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i MZtSrORD (ORtCCKl MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. June 20. 1957 Wetback Season Gets Under Way; Border Patrol Ready for Problem I:A::"n. Tex '? The ft !5cfc Ka-'m .xicn na iiooas try to snalc across the R-0 Grande toward American ia-nj jois- 3 00 The Barrier Pa'ro! Once the 'njo haeij group of men in , intensely agricultural valley -ranta ready to cope ilii the prnocni. Pa'roiiTfin will ork dav and r::gnt. In cotton fields work permits in tne Lmted moved into the Rio Grande Val State? Rains in Mexico, boost-! ley with buses, jecns, planes and in? that nation's farm activity, ! other equipment for finding il also will help hold down the legal laborers and shipping them wetback count. back to Mexico. Already patrolmen are pick-' Newspaper and radio adher ing up wetbacks at better than Using in two languages told the 300 a month, and the harvest- farmers and the wetbacks that inf season has yet to hit its the latter could leave the coun stride. Since 1954, the percent 'try voluntarily if they left im age of pickups at the river has mediately. Loudspeakers repeat ed md-.sry, ax v.eil as on the been rising, while pickups of ed the message in Spanish from rr.er. wc.mi k will foe picked those who have already gotten planes flying over vegetable and Up. i'ngpr printed for the FBI r.d if they ha: e criminal rec-; ordi or are "repeaters charg ed vi'h illegal entry. In y.ex.co, an advertising ram pa.gn of "no work in Texas" is 00 to diwrourage rich migration, i Oticiais are bushing the "brac- : into jobs here have been fewer ' cotton patches. The Border Patrol appears to h.ve the situation under con trol. Not so a few years ago. before "Operation 54" caused hatred for the Patrol to hit peak among farmers, w hom used wetbacks. Within the next 15 days, 170.-j 000 wetbacks wolked across: bridges to their homeland. An ! untold number rode taxis.; trucks, and buses across. The ! many of task force got another 44,875 during the 15-day period. Through the next month, an-1 other 23.000 were trucked,! flown, shipped and marched in-J to Mexico. Sixty days later, the task force was dissolved. The i emergency which began during World War II labor shortage per iods, was over. It was estimated last month that there were fewer than 500 wetbacks working in the entire Rio Grande Valley. Angry farmers, left in 1954 with half-picked cotton fields and a labor shortage, displayed an almost unanimous contempt for the Border Patrol. Charges of "Gestapo tactics"' and "rough ing up" flew. The charge were never proved to the satisfaction of the Immigration Service. They were never disproved to the satisfac tion of the valley's newspapers and farmers. Some resentment still exists. A Different Type Recently, the valley Farm Bureau, representing 4.000 farm ers, endorsed a resolution to cut the numbers of the Border Pa trol. Bureau manager C. B. Ray of Mercedes said the move was motivated only by economy. He said he did not know horn much of the resentment was still felt in the valley but that the Patrol "wouldn't win any popularity contests around here." A former patrolman. James Griffin, a major valley farmer and rancher who was most crit ical of the Patrol in 1954 when it "made an, example of him," said many of the practices he objected to are no longer in use. Chief Border Patrol Inspector George Harrison, who came here with the task force and stayed to take over the headquarters, said the wetback of today is dif ferent from the wetback of a few yars ago. "Those earlier wetbacks were simple, honest people, just look ing for work," he explained "But these days we get only the dregs. Many of them have crim inal records. The honest laborer can come over legally under the bracero program. The result of the mass clean up has been a cleaner, quieter valley. Wetback camps no long er breed disease and cause urban blight. Farmers are coming to use bracero labor more and more. "The bracero is more depend able," said Griffin. "You can teach him how to run equip ment, and he will slay with you until the job is? done. In the old days, by the time you got a man trained, the Border Pa trol would find him and cart him off." ero" prog a n whereby a limited The 1954 Cleanup ni.jnber of Mexicans can be le-1 In 1954. a separate "task , l:y processed for temporary force" of hundreds of patrolmen m .4 