Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 1974 Page: 16 of 20
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THE RIO GRANDE HERALD PAGE 16 THURSDAY, JUNE 20,1974
Castaneda attends
certification program
SAN MARCOS---A
Vocational-industrial teacher
from Rio Grande City is among
the 210 participating in special
teacher certification courses at
Southwest Texas State
University this summer. The
program opened June3 and will
run through July 9.
The local teacher par-
ticipating in the program is Mr.
G.M. Castaneda of 702 W. Water
Street, Rio Grande City. He has
taught general mechanic repair
at Rio Grande City High School
for sixteen years.
Southwest Texas is the fourth
university in Texas to offer the
Vocational-industrial cer-
tification courses, required by
the Texas Education Agency.
Upon meeting one of the
initial entry requirements, a
prospective Texas vocational
teacher may enter the field with
an emergency teaching cer-
tificate good for one year. At the
end of the year, he must attend
classes during summer school
at one of the four approved
colleges and complete three
certification courses, after
which he may be issued another
emergency certificate. The
following summer, he will take
three more courses. After
teaching two years and having
completed all six of the special
courses and a three-hour
government courses, he is
granted a provisional cer-
tificate by the agency.
This summer, 13 visiting
instructors and two SWTSU
instructors are teaching eight
sections each of the three
required courses.
Parents urged to immunize
children now... avoid rush
The Migrant health Clinic
urges parents to immunize pre-
school children now to avoid
crowds and long lines when
school starts.
All children need a booster
dose of DPT and polio after
their fourth birthday and
measles and rubella im-
munization in order to enter
school in September.
Please call 487-2585 Exteasion
52 for immunization dates.
Screwworm attacks worsen
Texas had 67 per cent of its
screwworm cases so far in 1974
during May. That'll give you an
idea what kind of a month it
was, noted Starr County Ex-
tension Agent David Sandefer.
And it wasn't because there
hadn't been many cases earlier,
either. The first four months of
this year have been some of the
worst on record, he pointed out.
Only two previous Mays had
been worse-two years ago
when 4,197 cases were turned up
and 1962 when the all-time
record for the month was set,
6,308.
Sixty-six counties reported
one or more cases led by Webb
County again with 81. It was the
third straight month and the
fourth time in five months that
Webb County has been the
screwworm capital of the
nation.
Starr County recorded 41
cases in the same period as its
total for the year climbed to 57.
Nueces and Aransas were the
only South Texas counties
without a case during the
Month.
May's outbreaks compare to
176 the month before and to only
54 a year ago, the agent said.
Ranchers needing
screwworm sample mailers can
obtain them from the County
Agents Office in the Courthouse
basement.
Nixon Tour PI us
For u.s. Interests
LAJES, Azores — Pres-
ident Nixon is coming home
from the streets, palaces and
deserts of the Middle East for
what aides call "a waiting peri-
od" in the search for Arab-Is-
raeli peace.
It may be weeks or months
before the full impact of his un-
precedented, five-nation tour is
known, officials say.
But the tentative assessment
by both official and unofficial
sources is summed up in two
examples:
—As Nixon was leaving Jor-
dan at the end of his tour, a
Beirut magazine hit the stands
with a cover photograph of the
President Nixon wearing a dub-
bed-in Arabian headdress,
known as a kaffiah. "A con-
vert," said the caption.
Opposition forces in Israel's
parliament challenged Premier
Yitzhak Rabin because his gov-
ernment was not consulted be-
fore Nixon signed a nuclear
energy compact with Egypt, an
accord similar to one he signed
three days later with Israel.
In other words: Nixon's
strenuous diplomatic barn-
storming through the Middle
East gave both the Arabs and
the Israelis the impression that
the U. S. government is more
sympathetic to the Arabs than it
used to be. But the President
brought the Arabs and Israelis
no closer together yet.
"We know where each side
stands, and they know what our
policy is," said one American
official. "Now we're going to
have to have a waiting period to
see what develops."
Tapes Raise New
Doubts About Date
WASHINGTON - Pres-
ident Nixon's statements that
he first learned of the Water-
gate cover-up March 21, 1973,
have been shaken by evidence
presented to the House
Judiciary Committee.
A taped presidential conver-
sation heard by the members
Tuesday indicated to several of
them that Nixon was aware at
least four days earlier that _
White House aides might be in-
volved in it.
It is not the four days that is
significant in their view. They
said the apparent discrepancy
raises doubts about Nixon's
Watergate explanations. He re-
peatedly has given March 21 as
the date he first learned of ef-
forts centered in the White
House to contain the spreading
scandal.
The committee heard an ex-
cerpt from a June 4, 1973, tape
made while Nixon was listening
to a number of tapes and com-
menting about them to aides
Alexander M. Haig Jr. and
Ronald L. Zieglei.
Members said Nixon's com-
ments about a March 17 con-
versation he had with his for-
mer counsel, John W. Dean III,
indicated he and Dean dis-
cussed the Watergate cover-up
then. Members could not hear
the tapes Nixon was listening
to.
Stung by criticism of a new
leak of a confidential com-
mittee memorandum, mem-
bers were reluctant to discuss
what they heard.
But May 21, in a press brief-
ing, Chairman Peter W. Rodino
Jr., D-N.J., had said the June 4
tape showed the March 17
meeting with Dean included "a
discussion of the Watergate
matter and the possible in-
volvement of White House per-
sonnel and others."
"I'll stick by that statement,"
Rodino said Tuesday; other
members said after hearing the
tape they agreed with it.
Asked whether he now had
doubts that Nixon first learned
of the cover-up March 21, Rep.
Edward Mezvinsky, D-Iowa,
said, "Yes."
Some members, however,
were not so certain. Rep. Don
Edwards, D-Calif., said "It's
not open and shut." And Rep.
Charles Wiggins, R-Calif., said
that although Nixon got "an
inkling" of the cover-up March
17, it was clear he did not get the
full story until March 21.
The March 17 tape is one of 42
the committee subpoenaed
April 19, but for which it got a
White House-edited transcript
instead. The transcript contains
no reference to a discussion of
Watergate.
Meanwhile, former Atty.
Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst
told the Senate Judiciary
Committee that he stayed
deliberately aloof from the
original Watergate in-
vestigation. He said Justice
Department aides assured him
there was not enough evidence
until April 1973 to go beyond the
original seven defendants in the
June 17,1972, Watergate break-
in.
And the U.S. District Court in
Washington began disciplinary
proceedings against Klein-
dienst, who has been convicted
of refusing to answer certain
questions about the ITT an-
titrust litigation. The court's
grievance committee ordered
him to show cause' within 30
days "why he should not, as a
member of the bar of this court,
be disciplined."
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Trejo, Raul. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 1974, newspaper, June 20, 1974; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194462/m1/16/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.