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a a The Monitor May 21, '75 3A8 MoAllen, Texas Output Of Goods Dips United 1 Press International The recession sharply reduced U.S. production of goods and services and cut heavily into corporate profits in the first three months of 1975, the government said Tuesday. But the report on economic activity contained a ray of hope for better days ahead. The Commerce Department said the nation's gross national product plunged 11.3 per cent to $789.2 billion. It was the worst quarterly decline since the goverment began keeping records in 1946 and the fifth in a row.

It was further evidence that the recession is the longest and most severe since the Depression of the 1930s. The Commerce Department also said corporate profits fell $17.7 billion or 22.3 per cent to an annual rate of $61.8 billion. It was the second consecutive quarter in which after-tax profits declined. Until the last four months of 1974, when profits dropped 15,7 Obituaries SANTOS PORTALES JR. EDINBURG Santos Portales 25, a.

Marine, died in A native of Edinburg, he attended Edinburg public schools. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Heidi Portales; his parents Mr. and Mrs. Santos Portales; three brothers, Pete and Andy Portales of Edinburg and Roman Portales of McAllen; and five.

sisters, Mrs. Noelia Lopez, Miss Jaunita Portales, Mrs. Gomez, Mrs. Anna Maria Zamora and Mrs. Angelica Zacca.

Services are pending and will be announced by Skinner Funeral Home. MRS. KATIE BUCKOW JUVENAL WESLACO Graveside services for Mrs. Katie Buckow Juvenal, 85, will be held at 3 p.m. today in Highland Memorial Park.

pioneer Weslaco resident, she had lived in Encinal and Laredo in recent years. She died Monday in Retama Manor at Laredo. Mrs. Juvenal was a member. of one of the first families to settle in Weslaco.

She returned to the city to participate in the 50th Anniversary celebration. Survivors include the husband, Charles. Juvenal of Laredo;" and a son, Eugene Buckow of Houston. EDWARD F. LUKENS F.

Lukens, 79, a Win; ter Texan from Milwaukee, for the past six months, died this morning in McAllen General Hospital. Mr. Lukens owned a canvas manufacturing. company and was a member of the Rotary Club, Cudworth Post of and Emanuel Church. Surviving is his wife, Mrs.

Janet Lukens. There will be no local services. The body will be send to Milwaukee for services in Wisconsin Memorial Cemetery. THE MONITOR Founded in 1911. Published each afternoon (except Saturday) and Sunday mornby The Monitor Division of Freedom Newspapers at 1100 Ash Avenue, McAllen, Texas 78501.

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Sunday or if service should be unsatisfactory please telephone. Circulation Department Phone 686-4343 Please call before 7 p.m. daily (except Sat.) and 10 a.m. Sunday as no missed paper service is available after this. Legislatures Tackle Malpractice Crisis per cent, corporate earnings continued to increase despite the recession.

The report on the GNP showed a sharper economic decline than government economists originally estimated last, month. Then preliminary information showed a reduction of 10.4 per cent in the GNP. Commerce said prices rose at an annual rate of 8.5 per cent, somewhat higher then the 8 per cent estimated earlier but substantially lower than the inflation rate of 14.4 per cent at the end of last year: Economists saw encouraging signs in the latest report on the GNP, noting that much of the decline in production caused by reduction of a large supply of unsold goods. Donna Continued From Page One area around Scobey and Eleventh, which he said "looks like a jungle" and harbored snakes, rodents and insects. Cervantes said about 20 or 30 pieces of property need cleaning.

He said a city ordinance hadn't been enforced in the past. A campaign is under way, he said, to get the lots cleaned. Casiano said he was interested in the cleanup, but noted it was a slow process, -A resolution was passed authorizing proper signatures at Citizens State Bank, the city depository, to comply with the city charter. Names of Blanca Flores, a former employe, and Robert Lugo, a former mayor, were deleted. Listed as the proper signatures were Cervantes, the manager: Antonio Layton, finance director; and Mike Lopez, city secretary -and assistant finance director.

