The Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 19, 1987 Page: 10 of 10
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GTE Holds Seminar
ROBSTOWN- Science and math
teachers served by Education Serv-
ice Center Region One (Edinburg)
interested in the GTE Foundation
Growth Initiatives for Teachers
(GIFT) fellowship program re-
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
INVITATION TO
TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS
The County of Starr will hold two
(2) PUBLIC HEARINGS to solicit
the input and participation of all its
citizens in the Community Devel-
opment Program. Please attend
these meetings and voice your
opinion regarding the needs, op-
portunities, and initiate, plan for,
and develop to submit an applica-
tion to the Texas Department of
Community Affairs for possible
funding. The purpose of the Public
Hearings is to provide citizens with
adequate opportunities for
meaningful involvement in the
identification of potential Texas
Community Development Program
projects and in the development of
the application.
First Public Hearing : Will be
held on Tuesday, November 17,
1987, at 10:00 A.M., in the County
Courtroom, County Courthouse, Rio
Grande City.
The First Public Hearing will
include a presentation to citizens in
the funding available, all eligible
activites under the Texas Commu-
nity Development Program, and
the use pf past TDCP contract
funds.
Second Public Hearing: Will be
held on Tuesday, November 24,
1987, at 10:00 A.M., in the County
Courtroom, County Courthouse, Rio
Grande City.
The Second Public Hearing will
include a review of the Texas
Community Development Pro-
gram. Discussion of proposed pro-
jects as recommended at the First
Puhlic Hearing on November 17,
1987, and application to be sub-
mitted for funding.
The PUBLIC is encouraged to
attend these hearings and contrib-
ute their input and recommenda-
tions as to what projects arc
needed to be planned and applied
for by the County Commissioners
of the County of Starr. Bilingual
presentation will be available.
Las presentaciones seran dis-
cutidas en espanol para aquellas
personas que asi lo desean
J.M.Martinez, Jr.
Starr County Judge
For Teachers
ceived more details In an area
seminar Sunday, Nov. 16 at the
Service Center offices in Edinburg.
offices at 1900 W. Schunior, Edin-
burg.
Forty-three science and math
teaching teams from Texas have
been selected to participate in the
program over the past two years,
including three teams from Region
1 in 1986. The GIFT program
provides opportunites for school
enrichment and professional devel-
opment to secondary school
mathematics and science teachers
from both public and accredited
non-profit schools.
Charles Watkins of General Tele-
LECAl NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Board of Trustees from the Rio
Grande City Consolidated In-
dependent School District will be
requesting quotations or sealed
bids for school cafeteria supplies
which includes all food items for
the months of Novmember 1987
through February 1988.
Further information and specifica-
tions are available at the School
Cafeteria Office, Fort Ringgold,
Rio Grande City, Texas 78582.
The Rio Grande City Consolidated
Independent School District re-
serves the right to accept or reject
any or all bids and waive
formalities and irregularities.
phone Company of the Southwest in
San Angelo, coordinator of the
Texas program, said the grants
reward outstanding teachers by
providing them with an opportunity
to update their subject knowledge
and to translate their learning
experience into effective teaching.
GIFT offers a school enrichment
grant of $2,500 each to the
mathematics and science teachers
which must be matched by an
additional $2,500 each from the
school or community; a personal
development grant of up to $2,500
each for study, field work or
in-service training; and an oppor-
tunity for each teacher to
participate in an all expense paid
seminar with GTE scientists, man-
agers and human resources experts
to address real-world needs in
mathematics and science educa-
tion.
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE TO
CONTRACTORS OF
PROPOSED TEXAS HIGHWAY
MAINTENANCE WORK
Sealed proposals for Repair and/or
Replace Damaged Bridge Rail on
three bridges in Webb County on
U.S.59, will be received by the
State Department of Highways and
Public Transportation, 600 West
Expressway 83, Pharr, Texas, on
Monday, December 7, 1987, at 9:00
A.M.
All prospective bidders are en-
couraged to attend the Pre-
Bidders' Conference which will be
held at the Stete Department of
Highways and Public Transporta-
tion's District Office at 600 West
Expressway 83, Pharr, Texas, at
9:00 A.M. on Monday, November
23,1987
Bidding proposals, plans and speci-
fications will be available at the
pre-bidders meeting or by con-
tacting the District Maintenance
Office in Pharr.
Usual rights reserved.
NOTICE OF
APPLICATION FOR
FLUID INJECTION
WELL PERMIT
Greebrier Operating Co., 6060 N.
Central Expwy, Suite 400, Dallas,
TX 75206 has applied to the
Railroad Commission of Texas for
a permit to inject fluid into a
formation which is productive of oil
or gas.
The applicant proposes to inject
fluid into the Upper Sulivan
Zamora-State, Well Number 1. The
proposed injection well is located 7
miles West of McCook in the Flores
(Vicksburg-Lower) Field, in Starr
County. Fluid will be injected into
strata in the subsurface depth
interval from 3220 to 3260 feet.
