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Page 8/The Battalion/Friday, September 4, 1987
Private developers
provide last hope
for troubled shops
HOUSTON (AP) — Merchants of
a Hispanic shopping center are
hopeful private developers will save
the financially troubled El Mercado
del Sol and prevent its closure sched
uled for Sept. 30.
The developers met with city offi
cials Wednesuay and said they are
still hoping to buy the property for
continued operation if they can be
assured of having tenants who can
pay the rent.
“They were ready to walk from
the deal,” Mayor Kathy Whitmire
said. “We let them know our inten
tions in seeing the project continue.
It’s just a matter of taking a difficult
project in a difficult economy and
making it work.”
No deal, however, was made al
though developers planned another
meeting with city officials in a few
days.
El Mercado, the city’s first venture
into private redevelopment, opened
injune 1985.
The shopping center was fi
nanced by a $500,000 loan of federal
Community Development funds
through the city of Houston and a
$12.5 million loan from Mainland
Savings Association.
Whitmire warned that the mar
ket’s worried merchants do not yet
have cause for celebration.
“The merchants have every rea
son to continue to be concerned,”
she said.
Merchants at the mall had been
staying open on a month-to-month
lease since the Fedeal Savings &
Loan Insurance Corp. took over
ownership in November 1986.
The FSLIC, which intervened af
ter the failure of Mainland Savings
Association, told tenants Tuesday
that the building would close Sept.
30 and the 50 shopkeepers would
have to move out.
In a letter to tenants, the FSLIC
said efforts to find a buyer for the
property had failed and that because
of large monthly losses by the pro
ject, it was no longer in the best in
terests of creditors or the FSLIC to
keep it open.
Houston shopping center devel
oper Dennis Ranzau, with financial
backing from boxing promoter Jose
phine Abercrombie, had been nego
tiating to buy the market and try to
revive it. Ranzau, of Equity Fund
Advisors, reportedly was negotiating
to pay about $4 million for the prop
erty.
Christopher M. Job, vice presi
dent in charge of retail leasing for
Equity, said, “We’re still hoping that
something can be worked out. But
we aren’t ready to close the deal
without further study. And while we
want to buy and operate the prop
erty, we can do it only if we are con
fident that the job can be done in an
economically viable manner.”
El Mercado may have been on the
verge of success as the opening of
the nearby George R. Brown Con
vention Center would bring people
close to the shopping center, said Al
vin Herbert, spokesman for the city
Planning and Development Depart
ment. The convention center will
open Sept. 26.
Lowest-pa id teacher
moves to new school
near Mexican border
PROGRESO (AP) — Janice Her-
branson, known as the nation’s low
est-paid teacher before her one-
room school closed in North Dakota,
said she expects to learn a lot from
her new job in this Mexican border
town.
“If I had known that not one of
my students could speak English, I
don’t know if I would have had the
guts to come down here,” Herbran-
son said Wednesday, while settling
into the first week of classes at Pro
greso Elementary School, near the
southern tip of Texas.
The 53-year-old teacher was mak
ing $6,800 a year when her one-
room schoolhouse in McLeod, N.D.,
closed in the spring of 1986 because
there was only one student left in the
ranching community.
“It was terribly sad because the
parents and grandparents had gone
to that school,” she said.
Now her salary has better than
tripled, to more than $25,000, at the
Progreso school, which is bordered
by sugar cane fields and mesquite
trees.
She speaks fluent Norwegian, but
is just beginning to learn common
Spanish vocabulary, like “muy bien”
(very well), “bonito” (pretty), and va
rious bathroom words from her 18
pre-kindergarten students.
She was waiting on a teaching job
in Alaska when the Progreso Inde-
endent School District recruited
er through Moorhead State Uni
versity in Minnesota, where she was
taking classes.
Courses she took made her eager
to work with different cultures, she
said.
“After I had signed the contract
here, the people from the Hopi res
ervation (in Arizona) called and
asked if I was still interested in a tea
ching job,” Herbranson said.
She said she may stay a few years.
“I’d like to get to where I know
the people and the community,” she
said, but added she plans to return
to North Dakota for Christmas and
the summer break.
It’s the first time she has moved
from North Dakota, where she said
•cultural diversity is hard to find.
In a few years, she said, tjiere may
be enough children back home to re
open the schoolhouse where she
taught for 16 years.
“The kids needed a tea
cher and I was living
there.I don’t think there’s
a job in the world that’s as
rewarding as teaching.
You see kids and their
faces when they’re learn
ing. Money can’t buy
that.”
—Janice Herbranson,
teacher
But she’s also trying to get a job
overseas, and said she hopes teach
ing in the border town of about
1,000 will help.
When it was discovered several
years ago, her status as the country’s
lowest-paid teacher found her fea
tured on national television and in
various magazines in the United
States and Europe.
“I got a letter from the president
of the United States, and I’m not
even a Republican,” said Herbran
son, a widow with three grown sons.
“It was a nice letter, a beautiful let
ter.”
She says she never considered
herself as special as an international
assortment of letter writers indi
cated.
“I never thought of it as that,” the
teacher said.
“The kids needed a teacher and I
was living there.
“I don’t think there’s a job in the
world that’s as rewarding as teach
ing. You see kids and their faces
when they’re learning. Money can’t
buy that.”
Senator backs application
for world trade zone status
MIDLAND (AP) — Sen. Phil
Gramm said Thursday he would try
to speed up Midland Regional Air
port’s application for international
trade zone status.
“This concept has been successful
in this state and around the coun
try,” Gramm said at an airport news
conference. “There’s no doubt
world trade is bound to grow and we
need to compete in that market.”
The airport in July was granted
international port of entry status by
the U.S. Customs Service. It allows
passengers and .cargo to enter the
country at the airport.
International trade zone status
would allow the shipment of goods
into and out of the country through
the airport. Right now, cargo — and
passengers — must check into an
other trade zone port when leaving
the country. The closest such port to
Midland-Odessa is Lubbock Interna
tional Airport.
Port of entry status is the first step
toward trade-zone status.
Gramm said approval for the
trade zone could take a year to 18
months but added he will do what he
can to speed things up.
“This area of the state needs eco
nomic diversification,” Gramm said.
“I’m committed to getting this
aproved as quickly as possible.
“This has been a successful con
cept elsewhere. A new job base for
the Permian Basin is vitally impor
tant.”
Odessa Mayor Don Carter said
the trade zone is necessary.
The Midland-Odessa area was hit
hard by the drop in petroleum
prices and decreased production.
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