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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.”
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the problem. 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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