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m III otal TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1X3 MtDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MKDFORD. onKGON Mexican-American roup to Take Stand iff Politics Editor'! note The Poliilcil Association of Spanish-Speaking Organisations claims chapters in Jo Tetai counties and more new member! every, week. PASO eipects to take a strong hand In state and national poll' tks next year on the aide of President Kennedy's New Kron-tier. By PRESTO! McGRAW Crystal City, Tex. -UPi-Negroes call a colored advocate of the racial status quo an "Un cle Tom" and Political Associa tion of Spanish-Speaking Organ ization's leaders say "Tio Tom as." It means the same thing. Albert Fuentas Jr., Texas sec retary of PASO, said he has never heard of a "Tio Tomas" who voted for a non-Spanish Anglo candidate in Crystal City unless he feared losing his job or economic retaliation if he owned a business. ' But there evidently were a few anglo "Tio Tonuses" and more Latin "Tio Tonuses" when an all Latin ticket swept the Anglo dominated city council out of office in Crystal City last April. .Former Mayor Bruce Holsom back, 65, noted that a total of 1,752 votes was cast and the big' gest difference between any can' didates was 110 votes. This de spite the fact that only 14.5 per cent of tne popuiainvi is Anglo. Fuentes said that at least 4i Anglos voted for Latin candi dates for the city council. Ht said PASO knew where every Latin absentee ballot was and that the Latin candidate g s absentee votes that were not Latin. CaagM By Swerise Holsonsbock. who was major 33 years, said be was caught by surprise. Tae eld city . council was composed of three Anglos, one Latin and a half-tatia Anglo. Holsomoacft ma it was a weu financed campaign, people were flows in and out to make speeches. He dunks die whole show ws run from outside and that the. PASO movement is not going to get very far. The Team sters Union of Jimmy Holla plavs a role in PASO. "I think that the fact that the teamsters are connected with, it will give it black eye," Hot sombaclt said. "The town is net being run by the council It is being run by two organizations the Teamsters and PASO." Holsomback, a banker, said the new mayor has little or no financial experience or know! edge, t Crystal City used to have top credit rating. But it tried to sell $30,000 worth of bonds to carry on an urban renewal pro gram after the new council took office and nobody would have tnem. PASO's officials and Mayor Juan Cornejo denied that the Teamsters Union and its San Antonio business agent, Ray Shaier, take any hand in PASO's Hairs unless asked. Hired City Manager Cornejo admitted a lack of ex penence. But he said he hired George Osuma, 32, from San Antonio's Public Works Depart ment to serve as city manager and to make up for his lack of experience Osuma is a civil engineering graduate of the University of Texas. Fuentes said PASO Stats Chairman Albert Pena Jr. com' plained that while Latins are discriminated against in Austin the state capital, they do no CafVof Clothing Dick West Satisfied Reader: f Ot Official Drycleaning Journal By DICK WEST 'Washington (UPD Among the . publications that count me as a satisfied reader is Clothing Care News, of ficial journal of the National In stitute of Dry cleaning. The circumstanc c s under which I became a sub scriber to Clothing' Care News have long Most likely at Wilt been, forgotten. some point 1 decided uui i needed to broaden my literary intake.'. At' any rate,: Clothing Care News is now ingrained in my reading habits and it has added immeasurably to my reputation as a conversationalist. At the risk of sounding pom pous I believe it is safe to say that I am better informed about drycleaning than any ; man . in my neighborhood.' One of the things r learned from Clothing Care News Is that garments have life eg- The Medical Roundup syys- i Emttiws foniolunt In U'MeUM Miya ritala Emirltui Prottimr at Hfllcllte Hays Clinic (MsUUf 11 Trlknu SjaSiciU. rr I Man a Person With a Big Stroke Can Learn to Talk Again 'VI hear that often when a man has had a bad stroke, wnicn nas left him wiin a . ability to taw the family will feel ereatly dis Icouraged, and will get tne idea that noth ing can be done to i m pro ve matters. Actu ally,'' if the pa tient is in a city large enough to have in some one of its insti tutions, a qualified speech thera pist, perhaps employed by the school system or a local uni versity, something can be done. Many a person with an aphasia (an inability to speak, which may be moderate or severe) has been helped, to talk again. Such training