MONITOR. 8A Sunday July 25, 1982 MCALLEN, TEXAS Gallegos to Present Industrial Growth Plan EDINBURG Commissioner Cris Quintanilla confirmed on Saturday that Dr. Ruben Gallegos, former superintendent of Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District will make a presentation to the Edinburg City Commission on a plan for his new organization, Ruben Gallegos Associates to promote industrial growth for the city. Quintanilla said the presentation will probably be made at the regular meeting of August 3. Gist of Gallegos plan, which was outlined to members of the commission and staff recently is the idea of attracting industry to the city from both sides of the border.
Quintanilla said that the city's occupancy tax could possibly be a source of funds to operate the plan which Gallegos has outlined. The commissioner said he will listen to any plan which promises an increase in job opportunities for the city. He believes that vigorous action must be taken by citizens and organizations connected with Edinburg before the city loses out on the pressure by industry to move to the sun belt. Quintanilla said that one of the most important things to be accomplished in Edinburg is to raise its employability base. The city is more and more required to go on its own resources without the vast sums of money invested here by the federal and state governments in the past.
Quintanilla is a strong advocate of doing for self in Edinburg. Shippers Blame Citrus Fruit Ban On Dirty Politics By RUSSELL GRANTHAM Star News Staff HIDALGO Local fruit shippers have decided to wait for further developments of the Mexican citrus fruit embargo before they cast new plans, but they are not waiting to cast charges of dirty politics against Florida citrus growers. The ban "is something that we feel is being politically instigated," said Lee Herrera, a sales representative at the Val-Mex Fruit and Vegetable Company of Hidalgo. He said he was expressing his own opinion, not the company's. The manager of Val-Mex was not available for comment.
Herrera said lobbyists from Florida and Washington were involved in the ban of citrus fruit from all of Mexico, when only one state, Colima, was producing diseased fruit. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ordered the quarantine at 3 p.m. Friday to ban all shipments ofMexican citrus fruit into the United States. "We have reason to believe that citrus canker is present in Mexico and we're prohibiting all citrus fruit until such time we can determine what the situation is down there." Charles Hall, area director for the Plant Protection and Quarantine Service, told The Associated Press on Friday. He said the bacterial plant disease is highly contagious to citrus, but would not harm people who eat the fruit.
All shipments of Mexican citrus at the border would be turned away or seized and destroyed, he said. About 500 boxes of fruit destined for Val-Mex were turned away, Herrera said, adding that each box was valued at about $8. "We had a load and a half that didn't make it across," he said. The company contacted Rep. Kika de la Garza to seek his aid in obtaining permission to import fruit caught in-transit by the ban, but have received no answer yet.
"Even if it were lifted Monday it would have a drastic effect," Herrera said. of the ban, because of shipment time lost and the cost of communication to isolated suppliers in Mexico. The quarantine might also cost fruit packers their jobs, he said. "People who work in the sheds are going to have to be laid-off," he said, if the embargo continues indefinitely. News of the quarantine arrived at the worst time to stop shipments said another importer shortly before 5 p.m.
on the weekend. Tom Hudler, owner of Border Fruit Co. in Hidalgo, was uncertain how his business would fare. "We kind of have to wait and see, he in effect. If it's permanent, hurt real bad.
Right now it's not disastrous but it could be." Hudler said over half the volume of his shipping business consists of citrus fruit, mostly from Mexico. He also blamed Colima for the bad fruit, stating that he received only 10 percent of his lime produce from that part of Mexico. "If comes to worse they'll probably quarantine that one state. The bulk of the stuff comes from Veracruz," on the opposite shore from Colima, Hudler said. Hudler also expressed concerns that Florida growers had exerted political pressure.
Church to Shelter Refugees CHICAGO (UPI) A North Side church Saturday opened itself as a sanctuary for. a Salvadoran refugee, saying it was defying immigration law because of ineffective programs to protect refugees. "The policy is a sham. The law does not protect said the Rev. Charles Dahm, who joined 70 people in a demonstration at the Federal Building Plaza to protest conditions in El Salvador.
