The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 16, 1978 Page: 3 of 10
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Texas Tax
Declines This Month
State Comptroller Bob Bui- 19.8 million as their November
lock announced November 15 sfiare of the local option one
that Texas cities will receive percent sales tax.
Food Stamp
Changes Nero
Beginning Dec. 1, food stamp
recipients will no longer have to
pay for their food stamps.
The change, according to
Texas Department of Human
Resources Commissioner Je-
rome Chapman, is intended to
help poor people who cannot
accumulate enough cash to buy
all the food stamps they need
for a month’s worth of food.
The existing system requires
food stamp users to buy their
month’s allotment of stamps all
at once, or at most, twice a
month.
‘Accumulating enough cash
to pay their rent and utilities,
and still have enough left over
to buy food stamps, is simply
more than many people can
handle,’ Chapman explained.
‘The change allows people to
get food stamps without
investing any cash,’ he said,
‘and this should make the
program more accessible.’
Formerly, food stamp users
paid a certain amount of money,
determined by income and the
number of people in the
household, and received an
extra amount of food stamps
over and above the amount
paid.
This was called the bonus
amount of stamps.
Under the new system,
recipients will be mailed
monthly an Authorization to
Participate (ATP) card which
they will exchange for the
bonus amount of stampd only.
This means that in order to
have the same amount of food
and the same level of nutrition,
the food stamp user will have to
spend some of his money at the
grocery store.
Additional food stamp cha-
nges designed to make the
rpogram more accessible to
people are to be implemented
by the Texas Department of
Human Resources in March,
1979.
Parrot Fever Wings
Through Texas
Pet birds smuggled in from
Mexico and legally imported
birds with inadequate quaran-
tine have more than doubled
the number of parrot fever
cases in humans in Texas this
year.
As of mid-October the total
was only five but that is
apparently enough for two
researchers at Texas A&M
University to declare parrot
fever ‘a significant public health
menace in Texas.’
Parrot fever, also called
psittacosis, is most common in
people who often are around
pet birds such as parakeets,
macaws, parrots, and cocka-
tiels.
The disease can be fatal for
birds and people but it is
treatable in both groups and is
rarely tyransmitted from hum-
an to human.
In this month’s issue of Texas
Medicine, J.E. Grimes and B.
Panigraphy said doctors should
suspect psittacosis if a bird
owner complains of chills, sore
throat, fever, headache, sensi-
tivity to light and lack of
appetite.
The two authors, who are
associated with Texas A&M’s
veterinary school, said psitta-
cosis can occur in poultry,
especially turkeys.
Vetrinary treatment and
quarantine usually control
parrot fever outbreaks and
make poultry and pet birds safe
for processors, consumers and
owners.
The researchers say quaran-
tines apparently fail mainly
when large numbers of badly
infected birds do not get
enough medicine to rid them of
the infection.
Production
Report
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The first production report of
the new harvesting season has
been released by Jack Nelson,
General Manager of the Rio
Grande Valley Sugar Growers,
Inc.
Operations at the Santa Rosa
mill began on Tuesday, Nov. 7.
More than 28,000 tons of
sugar cane were harvested
from 1,091 acres. Through Nov.
12, 1765 tons of sugar and 218
tons of molasses were pro-
duced.
Nelson said juice quality is
slightly better than expected so
early in the season and the
startup has been normal, with
the usual adjustment of
different mills and milling
equipment.
Money that Texas cities will
receive this month total slightly
less than last month’s rebate,
but the yearly total is about $42
million ahead of payments
made oyer the same period last
year.
The November checks raise
the cities’ total to $349.8
million.
Pharr’s check this reporting
period will be $30,380, raising
its total for the year to
$582,209.
This is up 14 percent over the
same period last year.
San Juan will receive $6,102,
raising its yearly total to date
to $89,558, or up 15 percent.
Alamo will get a check for
$2,676, making its year to date
total $48,076, up 9 percent.
The City of McAllen’s check
for the month totals $137,052,
raising its total to $2,560,536,,
up 19 percent over last year.
Edinburg will receive 28,821,
bringing the yearly total to
date up to $461,763, up 8
percent over last year.
