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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
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Peso’s problems a shopper’s booiwil
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“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
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low. The signs in the Mexican
Prices of food, for hol
ders of American dol
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almost distorted bar
gain value. And since
the devaluation, Amer
icans have been flocking
south of the border to
buy groceries.
super markets which read
“Aceptamos dolares,” we accept
dollars, is as much of an invita
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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.
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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.
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items has nothing to do with the
long-standing border custom of
shopping for food in Mexico,
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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
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