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DEL Rio NEWS-HERAI 'Mf CflTER INC DJ.X 4 DALLAS, TEX. 47TH YEAR NUMBER 308 Phone 775-1661 DEL RIO, TEXAS, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10,1975 12 Today County Asks Legislature For Election on Hospital Around Town IMA JO FLEETWOOD OPENS OFFICE-Congressman Bob Krueger, left, looks on as Dr. Alfredo Gutierrez, mayor of Del Rio, snips the ribbon to officially open the first Congressional in-district office Del Rio has ever had. In the center is Mrs. Sarai Cardenas, receptionist-secretary who will have charge of the office.

(News-Herald Photo) U.S. NEEDS THE MONEY Krueger Welcomes Arab Investments By DAN BUS News-Herald Staff Congressman Bob Krueger, on his first visit to Del Rio since taking office, said today he is not afraid of Arab investment in this country. In fact, he encourages it, he said in an exclusive interview with the News-Herald. "If the oil producing nations were to invest their money in such ailing American corporations as Lockheed Aircraft, the taxpayers would not have to be asked to bail them out," the New Braunfels Democrat explained. The massive flow o' American money out of the country is the crux of the energy crisis, said Krueger.

"We need to get this money back into our economy." Krueger said many Americans are acting toward outside investment in our economy the same way they have criticized underdeveloped nations for acting American investments the past 30 to 40 years. Energy and foreign commerce will be two areas of prime concern for the freshman Texas congressman by virtue of his committee assignments. He did not conceal his delight with the positions he was given. The importance of the committees is obvious and could put the 21st District's representative in a powerful position in the years ahead. Krueger's major committee assignment is on the Interstate and Foreign Commerce panel, which Speaker Sam Rayburn built into a key panel with broad areas of responsibility when he served on it.

Krueger's Interstate and Foreign Commerce subcommittees are on Energy and on Investigations. The Congressman's other committee is a new one on Science and Technology. His subcommittees art- on Fossil Fuels, Non-Fossil Fuels and on Scientific Health and Academic Research. Krueger said lie no quick and easy solutions on the energy problem. Fit' held out no hopes for reductions of high fuel costs, indicating that prices are likely to climb still higher.

However, he stated he did not consider this the time for President Ford to be taking action to drive fuel costs up by imposing additional taxes on foreign oil imports. Krueger said the results of the President's proposal would be to add another 2 per cent to inflation just at the time efforts to bring spiraling cost increases to a halt. He saw little chance that the President's request for an add nal $3LV million in military aid for South Vietnam would be granted. He Indicated that the opinion of most of the Texas delegation is that this sum would really not help. Krueger said his research indicates the United States has spent $138 billion on the war in Southeast Asia between the years of 1965 and 1974.

Krueger noted that substantial appropriations for Southeast Asia will be included in the budget for the coming year, however, and stated he would support a "strong defense budget." Krueger, who was previously on record as favoring scrapping of the senority system for filling committee chairmanships, indicated he voted for all six Texans up for such posts, including Congressmen Bob Poayue and Wright Patman, who were ousted as committee heads. Krueger said Texas still has four committee chairmen and that the Lone Star State's delegation is the most powerful one iu Congress. Krueger was in Del Rio to open formally his office here, which will be under the direction of Mrs Surai Cardenas, full time receptionist ind secretary. He indicated he would probably personally keep office hours in the office each time lie is in the district. lie will have offices al San Antonio and San Angelo as well as Del Rio and will also maintain personal an office expense at in his his lometown of New Braunfels.

From Del Rio, he was to go to Sonora and Eldorado for town hall type meetings from 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 today. Tuesday morning, he will open his San Angelo office, after which he will have town hall meetings in Bellinger and Winters. SUSAN GURLEY McBEE, representative of the 70th Legislative District, was here from Austin Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. McBee told relatives she finds her work in the Legislature very Interesting.

She is serving her first term in the House of Representatives in Austin. ALPHA MU ZETA Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority will meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the home of Dorothy Haga, 501 Aldrete, with Mrs. Haga and Linda Spivey as hostesses. The program will be in charge of Linda Spivey.

