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Texas growers fear proposed
lift of Florida quarantine
Associated Press
McALLEN — Rio Grande Valley
citrus growers, trying to rebound
from a devastating freeze, said
Wednesday they are opposed to a
proposal that would allow possibly'
contaminated Florida citrus to enter
other states.
The U.S. Department of Agricul
ture is considering lifting a quaran
tine on Florida citrus, which has
been affected by canker.
Valley citrus growers told USDA
officials on Wednesday that it has
not been determined if citrus canker
has been eradicated in Florida. They
said the Valley citrus industry is be
ginning to improve and do not want
it endangered.
“Don’t count us out,” said Ray
Prewett, executive vice president of
Texas Citrus Mutual. “This industry
has been through a lot of problems
before.
“We intend to come back. We will
come back but the very worst thing I
think that could happen to us, both
from an economic standpoint and
from a psychologial standpoint, is if
we got canker. It would be devastat
ing to even the intentions that grow
ers have about replanting and re
building.”
In December 1983, a week of sub
freezing temperatures wiped out
more than 60 percent of the citrus
acreage, costing growers some $100
million. More than 9,000 farmwork
ers lost their jobs.
Earlier this year, growers said the
freeze helped to make the industry
more lean and that they expected
some citrus this fall. They also said,
however, that it would be at least five
years before the Valley citrus indus
try would recover.
On Wednesday, about 50 people
packed a hotel room to hear growers
tell USDA officials they do not want
to jeopardize their livelihood.
“Is USDA of the opinion that the
economic benefits to Florida are
worth the risk that other growing
areas are being asked to take?” said
Dennis Holbrook, a board member
of Texas Citrus Mutual.
“The citrus industry and the econ
omy of the Rio Grande Valley has
tried to get up off its knees and we
cannot be subjected to another possi
ble disaster,” Holbrook said.
The public hearing in McAllen is
the second of three being held across
the country. The next hearing is
scheduled for Friday in Los Angeles.
The quarantine in Florida was im
posed last year after citrus canker
was found in several groves. The
bacteria affects the leaves, branches
and the fruit.
Texas citrus growers said they do
not want Florida citrus imported to
other citrus-producing states.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner
Jim Hightower was unable to make
the public hearing.
Les Whitlock, manager of the
Texas Valley Citrus Committee, said
the lifting of the ban would surely
mean canker would find its way into
the Valley.
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By JERRY OSLIN
Staff Writer
McCaw Cablevision is not complying with Col
lege Station’s cable television franchise ordi-
ance, members of College Station’s City Affairs
lOuncil Committee said Wednesday.
The Committee met to discuss McCaw’s pro-
ress in complying with the city’s ordinance.
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McCaw is not complying with the ordinance be-
use it offers service packages with less than 12
lannels and offers a package that does not in
clude an NBC station.
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(subject to availability) and all full power, local
stations including the PBS station at Texas
A&M.”
McCaw currently offers the Basic package,
consisting of five stations, and the Broadcast Pac,
consisting of eight stations. Also, the Basic pack
age does not include an NBC station.
Joseph DiBacco, McCaw’s regional vice presi
dent, told the committee that McCaw did offer a
12 channel package and that the company of
fered the smaller packages because of the de
mand for a less expensive service.
DiBacco also said McCaw could not at present
offer an NBC station with its Basic package be
cause of the interference from KBTX-TV, Chan
nel 3 in Bryan.
McCaw uses channels 2-6 for its Basic package
because they are in a low frequency band and rel-
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move to a higher range would add cost to the
package.
The Basic consists of Channel 2, Dallas inde
pendent KTVT; Channel 3, the Electronic Pro
gram Guide; Channel 4, College Station’s
KAMU; Channel 5, Bryan’s KBTX; and
Temple’s KCEN.
McCaw is bound by Federal Communications
Regulations to continue broadcasting KTVT and
bound by the College Station ordinance to con
tinue broadcasting KAMU, DiBacco said.
KBTX’s original, non-cable broadcast on
Channel 3 interferes with a regular, network
broadcast on McCaw’s Channel 3, he said. But
McCaw is adding new equipment that will enable
it to broadcast an NBC station on its cable Chan
nel 3 in the future.
Mary Kay’s neighbors don’t like pink
Associated Press
political sc
DALLAS — Cosmetics queen
■ary Kay Ash, whose passion for
link ranges from a fleet of company
ladillacs to a new $5 million pink
mansion, has her neighbors seeing
red over her plan to build a match
ing pink guard house,
i Ash, founder and chairwoman of
Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc., says she
neeas a 24-hour manned security
he ng/iiiof4 post positioned at the entry to her
ach letter01 north Dallas estate to protect her
property and keep the steady flow of
curiosity seekers on the move.
But some of her wealthy neigh
bors — less than thrilled with the
idea of a pink mansion on the block
— aren’t welcoming the little glass
and stucco booth.
On Tuesday, the Dallas Board of
Adjustments, armed with letters of
opposition from 11 well-to-do neigh
bors, turned down the millionaire’s
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long and 6 feet wide, just 14 feet
from the street.
Ordinance in the neighborhood,
which includes a house owned by bil
lionaire H. Ross Perot, requires that
all structures be set back at least 40
feet from the road.
Neighbors in less-colorful man
sions complained that the guard
house would be too visible and
would call more attention to the area
if built close to the narrow roadway.
“The making of a tourist attrac
tion out of our neighborhood is not
a very happy prospect for any of us
who live there,” neighbor Walter N.
Kuntz III wrote. “Guard houses or
other unusual and visible security
devices increase, as opposed to de
crease, the curiosity of passersby.”
The cosmetics mogul appeared
before the zoning board Tuesday to
def end her appeal of the ordinance.
“The structure will blend, aesthe
tically, with my home and will main
tain the high standards of quality in
my neighborhood,” she told the
board.
Ash also said that she needed the
guard house close to the street be
cause she had been “robbed twice at
my front door” in her old house. She
recently moved into the new house,
the first done in pink, where crews
are still completing the landscaping.
In both incidents — which oc
curred in 1965 and 1974 — she was
hit, bound and robbed of thousands
of dollars in jewelry, she said.
But the board, known for its
tough stance on zoning issues, re
lented only slightly and ruled that 33
feet back was as close to the street as
the little pink house could get.
Ash said she hasn’t finished with
the zoning board and might return
for another appeal after discussing
the matter with her architect.
Neighbors declined to comment
after the meeting.
The powder pink mansion was
bought for $3.8 million in Novem
ber, and Ash estimated it would cost
$5 million by the time it is completed
in the next few weeks.
The 19,000-square-foot mediter
ranean-style dwelling has seven bed
rooms, 12 baths, two cabanas, two
pantries and a wine cellar, said Di
ana Hanson, real estate executive
from Preston Creek Homes, who
sold the house.
Many rooms — including the
kitchen — are done in pink, as is the
exterior, Hanson said.
Hanson said the architect de
signed the house after the Hearst
castle in San Simean, Calif.
Hanson said she has received nu
merous phone calls from people in
the area criticizing the color as “atro
cious” or “tacky” and complaining
that the new pink kid on the block
disrupts the neighborhood decor.
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