The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 134, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 13, 1988 Page: 1 of 10
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Gore gets Texas backers
Henry to head UW
Centributtons afid piedes
Picante pique patched
tesizner botties and
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EPA revisions drawing fire
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in percentile rank, a figure used
by the State Board of Education to
determine where Texas students
rank compared to student across
the nation Hereford students
were in the middle, with a 50
percentile rank, in mathematics,
but were far below the average in
reading (32) and writing 411. us-
ing the SBOE-supplied figures
United Way Leaders
lajean Henry, right, was elected the 1988
president of the United Way of Deaf Smith
County during a Tuesday board meeting
She presented a plaque of appreciation to
last year’s president. Howard Birdwell
Require a re-entry interval of 48
hours for the most toxic pesticides,
unless the specific product regula-
tion requires longer, and a 24-hour in-
ten al for the next most toxic labor
groups wanted longer intervals, but
EPA said "a significant disruption of
agricultural production" would
result from a 72-hour restriction
in other business Tuesday
night, the board gave permission
to the elks Lodge to use a school
gymnasium for their upcoming
Hoop Shoot" competition, but a
conflict on one of the dates won't
allow use of the newly -renovated
LaPlata gym; appointed John
Dominguez to the County J uvenile
Board; and reviewed a rough
draft of the school district's An-
nual Performance Report
EPA is rewriting all of its specific
pesticide regulations, chemical by
< hemic al, but say s that task will take
der ade » in the- meantime. It is pro-
posing a general regulation applying
to all pesticides as a minimum in
states that have no rules of their own
Eederal law permits state regula-
tions to govern if they are more
restrictiv e than federal provisions
The new regulation will be review-
ed by Congress and other govern-
ment agencies EPA says it is not
likely to take effect until 1989
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Caesar Chavez, president of the
United Farmworkers Union. fre-
quently cites an estimate that more
than 300,000 poisonings occur each
year Grower groups scoff at the
figure EPA did not discuss that
estimate, but said many incidents go
unreported
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any of the date on chronic illness like
cancer and birth defects,” said Ms.
Davis. But True said, “We just don't
have the date" to justify the longer
interval.
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Pesticide danger is an issue where
emotions run strongly, facts are few
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87th Year, No. 134, Deaf Smith County, Hereford, Tx.
Warming trend
Tonight will be fair and cold, with a low of 11 Southwest wind will
be 5 to 15 mph
Thursday will be fair and warmer, with a high of 52 Southwest
wind should be 11 to 15 mph
This morning's low at KPAN was 16 after a high Tuesday of 49
-Require blood monitoring among
the most exposed professional ap-
plicators to check an enzy me attack-
ed by the most toxic pesticides,
cholesterinase. The enzyme is
necessary for proper functioning of
the nervous system Blood monitor-
mg would not be required for other
applicators - three-quarters of the
total, though perhaps exposed only a
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In language arts, students
scored lowest in punctuation,
mam idea, proofreading and cor-
rect English usage Students
scored highest in specific details,
sentence combining, reference
source usage and reference
source identification.
lata is,offu lals said
The makers of Pace and old El
Pas<* pu ante sauces agreed in an
Utada url sett lenient Monday t
end the ir 15-m nth stalemate
A civ il trial had been scheduled for
Apnl in federal । ourt in San Antonio
N money changed hands, but
we re Very happy that they agreed to
put an end to the confusion that the
Pet package was causing to our
customers," said Rod Samis. Pace
vice president of sales and
marketing
Pace and Old El Paso share about
Ji pete ent eac h of the $200 million-a-
year Mesa-an hot sauce market
Pace, based in San Antonio, had fil-
ed a lawsuit in federal court in Oc-
tober I* < laiming that Old El Paso
Hoping to minimize legal
Way ■
tor, pr
for the
Gore already has won en-
dorsements from Texas Democratic
Party chief Bob Slagle; Texas House
Speaker Gib Lewis, D-Fort Worth;
and more than a score of Democratic
state representatives.
