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Page '4 THE BATTALION Thursday, December 13, 1951 Home Folks Ask Solons About Varied Subjects By TEX EASLEY Washington, Dec. 13—(A’)—Tex ans write their congressmen about almost everything under the sun. If they don’t know where else to turn for information, they write Washington. Mail about legislation tapered off with adjournment of Congress. But there’s no let-down in variety. People ask their congressmen to help get priorities for construction materials, discharges from the armed forces, old age pensions, farm bulletins and pamphlets on how to raise babies. These are the subjects of the bulk of the mail. Requests Assorted Here are some assorted requests that came to various Texas con gressional offices in the past week: A mother who lost her son in Korean fighting inquired how she could get a Gold Star pin. 1 A n enterprising businessman wanted information about some iron ore deposits in Mexico and how to get authority from the Mex ican government to develop them. An ambitious mother, describing her daughter as a pretty blonde with considerable wealth in her own right, asked the congressman if he couldn’t arrange the girl a date with a midshipman over at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. The daughter is enrolled in a finishing school in this area. A school superintendent wrote for the annual report of the Smith sonian Institution, and a wife wrote wanting to follow her soldier hus band to Japan. Monument Wanted Recently Rep. Walter Rogers of Pampa got a letter from an old timer in that part of Texas, writ ing for the Plains Historical So ciety and asking how to obtain a monument for the grave of a long- deceased Mexican war veteran and Indian trader. George McLean of Friona, in the first of several letters to Rogers, said: “I owned a stage station post office and agency trading post along the (Texas-New Mexico) state line a long time ago. ... A >n outline ck flRST YEaK COLLEGE , PHYSICS ■'"-i COMING EXAMS Auk to .w the famous V" COLLEGE OUTLIIIE SERIES THE EXCHANGE STORE “Serving Texas Aggies” Mr. James E. Vaughan had me fix up his Mexican war pension papers every three months so he could draw his pension. When he died I buried him wrapped in his old Mexican war blanket.” Enlisted From Tennessee He had enlisted from Tennessee to go to the Mexican war, McLean wrote, and was captured by the Mexicans. After being discharged he be came an Indian trader among the Apache and Comanche Indians while they were both at war with the white people which was before Gen. McKenzie had battled the In dians in Palo Duro Canyon south of Amarillo. “When the Indians were moved to the reservations (Oklahoma) his customers were gone and the large cattle companies moved in and chased the small fry out. This be gan in 1876. He then acted as a scout.” Buried Beside Wife When the old warrior died, Mc Lean added, he buried him beside his Spanish wife who was killed by the Indians many years, earlier near _the stockade in which they lived across the line in New Mex ico. The Veterans Administration, Defense Department and Congres sional Library searched in. vain for records that would permit the government to put a tombstone free over the old soldier’s grave. They found a James Vaughan but he died a few years too early to have been the right one. One of the senior congressional secretaries on Capitol Hill is Jules Leverett, 55, aide to Rep. Clark Thompson of ; Galveston. It was on Dec. 15, 1919 that he went to work for the then Congressman Clay Stone Briggs. • Looking back over 32 years of handling congressional mail, he says: “People write a lot more now than they did years ago. There was a time when the letter carrier was the only contact most citizens had with the federal government. They used to write for garden seeds. Now they write for every thing.” Give the Gift That’s NEW the year round The Battalion is WONDERFUL for Christmas ONLY 50c PER MONTH . . . send The Battalion to your parents. .. your girl friend, brother or sister. Where else can you get such a bargain? ORDER TODAY! Turn in your subscription to Student Activities Second Floor Goodwin Hall DO IT . . . TODAY ! The Battalion The Human Race The FABULOUS HANPS OF ETHER M-SUTURE PERFORM WITH UNBELIEVABLE f SUCH A SIMPLE' PEXTERITV IN THE OPERATING J5>ur IN THE HEAVIEST (50T TO aET MV I TRAFFIC, HE MISHT OUT FOR THE TOLL BPIP6F AS WELL HAVE HOOFS-V U'MM-NEEPA MAh Jravelan Solely Service Beware Of Xmas Tree Fires, Warns Forester A Texas forester warns house wives now decorating their homes for Christmas to make sure the Christmas tree isn’t a fire hazard. First of all, buy a tree in good condition, with fresh leaves or nee dles, says C. W. Simmons, exten sion farm forester of A&M. Miss Gail Crawford To Teach in Austin Miss Gail Crawford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Crawford of College Station, will begin teach ing in the Austin Public Schools after Jan. 5. A November graduate of Baylor University, Miss Crawford receiv ed degrees for a double major in English and Education. She attend ed A&M during two previous sum mers. At Baylor she was a member of Kappa Delta Pi and Delta Alpha Pi. Keep the trunk in a container of water. And keep adding water to the container just about every day. It will need it. Check the electric light cords that connect the tree lights and be sure that all poor connections are repaired. If cotton is used around the base of the tree, get that which has been treated for fire control. Never use candies to light a tree —it’s too dangerous. More Petticoated Reporters Women Gain Bigger Plact In Texas Newspaper Worh Alice Burke Speaks On Christmas Program Alice Burke spoke on the Christ mas Meditations this morning at 9:30 over Station WTAW. The program was sponsored by the College Station Council of Church Women. The guest speaker’s program in cluded poetry and a Christmas story. PSE BATTALION CLASSIFIED ADS TO BUY, SELL, RENT OR TRADE. Rates .... 