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Page 2-The Hereford Brand, Friday, June 20, 1986
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Broke farmers tell their stories
News Roundup
State
“Today our government is doing
Radiation exposum kills patient
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Obituaries
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need for a kind of reversal of traditional roles, he said.
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Welcoming Honorees
Helen Eades, Jennie Terrell, Bertha Dett-
mann and Georgia Sparks, all acting as
the Welcoming Committee of the
Women’s Division of the Chamber of
Commerce, have prepared tonight’s reu-
nion supper for honorees at the National
Cowgirl Hall of Fame and Western
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The event, sponsored Jointly by the
Texas Department of Agriculture
and FarmAid, brought together farm
crisis hotline workers and members
of farm advocacy groups from
various states who have tried to help
farmers during agriculture’s tough
times.
“In Texas, this is the only thing
farmers can do in their defense
against the bureacratic terrorism.
Fight back,” Gresham said.
Most attending complained that
farmers are being put out of business
Management seminar
slated for Monday
A special seminar, “Managing for defli
Profits”, will be conducted here Pi
Monday night for Hereford business begi
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -
Necie Gresham said she paid $290
per acre for her 640-acre Lubbock
farm when she bought it 12 years
ago. When it was foreclosed, a lien
holder sold it for $52 an acre.
“He stole it, and the FmHA sat idly
by and let him do that. It left us
nothing to pay our debt. It’s cruelty,”
said Gresham, one of about 200 peo-
ple attending the National Farm
Crisis Workers Conference Thursday
at the University of Texas at Arl-
ington.
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study.
To maintain a decent standard of living
income, and for families with low-income
“We are engaged in a moral,
historic struggle. We’re not Just
fighting to save our farms, but to
fight for justice."
Rick Phillips, the asiistant to the
Idaho director of agriculture, said
his state has been much like Texas,
“slow to realise this is happening."
But after a INS study, “we found
out Idaho is in an awful lot of stress”
because of the farm tragedy, Phillips
said.
Phillips, a former banker, also
assists with one of the state’s two
hotlines. After spending a couple of
years repossesing farmers’ equip-
ment and property as a banker,
Phillips said he began to sympathise
with the plight of the farmer.
“I had repossesed sacks of
potatoes from some people. I'm a
farmboy. I just got tired of it,” he
said.
Hightower urged he farmers to
become politically involved and vote
during IM for people sympathetic to
the farmers needs.
SANTOS MORALES
June 16, IM
Investigator of fires Is suspended
CISCO, Texas (AP) — A policeman who was investigating a string
of arson fires here last week has been suspended indefinitely, the
police chief said.
Police Chief BiUy Rains said R.D. “Rick” Kirkland, 27, was
suspended without pay Wednesday pending completion an investiga-
tion that has been turned over to the Eastland County Sheriffs
Department and Texas Rangers.
“We had recent information from the regional state fire marshal’s
office in Duncanville that he had been a suspect in some arson fires
" ‘ To^safetyrewonsMd dueto the tensions in the city, we felt (the
suspension) would be well-advised,” the chief said.
Kirkland, reached at his home in Cisco by telephone, said he had
no comment on the suspension. He referred all questions to Rains.
Kirkland was part of the police force in Electra, about IX miles
north of here, until December 1984, said Ed Olehy, chief of police at
Electra.
Three damaging downtown fires occurred in Electra in November
and December IM Md no one was charged in connection with those
fires, Olehy said.
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study released on wives' earnings
WASHINGTON (AP) — The wives of men with little or no income
tend to bring home more money than women whose husbands earn
somewhat more — but the women with the best paying Jobs are those
married to the most affluent spouses, according to a new Census
study.
Overall, 42 percent of American families have two wage earners,
with the wives of men in the highest and lowest income brackets ear-
ning more than those married to husbands in between.
According to the study of 1924 income, the traditional one earner
family now accounts for only 29 percent of families, followed by IS
percent with no one working; 10 percent with three wage-earners,
and 4 percent with four or more people bringing home money.
Census officials have suggested that higher educational levels of
both spouses could help account for the higher incomes of women
married to higher income men.
At the other end of the scale, the wives of lower-income husbands
may be responding to economic necessity in bringing home more
money than wives of middle-incane men. Bureau statisticians said.
Nationally, the report said, median family income increased
faster than inflation for the second year in a row in 1M. It climbed
7.1 percent to $26,430, while the Consumer Price Index went up 43
percent from IM to IM
The study found that working wives had medtan incomes of N.«37
in IM Medtan income means half made less than that amount and
half earned more.
