The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 243, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 10, 1980 Page: 1 of 10
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The Hereford BRAND
SINCE 1885
Published Daily Except Monday, Saturday
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80th Year, No. 243
Hereford, Texas, Tuesday, June 10,1980
10 Pages
During Commission Meeting
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World Oil Cartel Displays
Signs of Split Over Prices
Carter Claims He Didn’t
Notice Rock, Bottle Barrage
had thrown the
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debris.
The
followed demonstrations by
blacks and Cuban exiles,
occurred as Carter left a
meeting with black leaders in
Liberty City, the neigh-
borhood burned and looted
last month in racial riots that
claimed 16 lives. Police in
riot gear cleared the block
and the only damages
by the
Council.
"Who
Pleading For Reason
Albert Garcia, a seven year member of the United Food and
Commercial Workers Union and an employee of the Hereford
Armour plant is shown as he debates issues concerning a
renogiated contract for the local beef slaughtering plant.
Garcia helped salvage a meeting of sorts Sunday afternoon
when a session scheduled inside the Bull Barn broke up shortly
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(See ARMOUR, Page 2)
in San Angelo to help the
Armour plant there stay
open, and that the company
still closed it anyway?” asked
Reed.
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and shouting insults. When
the rocks and bottles came.
Carter ducked into his car
and sped off.
Dade Metro Police Cmdr.
Douglas Hughes said "a few
kids at the back of the
after it was opened. Union members of varying viewpoints
engaged one another in debate outside the Bull Barn and
agreed that the issue will be “had out” during a union meeting
at Armour tomorrow night. Only about 50 out of the work force
of 450 at Armour attended Sunday afternoon’s session. [Brand
photo by Jim Steiert]
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“That's right.” Alaniz
answered, adding. “If you
w ant to put up $2 million of
your ow n money here you can
save the Hereford plan.
involved. They didn't give a
damn about Armour until
they found out how important
we were, until it hit them in
the pocketbook,” charged
Dennett.
Garza countered. “We are
all union members and we
have a right to be protected
by the union. Shouldn't the
union try and help us if we
want to keep the plant open
here?”
Reed again became involv-
ed in the conversation,
asking questions of Jesse
Alaniz, a 20-year employee
with Armour w ho worked at a
San Angelo plant that was
closed down by the firm.
Alaniz maintained that the
local plant will be closed
down despite what is done
locally to keep it open.
“Are you saying that the
union did everything it could
MEMBER
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By JIM STEIERT
In a marathon session that
ran for most of the day
Monday Deaf Smith County
commissioners considered
numerous items relative to
the budget for the upcoming
fiscal year and also let
themselves in for a lengthy
verbal session centering on
the controversy surrounding
the Texas Rural Legal Aid
office here.
Highlighting the day-long
meeting was a prolonged
exchange between lawyers
with the TRLA office here
and Deaf Smith County
Sheriff Travis McPherson.
McPherson brought up a
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resolution requesting com-
missioners to endorse his
attendance of a session that
will apparently be held in
Austin for the purpose of
discussing possible violations
of the Legal Services
Corporation charter by TRLA
offices in the Rio Grande
Valley, in addition to the
Hereford area.
A delegation of TRLA
attorneys and supporters
rapidly questioned McPher-
son's participation in the
meeting, and whether he was
asking to attend at county
expense.
McPherson responded that
he would attend at his own
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of Armour for 14 years, took
the floor during a question
and answer period and
commented: "I feel like
we're just wasting our time.
The Chamber of Commerce
in Memphis Tennessee did
the same thing the chamber
here is doing and it didn't
change a thing. The best
thing that can happen is for
Armour to make up its mind
and act accordingly, but this
meeting is a waste of time."
Lawson, whose comments
referred to the role of the
Deaf Smith County Chamber
of Commerce in securing the
building for Sunday's meet-
ing then walked out of the
session and was followed by
the majority of those present.
Reed closed the meeting
shortly thereafter, but an
informal session of Armour
workers on the Bull Barn
parking lot ensued and the
real dialogue of the afternoon
took place there.
Albert Garza, a seven-year
member of the UFCW.
pleaded with Armour em-
ployees for reason in
attempting to resolve the
issue of a w age scale relative
to the Hereford Armour
plant.
"If we don’t try to act
reasonably we can't accom-
plish anything. We have to
gel together and discuss this
thing so that the union can do
something for us," claimed
Garza.
Garza then became involv-
ed in a running debate with
Paul Dennett, president of
the local UFCW, concerning
the role of the union here and
Armour's interest in the fate
of the local plant."