should be started as soon as possible after the stroke. If a trained speech therapist cannot bt found, there is an American Speech and Hearing Association (1001 Connecticut ive.v N.W., Washington, D.C.) which may be able to say where the nearest qualified person can be found. When a family can not find a speech therapist or cannot afford one, they might be able to buy one of several books. One is called "Aphasia Therapeutics," by Drs. Mary C. Longerich and Jean Bordeaux (The Macmillan Co., 1954); 'slso there is a "Manual for the Aphasia Patient," by Dr. Mary Longerich (The Macmillan Co., 1958); also "Aphasia Rehabili tation by Dr. Morton Marks and Martha L. Taylor (The In stitute of Physical and Rehabili tation, 400 East 34th St., New York 18, N.Y., 1955). In these books, the authors tell how per haps a wife or daughter can go about training the aphasic per son to speak again. , The greatest center in Amer ica fdr rehabilitation Is run by that very remarkable man, Dr. Howard Rusk, at 400 E. 34th St., Nw York City. That is where President Kennedy's father went when he had his difficulty in talking. Small Laboratory Disease .Years, ago, I coined a medi cal term to . explain what is wrong with some thin or sparely-built -dyspeptic people who throughout a long life have to be careful not to eat much of anything. For Instance, my dear father, who at 84 weighed ex actly what he weighed when he was 20, early found that if he wanted his abdomen to be com fortable, he must eat very little. The important factor was not as much what he ate as how much he ate. And here Is an Important point: when he died, an autopsy showed absolutely nothing wrong with his digestive tract, except that it was imajl. Because the digestive tract is a chemical laboratory In which the foods , eaten are broken down into small units which can then go through the wall of the small bowel into the Blood, and eventually .through the liver, heart and into our tissues, I got into the habit of saying to the 350 pound type of man who says he can eat, a wnoie nig goose or a suckling pig at a meal "you have a big labora tory." To the sparely built dys peptic man, who can never eat lull-sized meal, l say, leu have a small laboratory, and that may be all your trouble." Interestingly, of late, brain physiologists have been study ing another factor in the tenden cy of some animals and some men to eat little, and this is the phenomenon of satiety (feel ing full). Some spare persons, after eating a little, even 'with good deal of pleasure, will suddenly feel so full they can hardly bear to take another bite. Some fat people who weigh 300 or 400 pounds tell me that even few minutes after they have eaten an enormous meal, they begin to suffer from their usual pangs, of almost unbearable hunger. They seem to be with out a satiety factor. . Operation Visloneit ' " . It may well be that some day little operation will be per formed on a certain area in the brain, and then the 350-pound person may feci full after eat ing an apple: Let us hope that someday such an operation can be performed easily and with happy results. As I said here recently, two surgeons at the Cleveland Clin ic, working with my good friend Dr. Irvine Page, are now try ing out an operation in which much of the small bowel is short-circuited. After this opera tion, the person, while continu ing to eat a large amount every day, will still lose weight be cause he has a small laboratory. I am much interested to see how this experiment works out. If you've noticed a decided change in the personality of a friend or family membervtt may ne because he nas suffered a little stroke. To know symptoms and treatments, read the book let "Little Strokes" by Dr. Al varez.' To obtain your copy send 25 cents and a stamped, self addressed envelope with' vour request to Dr. Walter CI' Alva rei, Dept. MMT, Box 957, Drs Moines, Iowa 50304. . Three-Star General May Be Marine lots Washlngton-(Uri-A three star general with a reputation as a planner is reportedly next in line for tht nation's top Ma rina nrntt . . Lt. Gen. Wallace M. GreeiPi jr., Marine chief or staff, ap pears tn have the Inside track ts succeed Gen, David M. Sheup as commandant of tha Marine Corps Jan. 1. pectsacy rates. The life ex pectancy f yonr wife's negli gee, for example, is the same as that of yonr child's snow salt. This does not apply.,, of course, if your child sleeps in his snow suit or if your wife skis in her negligee. Do you know what a "goffer ing iron" is? I didn't either until I became a subscriber to Clothing Care News.