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A PERFORMANCE of the Aggie
Concert and Stage Bands will be
shown tonight in Rudder Au
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$1.50 and will benefit the schol
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Battalion photo by Diane Chastities
COL. T. R. PARSONS , com
mandant of cadets and professor of;
military science, retires this year
after 28 years in the U .S. Army, and
in his honor, a Corps of Cadets
passby has been scheduled Wed
nesday, April 13, occurring at the
evening meal formation. Parsons
has been commandant and the
senior Army officer here since 1971.
DALLAS overcharged Farmers
Branch and Grand Prairie for water
in 1973 and 1974, the Texas Water
Rights Commission ruled yester
day. The three-man commission or
dered rates recalculated and rebates
made under a complicated formula
Dallas officials said would reduce
prices about three cents per
thousand cubic gallons. James Wil
son of Austin, attorney for the city of
Dallas, said the order will be ap
pealed.
cede from the Houston Independent
School District. Federal attorneys,
Kvho argue secession of Westheimer
might inhibit school desegregation,
contend Judge James Noel’s delay in
deciding the question is causing “se
rious harm to daily operation of
Houston schools.
;S. Fitzsimmons. Vincent A. Meli,
identified before a Senate commit
tee in 1963 as a syndicate “capo,”
| was charged along with the others in
,a plot to force truck drivers to pay
employers’ shares of contributions
to various union pension funds.
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By BARBARA FRICKE
I'o better balance the Corps pro-
1m, the two Air Force wings of
‘Texas A&M University Corps of
ladets have been combined, Gen
al Ormond R. Simpson said Tues-
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^impson, assistant vice president
student services, supervises the
itary program at A&M.
ft//iams IlF 6 explained that a balance will
bv Maw achieved by combining the Air
con oneaB rce units since the other
sponsorll ,nc ^ es t ^ ie Cor P s — Army,
1 blicof# v y- Marine an< ^ band — are al-
aboutoMy under individual command
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ol. Robert W. Elkins, professor
erospace studies, said that com
ing the two wings will simplify
e Air Force organization by plac
all Air Force cadets under one
immander. He said it will also
pefully eliminate some of the
jmpetition between the Air Force
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outfits, enabling corps members to
think and act as a single unit.
The change, which will take effect
during fall 1977, was not an arbi
trary decision, Simpson said. Com
bining the wings has been consid
ered for about two years and this
year’s Corps Commander Robert
Harvey proposed the change.
Simpson said the idea was dis
cussed seriously in December with
the junior and senior cadets who
would be involved in the change.
Glenn Francis, 1st Wing com
mander, said, “Personally I didn’t
like the change because too many
staff members lost positions.”
By combining the two wings, one
wing staff and one group staff (com
mand unit under the wing) will be
eliminated, decreasing the number
of staff positions by 14.
Francis said he agreed that hav
ing one major unit for each branch
will make the corps more uniform.
Wing Commander for 1977-78
Steve Kolb said at first he did not
like the idea of changing.
“It would reduce the staff and
take leadership opportunities away
from qualified people,” he said.
Another benefit of decreasing
staff members is that it will keep
quality leadership in the outfits, Jim
Curley, 2nd Wing Commander,
said.
Curley said a big problem the
decision-makers are facing is the re
sentment of some of the cadets to
the change. Members of the 2nd
Wing and 4th Group feel they are
simply being put into other units,
he said.
Elkins said since the combination
is a reorganization of the entire Air
Force branch, it is like forming an
entirely new unit.
To make the change easier to ac
cept, the 1st Wing and 2nd Wing
shields (insignias worn on the uni
form shoulders) will be retired, El
kins said. A new emblem will be
selected to represent the new wing.
mocent fairy tales may contain
messages harmful to young children
United Press International and couldn’t keep her. Put her in a clothes for a prince
W ^° ^’k es the story Peter, Peter,
impkin Eater may grow up to be a
United Press International
MINNEAPOLIS — The child
dist and the girl who likes the tale
Little Red Riding Hood may be
isy to seduce when she grows up.
And the girl who likes the Old
dman in the shoe may have so
any children she doesn’t know
)at to do.
Such are the hazards of sex
ireotyping hidden in fairy tales,
"irsery rhymes and children’s tele-
sion shows, according to Sue
endrix and Linda Jones, staff
embers of the University of Min-
iesota College of Education.
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They said fairy tales once consid-
ired innocent contain hidden mes
sages — sex stereotypes that are
mful to youngsters.
