The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 26, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 9, 1983 Page: 12 of 28
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11
Back To School Sale
Textile
normally sells for about 1300 let it be known that they
abate.
1/2 Price
Denim Sale
6
A
$2495
Donated for food help program
Wranglers
Juarez store selling U.S. butter
commodity
DHR’s
packages read: MAY NOT
OR
SOLD
BE
One Group Straws Resistols
Marijuana .oufght
Growers eyed from ground, air
federal Drug Enforcement
in
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BOOTS & SADDLE
1
Western Wear
364-5332
513 1.26 Mle Ave.
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11
11
9
3
•6« Off
Reg. Price
The Cowboys House Shoe
Wallaby’s Men & Womens
85°0 Off
Reg. Price
8500 Off
Reg. Price
shopping
bargains.
Shirts
Boys 8-14
Kids Sizes 1-6
Kids Sizes 7-14
Ladies Denims
Lady Wrangler
Justin Ropers Reg. • 118° Our Price *79°5 Now 869°5
Hondo 16” Bullhide Reg. •15800 Our Price •1250 Now •109°
Larry Mahan Roper Reg. •13500 Our Price • I 1000 Now ,89•,
Rios EEL Skin Reg. *30000 Our Price *24500 Now •196’°
Hondo Pig Skin Reg. *15800 Our Price *1 10° Now •89*‘
Tony Lama EEL Reg. *23900 Our Price •18900 Now •149*‘
Rios Ostrich Reg. 152000 Our Price *43500 Now *38500
Hondo Roper Reg. • 118° Our Price '98‘* Now •84°
Rios Ostrich Belly Reg. *29500 Our Price •25000 Now •19900
Barlow Roper Reg. *13500 Our Price • 10500 Now •89°5
Rios Lizzard Reg. *35000 Our Price *29900 Now *26900
Hondo 16” Water Buff. Reg. • 1 5800 Our Price •12500 Now •109,‘
so Round Em Up and head on out for these
The High Plains grows
more cotton than any other
Butch Says:
You Can Call Me Less
You Can Call Me Low
You Can Call Me Cy
But Don’t Call Me High
Especially during our back to school sale. We are going
all out to help you save money on your back to school
Now 99.95
Now 818 95
Now $13.88
Now 813.88
Now 814.88
Now 813.88
cotton to the plant and then
share in the profits of its
operation, normally make K
to |M more a bate than they
would have made selling on
the open market, Hale says
At M cents a pound, cotton
Mt*
imAn
15
Reg. 813.50
Reg. 815.50
filling a 7-foot-high cooler in
the rear of a Juarez store all
bore the same markings:
Donated by the United
Ladies
hirts & Blow
2 racks
New Fall
•4M Off
Reg. Price
side town proclaims that Lit-
tiefield is the “Denim Capital
of the West."
sale. and USDA doesn't know
of any federal law," he said.
"But under the new program,
it is against the law."
Chilton and other officials
were unaware when the new
law governing the Emergen-
cy Food Assistance Program
takes effect or of the
penalties for selling com-
modities that are supposed to
be free to the poor.
Administration
Washington.
ipetitive
plant "to move their product
one step closer to the con-
sumer."' Hate acknowledged.
They "felt the need to adver-
tiae West Texas cotton.
"We had thought about it a
long time when Levi Strauss
EXCHANGED."
But the American butter
and cheese was for sale Mon-
day at Super Henry, a small
convenience store just across
the Paso del Norte bridge, the
El Paso Tunes reported.
The bargain butter was
selling for 30 cents a pound -
about 15 cents cheaper than
Mexican butter, which often
is hard to find, and about one-
fifth the price of butter in the
United States, the newspaper
said.
Word that USDA products
were on sale in Juarez sur-
prised officials involved with
the distribution of surplus
commodities, a USDA pro-
biggest producer of the com-
modity. but American textile
manufacturers have general-
ly spurned the weaker, short-
staple cotton grown on the
dry High Plains for varieties
with longer fibers.
High Plains farmers were
forced to sell their cotton
overseas for lower prices, so
they thought they could get a
better deal at home.
And, said Texas Tech
University researcher Harry
Arthur. "A lot of them had
the feeling that the next guy
up the ladder was making
more of the money.”
The farmers started the
have long avoided mid-
dlemen by selling their com-
modities to the public through
cooperatives, but until the
mid-1970s cotton growers had
never tried the idea.
