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INS officials take show on road
to inform illegal aliens of rights
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Immi
gration officials are taking their am
nesty show on the road to events that
often attract Hispanic crowds in an
attempt to convince more illegal
aliens to apply for legalization.
The program, begun in Texas,
will soon spread nationally, with the
INS focusing on community-based
events such as block parties, maria-
chi concerts and Spanish radio
broadcasts.
“People are out driving around and they hear it on the
radio and they decide to stop by and check it out. It's
proven to allay a lot of their fears that legalization is
some kind of trick. ”
Leo Soto, head of the San Antonio INS legalization
services
The immigration rallies are
prompted by the low numbers of eli
gible aliens taking advantage of ob
taining legalization under the 1986
Immigration Reform Act.
The current turnout indicates
millions of aliens, many from Mex
ico, are in danger of losing their op
portunity to file for citizenship by
the May 4 deadline.
INS officials said the new public
awareness effort is the second phase
of a heavily criticized $10.7 million
information campaign to tell eligible
• aliens to apply at INS legalization
centers.
People may apply for legal status
if they entered the United States ille
gally before 1982 and lived in the
country continually since.
Across the nation, applications for
legalization lag far behind INS pro
jections. Initially, INS officials pre
dicted nearly 4 million would apply
by May 1988. They’ve revised their
estimates to 2 million. At the end of
1987, a little over 1 million people
had applied for legal status.
In Texas, where the INS expected
500,000 to 750,000 applications,
only 158,301 applications were re
ceived by Dec. 31.
The San Antonio INS district be
gan its amnesty road campaign in
October at San Angelo, later extend
ing it to Austin and San Antonio.
The INS used Mariachis, free
food and soft drinks and a van
equipped as a legalization center.
Leo Soto, head of the San Antonio
INS legalization services, said the
turnout at the first rally in San An
gelo was so great, there weren’t
enough clerks to handle applica
tions. They had to return a second
day.
“We felt it was important to put a
spark into the program,” Soto said.
“We had to do something.”
The San Antonio district includes
legalization offices in Laredo, San
Antonio, Corpus Christi and v— : -
There were less than 27,000 applb
tions in the district by the end o:
1987. The INS had expected 50,00(1,
Soto said.
“Our applications had dropped
off pretty heavily during the fali,”ht
said. “But by going out to the com
munities, we showed that the peoplt
were out there.”
In San Antonio during December
f estivities at the local amnesty center
produced more than 1,500 applb
tions.
In Austin early this month, hif
crowds turned out for a weekend of®
music and live broadcasts by apopn
lar Spanish-language radio station it H
San Antonio.
City of Houston makes plans
to hire engineers for railway
The broadcasts, aired at the ami
nesty center, featured Hispanicenp
tertainers and political and religioe
leaders who extolled the benefits
legalization. That event brougfc
1,500 applications, Soto said.
“People are out driving around
and they hear it on the radio and
they decide to stop by and chedi
out,” he said. “It’s proven to allayt ■
lot of their fears that legalizations
some kind of trick. We’re recom
mending it to other districts as beir;
a very effective way of getting thl
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HOUSTON (AP) — The city’s
Metropolitan Transit Authority al
ready is planning to hire engineers
to help develop a 20-mile light rail
system after voters overwhelmingly
approved a $2.6 billion transit plan.
Harris County voters Saturday
approved the 13-year plan that calls
for street improvements, upkeep
and expansion of the city bus system
and a network of freeway bus lanes.
Alan Kiepper, Metro’s general
manager, said he’ll ask the MTA
board on Jan. 28 to hire an engi
neering firm to help write an envi
ronmental impact statement on the
rail system. Other engineers will be
hired to draw preliminary designs.
Once the environmental impact
study and preliminary design are
done, probably by mid-1989, Metro
will apply for federal funding, Kiep
per said. Land acquisition and rail
construction most likely will begin by
the end of 1991, he said.
The approved plan includes $340
million for transitways and other fa
cilities, $320 million for new buses,
$560 million for road improvements
and $1 billion for the rail system
which is to connect, among other
things, the downtown area with the
Astrodome, the Texas Medical Cen
ter and the Galleria shopping area,
where it would feed bus routes.
Metro critics, however, dismissed
the significance of Saturday’s elec
tion and are collecting petition sig
natures to force a May 7 election that
would cut Metro’s sales tax in half
from 1 percent to 0.5 percent.
