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Oil baron auctions farm
United Press International
TERRELL — Oil baron Nel
son Bunker Hunt, who took a
drubbing on the silver market
two years ago, apparently found
the farmer’s market little better
and Saturday began to disman
tle his vast agricultural equip
ment empire.
Auction sales from the multi
millionaire’s 13 farm and ranch
operations in five states were ex
pected to bring in far less than
the $5 million-plus value they
would garner in nonrecession
years.
“Certainly some years are
better than others,” said Tom
Whitaker, Hunt Energy vice
president. “This market went
against us. Bunker made a very
determined effort to make a vi
able business out of farming and
ranching. But the return just
hasn’t been good, and the future
doesn’t look that bright.”
He said the revenues would
be “redeployed,” probably in oil,
gas, or real estate development.
Texas and Tennessee, but will
lease them out to high bidders.
“This must signal to a lot of
small farmers that they don’t
need to fear big corporations
pushing them out of business,”
said Robert Riggs, farm editor
for Dallas television station,
WFAA.
The decision to liquidate the
equipment — ranging from
branding irons to massive farm
combines — was made 10
months ago, officials said. Hunt,
however, will not sell the valu
able agricultural tracts in Missis
sippi, Louisiana, Montana,
“Farming is a 24-hour busi
ness,” he said. “The small family
farmer can better afford the
commitment than a corpora
tion. He’s willing to invest in the
equipment and time.”
That sentiment was reflected
in the huge number of partici
pants who turned out and whose
Group says doctors’ money
may have influenced vote
United Press International
I WASHINGTON — Common
Tiause says that all but seven of
■the 208 House members who
voted against keeping doctors
•and dentists under federal reg-
Julation received campaign con
tributions from groups repre
senting the two professions.
The self-styled “citizens’ lob
by” analyzed political action
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' Wednesday’s House vote to ex-
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feated 208-195. Then the
House voted 245-155 to bar the
FTC from looking into the pro
fessionals.
Of those voting against the
Broyhill amendment, only seven
didn’t receive money from poli
tical action committees of the
American Medical Association
and American Dental Associa
tion, Common Cause said. Be
tween 1979 and 1982, those who
received money got an average
of $11,254.
Common Cause listed the top
recipient of AM A and ADA con
tributions as Rep. Phil Gramm,
D-Texas, who received $26,400
during the 1979-1982 period
but voted in favor of the Broyhill
amendment.
semi-trailer rigs and trucks clog
ged for hours the muddy roads
near this community, 30 miles
east of Dallas.
“The turnout was good,
maybe 2,700 people,” Whitaker
said. “We literally had traffic
jams on those roads, and the bid
ding was spirited some of the
time.”
However, he estimated the
sales would bring in far less than
the equipment was worth in
good years
“Yeah, our timing was not
perfect.”
He said many buyers were
apparently attracted by the
Hunt name.
“Prestige played a large part,”
he said. “But I’m not sure if it
really caused people to reach
deeper into their pocketbooks.
Certainly a lot of people were
there because this was Bunker
Hunt.
Saturday’s equipment sell-off
represented goods from seven
Texas ranches and farms. The
next Hunt auction takes place in
a week in the community of
Gunter, about 50 miles north of
Dallas, officials said, and others
will be held throughout the re
gion in coming weeks.
Bunker, who with his
brothers and late father H.L.
Hunt own a fortune, much of it
devoted to oil, began his farm
operation four to five years ago.
Officials said the sale was not re
lated to the $1.1 billion loan the
Hunts had to take to cover losses
when the silver market collapsed
in 1980.
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Mondale considering
presidential nomination
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NEW YORK — Former Vice
President Walter Mondale said
Saturday he will decide within
the month whether to seek the
1984 Democratic presidential
nomination.
Mondale, speaking at his first
news conference since Sen. Ed
ward Kennedy, D-Mass., took
himself out of the race, made no
secret of his ambitions.
“I am not trying to be coy
about it,” Mondale said of the
nomination. “1 may very well
seek it. I would certainly like to
be the front-runner.
“I think I’ll make a decision
within the month and an
announcement some time next
year,” said Mondale. Asked if
the announcement would be in
January, he replied: “I haven’t
picked a time.”
Mondale, 54, senator from
Minnesota from 1964 to 1976,
predicted: “I think we will see a
change in course.” He said
Reagan would be an easy mark
in 1984.
“I think, based on the issues,
he should be very easy to beat,”
Mondale told reporters.
Then, Mondale attacked
Reagan for failure in the areas
of jobs, Social Security, and nuc
lear disarmarr^pt.
“He promised us jobs, he’s
given us the worst unemploy
ment in American history.”
Mondale said. “He promised to
protect the safety net and that
has turned into a tight rope. He
promised that he would protect
Social Security, we know what’s
happened there. We’ve had, I
think, an apalling nuclear dis
cussion. We need arms control
desperately.”
Earlier, he received applause
and cheers from an audience of
500 when he was introduced for
a speech before a fund-raising
luncheon of the Israel Histadut
as “the next president of the Un-
ited States.”
He told the group, a labor
federation and social welfare
agency representing about 90
percent of Israel’s work fojce,
that for the Reagan administra
tion “to deny an American who
needs to work, who wants to
work, is perhaps the most fun-
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tating attack on your
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on Kennedy’s supporters
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ments lie has been making
the Massachusetts senator
drew from the race.
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Kennedy. “I want himani
country to know that hisle
ship is needed now mort
ever.”
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United Press International
SMITHFIELD, R.L—Neigh
borhood housew'ives walked out
of the kitchen and onto the
streets Saturday picketing for
more love and affection and
help with the chores.
The 15 wives say they want
better treatment from their hus
bands, and won’t cook, clean or
cuddle until their demands are
met. They only vow to care for
their children.
“The strike won’t end until all
the husbands get together and
agree to pull their weight and
show us some recognition for all
the w'ork we do,” Gloria Gangi
said.
“Appreciation isn’t too much
to ask for a slave who’s on call 24
hours a day,” said Terry Water
man as she and some other
young mothers picketed outside
their homes on Oak Street, car
rying signs saying “Have You
Hugged Your Wife Today?”
The strike, which was secretly
planned for several months, be
gan Friday. It caught the hus
bands off guard.
“It’s actually pretty fun, with
the news media out here,” Jim
Gangi said. “The phone’s been
ringing off the hook. I don’t
think it’s going to be a serious
problem until the working week
starts, because weekends are
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