[News Stories]; 1) St Pat's, 2) Schiff on Anays, 3) S Valley Grower's Market, 4) Trinity Site, 5) Lite Beef, 6) Jenco, 7) Amnesty, 8) Roaches, 9) Fed Spend

The scene that drove the snakes out of Ireland has a loyal following all over the world, including faraway cities like Albuquerque, New Mexico. Although St. Patrick's Day is tomorrow, Albuquerque, like other cities in the United States, got a head start on the celebrations yesterday with its annual parade. One of the groups representing the Irish in the yesterday's parade was the ancient order of hibernians, an order created several centuries ago to establish justice for Irish Catholics. Father Edward O'Burn was there with some details about the saint who Father O'Burn says might have been shocked by some of the celebrations held in his name. St. Patrick's Day in Ireland is a day of obligation where people go to church. It's very religious day. And there's always the danger of losing that, and forgetting that St. Patrick's Day falls in the middle of land, and that he was very a very pent an attentional person. He really fasted for 40 days and he imitated Christ's 40 days in the desert.

Irish love and celebration, but they also have known sorrow, they have known pain. So how do you combine the two? This is the paradox we live with in life anyway, sorrow and joy, death and resurrection. And I think the true spirit in Patrick is the trying to be of this spirit of suffering leading to joy and success. Father Edward O'Burn is of the ancient order of hibernians. An honorable participant in St. Patrick's Day celebrations for the last half century is Albuquerque's Irish-born brother Matthias, who founded and for many years has operated the little brothers of a good shepherd refuge. Brother Matthias has a birthday on St. Patrick's Day, and tomorrow he will turn 87. The St. Patrick's Hakem over to Ireland and to his wealth was pegged at the time, you know, and to his tuition distressed too, like your Indians in this country.

I'm terrible fathered the Indians over here, different tribes, but I never could understand they're always tartarous, but I found out, and it contained my work at the refuge, that they're all different tribes, and they don't agree amongst each other, like you have it in Ireland as you do, so it'll take time, and people love people, that's all you need. It will see you at the dinner. That dinner is the annual corn to beef and cabbage dinner, which is tomorrow at 4 p.m. at the Convention Center, that proceeds, benefit the little brothers of the good shepherd refuge. A friend of brother Matthias, Mr. Derby, comes here every year from New York to visit him. He has some Irish toasts for those who might be raising their glasses tomorrow night. He begins, may you have warm words on a cold evening. A full moon on a dark night, and a downhill road all the way to your door. May every hill on your head turn into a candle, to light your way to heaven, and may the

good Lord and his holy mother take the harm of the years away from you. Blue be the skies above you, green be the grass you walk on, pure be the joys that surround you, and true be the hearts that love you. Now I'll give you a little ditty on this one. St. Patrick was a gentleman of strategy and strength. He drove the snakes of Ireland, is a toast unto his health. But not too many toasts now, unless we forget him then, forget the good St. Patrick, and see the snakes again. Suggested intro. The New Mexico District Attorney is taking legal action to challenge Governor Tony Anaya's recent decision to commute the sentences of the state's death row inmates. Kathy Grassley reports from Member Station KUNM in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

When New Mexico Governor Tony Anaya commuted the sentences of five death row inmates to life in prison on Thanksgiving Eve, he cited the inhumanity and immorality of capital punishment as his reasons. Now critics are saying he abused his power of office. Finally, O'County District Attorney Stephen Schiff announced yesterday he would go to the state Supreme Court to challenge at least one of the commutations. I am filing today with the state Supreme Court an action to set aside the commutation of the death penalty for Joel Lee Compton. My grounds for taking this action is that the commutation by Governor Anaya is an unlawful use of his executive authority. Schiff argues a governor should not be able to use executive authority to set aside a statute of the state of New Mexico. What he says is the job of the legislature. Schiff is challenging only one inmate commutation because it is that one case which allows him procedurally to file directly to the state Supreme Court. But Schiff says he presumes the outcome of this case would apply to the other four as well.

