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Poge 2-A SAN ANTONIO Sept. 13, 1972 Mi ho. has the author ity to change street parking areas to no parking areas? One particular place I am interested in is located on Avenue west of Brooklvn Avenue. Parking has been permitted for years. Now, adjacent to the Alamo Funeral Home garage, there is a red parking zone.

Doesn't it take a city ordinance to change these zones? POST OFFICE EMPIxOYE John of City TrafHe and Transportation Department, said the traffic engineer determines If a parking area should be changed to a no parking zone. It does require (Ity ouneil approval. Miller in this particular instance, it was determined to make certain areas along Avenue no park- mg area.s^to aeeommodate a new parking lot established just south of the funeral home. College Scholarships 0 A short time ago, an article appeared in your newspaper telling about how to get college scholarships. I have a daughter who is a senior in high school this year.

Could you tell me where I can write to the College Scholarship Service of the College Board, mentioned in the article? Is this the proper agency to ask for information concerning a for my daughter for next year? C.L.I. KINGSLAND You may get this booklet by writing to Publications Order Office, College Examination Entrance Board, P.O. Box 302. Princeton, N.Y. It is a proper agency to obtain such information.

I Or, you may take a look at the booklet at the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, located at 201 N. St. in San AnUmio. It would be wise to contact the foundation since it has a complete li.st of available If you like, you can call 227-8119. Traffic Bells Why do San Antonio drivers wait so long to move ahead after the light turns green? They sit there like they are waiting for someone else to move first.

Why there be some bells on the signals to tell some of these daydreamers when to go? R.T.G. Allen Brecher, traffic signal engineer with the Hty Traffic Department, that bells worked at one time to alert drivers to signal changes. But today, he noted, they must compete with air conditioning, closed windows, stereo radios and tapes in newer ears. "I really think they would be he said, adding that many drivers even hear ambulance sirens. He aiso the bells become a nuisance during the evening hours.

sure hate to he trying to sleep at the Hilton Palaeio del Rio Hotel and have to listen to three or four bells from those nearby he said. Trespass Law Does Texas have a law? If so, what penalty docs violation of Trespassing" or "Posted" iligns consist of? G. BROWN Yes, a trespa.ssing law was pas.sed by the Texas legislature and it became effective on Aug. 30, 1971. Article 1377( of the State Penal (ode establishes trespas.sing as a mi.s(k‘meanor.

of no tre.spassing he given by posUng signs or verbally, the says, ('onvictimi of violation can bring a maximum fine of up to $200, district spokesmen Presidents Gin you tell me which state has had the most presidents in the White House? Virginia had the most. The eight horn in Virginia include (ieorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson. James James Monroe, William Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor and Woodrow Wilson. Seven natives of Ohio have been president. Two presidents have been from Texas, Ihvlght Eisenhower and Lyndon B.

John your problem solved or a ifuestiou just tir ite A itiou Express. P. (J. Hox 2171. Situ Antonio, Texas 7H297.

Action Is Due on Mexican Heroes Two requests involving of Mexican heroes are expected to go to City Council in the near future. Henry Guerra, president of the Mexican- American Friendship Comniittee, said Tuesday one request will seek permission to move the statue of Miguel Hidalgo Costilla from Romana Plaza to Plaza Mexico in HemisFair Plaza. The other, he said, will ask council to acquire a small piece of downtown property for a park and a monument to Francisco I. Madero. The property, he explained, is at the corner of South St.

and Streets where the old Hutchins Hotel once stood. The Hutchins Hotel, Guerra said, wa.s where Madero stayed for months while making plans for the Mexican tion of 1910. Although Madero's famous "Plan de San proclaiming the 1910 revolution, was issued in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, it wa.s written during the months Madero spent that year in San Antonio. Guerra said Madero worked on the proclamation at the home of friends but stayed at the Hutchins Hotel. He thinks a small portion of that site, now a parking lot, should become a park dedicated to Madero.

propo.sal calls for the park to be marked with a bust of Madero and a plaque explaining that Madero had lived at that location. Guerra said he had suggested the idea to Mayor John Gatti in a recent letter. He made the proposal, he added, as dent of the BYiendship Committee and as chairman of tourist development for the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. Referring to the Hidalgo statue, Guerra said permission to move it will be sought after Me.xico grants approval for it to be located in Plaza Mexico. That approval is needed, he explained, because Plaza i 0 de.sign falls under jurisdiction.

