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photo courtesy East Texas Airdevils
Air show coining to town
The East Texas Airdevils (shown here at an air
show in Nebraska) will be in Bryan Saturday
and Sunday for an air show. A stunt flyer
with the group will attempt to cut a ribbon 10
feet off the ground with the tail of his plane
while flying upside down. The show will
feature several war planes, military
demonstrations and a glider show. Admission
for the show is $5 for adults and free for
children under 10. Gates will open at 10 a.m.
and the shows will start at 2 p.m.
Peso devaluation causes
increase in alien influx
United Press International
With the value of the Mexican
peso decreasing, the number of
illegal aliens caught crossing
into Texas border cities has sig
nificantly increased to as many
as 180 per day in some areas,
Border Patrol officials say.
The percentage increase in
arrests for the El Paso and
Brownsville Border Patrol areas
— at opposite ends of the border
— was about 25 percent since
the devaluation. The highest
was 80 percent in the middle, at
Laredo.
“During the first three weeks
of August, we have seen a rather
significant increase in the num
ber of illegal aliens we are
apprehending in the El Paso sec
tor,” said Alan Eliason, chief
patrol agent for the El Paso sec
tor. “As of the 22nd, we were up
26 percent over the same period
last year.”
The Mexican government,
faced with higher debts and di
minishing income, devalued the
peso on Aug. 5 for the second
time this year. In one day, the
value of the Mexican currency
tumbled from 49 pesos to $ 1, to
74 and landed at 90 to $1 by the
third day.
At banks along the border on
the Texas side, however, the
rate varied from 110 to 130
pesos per U.S. dollar, making
them worth less than a penny
each.
Though devaluation is a sig
nificant factor in the increase in
illegal aliens, U.S. Border Patrol
officers say other factors have
some impact.
“The harvest is in progress in
the valleys around El Paso at this
time of the year,” Eliason said
Monday. “Of course, the harvest
was in progress last year at this
time, too. We do have a few
more officers actually working
right now than last year, which
makes us more effective.
“The bottom line, though, is
there does seem to be more
aliens coming, probably as a re
sult of the economic conditions
in Mexico.”
New band leader appointed
Bill Jay Dean, former dire
ctor of the award-winning Odes
sa High School Band, has been
named associate director of the
Texas Aggie Band and director
of the University Symphonic
Band effective Sept. 1.
Dean will replace Joe McMul
len, who is retiring after holding
the position for nine years.
“I’ve known Mr. Dean for ab
out 20 years and he is one of the
most successful high school
band directors in Texas,” said
Lt. Col Joe T. Haney, director of
the Aggie Band. “He is a dedi
cated music educator and was
our first choice for the position.”
Dean, a graduate of Baylor
University, led the Odessa Band
to 22 consecutive University In
terscholastic League first-
division marching honors; a
first-division rating is the high
est rating awarded in UIL band
competition.
His band also won the UIL
sweepstakes award 20 years
while Dean was director. To win
a sweepstakes award, a band
must receive first division rat
ings in marching, sightreading
— performing music which the
band has never seen before —
and concert contests for that
year.
Hansen’s secretary
promoted to assistant
Texas A&M Chancellor
Arthur G. Hansen has
announced the promotion of
Shirley Lightfoot to the posi
tion of assistant to the chan
cellor.
Lightfoot had been serving
as executive secretary to the
chancellor.
“This new designation for
Mrs. Lightfoot is made pri
marily in recognition of the
varied responsibilities that she
has been carrying out so effec
tively and new duties in the
near future,” Hansen said.
Lightfoot’s association with
the office of the chief execu
tive officer for the Texas
A&M University System dates
back to 1966, when she was
secretary to Robert G. Cherry,
then assistant to the president
and secretary to the Board of
Regents. Cherry is the new
vice chancellor for public
affairs and secretary to the
board.
Lightfoot and her family
moved from the community
in 1972. Before returning
from Wisconsin in 1979, she
served as a director of the Wis
consin Home Builders Asso
ciation.
Lightfoot returned to the
campus as executive secretary
in the office of the chancellor
during the period when then
Board of Regents Chairman
Clyde H. Wells was carrying
out the functions of the chan
cellor prior to the appoint
ment of Dr. Frank W.R.
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