Schiff says the state Supreme Court may decide by Christmas Eve whether to hear his challenge. For National Public Radio in Albuquerque, I'm Kathy Grassley. The autumn conjures up images of harvest time and the cornucopia of squash and melons and corn and tomatoes. It's also a time when you don't have to go to the supermarket only to find wilted lettuce from California or overpriced apples from Washington. Homegrown produce is abundant now and the popular growers market in the Heights is one place to find it. Another growers market sprouted this year. This one is in the South Valley on a trisco. This location provides convenience for the South Valley growers and for city consumers. And at least for now it is small enough so you can get to know the people who sell you what they grow. If you're one who thinks organic farming is planting your seeds and hoping for the best or that organic apples, for example, are the ones that are shriveled up and full of worms, one of the farmers at the market, Rusty Dupkins, squashes those notions. I was doing an experimental plot of canelopes with big raised beds and I got a yield of

20,000 to the acre, which is about twice the national average. I used big raised beds and grew the canelopes up on the top of them and I fertilized the soil with seaweed meal, humates, composted manure, sulfur and bone meal. And I also fully sprayed the plants with seaweed and fish emulsion fertilizer. And we didn't really have any problem with bugs or anything. They were really prolific. It looked like somebody just dropped the bag of marbles on the top of the beds. They were just canelopes everywhere. Dupkins living fields farm is also a school as of this year for those who want to learn how to beat the chemical pesticide habit and still make a profit. The one thing that I did have a problem with was when the melons were just coming up is called the cucumber beetle, a spotted cucumber beetle. It looks like a green ladybug and some of them are striped. And I sprayed them when the plants were very, very small. They were just coming up and getting their first leaves. The cucumber beetles were just too off the leaves and the stem right at the ground level and killed the seedlings.

And so I sprayed them with thing called pyronone. It's made from a chrysanthemum plant. It's a pyrethrin. It's an organic insecticide. It rapidly decomposes and it's not very toxic to the other insects in the garden. But it did get rid of the cucumber beetles long enough for the little plants to get up. Once they get up past the first few leaves and it's no problem. Organic farmer Rusty Dupkins. Besides fruits and vegetables at the atrisco market, you can also find grain, not wheat or rice or rye, but a grain called amaranth, raised first by the Aztecs and now by farmers less and Beth Crowder. Beth Crowder describes how amaranth almost got lost. Amaranth is a high protein grain that was domesticated by the Aztec people in Mexico. And when the conquistadores came around and wanted to eradicate the population there, they you know, besides trying to destroy, they were trying to destroy the culture in one way to do that is to get rid of the most important thing, which is food and this particular crop or the grain was important economically because they used it to pay their taxes and it was

important nutritionally because it's such a good food and they ate it and also spiritually they used, they made little cakes called zoolas and they used those in their ceremonies, their religious ceremonies. So Cortes thought, well, if we get rid of this, then we have them licked. The reason the Crowder started growing amaranth was because they wanted to find crops more appropriate to New Mexico's environment and amaranth is a drought tolerant plant. The greens are also edible like spinach. The amaranth grain is also, well, it's grounded in flour, but it's also popped. In Mexico, they make a candy out of it called alegría and so it's, but you can buy it popped, I guess, just eat as a snack. Beth and less Crowder operates sparrow hawk farm south of Berlin. The South Valley atrisco growers market was the brainchild of John Cabral, a student in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. The department in the past, as Cabral, has dealt with South Valley problems and the need to promote social and economic development in the valley.

Well, one of the solutions that had been thought of as a possible means for the social economic development of the area was a growers market. So since I was interested in the problems of the connection between urban consumers and rural producers and the problem of farm land preservation around cities in the United States. Cabral approached an existing group in the South Valley, the atrisco land rights council. The purpose of the atrisco land rights council has been to preserve the land and culture of the area and to organize the farmers in the valley. So Cabral, with the support and participation of the council, wrote a feasibility study. And this year, the growers market got off paper and is now a reality. The atrisco South Valley growers market is open every Saturday from 7 a.m. to noon until October 4. For the KU&M Evening Report, I'm Kathy Grassle. Some people in the Roswell area who saw the blast call it the day the sun rose in the

west. Trinity site is now just part of the wide open spaces of White Sands missile range. There is little there to suggest this was the place the first atomic bomb was detonated except a circular area enclosed by a fence and a small monument marking ground zero. But twice a year, the public is allowed on to the range to visit the site. According to public affairs specialist Jim Eccles, Saturday's cold and rainy weather kept the usual 800 average visitation down to about 500. Any reason why it's opened up to the public at all? There was a great interest in it. There's a back in the 50s. There was a lot of congressional interest. The National Park Service has a lot of interest in the site because of his historical value. And the public in general want to come and see it. Any risk to us even these days, 40 some years later? Radiation is almost back down to background levels. It's 10 times background right now at ground zero.

