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2A Port Arthur News Saturday, February 4, 1984 Groves only city to show increase from page 1A • $331,864 to Port Neches ($313,554). • $295,725 to Bridge City ($312,440). Benton said Nederland, Groves and Port Neches probably enjoyed the increase from 1982 because their economies are less dependent on the depressed marine and oil industries and more connected to strictly retail sales. Beaumont's yearly totals increased slightly from $8,737,891 in 1982 to $8,774,514 in 1983. Orange's dropped from $937,925 in 1982 to $886,778. Jefferson County's total in 1983 was $13.28 million as compared to $13.12 million in 1982. Orange County dropped from $2.29 million in 1982 to $2.28 million in 1983. Statewide, the nonretail component of the sales tax suffered the most last year - for despite its name, the tax is not just a retail tax. In fiscal 1982, retail sales accounted for 57 percent of the state total. The other 43 percent came from taxable sales in a wide range of other industries such as manufacturing (15 percent), wholesale trade (11 percent), service industries (6 percent), utilities (4 percent) and other miscellaneous categories (6 percent). In the first three quarters of fiscal 1983, sales from the retail part decreased 2 percent, while those from the nonretail component dropped 17 percent. The nonretail sector suffered so much because major business investment in Texas dropped off dramatically, particularly in the oil and gas industry. Taxable purchases of equipment and machinery for oil exploration and production decreased 43 percent between the firt quarter of 1982 and the same period in 1983. That decline, in turn, "rippled" through the rest of the state economy to affect construction, manufacturing and even retail sales. Approximately 11 percent of the sales tax receipts come directly from the oil and gas industry, while another 19 percent are indirectly connected. In some areas - such as the Golden Triangle and the Gulf Coast - the indirect connection is even stronger. In the state's Gulf Coast region, which runs from Port Arthur to Corpus Christi, the total receipts in 1983 were $232 million, a 4 percent drop from the previous year. Hurricane Alicia contributed substantially to that drop, causing $800 million in property damage and a $27 million in tax loss due to insurance write-offs. Despite the disappointment in 1983, State Comptroller Bib Bullock forecasts good economic news in 1984. He feels that the recovery is gaining momentum, and he forecasts 11 percent growth this year and 10 percent next year. Local economies, however, can still continue to lag behind the state surge. Bullock forecasts the most rapid growth in the diversified economies bounded by Dallas-Forth on the north and San Antonio on the south. He predicts that the Gulf Coast and south Texas - where oil, agriculture and border trade are dominant - will probably have a slower recovery. Rauschenberg planning traveling show From page 1A adventure. "I'm just a catalyst. I'm not ordering your concepts as to what the individual perceptions of the work should be. If something - a piece of work - is too familiar, it would be too easy just to switch to something entirely different. If that one element tends to dominate, I would consider that to be the weakest part of the piece," he says. To keep that "edge" on his work, Rauschenberg cites a method which may have originated with Picasso - or it may be Rauschenberg's own idea. "You take your favorite part," he says, "and destroy it." That's not always the easiest thing to do, and Rauschenberg admits that takes strength, even fir himself. But he casually reveals a startling outcome of his famed all-black canvases that raised eyebrows in the art world 30 years ago. "I used them over for the next project," he says. "When I was going to school I did five paintings a day. New canvases were expensive. The only reason for not painting over yesterday's work is that it's not dry enough." Rauschenberg also once erased a drawing by expressionist Willem de Kooning - "if it was art when he did it, it should have been art when I erased it" - and drew startled reaction and deep, cerebral analysis. "Some people said it was an anti-art gesture," he says. "It was all about destruction, and nihilism and void and all the other crap that the surrealists taught us. "You can't really listen to the critics all the time - but then, you've got to listen sometimes. You never know when they just might be right." Gov. White happy with EPA decision From page 1A that Ruckelshaus "apparently doesn't even listen to his own scientists. EPA still marches to the beat of the special-interest drum." Tani Adams, director of the Texas Pesticide Project, said Ruckelshaus "is willing to expose the American public to several more years of one of the most potent cancer-causing substances ever identified. "It is as if your family doctor told it was safe to smoke cigarettes for another three to five years," Adams said. Adams also cautioned consumers to watch for grocery store sales of contaminated products. Several chains operating in the Austin area had a number of the contaminated products on sale at reduced prices last week. Officials of the companies said the sales were regular marketing procedures planned several weeks ago and had nothing to do with EDB. EDB, or ethylene dibromide, has been used as a fumigant on grain and fruits since 1948. It has been proven to cause cancer in laboratory animals and is suspected of causing cancer in humans. EPA scientists say it is one of the most toxic chemicals they have tested. 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