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Poga 2-A SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS Friday, July 14, 1972 Farmers Market Deadline Set in 1974 Is it possible my old-age assistance will be cut when Social Security is raised? MRS.A.L. According to a State Department of Public Welfare spokesman, the per cent Social Security increase, which becomes effective on Sept. could cause state assistance to be cut by the same number of dollars unless the DPW makes an adjustment. NEED Vs. income, fp aint ever bou Got More op ome than) OTHERp By DEBORAH WESER Of the Express Staff The long-awaited Farmers Market redevelopment.

scheduled to begin about next June, will be completed and ready for formal dedication on Sept. 16. 1974. San Antonio Development Agency Dir. Winston Martin announced Thursday.

Construction of temporary a i 1 i i to house present tenants will begin next. December so rehabilitation work can progress early next year, it further was noted by architect- designer Cyrus Wagner. Involving approximately six downtown city blocks in the Rosa Verde renewal area near Santa Rosa Medical Center, the project is expected to need about $3.2 million in public funds, with SADA supplying $2:2 million of it and the city putting up the balance. The timetable for completion, including the appr pnate Diez Seis dedication date, apparently was worked out during a meeting earlier this week with City Mgr. Loyd Hunt, Harold Robbins, the new market master, and Martin.

Wagner desribed the downtown facility in detail to City Council members attending briefing. He emphasized the role of the market as a regional shopping center for San Antonians living and working in the area, noting that tourist use would be a of the normal function of the market area. The market is one of about 10 major downtown projects proposed for development in recent months, Martin noted. City Council, he wanted, will have to set priorities on several projects where possible rivalry or geographic overlap may be involved. Martin referred specifically to the suggested new town in town, a privately-sponsored and the plan for an international trade center, whiah has been proposed as a public entity here.

The center site, as indicated on SADA maps, tends to cut into some of the eastern territory sought for development by the new town sponsors. The trade center is a proposal suggested by local businessman Moms Jaffe and former Mayor W. W. McAllister as a means of stimulating international business for the city. Martin said Jaffe has indicated he will have no trouble finding clients for at least one million square feet of space in the center.

Late Thursday, Jaffe acknowledged the trade center idea, emphasizing however, that it was intended to be a public, not a private venture. In fact, the Increase in Social Security benefits could move some from the public assistance rolls and make these senior citizens ineligible for medicaid benefits. It was noted the old-age assistance program is set up on a need versus income basis. Personal, housing, untilities and social care needs are estimated and any income, including Social Security, pensions is deducted from this amount to determine how much assistance can be paid by the state up to a maximum of $133 a month. When Social Security benefits were last increased, the Welfare Department made an adjustment and state aid was not cut to the full extent of the federal increase.

Perhaps the DPW ill do the same again. Warrant Out Several weeks ago I received a ticket for speeding after v.as nabbed by radar. I failed to appear as I was supposed to in Municipal Court. I am afraid there is a warrant out for me and that the police will come and get me in the dead of night. This is particularly bad because my mother has a bad heart.

afraid have an attack if she sees them coming to get me. What can I do to avoid this situation? UNSIGNED ou are right, there is a warrant out for you by the San Antonio Police Department, and a chance come looking for you at any time. That is any tfme beginning one day after this article appears in print. They will give you that long. So you had best scurry down to Municipal Court and pay off your ticket.

George Parr Case Records By WILSON McKINNEY Of The Express Staff Cowboys Tickets Football is almost here and I can hardly wait. never seen the Dallas Cowboys in person and would like to see the Dallas-New York Jets game on Aug. 26. Where do I write and how much will the tickets cost me? ADAME ARCIA ou can write the Dallas Cowboys Ticket Office at 6116 North Central Expressway, Dallas, Texas 75206. Tickets cost each.

Also send 25 cents ith your cheek or money order. The price to see the Cowboys in exhibition games is as much as it is when the regular season opens. Fa rcw el I Messa As the wreckers demolish what used to be a classroom at Fox Tech High School, a farewell message is seen scrawled on a blackboard still in the room. The Adios, Fox is only temporary, however. The 70-year-old buildings will be replaced with a $5 million, 3-000-student complex slated for completion in the fall of 1974.