There's no danger anywhere else and that isn't really considered a danger at ground zero. Unless you pick up the what's it called trinitite? Now after the explosion, the intense heat of the explosion melted the sand and fused it in the glass and it was called trinitite. It's a greeny glassy substance. Most of the radiation is locked up in the trinitite. And it was plowed up buried in the ground and things. So there's not much left out there, but it still is, of course, radiating. Since it really isn't much to see out there, what are we as tourist or citizens supposed to get out of this trip? I don't know. We open it up and people keep coming. I mean. Is it a mystery to you? Well, not real. I think a lot of people want to say or stand on the ground with the first atomic bomb was exploded because it's in everybody's life. I mean, what started here at trinitite affects us and everybody else in the world. And I think people relate to that and want to come back and see where that all started.

A lot of them people are just curiosity seekers. Some people are disappointed that there's no crater or anything like that when they get here. We get some older folks that participate in World War II or live in World War II. And they come to see what ended World War II for them. It meant that their fathers, their brothers, their sons came home alive. Whatever. I notice on the hand out there, no sit-ins, demonstrations, beaches and that sort of thing allowed here, would this be a place to come for demonstrations? Beats me. I don't know why anybody would bother. I mean, it's a historical site, something that happened back in 1945. I don't know what good it'd do, anybody. On display at Ground Zero is a model of the so-called Fat Man, one of the two Los Alamos made atom bombs. The other bomb, Little Boy and Fat Man, closed out World War II on August 9, 1945, when they were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A sign standing in front of the Fat Man reads, quote, in the post-war period, the new force was seen as a deterrent to war and mankind's greatest hope for lasting peace, unquote.

Under display at the site was the front page of the Santa Fe, New Mexico and dated Monday, August 6, 1945. The newspaper expressed some shock that the deadliest weapons in the world's history were made in the Santa Fe vicinity, a city of 6,000 in its own front yard was ignored by residents of Santa Fe, except in whispers, for more than two years. Dr. J.R. Openheimer was one of the first to arrive at the secret community of Los Alamos where scientists from all over the country would pool their talent to make the atomic bomb. The bomb was not assembled in Los Alamos, but near ground zero at the McDonald Ranch, now restored and included in the Trinity site tour. People who came the distance and then braved the bad weather on Saturday had these impressions. I was told that it was a creepy place to be because it reminded you of all the nuclear development that was under in the war, and I needed to come see it sometime. Something I've been putting off doing for a long time and decided to come down. When the actual device was detonated, I was living in Roswell, and a lot of people were

talking about the big flash, and of course the Army used the cover story that it was an ordnance depot that had blown up, but it was interesting because it was visible over such a large area. Well, I was in the Army when the thing went off, so I don't see where it all started, are you? For our kids coming up in this world with nuclear bombs, I'll say that. We got a rancher and a real small one, who knows what's going to happen to them now. I think the events that happened here certainly have affected my life, and will probably affect future generations to come. It's probably the biggest event of the century. Trinity site, southeast of Socorro, has opened twice a year to the public. It will be open again, the first Saturday, October. Red meat, especially beef, has been getting a bad rap in recent years, has helped conscious consumers which to leaner meats like poultry and fish. Cattle feeders use of additives like hormones and antibiotics has further dissuaded the consumer from eating beef.

