1973_11 The Daily Collegian November 1973

              Freeze on housing funds stalls Fresno plans
By Tom Holllday
Collegian sua Writer
Fresno's 1072 decision to construct 800 additional units of
conventional (project) public
housing has become a victim of
i he Nixon administration's freeze
on housing appropriations.
Last November's public bousing referendum was only the
third since the city's last conventional public housing units
were completed In 1084 - the
voters having defeated public
housing proposals In 1962 and
1969.
Federal funds supply over 99
per cent of the money used to
construct public boosing, according to David Brodle, Executive Dtrector of the city
and county Housing Authorities.
p resident Nixon's January freeze
in effect paralyzes Fresno expansion plans.
Nixon advocates eventually replacing the current system of
federal housing subsidies for the
homes on the private market.*
"The problem Is the landlord
can up the rents," said Brodle.
The National Association of
Home Builders and other groups
believe selling and renting price*
will be Increased by the amount
of the allowance, thus eliminating the low-income buyer from
the market.
Fresno Congressman B. F.
Slsk said of Nixon's Sept. IS
speech, -Most of the President's
housing message was a call for
the federal government to abandon its participation In providing
safe and decent housing for all
In
Sept.
9 address to Con-
n said, "Under this
approach (direct cash grants)
Instead of providing a poor family with a place to live, the federal government would provide
qualified recipients with an appropriate housing payment and
then let them choose their own
unacceptable and I am sure to
millions of Americans his plan
came  as  a  great  dlsappolot-
Tbe Nixon administration has
recently Introduced housing bills
in both the House (HR 10688)
and Senate (S 2507), but opposition is expected. The bills will
probably be changed significantly before they are voted on, and
Nixon doesn't expect approval
until next September at the earliest.
Until then, neither cash sub-
sidles nor adequate housing are
available to about 1800 families
on the city's waiting list and an
additional 800 on the county's	
Brodle laid many other faml-
DREARY HOUSING-Mrs. Maria Lopez, a Fresno resident living In a low Income neighborhood, watches
her child through a screen door. Photo by Paul Kuroda.
lies In need ol
apply simply because they're
discouraged _by- the-wait" they"
-njost face.
lng approximately 13,000 people,
ltd Fresno and Fresno County,
aid Brodle. The   Housing   Authorities have
He said there are currently      been allocated about 3200 dwell-
bout 2900 low-rent units, hous-        (Continued on Page 2, CoL 4)
fett
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1973
EGIAN
CALIFORNIA     STATE      UNIVERSITY,     FRESNO
Biology professors delay
stand on power plant site
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
KEY NIXON TAPES
A Secret Service agent testified Wednesday two of the nine
secret Watergate tapes President
Nixon agreed last week to turn
over to the Watergate grand Jury
U.S. District Judge John J.
Sirica was told mechanical Inadequacies prevented recording
of the conversations. The testimony took place at a special public hearing Sirica called after
learning Tuesday the White House
couldn't supply two of the subpoenaed tapes.
The two unavailable tapes, considered crucial to the prosecution of the Watergate crimes,
June 20, 1972, cdn-
>n between Nixon and John
Mitchell and an April IS conversation with John Dean.
COX SUCCESSOR
Leon Jaworskl of Houston,
president of the American Bar
Association In 1971 and 1972, Is
expected to be named today as
the new special Watergate prose-
Jaworskl   is   a conservative
(Continued on Page 8, Col. 3)
By Kathleen Maclay
Collegian staff Writer
Three CSUF biology professors are delaying taking a stand
on a recent announcement by
Pacific Gas and Electric of an
Investigation of the central San
Joaquin Valley for a nuclear
power plant site.
The professors, Drs. Richard
Dabus, David Chesemore and
Floyd Judd, concurred that If
PG&E does choose a central
valley site for a nuclear plant,
• complete environmental Impact
studies would be necessary before they could support or op-
PG&E vice president Barton
W. Shackle ford has said the com-
which Is in the state's interior
and along the foothill area of
the Sierra Nevada rang*.
Shackleford said PG&D's nut
step will be to select specific
areas and determine whether the
sties meet Atomic Energy Com-
Judd urged caution in the selection of a site. "You would have
to move with caution and study
on the proposal;* he said.
While conceding that nuclear
power plants are "safe under
normal operations,* Jud said
"for
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Nisei Farmers League attempts to
blunt UFWA organizing activity
Collegian Managing Editor
A white, two-story stucco
house '— long ago converted Into
law offices for Justice of the
Peace Mlcklo Uchiyama - sits
barely noticed In a modest residential area along Fowler's main
street.
Yet activities Inside that house
figure prominently In the ever-
widening circle of agricultural
labor strife In the Central San
Joaquin Valley that pits farmer
against farmworker.
Fowler, a small farming community about ten mites south of
Fresno is also headquarters for
the Nisei Farmers League (NFL).
That white stucco bouse has become central headquarters for
a valley-wide group of growers
attempting to thwart organizing
efforts of the embattled United
Farm Workers of America.
Leg by Its pragmatic and outspoken president Harry Kubo,
the Nteel Farmers League is
trying to blunt what they consider
the economic threat of the UFWA
to the small farmer.
The NFL was founded by Kubo
in June 1971 after 17 growers
in Fresno County were picketed
by the UFWA.
■Fourteen  of those farmers
Tic:
I • ^UFW, but are threatened by em-
x> *afcioyers and are afraid of losing
»n  Wthei     ■
There was no rhyme
to the nickeling — wehadn'teven   W"thelr Jobs. If they hi
bee^-iipproached by the UFW,« they would naturally fall In line
said Kubo, with  the  philosophy  of Cesar
(^Farmworkers, said Kubo, are Chavez.*
a 'free enterprise group* and one NFL member, who asked
they sincerely want to work by not to be Identified, looked at
choice. *We can't get along with- the NFL's role differently. «ChaT
out them and we must protect vez has done more good than
their right to self-determination harm. Prices are going up. We
and freedom of choice from any can pay higher wages and farm-
group.' era are going to pass it right on
This has made It necessary ,    to the consumers.*
for the growers to organize,' to strike at the heart of the
said   Kubo.   'Grower   lndepen- UFWA organizing plan, Kubobe-
dence Is one of the thing* that neves farmers must take thelnl-
makee farmers farm, but there tlatlve by Increasing wages and
is no way farmers can remain by providing more comprehen-
aUenated from the rest of so- slve fringe benefits for allfarm-
clsty. We are all Interdependent.
•We are not against unlonlza-
•The majority (of farmwork- r growers, are not willing to meet
ers) don't want to be harnessed the demands of-the farm labor-
by unions. Despite the UFW they ers,  they  will  turn to other
still come to work — the crops group*.*
still got picked this »umro*r." Kubo *»ld if grower* are to
Kubo'* view was disputed by meet the rise of farm labor un-
Manuil   valdez,   president   of lonlsm in the San Joaquin Valley
MECHA   at CSUF.  'He (Kubo) they will have to raise the going
neglects to see that most of the agricultural wag* rate-on their
t to be In the (Continued on Pag* 6, Col. 1)