Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1975 Page: 13 of 16
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Starr County boil Conservation
REPORT
By Silvestre Gonzalez
District Conservationist
John A. Shuford and Romeo
Alaniz, district directors from
the Starr County Soil & Water
Conservation District are in
Fort Worth, Texas this week
attending the thirty-fifth An-
nual meeting of Texas Soil &
Water Conservation District
Directors. Also attending with
the Directors is District Con-
servationist Silvestre Gonzalez.
The theme of this year's
meeting is "Land Use
Decisions-Private Versus
Public." Approximately "CO
people are in attendance at Fort
Worth meeting.
The purpose of the meeting is
to review developments af-
fecting conservation programs
and to plan future conservation
district programs and ac-
tivities, as well as those which
affect individual landowners.
U.S. Representative Sam
Steiger, (R. Arizona) a
nationally noted opponent of
federal intervention in land use
planning, will address the group
on Wednesday evening at the
annual banquet.
Other dignitaries to address
the group are State
Representative Ed Mayes ot
Granbury; Lyle Bauer, Vice-
president of the National
Association of Conservation
Districts; Dr. W. Philip
Gramm, Professor of
Economics at Texas A&M and
Dee Brune, President,
Association of Texas Soil &
Water Conservation Districts.
Rep. M yes, like his coun-
terpart on the na onal level,
was a strong advocate for the
protection of individual land
rights in the past legislative
session.
Bauer, a Kansas wheat
farmer and rancher, is a
member of the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture's Public
Advisory Committee on Soil and
Water Conservation. He was
appointed to that position by the
Secretary of Agriculture in
1970.
Dr. Gramm is a noted con-
sultant to numerous federal
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agencies on economic,
health,and energy problems.
He has served as a special
consultant on energy, en-
vironment and taxation to the
Ministry of Natural Resources
of the Canadian Government.
Brune, a long time leader in
all levels on conservation work,
has served on several state
association committees and as
Association president for the
past two years. He was one of
125 persons selected by USDA to
participate in a piiot Rural
Development Leaders School in
1973.
Discussion sessions will take
into account moves being n>ade
on many fronts to control land
use. Management of con-
servation programs will also be
a key issue.
Three Association directors,
including alternates were
elected during the area
discussion sessions on Wed-
nesday, September 24. In ad-
dition the Association president
and vice-president will be
elected at the business session
on today.
Gutierrez
Attends
Seminar
Roberto Gutierrez, R Ph.
attended a continuing education
seminar concerning recent
changes in laws pertaining to
the practice of pharmacy. The
seminar was held Sunday,
September 21, 1975 in Corpus
Christi and was sponsored by
the Texas Pharmaceutical
Association. Pharmacists from
throughout the area were
briefed by several speakers on
recent legal and regulatory'
changes, and pending state and
national legislation that relate
to the pharmacy profession.
Pharmacist Gutierrez is
affiliated with Rio Pharmacy in
Rio Grande City. Five hours of
continuing education credit
were earned for participating in
the seminar.
$1.5 Million
Of Cocaine
Seized
Don't judge a crate by its
contents or you may overlook
$1.5 million worth of cocaine.
U.S. Customs Inspector William
Ratliff looked at the stuffing
rather than the merchandise
when he examined two cartons
of pottery, leather handbags
and wood carvings from Bolivia
at Stapleton International
Airport in Denver, Colorado
earlier this week.
Unu.sual, he thought, that 16
pieces of pottery, 3 handbags, 22
small statues and 23 fabric wall
hangings, all of relatively low
value, would be protected with
78 pounds of packing cloth. He
tested the cloth with a field
narcotic detector chemical,
which indicated that the
packing material had been
saturated with a solution of
cocaine of high purity.
Customs seized the two
cartons, which were consigned
to a man in care of General
Delivery, Denver, and waited.
A woman claiming to be an
acquaintance of the consignee,
attempted to claim the ship-
ment Tuesday afternoon and
was arrested.
The narcotic-saturated
packing cloth yielded more than
six pounds of cocaine of about 80
per cent purity when the nar-
cotic was extracted chemically
from the cloth in a Federal
laboratory. The cocaine is
valued at more than $1,422,000
on the retail ''street" market.
Lynda Miller, who gave a
fictitious Denver address and
identified herself as a
California resident, was
THE RIO GRANDE HERALD PAGE 13
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1 7S
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ALVAREZ RECEIVES PROMOTION - Lupe Alvarez, ar em-
ployee of the First National Bank in Kingsville for two year s, has
been promoted to assistant vice president, as announced recently
by Otis West, president of the bank. A native of Rio Grande City,
Alvarez has lived in Kingsville for the past three years. The Air
Force veteran is a graduate of Texas A&I. He and his wife. Hor-
tenzia, have three children, Frank, 6, Ruben, 4, and Robert, 9
months. Alvarez is treasurer of both the Kingsville Jaycees and the
Kleberg-Kenedy March of Dimes.
arrested by Federal agents and
charged with possession with
attempt to distribute cocaine.
Bond was set at $10,000.00.
The name of the man to whom
the cocaine was addressed is
being withheld while officers of
the Drug Enforcement Ad-
ministration continue the in-
vestigation.
Cleburne Maier, Regional
Commissioner of Customs
announced the seizure today.
He said it represents one of the
largest interception? of cocaine
made in the southwestern
United States in recent years.
Jay Bruton, Port Director of
Customs at Denver, praised
Customs Inspector William
Ratliff for his exceptional
diligence and skill, which
resulted in the discovery of the
cleverly concealed narcotic
contraband.
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Rodriguez, Rene. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1975, newspaper, October 2, 1975; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194526/m1/13/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.