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Page 8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29, 1975 Wurstfest opening brings New Braunfels to lift By RAY DANIELS Battalion Staff Writer New Braunfels, 120 miles from A&M, comes alive Friday with the opening of the 15th annual Wurstfest. The festival, running from Oct. 31 to Nov. 9, highlights the enjoyment of beer, sausage and dancing, augmented by 114 sports and entertainment events. Fora one-night visit to Wurstfest, the MSG Travel committee is pro viding a 80-space bus trip and entr ance to the Wursthalle for $10. The buses will leave A&M at 1 p.m. Saturday, returning to campus after the Wursthalle closes at midnight. The Outdoor Recreation Com mittee is going also to New Braun fels. The group will camp at Canyon Lake Saturday night, but plans for Girl Scouts vote down male entry Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Girl Sc outs voted overwhelmingly Tues day not to admit boys to their or ganization. Boys will be able to participate in Girl Scout activities when invited, however. About 60,000 adult men will be able to continue as troop leaders, board members and consultants. The Boy Scouts, which are not affiliated with the Girl Scouts, voted last year to admit girls aged 14 to 21 to their Explorer Division. The 1,800 delegates to the Girl Scouts national convention, by a show of hands, backed up their di rectors who recommended against admitting boys. Those who wanted boys in the program argued that they would en courage older girls to remain in the scouts and increase membership. By merging girls and boys into one program, they said, it would cut ex penses of having duplicate progr- The critics, clearly in the majori ty, said girls mature faster than boys, so grouping them by age would be a problem. They argued that boys would dominate girls and that the organization would lose its all-female identity. “If we need boys to sell Girl Sc outs, we need to re-evaluate our program, ” said Brenda Akers, 17, of Lawrence, Ind., in preliminary de bate Monday. Her comments re ceived much cheering and applause from the delegates, varying in age from young to middle aged and old. Maureen O’Connell, 17, of Ch icago, argued that boys will try to dominate girls when they go on camping trips. “They’ll try to tell us how to build campfires and stuff,” she said. TOM PADGITT’S HI-FI & STEREO DISCOUNTS 693-5143 AFTER 4 P.M. Sue AuKema at Dena’s Hair Fashion specializes in layer cutting frosting & Men’s & Women’s Hair Styling. 106 Carson 822-6034 779-0676 Embrey’s Jewelry We Specialize In Aggie Rings. Diamonds Set Sizing — Reoxidizing — All types watch/jewelry Repair Aggie Charge Accounts 9-5:30 84tt ' 846-5816 ALLEN Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE 'Where satisfaction is standard equipment" 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 | I IV I I arrival and departure are still unde cided. Interested students should sign up at the Outdoor Rec booth in the MSC and attend the organiza tional meeting Thursday evening at 7:30 in Room 607 in Rudder Tower. The Wursthalle and surrounding grounds, located in the center of New Braunfels, are the focal point of the festivities. Last year 4,032 kegs of beer and 40 tons of sausage were consumed by the 150,000 people who attend. Everything from aspirin and apfel streudel to wurstburgers and wurst tortillias are served. Sausage starts at 75 cents and for $1 to $1.50 a third pound of sausage on a stick can be bought. Twelve ounces of draught beer in the Wursthalle costs 50 cents, and pitchers are $2.50 for a refill. The profits, according to Wilton War- necke of the New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce, are recy cled into the community through donations to schools and community programs. Weekend attendance is largely college students and young people, while week night crowds are usually middle-aged adults and families, ac cording to Tom Purdem, public re lations director for Wurstfest. With such a large number of people attending, an elevated number of disturbances and ensu ing arrests is usually anticipated. Last year, however, only 75 per sons were arrested by the 30 New Braunfels officers for public intoxi cation and/or disorderly conduct. “Most of them were out in about four hours, provided they could pay the $25 cash bond, ” said John Bres- lin, records manager of the police force. “We’ve been encouraging the police force and Wurstfest security not to hassle people who are having a good time,” said Warnecke, “but we don’t want to see a few people keeping others from having a good time.” Little trouble is anticipated. A provision for encorcing the 1 a.m. liquor curfew, closing the re tailers at midnight, provides an ample margin of safety. “There will be Alcoholic Beverage Commission officials on the grounds to enforce the liquor rules,” said Purdem. A sailing regatta at Canyon lake will take place from Friday evening to Sunday. On Saturday, white water canoeing begins at 8:30 a.m. below Canyon Dam finishing at noon in Cypress Bend Park, New Braunfels. Team kayak competition is held behind the Wursthalle Saturday at 3:30 with individual competition Sunday at 10. Nov. 8 an Auto Rally will be held at Walnut Square Shopping Center. Open registration begins at 9 a.m. with competition beginning at 10. Three bicycle competitions also take place that weekend including a hill country race from Austin, Sun day’s time trial road race in the New Braunfels vicinity and a criterium race 10 o’clock Sunday morning at Walnut Square. Bowling, Tennis, Square Danc ing, and Dramafest events during the week are billed as tournaments. Competing throughout thefestiv bowlers are awarded a $350» men’s and $1,000 men’s firstpris Square dancing workshop: round dancing take place at2p,n to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to8p.m.w; pr featured callers at the 8 p.m, boree. The Dramafest performam “Sweet Sue’s Secret Sorrow- Tire Wurst Time of Her Life'] found in Kleinhalle at 7 and 53 ie weekend evenings and 8:30 Tue day through Thursday evenings If these events can not justify trip to New Braunfels, there s several area attractions indudii the Beer Bottle World, wliid houses 9, (XX) unique beer bottles; Garden Display; Fall Natural Bridge Caverns; Gruene, a revived ghost town. Art Sin* It is undwor jt ealth pro! 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