-It was voted to raise the salary of the city manager from $10,600 to. $14,500 after an session on the proposed increase. recalled he had stated publicly a couple of months before be was going to recommend salary hike for Cervantes. He praised the city manager, saying Cervantes was "doing a tremendous job" and stating Cervantes deserved a raise. The by Alejandro, (Peewee) Rodriguez was seconded by Luciano Rodriguez and passed unanimously.

It is to be effective June 1. -A resolution was passed requesting action an possible new funds available for discretionary cities in the Community Development Act framework. -An ordinance. voted appointing Lupita Martinez, Erasmo Alvarado and Antonio, Ochoa members of the board of equalization and MM. Farsworth as an alternate member.

The city secretary said Mrs. Martinez and Alvarado are new members, while. Ochoa and Farnsworth are longtime members of the board. A date of 4 June 5 was set, for the p.m.. board's organizational meeting.

Lopez said there would be a short session with appraisers who have completed a reappraisal of: all city property. Lopez said the new values were expected to be ready in about two weeks. -A request from Police Chief Joe Garza was approved to. close or block off Zard Street at the Silver Avenue and Fordyce intersections from p.m. Monday through Saturday for about a month while Little Garza said a drink awarded boys retrieving foul balls, causing them to run into the street and resulting in a safety hazard.

The police chief said blocking of the street might prevent injury or fatalities from traffic at the Little League Field. EMPLOYE OF YEAR- -Salvador Aguilera has been selected by a secret committee as of the year" he at KNAPP Weslaco. A migrant until his fulltime employment at the hospital less than two years ago, Knapp Memorial Methodist Hospital in administrator who is taking a new position in La "is in the housekeeping department. Dr. to right Wilfrido are Cantu, president of the Weslaco hospital medical staff who presented a special Left Charles L.

Foster hospital Grange, after 11 years at Knapp; board of trustees who made the gift to Aguilera from the doctors; Aguilera; and David Donalson, president of the hospital presentation of a plague to Aguilera. (Staff Photo) Lobby Group Warns Against Weakening Utility Measure AUSTIN, (UPD) Spokesmen for consumer and labor groups say they will accept nothing weaker then a House passed bill to create a utilities commission and, if the bill is weakened, they will lobby to kill it. House bill is already a barebones, compromise bill," Mike Abel of the Texas Coalition for Utility Regulation, said Tuesday. "We've compromised as far as we can compromise. Still, TOUR would support it as a compromise bill, but anything less than what is contained in the House bill would be a cruel joke played on Texas utility The spokesmen said the fate of the bill rests with Li.

Gov. Pharr Continued From Page: One agreed, saying water funds should be sought through other -federal programs, Community Development, he said, may be the only avenue through which to obtain parks and recreation funding. Citizens and the city manager seemed to be dead-locked at a time when the deadline for submitting the grant application is near. Mayor A.C. Jaime called committee chairman Jesus Garcia into the hallway for a private conference and Garcia called his committee back into meeting to again reconsider the matter.

A compromise was passed by commissioners after the committee returned to recommend that 25 per cent of the funds be spent for parks and I recreation while the remainder go for water improvements. Commissioners tabled rezoning request for multi-family dwellings at S. Dogwood and Gore when Jamie. evidently surprised the council by opposing the request. He.

said residents moved to that" part of town because it was not crowded, but that the apartment units proposed on the 1.3-acre site would cause congestion in the ares. Several residents concurred with Jaime while others voiced support for the rezoning, requested by Tippitt. While objections and proposed rewording were voiced by citizens, -com- reading of the new animal trol ordinance. Jaime said suggestions -for amendments would continue to be considered and that the ordinance probably will not gain final approval for another month. Most citizens in attendance seemed to favor the ordinance.

