of Austin, with help from the U.S. government, has a program to 'weatherize' homes of low-income residents, which can help those utility bills. Page B3. Centennial celebration The Copperas Cove Centennial, an eight-day celebration that includes a pageant, a community picnic and combined church services, gets under way Sunday. Page B5.

AISD 'restraint' act 'clarified9 tjohn kelso who wrote it," he continued. Bingham said he can't "envision" board members cutting off criticism directed at them during public sessions since trustees are elected officials. Also subject to interpretation is the word "critical," which means different things to different people, he said. "What the regulation is simply meant to do is that if you're going to relate matters considered critical or de-See AISD. B5 In a 5-1 vote, trustees decreed that people addressing the board should not say things that are "critical of or damaging to specific personnel." Trustee Jerry Nugent, who called the policy a form of "prior restraint," voted against it.

Board member Will Davis was "If called upon" to interpret the policy, Bingham said he would have to say that "personnel" would mean "anybody who works for the district. "But a policy is subject to interpretation by the people By TRACY CORTESE American-Statesman Staff A policy passed by Austin school trustees Monday night limiting comments during public sessions may or may not apply to the board, the school board's attorney said today. It all depends on how trustees interpret their new policy. "Interpretations of policy generally have little to do with intent. It may have been intended to apply to board members," said Bill Bingham, attorney for the Austin Independent School District.

Senate kills nuclear waste disposal bill By DAVE McNEELY American-Statesman Staff A bill that would have given the State Department of Health control over disposal of low-level nuclear waste was killed in the Texas Senate Monday, after Sen. Babe Schwartz of Galveston shouted that it was based on "abysmal ignorance." Schwartz, a Democrat, said that no one knew what it would cost, how it would work and what the results might be. The Senate listened to him briefly and voted 17 to 14 against concurring with an amendment that had been put on the bill in the House. Environmentalists had expressed fears that the bill might allow disposal of waste without providing money to maintain perpetual care of the waste, some of which can remain radioactive for thousands of years. Schwartz pointed out that the legislation carried only a $200 penalty if the provision for dumping waste was abused.

He warned that the bill would give the state ownership of the low-level waste disposal sites, such as tailings from uranium mines. "It will be your waste site," he said. I I A tl jaw- e. uriifnirinnrl ttrimTrt'tCTiii't-'waiiiimiiillSi -1riirrii tHminWfrriilirairniriTTiiiT'piiii iinni irmw V---f Stafl Photo Honoring war dead Boy Scout Mike Garza plays taps at Assumption Cemetery Monday where about 40 Austin residents gathered at Me- morial Day ceremonies to honor the 385 war dead who are buried there. Housing agency legislation granted final approval market in the Parker said.

The original Senate version of the "The adoption of this compromise measure represents the culmination of a great deal of study and effort," Parker said after the vote, "and I feel certain that the impact made by this agency in attracting federal funds to our state and in leveraging housing dollars through the issuance of revenue bonds with no credit or liability for the state will diminish the housing needs in Texas." By DAVE McNEELY American-Statesman Staff Sen. Carl Parker of Port Arthur got his Texas Housing Agency for low- and moderate-income housing Monday, as the House and Senate approved a conference committee report fine-tuning legislation passed in both houses in different form. Parker said the chief differences between the two houses on SB 296 were in the agency's structure and its authority to issue bonds. The final authority as approved by the Legislature would have a nine-member board, named by the governor, with the executive director of the Texas Department of Community Affairs serving as non-voting board chairman. "The agency will issue revenue bonds for purposes of improving the housing measure would have allowed both revenue bonds and general obligation bonds.

Final vote on approving the conference committee by the Senate was 26-5. The House vote on approving the report was 96-45, with Beaumont Rep. Al Price as bill sponsor. It's the only morally right thing to do I have finally decided on a running mate. When I am elected president, my vice president will be Newton Kensington's mother.

In a moral sense, our country has gone to hell. Wet T-shirt contests. Happy hour. Pictures of naked women in magazines. Pictures of naked men in magazines.