Tech students will go to Brackenridge High School while the work is under way. Construction starts in Photo by Ron Jones. A case of missing records vital to a San Antonio federal grand jury investigation of financial affairs of Duval County political boss George Parr surfaced Thursday in a federal court hearing here over obtaining alternative records from a San Diego bank. Assistant U.S. Atty.

John E. Clark said the missing files were reportedly lost by I he San Diego and Benavides independent school districts and stolen from the Duval County Conservation and Reclamation District. At the hearing, which concluded Thursday, U.S. Dist. Judge John H.

Wood Jr. refused io quash grand jury subpoenas ordering the First State Bank of San Diego to produce its own records of the governmental transactions. He also entered a preliminary injunction ordering that microfilm records of the bank for the years were produced under earlier in the care of a San Antonio bank where they are being copied for the grand jury. Another session of the grand jury is set for here next Tuesday. Since beginning the investigation, apparently last May, the grand jury lias obtained bank records of Parr and his wife, Mr.

and Mrs. Lou E. Powell of San Diego and Mr. and Mrs. Ervan P.

Taylor of Freer. Statements made at the time of a previous hearing in Corpus Christi indicate the investigation, begun by the Internal Revenue Service, partly concerns school construction in Duval County. Parr, Powell and Taylor reportedly are or have been officially connected with those schools. Clark said Thursday the records were subpoenaed July 7 because the presidents of the districts told him the school district records for all four years in question had been lost, although the records before 1966 and after 1969 were where they should be. Nothing but school board minutes and personnel files was produced.

Clark declared. As for the reclamation district, Clark said its president, who is aiso president of the Be- Oth er records from a San Diego hank must he pro dared the judge orders. At issue is a grand jury investigation into the financial affairs of thr Duval County nolitical boss. navides school board, told him he returned to his office after the grand iurv appearance and found all of the water records had been stolen in a burglary. Clark said the grand jury now could obtain the needed records onlv from the San Diego bank.

The attorney, John G. Heard of Houston, had asked that the grand jury subpoenas be limited to require only those" banking records dealing with specific transactions between the three political entities and the Parrs. Powells and Taylors. Judge Wood said he normally might agree, but in view of the disappearances of records he would allow investigators much wider latitude than usual. think an unusual circumstance that records for three public school districts and reclamation districts suddenly come up with all their records missing.

I think a natural reflex and response on the part of the U.S. attorney and the grand jury to become decidedly more curious about the contents of records of these districts which have become lost, stolen or perhaps even Wood declared. Methodist Chicanos Get German Background IOJ) PostS Vi ill Tape reo Replace Court Reporters? Setting Ft Straight There is so much German influence in this part of the state. I new to San Antonio, but my grandparents on my fathers side came to the United States from Germany and settled in Nebraska. Could you tell me about how the Germans managed to settle here? RICHARD SCHNEIDER Droves of Germans came to Texas toward the end of the Republic in 1845.

Still more came later. They settled in colonies, mainly to (he north and east of San Antonio. i ederieksburg, New Braunfels and Boerne are known for their German populations. As for San Antonio, many of the Germans were intellectuals, fugitives from the tyrants of the Fatherland, and did not find the privations of backwoods life appealing. They preferred to hear their Beethoven and Mozart in more civilized surroundings and gravitated as a matter of course to San Antonio.

The Germans built their homes near the head of the San Antonio River, to the point below King William Street. at Tortoise Food My son found a turtle crossing the highway near George West He stopped and picked him up and now plans to keep him as a pet or to sell it. What does this creature eat? How much could he sell it for? B.L. WHITE KERRVILLE Probabl.v a tortoise, which has a general range from San Antonio into northern Mexico. A Md flow Prlckly He had besl not fry to sell It.

