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LULAC threatening
LA Olympic boycott
Warped
REMINDER: PAY ±-THE LIBKAK1 CLOCKS STILL AREN'T
by Scott McCuck .
so you wA/fr to get into vet
school, heh? well, YOUR
RECORDS LOOK GOOD ENOUGH,
BUT TELL ttE, DO YOU HAVE
A BOYFRIEND?
United Press International
EL PASO — Mexican Aineri-
may boycott the
cans may boycott tne summer
Olympic games in Los Angeles
if ABC does not put more His-
panics on the air, it was an
nounced Wednesday by the na
tional president of the League
of United Latin American Citi
zens.
Mario Obledo, visiting El
Paso to finalize plans for LU-
LAC’s national convention here
June 21-24, said he was sorely
disappointed that ABC, which
has the rights to televise the
games, “has not tried to televise
the games and has not tried to
put more Hispanic broadcasters
into the coverage of the interna
tional sporting: events.”
Obledo said LULAC officials
will meet with ABC officials
March 7.
A spokesman for ABC said
the officials who could com
ment on the meeting were in
Yugoslavia, attending the Win
ter Olympics.
“If ABC does not respond fa
vorably, we will call for a boy
cott of the Olympics,” Obledo
said.
The attorney, a former offi
cial in the administration of Cal
ifornia Gov. Jerry Brown, said
LULAC may also extend the
boycott to major sponsors of the
Olympics.
“It is dismaying that 55 years
after LULAC was founded,
we’re still having problems like
this,” Obledo said.
Obledo was in El Paso to take
part in LULAC Week, celebrat
ing the organization’s founding
in Corpus Christi in 1929.
SO WHAT IF YOU'RE IN SCHOOL
ONE OR TWO YEARS AND THEN
HE GETS YOU PREGNANT? HUH?
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO
THEN? HOW ARE YOU GOING TO
“My principal dream is to see
LULAC out of existence when
equality is achieved,” Obledo
said.
Obledo said about 6,000 peo
ple will attend the national con
vention in June.
recent survey showed LULAC
is the largest and most influen
tial Hispanic organization in the
nation.
Texas towns to lose HUD grants
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WASHINGTON — Nearly
150 small Texas cities will lose
their eligibility for Urban De
velopment Action Grants be
cause the federal government
no longer considers them eco
nomically distressed, officials
said Wednesday.
However, Housing and Ur
ban Development officials said
40 other Texas communities
have shown since last March
that they suffer the minimum
standards of physical and eco
nomic stress to begin qualifying
for the grants.
The UDAG grants are
awarded to help build job-cre
ating projects such as office
complexes or retail centers in
economically distressed com
munities.
“These grants fill the financ
ing gap for projects that already
have considerable private fund
ing,” said HUD spokesman Jack
Flynn.
Since the UDAG program
began in 1970, Texas commu
nities have received $113.6 mil
lion in grants that attracted
$792.6 million in private financ
ing.
The agency said 149 Texas
towns were disqualified because
updated 1980 census data on
poverty levels and housing con
ditions showed they no longer
met eligibility criteria that de
termine economic distress. The
towns qualified under 1970 cen
sus data. Of the total, 47 have
lost eligibility since last March
and 101 since June 1982.
The communities dropped
from the list have until the end
of August to submit applica
tions for their final UDAG
grants.
The agency also noted it ex
panded the list of criteria to in
clude long-term high unem
ployment as a measure of
economic distress.
To qualify for UDAG grants,
a small city must meet three of
these six criteria:
—At least 21 percent of the
city’s housing units must have
been built prior to 1940;
—Per person income for the
period 1969-1979 must have
risen by $4,036 or less;
—Population-growth for the
period 1970-1980 must have
been 1.7 percent or less;
—The rate of growth in retail
and manufacturing employ
ment for the period 1972-1977
must have been 6.9 percent or
less;
—The percentage of people
living at or below the official
government poverty level must
be 12.4 percent or more; and-or
—The city must be within an
area or county which has an un
employment rate of 10 percent
or greater over the period
1981-1982.
