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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1981
State
Christmas cooks saying
"shucks’ to tamale loss
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Although
most Texans will have no trouble
finding a turkey for their Christ
mas feast this year, many Mex-
ican-Americans are facing a se
rious shortage that threatens their
traditional holiday menu.
Corn shucks, used to wrap spi
cy, meat-filled tamales, are in ex
tremely short supply this year.
That’s bad news for members of
the state’s large Hispanic popula
tion, accustomed to sitting down
with neighbors over steaming
plates of tamales during the
Christmas holidays.
A spokesman for the Mexican
Cultural Center in San Antonio
said that without tamales, Christ
mas would not be the same to
many Mexican-American families.
“We always make tamales at
Christmas,” the spokesman said.
“It’s like you have turkey at
Thanksgiving. I think families will
be disappointed (if there are no
tamales) because it’s very special.
It’s not just a meal.”
David Guerra, a wholesale pro
duce buyer in San Antonio, said
there was no way he could keep up
with the huge demand for corn
shucks this year.
“Everybody sure does go for
tamales during Christmas,” Guer
ra said. “This is the only month
when they can really sell, but this
year there’s a really bad shortage. ”
The vast majority of corn
shucks used in Texas are imported
from Mexico. Guerra said he was
unsure why that country was un
able to keep up its usual supply
this season.
“On top of the shortage, what
we are getting across (the border)
is not good quality,” he said.
“There’s a requirement that
they’ve got to be clean ... and a lot
of them don’t make the grade.
Once you sell them to the consum
er, you get in trouble because
there may be a lot of black mold on
them. ’
He said com shucks are difficult
to harvest and process, so most
Texas corn growers refuse to
Bensten
challenged
to a debate
United Press International
AUSTIN — Sen. Walter Meng-
den, R-Houston, has challenged
Sen. LLoyd Bentsen, D-Texas, to
debate the issues in the 1982 U.S.
Senate campaign.
Mengden is opposing Rep. Jim
Collins, R-Texas, for the GOP
nomination to the seat Bentsen
now holds.
He said a talk show host has
offered to moderate the debate.
“We have the medium avail
able for the public to hear both
candidates give their views. This
radio station is willing to let us
discuss the issues on the talk
show, and I think the public de
serves the chance to compare the
two candidates,” Mengden said
Monday.
Kick-backs,
bribes taken
by officials
United Press International
TYLER — Three northeast
Texas county commissioners have
pleaded guilty in a federal investi
gation of bribery and kick-backs
between county officials and con
struction companies in a three-
state area.
Waving grand jury indictment,
current Van Zandt County Com
missioner Eldred Eugene
Wycough and former Van Zandt
County Commissioner Jimmy Ray
Grace appeared before federal
Judge William Wayne Justice
Monday and pleaded guilty to
accepting a bribe from an em
ployee of a Tyler firm in 1977.
Both men agreed to pay the
county $1,000 in restitution and to
assist federal authorities in their
investigation. Wycough also
agreed to resign.
No date was set for sentencing.
Gregg County Commissioner
Bill Owens appeared before feder
al Judge William Steger Monday
and pleaded innocent. Owens, ac
cused of accepting a $1,000 kick-
back in 1976, was released under a
$1,000 personal recognizance
bond. His trial is scheduled for
Feb. 1.
energy,
saver!
bother with the crop. The one
Texas producer who sells in the
San Antonio area was asking ex
orbitant prices — $45 per bale in
stead of Mexican dealers’ usual
$30 per bale — so Guerra said he
refused to buy.
To keep from disappointing
their families and neighbors by
abandoning the tamale tradition,
some resourceful cooks may be
planning to use some peculiar,
non-traditional tamale wrappers.
“I heard a lot of people were
going to wrap tamales in a banana
peel,” Guerra said. “I heard peo
ple say they do cook all right like
that. Some old people say they
used to make them years back
with cabbage leaves too.”
Fortunately, another special
Mexican-American holiday treat
won’t be affected by the lack of
corn shucks. Bunuelos — large
flour tortillas, deep fried and
sprinkled with cinammon and
sugar — are as staple a holiday fare
in Mexican households as candy
canes and mince pies are in Anglo
homes.
Finder returns 50 cents plus
‘Loan’ draws high interest
n;
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United Press International
DALLAS — Officials are
looking for someone with a guil
ty conscience, a long memory
and lousy arithmetic skills, who
picked up a 50-cent piece from
the floor of the Oak Cliff Bank
and Trust in 1925.
Early Monday, Republic
Bank Oak Cliff employee
Dorthy Foster opened an en
velope addressed to the bank
under its old name. Out fell
$232.50 in cash and a note.
“Gentlemen,” it began,“in
the summer ofl925, I picked up
off your floor a 50-cent piece. I
put the coin in my pocket, and it
has troubled me ever since.”
actually passed since his trans
gression. So instead of paying
$2.32 in interest, he paid 100
times that amount.
dent Joe Don Denton.
The unidentified penitent
said he wanted to return the
money with interest — which
he miscalculated by a factor of
100, and based on 58 years,
rather than the 56 years that had
He ended his confession
saying: “I have asked for God’s
forgiveness, and I now ask
yours. You have built a great
bank. Thanks.”
The letter, postmarked
Shreveport, I^a., and bearing
no name, puzzled bank presi-
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originally our 50 cents-
not dropped by a custi
which seems more likely-!
misfigured the interest,”!
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was.
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vat ion Army if no oneelsii
in the next few days,
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