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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1984)
| Wednesday. August 22. 1964/The Battaion/Paga 13B Legal snag delays limiting scavengers i« l Pm RIO GRANDE CITY — A legal ng *rv m wrrk to post the out of the dump V. Texas poorest county to prosecute as trespassers the impoverished peo ple who forage through the local “We have people rsrma out dump for food, al jmmum cans and and building shacks for when of at other scraps Starr County fudge mad guards and “no aagns were to have been posted Fri day around the dump, located near the Texas-Mexico border, to try to prevent someone from getting sack or hurt “It's county property and we are doing at for the protection of the in dividual* and the county it liable if someone gets hurt there," he said "It’s very unhealthy for people to be fooling around out there " The problem. Chapa tatd. is that Starr (ounty dues not have a tres passing ordinance though he taad the county attorney was county and Mate law in." Chapa told the i Starr Cousaty has a per cppsta in come of $STMM a year, map of the lowest m the nation, and an unem- ploymeni rase near SO percent most of the year among its population of rkers The concrete block houses and subai on cutted vegetables and govet reent food and welfare programs On Friday, howevgr. Cha downplayed the hunger aspect they i '£ of the seavengen are after :ans and scrap metal, but do keep discarded food •Haer thn ton of regulars There are people V*d adds- for a fact — I know a faaatdy — that send children over there every day, four or five children and aduhs “It's not iwitmardy became peo pie are hungry We have a good food program m the county, food scamps and surplus commodmes There’s no hunger If somebody does it. it’s cunos«y or habit or he doesn 't want to see at go to waste " Commns loner Reynaldo Akanu blamed 90 percent of the problem on Mexicans from neighboring Camargo. Mexico, who cross the Rio Grande to pic k through the dump Jose Alvarez, the commitstoner who supervises the dump, said post mg signs would be useless because they would be ignored unless the county prosecutes trespassers. "What you need to do m move the •y (acav- dump away from there," hr said Firm offers positive view of executive setbacks Unlssd Prssa Issimsdsasl DENVER —- You are an upper- level corporate executive and your record on the job n without blemish, yet you have just been handed a pink •Xk,™. people would take as a career setback. Sid Walker says he can turn into a positive step forward Walker » president of Outplace ment Services Inc., a Denver firm that helps companies find work for executives they dismiss for reasons unrelated to job performamr «■» a new corporate direction, for exam ple. a reduction in staff or umpfv a lack of the right “chemistry * “Thn sort of thing is happening to people atl the time." Walker said People who have done a good job for tne company, but somehow no longer fit." Walker's firm attempts to trans form what initially seems a major ca reer setback into a positive expen- "The essrnse of what we do n help people work on their strengths. Walker said “It’s an tn-dep«h proc ess of taking a look at what thew skiMs are. what their strengths are, what they want to do at this point, what their next challenge'is. “It's a transition process of getting people back on their feet, getting their confidence up and making them realize the sauation wasn't right somehow and M'atime to move on." he said In the end. Walker MFA many of has ebrnts end up with llnser jobs. They’re a much mo^ valuable commodity by the we get through with them." hEj Many of those sent mM krt said most are ui from Fortune •KT the number vanes f year —- have never fub before They've always Walker said Typically, they tec utives nes. and to 200 a A for a yperuited," ful and frustrated by what has befal len them, and Walker said pan of hu firm's lob is to turn those feeling* around. The process begins with counsel ing to help the unfortunate exec utive overcome the trauma of being fired and re-evaluate hn career and personal goals. Walker’s firm then helps in preparing resumes and ac tually searching the job market Out placement Services also provides of- fke space, telephone* and anhmited secretarial help for its chents. Benefit* for the terminated em ployee are obvious For the eompa me* that pay Walker \ firm to find work for those they dismiss — he charges 12-15 percent of the em ployee's annual salary — the benefits include a positive image Whether a firm chooses to use Outplacement Services “depend* on the company philosophy — and how gudtv they feel about why they’re let ting people go." Walker •••id. I Robot assembler »ky CONNIE HI TTEMEK Brian Niznik, an industrial engineering of engineering students at the Texas ARcM graduate student from Clarksville, Penn., Robotics Lab. IBM, which funded the pro- demonstrates the IBM 7565 Manufacturing ject, will use the robot at its Austin assembly System that he designed along with a group plant. Barefoot denies air conditioning for protestors I tudge the city DALLAS —- A fe fused Monday to order the cay to provide cooler acrommodanons for wtary protesters whose battle against KMVdegree heat at their tent i it v cooled thew ardor for protesting Republican pobetes U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders conducted a hearing hours after 1.000 protesters from the Asso ciation of Community Organizations for Reform Now packed their color fully striped tents in the Trinity River bottoms and headed home “He told us A COR} conditions, they had * they should have knod Les Ledbetter of C and Rally C xmmutti Jim Fosbuider of the lawyer who f said he had wanted protesters to a»r-o ties and provide si cal facibties. all at or He also said the enng seeking dai city whose knew" during negotid .rptcrl the U chapter, ytter. said March that Features in August would • Ison. Wis.. 'e petition. fV-ty to move ^ /»ed facih and nsedi- •Vnse. vas < onud igainst the T “certainly p a last June agreed to camp d. had ptanneo way. Outer orotr to lempe exceed 100 degrees ACORN, which z the rocky riverbed leave Monday anyway. tXher proses ters have been taken into homes by sympathetic Dallas residents, Led better said The remaining 100 or so “hard core" protesters may take over a city park m search of shade. Ledbetter said “We’re losing people That's what the dey wanted, m said “It’s a death trap down there if a Prairie Hom e COMPANION tomeoar had CD stay there for four more 4av* of this kind of weather. Ledbetter said "If it were 90 we'd understand But thfy (the city) must have known there would he a good chance (of hotter weather)." Sunday the temperatuce at the city’ifLove Field airport reached 108 degrees, whs h broke an all-time h‘«h i of 105 detpees and was the h*H- test in the natibri Monday the tem perature in Delia topped KM) for the third sttaight day. The heat turned a huge, round reflecting pool in front of Ckv Hail ■ — pan protesters and passersby alike City officials, however, tailed lifeguards and not police. Several lifeguards patrolled the shallow water while a group of pro testers splashed and t Ranted under the aherntion sun rhr heat also forced cantellation of nightly open-air performances of the Dallas Ballei «/n Ckv Hall plaza, |ust in front of the pool f.arliet. the Dallas Fire Depart ment treated tour protesters at Tent Cky and one outside convention center for heat-related illnesses. The Red Cross set sp canteen to give cold drinks to protesters. About 30 people were Monday at a makeshift first aid station in the Dallas Public Library, mostly people just trying to cool down. delqmuon member of the Holly (aiors, Colorado d chairwoman and (.oors htewing family, said. “It’s a Intle warm, yes But she said inside the ton vent h »n hall, where the tem perature at times has dipped below t| /0 degrees. “It’s tooesAd. 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