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Stephenuille EEmpire-Gribune
11 cents daily-35 cets Sunday
Vet 1M No. U»
Tuesday, January 17, 1978
Stephenville, Texas .6401
10 Pages
1 Section
Peanut board sues for price support money
Villarreal said that prior to the gake
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Counterpoint set upa 43-member staff to over of the program evaluation operation
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in the past year, for gas, oil, repairs and
accessories, came to 15,782,000, as
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Early morning temperatures ranged Fifteen inches of snow fell in parts of
from a frigid seven degrees at Dalhart and southern Illinois, and one resident in Cairo
Amarillo to the upper-40s at El Paso and said “It’s like the floor fell out of the sky, highways throughout the state were snow-
An investigator of the Travis Centy
________________. District Attorney’s Office has been
Several persons interviewed said that assigned to lock into the GOMA staffing
Governor Briscoe's determination to hold arrangement
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function gs the program evaluation arm of by Counterpoint, TMC paid the salaries of
GOMA. individuals who worked strictly as GOMA
GORMAN - The Texas Peanut determine visually whether or not the To add to the injury market prices for Fourth, there is a blanching process cThe.wok erformedsbyastheapstrrnxtd stafwmembercupie of them eht (in
Producers Board, headquartered in aspergiUus flavus mold contains aflatox- peanutsssold for oil have been declining which would completely remove the Eas Len productive and has provided a Austin) for about a year,” he added.
--Gorman;and Wiiamkenrruth,aTezas ins, Only-through chemical analysis can it since.1975 at roughly two 2) cents per . needed asesnment of CETA programs The TMC-provided staff members which
peanut grower, have filed suit in the U.S. be determined if aflatoxins are present, pound per year, the TPPB spokesman alwingthemtobesotemtsedibtetrade administered through GOMA. Several included a program planner, and several
Court of Claims against the U.S.A. on and if so, at what levels. The grower is said... , ... Peanut candyrete).at sources said such evaluation is required others” who were paid by other CETA
behalf of all peanut growers in the state denied chemical testing although inexpen- If thefarmer doesnot comply with the approximately 34 cents per pound basedIon and vital portion of a manpower grants program contractors, were absorbed by
affected by Segregation 3 peanuts in the sive and rapid methods are available and above, he is not eligible for price supports 1977 prices. Ho wever, the twenty-fourt24) program. the Counterpoint operation, Villarreal
years 1974-1977. t used extensively in other commodities, the for the remainder of his crop pursuant to hour rule prevents this. ifthe farmer were Adams, who sayd he doesn’t even intend said.
The question involves the legality and TPPB spokesman said ASCA rulings. ---- given more time, he could hcid back his to visit the Sandlin Building office, Adams apparent efforts to disassociate
validity of the U.S. Department of The grower is severely limited in his 3 .peanuts whue he completed condeeded that Counterpoint-paid staff GOMA with the Counterpoint operation
' Agriculture's failure to pay price supports allowable alternative once aspergillus The above improperly penalizes the harvesting his crop. Then, when the crop appears to have been performing “valid included a weekend visit to the Sandlin
on Segregation 3 peanuts in 1974, the flavus is visually spotted. All farmers farmer with Segregation 3 peanuts first, was in,he could have his peanuts blanched functions," for GOMA. Building office by Board of Countrol
Secretary of Agriculture rescinded an stock peanuts are inspected by the he is denied price supports for Seg. 3 and sold into edible trade. Allowing that a few of the Counterpoint agents who seized five file cabinets of
support of these peanuts. Plaintiffs allege Federal-State Inspection Service peanuts; secondly, twenty-four (24 > hours The Secretary of Agriculture is personnel have been housed in the state documents thought to be state records,
that he did not have statutory authority to ______— is Insufficient time fo clean the peanuts; “directed by law to pay price supports, office building with the mainGOMA office, Adams said he is having those fes
do Once they see the aspergillus flavus and third he cannot save his Seg. 3 penauts Although he is given certain factors to be Adams said some of the individuals may copied and may return them to the Sandlin
_ A mold the grower has (1) until 5 p m the to use for seed the following year even considered to determining the level of be put on the state payroll to continue Building where State Auditor George
The Peanut Marketing Agreement followingday to have the load cleaned, (2) though there is no reason (health or price support and may make “appro- GOMAS PROG RAM MONITORING MeNiel plans to conduct his audit as
