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THE BATTALION Page 7 THURSDAY. AUGUST 16. 1976 I ioto b> FW lemy, lorong I belittle n Amenta ob. | of the 1m 000 a, a leadflt intries and odw the goveff- spare part play c frorc [enter yjwj' f mi®* ER No oil found in Gulf shrimp yet United Press International BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Although the Coast Guard has spotted both American and Mexican shrimpers fishing in the vicinity of drift ing oil slicks, the Food and Drug Administration repored Wednesday it had found no petroleum-tainted seafood. “We haven’t found anything,” said FDA district director Anthony Whitehead. “We re going to try to keep it that way.” Whitehead said four additional inspectors were brought to Brownsville and one was sent to Port Aransas for more stringent inspections of shrimp and other food fish caught both in U.S. and Mexican waters. He said “every kind of seafood as long as there continues to be a threat,” will be inspected for petroleum deposits. “We have reports from the Coast Guard that both American and Mexican vessels were in shrimp beds where there’s plenty of oil,” Whitehead said. “We may be a little early for any to be coming in. We re hoping they’re shrimping in the right areas and are advising them that’s the best way not to have a problem.” Members of the Brownsville-Port Isabel Shrimp Association told Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, earlier this week they welcomed the in creased FDA inspections to assure consumers only untainted seafood was going to market from Texas. Association spokesman Julius Collins said members of his organiza tion were advised if they spotted any oil on shrimp to immediately dump their entire catches. atholics to ease Refugee problem United Press International SAN ANTONIO — The Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio has as- aimed the responsibility for sooth- iig the strife between locals and Vietnamese refugees that exists in several cities along the Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana, a priest says. The most recent incidents have oaurred in the Texas fishing village ofSeadrift where a Justice Depart ment official met with residents dur- mgthe weekend in an effort to calm struggle between Vietnamese skrimpers and local shrimpers that led to one death. The official also met with officials j Harriskg n(the U.S. Catholic Conference in alsolies fc ian Antonio Tuesday and said the quake kit Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio vithstandi mould select a Seadrift resident and e the imp* locate a priest in the town who fromhuia mderstands Vietnamese refugees so hat both could arbitrate disputes. The official said the archdiocese its assuming responsibility for idy well* soothing problems in cities along gaccident 'he Gulf Coast in Texas and o-thirdi? Louisiana. In Seadrift, about 160 miles to the southeast of San Antonio, Police x;onuttree Chief Billy Lindsey was receptive to pressurk ihenews but had reservations. I’m hoping it will work to get the sea as people back together,’ he said, “but *11 have to see.” A Calhoun County grand jury in Lavaca, Texas, was considering order indictments against two ! from sped Vietnamese crabbers in the shooting rfBilly Joe Aplin, 35, on Aug. 3. Merablefr Also before the grand jury were ex- nt and he? plosives possession charges against wee Seadrift men arrested the plant! »lice raid on a motel last week. Since the firebombing of a Vietnamese home and the burning rffcur Vietnamese boats soon after Philipp* ^e shooting, there has been no vio- kace. About half the 100 Vietna- *se who fled the town following the shooting have returned. Some native fishermen blame fcse Vietnamese who were unin- withanlV armed of unwritten fishing rules ncounir»»ith causing the trouble, and Consignor William Martin, iy from dx [inched & “crony T vas nofe a yeark ahead he unissiooE general of the Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio, said one goal of the liaison team would be education. “We will try to have the two men live there,” he said. “They would not only inform the residents of fish ing rights but they would help the people to discuss their problems and eventually become friends.” The two arbitrators will be selected “within several weeks through the Committee of Catholic Family and Children’s Services, an arm of the archdiocese. “I would look for somebody very sympathetic to both sides,” Martin said. Ideally, he said the Seadrift resi dent selected would be “held in high esteem by both sides. He added that if an Anglo- American Seadrift resident could not be selected for the job, the committee would go to someone outside. The Justice Department official, reached at his office in Dallas, said many of the residents, who fished the bountiful San Antonio Bay off Seadrift before the arrival of the first Vietnamese three years ago, per ceived the immigrants as threats. Before the announcement of the liaison team there already were in dications the tension had abated. A few Vietnamese fishermen began crabbing late last week, and this weekend a crab meat-packing plant resumed operations using 18 Vietnamese women. Chagra narcotics case jury begins deliberating United Press International AUSTIN — Jimmy Chagra's de fense attorney told an eight-woman, four-man jury Wednesday that gov ernment prosecutors presented witnesses who had “prostituted” themselves by testify ing against the Las Vegas gambler in order to save themselves from prosecution. Attorneys concluded final argu ments in the three-week old trial Wednesday morning, and jurors were to began deliberating late in the day after receiving a lengthy and complicated charge from U.S. Dis trict Judge William Sessions. Defense attorney Oscar Goodman said in final arguments of Chagra’s trial on continuous criminal enter prise for narcotics smuggling that government prosecutors had based their case on the lies of former Chag ra associates who were given im munity. “These persons have prostituted themselves at the government’s in sistence to testify (against Chagra),” Goodman said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Carl Pierce said the government’s top witnesses — Henry Wallace, Dud ley Connell, Paul Taylor, Richard Young and Hamilton (Jud) Myers — were admitted criminals, but the plea agreements the five arranged with the government were neces sary. Wallace testified he had arranged a cocaine and marijuana deal in Col ombia for Chagra, while Myers said he had been paid $12,000 by Chagra in late 1977 to help him unload marijuana-loaded boats in the Bahamas. Connell and Taylor testified they had traveled to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., in November 1977 to purchase a kilo of cocaine from Chagra. Con nell is serving time in a federal penitentiary for a reduced charge of cocaine possesion. Taylor received immunity from the government. Young, a friend of Wallace, tes tified he also bought cocaine from Chagra, and once had been with Chagra during an aborted flight to Colombia to pick up cocaine. Chagra, 34, is accused in the four-count indictment of conspiring to smuggle cocaine and marijuana from Colombia, of aiding and abet ting in the possession of cocaine and of orchestrating a series of drug deals during 1974-78. The jury will consider the third and fourth counts first. If jurors re turn a guilty verdict, the first two counts will be dropped. If convicted of the continous criminal enterprise charge, Chagra could receive a 10- year to life prison sentence and have his personal assets confiscated. Texas’ oldest private preparatory academy for boys is now accepting applications for the fall term. Allen Academy will begin its 94th year on August 27, 1979. If you are looking for a private school d i with limited enrollment, small classes, excellent academic an basics' 1 approach to education, Allen might be right for your son. Write or call for catalog Director of Admissions athletic programs and a “back to Battalion photo by Clarke McClung Fitted to be a C.T. William Hahn left, has measured incoming freshmen for their Corps uniforms for 31 years. Freshmen are fitted during their summer conference in the Military Procurement Center Texas licenses need new number system The Allen Academy Box 953/Bryan, TX 77801 (713) 779-0066 An Honor Military Preparatory School since 1919 Boarding Students in Grades 6-12 United Press International AUSTIN — Texas is going to have to find a new way of numbering drivers licenses. It is running out of numbers under the current system. DPS Director Col. Wilson Speir said for years, Texas driver licenses have carried a seven digit number. But with the number of driver rec ords nearing 10 million, Speir said it will be necessary on Sept. 10 to begin adding an eighth digit. Existing seven digit numbers will be changed in the DPS computers by adding a zero at the beginning of each number, he said. Licenses with the seven digit numbers will continue to be valid, but the new eight digit numbers will appear on all renewed licenses after Sept. 10. 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