Monday, March 6,1989
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REPORTER
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nspires five Hispanic writers
Five Hispanic writers agreed Friday that their
pirational voices come from the Hispanic tra-
iition of deep connection with roots and the ex-
ended family.
Hispanic authors spoke to a crowd of about 50
people about their inspirations — the inner and
inter voices that inspire them to write.
Denise Chavez, poet, playwright and prose
writer from Houston, Genaro Gonzales, an au-
horfrom the Rio Grande Valley, Carlos Morton,
playwright from El Faso, Evangelina Vigil-Pi-
non, a poet from Houston and Alejandro Mo
rales, an author from California participated in
the book fair sponsored by the Committee for
the Awareness of Mexican-American Culture
(CAMAC) and the Arte Publico Press.
They said inspiration also comes from friends
and environment.
“I get my characters from going to the laun
dromat and observing or in the elevator just lis
tening to people,” Chavez, a professor of drama
at the University of Houston, said.
Pinon, who works for the Cultural Arts Coun
cil in Houston, said, “I get my inspirations from
things such as music or my grandmother. In the
end, the voices all become one and we are able to
talk through our characters.”
Arte Publico Press, based in Houston, is the
largest publisher of Hispanic writings in the
United States. Most of the works published are
textbooks for Hispanic literature courses and
ethnic studies.
“Johnny Tenorio” a play by Morton, a profes
sor of psychology at the University of Texas at El
Paso, was performed by Texas A&M’s Hispanic
Group Theater, a newly formed division of
CAMAC, on campus Thursday. Chavez will be
directing a play by Morton about AIDS and high
school students called “At Risk.” The play will
tour Houston schools and possibly come to A&M.
Chavez said, “Writers feel the need to express
their worlds with others.
“When we listen to our voices we can commu
nicate the stories of others that may never be
told. It is the vital task of a writer to communicate
the silence of the people.”
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HOUSTON (AP) — Two of
Houston’s largest and oldest trees, a
pair of towering oaks on prime va
cant land at the corner of West-
(leitner and Augusta in southwest
louston, once seemed destined to
ventually give way to development.
Some people urged the city to
lave the towering trees by acquiring
She two-acre-plus tract as park land.
Aut the financially distressed city
tovernment couldn’t come up with
[he money to do that.
Now, however. Becks Prime, a
louston company, has incorporated
[he massive trees into the design of a
lew restaurant it has constructed at
Ihe site.
It appears to have done every-
Ihingthat urban forestry experts call
For to safeguard trees.
Both trees stand about 50 feet tall.
The largest one divides into two
huge trunks, topped by a crown of
branches measuring 100 feet across.
The crown of the other stretches
80 feet across. Their root systems
reach beyond their crowns.
The largest has long been a favor
ite with people interested in trees.
Lanny Dreesen, a forestry specialist
with the Texas Agricultural Exten
sion Service, describes the tree as
“the classic old southern live oak
with spreading branches close to the
ground.”
“It’s a fantastic tree,” Dreesen
said.
No known records indicate
whether the oaks sprouted naturally
or settlers planted them. Estimates
of their ages range from about 100
years to more than 200 years.
Newspaper reports
police response times
vary in certain areas
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A program concerning careers
in library science and library edu
cation programs is scheduled
Tuesday at 2 p.m. in 204C Evans
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“The Future is Information;
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A panel composed of aca
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HOUSTON (AP) — Houston po
lice officers respond to emergency
calls from the exclusive River Oaks
neighborhood quicker than they do
to calls from crime-ridden neighbor
hoods in the city, the Houston Post
reported Sunday.
A police spokesman says response
times vary because the number of re
quests for help in any given neigh
borhood will vary, but some council
members say that should not happen
and police manpower should be in
creased according to need.
“For life-threatening emergen
cies, the response times should be
the same citywide,” said City Coun
cilman Dale Gorczynski, who rep
resents the crime-ridden Acres
Homes area in north Houston.
“There should be only minor vari
ances in response times citywide.
Four minutes isn’t a minor differ
ence. Four minutes is a major differ
ence.”
According to police figures ob
tained by the Post under the Texas
Open Records Act, the response
times across the city vary greatly,
with some neighborhoods receiving
E olice response to Priority 1 calls in
:ss than half the time of other
neighborhoocis.
The average response time to
River Oaks emergency calls was 6.7
minutes while police get to calls from
Acres Homes residents in an average
of 10.7 minutes, the newspaper said.
The Post requested the average
response times in 1988 for all 103
police beats in which the department
assigns its officers for patrol duties.
While the department had the capa
bility of pulling that information
from its computer-aided dispatch
system, officials had never asked for
response times broken down that
way, a police spokesman said.
The numbers show a wide dispar
ity in the response times throughout
the city, with police generally getting
to emergencies more quickly inside
Loop 610 and slower to sparsely
populated areas near the city limits.
Generally, northwest Houston
fared better than northeast Hous
ton, and the southwest fared better
than the southeast, where only one
police beat was below the citywide
average of 8.3 minutes for 1988, the
newspaper said.
Some affluent neighborhoods,
like River Oaks, received good police
response, but other affluent neigh
borhoods, like Inwood Forest in
northwest Houston, had an average
response time of 10.2 minutes, the
Post said.
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