v-KMKurtW.. ? Fancy Kentucky Wonder GREEN BEANS iTiMin 1 1 - - -''- m'Tiufi 1 ii-inn 1 in nr mmekmr fir rrrinuiiinri 11 & ur rmmmu fe-airni .' HADE! CRISP TENDER LARGE BUNCHES elery EACH PRINCESS GRACE TAKES A RIDE-Former film star, Grace Kefly, now Princess Grace of Monaco, fastens her "Mae West" just before taking a hflicopt-r ride from the deck of the carrier USS Forrestal. She visited the ship while it was in Monaco's port On The Side By E. V. Durling (Distributed by King Feiture Syndicate, Inc.) Fogelson has stated that in so doing, he found very helpful our Horses and Women depart ment pamphlet titled "How To Handle A Red-Haired Woman " He also found of some assistance the wife training advice in the report on the views of the star gazers titled 'Living with a Libra." Saw Ethel Merman, the As-i toria Nightingale, in "Happy Hunting ' the other night. She was never better. What Bill Shakespeare said about the "in- j finite variety" of Cleopatra foet double for Ethel. She ha; been in more musical hits than ny feminine star who has ever hone on Broadway. And I don't except Lillian Russell or Anna Held. Why does La Merman en joy auch auccess? Well, she's got rhythm plus. Her enunciation is uperb. Her timing is perfect. Her sense of humor is exception al. The top flight lyricists, tune smiths and writers know when they hitch their wagon to the tar yclept Merman, that wa gon it bound to go places. Twin What the record weight for twins at birth? That's what a Bronx subscriber asks. She has just become the mother of twin hoys. One weighs seven pounds, nine ounces, and the other was eight pounds. She saye the peo ple at the hospital considered this unusual but did not know the record. Neither do I. But am checking. Incidentally, the father of these twins is of Irish descent. More proof of our claim that if a girl marries a man of Irish birth or descent her chances of becoming a mo ther of twins are -greatly increased. Sidelight! One of every 30 inhabitants of New York City is on relief Of Puerto Ricans now living in New York, one of every 10 is on relief . . . The name of a barbershop on Broadway, near 36th st. Manhattan. is "An thony's Tonsonal Studios." Please Note It should be kept in mind that when Abraham Lincoln said "all that I am 1 owe to my an gel mother." he was speaking of his stepmother. She was. of course, Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln, the second wife of Thomas Lincoln. Longshot As for luiigshots. consider the experience of Matthew Hobson, a London laborer. He borrow ed two shillings, six pence, the equivalent of about 35 cents, from his landlady and with it won 75.000 pounds, the equiv alent of S-10.000. in a football pool. And the money won is tax free. Gambling winnings are not taxed in Great Britain. Passing By Greer Gsr.-on. t itian-tressed Iris'i beauty. My favorite red .lid actres.-. Greer in com 1. -on with all bricktops. especial ly those of Irish origin can be ' a" little difficult to handle at times. Nevertheless nor husband "Buddy" Fogelson. the tactful Texan, has managed to succcss-fik- i.rvnnnt this frequent ob stacle to matrimonial biiss. Mr. I Briefly Now it is said fingerprints can be forged. That is. the fing lerprints of an innocent person I can be spread around the scene j of a crime by the guilty crim i inals. A frightening situation . . I How long can the outstanding money earning power of a film star last? Clark Gable and Gary Cooper, both 56 years old, are earning more money than ever. With percentage of the gross agreements their take from one film can be as high as $300,000. Asidei The bust and hip measure ments of beauty contest winners vary greatly but the waist meas urements are nearly always 24 inches. Call this to the atten tion of your wife if she is thinking of trying for the Mrs. America title . . . The title of the next novel of the sensation ally successful young French writer. Mile. Francoise Sagan. is "Dead Eyelids." Some title! Is reminiscent of Gertrude Stein My fr-vorite quaint title is still that of the mystery story, "The Corpse in The Derby Hat." California Valencia JUICE ORANGES 5-LB. 10c BAG GfisMltUH U.S. No. I Fancy WHITE POTATOES 10-LB. j BA MEDFORD'S FINEST MEATS SINCE 1940 STEAKS!! TREAT YOURSELF TO A DELICIOUS STEAK FROM THE QUALITY Fancy "Choice" Corn-fed Steer Beef shipped to us from the midwest. 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