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The Heretord Fritoy, January 13, 1984-Page 1
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Newspaper says
Federation proposes
Bernstein knew about contamination
being
own
com-
Bernstein defended his the Florida problems.
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Statement of Condition
RESOURCES
independent
The
Dec. 31, 1982
Dec. 31, 1983
Dec. 31, 1981
$38,092,518.6$
$34,291,317.51
$33,350,486.57
Loans & Discounts
I:
9,749,040.86
8,229,129.63
7,962,912.37
U.S. Government Securities
5,744.564.96
4,286,450.15
3,514,383.44
Other Securities
6,373,063.40
4,906,414.40
5,484.528.35
Cash & Due from Banks
C
1,000,000.00
1,000,000.00
3,050,000.00
Federal Funds Sold
1,064,641.20
1,064,641.20
1,046,641.20
Bank Building & Land
182,295.47
199,814.16
171,600.02
Furniture & Fixtures
2,351,393.64
2.737.883.82
2,944,889.19
Other Assets
$58,164,781,18
$63,108,387.87
$57,525,441.14
)
LIABILITIES
$1,000,000.00
$1,000,000.00
$1,000,000.00
Capital Stock
3,000,000.00
3,000,000.00
2.500.000.00
Surplus
2,085,407.88
1.536.459.26
1.680,327.35
Undivided Profits / Reserves
1,850,100.73
2.770,844.71
4,022.416.61
Other Liabilities
55,172,879.26
49,713,609.12
48.466,565.27
Deposits
$58,164,781.18 $63,108,387.87
$57,525,441.14
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equip-
said
Mexico is one of four na-
tions that joined as the Con-
tadora group are trying to
find a peaceful solutions to
Central America's tensions.
• Martha White Yellow
Cornbread Mix (15 ppb);
• Oide Tyme Food Yellow
Cornbread Mix (9.6 ppb);
• Oide Tyme Jalapeno
Cornbread Mix (8.4 ppb);
Texas Agriculture Com-
missioner Jim Hightower,
saying he didn’t want to “pick
a fight” with Bernstein, said
the Agriculture Department
started testing for EDB as
soon as his staff learned of
• Martha White Yellow
Corn Muffin Mix (8.3 ppb);
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er you want to buy them.
MEXICO CITY - Presi-
dent Miguel de la Madrid
says 30,000 public works pro-
jects will be under construc-
tion this year and that proves
Mexico has not come to an
economic standstill.
MEXICO CITY - The daily
mini devaluation of the peso
will continue at its current
level throughout the year, ac-
cording to Miguel Mancera
Aguayo, director general of
the Bank of Mexico, the coun-
try’s central bank.
There is no need for
public panic over this situa-
tion. However, you as a con-
sumer have a right to know
about what products may
contain a dangerous sub-
• Martha White Butter-
milk Cornbread Mix (12
ppb);
Foreign Minister Andrei A.
Gromyko.
But Shultz, at a news con-
ference Thursday, dismissed
any suggestion that it would
be better to accept past
Soviet proposals for restric-
ting nuclear missiles in
Europe than to have no
agreement at all.
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Reagan is set to
assure the Soviet Union he
seeks a “productive relation-
ship," but his secretary of
state says there will be no
arms control deal unless it
serves U.S. interests.
Reagan’s conciliatory
move, reversing the tough
line he took after the downing
of a South Korean airliner
last Septenber, will come in a
White House speech Monday.
It could set the tone for a
critical meeting Secretary of
State George P. Shultz will
hold in Stockholm, Sweden,
two days later with Soviet
s that the
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es, which
one such
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EDB was found in
similar tests performed by
the Florida Department of
Agriculture in December.
As a result of those tests,
the state of Florida took a
number of products off the
shelf in that state. Florida
health standards allow less
than one part per billion of
EDB in products for human
consumption.
“All I know is that when we
found out about this stuff
(EDB contamination in food)
we felt we had a public
responsibility that was pretty
clear to us,” he said.
In tests done by the
Texas Agriculture Depart-
ment. some grain products
were found to contain as
much as 90 parts per billion
of the chemical. However,
since the federal En-
vironmental Protection
Agency has set no standard
for this carcinogen in food,
it remains on our shelves.
• Martha White Corn Muf-
fin Mix (15 ppb).
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nufac-
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three
AUSTIN-It has come to
my attention that a power
ful cancer-causing agent
has been found in some
grain-based grocery pro-
ducts bought here in Texas.
• Martha White White
Corn Meal (41 ppb);
dibromide, or EDB. The
chemical has been found in
almost a third of the 79 food
items tested in Texas.
