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Tuesday
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October 29, 1985
85th Year, No. 83, Deaf Smith County, Hereford, Tx.
12 Pages
25 Cents
TDA program to help jobless farmers
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County mulling decision
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Vehicle reported burned
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farm plan
in pocket
Conservatives
push Loeffler
Ambulance attendants assist Marta
Mariscal after a collision she had with
Lisa Hobbs Monday afternoon. Mariscal
was traveling west on Third when the
Hobbs car, traveling south on Roosevelt,
ran a stop sign and collided with the
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City police made seven arrests during the weekend with six of
those being alcohol related. The other was on a warrant.
Police also responded to a report of indecent exposure, criminal
trespassing, eight cases of criminal mishcief, four thefts, two
reported harassments and two cases of assault by threat.
HISD board decides on three items
Three items were decided in a 7 a.m. meeting of the Hereford
Schools board of trustees.
Washington National won the bid for the school system's health in-
surance and a payroll deduction policy was approved.
The board also approved a long range plan for the gifted and
talented program in the secondary level.
The district will be looking into a program which would allow
gifted juniors and seniors to receive college credit while in high
school. The district will study whether to allow students to leave
campus for classes at colleges or have college level courses taught
at the high school.
Weather
MONDAY S HIGH: 73 OVERNIGHT LOW: 49
MOISTURE: None
OUTLOOK: Partly cloudy and mild on Wednesday
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August unemployment at 12.3 percent
August ended with a 12.3 percent unemployment rate in Deaf
Smith County, according to the Texas Employment Commission.
September's preliminary rate is set at 13 percent.
The TEC report indicates that the county had 1,219 persons out of
work in August.
Figures for Castro County show a 5.2 percent unemployment rate
for August and a preliminary rate of 6.9 percent for September.
Parmer County had 3 percent unemployment in August and
preliminary figures show 3.2 percent for September
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Blood drive continues Wednesday
The monthly visit of the bloodmobile was cancelled last Wednes-
day due to a blood drive at West Texas State University. However,
the bloodmobile will make its Hereford stop this Wednesday from 4
until 7 p.m. at the Hereford Community Center.
That feller on Tierra Blanca Creek
says success is doing what you like
and making a living at it.
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There are some problems that
have no solutions. There are some
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Among all the user fees increased
by the last legislature, there is one
we just learned about recently. Can
you believe you've got to have a hun-
ting license to hunt jackrabbits and
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Police arrest seven
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The Deaf Smith County Sheriff’s Department responded to a
report of a burned vehicle over the weekend. Other reports included
a domestic problem, two reports of prowlers, two public intoxica-
tions, and a report of reckless damage to a residence
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ing farmers can present some
special problems
"Many people don't want to be
identified as needing help Especial-
ly farmers, who are a very indepen-
dent group,” he told the Texas of-
ficials.
The Iowa program targeted for
help not just farmers, but others in
rural communities who suffer from
the farmers' financial woes, he said.
"The farm implement dealer, the
little cafe on Main Street, all of these
became part of the displaced worker
program. This is a rural problem,
not just a farm problem.”
Stewart Dike hearing rescheduled
The Texas Water Commission's hearing on the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service's application for a permit for Steward Dike at Buf-
falo Lake has been rescheduled for Jan. 7 The continuance will
allow attorneys for the F&WS to review transcripts of earlier hear-
ings on the permit application.
The F&WS plans to maintain Stewart Dike as an alternative to
restoring Umbarger Dam. James K. Rourke, TWC hearings ex-
aminer, earlier this month recommended the F&WS permit applica-
tion be denied because the dike maintenance posed a threat to public
welfare. He said neither Stewart Dike nor Umbarger Dam could
withstand a flood.
However, the F&WS says there is not a safety threat since all
public use areas ar at an elevaton below the dike.
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WASHINGTON (API - When the
Senate begins looking this week for
ways to trim the cost of its $117
billion, four-year farm bill, Senate
Majority leader Robert Dole will
have a plan in his pocket.
The idea, borrowed from a Dole
farm bill that passed the Senate in
1978 but failed to clear later
legislative hurdles, is to tie farm in-
come supports to the amount of crop
land a farmer is willing to idle. The
more land you take out of production,
the higher the government payment
rate on what's left.
The rewriting of the nation’s long-
term farm policy comes this year at
a time of distress in U.S. agriculture
unparalleled since the 1930s Depres-
sion. Because of the number of finan-
cially ailing farmers, the costs of
almost every approach tried by Con-
gress have been high.
Now before the Senate is a version
that would spend at least $55 billion
on crop price supports and income
subsidies over the next three years —
some $20 billion or more above the
budget level adopted by Congress.
No one, not even President
Reagan, believes spending will be
chopped back to the $34.8 billion in-
itially earmarked for crop programs
in the congressional budget
blueprint. But Agriculture Secretary
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Mariscal car. Both Mariscal and Hobbs
were taken to Deaf Smith General
Hospital where they were treated and
released. (Brand Photo by Shawn
Cockrum)
AUSTIN (AP> Agriculture Com- retraining, advice on starting a
missionor Jun Hightower is pushing small business and other assistance
a new job training program he says for up to 1,000 farm families, officials
can provide assistance and hope to said.
financially troubled farmers and Officials of the Texas Department
ranchers being forced off their land. of Agriculture and local agencies
We have got to reach out to these met Monday to develop guidelines
farmers and help them make an ad- for the program. TDA spokesman
justment. We just can't say, adios, Andy Welch said it should begin Jan.
chump,' as they go out of business,” 1.
Hightower said Monday. Hightower said he also wants to
Hightower has asked 34 job train- establish a toll-free telephone hot
ing agencies around the slate to in- line where farmers can call to learn
elude farmers in the list of Texans of legal, financial and mental health
eligible for programs that now help assistance available locally.
displaced homemakers. According to a TDA survey, 2.6
steelworkers, refinery workers and percent of Texas farms failed last
others. year due to financial problems.