The 27-year-old Salvadoran, who was called Juan although his real name was not released, attended the demonstration dubbed a "funeral for human His features were sheltered beneath a wide-brimmed straw hat and a bandana was drawn over his nose and mouth. A band of people stood protectively around him. "We cannot live in El Salvador because the soldiers are killing us," said Patricia Serpes, a Salvadoran woman. "We cannot live in Honduras because it is the same there. It is the same in Guatemala and Barbara Lagoni, head of the church council at Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, said the congregation decided to offer sanctuary in the belief that U.S.
policy was "illegal and immoral" in forcibly returning refugees to El Salvador. "Stop the current atrocious deportation proceedings that returns these people to death and government retribution," she said. Church members sent a letter to federal officials, telling them of the decision to shelter undocumented refugees. There has been no reply from immigration officials, church spokesmen said. Immigration authorities could not be reached for comment.
Dahm said 5,500 Salvadorans and Guatemalans asked for political asylum last year but only two requests were granted. have been created in Boulder, and Tucson, If immigration officials do not intervene, other Salvadoran refugees will be brought to the church, said Dick Simpson, one of the protest's organizers. Organizers said Juan was arrested while a college student and was tortured during eight months in prison. He fled to the United States when there was a second attempt to arrest him. Lawyers Resent Defending Poor CHAPEL HILL, N.C.
(UPI) Inadequate funding of criminal defense programs for the poor threatens the constitutional rights of many Americans to effective legal representation, a University of North Carolina law professor said Saturday. In a study conducted for the American Bar Association, Norman Lefstein reported many defense attorneys consciously limit their activities for indigent clients because they resent the impositions caused ally those cases. Lefstein also reported wide ranges in the amounts spent by states to provide legal representation for defendants who cannot afford to hire lawyers. The study showed the per: capita spending for indigent defense programs during 1980-81 ranged from a high of $8.18 in Alaska to a low of 45 cents i in Alabama. California was second highest, at $3.94 for each resident, while Mississippi was second lowest with a spending rate of 48 cents.
Obituaries RENE OLIVAREZ JR. ALAMO Rene (Randy) Olivarez 18, died Saturday at Santa Rosa Medical Center. Mr. Olivarez was a senior at P.S.J.A. High School.
Rosary services will be tonight at 8 at De Leon Funeral Home in Pharr. Funeral services will be Monday at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Fatima. Survivors include parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Rene Olivarez one brother, Cipriano Olivarez; two sisters, Sandra Anna Olivarez and Jo Anna Olivarez; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Olivarez; maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chale Garza; and great-grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Hilario Garza and Mrs. Andrea Olivarez. Pallbearers include Eddie Ramirez Archie Salinas, George Farias, Ray Alaniz, Beto Olivares and Ruben Gonzales. Honorary pallbearers include Santa Rosa Medical Center nurses, Rosie Alpert, Karen Sparks, Tammy Doeppenschmidt, Roxanna Del Rio, Mary Boyle and Helen Schmidt.
Services are under the direction of De Leon Funeral Home of Pharr. EDELMIRO SIERRA PHARR Services are pending for Edelmiro Sierra, 61, who died Saturday at Valley Community Hospital in Brownsville, and will be announced by De Leon Funeral Home of Pharr. Survivors include his wife, Ramona Sierra of Pharr; three sons, Edelmiro Sierra Jesus Sierra, and Baldemar Sierra all of Pharr; four daughters, Mrs. Lydia Galan, Diana Pena, Elida Ruiz, and Teresa Baeza all of Pharr; four brothers, Juan Gonzalez of Rio Hondo, Ernesto Sierra of Pharr, Jose Sierra of Elgin, Ill. and Alfredo Perez of Houston; one sister, Mrs.
