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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1981
State / National
Vietnamese fishermen on Texas coast may relocate
United Press International
PALACIOS — Acknowledging Vietnamese fishermen have
not kept past agreements with American fishermen, a spokes
man said Sunday 15 refugee shrimpers would relocate if their
boats were purchased and employment training provided.
Pham Ba Hoe said several of the Vietnamese would relo
cate if sponsors could be found and job training was provided.
Hoe said the Vietnamese were lovers of freedom and
desired to work but because of the language problem, were
limited in their employment options. He said fishing was one
job where language did not pose a problem.
“We hope to become American citizens and we want to
cooperate with you,” he said.
Alan Clark, an aide to Gov. Bill Clements, announced he
had compiled a list of 15 Vietnamese fishermen willing to
relocate from Palacios provided someone bought their boats
and they were given relocation assistance.
He said charity organizations, including the Y. M.C.A. and
American Catholic Charities, would visit coastal areas to find
Vietnamese willing to relocate.
But local shrimper Paul Peters noted, “American boats are
not selling. How can they sell and leave?”
The leader of Vietnamese fishermen in Seabrook said
Saturday many Vietnamese fishermen living and working
along the Texas coast would relocate if charity organizations
will help them sell their boats and find inland employment.
About 230 people gathered Sunday at the Palacios Recrea
tion Center for the second of three meetings designed to ease
tensions between American and Vietnamese fishermen. Local
and state officials visited Seabrook Saturday and plan to hold a
similar meeting in Rockport Monday.
Palacios Councilman John Howard, who also is chairman of
the Indochinese Affairs Committee, pointed out the situation
was not as tense in the community as in other Gulf Coast
towns. About 10 percent of the 4,000 residents of Palacios are
Vietnamese.
American shrimpers charged the American Vietnamese
Association had not kept its promise of last year to limit to 24
the number of Vietnamese fishing boats, saying there are 31
such boats operating in Palacios Bay.
Hoe responded, "We agree that we did not keep the
agreement.
“But the new refugees not belonging to the association are
not under our control,” he said, explaining that while the
group kept its promise, the others went ahead and built
boats.
Coast Guard Commander Donald Anderson promised
stepped-up enforcement of boat registration.
The Vietnamese have claimed ignorance of laws requiring
boats with capacity of more than 5 tons to be registered with
the government and a license obtained. With less capacity,
the boats need only have a registration number.
Crime, voting bills faring better
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AUSTIN — Gov. Bill Cle
ments’ pet bills — initiative and
referendum and electronic sur
veillance — did not get the recep
tion his staff anticipated from two
committees last week.
However, the bills by the Tex
ans’ War on Drugs are faring bet
ter. The governor is supporting
the citizen organization’s legisla
tive package.
Last week the Senate passed
legislation to allow immediate sus
pension of doctors arrested on any
charges involving drugs. The bill
is aimed at preventing doctors
from illegally prescribing certain
drugs.
On Monday a Senate commit
tee will consider another bill from
the Texans’ War on Drugs pack
age. This one would set up a state
computer to keep track of who is
prescribing, who is filling pre
scriptions and who is buying how
much of the Schedule II and Sche
dule III drugs considered dan
gerous.
The drugs that would go into
the computer would include di-
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tion in the computer would be not
be available to the public. It would
be coded and the computer would
flag doctors, pharmacists or con
sumers with aberrant patterns of
prescribing or consuming.
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Ray
Farabee, D-Wichita Falls, said it
will also cut down on prescription
forgery. Because prescription
blanks are not controlled now,
forgery is easy and widespread,
he said.
"There are a very few pharma
cists or doctors who do abuse (the
right to dispense drugs) and they
are hard to locate,” Farabee said.
“There are individuals who get 13
prescriptions and sell them on the
street or funnel them to street
sales.”
The bill would require pre
scriptions for the dangerous drugs
to be written on triplicate, serially
numbered forms printed by the
state on special, hard-to-duplicate
paper.
The pharmacist would turn
over one copy of each prescription
to the Department of Public
Safety.
Clements’ initiative and re
ferendum and wiretap bills, which
the governor has been pushing
since his election more than two
years ago, attracted many vocal
supporters and opponents. But
the chairmen of the two commit
tees that heard testimony on the
two issues are reluctant to say the
bills will be reported back to the
full House.
Rep. Lynn Nabers, D-
Brownwood and chairman of the
House Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee that heard the wiretap
bill, has not even formed a sub
committee to further review the
measure. Nabers said he will not
personally help get the measure
out of committee.
“If the votes are there it will
come out, but I’m not personally
going to kick it,” he said.
Neighbors repair home
for elderly couple
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WOODWORTH, La. — It
was something like a rural barn
raising, with an unusual twist.
A group of neighbors—spur-
red on when someone fell
through the floor at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. H.L. McElwee—
collected $2,300 and donated
their time and effort during a
three-week period to substan
tially renovate the elderly cou
ple's home.
McElwee is 86, the eldest
deacon in First Baptist Church
of Woodworth. His wife is 76.
Like many senior citizens, they
are living on limited funds and
their house was becoming run
down. But unlike many elderly
couples, their neighbors care.
The McElwees left their
house four weeks ago and went
to stay with Mrs. McElwee’s
son in Hessmer, La. When they
returned Saturday, they almost
didn’t recognize it.
“Welcome home, we love
you,” said a banner on the
house.
"I think this is wonderful,”
said Mrs. McElwee. “They per
formed a miracle.”
The neighbors rebuilt the
termite-ridden back porch,
fixed the front porch, repaired
the roof and patched the floor.
“They built this house,”
McElwee said. “It’s not even
my old house — it’s a new one,
and it didn’t even cost me a
dime.”
The project began when
Bobby Marshall went to the
McElwee’s house to repair a
leak in the kitchen.
“I was just checking the leak
and I fell through the floor, ” he
said. “The next day I started to
pass the hat.”
The neighbors raised $2,300
and received donated materials
from area businesses. Other
businesses sold them material at
a discount.
The project kept expanding
as the neighbors started
working.
“The more we kept doing,
the more we realized had to he
done,” said Harlan Marshall,
Bobby’s father.
All labor was donated.
“It’s worth it just to see them
walk in and see their faces.
That’s pay enough, ” said retired
carpenter Ben Gunter.
“It’s wonderful to have
neighbors like this,” Mrs.
McElwee said.
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WASHINGTON — The Hunt
family of Texas, in a bid to domin
ate America’s geothermal re
sources, have obtained federal
leases making them the biggest
developers of burgeoning energy
source, The Washington Post said
Sunday.
The family in the past has been
accused of trying to corner the
markets in soybeans and, most re
cently, in silver.
Now, the Post said, Hunt fami
ly members, Hunt trusts and
Hunt corporations have staked
claims on roughly one-sixth of all
federal land leased for geothermal
power exploration.
Quoting Interior Department
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hold 252 of the 1,600 geothermal
leasues issued by the Bureau of
Land Management, which over
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federal property.
The leases give the Hunts con
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