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9 lp IP 'IP I 11 1 reiiimmoimEmNhs r1 1 09 Saturday Star Telegram MAY 1 1982 iW Cities' OK sought on mortgage bonds including Fort Worth and Arlington to approve use of the program ithin their city boundaries Thv Fort Worth City Council is sited uled to hear a presentation on the mortgage plan Tuesday night lithe program goes as planned the Inds will be sold on June 16 and mortgages made available to quaii lied home buyers on a first-come first-served basis Jackson said Interest rates on the mortgages would be no higher than 14 percent Mortgage Report a I louston-based Width Surveys Jocal lenders each week The Tarrant County Housing Finance Corp began efforts April 12 to put I he single-family mortage program together The first discussions focused on offering about $86 million in mortgage money but the final fig ure was set this week at $100 million Jackson saki The program is aimed at low- and moderate-income home-buyers and is limited to families with est rates scuttled previous ellios -I'm enthusiastic about it" Jackson said of the current plan "When we started this program we were looking at 9 percent (interest rates) Now we're looking at 14 percent and we're still uncomfortable but the people can't buy houses elsewhere for anything near that" Nlortgage interest rates offered by traditional lenders in the Fort Worth Dallas area this week averaged just over 16 percent according to The annual incomes under $40Ooo The county created the housing corporation to take advantage of state and federal laws allowing the sale of lavexempt bonds to finance low-interest loans to developers home owners and home buyers County Commissioners A Lyn (ire gory Dick Anderson and Jerry Ntebus and County Audi tor Jack Ben son are the corporation's directors along with Jackson who is county Please see Cities on Page I I 1 '47e7Z411-L a-' 14-14 11opo k- -m Pi" 3r 4'! el -5-orp 1 4 o' 4it ii 1 r-a10 4'il etct 1 l' iv i 10' 0 11 1: 14141 '777 I I N' (41V: 1 '41111: 1 ft' 4 14001 4" 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be more next Pengo manufacturers oilfield logging and servicing equip- ment lie said he could not estimate how many additional employees might be idled next week nor when those laid off this might he called back Ted Woodle general manager of American's plant on the city's North Side firrn's 800 workers are sched-: uled to return from a two-week vacation period May 3 but the company may idle workers for another week or two "in the future" Woodle could not say 110W long those workers laid off next week might be idled American makes oilfield pipe products and equipment Both company representatives said they believed conditions could improve soon "We're hopeful that the worst is over" said Pengo's Yur cho "Business vonditions are improv- tog slightly" said 1Voodle "1 would say that in the next 60 days we will be back into normal operations maybe a little above 1 think the oil glut is going to be over and are going tu be back to busines as usual" Domestic petroleum drilling has dropped dramatically from last year's record highs cuttin the business of service and equipment operators According to the Hughes Tool Co (trilling rig count active rigs in the United States are down from a record high of 4530 rigs in December to 3310 rigs as of April 26 Yurcho said the resulting gap hi ween forecast and actual drilling ac- I ivity already has squeezed marginal ly-financed operators of business Yurcho said about half of Pengo's furloughed workers were in its elec tronics manufacturing operations while 24 in the company's machine shop with the remainder scat tered throughout the company investor shop Temple Texas He has owned the shop since 1949 and he repairs mowers tillers and other small machinery SPRING IS A BUSY time for CF Honeycutt 76 a retired automobile mechanic who works on a row of lawn mowers outside his repair STAR-Text brings news to the screen It low er rate possible depending on money market conditions at the of the bond sale The loans will be 30-year mortgages with fixed interest rates The county corporation has made several attempts during the past year anti a half to put together a lowinter est mortgage program for single family home purchases but corpora Lion officials and local lenders are confident the program will be suecessful this time Fear of high inter it leaves the editor's desk" and probably hours before it appears printed in a newspaper The news stories generally will be condensed to roughly 16 paragraphs Charles Phillips vice president of special market's for Tandy said his company is working with four other newspapers mostly in the Midwest developing a similar semice "A lot are experimenting" with the concept he said of newspapers in general News retrieval systems have been offered for some time by CompuServe a nationally-available service based in