Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 232, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 2, 1974 Page: 1 of 10
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voted Tuesday night to extend the city Motors bid $9,810 for the two patrol cars.
g prices paid toithem for "this is the first time I have lost money." present their side ft the inflation pictaro in
ion fo the food, the cattle and He eaid is is typical of beef raisers and food pricing.
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wife and law firm partners about 10 ;
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computing the penalty accepted b
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“No, it is not," Hill first said. 7
Later, he said, "Il let it speak far itself.
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penalties have now been collected.
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complaints against AMPI operations.
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wave also alleged predator and rostrietve
legitimate manner,” said Harris.
HUI was asked by reporters if the
agreement by AMP! to pay penalties was
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intersection. stolen property charges, and police
The garbage collection fee will be were looking for 130 other invited
increased from the current $2.40 home to guests who allegedly did business with
SERVING ALL OF ERATH COUNTY And Parts of Hood. Somervell, Bosque.
Hamilton Comanche, Eastland, and Balo Pinto Counties ~
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to be made. He proposes increased _______________________-__________________________________________.
salaries far teachers, abolition 'of was reported missing. the Stephenvine High School Stingerette Dri Corps as "Stingerette of the Week." She
corporal punishment and more empha- The bank withdrawal, police said. witi be presented along with the Stingerette Beau during halftime of Friday’s
1 ate. on academic achievement than on never was a police matter since no Stephsnvtito Weatherford football " "" " fi
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in the April 5, 1975 election. wile an i
Robison said that he wanted to serve days ago.
on the school board because responsible friends in
gatherd an the open range of thg BSyer Association had volunteared to alnughter
farm. They had backed up their the cahreo and donato the meat to charities
cattleloaded trailers and pickuptrucks to o the owners’ choices.
an open grave which was’bulldozed prior “We realise it is a tragic riteattan but we
the to ths meeting, don’t think those
and "I can’t make a living. Ninety per cent of thrown away to
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DALLAS AP - A Dallas crimina
lawyer apparently withdrew more tha
$30,000 from a bank, moved to Denver
Colo., grew a beard and started a net
life as a gunsmith, a missing person
detective said
The detective, William King, said b I
is in the process of dosing the file or
former Dallas attorney Joe K. Hendley
who had been missing since August 14 3
and had been feared a victim of fou .
play.
Hendley’s wife did not confirm her
husband’s whereabouts, but King said, s
"I understand Hendley has grown a ■
beard and has plans to enroll in a,
gunsmithing school at. Denver. There
was no foul play. . .he’s up there by J
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18 dairymen began last month formation of dairymen who lace $100 to $180 per head on The protest also caught the attention of
* the Cross Timbers organisation in Erath their livestock. He blamed inflation in Washington officiate, with Davis Wheat of
Me and surrounding counties. Wednesday’a general and high food prices brought the White House Staff calling this morntag
K* planned killing of the calves was derided about, he said, by the grain sale to Russia in an effort to set up a meeting with ths
N upon Monday night in a meeting of the under former President Richard Nixon’s producers.
Irganteation’s board, and area producers administration. "We just want to see what their problem
L were contacted and asked to bring calves At midmorning, Lamar Holley announc- to,” Wheat said. "Thon If there to a
m for the slaughter. od that the Southwestern Meat Packers solution, we will follow through."
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his own volition.
J.E. Robison, Jr., a senior student at ‘ Hendley, a former chief felony
Stephenville High School, has filed for prosecutor for District Attorney Henry
election to the Stephenville school board Wade, reportedly made contact with his
Using the maximum daily fine ft $1,500,
the $230,000 figure would represent 153
days, although HUI did not indicate what
figures or length of time were used in ’
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mass slaughtering of hundreds of calves. The crowd voted sand Beef Producers Association,
। Council Votes to Extend
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Limits, Ups Garbage Fees
charged for garbage collection. Council Fences Celebration
members also approved bids for two new ,
patrol cars for the police department. Knrnricer GGnnacre historical value of the brick streets before in a mass grave as the cattlemen
, The city limits extension was proposed •M-9-2 allowing
to the council by the City Planning NEW YORK AP - No one had to call Council
Commission after nearly a year of study. police to complain about the party the overpaving was being done to provide a
The basic expansion would be to the west. two neighborhood fences threw for 42 more level driving surface.
and northwest of the current limits of the well-dressed burglary suspects. The council also heard' a request from can’t afford to buy beef and milk. They’re would continue to carry non-AMPI milk.
city. That’s because the two “fences” were the Downtown Merchants Association that not going to understand what you’re trying -Entering contracts to supply milk from business."
Publication of the legal descriptions of police themselves. And so were the cab the city takk over the costs and operation to do,” White said, referring to the its farmers to processors for more than The coop, which also has reached
the. land involved and a public hearing are drivers who drove the guests to a of Christmas decorations on the cattlemen’s cost-price squeeze. one year at a time. agreement in a proposed settlement of the
to be set later. The main part of land Queens warehouse for the festivities, courthouse square. Irwin and council At that moment, about 400 persons, -Accepting rebates from processors. federal government’s antitrust suit
involved would be south of the Bosque And the eight “ushers” inside the members Neal Guthrie, James Chambers mostly cattlemen and dairymen, were -Using its influence in an area where ito against it, wants to "get its litigation
River in the north end of town and the area warehouse wore distinctive blue uni- and Larry Hammitt were appointed to ■*
east of a line drawn 500 feet off the forms and carried badges. study comiittee
Highway Loop 988 on the northwest parzof When the party ended abruptly decorationa
town. The western limit would extend jaqt
beyond the Highway 377, Loop 988
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AUSTIN, Tex. AP-The state of Tkm farmers members are predominant to 113 j
will collect $230,000 in penalties from the require milk processors totuy AMPImik
nation’s largest milk cooperative and has to other areas where AMPI has § I
to come up with asolution to
problems ft dairyman and be
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hundreds of cattle and dairyv
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say “there was some give and take.”
