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THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1982
A FRIO-NUECES LTD. PUBLICATION
THE COTULLA RECORD, COTULLA, TEXAS
Mail Carriers need
Homeowners Consideration
Riddle: What are the two
biggest my the associated
with mail service?
Answer The check is in
the mail" and "Go ahead
and pet him: he doesn't
bite."
Cotulla. Texas Poet-
master Tom Ervin says of
the classic battle between
the letter carrier and the
family dog “There's irony
here," Ervin says. “Many
people find humor in thia
confrontation, but there is
more human tragedy in dog
bite cases than you might
imagine "
To illustrate the point, the
Postmaster points to a new
employee poster It bears the
warning that dog bites can
be fatal. Its background is a
reproduction of a California
newspaper's story.
The lead reads: "A
postman died at Kaiser
Foundation Hospits: Monday
morning, four days after he
was bitten on the arm by a
pit bulldog while delivering
mail on s Colton rouse
Ervin says the California
carrier died from blood
poisoning after being bitten
by the dog K aeatk m ay be
i rare." he adds but the
' bites are not Tbe Iksg Pays
of Summer takes oe very
serious meaning for Postal
Service letter carriora
Ervin says f W ieater
carriers across tbe aaUM
were bitten by dogv -am
year
Ervin says the Festal
Service has the right to
protect iu carriers from
injury by wii.hboldmg mail
delivery to any resident who
keeps an unrestrained dog on
a property “In fact, a dog
allowed to roam loose can
result in interruption of
service to a whole block or
neighborhood." he adds.
The Postal Service alao
provides counseling to bitten
carriers wishing to file
lawsuits against the dog
owners It will also pursue
settlement with the third
party to recover losses in-
curred by the Service.
“Things don't have to go
that far," Ervin says. “All
we ask is that the dog owner
take a few common-sense
steps to protect both their pet
and their letter carrier. If
the dog is dept outdoors, we
ask that it be secured away
from the mailbox and the
areas where the mail
carrier enters or leaves the
property."
Ervin asks local
homeowners to be aware of
how serious dog bites can be.
"We constantly alert our
carriers to the problem, but
we need the public’s help to
stop all dog bites."
“The best protection our
carriers can receive is a
little thoughtful action on the
part of the dog owner. It’s
the old story of an ounce of
prevention being worth a
pound of cure.”
T.R. Kerr
gets MED
Degree
ALPINE — Theodore
Reese Kerr of Cotulla was
among 166 graduates
receiving diplomas during
Sul Ross State University
summer commencement
Aug. 13.
Kerr received his MED
degree in education. The
university awarded 102
masters degrees, 59 bac-
calaureate degrees and four
certificates during
ceremonies at Mountainside
Cafeteria. SRSU President
Bob Richardson presented
the diplomas.
• Cowboys
(Continued from page 1)
as the leading rusher with 67
yards on six carries and Flowers
added 62 in five tries.
Defensively, the Cowboys
were almost invinceable, allow-
ing Charlotte only two first
downs and 21 total yards.
Some of the outstanding de-
fensive performers were Mario
Perez, Tim Plocek, Chris Hino-
josa and Louis Woodul.
John Quincy Adams was
the last man to be elected
president without the back-
ing of a political party.
Plcaw keep him fenced,
tedxhcd or con lined za
Don’t let your pet add to
the dog bite problem.
REPORT FROM
de la Garza
WASHINGTON - A House Senate Conference
| Committee Monday approved a compromise package
| of legislation - part of the omnibus Budget Recon-
I ciliation bill •• which cuts Federal spending about $7
| billion over three years [according to tentative
| estimates by the Congressional Budget Office] with
| changes in government dairy, grain, rice and food
| programs, Chairman Kika de la Garza, D-Tex., of the
| House Agriculture Committee announced.
Highlights of the package include:
--Wheat and Feed Grains: A program for the 1983
I wheat crop under which growers who agree to put 20
percent of their base acreage into conservation use
would receive acreage diversion payments on 5 per-
cent of the base. [For example, a farmer with a 100-
acre wheat planting base would retire 20 acres and
would get diversion payments on 5 of the retired
acres.] Growers participating in the program would
become eligible for Federal price support benefits,
including price support loans and "target price" in-
I come protection. Wheat price support loan rate, now
$3.55 a bushel, would be raised to $3.66for the 1983 crop.
