THE BATTALJON Wednesday, April 29, 1970
College Station, Texas
Page 3
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Jars Now Antique
By Cindy Burleson
Battalion Women’s Editor
Back in the “good old days”
when women didn’t have cars,
club meetings, cocktail parties or
an education for anything else,
they spent most of their time in
the kitchen.
Cakes didn’t come from boxed
mixes, vegetables didn’t come
from cans and biscuits weren’t
bought ‘oven-ready’ then. When
a woman wasn’t actually fixing a
meal, she was baking a pie or
“putting up” preserves for the
winter. The art of preserving
fruits for jellies and pies is lost
for all practical purposes except
to those women who cultivate it
as they might crewel embroidery
or lace-making ... in short, it’s
now another interesting hobby.
As a result, the glass jars that
used to be a standard item in
every home two or three genera
tions ago are now “antiques.”
Long after my grandfather had
thrown out the gallon preserv
ing jars that they no longer used,
his wife discovered they were
selling for phenomenal prices
(for what they were) and that
novelty companies have even gone
so far as to make ‘authentic rep
licas’ of them.
She saved the rest of the small
er sizes and now they make at
tractive casual candy jars and
welcome gifts. The one illustrated
is a common type with wire fast
ener and blue-tinted glass.
It will be interesting to see
what common object from the
1970’s will take on unusual value
in the next generations. Talk is
already going around about the
values of certain glass beer bot
tles with distinctive shapes. Some
are made by glass-blowing tech
niques and have all the potential
of future antiques. Oh, for grand
mother’s wooden sauerkraut vat!
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Forty local children last sum
mer shared in a unique experi
ence—summer camp. Unique, be
cause they are retarded children
and seldom, if ever, can count
on having the basic experiences
that normal children take for
granted.
“The day-care camp for re
tarded children has been in ex
istence for five years,” Mrs. Jerry
Waller told the last meeting of
the Aggie Wives Council. It is a
community project supported by
the city, the rehabilitation cen
ter, the school systems and the
boy’s and girl’s clubs.
For two weeks the A&M annex
(old air base) acts as camp
grounds for the campers from
pre-school age to 21. The day
usually begins with a singsong
at 9 a.m., followed by nature
study, games, horseback riding,
crafts and swimming until 2 p.m.
“Any longer is too tiring for
the children—both mentally and
physically,” Jerry says. But at
the camp they have the kinds of
social and physical experiences
they would miss otherwise.
“It also helps the parents to
have a vacation relieved of the
responsibility and emotional
strain of raising a retarded
child,” Jerry adds.
Only the directors of the camp
are paid. Teen’s Aid to the Re
tarded, an organization founded
in Texas and spread to other
states, volunteers workers for the
camp, but they depend quite a
230 Attend
UW Fete
Newly-elected officers for Uni
versity Women shared the receiv
ing line with present officers at
the organization’s Spring Recep
tion Sunday.
Mrs. James P. Hannigan, Mrs.
Howard S. Perry, Mrs. Tom D.
Cherry and Barbara Davis pour
ed coffee and punch for approxi
mately 230 guests, including rep
resentatives from the male or
ganizations on campus.
“We were pleased in terms of
the individuals who came,” Mrs.
Patricia Self, UW counselor,
said. She said the purpose of the
reception was to get everyone
acquainted with each other and
with members of the faculty and
staff, adding that she hopes it
may be done annually.
New officers are Mary Hanak,
chairman; Nancy Evan, co-chair
man; Reibecca Kirby, co-chair
man; Denise Gary, secretary-
treasurer; Judy McConnell, his
torian and Julia McCall, public
relations. The spring theme was
carried out in two centerpieces
of garden-bouquet, spring flow-
bit on adult clubs and organiza
tions to help, Jerry says.
They need donations of cookies
for snacktime, magazines, water
games, balls for the younger chil
dren and coloring books.
Jerry is also looking for a vol
unteer guitarist, as the “children
love music.”
The cost to children for the
camp is 25 five cents a day.
‘Camperships’ are available to
those who can’t afford the fee.
For those who do not wish to
tamper with nature’s chemical
makeup but still protect them
selves from common insect pests,
Dr. Harold G. Scott provides
clues on “environmental control.”
In a public service release from
the U. S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, Dr. Har
old G. Scott of the Communicable
Disease Center in Atlanta, Ga.,
tells how to outwit the bugs and
keep them from lodging where
they are a potential danger to
people.
Common flies, for instance,
transmit diarrhea, dysentery, ty
phoid and other diseases and can
infest human flesh, as well as
stored food, with their larvae.
The environmental control of flies
is governed by common sense,
but often neglected in application.
Garbage should be wrapped and
then stored in cans with tight lids.
Doors and windows should be
screened and animal shelters
kept clean.
Screening is also effective
against mosquitos, which trans
mit encephalitis and malaria in
the United States. It is essen
tial here to eliminate standing
water from gutters, old tires or
anywhere else, because this is
where they breed.
Cockroaches are not only an
noying; they transmit diarrhea,
dysentery, tapeworms and other
diseases, plus destroying stored
food. Environmental controls in
clude reducing structural harbor
age by eliminating cracks and
crevices, storing food properly
and disposing of refuse properly.
Watch for and destroy cock
roaches and their egg-cases be
ing introduced into homes in gro
ceries, furniture, plants, firewood
and such.