About 2,000 High Plains
farmers, members of 25 ginn-
ing associations, sold bonds
in 1974 to finance a M3 million
textile mill that experts say is
already rivaling the giants of
the Southeast
The sprawling plant,
believed to be the only
cooperative textile mill in the
world, turns out enough
Resources
"I have no idea how they
got them." James R. Chilton.
stronger and weaker bales of
the short-staple cotton that
farmers could hope to find a
market for a mill. Arthur
said.
8
Ramon Morales, an official
of an agency known as Pro-
ject Bravo, said word has got-
ten back to him that food
given organization for
distribution was being sold in
Juarez.
"Once we get it out, it's out
of our control," Morales said.
"We have no strings on it."
No one, he said, should
have been given a full case of
butter or cheese
cheese.
LEE DENIMS
Ladies, Jrs. &
Misses
•5M Off
Reg. Price
would buy the product," he
said.
It wasn't until researchers
developed methods for dif-
Ladies Blouses
& pull over tops
2 racks
"I can't give you any infor-
mation." he said nervously
after ushering a reporter and
photographer away from his
cooler
When asked his identity, he
said I have no name."
Moments earlier, a cash
register clerk said the pro-
ducts were bought in Juarez
from an individual he did not
know
is just beginning here So far.
only a few thousnd plants
have been seized, said Major
Doyle Watson, who heads the
Oregon State Police criminal
division
But police agencies are
gearing up to beat growers to
a crop at least as large as last
Indeed, the mill is the only
denim plant west of the
Mississippi River. It's also a
moneymaker, Hale said. The
American Cotton Growers, a
cooperative based in nearby
Lubbock that owns the plant,
does not release earnings
figures for the mill, but Hale
says it has made money
every year since it opened in
1977.
The farmers, who sell their
police say Oregon is par-
ticipating with the federal
agency in an experimental
surveillance program using
U-2 spy planes
Carlton said Josephine
County officials expect to
receive detailed aerial
photographs later this sum-
mer taken from the high-
altitude planes and inter-
preted by photo-analysis
technicians at the federal
I----1 • *
level
in addition. Bureau of Land
Management and US Forest
Service officials are posting
signs in public areas that ask
hunters and hikers to call a
toll-free state police number
if they see signs of illegal
marijuana growth on public
land
guidelines were written and
implemented.
Alderman Joe Divis said he
thinks the stray commodities
came from one of the agen-
cies. He said he received
complaints that one of them
was giving away large quan-
tities to anyone who wanted
it.
Conwell Ritch, a USDA of-
ficial in El Paso, said he was
aware of the complaints and
has passed them on to
Chilton
"I can't do anything it's
the state's program, he
said
Mens Shirts
One Group
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All Other Long
Sleeve Shirts
•4M Off
Reg. Price
Ladies
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5%A - 5 pair
5%B - 3 pair
6A -1 pair
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6%B -1 pair
7A -2 pair
7B -1 pair
7%A -1 pair
7%B • 1 pair
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Kids
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2B
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3%B - 2 pair
3%D - 2 pair
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6D - 2 pair
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LEE DENIMS
Girls
Sizes 4 thru 14
Levis
501 Shrink To Fit Reg. 824.50 Now 816.95
Saddlemen Boot Jean Reg. 823.95 No
$15.95
7%B
8A - 2 pair
8%A - 2 pair
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Girls
4 thru 14
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Reg. Price
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) - gram administered by the
Cases of butter and cheese Texas Department of Human
Tony Lama, Justin,
and Sanders Boots
Odd Size Sale
If you find your size thev are yours for
$2500
Chilton said even if the
seller were known to
authorities, little could be
done about it now. But that
will change, he promised
"All we can do now is turn
it over to fraud and in-
vestigate. but we don t know
of any state law against the
More Specials
47 Pair of Hondo Boots
U Toe 13 to 16” Tops
Reg. Price • 15800
Now $6995
Page The Hereford Brand, Tuesday, August 9, 1983
Farmers eliminate middleman
Mens Short Sleeve Shirts 1/2 Price Panh!ndksi.m,
Boot Sale
Frst Bible Baptist
Church
sf Murefara, Tsaos
enaseknnn. 3417
A man may make mistakes, but he is
Ml a failure until he Marta blaming wo
meoneelse"
Shrimp swim backwards
pushing themselves with
their fan-shaped tails
But with the new
technology the mill promised
a "darn good product" that
attracted Levi Strauss into
signing a contract for the
plant's entire annual produc-
tion and eventually proved
"pretty good competition”
for manufacturing giant* like
J.P. Stevens. Arthur said
"I think," Arthur said of
the farmer*, "that they've
been pleasantly surprised
Over the years, many mari-
juana growers have shifted
their farms from backyards
to remote public lands,
gradually improving fer-
tilization and irrigation
techniques to maximize pro-
duction in the smallest possi-
ble areas
After drug enforcement
agents started using planes to
look for illegal cultivation,
growers began dividing their
marijuana farms into
smaller plots that are harder
to detect from the air. Watson
said Others have moved
their plants into greenhouses,
garages and houses, where a
chance sighting is unlikely
and the growing season is
year-round.
