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BRUCE WINS STATE VAlllT TltU 1 Sec PAGE 9A TEXAS ARE FRIST STORY of SERIES, 12A BENTSEN bUsrs CUSTOMS curbAcks DEL RIO NEWS-HERALI VOL. 53 No. 50 Phone 775-1551 DEL RIO, TEXAS 78840 SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1981 FulldcTAils, PAQE 4A HICROFILH CENTER INC BOX 45436 DALLAS, TEX. 75235 151-700 DSPS 3 SECTIONS Voters protest Senate plan for AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas legislators got the last word Saturday from voters before they start reshuffling legislative and congressional districts to fit the 1980 census figures. "It looksjike this was drawn up by a drunk Republican," Frank Kelly, Sinton, told a Senate subcommittee Saturday in commenting the congressional redistricting plan approved by a House committee.

The House congressional plan is scheduled for full House debate Monday afternoon. "The Senate plan looks like it was drawn up by a group of sober malicious politicians," said John Wylie Price, Dallas, for" the Coalition of Minorities, which wants a congressional district in Oak Cliff and South Dallas that is predominantly black. A proposal that could later be the criteria for cutting the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District's paraprofessional staff will be. presented to the school board Mori- day. Deputy Superintendent Homero Sigala said the proposal is a formula for making personnel reductions resulting from the Reagan ad- mim'sirations' proposed funding cuts to schools.

The proposed formula will be as a report, and trustees are riot expected to take action during the 7:30 p.m. meeting in administrative offices. Federal budget cuts to the school district will be the subject of another Del Rio WEATHER DEL RIO AND VICINITY: Fair and mild Sunday and Monday. High Sunday in the mid-90s with the low in the upper 60s. Maximum temperature Monday hear 90.

Winds out of the southeast at 5 to 10 miles per houri High Saturday, 93; low 71. All-time high for May 17 is 101, set in 1978; all-time low for the date is 53, set in 1932. Time of sunrise, 6:50 a.m. Time of sunset, 8:30 p.m. REPORT Amistad elevation Friday was 1116.22 with depth of the water at Amistad Dam 216,22 feet.

Water storage amounted to 3,455,332 acre feet and water surface 64,213 acres. Downstream flow was 883 cubic feet per second. Iwdcx Business 13.14.15A Classified 12-15B Crossword 3A 6B Deaths 2AEditorials 10B Horoscopes 8B HA Public Records 8B RajichNews 11B Servicemen WA Sports 6-10A Women's News 3-7P No votes were taken by senators Saturday. "This is the last opportunity for the public to give testimony," said Sen. Jack Ogg, D-Houston, who presided.

"From now on it will be the legislative committee system." The Senate redistricting committee hopes to vote out bills on congressional and senatorial redistricting by Wednesday and have them ready for full Senate debate later in the week. Much of the testimony on congressional redistricting concerned the House plan to be debated Monday. Numerous witnesses from the Corpus Christi area criticized the House proposal to split Nueces County, and the city, with half the county remaining in Rep. Bill Patman's district and part moving to an ex- tension of Rep. Abraham Kazen's district.

"This is a dastardly plan drawn up by a few politicians," said William Skeka, Corpus Christi businessman. "It would dilute the Corpus Christi voting strentgth. "We want to stay Congressman Patman," San Patricib County Judge Percy Hartman. Another large delegation protested House plans to take Irving, Grand Prairie and parts of Oak Cliff out of Rep. Martin Frost's district and place them in a new District 26.

"The House plan would separate Oak Cliff from the rest of said David Jenkins, vice president of the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce. "It would be a terrible mistake to give up the two frindly congressmen See VOTERS, Page 2A to report to trustees. The report is expected to include a review of new legislation affecting school funding. Superintendent O.B. Poole Jr.

also will report on a June 11 hearing in the U.S. District Court here to determine if the school district has achieved unification status. A Texas State Teachers Association proposal for the school district's 198182 budget will also, be presented to trustees. In another report, the status of the school district's Learner Based Accountability System will be updated. Committee reports on the future maintenance needs of school district academic buildings also will be presented.

According to Sigala, trustees earlier had been divided into committees to investigate future requirements for maintenance of high school and grade school facilities. other action, the board will consider updates to its policy manual. Financial director Walter Block will present the school district's monthly financial summary, and reports on the tax office and workmen's compensation insurance proposals. E.I. Calderon, Migrant Education director for the school district, will meet with trustees and administrators in executive session to discuss administrative actions, Trustees also will consider sick leave benefits for retiring district personnel.

