Grand Prairie Daily News (Newspaper) - October 6, 1971, Grand Prairie, Texas ILY Grand Prairies Newspaper Since 1908 PHONE 2625141 VOLUME 63 NUMBER 289 GRAND TEXAS OCTOBER ISc UAW backs district plan While taking a swing at MOPPING clean debris from a fire which destroyed an estimated worth of furniture and an Daily News Photo by Fred Cotton apartment buildings interior at 211 SE 13th Tuesday afternoon Fire damages apartment Tuesday afternoon 30 Grand Prairie firemen answered a general alarm fire call at 211 Profession badly paid Three men held in lieu of bond on robbery and burglary charges cant exactly claim crime Police said the three are accused of burglaries and armed robberies over a period of several during which they netted less than SE 13th where a blaze was threatening to destroy a four plex apartment When the two fire engines and two tank trucks the firemen took 15 minutes to sure the fire had been according to fire marshal Elmer The firemen entered through an empty apartments front door and doused the smoking couch which Aamodt says caused the and all of the apartments contents have termed a total Destroyed in the which injured no were the of fending a and two television According to no oth er apartments in the complex were damaged by the which was sufficiently ad to break the apart ments windows before fire men arrived at Although Aamodt stressed the investigation into the caus es of the blaze isnt he speculated a cigarette smouldering on the couch since early morning caused it to ig nite because the couch was almost totally destroyed by the time we got the fire Although Aamodt hasnt been able to contact the apartments spectators at the scene said a young couple lived and fire depart ment investigation turned up several recent receipts made to a David Aamodt also said a full dam age estimate hasnt been but it is likely it will be in the Damage to the other apart ments was confined to smoke fumes which should dissipate in the near he Union leadership of the Unit ed Automobile and Aerospace Workers UAW in Texas has announced support of a single member restricting plan for the state House of Representa tives while blasting House Speaker Gus now under indict ment in connection with the alleged Securities and Ex change Commission stock is a member of the five man redistricting board charged with reapportioning Texas House Approximately 25 local union presidents representing more than UAW members across the state went on record Tuesday in support of a single member redistricting The union leaders also sent telegrams to the redistricting board urging the abolishment of districts ac cording to Terry news editor for the statewide Community Action Program In a release to The Daily News by state CAP chairman Baker of Dal las was quoted as Its time the people of Texas put an end to the stepchild repre sentation in the Texas Then came the blast at The only reason the redistricting board can even consider districts is so it can help return Gus whole gang of political pals to Baker At Grand Prairie Local representing between and LTV acting president Frank com menting on the union stance favoring single member dis said he feels the present representatives at large But under the single mem ber he a per son knows which legislator to go to when he has a problem because that legislator is rep resenting a certain cal As pointed out by who is news editor for Local 276 representing workers at the General Motors plant in no member of the Dallas County delegation is from Grand Prairie just as no Tarrant County representative is from filling in for hospital 848 president Nova How said he sent his telegram to the redistricting board ad dressed to the four members other than whom he feels should step down from his post as House Speaker be cause of the stock fraud indict The union official remarked he was not saying is guilty but that he doesnt feel the people of Texas can have faith in elected public officials who have been indicted on charges such as has Inman said he included in his telegram that he hoped the redistricting board does a job because he is a aid that however good a job is work will be shadowed by being on the The other four members of the redistricting body are Ben Attorney General Crawford Land Commissioner Bob Arm and Comptroller Rob ert Multiracial board clarifies position The newly appointed racial advisory committee for Grand Prairie schools met for the second time Tuesday night and completed organizational with discussion clarify ing the role and responsibility of committee The William Burnett was selected to be the groups spokesman before the Grand Prairie school accord ing to secretary reporter Manuel The advisory committee will try to give a report of its activities andor recommendations at each board Vasquez Committee members also want to try to attend the board meetings in an effort to keep abreast of overall school op to aid them in setting a priority list of matters to be considered by the advisory he So far the committees first two meetings have been held at the school administration but Vasquez said some later meetings probably will be held at other perhaps in some of the to get the feelings of parents on integration matters about which the committee members are supposed to advise the Six of the seven committee members were for Tuesday nights Una ble to attend was the Jose Besides Bur and the other members are James Bas James Elbert Liles and Lloyd The groups next meeting will be Collins petition picks up steam to force amendment vote A discharge petition designed to force a proposed busing amendment to the Consti blue and brown Its all in the family By Daily News Staff Writer They say the family that plays stays The Jack Simpsons certainly do that and everyone in the family is involved in karate in some Simpson is a first degree black belt and so is his 16year old is a first brown belt and is a blue belt while their moth is secretary of the Karate Black Belt Not exactly the types you would hold a grudge against for the first in the fam get started in When became too old to play junior league baseball he topic up karate in a class that was located near the ball