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Page 12 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1976 Names in the News Compiled by LILLIAN FOREMAN Ehrlichman adjusts to prison life Singer signs record contract Irish poet wins British award John Ehrlichman, once the No. 2 man in the Nixon administration, is adjusting smoothly to prison life at Swift Trail Federal Prison in Saf ford, Ariz., the superintendent says. Ehrlichman began serving a 2 1 /2 -to- 8-year term on Oct. 28 for his involvement in the cover-up of the Watergate break-in. “The job he is doing takes a cer tain amount of mechanical ability,” said Supt. John Hadin. “The job re quires a lot in terms of interest and a desire to learn.” Former rock ‘n’ roll star Jimmy Clanton, after a decade-long rec ording hiatus, has signed a long term contract with the Starcrest label in Nashville, Tenn., the com pany has announced. His first release is “Old Rock ‘N Roller Will It Happen Again?,” de scribed by the company as “soft rock.” Charges filed Stripper released after overdose Fanne Foxe, who splashed into Washington’s Tidal Basin and the national news media in a 1975 inci dent involving retiring U. S. Rep. Wilbur Mills, was hospitalized and released after taking an overdose of tranquilizers, her press agent said. John Carmen said Miss Foxe, whose real name is Annabel Battistella, was taken yesterday afternoon from her Westport, Conn., home to Norwalk Hospital, where her stomach was pumped. against actor Freddie Prinze, 22, star of the “Chico and the Man” television se ries, was charged yesterday in Los Angeles with driving under the in fluence of methaqualone, a tran quilizer, on Nov. 5. Seamus Heaney, 37, has won Britain’s W. H. Smith literary prize for “North,” a highly acclaimed col lection of his poems on the violent history of Northern Ireland, his homeland. The $1,600 prize is awarded in London by a national chain of news paper distributors and booksellers to the author judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to English literature each year. Heaney has been hailed by some critics as the best Irish poet since William Butler Yeats, who died in 1939. ‘Irish problem is British rule’ Snowden snaps pictures for book Lord Snowdon, 46, estranged hus band of Britain’s Princess Mar garet, says he’s taking pictures in Malaysia for a book but gave no de tails of the project except to say that he’s doing it for an international f i rm. Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, who supports independence for Northern Ireland, says the real Irish problem is not the struggle that is portrayed between Protes tants and Catholics but British rule. Devlin, making her first trip to the United States in several years, said she wants to tell the American people “what is really happening in Belfast.” I There is a secret to success at McLaughlin's: We haircut- ters know what you want as well as what you don't want. 2 M c Laughlins MfL of corpus christi 1403 University Dr. 846-5764 Deportation hearing set for Iranians Associated Press HOUSTON — Most of the 91 Ira nians arrested a week ago after a clash with police during a demon stration, are expected to appear Thursday at a deportation hearing. Most were interviewed yesterday by a judge and assigned personal recognizance bonds. The decision by a magistrate with the U.S. Immigration and Naturali zation Service (INS) means the Ira nians will be released from jail soon. Except for a few students who could not prove their identities with proper documents or persons who turned out not to be enrolled in school, Judge James Smith found the rest reliable enough to appear at the deportation hearing. Forty-two Iranians are charged with violating their student Status. The INS claims 35 entered the coun try "in an unknown manner and nine allegedly overextended their authorized stay. Various charges were lodged against the rest. SENIOR & GRADUATE STUDENT 1977 “AGGIELAND” PHOTOS STARTING THIS WEEK A-F Nov. 15 to Nov. 19 G-K Nov. 22 to Dec. 3 L-O Dec. 6 to Dec. 10 Christmas Break P-S Jan. 17 to Jan. 21 T-Z Jan. 24 to Jan. 28 Makeups Only Through Feb. 11 UNIVERSITY STUDIO 115 COLLEGE MAIN — NORTHGATE 846-8019 % Carnaby Square Ltd. is for the good times The times you want to look terrific. The times you want to turn a guy’s head. Make an impression that lasts. . . CARNABY SQUARE LTD. CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES CULPEPPER PLAZA ... in a class by itself Painter keeps plying trade Mail Pouch signs fading Dan EDITOR’S NOTE — Those Mail Pouch signs on the sides of barns that kids on car trips