defines Segregation 3 peanuts as farmers sell to a signer of the marketing otherwise > for not using these peanuts for priate adjustments', the Secretary lacks All other non-state employes will be ordered by Gov. Briscoe,
stock peanuts with visible aspergillus agreement, or (3) turn them over to the seed. The TPPB says comparing the statutory authority to withhold price moved out of the GOMA office to the Since state security police have no
flavus. " Aspergillus flavus is a mold which area association for marketing later If approximate seed prices the farmer pays supports based upon any grade or quality Capitol complex, he added. jurisdiction off state property, Adams
appears on peanuts, more in some years they are not cleaned in this time period, or to oil prices the farmer obtains clearly or for any other reason. This is the basis on Only eight persons in the GOMA office sys Counterpoint has agreed to “change
than others depending on climate and soil if cleaning is ineffective, only options (2) shows the severe tone suffered by the the suit, and on behif of Texas peanut are on the state payroll, according to the locks" on the room in the Sandlin
conditions, according to a TRPB and (3) above are available, farmer, as folows: oil, 1975, 13 to 13.5 cents growers and others similarly situated, we Adams. Villarreal says there are 43 Building where recordsaretobestmsHi.s
. spokesman The bottom line to the farmer is that (2) per pound; seed 48 cents per pound; 1978, have demanded an accounting from the persons working for GOMA under the
However, aspergillus flavus is not and (3) will yield no more than 10 5 cents oil 11.5 to 12 cents per pound; seed 50 cents United States Government for damages in Counterpoint contract
l dangerous to human consumption unless it per kernel pound based upon 1977 figures, per pound; 1977, oil 10 to 10.5 cents per excess of 3.5 million dollars, the TPPB
-contains aflatoxin. It is impossible to since the peanuts can only be sold for oil pound; seed 54-55 cents per pound. spokesman said.
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Board okays plans FarmroP Snow blanket expected
ugma maemumm Samge "mammanm T The forecast is for continued cold weather clouds moved eastward, the snow was Carbondale was dosed except for the
1 11 ■ ( Illi S KD(M MM ■ through Wednesday with cloudiness expected to spread over much of north physical plant, health service and campus
""WF WV Wv ■■ efe rAeArej increasing this afternoon. Snow is likely Texas with freezing rain and sleet falling radio station, WSIU.
Plans for a new school bus facility were be received until 4 p.m. Feb. 20 and the 35-9 -*W--h Wednesday, possibly beginning as sleet to the south. Trooper Gerald Miller at Du Quoin said,
wamdimiccorshdergardingacontrac ApponKwneL
night After considerabie discussion on the WASHINGTON (AP)-Led by corn and 30 with the low tonight near 20. Winds will 60s in the Rio Grande Valley. AU roads are snowpacked and hazardous.
The 50 by 80-foot building will be method the district will use to provide soybeans, total farm crop production be light and northeasterly. Parts of the Midwest were buried In We’re just scared to death that it’ll turn
primarily of metal, with four 20-foot wide unemployment compensation protection soared to a record level last year, ac- The. probability of snow is 40 percent snow today, with hundreds of schools into freezing rain.”
bay s and a wash bay taking up a large part for its a|yrnrimately ton employe, cording to the Agriculture Department, tonight and 60 percent Wednesday, closed and some downtowns virtually in Missouri, a 14-inch snowfall virtually
of the facility. Alao included will be offices, board agreed to use a reimbursing The com crop, the most important U.S. Minimum temperature this morning was deserted, while the Northeast braced for shut down Cape Girardeau today,
a lounge, and storage area. pmployer plan with the management firm grain, was a record of almost 8.36 billion 17 degrees. High yesterday was 80 degrees heavy snow tonight. Californians were told A temperature of 12-below was reported
Fred Bruce Parker, architect, said the of Gates-McDonald to provide assistance, bushels, 1 percent more than in 1978 and at 10 a.m. to expect rain in areas where rivers were today at Kansas City International
building will be well insulated. He said School Superintendent Ben Gilbert said the third consecutive record harvest, the Clear skies over much of Texas Tuesday already at flood stage. Airport, tying the record for the date set to
concrete blocks will be used for dividing the firm agreed to provide amiatance to department’s Crop Reporting Board said caused temperatures to plummet to below Winds in Indiana began piling up snow 1930. It was the coldest reading to Kansas
walls. There are to be six skylights, plus the district for 1350 for the first year of the Monday. 10 degrees to the Panhandle and into the drifts along the Ohio River, and City since the thermometer plunged to 13
five outside security lights. program, which became necessary for -Soybean production, at a record of teens elsewhere across the northern half of Evansville, with 13 inches on the ground by Jan. 16, 1977.
