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5% Wednesday, August 31,1988/The Battalion/Page 5 >outh Plains grape harvest omplete, but yields small f ID D f~\f^ 1/ /A 1>\ \ A ^ v.-. I T r'u I» ’ t-t: i f \ • “Vrui (Tfi 11 'gate )rgani«rhe white grapes, including ing. fluirdohnay, from grower Bob in 16? Sites’ 40-acre vineyard south of yjbbock, have already been har- bome l stec | an d crushed by Llano Esta- c do winery. Stiles, who has another [ ll-acre vineyard, sells all his grapes t Llano Estacado. tences p.iu.m in 201! )mali oublish s Up is arem i. II m LUBBOCK (A1 J ) — Workers on lesday filled tubs with bunches of uth Plains Cabernet Sauvignon ipes that won’t be seen on store Ives until 1991. [The grape harvest on the South ins, the center of the state’s fledg- wine industry, is almost coin- te, but growers say a late March :eze has cut yields. Tech University professor of horti culture who now acts as Llano Esta- cado’s liaison with South Plains grape growers. “We went through weather that was ideal for cotton and then we went to about three degrees and these plants weren't ready for that," he said. “The December weakened tfiese plants although you couldn’t see it.” The Lubbock County harvest has been moderately good, said Reed, and vineyards southeast of the area appear undamaged by the weather. “You go southeast of here about 10 miles in the Wilson area and there’s no damage — beautiful v ine yards, fantastic vineyards,’’ he said. Reed predicts that this year’s har vest may indicate that viticulture on the South Plains may be better suited to Lubbock and points south than further north, where the freeze killed entire v ines. “Those guys are always 10 days behind us in harvesting,” Reed said of growers in the Panhandle. “We re still waiting for somebody out in the Plainview area to bring in grapes and we’re done down here.” Hacks ii Showing a vine left devoid of leaves by the late f reeze, Stites said liyieldon Cabernet Sauvignon was liit almost by two-thirds by the lather. Normally he would have lirvested 3-4 tons of fruit per acre. “Ordinarily, these vines would be ack with grapes,” he said. However, the quality of the grapes liltivated in his 6-year-old vineyard on the approximately 2,000 Ires of grapes on the South Plains is licellent, said Llano Estacado presi- Itnt and chief executive officer [U Lowey. “This would be about our top of ie line, so we would pay SI, 100 to |,200 a ton” for Stites’ Cabernet uvignon fruit, he said. Fine Char- jnnay grapes will bring as much as 3 a ton, while the more com- Texans: Dukakis not soft on crime on Johannisberg Riesling ranges om $500 to $700 a ton. Those prices are comparable to ices paid in California’s Napa Val- |y,Lowey said. The winery, which in 1987 was ie state’s second-largest wine pro- later with 112,000 gallons, expects ft harvest about 250 tons of red i ipes and 750 tons of white, said | inemaker Don Brady. I Bradv also praised the crop’s qual- n ly, but said the quantity could be I :tter. ♦ I “The grapes are coming in with I me of the best chemistry we’ve lerseen,” he said. ■ Yields suffered from a dry au- Jmn followed by a quick drop in J ilnperature in December, coupled Nth the March freeze, which came lien buds were first starting to lrtn,said Bob Reed, a retired Texas AUSTIN (AP) — Texas supporters of Massachusetts Gov. Michael Du kakis on Tuesday decried Republi can charges that the Democratic presidential hopeful is sof t on crime, saying America is losing the “war on drugs” that Vice President George Bush was leading. “If George Bush was a real Texan, we’d say he was all hat and no cattle,” said Travis County Attorney Ken Oden, one of more than 130 lawmen and prosecutors who announced their endorsements of Dukakis. Bush, who calls Houston his adopted home, has been at the helm of the nation’s anti-narcotics efforts in recent years, but Oden and the others charged that during his ten ure problems with illegal drugs have gotten worse. “Bush is supposedly the general in the anti-drug effort, but while he has been on duty cocaine imports have tripled, drug-related deaths have doubled and heroin imports have risen by 50 percent,” Cameron County Sheriff Alex Perez said. “We can’t afford any more of this phony Reagan-Bush war on drugs,” Perez said.“We need a real war on drugs.” Tom Loeffler, co-chairman of Bush’s Texas campaign, continued GOP criticism of Dukakis’ record as governor Tuesday, saying Dukakis is more than soft on crime. “He’s at the point of meltdown.” Loeffler. a former congressman. echoed Bush criticism of a Massa- 1 chusetts program granting weekend furloughs to prison inmates. “Meltdown Mike has a wonderful way of punishing criminals in his state — he gives them weekend! passes and asks them to be good little boys for eight hours,” Loeffler said. “He thinks punishment is a four-let ter word.” I But the Dukakis backers, includ ing district attorneys, county attor neys, county sheriffs and the Com bined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, charged that Republicans have distorted Dukakis’ record. Attorney General Jim Mattox said Dukakis’ record is solid and that Re publicans such as Loeffler are ignor ing the facts. “We do not want to have four more years of gag lines,” he said. “Mike Dukakis understands how to combat crime. He is tough on crime.” Mattox and others, including state Sen. John Montford, D-Lubbock, said that crime in Massachusetts has dropped 13.4 percent and the homi cide rate is the lowest for any indus trial state. Besides that, Mattox said, 40 states have similar inmate furlough programs. / jimmiumnw - I - : j Get some REAL furniture! Lease a COMPLETE One bedroom furniture package for as little as... 6 e $39 00 per month base rent y\ 0 e©° \N> ^ -sA’ ■or- Lease by the piece General Furniture Leasing Mon.-Fri. 9-6 Sat. 10-4 764-0721 913-D Harvey Rd. 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