THE BATTALION
Thursday, March 10, 1960
College Station, Texas Page 5
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Ike To Ask for New Cuban Sugar Law
Leap Year Maidens
Mrs. Fred Ruiz, 33, of El Paso, Tex., looks after midnight on Leap Year Day. The
fondly at her twin daughters, Deborah Lee, mother said she came from a family that
left, and Diana Lynn, right, born shortly had several twins. (AP Wirephoto
90-Year-Old Captain Decides
He’s Ready To Settle Down
ALPINE, Tex. LS 3 )—Capt. C. D.
Wood has decided he’s about set
tled down. Which is expected,
since he recently marked his 90th
birthday.
Actually, he has been a fixture
in the Big Bend Country of Texas
for a half century. He fought in
the Spanish-American War, saw
service in the Philippines, met his
bride in the Far East, and sur
vived Mexican rebel raids.
He came to Texas to operate a
factory to make candelilla wax,
n highly prized ingredient for sev-
era! products. Later he became
a judge.
v. uod was born Jan. 27, 1870, at
Bolivar, Tenn.
In 1898 he was given command
as captain of the Tennessee Moun
tain Infantry to fight in the Span
ish-American War.
After "the conflict, Capt. Wood
was transferred to the Philippines
where he serv§d for five years.
During this time he “met the girl
I married,” a school teacher, Julia
Bouchette. When his tour of duty
was over in the Philippines, he
followed Miss Bouchette to the
English Crown Colony in Hong
Kong, where she was teaching, and
ihey wej^married in 1904.
Shortly after, the Wood’s re
turned to the United States where
Wood engaged in the real estate
business in Pittsburgh, Pa.
In 1911 they decided to go west
and landed in the Big Bend coun
try where they established the
first candelilla. wax factory in the
United States at Double Mills, on
the Maravillas Creek, in Brewster
County.
The wax comes from a desert
plant known as candelilla that
grows along the Rio Grande in the
Big Bend of Texas and across the
river in northern Mexico.
As the plants were harvested in
one area, the factory was moved
to a new location where the plants
were more plentiful. Their second
location was in lower Brewster
County at McKinney Springs, near
the Stillwell Ranch, then to Glen
Springs, which is now a part of
the Big Bend National Park.
It was while he had his wax
factory at Glen Springs that Mex
ican rebels made a raid May 5,
1916, killing three and wounding
four of the nine soldiers of the 6th
Cavalry stationed there. One ci
vilian, little Tommy, 7-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Comp
ton, clerk of the general store,
was killed.
Capt. Wood’s eyes lighted up as
he recalled this hair-raising ex
perience and described it. “When
I heard the heavy gunfire, I grab
bed my rifle and hurried over to
the home of my neighbor, Oscar de
Montel. He got his rifle and we
took off in the direction of the
direction of the shooting and ran
directly into the enemy.
“The whole settlement was on
fire and a Mexican sentry took a
shot at us.”
“In our rush to get away from
the bullets we ran into a wire fence
with such force it knocked the
breath out out of us. We stayed
on the ground until the sentry
quit firing.
“We scrambled up and ran to
a mesa about 500 yards away and
stayed there in hiding until day
break. We watched from the hide
out as the raiders saddled and
packed up their horses with stolen
goods.”
In 1927 Capt. and Mrs. Wood
moved to Alpine to make their
home. In 1928 he was appointed
Judge of Brewster County, later
being elected to the office, serving
until 1933, at which time he re
tired.
His wife died about three years
Garrison Reminds
Motorists Of April
InspectionDeadline
Col. Homer Garrison, Jr., direc
tor of the Texas Department of
Public Safety, said today more than
2,000,000 motor vehicles remain to
be inspected before the April 15
deadline. He urged all Texas mo
torists to obtain their new inspec
tion stickers at an early date.
Garrison reported that more than
4,300,000 will be inspected in Texas
this year. To date only about half
that number have gone through in
spection lines at some 4,400 inspec
tions stations located throughout
the state.
The DPS director pointed out
that inspection stations cannot in
spect vehicles during wet, rainy
weather, a condition normally pre
vailing during late winter and
early spring. To make sure every
vehicle owner is able to obtain his
1960 inspection sticker in time,
Garrison suggested that plans be
made now to visit an inspection
station, before inspection lines
grow long.
State Farm Saved
Texans Money
We aim to insure careful
drivers only. Savings here
have allowed us to pay divi
dends to Texas policyholders
year after year. Call me.
I STATE FARM 1
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C. M. Alexander, Jr., ’4*
215 S. Main
Phone XA 3-3616
Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Comoanr
Moum Office—Bicomioetnn tllinou
YOU - A BILLIONAIRE?
I want to correspond with the person that really wants
to be the w ealthiest self-made man in Texas. The busi
ness that made the wealthiest man in Europe. Courage
and imagination a prerequisite.
