Monday, April 4, 1988/The Battalion/Page 5
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AMARILLO (AP) — Affiliated Foods Inc.
ed an antitrust lawsuit against Borden Inc., As-
iated Milk Producers Inc. and Furr’s Inc., al
leging the firms conspired to keep milk industry
mpetition out of Eastern New Mexico.
In the suit, Amarillo attorney Cleo Clayton,
presenting Affiliated, contends that a dairy-in
dustry oligopoly exists in an area encompassing
artions of New Mexico, Texas and Colorado,
which are serviced by two major producers, Bor-
nand Dean Foods Co., and a few smaller inde-
ndent plants.
The suit, which was filed on Thursday, seeks
$7.5 million in damages, an amount that may be
amended as the plaintiff ascertains the exact
ount of damage done. Damages are tripled in
titrust litigation.
Affiliated alleges that Borden declined to sell it
sets of the milk plant in Clovis, N.M., in favor
f selling to AMPI, a company that markets
roducts that do not directly compete with Bor-
[en, the Amarillo Globe-News reported.
The maneuver, according to the lawsuit, was
designed to protect Borden’s market in the trade
area.
The issue dates back to last summer, when
Furr’s began negotiating with Safeway Inc. to
buy 60 grocery stores in the affected area, the
suit says.
During that time, Affiliated contends the de
fendants conspired to have Furr’s also purchase
the equipment and the leasehold estate at the
Clovis milk plant so that it could be put in the
control of Borden.
The land and building at the milk plant site
are owned by the city of Clovis.
Furr’s closed the plant after acquiring the lease
to the facility and Borden acquired the assets, the
suit alleges. Borden then prepared to dismantle
the operation, an action objected to by city offi
cials.
The suit alleges that Borden did not intend to
operate the facility but bought the lease only to
eliminate it as a processor of fluid milk products.
The Affiliated attorney said Clovis officials’
objections prompted Borden to seek a new buyer
to lease the facility, and Borden offered to sell
the plant to Affiliated for the amount of salvage
value.
In December, the lawsuit contends, Affiliated
agreed in writing to the price Borden placed on
the sale of the assets.
Borden declined the Affiliated offer, selling its
holdings instead to AMPI, the suit claims.
The agreement between Borden and AMPI,
according to the suit, called for the dismantling
and removal of fluid milk equipment, to be re
placed with equipment that would turn the oper
ation into a balancing plant processing butter,
dry milk products and cheddar cheese.
That would enable Borden to eliminate a com
petitor for its fluid milk, cottage cheese and sour
cream business, officials said.
Clayton said Furr’s benefitted from the ar
rangement because it could guarantee that Bor
den would not have a competitor in the area that
would distribute the products to Furr’s compet
itors at a cost less than that paid by Furr’s for
such products.
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Activist calls
Easter protest
‘success’
HOUSTON (AP) — A gay
rights activist called a symbolic
protest at a Baptist Easter Sunday
service a success, while church of
ficials said the group distorted an
issue to their own ends.
Between 75-200 gay rights sup-
rters attended services at the
cond Baptist Church here to
rotest the exclusion of a French
orn player with AIDS and tu
berculosis from performing dur
ing the service, gay rights activist
Ray Hill said.
Pastor Ed Young estimated as
many as 6,000 people showed up
to hear his Easter message, whicn
began with a reference to the
Black Death, continued into ac
counts of his own brushes with
death and ended with the impor
tance of the resurrection of
Christ.
The Black Death swept Europe
in the 14th Century, killing much
of its population. In recent years,
parallels have been drawn be
tween the plague and the toll the
so-far incurable AIDS epidemic
may take.
Man in prison after posing
as female recording artist
FORT WORTH (AP) — For 11
months last year, Hilton Williams
passed himself off as rhythm-and-
blues recording artist Shirley Mur
dock, and signed her name to about
$20,000 of worthless checks.
Now he sits in the Tarrant County
Jail, but he isn’t singing the blues.
The 27-year-old former Dallas
bank teller is dreaming of the money
he’ll make when he writes the book
and makes the movie about his ex
ploits.
The real Shirley Murdock has had
a hit single, “As We Lay,” and has
performed on network television
and toured widely.
Posing as Murdock, Williams
claims to have persuaded her fans,
acquaintances and club owners that
he was the real thing.
“Maybe I’ve always had the abil
ity,” he told the Dallas Morning
News. “It’s so easy for people to like
me. Even some of the people who I
told, ‘I’m not Shirley Murdock’ —
they still hung around.”
Tarrant County prosecutor Mike
Berry called Williams “a super con,”
and his attorney, Steven Stavron,
said, “It’s just beyond belief.”
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Williams is waiting to be trans
ferred to the Texas Department of
Corrections to begin serving two
prison sentences — 10 years from a
court in Walker County for theft
and four years from a court in Tar
rant County for theft by check.
In the Tarrant County case, Wil
liams was accused of writing a series
of worthless checks in February
1987 under his own name to buy
women’s clothing, a handbag and
shoes. He later wore the items w’hen
impersonating Murdock.
“I was just doing it for furt at
first,” Williams said in a recent inter
view at the county jail. “But it got so
big, and I started to make some
money, so I said, ‘Let’s jump on
this.’ ”
He signed Murdock’s name on
about $20,000 in worthless checks
during his travels to Washington,
Chicago, New York, Miami and At
lanta.
Williams, a soft-spoken man, 5
feet 7 and 187 pounds, said he be
gan to impersonate Murdock after
seeing her on “Soul Train.”
“Everybody said I looked just like
her, sang just like her,” he said. “I
just thought that was the way to go.”
Williams has an engaging person
ality and on several occasions has
turned the somber courtroom into a
comedy corner.
Williams said he doesn’t know
when he discovered his ability to de
ceive, but officials said that long be
fore he began impersonating Mur
dock he was an accomplished hot-
check artist.
Several years ago, he drove off in
a new Jaguar after writing a $20,000
bad check, officials said.
Williams was arrested at a hotel in
Washington in December when a
clerk caught wind of his ruse. He
was returned to Texas to face the
theft charges in Walker and Tarrant
counties.
Williams wants to get a book pub
lished or a film made about his life.
“I want to go straight when I get
out,” he said. “Now that I realize I
do have talent, I want to use my tal
ent and skill to enhance my career.
“I’ll be glad when everything’s
over and we can start making some
money off of it.”
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