An organ couple has teamed up with other ranchers to change all that. Ranchers, doc and Connie Hatfield, are now marketing their own beef under their own brand name, Country Natural Beef. Connie Hatfield says they were slow to catch on to changing times. I had regular doctor exam and found out I had high cholesterol. Oh, that was kind of a shock because I figured high cholesterol was usually overweight men in their late 60s or something, you know, I mean that's just kind of what I thought. I'm getting close, but not quite there yet, and so that was a shock to me, and I started kind of thinking about all this stuff in our two neighbors, wonderful neighbor ranchers. Both of them had quad triple surgery, bypass surgery, and every time you turn on their radio or hear the TV or you hear things about doctors and they're saying, you know, cut down on red meat. You don't want the fat red meat on and on and on and on. I thought to myself, gosh, it's got vitamin B12, the only fishing get it's got good iron, it's got protein, it's also putting on quite a bit of weight. Connie Hatfield went to a fitness center to lose weight and got a different story from

its director. He said, always said, I recommend at least three times a week that our people eat beef. He said, red meat, good, you know, three times a week. He said, with his next breath, he said, the trouble is, he said, we have an awful hard time getting Argentina beef. And I said, why Argentina beef? And he said, well, it has no hormones, no antibiotics put in it and he said it's raised on grass. It doesn't go through the feed lots, it doesn't have a lot of fat. He said, we have a real hard time getting it in. Doc and Connie Hatfield realized they had the same product 50 miles from the retail meat markets on their own ranch. They brought about 30 ranchers together and formed a co-op with common goals. Then the Hatfields made the link to the retail meat buyers. They decided there was a need for a smaller cut of a leaner product naturally grown. Health-oriented people don't want such a big cut. We get rid of the hormones in the antibiotics where they're a concern, health-wise or not as in material.

A lot of consumers don't want them. So why should we tell them that's what they're going to get? And of course, the leaner product means that we don't need as much fat. And that was the birth of country natural beef. We gathered 87 people from throughout the state and we met in our barn and kind of filled the barn. We had our accountant, some marketing folks and a packing house man and a restaurant tour and some people who weren't typical ranchers and we talked about it for a few hours and broke into groups and made a steering committee and we came up with a goal. Doc and Connie Hatfield went through the school offered at the Center for Holistic Resource Management here in Albuquerque, setting goals and taking charges part of the program. Difficult for ranchers who Hatfield calls traditionally chauvinistic and not business-oriented. You've been on feedlot tours before and all people are in the corners shooting the breeze and spitting snooze juice into the other pan and everybody here's paying attention because they know when that cattle goes out of there and it goes to the meat, some consumers

can't know where that come from if it didn't right, it's our tough luck. And right there is the big problem in agriculture, we're not responsible. If there ever was an irresponsible industry, it's got to be agriculture. We produce and produce and then expect somebody else to peddle it and that's surely coming to an end. Hatfields, together with the other Oregon ranchers, now have a thriving business and a successful product that consumers are demanding and paying higher prices for. Red meat, yes, but lean meat, free of attitudes. The key, according to the Hatfields, is asking the consumer and providing that consumer by taking over the functions of the many middlemen between the rancher and the consumer. We put a bowl with a cow and it's nine months till we've got a calf. Most of us are a lot of us retain ownership on that critter for another 18 months, maybe longer. Anyhow, we've got about 28 months till that animal is on the rail and a packing house. From the time that animal is killed in another 28 days, it's in some consumer stomach.

When you think if we're smart enough and we're financially involved enough to retain ownership to that product and take control of it for 28 months, that we could handle it 28 more days. Dock and Connie Hatfield, Oregon ranchers and graduates of Albuquerque Center for Holistic Resource Management, spoke at the Center's third annual meeting held in Albuquerque this weekend. The plight of the American hostages held in Lebanon is again in the news as a result of President Reagan's diplomatic success in achieving the release of accused spy Nicholas Daniloff from the Soviet Union. That success was dampened by the unsolicited voices from another part of the world. Voices of hostages Terry Anderson and David Jacobson held in Beirut by the Islamic She-Hat, they're asking why the same effort is not being exerted to secure their release in Lebanon. The President responded angrily to these hostages' concern. Reagan said there was no comparison between the two hostage situations.

He said he didn't know who was holding them. The Reverend Father Lawrence Martin Janko, released by the same captors holding Anderson and Jacobson, says he can't buy that. If he does not know who is holding the hostages, then who negotiated for my release? Father Janko is back in New Mexico this week. He was pastor at our Lady of Berlin Catholic Church from 1979 to 1981. This is Janko's first visit to Berlin since his release in July from captivity in Lebanon. He says he knows who's holding six other American hostages, and he's sure Reagan does too. It's hard to believe that here's our country that has the greatest expertise in the world. It has all the genius behind it. It's strange that the President made that statement for almost two and a half years now they can't find the hidden places in Lebanon, a small country. Now Janko says he is committed to doing what he believes his government should be doing. That is, working for the release of the remaining hostages.

