The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 November 1968 — Page 5

Wednesday, November 6, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Page 5

Cesar Chavez gains fame across U.S.

By JACK V. FOX DELANO, Calif. (UPI)—Cesar Estrada Chavez got his first taste of working as a MexicanAmerican migrant in the fields of Arizona and California when he was 10. Chavez once recalled that he attended 67 different schools as his mother and father and the four other children moved constantly with the crops and the seasons and that he finally quit after the seventh grade.

Now, at 41, he has become a national figure. He is idolized by some as the almost saintly leader of “La Causa” and he is addressed by his followers as “Cesar.” Scorned By Many He is scorned by others as a man using any tactic or power play to gratify an ambition to gain union control of agriculture. • He looks upon himself as a man whom fate has chosen to bring dignity and economic

independence to those who— like he as a child—toil in the fields for their living. Chavez has been well known in California for three years. Now he has drawn attention across the United States with the boycott campaign by his United Farm Workers Organizing Committee to halt sale of table grapes grown in California. Late last month Chavez was able to leave the hospital after a month of treatment for a

spinal condition which made it almost impossible for him to make a slight movement so great was the pain. 25-Day Fast The illness was diagnosed as a degeneration of the tissues between the discs of the spine brought about by a lack of protein in his diet. It apparently was caused by a 25-day fast which ended March 10. Chavez says he decided on the fast because he felt advocates of violence among his followers

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might get out of hand and he feared bloodshed in the bitter three-year-old struggle to organize the workers on 70 grape “ranches” around Delano. He can recall every incident, every setback, every small victory, in a drive that began in 1962. Fraternal Organization It started as a fraternal type organization, mainly for Mexi-can-Americans but for all farm workers, to help them with problems concerning schools, hospital care, police problems, non-payment of wages, life insurance, small cooperatives and a tiny newspaper. There was no talk then of boycotts or strikes or picketing. “You can’t organize a union and strike at the same time,” he says. Then another small farm workers union forced Chavez to make his move. In September, 1965, an AFL-CIO affiliated group made up mostly of Filipino farm workers struck Di Giorgio Corp. and Schenley Corp.—two of the largest corporate farming operations in California. After insisting upon and getting a pledge of non-violence from his members, Chavez called for a strike vote and the membership voted overwhelmingly for a walkout. Chavez scored his first victory six months later when his followers staged a 300-mile march from Delano to the state capitol in Sacramento, ending on Easter Sunday. Within days Schenley announced it would sign an agreement with the Chavez workers who had also been boycotting Schenley products. The union subsequently beat back another challenge from the Teamsters Union and signed a contract with Di Giorgio. Chavez then picked up contracts with 10 other growers, most of them producers of grapes for making wine. But the Delano growers of table grapes, almost all of them family.run businesses, refused to recognize the union and they still do today. Limestone Springs FRANKFORT, Ky. (UPD — K e n t u c k y—particularly the central part of the state—is noted for its many limestone springs. The Royal Spring at Georgetown normally provides 1 million gallons of water per day. A section of the Pennrile district in western Kentucky is known as the Land of the Ten Thousand Sinks. Kitchen Sink, Too LA PLATA, Argentina (UPI) —Catalina Gladys Perez had a prefabricated house set up here as a second home w’hich she used from time to time. But w’hen she returned after a month’s absence she found the house gone, furniture and all.

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Book sale scheduled for Nov. 8-9 Plans for the annual AAUW book sale, to be held Nov. 8 and 9 at 22 E. Washington St. are well under way, according to members of the committee. Sale hours are to be from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Mrs. Harry Moore, chairman, reports that Mrs. Joe McCord and Mrs. J.P. Allen, along with other members, will be present at the sale room all dayThurdsay, Nov. 7, to receive and sort the donations of books, records and hobby supplies for sale the following days. The sale usually includes something for every interest— light or heavy, juvenile or adult, fiction or non-fiction. Persons are encouraged to drop in and take their time browsing about. The sale has proved popular in the past, both as a means of “cleaning house” and as a golden opportunity to augment home libraries at minimum cost. The dust catchers of one home are frequently hailed as real finds by eager treasure hunters. Proceeds go toward maintenance of American and International Fellowships for advanced research and study, given by the American Association for University Women.

Indiana Gas Co. announces merger Two central Indiana gas utility properties, Indiana Gas Distribution Corporation and Hamilton Natural Gas Company, Nov. 1, became part of Indiana Gas Company, Inc. following approval by the Public Service Commission of Indiana and completion of ourchase agreements. The Indiana Gas Distribution Corporation utility, with 97 miles of distribution mains, serves natural gas to some 5700 customers in Danville, Brownsburg, Carmel, Dana, North Salem, Rockville, and Zionsvllle which includes 600 rural customers located along the transmission lines of PanhanJle Eastern Pipe Line Company. The Hamilton Natural Gas utility serves the town of Sheridan, which is served with gas from the transmission lines of Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line. Operation of both properties by Indiana Gas Company begins at once. J. W. Heiney, Indiana Gas president, stated that employees of the newly acquired utilities will not be affected by the change in ownership. Indiana Gas Company operated in north central, central and southern Indiana, exclusive of Marion County.

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