THE COORDINATING Council of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the home of Barbara Chambers, 205 Elizabeth Drive. POSTPONEMENT of the money-raising project for the Guadalupe Catholic Youth Organization planned for Feb. 12has been announced. The project offers a first prize of a 400-pound calf and a second prize of two 100-pound sacks of sugar.Thepostponementwas made to avoid a conflict with the Procession of Our Lady of Fatima on that date.

The time for the project will be announced later; additional information is available from any member of the CYO. JEAN SCHIER ROGERS of San Antonio, who will give a demonstration on "rippage" for the Fine Arts Club Wednesday afternoon in the Del Rio Civic Center, has a long list of credits, holding Greenwich Art Society-Connecticut, Prix de Paris, Ligoa Duncan Galleries, Art Direction Gallery Award, Texas Watercolor Society Cirtuit Tours and the Texas Medical Society Show juried award. She has painting in many private collections in the United States and has held one man shows in Gallerie Raymond Duncan in Paris, Galleries Ligoa Duncan in New York, Dayton's in Minneapolis and Madison Gallery in New York. THE ALBA CLUB will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the home of Sylvia Guajardo, 800 W. 5th St.

THE WOMEN of the American I Forum will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Forum Building. Mrs. Robert Delgado presiding. THE TOASTMISTRESS Club will meet tonight at 6 o'clock in the Pizza Hut on East Gibbs Street.

Officers are to be elected by the organization. DISTRICT RANGER Harold Timmons will be the speaker for the Pan American Round Rable at the luncheon at 12 o'clock noon Friday in San Felipe Country Club. He will speak on the Navajo and Zuni Indians. Mrs. Betty Mann and Mrs.

R.M. Crosby will be in charge of the program. THE ADVISORY COUNCIL of the district's bilingual program will meet tonight at 6 o.clock on the Freshman School campus to discuss the upcoming application for funds under Title VII for the 1975-76 scholastic year. DEL RIO HIGH SCHOOL Band Boosters will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the high school. SUNNI REILMAN is under treatment at the Base Hospital at Laughlin Air Force Base, suffering pneumonia.

MARK WHITE, secretary of state, will be the speaker at the banquet for the installation of United Civic Organization officers Wednesday evening. The banquet, to be heltl at the San Felipe country "Club, is open to the public and tickets are available from UCO members. It will begin at 7:30 p.m. PAULA MEREDITH is under treatment in the Base Hospital at Laughlin Air Force Base. DAVID SLADE, western artist, will present a painting demonstration at the meeting of the Del Rio Art League tonight in Gemini Gallery.

The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. Slade and his wife, Mary Stout, are holding a two-man show at Gemini and he is holding classes there. This week his classes meet in the mornings and afternoons; next week he will hold night classes. THE DEL RIO Board of Realtors will meet at noon Wednesday in Ramada Inn. Multiple Listing Service will be the topic for discussion by the members.

Weather DEL RIO AND VICINITY: Considerable early morning cloudiness Tuesday; otherwise partly cloudy this afternoon through Tuesday. Winds from the southeast increasing to 10 to 20 miles per hour and occasionally gusty this afternoon, diminishing tonight and becoming southwest to westerly Tuesday afternoon. Minimum temperature tonight in the mid-40s; maximum temperature Tuesday in the low 70s. Maximum temperature Sunday, 53; minimum 33. Minimum temperature this morning, 34 degrees.

Time of sunset, 6:29 p.m. Time of sunrise, 7:26 a.m. Amistad Report Amistad elevation this morning was 1124.65, a decrease of .02 from Saturday. Depth of the water at Amistad Dam was 224.65 feet, down .02. Water storage this morning was 4,026,392 acre feet, a decrease of 1,427 acre feet.

Water surface measured 71,329 acres, down 17 acres. Downstream was unchanged at 2,620 cubic feet oer second. Voters WouW Decide On Creating District County Commissioners Court approved today sending of a hospital district resolution to the state legislature for consideration. The county officials approved the resolution In regular session, stating that the citizens of Val Verde County should have the opportunity to make the decision on the creation of a hospital district. They indicated two major areas to hie considered.

The first concerns the needs of the Val Verde Memorial Hospital for provision, of adequate medical facilities and care. The second concerns the formation of a new taxing entity with the authority to levy taxes up to 75 cents on the $100 valuation. The Commissioners Court also indicated in its resolution, that it saw it as a duty to insure that the citizens of the county are provided with the necessary information to make the proper decision. The motion on sending the resolution was made by Commissioner Ernest Worley Jr. with yes votes coming from Commissioners Val Cadena and Richard Padilla.

