San Angelo Standard-Times from San Angelo, Texas • 1

4 i i 1 i i 'v I i' San Angelo Wool producers get good news By WILLIAM GARLAND Harte-Haaks Washington Bureau WASHINGTON House and Senate negotiators approved a final psg for wool and mohair subsidies Tuesday that time up to the payment cap to each program He uid the payment limitation to each commodity would be 1250000 in 1991 declining to 9125000 over four years The cap would be patterned after the limitations to other commodities In the past wool and mohair producers had been able to qualify to only one subsidy progrsm at a time Meyers said He Mid the package was positive to the wool and mohair industry since the committee had considered a cutback of up to 15 percent in subsidy payments to both programs The deeper cutback would have been equivalent to cuts in the farm bill that were required for other crops including cotton Larry Meyers Washington representative for the American Sheep Industry Association Meyers said wool incentive payments would increase by $60 minion over the five years as part of the 1990 farm bill while mohair payments will drop by $10 million He said wool would be the only commodity in the 1990 farm bill on which subsidy payments would increase a rare situation where the mohair program will be going down over the next five years and wool will be going up" said Meyers However he said the conference committee also adopted a provision that had been sought by mohair producers for 10 years Under the agreement producers would be able to qualify for wool and mohair Incentive payments at the same will be "very good for producers according Uf a leading industry official The final agreement will reduce incentive payments to wool and mohair producers by 1 percent for five years as part at a deficit-reduction agreement but wool payments will rise gradually over the five-year period according to the officiaL A House-Senate conference committee agreed to the provisions In the early hours on Tuesday and the provisions are ex-pected to dear final passage in the House and Senate said Please see WOOL Page 4A The skies today should be partly cloudy with a high in the mld-60s The wind ia likely to kick up though with gusts from 15-20 mph PagodA House passes budget with broad tax hikes f'li WORLD SERIES! toward the well-to-do that provoked the sharpest debate people beware: $160 billion in tax increases on every working man and said Rep Robert Smith R-NH how your Congressman Retorted House Budget Committee Chairman Leon Panetta D-Calif: how your congressman votes because the test will be whether that congressman votes to a fair package to deficit reduction and not one that Just puts the burden on the middle dau and the The proposal would boost the federal bite WASHINGTON (AP) Majority Democrats muscled their deficit-cutting plan through the House on Tuesday in an election-season bid to impose a whopping tax Increase on the wealthy President Bush promised a veto The House voted to the measure 227-203 largely along party lines The plan would dash trillions from government spending and raise the cost of Medicare benefits which the Democrats said were essential to bring the federal deficit under control Ten Republicans Joined 217 Democrats in favor of the bill 163 Republicans and 40 Democrats opposed it But it was the tax increase heavily tilted The Cincinnati Reds clubbed the Oakland Athletic 7-0 Tuesday night in the first game of Major League World Series i ID Please see BUDGET Page 4 A Attorney general race based in Legislature By CINDY TUMEEr Harte-Haaks News Service the 1990 Campaign A Republican senator and a Democratic state representative are both trying to use their legislative records as a springboard to the top of the state's law firm Republican Sen James 15 Brown of Lake Jackson and Democratic Rep Dan Morales of San Antonio both former prosecutors square off Nov 6 to the right to be Texas attorney general libertarian Ray Dittmar of Houston also is on the ballot Despite noteworthy legislative tenures neither Brown nor Today's focus in a continuing series of Election 90 stories Is on the race for attorney general INSIDE 6BIC Gubernatorial candidates were hard at work campaigning Tuesday as Democrat Ann Richards was en- dorsed by 34 South Texas mayors and her Republican opponent Clayton Williams in Houston vowed to "sweep out the Austin insiders" S-T photo by Cade White Taking a taste Pumpkin Recipes for Halloween are being dusted off to show cooks all the tricks to make some tempting treats i IB taking shots at each legal qualifications And in a debate