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Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
Freshmen members of the Naval ROTC First
Regiment take part in water lifesaving exer
cises at the Wofford Cain Pool Wednesday
morning during Freshman Orientation Week.
All prospective Navy/Marine Corps members
must pass the water lifesaving course before
they are recognized as full members of the
Corps of Cadets.
HOUSTON (AP) — Onlyal
percent of the families livi,,
Houston’s public housing projed
midyear were Hispanic, the
segment a recent study found
fers from the worst housing
tions in the city.
“We know Hispanics are ui
represented in public housing,
Fitzgerald, acting director of
housing authority, said.
A University of Houston s
found Hispanics in Houstonpai
most for the least amount oftioii
and have the greatest needforafi
dable homes, the Houston Chnn
reported Sunday.
Despite statistics which sho*l
panics are the fastest-growing!
merit of the city’s minority cour
nity, poor Hispanic families arc
getting a large percentage of spa
in the city’s public housing projK
Fitzgerald said one of the res
so few Hispanics live in thedtyi;
housing projects is because thos
not that many on the waitinglisl
a unit.
“Certainly our intent and :
commissioners’ intent is to optii
an agency that serves the publicz,
not one segment of the pufej
Fitzgerald said. “But we mustttt
ply with federal regulations ra
require us to house from the wad
list.”
Of the 2,237 families living in aj
city’s 12 projects at midyear, Ifo
7.4 percent were Hispanic. Blij
families totaled 1,904 familis
85.1 percent.
The waiting list tells a similarb
Of the 5,019 families now wan
for their chance to move intoap
ject, 84.6 percent are blackando
8 percent are Hispanic.
Administrators say they cam
force people to apply, butthevki
launched marketing efforts tbai
elude updated brochures in Span
for distribution to agencies i
groups in the Hispanic commurc
Notices have been posted in chut
bulletins with Hispanic congrtf
tions.
In addition, Fitzgerald and oil*
top administrators met with k
Hispanic journalists a few raori
ago to seek ideas for countering!!
problem.
Felix Fraga, director of the Ripe
House project in a predominai
Hispanic neighborhood, said li
root problem is the widespread" '
ception of the housing authoril'
an agency run by blacks primaa
for blacks.
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AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas De
partment of Commerce will open an
office in Japan later this year, and
officials expect it to have a “substan
tial long-term business impact” on
the economy back home.
Dana Shelton, the department’s
division manager for business devel
opment, says the Tokyo office,
scheduled to open Oct. 17, will pro
mote direct Texas investment and
trade with Japan.
The office also is expected to gen
erate Japanese interest in the maqui
ladora program, which allows com
panies to use Texas as a distribution
point for products manufactured in
U.S. assembly plants located in Mex
ico.
Department officials say about
235 Japanese firms are operating in
Texas, 35 of them in manufacturing,
according to Shelton.
The director of the state’s new
Tokyo office will find export mar
kets in Japan for Texas firms and
provide information for Texas com
panies wanting to do business with
the Japanese.
Officials also hope the office en
courages Japanese tourists to visit
Texas.
“This office provides the opportu
nity for substantial long-term busi
ness impact,” Shelton said. “But we
need to be in Tokyo for about two
years to be considered a player.”
Department officials say the Japa
nese tend to do business only with
those with which they have estab
lished long-term personal
relationships.
“They have different business
practices,” department spokesman
Rebecca Allmon. “They believe it’s
best to deal with an entity face-to-
face. That has been most success
fully achieved with an office in same
city.”
Though the department hasn’t
found a site for the office and has
yet to hire its director, officials say
the Oct. 17 opening — which coin
cides with a planned Japan-TeXas
Conference in Tokyo — won’t be de
layed.
The department dismissed Bill
Luttrell, who opened an interim
Texas office in Tokyo using funds
from Texas businesses, in Decem
ber. Department officials offered no
direct criticism of Luttrell’s perfor-
“We just felt it was necessan
make a change because we fell*
marketing direction had changft
he said.
Shelton said the new dirfC
would be someone with "outs*
ing knowledge of Texas, outs®
ing marketing skills and outstam
communication skills.”
“The key to our success will lx
dissemination of information,
said.
Shelton spent part of July
ing Tokyo for an office location
is affordable and located near
central business district. He say
needs to be near a landmark been
Tokyo is “a very confusing city.
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