Weinberger advocates tary pay increase A NORFOLK, Va. (AP) Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said Saturday the American people should "not shirk from paying the bill" for increased military pay and allowances which he said are essential to maintaining an all-volunteer force. Urging support for the Reagan administration's proposal for a 5.3 percent pay raise for the nation's more than two million uniformed men and women effective-this July and a 9.1 percent boost in the fall, Weinberger said "these are not bonuses or unwarranted In a speech prepared for an Armed Forces Day ceremony, Weinberger said the proposed increases "represent simple equity, for they are essential to bring military compensation up to the level of comparability with the civilian sector that was promised when our nation instituted the all-volunteer force almost a decade ago." As he has before, Weinberger stressed that he and President Reagan are committed to defending Jhe nation "with a volunteer force, if at all possible." "I am hopeful that we can do so," Weinberger said. "The price fair pay and allowances, an appropriate expression of pride in those who serve is a small one indeed for all the blessings of peace and freedom. SIESTA TIME Javier Garza finds a way to relax do Garza of Brackettville.

(News-Herald photo durning his trip to the Brackettville Frontier Fair. Four MaryHaina) month old Javier is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ramon- Frontier not disappointed By Mary Haina News-Herald Writer BRACKETTVILLE Blue skies and hot weather meet Frontier Fair visitors this weekend in Brackettville. Most were on hand to enjoy the numerous food booths and to watch the World Champion Tortilla Tossing Tournament.

The crowd was not disappointed. Men, women, and children paid for the tortillas and gave them their best pitch. For those who were looking for a cooler and quieter afternoon, the Brackettville Civic Center was the place to go. Commercial displays and food concessions lined the walls. The voice of a bingo game caller and the aroma of food drifted through the crowd.

Special afternoon entertainment was provided by the phoTO ON PACJE 4A Alartio Village gun fighters and the Texas Association. The group demonstrated falls from horses and the proper way to stage an old fashion gun fight. Pistols cracked and bodies fell from roof tops. Each stunt met with the ohs and ahs from the viewers, Miss Del Rio, Sonya Jones, was on hand to try her skill at tortilla tossing and take in the festivities. Del Rjo's representative appeared as visiting royalty for the Saturday evening program, which included crowning Qf a Miss World Champion Tortilla Tossing Queen.

This is the second year for the tortilla tossing championship which seems, to be a growing success, Libyan link suggested Pope improves as probe broadens ROME (AP) Pope John Paul II sat up in his hospital bed and got a shave Saturday as doctors expressed "cautious optimism" about his condition. Turkish police warned Italian authorities, meanwhile, that accomplices of the terrorist charged with shooting the pope may try to break him out of jail A high police official in Ankara who requested anonymity said the Turkish Security Directorate General sent Italian authorities details of Mehmet All Agca's escape from an Istanbul prison in November 1979 while awaiting sentencing for murdering an Istanbul newspaper editor. He said the Turkish officials warned that "the persons who accommodated and fed Agca" during his wide travels in Europe before the of the pontiff "might stage another escape attempt for Agca." Italian police were searching five cities for people who may have met Agca, and Italy's biggest newspaper hinted Libya's Moammar Khadafy was involved. Doctors said the pope, stricken by three bullets Wednesday in St. Peter's had "stable and satisfactory" vital signs, ran a slight temperature, was in some pain and was "perfectly lucid." They described his general state as "excellent, coupled with an extraordinary presence of mind." "He sat, waiting for the barber.

He is an unbeatable example of faith, goodness and will power," said Pr. Giovan Battista Dell'Acqua, president of the medical school which runs the hospital, after a brief bedside visit. He said John Paul was suffering, "but he has the will power not to show it." The pope, whose Gist birthday is Monday, recited the Lord's Prayer with 10 attending nurses and blessed them. He sent get-well wishes to two American women wounded in the assassination attempt and still hospitalized. One of them, Ann Odre, 58, of Buffalo, N.Y., was listed in guarded condition with wounds in the abdomen.

Rose Hall, 21, who lives with her missionary husband in Wuerzburg, West Germany, was in good condition after a pin was inserted in her wounded left elbow. Hospital and church sources did not exclude the possibility of the pope addressing, by telephone hook-up, the huge crowd expected at noon Sunday in St. Peter's Square, where John Paul normally delivers his apostolic blessing from the window of his apartment. Doctors cautioned they could not predict full recovery for seven to 10 days. The pope, who had a total of 14.2 inches of intestine removed and a temporary anal bypass that must be will be hospitalized three weeks or more, doctors said.

Physical therapy exercises have already started. Italian police, meanwhile, fanned out in search of anyone who had contact with AH Agca, a 23-year- old prison escapee under death sentence in Turkey for the murder of an editor. said they believe ac- complices footed Agca's bills as hjj? traveled through West Germany, Spain, Tunisia and Italy after his la.te 1979 prison break, Turkish police said they arrested the holder of the passport allegedly. used by Agca in entering Italy, An official in the central Turkish towns of Neveshir authorities were trying to determine if the man, Faruk Ozgun, had any links to Agca, Italy's largest and most respected newspaper, Corriere delja Sera of Milan, in a lead headline suggested Saturday Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy was behind the assassination attempt Criticism has been mounting; over Italy's lax immigration laws ami airport and border check.