For corn and other feed grains, producers would be
able to elect to put 15 ercent of their base acreage
into conservation use, including 5 percent which would
be eligible for diversion payments, in order to qualify
for price support benefits. The corn support loan rate
would be raised from this year’s $2.56 a bushel to $2.66
a bushel. Savings in the grain programs would be
achieved by reducing surpluses and by cutting
potential direct "target ^price” support payments
which cover the gap between the price support loan
rate [or market price, whichever is higher] and a pre-
set target price.
[Note: Wheat growers participating in the reduction
program would get acreage diversion payments at the
rate of $3 for each bushel which would normally be
grown on the portion of the retired acreage which was
eligible for these payments. For corn, the diversion
payment would be based on a rate of $1.50 for each
bushel of normal yield. For both wheat and corn, the
Secretary of Agriculture could lower the diversion
payment rate by up to 10 percent if be first certified
that this would achieve the program goals. All farmers
eligible for wheat, feed grain and rice acreage
diversion payments would get half of these payments
at the time they enroll in the program. Producers
would also get advances at enrollment time on any
projected "target price" payments for their crope. The
Secretary of Agriculture in setting up the grain
acreage reduction programs would be directed to take
into consideration the special problems of farmers who
normally “summer fallow" part of their land every
year.]
Cotton: The bill does not mandate any new program,
but the Conference report will encourage the Secretary
of Agriculture to include a paid diversion feature in
any acreage reduction program he may proclaim
under existing legal authority.
■ ■ Exports: The bill provides that in each of the three
fiscal years beginning Oct. 1, 1982, the Secretary of
Agriculture would be required to use between $175
million and $190 million in Commodity Credit Corp,
funds for export activities authorized by ezisting law.
This authority would be in addition to, not in place of,
authorities under any other laws. The Conference
report will make it clear that the legislation makes no
change in the Administration's ezisting discretionary
power to use such devices as export credit “buy-down"
plans to reduce interest rates on export credit.
-- Food Stamps: Projected program costs would be
cut by $548 million for fiscal 1983, $635 million for fiscal
1984 and $756 million for fiscal 1986, a total three-year
reduction of $1,939 billion, by measures including a
temporary reduction in the rate at which benefits are
adjusted to reflect changes in food costs; reduction in
administrative expense payments to states which fail
to meet error-reduction targets; allowing states to
require that stamp applicants must make a job search;
eliminating benefits of under $10 in the first month of
an applicant's eligibility; tightening regulations for
granting “expedited eervice" to applicants; a delay in
adjustmenta in a standard deduction which all ap-
plicants can use to reduce their gross income to net
income for calculating stamp benefits and in ad-
justments in a medical and child care deduction;
rounding down individual bendfita to the next lowest
dollar; allowing states to determine standard utility
cost deductions based on actual utility costs; and
tightening regulations on the eligibility of students for
Food Stamps. Additionally, the Conference Agreement
puts a ceiling on Food Stamp expenditures at $12,874
billion for fiscal 1983, $13,146 billion for fiscal 1984 &
$13,933 billion for fiscal 1986. The figure for each of
these years includes — fl] a basic ceiling; [2] a 5
percent “cushion" on top of the basic figure, allowing
Congress to appropriate funds, if needed, in case
conditions in tbe general economy bring more than the
expected number of people into the program; and [3]
$825 million per year for Puerto Rico under the block
grant food assistance program which current law
provides for the Commonwealth.
I NIT *39 PRESIDENT Barbara Standridge ahown with
'Aagwer Carr, American Legion State Department Com-
mander at fed Division Convention in Austin, will be running
for tbe District 15 Vice President office. Mrs. Standridge waa
recently named chairman of the Ladies Auxiliary Emergency
Fund Division Three by Shirley Ott, State Department
President of the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary.
Escapee from Pearsall
is still on the loose
At press time this week
local, county and area law
enforcement officers still
had not recaptured Oscar A.
Villarreal, 27, of Pearsall
who escaped from the Frio
County Jail at ap-
proximately 10:30 Wed-
nesday morning August 18.
According to Frio County
Sheriff’s Deputy and Jailer
Trini Rendon, Villarreal
made his escape by climbing
a 12-foot chain link fence
surrounding the jail's
exercise area and jumping
on the jail roof and making
his getaway.
Villarreal was being held
under a $60,000 bond charged
with armed burglary of a
Pearsall building.
Jailer Rendon, who spoke
about the escape Friday
morning said that he
,( Rendon) took Villarreal and
four other jail inmates into
the jail's exercise yard,
located in the building's east
side then went back inside to
attend to some other
business.
