Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 16

Cotputf CORPUS CHRIST1 TEXAS 2STu Oct 141966 i KZTV-TV plans broadcasts jfroiti dowtowri this fall" f' Vi-1' i i 3 I L' Rtf Fata fianehaz A 1 1 1 Vv By Fata Sanchez i i A to a new multimillion-dollar 41332-square-foot stu-diooffice building at 301 Artesian St i News and public affairs broadcasts front the pew studios are planned to begin next month said Gene Looper a former longtime television news anchot' at KZTV and the current program director I The hew two-story oflkestudio building has two studios one for news broadcasts and another for com mercial and public affairs programming studios' tot KSIX-AM radio sister station of KZTV-TV ana offices for advertising and news personnel Looper A 136-foot-high microwave tower also stands $aj the new studios and offices to transmit signals to' the -KZTV-TV transmitter located where the current studios are near Robstown Tto grand opening of the studios will be sometime ii November Looper said Recently Vann Kennedy owner of the was honored by the city for his broadcasting work Kennedy a veteran newsman and broadcaster came to Corpus Christ! in 1946 to establish KSIX Radio And 10 years later founded KZTV Channel 10 STAFF WRITER KZTV-TV Channel 10 is celebrating its 30th anniversary this fall and plans to broadcast news and local telecasts from its new downtown studios next month For 30 years reporters and other KZTV production personnel have had to make daily trips to studios near Robstown fir on-air live broadcasts -The two other English-language commercial television stations KIII-TV Channel 3 and KRIS-TV Channel 6 both have broadcasting studios in town KIII-TV on South Padre Island Drive and KRIS-TV on South Staples Street downtown With the new KZTV studios the twice-daily trips win be eliminated meaning CorpusChristi viewers of the CBS affiliate Will see more up-t-dale news stories -better picture quality and eventually the station's caps- bility to join the other two local network affiliates in presenting live-broadcast feeds KZTV officials say -V KZTV offices were formerly' spread over several floors in the Wilson Building and Wilson Tower complex downtown Those offices have relocated this year TOM HANOSTVf PHOTOGRAPHER Leigh Anthony mans tho control panel in the news studio at KZTVa new downtown building' Testimony begins today in Webb trial alive 1 May said tire two robber tied her hands with an adding-machine cord but after they left she got loose and called the police She was locked inside tire restaurant and talked to police over tire phone for 38 minutes until she could free herself from the binds May 'said tire phone conversation was recorded and will be introduced into evidence He said the police found body beside the family vehicle on Greenwood Drive near the garbage dump It was riddled with five bullet wounds completed yesterday afternoon Bill May first assistant district attorney said the first witness will be Cantu's widow who was night manager of the restaurant and a victim of the robbery In an opening statement May told the jury Mrs Chntu will relate how Webb and another man forced her and her husband at gunpoint to go with them in the Cantus' car to the restaurant after she had closed it forced her to open the company safe and give them the money inside and then kidnapped Cantu May said that when Cantu got into the car it was the last time Mrs Chntu saw her husband By Spsnesr Psaraon STAFF WRITER Testimony in the trial of Freddie Lee Webb charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Leopoldo Cantu is due to begin at 10:13 am today before Judge Rene Haas in 94th District Court Webb 26 of 1802 Van Loan Ave is accused of kidnapping and shooting Cantu after a robbery Dec 8 at the Ship Ahoy Restaurant 1017 Water St His body was found about 30 minutes later in the 6800 block of Greenwood Drive Selection of a jury which took two weeks was Budget is on tap for commissioners Police seek clues in series -1 of residential burglaries Police are asking for the- pub- lie's help in solving a series of residential burglaries Homes in tire Pharaoh Valley area have been hit hard over the summer months by burglars ac-' cording to a Crime Stoppers news release One residence in the 6700 block of Sahara Drive was burglarized during the evening hours of Saturday July 19 Burglars forced open a window that feces the street and is partially covered by a hedge Once inside the burglars went from room to room taking sey- etui items Among the property taken are a Panasonic- video camera and tuner a Panasonic 17-inch color television set and a Harrington bolt action shotgun Evidence at the crime scene in the total did not equal the shortfall Other items on the agenda tomorrow include: the purchase of the portion of Waco Street between Li-pan and Mestina streets from the city for a jail expansion project approval of a revised agreement to reduce the membership of the rein-vestement zone board from nine to six a decision on which Holidays the county will take in 1987 and approval of a revised agreement with the lessee of the county airport at Robstown The court will hold a joint meeting with the City Council at noon today at the Bayfront Plaza Convention Center to disucss sponsorship of the Mentally Handicapped-Mentally Retarded Community Center the highway program and other matters but Barnes said no action will be taken The 1987 budget will be up for discussion when the Nueces County Commssioners Court meets at 10 am tomorrow at the county courthouse County Judge Robert Barnes said the commissioners court will decide what message to send to department heads for making out requests for the 1987 budget The court has adopted a tax rate which will provide for little increase in general fund revenues Barnes said earlier that revenue for this year's budget will be about $33 million short and will be made up from a surplus fund He had asked department heads to reduce spending where possible Some did some budget cutting but dicates the burglars left through the garage and that a pickup-truck may have