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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1941-
THE BATTALION
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Baylor Beauties
Waco, Feb. 1.—To East Texas towns go honors for furnishing the most beautiful girls in Baylor Uni
versity this year. With a single exception, the University’s seven most beautiful co-eds hail from the
east and central portion of the state.
As announced by Raymond Herring, editor of the Round Up, university yearbook, they are, top row,
left to right, Amy Lee Castleberry, Longview, named last week as Miss Personality, and Bonnie Ruth
Slawson, Corsicana; middle row, Beverly Bryan, Waco, Evelyn Harris, Sweetwater, and Johnny Nelson,
Wjynnsboro; bottom row, Joy Ray, Belton, and Anna Katherine Elder, Greenville.
55 Years In the Horse Business Fer A Living—
Garigan Says, "By Golly, Tha'ts a Long Toime, Ya Know"
Left Ireland Because "
Salary of One Shilling
A Day Just Wasn’t Enough
By E. M. Rosenthal
“Fifty-foive years fer a livin’ ”
was the answer that came from
Owen Garigan when asked how long
he had been in the horse business.
Then the little man with the long
white mustache, thin nose, and
keen brown eyes meditated and
said in his thick Irish brogue, “By
golly, that is a long toime, ya
know it.”
And to hear him talk you would
think that Mr. Garigan of the ani
mal husbandry department had
been with horses more than any
other man ever had before or ever
will be. He claims that he was born
looking at horses because that was
his father’s business—buying stal
lions for the English, German, and
French Government at the Irish
public markets. In fact by the time
Garigan was twelve he too was a
horse buyer at public auctions.
The life in Ireland wasn’t any
too luxurious forty years ago and
a salary of one shilling a day,
about 20<j; in our money, did not
satisfy Garigan so he decided to
come to the United States. When
he did get to this country he heard
that Texas was horse country so
he headed straight for the Lone
Star State. At first the salary
from his new job of rubbing trot
ters after races was only little more
than his old one back in Ireland,
but he is now proud that he started
at the bottom and learned th,e bus
iness from there up.
Finally, after working several
years with who he claimed were
some of the finest horsemen of
their day, Garigan came to A. &
M. “John C. Burns was head of
the Animal Husbandry department
then and he knew another Irishman
when he saw one so he hired me,”
Garigan said. “At first we had only
eight horses. Let me see now. There
was a draft mare and a . . . .” and
Garigan proceeded to tell of each
animal he had. Now there are
around sixty head that he is in
charge of and most of these fine
horses were bred from the low
Promoted
Lewis D. Vieman, ’38, who was
recently promoted to the rank of
1st Lieutenant in the regular
army. He is stationed at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina.
class stock that Garigan found here
twenty five years ago.
Garigan’s reputation as a horse
breeder and trainer at the present
is quite well known and when you
hear him start reeling off the
winners he has turned out with
the pedigree of each it sounds as
though he were reading from the
stud book. His first champion was
produced soon after he came here
when in 1918 he showed the grand
Freshman
Makes Pocket
Money Sketching
Among the most unusual ways
of making pocket money found
on the campus of A. & M. is that
of Jay Dee Cowan, freshman of
Headquarters Troop, Cavalry.
Fish Cov/an’s line is sketching.
He first takes a photo of your
best girl friend and with the aid
of a colored pencil makes a draw
ing that is almost lifelike. He
started sketching photographs
when he first came to school in
September, charging 25 cents a
sketch. He soon found that he had
more work than he could handle
and raised his price up to fifty
cents. In spite of the price raise
he still finds that he has all the
work that he can handle.
champion horse at the Fort Worth
Exposition and Fat Stock show.
Since then some of his more fa
mous horses are William the Con
queror, five gaited saddle horse and
harness gelding, which sold for
$12,000, and Liberty Fox, full
brother of William which “stopped”
the horse show in Fort Worth last
year.
“Oi’ve enjoyed every minute
Oo’ve been here at the College,”
the Irishman said, “and Oi guess
its because Oi like to work with
boys and horses so well. Ya know
foindin’ somethin’ ya like is the
foinest thing ya c’n do. Oi’ve turn
ed down jobs fer more money but
Oi guess that Oi’ll stay here as
long as the’ll let me.”
Other ideas such as “foindin’
somethin’ ya like to work at” are
abundant among Garigan’s home
spun philosophy which he is al
ways willing to tell along with his
opinions on world conditions. At
the present he gets quite a thrill
about telling of the conditions in
London and in Ireland where his
and his wife’s folks still live. After
reading their letters he says that
he “appreciates livin’ in such a
good country as the United States.”
Houston Fat
Stock Show Judges
Are Announced Today
Judges for the Houston Fat Stock
Show and Livestock Exposition
were announced today by W. O.
Cox, secretary-manager of the
show.
A. W. Harris, Harris, Mo., will
judge Hereford breeding cattle.
John Burns of Fort Worth will
judge boys’ baby beef and fat
steers and Aberdeen-Angus breed
ing cattle. J. M. Jones of College
Station will judge sheep, both
breeding and fat. E. M. Regen-
brecht of College Station will
judge swine, both boys’ and open,
fat and breeding. C. N. Staples of
Louisiana State University, Baton
Rouge, La., wil ljudge dairy cattle.
Walter Burton of Dallas will judge
farm and ranch poultry and fat
and breeding poultry.
The Fat Stock show opens Feb.
5 and will continue through Feb.
12. The livestock division of the
show has increased in both quality
and quantity since opening day
eight years ago. Pens are being
prepared and will be ready for
opening day of the show for all
stock.
City Council
Hears Motion At
The Regular Meeting
A motion to place a fire plug
near the A. & M. Consolidated
school was brought before the Col
lege Station City Council at their
regular meeting Thursday night.
This motion, submitted by J. E.
Breland, was referred to the Com
mittee on Utility for further con
sideration. Members of this are
J. A. Orr, T. A. Munson, and T.
U. McNew.
Also enacted at the meeting was
a proposal to start a drive to collect
city taxes due January 15. Col.
Frank G. Anderson, mayor, ex
pressed the desire that the citizens
of College Station would pay their
taxes on their own accord soon in
order that the city might be saved
the expense of hiring someone to
collect them.
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