European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 22. 1986 the stars and St types pig 7 texans moving on As Oil Boom goes bust Houston not Long Magnet for families seeking economic Opportunity Texas appears to have begun to lost population to other Stales probably for the first time m the i so Yean since ii gained Independence from Mexico. White firm numbers Are no yet available demography say Mon indicator Point 10 the conclusion out tens in become a net exporter of people u � result of the Cofta St of world Oil prices. The trend it dramatic reversal for Texas wherein Enlon growth has Long been almost u much put of the mystique u gushers Oil men us loot horns. Rarry Vecty aspect of soon Oak a social life in Texas by been touched by the migration change. On by Day 8.joo of the 17.000 Hospital Beds in Harris county which include Houston arc empty. Further nearly one of every five apartments u vacant in the Houston area and average apartment rents have fallen to 303 a oath about the lowest of any major City according to real estate experts. Dates fort Worth Austin and san Antonio also find themselves Gre Fly overbuilt with property value and rents dropping in Many areas. Apart from neighbouring males texans Are moving mainly to California Ait Florida and the Northern Industrial slates which were the source of huge i Trent wives in the Boom years. Texas economists said the state will incur a net Oul Mig Ntim of 41,000 people next year assuming of remains at an avenge Price of slightly Over Sis a bar id for the year. Numerous experts say the tide Hai already turned. Houston demographer estimates that 100,000 More people will have moved out of Texas than into Testate this year with about half this tens coining from the hard hit Houston area. By contrast As recently As i981-s2, Texas experienced an influx of nearly400,000, according to the census Bureau. Nevertheless the Overall population of Texas continues to grow because the migration loss if of it by Texas rate of natural  a High excess of births Over deaths. Thi rate is no because the poo a Latke is Young and because Toucan amen com Faan lies tend to have targe families. Abo a pattern of interstate population redi Strabo too could have profound implications fat text  has been a steady flow of the poor Tad nem toyed my Oil towns in West Texas and Ihnn fit pressed farm areas toward the big cities. The same cities Are also receiving imms Inma front  and Louisiana aft even harder thana Texas by the Oil bust thus cities in Texas am becoming poorer juju Giand probably More latin i character a known in the equation is the file Tel Rig Naioti from Mexico. To Hud Tut by die Ott plump the history of tents has teen marked by constant population influx. But the gnat spurt Maxae m the tumultuous 1970s, when the rite in world Oil Price brought a wild Boom to ten and a horde of migrants from the depressed North. The 1910 census counted 14.2 million texans up 27 percent from 1970. Texas was growing at nearly three times the National average. The slowdown began in mid-1982, soon after the Price of Oil first began to slip. Still until 1985 Texas continued to be a net gainer of migrants according to data compiled by the census Bureau the internal Rev Enue service and United Van lines. The tide turned in 1986, when Oil prices halved. Demographer at Trinity University in san Antonio said Many texans who were holding on in Hopes of recovery began to give up. There b no agreement on texts Correct population work training family Are key to proposed welfare program Olympia Wash. A Washington s welfare system is dead end Street and should be scrapped in favor of a five year Experiment that stresses work training and Patching up broken families gov. Booth Gardner said thursday. Gardner said his family Independence program could become a National Mode for breaking the Cycle of Over  Federal and state legislative approval would be required. The plan would eliminate Aid Hajto families with dependent Chi Dren and food sumps and use the Money s742 million a year for system that stresses child care enforcement of court child sup port orders family planning training for parents and help inputting families Back together. A welfare rights activists expressed reservations and said they would fight the plan if it is made mandatory if it drops welfare As an entitlement and if a Corpora Tion rather than the legislature gets authority to set Grant Levels. Legislators said they had Many questions. Our current welfare system is a dead end Stree that encourages dependent strips people of their dig nity and leaves them with Little or no Hope of improving their financial future Gardner said. He said his program goes beyond the world arc concept. It would create a Public corporation that would set Grant Levels and have authority to  in government and