LEGAL AUTHORITY: Chapter
27 of the Texas Water Code, as
amended, Title 3 of the Natural
Resources Code, as amended, and
the Statewide Rules of the Oil and
Gas Division of the Railroad
Commission of Texas.
Requests for a public hearing
from persons who can show they
are adversely affected, or requests
for further information concerning
any aspect of the application
should be submitted in writing,
within fifteen days of publication,
to the Underground Injection Con-
trol Section, Oil and Gas Division,
Railroad Commission of Texas,
Drawer 12967, Capitol Station,
Austin, Texas 78711 (Telephone
512/445-1373).
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RIO GRANDE HERALD RIO GRANDE GTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19,19(7 PAGE 10
Extension Service Offers
New Farm Planning System
COLLEGE STATION--
Economists with the Texas Agri-
cultural Extension Service have
developed a new computer pro-
gram to help farmers and ranchers
with financial planning.
Called TAMWFARM (Texas
A&M Whole Farm Analysis and
Record Management), the program
builds financial statements from
individual crop and livestock en-
terprise budgets. TAMWFARM
adds a financial perspective to a
physical production plan.
It is a spreadsheet program that
calculates cash flow, net worth and
income statements along with a
financial ratio analysis on a
12-month projected basis, explains
Delton Gerloff, Extension
economist based at Vernon, who
was the primary developer of
TAMWFARM
TAMWFARM is constructed
from crop and livestock budgets
which can be changed to reflect
each farm's individual situation.
TAMWFARM is in the final
stages of adminstrative approval
and will soon be released to the
public. Field tests have been highly
successful, Gerloff points out.
One of the central ideas in
TAMWFARM is to enter a number
once and not have to enter it again,
says the economist. In working
with records, financial statements,
budgets and plans, many numbers
are used in more than one place,
wither by themselves or as part of
a calculation.
In TAMWFARM a number is
entered only once, then passed by
the computer to all other locations
where it is needed. Also, many
numbers appearing on financial
statements are calculated from
other numbers. In TAMWFARM,
the computer does these calcula-
tions and supplies the numbers
automatically.
To begin the TAMWFARM pro-
cess, the farmer or rancher de-
scribes his operation by enterprise.
There are two blank generic cash
budget forms-one for crops and
foarges and one for livestock.
The user identifies the timing
and value of income and the timing
and cost jaf expenses based on the
user's production practices. Each
cash budget is identified with a
name. Each budget may be printed
along with the cash flow for that
individual budget.
After all cash enterprise budgets
have been built, they are called
into the main TAMWFARM pro-
gram by a prescribed procedure. If
necessary, sub-units of the farm or
ranch can be created as if they
were unrelated, explains Gerloff
Then thpse sub-units can be
Houses
for Sale
1 Brick Home
1 Bdrm. 1 Bath
lots not included
for info, call
849-3317
For Sale
2.2 Acres of
land in Ebony Road
Los Garcias
for info call
Severina C. Garza
487-3916
Garage Sale
Thurs., Fri., Sat., & Sun
8 to 4
1506 W. 3rd St.
Rio Grande City
clothes, toys,
dishes, shoes, etc.
Victoria Morales
&
Daughters
Garage Sale
Sat. Nov. 21,1987
8 a.m. till ?
711 W. Main St.
Xmas Baskets,
Wreaths &
lots of things.
For Sale
2.2 Acres of
land in Ebony Road
Los Garcias
for info call
Severina C. Garza
487-5855
487-3916
pulled together for overall farm or
ranch analysis. If an agricultural
operation has geographically
diverse operating units, this option
may be very useful, notes the
economist.
The main TAMWFARM program
has two schedules which help
supply information for financial
statements. One is the family living
budget which provides for a
detailed monthly planning of
personal expenditures, including
personal loan repayment.
The other schedule is a debt
worksheet to list intermediate and
long-term farm or ranch debts.
Simple information from a loan
repayment schedule (normally
provided by the lender) is entered
in this worksheet.
The program then calculates
many of the entries on the
liabilities side of the balance sheet
and the cash obligations for debt
repayment on the whole farm cash
flow.
According to Gerloff, the user
may need to add a few pieces of
information to the whole farm cash
flow because there is no other
place in the program where these
numbers occur. Likewise, informa-
tion will need to be added to the
balance sheet.
While most of the liabilities are
automatically calculated, all but
one of the asset valuations must be
entered by the user. By contrast,
the income statement is almost
totally calculated with only three
possible places to enter numbers.
These financial statements are
interrelated and information is
passed back and forth between
them.
One additional input requirement
is for four pieces of information to
allow the calculation of financial
ratios. Fifteen ratios are calculated
on liquidity, solvency, profitablility
and efficency. The ratios allow for
better analysis and comparison of
these financial statements.