The board agreed to ask for contractors school districts on Jin. 1 of this year. The almost 1.72 billion bushels, was 33 percent the state. 8 a m • was "just about stifled," in the The snow in southeast Missouri started
to bid on the entire project, including method chosen was the believed to be the larger than the reduced 1976 crop. Along the coast, temperatures were in words of one weather forecaster. Sunday night, and it was still snowing
construction of the building, fill work, less costly of several alternatives The department's “an crops” index, the 30s ‘ The University of Evansville, the lightly this morning. The National
installation of a chain link fence, and available which is based on 1967 production, was a The only sections of the state with Evansville campus of Indiana State Weather Service said the 14 inches of snow
building of a road off Overhill Drive and a Other board action will be reported record of 129 percent last year, up from the above-freezing readings were the Rio University and all schools as well as major on the ground at Cape Girardeau was the
parking area for bus drivers. Bids are to later. previous high of 121 percent to 1976 and Grande Valley and the extreme southwest, industries were closed, heaviest snowfall registered at any of its
1975 Early morning temperatures ranged Fifteen inches of snow fell in parts of weather stations.
Last November, as the crops were being from a frigid seven degrees at Dalhart and southern Illinois, and one resident in Cairo Hundreds of schools were cloned and
harvested, the department forecast corn .. _
_______________■ - _ production at about 6.37 billion bushels and Brownsville. It's just incredible. packed and icy.
A A | | A A n _ • a aI soybeans at about 1.68 billion bushels. Other 6 a.m readings were Beaumont- Cairo merchants closed their businesses Light snow was falling midmorning to
IV M AA tC I I II I T I O fl ( C | A (I Thus despite poor weather and slow Port Arthur, 32; Austin, 27; Brownsville, and police gave rides to foot travelers the New York City metropolitan area,
■ w ■■ ■ ■ “* ■ ■ * ■■■ *" * progress in some harvesting areas last 46; Corpus Christi, 38; Dallas-Fort Worth, along the silent streets. which was battered by a snow and ice
। II II fall the corn crop turned out to be only 9 5 17; Midland-Odessa, 23; McAllen, 46; San Managing Editor Jay Scott of the Cairo storm over the weekend.
uAR. iaAm-mqa, million bushels smaller than the Antonio, 29; Texarkana, 24; Wichita Falls, Evening Citizen said only three employees About 500 National Guardsmen were
Willi lll“IIIUIIV I “lUI UvU department forecast in November. The 9, and Wink, 27, of the afternoon newspaper were at the moving into quarters on Long Island on
I soybean output exceeded the November Increased cloudiness was expected to office by midmorning and it was not known orders by Gov. Hugh Carey and convoys
.. „ n ' forecast bring snow to the Panhandle during the if the paper would publish. carrying snow removal equipment were en
Cen?pr°w^k ^h^taThMith Jt needsatto become more personally The bumper grain harvests, although of day and rain in the southwest. As the Southern Illinois University in route from Camp Smith at Peekskill, N.Y.
an operational unit that works primarily k?addition to these duties, the MR unit benefit to consumers, have been a mixed
with the mentally retarded. Most of the finds “some overlapping responsibilities blessing for farmers who have seen
unit’s time is spent with mentally retarded with the MH unit since we assist in that commodity, prices tumble-sharply as - - ■ ■ g ■ • | . I
people and their families helping them to area when the need arises,” Mrs. stockpiles of surplus!grainhawveincre ased GeeeialeAAe (Aipms) recieiemc Ki IV
discover what services are available, Yearwood said. "We also hope to develop However, th low er.8 rain Eeshave JTUTwilvWI •“V)UJLIIyI6-3U•1F3KUY.
