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ge B The C MM* M wi Page 8 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1979 Auto Locators Bill’s Auto Tune-Up Need to Buy or Sell a car list it with us Tune-Ups for only $9.75 Tune-Up & Oil Chg. $12.75 Oil Change $4.00 Appointments Only — Call Today 846-9086 3611 S. College Group wants Viet refugees relocab United Press International SEADRIFT — Rudolph Aplin, whose brother was shot to death in the midst of a feud between Vietnamese and American fisher men, denies his new organization designed to quell the “influx” of ref ugees is racially motivated. The National Organization of the American Spirit, with about 70 “citizen” members, proposes re locating the 100 Vietnamese in Seadrift and stopping any more from tfm. irlosSttjf )Ih.(Qjp OLE SARGE handcast in Pewter exclusively for the Curiosity Shop. The Aggie Bonfire can now be more than a flickering memory. The Bonfire Mug exclusively for the Curiosity Shop in Wilton Armetale. entering the United States, Aplin said Tuesday. He said refugees already settled in this country, other than those in Seadrift, a tiny coastal fishing com munity between Corpus Christi and Houston, would not be expected to relocate. “We want to stop the influx of Vietnamese,” Aplin said. “We al ready have problems with the ones we have here. We have welfare problems and we re importing an overpopulation into this country. “This organization intends to encourage (federal officials) to take care of this problem effectively, ” he said. “The Vietnamese will be re quested to be removed from Sead rift for the stability of the commu nity. What Tm referring to is reloca tion.” Aplin said the group was not ra cially motivated. “This organization is for citizens, ” he said. “Everyone is invited, any citizen is invited to become a member — black, white, brown, red, whatever.” Aplin said he also plans for the organization, tentatively to be based in Dallas, to express opinions on more than one issue, lobby for legis lation, investigate and report on government and publish opinion polls. “We’re forming an organization and it’s not just for the Vietnamese problem,” Aplin said. “It’s for the exclusive purpose of preserving and promoting the public interest and the American spirit. “We have a criticial situation here, and the problem is not being dealt with by people who are in charge of it. I’m referring to people in Washington D.C.” Aplin’s brother, Billy Joe, was shot to death Aug. 3 after a fight with a Vietnamese man. The killing was the most violent of a series of confrontations blamed by locals on Vietnamese violation of fishing cus toms. Sau Van Nguyun, 21, wasd with murder and his Chinh, 20, was charged i complice. They will be triej| guin Oct. 29. Ruben Bonilla, national of the League of United LaM can Citizens, charged Aplin'J is “Ku Klux Klan-like" and J year citizenship requirti excludes Vietnamese Mexican-Americans. Bonilla said in Corpus Clu^ plans to ask Texas Attorney! Mark White to investigatti group’s use of a public scWi ing for its initial meeting Iasi day. Squatter’s home to be buried Mon.-Sat. 10-6 Thursday till 8 United Press International LITTLE ELM — Government of ficials Wednesday made prepa rations to bulldozg the hole in the ground that for six years has been the home of R. L. Hudgins. Hudgins, 58, a onetime carpenter in Dallas who long ago gave up “all that crud downtown,” lived peace fully in his 5-foot dugout in a rural area on the eastern shore of the Garza-Little Elm Reservoir in north Texas until government surveyors in June found his encampment. It was then the Army Corps of Engineers ordered him off govern ment land and set an Oct. 18 dead line for him to leave. “I never thought they’d do this,” Hudgins said as government work ers began preparing the site for bulldozing. “We told him back in June that he was not allowed to stay on govern ment land and that he would have two months to find other occu pancy,” said Corps official Dwight Hamilton. “Last week we gave him until today (Wednesday) to get relo cated. We did it at this time because we didn’t want to wait until the cold weather to make him find some place else to stay. “We just can’t let him stay here any longer. This land is for people to hike on and ride horseback on and it just can’t be tied up for personal use.” So on Wednesday, Hudgins gathered up his few possessions and three dogs and moved to privately owned land nearby, saying the landowner had given him permis sion to stay there for a few weeks. Corps officials converged on the homesite and began cleaning up six years worth of beer and wine bottles and other trash surrounding Hud gins’ hole in the ground. They re moved the roof of Hudgins’ dugout, about 25 bags worth of trash and hoped to bulldoze the site by the end of the week. “He said yesterday he would have his stuff out today and he’s been cooperative and realizes our situa tion, although he doesn’t agree with it,” Hamilton said. “It’s really over now. He’s accepted it and the roof of his dugout is off, so there won’t be any future problems on it.” Hamilton said Hudgins, who sports a ragged white beard on his gnarled and deeply lined face, told him it took 53 hours to dig the home which was only large enough for a mattress and a fireplace m E iece of tin laid over rocks 1 is clothing from tree liml barlied-wire fence andbetra jobs, spent his time on his — a beatup folding chair 1 Styrofoam beer cooler anditJ of beer and wine bottles, H| was one of squirrel, raccoona madillo meat supplementei| catfish and canned goods. Man calk Autumi enjoyin ways. 1 golf, d( woman U found gUij;L u ] ". ' a ' 8«B88888«8» « BS wrv DRV is SOLE DRV If) THE CLASSIFIEDS J 1980 FISH CAMP Applications are now open for Associate and Assistant Directors for the 1980 Student ‘Y’ Fish Camp. Interested persons can apply be ginning October 8. Deadline for Associate Director is October 12. Deadline for Assistant Directors October 17. Pick up applications in Room 216 MSC at the Student Y’ desk. United Press Internatioml | KRUGERSDORP, SoA — A judge has made South I HOUS1 legal history by finding a mai! voman wl of slander because he cal 1500,000 1 woman a cow. l g es on gn Judge Chris Eksteen cappt o love am decision Tuesday by suspendi las agreed $180 fine he levied against( without ap iaan Ehrson for three yean. ' Susanne Ehrson pleaded guilty too ^epted St; Mrs. Katherine Adlem, a!: iN^ettman s store cashier, a cow becaus i' n g her or thought she shortchangedhiii Dr. Jesse The decision reversed a mlrl- fhopedic s years ago that a man could Wettma woman a cow in South Africa, igovemed nd do nol Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 X x (ing contra damage Wettman monetary written. Mrs. E her hush; press oral ried in Ju benefited contract \ him throo Will There Be Blood If You Need It? .... only if there’s a volunteer donor to provide it. Like yourself. Blood has to come from another human being. It cannot be manufactured. You can be that volunteer donor on October 9, 10, and 11. Wadley Central Blood Bank is proud to have been associated with this 12th Man tradition of service to humanity during the past 19 years. We look forward to continuing to participate in the Texas A&M Blood Club drives for many years to come .... and we join with all Texans in saluting this unparallelled gesture of generosity and concern for one’s fellow man! AGGIE BLOOD DRIVE OCTOBER 9, 10, and 11 LOCATION: MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER SECOND FLOOR (ROOMS 212-224) TIME:H;00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. Wadley Central Blood Bank