When you meet with the family, and you call the families, and my own family had, for 19 months, had to fly around this country of ours to make aware the flight of the forgotten seven. Then you began to wonder, especially when you hear from the families, have you heard anything? Are they giving you any information? And it's no, no, no, no. Janko says the families have taken the initiative because they're tired of the government run around. Some of those family members say they are traveling to Lebanon because the government says it won't deal with terrorists. Janko says the original demand of his captors was the release of 17 compatriots held prisoner in Kuwait. But as the months passed, he says that demand could have been negotiated. In the evolution of my captivity, things changed. The demands even changed. At one time there was demand made for the exchange of the prisoners in a southern prison, where the Shiites were being held captive by the Christian militia. And why that fell through I don't know, but

it would have been an easy exchange. The Reagan administration not only missed some chances to get the hostages free, but even now with video tapes of hostages pleading, Reagan is on the record saying he thought they made the tapes under pressure from their captors. Father Janko disagrees. I know where they're coming from and it's their script and that's what they say and that's what they feel. I would have done the same thing. Janko says he wants Reagan to declare thanksgiving day a national day of prayer for American brothers still held hostage in Lebanon. So far a response from the president has not been forthcoming. Janko has another request of Reagan or anyone else in his administration. I want them at least to begin to open lines of communication. Father Lawrence Martin Janko was kidnapped in Beirut on January 8, 1985, where he worked as head of the Catholic Relief Services. He was released last July. Father Janko is visiting Berlin this week, where he was pastor of our Lady of Berlin Catholic Church from

1979 to 1981. For the KUNM Evening Report, I'm Kathy Grassel. Amnesty International calls itself a conspiracy of hope. A conspiracy because the human rights organization has branches all over the world, one of them here in Albuquerque, and of hope because the organization's involvement has given hope to more than 20,000 individual prisoners in over a hundred countries since it was founded 25 years ago. But Amnesty International's record shows it provides more than hope to these prisoners. Sometimes they go free. A woman from Taiwan is visiting friends in Albuquerque this week. Friend she has never met until now. They belong to Amnesty International Chapter 101, the chapter that adopted Du Shoyen five years ago when she was imprisoned in Taiwan. The first time that I realized that I got some friendship from Amnesty was that one day when my sister came to visit me in the jail, she said, I just made the mayor from

Albuquerque who extended some friendship from your friend in Albuquerque. I knew I had no one familiar in this town, so all of a sudden I imagine there must be something from Amnesty. Back in Albuquerque, Amnesty International Chapter 101 was pulling together support for Du Shoyen that the Taiwanese feminist could not have been aware of. Chapter Member Marge Byler speaks of some of those efforts. We launched the five-year work that we did for her doing things like getting Jack Anderson to write a column about her publishing an article in Ms. Magazine, pushing to get an article. Here her mention in an article of Women's Magazine called Connections. It was learned Du Shoyen had received a master of law at Harvard University in 1978.

Byler and other members of the chapter advised the Harvard Law School Alumni Association to write on her behalf. And also lawyers who would be aware of the implications of being politically active and not being able to say what you want to say, pulling on that kind of professional solidarity. Meanwhile, back in Taiwan, where Du Shoyen was in prison for sedition. To tell the truth, I really didn't know the detail about Huazhikai's going on. Until after I returned home, my sister brought me some potatoes and also explained to me some wisdom and correspondence she had with Amnesty. Because of this, my life in the jail became warm and hopeful. I knew I was not isolated, even I was isolated physically. Du Shoyen had suffered from a thyroid cancer before she was imprisoned and she suffered

a recurrence while there. One of Amnesty's policies, while working for the release of prisoners, is to pressure a prison to maintain the good health of its wards, Marge Byler. When we found out that her health was not good and that she was getting no medical treatment and that in fact she was at a very bad place, health wise. We contacted many medical associations in the country and got many doctors to write with their medical letter heads saying, if this is what she has, she doesn't need medical care or you will be accused of negligence in the case of a prisoner under your care. For two weeks before I got released, the authority informed me of my illness. They sent a doctor for me to get some medical treatment. Amnesty International does not take credit for Du's release or any other prisoners release.