William P. Hobby and. House Speaker Bill Clayton. Abel, John Harina of Texas Common Cause and Harry Hubbard of the Texas AFL CIO said they are watching the fate of the utilities regulation legislation and are thinking of purchasing 30 minutes of statewide television time next week to mobilize public support for the House bill. Hubbard said if the television time is bought; it will cost $15,000.

"We've already mobilized about one, million people (in support of the bill passed by the House last week)," Abel said. "And we'd like to inform the rest of the The spokesmen said Hobby and Clayton, who have the authority to name legislators to the conference committee that will probably. have to draft the final version of the bill, will share the blame if that final version is weaker than the one passed by the House. than any one man, the lieutenant governor probably has the capability of moving the House bill through the Senate," Abel said. Speaker Clayton names the conferees who are totally opposed to a commission; then he would be equally to blame," Hanna said.

Clayton has already indicated he opposes a utilities. commission. The spokesmen said the bill passed by the House is already a compromise and they will lobby to kill any version of the bill is weaker than the House bill: "If anything. less than the House bill is passed, I know Common Cause would lobby to kill it," Hanna said "The AFL CIO opposed the Senate bill. when it passed," Hubbard said.

"We would oppose anything less than the House "Passage of the Senate bill would be worse than passing no bill at all," Abel said, "This bill would establish a precedent for future legislatures to sanction the gouging of Texas consumers for the benefit of -state stockholers." Police Arrest Five Juveniles PHARR Police have apprehended five juvenile suspects in connection with. three burglaries, according to Chief R. G. Reyna Three youngsters have admitted breaking into a Pharr residence and taking a trophy and jewelry of undetermined value, he said. Police recovered the jewelry, but Reyna said the juveniles said they threw the trophy in an irrigation canal.

Early this morning officials took two other juveniles into custody following the burglary of two businesses, One of the boys, Reyna said, has confessed to the alleged crime. LADY AUTHOR Mrs. Aphra Behn, first Englishwoman to earn her living as a writer of fiction, died at 49 on April 16, 1689. out of their practices. But a doctors' strike in California continued to spread, despite legislative action aimed at resolving the gripes and getting them back on the job.

A California Assembly unanimously approved a bill to lower malpractice. premiums and get the striking doctors back to patients' bedsides. Surgery was reduced by up to 95 per cent at more than 40 California hospitals and leaders of medical groups predicted the strike would continue to spread. Anesthesiologists carried the 20-day-old work slowdown to Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange and San Bernardino counties. Florida Gov.

Reubin Askew signed a stop gap malpractice insurance bill Tuesday but said he is not sure it will lower rates for doctors who have threatened to strike if their premiums do not drop soon. Askew said the bill sets a $100,000 personal liability. limit for doctors participating in a $25 million pool to ease the immediate crisis, though Askew noted the liability limit would do. little to reduce malpractice, insurance premiums. The bill also provides for arbitration of claims out of court.

Askew said a study committee set up by the bill will seek long range solutions. A' federal jurige Monday enjoined Argonaut Insurance from increasing malpractice insurance rates for Florida doctors and ordered the firm not to cancel policies of doctors who refused to pay higher By United Press State legislatures cials were taking tice insurance today in efforts tors' strikes and ping insurance doctors say could out of their practices. Florida Man Is Fined For Cheating Returning POWs KINGSVILLE, Tex. (UPI) A Florida man was given a maximum 10 year prison sentence and fined $10,000 Tuesday for cheating returning prisoners of war in a worthless securities swindle. Thomas A.

Preston, 42, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. was convicted earlier this month -of defrauding Navy Lt. Cmdr. Davie Carey of $51,860 on worthiess Tuskegee, Ala. Industrial Development Board Murder Suspect Is Given Private Cell AUSTIN, Tex.

(UPI) District Judge Tom Blackwell has ordered deputy sheriffs to move Robert Elmer Kleasen, charged with murdering and butchering two Mormon mis ionaries, to a private cell to avoid any further attacks by other prisoners. Kleasen's attoreys claimed their client was beaten Saturday night by other inmates and that his life had been threatened. "It's outrageous and sickening that this sort of thing. (the assault) happens," attorney Pat Gann said Tuesday. "But it frailties.