Adults show the effects of
Itereotypes for years, they said, like
pe Cinderellas waiting for princes
and Red Riding Hoods who are easy
to seduce.
I Those who liked the little old
woman who lived in a shoe may al
ready have more children than they
ow what to do with,” they said.
People who identify only with the
proper traits” of their own sex tend
to score lower in analytic thinking,
creativity and general intelligence,
they added.
1 They quoted the story of “Peter,
Ifcter, pumpkin eater. Had a wife
and couldn’t keep her. Put her in a
pumpkin shell and there he kept
her very well.”
“Parents who don’t want their
daughters to grow up in pumpkin
shells or their sons to plan on using
them as keeping places for future
wives had better look twice at what
their pre-schoolers are learning
from fairy tales and television
shows,” the educators said.
The Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
fanciers, they said, could mistreat or
abuse their wives if they find it dif
ficult to “keep them” in their place,
the experts have said.
Misses Hendrix and Jones listed
examples of sterotypes that can
cause problems:
V “The invisible girl. Girls
aren’t shown nearly as often as boys
in children’s stories.
V “The fragile flower. Many
fairy tale heroines wait in their best
clothes for a prince or husbanc.
They are sometimes stupid or silly
to boot. Even the Bionic Woman
usually needs help from her male
supervisor.
“The scatterbrain. Little Miss
Muffet is afraid of a spider. Little
Red Riding Hood doesn’t notice it
isn’t her grandmother in bed.”
V “The pretty face. Beauty in
fairy tales is usually seen as the most
important quality a female can
have.”
They gave Sesame Street credit
for trying to avoid some of these
things.
What can parents do?
For starters, they said, they can
call half the stuffed animals in the
house by girls’ names and get non-
stereotyped books.
And, “They can give both
baseballs and cook books to children
of both sexes.”
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A LEADER in the field of organic
chemistry. Dr .A. Ian Scott, will end
a nine-year stint at Yale and become
Distinguished Professor of
Chemistry here, effective June 1.
“Dr. Scott is in demand all over the
world for lectures in his area of re
search,” said Dr. Arthur E. Martel,
head of Texas A&M’s Chemistry
Department.
1977 SUPPORTS on livestock
feed grains are “far too low” but
closer “to what farmers hoped for,”
said Elbert Harp, executive director
of the Grain Sorghum Producers
Association, yesterday. He said he
is willing to give the Carter adminis
tration a little more time to get or
ganized, but says he still is disap
pointed with the announced sup
ports.
A REPORT by a panel of senators
yesterday warned President Carter
that a nation obtaining a nuclear fuel
processing plant for peaceful pur
poses could build an atomic bomb
“within days,” if it renounced the
safeguards it accepted to get it.
Since becoming President, Carter
has given top priority to the need
for curbing the spread of atomic
know-how and is ready today to an
nounce his major policy statement
on nuclear proliferation.
JACK CARTER, the President’s
29-year-old son, says he does not
plan to have his general discharge
from the Navy upgraded to honora
ble. President Carter recently
signed an order giving recipients of
both general and dishonorable dis
charges the opportunity to apply for
review of their cases. Jack, dis
charged from the Navy for smoking
marijuana, said he doesn’t want
people to think his father did it just
for him.
A FEDERAL JUDGE has been
ordered to rule in Houston on the
Westheimer case, deciding whether
the mostly white neighborhood of
Westheimer will be allowed to se-
INDICTED with three other
men was a reputed crime syndicate
kingpin for extorting pension money
from members of the Teamsters’
local in Detroit that was the power-
base for Jimmy R. Hoffa and Frank
EXILES paid final homage yes
terday to Carlos Prio Socarras, the
last constitutionally elected presi
dent of Cuba, who shot himself to
death Tuesday, apparently despon
dent over financial reverses in his
business interest and in despair
over a thaw in relations between the
United States and Cuba. Socarras
was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery
in Miami.
Fiber essential
to healthful diet
Embrey s Jewelry
A food and nutrition specialist
with the Texas Agricultural Exten
sion Service says fibers is important
in the diet to help avoid constipa
tion, and there is evidence it may
help prevent intestinal disorders.
Frances Reasonover says fiber
sources include whole-grain breads
and crackers, cereals such as bran
flakes, all bran, shredded wheat,
whole wheat flakes, old-fashioned
oatmeal, hot cereals, mixed whole
grain natural cereals, raw vegetables
— or those cooked to “tender crisp, ”
— fresh and dried fruit, dried beans,
peas and lentils.
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