Health Department of-
ficials said they will an-
nounce results of their 22
water-sample tests on Fri-
day.
DALLAS (AP) - Die com-
missioner of the Texas Health
Department knew eight mon-
ths ago that a cancer-causing
pesticide had been detected
in Florida's waters, but
waited until last week to
order tests to determine if
Texas has a similar problem,
The Dallas Morning News
reported today.
In a copyright story, the
newspaper reported that Dr.
Robert Bernstein said Thurs-
day that he had learned last
May, at a meeting in Alexan-
dria, Va., of state health of-
ficials, that EDB had con-
tanimated ground water in
Florida.
Despite coming under
De la Madrid also says he
will announce soon a series of
special programs to reac-
tivate the economy and im-
prove employment.
The president made his
comments during a meeting
with the nation’s 31 governors
who gathered at the National
Palace for a working session.
• Martha White Yellow
Com Meal (41 ppb);
Ms. Danburg is vice chair-
woman of the Committee on
Environmental Affairs.
Dimmitt Feb. 6 to address the
11th annual meeting of the
Texas Corn Growers Associa-
tion, it was announced this
week by Carl King, president
of TCGA.
The list of special guests
will also include State Sen.
Bill Sarpalius and USDA
deputy secretary John Ford.
It is believed to be the first
time ever for an acting gover-
nor to visit Dimmitt.
King said the com growers
will discuss the National
Food and Fiber Security Pro-
gram, a supply-management
farm program which the
Athletic budgets should be
written to allow girls to par-
ticipate in physical education
on an equal basis with boys,
the federation said. A "C"
average in all subjects should
be the minimum grade for
participation in sports and
other extra-curricular ac-
tivities, it said.
Cole also said districts
should stop the practice of
hiring coaches and then stick-
ing them in the classroom,
often to teach a course in
which they have little ex-
perience. “Coaches should be
hired to coach, not to teach,"
the federation said, and no
sport should be favored over
another.
compensate for the dif-
ference in inflation rates bet-
ween Mexico and the United
States.
Mancera also said con-
sumer prices and inflation
levels are likely to rise during
the first three months of 1984,
but he said the long-term
tendency toward reducing in-
flation will continue.
• Martha White Mexican
Combread Mix 115 ppb);
and
agency’s actions, saying that
until the federal government
sets EDB limits, there is little
reason for the Health Depart-
ment to act.
Tests of the water in Texas
cities began Tuesday, almost
a month after the state
Agriculture Department
began testing food to see if it
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officials
The Grocery Manufac-
turers of America, a lobby
group for food processors,
believe that the products
are safe foe consumption.
But at this point, it is real-
ly difficult to know.
Here ia a list of the pro-
ducts which were found to
contain EDB, with the level
of the chemical (in partaper
billion, ppb) found in the
products tested in Texas:
tainted food from grocery
shelves as premature.
“We thought — and still do
— that we’re on top of it,"
Bernstein said. “There is no
public health menace that
we’re aware of."
State Sen. Hector Uribe,
D-Brownsville, has asked for
a legislative hearing to in-
vestigate the way state of-
ficials have handled the EDB
problems. The hearing is ten-
tatively scheduled for Jan. 25,
said Tony Grigsby, an aide to
Uribe.
•Jim Dandy Quick Grits
(90 ppb);
According to the Texas
Department of Agriculture
the carcinogen Ethylene
Dibromide (EDB), which is
used to control weevils and
nematodes, was found in
grits and cornbread mix
bought in two Brenham
grocery stores.
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John Cole, federation presi-
dent.
"Excellence is a commen-
dable goal, and should be
achieved, but not for an
elite,” he said.
The federation's recom-
mendations were prepared
by a task force and made
public by Cole at a news con-
ference Thursday.
The federation suggested
that the state should switch
from optional kindergarten to
a full-day, full-year program
for children as young as 4.
Cole said the public school
curriculum had been weaken-
ed over the last 20 years, and
an extra unit of science,
mathematics and English
should be added as well as
“life skills" courses such as
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EDB was used extensively
as a soil fumigant before the
U.S. Environmental Protec-
tion Agency banned its use in
soil in September because the
chemical had tainted ground-
water in Florida, Georgia,
California and Hawaii.
The pesticide is still used to
kill weevils in stored grain
and in milling equipment, but
the EPA is considering
halting its use on grain
because the chemical has
been found in food in Texas,
Florida, California and Ohio.
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Office Hours:
Monday-Friday
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public health," said Uribe,
vice chairman of the Health
and Human Resources Com-
mittee.
State Rep. Debra Danburg,
D-Houston, also expressed
displeasure with Bernstein’s
actions.