Deputy sheriffs denied the beating, occurred but Blackwell approved the defense attorneys' requests to move Kleasen to an isolation cell. Three women and one man were picked for Kleasen's jury Tuesday joining the 52-year-old Quick Action Is Promised On Malpractice Insurance Bills AUSTIN, Tex. (UP) -Gov. Dolph Briscoe has insured the House will give quick attention to' three bills intended to give doctors and, hospitals some from rising costs of medical malpractice insurance. Briscoe declared the problem of medical malpractice insurance, an emergency.

Tuesday. His message to the legislature automatically places the three bills ahead of almost eyery other measure on the House calendar for the last two weeks of the The House will pess at least two of the three bills, says House Insurance, Committee Chairman Ben Bynum, D- may not make anybody The Michigan Senate passed missioner Thomas J. Hatem and offi- measures designed to help put approved -malpractice insurthe malprac- shoddy doctors out of practice ance rate increases ranging crisis in hand and to improve the quality of from 81 to 289 per cent for the to prevent doc- care by other physicians. St. Paul Fire Marine Insuranstave off whop- Maryland Insurance: Com- ce Co.

rates that force some them Weslaco Continued From Page One: be the last for revenue sharing unless Congress changes its mind. Under the decision, the mayor and commissioners indicated informally at the end of the meeting, the city manager will begin at once to look for a qualified persons to handle duties as director of parks and recreation. Massey told the commission meeting the present parks directors was "on the verge of retirement." He said the size of the city would preclude fulltime recreation director and proposed the dual municipal post. All agreed. Sanchez had stated earlier the city of Edinburg had a city recreation director with the Boys Club operating within the department.

He said he favored what he described as "an to: encompass the full recreation scope. Dr. Ben. Villaion, president of the Boys Club, said although he couldn't speak for the full board -most of whom were present but "I feel the program needs to get going. It doesn't matter what you call it." Efrain Anzaldua, Boys Club vice president, said, he didn't want the impression left that the Boys Club.

organization hadn't cone anything on its own. He outlined contacts with the county in obtaining a manpower slot for executive director and plans for a finance drive early next year under chairmanship of Manuel L. Garza, who also was present. Jim Zlomke of the Boys Club also reported the group had advertised for an executive director and had on hand four resumes, which he said could be turned over to the city. At.one point, in the discussion; Farias suggested a 1.5-acre tract of land adjoining the Lincoln School, owned by the city and appraised at $12,500, be given to the Boys Club.

He said the Boys Club organization could sell the land and use the process to get started. 'He urged the Boys Club group to start out by raising funds on its own, suggesting "the city alone cannot carry the load. The whole community must evidence an interest. We can give them the land and let them sell it, if it is legal. We can donate the land in lieu of money at this time." Cox 'suggested originally the recreation department be set up, but not until the end of the present year.

He said this would give time to the Boys Club to see. if it could raise funds independently and to see if it could get voiunteer work in renovating a school building as a headquarters. Commissioner: Rogelio Tijerina, also suggested the Boys Club be given the piece of land adjoining Lincoln School. The city obtained the land last year after trading a piece of property it owned on Sixth Street to the school district. Former Mayor Pablo G.

Pena had advocated sale of the city -owned Sixth Street property with the proceeds to go toward establishing a Boys Club. Dr. Villalon and the Boys Club board, presented, the city or proposed. for operation of the Boys Club July 1-Dec. 31.

The Boys Club spokesman said the budget. for 1976 would be $37,100 and for 1977 would be $39,275. J.P. Goode, president of the Mid-Valley Tennis Association requested aid of the city in the amount of $400 to hire a tennis coach for a summer tennisclinic. designed for boys and girls 10 to 13.

