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Show INTERVIEW: Cuellar Page 4 other states. We moved around quite a bit, we talked to other people, we developed the idea, we exchanged ideas, we talked about how to organize and even though it is not yet fully developed I think that a lot of developments have come about. GC: ow, was there any other organization around in say, well, let's narrow it down to excluding El Paso in that area in west Texas, the Primean Basin area, where your immediate radius, you're, say, a 100 radius to Odessa, was there any other organization active at the time? RC: Aside from the GI Forum, we had the League of United Latin American Citizens which was active sporadically somewhat in Midland, Texas, which is some 20 miles from Odessa. In Big Springs, in San Angelo, but by and large, during that time, it was GI Forum country what we called. There were the usual things like the church organizations, which existed predominatly to assist the local priest or the local church to raise funds, to hold what they called tamaladas and all that, to raise money on Sundays. There were, sometimes, groups that dealt with specific aims like the Chamber of Commerce. They usually separated them though Odessa had the Mexican Chamber of Commerce. We had the Mexican Lions, the Lions Club. So it was still not the type of thing that really embraced a lot of things. It was very, very narrow in outlook. But those are the only ones, by and large |