Columbus Ohio and by the Dow Jones Co The Dallas Morning LiguidCaolt4lIncm 18 13 94 07 LiquidCash Trust 1 1324 76 LiouldGreefle 26 1373 03 LordAbbettCshRes 22 1315 01 Lutheran Broth 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services with an untried marketing strategy company president James Landon said Friday afternoon at the motel chains 20th anniversary celebration here Landon how ever qualified the statement saying he used similiar strategies as senior vice president of the Atlanta-based Days Inns Inc which expanded from a chain of 14 motels to 314 under his direction Landon said that his strategy is to wage war on Rodeway's competitors at a time when many middle market motel chains are moving toward offering budget or luxury accommoda1 ions That is why Rodeway "will continue to provide a comfortable product with convenient services at an affordable price" said Rodeway market manager Steve Taylor Landon believes the nation's current state of economic affairs will cause travelers to seek middle-of-the-road lodging accommodations such as those offered by Rodeway and its major competitors Ramada Inn Quality Inns Holiday Inns and Travel Lodge All of these chains offer lodging with finer amenities than budget motelsat a price below luxury hotels Landon hopes to double the number of Rodeway motels a current 150 0 300 within five years Eighty percent of the expansion will result from Rodeway buying existing motels refurbishing them and putting up the Rodeway sign Landon said To sell its product the company has launched gift games for customers and employees extensive advertising and public ielations programs and special events One of the special events was Friday's anniversary party at the Rode-way Inn at Six Flags Over Texas amusement park During the party Rodeway donated $22820 to the Special Olympics program the largest and best-known program of physical fitness sports training and athletic competition for handicapped children and adults Rodeway hopes to gain a strong foothold in the marketplace by increasing its name identity increasing use of its toll-free reservation telephone number and boosting its occupancy by 15 percent each year Landon said Braniff loses $414 million in first quarter By JIM FUQUAY Star-Telegram Business Writer Braniff International Corp reported Friday it had a net loss of $414 million in the first three months of 1982 The struggling airline had an operating loss of $412 million for the quarter The losses compared with a $247 million net loss and a $454000 operaing profit in the first quarter of 1981 Revenues plummeted 217 percent compared to the same period in 1981 falling from $3252 million to $2545 million Expenses dropped 89 percent to $2958 million down from last year's 83248 million Braniff Chairman 'Toward Putnam said he was pleased with the airline's results in reducing the scope of Braniff's operations and its costs lie said Eastern Airline's agreement to operate Braniff's South American routes beginning June 1 Nvill provide a "catalyst in downsizing Braniff to a low cost low fare economically viable airline" concessions from its 39 private lenders Wit0 have forgiven interest and principal repayments until Oct' saved the airline $17 million in interest expenses during 11w quarter The airline also netted $49 million on the sale of property and equipment Please see Braniff on Page 11 News operates its BISON system in Dallas' Park Cities communities STAR-Text initially will offer edited versions of the eight top stories in a variety of news categories including amusements business sports local national and world General listings will include movie and restaurant reviews weather information and weekend happenings among others A STAR-Text subscription will cost $3 a month However to receive the service a customer must have access to a home computer teminal that is compatible with STAR-Text Tandy's Videotex terminal at $399 is that firm's cheapest compatible unit Tandys Color Computer and Apple computers fitted with Tandy's videotex software program also can receive the information Steinert-Threlkeld said an ifistallment purchase plan for Videotex terminals is being offered through Fort Worth National Bank By BY 1VARREN VOLKMANN and JIM FUQUAY For those who prefer to pick up the days news on their television screen rather than the front porch the Sin rTeleura Hi in a joint effort with Tandy Corp Nvill int roduce an electronic news service called STAR-Text that NUJ be accessible to persons with compatible homecomputersystems STAR-Text ill be available 24 hours a day and of fersubscribers breaking news entertainment listings travel information and classified adsThe service begins Monday According to Torn Steinert-Threlkcid director of new technologies for Capital Cities Communications parent company of the Star-Telegram "STAR-Text ill focus on immediate concise information The big