Under the decision of the city commission, the city manager apparently will proceed to hire the coach recommended by the tennis association' for the program. The same procedure apparently is to be followed with the AAU track and field team project presented by Dr. Roger Albach of the South Texas AAU Association. Already proposed as coaches are Jeanne Cleckler and Don Lightfoot, who will work with the 6-through-16 age participants. Mrs.

Cleckler was in attentdance at the meeting and reported 85 already had registered. The Weslaco Rotary Club has donated $300 to the AAU project, Albach reported, and the school system has contributed its facilities and- bus transportation to out -of town meets. Goode said the tennis association is putting up $300 for the tennis clinic and participan: ts will. be charged a small fee for insurance and tennis balls. Bill Summers, Little League District commissioner, had been included on the agenda with a request for $3,000 from the city to build a concrete block storage and concession building.

But Summers said at the meeting his request was being withdrawn. He said Little League had acted on its own with volunteers, a and its own fund raising. in the past and would try to do so for a while longer. He said the program had much such strides in growth it much such strides in growth but it was difficult to keep it going financially. although the request was with.

drawn, he favored assisting the Little League in whatever way possible. Commissioners agreed it was the only' successful "on-going" project considered. They suggested it might be possible to assist the Little Lezgue with building which might be on hand and with labor in constructing storage: building or patching up the existing one. bonds. At this appearance for sentencing Tuesday Preston entered a surprise plea of guilty to defrauding Navy Omdr.

Robert Woods of $115,000 in a similar securities deal. State District Judge Vernon Harville gave Preston the maximum sentence of 10 years and a $5,000 fine on each of two counts of fraud. But Harville ruled Preston could serve the two sentences concurrently. The government contends Preston helped carry out an alleged $4.5 million nationwide scheme to defraud returning prisoners of war. Testimony in the trial showed Preston contacted .60 to 90 POW's and sold $500,000 in worthless bonds to 30 of them.

Prosecutors depicted Preston as a "bold-face liar" who posed as a former Korean POW to gain confidence of the Viet-. nam POW's. They said Preston told his victims a twitch in his eye was caused by being hit with a rifle butt wielded by a North Korean captor when in fact Preston never was captured during that war. District Attorney William Mobley of Corpus Christi said the first conviction. in the alleged mammoth swindle an three principals in the case never crossed into Texas, consummating the deals by mail and letter while the POW's were stationed at Kingsville Naval Air Station.

Both POW's now live in California. Mobley said the Securities and Exchange Commission and Florida authorities reviewed the case but took no action. really think we're the test case, Mobley said "We're the only ones who have indicted." Mobley's office, aided by the Texas Securities Commission, extradited Preston from Florida for the trial. Still facing similar charges in the alleged swindle are Floridian Howard W. Alexander, a former partner of Alexander Allen, Preston's employer, and Robert J.

Allen, the other partner in the firm which became R.J. Allen Associates: Alexander surrendered voluntarily and is free on bondEdinburg Continued From Page One. Golf Pro Johnny Agillion was. granted a two- year extension on his contract and the present concessionaire at the Edinburg Community Center was given a one-year renewal of his contract. Revenue-sharing funds of $40,500 were earmarked for of three new garbage pickup trucks and the director of public works instructed to write specifications for three units.

Travel policy was amended to have mileage charges follow the allowable of the Internal" Revenue Service Service. An agreement with Southern Pacific Railroad was approved to allow installation of sewage. lines for the new elementary school. Minimum disporition prices were set for two Urban Renewal: lots and the Urban Renewal-Community. Development -project was formally.

approved after a hearing. Additional payment of $1,716.30 was approved for Edinburg participation in jointure to oppose gas rate increases. Pat Bradley was reappointed city manager for two years. Other appointments, included those of Maria Corona as city clerk, Diana Dias as municipal. court clerk and Aron Pena as city attorney.

Commissioner Chris Quintanilla requested the item of hiring a new city auditor be placed on the next city agenda. Commissioner Manuel Ramirez requested attention to traffic violations around 4th a and Sprague Streets and Robert E. Lee School. THE UPPER VALLEY MONTESSORI SOCIETY, INC. THE DISCOVERY SCHOOL 720 N.

