Texas Gulf Coast Register (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1970 Page: 2 of 8
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TEXAS GULF COAST H EG!STEF!
Friday, June 19, 1970
Churches Must Do More
For Farm Workers- — Chavez
(Continued From Page 1)
struggle since the strike began, the
church — even our own — has stood
aside or supported the growers against
the workers. And if it wasn't for the mi-
grant ministry under the leadership of
Rev. Chris Hart mire of Los Angeles, the
strike would have Failed long ago. The
union wouid have been defeated ”
Chavez reiterated his opposition to vio-
lence and paid that his union seeks only
peaceful means to obtain contracts with
the growers
“BUT IF the growers won't listen to
us," Chavez, said, "I cannot guarantee
peace. The workers are seeking justice, so
long denied to them. The workers look Lo
the church for both moral and active
support in the struggle. If all reasonable
means Fail, the workers will more partic-
ularly blame the church for not doing
enough in using its inHuence,
“Many people think we have won, but
in truth we are just beginning. Most
grape growers still haven't signed con-
tracts; and there are hundreds of thou-
sands of iuraJ poor people in our country
who need thD. dignity and security of an
organization of their own. We intend to
reach them," Chavez said
Also speaking at the meeting waa the
Rev. Lloyd Saijton, pastor of the United
Methodist Church of Palm Springs. Rev.
Saijtan, who assisted the Bishop-s Com-
mittee in mediation efforts, told partici-
pants that recent contracts between the
Farm workers and the growers in the
Coachella Valley were working well.
"What Is more, Rev. Saijtan said, "the
growers report that the workers are tak-
ing a greater interest in the quality ot
/he grapes. They want to make sure that
grapes with the union label are the best
and they are very particular in their
work. There are great relations between
the growers and the workers and both
sides tell me they art happy with the way
the contracts are workir h”
THE MINISTER also earn that ail
the con tracts have been overwhelmingly
ratified by the farm workers involved.
Only two or three employes have left the
ranches under contract and they were not
at the farm worker level.
"Pterhaps the only sour note is in the
fact that the growers accepting the union
are not getting the support in their own
Community, especially among their fellow
growers who refuse to recognize the un-
ion,’' he added.
Much of the meeting focused on the
details of the recent negotiations between
Chaves, UFWOC and the eight table
grape growers.
St* Patrick's
CYO Elects
New Officers
St. Patrick’s CYO elected
the following officers for
1970-71: Matrons Kresfie,
president; Mary Kay Kal-
er, vice-president; ,Josie
Siefek, secretary; Janet
Hoban, treasurer; Janet
Wesson and Nancy Mitch-
ell, historians, and Barbara
Kelly, reporter
The committee chairman
for the new term are:
Cathy Webb, social; Joel
Garcia, publicity; Frances
Kennedy, spiritual; Terri
Clark, culture!; Tat Mulli-
gan, social action, end Bil-
ly Csreen. physical.
Summer activities consid-
ered include swimming
parties, activity nights, a
skating party and a bowl-
ing league.
Bible School
Frog ram
Under Way
St. Gertrude's Parish is
The Cuban Refusee Airlift
MIAMI - (NC) - Israel
Mantra mi Pinero is 3J
years old and, until two
years Ago, was a motion
picture cameramen in
Cuba.
Twenty-Jive months Ago
he became a sugar planta-
tion worker and, by
government definition of
anyone who wants out of
Fidel Castro's country, a
"Guaar.o" — a worm.
Last March 20, 'Israel
Mantra mi, his wife Jurora
and their three children
became refugees.
At 9;25 a.m. that Friday
they stepped through the
door of an antiquated DC-7
at Miami International
airport, Israel first, baby
Richard in his arms. He
quickly read the sign -
"Bienvenidos Amigos”
(Welcome Friends! — at
the foot of the steps and
walked briskly to a wait-
ing blue school bug.
