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14-A THE BAYTOWN SUN Monday, November 14, 1983 Aliens Detained Witnesses Used For Labor On Cattle Lot SAN ANTONIO (AP) Four Mexican citizens held for nine months as material witnesses against a Denton County employer were "farmed out" by government agents to a Uvalde cattle lot where they were paid 85 cents an hour, The Dallas Morning News reported. But federal officials said the wages paid the workers were not the concern of immigration agents who took them there to work. Mexican officials are seeking freedom for the four, who were working at the Mahard Egg Co. of Prosper when federal agents raided it in early February. When the workers got their paychecks at the end of a month and complained, the owners of the feedlot called the Border Patrol, which returned the Mexicans to detention in the Uvalde County Jail, the News reported Sunday.

U.S. Attorney Ed Prado said the four have become "victims" of a slow-moving legal system, but he has no plans to release them because' he needs the testimony. No charges are contemplated against the witnesses, Prado said. The corporation that runs the farm and its owners are charged with multiple counts of aiding and abetting the illegal entry of the men into the United States. Trial is scheduled for Nov.

29. Dallas attorney Mike Gibson, who is representing the owners of the egg farm, said he didn't know until two or three weeks ago that the workers were still in federal custody. San Antonio Rural Legal Aid lawyer George Korbel said he plans to file a lawsuit this week to force the government to show a legal reason why the four cannot be released after their statements are taken for use in trials. Korbel also said he believes as many as 180 other aliens are being detained as witnesses in Texas. The workers told lawyers assisting Korbel that they were assured by a U.S.

official before they were sent to the feedlot that they would be employed at the minimum wage of $3.35 an hour. The men had sought employment during their confinement so they could send money to their families in Mexico, said an official of the Mexican consulate who kept track of their case. Ralph Hesse, president of Chaparral Feeders, said the five workers "were good hands, good boys. "But they were led to believe they were going to make the minimum wage, and when they found out they weren't, they got disenchanted." Hesse said. "I was paying $10 a day and I never told anybody any different." Hesse said Border Patrol agents "never asked about the minimum wage" when they asked him if he could use extra workers.

The men told Korbel's investigators they worked about 13 hours a day six days a week and five hours on Sunday. Hesse said the men called the Mexican consulate when they found out what they were being paid and were told by an official there that it was below minimum wage. "They went on strike, so to speak, so I called the Border Patrol and told the to come pick them up. I couldn't have them hanging around here if they weren't going to work," Hesse said. Prado admitted that holding aliens as material witnesses posed several problems.

He said it is too expensive and timeconsuming for the government to take depositions from the witnesses it is detaining and when their live testimony is more persuasive to a jury than written statements. Imprisoning such witnesses also poses problems, Prado said. "It's awkward to go to court with witnesses you want to testify for you, after you've been holding them in jail for 10 months," he said. "We're all concerned about (illegal alien) material said Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan Maeso.

"Jailing them is hard on them and on the families they left behind in Mexico. We just don't have anything else to do with them." Korbel said the government has spent $40,000 detaining the men and disputed the government's contention that their live testimony is important. Two of the workers now have children they have never seen, born to their wives after they were detained. A fifth worker who had been detained with the others recently was allowed to return to Mexico because a relative was dying, the U.S. attorney's office said.

"We've been trying to obtain their release," said Mrs. Citali Garcia of the protection division of the Mexican consulate office. "It's too long to stay as material witnesses." Suspect Recalls Events Addison Man Comes Back For Family ADDISON (AP) In the end it was family not riches that mattered, said a man who surrendered to police carrying a briefcase full of allegedly stolen jewelry, cash and diamonds. "There came a point when I had to make the decision take what I had, disappear and become somebody else, or come back," Wesley Don Crowder told the Dallas Times Herald in an interview published Sunday. "I gave up the merchandise and came back for my family." Crowder, who is accused of stealing $1.5 million in valuables from a safe deposit rental company in this Dallas suburb, said his concern for his wife and three sons convinced him to surrender to police who had been looking for him for eight days.

He walked into the police station at 9 p.m. Friday, carrying a clothes bag. a shaving kit and a briefcase packed with stolen goods. Career Choice Seen As Ongoing Process By LOUISE COOK Associated Press Writer What do you want to do when you grow up? That question isn't only for kids any more. Labor Department analysts say a growing number of adults are changing not only jobs, but careers.

In some cases, the change is involuntary; old industries are dying and new ones, requiring new skills. are being born. In other cases, however. the switch is an intentional one. regarded as a static, one-time event, career choice is now seen as an ongoing process, a periodic re-evaluation of oneself." says a Labor Department guide, "Help' Yourself to a Midlife Career: Change." The guide is available from the Consumer Information Center, Dept.

236L. Pueblo, Colo. 81009. It costs $2.25. "Frequently." the guide says, "the catalyst for a radical career change is a shift in an individual's values Sometimes our values (early in life) are inconsistent or unclear.

And sometimes our values change. What we value at 20 we don't always hold in such high esteem as 40." The Labor Department experts He started working at the safe deposit box firm Nov. 1 and disappeared two days later. Addison Police Chief Rick Sullivan and investigator Grant Jack listened for hours Friday night as Crowder talked. "I realized that what I did hurt a lot more people than myself," Crowder said.

"I always knew that it could hurt me, but if I had realized how much it could hurt other I wouldn't have done it." "I don't have the right to hurt other he said. Crowder said he was bothered by news reports detailing the allegations against him. "I felt like Jack the Ripper should move over," he said. "I've never been in jail before, never been arrested." He then paused a moment and said, "But I have to be a criminal or I wouldn't be here." Since the burglary last week in Addison. say there are several questions to ask yourself before you plunge into a new work environment.

Among them: -Am I really dissatisfied with my career or only with my job? -Am I unhappy with my working conditions and could I improve my environment and increase my job satisfaction? -Have I taken an inventory of my skills and do I know which ones are marketable? Are there skills I need for a new career? -Is there any way of trying a new career without giving up my old one? -What will I give up and what will I gain? How important are things like seniority, pension fund and other benefits to me and my family? -Am I willing to start again at entry level? -What are my goals short, intermediate and long-term? One way to help answer these questions is with a career autobiography, listing past jobs and what you liked and disliked and what you did. The autobiography should be more than a simple listing or resume; it should be an analysis of your feeling and experiences, and should cover spare-time activities as well as paid employment. Ainsworth Co. 2500 Market St. 422-8319 Baytown, Tx.

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"Nine months to a year ago, I had never done anything illegal in my life," Crowder said, declining to say what prompted the change. "I'd hate to say anything now that would haunt me the rest of my life. "I needed the money, but I could have gotten it by honest means," he said. 16 xa) MARCUS EDWARD Milligan, son of Mike and Merian Milligan of Baytown is a new 1-year-old. He has one sister, Melissa.

Grandparents are Don and Alma Cockrum and John and Maxine Milligan, all of Baytown. Greatgrandmother is MIldred H. Gardner of Baytown. JUSTIN SAMUEL Duckett, son of Jimmy and Carla Duckett of Fort. Meade, is a new 1-yearold.

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Terrence J. O'Brien of Crown Point, Indiana and Kathryn E. Newell of Whippany, N.J. GEORGE EDWIN "Chip" Zatopek III, son of Jean Ann and George Zatopek of Baytown, is a new 3-year-old. He has one sister, Donna and a brother, Jody.

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