The Housing and Urban De
velopment Department said
these Texas communities no
longer qualify for UDAG assis
tance:
Alice, Alvarado, Alvord,
Ames, A n a h u a c, Anton.
Athens, Barry, Barstow, Bay-
side, Blackwell, Bonney,
Booker, Bowie, Boyd, Bronson,
Bronte, Brownsboro, Buda,
Genterville, Ghandler, Chico,
China, Cibolo, Clarksville City,
Cleveland, Coahoma, Coffee
City, Coldspring, Corrigan,
Crandall, Crandall, Dean, Dell
City, Devine, Dorchester, Eagle
Lake, Eastland, Edgewood,
Edom, Eldorado, Elkhart,
Emory, Fairfield, Follett and
Fisco.
Also Gallatin, Ganado, Gid-
dings, Gray, George West,
Gholson, Gilmer, Godley,
linda, Gordon, Grandfal
Grayburg, Gunter, Hale Cifl
tea . H.iilsburg, Hallsville,(i A
Haslet, Henrietta, Humingt: ^
Jasper, Jewett, Johnson Ci ^
Joshua, Jourdanton, Kenei ,
Kirbyville, Krurn, Kyle, li S
Worth, Lamesa, Lalexo, ba E
Lawn, Lincoln Park, Livingaa '
Lorenzo, Lovelady, Lown V
Crossing, Marietta, Millaj e
Mount Vernon, Mustang,Na A
reth. New Deal, New Wavetk Sj
Nome, O’Brien, Odem, Oj ^
lesby, Oualaska, OrangeGron |
Pattison, Pittsburg, Pleasanta I
Plum Grove, Point, PointBlani K
Ponder, Post, Postoak Ben
City, Poth, Potlsboro am E
Poyner. ^
Others are Quinlan, Quia E
tana, Reklaw, Rice, Riesdli) ^
Vista, Riverside, Roscoe, Ros ^
Sadler, San Felipe, Sanger,Sj h
Patricio, Sansom Park N
Savoy, Seagraves, Sealy.SilsIw 1;
Smyer, Stratford, Surfsidi T
Beach, Tatum, Texhomi K
Three Rivers, Tioga, Toi ^
Bean, Trent, Tuscola, Venn L
Waller, Walnut Springs, Wfl ;
nert, Wells, West, Whartoa Sj
Willis, Wilson, Winfield, " r
nona and Woodville.
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Parents could be
held for kids’ crime ^
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Prizes
victed of a property crime will
be forced to pay restitution to
the victim or the parents will be
liable under a new plan an
nounced Wednesday by a Texas
district judge.
Enrique Pena, the judge who
handles most juvenile cases for
El Paso County, said he thinks
victims of juvenile crime will be
treated better under his plan.
Working with the County Ju
venile Probation Department
and the county attorney’s office,
the plan will also make sure that
the victims are fully compen
sated for any loss they have suf
fered.
“The state has recently
amended laws that permit
judges to order the parents of
juveniles to make restitution if
the juvenile can not,” Pena said.
“I recently had a case in
which some juveniles burned a
house down,” he said. “The in
surance company reimbursed
the home owners around
$100,000 but the owners were
still out another $5,000. I or
dered the parents of the boys
who committed the crimes to
pay that amount off in small
amounts.”
what the courts
them, and what they can
sonably expect from thecowts ^
The victims will be told lot ^
lend court hearings invotoi
the criminal and will be gi'fl n
access to a system that will k«f kj
them informed at all timesd ^
the status of their partialt r
cases, the judge said. S
They will be told whether^
juvenile is in the countyjuvenlf
detention home or in a how ^
detention program during ih ^
legal proceedings, he said. L
At sentencing time, the si' S
tims will he able to tell thejudjt T
about the crime’s physical,p'-
chological and financial efiedt p
on themselves or on their fa®: ^
lies. L
The judge said he willcon; /j
sider the victim’s feelings anili [>
written statement prepared!
the probation department afw
consultation with the victim.
One of the keys to keepinjj
victims informed will beaseria
of letters sent to victims
each step of the case. ■ ,
Pena said those steps "fe N
mally recognize and promoit
the courtesies and consider ..
ations that should be extendeii x
to crime victims.” ^
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