European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ulp Hoto water lower looms Over construction to piano Texas we re retailer a a Penney a moving a headquarter will Texas Bounce Back by Scott Mccartney associated Pressa after a year when the governor Admi led lying taxes went up Mote than Ever Bolo re killer tornadoes struck from West to East and the Only records set were ignoble ones like most Bank failures and Mosi football learns on prob Nikon. The Hopes of Texas Midlil be found in a Muddy needy Mold in Tho own of piano. Trio Northern Dallas suburb is where . Penney the a tank  says it is  to move its Headquarters firn now York no lass. The relocation should mean a Boom Tor the slumping ical estate business. Jobs. Tax Revenue diner companies Voute to How. Texas was at Tractive again. Happy Das nol these Days. Like Many other events in the Texas this Bubble could burst. Stones circulate hat Large percentages of Penny s employees wih us say no to piano. Tho Wall Spicl l journal even Cor Paterl p loan outpost on Iho Moon " Vau sen. N s been a bad year in Tenas so bad you a question whether the historians will Iwa Back on 1987 and say n was the year they buried die Texas mystique " the Basic question today will the proud bold triumphant Texas Bounce Back or in the words of Terashi Skenan a Greene become us another stale one thing is a Suie. The people that Aie Here Are the people that want to be Here said country and a Stein Singer Jerry Jeff a Frei Ever the Optimist. We in like the Guy digging a Hole in the ground and he sides Slart to Cave  said or. Bum Bright a Dallas oilman who has the distinction of owning Large chunks of a major savings arid loan a a or Bank and he Dallas cowboys football team All of which Are losing these Days. You Don t turn Tail and run Bright said. You look Tor ways to Shore up the sides and dig your Way  texans a in t As much depressed As they Are  said outspoken Houston oilman Michel t. Halbouty. They Don t sea anything to hang their hats on. You throw your hat up and it just alls  the mystique of Texas Halbouty said has been cramped up by so Many things his  Tho doubles began in 1936, when the Price of Oil plummeted and Iho Boom died taking Wilh it the Prosperity Tho stale had enjoyed for several years. But last year has been bad beyond Oil which actually stabilized and even picked up a bit. Last year Texas seemed to lose some of ils invincibility some of it s can do attitude. The first Malm embarrassment came last March when gov. Bill Clements admitted he had authorized continuing improper payments to Southern methodist University football players while he was chairman of the school s Board of governors and after he had told the National col Cigale athletic association thai payments had stopped. Sum was the Fisl school in the Nalion to in Celivo the Mcaa s death Penally which meant abolishing football at the former National powerhouse Loi All of 1987. And sum was t the Only one to draw interest from the Mcaa. Seven of the nine Southwest conference schools Are either under Mcaa probation or investigation. King football Texas did t have a College learn in the top 10 Alt season. The cowboys Scab team during the pro football strike Muldrew the regulars at Texas stadium tha Houston oilers even talked about moving to Florida. Things Haven t gotten any easier for Clements either the prisons have been full and have had to close their doors to new prisoners and give Early release la some inside. And it took three legislative sessions to come up with the biggest tax hike in stale history. Where s the clout the slate has always carried some of the big shots like the Hunt Brothers Cullen Davis and John Connaly Are struggling to hang on in bankruptcy courts. Jim Wright irom fat world became speaker of the . House of representatives no less bul has been under tire for everything from his investments to his meetings with a nicaraguan Leader. Visions of lbs and Sam Rayburn Aren l dancing in Heads. Seems like the Only big ticket project Washington wants to give Texas is the one it does t want the nuclear Wasle dump the City of Houston bless it s troubled Economy spent s1.1 million to lure either the democratic or Republican 1969 National conventions. It lost Bolar. Taul did manage to keep the oilers. Texans have to count their blessings this year however Small. There s no question but what the front let Texas Wilh the bold men and that sort of thing is either going Down on the elevator or just gone historian Greene said. Mother nature has not been kind either. Thirty people were killed by a Tornado thai demolished the Lown of Saragosa in West Texas. A dozen were killed by East Texas twisters. Eighteen aliens trying to gel to Dallas suffocated in a locked Box car. Ten icon Figoras were swept away by flood Waters in a bus Accident. Aher Saragosa Texana banded together to rebuild the town and donations poured in. But there was lit lie mystique there too. Residents complained of shoddy cons Duclion on replacement Homes and some demanded a full accounting of  charging the Money was t getting to those in need. By May Texas had already broken ils own National record for Bank failures. Several savings and Loans required Federal bailouts and one of Dallas biggest condominium developers was indicted on fraud charges. Some of the big Banks have been bought by outsiders or rescued Wilh Federal bailouts. The Economy has gone so sour that a haul reports More moving trucks Are leaving the stale than entering a Complete reversal from the Days of the Early 1980s when outsiders were crashing the Border seeking jobs. To have to haul Rucks in to Texas now because so Many pc Opte Ere  said a haul manager Jerry Lundgren in Arlington. Where s Roger staubach to throw that Hait Mary pass and pull Victory irom Cleal where in cot. William Barret Travis to Lead the stand at he Alamo where Are the Wildcat ters to hit the next spindle top Iho entrepreneurs to invent the next microchip we Don t have that free feeling that to Hod before All this happened said Halbouty. We Don t have  in 1db6, Texas aim University pollster Jim Dyer asked texans it the stale was a Good place to live. Half said it was an excellent place bul that was Down from two thirds in december 1383. Dyer said Iho question was t asked last year. If asm psychologist Karl Hursey were to put the stale on his Couch Lor diagnosis he would look to reaction to All the stressful life events to see if lha slate were coping. The state seems to be dealing Wilh these things despite lha relatively High frequency without falling apart. In a pal enl you would expect a lot of depression and anxiety waiting Lor the next disaster feeling overwhelmed and left Wilh no place to go Hursey said. The Good news psychologically Lor the state is that in the crises Are successfully dealt with it becomes a strengthening  i Hope that s whore Texas is  Hursey said. There was one Suie strengthening experience of 1987. A big one in the form of tiny Jessica Mcclure the toddler trapped More than 25 feel underground in an abandoned Well. For 58 hours the lot Hung on while unemployed roughnecks banded together and dug a Rescue shall. When she was lifted out a depressed Oil town became jubilant. The spirit of the girl and the rescuers nol Only rallied Midland but the slate and much of the Nalion. It nothing else texans can still rally together in a Lime of crisis. And if nothing else texans can still Muster optimism. I ii Ftp we still carry the attitude of taking chances the hard Core texans Are still Here said Walker whose songs sometimes Tell of longing to return horns to Texas who knows the next microchip or the cure Lor aids could be invented  Page 18 the stars and stripes sunday. January 10,19esb