Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1972 Page: 9 of 32
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ROX-SANS — Yolanda Gavilan
is just one of the pretty 'on to
college campus crowd' that has
been taking advantage of the
Rox-Sans back-to-campus sale.
Yolanda who will be a freshman
student at Pan American Uni-
versity this year chose this
Jonathan Logan as she took
time out from shopping to pose
for the camera. Yolanda is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Gavilan. This week's issue is
composed of back to school in-
formation and back to school
specials by local merchants...
so shop locally and save time
and money . . . Rox-Sans is a
pretty good place to start.
(Herald Photo by Raul Trejo)
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THE RIO GRANDE HERALD
THURSDAY. AUGUST 17. 1972
PAGE 9
ALVAREZ from pg 2
Alvarez was appointed to
serve out the term of former
Starr County Sheriff Rene A.
Solis after Solis was jailed
for thirty days for vote fraud.
Solis' conviction disqualified
him from serving in the office.
Alvarez a veteran is active
in several civic organizations
along with his family.
Upwards of 20 million Ameri-
cans have tried slipping away
from urban life for a relaxing
afternoon or weekend in Ameri-
ca's hinterlands, according to
Himalayan Backpacking Equip-
ment
FOR SALE
HAY BALES
100 LB. AVERAGE
CALL 487-3020
Chamber hears talk
on NEDA for minorities
The Rio Grande City Chamber
of Commerce under the presi-
dency of Ricardo Ceballos heard
a talk on the various functions
of NEDA, a private corporation
affiliated with the Small Busi-
ness Administration.
Ceballos turned the meeting
over to Pete Diaz Jr., who in-
troduced Eddie Cano of Harlin-
gen to explain the NEDA pro-
gram. Diaz is one of the Texas
directors of NEDA.
Cano told the chamber that
NEDA (National Economic De-
velopment Association) is a pri-
vate corporation affiliated with
the Small Business Adminis-
tration.
Cano said that NEDA was a
necessity to the Valley because
the SBA is not geared to serv-
ice the applicants for SBA loans.
"By this I mean that when you
go and apply for a SBA loan you
are handed a package of appli-
cations," Cano said. Cano said
that NEDA helps the applicant
not only to fill out the forms but
helps him decide what he needs
and what it will take to get an
SBA loan approved.
The non-profit organization
spokesman said that Harlingen
is the only small city in the na-
tion that has such an NEDA of-
fice. Although the association
has 19 other offices throughout
the country Including a head-
quarters office in Los Angeles
and Washington D.C. Harlingen
was designated a central office
for the Valley district. The only
other office in Texas Is located
in San Antonio.
The NEDA office which is lo-
cated catty-corner to the SBA
office in Harlingen on Jackson
Blvd. is open five days a week
and offers assistance to resi-
dents of Starr County.
Cano said that the NE DA of-
fice has the qualifications and
the desire to help Starr County
residents in any applications for
SBA loans.
He said that because they
were affiliated with the SBA of-
fice work is completed within a
four day period and then on to
the SBA office where it usually
takes four to five days. Never
any longer than two weeks.
Cano related many examples
of loans that they had made and
many examples of people that
had been helped with the NEDA
office.
"Our biggest problem is get-
ting people to realize that I
work for them, that they pay my
salary and I am there to help
them in any manner within my
reach," Cano said.
Cano stressed the point that
NEDA working with theSBAhas
been able to acquire loans for
minority businessmen who are
trying to get ahead in business.
Cano said that when the appli-
cant files a desire to apply for
an SBA loan he may then cross
the street to the NEDA office
where expert assistance will be
given him in preparing the full
application to include going to
the bank with him and to the
SBA to file and explain his de-
sires.
Cano also said that NEDA will
accept collect long distance
calls from any one interested in
applying for an SBA loan.
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Congo Novel Intriguing
THE LINGALA CODE By
Warren Kiefer Random House
245 Pages. $5 95
This is subtitled "a novel
about a murder." Well, it starts
with a murder and the particu-
lar code of the title is explain-
ed, but it's mostly a novel about
its geographic setting, the Con-
go of the early 1960s
Congo events were hard to
understand then, from report-
ers accounts and are still hard
to understand; we are only as-
suming that the author, who
was there then, has them basi-
cally right.
The author has made his
main character Michel Vernon,
n
CIA man in the American Em-
bassy in Leopoldville. When
Vernon s best friend for years
is murdered. Vernon starts fol-
lowing a thread that will take
him to the killer. Fortunately,
the author has made Vernon a
man the reader trusts. Without
always knowing who everybody
is or what ax they're grinding,
the reader just follows Vernon
through intrigues and incidents,
international and tribal, as con-
fidently as a tenderfoot, who
can almost never see the trail,
follows a jungle guide
There's a twist at the end of
this book and ordinarily we
don't approve of those. But this
one's different.
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Trejo, Raul. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1972, newspaper, August 17, 1972; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194367/m1/9/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.