In the state’s largest cities,
the totals are rather substan-
tial.
Houston’s check this report-
ing period will be $4 million,
raising its total for the year to
$73.3 million, up 17 percent
over last year.
The city of Dallas will receive
2.3 million, bringing its total for
the year to $40.9 million, up 9
percent.
San Antonio will get a check
for $1.1 million, making its total
for the yea/ to date $20.1
million, up 9 percent.
Fort Worth’s check for the
month totals $806,717, raising
its total to $14.5 million, and
Austin will get 600,777 for a
total of $11.7 million for the
year.
El Paso will get a check for
$526,108, raising its total to
date to $9.28 million.
Corpus Christi will receive
$378,898, raising its total for
the year to $7 million.
The sales tax is collected by
merchants and other sales tax
permit holders along with the
state sales tax and is rebated
monthly to cities in which it is
collected by the Comptroller’s
Office.
Piblic Notice
To: Maria Eugenia Keller
And to all whom it may
concern, Respondents,
Greetings:
“YOU ARE HEREBY
COMMANDEDto appear and
answer before the Honorable
District Court, 206th. Judicial
District, Hidalgo County, Tex-
as, at the Courthouse of'said
County in Edinburg, Texas, at
or before 10 o’clock a.m. of the
Monday next after the
expiration of 20 days from the
date of service of this citation,
then and there to answer the
petition of Donnie Glen Keller,
Petitioner, filed in said Court
on the 18th daky oJ October,
against Maria Eugenia Keller,
Respondent and said being
number C-2060-78-Dt on the
docket of said Court, and
entitled “In the Matter of the
Marriage of Donnie Glen
Keller, and Maria Eugenia
Keller, and in the interest of
Leslie Eileen Keller, Child. The
Nature of which suit is a
request to Divorce. Said Child
or Children were born on the
following dates and places,
to-wit: Leslie Eileen Keller
11-16-78 at McAllen, Texas.
dThe Court has authority in
this suit to enter any judgment
or decree dissolving the
marriage and providing for the
division of property which will
be binding on you and including
the termination of the parent-
child relationship, the deter-
mination of paternity and the
appointment of a conservator
with authority to consent to the
child’s adoption.
ISSUED AND GIVEN under
my hand and seal of said Court
at Edinburg, Texas, this the
13th daky of November, 1978.
Lucila Trevino,
Clerk of the District Courts,
of Hidalgo County, Texas
By: Olga Irene Jolly
Deputy District Clerk
A True Copy I Certify
Brig Mar mole jo
Sheriff, Hidalgo County
By: P.L. Champion
Deputy
PAU SEMINAR-Michael P.
Sampson, professor and direc-
tor of the University of
Baltimore, will conduct a
two-day seminar on use of tax
knowledge to sell residential
property. The seminar will be
held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, in room 110
of the Business Administration
Building at Pan American
University. There will be an
$80 registration fee or $45 for
either day. Pau’s school of
business and Reston Educa-
tional Institute will sponsor the
seminar. Sampson is a graduate
of* Cornell University, a
practicing attorney and a
certified public accountant. He
1 holds a master of laws degree in
taxation from Georgetown
University and has lectured
nationwide qn taxation, law and
estate planning. Registration is
limited and reservations can be
made by calling the division of
community programs at 381-
3366.
HOUSING PLANNER: Miguel Lopez, Housing his Rural Housing Coordinator Certificate from
Planner for Amigos del Valle in Pharr, recieves Earline Jewett.
TRAFFIC SAFETY COORDINATOR: Faustino
Garcia, Traffic Safety Coordinator of San Juan
recieves his Rural Housing Coordinator
certificate from Earline Jewett.
PSJA Men Recieve Award
Two PSJA men were recently
awarded Rural Housing Coor-
dinator certificates by the
Texas Department of Com-
munity Affairs (TDCA).
Earline Jewett, director of
the agency’s housing division
presented awards to partici-
pants from .Texas and neigh-
boring states who completed a
special one week housing
training course in Austin.