The state gets $7.5 million in About 100 farms and ranches are fail-
federal funds annually for such pro- ing weekly, Hightower said, and
grams about 47 percent of farm borrowers
Help would include job counseling, are behind in loan payments.
Swift Independent
board approves
purchase by Cox
The sale of Swift Independent Cor- merger agreement. Financing, ’
poration to the Edwin L. Cox Jr., regulatory approval (by federal
family trusts of Dallas has been ap- agencies) and stockholder approval .
proved by the Swift Independent must also be obtained," according to 2
board of directors, subject to the report I
negotiation of a contract The proposed sale is of much in- I
A letter of intent to purchase SIC, a terest in Hereford because the Swift I
Chicago-based company, by the Cox Independent Packing Co. plant was I
group was approved by the SIC closed here last June. In addition, ■
board Thursday. according to a Swift Cox is the primary investor in Valley
Independent news release The Brand View Energy which has scheduled
received today. construction of a manure-fired elec-
The proposed sale was not initiated trical generating plant just east of
by Swift Independent, stated the Hereford. The $98 million project is
news release. "The transaction is now scheduled for completion in
subject to negotiation of a definitive 1987.
The Cox holding company also pur-
chased the Texas-based Friona In-
dustries about four months ago
Swift Independent is the parent com-
pany of SIPCO, which operates a
beef packing plant near Dumas with
1.000 employees SIPCO owns three
AUSTIN i AP) — A conservative other beef packing plants and is the
political action committee says nation's largest pork packer with
Texas Republicans should pick U.S. nine plants across the U.S.
Rep. Tom Loeffler over Kent Hance The Cox trusts have made a
in next year’s GOP gubernatorial leverage buyout offer valued at $135
primary because Hance isn't conser- million for Swift Independent, accor-
vative enough. ding to news reports. The transaction
"Few candidates have captured will be submitted to stockholders for
the hearts and the votes of Texans approval in January, the Swift news
like Ronald Reagan ... The record release stated.
clearly shows Rep. Tom Loeffler is The transaction contemplated by
far closer to Ronald Reagan than the letter of intent provides for each
Kent Hance is," says a brochure share of Swift Independent to be con-
distributed Monday by the Texas verted into $21 in cash and $7 face
Conservative Action Fund, value of a cumulative exchangeable
(See LOEFFLER, Page 2» (See SWIFT, Page 2)
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WVith job trainina communities the last two years .. we’ve had two
I 3 * hese people are going through a suicides. These are hard times out in
Hightower estimated as many as the rural areas (hats kHhng s.me of Theycanmindatjothengs wAnrwhere thencountry"‘s * heartbreak
20 percent of Texas family farms the most efficient, most productive quietly move off , 5 " eret n, hes t
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sion. n is. fll-fiedged depresson in sid mn Trxas sarmer place in the coun- you fall “ cenks below the cost
"-e of production, you re losing money
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in a big hurry."
Seven Midwestern states have
started job training programs for
farmers. Gary Dick, who has run a
program in eastern Iowa, said help-
By SHAWN COCKRUM Counties are under the purchase of paid $15,800 to PARC for services.
Staff Writer service contract, the other counties under the ver-canita contract the
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the Panhandle Alcoholic Recovery for each countv resiqont p,rgmitL g—n t u . .
^d enter .^othe^piU^
ad the facility during the regular the purchase of service contract or county and much less complicated
meeting of the commission that was enter into the per-capita contract. when it comes to billing.
neld Monday in the per-capita contract the coun- Anderson said that at PARC all
Unti recently the county was in- ty would pay, for example, .50 cents clients pay $90 per day for services
yolved.in a purchase of. service for each person living in the county, and the funds from the counties are
agreement with PARC where the This money would go to PARC for used to maintain the facility and
county would pay only for services operating expenses. PARC would keep the patient fee at a minimum,
rendered to persons that the county then charge each client for services Currently PARC has the lowest
would send to the facility, PARC rendered. The county would pay only price for primary care in the state,
serves all the counties in the Panhan- one flat fee per year.
die but only Deaf Smith and Randall During the past year the county
Hereford Braud
situations that must simply be lived coyotes?
through. Survival calls for the ability We’re not kicking about the higher
to sustain the tension without fight or license fees for the Texas Parks &
flight.-Sidney Harris Wildlife for boats, hunting and
oOo fishing licenses and other revenue
The dew was on the pumpkins this for that agency. But a new law re-
morning, not a welcome sight for quires that hunters possess a valid
Hereford-area farmers who have hunting license to hunt any bird or
already had the harvest of row crops animal anywhere in the state.
delayed too long. Some warm, sunny
days finally allowed harvest opera- If you’re over 17 and under 65,
tions to resume last week but you've got to have a hunting license
farmers need several weeks of dry to hunt in the county in which you
weather to complete the harvesting, reside. Only persons hunting on land
The sugar beet harvest cranked up on which they legally reside are ex-
again last week and Holly Sugar had empt. and they must have a $6 ex-
all its pick-up points in operation, empt license to hunt deer or turkey.
The remaining corn crop is being We checked with Chuck Cosper,
harvested and many farmers are local game warden, and he confirm-
beginning to combine their maize, ed the fact that you have to have a
The area still has not had a complete license to hunt any bird or animal,
killing freeze and some cotton is not not just those classified as "game”
ready Farmers were hoping the species.
forecast of scattered showers this The state legislators have stopped
week would miss this area. preaching and started meddling!
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Curtis, Jeri. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 83, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 29, 1985, newspaper, October 29, 1985; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1430327/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.