advantage in electronic news is that you can get the news out fast" SteinertThrelkeld said news will be available to STAR-Text subscribers "as soon as Money market funds Spartan life urged for STAR-Text organizers have compiled a brief operating booklet that introduces customers to the service and which gives instructions for use When the system goes into operation it will use what is termed the "advanced entry" method of sending information to home computers The method involves the subscriber making a telephone call to a central information number calling up the desired information and then receiving and reading the information If additional information is needed the customer must redial the information number and ask for the new information Phillips said STAR-Text on4anize1' are hopeful that by mid-year they can institute a more convenienron-line" data retrieval method that allows the customer to remain hooked up to the central information source and browse through the available listings without having to dial again And at the same time he's selling hightechnology stocks he's formulating a book on "how the average man can use technology to get more control of the world around him" Chapters may include "how to have fun with lasers" flying ultralite aircraft and how to build a nuclear bomb When Casey breezed through town last year he was promoting the paperback version of his bestseller Crisis Investing Now that the crisis he foretold in that volume has arrived Casey was hack in Fort Worth Friday promoting its sequel Strategic in resting Although its too early to tell whether readers will embrace the new book as enthusiastically as they did the last Casey suspects they Won't "Greed is a much bigger inducer to action than fear And right now there are no booming markets to invest in But paradoxically its much easier to get rich in hard times than in easy times" he said According to Casey the nation already is in a depression one much worse than the Great One but masked by government intervention Federal bailouts are forstalling bankruptcies securities regulations are preventing collapse of the finan cial markets and the unemployed are accepting welfare instead of selling apples But most significantly prices still are rising albeit more slowly than in the recent past 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12 41 1407 01 016410 undVdd 15 13 15 35 14 30 05 31 1380 2 1399 00 1774 68 7 105 04 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 By KATHLEEN STALL) ER Star-Telegram Business IS riter For author Doug Casey life is a paradox He calls himself an anarchist yet lives in the na- tion's capital Ile contends 00 that government is the root of all -U evil but recent- mends purchase of government securities "be- cause they're 74le safe In his recently released book DOUG Strategic Invest- CASEY ing Casey urges readers to adopt a spartan paring possessions to the bone riding a bicycle to work heating with wood denying daughers $4995 designer jeans If you're in the 50 percent tax bracket he says a dollar saved is two dollars earned Yet this 35-year-old millionaire lives in Washington's fashionable Georgetown neighborhood "in one of the Abscam houses" jets around the globe two months a year and is transforming a 1982 Trans Am into a "stealth car" that will make the James Bond-mobile look like a World War II relic A contrarian extraordinaire Casey is bullish on those stocks most brokers shun like utilities especially those in the depressed Northeast with inadequate generating capacity and nuclear interests pression means deflat ionT he said Instead of letting he economy cleanse itself as it did in the 1930s Casey predicts the government will "bail out insolvent banks create mortgages to prop up real estate and have the Federal Reserve buy bonds 1 to keep their prices from plummet ing All of this means the money supply will explode consumer prices will skyrocket and the nation will enter a "hyperinflationary depres sion" similar to that experienced by Germany in the 1920s But don't fret Catastrophe breeds opportunity for those willing to spec ulate Casey said In fact Casey should have called his new book "Speculative Investing" hut was afraid that title might dissuade I he misguided Most people paradoxically think speculation is a short-term high-risk means of investing In his book Casey sketches four speculative portfolios for those with less than $5000 to more than 11 mil I ion For someone with $25000 Casey would put 10 percent in a hoarding program He recominends stochpil jog tuna fish Bordeaux wine Scotch tape and LL Bean undershirts to offset the impending rise in consum er prices lie vk ould put 10 percent in gold coins and another 10 percent in silver coins 20 percent in money market funds that invest only in government securities 10 percent in Swiss francs and 40 percent in stocks primarily penny mining issues I.