Consuelo Macias of Elgin, and 22 grandchildren. MISS GUADALUPE RIOS EDINBURG Miss Guadalupe Rios, 77, died at Edinburg General Hospital early Saturday after a lengthy illness. A native of Karnes City, Miss Rios had lived in Edinburg since 1917. Miss Rios is survived by four brothers, Nicolas and Pascual Rios, both of Edinburg, Teodoro Zuniga of Dallas, and Pedro and Julian Zuniga, both of Sunnyside, and a sister, Mrs. Maria Singleterry of Edingburg.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Holy Family Catholic Church, with burial to follow at San Juan Plantation Cemetery, south of San Juan. Rosary will be tonight at 8 at Holy Family Catholic Church and Monday at 8 p.m. at Ceballos Diaz Funeral Home in 1. Edinburg.
GILBERTO DE LA ROSA ELSA Gilberto de la Rosa, 76, of 211 S. Diana died at 10:20 a.m. Friday in Knapp Memorial Methodist Hospital. He had been an Elsa resident for 60 years. A rosary will be recited at 8 tonight in the Garza and Llewellyn Funeral Home of Weslaco.
Funeral mass will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday in Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial- will be in Highland Memorial Park: Survivors include five daughters tar rosa and Rosalinda Martinez of Elsa, Mary Gonzalez of Houston, Virginia Ramos of Weslaco and Mary de Leon of Louisiana; two brothers, Justo de la Rosa of Sebastian and Juan de la Rosa of Kingsville; two sisters, Pauline Carpio of Los Angeles and Alicia Tamez of Lasara. Also surviving are 24 grandchildren, three great- and several nephews and nieces. MRS.
RUBY THOMAS co*kER HARLINGEN Mrs. Ruby Thomas co*ker, 69, died Friday afternoon at Valley Baptist Medical Center. Mrs. co*ker was a lifetime resident of the Valley, and lived in Mission and the McAllen area before moving to the Harlingen area five years ago. She was a retired service assistant with Southwestern Bell.
Mrs. co*ker is survived by a Mrs. Helen Bull of Harlingen, a sister, Mrs. Ethel Childress of Odessa; two brothers, Ray Thomas of Goliad, and James Thomas of Winstead, four grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Graveside services will be held Monday at 10 a.m.
at Mont Meta Memorial Park in San Benito with Rev. William. Been of Calvary Baptist Church. of Harlingen officiating. Honorary pallbearers will be Billy Mike Bull, John Bull, Tommy Bull, Curtis Bull, Joe D.
Johnson, Glenn Lytle. Services are under the direction of Kreidler Ashcraft Funeral Home of Harlingen. Suit Filed to Stop Consolidation Election WESLACO A class action suit has been filed in U.S. District Court at Brownsville to stop an Aug. 14 Weslaco and Progreso School District consolidation election.
Seven plaintiffs identified as migrants had the suit filed in their behalf Friday by Texas Rural Legal Aid. A hearing on a temporary restraining order is set for 1:30 p.m. Monday. Absentee voting is scheduled to begin Monday for the special election. A three judge court is requested to be convened immediately determine the matters contained in this complaint." The suit alleges the Aug.
14 consolidation election, as well as a Jan. 17, 1981, bond election in the Progreso District, did not have "pre clearance" for the dates with the U.S. Justice Department as required under the 1965 voting rights act. The Progreso district has never had any election except the April trustee elections other than balloting on its first bond issue in 1981, the petition sets out. The suit asks that the court issue a declaratory judgment holding the bond election was subject to the pre-clearance and that the forthcoming consolidation election is subject to the same action; that a temporary restraining order be issued; that the plaintiffs be given costs of the suit and attorney costs.
the class action suit were Maria Carlota Garcia, Juana de la Cruz, Paulino Ramirez, Jesus M. Hernandez, Maria Hernandez, Irene Sustayta and Eloisa Leal. Listed as defendants were County Judge Ramiro Guerra, County Commissioners J. R. Ponce, Ramiro Cavazos, Norberto Salinas and Charlie Curtis; the Weslaco School Board, the Progreso School Board and superintendents of both districts.
