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Our drivers carry less than $20.00 Limited delivery area. 01987 Domino's Pizza, Inc. 693-2335 1504 Holleman 260-9020 822-7373 4407 S. Texas Ave. Townshire Shopping Cen. AUSTIN (AP) — The American Heart Association hasn’t exactly been friendly to the beef industry’s efforts to promote its product, but it joined hands with the Texas Beef Industry Council Wednesday to pro claim that lean red meat can be part of a healthy diet. Dr. Michael H. Crawford, presi dent of the heart association’s Texas branch, acknowledged that his group and the beef industry “didn’t see eye-to-eye” in the past, primarily because beef has a reputation for high fat and cholesterol levels that can clog arteries. But he said Wednesday, “I think it’s through that conflict that this new direction took place. Now there is a cooperation towards pursuing a common goal of reducing the amount of fat that’s involved with beef, both in its production and in the way it’s cut and marketed in the grocery store. “Cutting down on saturated fat and cholesterol does not mean that you have to cut out beef, lamb or pork.” Crawford is co-director of the car diology division at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. as part of a national, week-long heart association Food Festival that begins Sunday. During the festival — an educatio nal program touting the cardiovas cular benefits of a low-fat, low-cho- “. . . Now there is a cooperation towards pursuing a common goal of reducing the amount of fat that’s in volved with beef, both in its production and in the way it’s cut and marketed in the grocery store. ” — Dr. Michael H. Crawford, president of the heart as sociation’s Texas branch Representatives of the National Live Stock and Meat Board met with heart association members Five years ago to discuss new research into the nutrition value of beef, said Anne Anderson, executive director of the Texas Beef Industry Council. The council and heart association held its press conference Wednesday lesterol diet— more than 4.5 million brochures featuring lean-beef reci pes will be given to Texas shoppers. Anderson said the red-meat rep resentatives had asked association members to assess the main problem facing their industry. Their response “was only a three- letter word, and that word was ‘fat,’ ” she said. “That wan!* lenge that we in this indusir faced for the last five yean.’ To reduce fat, the beefu has worked to breed leanc and to trim meat more dost derson said. The industn: ducting a $26 million a<k| campaign promoting beef. Tne diet includes five n ounces of lean meat, fish or each day, along with fruiu, bles, bread and low-fat dap ucts, said Lynne W. Scon vice chairman and r tian at the Diet Modi at the Baylor College of Mi Three ounces of trim lean beef contains 76 cholesterol, 189 calories age of 3.4 {jrams Anderson said. Cardiovascular disease ii mg killer in Texas and the than 51,000 Texanso M irdiovascular disease in 198: New technology in trucking industry beats out old with soft-sided trailers Welcome Services (f Sunday Ev Wednesda 1 MANSFIELD f APj — A truck a truck is a truck. Right? Wrong. New technology can strike even the staid trucking industry. Build a better box and freight-haulers will beat a path to your trailers, believes Fred Ufolla, president of a Mans field startup called Nu Van Technol ogy. “They’ll blow the doors away,” Ufolla says. Nu Van Technology was born this year out of another Mansfield man ufacturer of truck trailers, Aztec Products Inc. Aztec produces a vari ety of trailers under traditional and new techniques. Nu Van specializes in new types of trailers for long-distance hauls. At first blush, both companies’ in novative trailers appear awfully low- tech. The difference: soft sides instead of hard sides. Truck trailers for decades have been made of aluminum sheets at tached to posts surrounding a flat bed, with a solid ceiling. The new products, made by a handful of American manufacturers including Nu Van and Aztec, use curtains on the sides. When loading or unloading the truck, the curtains fold back. When hanhng freight., the cux- tains are closed and buckled into place by heavy-duty straps. The re sulting walls act just like aluminum sheets, Ufolla says. That is mandatory. Say you're hauling large appliances stacked on top of each other. That creates a high center of grav ity in the load. “When you’re coming around the mountains . . . and you’ve got a high- center-of-gravity load, it (the load) will come through that wall” if it can’t bear the weight, Ufolla says. Once those basic trucking needs are addressed, the advantages of soft-sided trucks are measured in seconds, minutes and hours. Consider companies using so- called “just-in-time” inventory tech niques. In thejust-in-time approach, trucks become a company’s ware houses. Parts should arrive just in time to go from loading dock to assembly line. This saves a company overhead and labor. The soft-sided van saves time. With hard-sided trucks, there is only one way for a forklift operator to get the cargo out: Through the back door. The advantages of such soft-sided trucks can 'oe measured m \rvcY\es, as well. Using curtains eliminates posts. That saves two inches on each side of a trailer. Trailers typically are 48 feet long. It adds up. In addition, the decks of the new trailers often drop down between the wheels, creating more storage space. A forklift can't easily reach a dropped deck in a standard trailer. All told, one of these new trailers can increase the amount of usable space by 20 percent, says Ufolla. Then, says Aztec’s Larry Davis, comes what makes the trailers “a thing of the future." “They are so doggone versatile,” he says. The trick: Turning one trailer into two. The soft sides can be supple mented by adjustable ramps. The trucker gets a normal four-sided tra iler, plus a flatbed trailer — with a two-tiered bed if needed. “In our industry nowadays,” says Ufolla, “a trucker has to have two- way loaded miles to make it.” Profits on one haul aren’t enough to sup port driving an empty truck back. So these innovative vans are not so low-tech after all. Too, the curtains are a particular type of material — polyester coated vswYy poVyvmy\ Y in high-grade plasticpjpa ie PVC-coated cur Those backed by strong reinforcr. to create walls that will lei strapped down. And many Aztec traikn another reinforcement -i plastic designed to combi:: tains’ biggest liability: tuxrv to theft. Without additioruii the standard PVC-coated p; can be cut by a strong knift That is unacceptable loir term customers. Coca-Coiiii instance, has been a majorpr of the Mansfield-made vans But vandals that can slice: a van will. In the worst at Ufolla, a thief could cutthKS curtain and remove produce' beverage company unloads a the other side. But the curtains not or: side loading, they eliminait bor-intensive process of cove lumber with tarpaulin. 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