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Friday, October 27, 1961
THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
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The Women’s Auxiliary
Veterinary Medicine Association meets ofice
a month as a campus service and social
organization. Members are (from left) Mrs.
Melvin R. Calliham, Mrs. William P. Rogers,
AVMA Auxiliary
of the American Mrs. Ben Leggett, Mrs. Leon W. Gibbs, Mrs.
Alvin A. Price, Mrs. Jesse R. White, Mrs.
Melvin T. Massey, Mrs. Roger NunnaUee,
Mrs. Ronald A. Lafleur, Mrs. David R. Bean
and Mrs. Tom R. Sawyer.
Pelican Almost Caused War
On Greek Isle Of Mykonos
MYKONOS, Greece (AP)—This
Meway island is a land of an
cient windmills and bittersweet
wine, and its most prominent cit
izen is a dignified pelican with a
beak like a rainbow.
The big bird's name is Peter,
bis feathers have been ruffled by
visiting celebrities — from Eliza
beth Taylor to Jacqueline Ken
nedy—and once he almost caused
a ,small war.
Shortly after he flappel wearily
across the Aegean Sea and settled
down in Mykonos in 1955, the pel
ican vanished. Word came back
that he w'as being held prisoner
on the nearby island of Tinos.
“The pelican was stolen," claims
Dimitri Passaliades, the mayor of
Mykonos.
Shouting protests and brandish*
inf: rifles and oars, a boatload of
fishermen stormed ashore in Tinos
and recaptured their mascot. Wav
ing his yellow, red and blue beak
like a flag, the pelican sailed into
Mykonos harbor like a feathered
figurehead.
Now, with his wings clipped,
Peter waddles around town with
the pomp and aplomb of a retired
prime minister, posing haughtily
for pictures and mooching food
from the tourists.
The pelican war, Mrs. Ken
nedy’s visit, and the occasional
singing of a fishing boat are about
the biggest things ever to happen
to Mykonos, one of the most pic
turesque islands in the Aegean
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hut curiously bypassed by the
glories of Greek history.
Not a single ancient temple juts
from the bleak hills to honor the
old gods. But Mykonos, for some
reason, has perhaps the highest
number of Christian Churches per
cnptia in the world. Tucked away
in the back streets or dotting the
hillsides are some .360 tiny, white
washed churches—one for every 10
residents.
Even the pavements are splashed
with whitewash, and the village
streets are like miniature alley-
ways chopped through a snow
bank. A flop-eared donkey helps
keep them clean, carting away the
garbage in a basket on his back.
Above the town whitewashed
windmills with thatched roofs
creak their ancient songs—and as
the big sails turn, the grizzled
miller will dust the flour from his
shirt and sell you a postcard.
History may have bypassed My
konos. Toui-ists haven’t.
Visitors flock ashore by the hun
dreds to swim, skindive and stroll
the white streets, but somehow
the invasion hasn’t spoiled the
islamP’s atmosphere—or its pri
ces.
For $4.50, you can sail—first
class—to Mykonos from the Greek
mainland six hours away in a
small white liner. Once ashore
you can live in luxury at one of
two first-class hotels for $5 a day,
including one meal. A room with
shower in the other two hotels
may cost $1.35 a day, or you can
do what most visitors do—take a
room in a crisply whitewashed
private house for about 65 cents.
Mayor Passaliades says 21,247
tourists poured off the ships in
the first half of this year, but
somehow the visitors give the
place the pleasant, gay air of a
ski resort rather than that of a
Coney Island. And an ancient tri
reme sailing into port would still
look right at home.
Winning Football Sign
Decorating the side of Dorm 10, this sign was judged best
in the weekly football sign contest. Squadron 11 was the
maker of the sign.
Tuesday Breakfast To Start
United Chest Fund Campaign
Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., gen
eral chairman of the 1961 United
Chest, has announced the “kick
off" breakfast for the United
Chest Campaign to be held Tues
day at 7 a.m. in the Memorial
Student Center.
Attending the breakfast will be
the members of the United Chest
Board, the Campaign Committee
and team captains with their in
dividual solicitors.
The breakfast will be at the
expense of the Chest, and will end
in time for 8 a.m. classes.
Campaign Committee chairman
for the 1961 United Chest is K. A.
Manning. Working with him are
five committee members, each in
charge of a specific area of oper
ation and team captains in those
areas.
Dr. G. M. Watkins is the com
mitteeman in charge of the cam
pus drive. His team captains are
R. H. Davis, Veterinary Medicine;
G. W. Sehlesselman, Arts and Sci
ences; E. H. Knebel, Agriculture;
C. H. Ransdell, Engineering; and
Bill Hensel, administrative.
Irwin Lloyd, government offices
committeeman, has as his team
captains Leonard J. Watson, J. M.
Hendricks, Ernest Gregg, Jack
Bradshaw and Ben A. Jordan.
Committeewoman for the resi
dential area is Mrs. C. W. Pew-
thers with Mrs. M. L. Cashion,
Mrs. R. M. Owens, Mrs. Ellis
Smith, Mrs. Stanley Avera, Mrs.
C. G. White, Mrs. H. W. Hooper,
Mrs. R. L. Brown and Mrs. M. L.
Calliham as team captains.
Taylor Riedel will work through
the faculty of the various public
schools to conduct the fund drive.
M. L. Cashion will be in charge
of contacting the local businesses.
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