But if the growers have
become trickier in their ef-
fort* to hide their produce,
police agencies have
countered with a few innova-
tiona of their own.
Although DEA officiate
refuse to confirm the reports,
county sheriffs and state
Super Henry's cooler con-
tained at least two 32-pound
cases of butter, eight
30-pound cases of American
processed cheese and 27
blocks of cheese weighing 5
pounds each, the Times
reported.
The butter was selling for
about 30 cents, and the cheese
blocks were priced st about
S3 USDA values the butter at
S1.52 a pound and the
95 blocks at $7.35 each, the
newspaper said.
Until June 6, USDA com-
modities were being
distributed by two El Paso
agencies Distribution was
halted white new eligibility
States Department of distributor for West Texas.
Agriculture for food help pro- said Monday from his office
grams.” in Lubbock.
Stamped in capital letters. The store manager at
the cases and individual Super Henry offered no help.
Student Cowboy Cut Reg. 819.95
Student Boot Jean Reg. 818.95
Cowboy Cut 13 MWZ Reg. 823.00
Boot Jean 945,935 Reg. 821.95
My perception is that
we've had a vigorous enforce-
ment program in Josephine
County for several years,"
said county Undersheriff Jim
Carlton "In spite of that, we
still seem to find about the
same number of gardens, the
same number of plants "
As the marijuana industry
has burgeoned, pot farmers
have become more
sophisticated, both in the art
of gardening and the craft of
staying one step ahead of the
sheriff
At least M percent of the
marijuana grown commer-
cially in Oregon is sinsemilla,
a potent and high-priced
hybnd that geta its name
from the Spanish for without
seeds," according to David
Hoover, a spokesman for the
region in Texas, the nation's ferentiating between
By PHILIP BRASHER denim for Levi Strauss and
Associated Press Writer Co esch year to make 19
LITTLEFIELD, Texas million pairs of blue jeans.
<AP> - When a farmer That's "enough jeans for
makes just a dollar off the everybody in the state of
cotton in a $20 pair of blue Texas every year with a little
jeans, it's easy to see why left over for the state of
some Texas growers felt they Oklahoma.” boasts plant
weren't getting a fair deal. manager Robert Hale.
So those farming on the The plant — its gleaming
High Plain* decided to machinery a far cry from the
eliminate the middleman by sweat shop* of "Norma Rae”
setting up their own textile - is the pride of this
mill. agricultural community of
Dairy and produce farmers 7,500 people. A billboard out-
By JANE SEAGRAVE
Associated Press Writer
GRANTS PASS. Ore i API
- Marijuana growers in the
Oregon woods are being wat
ched this summer from high
and from low.
As the feathery plants grow
tall, cameras will be clicking
in high altitude U-2 spy
planes On the ground,
authorities are enlisting the
aid of hikers to help spot the
hidden fields where the illicit
drug is grown
But officials say some
Oregon pot grower* are
responding by moving their
crops indoors to avoid detec-
tion
Douglas County Sheriff
Norm Neal said three recent
raids on rented homes in that
southwestern Oregon county
turned up moms full of plants
flourishing under lights
Indoor operations are
even more difficult to
discover, and present s grow-
ing direction for illicit drug
cuitivators," Attorney
General Deve Frohnmayer
said in a recent letter to a
congressional committee stu-
dying marijuana trafficking
in the United States
Marijuana growing.
Frohnmayer concluded. "is
st a critical stage in thia
state."
<Cultivation of marijuana
has become big business in
Oregon Law enforcement
authorities acknowledge that
the 50,000 plants seized test
year account for no more
than 1* percent of what was
raised.
The National Organization
for the Reform of Marijuana
Laws, or NORML, estimates
the value of the state’s 1K
marijuana crop at $500
million, making Oregon one
of five states where pot is the
most valuable agricultural
commodity.
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