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 BORDER ANGEL                

 by Bill Starr
                            $5.95

 From the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, the
 area of that great state that borders on
 Mexico, comes a strange and beautiful story
 of a man who has been compared with
 Albert Schweitzer, given the highest medal
 of achievement by the Mexican government,
 and who has been a guest of honor at a
 White House dinner.

 This man, who has been lauded as "truly a
 holy man," is Frank Ferree, the Amigo of
 Harlingen, Texas.

 Born on the prairie in Nebraska, Ferree,
 without education, struggled across the
 United States from Colorado to California,
 from California to Wisconsin, looking for a
 satisfying destiny.

 He found that destiny in the Rio Grande
 Valley of Texas, helping braceros, known in
 that locale as "wetbacks," laborers who
 swam the Rio Grande from Mexico looking
 for "good paying" work in the highly pro-
 ductive fields up and down the Valley. These
 braceros suffered immensely from many
 hardships, mainly ill-treatment from their
 employers, starvation, and disease. Frank
 Ferree gave up his own comforts to wrestle
 with the system in order to get proper
 treatment in all forms for these neglected
 people. Thousands of these laborers came to
 depend on this one, lone man, Frank Ferree,
 El Amigo, the Holy Man of the Rio Grande.

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          about the Author 
 
 A friend of Frank Ferree's for the past
 twenty years, Bill Starr is an award-winning
 free-lance writer and newspaperman, con-
 tributing regularly to Time Life News
 Service, and King Features, plus a dozen
 other national publications.
 
 Born in Gainesville, Texas, Starr is a World
 War II veteran, having served in Europe, a
 graduate of Texas Christian University at
 Fort Worth, and has lived in the Rio Grande
 Valley for the past twenty-five years.
 
 Starr has just recently sold two screenplays
 that American and Mexican Productions,
 Inc., are currently making into full-length
 major motion pictures.
 

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