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
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“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.”
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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.
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across from the Post Office.
BLACK Four-door Special Deluxe ’49
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GREEN BATTLEJACKET, blouses — 39
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Shaffer's Book Store, North Gate, Across
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• HELP WANTED •
TWO STUDENTS with photographic ex
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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.
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Protection for sale: Buy your auto lia
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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.”
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