THE BATTALION Thursday, November 10, 19G0
Pull all 4 wheels, inspect
brake linings and drums.
Check grease seals, wheel
cylinders for leakage.
Clean, inspect, repack
front bearings.
Add brake fluid if neces
sary.
Adjust brakes on all four
wheels for “full pedal”
braking.
Road-test brakes to as
sure proper operation.
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Man’s Best Friend
Mike Shively, junior pre-vet major, stares various expressions on people’s faces upon
at his very own buffalo, a handy thing to entering his room. Shively said the only
have around, accordkag to the animal en- problem it presents is its constant shedding;
thusiast. The head has provided Shively it doesn’t stop in winter, like live animals
with many hours of recreation observing do, it just sheds hair all the time.
‘Pardon Me, Lady, I Thought
You Were A Water Buffalo’
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
“Pardon me, lady. I thought
you were a water buffalo!”
Many Aggies bring “mooses” to
the campus for one reason or an
other, but Mike Shively, junior
pre-vet major from Vivian, La.,
has his own buffalo to gaze at
every day.
“Since it is my privilege to have
some sort of horns in my room
this year, I decided to bring up
the whole head,” said Shively.
The unique addition to the fur
nishings of Room 324, Dorm 1(5,
is the result of an original idea for
a barbeque and an irate mother
who had no fondness for the beast.
“That buffalo came from North
Dakota, and was bought by the
company my father works for, Ar-
kansas-Louisiana Gas, Inc., in
preparation for a barbecue, about
15 years ago,” said Shively.
Buffaloes don’t grow on trees,
and the company had to go all the
way to North Dakota to a special
buffalo ranch, and buy the massive
hulk of animal, Shively said.
“It was a five-year-old bull, and
was shipped by railroad from the
^ ranch in Dakota down to Vivian,
and then taken into Shreveport to
be butchered and prepared for the
feast,” he said.
“After it was dressed, they took
the meat and cooked it all day
long; boy, they had a real feed
planned for that night! But the
meat was so tough and stringy,
no one could eat any of it,” added
Shively.
The head was taken to a taxi
dermist, who placed the head and
Heck hide around a hollow wooden
frame, making the monstrosity
light and manageable.
“This thing doesn’t weigh over
20 pounds at the most; that is
why I can hang it over my bulle
tin board and the nails won’t pull
out. Looks like it would weigh
more from its outside appearance,
though,” said Shively.
In the Arkansas-Louisiana Gas
clubhouse in Vivian, the buffalo
head hung over a pool table for
many years after the fiasco of the
barbecue. Then, the recreation
center was sold to a religious
group to make a church, and
Shively took the head home with
him.
“My mother didn’t particularly
like the idea of having a buffalo
head filling up my room, which it
just about literally did; she was
about to run me off for having
it in the house, so I brought it
down here.
“You know, I’ve seen some funny
expressions come on people’s faces,
especially those freshmen, when
they walk in here and see that
thing staring them in the face.
"They usually come out with, ‘Sir,
where’d you get this thing?’ and
many other comment s,” said
Shively.
Shively also has a saddle, bridle
and blanket in his closet, which he
uses in an animal husbandry
course, “Horse Production and
Management.”
“I just hope I don’t get kicked
out of the dorm, when everyone
finds out about all the stuff I
have in here,” said Shively.
Hoffa Flops
Purge Attempt
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—James R. Hof
fa, the Teamsters Union chief,
scored a spectacular flop in trying
to purge from Congress a group
of House members who ran coun
ter to his wishes on 1959 labor
legislation.
Out of 40 such House members
actively opposed by the leadership
of the vast Teamsters organiza
tion only one has been defeated.
Thirty-nine were elected again
in Tuesday’s balloting despite Hof-
fa’s opposition.
This was not Hoffa’s greatest
blow in the Tuesday election, how
ever. The election of John F.
Kennedy to the White House ap
parently was a much bigger cause
of worry for him.
The Teamsters Union chief ac
tively campaigned against Ken
nedy, never, however, quite urg
ing Teamsters to vote for Vice
President Richard M. Nixon.
Hoffa merely stated over and
over that Kennedy and his brother,
Robert, former chief counsel of
the Senate rackets committee,
were bent on destroying both Hof
fa and the Teamsters Union.
Hoffa’s anti-list grew out of
his ire over House action approv
ing the Landrum-Griffin Act more
than a year ago. This new law,
establishing a wide range of new
union restriction, was largely the
outgrowth of the rackets commit
tee probe into the affairs of Hof
fa’s union.
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Baptist Student Union Schedules Dance
Tomorrow Night For Foreign Students
The Baptist Student Union will
honor international students with
a dinner at 6 p.m. tomorrow night
in the Baptist Student Center.
Featured speaker will be Miss
Eunice Parker, who heads the Tex
as Baptist Foreign Student De
partment.
An integral part of the program
will be a desert course and fellow
ship in private homes following
the evening meal. Students will
be picked up at the Center by the
local people and returned there
after the fellowship period.