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CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Listen Up ‘Y’ asks students to help An open letter to the student body of Texas A&M: Every year there are families in the Bryan-College Station area who are not able to celebrate Christmas in the manner that most of us are accustomed to. The Student Y Association tries to help out by making available a list of these families that in dividuals, students, friends, dorms, clubs, and service organiz ations can “adopt” at Christmas. They take it upon themselves to provide one of these families with gifts of food and clothing in order that they might also enjoy the Christmas season with joy and thanksgiving. It is our desire that Texas A&M students will unite in making Christmas a joyous time for the less fortu nate this year. If you would be willing to as sist one of these families, join in with your fellow students by bringing back serviceable cloth ing, food, and toys from home when you return following Thans- giving holidays. The list that we are compiling includes the fam ily’s address and the number of children and their ages. Indi viduals, students, friends, dorms, clubs and service organizations can come by Room 102 of the Y.M.C.A. Building and sign up for a family. “It may cause a little pollution, but it’ll help us put a stop to this pollution about Texas being national champion!” I certainly hope that you will consider this matter seriously as there are many worthy, needy families in this area who would appreciate any help possible. If you have any further questions, Making the films Walk better than ‘Cannon’ By BOB STUMP The name sounded good, but walking in, I kept my fingers crossed that “Cannon for Cor doba” wouldn’t turn out to be an other typical western. It wasn’t long, however, before I was being blasted out of my seat by the roar of gunfire and the glint of knives wielded by lumbering Mexican hombres. “Groovy,” I said along with the rest of the audience as one sombrero-clad hauncho fired off twenty rounds from his little pis tol and instantly killed every thing in sight. In this movie, even the dead die. As I sat there, wide-eyed and gaping at the whole spectacle, my seat suddenly began to tip over. Quite abruptly I did a complete flip as a troupe of horses went crashing by over head. “Horror of directors’ horrors, the camera has fallen off its dolly,” I thought. But no, it hadn’t. The next few moments were of the same kind of topsy-turvyness. “Well, they blew this one,” I thought again. Maybe the rest of the movie could nullify this if they didn’t pull any more of the same. The only effective play on that old trick of rolling with the camera on the ground that I have seen was done by a CBS camera man during the Tet offensive in Vietnam. He was wounded while filming the fighting in Hue and had the good sense to keep the camera running as he went down. But these people who made “Cor doba,” they missed the boat and the water both when they tried to get this one off. “I’m forced to announce that the Hollywood of the fifties, the same outfit that turned out all those mealy shows that I watched growing up, has an heir in Spain who is making shows about Americans in Mexico. And if you can dig that, then maybe “Can non for Corboda” is your movie. As for me, I think I’ll stay home this weekend and watch Lar- wence Welk. George Peppard, starring as the Army captain leading a bunch of desperados, must be Spain’s answer to Clint Eastwood. He has blond hair, piercing eyes, ruthless personality, the whole stereotyped bit. I don’t mean to run down Pep- pard’s acting abilities. He never gets a chance to show them. His role is such that the kid next door could have played it and won honors for the performance. Peppard plays the rough-and- ready type who snubs everyone around him and comes out the one “most likely to succeed.” Maybe because no one else will take the job of infiltrating a fortress to destroy its cannons and capture Cordoba, the Mexi can general plotting to overthrow his government. Peppard works out a simple and daring plan for his men, and they take off for the fortress. He is in the know with the revolu tionaries but his ruse is discov ered when he returns late from a raid. Through the daring exploits of Peppard, a lovely Mexican girl, a major from the Mexican army and the rest of Peppard’s bunch, the fortress goes up in flames one night and only three of the original expedition leave the stone ruins . . . it’s almost enough to make you take out a red ban dana and wipe your eyes dry. DAR collecting stamps for vets OF NEW HAVEN/A GENTLEMAN’S SHIRT 3im MitvnciS untoersitp men’s toear Members of the LaVillita Chap ter of the DAR are collecting used and unused U. S. and foreign stamps for over 5,000 veterans, according to Mrs. Walter K. Henry. The stamps, except for common U. S. stamps, can be saved by carefully cutting them from the envelope or card, allowing about 1 inch on each side. They can be delivered to Mrs. Henry at room 415 in the Animal Industries Building at A&M or by calling Mrs. F. B. Brown Jr. at 846-7132 or Mrs. Henry at 846- 7812. 