Serving on the Weslaco board are Richard Vaughan, Robert A. McAllen, Dr. Rudy Perez, Mrs. Stephany Wiley, Mrs. Gloria Llewellyn, J.J.
Balli and Domingo Sepulveda. Trustees of the Progreso district are Rito Valdez, Rene Luna, Gilbert Rodriguez, Eligio Castillo, 0.D. "Butch" Emery, Arturo Valdez and Polo Ramirez. 1 A.N. (Tony) Rico is superintendent of the Weslaco district and Joe Sanchez is PEDRO GONZALEZ: Rosary for Pedro Gonzalez, 72, who died unexpectedly Friday at his residence in McAllen, will be recited at 7:30 tonight at the Ceballos Funeral Home.
Mass will be conducted Monday at 10 a.m at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, with burial following in Valley Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be Inocencio Alaniz, Francisco de Gollado, Rogelio Perez and Jose Gregorio, Pedro Antonio and Abel Andres Gonzalez. MRS. ETHEL JANE BROWN DONNA Funeral services for Mrs.
Ethel Jane Brown, 89, who died Thursday at San Juan Nursing Home, will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church here. Rev. George Joehnk, the pastor, will officiate, with burial following in Donna Cemetery under direction of Skinner Funeral Home of Pharr. Pallbearers will be.
grandsons, Jimmy, Mike and John Steele, Jimmy, Russell and Danny Brown and Charles Lee Martin. JOSE MARIA MUNOZ. EDINBURG Rosary for Jose Maria Munoz, 79, who died at 5:10 a.m. Friday in Edinburg General Hospital following a short illness, will be recited at 7:30 tonight at the Ceballos-Diaz Funeral Home. Funeral mass will be conducted Monday at 9 a.m.
at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Edinburg, with burial following in Hargill City Cemetery. A native of Mexico, Mr. Munoz had lived in Edinburg since 1923. Survivors are two sons. Jose Maria Munoz Jr.
of Corpus Christi and Ruben Munoz of Edinburg; six daughters, Guadalupe Campos, Macaria Ramirez and Irma Trevino, all of Corpus Christi, Ninfa Trevino of Monterrey, Ernestina Blanco of Rio Bravo, and Felicitas Torres of Edinburg; two brothers, Pedro Munoz of Pharr and Natividad Munoz of Edinburg; four sisters, Santos Iglesias of McAllen, Teodora Martinez of Pharr and Lorenza Ramirez and Josefa Lopez, both of Reynosa, 66 grandchildren and 53 great-grandchildren. VICTOR V. VILLEGAS AUSTIN Rosary for Victor V. Villegas, 59, who died Friday after a long illness at Seton Medical Center, Austin, will be recited at 8 tonight at Weed-Corley Funeral Home here. Funeral mass will be said Monday at 10 a.m.
at St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Austin. Burial will follow in Asuumption Cemetery there. Mr. Villegas for 30 years had managed variuos Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
service stores across the state. He had managed one such business in Del Rio for 10 years. Survivors include his wife, Helen Villegas of Austin; six sons, Hector Villegas of Kingwood, David, Steve, Dan and Richard Villegas, all of Austin, and Albert Villegas of Houston; three daughters, Cindy Werland of Austin, Julie Holliday of Frisco, and Mrs. Kathy Howard of Houston; and 13 grandchildren. AD oh Mrs.
Bernade C. Liguez, died Saturday afternoon at McAllen Methodist Hospital after a short illness. She was born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and had lived i in McAllen most of her life. She was the widow of the late Adolfo Liguez. Survivors include three sons, Isabel Liguez, Jose Liguez, and Jesus (Chuck) Liguez; two daughters, Mrs.
Nazaria L. Mora, and Miss Herminia Liguez, all of McAllen; three brothers, Juan and Cornelio Castillo of McAllen, and Cruz Castillo of Sunnywide, a sister, Mrs. Juliana C. Taz of McAllen; and 17 grandchildren. Rosary services will be held tonight at 7:30 at Ceballos Funeral Home in McAllen.