The highest income group of women, with a medtan of 210,727,
were wives of men earning between $35,000 and $50,000.
Wives with the lowest medtan income — $5,785 — had husbands in
the N.M to N.M income bracket.
But women with husbands who had no earnings at all had median
incomes of XM, and wives of husbands to the levels of under XOX
recorded medtan incomas in the $6,000 to $7,000 range.
Only in the range of huebands earning more than $10,000 do wives'
incomes climb back above XM, the report shows.
Economic pressure to maintain a standard of living waa cited as a
likely reason for wives earning more than their low-income
husbands by Edward J. Welniak of the Census Bureau, author of the
Heritage Center. Festivities continue
Saturday with an induction ceremony at
the Hereford Country Club at 11:30 am.,
the Rhinestone Roundup Ball at 7 p.m.,
the Diamond Horseshoe Silent Auction at
8 p.m and 8:30 pm., and live auction at 10
p.m.
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Funeral services were held today cept.
at 10 a m. In La Iglesta De San Jose
Nancille Gallimore, Texas Farm
Cristo Hotline administator, said she
has received more than 2,650 calls
since January 6 from Texas framers
in trouble.
“These calls ranged from simply
what to do on Uris form, to major pro-
blems,” Gallimore said.
She said the hotline, funded by a
FarmAid grant, the Texas Con-
ference of Churches, legal services
and a private Austin firm, is attemp-
ting to set up “minor hotlines” in the
rural areas. The state’s hotline, bas-
ed in Austin, also refers farmers to .
lists of attorneys willing to provide ’
free legal help.
coal gray suit and a red tie, sat mo-
tionless staring at the jury. His at-
torneys said they had prepared him
for the worst and he was calm.
Kenyon agreed to a government
request that the seventh count be
dropped.
The Judge warned jurors not to
disclose classified information they
barring attorneys from talktag to the aomeas ^T^mith tount;
public during the trial. Chamber of Commerce
"The verdicts are a tribute to the "The seminar is for all types and
collective common sense of the jury sizes of firms," reported Mike Carr,
system, and this jury in particular," executive vice president of the
U.S. Attorney Robert Bonner said, chamber “W you are interested to
“Had the FBI not moved as quickly maximizing profits or would like to
as it did in this case, far greater 100k at *.7, t improve Your
damage would have been done.” management Aills this seminar will
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or British hostage every five minutes unless their demands were
They said they were deadlocked on a
seventh count accusing Miller of ac-
cepting a $675 trenchcoat as a bribe.
Miller was convicted of conspiring
to pass classified documents to the
Soviet Union, of copying classified
documents and of delivering them to
a foreign government with
knowledge they would be used to the
advantage of a foreign power, the
Soviet Union, and to the disadvan-
tage of the United States
Miller, whose first trial ended in a
deadlock last November, was also
found guilty of communicating the
documents to a known represen-
tative of the Soviets, and of soliciting
250,000 in gold and 215,000 in cash
Miller, wearing a three-piece char-
TYLER, Texas (AP) — An East Texas Cancer Center patient died
three weeks after excessive radiation exposure from a encer treat-
ment machine that malfunctioned,gfficials disvosed.
Another patient was also overexposed during radiation therapy
the previous month and use of the Therac 25 linear equipment has
been discontinued, said Dick Higginbotham, East Texas Cancer
Center administrator.
"By duplicating the malfunction, the East Texas Cancer Center
determined that the cause of the malfunction was in the computer
software. It involves an unusual occurrence that can only be
replicated by a certain timing and sequence of entries,” Higgin-
botham said Thursday.
The 33-year-old patient who died “was suffering from several life-
threatening diseases," according to a news release from the East
Texas Hospital Foundation, parent organization of the cancer
center.
“The man's reaction led us to believe that he had been electrically
shocked (in March),ao we began investigating the machine to deter-
mine how it could have delivered an electrical shock,” Higgin-
botham said.
The second incident occurred in April when a 22-year-old man was
treated in the ear area Md had a similar experience with the radia-
tion therapy. The patient was later treated at a Dallas hospital, the
release said.
Field work for an investigation of the incidents by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration has been completed and forwarded to
Washington, D.C., Theodore Rotto of the Dallas FDA said.
Mr. Byrd was bom and reared in Home.
