Tuesday, September 8,1987/The Battalion/Page 9
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mofor success, salad-hungry clients
GAINESVILLE (AP) — Ever
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emerged from the mixing bowl in
(hbors and relate 1965, Chef Maurice’s has been
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f the eggs fortiie west.
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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.
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ed fugitives She says she’s received a flood of
eet. compliments on the company’s Gai-
honk at night ; nesville-produced product, includ-
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rs off and his enfer the dressing in a world food
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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.
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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.
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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.
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