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-T- mmm VeJL rw 1 nu fmt s-r -y 4 -w te 2A 1983 FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM JANUARY 28 1983 Rrr jaTiAJjafA'iafc'Bi'if lvmbs TILMUrnUUAiL Reaction mixed to Gov White's recommendations" Governor delivers wish list Continued from Page 1 larger fund for crime victims require new taxes "Our state government finances are in ery good shape and let anyone tell you he said task is not to decide where to cut Our task is to decide wisely where to spend "If do that 1 see no reason for inc reasing the taxes paid by the people of But White said he plans to bring fee collections "more in with needs One proposal by Sen John Leedom Dallas would raise about $120 million through fees over the next two years lute also said he would propose "innoatie to finance state construction probably the bond program for state buildings that was recommended several weeks ago by Clements Using bonds to finance costly construction projects would free more state money for services legislative wish list was revealed as he launched a $163000 television campaign to build public support for hisutihty proposals The advertisement is scheduled to air for nine days statewide It shows White in his office the election I promised sweeping changes in utility regulation Now as governor I intend to keep that promise Please help the legislators who agree with us by writing me about your His televised crusade is paid for by his political committee A future advertising campaign may plug his teacher salary proposal A $30000 newspaper advertising drive with coupons that irate utility customers can send to the governor also is planned White who opposed the election of commissioners during the primary election said he embraced the idea because elected officials are more responsive to the public "Now they ha ve no incentive to do anything about high rates When elected they know have to face the people six years he said in a brief press session after his speech His recommendation similar to bills introduced by Sen Kent Caper-ton D-Bryan and Sen Hugh Parmer D-Fort Worth is that three commissioners be elected for six-year terms with a ban on campaign contributions from utility gested by the governor or certainly something very close to it" The chairman of the House Edu- cation Committee Rep Bill Haley-j D-Center said the Texas Education Agency proposal that was endorsed by White calls for a $13940 salary for starting teachers "I think that is a very decent be- ginning Hopefully go beyonds it but if we still do Haley said 1 TAXES AND FEES Rep Stan Schlueter D-Salado chairman of the House Ways an4 Means Committee said White appeared to call for continuation ot the "no new taxes" policy that wag begun by his mentor former Govj Dolph Briscoe "I noticed Briscoe smiled when hfi said Schlueter said posture of the House is to live within current revenues" He said his committee will take seriously call for updating user fees for state services saying some even cover the costs of Sen Grant Jones D-Abilene chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said White might have spoken too soon about no new taxes "I think poorly advised to lock himself in a corner" he said have in Texas for a number of years simply failed to address some long-range problems got The longer we continue to defer addressing the problems the harder going to be and the more expensive going to be" CRIME AND DWI Rep Wayne Peveto D-Orange chairman of the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee predicted that lawmakers will heed call to repeal the law that wipes a drunken record clean after completion of probation He said his committee will strongly consider mandatory jail time for repeat offenders "If he does it a second time he probably will do some Peveto said he must be convinced that the Department of Public Safety needs more narcotics agents as White recommended "We want to look at the results they have gotten so far We are going to be looking at a lot of costs in law enforcement we have never looked at before We are wasting a lot of money in law enforcement" Peveto said Legislature convened for State of the State address FRIDAY MORNING ggar JT'iarrTT: FULL HOUSE joint session He acknowleged that it would be constitutionally tricky to keep utility company employees from donating money But he thinks it can be done because utilities unlike other businesses are regulated monopolies Influential lawmakers were doubtful that elected commissioners would gain legislative approval but White was confident got public he said "What we need is public information Every time you look under a rook on this thing something ugly comes out A lady burned to death in Houston because she had no utilities There was a hypothermia death These are things that occur in this he said White also wants the Legislature to establish an independent counsel to'represent homeowners and small businesses He asked for suffer regulation of the transactions that utilities make with their own affiliate "I love hat he Terri said as Hart competed in the National Western Rodeo in Denver last week really a good life and ou meet a lot of neat In the summer hen Hart may be hitting two rodeos a day he is only home three or four days each month that just makes me appreciate him more when he is Tern said "To tell you the truth not sure hat do with him when he does decide to The hardest part is when Terri be with him which is most of the time and knowing that he might be injured like he was last year A kick from a horse caved in one side of Hart's face at a rodeo in Hill City Kan "He was supposed to call that night and but I think too much about Terri said "The next morning my mother came in where I orked and said be upset but Jeff 's in the The injury knocked Hart off the circuit for two months Injury is something a cowboy simply lives with if he can not pleasant but always there They nurses resulted from a 24 percent increase in admissions in the 1970s Intensive care units also grew from 3200 admissions to more than 68000 during the same period it