Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 18

ISA Corpus Christi Sunday Aug ZJ 1373 SCHOOLS STORM LINE Ceetinned from Page 1 with other parts of the country" He said most property owners have been cooperative during his visits to inspect damage they are very specific in listing their he said great majority aren't out to get the insurance with such tremendous destruction you find that people are less likely to throw in items which weren't caused by the A (jHtlcal Look ness for a while you get to recognize most of them" They rushed to Corpus Christi in response to a phone call although many who had been watching the progress of the hurricane had anticipated a disaster while waiting for the storm to make a landfall 'T work an average of six months a year" Monk said "The rest of the time I play golf" Continued from Page 1 pratic college and how da I coatact them? RA School starts tomorrow at the Texas Chiropractic College 5912 Spencer Highway Pasadena Texas A local chiropractor should have called on you by now to give you assistance The college is a six-year course of study The first two years are basic science courses Then there are four years in chiropractic college Your science credits will apply to the college science courses A year ago we answered an advertisement by National Sup- 4 Angelo 3fAlsaidthat i natural Vs-here his wife teaches in the aster" sM Is CeliS where MONK a trairof disasters the completed repairs have been approved By the lending public schools he keeps a pack' aged kit of household supplies including dishes pots and pans and linens fothat he can move it ne cpnmovi may prompt a man to take his first critical look at his property in years notice a hairline g-ijjtk iiwthe sheetrqck jfhat was mentary schools be left unchanged Among them are four in which 90 per cent or more of the pupils are Mexican-Ameri-can The schools and their Mexi-can-American percentages are Chula Vista 966 per cent Crockett 907 Evans 931 and Prescott 953 Alvino Campos chairman of the Committee of 12 said that after studying toe plan submitted by the school district the committee wrote a letter to Seals giving the committee's comments on the (dan He said toe committee is still studying the plan and hopes to said Seals its comments on this plan early during the coming week Not Bound In a meeting with the committee on July 29 Seals told toe committee members that he is not bound to follow the recommendation "I am bound by the law" he said I want you to be honest and tell me exactly what this committee feels" He also told the committee that after both sides in the suit have submitted their plans he will conduct a hearing for oral arguments by attorneys "We cannot be guided by what other cities In Texas Seals told the committee "We are not bound by it at least We might get some help as to done in other places We have a unique situation He advised the committee to consider the cost of transportation and consider transportation problems if any busing is necessary to achieve integration He also urged them to listen to any groups wlKrhavle cotoplaintiand then added might have something to say to them" This remark came after he told the committee hope that you will be able to do more in explaining things to the public ao the public will understand the problems that we are struggling with FULBRIGHT Continued from Page 1 day but its text was released for publication Saturday The Middle East speech was built around the basic theme in foreign policy thinking that the US must continu ously discard "old myths" about the world to face the He rejected as the Israeli fears he called them and touched with that the Arabs are still determined to destroy the Jewish state and he charged that Arabs do nothing to allay this fear with extravagant talk about "holy and about throwing the Jews into the Fulbright said that both President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic and King Hussein have effect repudiated such Draconian threats but the Israelis seem not to have noticed the Addressing himself to the forthcoming Middle East peace talks expected to open at the United Nations next week in the wake of the twojweek-old ceasefire between Israel and the UAR and Jordan Fulbright appealed to the Israelis to take the first step toward a lasting settlement The talks are to be conducted by Ambassador Gunnar Jarring the United Nations special envoy for the Middle East Fulbright said that "as Ambassador renewed mediation gets under way the first important move will probably be up to Israel which as toe military victor of the moment can reasonably be expected to initiate toe bargaining wtth it demonstration of flexibility not indeed of magnanimity" there has ever been an issue which is ripe and appropriate for peaceful settlement un-der-United Nations auspices it is the conflict between