The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 152, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 7, 1982 Page: 20 of 30
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Delegation To Push Proposal
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Researchers Swap Ideas During Tour of China
From Flakey to Frantic,
Pesticide Hotline Handles It
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ini' a recent tour of the Peo-
ple’s Republie of < ‘hina
Dr s P Yang delegation
coordinator and food and
nutrition expert with Texas
Tech, said soil revitalization
and range management are
the major agricuitural con-
cerns in China
in the cultivated areas,
whi< h have been farmed
some 4,000 years, minerals
have not been put bat k in the
percent he said
l ulh^ said currently the
fund is at $224 million The
floor IV $225 million if the
fund went bust, Tullis said, an
employer couid face paying
$z76 a year pet employee
insteac ot $6
Council late last year and is
serving on a committee to
study it, said tie visualizes
making San Antonio a link
between the Mexican Na-
tional Railroad and Amtrak
which furnishes passenger
service from here west to los
Angeles, east to New ( rleans,
and north to St louis and
Agricultural Experiment Sta
lion said lather than being
energy intensive like U.S
agrit uiture, < ‘hina’s food pro-
duction is labor intensive
Noble added that many per-
sons preferred to take the
train to Mexico because, "of
the scenic Sierra Madre
mountains it ‘s a good old
world that the good lord left
for us and here we are flying
over it and not seeing any of
it ”
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Dennis Hicks
Jerry D Berlin .mil Dr Raj
mond C Jackson of the
Department ot Biological
Seiences, Margarette I.
Harden, Dr Leon I Hopkins.
Dr Barbara J Stoecker and
Yang of the Department of
Food and Nutrition. Dr
Julian E Spallholz, interim
direc tor of the Institute for
Nutritional Sciences, and
Stoecker.
av i allure is a 4,000-year old
in.i)ni industry, and the
I nited States, the world's
leading producer still young
al 200
Establishing such a pro-
eram was the aim of the II
researchers from Tenas
Tech, New Mexico and Col
orade State universities dm
The < hinese are not look-
ing to replace people in the
sen e of mee hanization
Deere is no other industry to
employ the Sim million people
who are involved in food pro-
duction there," Stoecker
said
While U.S agricultural pro-
duction costs inc rease, costs
in China are kept to a
minimum through hand labor
end donkey carts
There are some four-
wheel and two-wheel tractors
but the bulk of the work is
done by hand We saw
mec hanical stationary
thrashers for wheat but it ap
peared that most grain was
thrashed by the use of a stone
thrashing wheel. ' Stoec ker
said
The amount of electricity
used on a farm in China is
equivalent to that which
flowers a 40 watt lightbulb for
two hours And that was be-
mg used to pump water he
said
Managing alkalinity pro-
blems in irrigated soils and
improving breeds and range
management are areas in
which Stoecker said Chinese
agriculturalists could benefit
from U.S research
Solin' of our mechanized,
labor-saving technology just
wouldn't make sense in
China, " Stoecker said of in-
teresi to both China and the
Dr Gerald W Thomas, a pro-
lessor of animal and range
sciences and leader of the
delegation, and Dr Merle H
Niehaus. chairman and pro-
fessor of the Department of
Agronomy from Colorado
State University. Dr Gerald
M Ward. Department of
Animal Sciences, and. from
Texas Tech University. Dr
U s are problems surroun-
ding a declining water table
in areas of irrigated
agric uiture That is a major
concern around Peking and
on the Texas High Plains
Sc ientifie exchange which
could prove most beneficial
for this country. Stoecker
said. is the examination of
what actually happens to
farm land over a long period
of time
in China they have these
spectacular gullies which
have been formed by river
erosion over time," he said
They take better advantage
of this type of land than we do
by level-bench terracing and
using it for farming "
Members of the delegation
included, from New Mexico
State University. President
inquiries usually are for-
warded tophysiciansor other
agencies
Rackyard gardeners fre-
quentiy i all. with questions
I hr audtional money may
allow the asene v to reopen up
to 4 offices and save the 4»
emplosces currently under
the shadow cd lav offs, but
it I' still would not lie at the
same funddin level as last
year, IFi Administrator Fr
no Tullis told memtwer s cd the
Texas House Employment
Practices Sutwcommittee on
Nudtge t andOver sight
wittwut some budget relief.