The role of the organization says Marge Byler is to mobilize international pressure so that a combination of forces work to secure the release of prisoners of conscience. Du Sholien, who was sentenced to 12 years on charges of trying to overthrow the government by inciting the people to violence, is free today in an albuquerque. And thanks to Amnesty's concerns that I could have taken better care of. And also thanks to their concern that I eventually got an early release. I have served only five years in four months, instead of 12 years. Du Sholien plans to return to Taiwan eventually. She says conditions have improved in that country and those people engaged in opposition to the government do so more freely than seven years ago when she was arrested. Du says she will continue to work for the democratization of that undemocratic country. And thanks to Amnesty International, Chapter 101, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

She will, she concludes, get that chance. Spring is here, the season when our homes and apartments turn into combat zones. The battle is on, people versus cockroaches, urban dweller against urban dweller. And in spite of heavy loads of sprays and bombs and other anti-roach technologies, the cockroach can be expected to win the battle. But at last, the urban pest may be biting off more than it can chew. Some researchers have come up with a new idea to combat the enemy. It's birth control for roaches. And if it's true that a pair of household German roaches can have 400,000 offspring in one year, birth control for these unwanted roommates is an idea whose time has come. Richard Carter is the research director for Boyle Midway, the manufacturer of the Black Flag line of insecticides. Carter says the classic way of approaching roach control has been to kill them off with insecticides, which over time has allowed the roaches to build up a resistance.

Producing roaches so resistance, they can't be killed. So marketers introduce stronger and stronger insecticides to do the job. Carter's company has a different solution. Let's work with the roach's own chemistry, its own biochemistry, see if we can turn that against them. They did it with IGRs or insect growth regulators. This control for roaches exactly. It works with the roach as a roach develops from the emerges out of the egg, goes through various, what they call, nimful stages. And there are certain critical points in that development where positive chemistry are depressed so that they can further develop to become reproductive adults. When it hits them and they have it at that point, they pass through that phase, still with juvenile and they become perpetual juveniles and they never become viable reproductive adults. They do grow up to be adults, but they're not viable or reproductive adults. So we break the chain of reproduction or classically what we call roach population rebound

where you would spray, you'd kill a lot of roaches, but in a short period of time we have a rebound of the population. This prevents that by preventing them from having offspring. Carter provides some facts about these pests that like to live in our houses. The cockroach has no natural predators, except man that is, that accounts for their numbers. The cockroach has no identifiable purpose, according to Carter, and while there are over 4,000 species of cockroaches, only two dozen or so are household pests. The German roach is the most prevalent. In one year, 50 females can produce enough progeny to fill an aircraft carrier. And they can survive on almost anything. They eat soap, paper, pencil shavings, glue on the backs of wallpaper, and they can go without food and water for up to three weeks. While roach jokes are bound, like the rumor that cockroaches prefer classic coke to diet coke, roaches have been suspected to be carriers of disease.

We know that carriers of viruses and certain bacteria. They've been implicated in salmonella breakouts, and we're in one of them in a hospital where they could not get rid of it until they realize that a roach problem. They got rid of roaches, and the outbreak went away, in a similar case with hepatitis. But there's never been clinical, absolute proof that they would have vectors for these diseases. It's all been by inference. But certainly, you know, when an animal that will feed on, let's say, feces at one point and then be on your food surface, another one, a half hour later, can obviously transmit certain things to from one surface to another. People can also be allergic to cockroaches. Estimates are that up to 8 percent of the U.S. population suffers from cockroach allergies. Carter says it's not enough to use a product to get rid of roaches.

He recommends a three-pronged approach, sanitation, prevention, and a product containing the insect growth regulator. Keep things clean, keep food surfaces dry, wipe them down and dry them, prevent points of entry, as best you can, holes in the concrete, whatever, and the siding. Look at the bags that you bring in from the supermarket. They may have a roach in them. This is a common way of reinvestation. And then you use a product in an apartment, you need everyone's cooperation. That is critical. This is just one person that's not cooperating. Carter's company has a consumer hotline, if you want to know more, it's 1-800-3366-6266. Richard Carter is the research director for Boyle Midway, the manufacturer of the Black Flag Line of Insecticides.