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'v Friday, May 9, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5 by ScottMcCullar ...REALLY, A A/D THEN HE JUST KAN OFF ANP. Waldo by Kevin Thomas fA ^ 6 it's so easy TO •SELF- DESTRUCT... | J r 1 ^ \ ^ nn Jk WHVAREW QDITT1N6 P P^ICWIALRACE. $0 tZHKOPL? Tom Ch wbu^ovr fmiMe INPiaiePWAL- THOU^weMAVJE wtp&swwr IM, OPAAMUNlTlE^ »£ PIP MOT HAVE TUEpEPTWOP^UF- iWT IM CRUCIAL AREA^MECe^ARY' *12? $0^TAIM A 5U^5fUL CAMPAIGN... by Jeff MacNelly nlxxlianpi lie Dallas P« •rved asfii ;d Boon's it e gunmank gan shootiti Hind didM inderaW) :iroom»j» 'hai saiib soul aniWS ngcross-/<jl inner wM;! lid. afe’j II on theflcj 9:30 fll Ag commissioner declares Texas wines coming of age 1 AUSTIN (AP) — Out in the Texas countryside among the cot ton, cows and cactus is something new and exciting — wine grapes, says state Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower. H The wine industry in Texas has advanced to the point where the ag riculture department Thursday re leased the “Texas Wine Country Guide,” which describes 16 Texas wineries. ■ “An increasing number of small, pr emium wineries are beginning to pfoduce the next big thing from Dexas: superb wines,” Hightower says. ■ “These are not novelty bottlings of‘Chateau Bubba,’ but fine vintages from the hands of a new breed of Texas winemakers who are intent on achieving the highest world stan dards of wine production.” In 1975, Hightower says, Texas had only one winery. A decade later 16 were producing wane, and others have entered into production just this year since the guide was printed. “When it’s fully ‘uncorked,’ the Texas wine industry will mean $3 billion a year to our state’s econ omy,” Hightower says. The department guide says wine making in Texas probably was intro duced in the state by Spanish mis sionaries in 1662, 100 years before California got grapes. Texas had 25 wineries by 1900, but then along came Prohibition. By the time it was repealed, only one winery — Val Verde at Del Rio — remained. A total of 50,000 gallons of Texas wine was bottled in 1982, 160,000 in 1983, 340,000 in 1984 and about 500,000 in 1985. “Already, Texas vintages are re ceiving laurels and awards from con noisseurs and competitions through out the world,” Hightower says. “These grape growers and winemak ers are bringing the most modern vi- ticultural practices and top enolog- ists to their enterprise, blending world winemaking expertise with the rich natural resources and entre preneurial spirit of Texas,” he says. Hermann Estate trial jury still deliberating HOUSTON (AP) — A jury en tered its second day of deliber ations Thursday in the trial of a former Hermann Hospital Estate trustee accused of selling stock to a charitable hospital foundation at inflated prices. Jurors must decide 44 special issues in the complex case that concerns about 40 sthck trans actions. The estate is seeking $2.8 mil lion from former trustee John Coffee; his wife, Dorothy; and Neill Amsler Jr., a former estate executive, alleging that they con spired to sell stock from two cor porations affiliated with Coffee. The estate claims the stocks were bought without the full knowl edge and consent of trustees. Coffee testified he made money on some of the trans actions. However, Coffee’s attorney James Leahy said Coffee was be ing used as a scapegoat “to take the heat off’ the estate, which had been under investigation af ter allegations of self-dealing and theft among employees and trust ees. Leahy said Coffee attempted to repay the estate $351,940, but trustees refused to accept the money. Estate attorney Tom Alexan der said Coffee had offered the money in exchange for a “full re lease on what he might have clone, but he wouldn’t specify what was done.” Texas-based bank to cut energy loans HOUSTON (AP) — First City Bancorporation of Texas will no longer loan a high percentage of its money to the energy industry, bank officials vowed at their annual stock holders meeting Thursday. The Houston-based holding com pany lost $232.4 million, or $7.27 per share, in net income in the first quarter.The company lost $58.1 mil lion in energy loan write-offs in the first quarter. But much of the substantial first quarter’s loss was accounted for by First City moving $275 million into a reserve for potential loan defaults, said Daniel Arnold, board chairman and president. By the end of March, energy loans accounted for 17.8 percent of all loans compared to a high of 26 per cent three years ago, Arnold said. D IFE |s|G. 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