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United Press International
AMARILLO — Texas Agricul
ture Commissioner Reagan
Brown vows to keep hammering at
federal officials to strengthen
quarantine measures that would
prevent spreading of California’s
Mediterranean fruit fly infesta
tion.
“We still believe the counties
in California with the fruit fly and
the counties that border them
should be quarantined, and this is
what we’re holding out for,”
Brown said late Monday.
Brown’s remarks were made in
a telephone interview after a fed
eral judge in Dallas said he would
give Texas and the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture time to nego
tiate a compromise on how large
the California quarantine zone
should be to stop the spread of the
Medfly.
U.S. District Judge Patrick
Higginbotham’s decision came a
day before he was scheduled to
rule in a suit by the state of Texas
against the US DA demanding the
quarantine zone be increased.
“The judge’s ruling gives us a
chance to look at every way possi
ble to work this out and we believe
pressure is the only way to get this
done,” said Brown, who also
serves as president of the South
ern Association of Agriculture De
partment Commissioners.
Brown said he had been joined
by agriculture commissioners
from 14 other states in requesting
mandatory fumigation of fruit
transported out of California’s in
fected and adjoining counties.
He said the request would be
forwarded to US DA officials by
telegram Tuesday.
“We feel hopeful the Depart
ment of Agriculture is going to
take this action. It’s in their hands.
They have the power to do it," he
said.
“We don’t think this is un
reasonable. Those trucks leaving
those counties carry about 1,000
cartons of fruit and it would cost
about a nickel a carton to fumi
gate.”
California and the US DA have
quarantined six counties, but
Brown contended fumigation
should include adjacent counties
to establish a “buffer zone” be
cause the Medfly has a range of 30
to 35 miles. “We need those adja
cent counties quarantined,” he
said.
Other association states joining
the request were Maryland, West
Virgina, Virginia, North Carolina,
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sarily divi
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constitutio
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South Carolina, Georgia, J(
sippi, Louisiana, Florida,
tucky, New Mexico, Oli
Arkansas and Alabama, 1
said.
“The commissioners of;;
ture in these states areitisti ''“.'"V
led that the U.S. Der-**' SB,i
Agriculture doesn’t
do this,” he said,
demands were being
plated by a number ol
countries.
Brown also said he Ij
ceived word California wasd
road stations set up tohaltn
ists from transporting frail
infected counties.
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that the pi
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unconstitu
“It’s (the Medfly) sprajj
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just don’t understand it, I’m
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sa,d , i; f , . , , the essenct
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out of the quarantined areaa
past 30 days It’s unbelieii ^fmor.
person would do that, ‘
pened.
“Under the powers Hu
agriculture commissionei,
someone comes out
with fruit in their cars
Texas they could be
and perhaps jail.”
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United Press International
DALLAS — Marina Oswald
Porter — widow of accused pres
idential assassin Lee Harvey
Oswald — says the author who has
publicly pushed for an examina
tion of the Oswald grave in Fort
Worth actually wanted the grave
kept closed to support his own
assassination theories.
Porter Monday withdrew her
permission for British author
Michael Eddowes to conduct an
exhumation, saying Eddowes re
neged on a secret agreement to
open Oswald’s grave in May.
She told UPI the secret plan to
open the grave had been set for
May 15, but Eddowes withheld
financial backing until the plan
had to be canceled. She said she
would pursue her own efforts to
open the grave.
She said Eddowes was more
interested in the grave not being
opened so his theory that Oswald
was replaced by a Soviet agent
could not be disproven and he
would continue to gamer pub
licity.
She blamed aides to Eddowes
for several leaks to the news
media.
Eddowes could not be reached
in London for comment.
Porter signed a document on
Aug. 8, 1980, giving permission to
Eddowes to pursue an exhuma
tion. That plan leaked shortly be
fore it was to be executed, howev
er, and Oswald’s older brother —
Robert, of Wichita Falls, Texas —
obtained a restraining order.
The second plan to open the
grave was not revealed until Mon
day when Porter withdrew her
permission from Eddowes. She
mailed a brief letter to a Fort
Worth court, which is considering
an appeal by Eddowes of the ear
lier restraining order.
In her letter to the court, Por
ter said: “In general, I am very
dissatisfied with the way Mr.
Eddowes has handled the case.
Ever since obtaining my consent,
Mr. Eddowes has abused it in
questionable and serve onl)|
sonal purposes. I havefiledi) Legisb
tion to have the grave open®
self so there is no reason#J
Eddowes to waste the as j[ a tj on an( ]
many ways.
“His real intentions are very
time.
Porter said, “My issues®
ferent from his. Myrnainwn
is just to get some answers-
the grave been tampered »ii
She said in a telephones
view from her Rockwall, If
home that Eddowes “tries ti|
sue his theory about anil
To me, it’s just such a
far-fetched theorybuf
year to prove it. There’s
way I can go now —and fc
my own.”
Eddowes is appealing
sion by State District Judge
E. Wright denying EckWl
mission to open the
Although Eddowes’ Is
still argue that issue, a
would be largely symbit
cause he would no longerM
widow’s permission to
grave on his own.
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man-one
ards said,
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oliad, chair
itricting 1
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ng two or
districts
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Porter said Eddowes “had his
chance to prove his theory,” but
delayed his support when it came
time to open the grave.
“When it came to doing it
(opening the grave) on May 15, he
didn’t send the money,” Porter
said. “He’s more interested in
blocking it (an exhumation) than in
keeping his word.”
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