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Ernest Rodriguez' "Impressions," 1960s-1980s

1968-05-12 Mr. Ernest M. Rodriguez to Miss Vi Murphy Page 1

1337 W. 7th Street 
Davenport, Iowa
May 12, 1968

Vi Murphy 
Moline Daily Dispatch 
1730 5th Avenue
Moline, Illinois

Dear Miss Murphy: 

Mr. Joseph Terronez has asked me to give him some help on publicity for the Hero Street Memorial Park project underway in Silvis, Illinois. Because of the special interest of the project to our particular ethnic group and my experience over the years at aiming publicity programs toward Mexican Americans in the Quint-Cities and other Mexican communities in Iowa and Illinois, Joe feels I can be of some service in this respect. I can hardly refuse to live up to the confidence he has placed in me nor could I in view of the personal significance which the realization of a Hero Street Memorial Park holds for me as a Mexican American. 

Joe tells me you are on special assignment to the Hero Street Memorial project and I recently had the opportunity to read the full page feature article you wrote with such compassionate understanding in January of this year. You would have received by now the letter of invitation I sent out to the Mexican American leaders of the Quint-City area by Joe to meet Thursday evening and I certainly hope you can be there. Out of this meeting I hope a fund-raising project of Quint-City magnitude will develop plus the planned for services for Memorial Day with the maximum participation of all Mexican American organizations that will see an influx of Mexican people from Sterling, Galesburg, Muscatine, Fort Madison and as far away as the Chicago area. 

What I have in mind is another article by yourself as an aftermath of the meeting next Thursday bringing up to date the developments of the Hero Street Memorial project and the planned for Memorial Day services. If this article plus your feature article of January and an editorial on the subject by Jack Sundine which I believe appeared last December could be donated in pamphlet form by the Moline Dispatch for distribution by all participating Mexican American organizations in this area and in towns and cities of the Mid west with a heavy population of Mexican people I think it would contribute much to the success of the Memorial Day services and the cooperation of the Mexican people of the middle west in raising funds for the project. If by chance you could have worked out an agreement with your newspaper to this effect by next Thursday and you would make it known at that meeting I need not by next Thursday and you would make it known at that meeting I need not tell you the great confidence in your newspaper it would give the peo

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1337 W. 7th Street Davenport, Iowa May 12, 1968 Vi Murphy Moline Daily Dispatch 1730 5th Avenue Moline, Illinois Dear Miss Murphy: Mr. Joseph Terronez has asked me to give him some help on publicity for the Hero Street Memorial Park project underway in Silvis, Illinois. Because of the special interest of the project to our particular ethnic group and my experience over the years at aiming publicity programs toward Mexican Americans in the Quint-Cities and other Mexican communities in Iowa and Illinois, Joe feels I can be of some service in this respect. I can hardly refuse to live up to the confidence he has placed in me nor could I in view of the personal significance which the realization of a Hero Street Memorial Park holds for me as a Mexican American. Joe tells me you are on special assignment to the Hero Street Memorial project and I recently had the opportunity to read the full page feature article you wrote with such compassionate understanding in January of this year. You would have received by now the letter of invitation I sent out to the Mexican American leaders of the Quint-City area by Joe to meet Thursday evening and I certainly hope you can be there. Out of this meeting I hope a fund-raising project of Quint-City magnitude will develop plus the planned for services for Memorial Day with the maximum participation of all Mexican American organizations that will see an influx of Mexican people from Sterling, Galesburg, Muscatine, Fort Madison and as far away as the Chicago area. What I have in mind is another article by yourself as an aftermath of the meeting next Thursday bringing up to date the developments of the Hero Street Memorial project and the planned for Memorial Day services. If this article plus your feature article of January and an editorial on the subject by Jack Sundine which I believe appeared last December could be donated in pamphlet form by the Moline Dispatch for distribution by all participating Mexican American organizations in this area and in towns and cities of the Mid west with a heavy population of Mexican people I think it would contribute much to the success of the Memorial Day services and the cooperation of the Mexican people of the middle west in raising funds for the project. If by chance you could have worked out an agreement with your newspaper to this effect by next Thursday and you would make it known at that meeting I need not by next Thursday and you would make it known at that meeting I need not tell you the great confidence in your newspaper it would give the peo