loved to count are disappearing now, and so are the men who once painted them jby the thousands. All except Harley IWarrick, 51, still plying his trade. By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer BELMONT, Ohio — Few ever heard of Harley Warrick. His is hardly a household name. But Harley Warrick has left his imprint along the highways and by ways of nine states, and what he has left is symbolic of America in an age of innocence, an agrarian America, an America of penny candy and nickel cigars. Harley Warrick is the last of the Mail Pouch sign painters. Surely everyone who has driven through the rolling plains of the midwest or the hills of Appalachia or the mossy lowlands of the South is familiar with his work, an art piece as big as the side of a barn. CHEW MAIL POUCH TOBACCO TREAT YOURSELF TO THE BEST ! Harley Warrick has painted those words — top line white, middle line yellow, bottom line white, back ground black — more than 16,000 times on about 10,000 barns. He has painted so many, in fact, he can do it practically by instinct. He remembers painting some of them with a hangover. Perfect. For a lark, he painted a couple upside down just to startle his boss, then repainted them correctly. At 51, Warrick seems as much a part of Americana as his work. His face, pipe in mouth, has as much character as his signs. The eyes are blue, the hair slightly gray, the tex ture of the skin that of a man who does his work outdoors. Reflecting on his 31 years on the job, Warrick remembers most vivid ly, and warmly, the crews he worked with. Like Harley’s fellows, the signs are passing now. He estimates only a thousand left today. They have become items of nos talgia, sought after by collectors or for reproductions on postcards and paintings. They were still plentiful in 1945 when Warrick, then a young man of 20, came home from the war, from the Battle of the Bulge, from the 99th Division, to his farm in eastern Ohio. through Ohio, Indiana Michigan, Pennsylvania, Mania? New York, West Virginia and tucky. Warrick estimates thereto almost no chi 10,000 barns with Mail Pouclisi; back in the mid 1940s, whent) interstate highways, were no mini-cities of motels and fasti® limitation “The fellows you got acquainted with and worked with them for years,” he says. “They’ve passed on now, but while you’re working on these barns, you remember working there before with a certain crew or the guy and you get to thinking about him. You get a lot of memories that way.” “We had one on our barn at home,” he recalls. “I’d often won dered how in the heck somebody painted one of them things. I’d just been home from the service about two or three days and kind of look ing for a job. “A crew just happened to come along and paint it then, so I was talk ing to them. They said, ‘Well, if you’re interested in it, we got an opening here for you. We need a helper on another crew.’ So I just went across the road and packed my suitcase and took off.” And that’s the way it was for the next 31 years. Warrick, with his four-inch pure bristle brush and homemade paint in hand, traveled shops. At peak, there were eight painting Mail Pouch signs,I® crews of two men each. Today, there are not ei tions to keep Warrick busyfcl time. He works only about out of the year, travels halfof^ he used to, painting not morefe 20 new signs a year, repaiii those still standing about evenli years He points out that, ironical while the Federal High Beautification Act of 1965 killed bam signs, the 1974 Highway designated them “landmark sigs to be preserved. The fee to the farmer is nornit anywhere from $1 a year toil year. Many of the farmers are* ply interested in getting theirlm painted free. EDITOR’ who parachi with $200,00 is still alive. out Thanksgi Destruction of animals called inefficient Speaker decries 'putting pets to sleep “We need to find ways of using animals instead of just putting them to sleep,” the executive director of the American Humane Association told the state’s animal control offi cers who were assembled at Texas A&M University. Milton Searle was the first speaker Monday in the weeklong “Third An nual Animal Control Personnel De velopment Program” conducted by A&M’s Center for Urban Programs. Searle noted that he had begun his career as an animal control officer saying, “We are killing too many animals and our critics use this kil ling as a way to bring us before the press and public. “The methods are good, accept able and humane but the killing itself will continue to be criticized,” he explained. “But there is hope there are ways of using these discarded