The signatures collected so far fall
short of the estimated 45,000
needed by Feb. 1 to force the May
election.
“Certainly if we can cut that tax,
they can’t build the rail system,”
Metro critic Barry Klein said.
“That’s one way to stop it.”
Metro board chairman John J.
King said Metro would probably
have cut its penny sales tax volun
tarily if voters had rejected the plan.
Under the approved proposal,
christructibn of tire rim systerri would
be contingent upon 70 percent fed
eral and private sector money, al
though no private sources publicly
have signed on.
Over the past five years, the city
has opened 20.1 miles of transit-
ways, or special highway lanes re
served for buses, vanpools, and in
some cases, carpools. Under the
transit plan, an additional 57 miles
of transitways would be constructed.
In 1983, voters decisively rejected
a $2.35 billion bond measure to pay
for a city rail system.
Metro assembled a team of more
than 300 engineers before the vote
in 1983, and the overconfident
MTA board bought 130 railcars for
$139 million in an emergency meet
ing four months in advance of the
vote.
Voters smashed the plan, forcing
and pay a $500,000 penalty to cancel
the railcar contract.
Currency plant construction faces
shortfall of funds before completion
FORT WORTH (AP) — Con
struction of a federal currency plant
that will print 25 percent of the na
tion’s money is running into a short
fall of pledged cash needed to build
the site.
The first phase of construction of
the Western Currency Production
Facility is complete except for con
struction of a perimeter road, the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported
Sunday.
The facility’s construction is a pro
ject of the county, city, state, private
industry and U.S. Bureau of En
graving and Printing.
The county has fulfilled its obliga
tion of preparing the site, but county
Commissioner J.D. Johnson said,
“We had to beg, borrow and
scrounge equipment from just about
everybody in the world.”
It’s now the city’s turn to begin the
second phase of the project, con
struction of a building shell for the
printing facility.
Fort Worth outbid 82 other cities
in 1986 with its $15.7 million com
mitment for the facility that prom
ised prestige, 1,200 jobs and an esti
mated $100 million a year to the
area.
But drastic changes in the econ
omy — including the oil slump, de
pressed real-estate profits and the
downturn in the stock market —
have resulted in a shortfall in the
projected $7.5 million in donations
pledged by private industry, the
Star-Telegram reported.
About $1.2 million must be col
lected from private sources before
construction begins on the 288,000-
square-foot shell building.
“We will get this done,” Mayor
Bob Bolen said. “It is absolutely too
important to this community for us
not to. We will never get this oppor
tunity again.”
Johnson said he received a lot of
free and voluntary assistance to fin
ish the county’s obligation, especially
at times when resources had just run
out.
But some of the businesses that
pledged to help the city construct
the printing building have gone out
of business.
“On the orginal amount ($7.5 mil
lion), w r e currently have a shortfall of
$3 million,” said Tom Higgins, a city
economic development specialist.
“But we’re still hopeful we’ll be able
to award the contract next month
and finish the building by October.”
Although it’s making fund raising
difficult, the economic downturn
may benefit the project slightly.
“The economy prevented us from
getting some of the donations, but it
also reduced the cost of the project
since we’re getting some of the serv
ices for less,” senior assistant city
manager David Ivory said.
“We also will save about $500,000
on the consturction bid,” he said.
“We received a very strong (low) bid
from a local firm that is solid finan
cially.”
But the city could be facing liti
gation from laborers. Labor leaders
say the city has violated the Davis-
Bacon Act.
The Act guarantees workers will
be paid prevailing wage as set by the
secretary of labor for all construc
tion contracts involving the federal
government. The city is using its
own wage standard for contract
work on the shell building.
Lost Holly songs
being recorded
by country band
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)-
Two long-lost songs written bvp
rock and roll pioneer Buddi
H oily will be recorded this weft
by the pop-country band Razor
hack, a spokesman for the group
says.
The song “Am I Ever Gonna
Find It” and another untitled
verse were written just before
Holly died in a plane crash in
1959, Razorback spokesman
Terry O’Neill said.
Holly, who was from Lubbod
Texas, is known for hits such as
“Peggy Sue” and “That'll Be the
Day ." Killed with him in the crash
were Richie Valens and the Bit
Bopper.
Producer Scott Turner of
Nashville collaborated w^th Hoik
in writing the songs. The tunes
were hidden in the inside cover of
Turner’s guitar case which he was
about to throw out when he
found them in 1980, O’Neill said.