That was a provision in the agreement between Mexico and the City of San Antonio which established the plaza. Guerra he already had discussed the idea with Mexican Consul Gen. Jose Inez Cano who expressed approval of the suggestion. The Hidalgo statue. Guerra would be more accessible in Plaza Mexico.

Traffic around Romana Plaza, he explained, makes access to the difficult. Hidalgo dates back to struggle for independence from Spain. He was the priest who gave the or "Cry of Freedom," from his small parish church in the village of Dolores in central Mexico on Sept. 16, 1810. Texas, which was a part of Mexico at that time, also was freed from Spanish rule as a result of that war.

statue was given to the City of San Antonio by Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho in 1945. It is a focal point every year of San celebrations of independence anniversary. The Mexican-American Friendship Committee sponsors major activities in those celebrations, now under way. Historic Debate Again Is Looming By DEBORAH WESER Of The Express Staff San Antonio may have another historic controversy on its hands. This one involves proposed reuse of Milam Park as a public S.A.

Police Tops 1,000 San Antonio Tuesday had more than 1,000 police officers for the first time. Police Chief Emil E. Peters said the actual personnel strength climbed to 1,008 with the employment of 27 police cadets, The cadets Tuesday began a 22-week training program and will become full- fledged police following a six- month probation period. Peters said the authorized strength is 1,079, but the actual strength never before has been above 1 000 Mrs. Shriver Due in S.A.

With Husband Mrs, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. wife of Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sargent Shriver, will accompany her husband to San Antonio for nearly five hours of campaigning Wednesday. The sister of the late President John Kennedy and the late U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy has campaign stops of her own separate from those of Shriver in their San Antonio appearance.

Mrs. Shriver will visit the of J. Sutton, Democratic nominee for state representative, at 1609 E. Houston St. at 4:25 p.m.

Wednesday. She will visit the West Side Voter Registration headquarters at 2514 W. Commerce St. at 5:10 p.m. Wednesday.

Both Shriver and Mrs. Shriver will speak at the 7 p.m. Wednesday rally at Villita Assembly building sponsored by the Bexar County Citizens for McGovern. The Shrivers will arrive at San International Airport at 3:45 p. m.

Wednesday from Houston. No ceremony is planned at the airport. Shriver will go directly to the Granada Homes for a p. m. a meeting with labor leaders and visit with senior citizens.

A 4:30 p. ni. a reception in honor is set for the Menger Colonial Room. County judges and officials from 42 Texas counties, and Democratic candidates, have been invited to that meeting. Federal Court Gets Theater Suit Friday five San Antonio theaters will enter federal court Friday asking an end to what the call "official harassinent." Expec'ted to be called as witnesses for the plaintiffs are three defendants in the cases: 175th Dist.

Judge Preston H. Dial Dist. Atty. Ted Butler and Chief E.E. Peters.

The Ciipri, King Arts, Studio and Central seek return of films and projectors confiscated during raids conducted Aug. 24 on warrants issued by Judge Dial. At a pretrial hearing Tuesday, U.S. Dist Judge Adrian told attorneys for the theater operators their "first Friday would be to prove that a 71x101711 question is involved. square in connection with Farmers Market redevelopment.

The San Antonio Development Agency was asked Tuesday to retain the present park, which once was a Catholic Cemetery. The Texas Hispanic-American History Foundation also asked that an appropriate monument be erected to commemorate the fact it was a or old Catholic cemetery. The group, led by Miss Adela Navarro and Tom Wilson, also asked the statue of Ben Milam be removed. SADA took no formal the general txiunsel, Arthur Troilo, indicated City Council would have the final word on reuse of the land. The land is currently a public park owned by the city, he noted.

And the continued, has given informal approval to SADA plans for redeveloping the green space into a public square. SADA already is involved in a controversy over historic preservation of the 1850 Menger Soap Works in the Rosa Verda renewal area. The Hispanic-American is also asking "that no other alterations even be allowed to be made, such as shops, parking facilities or any other stixicture that might detract from the serenity of the The urban renewal agency, meanwhile, has been directed by area office here to provide documentation of the historic significance of Milam Park, Columbus Park and the Menger Soap Works. This must be done before proposed Rosa Verde plan changes will be approved. That directive also calls for listing of any other properties in that renewal area that may have historic significance, a HUD spokesman indicated late Tuesday.