In other political news:
— Texas Republicans began phon-
ing v oters whose names appeared on
the nominating petitions for all six
GOP presidential candidates after
party officials decided to include all
six on the March 8 primary ballot
But if a candidate failed to submit
the valid signatures of 5,000 qualified
voters, he won’t receive votes in the
primary, said John Weaver, GOP ex-
ecutive director
Questions have been raised about
some signatures submitted by four
GOP candidates: New York Rep
Jack Kemp, Kansas Sen Robert
Dole, Alexander Haig and former
Delaware Guv PeteduPont
— Aides to Democratic presiden-
tial candidate Michael Dukakis said
the campaign would open a Bexar
County campaign office in San An-
tonne on Wednesday and offices in
Me Allen and Dallas next week
- Lon Williams, an attorney who
is seeking the Republican Party
nomination U oppose L' S Rep John
Hry ant. D-Dallas, said at a news con-
ference at the Dallas County Cour-
thouse, that he would address urban
problems such as drugs. crime,
education, unemployment and
health. during his campaign
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Local Roundup
Three thefts reported Tuesday
Theft ot $962 was reported Tuesday at Ideal Rentals along with
HW stolen from lev's Cafe at 143 N Main St and 835 worth of gas
taken from a business on US *
i nher offenses and assaults include disturbance in the block of
Ave H. prowler in the 600 block of Jackson; burglary of a motor
vehicle, with $65 taken, juveniles fighting on Ave K; criminal
mischief to a car by scratching the paint, reckless driving on Fif-
teenth; family disturbance in the 100 block of Ave A; and assault in
the 200 block of Whiteface
A man. 11. was arrested for criminal trespassing, four minor ac-
cidents were reported and 15 citations were issued
bet all their chips on Iowa and just
assume that 3 percent of the people
in one state that has gone Republican
for the last 24 years will have the sole
voice in determining who the
Democratic nominee is "
The comments came during a
news conference Tuesday in which
Gore and Briscoe were joined by
Dallas financier Jess Hay and other
Democratic civic and business
leaders who endorsed Gore
Democrats must recapture sup-
purt among middle-class voters if
they hope to win the White House this
year. Hay said
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Amstutz executive drec-
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By JOHN BROOKS
Manging Editor
Like students throughout
Texas. Hereford juniors scored
lower this year on their TEAMS
exit-level mathematics test this
year compared to juniors in 1985
and 1986, the Hereford school
board learned Tuesday night
Hereford ISD Curriculum direc-
tor Alice Lockmiller released the
results of the TEAMS tests in
math and language arts that were
taken in October, showing 26 per-
cent of the juniors failed the
language arts section t the test,
while 42 percent failed the math
section Student- must pass both
sections of the test before being
awarded a diploma Juniors who
did not pass one or both sections
will have three mere oppor-
tunities to take the test, and will
also receive special tutoring or be
placed in a special class, at the
expense of an elective course, to
tea, t; them the skills that were
shown lackng by the TEAMS
tests
Th< standards were higher this
year than they have been in the
past This fall. junior- had to cor-
SAN ANTONIO Texas AP
The nation’s top twi picante sauce
makers have c anned their yearlong
Among other things, the new
regulation would:
-Extend coverage to 300,000
workers in nurseries and
greenhouses and an undetermined
number in commercial forestry. and
to labor contractors
< lisle Birdwell, i alkins Alley Lloyd
Ames Boyd F ster Carol Sue
LeGate Jonie Rivera Ken Roberts.
I» n Davis and He nry
The United Way has reached its goal the
past two years Neu directors were
elected Tuesday and Jack Mars was nam-
ed vice president of the UW board.
though "anything would be some im- challenges. EPA in 1M5 assembled a
pro v eme nt," said Shelly Davis, a ■ regulatory negotiation" group of 25
lawyer with the Migrant legal state agencies, worker groups and
Assistance Project industry organizations to try to agree
American Earm Bureau Federa- in advance But in February 1986,
lion pesticide specialist Mark labor groups walked out and EPA
Maslyn said. "We've been somewhat has been doing the drafting since
successful” in persuading EPA to then
avoid using "specific numbers and The new regulation could poten-
feel and so forth." tially affect 2.2 million workers. It
w ouid succeed an existing regulation
Louis True, director of program that is little more than a page long
management and support for EPA's and deals mostly with re-entry inter-
pesticides office, said the agency vals — the period in which fields are
agonized in "trying to make this not supposed to be closed to unprotected
overly intrusive on small farming workers after pesticide use The new
was time for us to come to a mutual vironmental Protection Agency is
agreement and we were able to do preparing to revise its rules govern-
so" ing farm workers’ exposure to
In December 1966 U S Magistrate pesticides, but its draft proposal is
Jamie Boyd recommended that a already under fire from labor
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ar ending De
-Impose new notice re-
quirements Warning placards for
closed fields will have to show an
upraised hand and stem face The
agency rejected use of the skull-and-
crossbones symbol after growers ob-
jected, according to Ralph
Laghtstone of California Rural legal
Assistance
V, at t 1...:. : in 2186 . r 90 6 per-
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campaun surpassed its SB goal of
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The
Hereford Brand Wednesday
rectly answer 50 of the 72 ques-
tions in both math and language
arts to pass the test. In 1985.
