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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1981
Attorney wants public:
told about herbicides
Kyle Field letters dedicated
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\I.tr% Vlico iind Boh hrymirc. Class of 45, were present
Saturday for the dedication of the illuminated letters on
Kile I ield for uhich they gave $50,000. A plaque was
placed hy the stadium s west entrance in appreciation of
their generosity. Frymire’s contributions to the University
include Presidents’ Endowed Scholarships and a perma
nently endowed athletic scholarship. He is an Association
of Former Students and Diamond Century Club member.
United Press International
WHARTON — Clearing weeds
along 71,500 miles of Texas high
ways is a big job, but roadway
maintenance workers have an
equal responsibility to keep the
public informed about the herbi
cides used to kill brush, an attor
ney says.
John Gilmartin, a lawyer with
the Texas A&M University Agri
culture Extension Service, re
cently told a conference of Gulf
Coast county officials their best re
course was to be open with the
public about weed and brush con
trol programs.
“People are suspicious of what
they do not understand," Gilmar
tin said. “ If you know w'hat you’re
doing, I think they will be Suppor
tive of your program.”
“We keep our landowners and
the new's media informed about
when and where w'e are going to
spray,” added Wharton County
Commissioner John Drozd. “This
is particularly important in the
spring when dewberries are-ready
to pick. The more the public
knows about our program, the
better they will accept it. ”
Control of unsightly and poten-
tially dangerous roadside brush is
an especially important task along
the Gulf Coast, where the warm,
moist climate permits plants to
grow in profusion.
Not only are the w'eeds un
attractive and prone to catch blow
ing trash, they also can interfere
with road safety, said Craig Stef
fens of the Texas Department of
Highways and Transportation.
The department s continuing
program employs both herbicides
and mow ing to protect paved sur
faces, Steffens said, although at a
cost of some $35 million a year to
the state, alternatives to mowing
are in demand.
Studies conducted by the ex
tension service have shown use of
chemicals offers a potential sav
ings of $100 to $150 per mile of
roadway over the cost of mowing. >
In 11 Gulf Coast counties with /
7,000 miles of brttsh-infested J
roadways, the extension senice J
estimated annual costs could be i
cut more than $1 million. {
Jack Bowmer of the Texas De- 2
partment of Agriculture pointed I
out that the state’s herbicide and t
pesticide laws strictly control w’hat £
chemicals may be used| allowing £
none to get on the market without *
extensive research, testing, and \
certification by the Environment
tal Protection Agency.
Noting the TDA last year hamlet
led almost 900 complaints regard^;
ing pesticide damage, Bowmej*
challenged county officials to de*
their utmost to reduce public coni
cerns.
“If we take care of our businesq^
on a moral basis, t then the leg^
issues will take
selves,” he said.
take care of thenvy
BUY, sea, TWADC OB BENT THftOUGH THE
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Gas dealers fight surcharge
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HOt SION — Texaco service
ption dealers protested Monday
Be company's proposal to charge
Iralers a 3 percent service charge
pr credit card sales, which the
ralers say they must juss on to all
pnsunurs.
I Ihe salesmen, in large adver-
Bcmentx in Houston ncwsjMp-
k called tlu ■ surcharge nothing
pore than a con game to iklss their
Tt'Wcol costs ol processing credit
krds to the small independent
talers.”
Glenn Nilsson, executive dire
ctor of the Lone Star Service Sta
tion Association, said all retail ser
vice station dealers are concerned
about Texaco’s proposal "because
it won’t lx* long until the others
start doing it. too, if Texaco suc
ceeds.’’
Nilsson said if the company
must have processing fees, they
should be passed on to the credit
card consumers by billing them
directly for the services.
"By charging the dealer the 3
percent, we’ve got to charge all
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Retarded person
eeking election
customers — even the cash cus
tomers — because we can’t put
service charges on the credit card
receipt,” Nilsson said.
Texaco has agreed to meet later
this week with representatives of
the Texaco Dealers Association.
The proposed surcharge is sche
duled to begin Nov. 1.
In its ad, the Lone Star Service
Station Association blasted Tex
aco’s proposal:
"It seems Texaco does not have
the integrity or courage to pass
their $100 million plus credit card
costs directly to their millions of
credit card holders who enjoy the
eonvenince of using the card. In
stead, Texaco has decided to dis
guise its surcharge as an added
cost of the Healer who sells your
gasoline.”
I^ast year, Texaco first
announced it was going to charge
dealers for credit card purchases,
but a Department of Energy
guideline which prohibited
changes in normal business prac
tices stopped any charges.
That guideline is no longer in
existence, Nilsson said, whose
organization represents 600 sta
tions surrounding Houston.
“There’s just moral law now,”
he said.
“I’m sure Texaco has a lot of bad
credit that it can’t absorb,” he
said. “But the credit agreement
was between the company and the
consumer only. The dealer should
not be made to pay for that agree
ment.”
MOSCOW, WE HAVE
A PROBLEM:
CAN POLAND EMERGE
FROM THE SOVIET
SHADOW?
FORMER AMBASSADOR
TO POLAND
WILLIAM SCHAUFELE
8 p.m. Rudder Theater
Tues. Sept. 29
FREE
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BOULDER, Colo. A 31-
yar-old man seeking election lo
t.it\ Council is the firs! re-
nlnl person to run for political
in the nation.
Charlie Dicterle, who has
■tended numerous city council
peelings tnd was an oliscrver at
I960 Democratic National
fonveution, says he hopes his
ft'htl.u . and possible election
ill prose that liumlk-apped pco-
r are real people.
I don t know who my real folks
ami where I came from, but
"here I got this ambition.”
Dicterle, who is an orphan "I
I polities means a lot to me.
Dicterle admits he has trouble
fading, hut says he can still be an
ivtivi- member of the Council.
1 can participate in a mect-
ju. he said. "1 can listen and I
d talk."
Max Addison, head of program
I m ices for the Association of Ro-
a.m. ^‘d Citizens Research and De-
n( ]l} ’.lustration Institute in Arlmg-
nns" '-dd he believed Dietcrle’s
mdidacy was the first for a men*
fhev ’■ liand upped person.
To mv knowledge, no identi-
* id mentally retarded person has
tr run for olliCC, he said.
j Dicterle. who has sjH iit most of
ulife in institutions for the men-
ilv retarded, has lived alone in
i effic apartment for the
t re-
end,
. but
hair,
here
Iwst year. He said he fought hard
to get out of institutions.
On the campaign trail, Dieterle
said he has begun visiting street-
improvement sites, with construc
tion maps in hand, to talk to work
men about what they are doing.
Dieterle, one of 14 announced
candidates for fis'e at-large council
seats in the Nov. 3 city election,
said one of his pet projects has
been trying to get an access ramp
for the physically disabled instal
led at the post office.
He is the Colorado president of
People First, a group advocat
ing equal rights for the hand-
icapped
Dieterle also said he keeps up
with the national and local news
by listening to the radio several
times a day.
"I listen to the new’s very
strongly,” Dieterle said. "Once I
sink it in, I know what’s going on.”
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