Wkie'raLgiiii1661nces bid for Democratic nomination for governor Texas Attorney General Mark White, play- strongly on economic and education ues, announced his candidacy for the rnocratic nomination for Texas governor. Vhite, 41, said Wednesday he decided to 1 after definitely determining that his gtime friend, former Gov. Dolph Briscoe, decided not to run. ..My platform comes from an experience .h of us has every month when we pay our .3 and to try to make ends meet," White I. He said taxpayers are "in for the shock heir life in October 1982 when their tax reflect a new 100 percent property tax ssment." said he also is concerned with rising .y rates in "the energy capital of Ameri- lite said that •'the healthiest state econo- n the nation" has a 24 percent interest ig and that he doesn't understand why s has these problems if its government efficient as Gov. Wtlliam P. Clements aims. a graduate of Baylor University he Baylor University Law School. also vo panels study 1.4te,s iureau DEO17 1981 William P. Clements Jr. Iv announced he planned ish two commissions to problems of mentally re- son inmates and the feasi- lousing inmates appealing ocal jails instead of state ts said the two study nild hold hearings and -inges or legislation neces- Lmate prison overcrowd- Texas Department of :acing the commissions, )ted that 2,700 peniten- 's are appealing comae- ggested that they should ted in local county jails -;tate prisons. understood that, if im- his plan may create an a for the respective lo- involved. It is believed at the geographical dis- hese inmates through- would not overly bur- single facility, and ... ) alleviate the inmate within TDC," Cle- his order creating the Icement of the task that an estimated are considered men- said "it is suspected ..ho fall into the re- may often be sen- loriately, experience es, and have recidi- .ath the criminal jus- :ermination of needs ar citizen population -.lent of an equitable I needs he beyond in setting," he said. decried what he called "inadequate educa- tion" in Texas. Teachers' salaries are too low, student performance is inadequate and student discipline is too lax, he said. During his Wednesday news conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, White concentrat- ed mostly on economic and education issues, but said his platform also would emphasize crime control. White joined a list of Democratic candi- dates for governor that includes state Sen. Peyton McKnight of Tyler and Texas Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong. White said he does not plan to campaign against Clements or the Democratic candi- dates, but will concentrate on campaign issues. He estimated his campaign will cost be- tween $3 million and $4 million. White announced his candidacy in his hometown of Henderson before his statement here. White was appointed Texas secretary of state in 1973, serving in that post until his election as attorney general in 1978. Hobby is named liii.„South Texas Special to th& Exprias DEC 1 7 1981 LAREDO — Texas Lt. Gov. William P. "Bill" Hobby of Houston will be the Mr. South Texas honoree for the 1982 George Washington's Birthday Cele- bration in Laredo. Hobby, 49, is the 30th recipient of the coveted award. He and his wife, Diana, were advised of the Laredo honor during a visit by a celebration group in Austin. The 85th annual George Washington's Birthday Celebration will be held Feb. 18-21. Hobby will be an honor guest at the different fiesta functions and will re- ceive the Mr. South Texas tribute at the President's Luncheon. Vella Uribe, chairman of the Mr. South Texas Selection Committee, in- troduced Hobby in the Texas Senate chamber as the 1982 honoree. She and Alan Jackson, fiesta presi- dent, headed a 16-member Laredo delegation to visit with Hobby. The group included State Rep. Billy Hall Jr. and Dr. Joaquin G. Cigarroa, recipient of the 1981 Mr. South Texas award. Hobby has been a frequent visitor to Laredo for the border celebration since he came into the lieutenant gov- ernor's post in 1972. BRWIT accused of fibs DALLAS NEwc Unitcd Press international AUSTIN — Agricul- ture Commissioner Reagan Brown has bungled programs to control fire ants and is "fibbing" to public when he says emer- gency apporpriations may be needed to com- bat the pests, his Demo- cratic challenger said Wednesday. Jim Hightower, the only person to an- nounce he is running against Brown, said Brown has failed to fight the pests in the past and started talk- ing of a fire ant emer- gency only after he an- nounced for re-elec- tinn Hobby has been re-elected to suc- cessive terms as a Democrat. His fa- ther, the late William P. Hobby, also served as Texas lieutenant governor and governor. His mother, Oveta Hobby, headed the Women's Army Corps (WAC), served as U.S treasurer and headed the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for the Eisen. hower administration. The Laredo honoree has served on presidential committees, the Texas Air Control Board, the directors for Paul Quinn College, the Council of Overse- ers of Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Administration at Rice University and the Houston Chamber of Com- merce board. "What we have learned," Hightower said, "is that Reagan Brown himself is what is behind the so-called 'fire ant emergency. He has flubbed the man- a4ement of his own fief ant program, then fudged his facts and fibtx:d to the public." The populist candi- date also lashed out at Brown for his state- ments that additional state and federal fund- ing may be needed against the ants. Hightower, said that during Brown's ten- ure, the Legislature had appropriated nearly S8 million to fight the ants but that Brown had returned 52.5 million of • the funds unused and transferred still other portions to other pro- grams. Brown has said that the state plans to begin aerial spraying against fire ants in the spring, using the toxic chemi- cal Amdro.