p aae 6 THE BATTALION
^ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1976
^ FRIDAY, SEPTbMBtn o, ■
Neighborly carpenter
builds free home for widow
, „a for the new the work, laboring nearly five hours
Viking 1 —dormant
Second touchdown in better sp|
Associated Press
McKINNEY, Tex. — As chilling
winter rains swept East McKinney
last January, retired carpenter W.
M. Jeter decided he d seen enough.
Outside, his 73-year-old widowed
neighbor Julia McDade was totter
ing on an old ladder in an attempt to
plug gaping holes in the tattered
roof of her tarpaper shanty.
“I said to myself, Lord, I m
gonna do somethin,’ ” said Jeter.
What he did was completely
build a sturdy, new two bedroom
frame house for his neighbor
without charging her a penny.
Jeter, a carpenter for 35 years, is
nearly 71.
Mrs. McDade will soon move
next door into the new house, leav
ing behind her sagging shack, with
its dirt floor, battered walls and
wood-burning stove.
For the first time in her life, she 11
have indoor plumbing.
“This woman needed a home and
I decided to do it myself,” said the
lean, friendly carpenter, who lives
across the street.
Jeter agreed to dismantle an old
church parsonage nearby in order to
obtain lumber, sheetrock, nails.
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doors and windows for the new
house. ,
Mrs. McDade spent hours pul
ling nails from the lumber, while Je
ter, a sixth-grade dropout, lobbied
with city officials to obtain permits
for his project. , , .
He once appeared before the
McKinney City Council -— carrying
rough blueprints penciled on the
back of an old board.
Some of the materials and money
were donated by area citizens and
groups and one of Jeter’s longtime
friends, an electrician, did the wir
ing.
But Jeter did the remainder of
the work, laboring nearly five hours
a day since last April. He laid a
foundation, built the frame, in
stalled the plumbing, hung sheet-
rock and constructed the roof.
“Mr. Jeter is some neighbor,
said the diminutive Mrs. McDade
as flies buzzed through the screen
less windows of her shack. He took
it upon hisself to build me a house.
Money from the North Texas area
has begun to trickle in as people
have heard of Jeter’s project. He is
planning an open house celebiation
in late September when he finishes
the new house.
West Texas artist
featured in A&M book
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more variety than anticipated, according
to Soffen. .
“New features of enormous dimension,
and always different, were found daily —
wide gorges, scarps, faults, flat valleys,
mottled erosion, ancient shorelines, deep
basins, blockly terrain, knobby terrain
tablelands, sunburst craters, pedestaled
craters ...” he said.
“They were etched and carved by
geologic processes more active than had
been thought. The finding of so many
signs that water had once flowed on Mars
was particularly intriguing, he said. The
current reckoning is that internal heat
melted underground ice that erupted onto
the land and drained back into the crust.
Soffen enumerated Viking 1 s observations
at a forum for visiting scientists this week.
Evidence of volcanic, fluvial water-
caused, aeolian wind-caused and depo-
sitional processes on Mars. There are crat
ers resembling those on the Moon, but
they seem to have occurred at one-tenth
the frequency and wind has eroded them
relatively slowly.
Scientists would like to learn more
about the interior of Mars and find out
whether any volcanic activity is still going
0,1 “The great Vallis Marineris, a series n f
canyons that far outstrips our Grand Can
yon in size, was formed by much more
recent process than the craters were.
These processes may still be continuing.
The vast plains of the northern region
are laced with almost geometric patterns
of cracks, resembling some areas of the
Arctic region on Earth.
There is a great variety of rocks near the
Viking 1 lander, all with a fine red coating.
The sky contains suspended dust parti
cles that make it look pink.
Nitrogen and argon have been discov
ered in the atmosphere. Using the n 163 '
surements of these gases, scientists have
concluded that Mars’ atmosphere was
once significantly different and proball,
somewhat thicker than it is now.
There is more water vapor in the;
the farther north one looks, and there is:
lot of water frozen in the north and so
polar caps.
The climate is rather stagnant andrt
petitive in the summertime.
No organic matter compounds based®
carbon, essential for life as it is found®
Earth has been found in two samplesd
Mars dirt.
The life-seeking biology experiments
are inconclusive at this point, buthan
yielded clues to the chemistry ofthesnt
face.
The last point will keep scientists®
their laboratories for years perhaps, tryinj
to understand the peculiar chemistn,
Whether that chemistry is connectedwil
life — Viking 1 has not been able to tel
Viking 2, landing in a region believedlt
be more hospitable to life, may yet fitl
out the answer on its own.
Eightv paintings by West Texas
artist Mondel Rogers are featured in
a new book published by the Texas
A&M University Press.
Old Ranches of the Texas Plains,
which includes 57 Rogers paintings
reproduced in full color, is the first
publication in the Joe and Betty
Moore Texas Art Series.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore, of Austin
and Midland, made possible a list ot
art books interpreting the various
regions ofTexas with a $75,000 gift to
Texas A&M’s new scholarly press
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last year. Moore is a 1938 graduate of
Texas A&M and was president of its
alumni association in 1974.
