The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 78, Ed. 1 Friday, October 20, 1989 Page: 1 of 10
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around the Earth today taking
samples of the ozone layer while its
five astronauts tried to film the
be seen on NASA satellite televi-
sion.
County, the agency said.
In some towns, residents said
they were uk> airaid to sleep in-
doors because of the Earth's unrest.
the Grand Canyon, the Dallas-Fort
Worth area, ‘
Japanese volcanoes.
Covering sugar beets
Bedford Forrest, right, a noted agriculture media specialist for KFDA-TV in Amarillo was
one of a number of journalists who visited Holly Sugar Corporation on Thursday during
that facility’s media appreciation day. Forrest and his cameraman stand at the foot of a
mountain of sugar beets recently delivered to the plant during the ongoing 1989 sugar
beet harvest.
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Hustlin' Hereford, home of Dennis Printz
89th Year, No. 78, Deaf Smith County, Hereford, Tx.
universe’s origin.
Galileo was
“perfect shfpc”
SW Bell urged
to lower rates
• J ) Through the night, they could
had come back inio the room. Then, hear machicnry digging through
when the whole budding started
rocking 1 kncw-wh.u it was.''
"The bed started shaking," Mrs.
Schroeter said. "1 thought maybe selves enough to sleep.
rubble and Iccaning up around die
city. They could also see and smell
Mrs. Schroeter joined other hotel the smoke from the huge tire in the
guests in going downstairs to the
Mrs. Schroeter has been to seven ground floor.
American Land Title Association
conventions.
The 1989 convention was the
most exciting.
It began last Saturday in San
Francisco.
Wednesday zipped across the solar
system at more than 9,(XX) mph.
The SI.5 billion probe, which is
on a ° A vi,|!---:i-
to Jupiter, had traveled more than
290,000 miles as the day began.
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Mrs. Schroeter and the rest spent
the night on t...
sleeping on tfie lltxir or
once they were able to calm them-
Shooting for the top
Brienna Townsend, a twirler at Hereford High Scluxtl, uses
a gun cutout for part of the routine at last Friday’s halftime
show at Whiteface Stadium. The HI IS band, twirlers and
drill team will be competing tn the district marching contest
Saturday at 7 p.m. at Borger, hoping for a first-division
rating and a spot tn regional competition later this year
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lower in fact,” said Lisa Covington,
a spokeswoman for the state Office
of Emergency Services.
No new official estimate of
fatalities was made.
"They told us io go outside, so
wc did, then Ute police out there
told us to go back inside. Finally, UP-
wc went to a paved-over park area. ■
marina district near San Francisco ;
Bay, but there was neither fire nor I
much damage around the hotel.
"It was really amazing that all of
those buildings and skyscrapers ■
Mrs. Schroeter said. jfl
"They must have really figured out ■
Wc sal out there lor two or three how to build buildings since 1906.
Mrs. Schroeter was sitting on the hours, then went back inside die
side of her bed in a nxim at the
Hyatt Regency last Tuesday at 5:04
p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
WASHINGTON (AP) - House
and Senate negotiators have agreed
to include the number of illegal
aliens counted in the 1990 census
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SAN FRANCISCO < - Death
toll estimates shrank bm tensions
and frustrations grew as Northern
California tried to regroup from a
devastating earthquake and its
continuing, unnerving aftershocks.
President Bush was scheduled to
tour the area today, hoping “to take
a look and to provide encourage-
ment to people.”
Three days after the quake, the
need for encouragement seemed to
be growing.
Damage estimates by the state
Office of Emergency Services rose
to well over S4 billion. An esti-
mated 12.550 people were displac-
killer quake struck at 5:04 p.m.
“Normally at 5 o'clock in the
allcrnoon this area would be bum-
pcr-to-bumper,” Crawford said.
Initially, authorities had estima-
ted 253 people were buried under
the debris. That was based on the
assumption that cars stretched
bumpcr-to-bumpcr on the crushed
lower level of the double-deck
highway.
“They arc going lower, much
course Thursday by NASA, and V.L'.. „..l ...b b
- The space shuttle Atlantis whirled Atlantis also was given a clean bill ped around her head
Daily News, KFDA (channel 10), stations. Thanks to the tour, Hcrc-
KVII (channel 7), the Plainview ford. Holly Sugar and the sugar „
----- _..—<»■■«, v>. course, the beet industry were featured in a highly informative session. The day
beet dust at the Holly Stiu.ir Corpo- Hereford Brand were on hand for front page article by Kay Ledbetter ■ •
in today’s Amarillo paper.
