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the state [Truckers gather to plan rally § | United Press International fVl^M ANTONIO — About 100 vl |lu|kers gathered in the parking lot i restaurant Monday to discuss a ly at the state capitol later this fk to air their grievances about er fuel costs. 11 Hoadley, local representative he Independent Truckers As- [ation, said the San Antonio truc- would drive to Austin to pres- jtheir grievances to state officials, ey and •f, said date for the Austin rally ds const pfild be decided during telephone countiipnft rentes among ITA chapters in 1 in fiitui in Antonio, Fort Worth, Dallas, nuntrifi: pirston and El Paso, who dtp Bwner-operators will ask that ingleco(|prnussible load limits on Texas )wori ijghways be raised and will lobby officials to support demands bat the Interstate Commerce omission increase hauling rates, tdley said. Ihe same truckers blocked three truck stops and drove slowly down a freeway at morning rush hour to city hall last Thursday and presented their grievances to the city council. Bananas from gulf ports in Alabama, Texas and Louisiana and lettuce from California failed to reach sev eral warehouses and may be the first groceries to fall victim in the Dakotas to the independent truc kers shutdown, officials said. Kermit Torgerson, manager of Gamble Robinson Co. in Sioux Falls, S.D., said the truckers’ strike in protest of rising diesel fuel prices also has affected incoming supplies of strawberries, peaches, green grapes and celery. “We normally have 450 trucks out of the Salinas district in California,” Torgerson said. “Fewer than 150 drivers had the nerve” to make their runs, he added. “Some drivers who came in here have been intimidated and shot at ttnutiou I r lay terriblf!| ingtoti ititutio:j hurcln f the night ivocatorl ns, eferet tough sures tol ding exico oil boom elping McAllen United Press International MCALLEN — Mexico’s booming oil industry Monday provided mother benefit to this Texas-Mexico border city with the announce- pent that an Italian firm will begin operations soon in the duty-free foreign Trade Zone located adjacent to the Rio Grande. Metallurgica Bergamasca, S.P.A., of Italy has signed a contract to rans-ship oil field pipe fittings through the Foreign Trade Zone into jlexieo, president Bill Meyers of the McAllen Industrial Board an nounced. Last week, Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico’s government oil aonopoly, announced it was locating an equipment assembly depot the industrial district to import millions of dollars worth of oilfield [quipment south of the border. "The two projects are unrelated,” Meyers said. “I don’t think they ven know they are going to be neighbors.” McAllen is located across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, Mexico, a order city where the Mexican pipeline from its rich Tobasco depos its would link with U.S. pipelines if a purchase agreement is reached. The Mexican government said more than 100 jobs would be reated in the area job market in its venture, but the Italian firm [eclined to reveal either the dollar investment or the number of jobs lat would be created with its facility, Meyers said. Meyers said Metallurgica Bergamasca has entered into a “foreign jverse investment by aligning itself with a Nevada corporation inown as Metal Bending and Fabrication Co. “f rogmen attempt to •i ii i i ■ ip oil well blowout Is, espfj raung. ? erty, jlliK United Press International 1 theJnUDAD DEL CARMEN, lid. lexico — Frogmen dove into the s consB black depths of the Gulf of me heifH'co early Monday in a desperate ernal ' ^Fy to cap a burning, leaking oil rrorism ,e " before it becomes the worst Jill in history. ^^^jouston oil disaster expert Paul ■■I Adair’s divers were trying to 1 a way to shut off a new blowout the crippled Ixtoc I well 42 miles tiudad del Carmen. Ike fire aging over the well was out after the gusher was stop- Sunday, but it had to be relit r the new blowout. The fire was ing off potentially explosive gas about half,of the oil that was aping. Adair’s men cannot find a new | to plug the gusher, the only Of set! L =>air BOO =ST£ BE way to control it will be to drill two slant wells to intercept the giant re serve below Ixtoc I, authorities said. They added that they already have started drilling the relief wells, but it will take at least until early September before they can be com pleted. If Ixtoc I continues to seep oil at the 30,000 barrel-per-day rate it has averaged since it first exploded and caught fire June 3, it would become the worst oil spill in history by mid- July. The worst oil spill to date was in March 1978, when the tanker ship “Amoco Cadiz” broke in two off the Brittany coast of France and spilled 1.3 million gallons barrels of crude oil. and are in a hurry to empty their rigs so they can go into hiding, he said. Because supplies of some produce items are tight, Torgerson said, it doesn’t mean consumers will be paying more for them at the super market. “The price is cheap. That’s not Jump in the mud for fun United Press International SAN ANGELO — Clay Cross is the kind of man who doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty to do the job right. Or his head, chest or legs. Cross is the reigning mud wal- lowering (pronounced wallerin’) champion of the world, crowned nearly a year ago at the San Angelo Chili Cookoff. Champion mud wallower is an appellation the bearded, 34-year- old father of two, appreciates, and it’s a title he intends to defend in August at the San Angelo Boys Club chili cook-off. “I’m trying to get some people in terested in (the cook-off), but I also want to get them interested in mud wallowering, he said. Cross admitted to being a bit of a perfectionist and purist when it comes to slopping about in a gushy bed of clay and water. At last year’s cookoff, one of many in the Lone Star state, Cross said the organizers sought an event with a bit of originality. “We asked a few people to get in the mud and they said Good God, are you crazy?’ But we got em worked up and a few people got in there and jumped around and threw mud, but we wanted mud wallower ing. Not mud throwing, mud wrestl ing or mud swimming, but mud wal lowering.” One contestant. Cross said, wrapped himself in toilet paper. “He wanted to get in, but not to get muddy. I kind of seen what it was going to take to win and I just got in there and went crazy, he said humbly. Cross, supervisor of the shipping and receiving operation at a San Angelo boots and saddles store, tuned up for the event recently at Johnson City. He knows it may take some novelty to overcome this year’s competition, and already he’s dreaming up new “moves. T’ve got a few. I watched some people in Johnson City that are pre tty crazy and I had to do some think ing on what I’ll have to do to keep my title,” he said. Like gymnastics or track and field, mud wallowering involves dedication, he said. “If you wallow correctly, you go completely under the mud. But it burns the dickens out of your eyes. ” There are other hazards. “If the mud’s not been sifted and hasn’t had real good care, you could find glass, bottle caps, rocks, or sticks that could cut up your knees, back or elbows. If you got your face under that mud, it’s best not to open your eyes.” Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. Each Daily Special Only $1.89 Plus Tax. “Open Daily” Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. —4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. 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If a shipper can get in an order before it spoils, he’s tickled pink, he said. Torgerson and other warehouse men said truckers have rejected bonus pay ranging from $300-$600 to deliver their loads. They said higher shipping rates also are for drivers who waste gas on county roads by skirting larger cities like Sioux Falls. Despite shipping problems, none of a dozen warehouses contacted by United Press International were closing or laying off workers. Most were relying on common carriers, independents who dare to make their runs and railroads. 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