Israel and toe Fulbright said He said the UN Security Council resolution of Nov 22 1967 should be the framework for that and that means Israeli withdrawal from all Arab territory occupied in the Six-Day War In return Fulbright said Israel "would be entitled to firm and specific guarantees of her security such guarantee might be the stationing of sizable United Nations forces in militarily neutralized zones on both 6ides of the borders at all of toe points which are critical to he said Fulbright suggested UN forces be posted on the Golan Heights the west bank of the Jordan River the Gaza Strip and at the entrance to the Strait of Tiran pliers Corp In Salt Lake City for 25 candy machines and we paid them $4959 The machines were never delivered They returned out registered letters unclaimed We have tried calling but can never call anyone but a secretary JBL Alice The Better Business Bureau says they have had several inquiries about this firm but no complaints Now they have a complaint I applied for a Small Business Administration loan I was told the interest was three per cent and the loans are to be used to repair and replace my home and personal property as it was before Hurricane Celia I filled out all the forms and was called by the SBA and told I could only get half my loan and the Interest would be 6 par cent I feel like this is false advertising I want nothing more than to replace our home that was a total loss We did not have enough insurance to cover full replacement JS You have been told that the interest rate was three per cent until your financial situation had been reviewed The rate is three per cent unless the borrower has resources of his own toat could be used To find the amount allowed multiply $1000 times the number of tax exemptions listed on the 1969 tax return Money in excess of that amount is considered resources you can use There are exceptions for undue hardship If you are elderly or if you have children in or to enter college the loan may still be for three per cent The 6 per cent is the average interest on money paid during the last fiscal year a SBA spokesman says The SBA may have received some unsolicited advertising but has issued none of its own he says In June I sent a Dallas insur ance company a check for $56 1 received the policy but returned it in about a week I was told my request for refund was being processed but I never received it Mrs FBG You have your refund now Action Uno sorvoo roodtrs of Tha Timei by getting amwera oolving Eroblemi and cutting rod tape Action ino wants evory citizen to be treated fairly If you need help write to Action Line The Corpus Christi Times 0 Box 91 Corpus Christi 7S4H Please Include a telephone number where you con be reached Time and available limit the number of which we co BEACH Continued from Page 1 after the hurricane He reported that only slight damage had been done to the park Although business had picked up slightly this weekend a sporting goods and bait sales spot at toe to Padre Island reported that business had "very fallen off since Hurricane Celia Familiar with scenes in other summers of cars stacked up when toe Intracoastal Canal swing bridge is closed he said cars are racing by Another bait dealer on the Infracoastal Canal reported that while earlier in the summer it was possible at times to count almost 200 cars an hour making their way onto the island now toe heaviest count is around 40 to 50 cars an hour Continued from Page 1 to be in usable condition when classes begin Thursday A suit was filed in federal court July 22 1968 charging Corpus Christi schools with segregating both Negro and Mexi-can-American children along ra dal and ethnic lines The case was tried before Seals without a jury starting last May and ending on June 4 At the end of the trial Seals entered a partial judgment in which he held that Mexican-American children in local schools are "separated and segregated to a degree prohibited by the 14th Committee of 12 In his judgement Seals ordered the formation of a human-relations committee of 12 persons to be chosen from names submitted by the parties to the suit and having equal represen tation for the Mexican Negro and Anglo segments of the community In addition to asking both the plaintiffs and the defendant school district to submit proposed plans for desegregation Seals asked that the Committee of 12 investigate consult and counsel with toe school board in attempting to achieve a unitary school system The court set July 15 as the deadline for plans for desegregation to be filed by the plain tiffs and defendants On July 15 the school board adopted a plan and filed it Early last week toe plaintiffs filed a plan based on a map showing the ethnic distribution of the entire school district Close Beach School The school district plan proposed the closing of Beach School (which