The State - News from Sept. 14, 1988
Officials of the United Farm Workers Union in Keene said Texas Agriculture Comissioner Jim Hightower will begin a three-day fast Wednesday in Chicago to support union leader Cesar Chavez’s protest against the use of pesticides on table grapes. Since Chavez’s own 36-day fast ended Aug. 21, a series of celebrities have continued the effort in three-day stages. Hightower will take over the fast Wednesday from actor Charlie Haid of the television show “Hill Street Blues” during a demonstration in front of a Chicago grocery that sells table grapes. Hightower, a political supporter of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, plans to symbolically pass on the fast to Chavez’s son, Fernando, on Friday.
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