park where his father coached and explained that the rest of the family went to a karate demonstration arid just decided to take up the Theyve been involved in sports all their lives and this was just another she I But it has snowballed into a the family teaches on Mondays and Thursdays at the employes club at at the Center on Tues a black belt class in where Candy is woman in the class on Wednesdays and on Fridays black belts gather at their house practice their skills in the Simpsons rumpus On the Simpsons usually attend a tournament or a belt The surprising thing is that all of the family still manages to find time to be involved in other was in the band at Adams Junior High until he moved to Grand Prai rie and Paul is in the stage and marching band at South Grand Candy rides a It is interesting to note that Candy met her who is a lieutenant in the through He has a sec ond degree black belt and was Candys instructor for about a year and a Simpson said that the family has trophies all over the house but that Candy and have won two special tour Candy is the United States Womens Karate Champ and also holds the title of the Grand Champion United States Womens Martial holds the distinction of being the Grand Champion of the United States Arts Junior They have also won first place in every regional karate meet that they have been in for several will be taking his black belt exam within a month or so and will move up with his fath er and who was the first broke his leg and was unable to participate in the strenuous sport for a Candy said that kids in school think her involvement with karate is just a big But I sure dont get in any out of the House judici ary committee so it can be brought to a vote has collected 26 signatures of and Jim Collins of Dallas predicts discharge of the amendment from committee by A discharge petition is a spe cial legislative device which Collins used just last month to help get a proposed amend ment on prayer out of the same committee for a vote by the House now scheduled for Such a petition requires the signatures of at least 218 congressmen to obtain dis charge of a The proposed busing amend ment would make it illegal to force busing of school children merely to obtain a racial bal The petition to get this mea sure to vote collected the 26 names during a legislative ses sion Monday with repre standing in line to sign it the moment it was pre according to an an from Collins Tues The Dallas Republican said that members of both parties have been working diligently together in support of one amendment to give it a strong bipartisan The amendment we all are support ing is but a Demo Tom Steed of is handling the discharge peti he Collins claims that Democrat Emanuel Cellar of New whom he describes as the lib eral chairman of the House judiciary is respon sible for both the prayer and busing amendments being buried in mak ing the discharge petitions necessary to bring the matters to a In predicting the busing amendment discharge by Feb the congressman said he anticipates a grass roots movement for the that will develop more in in tensity than that for the prayer amendment and will result in fast action on the Local recruiters believe volunteers would work Daily News Photo by Allen Supak PAUL SIMPSON shows brotherly love for sister By WHITT FLORA Daily News Staff Writer Business is booming here for two Army recruiters who think a volunteer army would help their job and admit to being dissatisfied with the current Todays Army wants to join you ad Sergeants Larry Crowell and Vic whore staffing a recruiting center in the 200 block of have been giving local youngsters the Army line for a couple of business is good but that the recruiting upsurge is probably due to the who is the permanent recruiter while Crowell is fill ing on temporary leave from an aircraft maintenance Weve filled our quota here until next and were getting some pretty sharp guys since the Army decided to make a high school education Although both claim the ser vices liberalized programs and pay benefits are attracting the Crowell says many of them enlist with tales like I just got out of college and cant find a and I got laid off at LTV and the Crowell gives the example of a long haired kid who wan dered in with bare feet and a pregnant We figured he was just there to give us a hard time about the but it turned out he had two years of college and couldnt find a He wanted to marry the girl and decided the Army was the best place to be in the middle of a When we tested him it turned out he was a mathematical Ive got no doubt that we would never have seen that boy if it werent for the Although the Army is con ducting a massive advertising campaign promising 16 months in Europe guaranteed for en and is using an ex tremely approach that pictures drill instructors as kindly the recruit ers only buy part of this sell ing of the Pentagon I think it demeans the Army to We want to join It sounds like we have to prove ourselves to the recruits when actually they have to measure up to our Would you expect LTV to come around and meekly say were good enough for you when you want a job asks Crowell who emphasizes he speaks from a personal rather than official to prove the they have only one small wall stick er in the shop promoting the campaign and its almost below eye level on a water they endorse the concept of an Army if the price is Baty says the concept could be workable in a couple of years since recruits are now providing 75 per cent of Army manpower and a higher pay system similar to the federal civil service guide lines would provide sufficient If we could provide about per month in pay and al for a private who lived on base and used the this would be a reasonable standard of says both sergeants feel the volunteer concept is sever al years away and will depend on how Congress feels about boosting service Picture session set for women The Grand Prairie Daily Mews preparing for its special The Wonderful World of Women to appear will be taken of all womens clubs presidents from to noon Tuesday at the Womens One Park Square Refreshments and someone to watch young er children will be See related page