Dennis Printz, agriculture
manager for Holly. and Bill Cleav- the growers association should work
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beet industry’s case
A. "We’re kind of a rare breed as
far as an ag industry goes," Print/
said.
He was referring to the unique
partnership between area sugar beet
BBL growers and Holly Sugar Corpora-
non. Cooperation between the two
entities begins even before the crop
fl is planted. A joint research team
works to develop plant
which are to die
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A farmer’s interest in Holly
Sugar docs not end with the deliv-
ery of his last load of beets to the
plant yard or to one of Holly’s eight
receiving stations scattered through-
out the area. The tanner is paid for
his beets through a scries of four
installments with payments based
on the selling price of the sugar
processed from his beets.
"It’s good for us (the farmers)
when they (Holly) do a good job of
marketing," Cleav ingcr said.
When beets are delivered, die
farmer is paid for 65 percent of his
crop. In April he is paid for 12.5
percent with a second 12.5 percent
payment in July. The balance is
paid in November.
For the past 25 years, sugar beets
and Holly Sugar have been a vital
part of the kx’al economy.
Watch this Sunday’s Brand for
feature coverage of Holly Sugar and
the process by which they convert
sugar beets to sugar.
Schroeter back from SF
By JOHN BROOKS my granddaughter (Julie Kidwill)
Managing Ediim
Margaret Schroeicr is nappy to
be back in Hereford, where she can
turn on the faucet and get water
immediately.
and other parts of the world. The astronauts will spend the rest “Wc’rc trying to hold ourselves
As the crew members began of their mission working on experi- steady, which is probably the
their third day in orbit, the nuclear- ments and photographing the Earth hardest part of this task," said Mrs.
powered Galileo probe they deploy- with still and movie cameras. Baker, a medical doctor.
cd about six hours after blastoff Atlantis is scheduled to land at 2:38 Researchers want to study the
p.m. EDT Monday at Edwards Air 35mm camera slides to determine if
Force Base, Calif. t;
The shuttle crew members arc vessels in
ration processing plant west of the event.
Hereford on 1 hursday, media The plant’s media presentation
appreciation day at the sugar began to bear fruit Thursday when
facility. thc first segments appeared on „
Representatives of thc Amarillo newscasts at thc Amarillo television ingcr, president of thc American | " ■
beet industry’s
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Weather permitting, thc astro- when congressional districts
nauts hope to capture images of Los redrawn to account for shifts in
Angeles, North and South Korea, population.
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Tokyo and several by the Senate, Ute use of federal
,. . funds would have been prohibited
They arc using a special IMAX for counting illegal aliens for die
camera that produces detailed film purpose of congressional rcappor-
that can be shown on extra-large tionmcnt.
screens. The film collected today a House-Senate conference
will be used in two movies. committee, however, voted Thurs-
Thc astronauts will try to photo- <jay to drop the Senate amendment
graph lightning systems, providing whcn it approved appropriations for
data that researchers say could help the judiciary and the Commerce,
develop better weather-predicting State,and Justice Departments.
methods. Texas, which stands to gain as
A new experiment aboard thc many as three to four new congrcs-
shuttlc uses a sensitive instrument sional scats because of an increase
in thc cargo bay to measure thc in population since thc 1980 census,
ozone layer, which protects thc qguld have forfeited one of those
Earth from the sun’s harmful scats had illegal aliens not been
ultraviolet radiation. counted, a state official said.
pronounced in
and “right on
recommendation is based on lower
federal income taxes for the compa-
ny, excessive payments to affiliated
companies and cost savings because
of improved technology.
Southwestern Bell has proposed
a “Texas First" plan al the PUC
that includes a five-year rate freeze
and S327.5 million in technological
improvements.
Thc telephone company filed the
plan after the PIC started an
inquiry ftuo its rates early this year.
The staff of thc regulatory commis-
sion contended that the phone
company is overcharging customers
by an estimated Slot) million
annually.
The proposed cuts were dismis-
sed as “unrealistic" by Bill Free.
Southwestern Bell’s vice president
of revenues and public affairs.
“It just doesn't fit lite real world
at all,” Free said, estimating that
S5(X) million to S7O0 million in cuts
would reduce the company’s
earnings by 50 percent to 70 percent
annually.
“There is simply no way wc
could continue to operate the way
we are operating today. Period.
There would be severe cutbacks in
capital invested in Texas. There
would be a severe cutback in jobs -
management and non-management
would be walking thc streets,” Free
said.
"I hadn’t really thought about an
earthquake happening before 1 went
out diere, but I’ve always expected
the ground floor, many there would be a big one to cut off
' ’ in chairs California.