Miguel Lopez, Housing Plan-
ner for Amigos del Valle in
Pharr and Faustino Garcia,
Traffic Safety Coordinator of
San Juan, received the TDCA
awards for their outstanding
community service.
Rural Housing Coordinators
such as Lopez and Garcia, work
with individuals in their
communities who want or need
more adequate housing or any
type of housing assistance.
The TDCA Rural Housing
Coordinator training course
gives participants experience in
counseling and foreclosure
prevention and community
involvement as well as an
overview of federal and state
housing programs available in
Texas.
According to Housing Direc-
tor Jewett, ‘such training
programs hopefully assist and
encourage rural local govern-
ments t& have staff available Community Affairs holds rural
who can help improve housing housing coordinator sessions
opportunities for all citizens.’ such as this one four times a
The Texas Deoartment of year in Austin.
Harold Welding
and
Construction
Metal Bldg. Barnes
SERVICE REPAIRS
For information
Call 787-1604
HAROLD PLATH
We Have Changed
Our Name
But We Have The
Same Personnel
Associated Risk
Managers of
Texas, Inc.
(Formerly Pharr Insurance
Agency)
COMPLETE INSURANCE
SERVICE
305 W. PARK — PHARR
701 w. hwy. — McAllen
NEW PHONE:
687-8111
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prescription to us. it Is
filled by • Registered
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Pharmacy
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PHARMACISTS
phone 787-2746
125 W. Park
For Emergency
Prescriptions
Phone 787-3633
The Pharr Press, Thursday, November 23, 1978-Page 3
Warren Named New
Hildalgo County Agent
Doyle G. Warren, a veteran
of nearly 14 years with the
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service, has been appointed
Hidalgo County Extension
agent effective Dec. 1.
Warren succeeds Dan Galvan
who left recently to accept a
promotion to the top admini-
strative post with Extension
District 11 at Bryan.
Warren’s appointment was
announced jointly by Hidalgo
County Judge Ramiro Guerra
and District Agent D. J. Selman
Jr. for the Extension Service.
Warren, 37, is a native of the
High Plains and has spent his
entire Extension career in that
area.
He began with Extension in
1965 in Lynn County then
served successively in Dawson
and Lubbock County as an
assistant agent during the
following five years before
moving to Floydada in mid-1970
as county agricultural agent.
Earlier this year he was
presented the Distinguished
Service Award by his peers,
one of eight county agents
honored statewide for out-
standing educational programs.
Orange Forecasts
Predict Drop
The first forecast for the
1978-79 orange season nation-
wide points to a crop of 215
million boxes (8.47 million
metric tons), two percent below
last season’s crop and twelve
percent less than the record
crop of the 1976-77 season.
The crop in Texas is expected
to total 6.30 million boxes,
three percent above the
previous crop year but nine
percent below the 1976-77 crop.
This season, Texas orange
trees have a good fruit set.
Harvest has started with the
size of early oranges smaller
than expected.
The Texas Citrus Mutual in
McAllen reports that citrus
trees remained in good
condition this month following
the mild October temperatures
and scattered showers.
Orchard maintenance opera-
tions included final insecticide
applications, planting replace-
ment trees, removing vines and
suckers, herbicide applications
and supplemental irrigation.
The initial grapefruit harvest
was underway in early October
and continued to gain momen-
tum during the month.
Fruit has sized well the last
30 days, but the lack of much
cool evening temperature has
slowed maturity.
The quality and size
rom Oirmrl av/»a11av*4- a n Of)
percent of the fresh pack-outs
have graded U.S. #1.
Most varieties of early
oranges have reached maturity
as picking increased week by
week.
Marrs oranges have begun to
size but Hamlins were running
small.
Both varieties remained very
clean with little insect damage.
Health
Report
The Hidalgo County Health
Department reports 11 cases of
communicable diseases for the
week ending November 18,
1978.
Venereal diseases topped the
list, with six cases reported
county-wide. Two cases of
syphilis and four cases of
gonorrhea were reported.
One case of chicken pox, one
case of salmonella, and one case
of shigella were reported to
county officials.
There was also one case of
post para-typhoid fever and one
rasp of t.vnhns fr»v*»r reported.
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