Naked men and naked women looking at pictures in magazines. IT IS TIME America returned to the basics. Newton Kensington's mother wouldn't stand for any of this falderal, which is why I have selected Newton Kensington's mother for the job. All of this happened back before the invention of dope, which was discovered somewhere around 1963. I was a student at Laconia (N.H.) High School at the time.

And Newton Kensington's mother was at home at the time. Newton Kensington's mother was almost always at home at the time. ANYWAY, ONE evening I drove over to Newton Kensington's house with Jeff Lunn in my old, beat-up Peugeot to pick up Newton Kensington so we could all go to the dance. "You boys stay out of trouble," Newton Kensington's mother told us as we left the house. Newton Kensington's mother almost always told us to stay out of trouble as we left the house.

"And no funny business," Newton Kensington's father said. Newton Kensington's father almost always told us no funny business. About 15 minutes later one of us used a phony identification card to procure two six-packs of malt liquor. When I say one of us, I am referring to either Newton Kensington, Jeff Lunn or me. It is up to your imagination to figure out just exactly who did the buying.

THEN WE WENT to the dance, where I chased girls and Newton Kensington and Jeff Lunn dreamed of drinking malt liquor. Which they went outside to my car to do after about a half an hour at the dance. Meanwhile, I stayed inside at the dance and chased more girls. Outside, in the back seat of my car, both Newton Kensington and Jeff Lunn were quite startled when Laconia Police Department Patrolman Ernie Smith surrounded the car all by himself. Ernie Smith could do that because he was about 8 feet, 6'6 inches tall.

AND NEWTON KENSINGTON, being a sprinter on the high school track team, took off down the street as fast as he could go. As did Patrolman Ernie Smith, who caught up with Newton Kensington after about half a block. Ernie Smith could do that, too. This was because Ernie Smith, who had tried out with the Green Bay Packers, could run 100 yards in approximately three seconds with a broken pelvis. Newton Kensington, of course, gave up, and both Newton Kensington and Jeff Lunn were taken downtown, where they were arrested for owning booze under age.

AND I BEAT the rap. Neither Newton Kensington nor Jeff Lunn would tell Patrolman Ernie Smith who owned the car within which they'd been drinking. They said they didn't know whose it was and that they'd jumped into the back seat of it because it was unlocked. All of which made Newton Kensington's mother livid. Newton Kensington's mother told Newton Kensington she thought I should have turned myself in.

Newton Kensington didn't say anything. "I thought I told you no funny business," Newton Kensington's father said. Well, that was 18 years ago, so I figured Newton Kensington's mother would have forgotten about it. But I was soooooo wrong. You see, Newton Kensington's sister lives in Austin these days.

And when she had a baby this past winter, Newton Kensington's mother came from her home in New Hampshire to Austin to see the child and say a few hello goo-goo's. AND, WHEN SHE got here, she phoned me and asked me to come talk to her at Newton Kensington's sister's house. Which I did. And you know what Newton Kensington's mother said to me after all those years? "You know," she exclaimed at one point in the conversation, "Newton never did think much of you after that." The fact of the matter is that Newton Kensington never worried about it much one way or the other. It was Newton Kensington's mother who all along figured I should have turned myself in.

I admire that sort of moral stick-to-itiveness, which is why I have chosen Newton Kensington's mother for vice president. But I'm still not going to give myself up to the authorities. Senate turns back armadillo citation Boats on Lake Travis flipped over by storm By DAVE McNEELY American-Statesman Staff It was demonstrated once again Monday that not even an armadillo is safe in the Texas Senate. The beast that is revered by some people apparently was sufficiently despised or distrusted by enough members of the Senate that it simply couldn't gain the status of State Mammal that had been suggested for it by some Houston fifth-graders and by the Texas House of Representatives. Sen.

John Traeger of Seguin complained that the House had pulled "a complete double-jump substitute" by trying to ennoble the armadillo after having earlier rejected it. Sen. Walter Mengden of Houston, Senate sponsor of the armadillo effort, said the "little horny humpty-backed animal" deserved a slot among the state's finest. Not so, Traeger replied. They tear up yards and gardens.