The tiny flea can transmit mu
rine typhus, plague, and tape
worm to man. Bites should be
disinfected immediately. If pets
are in the house, floors and rugs
should be vacuumed weekly, along
with furniture.
There are only two deadly spid
ers in the United States. The
black widow is shiny black with
an orange or red hour-glass on
its underside. The brown spider
has six eyes and a fiddle-shaped
mark on its lower back. Its bite
may severely damage tissues.
Control consists of eliminating
hiding places such as boards,
cardboard, loose rocks and such
from basements and yards (wear
ing gloves). Also fill small holes,
cracks, crevices and sweep spider
webs from porches weekly. Chil
dren should be taught to avoid
spiders.
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By Roger Miller
A bitter-sweet smell filled the
small room. Two men in their ear
ly twenties sat on the floor next
to the, portable stereo, groovin’
along with the Iron Butterfly.
Two others walked into the room
from the kitchen.
Hair length ranged from very
short to very long. The one with
the shortest hair looked almost
military. Each hair fell neatly
into place and muscles bulged
beneath a tight blue sweater. He
walked erect.
The two on the floor had mod
erately long hair and long side
burns. Both had their eyes closed
and their hands kept time with
the music.
Long, frizzy blond hair fell past
the shoulders on the fourth. A
ragged khaki shirt and faded
bluejeans which didn’t quite reach
his bare feet finished the picture.
He didn’t need beads or a “Cuna
jacket.”
All four were blowing grass.
“I know for sure of 500 guys at
A&M who have smoked pot this
year, but I imagine the number
is closer to a thousand.” The
long blond hair partially covered
an oily face. His eyes were beet-
red. Call him Sam.
“No, I’m not a pusher. I’m a
supplier. There’s a difference. A
supplier just sells to friends. He
doesn’t make a living out of sell
ing it like a pusher does.
“I sell just enough to pay for
my own and maybe a little gas
money.”
The record stopped and one of
the pair on the floor took a pouch
out of his pocket, thumped some
grass on to a piece of cigarette
paper and rolled a “joint.” He lit
the joint and inhaled slowly and
deeply. He kept the smoke in his
lungs as long as he could before
breathing out. The joint was a
fourth gone.
“When I blow grass, I like to
get wrecked, man, I’m really out
of it. But when I get straight, I
appreciate life more than ever.”
Sam was sitting in a wooden din
ing chair, staring at a lamp.
“I was just curious when I
started. Besides I didn’t want to
be called chicken. Now I smoke
about a lid a month.”
A lid is an ounce of marijuana.
It makes more than 20 joints.
“It may be easy for anyone to
get grass in other places, but
around here you have to be a
member of the group. Don’t ask
someone to sell it to you; just
wait til he trusts you. Then he’ll
offer you some.
“We’re careful around here. We
don’t want to get caught. We have
what we call dope etiquette.”
Dope etiquette has several es
sentials. Some of them are:
1. Don’t ask last names.
2. Don’t trust anyone.
3. Don’t ask questions.
4. Don’t sell to anyone you
don’t have something on.
5. Sell just enough to pay for
your own.
6. Don’t ask for it, wait for it
to be offered.
“It’s not just marijuana. Acid,
phenobarbital, diet pills. You
name it—I've tried it.”
If you think Bryan and College
Station aren’t on the drug map,
look again. In fact, one marijuana
smoker who attended A&M last
semester estimates that Bryan is
sixth or seventh in inland Texas,
not counting border towns, in
volume of marijuana sales.
“Grass is real easy to score in
this town,” he said.
Austin, Dallas and Houston are
all drug sources for this area.
And A&M isn’t the only local
school experiencing an increase
in drug usage. In fact, several
A&M students say they buy their
grass from local high school stu
dents.
One pot user estimates that
20 per cent of the Stephen F.
Austin High School student body
smokes grass and 50 per cent of
A&M Consolidated students have
used it.
Arthur Bright, Consolidated
High School principal, and James
Stegall, SFA High School princi
pal, agree that there is some
problem, but they say it is not
as great as 50 or even 20 per
cent.
“Every metropolitan communi
ty with a college or university
within 20 miles has a drug prob
lem in its high school,” Bright
said. “It starts in college and fil
ters down. Now we have had
some in junior high.”
However, he said no one had
been caught with narcotics at
A&M Consolidated. Marijuana is
considered a narcotic.
Stegall said that the problem
is not out of hand at his school.
Several students with drug prob
lems have come to him for ad
vice, he said.
“I’m not looking to kick these
kids out, I’m looking to keep
them in,” he said.
Dr. J. F. Cooper, a local phy-
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15 drug cases in the past si*;
months. Most of these have been
people under 25. Three have
been LSD cases.
Cooper said that it is a rare
addict who will seek help him
self. Most of his cases have been
referred to him by other doctors,
parents or lawyers.
Brazos County Probation offi
cer John Godfrey said his office
has handled 10 or 11 cases this
year. They had 11 cases last year.
“All of it has been marijuana,”
he said. “We have not handled
any probation cases involving
hard drugs.”
He said the usual procedure in
Brazos County is to put the con
victed person under five-year pro
bation. If during that time he
is ever found to have narcotics
on him, his probation is revoked
and he goes to prison.
Estimates of the size of the
problem may vary, but no one
denies the problem exists. It
reaches from junior high through
college. And it is growing.
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