329 University Drive 713/846-2706 College Station, Texas 77840 BUSIER AGENCY REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Veteran* and Conventional Loans ARM ft HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. iStt Tesaa Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 COURT’S SADDLERY . . . FOR WESTERN WEAR OR FOR YOUR MARE. FOR SHOE REPAIR BRING IN A PAIR. 403 N. Main 822-0161 Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those Of The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is ,he student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tar- IS?" supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter- May, and once a week during- summer school. prise edited and operated by students as a university and MEMBER community newspaper. 4 SS0c j a ted Press, Texas Press Association LETTERS POLICY The Associated Collegiate Press Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, —' and no more than 300 words in length They must be year f ^.s^pe'^&yelr? AH VtacriS^bYectto Signed, although the writers name will be withheld by sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Room 217 > Services Building, College Station, Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, exa °—_' —1 College Station, Texas 77813. Tlle Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for , reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous 1969 TP A Award Winner origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. Lindsey, chairman ; H. F. Filers, College of Liberal Arts: Co ife ge^ o^V ete r h^ry f Med U: hm ^' Dr.' Sf'L^Ca^nterfcoll^e EDITOR DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE of Agriculture; and Roger Miller, student. Managing Editor Fran Haugen Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising tv V> Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Women s pjaitor Olane Grillin Francisco. Sports Editor Clifford Broyles come by or call the Y.M.C.A. at 845-1626. Ronnie Owens President ing the environment; it may even be improving it. Mike Allender ’69 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Editor: As the trees are gathered and placed around the centerpole for the Bonfire, so the thoughts and opinions of many have been gathered in the form of letters and placed in the Batt. After reading these opinions I have found myself wondering upon what basis other than “band wagon emotionality” they were formed. The people writing in seem sincere in their desire to save the environment and pro mote A&M’s image as an eco logically-oriented school. However, I feel compelled to point out that the environment they are saving may not be as they picture it. I doubt if many of them have ever tried to make a living as a rancher or farmer on land whose floral community consists of post oaks and yaupon thickets, or made a comparison of the numbers of deer in such a thicket to those in an area of widely dispersed trees and an open understory, or tried to grow post oaks as commercial timber. The truth is farmers and ranchers in this area pay up to $60 an acre to have their land cleared so they can raise more grass for their cattle. The truth is deer are much more plentiful and in better condition in an area where trees have been thinned and the understory cleared, al lowing a greater diversity of browze and forbs, their chief foods. The truth is the climate of this area will not produce tim ber of commercial size, and few people use post oak for pulpwood. Before man appeared on the scene, this area consisted of wide ly dispersed large oaks, and tall grasses. Overgrazing changed it to a dense tangle of post oak and yaupon thickets. It is improb able that the Bonfire is destroy- Editor: Some time late last month a white leather, four-panel rugby ball was picked up by someone on a playing field on campus. It has not been seen since. This letter is a plea for that person, or those persons, knowing the whereabouts of this rugby ball to please return the ball ei ther to me or to the Intra-mural Office. Due to this loss, the A&M Rugby Club now has only a single rugby ball to use in practices. Replacements cost in the region of forty dollars and have to be ordered from England. Your understanding in his mat ter is appreciated. So in antici pation, thank you for returning the rugby ball. A. L. King 16 merchants donate $205 to aid Bonfire Sixteen North Gate businesses have donated $205 to the Aggie Bonfire Fund, Bonfire Committee Finance Chairman Ken Shaw said Wednesday. The money will be used to pay expenses. Shaw said College Station businessmen have been asked to aid the students. Donors are University Studios, Aggie Cleaners, Aggieland Studio, North Gate Barber Shop, Hobby World, C. W. Varner, Car- roll’s Corner, Aggie Den, Char lie’s Grocery, University Clean ers, Zubik’s, Holick’s, Crockett’s 66 Service Center, Dan’s Barber Shop, Sound Shop and University Cycles. THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 24,1970 M, State Farm Insurance Companies - Home Offices Bloomington, 111. For all your insurance needs See U. M. Alexander, Jr. ’40 221 S. Main, Bryan 823-0742 FLOWERS s&r Complete -jjaJMWtt/dL Store Baby Albums - Party Goods Unusual Gifts Aggieland Fl6wer & Gift Shoppe 209 University Drive College Station 846-5825 BOOK YOUR CHRISTMAS PARTY AT THE MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER A bowl of Wassail will be furnished FREE with each party or banquet held between December 10 and Christ mas. ‘Quality First” The New Little Dress Shop In Sunnyland Shopping Center Beautiful Slack Sets and Dresses In Juniors, Petites Misses and Half Sizes Tellow U #S after 6 in x 5 to bedi Hdition. ] HI sell eq Xmas gif ils from UNIVERSITY TRUST frirt? 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