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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1979
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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
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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
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