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Tuesday, September 8,1987/The Battalion/Page 9 ^Company in Texas sells dressing mofor success, salad-hungry clients GAINESVILLE (AP) — Ever i if you don't since the first batch of blue cheese emerged from the mixing bowl in (hbors and relate 1965, Chef Maurice’s has been ; the eggs and dressing up an increasingly health- t Easter, Lylesau conscious and salad-hungry South- f the eggs fortiie west. ; of the geese U Just looking at a chilled, tantaliz- >use in places L -ing pint jar of the gourmet salad e’s got nine younj.dressing still thrills Sue Goodwin, he most recent tc who has been managing Crystal Da iry* Products — the company that geese caused quit* manufacturer of Chef Maurice’s — sorhood until the since her father died several years lip through the ago. Highland Aven* fit’s just the best in the world,” e than once by a she claims. ed fugitives She says she’s received a flood of eet. compliments on the company’s Gai- honk at night ; nesville-produced product, includ- )isy if one of the ing a plea from a Tyler gourmet to rs off and his enfer the dressing in a world food ; for him. But LvTompetition that will be held in 1 price to pat ; Brussels. ertainment the > Goodwin markets most of the lys following tv dressing through a food broker to i the yard. hospitals, hotels, restaurants and colleges in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. But she says the dressing also is sold in stores in the Gainesville area. The company has built a diverse clientele that includes the Mariott Hotel chain and the University of Texas at Austin, but has kept a low profile for most of its 23 years. “I don’t think anyone even knows we’re here,” Goodwin says, telling a story of a family friend who recently caught up with her and asked, “What do you do?” Although the business hasn’t made the family millions, it has grown steadily since the early days when Goodwin’s parents, Roy and Rita Stamps, grew restless in retire ment and decided to start Crystal Dairy Products. Now, Chef Maurice’s is more than a name. The “Cadillac of Salad Dressings” was conceived by a Dal las resident — Chef Maurice, of course. When the product’s namesake came to Gainesville and told the Stampses about his idea for a dress ing, Roy became interested and mixed up a couple of batches of blue cheese. Although Chef Maurice didn’t last in the business, his name and his dream lived on. Blue cheese dressing sold well, and Chef Mau rice’s later added two new flavors to its repetoire — Rita’s Thousand Is land and Sue’s Buttermilk. Today the product is made in an unpretentious building by four workers who blend and beat be tween 65 and 70 cases of dressing each day. It’s a simple process, in volving hand-mixing mayonnaise, buttermilk from a dairy in Burk- burnett and special seasonings in a huge vat. The dressing is then refrigerated — it has few preservatives and little food coloring or salt —until it is shipped out on Mondays and Tues days. Goodwin says that despite the ris ing cost of producing the dressing, Chef Maurice’s has maintained its quality and it is thicker, richer and more tasty than most supermarket dressings. She constantly is promoting the product by traveling to food snows throughout Texas and giving free samples to anyone who visits Crys tal Dairy. The product recently was under consideration by the Tex- oma Regional Planning Commis sion for inclusion in its Taste of Texoma food marketing program modeled after Texas Agriculture Commissoner Jim Hightower’s Taste of Texas. Although Mrs. Stamps, now 80, has basically handed over the reins of the business to her daughter, she still comes into the office everyday, and does what she can to tell people about Chef Maurice’s. me atioi was paid $500 f? d seven yean kr g from her pub. e sequel. Her t ler S1,000. attributes the s. and all western: it “men want toi as women do." e the oventhti: books, the idea g a "man’s" boob o some, she says recalls an autof Longview book >mer approache: i Erie Aclkinslxx Truck dumps cantaloupes on highway ■ BOERNE (AP) — Labor Day e^istbound traffic got a little sticky on Interstate 10 after an 18- wlieeler jackknifed and dumped over 21 tons of cantaloupe on the rpad. ■ Texas Department of Public Safety dispatcher Charlie Devine in Kerrville said the cantaloupe was free-loaded. ■ The accident happened abound 8 a.m. Monday as the ve hicle tried to exit the interstate, D( vine said. The truck driver and alpassenger were injured in the accident. Soy, 12, held in juvenile center for attempted murder of sister EL PASO (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was being held in a juvenile detention center on an attempted murder charge in connection with the shooting of his 16-year- old sister. The girl was in serious and guarded condition at Beaumont Army Medical Center after undergoing sev eral hours of surgery late Sunday for the gunshot wound to her head, an Army spokesman told the El Paso Times. Officials did not release the name of the wounded girl’s brother because he is a juvenile. The boy told police he and his sister were home alone and got into an argument at about 4 p.m. Sunday, Lt. J.R. Grijalva said. “The argument became physical and the 12-year-old pulled out a small-caliber revolver from a desk,” Gri jalva said. “He shot her once in the head, the left temple," he said. “There was no exit wound,” he said. Police removed several rifles from the home during their investigation. Grijalva said the boy called them and gave police de tails. The boy told officers his mother was on a fishing trip, Grijalva said. But he said he didn’t know where his mother was fishing, Grijalva said. Neighbors said the mother returned home at about 7:30 p.m., was told of the shooting and went to Beau mont. Lt. Col. James Lawson, Fort Bliss public affairs offi cer, said the father of the two children is a senior en listed serviceman stationed in Germany. i up to my hii dking to him as ins,” she says. "Fi >ld him if hew hor, he needed lan looked at nit own. i what was wroni. Idn’t buy that boo n wrote it. I toUl i everything tif 1 rid if he boug: 't like it, hecotfe 1 gave him mya:: n I would persts oney back. Toth 1 from him." nimal shelter in Angleton lacks occupants NGLETON (AP) — The $12,000 Brazoria County animal shelter has the cages to handle 10 dogs and 10 cats, but it’s often miss ing the animals. ■Since the shelter opened three months ago with an anhual budget HT$30,000, it has housed a total of 24 dogs and five cats. Five caf cagefc never have been used. ■ From the outside, the shelter looks more like a typical middle-class home than a dog pound. The red brick building with green trim and arched, shiny metal roof has an air- conditioned office, coffee room and cat area. The canines even have access to a roomy recreation yard and sleep on rubber-coated metal bunks. On Wednesday, a mutt picked up two days earlier after it ventured into a neighborhood yard was the lone occupant. At a time when county funds are tight and some county employees may face layoffs, many are begin ning to see a 3-month-old white el ephant. Commissioners admit they may have made a costly mistake. “It’s a heck of a nice facility — much nicer than what we need right now,” Brazoria County Sheriff Joe King said. King, whose department runs the shelter, said the low and sometimes nonexistent occupancy rate can be blamed on the lack of a county program to pick up strays. Plans to construct the shelter, paid for with federal revenue sharing funds, began in 1985 when the county was in relatively good finan cial shape and adopted its own ani mal control regulations. The federal funds could have been used for other projects, said County Commissioner Joe Plaster, who now thinks that a more modest metal building would have served the county’s needs. CrepeMyrtle Cafe 901 East University 260-9150 ALL YOU CAN EAT South of the Border Buffet 150% lOFF ONE BUFFET Tuesday Nite (served 5-9 p.mj ADULTS 5 87 CHILD 2 87 SENIOR CITIZENS 4 87 Limit One Per Person • Exp. 10/1/87 AH the Pizza, l&diA-. and Beer you can hold only 5 98 Included Males Included Women If anyone's enjoyment exceeds relaxed merriment. Double Dave's reserves the right to cease serving them. 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