Fuel costs push electricity bills up sharply in Texas
Texas Electric Service Company warns customers will see bills rise at least 50 percent this summer due to higher coal mining costs and rising natural gas prices. A $67 million rate hike from October 1980, plus expired long term gas contracts, will drive the increases. Gerald Gotcher notes no new spring rate request is planned, though 1982 effects possible.
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Sheila Welsh
Texas Electric Service Company
Gerald Gotcher
Texas Electric
Gotcher
Texas
Public Utility Commission
Texas drinking age bill nears final compromise
A negotiated Texas bill would raise the drinking age from 18 to 19, with sellers now liable if they fail to request proof of age. House sponsors say it could pass after floor votes, while grocers argue the measure imposes an unfair burden on clerks.
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Austin
Texas
House
Senate
Bill Sarpalius
Hereford
Johnnie B. Rogers
Ronald Coleman
D-E
Paso
Ptas
Ounger
Porter Texas Beer Place watcher eager for space launch
Betty Crippen of Porter Texas awaits Friday’s shuttle takeoff as son Robert Crippen and John Young launch from Cape Canaveral. The community recalls his youth, his astronaut dreams, and the beer shop next to his home where pictures and a signed shuttle model celebrate his career.
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Crippen
Young
Gulf
Robert Crippen
Houston
Troy Jones
No 3 producer Ector cashes in on oil revenues
Ector County mineral tax rolls show ad valorem taxes from gas and oil wells rose by about 4 million dollars from 1979 to 1980 despite a statewide production decline. Ector ranked third in Texas crude oil production in 1980, with 52.2 million barrels, behind Yoakum and Gaines counties.
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Ector County
Curtis G. Winn
Ector
Winn
Texas Railroad Commission
Yoakum
Gaines
Permian Basin
Commission
Permian
West
Texas
Tom Miller
Pritchard & Abbot
Soviet Leader Brezhnev Delays Poland Intervention
Washington reports Brezhnev told Prague that Poland could handle its problems with Soviet support. Walter Stoessel said the USSR gave Poland more time to put its house in order. U.S. officials consider possible political diplomatic and economic responses if Moscow intervenes.
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Washington
Leonid Brezhnev
Poland
U.S
Brezhnev
Prague
Polish Communist Party
Walter Stoessel
Stoessel
Soviet Union
Nbc-Tv
Communist Party
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Stoesse
White House
Larry Speakes
Moscow
State Department
Alternative budget cut plan OKd by House Budget Committee
The House Budget Committee adopted a Democratic alternative to President Reagan's budget, using a Democratic majority to back a blueprint aiming for a smaller deficit, more social program funding, and less defense. It envisions a balanced budget by 1983, earlier than Reagan's plan.
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Associated Press
Washington
House Budget Committee
Reagan
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