Rogers, using dry-brush
watercolor and egg tempera tech
niques, has painted such old West
Texas ranch buildings as the P 3 * 0
Duro Camp, the LX dugout, the
Matador Ranch headquarters, the
barn at the 6666 Ranch and the man
sions of Milhollon, Gray, Rayner and
Mooar. Most of the structures are
painted as they appear today, or as
they appeared until just recently.
“Mondel Rogers’ visual document
of the golden age of ranching (1870-
1917)...is a study in historic
documentation, said Mitchell A.
Wilder, director of the Amon Carter
Museum of Western Art in Fort
Worth, who wrote the foreword in
the new book.
Rogers, a native of Sweetwater, is
a 1971 graduate ofTexas Tech Uni
versity. ■
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It’s not completely
hopeless
Zurich talks focus on Namibia
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger’s renewed involve
ment in Africa’s racial conflicts is clouded
by bickering with South African Prime
Minister John Vorster and statements by
U.S. officials downplaying Kissingers
chance for success.
The secretary leaves today for weekend
talks with Vorster in Zurich, with an in-
termediate stop in London for talks with
British leaders.
The focus of the talks reportedly will be
the pace of the move toward indepen
dence for Namibia, the former territory of
South-West Africa still occupied by the
South African regime.
In addition to expressing dissatisfaction
with the Namibia situation, Kissinger also
will push Vorster to ease South Africa’s
own restrictions on blacks. A third subject
will be Rhodesia where the black majority
is pressing the white supremacist govern
ment.
The Zurich meetings will be the second
round of discussions between Kissinger
and Vorster in the last four months after
years of virtually no high-level contact be
tween the two countries.
If the secretary is able to claim any de
gree of progress after the Vorster talks, he
will travel to Africa for meetings with
black leaders and possibly another session
with Vorster in South Africa itself.
The odds for Kissinger’s success are
hard to gauge. He has said in the past he
would not meet with Vorster unless he
thought progress was distinctly possible.
Nevertheless, he and Vorster engaged
Thursday in some long-range gamesman
ship, apparently designed to prove that
nothing is settled at this point.
Originally, the State Department said
Kissinger and Vorster would hold a major
formal meeting Sunday. But Vorster tfi® 11
said he didn’t work on Sundays and he
called off the Sunday session, saying he
would see Kissinger Saturday and
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Monday.
In addition, Vorster issued a statemedB
saying his government s domesticpolicyi I
“determined by South Africa itself and! lOLLEC
not prescribed to her by any person i bs A&M
country from outside.” Ilhursd
Vorster’s anger and the schedule chans liple-opl
was attributed by State Departmentol pes this
cials to his determination to provethl let.
Kissinger is not writing the script. t
Shortly after announcing he would med lf erence
with Vorster, Kissinger gave a speechtoi L ^
largely black audience in Philadelphia i| , 0 ^
midweek, sharply criticizing Vorsten
internal white supremacist policies.
In his turn, Kissinger leaked a mm
Thursday that he would Zurich Sra
day to visit relatives in Germany. Thisra
designed to show that Vorster wasnotdic
tating Kissinger’s schedule. _
After this pushing and shoving, tlt| ellarcl
schedule was amended to call for
Saturday and Monday with informal dir
cussions on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON — New gov
ernment rules will allow Americans
to take low cost charter flights to any
part of the world without having to
join a group or buy ground accom
modations such as hotels.
Tickets on charter flights tra
ditionally have cost about half the
price of a coach seat on a scheduled
flight.
The new charters, similar to those
already popular in Europe, require
a traveler to buy a round trip ticket
in advance. But the affinity group
requirement is being eliminated
and travelers won t have to stay for
minimum periods, except in nine
European countries where visitors
will be required to stay at least
seven days.
The new rules issued Thursday
by the Civil Aeronautics Board
cover both domestic and overseas
flights and will go into effect on Oct.
7.
The new rules face possible legal
challenges from scheduled airlines
that generally have opposed more
liberal charter rules. On the other
hand, a charter organization has al-
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Because the new charters, known
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not require passengers to belong to
any organized group, the CAB rul-
ing might lessen the lure that some
travelers found in “affinity groups.
The CAB had required everyone
on the plane to share an interest
other than traveling.. This encour
aged the growth of social and occu
pational organizations that also
traveled. In fact, some of these
groups had no purpose other than to
qualify as “affinity groups’ under
CAB rules.
Under the new rules, there is no
minimum fare and charter operators
will be allowed to set the tare on
their own.
To qualify for the charters,
passengers will be required to buy
their tickets at least 30 days in ad
vance for domestic flights and at
least 45 days in advance for Euro
pean flights. Tickets will be pur
chased from independent charter
brokers who will organize the
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40 people. The charter operaK
the right to impose a penal
purchasers who cancel ala
when the operator no Ion
permitted to sell unsold or fl
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HOUSTON — Motorists are ex
pected to find gasoline plentiful over
the Labor Day holiday but they will
have to pay about one cent more per
gallon than they did during the July
4th weekend.
The American Automobile As
sociation reported Wednesday that a
survey of 254 service stations indi
cated average prices of regular
gasoline will be 57.4 cents a gallon.
59.4 for unleaded and 61
mium.
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