non profit agencies to aug ment jobs provided by private businesses. After two Yean of payments education Job training or employment would become mandatory. Giant Levels would hinge on whether the person is i school training or working. People who temporarily refuse to work would gel 20 percent less than the cur rent Benchmark and those who hold out would be Cut altogether with their children getting Grants through an agent other than the Parent. Initially about 32,000 families or fewer than Hal the state s welfare families would enrol in the new program. Roughly 16,000 recipients would be expected to find work on their own subsidized jobs would recreated for 8,000 people. College chiefs spending probed Westfield mass a a former state College president charged More than $1,000 in restaurant and bar Bills to the school after taking a paid leave of absence in january following his indictment on charges of sexual assault a newspaper reported thurs Day. But the spending outlined in records obtained by the daily news of Springfield under the Freedom of information a3, appears to be Legal because of a slate Law that gives College presidents and chancellors Broad discretion Over the use of Zubi funds. Former Westfield state College president Francis j. Purecki spent More than 125,000 from Trust funds Over thelast four years on food alcohol gifts and travel for Gnu Stefand others the newspaper said. The Ito inc4ed j63j Worth of fruitcakes from a test Tserly for Christmas gifts and Sio won . He also paid $100 in hotel Tot a student who travelled to Rochester  audition � the Eastman school of music. Sane of the figures might teem High Laid Paul Meir we afield pm president. But that was a style. He worked seven Days a week. He was always meeting with people and promoting the  Pilecky who resigned in March was indicted injure by a Hampden county grand jury on charges of sexually assaulting two male students including on who received a $10,000 settlement from the College. Tic 32-year-old educator pleaded innocent and is expected to stand trial Early next year. Under stale Law official Are limited to $13 a Day for food and purchasing alcohol with state Money is prohibited. But the Law allows the Heads of schools Touse Trust funds As they wish for official business and to promote their colleges. For an his expenses Pilecki reportedly used Money from a fund consisting of commissions paid by Compa Nies that contract with the College to operate the Stu Dent dining Hejl and other services. The House of representatives committee on Post audit and oversight is reportedly investigating Pilecki s spending As fart of a broader look St West Field state Asiain Ana a considering recommending tighter restrictions on Trot fund spending at wet Fidd and other stale colleges. Figure. In its most recent estimate for july 1, 1983. The census Bureau put it at 16,4 oif Fhon. But texts Bawd experts say the figure is Loo High and that for technical reasons the Bureau has mistakenly exaggerated the population growth. As a result the experts say Oul of state corporations and demographic research companies May hive Tatad fruity business decisions on constructing new by dings and opening new locations Here. Burglar alarm guards turkeys at n j. Church Newark no. A the pastor of free hold s new Hope Baptist Church said timidly two burglaries of Frozen thanksgiving turkeys from the Parish soup Kitchen will he the last among the donations that flowed in after the Church s recent problems were publicized was a new Security system. The Rev. Robert d. Richardson said donations also have helped fill the fee Era and re Tore some of his Faith in people. All the soup Kitchen s Frozen Holiday meals Many of them donated and the Frozen food for a Dairy free lunch program were stolen in two break ins. The estimated $200 in Frozen turkeys Ham Sand chickens did t concern the pastor As much As the 11,500 in damage to three freezers. But a new Freezer and an alarm system have been pledged along with 150 turkeys. Until this week the soup Kitchen was $2,600 in debt. Richardson said the donations should be enough to erase the debt. Money for needy reaches 15 states los Angeles a hands across America a distributed the tint funds from its transcontinental linking of hands with $576,665 due to reach or Wiz Lions in 15 Stales before thanksgivi Uig. This is the turning on of the spigot of the hand across America Money said Ken Engen who organized the May 25 Effort to raise Money for the Bome tac. The first $5 Grants went to Charity Araniz atias in states authorized to get less than $90,000 each base Don a poverty level formula and population. Other states will receive More. The organizations Are in Alaska Delaware Hawaii Idaho Maine Montana Nebraska Nevada new Hampshire North Dakota Rhode Island South etto to. Utah Vermont and Wyoming