“This whole business is
between Armour and the
Union. The city shouldn't be
By JIM STEIERT
While a confrontation over the activities of the TRLA office
in Hereford created the fireworks at Monday's regular
session of the Deaf Smith County Commission, county fathers
found there w as plenty of routine work to attend to as well in a
lengthy meeting which saw them open bids on jail renovations
and consider numerous aspects of the budget for the new
fiscal year that is approaching.
Commissioners considered two bids on renovations to the
Deaf Smith County jail.
Gilbert Building of Amarillo submitted a bid of $11.985 plus
a proposal of a time and material basis for working on a
locking mechanism of $34.54 per hour plus mileage.
Tagco Industries of Hereford submitted a turnkey bid of
$17,498. including modifications for the locking mechanism.
After some discussion on the high cost of work on the
locking mechanism based on the per hour rate bid by the
Amarillo firm. Commissioner James Voyles moved that the
county accept the bid submitted by Tagco Industries.
The motion was unanimously approved.
Debs Knox and Marjorie Daniels of the Hereford Senior
Citizens Center appeared before the commissioners to
request funding for accounting help, secretarial help and
an activities director, with the total appropriation sought for
the part-time help of $8,248.
Mrs. Daniels reported that there are nearly 600 members of
the senior citizens here now, and that a growing load of
accounting work has interfered with her work as nutrition
planner for the center.
Commissioners praised the work of the senior citizens in
providing a vitally needed service to the community and
assured Knox and Mrs. Daniels that the appropriations will
be given careful consideration in the new budget.
Sheriff Travis McPherson reported to the commission on
the need for some additional furnishings for the jail when it is
renovated in order to keep it in line with minimum standards
for the facility.
Among items that will be needed are fire-resistant clothing
for prisoners, and fire-resistant mattresses and linens.
Commissioners viewed the list of requirements but took no
action on them at Monday's session.
Donald Hicks and Andrew Kershen of the Deaf Smith
County Historical Society appeared before the commissioners
to request a salary adjustment for County Museum Director
Lois Gilliland.
The local men pointed out that Mrs. Gililland isn't able
to draw retirement pay, and requested that funds that have
been set aside in a retirement account be used to give Mrs.
Gililland an increase in pay amounting to about $50 per
month.
Kershen explained that in addition to her duties at the
museum. Mrs. Gililland has also been made treasurer of the
historical society, and that additional duties of that post
justified extra salary. The matter was taken under advisement
for the new budget.
(See COUNTY, Page 2)
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motorcade vehicle. Carter's
car was nicked by a beer
bottle.
“I think the bottle-
throwing incident is a natural
expression of people who are
frustrated," said Mayor
Maurice Ferre. “Most of the
crowd wasn’t involved...I
don't think they were
throwing bottles at Jimmy
Carter, but at the presidency.
This is a continuation of the
other — it is an expression.”
Ferre said he feared "this
one little incident that took
five seconds" would detract
from Carter’s attempt to
soothe raw nerves in the
black and Cuban com-
munities with promises of
jobs, justice and compassion.
incident, which
Advisory Council? What do
they stand for? For all we
know they coudl be represen-
ting the Ku Klux Klan or the
Nazi party. If the county
commissioners are to be
asked to participate in an
activity on behalf of all the
citizens in the county, they
ought to be better informed
on just what's going on."
commented Tuddenham in
remarks to McPherson.
"Has the county already
decided to participate. Arc
you requesting the county to
endorse you?" Bcardall
queried.
Beardall then charged that
TRLA has not been consulted
over any recent actions by the
commission seeking to have
funding for the agency done
away with.
"Mr. Beardall. you didn't
ask the county to participate
in any way before your
agency filed suit against us.”
McPherson fired back.
Tuddenham then remark-
ed. "I don't think it's proper
for the county to endorse
your participation in the
meeting without knowing
what the meeting is for."
McPherson responded. "I
think the meeting will
inform us of possible
violations of the Legal
Services Corporation charter.
I charge that TRLA has gone
out and recruited and has
sought frivolous lawsuits.
TRLA also continues to
encourage cases on behalf of
illegal aliens and that is not
in keeping with the charter of
your organization wl.ich is
funded with tax monies."
(See SHERIFF, Page 2)
For different reasons than
Iran, Saudi Oil Minister
Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani is
resisting the Iraqi plan,
which would raise the
world's oil bill and boost U.S.
gasoline and heating oil costs
more than 7 cents a gallon.
Yamani told reporters he
was "very pessimistic” the
pricing-structuring plan
would succeed. The Saudis
oppose the plan in hopes that
a slackening demand on
world oil markets will force
other OPEC nations to
charge less for their oil later
this year, conference sources
said.
