Valley Morning Star from Harlingen, Texas • Page 4

HIGH ROBINSON RIO BRAVU. Mexico The moral of the story is that while i ruce to help a neighbor trouble, the whole thing can get tv complicated ii tht neighbor is in another country. .1 this sf is the plight of the campesinos in the Mexican collective farm community Plan de Alazan south of Rio hvo. What started out as a quiet campaign in the Valley to secure 8 ittle food and medicine for the Alazanos got blouTi completely oi aroportior. and a iot of people got into the act who had lusinesis there.

Back in April, it came to the rnfion of some Valley residents that the people living in 11 e.udos of Plan de Alazan were in pretty bad shape. Hiird Hit Drought The farming community was hard hit by drought, there wasn too much food and thee was malnutrition and illness. The whole thing probably would ended with thp distribution of a little gift food if there hadn't been a false report of a smallpox epidemic in Plan de Alazan. An upper Valley radio station seized upon the smallpox scare (there really wasn't any smallpox and the over-all plight of the farmers and began a larger campaign for food and medicine. Radio stations all over Texas and some in other states took up the Pood and clothing began pouring in via Air Force plane.

Upstate newspapers sent reporters into the area to write sob stories on the condition of the Other Valley radio and tv stations beat the drums. inn Tons of Pood It has been estimated that around 100 tons of food from the American side crossed the border Then an ironical thing happened The rains came so much of it that it wap impossible to get into Plan de Alazan Much of the food had to be stored becaus? it couldn't bp distributed. There is no doubt that some of the American food spoiled while the roads in Alazan dried out. There is no doubt that some of the food was stolen. Two men have been arrested and have admitted they stole food staples.

There is no doubt that some of the food went to people than those who live in Plan de Alazan. But as one Rio Bravo man said. give it to hungry people, no matter where they're There is no doubt that soms ci the food got through to the Alazanos. Freedom Newspaper anf KRGV radio tv reporters who went to the heart of the area were told by the farmers that they got around three kilos (a little over mx of American canned goods and vegetables per person. Accused of Meddling Freedom Newspapers and KRGV have been accused of meddlinc in the internal affairs of Mexico.

Chambers of commerce have been screaming that relations with the neighboring republic are bein? endangered by continued publicity. These newsoapers and we presume KRGV were concerned with one thing the sibilitv of reporting to the mce rv'onlr of Texas and Florida California and the Air Fnrce what hanoened to the food and money and time they gave. Taking care of the poor and the ill of Mexico is the responsibility of Mexico. We have poor and ailing people in the Valley, in Arkansas in Iowa, in New York, in California. They are not the responsibility of Mexico.

The success or failure of the eiido, or collective farming system, is also problem. all, we have some federal projects in this country which haven't been too successful. Stranger Occurrences Some strange things happened during the Plan de Alazan crisis. A man who is an assistant director of tourist promotion fir the state of Tamaulipas held a press conference in McAllen to explain away the Plan de Ahzan situation. A somewhat similar situation would exist if an assistant in the Austin office of the Texas Highway Department, which currenN handles Texas tourism tion, held a press conference in Matamoros to explain ing on in Lexington.

N.C., and Jackson. Miss. There was a lot of sloppy reporting of the Alazan Many of the so-called interviews consisted of newsmen sitting around interviewing each other 11 OPENING SOON HARLINGEN House of Television 120 WEST JACKSON 'FEATURING MAGNAVOX TELEVISION STERO ORGANS WJTH COMPLETE SERVICE DEPT. TO Service ALL BRANDS! OUW NEW P20NE EXPLAINS-I srael Gomez of Plan de Alazan, whose children were suspected of having smallpox, explains to newsman Jim Gray that they really didn't have the dreaded disease. The smallpox scare focused attention on the northern Mexico farming community and touched off a drive to secure food and medicines.

THE LARDER-This Plan de Alazan couple holds the family food supply. The husband holds a pailful of tortillas already made up, the wife a sack containing a pound or so of shelled corn. They said American food. they hadn received Strep Throat, IB Head Disease List Tuberculosis and strep sore typhus, gonorrhea, chan- with six cases each, head- croid, 1. ed the list of communicable dis-! ----eases reported to the Cameron EDINBURG One case each County Health Department fever and typhus fever mg the week ending June 8.

physicians Other diseases reported were1 chicken pox, 2 cases; County Health Department during the week ending Saturday, Dr. Elinor Marsh, acting director, reported. Other communicable disease cases listed for the week were tuberculosis, 6: measles, and vdpereal disease, 2. Try a star classified Ad adobe and thatch buildings are typical of the homes in the Plan de Alazan collective farming com- munity. The building at left is the sleeping quarters, that at the right the kitchen and dining area.

in Rio Bravo. Very few actually went to the ejido area. Neighbors Help Must It ali boils down to this: Tne most help the Alazanos got came from their neighbors ir. Rio Bravo. And the Alazanos, over all, probably got more help than if the Peace Corps or the Alliance for Progress had got into the act.

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