Funeral mass will be Monday at 3 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial will follow at La Piedad Ceme- tery. MARK A. BROWN EDINBURG Funeral services for Mark A.
Brown, 19, who died in a auto accident in Alamo Friday, are pending and will be announced by Kreidler Funeral Home of McAllen. Brown was employed by D.M. Parchman Oil Field Service Co. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Arlene Dorsey of Saudi Arabia; his father, John W.
Brown Sr. of Kansas City, a brother, John W. Brown Jr. of Ogden, Utah; and two Melinda Brown of Sweet Springs, and Marishka Brown of Salt Lake City, Utah. superintendent at Progreso.
Judge Guerra called the election for Aug. 14 after being petitioned by more than 20. qualified, voters from each district to approve balloting on consolidation. The petition was presented to the judge July 6 by Mayor William C. Cain of Progreso Lakes and Jon Schill of Weslaco.
State statutes provide that elections in Texas may be called on the third Saturday in January, the first Saturday in April, the second Saturday in August, or the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November every two years. The lengthy petition filed in the case implied that Progreso residents were used to elections in their ir school district only in April and others dates should have been cleared with the Justice Department, including the time the $1.9 million in bonds were approved to build a high school. The bond election was challenged in a suit that included Cain and Schill, then a resident of Progreso Lakes, as plaintiffs along with Mrs. Franklin Ewers, Jesse Russell and Jack Holcomb. At the same time.
the school district asked a declaratory judgment validating the bonds. Validity of the bonds was upheld by a state district court in Edinburg, but the case was appealed to the Fifth Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi, where a date is pending for oral arguments. The bonds, with litigation pending, cannot be sold. The Progreso School District has grades kindergarten through eighth with an enrollment of 789, the suit said, with 99 percent being Mexican-Americans and 31 percent from migrant families. The Progreso district has 950 registered voters, the petition said, with 82.4 percent Mexican Figures for the Weslaco School District, as contained in the petition, were an enrollment of 8,738 for kinder-12th grades, 94 percent Mexican-American, and 10,037 registered voters, 71.1 percent Mexican-American.
The plaintiffs and others in their situation are now out of the Valley harvesting crops, the petition set out. It alleged that if the consolidation were voted on and approved in August, the Progreso residents wouldn't be able to have any representation concerning their schools before the following April, when annual trustee elections are held. It also was noted in the petition the Progreso trustees are voted on atlarge, while the Weslaco trustees are voted on by place and at-large. The temporary restraining order is requested, alleging "irreparable harm" to the migrants, if the election is allowed. The suit was filed by Raul Noriega of Texas Rural Legal Aid.
All of the defendants hadn't been served Saturday. JUAN ALBERTO OLIVAREZ JOSE RODRIGUEZ MERCEDES Funeral arrangements are pending for Juan Alberto Olivarez, 25, and an uncle, Jose Rodriguez, 47, both of Mercedes, who were electrocuted as they worked Thursday about 1 p.m. at the Marks' brothers farm, four miles southeast of Wautoma, Wis. The two were working at a conveyer. belt unloading pickles into a vat of brine when an electrical short occurred, shocking Rodriguez.
Olivarez went to his aid. Both were killed. Funeral arrangements are to be announced by Garcia and Trevino Funeral Home. Surviving Olivarez, who was a native of Wautoma, are his wife, Mrs. Gloria L.
Olivarez; one son, Juan Alberto Olivarez parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alberto Olivarez; and three brothers, Juan Antonio, Abelardo and Martin Olivarez, all of Mercedes. Surviving Rodriguez are his wife, Mrs. Maria Contreras Rodriguez; and four sons, Jaime, Jerry, Eleno and Jose Rodriguez all of Mercedes.
SALVADOR LONGORIA SR. ABRAMS Rosary for Salvador Longoria 83, who died early Saturday at Mission Municipal Hospital, will be said tonight at 8 p.m. at Virgil Wilson Funeral Home Chapel in Mission. Funeral Mass will be Monday at 10:30 at Our Lady of Catholic Church in Abrams. Burial will follow in Abrams Cemetery, to goner a lifetime resident of Abrams, was a farmer.
