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Battalion/Page 6
June 1,1982
First foreign train soon
may be reality in U.S.
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Govern
ment officials in the United
States and Mexico say they are
forging ahead in discussions to
bring the first foreign-operated
train to the United States.
Amtrak and San Antonio
officials meet for the second
time June 7 in Mexico City to
discuss the feasibility of restory-
ing luxury train service between
south Texas and Mexico.
The discussions center on a
proposed a luxury passenger
line between San Antonio and
Mexico City operated by Ferro-
carriles Nacionales de Mexico,
the Mexican national railway.
Operation of the route could
mean an economic boost on both
sides of the border.
Such a link “is a logical exten
sion of our aim to expand tour
ism from the United States,”
said Francisco Zamarripa Mora,
vice president of traffic and
operations for Ferrocarriles
Nacionales de Mexico.
Sah Antonio officials are
equally positive. A study indi
cates their city could gain as
much as $50 million a yearfi
Mexican consumers who
ride the train north to sli
Mexican consumerscunt
have no easy way to bringk
large items, such as appli®
councilman Bob Thom
said.
Amtrak officials beliew
trains would run full at!«
weekends because of thetis
tween San Antonio and Maj
cities and the lure of in
attractions of Mexico City,!|
terrey and Nuevo Laredo.
Fire ant damage costly
for urban, rural Texas
United Press International
DALLAS — The imported
fire ant, for 50 years the scourge
of farmers in the South, is also
an urban problem now.
No one can put any accurate
dollar figure on the damage
caused by the nasty pest, but it is
in the millions, probably in the
hundreds of millions.
If the spread isn’t stopped
soon, the damage figure may go
into the billions. The imported
fire ant is now dug solidly into
private lawns and in municipal
parks in the huge population
centers of Texas — Flouston,
San Antonio and Dallas.
Consider this: the imported
fire ant — so designated to dis
tinguish it from domestic fire
ants that cause relatively little
damage — is a major problem in
the citrus groves of Florida. A
task force appointed by Texas
House Speaker Bill Clements
estimates that if the citrus-
producing Rio Grande Valley in
South Texas is infested, the cost
might be half a billion dollars a
year in decreased yield. Furth
ermore, fruit pickers likely will
demand higher pay to work in
an infested area. Imported fire
ants now have spread as far
south as Kingsville, 60 or 70
miles away from the valley.
So far they have not been re
ported in California, the na
tion’s leading agricultural state,
but the warm climate of South
ern California makes infestation
of that state possible, perhaps
likely.
Texas Agriculture Commis-
If the spread isn ’f stop
ped soon, the damage
figure may go into the
billions. The imported
fire ant is now dug solid
ly into private la wns and
in municipal parks in
the huge population
centers of Texas —
Houston, San Antonio
and Dallas.
sioner Reagan Brown told a
group in Dallas last month that
he had recently had been on an
oil-well drilling site in West
Texas.
“A Caterpillar (tractor) had
been trucked in from Louisiana
jaud I reached over and knocked
some dried mud off the track.
Suddenly there were fire
everywhere.
“That Caterpillar couldjis
easily have been trucked toll
fornia as to West Texas,In
said. “Then they wouldhattl
ants out there.”
No agency has ever beem
to total up the damagecausi
imported fire ants or even
an educated guess becausei
goes unreported.
But individual damage
dents give indications tnai
region-wide dollar total *
be staggering:
• Mark Trostle, imported:
ant specialist for the Texas
partment of Agriculture,'
the damage already mighti
half billion dollars a yearjus
Texas. He talked to one
recently who had bills total
almost $7,000 for repairs
equipment damaged by runii
into imported fire ant
in his fields.
• Other farmers report lost
of livestock, expecially whei
cow or sow gives birth neat
mound of imported fire at
Fire ants are attracted to
membrane surrounding the:
fant animal at birth.
• Fire ants and their mount
averaging 50 to 80 per acre,
the No. 1 problem in Texassti
parks.
Wed in chains, two convicts
honeymoon in separate cells
United Press International
HOUSTON — The ushers
carried guns and the groom was
led to the altar in handcuffs, but
it was not your typical shotgun
wedding.
The best man was a prosecu
tor, the bride was given away by
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her defense attorney andi
couple’s honeymoon bff
Saturday in separate rooms
behind bars.
Convicted forger Ma»
Young Weusi and convid
robber Woodrow Williams)
were married Friday bp
State District Judge Chad
Hearn of Houston.
“This is a very romantics!#
I’ve been in love with him sin#
was 13,” the bride said as she*
chained to a bench before! 1
ceremony.
Defense attorney Robertl 1 !
ton, who represents both 4
bride and groom, said ixt
clients have agreed to pie;
ty to forgery charges in reinr
for 10-year sentences. Neill#
has been sentenced yet.
However, she has alreal
served two prison terms fe
forgery, and he had a prior)
year sentence for aggravaji
robbery.