Brownsville The Herald (Newspaper) - March 24, 1996, Brownsville, Texas to - Wm Page IB Joseph girls kick off 1*1 on the 4th of July 1892 The Brownsville All rights March 24,1996 dwellers rebelling over KATE MEWHINNEY Valley Morning Gomez was as excited as any new mother would be when her son was born in 1991. some residents of her mobile home park in La Feria were not so who had lived in the Citrus Village Park since 1984, was sent an eviction notice from the neighborhood Association saying she needed to make for other ignored Gomez which was designated an for residents 55 and did not allow children to live there for more than 60 days in one who works for the Justice of the Peace in La made an official complaint to the Department of Housing and Urban Development in said if I owned the land and owned the other couldn't do she the park residents heard about the they rescinded the eviction notice and sent her a letter of a resident of the park who served as vice president of the Association in 1991, was one of the members who signed the eviction he has refused to comment on the situation follows a Page to jail rapes often DANE SCHILLER Herald Staff screams are seldom heard at the Cameron County but there are some telltale it's a few drops of blood or a frantic request to be thrown into solitary it street justice or Either jail rape is an evil rite of passage for the weakest of a power Once you're behind bars it's about power and said Joe chief deputy for the Cameron County Sheriffs strong a completely different world among the 650 drug addicts and petty thieves who are housed in the county's correctional facilities at any given Behind the have their own codes and are seldom Authorities only find out about sexual about once every three the inside it's You don't rat on anyone and when you see something you look the other problem is that no one wants to face the humiliation or Elizardi can tell when kids first come they're Elizardi recalled how a 19-year-old who burglarized a home was attacked one night in his teen-ager didn't say a word about the rape until medical personnel discovered rectal bleeding when they were treating him for another admitted he was attacked Page 7A) 4, shows her thoughts on picking a color during a drawing contest and demonstration put on by Jacks Pizza at the Children's Museum of Arkansas in Little on block new Valley DANE SCHILLER Herald Staff Rep. Solomon Ortiz is urging a Republican senator to stop delaying plans to put a Hispanic woman on the federal bench in been eight months since President Clinton nominated Corpus Christi state District Judge Hilda Tagle for the federal judgeship since Clinton announced his the Senate Judiciary Committee has refused to consider the which would make Tagle the first Hispanic woman federal judge over in South head off the is rallying members of the Page 5A) Dying in the Rio Grande often leads to a MARO ROBBINS The When he shed his clothes and slipped into the Rio he may have been trying to hide who he was and where he came he Nobody knows who he was before he was found floating last face down in the river south of because even his mother recognize the decomposing body pulled from the it was left to the county to decide what to do with firefighters fished him from the A doctor checked him for bullet or stab A mortician cremated his every taxpayer in Hidalgo County helped pay the to send him to his final services amounted to at Cases like his arise only a few times each yet the cost of disposing of the unidentified people who drown in the river is was found which suggests to some officials that he might have been trying to enter the United States Usually county officials If he took off his he probably meant to be in the most folks wading in that water are trying to cross the illegal crosser is considered a burden by a profit by he is many as 200 immigrants drown in the Rio Grande each according to a recent study by the University of Houston Center for Immigration through 1993 and 1994 records from Texas border researchers found that of 136 people in the almost half were never their families may never know many of them ended up in their final resting spot marked by a small tin sign labeled like in the old Hidalgo County graveyard on Schunior closest thing to a real tombstone for them may be a death Although largely form lists the body's identifying as well as Page 6A) 104, No. 260 could mean fun and 9 ROBERTO C. GONZALEZ Herald News Brownsville Herald won nine awards at the Texas Associated Press Managing newspaper competition this including four first place the feature series reporters Anthony Lisa Marie Gomez Maro Robbins took first place for their three-part look at the changing face of the city's Southmost Robbins also won an award in the short features category for his article on one school's effort to help teen mothers stay in Robbins recently left the Herald for a reporting position with The Monitor in Page 3A) Mostly cloudy skies will continue this week bringing colder Entertainment 9D Don Pedro bellowed as he entered the newsroom looking some saw Mark Anton and Lisa Marie Gomez hard at work and saw the Roberto Gonzalez on the bit Mike an sports waltzed LISA MARIE GOMEZ Herald Staff involved in the community could have some perks like being selected to go to the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in group of about 15 students from the five high took part Saturday in a city workshop to learn more about composting and the all part of the Student Action for Recycling a national organization that will provide between 5,000 and 12,000 volunteers to manage and provide labor for a recycling program at the 43 Brownsville students ages 15 to 18 are signed up to get a chance to represent Brownsville at the only one from each high school will be unless more funds can be hope I get to said Page 4A) Herald photo by Anthony David city compost talks about how bugs help waste