Tullis said the state » trust
fund which is used to pay
unemploy ment benefits,
could go broke within a tew
months For ea h $ million
the fund drops below a
federally set floor, Texas
employers taxes rise one
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Hv SUSAN STOLER
Associated Press Writer
SAN BENITO exas(AP)
F rom inside his storefront
office, Tony Mollhagen
counsels anxious pregnant
women, the homeless, I hr ill
and backyard gardeners
They tail him from arrow
the country Many say they
air desperale
I- ach has a problem with or
question about pestie ides
Um cases range from how to
get rid of body lice to acute
poisoning
Mollhagen mans hotline
phones for t hr National
Pesticide Information Clear
inghouse, a project in its fifth
yeat of dispensing advice to
Um weneral publie, govern
ment agencies, physicians
and industry
The bizarre part of this is
that people will i all up and
tell you the most intimate
parts of their lives," said
Mollhagen who holds a dot
lot air in biology
Every rail l treal as
seriousiy as I tan No matter
how fakey they air it's a
serious problem lot that per-
son "headded
last year. the project
hanled 1 000 inquiries com
paredtothe 1254 alls received
during its in st year in 1978
Ilir hotline tgan as an at
temp by the Fnv ironmnentai
our population
An initial observation
would suggest triple ( ropping
where « limate permits as one
re t on for t hr efficient pro-
due tiv ity < rops planted in
tripie rotation include winter
and prin wheat corn,
m.; et ro r and vegetables
in Arthur I. Stoecker
dele ation member and
ar i k ultural et onomist for
Fexa Tech and the Texas
de ft «l • ox said Rut that
expet irn« r indicates
Malathion isn't likely to do
damage II been used exten-
si\rh in the Southeast for
mosquito < ontrol for Ui sear
with no known longterm of
Im i
\ woman desperate lo » el
rid of body lice tailed
Mollhagen repeatediy at
fir t several times a day. foi
adv K • and a friendly
listener
I uppose one third to one
soil, Yang said I he foud •
deficient becaus the oil I
deficient Many f the
diseases in < Tuna »n • au • d
by these minerally deficient
foods
We can learn from the
< 'lune » way to improve th*
effie lent y of pl "du* In n
Yang said I hey have 13
percent le tarin land in
China yet they product
enough food to feed five timt
Protection Agency to dot u
ment incidents of pesticide
accidents Incoming toll free
lines first handled only (alls
from Texas. Louisiana,
Arkansas, New Mexico and
Oklahoma whie h form the
EPA ‘s Region 6
However word spread to
other states and soon calls
• ame in from across the
country
The telephone service is
housed with a pestie ide
assessment laboratory
operated by I Im* Texas Tet h
University Sehool of
Medicine Mollhagen has
other duties within the
school’s community health
project, such as conducting
field studies
Budget cutbacks reduced
th®* staff last year from II it
seven employees I Im EPA
lands the lab with IttB.fNHl an
nually
The laboratory is io ated
.INI miles away from its home
campus in labbork, in the
middle of one of the « ountry ‘s
most intensive agricultural
areas
An estimated 1,500
pesticides ale used within the
foul < ounty region known as
the lawer RioGrande Valley
a semi-tropical region
bordering Mexico with a
veal round growing season
Dbespite then relatively
He satd one long term solu
tion to TKCs fundine pro-
blem would Im- a tax on non
profit organizations and local
overnments which t nt rent
Iv only reimburse the state s
unemployment fund when
their employees receive
benefits They pay no ad
ministrative costs of
operating employment pro
Ktams. and the federal
government is powerless to
tax them But the state could
hr said
Our state leaders need to
dei Mir what is the minimal
level of employment services
SAN ANTONIO. Texas
AP) A delegation of city
officiais will travel to Mexico
< ity Sunday to advance a pro-
posal that the Mexican Na-
tional Railroad bring its
trains across tin* border to
provide daily first-class
passenger service to San An-
tonio
They are anxious to talk
maybe more than we are."
said city councilman Bob
Thompson, heading a delega-
tion to sound out Mexican
railway officials on the idea
Thompson, Bexar County
Commissioner Jeff Went
worth and Carlos Orellano,
exet utive director of Ilie In-
stitute of the Americas, plan-
ned to drive to Monterrey .
