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B-10 THE SUN-TELEGRAM Nov. 7, 1975 Professor at Crafton Hills f0m If i award nominated for book Veterans may get help at S.B. centers SAN BERNARDINO Veterans attending college or, planning to attend may receive information about jobs and benefits from the city Veterans Assistance Center or Project MOVE coordinators on local campuses. The veterans center at 195 N. St.

is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, it cosponsors Project MOVE in helping veterans seek jobs, obtain claims assistance and receive education information. Project MOVE coordinators are Bill DuFosse at San Bernardino Valley College; Hank White at California State CoMee, San Bernardino, John Bell at Chaffey College, Mike Davis at Victor Valley College and Dennis Moore at Barstow College. A recent survey of these colleges by manpower officials shows that one-third, or 11,300 of their students are veterans, said City Manager Director James J.

Burns, indicating that there is a high need for services and jobs for students who are veterans. Burns said Korean War veterans should be aware that May 31, 1976, is the deadline for use of their GI Bill eduction benefits. Veterans who plan to use these benefits should seek counseling on using them now. he said. into the political arena, but since the Herald was a small paper, it was not bothered.

Arias said he covered an occasional "palace revolt" for the Associated Press, and in 1961 wrote a story about neo-nazi groups that appeared in the New York Times. Covering the revolts involved "watching the tanks and running from tear gas," he said. "You don't get that kind of experience on a daily in the United States." Arias next joined the Peace Corps, and was assigned to Peru, where he worked with Indians in the Andes Mountains. He also served as a stringer for the Copley News Service, and witnessed the massacre of 15 people by the Peruvian national police. "I was driving by in a Peace Corp jeep and I heard this noise and saw all those people dropping, so I got out of there -as quickly as I could," he said.

"They brought the bodies into the next town piled up on a flat car." Arias' story of the massacre appeared under his byline in the Christian Science Monitor. Arias also worked for a year on He "wrote" the book in Spanish in his mind, then translated it into English to achieve its Chicano flavor, he said. A native of Los Angeles, Arias has lived in Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Peru and Germany. His father, Armando Arias, was an Army major assigned to Germany for two years. Young Arias attended University of California at Berkeley for two years.

They were frustrating years. "It was the year before the Free Speech movement," Arias recalled. "I was competing with a lot of geniuses. It was a killing pace. "I left in my junior year.

I had applied for a press scholarship-Arias got the scholarship, partly because he could speak Spanish. At the age of 21, he received a one-year assignment as an intern on an Argentina newspaper. "i worked for the English language daily The Buenos Aires Herald," Arias said. "I did news and features." Although most South American newspapers are subjected to political pressures, Arias said he felt no; such pressures on the Herald. It is a small paper, read only by the English-speaking community, and stories were mostly apolitical having to do with such topics as cricket and rugby, he said.

Sometimes stories did spill over Toward the end, Fausto's world assumes a dual quality. There is the world of the present, the Los Angeles barrio; and the world remembered and imagined, Mexico and the ancient town of Tamazunchale. Fausto lives with his niece, confusing her with a young Mexican girl who acts as his guide in his imagined journey. In travels around Los Angeles Fausto meets Mario, a wordly-wise youth with a touch of naivette. Mario is the alter ego of Marcelino, a Peruvian shepherd boy, who combines naivette with simple, serene wisdowm.

As the book fluctuates between the two worlds, they begin to mingle. Marcelino appears on the streets of Los Angeles, playing the pipes and leading a herd of alpacas into traffic. A policeman attempts to arrest Fausto and Mario for their part in helping Marcelino, but the two escape; Fausto in a hearse, from which he later emerges after hiding in a coffin with a dead man. Arias said Mexicans would not find this latter experience too grim for their tastes. Mexicans make a game of death celebrating the Dia de la Morte, the Day of Death, by distributing candy skulls and other goodies in grisly forms.

The language in 'Tamazunchale" is "deliberately simple," said Arias. By LEONARD METZ $un-Teierm Staff Writer REDLANDS Ron Arias, an assistant professor at Crafton Hills College, has been nominated for the National Book Award in fiction for his first novel, "The Road to Tamazunchale." The book tells of the experiences, real and imagined, of an old Mexican during his last days before death. It was published by the West Coast Poetry Review and was supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Coordinating Council of i jterary Magazines. For a "small press" book, "Tamazunchale" has been selling well. It is now in its second edition.

Arias said the book is in demand at colleges teaching courses in Chicano literature. The book reflects the Mexican attitude toward death, which is much less grim than the American attitude, Arias said. It is a "joyjul approach to death," he said. "I kept thinking toward the end that when I die I hope I die this happily with a sense of humor. "It's a feeling I suppose I got from my grandmother just last year, witnessing her death Julia Estrada She was 80, just Like Fausto (the main character in the book), and up until the end she was making a joke of it." Ron Arias first novel the Caracas Daily Journal in Venezuela.

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