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Wf MJZANNA YBAJULA
•re mo ff—ry
•* M
mTt
file «
the aa
» 11.000 or
dh—t Iradtnn up to the
there ■ oflice eaMpMamt — •
thnr camimr amd • nrftewrttier
-«■ L aade are lour rhown The
wt't much bagger than a W
E H D^wey, the juat
pmno- if etther party to
a fMey mmrmS of h
the case, a
JU«Y caa he proxAed I
«* the
a ioeoffS
the
mala, lodae Dewev deoa t wear a ^ av * n * * , . ^
robe anddaewit go around «Um fihaff fee and the coot of the jMry If
riung a ea«e4 Jt t not uncommon tor the ptamufl raru-oer* a«y aaaan
h*m to hear the ntari m hat o**n of- fr«M the defendant the filMtgfae
Face which ■ juat nest dour to the and the com of the fury are race*
courtroom ered an the judgement
YaciE prohabiv hear Dewev aav David lavfor. tflet
•omethang lake 'Since you can t de- Eroach Od. doe
cade far rmaraefvet. la decade for the an
claaan acaanw a <
way the tyMei works for ham
he'd like a even better if the
was $y <MJ» rather than >1.000
hr^bw—
i.lrd be
The Abawraci of
The
the
king as the debtor rrniawn in the
taame county If the debtor moves
tan of the area, a is uo so the oiaan-
ulf so keep track of the deCoT»
and the like also cannot be
The ofTacer of the Oman
ehat can and cannot
for the
Unfortnoatefr for Wetss.
uch time elapsed from the i
e filed the wm and when it
Although Wens dadnl receive her
* d
od K n.r.i,
prunaably I
for •
Aan't have so
Fhe
m the (hr
ran ufTi
on It's afl asp
thanks n fan.
$?7 to f'de a mayor at Teaas
who doesn't CLums Court with complete taaah an
the rvstrtn and has since
ted the per her mind about ■ since she
oang ao file." Taylor sms remve the judgment she was etata-
*1 re- < *We eather file or we don’t file.*' tied to
on He says Eronch Od doesn't file -| n peered to go toanpletelv into
the plain- against every enstomer with a past
Wetss also filed a Writ of Execu-
^ , i don’t re- «san with hopes of receiving her
cmve the icadgmeni vou re cnutled to judgment A Wnt of Execution coats
m.(ordinal to the iudge? >55 (refundable if the judgment as
I). It is served Vv the constable of
according to the judge*
Candy Wens, a junior
a junior accounting pan
Sic M went so Small the
^ • pay hn
don’t alwavs “We very
changed ofTacer of the court to
faded to owned by the debtor. I death the
and what he of
my case, act pan
ontv “when the balance right away and that wouW be it."
the pan due account justifies Weaes said. But instead of receiving
Tavlor says he's satisfied with the feet >u dginem within the specified 10
A Wnt of Execution authorizes an
fie court to setae property
the debtor I death, the
enough property for the
r sheriff to confiscate and
•ctaon to pay the judgment
In Tcaas. at m must other Mates,
me things cannot be confiscated A
dnor's house cannot be taken, for
, r file again if the need arose
There are akernauves to Small
Conn Legal advisors at
Teaas A AM cannot advise one mu-
dent against another, but by Jan
uary. a new mediation service to aid
students who are having problems
with their roommates and other Mo
dems as sched jtrd to begin. The
service will be offered by Student
Services and Off Campus Housing
Although the project n still in thr
works. Oft Campus Adviser Becky
Sablev is optunasuc about the pro
ject's possibilities
She says a mediating service will
help indents team how to deal with
then own problems rather than hav-
> else handle them
Second jobs help farmers survive, statistics say
LUBBOCK — I wo-thirds of the
come earned by the nation's farm-
s — many fmanciaBv strapped —-
anes from second jobs, but thr es-
ksh crop today
.* said agricultural
Earn Flinch
> University
tiers receive only 27 tents for
dollar consumers spend on
*ai
every
food
and retailers gn
Agriculture Dr par
show that sine* IBM
come of fanners
;U-S
rtment figures
the average »n-
f
than $99 bdhon. about two thirds,
“It s dear that farm famihes rely
heavdy on of (farm mcomr to hve on
a farm and still suit am a reasonable
standard of liahiK," said CaH A rider
Flint hbaugti said the largest per
centage of farmers with won-farm
