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Who's High on High Tech? TEXAS 13 SERVER A Journal of Free Voices July 13, 1984 $1.00 Who's High on High Tech? By Nina Butts (Page 10) ry Low los r Ca by ing w Dra In This Issue: Report on the Willie Morris Gulf Coast Special Session at Ole Miss Victory , Z.--=----: - \--..\_-11.." --,-__/1- • PAGE TWO • ,..-:.---,\--- . s FOE . ,...„.........THE_;.......... PEOP - Illari SY 1914 Our Loss GO - Ai.7.---,_. 111 PR I E144S) -,„„, ms., ro ndo, II ,----- ,. HE OBSERVER is losing Frances Barton, business - ;101 ....,000..... manager since the fall of 1981. She wants to have i 1 i. ‘. __L=.. :,--s\/ '--------4L-- ----—_z __----_14 ----"1------..__- ,. 4 411. , . more time to devote to her family. With Jacob now - I II 111111111.1111HP' •. -- 41111111111,11.11 Iff 111111 T I II 1 — Ill W ll'ul fit WM!! i n ,, „ --------------7- --7-7-'----- 2 1 ii II riithipii ...,,N.,`,...,-, ---- ------ ' /2 and Jubilee approaching 10, such a decision needs no ---- -- -----!----.---------- elaboration. -.-_--—,-----___=.....----- --• _--_ In announcing Frances' arrival in the 12-18-81 Observer, Ronnie Dugger wrote: "Frances is a good writer and a gifted THE political intellectual to whom, from time to time when I have TEXAS sERvER been uncertain what I think, I have turned for counsel, and she has been a stable and valued participant in progressive t ' EJ The Texas Observer Publishing Co., 1984 Ronnie Dugger, Publisher causes all her life." Ronnie's instincts — that her intellectual/activist background Vol. 76, No. 14 . 74 Xt;I:iFt Julv. 13, 1984 could benefit the business operation — were certainly right. Frances' values and knowledge have served the Incorporating the State Observer and the East Texas Democrat, Observer very which in turn incorporated the Austin Forum-Advocate. well, indeed. By cajoling and by her own example, she has . EDITOR Geoffrey Rips attracted talented freelance writers, artists, and new friends ASSOCIATE EDITOR Dave Denison to the Observer fold. She ran things on the business side with EDITOR AT LARGE Ronnie Dugger great skill and humor and she has devised many new ways CAREY McWILLIAMS FELLOW: Nina Butts of promoting circulation and raising money without EDITORIAL INTERN: Teo Furtado misrepresenting or violating the spirit or purpose of the CALENDAR: Chula Sims enterprise. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Al Watkins LAYOUT AND DESIGN: Alicia Daniel In addition to innovations in direct-mail methods, under EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Frances Barton, Austin.; Elroy Bode, Kerr- Frances' guidance the Observer has made several other ville; Chandler Davidson, Houston; Bob Eckhardt, o D.C.; Sissy important advances: we've expanded our network of contacts Farenthold, Houston: Ruperto Garcia, Austin; John Kenneth Galbraith, Cam- bridge, Mass.; Lawrence Goodwyn. Durham, N.C.; George Hendrick, Urbana, with other periodicals which have similar publishing goals Ill.; Molly Ivins, Dallas; Larry L. King, Washington, D.C.; Maury Maverick, and financial constraints, sharing what we've learned; the legal Jr., San Antonio: Willie Morris, Oxford, Miss.; Kaye Northcott„Austin; James research preparatory to changing the Observer's structure has Presley, Texarkana, Tx.; Susan Reid. Austin; A. R. (Babe) Schwartz. Galveston; Fred Schmidt, Tehachapi, Cal., Robert Sherrill, Tallahassee, Fla. come a long way; and, after months of study and a careful CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Warren Burnett. Nina Butts, Jo Clifton, Craig review of the financial feasibility, the Observer is beginning Clifford, John Henry Faulk, Ed Garcia, Bill Helmer, Jack Hopper, Amy Johnson, to implement its plan for an office microcomputer system. Laurence Jolidon, Mary Lenz, Matt Lyon. Rick Piltz. Susan Raleigh, Paul Sweeney, Michael Ventura, Lawrence Walsh. Frances also served as a perceptive and inspirational advisor CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: Alan Pogue, Russell Lee, Scott Van - to Joe Holley, when he was editor, and, more recently, to Osdol, Alicia Daniel. Geoffrey Rips. And she proved to be a relentless advocate, CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: Jeff Danziger, Beth Epstein, Dan Hubig• Pat when necessary, on issues that mattered. Johnson, Kevin Kreneck• Carlos Lowry, Joe McDermott, Ben Sargent. Gail Woods. There's a very rare, genuinely caring manner about Frances, A journal of free voices which expresses itself naturally in all her relationships : It has We will serve no group or party but will hew hard to the truth as we .find instructed and enhanced the lives of those of us who work it and the right as we see it. We are dedicated to the whole truth, to human with her; and it shows through when she interacts with values above all interests, to the rights of humankind as the foundation of subscribers and others who might phone or drop by for a detnocracy; we will take orders from none but our own conscience, and never will we