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•Page 4 THE BATTALION Page Bride-To-Be Thursday, June 28, 1951 The Last Word yl S: Trailer Area’s Close Marks End of an Era at Aggieland m Miss Hetty Jo Ross Betty Jo Ross, Kenneth Schaake To Wed July 24 July 24 has been set as the wed ding date of Miss Betty Jo Ross and Kenneth W. Schaake, both well-known on the campus. Betty Jo, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ross of Bryan, is now employed by the Exten sion Service at A&M. She is a graduatei of Stephen F. Austin High School and attended North Texas State College. Ken, who received his degree from A&M June 1, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Schaake of Eddy, Texas. He was graduated with a BBA degree. During his senior year the bridegroom-elect was company commander of B Infantry, a member of the Sen ior Court and Social Secretary of the Senior Class. The wedding ceremony will be perforihed in the First Baptist Church, Bryan. Mrs. A. F. Wilson of Houston, a high school classmate and long time friend of the bride-elect, will be matron of honor. Mrs. Wilson is the former Miss Jo Ann Pea cock. Miss Jean Black of College Station and Miss Ann Chambless will be bridesmaids. Miss Jean Marie Edge of Bryan will be soloist at the wedding. After their marriage and a short wedding trip, the couple will live in Waco where Ken is employed with Western Auto Stores. Caudill Gets Part In Seattle Meet W. W. Caudill, research archi tect, Texas Engineering Experi ment Station, had a leading part in the Sixth Annual Mountain Conference for School Administra tors held in Seattle, Wash., last week. The meetings were held in Paradise Inn on Mt. Rainer. Caudill participated in a, panel discussion, “School Building Plan ning;” was the principal speaker at a banquet, and met with the heads of the various sections with in the state department of public instruction as a consultant to dis cuss statewide school building problems. USE BATTALION CLASSIFIED ADS TO BUV, SELL, RENT OR TRADE. Rates .... 3c a word per insertion with a Me minimum. Space rate in classified lection .... 80c per column-inch. Send *11 classified to STUDENT ACTIVITIES (iEFICE. All ads must be received in Stu- 8ent Activities office by 10 a.m. on the Jay before publication. • WANTED TO BUY • USED CLOTHES and shoes, men's — women’s — and children’s. Curtains, spreads, dishes, cheap furniture. 602 N. Main. Bryan, Texas. • FOR SALE • • WANTED TO RENT • COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES. Parti-col ored. In excellent condition. Highest pedigree. Sired by Champion Caucasian Jupiter. Phone 4-9421. THREE BEDROOM house or apartment in College Station, furnished or partly furnished. Call 4-4183 before 12 noon or after 4 p.m. TWO BEDROOM house, furnished or un furnished. Write giving price, location and size of lot.. Box 1, The Battalion. CORONA Standard Typewriter. Pica Type. Good condition. 11 B Project House. Ed Kruse. • HOME REPAIR • ONE LARGE Dearborn Heater, 326.00; one medium-sized Dearborn Heater, S19.00. Two chests of Drawers, $10 each. One- Hardwick'Apartmbnt ‘ range, $50.00. One metal twin bed, $5.00. J. L. Kaspar, Box 4814, College Station. Call 6-1463. ALL TYPES home repair work—additions, roofing, siding, painting, concrete work, and redecorating. Low down payment and 30 months to pay. For free esti mates call 4-9589 or 4-4236. • WANTED • STUDIO HOUSE—11/8 acres in Lakeview Acres. Full bath, kitchen, bed nook, living room. Built-in table and ironing board. Furnished or unfurnished. Luscembe, Box 2655 TYPING—twenty cents per page. Phone 3-1776 after 5. • HELP WANTED • 1950 FORD Station Wagon, new 1951 motor, $1400. Phone 6-2306. CIRCULATION Manager for The Battal ion. -Must have car. Contact Roland Bing, Manager Student Publications, Room 211 Goodwin Hall. FACTORY REBUILT MOTORS for less at Joe Faulks Lack’s, 217 So. Main. Fords $124.95, Chevrolet $104.95, Plymouth and Dodge, $129.50. All prices exchange. We install our own motors at reasonable rates. 2-1669. • LAWNS MOWED • TWO AGGIES and a Power Mower want lawns to mow. Call Student Labor, 4-5014. SEAT COVERS that fit better at Lack’s. Coupes from $5.95. Full sets from $9.95. We also carry Custom tailored covers, full sets fom $17.95. 217 South Main. Phone 2-1669. • MISCELLANEOUS • FREE termite inspection and estimate. International Exterminators Corporation Power spraying for flies, mosquitoes, and other pests. Phone 2-1937. • FOR RENT • FURNISHED four room apartment. 207 Montclair near Southside Shopping Cen ter. Phone 4-8604 at noon or after 5. Official Notice Identification Cards which were made in connection with registration for the cur rent semester, except for late registrants, are ready for distribution In the Rglstrar’s Office. They should be claimed In per son immediately. R. L. Heaton „ Registrar TWO BEDROOM, unfurnished apartment, 309 Cherry St. $50. Call 4-9601. Seniors! Have you missed some interesting courses you wanted to take? Get them in Post Graduation Studies, By VIVIAN CASTLEBERRY Battalion Women's Editor All that is left of Texas A&M’s trailer area is a plot containing a vegetable garden. The rest of Trailerville moved out on the fifteenth of June. Five years, five months and five days after the first student moved into the area, it was declared no longer in existence. Through these years and months and days 183 families had made their homes in the 97 lots in five areas at Texas A&M College. The trailer area, which at first was planned to be only a small-scale for-a-little- while project, had become an in tegral part of the housing units for married students at Aggie land. I area, the trailer area, divided