- Now I know that a goffering iron is used to press lace ruffles on men's shirts and cuffs. Infor mation of that sort is essential to the development of a well rounded personality. Recently, CON carried an item about a lady in Florida who purchased a pair of slacks. Attached tn them was a notice that said "to maintain perfect shape put in cold oven and hake for eight minutes at 250 degrees." . The lady had never baked a pair of slacks before,- so she asked her drycleaner about it. He, In turn, sent the query te the National Institute of Drycleaning. The institute had never heard of baking slacks either, but it recommended that they be rirv- cleaned before being placed in tne oven., ' To that I would add some ad vice of my own. Also be sure to take them off first. Another problem recently dis cussed in Clothing Care News was what to do about spots that are too small to warrant send ing to the cleaners. Here is the recommended procedure: Saturate the spot with clean ing fluid. Wait three minutes and then soak it in lukewarm water. Next go over the spot with. soap and water. And final ly scrub it with a solution of oatmeal and lemon juice. Allow to dry and you will find that the spot has become large enough to warrant sending to the cleaners. 1 Decision Awaited In Shooting of Girl Calexico, Calif. (UPI) An official decision, will be made today on whether an Inauest is to be held in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old girl by her trick artist father, Milo Ploof. Marilyn Ploof was shot in the head at short range Sun day before 300 spectators while participating with her father, "the best shot in the country," in an exhibition of trick pistol shooting. , Let Ut Shew You The Terrific New Ulsrm IJorninj WOOD MRATIBt 9 Modal roe MtIC'S MOSt MOOIIN WOOD CIKUUTODI AUTOMATIC THERMOSTAT! nsiiiticic a cast ioh HMD HMIOXI IIMTIMI OKIIAIN HNISNI IUSNJ J" UNOTMJ Of , WOOD! O "WASM HOOK" loniONAi) lOWII Medford Fuel Co. Q StH Grim Stamps 771-2111 Curt 4 MiAnarsws better in Washineton Political discrimination led to the formation of PASO. Pena, in 1960, was the only Latin in the Texas delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. He attended a meeting of the Platform com mittee. ' , . "Every group was represented racial, religious, labor: you name it and it was there except tor the Latins, Pena said. Organized Clubs Pena complained in a speech before the committee. As a re sult he was later asked to or ganize the Viva Kennedy clubs in Texas. He agreed on condi tion that the clubs get recogni tion and that he bypass Texas Democratic leaders and report directly to the Kennedy camp. According to Pena, the Viva Kennedy clubs turned out the Latin American vote in South Texas. For example, 90 per cent in Nueces county ( Corpus Christi) and 89 per cent in Bexar county (San Antonio). Kennedy won Texas by a 48,-233-vote margin and Pena thinks the Viva Kennedy movement may well have been the differ ence. Kennedy sent him a tele gram of warm thanks. In Ml, Viva Kennedy ele ments helped form Mexican American Political Action with Latins from other Southwestern states and California. The Texas gioup subsequently changed ils name to PASO. Pena thinks the Kennedy telegram was the recognition he demanded. Kennedy subse quently appointed Reynaldo Uarea as a U.S. district judge in Texas. Kennedy also appointed Ray mond Telle of t:l Paso as am bs4thir t" Costa Rica and Homer Lopez as assistant U.S. attorney in the South Texas district Pena said Moiscs Falcon of Crystal City came to him in October, l'Jia, and asked for PASO's help in the Crystal City election. ( It was primarily a job of edu cating lite Latins politically, telling them their rights and getting them out to vote, Pena said. PASO's leaders believe that a political situation similar to the former one in Crystal City exists along the entire southern border of Texas and that if Latins can be made to vote, they can elect their candidates. Low wages along the border, so called commuter labor and Mexican contract labor the Braccro Program are prime PASO targets. ' Pena and Fuenlcs charge that Latins work long hours at wages as low as 30 cents an hour. Osuma said that when he took over as city manager in Cry stal City, many city employees made $30 a week. He raised the minimum to $40. Latin University graduates cannot get jobs in Texas, Pena and Fuentes charged. On the other end of the scale, many thousands of Latins are illiter ate and with the . increased mechanization of agriculture, there are fewer and fewer jobs' for them. . . To fight PASO, both Anglos and Latins in Zavala county (Crystal City) have organized a political group called "Citizens Association Serving All Ameri cans." 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