Mr. Longoria' is survived by his wife, Beatrice Longoria of Abrams; four sons, Leofred and Salvador Longoria both of Abrams, and Roel and Rolando Longoria, both of Palm View; two daughters, Mrs. Irma Petty of Pennsacola, and Mrs. Iris Whitney of San Antonio; a brother, Ancermo Longoria of Tierra Blanca and 12 grandchildren. Pallbearers at the services will be Rolando, Ronnie, Martin, and Oscar Lee Longoria, and Roel Longoria and Rolando Longoria Jr.
MRS. DESIDERIA O. YBARRA MISSION Mrs. Desideria 0. Ybarra, 82, of 901 E.
8th Apt. 29. died early Friday morning at Mission Municipal Hospital after a short illness. She was a lifelong resident of Mission and was a homemaker. Mrs.
Ybarra is survived by her husband, Santos Ybarra of Mission, three sons, Heraclio Olivarez of Mission, Juan Olivarez of North Dakota and Ramiro Olivarez of Mission; a daughter, Mrs. Ofelia 0. Laurence of Grove, and several nephews and nieces: Rosary was said Friday at 8 p.m. at Flores Funeral Home Chapel. Funeral Mass was Saturday at 5 p.m.
at Holy Rosary Catholic Church with Father Tomas Mateos officiating. Burial followed in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers were Tony De Luna, Sabino Soto, Leandro Perez, Enrique Arevalo, Ruben Reyna and Fernando Jasso. Libertarians' Suit Delayed HOUSTON (UPI) A lawsuit filed by the Libertarian party to force state officials to place its candidates on the ballot has been delayed by a federal judge. College Continued from page one the legislative "hopper" by Jan.
1, 1983. If the committee decides to pursue the state legislature for funding it would be early 1985 before a campus could be completed. If the committee decides to pursue the possiblity of local citizens forming their own community college district, Wilson said the timeframe would be cut only slightly. The chamber president said business leaders who organized the task force. seem to be leaning toward a vocational school: because of the large, unskilled labor force in the area.
Hidalgo County chronically suffers a 12 to 16 percent unemployment rate. Wilson said the group sees a proposed vocational school as one answer to the labor problem. Wilson said a minimum of jobs will open up in the health field alone over the next three to four years with the building of three new hospitals in Hidalgo County. "That doesn't include the accompanying construction jobs," he said. On another front, Wilson, acting on the advice of a representative of the College Coordinating Board, said the committee will wait until the last to decide where to locate the campus.
"It's a very divisive subject," emphasized the McAllen funeral home director. Only one of three possible sites has been Property in McAllen, Edinburg and Weslaco have been mentioned in recent meetings. Only the McAllen site has been discussed privately with Mayor Othal Brand. As yet no discussion has been held with other city governmental entities. Detailed discussions are planned in the near future, however.
"What we want to avoid at all costs," said Wilson, "is for people to believe this is strictly a McAllen project. It is. not. This is county-wide." The last time a vocational school idea was tried, it died because people felt it was TSTI transplanted. "If this one dies," Wilson said, "it will be 1985 before another can be started.
Fees paid to private lawyers appointed to represent indigents ranged from $12.50 per courtroom hour in Connecticut to $50 per hour in North Dakota. "The hourly rate at which appointed counsel are compensated is rarely as much as $35 per hour and is often much less," Lefstein said. Many law firms estimate 45 to 50 percent of their revenues go for rent, secretarial help, utilities and supplies and indigent fees do not meet the overhead, he said. Some state and federal courts have ruled defense lawyers cannot refuse to take assigned cases even if there is no money to pay them, Lefstein added, and they can still be sued for malpractice by dissatisfied clients. "We don't.
tell the judge, sheriff, bailiff or prosecutor that from: October through December they have to work for free, but in effect that's exactly what many defense attorneys are asked to do," he said..