into five sections had, at its height, stretched along Houston Street from the west goal post of Kyle Field to the American Legion House just across the street from the Southside shopping area. At the peak of operations, there were 123 names on the; waiting list for the 97 lots. When one trailer was moved off, the Housing Office was swamped with prospective tenants all of whom wanted to know why they couldn’t have the vacant lot. First Residents Among the first residents of the trailer area were the W. C. Abbey and the E. J. Creider families. The Housing Office remembers Creider as a Pennsylvania coal miner. While he was in the Anny he had heard of Texas A&M College. As soon as the fighting had ceased and he could get his discharge, Creider loaded his wife and a small child and their clothes into the car and trailer and headed to Aggie land. T. R. Spence, manager of Physical Plants, brought some equipment from his own home to help the Creiders set up house keeping. “I remember,” said one man in the Housing Office, “the way we turned handsprings to get those kids proper facilities for bathing and for cooking.” Creider took his degree from A&M in chemical engineering in 1949. The last address the For mer Students Association has for him is Bastrop, La., where he was practicing the profession he learn ed while an Aggie. Long Waiting List From the time the trailer area opened until shortly before part of it was closed on June 15, 1950, there was a constant waiting list for room in the area. The trailers were all sizes, all shapes and bore license tags from many states. Some of the tenants built rooms onto their trailers and transformed them into real homes. One of the chief attractions of the trailer area was the low rent— the college charged only $8 per month for rent of space and utili ties, or $9.25 per month if the stu dent had built onto his trailer. An other attraction was the freedom enjoyed by trailer residents. While the College was the father protec tor of its students in the trailer area, tended the grounds, took care of all utility problems, the resi dents were families and the col lege never intruded on their pri vacy. Though bath houses were pro vided by the college, some of the trailers had their own bathroom facilities. All along during the past year as vacancies have occur red in other housing areas, trailer residents have been moved in by the college. Finally, on June 15, the closing date, 13 remaining res idents were settled in College View apartments. Several other resi dents found homes outside the col lege housing units and a few moved their trailers to lots which they rented off campus. The real story of Texas A&M’s trailer area is not to be found in the 183 families who lived there, nor in the license tags from all over the country, nor in the low rent nor in any other of the sta tistics, impressive though they be. The real story lies in the tri umphs and the heartaches of the families who called it home. The real story is in the births there and the messages of death that ar rived there, in the grades that were made or the grades that were not made. Each of the 183 fam ilies would provide a very special chapter in any history written of Texas A&M’s trailer area. Butler’s Vegetable Garden That vegetable garden left at Trailer Park belonged to the Glen Butlers. He is a business adminis tration major from Edinburg, Tex as and when the area closed down he moved his trailer and his wife, Shirley, to another lot. The Don Martins went along with the But lers. June Martin first came to the trailer camp as a bride. It was her first home and she found there the friendliness that she needed to bridge the gap of com ing away from family to college with a new mode of living. Take the Harold Taylors. Their’s is a fascinating story. They met in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, which is Conchita’s home and where Harold iPUfl ilgil A :■ Hi ::A ' 7 ' ", : #i Trailer Area I from Houston Street is seen with the home of Bobbie and Henry Fears in the background. All of the trailers have now been removed from the area that once housed a total of 183 families. Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 S. Main Street Call 2*1662 for Appointment was stationed with the Army. He wanted to go to college and his brown-eyed diminutive wife en couraged him in every way. She arrived in the United States in January and made her home with Harold’s folks in Taylor until Feb ruary. Then, enrolled in A & M and with a trailer all bought, sit uated and partly furnished, Har old Taylor brought his Puerto Ric an bride to Aggieland. It was on a cool rainy day three months later on April 26, 1949 that Harold drove his wife through a downpour to St. Joseph Hospital. It was still raining at nightfall the first time Conchita saw her first born son. Loved Living in Trailer “He was the cutest little monkey I ever saw,” Conchita remembers. “And I loved it in the trailer. We never had to worry about Glenn getting in the street. We had a fence built and I always knew that he was safe while I worked. Now...” Conchita demonstrated with her expressive hands... “I am not so sure. I worry, always worry that he could run into the street. . . . We liked the trailer area. To us it was,” she paused again trying to fit the exact words into the pic ture, “it was living in the heart of the college.” Other girls liked the trailer area, too. In fact, not one person in terviewed said she did not like living there. Shirley Griffith, from Newburgh, New York, whose husband, Al, is a P.E. major, said that she found the lack of indoor bathroom facilities a little inconvenient when Sandra Lee was