subsequently was almost demolished by the hurricane) and the changing of school attendance zone lines for several elementary junior and senior high schools The plaintiffs first filed on July 15 a list of suggestions for a unitary school system and last Monday filed a formal plan based on the ethnic distribution map The plaintiffs' plan basically follows a dan outlined by Dr Gordon Foster of Coral Gables Fla when he testified during the trial here It calls for the closing of Beach Crassley and Washington schools and changing Coles Junior High School to an element ry school to house children now attending Beach and Washington It proposes that 125 children now going to Crossley be assigned to Oak Park 110 to Savage and 234 to Gibson The plan also calls for toe realignment of some attendance zone lines and for the pairing or grouping of 23 elementary schools to change their ethnic balances It recommends that 13 ele work long hours while in a disaster area suppose I've been putting in 16 hours a day" he said "Get up about 5 do paper work left over from the day before check in at the office about 8 o'clock pickup the calls and work until just before dark between 7 and 8 o'clock at night By 11 ready for Local Adjusters Snowed He estimated that 500 adjusters were drafted from other parts of toe country to work on Hurricane Celia doing virtually all of the hurricane claim he said local adjusters are snowed under with run-of-the-mill Many property owners have requested that a local adjuster be sent out to assess their damage no way it could be Monk said the volume of claims suddenly jumping 1800 per cent it would take at least three years tor the local staff to cover what be abl to do in three He said practically every local adjusting agency has set up a separate storm damage claims section to deal exclusively with Hurricane Celia This set-up enables the local staff to keep up with routine claims which otherwise would be hopelessly lost in the shuffle "A typical adjusting service is set up with just so many people to do a certain amount of work during normal Monk said "When something like this comes along there would be chaos without calling in outside Because the catastrophe adjusters deal almost exclusively with storm damage they are highly prized by the insurance industry in a calamity such as Hurricane Celia Without them property owners might wait in line for years before being able to settle a claim "In a way we're like Monk said necessary Without us you could never finish a job like the one we face with Hurricane Celia" that paint inside the crack indi cates it was there for a long So far he said most property owners have seemed agreeable to the damage estimates provid ed by the adjusters He said toase with a heavy loss are con cerned that inflation might boost the repair bill higher than the insurance payment "Rumors that materials are running short and that labor costs are skyrocketing usually hit about two weeks after a disaster like this one" Monk said They die down after about a month when people realize that it just so" Costs Generally Stable Although fly-by-night operators might try to make a killing during toe confusion of a disaster he said that costs generally remain stable during the recovery period "A good solid contractor afford to get involved in any kind of get-rich-quick scheme" he said Monk said that his estimates sometimes do not agree with those presented by a property owner who has consulted with a contractor Contractors frequently make a lump sum estimate while toe adjusters must itemize the cost of each detail of the job one job the property owner gave me a contractor's estimate for more than $8000 far more than what I had he said "So I asked that the estimate be itemized before coming to a de cision When I got toe itemized estimate toe total was upped to about including nearly 4000 square feet of floor tile for a 1000-square-foot house" After the catastrophe adjuster completes his inspection he provides the property owner with a proof of loss statement which must be signed and forwarded to the insurance company The adjuster attaches an itemized list of toe damages The insurance company in turn issues a draft to cover the cost of approved claims The usual casualty insurance policy does not cover toe first $100 in damages The insurance check goes to i nduce 5 nisAvaV to Corpus Christi the morning after the hurricane Living relatively close to the disaster area he was able to get here by car within a few hours Adjusters from other states poured in by plane bus and in some cases where connections were missed a few hitched rides along the way The devastation was far greater than most of them had ex pected "There was no comparison with if it hadn't been for the rain damage in that storm there would have been few major claims" Monk said Wind Devastation "I