Hollywood producer commissioned
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1975
I tJFilm celebrates centermial
By SANDY RUSSO ‘What we’re trying to do is cover “It’s designed so it would be fun cause of the free hand they were!
Richard Quines
Special Section Editor
To help celebrate its 100th birth
day, Texas A&M University hired a
group of Hollywood-based profes
sionals to make a movie about
A&M.
The crew had visited the campus
four times before the final shooting
Thursday.
The crew previously filmed the
Bonfire construction and burning,
graduation and commissioning, a
play* the Moody campus and an ex-
tention station south of College Sta
tion.
Brad Craig returns
as film narrator
100 years of history in 25 minutes,
Don Widener, who wrote the script
for the production, said Thursday.
“I went through seven volumes of
history of the University,’’ said
Widener, who has won three Em
my’s.
“We re taking a sense of humor
approach in the film because the
university is great enough to laugh
at its own mistakes,” he said.
He told of the mistake that cost
the founders of A&M $500,000
when they invested in a million
bricks that were never delivered, or
was it the other way around?
The film was designed to show on
television, Widener said, and he
designed it to compete with other
TV market shows.
for the viewer, fun for the crew to do
and entertaining and informative
enough for anyone to want to see,’
Widener added.
The university administration
surprised Widener.
“I expected the university to set
up a committee to tell us what to do
and how to do it. That’s what most
universities have done,’ said Wide
ner.
“But they had enough wisdom to
back off. They (Rodger Miller and
Leatha McCoy, the university’s
contacts for the film) told us that
their business is to run a university,
and ours is to make films, said
Widener.
He said that the crew expects to
turn out an excellent product be-
allowed.
Widener said that most great uni
versities have a lot in common but
that A&M has the Aggie Spirit.
“If you ask someone who went to
Stanford 30 years ago for a descrip
tion of himself, he’d probably not
mention ‘the farm. If you ask an
A&M graduate the same question
he’d say. T in an Aggie,’ like it’s the
biggest thing that’s ever happened
to him,” said Widener.
The crew, consisting of Neal
Chastain (journalism professor Mel
Chastain’s brother), producer-
director; cameraman, Grady Mar
tin; sound man Hal Eartherington;
and assistant Eric Shiozaki, will be
shooting on campus through Satur
day’s football game.
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“We’ve Never Been Licked.”
“That film I did down at a cow
college some 40 years ago,” says
Robert Mitchum. The worst he’s
ever done, he claims.
But Robert Mitchum was only a
third-billed actor in that film. He
was overshadowed by a 19-year-old
child actor named Richard Quines.
Quines, who played the film’s
lead role as Brad Craig, is the voice
and star of the centennial celebra
tion film that A&M’s making about
itself. He will be on campus doing
narration for the film through
Saturday.
Viewing Quine’s earlier film
teaches a person how to take ten
minutes to die after crashing into a
Japanese carrier to save an Aggie
buddy.
“It’s really weird to be back at
A&M,” said the now silver-haired
man in the blue jeans and sports
shirt.
Quine has since become a direc
tor but he fondly remembers the
days when he and Robert Mitchum
decided to drink a couple of seniors
under the table, only to find himself
unable to remember the day after.
“There’s been an incredible
change. The first thing I noticed was
the lovely ladies, but I kind of miss
the old look,” said Quine.
He’s wearing a pair of thirty-year
old shoes around. They’re cordovan
brown in color and were made at
Holick’s.
“They made me this pair, a black
pair just like them and a pair of
senior boots. I wore the black ones
the three years I served in the
Navy,” said Quine.
“The kids haven’t changed any.
They’re so friendly and polite. Re
ally open. It’s still like I remember;
the yells haven’t changed an iota,
they’re just a lot louder,’’ said
Quine.
Every time they play the 1943
film in California, Quine gets all
kinds of flack.
“Jack Lemmon always calls Quine
up and says, ‘Your biggy’s on,’
said one of the centennial film script
writers.
