South Tucson's El Independiente, 1984-04-21

              Photo by Lorenzo Chavez
Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson addresses Tucson High School
students on drug abuse and education during a rally at the school.
Jackson campaigned last week prior to the Aprii 14 DemocratIc caucus.
Jackson woos Hispanics
By Rebecca Dean
El independiente
Helping Mexico improve as economy
should be a priority with the United States
in dealing with the problem of
undocumented Mexican nationals in the
United States, presidential candidate the
Rev. Jesse Jackson said in an interview
with El Independiente last week.
Undocumented Mexican nationals
"would be less ikely to leave home if
conditions were better over there," Jackson
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said before leading a campaign rally at
Tucson High School April 11 At the same
time, the United States should ensure that it
enforces a humane immigration policy, he
said.
Jackson made two stops in Tucson, one
at the high school and the other at the
University of Arizona, before the
Democratic primary April 14. (Related
story on Page 3.)
The United States should meet more
often with Mexico's President Miguel de la
Madrid Hurtado in ami effort to help
Mexico develop its economy, Jackson said.
Jackson also told El Independiente he
advocates bilingual education, but stopped
short of saying he was in favor of
standardizing bilingual educatïon programs
across the nation.
"We must certainly make them
available," he said. "I think we should
have them for practical reasons. In big
cities such as Denver, Chicago, Los
Angeles, and in the seven large districts in
Texas, 70 percent of those people are black
or Spanish-speaking.
"We must share more than one
language," he said. "It's just a part of our
development. We are the only industrial
nation that has just one language."
Jackson also called for equal protection
for minonties under the law, and said that
the Voting Rights Act must be enforced.
"Our people must have their share of
Congress, of the judges," he said. "They
can only get their share of power if they
have their share of people in office."
in a rally before a crowd of more than
1,4(13 students and faculty at the school, the
candidate urged the young audience to stay
in school and "to choose hope over dope."
"If you're too drunk to stagger through
the door, that's not enough," Jackson said.
"Don't pul dope in your vein, instead of
hope in your brain. Instead, choose life."
Jackson also criticized President
Reagan's foreign policy, including approval
of CIA funds for the mining of Nicaraguan
harbors.
"We cannot condone an act of war, an
act of terrorism," Jackson said. "Central
America is not our hack door. They are
our next door. We have no right to
overthrow the government in Nicaragua."
He then criticized increased U.S. military
and economic aid to El Salvador, while
cutting domestic aid to education, and
sending U.S. troops abroad.
"Your task is not to die in Nicaragua, in
El Salvador, in Lebanon," Jackson told
the young audience. "Your task is to build
and to make America great."
He ended the rally with his well-knoan
"I Am Somebody" chant to a standing
ovation.
At a rally later that day at the UA,
Jackson told more than 2,5(13 people that
he supported Congressional bills that
would grant citizenship status to sorne
people illegally living in the United States.
Jackson also carne Out strongly in favor
of the movement to aid Central American
refugees in the United States, saying,
"Their tick must have medicine, their
children must be educated."
Spanish Trail Inn
DWI site finalist
By Yvonne K. Molirbacher
El independiente
South Tucson's Spanish Trail Inn is one
of two preferred sites for a state prison to
house drunken-driving offenders, the
chainnan of the site committee said
Tuesday.
The nine-member committee gave five
options to the corrections department and
to Tucson-area legislators last week, after
eliminating 21 sites during nine months,
Chairman Amold R. Elias said.
"Now it's up to them to make the final
decision," he mid.
Hal Carden, deputy director of
operations for the corrections departmthst,
said the legislators and corrections
executives would meet by the middle of
next week to discuss the recommendations.
Director James G. Ricketts will make the
final decision within a few days afterward,
Carden said.
Elias said only two of the five sites are
readily available for building a prison for
third-time DWI offenders, and the other
three are "only in the talking stages."
The available cites are the Spanish Trail
Inn, 305 E. Benson Highway; and the Paio
Verde Mental Health Services building, 801
S. Prudence Road.
Tucson prison Administrator David A.
Gaspar said, "If the Spanish Trail Inn is
chosen, the employees obviously- Isave to
look for another job. But all of them have
the option to apply to the Department of
Corrections for a position if they would like
to."
The corrections department probably
will need food-service, janitorial and
maintenance employees the most, Gaspar
said.
Between 60 and 80 people work at the
Inn, owner Mohammed R. "Mo" Abbasi
has said.
Elias said the site committee also
suggested the Arizona Children's Home,
27(13 S. Eighth Ave.; the Tucson Unified
School District's Lee Instructional
Resource Center, 2025 E. Winsett; and the
downtown YMCA, 516 N. Fifth Ave.
"lt doesn't appear as though they're
terribly interested," Elias said of the people
he has talked to at the three sites.
Donald L. Deal, assodate director of
Tucson ThICAs, said the downtown
branch was a slim possibility. The building
does not meet corrections department
criteria, he said.
The committee's final report indicated
no preference for either the Spanish Trail
Inn or the mental health center, since both
meet corrections department criteria to
house 1(83 men, he said.
The Spanish Trail Inn exceeds the space
required, but the extra space could be used
to establish a training academy for
correctional security officers, he said.
Carden said the corrections department
has discussed the possibility of a centralized
state academy, but it is still only an idea.
Elias said the mental health center would
have tobe expanded to hold about 45 more
beds, but the committee does not consider
possible remodeling costs to be "a major
obstacle."
South Tucsonans showed far more
community support for building the
minimum-securily prisomt than did the
residents near the mental health center,
Elias said.
"The public hearing we held for the
mental health center was very poorly
attended. Maybe one or two were in favor,
and one or two were opposed. The decision
was about split.
"But in South Tucson, the community
response was favorable. We had good
attendance there, better than any other
hearing. The representatives from the
businessmen's organization were very
positive," Elias said.
About 40 people attended the South
Tucson hearing, he added
Spanish Trail Inn uno de dos
finalistas para sitio de cárcel
Por Yvonne Mohrbacher
El Independiente
El Spanish Trail Inn ha sido escogido
como parte de cinco otras opciones para
servir de prisión para el Departamento de
Correcciones de Arizona, dijo el presidente
del comité de selección en la búsqueda de
un lugar apropiado para dicha dependencia
del departamento.
El comité, que consiste de nueve
miembros, dio su recomendación fmal al
Departamento de Correcciones, y a los
legisladores tucsonenses la semana pasada,
dijo Arnold R. Elías, presidente del comité.
"Ahora ellos tienen que hacer la decisión
final," dijo Elis.
Hal Carden, un vice-director del
Departamento de Correcciones, dijo que
los legisladores y los oficiales del
departamento se juntarán la próxima
semana para discutir las recomendaciones.
El director James G. Ricketts hará la
decisión final en el plazo de unos dias, dijo
Carden.
Elias dijo que sólo anode los cinco sitios
están disponibles para construir una cárcel
para los que han violado la ley por tercera
vez.
Esos sitios son el Spanish Trail Inn, 305
E. Benson Highway; y el edificio de Palo
Verde Mental Health Services, 801 5.
Prudence Road.
El comité también ha recomendado rl
Arizona Children's Home, 27 S.
Avenida Octava; el Lee Instructional
Resource Center, 2025 E. Winsett; y el
YMCA del centro, 516 N. Avenida Quinta.
El administrador de los prisiones en
Fucson, David A. Gaspar, dijo, "Si el
Spanish Trail Inn está escogido, los
empleados obviomente tendrían que buscar
Otro trabajo. Pero todos eliot pueden
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