One of the things the MR unit is trying to parent-community education groups and triggered more feeding of beef cattle, _ “ "
do, said Virginia Yearwood, coordinator of to generally work with any and all hogs, pouitry and dairy coWs; Aamemamee g magec, gegg g „ X I . a
the MR services at Pecan Valley, is to find organizations and individuals who share Officialsisaid that the 1977 com crop UGEIIUIV3 nC 6( (IS rGCenTV
out the needs of the mentally retarded in concern for the developmentally disabl- averaged 90.8 bushels an acre, compared . I • •
this area so that the unit can meet these ' ed.” with 87.9 in 1976. Soybean:yields averaged miamamaaet m,t, e,t, a.E ,, A. » rg cr arehin in mah
needs Ihe unit Also heins narents who are .g. , . 29.6 bushels, compared with 26.1 in 1976. EEKBEKIEG«M Erath County residents have been As a result, car ownership in Erath
needstheunitaishepsparentwhotare Janie Portele case worker who No new estimates of 1977 wheat, barley, 1 “ FW* 1 “° buying new cars at a sharply increased County, as of the past year, reached the
Xd o85 ttheirns also works with state works with Mrs. Yearwood in the MR oats. Cotton and some other crops were JERUSALEM (AP) - Egypt repeated rate in the last few years, reversing the level of 112 cars per 100 local families,
beingbreiddstedrrom stat;"shosintheir operationatunitMrs -PortelehasherB.A, includedin the new report. th^AreC demands for "Palestinian sluggishtrendof the recession years.. h , . hi0Ber 0 than .
adjustment back home and into the inisqciolg!.from the, Universitsf The department last month estimated statehood and Israeli withdrawal from al Withtheuupturnin the economy, which tassabiggersproportiontan.was
emminitV Houston.she has ha d six years of.teaching 1977 wheat output at nearly 2.03 billion occupied territorv today the United States brought with it a rise in personal incomes, recorded in many sections of the counter,
copm uytyrwaganenunitipyoingt and counseling experience. bushels, down 5 percent from mere than endurrsed tetoyetimtt5-lahtr at S local familles regained some of their Thedate on automobile population
Mrs. Yearwood has her B.S. ta aodal .blon n 1926 but still the third tergest-saiesttns, X for g!”*
as the existing programs in schools, the sciences from Sui Ross State University on record, “concessions, compromise and mutual marketplaceresuming, thieirspendingior &ntaandU» Motor VeNd. Manutactn-
sheltered work activity centers, the Little and her M.E.D. from the University of Estimates for cotton and rice also were agreement” to achieve a peace set- the800 sand serv they A A8s0 itonneein is shown between
mzabataustininsnucatlonaosychanogy toenangrop‘wmsgsinnmmconrbaien)up36 emenf-nwm"enomalpaceiphain -nwy d^kted. lor one mm,, tij the the rncre^ in tmnlly tnca^ «d the
prograrsAenewstettsndro Kitit "ithdatSpesl.emphsaduatotm percent from less than 10.6 million in 1976. ortterwseboernrremuPsersstinremyiitne time had come to replace their wefl-worn increase in car ownerahlp. Whpn therei is .
