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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1979 Page i 11 Texas hospitable to boat people United Press International AUSTIN — U.S. officials told employees of the Texas Department of Health Tuesday that Vietnamese refugees are being attracted to the state because of the climate and the hospitality of Texans. Shepard Lowman, director of the office of Asisan Refugee Affairs for the U.S. State Department, said 80 percent of the boat people are dis persing to areas where they have relatives. However, he said many are being attracted to the Texas coast. “One of the reasons is because Texas is hospitable and the climate of Texas is hospitable,” Lowman said. Lowman said the State Depart ment is attempting to broaden re settlement opportunities for the Vietnamese refugees. Joseph F. Giordano, on staff at the Center or Disease Control in At lanta, said some Americans have a misconception that it is easy for the refugees to enter America. “They can get through if they have familial relationships here, but most refugees just have medical records with them,” Giordano said. He said all refugees must undergo chest examinations for tuberculosis and present the X-rays when they arrive at an American port of entry. Giordano said a team of American physicians will be going to South east Asia to oversee the medical ex aminations of the refugees. Giordano said many refugees entering the country using illegal X-ray records but he said that dur ing the summer stififer regulations were instituted to ensure that aliens have no communicable diseases. Dr. Vernon Houk, director of environmental health services for the Center for Disease Control, stressed to the state health depart ment officials that individual states, especially Texas, have performed well in making medical services available to the refugees. *e Roy LesdpiU increase in mge lilt wrsilt have been !xM Universi rport for the I ational class In ranges. Lie for sponsti mi petition American to ion and twol hooting, range wi etition and#' to Texas Aid y of the dei physical eoifi range willl) must be raise Fhe departmei 00 gift from it national. Th in constructs issifieds 2611 State briefs Car dealers accused of swindle United Press International HOUSTON — Six Spanish-speaking automobile buyers have filed a federal court suit against two dealers accused of agreeing to sales terms in Spanish and then having the customers sign different agreements written in English. The suit seeks $216,000 damages from Bob G. Wharton and his son Bob F. Wharton, operators of Amigo Motors, Rio Bravo Motors, Rio Grande Motors and Tex-Mex Motors in Houston. None of the named plaintiffs speaks English. Synthetic fuel information coming to Texas HOUSTON — Texas Eastern Corp., planning a plant that will produce liquid fuels from coal, has reached agreement with a South African firm already producing synthetic fuels, a spokesman said Tuesday. The Texas Eastern spokesman said a technology-sharing agreement had been reached with Sasol Ltd., which operates the world s largest facility for producing synthetic fuels from coal in South Africa, and Fluor Corp. Suit challenges UT’s barring of vendor AUSTIN — The Texas Civil Libertis Union Tuesday sued to chal lenge the constitutionality of a University of Texas rule prohibiting a sandwich seller from doing business on the campus. Roland DeNoie, owner and operator of Salvation Sandwiches, has been charged before a justice of the peace court for selling the sandwiches on school grounds. He faces a fine of up to $200 if con victed for violating the University of Texas Regents’ rule prohibiting solicitation. The TCLU suit, filed in state district court, asks that a section of the Texas Education Code be declared unconstitutional because the rule is an unlawful delegation of power and violates the state constitu tional provision of separation of powers. ALTERATIONS' IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF OLD TEXAS WHERE MOTHER TAUGHT DAUGHTER THE FINE ART OF SEWING — SO HELEN MARIE TAUGHT EDITH MARIE THE SECRETS OF SEWING AND ALTERATIONS “DON’T GIVE UP — WE LL MAKE IT FIT!’’ AT WELfcH'S CLEANERS. WE NOT ONLY SERVE AS AN EXCELLENT DRY CLEANERS BUT WE SPE CIALIZE IN ALTERING HAF\D TO FIT EVENING DRESSES, TAPERED SHIRTS, JEAN HEMS, WATCH POCKETS, ETC. (WE RE JUST A FEW BLOCKS NORTH OF FED MART.) WELCH’S CLEANERS 3819 E. 29th (TOWN & COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER)^ Get in shape and save. Sale 13.99 Reg. 16.99. Lo-cut Converse® “All Star” canvas basketball shoe. Assorted colors in men’s sizes. 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Brockman is the only Texan and one of only 10 rural Americans selected to receive communion from has served in virtually every reli gious capacity, from altar boy to permanent deacon in the Holy Fam ily parish. The Holy Family Church and cemetery, atop a small knoll on the town’s north side, are religious cen terpieces in Nazareth. We haven’t thrown the Protes tants out,” a grinning Brockman said recently. “There just aren’t too many around. Ours is still the only church in town, and some of the Protestants here come to our serv- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY THEATRE ARTS PRESENTS Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s. RUDDER FORUM OCT. 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13 TICKETS: A&M STUDENTS $2.00 ALL OTHERS $3.00 TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE RUDDER BOX OFFICE — OR AT THE DOOR 845-2916 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE Crazily rewarding — deliciously anti-machismo — a droll comedy about a modern-day Ulysses who comes home to find his kind of herosim is out of style. Related stories, pages 1, 8. the pontiff in Des Moines Thursday during an unprecedented papal trip to America. But corn grown around this High Plains community of 220 has been excellent this fall, and Brockman, who has slept near a corn drier south of town recently, felt at first he should stay home to nurture what may be a record crop. “To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t going to go at first,” said the middle-aged, blue-eyed farmer. “I even called some other people I thought might be interested in tak ing my place. My brother and I have about 500 acres of corn this year, and it looks pretty good. I just didn’t think it would be fair to leave him here to do it all.” But Brockman said he eventually realized an opportunity to receive communion from the pope doesn’t arise frequently. “We’re going,” he said, “but we’ll be coming right back to finish the harvest. From what I’ve heard about this outdoor mass, I’m figur ing that one day will be about all the excitement we can handle.” About a quarter of a million Americans are expected to attend the mass on a grassy knoll at te 600- acre Living History Farms near Ur bandale, Iowa, a Des Moines sub urb. “I’m not really sure how we re supposed to manage this,” Margaret Brockman said, peering at a list of suggestions sent by the church that details clothing, food, shelter and comfort needs. Brockman and nine others were selected by the National Catholic Rural Life Conference “to demon strate the diversity of rural America, and to have as many segments of rural America represented as possi ble,” said NCRLC Executive Direc tor William Schaefer. As a native of the nearly 100 per cent Catholic settlement of Nazareth, situated in a predomi nantly Protestant belt of Texas, Brockman epitomizes the rural in dividuals the church sought to bring before the pontiff. 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