Red River County. He was married Mr. Morales married Alma Quin-
to Blanche Leftel in INI in Danger- tortile Feb. X, 1921. He wm besu in
field. He moved to Littlefield in 1242 Scottsbluff,, Neb. and had lived most
and moved to Dalhart in IM from of his life to Hereford. He moved to
He began law enforcement in Hereford.
Hereford for six and a half years, Survivors include his wife, Alma of
Inter working for the Sheriff’s the home; his mother, Maria
Department X years. He was elected Morales of Hereford; his grand-
sherif of Dailam County la 1M, mother, Eacebia Mancha of
retiring to IM. Hereford; three sons, Manuel, San-
Mr. Byrd utteadid Lincota Street toe III and Santos Adrian, all sf
PABLO GARCIA
June 12, UN
Pablo Garcia, X of Dimmitt died
June 19, NN .
Former Hereford resident, EJ. Church with the Rev. Joe bixenman,
Byrd, X of Dalhart died Thursday. pastor, officiating. Burial was to X.
Services are pending with Anthony’s Cemetery under the direc-
Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors, tion of Gililland-Watson Funeral
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Administration, and a useless 1M ter of losing a number of farmers,
farm bill. but we’re losing our best farmers.
“Agriculture overall to in a These are people who are efficient,
disaster situation,” state Agriculture productive, innovative and broke.”
Commissioner Jim Hightower told ____
the conference. . Hightower said holding the con-
Hightower took pokes at the ference in Texas "reveals the reality
Reagan administration, saying IX the farm crisis is notan isolated
years ago the national government phenomena in the Midwest, but
took interest in farmers with legtola- something that has spread dear
tion such as the Homestead Act, across the country.”
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day to a McAllen hospital after a da
brief lness. to
Baptist Church and was a member of McAllen; three daughters, Marta, wMb■*
Rack Maud Lodge No. M and Noma andBettada* of anmenmwmi-i
Survivors Include hto wife; a Mexico, ana Jone and babel. Mi*
daughter, Linda Smith of Daua; a Hereford; aad four staters. Antonia
brother, J.O. of Borger; three Zuniga of Hereford, Eusebia Eltzan-
sisters, Cera Leftel of Hereford, do of Amarillo, aad Magdalena ..
Mary Phillipa of Auburn, Ore., and gny aad Alicia Cerda, both of dmimnsmnz
TAX ■■■■Hill.............. .......................... ......................................................................................
ferences between the Senate tees. ‘ listina of the Social Security compress more than a dozen in-
" package and tHe one passed by the The Finance Committee legisl- numbers would significantly reduce dividual tax rates into two rates: 27
House late last year. tion would have continued deduc- cheating particularly by divorced a percent and 15 percent. The top in-
Senators who do not serve on the tions for state and local income and separated couples who both might dividual rate is now W percent.
Finance Committee and will not be property taxes but would repeal the clim the same child as an exemp-
part of those negotiations have been writeoff for sales taxes The tax I also would cut the top corporate
ssa&’sia;« “
In action Thursday, the Senate ap- who is claimed as a dependent have a adopted DX voice votean amendment as 15 percent
proved by voice vote a partial deduo Social Security card by Sen • James McClure, R-Idaho,
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Overall, the pending bill would for individuals and businesses.
Grace Cervantes of Dimmitt, Aida son.
Toma of Hereford and Valentina
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Aida Toms of Hanford.
Prayer services for Mr. Garcia
will be at 7:30 p.m. today to La
Assemblia Christiana Church with
the Rev. Reuben Velasquez, pastor,
officiating. He will be assisted by the
Rev. Roger Velasquez, pastor of the
Mexican Pentecostal Church of Hart.
Funeral services will bo at 12 a.m.
Saturday at the La Assemblia Chris-
ttana Church of Dimmit. Burial will
be to Castro Memorial Gardens
under the direction of Foskey
Funeral Home
He was born to Alta Vista and had
boon a resident of Castro County
since 1960, moving from Corpus
Christi. He married Elmina Vasques
Dec. 12, 1942. to Corpus Christi He
■ irked with the Conversation Corp
to Alice to INI and 19X b 1979, he
worked to Dimmitt as a road main-
tainer operator. He retired to 1M.
a..ct"ce Ah.I.a, Ma (mtea, E..,
•IVIVOrS uCIuGe IIS wire, TOUT
of San Diego, Esteban
both of Dmmitt, and
■Manor of Garden City, Kan.; eight
daughters, Paulita Rule of
Kingsville, Flora Batts and Rose
Tubb, both of Gatesville, Lupe Gar-
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