Migrant Workers Should
Stay in Mexico, Is Feeling
Mexico City CU.R) Mexican
officials say a recent two-year
extension of the Migrant Worker
Ict with the Unitd States is
"hi-ily beneficial." But they
would like to see more Mexicans
staying on this side of the border.
Most Mexicans feel' it would i
be more patriotic for migrant
workers to devote their labors to :
Mexico than to seek employment
outside. I
While no one has been able
to stop the exodus, the govern
ment has inaugurated irrigation
and public works programs, and
many organizations have offered
their own pet plans to keep the
"braceros" home.
Last year 428,416 migrant
workers contracted to work on
American farms and in food-processing
plants in Texas. Cali
fornia, Arkansas, New Mexico,
and Arizona. Uncounted others
swam the muddy Rio Grande or
bought forged papers to enter j
the United States.
Barbado Quintcla, heading a I
group of Mexican professional
leaders, said they will offer the j
government a program to pro-,
vide employment for more "bra
ceros" through greater use of
hand labor on Mexico's huge
public works program.
He said greater income for the
now unemployed would raise
living standards, distribute more
wealth to the working class, and '
encourage more workers to serve
Mexico.
Irrigation Plans
Others say the program would
actually reduce jobs and benefit
, the people from public works
since projects would have to be
curtailed.
President Adolfo Ruiz Cor
tines hopes Mexico's dramatic
"March To The Sea" port and
road rehabilitation program will
employ many who would other
wise seek seasonal jobs on Amer
ican farms.
But agronomists say the only
way to solve the farmer's prob
lem is. "to tackle it head-on."
They are encouraged by "the
government's energetic efforts to
alleviate the drought situation
we face in the north."
Agriculture Secretary Gilberto
Flores Munoz said recently that
500.000 acres of land will be
irrigated in northern cotton-producing
areas during the coming
planting season. He said the ad
Ylitonal irrigated land will pre
sent "a considerable increase"
in this year's ootton crop.
Companies affiliated with the
National Cotton Growers' asso
ciation have agreed to spend
$1,920,000 to drill 100 wells. The
government is already drilling
279 wells at a cost of S6.000.000.
Another program calls for the
diversion of the San Lorenzo
and other rivers flowing into
the Pacific basin of the Nazas
river.
Engineers expect to drill huge
tunnels, some more than 100
miles long, to irrigate now un
used land on the eastern side of
the Sierra Madre.
"However, irrigation is but
one step along the road toward
putting Mexico's farmers on their
feet," say farm confederation of
ficials. U. S. Wag Attract
The association recently re
ceived a report from economist
Salvador Camelo Solar stating
that "many farmers cannot make !
enough from their small land I
grant farms to earn a decent liv- i
ing." He said more than 51 perl
cent of the nation's sugar crop
comes from farms smaller than ;
six acres. j
Texas growers point out that
Mexican pickers were being j
paid 50 cents a hundred at a !
time when U. S. pickers earned :
$2.50 even though Mexican grow-
ers wVe getting about two-thirds j
of the price paid to American !
farmers. j
One Rio Grande Valley farm- j
er says low prices paid for pick- j
ing in Mexico "are a direct in-!
centive for packers to risk their
very lives in the dangerous river
crossing to pick at higher prices."
Farmers complain, "everyone
tells us to be patriotic and stay
in Mexico; but no one tells us
how to live on an empty stom
ach."
Though Mexicans and Ameri
cans blasted the migrants pact
when it was first signed in 1951,
observers on both sides of the
border admit today that most of
the pay, racial discrimination,
housing ,and insurance problems
have been ironed out. The pact
has been renewed in recent
years with only slight changes.
"Mexico needs her farmers and
every ounce of food they can
grow," says the farm confedera
tion, "therefore they must be
helped, must be educated to be
better farmers, not given 'made'
work to do. There is more than
enough work for all Mexicans."
Living Room Rockets
Due Next Christmas
New York -UR) The kids
are going to be blasting off rock
ets in the living room come next
Christmas morning, if some evi
dence at the spring Toy Fair
here can be credited. And it can.
A new pride of the A. C. Gil
bert line of electric trains is
something called a rocket
launcher car. The chassis is of
the regulation flatcar type, but
mounted on it is a gadget with
an arrow-like head and a finned
tail.
This rocket rides the rails in
horizontal repose on the car, but
the proper touch by electric re
mote control will raise it into
perpendicular firing position and
send it wooshing upward into
the household stratosphere. It
can be fired whether the train
is standing or in motion.
The rocket is guaranteed to
turn before hitting the ceiling
and drop back harmlessly to the
floor.
If you want to switch from
the rocket age to one of the haz
ards of early-day railroading,
there is an electrically controll
ed cow that can be made to am
ble onto the track in front of an
onrushing train which grinds to
a halt just short of catastrophe.
Crime detection equipment is
a new addition to the line of
chemistry sets. Probably just co
incidence that the firm's new
vice president, Harvey Rath, is
a former special agent of the
FBI.
Measure Defining !
