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Page 2B/The Battalion/Thursday, April 21, 1983 Gift will benefit arthritis research United Press International DALLAS — A millionaire who suffers from arthritis will donate $7.5 million to estab lish a research center to inves tigate the disease. Harold C. Simmons said Monday he would donate $62,500 a month for 10 years to fund an arthritis research center bearing his name. It will be located at the Universi ty of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas. “I was talking to my per sonal physician, Dr. Stanley Cohen, about why arthritis can’t be cured,” Simmons said. “He explained that there was a great deal doctors didn’t know about arthritis and that more research was needed. Things developed from there.” Simmons suffers from ank ylosing spondylitis, a type of arthritis that affects the spine and back. He said the first monthly donation would be made with in the next two weeks. Dr. Charles Sprague, presi dent of the health science cen ter, said the gift was especially important because it would be used to finance basic research. “The gift that Charles Sim mons is making is even more generous because he may not directly benefit from the re search that will be done here, ” Sprague said. “Basic research into arthritis is important be cause it will explore the underlying mechanisms of the disease, which may affect up to 20 million Americans.” Border cities feel pinch ri Peso’s problems a shopper’s booiwil Villa Oaks West apartments “Bright Idea!” United Press International “Poor Mexico,” dictator Por- firio Diaz was quoted as saying, “so far from God and so close to the United States.” With the peso valued at a little more than half an American penny, that closeness is begin ning to add to the economic problems of communities like Juarez, Tijuana, Reynosa, Lare do, Matamoros and others along the 1,933-mile U.S.-Mexico border. Prices of food, for holders of American dollars, have taken on an almost distorted bargain value. And since the devalua tion, Americans have been flocking south of the border to buy groceries. Mexicans used to come to the U.S. to shop for certain goods, such as vegetable oil, canned milk, eggs and other items which were cheaper on the American side of the Rio Grande. With the devaluation of the peso, however, shopping in El Paso, San Diego, McAllen, Lare do, Brownsville and other American border cities has be come an impossible dream for Mexicans. It now takes too many pesos to buy American goods. But Mexico’s peso problem has become the American shop per’s boon. Americans have discovered that top quality Mexican steaks are selling for $1 a pound, about one third of the value of meat in the United States. Other prices are even more of a bargain. A quart of milk at 15 cents, a large tube of tooth paste for about 20 cents, a loaf of whole wheat bread for 35 cents and low-cost, top quality fruits and vegetables for a fraction of the cost of comparable Amer ican products have made the Mexican supermarket a prime stop for visitors. Many of the basic food items on sale in Mexican markets are subsidized by the federal gov ernment to keep prices deliber ately low. Corn tortillas and pin to beans, the mainstay of the Convenient to campus Brand new Spacious floor plans On-site leasing and management Pool, fireplaces, laundry The One Stop Fun Shop! room Now preleasing! If you have a hobby we have the materials! • Radio Controlled Planes, Cars, Boats • Scrub Suits and Uniforms • Architectural Supplies • Wood and Plastic Supplies • An Exclusive Frame Shop • Art Supplies (Paints, Brushes, Paper) • Needle Craft Supplies Leather Crafts 1107 Verde Drive between FM-2818 and Villa Maria Road • ONE STOP TRAIN STOP! 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The big supermarkets in the tourist areas of J uarez do a brisk trade with shoppers from El Paso, many of whom are Amer icans of Mexican descent who were born in Juarez or other Mexican communities and feel right at home shopping in Mexico. Food items, however, are be ginning to get scarce in Juarez. Labor union leaders and others are placing the blame on Amer ican shoppers. Juarez business leaders don’t agree, however. The scarcity of certain food items has nothing to do with the long-standing border custom of shopping for food in Mexico, business leaders say. For generations, there has been an interaction of shoppers who take advantage of the best prices on both sides of the bor der. T here have never been any shortages. That is, not until the present economic crisis. The scarcity of food items in Juarez, one federal government spokesman said, comes from the geography of the border city and not from the greed of American shoppers. While Mexico may or not be far from God, as the saying goes, Juarez and other border cities are far from the republic’s own centers of production. The dis tance from Juarez to Mexico City is 1,100 miles. The distance from Tijuana to the capital is ever greater. Enrique Cisneros Tevera, Juarez delegate to the Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development, said one of the principal reasons for shortages of food in Juarez is the short sightedness of producers in the center of the country to adequ ately supply Juarez i supply Unite' M RICHL The supply and demaal icyed b “The o ly impl egratec (uarez grocery shoppers, eluding the usual numlei regular El Paso shoppers, shing t not been met by the prodm cedanc he said. The food is aval trees ft but the distribution system failed. Regardless of whoisatii the average Juarez faii licit car hurting. Minimum wageis pesos a day, a little morellin tductiv (.asoline price increases,nj tite, a l im t easing utility costsandi i nc t easing inllation havena st 15 ye; difficult for many to getk ortable Bowing to pressure ol| “The u testing groups, the custom March 30 began a i inspecting every autom dsatea trying States. to re-enter the lr 2-day si ificial ig life, 1 active rking a aduate Clark' 5 poun nal cot to be a pet Pi* Join us for half price on mixed drinks* and oysters on the lialf shell. Only at Pelican's Wliarf every Monday through Friday 5-7 pm. licon*/ lorf 2500 Texas Ave., 693-5113. ’half price does not include beer, wine, coenac or ice cream drinks fhe results of the custou tion were effective, shoppers stopped Juarez, not only for 0 .^_ hut for any other reason,! 11 or P 0 me roe in the city droppedl l ^ nt J out 50 percent. 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