"I just didn’t expect to be there
when it happened."
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ay area death toll shrinking
cd, 1O.(XX) in hard-hit Santa Cruz stretch of Interstate 880 continued
with no signs of survivors.
Rescuers did say, however, they
were finding fewer cars than feared
under thc highway, known as the
“I can’t stop shaking," said Nimitz Freeway. Some credited the
Marcclina Toussaint, a 73-ycar-old World Series with reducing Tues-
resident of Watsonville, a town near day evening’s rush-hour traffic by
thc epicenter of Tuesday’s magni- drawing baseball Ians to television
tude 6.9 quake and wracked by four sets.
strong aftershocks Thursday. “Maybe the World Series saved
“I guess I’m surviving, but I’m our lives," said Oakland police Sgt
scared.” Bob Crawford.
Spirits weren't much higher in The third game of thc champion-
Oakland, where thc monstrous task ship between thc Oakland A’s and
of uncovering cars and trucks the San Francisco Giants had been
crushed in thc collapse of a IVmile set to begin just minutes after die
Atlantis, Galileo continue trips
_SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) course" Thursday by NASA, and With swimming goggles strap-
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of health after thc crew members steadied herself on thc shuttle’s
restored a coobng system that shut middeck while Chang-Diaz pressed
down the previous day when it a camera to the right goggle to
Grand Canyon, Japanese volcanoes overheated, cutting in a backup unit, photograph her retina.
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of their mission working oh experi- steady, which
powered Galileo probe they deploy- with still ' and
“The outcome was never in
doubt because die Constitution
could not be clearer. Thc Constitu-
tion says that apportionment is
based on thc number of persons and
everybody is entitled to their own
opinion, but not their own constitu-
tion,” said Sen. Phil Gramm, R-
Tcxas, a member of thc conference
committee.
Thc House had shelved attempts
to adopt legislation similar to die
amendment sponsored by Sen.
Richard C. Shelby. D-Ala.. sending
the issue to the conference commit-
tee for resolution.
Rep. Thomas Ridge, D-Pa., had
sought last week to have the House
negotiators accept thc Senate
amendment during thc conference
committee.
Approval of thc Shelby amend-
ment would have tied the issue up
in thc courts and delayed thc
census, Gramm said, “so it just
didn’t make sense.”
AUSTIN (AP) - Southwestern
Bell officials say employees would
be “walking die streets” ii the
telephone company was forced to
cut rates by more than S500 million,
as residential customers and 86
cities recommend.
But the consumers and cities,
which oppose Southwestern Bell's
proposal to freeze rates, said in
testimony filed Wednesday al die
Public Utility Commission that the
company is canting far Ux> much.
The Office of Public Utility
Counsel, which reprcsenis residen-
tial customers, recommended a
S515 million a year decrease in the
phone company's rates.
“If you arc overvaluing and you
freeze your rales, you guarantee
continued overearnings," said
Public Utility Counsel C. Kingslvry
Otuners.
The decrease would include a
SI75 million decrease in the com-
pany’s rale of return. S50 million in
reduced charges for state and local
property and franchise taxes, and an
S87 million reduction in earnings
from Yellow Pages, she said.
Expert witnesses for 80 cities,
meanwhile, are recommending a
S702 million annual rate reduction
for the telephone company. MCI
Communications proposed cutting
Bell’s rates by S196 million a year.
Austin lawyer Don Butler,
representing the cities, said their
Holly highlighted by media
By KAY PECK Daily News, KFDA (channel 10), stations. Thanks to the tour, Here- Sugar Beet Growers Association,
Staff Writer KVII (channel 7), thc Plainview ford, Holly Sugar and thc sugar served as a team in spearheading a
Cameras were nearly as thick as Daily Herald and, of course, thc beet industry were featured in a highly informative session. Thc day
included a tour of the processing
facility and a visit to a nearby field
where beet harvest is in progress.
It is appropriate that Holly and
Researchers want to study
there arc any changes in thc eye’s
zero gravity. Such chan-
I indicate some brain
„, j want to
specialists -Shannon^ Lucid, Ellen find out if that is related to motion
sickness in space.
Also Thursday night, a camera in
„.j cargo bay showed spectacular
photography experiment that could views of Typhoon Elsie in thc
Philippines.
“It’s a real big storm,” Williams
Mike McCulley, and mission swelling, and researchers
Once it reaches Jupiter, Galileo is Baker and Franklin Chang-Diaz,
expected to give thc best look yet of C._ "’ 2_,,
another planet and find clues to die Chang-Diaz demonstrated a retinal the
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