Rendon said a while later,
he thought he heard foot-
steps on the roof of the jail
building and when he went
outside to check discovered
Villarreal missing.
The jailer said he was told
by a CETA worker, working
across the street from the
jail, that Villarreal had
scaled the 12 foot chain link
fencing enclosing the
exercise yard, somehow
gotten over the sharp-edged
razor wire on top of the fence
and onto the jail roof, from _
where he made his getaway.
Rendon said that all
county law officers were
called out to aid in a search
for Villarreal and that a
roadblock was set up on
Interstate 35 North of Pear-
sall, after police got a report
that Villarreal had gone in a
brown car headed north.
The car was stopped, but
Villarreal was not in the car.
Rendon said that he and
Sheriff Benny Sanders had
discussed what to do to
prevent such an occurrence
in the future, but as of
Friday, no definite plan had
been developed.
Rendon said that perhaps
Villarreal wouldn't have
made an escape if there had
been someone watching the
exercise yard, but he said
that he, Sanders and Deputy
Donald Moore and Raul
Sanchez were the depart-
ment's only personnel and
that someone couldn’t be
outside watching the
prisoners and inside running
the jail at the same time.
Texas Travel Magazine
available on Newstands
AUSTIN - For the first
time in its history. Texas has
a travel magazine on the news-
stands.
Texas Highways
Magazine, the state’s official
travel publication, went on
the newsstands Isst month in
all major cities throughout
Texas, a few cities in
surrounding ststea and in
Chicago and New York.
The latest issue to hit
newsstsnds and super-
markets features Jack
Grimm, the Abilene oilman
who claims to have
discovered Noah's Ark on
Mount Ararat in Turkey,
who sent an expedition to
photograph not one but two
Loch Ness monsters; who
almost raised the Titanic;
and who has a new scheme
brewing in West Texas.
Now he is sponsoring the
Jack Grimm World Class
Hang Gliding Meet. Com-
petitors from around the
world will come in Sep-
tember to jump off the 340-
foot cliff on Grimm's mesa
near Buffalo Gap (near
Abilene), to glide and swoop
through the clear blue sky,
all for the love of the sport
and the world's largest purse
for hang gliding, courtesy of
Jack Grimm.
A feature about the meet,
which includes specific
directions on how to get to
the meea and how to judge
the fliers, is one of several
articles in the September
issue of Texas Highways
Magazine that will attract
readers who are interested
in Texana and what is going
on in the Lone Star State.
The cover story, “The
Devil's Rope," tells about
the barbed wire that
"snagged, bloodied and
tamed the West," while
another feature describee
the new and improved LBJ
Library and Museum in
Austin. The library reopened
in June with more in-depth
displays describing the
Johnson Presidential years.
The September Texas
Highways Magazine also
includes an article on the Rio
Grande Valley's “miracle
plant," aloe vera and
described its medicinal use
since the days of King
Solomon. A special feature
on one of the state's most
valuable crops, rice, in-
cludes a section of tempting
new recipes using rice.
The photo feature of the
alo Duro Canyon, where fall
color barely begins to tinge
the foliage in September.
The spectacular
photographs of the canyon
are typical of photo features
in every issue of Texas high-
ways Magazine, since 1975
the state's official travel
magazine.
Since receiving that
designation from the state
legislature, the magazine's
circulation has jumped
dramatically from 20,000 to
some 280,000 copiee per
month. It has developed into
a 48-page, full-color monthly,
with spectacular
photographs on every page.
The newsstand price ie $1.60.
A reader who wants to
make sure he doeen’t miee a
single issue can order a one-
year subscription by sending
his mailing addreas and a
check for $10 ($15 to foreign
addresses) to Texas High-
ways Magazine, Boz 6016,
Austin 78762.
Future issues will include
a variety of Texas subjects,
from cowboys to restored
Victorian mansions at
Christmas time. Photo
features might be out-
standing scenes of Big Bend
National Park, dazzling
vistas of spring bluebonnets,
or dramatic fall foliage.
Other issues of Texas High-
ways Magazine will take
readers on cattle roundups,
will reveal the secret recipes
from various ethnic groups
that enrich the Texas
cuisine, explore little known
weekend getaway places
around the state and review
dramatic stores of Texas
pioneers.
MEMBER 1982
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Reddell, Lewis A., II & Flowers, Linda. The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1982, newspaper, August 26, 1982; Cotulla, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1175311/m1/2/: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alexander Memorial Library.