Mexico Sunday, then board
the Mexican Aztet Fagle"
li am lor tile remainder of the
trip into Mexico City
lester Noble, Ilk* local Am-
trak agent who has been in-
volved in rail service here
since PHI and is a longtime
proponent of daily passenger
train service linking (Ik* two
countries, estimated such an
agreement could result in $50
million a year incommerce
The colorful Noble, who ad-
valued the proposal to City
remembers when local hotels
were filled by drummers
American businessmen
who came by tram to show
their wares ami Mexican
businessmen who came to
San Antonio by rail to pur-
chase the goods, before direct
train service to Mexico was
terminated 13 years ago
Noble said he believed
many Mexicans and
Americans both would choose
trains rather than airplanes if
the option were provided
Riding one of Amtrak's new
trains, which are suspended
by air is just like flying
across this country on the
magi carpet of Bagdad,"
Noble said with a laugh
Thompson said no
breakthroughs were expected
at the initial discussion with
the Mexicans, but that the
I JU-st
remote l<M ation Molihage n
and lab du color Vaughn ( ox
feel they have a better pit
lure of potentiai pe tie ide
hazards than anyone elst
Bv talking to people all
over the country. We .it •• a
pretty good monitor of what
happening Mollhagen aid
Cox said pesticide oom
panies espet i.div manufat
turers of home u e prondus I
use hotline generated data to
improve safety ot pi .iv < in
ami dispenset
Johnson Wax maket of
Raid, has requested informa
lion on m • idents involving its
product . I OX said
Mollhagen s file r embi
a list of plagut and hazard
California medfly typsy
moths Oklahoma ia shop
pet s and DDI lev • Is al aban
doned wash- site
Calis poured in from
( alifornia last year when
state of! It lals be all sprayin
Malathion ovel populated
areas to er adit ate l h
dev astatin Mi diler t ane an
fruit fly
They would <all literall
in hv stern s Pi । i-Haul
women saying Mv baby
may Im- malformed I thes i .«
part of the < ountry I < an
mov i* to Mollhagen said
We would tell them that
we i .hi I guarantee that y in
chile will be fres from
we need in Texas ullis
said, but Im would not en
dorse a susestion Hud Hu
state lake total r sponsbilit v
for funding and providing the
programs
Hv SAI J
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vived the
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China, where
matter could come up later
this week when Texas Gov
Bill Clements meets with
Mexican President Jose
lopez Portillo
Monday's mneeting was ar-
ranged to pinpoint problems
in extending Mexican train
service to San Antonio and
detemine whether the pro-
blems can be overcome.
Thompson said, and will in-
volve such issues as customs
inspections, a route for the
trains, schedule frequency,
and risks ami benefits
Thompson said if the idea
seems feasible the San An-
tonio delegation would meeet
with Clements' aides to have
the matter added to the agen-
da for the Clements-lopez
Portillo talks. Thompson
said
Amtrak last Oct. 1 discon-
tinued its laredo leg of the
Inter American" route that
linked Chicago with the
border city, where
AUSTIN Texas AP’
Unless exas unemployment
i ompensation fund gets some
help, it < ould go broke at a
• ost at up to a MM percent rise
in employers’ taxes,
members of a legislative
• ommittee were told F riday
< am ress is « onsidering
restoring some of the budget
• uls that have resulted so far
in tbe closing id ♦<» Trias
I mploy ment Commission of
In r< and layoffs of about 800
TK(: employees Five other
offices may Im* < losed and 500
more employees were
scheduled to Im* laid off this
month
Hid th® i> I read the label (hat
ay don ’ use it on tomatoes
• an I still eat them '
\ uli ov ere xposure to
p tn ide an have t i ippling
effects
It gets depressing
ometimes people develop
hypersensilivity to all
• hemi ah and it makes them
iemi- inv a l nl< Mollhagen
said
Overexposure could result
from household products, like
aerosol bombs
I had a < all from a lady
whose husband used six of
those foe Hers in a 1 000
quare -foot house, where he
shotale hav e used ••m* or two,
< ex aid She started get
inn- a burning sensation on
het skin Ui fold her to see
het pit v si tan
l he general publie lias
alway been exposed to
w th ib - but i- more aware
t the potential hazards, Cox
and Mollhagenagrced.
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Nigh, Bob. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 152, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 7, 1982, newspaper, February 7, 1982; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1451260/m1/20/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.