a tiny baby. “But,” she hastened to add, “don’t get the wrong idea. I loved it out there. I liked best, I think, the friendli ness. We just couldn’t get very lonely.” Shirley would have good reason for becoming lonely, too. She is a long way from home. Privacy and Helpfulness Henry and Bobbie Fears, both from Tyler, said that the most ap pealing thing to them was the com bination of privacy and helpfulness. “The trailers,” Bobbie said, “were just like real homes, but when we wanted company, we were sur rounded by it. Bobbie and Henry, who is a distinguished student in the industrial education depart ment, are continuing their many hobbies in College View where they now make their home. They are both leathercraft and woodworking enthusiasts. Bobbie, when she is not working at the Exchange Store, also does handwork, sewing and crocheting. Tragedy Comes to Trailerland All of the trailer residents re member their worst tragedy. Many of them had just returned from a college dance on the slab when they found a college messenger looking around for the Feigenspans. Bea and architectural major Denny Feigenspan had not yet come in from the college entertainment. Friends went in search of them and Denny went up to college and took the message: his father, his mother, and his sister had been killed in an auto crash in West Texas. His brother-in-law and his tiny nephew were not expected to live, either. All trailer residents offered their aid and comfort to Bea and Denny. True, there was not much that they could do, but there is no doubt that the hand extended in the time of need strengthened the friendship among the residents of Trailer Area, Ag gieland. The James Ethridge’s first bought their trailer in 1946 when James entered A&M for the first time. There were no facilities at A&M for them, so they joined the “overflow” at the Annex. Lucille remembers that “it rained for three weeks after we moved in. There was nothing but mud, mud! None of us wore shoes because we had to wade outside for our water and to get to the bath house!” Lucille remembers one other thing about her early trailer life. Throughout the first night she liv ed in her trailer, Lucille cried. “I had the idea,” she said, “that only RADIOS & REPAIRING STUDENT CO-OP riff-raff lived in trailers! How wrong I was!” Moved Home to Temple and Back Before James had been in A&M long it became evident that he must have medical attention, so the Ethridges hooked their trailer onto the car and moved their home to Temple where, for 15 months James was a patient. For three months after he got out of the hos pital he needed complete rest and all this time Lucille was with him. She became the most familiar face in the ward—in 15 months she missed visiting her husband 10 times during visiting hours. She did all the personal shopping for the men in the ward and she did their banking. “Several times,” she recalls, “I had more than a thousand dollars with me when I’d leave the hospital.” It was during this stay at Tem ple that Lucille learned for sure that not only riff - raff live in trailers. “There,” she said, “I was next door neighbors to millionaires who had the same idea in mind that I had: to be close to their service men who were hospitalized.” When, how happy was the day, James’ hospitalization and rest period was done with, the Ethrid ges hooked their trailer to the car again and moved back to Aggie land. In a couple of weeks he will be listed among the Aggie-exes. Entertaining Problems Lucille says that all the girls had a problem when entertaining. “Lack of space,” she said, “is a definite disadvantage, but we made the most of it. When we had over one couple visiting, we just served all meals buffet style. “Once,” she remembered, “I fed eight people in my trailer very comfortably.” How did the 183 families who tried out trailer experience at Ag gieland feel? “Like we had lost a home when it was closed,” the girls agree. Lucille Ethridge sums it up this way: ‘ For anyone with a housing problem, I’d advise a trailer. There is no experience like it.” And 182 other wives who had similar experiences chorus an “amen.” Joyce Chafin, Dr. Swatzell Are Married Miss Joyce Chafin became Mrs. Monte Y. Swatzell at a wedding ceremony at the home of her mother in Ft. Worth last Satur day night. She is the daughter of Mrs. Ralph Chafin. Dr. Swatzell, who received his degree in veterinary medicine from A&M in June, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jere Swatzell of Cleburne. Miss Cloyce Chafin, the bride’s twin sister, was her only attendant. She wore a yellow net dress with a scalloped neckline and daisies scattered over the skirt. Her head dress was a halo of yellow maline and she carried daisies entwined with cording of yellow taffeta. The bride was gowned in a white Chantilly lace over white taffeta with an illusion yoke out lined by lace. The bouffant skirt of lace over net ended in a scal loped hem. Her headdress was a white satin cloche studded with seed pearls from which fell a veil of illusion. She carried stephano- tis and white gardenias entwined with ropes of pearls. The bridegroom was attended by his brothers, and their attend ance made the wedding almost 100 per cent Aggie from the men’s standpoint. Lynn Swatzell, presently enroll ed in A&M, was best man. Phil Swatzell, ’45 and Jack Swatzell, ’46 were groomsmen. The bride is a graduate of North Texas State College. After a wedding trip to West Texas points of interest, Dr. and Mrs. Swatzell will be at home in Cleburne where the’ bride groom has set up practice. Prompt Radio Service —Call— Sosolik’s Radio Service 712 S. 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