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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
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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
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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.
Speir said the number of licenses
in Texas has been increasing at a
rate of about 385,000 a year.
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