Conceivably, the attorney general’s
office could have asked tor more than $2
million if it carried the allegations back to
the co-op’s beginning of operations to 1969
and applied the maximum penalty to each
day at operations. v
However, HUI said, "That wasnevee our . ,
intention and we didn’t think the proot: 1
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office. His 19/1 Lncoln Continental also STINGERETTEOFTHEWEEK Lei Graham, right, has been seleeted by memhers of acflvlttos by AMPI. puugremure
the stephenvine High School Stingerette Dri Corps as "Stingerette of the Week." She-. According to one estimate, AMPI han .
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ff game. Shown with Miss Graham are Sungerett legal expenses since the federal
Meutenamts see Robersom, left, and Margie Hoek, center. • filed.
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$2.75, the first increase since 1970, the "fences.”
according to the city’s garbage contractor, Police officials said the planning for
Bill Bledsoe. Councilman Bill Irwin had the party began last April when
headed a council committee which audited Detectives Richard Ledda and Joseph
Bledsoe’s operational books and recom- Fasullo bought a storefront and passed
mended the increase. themselves off as underworld fences
The council voted two Chevrolet patrol willing to pay well for stolen goods.
cars One bid of $9,516 from Bruner
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Association this morning di
planned mass slaughter of the caives ana "Icantmaxeauvng.Nneyyper centox uuvwn uwuy w IV mi muy, A
—.elected to give federal otficialstwo weeks the American housewives don’t even know executive director ft th meat packers 8
‘ ----------a economic wher thetr groceries - come from," said - -graup.--— A__....
one cattleman Buttheorganizatiophadgalnedatlemst
After White urged the stockmen to delay part ft itsgoi. It had caught the attenton
the planned slaughter by gunfire, the ft the American pubie through C2 -
Cross Timbers Association member media. Televisjon, radio and newepaper
engaged to a heated argument over people from dhrouqhout theSouthiwent
‛d the whether to slaughter the calves. were in Stephenville far the expected mass
plight Garvin Wood, of Stephenville said he has slaughter o the calves, and the beef and
tea and been in the cattie business since 1946 and milk producers had the opportunity to
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Calf Slaughter, Will Wait Two More Weeks
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Miacv James Traweek, president of the Oom nation’s largest milk cooperative and has to other areas whore AMPI haa
2 aE902E Timbers organization took the vote to gained a comprehensive injunction in an cohipetitors-in other words, toteclosing 39
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w squeeM • aremsf phone. Associated Milk Producers, Inc., who buys non-AMPIraw Alike
Nearly half at the crowd urged that the (AMP!) however, did not admit any past -Threatenina AMPI memhera who want ah
calves be slaughtered, then wait to see wrongdoing in agreeing to pay the money.
what Washington’s reaction would be. In yet another move to dispense with non-AMPI members to join the coop,
With the cattle trailers backed up to an myriad litigation against it, the which has a majority of the milk producers
open pit, the beef and dairymen talked, scandal-tainted co-op submitted itself to in Texas in its membership.
then voted to ask either a reduction of the the injunction only three months after the "I felt that we were obtaining everything
cost of feed, or government payments of a Texas attorney general’s consumer we could reasonably hope to obtain in a
differial between the cost of feed and the protection division brought suit in state trial," Mid Attorney General John HUI
sums paid to the producer which would district court. after a court session Tuesday in which he
allow of payment of labor, equipment costs District Court Judge Tom Blackwell -read the 11page dettlement.
and a profit. signed the agreed judgment which, The specifics in the injunction
If a workable solution to their problems besides the penalties, permanently conformed with antitrust violations the
is not presented by the government before restrained the 41,000-member, San ■tote alleged in its original pleadings in the
the two week deadline, another mass Antonio-based AMPI from the following in suit. ”
Council members hear a protest from slaughter is planned. The organization Texas: 1 don’ know of a base* we haven’t
Mrs. Kay Walton, spokesman for a group voted to meet again October 16, and to -Illegally "loading the pool" by using covered. In it, we fry to see this operation
opposed to paving over the city’s brick bring the calves with them. federal orders to flood a market with milk continues as we believe now it is operating
streets. Mrs. Walton presented a brief Commissioner White urged the cattle- and depressing the price paid to dairy in ■ legal manner," said HUI. The order
petition asking the council to consider the men not to kill their calves and bury them farmers. provides for annual review for the next 10
-Forcing milk haulers to carry only years.
any additional overpaving, proposed. AMPI milk from the dairy farm to the AMPI attorney Sidney Harris of ’
iembers pointed out that the White said this would create a bad public processing plant or from acquiring Washington, D.C., noted In court that
image. . control of milk haulers who formerly "AMPI does not agree nor admit that the
“Thousands here in the United States carried non-AMPI milk, unless the haulers attorney general could have proved
violations. AMP! does want to continue in
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Morehart, John. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 232, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 2, 1974, newspaper, October 2, 1974; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1559812/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.