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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1973
Homes Away from Home
ive for City Escapees
(Continued from Page 3)
includes wives.
“Many city dwellers moving to the
country do not stay over four years.
They find it impossible to earn a living,
run out of money, and are forced to
return to the city. Farming requires
investment in stock, expensive equip
ment, and-to make it pay-knowledge,
experience, and lots of hard work.
Many come unprepared, and leave,
disillusioned,” claims Mrs. Valero.
“If I had known what 1 was getting
into when we decided to buy the farm,
I don’t know if I would have done it or
not,” said Mrs. William Glenn, whose
husband is co-owner of a Houston
paint factory. Their farm is located in
Carmine.
“Keeping a weekend home involves
the extra expense of driving back and
forth. Also, when you get there, you
can’t sit back and enjoy it. You’ve got
to clean it because it’s going to get
dirty if you are there or not,” Mrs.
Army Offers
Active Duty
Preference
Army ROTC cadets will now be
able to plan their active duty
preference a year in advance,
thanks to a new policy set by
Brig. Gen. Wilfrid K. G. Smith.
Graduates will receive their
preference on proper recommen
dation, said Smith, deputy chief of
staff at the Army Training and
doctrine Command, Ft. Monroe,
Va.
A&M and five other military
schools are now receiving this
preferential treatment giving the
Army ROTC cadets their choice
of active duty or active duty for
training.
“Last year 38 per cent of our
non-scholarship cadets who re
quested two years active duty
were denied because of lack of
space,” said Col. Thomas Par
sons, professor of miliary science
and commendant of the Corps.
“We had to compete with every
other ROTC school for active duty
slots. The new Department of the
Army policy means we are no
longer faced with that situation.
We don’t commission anyone we
don’t think should have a two-
year assignment” said Parsons.
He said the policy will provide
a definite assist in maintaining
A&M’s status as the nation’s lar
gest Army ROTC program.
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Glenn said.
The Glenn house was partially
rebuilt and remodeled after they
bought it six years ago, but the job is
not yet completed.
“The two front rooms are my next
goal. We also have a garden. We
thought that we would try to save a
little and grow our own food for the
fun of it. But we’re never here to take
care of it, and it doesn’t seem to be
producing much,” Mrs. Glenn fumed.
Some people moving to the country
have been there before. Vernon
Plueckhahn, who was born and raised
in Carmine, was forced to move to the
city after he married.
“We tried to stay in CArmine at
first, but we just couldn’t make any
money here then,” claims his wife,
Evelyn. After a 10 year absence, the
Plueckhahns returned to Carmine with
their two daughters and started a
successful business of raising chickens.
Small towns that have always
depended upon agriculture for their
existence are hoping that the new,
wealthier weekend dwellers will help
their growth.
Carmine and many other small
towns have recently incorporated in
order to obtain federal funds. Hopes
are running high that this will give the
towns the impetus that they need.
Most weekend visitors do feel that
country stores have a certain charm
about them.
What the result of the trend toward
weekend homes will be is impossible to
say in certain terms even after two
decades. These homes are not founded
upon the idea that they are to support
their owners. Rather, they are now
becoming items to be cherished, with
fulfillment and satisfaction being the
only things expected in return,
Perhnps this is a reflectionupo^ 1
affluence of modern Amelia 5(1
more realistically, it is the!
of society in a successful mannat(|
new system once the oldoneitcn
outdated. Small farming for mom
losing its appeal and is being r(pl*
by leisure farming for pleasure.
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