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Some crops may rot, driver says
‘Berlin Wall’ slowing down truckers
United Press International
A truck broker said Tuesday some
perishable Texas crops may rot in
the fields unless the Carter Ad
ministration knocks down a “Berlin
Wall” of weight regulations set up
by 11 states along the Mississippi
River.
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Millard Holden of Pharr, Texas,
interviewed by telephone in
Washington, D.C., where he at
tended a meeting with adminstra-
tion officials on the truck shutdown,
said independent truckers trying to
haul fruit and vegetables to popula
tion centers in the east were particu
larly upset about the states who
have refused to go along with the
80,000 pound limit.
“Truckers call it the ‘Berlin
Wall,”’ said Holden, who has
traveled to Washington beginning
with the Nixon Administration seek
ing deregulation measures and
standardization of weights and mea
sures.
“It’s a real bottleneck. We’ve
been complaining about it for four
years but nobody does anything
until it’s too late.”
Holden said while most of the na
tion adheres to the federally re
commended standard of 80,000
pounds on highways, the states run
ning north and south along the Mis
sissippi have held to the old 73,280
pound limit, considerably diminish
ing the payload produce haulers can
carry — hence revenues they can
collect — en route to markets such
as New York City.
“The consumers, the American
people, have got to wake up. The
federal government has got to get on
these states like they did to enforce
the 55 mile an hour limit and make
them go along with the 80,000
pounds for face loss of federal
funds,” Holden said. “If something
doesn’t happen, they may see some
of these vegetables being dumped
(to rot).”
Bill Weeks, executive director of
the Texas Citrus and Vegetable
Growers and Shippers Association,
said lack of trucks already was “get
ting to the critical point” in the
Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley, the
Winter Garden and the Pecos-Fort
Stockton areas where melon and
onion harvests are underway.
Weeks blamed the truck shor
tage, at a time perishable products
need to be moved quickly to mar
ket, on “intimidation” of indepen
dent producer haulers by strikers at
truck stops across the country.
“They are threatening indepen
dent haulers to harm the:
shoot at them or wahtever,
being intimidated and takelltj
tion they’ll just stay home,”
said.
Texas Agriculture Commii
Reagan Brown and CJ
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Chaloupka, president of tliei strande<
Farm Bureau, also calledtugrepare<
striking independents to alolin ^mall
produce trucks to move unimjM “Ther
to market. newly a
Weeks said his organizafee stranded
ported some of the aimsoftiitLspundinf
ing truckers, such as standards djnator
of the weight limits.
Evangelist loses plea;
homes ordered closed
United Press International
AUSTIN — A U.S. circuit judge
Tuesday refused to block the state’s
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planned closing of three unlicensed
child-care homes operated by Texas
evangelist Lester Roloflf.
Judge Thomas G. Gee met pri
vately with RolofFs attorney, Tad
Williams, and a representative of
the Texas attorney general’s office,
then issued a terse statement saying
he would not grant a stay on an ap
peal by the parents of two students
enrolled in the evangelist’s homes.
Federal Judge Owen D. Cox had
dismissed the case last week in Cor
pus Christi.
Meanwhile, about 100 RolofF
supporters traveled from Corpus
Christi to stage a rally in the Capitol
rotunda, a gathering which drew the
sympathy of Gov. Bill Clements.
“I have no recourse. It’s in the
hands of the attorney general and
his job is to enforce the law,” Cle
ments told the group.
The attorney general and staffers
of the Texas Department of Human
Resources are scheduled to close
the homes today and place the chil
dren in state facilities. If the homes
are closed, it would culminate a
six-year court battle between RolofF
and the state for his refusal to obtain
licensing.
TDHR staffers have been prepar
ing to close the schools since last
week when State District Judge
Charles Mathews of Austin ordered
the schools closed if Roloff did not
obtain state licensing by Tuesday.
Training sessions have been con
ducted since last week to prepare
the staffers for handling the transfer
of the children and avoiding con
frontations. Tuesday two additional
sessions were held in Kingsville and
in Zapata.
The Kingsville group is scheduled
to take over the Rebekah Home for
Girls in Corpus Christi and the
Lighthouse Home for Boys in
Kingsville. The Zapata group will
close the Anchor Home for Boys in
that town.
Bill Woods, TDHR spokesman,
said there were about 250 students
in the three facilities. He said
TDHR officials were unsure what to
expect when they attempted to
close the homes on Wednesday.
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Woods said those childrei to prevei
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guardians would be placedin! Bern,” 1
Youth Council homes in GnaHf As for
Waco and Killeen. languish
Woods also said that a small Jjjnssein
initially would go into thei cepted I
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Roloff s people did not resist ! them oul
said it was unlikely the Ro!oi|i^ e to
porters would not resist,lioamps.”
Roloff has advocated resistaiwK ^ oirie
The Rev. James Brown of Shafte,
Blossom Baptist Church neai message
ville, Ind., traveled 26 hor eiiugees
support Roloffs stand againi after “w
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worried about losing theirliBut, 1
doms,” Brown said. “WeveiiBng to 1
been there but we’ve tflln Gei
marched or protested. ThetBssione
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ground for all of us.” lo stir
The Rev. Earl Little, pastor world.
Miller Road Baptist Churchii®“It is i
land, said 50 churches arora be held
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HOUSTON — A federaljui ° lsr ael
Dallas has invalidated a Depa® ern ^ er
of Energy regulation govemiilP 0u W hi
oil companies’ pricing polraglS Thi
petroleum products, Exxojlp lr den i
said Tuesday. e ac
Exxon said the decision, f@: tlona te
followed the DOE’s admissww^azal
it had erred in imposing the(
tion, will have no effect on ilB )r ' t ies
rent prices. L 0na ' xv >i
In March 1977 the DOEi^sin
that oil companies must deteiB^ ^esi
the base prices of their pnAiF e °ftic
using fixed prices contained i«|F ats P a <
tracts entered intoon Mayl5,l^p ees be
Exxon charged the ruling'wb' from
the DOE’s existing reguljt|;F^™o a st
which allowed the oil compan
calculate base prices on the k
contracts with variable
clauses.
In August 1977, Exxon)
other oil companies in a suit 8
U.S. District Court in Dallasifl
for an interpretation of theiP ■■
ruling and seeking a decM#% I $ >
judgment.
Mobil Oil Corp., Shell Oil£;
General Cnjde Co., CoastalS
Gas Corp., Copstal States M
ing Inc. and Union Petroleum^
also were plaintiffs in the suitj
On April 18, the DOE
admission of error and motifl frm g u
dismiss the suit, Exxon said, claimed
On June 8, U.S. District! backed ]
Judge H.O. Woodard issuediJWaki ai
ing that invalidated the Marclj Ibeir ho
regulation and prevented the? military (
from making a reinterpreta#P Taraki
the future. a militar
The judge also ruled the? »ea of 1
had acted illegally by moving ^ his offici;
force the regulation without ft living in
the oil companies an opportu»| bels sour
comment on the ruling at pfBoth i
hearings. the Sovi
“The judge’s decision wontf weeks ag
any effect on our pricing,” anti*”' Diplor
spokeswoman said. ion indie
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Oil pricii^
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DOE’s March 1977 rulinf|
wrong and could have made fr
companies’ base prices wrong
said.
“The DOE regulation calltl
some base prices to be up andsjj
down from what they should'*
been.”
Exxon Senior Vice Pres#
O.L. Luper said the judges!
sion was “another vindication si
xon’s position that manyof|
DOE’s overcharge accusation! 1
enforcement actions are #:
ranted.”