In other action, the agency officially accepted General Services Administration assurances adequate parking will be provided by 1974 for the proposed federal office-courthouse complex at HemisFair Plaza. The agency, however, was urged to insist that GSA provide an environmental impact statement on the site. Austin attorney Richard Shannon said he was speaking for A1 Rohde. He said the statement should be provided before the 3.09-acre site is deeded to GSA. Rohde, not present, earlier said use of the site for the courthouse-office complex is not appropriate.

Central American Dance Amer ca Thp of Central America. The Tuesday night performance was at Centro Cultural Ruben Salazar, sponsored by Semana de Raza en Photo by Ron Jones. New Condemnation Suit Okayed by Water Board A resolution to begin new condemnation proceedings to acquire land for northwest area water storage and pumping station was approved by the Qty Water Board Tuesday. The board was forced to rescind a May 9 resolution seeking condemnation on one 100- acre tract of land on FM 1604 south of Culebra Road because of an error. The error involved the discovery that an easement for high power voltage lines for the City Public Service Board cut across the eastern third of the tract of land to be condemned, according to Gen.

Dir. Robert Van Dyke. The resolution orders attorneys to begin new condemnation proceedings on a revi.sed 100-acre tract more to the north of the original site. Landowner H. Kyle Seale rejected a CWR offer of $140,000 for the land, according to Van Dyke.

The metered water sales revenue for August totaled $893,218. That marked a drop of $269,531 from a year ago. Much of the decline was due to above normal rainfall for the year, according to comptroller John Shields, Wreck Issue Side-Stepped By Commission Any change in the policy requiring policemen to pay damages to police cars or face suspensions will be up to the city, the i and Qvil Service Commission decided Tuesday. The commission refused to hear an appeal from Patrolman Mark Tolle for a 10-day suspension he w-as handed by the police chief for a June 10 traffic accident while on duty. Commission chairman Frank Manupelli and Commissioner Ruben Sandoval noted record showed he was involved in six accidents in the pa.st 18 months, five of them cxinsidered his fault.

Four of those mishaps came in the past six months, they noted. Manupelli said he felt there might be a valid question about the present policy. He CWB Wins Round The City Water Board won the first round Tuesday in its legal battle to condemn 150 acres for a water treatment plant. Dist. Judge Richard J.

Woods denied the Mr. and Michael R. Burch, an injunction against the city to prevent seizing the northeast Bexar County land which has been formally condemned. Condemnation c'ommissioners in July awarded the Burches $290,000 for the portion of their 382-acre farm. The Burches are objecting to the award in a County Civil Courtat-Law' suit.

Woods heard the application for an injunction after 45th Dist. Judge Robert R. Murray had granted a temporary restraining order preventing the city from taking the land without a hearing. Woods dissolved that order Tuesday, paving the way for the city to take possession of the land. William H.

Robison, the attorney, gave notice of appeal. His suit against the city claims the land is not needed in the foreseeable future based on a long-range master plan which has drawn objections from nearby counties because it would tap the Guadalupe River watershed. Uniform State Property Taxing System Pushed noted it permits policemen to choose between a suspension or paying cash for damages when found negligent. However, he said, that decision would be up to the city manager and city council. A uniform property taxing system, supervised by the state, was labeled a top priority item for Texas bv former Postmaster General John Gronouski Tuesday.

Gronouski, now dean of the Lyndon B. UF Drive Ready To Go The annual campaign for the United Fund of San Antonio kicks off Wednesday with a goal of Four a i have been named to join Dr. Jerome Weynand, vice president of San Union Junior College District and chairman of the local government and education division. Chairmen selected to help direct the United Fund campaign efforts among city, county and state governmental and school employes are as follows: Dr. Ivan Fitzwater, of the North East Independent School District, education seclion; Sam Granata asssociate city manager, city government section; EYank J.

Umibardino, state representative, state government section: and Blair Reeves, county judge, county government i of United Fund. Mrs, Walter W. McAllister Jr. is the 1972 campaign chairman. Johnson School of Public Affairs at Austin, w'as one of several key speakers the final session of the 7th Annual Workshop on Intergovernmental Relations and Regional Planning.

Gronouski also suggested a standard, state-wide property tax appraisal system rest upon substate regional councils similar to the Alamo Area Council of Governments here. COGs, he indicated, could logically become taxing bodies within an altered state governmental structure. "You want them to bcxime a taxing body unless you also give them the responsibility for providing services," he warned however. "The present c-onstitution makes the governor and the agencies of the state an inef- i inefficient executive," Gronouski added. He called for a strong executive system that would give the governor the right to discharge agency cliiefs, frame the basic budget proposals for the state and function, in fact, as chief planning officer of the state..