THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1979
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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.
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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.
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Texan leaves corn
to meet with pope
United Press International
NAZARETH — Jerome
Brockman, a devout Catholic and
High Plains corn farmer, needed a
bit of persuading from his wife to
accept an invitation to receive
communion from Pope John Paul II
this week.
"I just told him that I’d kill him if
we didn’t go, that’s all,” Margaret
Brockman recalled with a laugh.
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-
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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.
In his nearly 50 years, Brockman
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