been used If you have information concerning this burglary call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS Callers will not! have to reveal their identity If the information given leads to an arrest and grand jury indictment it could earn the caller $1000 Crime Stoppers also will pay cash for information on other felonies LEE OOOOSSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER forced him to bundle -up before i he set out to pick up the trash blown about on Shoreline Boule- vard by stormy weather The wind and rain brought more work on Daniel Cantu of the City Park and Recreation Department and yesterday's cool weather Industry expects oil and gas to feel pinch of tax overhaul By William Garland HARTE-HANKS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON In the political free-for-all of tax reform the oil and gas industry took its share of blows during more than two years of debate in Congress and within the Reagan administration Due in part to the continuing oil-pricing crisis however the industry has been knocked far less than it might have been down the road of higher taxes Nevertheless industry spokesmen said the hit from the tax collector will be felt a little harder in the already troubled oil patch "It's a misconception to say the industry came out a winner" as a result of tax overhaul said Harold "Bud" Scoggins president-elect of the Independent Petroleum Association of America But Scoggins credited oil-state senators with doing "a phenomenal job" in protecting several key tax incentives for oil and gas producers and royalty owners He said he expects oil and gas drilling to remain sluggish next year due to the new tax bill as well as a lack of confidence in oil prices even if the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is successful in sticking with production quotas "The whole uncertainty of trying to sort -out this tax bill is going to have a negative impact" on drilling Scoggins said The American Petroleum Institute estimated that the tax bill would cost the industry $10 billion over five years with a cost of $830 million tied directly to changes in oil and gas incentives in the tax rode Overall the tax bill is expected to trans fer about $120 billion in taxes over five years from individuals to corporations Tax provisions for the industry including the long-standing percentage depletion allowance and the deduction for intangible drilling costs would have1 been changed far more drastically in an earlier version of tax reform proposed by the Reagan administration and a version passed by the House Changes passed in the final tax bill for specific oil and gas provisions were slight' compared to those earlier proposals al though they were more substantial than in the Senate version of reform that would have left industry-specific provisions intact- In the final bill the percentage depletion allowance would be retained in current form for independent oil and gas producers and would be repealed only on advance payments for oil and gas royalties and lease bonuses Some analysts speculated that repeal on advance royalties and bonuses might lead to higher figures for those initial payments Libertarian Party Governor candidate says she offers only alternative By Daria Morgan STAFF WRITER Theresa Doyle the Libertarian Party candidate for Texas governor said yesterday her candidacy offers voters the only real alternative in the November election Mark1 White the Democratic incumbent and Bill Clements the Re- publican Doyl challenger both believe in the concept that the state should be the "planner and controller of all life" said Ms Doyle a San Antonio housewife in a press conference at a local hotel "We believe in a very limited form of government" she said If elected Ms Doyle said she would immediately begin closing state agencies Such traditional government programs as unemployment insurance minimum wage laws compulsory school attendance laws and the li No charges were filed in the mat- ter Meeks said 1 Meeks also accused Bullock of quadrupling the budget of the comptroller's office since taking office "During the tenure of the present romtroller the annual revenues raised in the state have doubled but the budget for his office has increased by a factor of four" Meeks said Both candidates admitted their chances are very small for winning the offices they seek They blamed stringent guidelines for obtaining a place on the Texas ballot as part of the reason for their inability to raise large campaign contributions Backers of the Libertarian Party were required to submit 31911 sis--natures of registered voters who did not participate in either the Democratic or Republican primary to gain a place on the ballot said Dianne Pilcher executive director of the Libertarian Party "We find it difficult to campaign or raise money for a campaign if our contributors do not even know if we are going to be on the Ms Pilcher said censing and regulation of church and private schools should be eliminated she said "We the taxpayer are paying for all of these unnecessary benefits We do not need a massive government structure to manage our economy" said Ms i Doyle who I has been employed as a teacher and a librarian George Meeks the Libertarian candidate for comptroller of public accounts said Mteks the present comptroller Bob Bullock is violating the US Constitution by allowing the state to accept federal reserve notes in payment of debts The US Constitution says no state dull accept anything but gold and silver coin as tender in payment of debts said Meeks who said he spent 14 months in jail on contempt charges that arose from a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service Victoria Savings has taken traditional savings accounts a step further That's because with SAVINGS the more you save the more Interest Victoria Savings pays you Automatically Compounded daily 1 1 1 INVESTA1 SAVINGS now pays 700 onbalv ances of 826000 or more Balances of 110000 or more earn 075 balances of 12500 or more earn f60 balances of 81000 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