MANLEY MILLS,
437 Church Lane, Reno, Nevada.
ago. He drives his car to town
and pays, his daily visits to busi
ness places to visit with his many
friends.
He has one son, Drury Wood,
Del Rio; one grandson, Charles D.
Wood, Dallas and two great-
grandsons.
In commenting about his 90
years of life he said, “I should
be shot—not congratulated.”
WASHINGTON O? 1 )—Rep. Har
old D. Cooley (D-N.C.) said today
the administration apparently
plans to ask for a new sugar law
which he said could be a “weapon
of reprisal” against Cuba’s Prime
Minister Fidel Castro.
Administration sources con
firmed that some changes which
Cooley proposes are included in a
bill they intend to submit next
week to the House Agriculture
Committee, which Cooley heads.
But they denied the administra
tion measure is designed as a
club against Cuba, which reaps a
150 million dollars yearly bonus
under present law. They said
their bill is merited for agricul
tural reasons, and would not hurt
Cuba.
Sugar legislation is an especial
ly hot issue this year because of
Castro’s attacks on the United
States and seizure of American-
owned property in Cuba. Some
Congressmen see the sugar bill
as a golden chance to hit back at
Castro. President Eisenhower has
declared against retaliation.
Cooley spoke to a newsman aft-
ter conferring late Wednesday
with Under Secretary of Agricul
ture True D. Morse and other offi
cials on administration plans.
Earlier, Secretary of State
Christian A. Herter told his news
conference that the administra
tion had not completed its sugar
plan. “As you know,” Herter said,
“the President has said we are
not going to take countermeas
ures.
Cooley said Eisenhower’s recent
Latin-American trip apparently
has made no change in earlier
administration plans to seek a
four : year extension of the sugar
law, a slight juggling of sugar
quotas which Cooley termed un-
Second Annual Babcock Award
Contest. Deadline Nearing
$250 is waiting for the verbally
prolific Aggie who can describe in
not less than 250 nor more than
1,000 words, “The Advantages I
Find at Texas A&M College.”
Sponsored by C. L. Babcock, ’20,
Beaumont insuranceman, this will
be. the second year that the essay
contest has been held.
April 15 is the deadline for the
essays which Babcock believes
should be able to answer the ques
tions: “Is it truth?,” “Is it fair?,”
Hamner To Speak
At Euless IAS Meet
B. B. Hamner, professor in the
Department of Aeronautical Engi
neering will be guest speaker for
a dinner meeting of the Dallas-
Ft. Worth Section of the Institute
of Aeronautical Sciences to be
held Friday, March 18, at the
Western Hills Hotel in Euless, Tex.
Two Plant Profs
Recent Speakers
Two members of the Department
of Plant Physiology and Pathology
were speakers at recent farm
meetings.
They were Dr. Luther Bird, as
sociate professor, and Dr. M. C.
Futrell, assistant professor.
Bird discussed disease resistant
cotton varieties at a meeting of
the Plains Certified Seed Growers
at Lubbock and Futrell talked on
rust resistant wheat with the Wil
barger County Wheat Growers
Assn, at Vernon and the Vernon
Rotary Club.
“Will it build good will?” and
“Will it be beneficial?”
The entries should be prepared
in regular manuscript form, double
spaced with an original and two
carbon copies. Entries can be
turned in to The Battalion office
on the ground floor of the YMCA.
Initial judging of the essays win
be done by members of The Bat
talion staff, but final judging wil'
be left to a special committee to
be selected by President Earl Rud
der.
Not only will a $250 first prize
be awarded but 10 runners-up will
be presented with certificates.
Both the award of $250 and the
certificates will be presented at
the annual Student Publications
Awards Banquet, May 13.
Last year’s topic for the C. L.
Babcock Essay Contest was “Texas
A&M—What It Means to Me,” and
was won by Tommy Keith, ’59.
Not only was Keith’s essay re
printed in several Texas Newspa
pers but also appeared in the Con
gressional Record and was dis
tributed by the Association * of
Former Students.
The essay contest is open to any
full time student currently en
rolled at A&M, with the exception
of members of The Battalion staff.
favorable to Cuba, and executive
branch power to cut foreign quotas
further.
“That’s their proposal,” Cooley
said. “But I don’t think they
should even submit the proposal.
He added the President said “he
didn’t want any reprisals. He
shouldn’t ask for the weapons of
reprisal.”
Cooley said the mere proposal
by the administration of such a
plan would set off wide anti-Amer
ican feeling in Latin America.
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“Havana papers already have
screaming headlines to the effect
that the President is preparing
economic aggression against Cu
ba,” he said.
Cooley said he favors a one-
year extension of the law as is—
without presidential power to
change quotas—and hopes to avoid
committee hearings because the
bill “should not be considered un
der an emotional atmosphere.”
The present law expires at the
end of this year.
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