overlook or misrepresent the truth to serve the interests of the power- visit. .fitl or cater to the ignoble in the human spirit. Yet she can be shrewd if the situation calls for it. Her Writers are responsible for their own work, but not for anything they have ability to walk our tenuous financial tightrope, for example, not themselves written, and in publishing them we do not necessarily imply that we agree with them because this is a journal of free voices. has come in handy on occasion. Tenacious? You should see her track down wayward freelance writers in order to obtain Business Manager Frances Barton permission to reprint their Observer articles of years past in Assistant Alicia Daniel another periodical. Advertising, Special Projects Cliff Olofson Fortunately for us, Frances won't be going very far. She Advertising Dana Loy is maintaining her association with the Observer in several Editorial and Business Office meaningful ways: she remains on the board of directors of 600 West 7th Street, Austin, Texas 78701 the non-profit Texas Investigative Reporters Fund; Geoff and (512) 477-0746 The Texas Observer (ISSN 0040-4519) is published biweekly except for a three-week inter- Ronnie are campaigning to get her to write for the Observer val between issues in January and July (25 issues per year) by the Texas Observer Publishing occasionally; she will participate in the Observer's periodic Co., 600 West 7th Street, Austin, Texas 78701, (512) 477-0746. Second class postage paid at Austin, Texas. budget and long-range planning meetings; and we'll be seeking Single copy (current or back issue) S1.00 prepaid. One year. S20; two years, $38; three her opinions and ideas regarding subscription promotion and years. $56. One year rate for full-time students. $13. Airmail, foreign, group. and bulk rates other fund-raising projects. on request. Microfilm editions available from University Microfilms Intl., 300 N. Zech Road, Ann Arbor. Michigan 48106. For a staff-box title, Frances and I have decided that Copyright 1984 by Texas Observer Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Material may "consultant" is probably the most accurate business-like way not be reproduced without permission . POSTMASTER: Send form 3579 to: 600 West 7th Street, Austin, Texas 78701. to designate her new role. However, I'll also continue to look to her as the Observer's spiritual advisor, and wouldn't be 2 JULY 13, 1984 hide. Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby led the Senate by example, showing an emotional commitment that went beyond the customary reddening of his neck brought on by floor action. Even House Speaker Gib Lewis, hailed by H. Ross Perot and White as a champion of education reform, brought out the brass knuckles and twisted the number of arms necessary to pass a major piece of social reform legislation. On top of that, the Texas Federation of Teachers, AFL- CIO, — the union — has become the governor's favorite teacher organization,, and the Texas Interfaith Network organizations came away with the fundamentals of an equalization plan and friends in high places. It has been a session of strange bedfellows. On the evening of June 30, for instance, many members of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus were in the office of House Speaker Pro Tern Hugo Berlanga (D-Corpus Christi) when Gib Lewis sent out a desperate call for Berlanga, telling him to get "Red Square" out on the floor because they needed those votes to pass the education bill. "Red Square" is the section of the House Chamber in which most of the more progressive members of the Mexican American caucus sit. It was probably the only time in his career that Lewis wanted ue Red Square present and voting. Pog n But then there was that strange coalition of big business la A and minority interests that led the fight for the education bill. by As lobbyists for his SCOPE (Select Committee on Public to Education) proposals, H. Ross Perot had hired Rusty Kelley ho P and Jack Gullahorn, both of whom usually operate as hired Frances Barton guns in the legislative lobby for large corporate interests. Perot also brought in Rick Salwen, his personal lobbyist for the surprised if everyone else around here thinks of her in that way, too. So it's not really goodbye. But we're going to miss her. Cliff Olofson * * * There is little to compare with the egotism of a writer. I am grateful to Frances Barton for her support, counsel, and good cheer during my tenure at the Observer. But, above all, I am grateful that she has indelibly imprinted in my Observer is always a product consciousness the fact that the e of communal enterprise. Not only are some of the more u Pog difficult ethical and political questions we encounter debated at staff meetings, but also those who labor in the trenches of the business office without 'a byline deserve a great deal Alan by of the credit, and just a small portion of the blame, for what to is produced here.
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