“It’s my impression that
the Health Deparment is not
responding,” she said. “I’m
extremely disappointed with
Dr. Bernstein’s lack of con-
cern and lack of activity in
this area."
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Fairy tales for grownups
— the explanations of why
your utility bills are so high.
The government allowed
the peso to start sliding by 13
centavos each day in
September in an effort to
head off a one-time larger
devaluation of Mexican cur-
rency.
Mancera said the peso,
valued at 163.66 to the dollar
Thursday, is approaching its
true value after having been
considerably undervalued in
recent years. He said the
gradual decline in the peso
rate has been sufficient to
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be adopted as 1965 farm marketing concept. The
legislation. TCGA will also elect officers
Lee Morse, a Fort Worth at- for 1984.
With Soviets
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newspaper El Universal com-
mented in an editorial Thurs-
day that the report shows the
United States will not yield to
the four-nation Contadora
group in devising a solution to
the crisis in Central America.
"The report maintains the
military criteria that oppose
those of Contadora head-on,
underestimating a series of
social and economic factors
and putting military
superiority above social and
political problems," El
Universal said.
stronger curriculum
AUSTIN (AP)— The Texas typing, law, automobile
Federation of Teachers, maintenance and parenting,
should start schoo earlier. The ^edwaUon* said the
slack up on football, concen- practice of passing students
trate on “basic” courses and simply so they can stay up
hit the books in high school at with their age group should
least two hours a night. be abolished, and the
Rewards for good students legislature should make it 11-
might come in the form of legal to pressure a teacher in-
scholarships, free ham- to raising grades or passing a
burgers, movie passes and failing student.
school trips and the privilege “TFT believes that extra-
of skipping some final exams, curricular activities are vital
the federation said. to school,” the federation
High-achievers also might said, but it added that “there
get out of class to work in can be little argument that
community affairs and take some activities, of which foot-
courses for college credit, ball may be the most
tuition-free, the group sug- notorious example, have been
gested. over-emphasized to the detri-
The federation recom- ment of the rest of the school
mended increasing from 21 to program.
24 the number of units re- “Athletics should increas-
quired for graduation from ingly emphasize ’lifetime
high school, with more re- sports,’ rather than the tradi-
quired and fewer “elective" tional triad of football,
courses and two years of a basketball and track. Most
foreign language. students will not continue ex-
“We do not believe that ex- ercise in a team sport once
cellence should be limited to high school is passed, but all
a few students, but that all of us need to continue to exer-
Texans should have an educa- else. A program emphasizing
tion that prepares them for tennis, bowling, swimming,
life in a complex and other ‘lifetime sports’
technological society,” said would greatly benefit all
City officials of Hender-
son, Minn., have offered
gifts to the person who has
everything. For 810: fill a
pothole in the name of a per-
son and provide a certificate
of appreciation. For 120 a
color photograph of the
pothole, too.
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widespread attack by “I don’t think that Texans
legislators and other of- are served well by the ap-
ficlals, Bernstein has defend- parent cavalier attitude of
ed his action and has criticiz- the chief physician who is
ed Florida's removal of EDB- charged with protecting our
S OFFICERS
Jeff R. Carlile
Chairman of the Board
Craig Smith
President and Trust Officer
Terry Bromlow
Executive Vice President
Waldo Baxter
Senior Vice President
Wayne Williams
Senior Vice President & Cashier
Larry Alley
Vice President
Jeff Brown
Vice President
Steve Gilbert
Vice President
Frances Berry
Vice President
Marie Maxwell •
Assistant Vice President
Norma Coffey
Assistant Vice President
Carrell Ann Simmons
Assistant Vice President
Madeline Rosson
Assistant Cashier
Irene MeKinster
Director of Marketing
DIRECTORS
J.R. Allison
Terry Bromlow
Jeff R Carlile
Ray Cowsert
James T. Hull
Walter F. Johnson
Gary R. MeQuigg
Garth Merrick
R.T.. O’Daniel
Craig Smith
Harlan D. Vander Zee
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MEXICO CITY - The
newspaper Excelsior said
Thursday the Kissinger
panel’s report on Central
America is aimed at restor-
ing democracy in the conflict-
torn region, but noted that the
area never was democratic.
The newspaper said in an
editorial that the report seeks
to drive Central America
toward “uninterrupted pro-
gress” that everyone wants,
but that it fails to see up to
what point the diverse in-
terests in the region can be
appeased.
“If the commission now has
found the formula to make
them compatible, so much
the better,” the editorial said.
Excelsior often reflects the
government’s positions.
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