and unwanted animals. “There is a pilot program in Den ver to train hearing dogs’ for the deaf,” Searle pointed out. “These dogs are super-trained and are taught to be sensitive to what their masters can’t hear. This program alone could create a need for 500,000 animals. “There are also other plans for the use of dogs,” he went on. “A ‘Golden Years Companion’ animal program will utilize these extremely obedient dogs that respond to commands without difficulty for elderly persons that can’t get around. “In Lima, Ohio they are institut ing pet therapy for mentally hand icapped,” Searle said. “The officials of the institution began with fish by letting the inmates care for them. Now they are raising and selling them, making it a self-sustaining program. “After seeing the progress with fish, the officials went to birds, hamsters, gerbils and now dogs without any instances of inmates hurting the pets,” he said. “So the challenge is, instead of killing ani mals, find something to do with them. Only our lack of imagination will hold us back. ” Searle also said to solve the im mediate problem of controlling the stray animal population, they need the sanction of the public to exter minate animals. “Animals running free are a great health problem; a danger to the population and the environment,” he said. “The way it is now you can’t take a rifle and shoot strays that you know have no owner. Instead you are required to wear out equipment and waste time chasing these ani mals down and capturing them. Then we re required to house them, feed them and then destroy them. ” Searle was followed by rabiesti pert Dr. Lea Hutchinson of El Ffi who said that animal bitesareasei ous human affliction second onlyfc venereal disease in the numb?! occurrences. "There were one million dog bile in 1974 and of these 85 percents by owned dogs,” Hutchinson sail “Half of them occurred withii block of where the animal lived w only two per cent of them were it liberately provoked.” Stein conducts resean with marmosets THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF CHRISTMAS is at Happy Cottage 809 E. 29th (3 Blocks from City Nat'l. Bank) DO COME SEE US FOR AN EARLY SELECTION 4^ ^1^ ^1^ 4^ 4^ 4^ ^1^ 4^ ^1^ 4^^l^ ^1^ 4^ ^l^^l^ 4^ ^1^ ^1^ ^1^ ^1^ ^1^ 4^ ^1^4^ ^1^ ^1® ^1^ 4^^!^ 4^ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Cone & Candy Tree II TIRED OF HAMBURGERS?? TRY THE BEST HOT DOGS IN TOWN!! 2 HOT DOGS & COKE 85c plus tax Offer good Nov. 17-20 College Station’s New Ice Cream Store * * 35 FLAVORS MILKSHAKES • MALTS • SUNDAES * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * “Yes, We Have No Bananas,” a popular song a few years ago, could be the theme of a colony of small monkeys called marmosets. The, marmosets are housed in cages at the College of Veterinary Medicine as part of a research project being conducted by Franklin J. Stein, an associate professor of veterinary anatomy. “Bananas are not good for monkeys because the fruit has a lot of oil in it that can cause diarrhea,” Stein said, adding that he feeds the marmosets apples and oranges in addition to their canned monkey food. Marmosets are small monkeys from Central and South America. Stein said the monkeys are very useful in medical research. “Marmosets are good experi mental animals because their bodies react similarly to humans. They are used in dental research, transplant studies, nutrition studies, and tests checking their re sponses to bacteria,” Stein said. Researchers prefer the mar mosets over the rhesus monkey be cause the marmosets are smaller and easier to handle. They also grow to adult size faster and repro duce more than the larger rbesn monkey, Stein added. Stein began his pilot projed about a year ago with the having, a breeding colony obflw mosets for research here at fe A6cM. Today, Stein has 22 pairs and about 15 young thatb» been born in captivity. “Marmosets usually pair up just one mate. The females usual have twins every five montks, Stein said. When born, a marmoset weigb about one ounce or the equivaletl of four teaspoons of sugar or pennies. An adult marmoset!® ally weighs about a pound, marmoset stays with his parei until he reaches adolescence at i- months. Then he is moved own cage and given a mate, mosets have a breeding lifefl about 10 years, Stein said. “I have applied to the Nation Institute of Health (NIH) for fram ing, and once we get the necessao funds, I hope to be in full _ tion within three years, ” he sail Stein hopes to have 100 adult pain producing 300 young a year for search. y MILK. 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