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Associated Press
AUSTIN — A Senate minority
blocked an effort Monday to give all
Texas public school teachers a duty
free lunch period.
“It’s only fair for teachers to have
least 25 minutes of duty-free
lunch period to allow them to con-
entrate for their next classes in the
ifternoon,” said Sen. Carlos Truan,
bill sponsor.
I Truan, D-Corpus Christi, got
p-7 vote to debate his bill b
n ceded 25 votes.
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He said more than 600 school dis-
iricts in Texas do not allow a teacher
lunch time free of supervisory du-
|ies.
Sen. Roy Blake, D-Nacogdoches,
aid a similar proposal was intro
duced as far back as 1973, and the
cost was estimated at $12 million
then.
Truan responded that the Senate
approved the bill two years ago, and
added, “The cost is dif ficult to ascer
tain because of the way the school
districts may implement it at the lo
cal level.”
The bill would allow the State
Board of Education to set guidelines
for teachers to forego their duty
free lunch in the event of a person
nel shortage, extreme economic con
ditions or “unavoidable or unfore
seen circumstance.”
“It is one more local option that
you're taking away from local school
boards,” said Sen. John Traeger, D-
Seguin.
debate
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the hi
ill were Blake and Tra
eger and Sens. O.H. “Ike” Harris, R-
Dallas; Grant Jones, D-Abilene;
John Leedom, R-Dallas; Bill Sims,
D-San Angelo; and Craig Washing
ton, D-Houston.
Two Blake bills on unemployment
compensation cleared the Senate
and were sent to the House. One
would bring Texas into conformity
with the Federal Unemployment
Tax Act, and the other would give
the Texas Employment Commission
authority to collect certain overpay
ments from employers.
The Senate approved a bill chang
ing the formula for distributing
funds for the Engineering Excel
lence Fund established in 1983. Sen.
Kent Caperton, D-Bryan, said the
change commits the state to “high-
tech research.” He said the formula
was amended to encourage major
colleges to participate in the pro
gram.
Probation
officer arrested
for drug deal
Associated Press
HOUSTON — A state adult pro
bation officer and three other men,
including a probationer, were ar
rested by Texas Department of Pub
lic Safety officers and charged with
attempting to sell $1 million worth
of high-grade cocaine to undercover
officers.
Leonardo Cuellar, 31, a probation
officer from the 49th Judicial Dis
trict in Zapata, was arrested in a
parking lot on Sunday.
He and three others, Raul Marti
nez Pacheco, 35, of Corpus Christi;
Francisco Canedo Jr., 44, of Laredo;
and Eloy Efrian Canales, 33, of Heb-
bronville, were charged with deliv
ery of a controlled substance and
each was held in the Harris County
jail in lieu of $1 million bonds.
Officials said Canales was one of
Cuellar’s probationers.
DPS narcotics investigator Jimmie
Burleyson said the arrests followed a
two-month investigation by the DPS
and by the federal Drug Enforce
ment Administration.
Burleyson said the arrests came
after arrangements had been made
for the sale to undercover agents of
Five pounds of cocaine. The drugs
were described as “high grade” and
worth about $1 million on the street.
The Houston Post quoted DPS of
ficer Eddie Hebisen as saying that
Cuellar admitted to officers that he
would have made about $20,000 on
the deal.
Zapata County Attorney Arturo
Figuero Jr. said Cuellar had worked
for four years as the county’s only
adult probation officer.
American manure
stirs controversy
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of bridal
Associated Press
EL PASO — Officials on both
sides of the Texas-Mexico border
are arguing over who has the re
sponsibility of cleaning manure out
of cattle trucks returning to the
United States.
The debate has caused a $16 mil
lion roadblock for El Paso cattlemen
and customs brokers who want to
lake advantage of newly allowed ex-
Iportsof’U.S. cattle into Mexico.
I The U.S. Department of Agricul
ture department has been requiring
trucks returning from Mexico —
:ven after only a few hours — to be
tleaned to avoid introducing cattle
Ifever ticks or other parasites and dis-
leases into the United States.
[ El Paso cattlemen and customs
■brokers said the rule means they ei-
Ither must hire a Mexican carrier to
■ pick up the cattle in El Paso and take
ithem to Juarez, or they must find a
place in Juarez to wash their own
■ cattle trucks.
[ “This is American manure on
■ these trucks,” Pete Araujo, owner of
■ the ABACO customs house, told the
I El Paso Times.
I “Why, when we finally have a
I chance to sell cattle to Mexico, are
; they putting up fences?”
I ‘ Arujo’s company handles cattle
I imports and exports along the
Texas-Mexico border,
s He said shipments of Mexican
I cattle into the United States, which
■ have been scaled down, were loaded
into trucks in Juarez that were un
loaded in El Paso and then sealed for
their return to Mexico.
Araujo said he has asked Texas
legislators in Washington, D.C., for a
similar procedure for U.S. cattle ex
ports to Mexico. It would allow the
trucks to be sealed after unloading
in Juarez, then to return across the
border for cleaning at places cattle
shippers already have established in
the United States.
Dr. S.C. Couger, assistant veteri
narian in charge at the agriculture
department in Austin, said cattle
shippers elsewhere along the Texas
boraer are complaining, but the re
strictions will be enforced.
“If a U.S. truck goes into Mexico,
it must be cleaned before coming
back,” Couger said. “It is to protect
us from any parasites or diseases
that might be coming in with a dirty
vehicle. How do we know where
those trucks have been?”
Couger said the complaints
against the statute have risen re
cently with the dramatic increase in
cattle import permits being granted
by Mexico.
In January, the Mexican govern
ment announced it would stop ex
porting young cattle and would be
gin importing U.S. cattle to relieve
meat shortages and help stabilize
meat prices in Mexico.
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