With a computer and
TAMWFARM to do the calculations
and shuffle the numbers, financial
management and planning will be
much easier to accomplish, says
Gerloff.
As financial pressures increase
and agricultural loans become
harder to get, this type of financial
planing ability will be increasingly
important.
The Extension Service will be
conducting three computer finan-
cial management shortcourses on
TAMWFARM. Two will be held at
the Stiles Farm Computer near
Thrall on Dec. 7-9, 1987, and May
17-19, 1J88. The other shortcourses
will be held at Sweetwater on
Aug.23-35, 1988.
Diabetes Frequency
In Starr County
For more than six years, the
University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston has been con-
ducting a series of studies trying to
understand diabetes and other
diseases that occur more com-
monly in Starr County than
elsewhere.
These continuing studies have
been supported through govern-
ment funding from the National
Institutes of Health and are under
the direction of Drs. William J.
Schull and Craig L. Hanis of the
University of Texas.
In February of 1981, the Starr
County Health Studies Office
(formerly called the "Diabetes
Alert" office) was opened at 115
North Britton, Rio Grande City.
There are now six full-time people
who are residents of Starr County
employed at the office, Gracie
Villarreal, Jesusa Salmon, Hilda
Guerra, Maricela Garza, Linda
Fuentes and Cynthia Rodriquez.
The first project begun in 1981
involved screening for diabetes.
Diabetes is a disease identified
when people have too much sugar
in their blood and can be screened
with a very simple test after
getting a drop of blood sugar levels
tested. When blood sugar levels
were too high, repeat tests were
obtained for confirmation and if
necessary, individuals were given
an oral glucose tolerance test This
phase of the study was completed
in 1985.
From this testing, it was found
that diabetes is three to five times
more frequent in Starr County than
in the rest of the country. For
example, one out of every six men
and women in Starr County be-
tween the ages of 54 and 65 years is
diabetic while only one in twenty-
seven in this age group in the rest
if the country is diabetic. Such a
high frequency of diabetes in Starr
County means that one half of all
people aged 35 years and over have
diabetes or are a very close
relative of a diabetic.
This makes it extremely impor-
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FEDERAL , STATE & CIVIL
SERVICE JOBS $16,707
TO $59,148/YEAR. NOW
HIRING. CALL JOB LINE
1-518-459-3611 EXT.
F 800 1 B FOR INFO. 24 HR.
For Rent
House
Los Garcias
for info.
call
487-3705
For Rent
2 Story House
$250per month
plus bills
for info call
Arturo Garia Jr.
487-3916
The Public Utility Commission-
ers last week, (Nov. 3), unanimous-
ly approved a special contract for
service between Central Power and
Light Co, and the proposed Oc-
cidental Chemical Corp.
(Oxychem) facility near Ingleside. ^
The contract provides for an
interruptible type of power supply
which could be withdrawn under
certain conditions In return, the
contract, includes pricing pro-
visions which would permit the
production of caustic and chlorine
at a price competitive in world
markets
The commissioners also
approved a tariff which would be
made available to other large new
industries which meet certain
criteria and wish to locate in CPL's
44-county South Texas service
area
Approval of the contract was one
of the factors which permitted
Oxychem to complete the purchase
of the caustic chlorine plant closed
by Du Pont last year. It is
estimated that the reopening of the
Ingleside plant will add about 200 .
jobs to the area
Oxychem will be the single
largest customer served by CPL,
using approximately 100 million
kilowatt hours of electricity each
month. An average homeowner
uses 1,000 kilowatt-hours a month.
"We are working to bring new
business and industry to South
Texas," said Clayton Kirk, CPL's
vice president of customer serv-
ices. "This special rate joins our
other efforts to encourage and
retain large industrial business in
South Texas "
Publi<
tant to try to understand wny
diabetes is so frequent and what
happens to people when they get
diabetes. The importance becomes "
clear when one realizes that
diabetes is not just a simple
disease in which blood sugar is too
high; instead, diabetes can have
very serious consequences.
Some facts are 1) diabetes
"runs" in families, 2) diabetes is
the leading cause for nearly half of
all amputations performed in the
United States, 4) diabetes can
cause kidney disease, 5) diabetes |
can cause heart disease, and 6)
more than 300,000 people in the
United States die each year
because of diabetes
As sobering as these facts are,
many diabetics are able to avoid
these problems through good health
practices and following the advice
of their doctor.
One of the purposes of the Starr
County Health Studies is to find out
what specific factors cause some }
diabetics to develop complications
such as eye problems and what
factors are associated with those
who do not- develop the complica-
tions. When this is understood, it
may then be possible to help
individuals reduce their risk of
having diabetic complications and
lead normal lives.
In future articles, some specific
findings from these studies will be
presented and will include dis- ' I
cussions of the complications of
diabetes and what can be done,
high blood pressure, and
gallbladder disease.
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Roberts, Kenneth. The Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 19, 1987, newspaper, November 19, 1987; Edinburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth195107/m1/10/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.