3c a word per Insertion with a 15c minimum. Space rate in classified tcction .... BOc per column-inch. Send 111 classified to STUDENT ACTIVITIES PFFICE. All ads must be received in Student Activities office by 10 a.m. on the day before publication. • FOR SALE • 25 FT Housctrailer. Apartment size stove. Hot water heater. Reasonable. B-10-D College View. CHILDREN’S 100 percent All Wool Car digan Sweaters in maroon, with white chenille T on left chest. Sizes 6-8-10 only. Special $1.90. Shafer’s Book Store, PW across from the Office. AGGIE T shirts with the Air Force In signia. $1.35. Shaffer’s Book Store, across from the Post Office. BLACK Four-door Special Deluxe ’49 Plymouth with white sidewalls, radio, heater. In fine condition. Money nec essary for College. Contact Freshman G. H. Lampley, Room 418, Dorm 16, or write Box 2511 College Station. GREEN BATTLEJACKET, blouses — 39 and 40 longs. Short coat, 39—long. A-9-C College View. ENGAGEMENT and wedding ring set. White gold. Bargain. 201 Patricia. College Station. Apartment 4. (Behind Campus Theater). • SPECIAL NOTICE • The Gift for Everyone on your GIFT LIST. R.C.A. Victor’s 45 RPM Record Player, $12.95, $6 worth of records FREE. Shaffer's Book Store, North Gate, Across from Post Office. We tike Christmas Gift Magazine Sub scriptions for all magazines. Nita,’s News Stand. North Gate. Prompt Radio Service —Call— Sosolik’s Radio Service 712 S. Main St. Ffc. 2-1941 Bryan • HELP WANTED • TWO STUDENTS with photographic ex perience, who are interested in photo engraving work, report to room 211, Goodwin Hall. Come only if you have at least one more year at A&M. RIDE WANTED COUPLE wants ride to Des Moines. Iowa, or vicinity. Will share expenses' and driving. Can leave Dec. 19. 5 p.m. Call 4-1229 from 8 until 5, or see Gaylon Jones, 35-C Vet Village. SUL ROSS LODGE NO. 1300 A.F. & A.M. Slated meeting Thursday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m. Also a Grand Lodge film. J H. Sorrels, W. M,. N. M. McGinnis, Sec. 4r Protection for sale: Buy your auto lia bility insurance from an Aggie — Call Ty Jennings, '51 6-1636 D-3-B College View. SUL ROSS LODGE NO. 1300 A.F. & A.M. Called meeting Saturday Dec. 15, 1:30 p.m.—9 p.m. Work on MM Degree. Re freshments 5:30—6:15 p.m, J. H. Sorrels, W. M- N. M. McGinnis. Sec. Directory of Business Services INSURANCE of all lines. Homer Adams. North Gate. Call 4-1217. Official Notice Fourth installment, payable Dec. 1 -18, to Fiscal Office. Board to Jan. 26 (Christmas recess excluded) ; $33.00 Room rent to Jan. 26 13.00 Laundry to Jan. 26 (Christmas excluded) 2.65 .Total payable to Fiscal Department fia.sa Waco, Tex., Dec. 13—LP)—Petti coats in a newspaper editorial room —long a man’s domain—are get ting more numerous in Texas. A Baylor university student found that 28 out of 29 Texas edi tors who answered a questionnaire employed women in the editorial room. The student is a woman reporter herself—Miss Betty Dollins, re porter on the Waco News Tribune and Times Heraid. The 28 newspapers employ a to tal of 134 women as reporters or department editors. Half Are College Grads Sixty-seven of these women— exactly half of the total—are col lege graduates. Average salary is $55 a week. Four women are listed in the $70 to $90 a week bracket. Four others are listed as earning more than $90 per week. Fifty-six of the 134 women are married. Only two are required to do photographic work. Sixty- one are employed on society desks, 27 are news writers or editors and the remainder do a variety of jobs. Only four have been employed one year or less. Ten have been employed four years and the others have 10 years or more of service. Future Said Bright Twenty-three editors said “yes” to the question, “Do you consider the future bright for women in newspaper work?” Two said “no” and four failed to answer. Fifteen of the editors are com pletely satisfied with the work of their women editorial workers. The 15 stated that women are just as capable as men. Two refused to take a stand on the relative merits of men and women as editorial workers. Five said women are not very capable and three said “it depends upon the individual.” One said both sexes have their disad vantages in the editorial room. Editors List Gripes Editors directed the following criticism against female editorial workers: They are indifferent spell ers; they are absent more often than men; they cannot go to pi meetings; they do not want cover meetings at night, and t cannot cope with figures. The women have a strong chi pion in one of their own sex i is an editor. In filing out questionnaire, she reported t she does all the general work, reads proof, writes heads, d front page layout, and handles ] tures. She added “I will put f record in journalism against t ,, of any man. I do more work t] any man would attempt. I beli my publisher will verify this stn ment.” “Sob Type Has Hurt” One editor added a brief csjlj He stated, in part, that “wor reporters have been hurt by sob sister type and by those t hava used the privilege of repi ing to establish a little empire ‘get something’ on a person oi gain influence in their communil He added that “good report knows no sex.” Specials For Friday & Saturday, Dec. 14-15 FREE: Beautiful 32 pc. set of Silver in De Luxe Hardwood Chest—to be given away this week end. See details posted in store. • GROCERIES • Snowdrift SHORTENING ... 3 ibs. 85c Gold Medal FLOUR ...... 5 lbs. 43c WESSON OIL pt. 29c Hunt’s—2 i /2 PEACHES—Sliced or Halves . 25c 12-Oz. ANGLO ROAST BEEF 49c 12-Oz. 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