NEARLY 90 ethers were
aboard that flight. An
equal number would follow
sponsoring a Bible School later that morning. Nearly
the lists fill several six-
inch-thick books of comput-
er-printed forms.
Meanwhile, in Cuba, the
depersonalization process
continues.
A man gains a number
and loses his job He is
assigned so whatever work
the government needs
dune, usually the cane
Helds. He is permitted to
hve in his house, buL he
dare not sell anything, for
he is uaing state property
through the courtesy of the
state.
And then one day he is
told to move ouf. Pack his
clothes in the one suitcase
permitted, dress in & suit
and tie — He must look
respectable — end some-
how get to V'aradero Air-
port near Havana. "Some-
how’1 meant $240 tor a 50-
mile laxi ride for one rami*
!y.
Within 46 hours, if noth-
ing goes wrong, he is in
Miami* stepping abeaid a
bus for the half-mile ride
to the U.s. government’s
refugee facilities.
Conditions That Create
"Functional Illiterates" Hit
MEXICO CITY - (NO
— Social conditions that
make a large part of the
rural population "function-
al illiterates" ware criti-
cized by Archbishop Carlos
Quintero Arce of Hermesil-
lo at a press conference
here,
"Functional illiterates,”
he explained at the Catho-
lic Social Information Cen-
ter (CENCOS), become
"the slaves of ignorance, of
bosses and ot vested inter-
eats."
They are adults, the
archbishop said, who have.
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never been able to get an
education because they had
to ga to work too soon, at
the ages of 10 and 14,
Archbishop Quintero is
president of the Mexican
Bishops’ Commission for
Education and Culture.
SIXTY-TWO per cent of
the adult population of
Mexico, he claimed, are
"functional illiterates”
Must of these, he Said, are
in the rural areas.
"Our rural schools are
deficient,w' he said- "Most
of them have at the most
four grades of grammar
school. The sons of farmers
are lucky if they complete
the first two grades.’*
The archbishop praised
the government’s efforts lo
expand public education,
but called the present sys-
tem "alarmingly deficient”
because it tries to copy
foreign systems that are
not relevant, because it
often neglects Mexican
creativity and culture, be-
cause it particularly neg-
lects the rural areas, and
because of the number of
drop-oute nnd illiterates.
Archbishop Quintero said
that out of every eight
children who complete the
first grade, only one en-
rolls for the second grade.
Of every 3,000 children"
who start grammar school,
he said, only two get as
far as high school or tech-
nical institutes.
"WE TALK of physical
hunger," aaid the archbish-
op, "but what we have in
Mexico is cultural hunger
— hunger for a culture of
aur own, Mexico Originally
had its own autonomous
culture, but then came the
Spanish cultural imposi-
tion, and after that the
French. Hardly had we
tried to assimilate all that
when we got an influx of
Anglo-Saxon culture.
"We talk of trying to
help our own indigenous
people; but th*>y no longer
helieve us. We need to
deviae a system of educa-
tion that will take Mexi-
cm traditions ai,d charac-
teristics into account But,
above all, we need to cor-
rect the social injustice of
a lack of education,”
program from June 8 to 19
at Si. Gertrudes Parish
School. There will be a
similar program the next
week at Ricardo and one
the following week at King
Ranch. Coordinators are
Sister Elizabeth Close from
Blessed Sacrament School
in Laredo and Sister Do-
lores Petru from St. Pat
rick’s School
Christi,
THE
1.000 had arrived that
week which means 50,000
a year and more than called T-90
200.000 since 1965, when like what it it
the U-S. Department of
Health, Education and
Welfare signed its contract
with Airlift International,
the charter line that oper-
ates the twice-daily High La
between Cuba’s Varadero
m Corpus Beach airport and Miami.