cnuntyssThistceenterPisan-ourreach atttrd“tanescholdornSocTadworkand However, re production dropped 14 carswithnewerones-Thenegtenttowhich •js^rsss:
program from the Abilene State School. ‘has ten years experience with the Texas percent to 99.2 million hundredweight Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed they __ Nstb S en nthe nun b g0 nartirnlTlv with reww-t to the family
Sheltered work activity centers provide Social Welfare agencies. Mrs. Yearwood from 115.6 million in 1976. Kamel declared at the opening of new IC C shinyinewumqdelginthe area and in the particularly with respect to the family
work for those unable to.get work because had taught three years in kindergarten mIn.allafarmerssharvested ahout 33lr RAELI+Egyptian peace negotiations "n addition, to greater degree than The effect, locafly, has been to boost car
of developmental disabilities. The goal of and has six years of experience teaching mulion acres of principal crops last year, "We have come to speak of a just and __nv "eomin .1 radistratinn’ tn ■ tn1i nf A 90 rive vanrs
the centers is to teach skills frthe special education in the Stephenville an increase from 325.5 million acres in -comprehensive peace based on usual,]many,tamties retained registratonss5o atotlo897°. Fire years
individual to function better in the public schools. Mrs. Yearwood initiated 1976. withdrawal from all the Arab territories < agag tn 40 -ou th. at"Li. For mrvice atntion oneratore in the
community. Mrs. Yearwood said, “This is and developed the special education Except for winter wheat, the occupied by Israel in the 1967 war,” Kamel alsopdded tothe Erowth in the automobile aEortservicevtatmonnetvnathe
not a terminal program; the individual program in Stephenville. Mrs. Yearwood department has not forecast 1978 crop said in an exchange of public statements PSuination . thl . .. Lt mEn n more Liiness Their sales volume
won’t o there and stay for the rest of his taught 17 years at Tarleton State production. Last month, the winter wheat before he, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe ..oneexplangtionforthisis thetacthat business. ‘
life.” Plant are to extend programs in both University in the Education and crop planted in the fall for harvest this Dayan and Secretary of State Cyrus R. th inda "kin e d
sheltered centers and others to include life Psychology Department where she summerwastentatvelysestimateduatl32 Vance met... a . sometimes third ones a necessity in some compared with the total five years ago of
skills such as grooming, socializing, initiated, developed and taught the early biuion bushels, a decuine or 13 percent Kamel added that the Arab territories homes $2 587 000.
self-care, and other skills the individual childhool education program, from 1977. , Israel must relinquish include
• * i * “Jerusalem, the holy city of peace,” which . — —
lif Israel has said repeatedly it will never Knana AamEm a
Newton denies Lo-Voca settlement forced Ejxaxi ■ IrI 5016 SOUiuC
in which both sides exchanged position 4 a j a ____ m
By JACK KEEVER understand why the commission has not every line written.” papers on major elements of the 30-year AAib (““4 AAP "PPAA"
Associated Press Writer usedit to force Coastal to be responsible to Newton himself read a portion of a dispute. 49 1 4 |U EVg WVH ■ ■ W Wp I
AUSTIN, Texas {AP) —. Company its customers.” ’ paragraph that company lawyers skipped. Dayan later told reporters both sides
lawyers questioned Railroad Another paragraph in that same release It said, “Bankruptcy of Lo-Vaca is not the remained in sharp dispute over the AP49 • I 1 6 gg
Commissioner Jon Newton today about his quoted Newton as saying the commission best answer for consumers." Palestinian issue and the question of APA-odm Apogee I meeinmenee
1976 campaign statements in an effort to ‘should go after the assets of Oscar Israeli withdrawal He said these main 49 ■ ■ UoE«mE MKEEEEE-E2
show that he was biased against LoVaca Wyatt’s empire” to relieve Lo Vaca’s differences in the position papers required - TT ■■■ T
Gathering Co. and its parent, Coastal customers of high natural gas charges. Lawyers for Coastal, Lo-Vaca and study to define what “is identicial and (C) 1978 Long News Servlce >n hi. office and hl« ^ihMqiwnt
States Gas Corp. ' Newton responded to the reading of another subsidiary, Coastal States Gas what is not too far apart, where we can order establishing a hiring freeze left
A release from Newton’s campaign several paragraphs by saying press Producing Co., contend that Newton was relatively easily reach agreement." ByIARRYSPRINGER GOMA and the ntlwr ureter
headquarters dated April 1, 1976, said, in releases were issued daily during that prejudiced against them and this was He said there had been “change — and AUSTIN - The eremtiva vte# president chief executive wMh too much work and
part, “There is a big hammer hanging period of his campaign and “it is difficult reflerted in a Dec. 12 order forcing the even a major one” in Egypt’s position on of Counterpoint Systems Inc., Mike Hinds, not enough personnel to administer their
over Coastal’s head and I do not for me now to tell you what was meant by refund of $1.6 billion to gas customers. the agenda. Dayan did not elaborate, says the contract his firm received for jobs adequately.
management services provided the Efforts by GOMA to deal with that
troubled Governor’s Office of Migrant reported overload apparently go back
Affairs went to Counterpoint as the "sole behond the Counterpoint contract
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