Commissioner Martin Wardlaw voted no to Schoolmen Back From Conference Two schoolmen, E.I. Caldcron and Ruben Valdez, attended a seminar in Austin Saturday and Sunday on "The Education of Mexican Americans." The conference was sponsored by the Texas Association of Bilingual Education, the Texas Association of Mexican American Educators, the Chicano Faculty Association at the University of Texas and the Mexican American School Board Members Association. Topics Saturday included School Law, Teacher Negotiation, Staff and Instructional Development for Bilingual Education, recruitment and admission of Mexican Americans into colleges and universities and Senoritas Visit Del Rio The Role of the Chicana in the Educational Process. Administrative procedures, teacher certificattt a and the bilingual eoucatton, educational accountability and evaluation, development of academic programs at the college and university leave), the role of the community-junior cbllege were themes for the afternoon session Saturday. Sunday work sessions were on community involvement in public schools, dissemination center for bilingual bilcultural education, tax assesmeht and education, migrant education, development of supportive services at the college and university level for Chicano, staff and faculty.

After the luncheon from noon to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, an executive session was held. Thirty future teachers of Mexico and their two teacher chaperones left Del Rio early this morning en route to Lubbock on the 13th annual "Operation Senorita" trek. Selected on a competitive basis from among the 3,800 students of the National Teachers School in Mexico City, the girls will be weeklong guests of the Lubbock Junior League for a brief but concentrated glimpse of American life. They will return next Sunday night and stop over until Tuesday on their way home.

Each year, stopovers are arranged in Del Rio to break the long chartered bus trip from Meixco City to Lubbock. The Pan American Round Table and the Del Rio Good Neighbor Council arrange for the students to be guests in private homes. This year, the bus developed a flat tire, resulting in a considerable delay at Saltillo. Then, when the bus approached Acuna It was hailid by a professor and students of a high school in that city and the Senoritas were treated to a surprise barbecue luncheon. After checking in with their host families in Del Hio most of the girls attended a skating party at the Fun-A-Rama as guests of the Good Neighbor Council.

Mrs. C.M. Dolan served as chairman for the Pan American Round Table and W.B. Jeffery was chairman for the Good Neighbor Council. Additionally, host families (U.S.

A. George Buckley, 1 Murrah, Governor Arrives in Acuna Special to the News-Herald CIUDAD ACUNA, Eulalio Gutierrez Trevino of Coahuila arrived in this troubled border city at noon today. At the Municipal Palace, where he talked with greelers, the Governor revealed that he has agreed to attend a meeting held at the Acuna Social Center by the Acuna National Chamber of Commerce at 6 p.m. The Chamber of Commerce, headed by its president, Adalberto Ramon Salas, has headed complaints against the San Diego, Tijuana Promoting Tourism TIJUANA, Mexico The U. S.

border city of San Diego tries to get tourists by advertising how close it is to Tijuana and the serenity and uncluttered teaches and (tie lAillfights of Baj'aCalifornia. "Now we are putting the shut on the other, says Mauro Chavez, president of the Tijuana Tourism, and Visitors Bureau. "It is a whole new thing for us, promoting Tijuana's ximity to Saa Diet'O as an attraction to mainland tourists and convent) ui Croups." administration of Dr. Faz Gomez, municipal president of Ciudad Acuna. The Chamber of Commerce has contacted the governor petitioning the removal from office of and all the officials of his administration.

Along with allegations irregularties, the businessmen are upset in a rate hike for business tax permits, which they said raised taxes 501) per cent over the 1974 rale Accompanying the governor to Ciudad Acuna are Stale Treasurer Carlos Ayala and Deputy Guadiano Tijerina of the stale congress and representative of the Potable Water Administration The Iwo are expected to conduct an audit investigation into the municipal treasury who provided accommodations included those of Lt. Gen. ret.) Samuel Myers, Skevington, James John Prude, H.W. Watt James Beavan, Dr. Emery Davis, Simon Aguirre, Dr.