O’Neill said Turner and Hol
ly’s widow, Maria, have decided
to let the six-member band re
cord the songs. Turner will pro
duce the recording session here
today and tomorrow at the Sound
Emporium studio with Maria
Holly present.
“She was determined thai
whatever group recorded these
songs, that they do them with
their own interpretation,” O’Neil
said. |
The songs have never been re
corded before. The first of the
two should he released next
month.
Razorback, based in Fort
Smith, Ark., has been together
for three years. Their songs “Thit
Ole House” and “As Long As I’ve
Been Loving You” were on the
country music charts a year ago.
The untitled Holly song will be
given a name this week, O’Neill
said.
Navy commissions new guided missile cruiser
USS San Jacinto close to namesake battlefield
HOUSTON (AP) — The Navy’s
newest guided missile cruiser, bear
ing the name of the battle which
gained the Republic of Texas its in
dependence, arrives Monday, begin
ning a week of ceremonies that cul
minates with official commissioning.
The $1 billion USS San Jacinto is
the 10th ship of the Aegis class of
cruisers, all named after historic
American battles.
“It (the guided missile cruiser) has the most elite of ra
dar systems. This is the ‘star wars’ approach to protect
ing aircraft carriers. ”
— Scott Pitzer, Navy spokesman
Unlike its sister ships, however,
the San Jacinto is unique in that the
commissioning will take place within
sight of its namesake battlefield.
Vice President George Bush is
scheduled to preside over ceremo
nies commissioning the ship into the
nation’s fleet Saturday.
The San Jacinto is named after
the 18-minute battle in which the
Texas Army, commanded by Sam
Houston and outnumbered about 2-
1, routed the Mexican Army on
April 21, 1836, under Gen. Santa
Anna.
The site, at the junction of the San
Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou
about 15 miles east of downtown
Houston, is marked by a monument
which is a near-duplicate of the
Washington Monument.
The battlefield, now a Texas state
park, also is home to the Battleship
Texas, itself a veteran of action in
World Wars I and II and now Un
dergoing renovation.
A committee has, been working
for six months, trying to come up
with $280,000 to cover expenses of
the week-long ceremonies leading
up to the commissioning of the ship.
“It’s been like pulling teeth raising
the money,” said Hugh W. Hardy, a
retired major general in the Marine
Corps Reserve and chairman of the
panel.
Plans called for a 2Tgun salute to
be exchanged Monday between the
San Jacinto and shore batteries at
precisely the moment when the_
cruiser crosses the fantail of the bat
tleship, Navy spokesman Scott Pitzer
said. ,
The salute will be answered by a
Texas National Guard contingent
using a 75mm howitzer flown in
from Austin.
The San Jacinto is the fourth ves
sel to bear that name and the third in
the U.S. Navy.
The first San Jacinto belonged to
the Texas Navy in the early days of
the Republic and was wrecked in a
hurricane near Galveston.
The second San Jacinto — and the
first to fly the American flag — was a
frigate built in 1851 and experi
mented with the use of a screw-type
propeller. It fought in China and
also was used against Confederate
vessels in the Civil War. It ran ag
round on a reef in the Bahamas on
New leai 's Dtiy, 1805, and the W,
eventually was sold in Nassau.
The most recent San Jacinto wasi
World War II aircraft carrier whid
included among its fighter pilots;
young George Bush. It served i#
1970.
Pitzer said there is a good chantf
the new San Jacinto will be berthet
in Corpus Christi by the 1990s, ant
be attached to the battle group tltf
will include an aircraft carrier airt
Battleship Wisconsin. For the Ufl'
being, however, it will be with tl«
Atlantic Fleet, based in Norfolk, Va
The ship’s nerve center is its Aep;
Combat System, an extensive collet
tion of detection devices which al
lows the crew to keep track of h#
dreds of objects.
“It has the most elite of radar sp
terns,” Pitzer said. “This is the ‘sta>
wars’ approach to protecting aircrat
carriers.”
The system also directs missile!
rockets, anti-aircraft and deck gun!
torpedoes, aircraft and helicopter!
It’s touted as being able to firemen
rapily and control in-flight motj
missiles than any other shipboan
system.
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that INS is taking the giass-rootsaf|
proach,” Norma Cantu of the dt
f ense and educational fund said.Be
Cantu said there remains a lota
fear among illegal aliens about am
nesty and legalization.
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