The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 1980 Page: 4 of 8
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COMPILED BY TEXAS SHEEP ft GOAT
RAISERS' ASSOCIATION
P. 0. Box 1486, San Angelo, Texas 76901
Congressman Tom Loeffler deserves a pat on the
back from the livestock industry.
A few months ago, Rep. Loeffler signed t>n as a
co-sponsor with Rep. Kika de la Garza on the House
bill calling for a stronger predator control program
and requiring that predacide 1080 play a part in it.
We're convinced that bill had a lot to do with Interior
Secretary Cecil Andrus' change of heart about toxic
collar research.
Now Tom Loeffler has taken steps to correct what
looks like an Interior move to 'punish* the industry
for corcing his hand on the collar.
When Andrus realized that he faced the loss of the
predator program to USDA or at least loss of a veto ov-
er 1080 use, he suddenly reversed his no-research
stance on 1080 in the collar. He announced that Inter-
ior would seek a cooperative collar study program with
Texas A&M.
There was method in his madness, of course Staff
spokesmen say he turned to A&M to head off de-
mands from all over the Western states for private
1080/collar test programs. Less charitable observers
claim he only offered to cooperate so Interior could
continue to pull the strings. Whatever the case, A&M
has hung tough and continued to horsetrade for a
much more equitable program than the feds had orig-
inally offered.
Meanwhile, Interior brass were working quietly
behind the scenes to assure that the industry 'paid'
for its sins in resurrecting the 1080 collar. They did
this by taking SI million out of the operational portion
of the Fish & Wildlife Service's budget to fund the
collar work. The money could have been trimmed out
of any number of frivolous Interior programs, but in-
stead it was earmarked to come out of the one pro-
gram where its loss could hurt stockmen.
That's where Loeffler re-entered the picture.
When it came time for the F&WS budget request to
be reviewed in committee, Loeffler appeared to con-
test the 'theft' of research money from ADC opera-
tional funds. He told the committee that the majority
of this money would be taken from funds set aside for
aerial predator control, already the most severely
restricted method still allowed.
Even more notable, Loeffler said the $1
million loss would mean a cut-back of as much as one-
third in the Texas aerial control budget. For historical
perspective, it helps to recall that when the environ-
mentalists managed to outlaw predator control toxi-
JUNE 26, 1980
Services in
Odessa for
Grady Huffman
RCHS Flag Corps wins First Place
Members of the Rea-
gan County High School
Flag Corps won first
place at the Rag Camp
conducted recently at
West Texas State Uni-
versity. More than 190
students from schools in
Texas, New Mexico, Ok-
lahoma and Kansas at-
tended the camp and
Reagan County High
School was selected as
the top team.
Winning team mem-
bers and their parents
include, Allison Custer,
daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Rios, team
captain; kneeling, from
left to right, Jackie
Harris, daughter of Jack
Harris; Martha Madi-
Mr. and Mrs.
son,
James E. Madison; Deb-
bie Furr, Mr. and Mrs.
James Furr; Lynda
Johnson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John
Johnson; Audra Custer,
daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Rios; Susan
Martinez, Mr. and Mrs.
Ysidro Rodriguez; and
Michelle Lara, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Aten.
Standing, from left
to right, are Julie Miller,
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Mil-
ler; Sheri Allred, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. G.
C. Johnson; Gayla Bak-
er, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Higgins;
Stacey Blakeiv, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Blakely; Lori Ortiz.
daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Simon Ortiz; Pam
Colbert, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Col-
bert; Iangela McGuire,
daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Alan McGuire;
Karla Quain, daughter
of Toma Quain; and
Lana Smith, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Larry
Smith.
Funeral services for
William Grady Huffman,
62, of Odessa were held
at 2:00 p.m. Friday in
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral
Home chapel, with buri-
al in Sunset Memorial
Gardens in Odessa.
Mr. Huffman died
Wednesday morning of
last week in Medical
Center Hospital in Odes-
sa after a long illness.
Born in Mt. Pleasant
Jan. 1, 1918, he was a
retired maintenance
foreman for Atlantic
Richfield. He was mar-
ried to Violet Preston in
Odessa Jan. 31, 1958.
He moved to Odessa in
1952 from Corpus Chris-
ti. He was a Mason and
a member of Sherwood
Baptist Church in Odes-
sa.
Mr. Huffman was a
brother-in-law of Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Pres-
ton of Big Lake. Mr. and
Mrs. Preston and their
son and daughter-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Preston of So-
nora, attended the fun-
eral services.
Servivors include his
wife; one stepson, Alton
Henson of Odessa; his
father and stepmother,
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Huffman of C(x>kcville;
and one brother, Harold
Huffman of Hooks.
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cants, they promised that the loss would be covered
by increased aerial hunting. Since then, they've
done their dead-level best to outlaw aerial hunting as
well. This is just one more example of their dedicated
two-facedness.
Loeffler then introduced an amendment to the
F&WS budget that would prohibit syphoning funds
from operational control to pay for collar research.
The research money, simply enough, would have to
come from somewhere else, some program where its
loss wouldn 't be so sorely felt.
It's painfully obvious at times that the producing
livestock industry has too few friends in Washington.
Fortunately, the friends we do have are good ones. It
doesn 't hurt to remind ourselves of that every once in
a while.
"Talk not of wasted affec-
tion; affection never was
wasted." Longfellow
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The "S.O.S." call is going out to all stockmen over
the state-that's 'Send, Oh Send" any worm samples
found in livestock wounds.
The reason for the appeal is that worm samples are
coming in slowly to the USDA Screwworm Eradication
Laboratory at Mission and prime screwworm season
is at hand.
The only way for officials of the screwworm pro-
gram to successfully attack the flesh-eating pest is to
first identify worm samples as positive and to know
locations of all possible cases through ranchers' re-
ports. Then some recently developed insecticide pel-
lets can be air-dropped to kill adult flies followed by
an air-drop of sterile screwworm flies.
The insecticide pellets, known as the Screwworm
Adult Suppression System (SWASS), quickly reduce
populations of wild screwworm flies in an area. This
enables sterile flies which are then dropped to "do
their thing." Female screwworm flies that mate with
sterile males produce eggs that will not hatch-and the
females usually mate only once.
Since sterile flies are no longer air-dropped routine-
ly in Texas, it's especially imperative for stockmen
and pet owners to check their animals closely on a reg-
ular basis and to submit any worms that may be found
in wounds. With most of the screwworm eradication
fight now being conducted 100 miles or more south of
the border in Mexico, individual stockmen are now the
first line of defense against this destructive pest.
Only one positive case of screwworms has been con-
fined in the United States this year so far, that one be-
ing in Coleman County, Texas, in April. However,
unless everyone keeps their guard up and submits
worm samples as soon as possible, it could be a costly
summer.
Worm samples can be sent to the Mission Lab in
postage-free mailing kits available from veterinarians
and the county Extension office.
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Werst, David. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 1980, newspaper, June 26, 1980; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth659940/m1/4/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.