They are, he said, "a completely worthless, sorry animal." The Senate solved the matter by voting 24 to 6 to send the armadillo enshrinement back to a conference committee with instructions that the little fellow be made the mascot of the House of Representatives. But the second half of Cedar Park didn't escape the darkness. A spokesman for the Peder-nales Electric Co-op said a lightning strike at a power substation blacked out the rest of the Cedar Park community as well as Jonestown. About 2,000 co-op customers were blacked out for about two hours, the spokesman said. At 8:30 p.m., Leander and Cedar Park residents north of Ranch Road 1431 were still without power.

Maintenance men working to repair the downed line, which fell across U.S. 183 blocking traffic for about 30 minutes, could not be reached for comment late Monday. The driver of the truck involved in the accident was not injured, but Williamson County sheriff's deputies had to be routed around the blocked highway to respond to other minor traffic accidents. Travis County Deputy Sheriff Bill Reilly said See Storm, B5 By ROBERT SCHWAB American-Statesman Staff An afternoon thunderstorm swept across north Travis County and all of Williamson County Monday, flipping boats on Lake Travis, causing blackouts in Leander, Jonestown and Cedar Park, and dropping temperatures like a good air conditioner. Area law officers reported no injuries or major damage from the storm, but one of the Travis County sheriff's office patrol boats picked one family out of the lake after their fishing boat sank.

Two other craft on the lake were capsized during the storm. A dump truck slid out of control in the rain, struck and knocked down a powerline pole on U.S. 183 between Cedar Park and Leander, causing a blackout for all of Leander's 1,500 residents and about half of Cedar Park's 2,500 citizens. Giant killers join forces Georgetown, Leander link jurisdictional areas to stop Austin's northward expansion By KAY POWERS American-Statesman Staff Georgetown and Leander have turned giant killers to stop the northward trek of what they consider a Goliath the City of Austin by joining their extraterritorial jurisdictions along a road connecting the two small towns. A city has no law enforcement powers within its jurisdictional area, only limited approval of such things as subdivisions and certain conditions.

But by law no other city can expand across another's jurisdictional area. By drawing a battle line with new jurisdictional areas, officials in Leander and Georgetown think they have undertaken a coup that will stop any Austin plans to extend its boundaries to the north. The line is along FM 2243, which runs the 11 miles between Leander (population 1,500) and Georgetown (population 9,000) to the west. Leander is 25 miles north of Austin on U.S. 183, and Georgetown is 30 miles north of Austin on Interstate 35.

For the past few months, with a nervous eye on Austin's northward expansion, the two Williamson County municipalities quietly have scurried about getting property owners to agree to become part of their respective jurisdictions. Austin City Manager Dan Davidson said Monday that he did not know about the move but doubted that it is necessary since the city has no plans to acquire land that far north. Last Thursday, in a 4 p.m. special meeting, Georgetown's City Council jubilantly fitted the last piece of property into place, running its territorial jurisdiction out about five miles from the city limits to meet that of Leander, which had been moving toward Georgetown for several weeks, parcel by parcel. Joe Ventura, Leander's city attorney, called the move "more significant than just a strip of property between Leander and Georgetown.

What this means to Austin and any plans it might have to annex farther northward into Williamson County is that it will have to go west around Leander or east around Georgetown." Jim Colbert, a Georgetown city planner, said that when Georgetown officials contacted landowners, "without exception, they were willing to come into our (territorial jurisdiction)." The coup had to be completed in stages, however. Colbert said that that was because of the legal "contiguous" provision, which says the city has to deal with one parcel at a time, before it can go on to the next. This meant the council was meeting as often as every 72 hours during some stretches, Colbert said, to abide by the law in posting the necessary notices for the meetings. He acknowledged that the meetings were pretty low-key, so as not to attract a lot of attention, but said that the action on annexing property was always taken in open session,.