they have voiced differing philisophies on the role of attorney Brown Monties enjoys significant name recognition among voters A summer poll found that half were undecided The same poll gave Morales a lead of 10 percentage points among voters who had chosen a candidate On ttie campaign trail the candidates are Five-month-old Meredith Willingham watches as her mother Judy samples some fresh fruit during Tastes of San Angelo Tuesday night at the San Angelo Coliseum The finest of the city's food fare was served up during the annual fund-raiser Proceeds from the event will go to Meals for the Elderly Please see story Page 2C Please see RACE Page 4 A School board votes to light Old Bobcat Stadium PEAK YOUR IND By KEELY COGHLAN Staff Writer ty footban teams Central High School soccer coach Pete King said he wu glad an arrangement had been worked out to light a field saying he thought lighting Old Bobcat would be better in the long run I was hired they said they wanted to build a soccer program run an extensive extracurricular program on property owned by others not to say we drat have a good relationship with the soccer association But I would hate to get into a situation that could intentionally or unintentionally interfere with our Graves said The complex also is used by Junior Ugh school and Junior varsi bleachers dressing rooms rest rooms and concession stands at the Old Bobcat site already had one person fan through the said Hollis a Board Building Committee member Hollis wu in the last Bobcats high school varsity football team to play at the stadium Superintendent Bill Graves said he was reluctant to aHiUHnw the district would also mow the soccer Glenns Soccer Complex to the next four years Trustees Billy Hollis and Stanley Mayfield however said lighting the association-owned Glenna fiid might be a better move Hollis also questioned whether the district was prepared to build entirely new facilities new themielrei but tbelr friends family and loved ones We would arrest someone for poisoning our water or food but not for people who poison our air JD San Angelo Page 7 A San Angelo School Board members Tuesday agreed to a deal that would light Old Bobcat Stadium to use in night soccer and football games Trustees voted 5-2 to install lights to be purchased by the San Angelo Soccer Association at the field In Please see BOARD Page 4A Radio station building bums in apparent arson-set blaze By BOB BECKNELL Staff Writer News Agriculture News 1C Area News 1-3C Business News 12A Death Notices 2A Local News 1-3C Markets 6-7C National News 312A Oil News SC State News SB Weather 4A World News 5A West Texas Living building about that Land said the fire wu reported by a young person from a telephone at the convenience store at 39th and North Chadboume Street He said the name is unknown sure would like to talk to him and find out what he Land said KBIL went off the air in early September District Judge John Sutton of San Angelo appointed a receiver to KBIL-FM-AM based on dvil court action taken by a Connecticut bank citing non-payment of installments on a $13 million loan Attorneys to Connecticut National Bank and Mangle Texu Media Inc agreed that Gary Can of Abilene should be named receiver ol the property according to court documents Mangle a Tyler-based company that bought KBIL in 1983 is owned by A1 Burke of Longview The building is owned by Betsy DeVore of San Angelo Land said Anyone with information about the fire should call the Fire Marshal's Office at 657-4358 Advice Columns 5C Comics Puzzles 4-5C Food 1-2B Horoscope 4B Television Movies 4B Fire apparently set by an arsonist heavily damaged the control room of the former KBIL-AM radio station in North San Angelo about 11:15 pm Tuesday The blase was concentrated in a room bousing a variety of recording playback and broadcast equipment said Fire Marshal Ken Land He said other rooms in the one-story wood-frame building were damaged after the heat broke several interior windows The remainder til building received what ijnri said wu a tremendous amount of heat and smoke damage definitely an arson Land said broke out a plate glass window next to the front door and then set the fire in the control Tjwri declined to reveal how the fire was Ifeta neighbor said dogs in the area starting barking about 10 Land said believe the arsonist probably broke into the ClassllleilMs 9-12C Sports photo by Cade White Sports News 1-4DAD Scoreboard 2D Smoke from a suspected arson fire covers the front door of the former KBIL-AM radio station in North San Angelo Index of Advertisers 2A 58-35 31 ijiwVa.