The youngest aboard that
The teachers for the two morning's flight - flight
weeks at St. Gertrude’s in- 2,164 — was six-month-old
elude; Meadames Greg Gee, Richard Montnanfl. The
Allen Cumberland, Peter
Zanea, Robert Richard* '
V. Ruhnke, Jerome Boliom,
John Anderson,. Robert
Dupree, Paul Good and
Willis Coleman,
During the week of June
8 through 12, children in
the kindergarten, through
to Urristi, 96, confined to
a wheelchair. She had
waited four yearn to join
seven sons and daughters
who had fled Cuba.
Israel Marttrana Pinero
now lives in Newark, N.J.
— to which he and his
Srd grade will participate, family flew before the.week-
Kindergarten, grades 4 end was over. Mrs. Uriarte
through 8 will come June moved in with relatives in
15-19. Sessions began p.t 9 Miami the same day ehe
a.m. and ended at noon, arrived.
An 11:30 Mass was R*hed- For each refuge? their
uied for the program, Re- escape from Gobi begins
frefihments are served each years before they step on
morning hy the Altar-Ro-
sary' Society and Lhe Co-
lumbian Ladies, The CYO some, as long as eight
and other young people of years for others,
the parish will help with
the supervision of the chil- IN WASHINGTON,
drera during the physical Donald Hohl of the U.S,
activity period. Catholic Conference
Sister Magdalena who (USCCj Divison of Migra-
headed the CCD Program ilon and Refugee Services
in the Pariah during the — one of four agencies
year worked with the CCD (and the largest] that ad-
Board in forming the pro- minister the U.S, govern-
gram for this summer. The
first week «r the program
had an enrollment of 75
students,
Marriage Is
Program Topic
meist’a Cuban Refugee
Program — explains the
process:
"Since the program ia
primarily one of family
reunion, the process must
begin simultaneously here
and in Cuba. A Cuban
must tel] his government
that he wants to leave,
and a relative or close
friend in the U.S. must
tell this government that
he wants this Cuban to
Father Lucius F Cer-
vantes, S.J., professor of
Sociology at St. Louis Uni-
versity, asks young mar-
ried couples to recognize • - t •
that they are going to What'follows is a bu-
have amerencea of opinion .
, . , . r ' reaucrats dream — or
— but, in a broadening of ,. —
■ . . . 5 nightmare- Forms are
their viewpoint, m accept- mfBi ,iets ranlpiud
mg the other person as a
person, they can develop
that love which God has
asked tb’gffl to develop,
Father Cervantes tells
them to remember that
their original marriage ^
commitment was really a
standing promise to oach
other as a representation
hath ends. The Cuban
government places the
would-be refugee on a
waiting list after weeding
out men of military age
and many professionals.
of the Church and Christ,
ducts security checks. Cuba
inventories property and
cash assets which at the
Father’s talk will be tela- Proper time wUI revert
cast on station KRIS chan- the government.
nel 5 in Corpus Christ! on
June 20 at 7 a.m.
EVERYONE receives a
number, two to be exact —
one in Cuba and one in
the United States, Master
lists arc forwarded to Lie
U.S. government by the
Cubans. On a table in tha
Miami registration center,
£9
in cash for incidentals,
plus a room and three
meals a daw And they
wait, lounging under the
trees while their children
plus in ?he nursery, watch-
ing televirior. phoning
friends and relatives — all
the things that people
waiting do to fill their
time,
UNTIL — sometimes the
some day as their arrival,
sometimes three Of four
days later — they are able
to make their choice, will
they live in New Orleans,
or Newark Chicago or Los
Angeles, Portland or At-
lanta?
As goon as possible
thereafter, they are escort-
ed Lo an airliner at the
Miami airport — this time,
from the terminal that
other travelers see.
The process of losing
their numbers has begun.
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and it looks
a remnant
of some military barracks
at the western end of the
Miami International Air-
port's main runway. When
you fly into the city, if you
sit in the left-hand seats of
your plane and- watch
closely as the pilot comes
in low over the swamps,
you will glimpse T-9Q far a
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