Yamani recently predicted
oil prices will collapse by fall
because of reduced demand
caused in part by the U.S.
recession.
Members of the 20-year-
old organization have not
been able to agree on a
uniform pricing policy since
February, 1979. Several
previous efforts to restore
uniformity have tailed, most
recently at the organization’s
meeting last December in
Caracas, Venezuela.
MIAMI (AP) — President
Carter says he didn't notice
the rocks and bottles tossed
at his motorcade by a jeering
crowd, but the mayor of this
racially tom city is worried
that the incident could spoil
any benefits of the
president's visit to a riot-
scarred neighborhood.
It was one of the most
violent encounters in Car-
ter's presidency.
One photographer was hit
with a bottle, but no one was
reported hurt — or arrested
— when 600 people
scrambled for safety late
Monday as the motorcade
was bombarded. Carter had
waved to the crowd, at which
point the crowd began booing
ALGIERS. Algeria (AP) —
Iran and Iraq got into a
shouting match at the OPEC
meeting during the night.
Qatar stalked off and Saudi
Arabia stayed away, another
sign the world oil cartel is so
badly split it won't be able to
compromise on a uniform
price.
But conference sources
said even without a com-
promise that prices would
stay about the same for the
rest of 1980.
The sources said during
the session Monday night
that Iranian Oil Minister Ali
Akhbar Moinfar accused Iraq
and Saudi Arabia of "serving
American imperialism by
raising production rates."
They said Iraqi Oil
Minister Tayeh Abdel-Karim
shouted back that Iraq was
the first power in the
Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries to
nationalize Western-owned
oil operations.
The sources said Saudi
Arabia's minister did not
even attend and Qatar s
Armour Meeting is Disrupted;
Iraq and Iran are at
ideological odds and
recently, have engaged in
sporadic fighting along their
shared border. Iran accuses
Iraq of being a stooge of the
United States.
By JIM STEIERT
Brand Farm Editor
Members of the United
Food and Commercial Work-
ers union employed at the
Armour Foods Hereford
plant will "have it out,” as
one union member put it.
during a closed union session
Wednesday to determine if
there is sufficient interest
between the union and
Armour Foods to renegotiate
a contract to keep Armour's
heel slaughtering plant here
open.
Thal development comes
in the w ake of an information
meeting that almost wasn't
Sunday afternoon at the Bull
Barn.
Sunday's session was
called to give union and
prospective union members
an opportunity to express
their opinion on the status of
the announced shutdown of
Armour's plant here and
their views on the possibility
of renegotiating a contract
with the Phoenix-based
company.
The afternoon session was
brief, frequently disrupted,
and revealed only the
dissatisfaction of union
members with the way things
are now .
Sparsely attended, the
session drew only about 50
out of a work force of 450 at
the Hereford Armour plant.
Thomas Reed, a member
of the UFCW w ho organized
the meeting emphasized at
its beginning that the session
did not represent an effort to
break the union here.and
from that point on. remained
under fire from members of
the audience for most of the
brief 30-minute session
inside the Bull Barn.
Tom Lawson. an employee
walked out of the hall in the
middle of the session.
However, all 13 ministers are
to meet today to take up the
pricing issue in detail.
Iraq has proposed that all
OPEC nations charge $32 a
barrel for their oil. Under the
proposal, OPEC hawks —
including Iran — would have
to drop present prices by $3 a
barrel. middle-of-the-roaders
would raise theirs $2 and
Saudi Arabia. which
produces one-third of all
OPEC oil, would increase
prices $4.
But Moinfar said "there
was no way" Iran would
decrease prices, that he was
“sure" there would be no
agreement and that along
with Algeria, Libya and
Nigeria. Iran will continue to
sell oil for as much as it can
get for it.
were broken
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expense, but was requesting
county backing of proposals
to eliminate funding for
TRLA offices, based on
allegations that TRLA has
violated the terms of its
charter.
TRLA attorneys Bill Bear-
dall and Edward Tuddenham
then became engaged in a
running debate with Mc-
Pherson over the purpose of
the mysterious Austin ses-
sion and other allegations
against TRLA. after which a
local delegation headed up by
Rumaldo Garcia of Hereford
presented approximately
1,000 signatures on petitions
supporting the presence of
the TRLA office here to the
county commission.
Under questioning about
the session he proposes to
attend. McPherson reported
that the session will be held
before the Texas Advisory
Council, and added that he
had been invited to attend by
the law firm of Fullbright and
Jaworski.
TRLA supporters zeroed in
on McPherson's comment
that the session is being held
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Sims, Paul. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 243, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 10, 1980, newspaper, June 10, 1980; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1429801/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.