“When I’m directing a film and
the Aggie film is shown, the stars
I’m working with come in and say
‘You’re directing me?’,’ he said.
He refers to Mitchum as his
“supporting actor,” and confesses
he hasn’t seen Noah Berry, Jr., (the
Aggie buddy he saves) and Ann
Quinn (the professor’s granddaugh
ter he loves) for years.
“Ann was married shortly after
the film. Her marriage went down
the tubes, as they say around here.
That’s a lousy thing to say about
marriage,” Quine said.
He confesses there’s one thing
he’ll never forget about A&M.
“Do you remember (during
“We’ve Never Been Licked”) when
that cadet tripped me on the stairs of
the dining hall (Sbisa) and 800 guys
ran over me? I couldn’t move for
days, ” Quine said.
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A cameraman’s work is never done
Back for the fourth time on the A&M with the rest of their Hollywood-based
campus, cameraman Grady Martin and crew are shooting a film on A&M. The
producer-director Neal Chastain, along film was commissioned by the university
Unions fuss over wine workers
Associated Press
LIVINGSTON, Calif. — The
struggle for union representation of
field workers at E&J Gallo, the
world’s largest winery, remained
undecided Thursday with almost
200 challenged ballots uncounted.
The Teamsters union, locked in a
battle with Cesar Chavez’ United
Farm Workers — UFW, led in un
challenged votes 223-131.
The state Agricultural Labor Re
lations Board (ALRB) scheduled a
preliminary hearing with union offi
cials and Gallo next Tuesday to dis
cuss how to handle the challenges.
Chavez said-his union could erase
the 92-vote deficit if officials allow
130 ballots to be counted from
people who struck when Gallo’s
contract with the UEW expired in
June 1973 and Gallo signed with the
Teamsters.
The UFW contacted those work
ers at their current jobs and ar
ranged to get them to the polls in
hopes of securing solid Chavez sup
port.
But the 197 challenged ballots
also include 36 security guards and
eight supervisors that the UFW
contends should be barred from the
agricultural bargaining unit.
“If the security guard votes are
allowed and all are for the
Teamsters and if the economic
strike votes are allowed and all go
for the U FW, the total would be 261
for the UFW to 259 for the
Teamsters,” said Barry Bennett, re
gional ALRB director.
He noted the decision then would
depend on the supervisors and the
votes of 23 people who claimed to be
strikers but who were not listed on
current or previous worker lists
supplied by Gallo. The election
board challenged those 23.
In another development, the
ALRB held a lengthy hearing
Thursday concerning the vote at
Bud Antle, the nation’s second-
largest grower. The ballots in that
election Tuesday were impounded
after a union dispute developed
over who could vote.
The five-member state Agricul
tural Labor Relations Board is ves
ted with the responsibility of adopt
ing rules for voting in cases where
an “economic strike” began before
the new election law took effect
Aug. 28.
Such regulations are still to be
drawn up, so elections supervisor
Cornelius Beltran ordered the bal
lot box containing all challenges sea
led until the ALRB acts.
Gallo, target of a nationwide
boycott by the UFW, was the site of
a concentrated election campaign
by organizers from the rival unions
because the company’s brand name
will lend prestige to the victor.
Despite the importance attached
to this vote, the winery employs less
than two-tenths of one per cent of
California’s 250,000 field workers.
The UFW won a major vote in
volving a much larger number of
workers Wednesday, but that vic
tory was expected. Workers at In-
terHarvest, the nation’s largest let
tuce grower and already under
UFW contract, gave Chavez’ union
1,167 votes and the Teamsters just
28.
The latest Associated Press tabu
lation of results since elections
began last week shows the UFW has
won 14 elections, representing
more than 3,600 workers, and the
Teamsters seven, with more than
1,600 workers.
However, the rival unions were
tied with five victories each in in
stances where they met head-to-
head on the ballot.
An election victory does not
guarantee a contract but does give
the winning union exclusive bar
gaining rights with that grower for
one year.
Monday* Sept. 15*12 p.m.
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Tom Schieffer
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