The tortoise is proteeled hy law. It is illegal to kill or Injure or to lake one for sale barter or commercial To have your problems solved or a question answered just wrtte P. Rnx 2171, San Antonio, Texas 78297, SYLVIA THOMAS Of The Express Staff attempts electing their first United Methodist bishop zzled, but success was achieved here Thursday when it came to appointments to the general boards and agencies. Six members of the Rio Grande Conference, which covers the entire Rio Grande Valley and pot ions oi New Mexico, were named to important positions by the South Central Jurisdiction in the final business session of its week-long meeting in the Shamrock Hilton Hotel. 1 he nominations to the boards and agencies were announced to the 366 delegates representing eight south central states and were approved by a vote of the entire group.

Dr. Rov Barton of San Antonio, one of the unsuccessful Mexican-American candidates for bishop, was named to the Council on Ministries. Others appointed were: Dr. Josue Gonzales of Austin, Commission on Religion and Race- Rev. Joel a i of El Paso, Board of hurch and Society; Mrs.

Jacinto Alderette of Amarillo, lViard of Discipleship; Romeo Escobar of Pharr, Board of Global Ministries; and Mrs. Nomei Janes of Corpus Christi, Board of Pensions. Pete Zepeda of the Rio Grande Conference was elected to serve on a special denomination-wide committee which will study the status of the office of bishop and district superintendent. The Southwest Texas Methodist Conference also placed several of its members on the all important boards and agencies. Appointees are: Dr.

John King, president of Houston-Tillotson College in Austin, Council on Ministries; Mrs. Susan Spruce of Floresville. Commission on Status of Women; Rev. Claus Rohlfs of Dallas, Board of Higher Education and Ministry; James Walker of Seguin, Board of Church and Society; Mrs. Dean Isaacs of Medina Division of the Board of Global Ministries and Mrs.

Norris McMillan of Mason, Representative to the National Council of Churches. Rev. Rohlfs will serve on the Nominating Committee bo the Board of Higher Education and Ministry. A correction line w'as incorrectly inserted by a printer Wednesday night, and the Thursday list of moves in the first Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess game was consequently incomplete. For the benefit of the local chess buffs, the missing moves are, with listed first: (39) P-Kt6, P-B4 (40) K-R4, P-B5.

A court stenographic pad and pen or machine would be replaced bv a taping machine if Bexar County officials adopt a system demonstrated Thursda y. The system would give reporters a timely and means of providing transcripts, Robert A. Sibley president of Symbiotics International, of Houston, told the officials. If the tapes become the official record of trials, Sibley said the state supreme court would have to change rules for civil cases, and the Texas Legislature would have to do the same for criminal cases. It would cost $170,000 to place a system in each of Bexar district, four county and two downtown justice of the peace courts, he said.

Another would be required to purchase a machine to prepare copies of tapes. The would be used for appeal purposes, instead of the presently costly typed transcripts, Sibley said. He noted federal court rulings require indigent criminal defendants be provided free transcripts. The county this year budgeted $18,000 for Iran i arid statements, compared to $15.281 spent last year. Previously court reporters charged the county for preparing transcripts for indigents, but a reporter was hired with the agreement the county no longer would be charged for such records.

Although officials watched the demonstration with interest, they expressed little reaction for or against the system. $6 Million M'oie! Complex his is an architects sketch of the planned Rosa Verde Lodge to be built near Santa Rosa Medical Center. The building will be eight stories high and have 100 guest Photo. Big Motel Set in Rosa Verde Uonstruction of a $6 million motel complex in the Rosa Verde renewal area of downtown San Antonio is expected to begin some time after September 1. according to San Antonio Development Agency officials.

The proposed Rosa Verde Lodge, w'ith eight stories and more than 100 guest rooms, will'be designed primarily to serve the needs of families of persons requiring the services of the Santa Rosa Medical Center, Dir. Winston Martin explained. Martin announced the development Thursday during a briefing session for City Council. Rosa Verde Lodge is being sponsored by the Basila family, owners of the block of property on which it is to be built at Houston and Santa Ro a Street. re- ui the lodec.

with its covered parking facility and street-level shopping arcade, came after the family received the results of a comprehensive market study indicating the venture would ho profitable, agency Real Estate coordinator William Toudouze indicated..