Main 682-6801 Environment and direction according to the Association Montessori Internationale Car Hits Woman housewife selected Monday. Blackwell said he does not want to sequester the jury and has ordered the media not to release the namer of the jurors to avoid outside influence. Blackwell also ordered 30 more persons from the 400 prospective jurors to appear in court today for questioning, Defense attorneys introduced the 5-11, 215-pound Kleasen to each prospective juror Tuesday. Kleasen, 42, smiled and nodded to each of them but spent most of the second day of his trial scribbling an a yellow legal pad, and conferring with his The agreed upon Tuesday were a retired Air Force colonel and former ROTC instructor at the University of Texas, a 47-year-old clerk for the Texas Railroad Commission, a 36 year old receptionist a veterinarian and a 23-year-old telephone company worker. Prosecutors say Kleasen robbed, shot and butchered Gary Smith Darley, 20, of Simi Valley, and Mark J.

Fischer, 19, of Milwaukee, )Wis. The two Mormon missionaries disappeared Oct. 28, 1974, after telling friends they were going to have dinner with Kleasen at his trailer house. Police found the the miss sionaries' bloodstained watches and a bullet-riddled name tag in the trailer. Body tissue and hair matching samples obtained from the missionaries' families were found on a band saw in a nearby.

taxidermist shop where Kleasen said he worked parttime. The state is seeking the death penalty. Kleasen, pleaded innocent Monday and said he is not certain the two missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints are actually dead. San Juanita Solis, 61, of, Mission, was injured Tuesday, at 3 p.m. as she attempted to cross the street at Beaumont and S.

15th St. McAllen police said the woman was struck by a car driven by Dick M. Jefferies, 78, of McAllen. Mrs. Solis was taken to Mission Municipal Hospital where she was admitted and then transferred to McAllen General Hospital for hip and leg surgery.

Investigation of the accident a continues and charges are pending. A four-car collision at McColl and Hackberry Tuesday at 5 p.m. caused considerable damage and a slight. injury to one passenger. Police said the cars were driven by Peggy Ogden O'Connor of Alamo, who was east bound on Hackberry, and Jorge, Mill of who was going north on McColl.

The impact sent the O'Connor car into a west bound car driven by Carl Edwin Clayton. The Clayton then struck a stopped car. occupied by Rosalinda Perales. Patrick O'Connor, was treated and dismissed at McAllen General Hospital. We build POOLS FOR FUN! PHARR, TEXAS HAMLIN 787-7651 POOLS happy, probably not enough for the doctors and too much for the lawyers, but we will assure the public of adequate health care," Bynum said.

Some Texas doctors threatened to go on strike because of increases in rates for malpractice insurance and increasing difficulties in securing the professional liability coverage. One of the bills insures doctors can buy malpractice insurance from a Joint Underwriters "Association composed of general casualty companies. Rates would be regulated by the State Insurance Board. Another 'bill allows private: companies to set rates without filing with the Insurance Board, but the board could disapprove any rates it concluded were inadequate or unfairly bill also changes the statute of limitation for filing a malpractice suit to two years after occurrence, up to eight years of age for a minor. Presently, the limitation is two years after discovery and up to 20 years of age for a minor.

The third bill sets a $300,000 limit on, any award in a malpractice suit and establishes a three member panel of doctors to screen any suits. The panel could determine if the patient had a case and suggest an award, but no decision would be binding. SUMMER DAY CARE STARTING MONDAY MAY 26th FULL or DAY LUNCHES SNACKS LARGE AIR CONDITIONED ROOMS SUPERVISED REST PLAY PERIODS LARGE SHADED, FENCED, FULLY EQUIPPED PLAYGROUND (ENROLL NOW CALL) -TIME SCHOOL 1808 S. 11th McALLEN Ph. 686-8552.