jobs Uved in the Last and South
where farming operations were
smaller There were fewer farm op
erators with town jobs in the Corn
Eek or High Plains
Farm iamtiv dependence on in
come gene rated by sown jobs n ex
pected to increase unless the farm
economy experiences a drastic re
covery, Anderson predicted
“For many people farming n a
way of bfe For others facing low
farm income, it means coping with
“‘For many people farming is m way t*i life. For others
facing tow farm income, k means coping with the snua-
|fian bv belt tightening, getting an off-farm job, getting
-
for every
i. there n a
Mar the fanner
IS cents left af-
r paying expenses
Anderson said f ar
at row the country
that year of winch
the situation by belt tightening, get
ting an off-farm job, getting better
jmf bagger or getting out.'* he said
‘wet farm income as a dercei
n income
farm
from f
from 41 percent m 1950 to
percent in I9E2 In other
than >20.000 worth of
in 1982 comprised 60 percent of thr
nation s 2.4 million farm operators,
but they accounted for only 6 per
cent of total farm cash receipts
Small farmers averaged a negative
income, Anderson said Meanwhile
large farm operators also have
found alternate sources of income
Those selling >100.000 lo >200.000
m com modi or* received 56 percent
of their incomes from oil-farm
sources in 1982. government statis
tics show.
(ailing commercial farming and
rant King operations “btg business '*
said operators selling
>100.000 to >200.000 mi 1982 had
assets of more than >1 million per
farm.
The >200.000 to >500.000 group
posted assets of >1.7 million per
(arm and operators telling more
than >500.000 reported >4 1 million
mi assets per farm
Tn a fairly competitive industry
such as agriculture, technological
advances set an motion the use of
ital and credit." Anderson
I tends to increase farm
productivity *
But the working wife of an Ida
lou, Texas, cotton farmeA questioned
the premise that farmers receive
even 15 cents alter expenses of every
dollar earned
“It’s a minus figure." Jody Fore
man said. “There's nothing left. Our
capita
~11las
com of production tar exceeds our
income We're still paying for our
land “
She and her husband Don have
been farming since he graduated
from high school m I960 They raise
cotton, wheat and sorghum on 1.500
acres of which they own about 700
acres and lease the rest
. J«*y Foreman remembers when
she and other wives of northwest
Texas farmers stayed at home to
take care of their kids. Now most of
them work in town to supplement
the farm income
"When my kids were i it tie none of
us worked." the Idalou Co-op Gin
assistant bookkeeper said of her
neighbors. “Now of aU the married
people my age the ladies are work
ing. I'm sure they are.’*
Foreman said her income was
used to help buy clothing for her son
and daughter and paying for family
vacations. Both children are now in
college taking agriculture-related
classes, but neither plan to go into
farming.
'The old nostalgic family farm
where grandpa hoed the corn and
grandma baked the bread." soon wdl
be replaced by another farming sys
tem. Flin< hbaugh predicted of the
year 2000
What's going to emerge is what
statisticians call a bimodal agricul
ture. We ll have a few large commer
ical operations — say 200.000 or
per* em
operations — produ< mg 90
to 95 percent of the nation's
"They’ll be astute busincMMian
earning one-fourth of their income
from farming. The medium stae op
eration is on its way out." Flinch
baugh said
“Then well have the hobby boys
who subsidize the farm with their
off-farm jobs," he predicted, adding
“everybody wants his niche in the
country if you can get it."
He suggested there would be
about 1.5 million small farming op
erations The USDA defines a
farmer as anyone selling > 1.000 in
commodities M l joke that mv
mother-m-law's garden would qual
ify." FUnchbaueh said
He said medium sire farm opera
tors are experiencing the blunt of a
farming economy that many say is
the worst since the 1950s
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