Battalion/Page 3
August 11, 1982
Clay boy takes a tumble
photo by Susan Dittman
aama Marti, a sophomore
nvironmental design major,
oncentrates on the details as she
Ipts a cowboy falling off his
horse. The MSC Craft Shop
helps Marti, who is from New
Orleans, to continue the hobby she
began in high school.
itudents file suit to halt
llan rally at high school
United Press International
[.OUISVILLE. Ky. — A
ip of black students and civil
tits leaders filed a lawsuit
lesday to block the use of a
plic high school for a Ku Klux
rally next month.
iThe lawsuit filed in U.S. Dis
it Court said the use of Valley
M, School by the Klan on
pt. 4 would worsen racial ten-
hs at the school, which has
In a center of opposition to
Irt-ordered busing,
llhe protest rally, featuring
national Klan leader Bill Wilkin
son, has been arranged to mark
the seventh anniversary of de
segregation busing in Louisville
Jefferson County.
The lawsuit asked the court
to prohibit the use of the school
by the Klan, saying it would
violate the 13 th and 14 th
amend rnent guarantees of equal
protection of the law.
Jeffrey Segal, one of four
Louisville attorneys who filed
the lawsuit with the clerk of the
court, said he expected a hear-
valde deputy dies
Ifter severe beating
United Press International
VALDE — A chief deputy
the Uvalde County Sheriffs
department died Tuesday of a
Jating he suffered along a
ladside, authorities say.
1 Clyde Hobbs, 34, apparently
r Depart®® s i) ea ten “ a j-oek anc i prob-
;e chiefflWy a tire tool” late Monday
asury I’ "'Die investigating a report of
'Mien merchandise being trans
ported in a car 3 miles outside
pie city on Highway 83, Sheriff
Kenneth Kelley said.
jnal I Hobbs had called the dis-
®tcher after stopping the car to
iduct on the background of one
by the f ^ the people in the car, the sher-
des perf said -
1 eworko | f q e failed to respond to the
attempt 1 Dspatcher’s answer and sear-
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chers found him minutes later
unconscious beside his car.
Kelley said officers today
were questioning a man found
later driving the car involved in
the incident, but it was not
known if he was involved.
Officials suspect three or four
people were in the car stopped
by Hobbs.
The sheriffs office had re
ceived a report Monday night
that items stolen from a house
and a business in Uvalde were in
the car.
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Textbook hearings bring
criticism from both sides
United Press International
AUSTIN — The annual tex
tbook hearings have opened
with criticism from nationally
known critics who say the prop
osed books glorify communist
nations, give too much space to
feminism and fail to tout Amer-
i ican accomplishments.
Norma and Mel Gabler have
been a fixture at textbook hear
ings for years, which has gained
them national notoriety and
enough private support for a
$120,000 budget supporting a
staff of eight.
This year’s hearings also have
drawn attendance by People of
ing to be set in late August on the
request for an injunction to
block the Klan rally at the
school.
The plaintiffs include three
black students whose names
were given only as “Tom, Sally
and James Doe” to prevent pos
sible reprisals for filing the suit.
Interviewing black students
from the school was an “eye
opening” experience, declared
Segal, who said the “school ex
perience is a continuous battle”
for black youngsters facing ra
cial jokes and threats.
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the American Way, a national
group formed in part by televi
sion writer-producer Norman
Lear. A Texas chapter was
formed in anticipation of the
hearings in hopes of combatting
the Gablers’ influence on Texas
officials.
Mrs. Gabler and assistants
Jackie Cobb and Mrs. W. Kelley
Haralson dominated the first
day of hearings Monday with
objections to proposed civics,
homemaking, health and geog
raphy texts.
In hundreds of pages of testi
mony, they continually sug
gested a variety of textbooks be
revised to give more instruction
on traditional family values, the
dangerous aspects of drug use
and advancement of free-
enterprise economics.
They frequently criticized
proposed books for failing to
tout American accomplish
ments, “glorifying” communist
countries and giving too much
space to the feminist movement.
In response to a question
from a committee member,
Haralson denied the critics were
out of touch with the feelings of
most Texans.
“I think I’m not a fanatic or an
extremist,” Haralson said. “I
think most Texans would want
that if something is presented in
detail that it be patriotic in na
ture. We are concerned that our
students have something that is
uplifting.”
Although they did not testify
before the committee, members
of People for the American Way
made their opposition known
through a formal news confer
ence and several impromptu
question-and-answer sessions.
Executive Director Anthony
Podesta said Texas was chosen
for intense scrutiny because of
the Gablers’ reputation and the
state’s influence on the purchas
ing practices of other states.
Unemployed Texas migrant workers
deserve federal help, attorney says
United Press International
HEREFORD — Thousands
of migrant and seasonal farm
laborers unable to find work in
west Texas weather-beaten cot
ton fields deserve federal disas
ter aid similar to that provided
to area farmers, a legal aid attor
ney says.
William H. Beardall, a staff
attorney for Texas Rural Legal
Aid Inc., said Monday that
thousands of migrant men,
women and children were sleep
ing in cars, trucks and parks
throughout the Panhandle be
cause farms jobs were not avail
able and they do not have
enough money to eturn home.
He said a coalition of farm,
labor and political groups would
officially announce a call for aid
Thursday in a news conference
at a migrant labor camp in Dim-
mitt.
“Essentially, the problem is
the devastating weather condi
tions,” Beardall said. “The crops
destroyed provided ' employ
ment for an estimated 80,000
workers in the High Plains area.
Most of them were affected in
one way or another.”
He said workers who usually
hoe weeds in cotton fields and
harvest onions during this time
of year will find their $5,000-a-
year wages cut in half or erased
because so few farm jobs were
available.
“We have seen a lot of trouble
this summer with the migrants,
who will feel the most tragic
effects,” Beardall said. “They
spend all their money to travel to
this part of the state to make
enough for the leaner months in
the fall and winter.
“They are broke and
stranded,” he said.
About 80 percent of the
affected workers are from the
Rio Grande Valley and southern
New Mexico, 10 percent are sea
sonal laborers already residing
in the High Plains area and 10
percent are undocumented
aliens from Mexico.
Beardall said he had located
several potential sources of
funds for thejobless workers but
declined to specify the source of
such funds.
He said migrant workers de
served federal assistance similar
to that provided last month to
area producers, who lost an esti
mated 2.5 million acres of cot
ton, wheat, corn and other crops
to a series of rain and hail
storms.
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