Border of Oregon
Sent to Governor
Salem UR) Gov. Robert D.
Holmes today had before him
Senate bill 1 which sets the
boundary between Oregon and
Washington.
The House yesterday passed
the bill unanimously after find
ing its engineering descriptions
of the boundary were correct.
State Highway Engineer W. C.
Williams had 'hought the de
scriptions were inaccurate, but
later decided they were correct.
The vote came in the second
afternoon house meeting of the
72-day-old session.
A joint commission from Ore
gon and Washington set the
boundary by running straight
lines through 191 geographic
points.
Rep. George Annala," Hood
River Democrat and a sponsor
of the compact, said that little
land will change hands if the
agreement is okayed by the U.S.
Congress. He said Washington
already had passed boundary
legislation identical with the
Oregon bill.
Channel Creates Problems
Annala explained that the
boundary between the two states
in the past has been considered
the center of the main channel
of the Columbia river. But the
changing channel created prob
lems of jurisdiction in industrial
accidents on dams and bridges
between the two states. Admin
istration of other laws was also
made difficult by doubt over the
boundary.
Engineers have said that by
using the descriptions of latitude
and longitude in the compact, it
will be possible to determine the
boundary at any point with no
more than an inch and a half of
error.
Sand island near Vancouver,
Wash., will come i nder Oregon's
jurisdiction rather than Wash
ington's if the compact is rati
fied by Congress.
Evicted Tenant's
Bomb Try Foiled
Rome UR) An angry tenant
under an eviction notice tried to
blow up a Rome apartment
house by turning his apartment
into a gas-filled bomb, police dis
closed today. He used a cuckoo
clock to try to set it off.
The 60 other tenants were res
cued when police arrived sooner
than expected with the order to
evict him'. They entred the apart
ment just before the cuckoo
clock bomb was to have gone
off. They saved the day by
switching off the electric cur
rent. Detectives identified the ten
ant as Attorino Natali, 67, a
former artillery officer and an
electronics expert. He escaped
and police ordered a citywide
search for him.
Natali had sealed all doors
and windows with plastic tape,
spread gasoline-soaked rags on
the floors and then opened a
number of bottles containing
gas. Three electric wires running
from the gas-filled room to a
metal plate provided the fuse.
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New Home Owner
Settles With City
Detroit, Mich. U.PJ Albert
Hatala bought a lot in Royal
Oak that exactly suited his needs
as the site for a home in a rural
setting.
But when he petitioned Royal
Oak for water and sewer per
mits, he was told he couldn't
have them unless he paid an as
sessment for paving the street in
front of his lot. '
Hatala fumed. He said he
bought the lot mainly because it
was on an unpaved street. He
wasn't going to pay for some
thing he didn't want.
The compromise Hatala's
street will get a coating of
gravel.
Pendleton Round-Up Due
On National Television
Pendleton U.R) Plans for
national television coverage of
the Pendleton Round-Up this
year were announced yesterday
and a CBS camera production
crew visited the city to make
initial surveys of the location
and confer with local officials.
Officials announced that the
j Round-Up will be carried on a
national nooK-up ior one nour
during each of the four days it
is slated to rim. Time for the
broadcasts has been scheduled
'i for 5-6 p.m. (PST).
Smelt Lovers Enjoy
Field Day on Sandy
Troutdaie UPJ Smelt lovers
who like to get their fish first
hand had a field day on the
banks of the Sandy river yester
day as the silvery fish took to
the stream in substantial num
bers. Dippers reported encounter
ing little difficulty in taking a
25-pound limit take.
State Game Commission offi
cers said that several thousand
of the 50-cent licenses for smelt
fishermen had been sold.
Highways in Oregon
Said Clear of Snow
Salem (U.R) Roads remained
clear of snow throughout Ore
gon and motorists didn't have to
worry about chains on any of
them, the State Highway De
partment said today.
The Olds Ferry-Ontario sec
ondary route remained closed at
Malheur river bridge with traf
fic being detoured via tempo
rary connection to U.S. 30.
Red Cross Official
Tells of Work at Vale
Vale (U.R) Mama Murphy,
representative from the San
Francisco office of the Red Cross
and in charge of flood relief
work here, said yesterday that
more than $18,000 has been
spent thus far by the Red Cross
to aid local flood victims. She
said that this amount will go to
slightly more than $30,000 by
the time work is finished.
Search for Prospector
Ends in Nursing Home
Salem (U.R) The search for
a 76-year-old North Santiam
prospector ended yesterday
when he was located in a nurs
ing home at Gresham.
Police had been seeking Gus
Waldisberg for a week after he
was reported missing from his
remote cabin by a friend.
A Portland address found in
the elderly man's cabin led po
lice to the nursing home where
Waldisberg was found to be staying.
In Dinosaur Park near Rapid
City, S.D., stands a monstrous,
man-made brontosaur that shows
visitors what this giant reptile
of some 135,000,000 years ago
was like.
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Whittaker, as he prepared to pose for news photographers
after taking oath at the U. S. Supreme Court in
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