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
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President
ing the environment; it may even
be improving it.
Mike Allender ’69
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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
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