said The study conducted for the Department of Health and Human Services noted that the flow of students needed to maintain an adequate nurse supply depends on the availability of financial aid Most nursing students are women from families with moderate income and many count heavily on their own resources to finance their education Continued cutbacks in general student aid programs could keep these students out of school and cause another nursing shortage the report said The two-year study said federal support of nurse training was still needed a point of debate between Congress and several presidential of 'The Road' is toughest ride for any rodeo fuel-producing companies Once again he asked that separate charges for fuel now passed through directly to consumers be abolished agenda included a number of familiar proposals: Increased funding for bilingual education Curriculum changes to improve the teaching of reading writing and mathematics More money for the fund to compensate victims of crime The fund now is $16 million in debt He recommended increasing the fines on convicted criminals that feed the fund Department of Public Safety officers to supplement the 169 state narcotics agents Harsher penalties for drunk driving and a crackdown on repeat offenders A constitutional amendment expanding the Permanent University Fund to cover all schools in the can get hurt in any event but bull riding is the most dangerous "You seldom hear anybody sitting in the audience say that like to do that (bull riding) for a said Hart who rides Velvet Friday night in the bareback event at the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show Rodeo at Will Rogers Coliseum it's just the different way people have grown up just you against the animal something got to really want to do whether you do it for a living or three or four times a year just for It can be for kicks Hart rides bare-back now but he broke into pro rodeo as a two-event cowboy and won his Prof essional Rodeo Cowboy Association card mostly riding bulls ridden bulls a lot longer than I have Hart said a matter of wanting to quit I just started to win more money riding barebacks and I really afford to enter two events Most cowboys specialize in one event now and what I decided to do" Some cowboys quit bull riding as a By LEE JONES and RON HUTCHESON Star-Telegram Austin Bureau AUSTIN Gov Mark proposal to elect members of the Public Utility Commission has a "very good chance" of passing Speaker Gib Lewis said Thursday but a Senate sponsor said the chances are only 50-50 recommendations in areas ranging from utilities to teacher pay taxes and crime were applauded as he spoke but key legislators indicated that support was far from unanimous Lt Gov Bill Hobby who opposes electing utility commissioners called it "a greatly overblown issue" matter how you select them going to be administering the same Hobby said Sen Hugh Parmer D-Fort Worth filed a bill shortly after speech to implement nearly all of the PUC suggestions say its chances are no worse than 50-50 probably not much he said Utility lobbyist Don Rives former top aide said backing improves the chances "Governors have a way of getting the things they want going to be a tough battle no doubt about White said that if the PUC is elected utility interests should be prohibited from making campaign donations Several legislators said this might be unconstitutional TEACHER SALARIES TheTexasStateTeachers Association was generally pleased by proposal to pass a 24 percent $14 billion teacher pay raise ahead of the general state budget bill But Hobby and House Appropriations Committee chairman Bill Presnal D-Bryan said it would be better to keep teacher pay in the overall budget Presnal said giving teachers first bite from the budgetary apple could shortchange others "This could mean we would have to back off entirely on pay raises for state employees That would be my concern that we spent all the money and took it out of the hide of state employees" Presnal said Lewis was more receptive "In the area of emergency pay raises for teachers I think it can be done very realistically at the percentage sug something in yourself by on him and him If scared just no use on" Coe also rides Saturday night in Fort Worth after competing in a college rodeo at Temple earlier in the day harder the bull is to ride the ranker (meaner) he is the more strain it is on the rider Coe said like guys who run marathon races When they get to that 23rd 24th mile there's a point where it comes down to whether they really want to do it or not got to have that extra grit to get on with it What it finally gets to is that the guys who wins are the ones who try the And for the cowboy on top of that bull or wild horse an ecstatic high hard to describe an aggressive feeling like really accomplishing Morris said flowing pumped up soaring a high like I imagine car racing must a new experience every time Hart said me against the animal and something in that challenge that I Fort Worth StarTelegram (USPS 206-260) SUNDAY Combining the Fort Worth Star established February 1 1906 the Fort Worth Telegram purchased January 1 1909 the Fort Worth Record purchased November 1 1925 Second class postage paid at Fort Worth Texas Published doily ot 400 West 7th St 76102 TELEPHONE NUMBERS Circulation Department 335-4837 (Just dial DEL IVER) Classified Department 737-8587 (Just dial RES-ULTS) All Other Departments 336-9271 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Subscription Rates: Monthly by carrier Delivery Morning or Evening only $500 Morning and Sunday or Evening and Sunday $700 Morning Evening and Sunday $900 Weekend editions plus four holiday copies $500 Single copy: Morning or Evening $25 Sunday $75 By mail in US and Possessions Daily ond Sunday $1125 per month or $11500 per year Daily only $9 50 per month or $9250 per year Sundoy only $750 per month or $7300 per year All prices include postage For missed copies call your carrier or distributor or Customer Service Department 335-4837 (DELIVER) 600 om to 930 or 430 pm to 7:30 pm Daily Saturdays 7:30 om to 