Andres Portales, J.B. Pena, Adan Don Summar and Dan Bus. This year's "Senoritas" are the following: Blanca Nadia San Pedro Mora, Selva U-onor Deville Landero, Flouissa Santa Olulla, Luz Maria Salinas Silvia Jiminex, Maria De Los Dolores Ayala, Guadalupe Camacho Norma Lilia Aguilcra Ortega, Paulina Cardenas Kaquel Silvan, Odete Serna Huesca, Gloria Hocio Minerva Casariego Maria de Ixjurdes Norma Leticia Guerrero Torres, Klda Caslula Alarcon Acosta, Maria Del Carmen Cortes Maria Isabel Cabrera Blanco, Sofia Hositko Nishinuira, Lilia Mcredia, Laura Ceorgma Kovelo Meyran, Sylvia Helena Moreno Kami Kunice Lliosa Garcia Gabriela Oceguera Iris Xochill Galicia Moyeda Maria 'leresa Sain Ali-jandra Patricia Alatrisle Maria de JesUs Lueiigo Vilina Villegas Villarreal and Maria CampodoiiM'o Lara I he i i ii aperone were I'rolra Irina Gamhoa Invar ami Prolia. Margarita l)cl Olmo Preference AUSTIN Senators rejected an attempt today to tote a proposal giving some retired military personnel ence over non-veterans in hiring state employes. Sen.

W.T. Moore, D-Bryaa, said he had complaints "that the only way to get a jot; at Texas besides teach, ing, is to be a retired service man, I dont like that- it's discrimination." The bill by Sen. Undon Williams, D-Houstmi, have given preference points to retired service personnel who had been at war and had lived in Texas for at lea: five years. the motion, saving that until he had heard all the facts that he could not give his consent. Thomas San try, hospital administrator and representative for the hospital's board of governors, said it was the board's opinion that a hospital district would better serve the community's growing medical needs.

He stated there Is a possibility that a hospital district would be eligible for federal funds that are not available to the hospital through the county set-up. He also said that the board felt that a board of directors, solely responsible for hospital business, would provide more efficient admistration of hospital affairs. Mayor Alfredo Gutierrez, a physician and member of the hospital's medical staff present at the meeting, said that he had ambivalent feelings about the hospital district and stated that he felt it is his responsibility as mayor to inform the Commissioners Court that he had received negative reaction from members of the community in regard to the hosoltal district. Dr. Robert Paret, also a member of the hospital's medical staff, stated that he too had ambivalent feelings about the hospital district at.J added that he feels It Is Important that the decision on its creation be based on the facts rather than be decided on an emotional basis.

Dr. Fermin Calderon, also a member of the medical staff, said that he fully supports the creation of the hospital district. San try's office is preparing information on additional federal fund eligibilities and other areas of concern. In other business the commissioners heard from delegates of the Highway 90 West Association. The delegates stated that they are concerned over the delayed completion of highway improvements extending from the confluence of U.S.

90 West and U.S. 277 to the access road to Amistad Dam. The delegates said that a proposal made to the Commissioner's Court on an alternate form to market road would jeopardize investments that they had made on the existing route over the last 10 years. They said that funds for widening the highway had already been allocated by the Texas Highway Department and were dependent upon the county's obtaining the right-of-way along the route. The delegates and the commissioners agreed to hold a meeting with concerned land owners along the route on Feb.

18 at 9 a.m. The commissioners told the delegation that the farm to market road was not intended as an alternate route to the present Highway 90 West road. The Commissioner's Court was to reconvene at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon to consider additional business. Attorneys Examine Prospective Jurors LxaminaUon of Ihe panel of prospective petit jurors in District Court by the State wa-s to continue this afternoon lifter starling when the jurors reported at 10 o'clock this morning. After the examination by the stale, attorneys for Ihe defense will conduct their examinations.

A jury is lo be selected for the irial of Kdward Anthony Palrna and Jake Jay f'alma is charged with buhc-is and conspiracy to commit bribery in a two-count indictment; Reich is charged with bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery on several counts. Attorney A.I,. Hern den of San Antonio is defending Palma; Reich's attorney is Charles Campion, also of San Antonio Judge George M. Thurmond is presiding. Distru Attorney John t'.

Pellil prosecuting, with Hen his assistant, here from Pav-.