students needed to correctly
answer only 36 math and 45
language arts questions to pass
In 1986, students had to correctly
answer 50 English questions but
only 39 math questions
The "mastery" level, or the
students passing the test, was
down sharply this year Mastery
is determined by students
answering three of four questions
in the 18 sections of each ex-
amination. 58 percent of the
students mastered the math test,
compared to 82 percent in 1985
and 86 percent in 1986 Those
figures from prior years,
however, must be weighed
against the fact that fewer ques-
ti ns had to be correctly
swered in prior years. especial-
ly in math
in math, local students scored
lowest in f ractions-mixed
numbers, measurement units,
and geometric properties, while
scoring highest in decimals,
charts and graphs, and
exponential-standard notation
had cpued it- bottle design and label
and placed the products in grocery
stores in leva’ Denver and Atlanta
Pace sought a prelmnary injunc-
tu«i against Pet Ine the makers of
old El Paso and wanted Pet to dump
the product and forfeit all prefits
from the sale of the new packages
Pet tased St Louis M will
phase in gradually its new bottle
designs and labels in the three
markets in which Pace said it lost
business because of Old El Paso s
new pac kage
Pet spukesman Ies landes said no
old El Paso products would be taken
off the shelves
N body won Nobody lost."
Landes said We just det ided that it
A major grower organization said
it is phased EPA has backed off
from inflexible, overly specific "feet
and inches and degrees” re-
quirements Earm worker organiza-
tions say the regulations need just
those specifics
"Il's weak in almost every area.”
Downplaying the importance of the
first-in-the-nation Iowa precinct
. am uses. Gore said that contest has
lost significance when compared
with the multi-state Super Tuesday
pnmar)
This Super Tuesday contest has
revolutionized the process to an ex-
tent that many have not yet
realized, he said There's a
tendency oil the pall ot many other
campaigns to fight the last war and
n tavord als named Billie H op-
-n a* chairman ot the' budget and
admsstons committre for the new
sear Holvri bard members in-
I., * .it. Henry was named pres-
d nt I tha l niled Way f Deaf Smth
County for 1988 during a board
meeting Tuesday at the Caison
Heuse Restaurant
other ufficers elected were Jack
Mar ... pre sident Tons e alkins
treasuret and larry Alley ams
'..■■'r. o .nt Newdirectorselected
• the tmardare Margaret He .. idle
Gera R • Medran Cruz Kamirez
ind Mat’
Mt Honrs ownet t Die Pants
Cage presented a plaque of ap-
preliminary injunction not be unpos-
ed against Pel
in April 1987 US District Judge
111 Hippo" Garcia ienied the
preliminary injuction sayng that
Pace had not proved that they had
suffered financially because of the
n w product
Pac e attorneys then tok their «as
to the 5th U S l ire Ult I ■ urt .4 Ap-
peals in N< w Orle ans
The Democratic Party has lost
four of the last five presidential elec-
tions," he said "It has done so in
part because its candidates in those
elections failed to relate their
policies and programs effectively to
the mainstream of American socie-
ty
We have evaluated the seven peo-
pie now seeking the Demociatic
nomination It is our considered
judgment that Sen Al Gore is the one
whose- policies are most reflective of
these broadly stated objectives,"
Hay said
Among others endorsing Gore
were former Attorney General John
Ben Sheppard, former Railroad
Commission members Buddy Tem-
ple and Jon Newton, former state
Sen Peyton Me Knight and former
U S ambassador Edward Clark
WASHINGTON AP The En-
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few w eeks of the y ear
-Require training of all ap-
plicators. not just those handling the
so-called restricted use”
chemicals
AUSTIN AI’ Former Gov
Diph Briscoe one of 63 Democrats
t endorse presidential hopeful Al
Gore, says he believes the Tennessee
senator could reclaim voters lost to
Republic ans in recent elections
Sen Gore can. while holding the
in. instream of the Democratic Par-
ty rganization in this state, appeal
t. th se and will bring back those
wh. have been lost in elections in the
past Briscoe said
That, in my pinion, will make
tie difference here and make it
p ”ible for him as the Democ r atu
nominee to carry this state said
Bris • g overnor from 1973 t 1978
Gore predicted that he would win
more Texas delegates to the
Dem ratic National i invention in
. March 8 primary and be one of
the top two finishers in the Super
Tuesday" Southern regional
primaty Texas will send 198
telegates to the vention. the third-
largest delegation
pre ial ton t H ward Birdwell, last
year's president Before handing
net th president s gavel Birduell
praised the 1987 campaign co-
e hair met - Mar-alet He .1 and Buddy
Pe ler-and presented them with pla-
que - appreciati Mr Henry
ad the V ampaign charmen
would tee named in the near future
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