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Show . Juan is a "wet back." He is 21 years old and lives inCanatran. Durangoin Mexico. Tuesday Jaun was sitting in a Box Elder County jail cell waiting for officials from the Immigration and Naturalization service to Wetback'-He'- s Going Bock Home arrive. In short order, just four months after he left Mexico and crossed the border into the United States, he is going back involuntarilyJuan (not his real name) is one of many illegal aliens which authorities know are working in the US and Pox Elder County. He is one of few who get caught. Ironically, he was hitchhiking along a freeway in northern Box Elder County when a Japanese man stopped to give him a ride. for Juan, the man happened to speed. He was Unfor-fortunat- ely stepped by a patrolman Juan was asked to produce his papers and couldn't. Now were soon zona. Lloyd he worked for a factory where, he said, his employers knew he was an illegal alien. The employers obtained a Social Security Card for him. Juan moved on to Salinas, Calif., where he worked in the fields cutting lettuce for $2.61 an hour. In Mexico he picked tomatoes eight hours a day for a total of $4 to the help of a Box County sheriff's deputy who speaks Spanish. The With Times nd in- terviewed Juan in his cell Tuesday to get an idea of life as a wetback. Unlike many wetbacks, Juan entered the country on his own without the assistance of a "runner." Runners are men who get paid anywhere from $200 to $?00 by Mexican citizens w anting to gain entry into the US. In the company of three friends, Juan climbed a chain link fence at the border and slipped into Lloyd, Arizona. Friends who had crossed before him told him where to His three friends cross. $5 in comparable American money. 'Asked if any ofthe farmers knew he was in the country illegally, Juan said probably not. All they ever asked to see was his Social Sec- . urity card. From Salinas, Juan hopped a bus to Blackfoot Idaho, then to Utah. He arrived in town Sunday and the ar GARLAND TIMES. August E followed quickly. Why did he come? while in a Elder LEADER-TH- rest in Ari- In he's headed home. Leader-Garla- arrested THE Juan was found out like most wetbacks he - was stopped by a policeman on some other charge. Just after crossing the border, Juan said he feared being picked up and so restricted his movement. But eventually he began to move around freely, going to the movies. Unlike wetbacks who have crossed the border frequently or who pay a runner to find them a job, Juan had nothing lined up when he entered the country. He fell in with a group of his country men who got him on where they worked. Asked if he was ever cheated out of wages because people knew he was an illegal alien, Juan grinned. He said in this area the contractor Mexican who He had been hearing stories from his friends "all the time" about the money to be made in the US. '"You can make a living in Mexico, barely." he told his interpreter. The main reason was plain and simply money. He claims that in the four months he has been in the US he has managed to send $500 back to an aging father who runs a small farm in His mother is Durango. dead but he has three brothers and six sisters at home. He likes the US for the work, but he adds the life of a wetback is lonely and It "nothing but trouble." "gets to be a hassle," he added. Workers Will Go Back To School ij Lynn Richins - 2) institute A snob is a person who probably won't be pleased with heaven because it isn't exclusive enough. were convinced that the district1 really has a $370,000 deficit This was pointed at head negotiator Ray Hall who has consistently termed the "deficit' ' T "mahmulatVd .. cited transportation cuts, reduction in teachers aias ana increased teacner loads as possiDie savings He areas. "j'Vou-f- gqir t support "gun wWeVMefcriiuSMr concluded exist? directing hlyre "Some may think the deficit came about thru misSupt. Haws management," added, "...a few of us think' that not to be true." 'Tm recommending they (the board) accept the 9.5 percent with full knowledge., .that Tve got to cut out $60,000 out of the budget to keep faith with taxpayers...," Haws said. marks to teachers and board members. "I hope the board of education vote proves to you have an empathy tothey wards you and taxpayers," the superintendant told teachers. With that Board member Wallace Christensen moved to accept the 9.5 figure "with a stipulation that we will go : mi - i in uDjj pg? KfflBHEBB.. "2jHi lie (for exhaust pipe and labor! as long as you own your car) Thar '5 a guarantee. So don 't waste your time shopping around. Nobody's going to beat this offer! NO WAITING FOR PARTS Your mulller, tailpipe and exhaust pipe are always m stock! CUSTOM PIPE BENDING DUAL CONVERSIONS HEADERS GOING illegal alien sits in his cell at the Box Elder County who will take him back to Mexico. HOMEA JAY'S CHEVRON SERVICE NO. p 1 Riverside, Utah tEr-- i Fair budgets cont. from page one farm. on the muffler, tailpipe about on a dedicated basis to remove $60, 000" from the Stokes "reluctantly" seconded the motion. It passed 4- -1 with Winston Benson, the newest board member voting no. 'Stokes seemed to put the superintendant on warning: when he noted that by moving to the 9.5 percent figure "I think the superintendant has $jen giveUA mandate, by itr tWo year's the budget better be in balance." Under terms of the set- doesn't think he'll return. is the one company that gives 'Jail waiting the arrival of immigration officers Settlement He His father is getting old and Juan plans on taking over the in I Attends Richins recently left for Daytona Beach, Florida, where he is attending the American Institute of Motorcycle Mechanics. An employee at Verl's Honda Shop, Richins is the son of Sophie and the late W. L Richins of Tremonton. He is a 1975 graduate of Bear River high school. workers will go to school themselves on Sept. 4. The North Box' Elder Council PTA is making plans for their annual school of instruction for all PTA workers. The event will be held at the Bear . River junior1' high school at 7 p.m. Sept. 4, according to Carol Stenquist, council president. She urged ail PTA workers to attend. Juan had planned to return to Mexico when winter sets in. He'll go home early now. "TtnnminniTiin i W. Lynn PTA Mexico. CUP AND SAVE THIS AO tt PTA 28, 1975, Page 3 deals with the farmer commonly pay the worker less than he is entitled to. The farmer usually has no idea what the contractor is paying his men. But Juan is philosophical about it. It doesn't matter what he gets paid, he said, as long as he can beat the wages he earned in Mexico. "Everybody knows the contractor has to take his share," he said. Besides there is little he can do about it. Wetbacks who make trouble soon find themselves on the way back to cont. from page one Iff In all, the 1974 fair brought in $32,503 which they put with a balance of $2,254. 74 for a total of $34,758.37. On the other hand they spent $32,191.25 leaving a . balance of $2,567.12 for this k xa uhh?. ytu... turn 'year.-3iSome of the biggest expen- - " ses included $13,106 for the 4 Golden State Rodeo, $1,703 for advertising, $2,250 for tlement with Box Elder School District teachers, a bespecialty acts, and $1, 544 for ginning teacher with a BS feeds along with $7,694 degree will receive $8,016 paid out to exhibitors in precompared with $7,320 last miums. The fair, in short, is just year. Printed below is the salary about a break-eve- n proposschedule for teachers rewhat it is itionexactly intended to be. It should flecting the 9.5 percent do as well this year. dlooeEss NOW YOU CAN ARRANGE FOR DIRECT DEPOSIT OF 1975 YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK. 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