El Pueblo

              Vol. 1No. 3
Las Próximas Elecciónes
Y El Mexicano-Americano
Hay tanto qué decir y tan
poco tiempo y espacio. Por
ejemplo quisiéramos contem-plar
con Uds. varios pensa-mientos
que se nos ocurren
por la campaña política. Y
uno de los principales es
comentar con nuestros lec-tores
el interés que hay por
el político en cultivar el voto
Mexicano.
Se ha dicho que muchas
elecciones se deciden en
nuestros barrios y la prueba
está en que en tiempos de
elecciones hay varias fiestas
con refrescos y antojitos
"gratis." Desgraciadamente
la historia se habrá de re-petir
una vez más; que el
votante Mexicano dé respal-do
nada más por congraciar-se
al que le obsequio un re-
Iresco, al que le prometió el
cielo y las estrellas y el re-sultado
será el mismo de
siempre.
Es tanto el descaro de al-gunos
candidatos que ni tan
siquiera se molestan en in-dicar
en sus anuncios si son
Republicanos o Dem6crata,
pero no crean, nuestros lee-
(This study was pre-pared
by Dr. Donald M.
Freeman, professor of
Government at the Uni-versity
of Arizona. It was
delivered at the annual
meeting of the Southwest-ern
Political Science Assn.
We have edited portions
of the stidy due to space
requirements. This is the
2nd of 3 installments.)
Relying on the three best
objective measures of socio-economic
status, we can
draw a more detailed picture
of the social and economic
opportunities available to
Mexican-Americans. Using
occupation of the head of the
houehold we nid that only
tores que se les olvidó. NO,
lo hacen para ocultar su afi-liacion
política.
Hay que dar crédito a un
candidato que por lo menos
tiene la fortitucl intestinal
(guts) de indicar que es in-dependiente,
pero en fin, así
es el juego de la política y
el votante Mexicano.
Una vez más se repetirá
la historia, sin duda, y que-daremos
donde mismo o
quizá peor. ¿Cuándo vamos
a despertar señores?
Por otra parte comentare-mos
con Uds. acerca de nues-tro
artículo de la semana
pasada donde informábamos
que se les había enviado una
invitación a profesionistas
Mexicanos de esta ciudad
para que colaborasen con el
patronato pro Estudiantes
Sonorenses en Mexico. Se en-viaron
45 cartas. Solamente
DOS de ellos contestaron
con su aportación.
¿ Cuándo? ¿ Cuándo vamos
a tentarnos el corazón por
aquellas causas nuestras?
En fin, la esperanza es la
última que muere.
3.3 per cent of the Mexican-
Americans hold white collar
jobs (professional and tech-nical,
managers and officials,
self-employed businessmen,
clerical and sales), while 24.2
per cent of the Others in
South Tucson hold white col-lar
jobs. The largest single
occupational category for
Mexican-Americans is un-skilled
labor, 28.7 per cent.
Eighty-two per cent of the
Mexican - Americans h o 1 d
blue collar jobs, compared to
63.7 per cent of the Others
grouping.
The opportunity to break
out of the blue collar occu-pational
category is simply
not available to the Mexi-can-
American, since the edu-
Annie Lopez
The time is here for "Fall
Clean - UP !" Everyone is
needed to make this project
a success. Each and every-one
of you is invited to
empty your yards of old and
useless lumber, dry weeds,
broken bricks, junk cars,
etc.; and help clear cluttered
empty lots.
The Fall Clean-Up Cam-paign
will be from Novem-ber
1, 1968 to November 16,
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ressive Bilingual Weekly Newspaper
The above "Before and After" photos illustrate the re-sults
achieved from efforts of South Tucson citizens.
Fall Clean-Up Season
Begins hi South Tucson
1968. Since everyone's help
is needed to make this proj-ect
a success, let us impress
upon you what a nicer neigh-borhood
it would be if every-one
cooperates.
During these two weeks of
the Campaign, the Town
Street and Sanitation De-partment
will give us full co-operation
and provide free
pick-up for all trash and
garbage.
Let us all cooperate and
beautify OUR TOWN
cational background to make
the move has not been ac-quired.
Slightly over ten per cent
of the Mexican-Americans
have had no education at all,
and a total of 57.4 per cent
of this ethnic group in South
Tucson has had no more
than a seventh grade educa-tion.
The lack of education at
the higher levels for Mexi-
'an-Americans is even more
triking: no Mexican-Amen-ran
in our sample has com-pleted
college. If you add to-gether
all categories of edu-cation
from completed high
school on up, you find that
just under 10 per cent of the
Mexican-Americans have a
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Scholarships
Awarded
Ana Montaño
The Mexican - American
Student Assn., in existence
since last February at the
University of Arizona, is a
reflection of nationwide con-cern
of problems confronting
the education of minority
groups.
According to MASAs cur-rent
president, Salomon Bal-denegro
Jr., recent local and
nationwide studies indicate
that only five per cent of the
Mexican - American popula-tion
are working in a "pro-fessional
capacity."
"At present, members of
the student association are
working with groups of
teachers from elementary to
university levels to help de-sign
a curriculum beneficial
to the Mexican-American,"
Baldenegro said.
He cited a course in
"Teaching English as a
Second Language" as being
helpful at the local level. The
class is included in a bilin-gual
program now underway
at Pueblo High School.
There is an increasing
awareness of the necessity
for bilingual programs in the
field of education, he said.
Committee m e m b e r s in
MASA periodically address
students in high schools on
the importance of higher
education and free tutoring
is available to MASA stu-dents.
Funds for MASA scholar-
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high school education or bet-ter.
The Others grouping has
been considerably more ad-vantaged
in education level.
Only 25.7 per cent of the
Others have seven or less
grades of schooling, and 30.3
per cent of the group has a
high school or better than a
high school education.
Roughly one-third of the
Mexican-American families
have a total income of less
than $3,000 a year, and over
two-thirds of the families
earn less than $7,500 a year.
In sum, there is ample
evidence to convince the so-cial
scientist that the Mcxi-
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SOUTH TUCSON
xican-American hv'or Anal
Immunizations Are Slated
About 20,000 elementary ty Medical and Pediatrics
school children are expected societies, will be handled by
to participate in a county- 10 immunization teams that
wide immunization program will travel to the schools.
against 'red" or "hard" Officials said information
measles on Nov. 6 and 7. pertaining to exactly how
The program, sponsored the program will be admin-jointly
by the Pima County istered at each school will be
Health Dept. and Pima Coun- provided in the future.