worked Camille too where the biggest damage was caused by the tidal assault You just see the devastation by the wind that you see in this The catastrophe first order of business was to find a dace to light once they reached Corpus Christi a room in a motel in the downtown area" Monk said "One of them fixed up a dormi tory for 50 men but that was overflowing when we got He and an adjuster he recognized from a previous disaster assignment lucked up at a heavily damaged motel on the out skirts of town Eventually he found an apartment in the downtown area The catastrophe adjusters are summoned by local adjusting offices which in turn provide damage estimates for various insurance agencies The service comes as part of the insurance package Monk said fees of the adjusters are calculated on a combination of time spent on the job and the type of property being inspected He was commissioned fo- this assignment by The Ogden Co a general insurance firm Confer With Builder Before going into the field to est'mate the damage the out-of-town adjusters confer with contractors building supply dealers and insurance men to determine local variations in the cast of repairs These conferences result in a price guide which the adjuster uses itemizing the market value of property which was damaged or destroyed The list contains hundreds of items ranging from the cost of sheet-rock to toe going rate for a cabinetmaker costs will vary from one end of the country to the Monk said general they will be a bit higher here than they are in West Texas but they too far out of line VIETNAM Continued from Page 1 namese and Viet Cong unite were within rocket range of Phnom Penh In Saigon South Vietnamese headquarters announced it had closed out a 10-day operation in Cambodia aimed at blocking enemy infiltration routes across the frontier to War Zone north of Saigon A communique claimed 47 enemy killed and 41 weapons captured South Vietnamese losses were put at 15 killed and 78 wounded A spokesman said withdrawal of the 1500 troops in the operation left 16000 South Vietnamese soldiers still operating in Cambodia NEWSMEN Continued from Page 1 Anson 25 who was captured by Viet Cong Aug 3 while driving alone near the Cambodian city of Skoun The others being freed were reported to be Dutch and French Sihanouk said his army was freeing reporters including Mr He added: will continue our efforts to locate and five the others" Richard Dudman of the St Louis Post-Dispatch Michael Morrow of Dispatch News Service and Elizabeth Pond of the Christian Science Monitor were released in June after 43 days of captivity Two Americans Gerald Mil ler and George Syvertsen both of CBS were slain after they in truded into enemy-held territory in Cambodia BLEDSOE MUSIC CO ANNIVERSARY SALE! Former Resident Dies in California A Pouncey of Monrovia Calif a former resident of Corpus Christi died at Friday in Long Beach Calif hospital Funeral services will be at 9:30 am Tuesday in the Porter Loring Funeral Home in San Antonio Burial with military honors will be in toe Ft Sam Houston Cemetery the property owner but it must be cosigned by any mortgage holder before ft can be cashed This technicality distresses many policy holders who expected to have the money in the bank before beginning their repairs many cases the property owner can't get the money until We were fortunate in not having any wind or water damage as a result of Hurricane Celia We have an unlimited stork of name brand band instruments pianos organs and musical accessories and are in a position to make immediate deliveries Many many bargains during this sale GIODGI PITQS AGENCY M4-2V14 BLEDSOE MUSIC CO PIANOS ORGANS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ta pm THNSHY TIL Ml 4141 fo Stopbi (PoMob foaort) 414-1411 JEWISH COmUMITY CODICIL PIE-SCHOOL A Fow Openings for Four Year Old lays ar Girls Phone 55-6239 THERE mm YOU HEED US NOW WE NEED YOU The Gulfstream Condominium Apartments (Undamaged by HurricaneCelia) fCER fttfWEplATE Padre Island Gulf Beach CONVENTIONAL FINANCING AVAILABLE Soma Apartments Now Available For Rental FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Mr Nisbet or Mr Chilton 882-8841 933-8166 Or if your phone is not in service coma by Great Western Corporation 200 Wilson Tower Your Corpus Christi Firefighters climb a lot of ladders but when it comes to their pay scale they seem to be stuck on the lowest rung In fact though Corpus Christi's Fire Department is rated tops in efficiency in Texas we're actually 18th from the top on the pay scale for cities of our size On September 12th we'll be asking you the citizens we serve for a living wage We're there when you need us Now we need YOU SUPPORT YOUR CORPUS CHRISTI IFOIIilFDSInliril: (N for by year Carp Christi Firefighters) i 1 i ti' l-e v-cS'iV' -tCt -'Av i Jwiii'i 1 fi 'i -t i I I si i 1 I.