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Show f ake Tribune, luesrtay. I The Salt Searchers Elov Aguilar Associated Press Wnter By M on EL PASO, Tex the frst national convention of the Raza Lmda party ended their four-dagathering Monday by vowing to fight tor what na tional chairman Jose Angle Gutierrez called our right tc self determination as individu als in four wheel drive vehicles and a helicopter combed the banks of Percha Creek Monday for four persons reported missing after a flash flood h . the southwestern New Mexico il lage of Hillsboro on Sunday Delegates from 16 states and the District of Columbia pledged to maintain their polit ical independence, refusing to endorse either Sen George McGovern or President Nixon s Earlier, a total of mx had been reported miss-- l per-son- for, among lingual and tion, wage parity and drugs m communities d Asks Assistance in rra County Lndersheriff Charles Cox said Monday only i tlie Jieming couple, Mike and Isabel Gurski, and the teen-- i ageFs were known to be r.rss-- , ing.' The Deming couple re-- j jioitedly was in the Hillsboro unfa when the flood hit midnight and 1 am j Sunday ! - four-whe- Known Dead 4 " by a helicopter Sunday. Newton, a.' fiddler, had been in Hills- bora for a dance and had just started his car when it was i 'swept away in the flood I waters Terrazas died when the his adobe collapsed on Hillsboro's main j Ijonle ' street, New Mexico 90 flood Inder Placed Curfew jlillsboro, a town of 300 per- aims, was placed under curfew for health's Monday night 'sake, at the order of the county health officer. Sierra ;County Commission Chairman Raymond Greer said all would be asked to leatfe unless they have or relatives in town busi-Pnq- Xs a precautionary , measure, boil all 'residents were told to drinking water Mexlcan-Amerlca- n vour children s world bright sharp and clear? How can you have their eyes examined they need eyewear Finest on rely set in lenses impact resistant to a wide choice of look sharp help them and see sharp1 tell? To be sure If y mini-fram- t j 1 3 , I , j top..!,.- - r-- t n were convention Missouri, Oregon, Ltah, Arizona, California. Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Wisconsin, MaryNebraska, land, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas and Washington Most of Ihe delegates w ere young activists and college students, but there was a noticeable percentage of older in the especially persons, Southwestern states' delegations "Internally, we will be for candidates our state at ExGutierrez said levels, ternally, our position means he that we are added, claiming that Raza Unida Intends to use the vote as a possible balance of power We can either be the deciding factor m a class election or we can help defeat the lesser of tw o evils, he said Is BRx-Qualit- Mexican-Amenca- Most loung States repiesented at the , ' a x $r mvssm few " w - - t 0 f vii (Vai smmm .,vC233aCL!P& n graduate Toe two w ho died m the ' flood were Ed Newton, 59, of Tn .h or Consequences, N M , and Guadalupe Terrazas, in tps bOs, of Hillsboro Newtons body was found A mr ern OmMKBfflOTflXDl iTHETOlXlJi 1 mmmx e bi- Gutierrez, a political science of the University of Texas, said, The most important aspect of this convention is the emphasis given to our political stand We have shown that we can get together ar.d talk about problems like we do in a family So far, this is a family of 16 states and Washington, D C It Will get bigger and broader " were searching 15 miles be- Hillsboro and Lake CabaUo, where the overflowed Percha Creek drains 2 Mexican-Amenca- tisan approach a Republican would be named to the vice chairman post. Carter, South The proposal gained the sup--Mar- port of Democratic Gov vin Mandel of Maryland, who aa'd he would back tbe mo'e educa- rado 'ar area of about - Wallace to become vice chairman next year He is the senior governor and employment a fight against e , tween j things, Gutierrez was elected national president Sunday night over Rodolfo Corky" Gonzalez, leader of the Crusade for Justice, a multi-issuorganization in Colo- said he had asked the park department for boats to assist some 18 horse-- I men, several drive and a National Vefndes, m IGuard the helicopter "search. 'state j , other bicuitural of Crystal 28, Gutierrez, Raza City, Tex, founded lmda Spanish for united two years ago and has race since oigamed it statewide The party is running San Antonio attorney Ramsey Muniz, 30, for governor of Texas '.He He said they C .. Our vote lias been taken for granted for too long, espe the Democratic by cially party, Gutierrez said j j Derbyshire, lourd under the floor two boxes containing $25 each and notes indicating that a man who died 18 months before put the money away 30 years ago as birthday presents for his two daughters instead the delegates approved a summary of national priorities or platform calling a -- middle-aged couple N M , was from Deming, I added to the list of missing iwhirh already included two jmidentified boys who had been staying at Hills- bpro y LONDON (AP) Workmen old house in Biddings, at an National unit, was emphasized dm mg deliberation and discussion of ssues Lmty also was stressed during Gutierrez election to give Wallace the vice chair- m3nship But, Mandel said ne vvould prefer that the rules change be a temporary one Mandel, during a news confer ence, said Southern governors appeared to be warming ard Democratic presidential nominee Sen. George McGov- - Carolina Gov John We t and several others want fo elinumake and restriction this nate a Dem- it possible for Wallace, nominated , be to ocrat Priorities Summary "mg but a family of four ump- Tug near the creek was later w counted for In the mean- - i Happy Birthday y Two men died in the flood and another two petsor were injured teen-age- n to delegates (AP) -- hoiseback, Mexican-America- Eve Rules Change to Benefit Wallace Govex-nor- s Fight for Rights Flood HILLSBORO, l!4 Chicanos Promise Posses Seek 1 Lost in N.l. a. vptemiier i A in Salt Lake City: University Club Bldg. 4695 Holladay Blvd. B57 E. Second So. In Murray: Cottonwoua Medical Center '.i- - & tZA I 5 -- lii V LcL mm pqi k SAVE&y ES 8 WOliffil illil & SAVESy |