10:30 om 7:30 om to 1 1:30 om Continued from Page 1 little The one side of rodeo life that may have been exaggerated through story and song is the night life Jennings Nelson Haggard and the boys have convinced a lot of folks that rodeoing is a carmval-like tour of honky-tonks and good-time saloons and a never-ending round of long-necks But most rodeo cow boys have too many miles to travel and too many tough broncs to mount to spend a lot of time bending the elbow "Everybody needs to go out and have a good time once in a Hart said "but I make a practice of going to bars without my wife I know some guys get out at night andiflwassingleitmightbe different for me But I think it can affect ou the next day not saying anything bad about people dong hat they want to do If they cai do that and win fine But I take a Lttle more athletic view of rodeoing than Terris background and the joy she gets watching Jeff compete heps her understand his drive to -rceed Associated Press University of Texas and Texas systems White promised during his campaign to help create more jobs in Texas and he established a bipartisan task force to recommend ways of attacking the problem The task force will devise a plan for financing the bankrupt state unemployment compensation fund and a tax-credit incentive plan for businesses that hire the unemployed White said He has also asked the task force to recommend better vocational education programs and better university research programs for industry "1 will not be sending you legislative recommendations just for the sake of passing more laws for the sake of compiling a legislative scorecard" White told lawmakers have plenty of laws on the books already The trouble is they been made to work either fully or effectively That will be one of the tests of my matter of choice Some find the decision made for them either because of injury or just plain fear "It got to the point where I just get on bulls any said Lane Morris a Warren Texas bare-back rider who competes Saturday night "Fear is a man-made deal and each man has to learn to handle it the best way he can I found sticking to barebacks was the best way for me" Bugs Coe a 19-year-old sophomore at Sam Houston State is in his second year on the pro circuit as a bull rider well aware of just how dangerous a vocation that he has Bull riding has been called the most dangerous 8 seconds in sports ou get nervous and everything right before you ride and the possibility of what might happen runs through your mind" said Coe who won a rodeo scholarship "The bull could jump on you or hook you or you might get killed But then you might get killed walking down the street just got to put the fear in the back of your mind I know people say crazy to get on a bull But like got to defeat be genuinely effective in reducing the nuclear threat if its width is not 300 kilometers but 500600 the statement said Although both NATO and Warsaw Pact battlefield nuclear arms are primarily situated in central Europe the Soviets proposed to extend the nuclear-free corridor to the north of Europe and to the Balkans in the south EiaumL'iBmmLnawu mj Correction Based on figures provided by the Environmental Protection Agency the Star-Telegram reported on Wednesday and Thursday that ozone levels in Fort Worth had reached levels as high as 14 parts per million in 1981 Roger Meacham a public-information specialist in the EPA Dallas Regional Office said the figure should be 14 parts per million cowboy Hart short and wiry is a typical sized bronc rider at 5-foot-8 135 pounds He is known as a corner someone just around the corner from the National Finals Rodeo (for the top 15 money winners in each event) Last weekend at Denver and Indianapolis he won a little more than $2800 "I think got what it takes to win" Hart said got to ride good and got to ride when too tired to walk Life a giant strainer the road sifts out the weak and leaves nothing but the real rodeo cowboys all psychological" Morris said a tremendous mental pressure to give a 100 percent every time you ride a lot of guys who can ride hundreds of But the ones who win are the guys who go to one rodeo after another who keep on down the road who can handle being broke and lonely" a different lifestyle but it's one the cowboys crave have to love this sport to do Hart said "And I love it" NEXT: The challenge: Jeff Hart vs NEED EXTRA (EASE STAR-TELEGRAM CLASSIFIEDS JUST DIAL RES-ULTS Soviets propose nuclear-free zone Increased demand cited for shortage of nurses Associated Press WASHINGTON Recent shortages of nurses arose from greatly increased demands and not because many quit out of dissatisfaction with low pay and poor working conditions a National Academy of Sciences study concluded Thursday The shortages are over in most of the country the report said but could happen again if cutbacks in financial aid to students continue Many nurses are indeed unhappy about their pay and working conditions but that did not cause a drop in the number of nurses over the past two decades the study said The supply of registered nurses increased sharply during those years with the number at work growing from 550000 in 1962 to an estimated 1360000 in 1982 Increased demand for nurses at hospitals which employ two-thirds of the registers Continued from Page 1 many except for a small area east of Dresden The northern part of Czechoslovakia would also be affected The proposal offered Thursday was seen by Westefn diplomats as part of continued Soviet efforts to influence public opinion in Western Europe and particularly in West Germany just prior to its election March 6 Tass said the Swedish proposal "would not result in any substantial reduction in nuclear because munitions withdrawn from that zone could be brought back within a short Moreover newer weapons have greater ranges and technical sophistication than in past decades The statement also said that a 186-mile zone would not restrict "the potentialities of tactical which it said is one of the "basic of the battlefield nuclear arms "In view of that the Soviet side believes that the proposed zone can.