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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1977)
(S rmy company gathers to honor Rudder THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1977 Page 3 con- men have lay, ICS leers Hy- astal ield. ty of i the By GLENNA WHITLEY Battalion Campus Editor arly 100 veterans of the U.S. |y Rangers, most survivors of the Battalion’s D-Day assault of the ties of Normandy, will attend al services here tomorrow en. J. Earl Rudder. Rudder [their commanding officer and a er president of the Texas A&M ersity System. e service will be part of the nial reunion which the six anger Battalions will hold at Hous- Shamrock Hilton Hotel today iriugh Sunday. ‘ Ye were patterned after the ri ish commando units, ” said m s\V, Ike’’ Eikner, president of udder Chapter of the National ;er Battalion Association, e 2nd Battalion was the first Ranger unit organized in April 143 in Tennessee. Rudder, then Major, became the commanding filer soon after the unit was led. HI hand-picked volunteers, the gers were trained for special uons. Eikner said Rudder was a h commander when occasion landed and he “straightened the lit out”. Eikner said Rudder explained his lion to them in this way: “If I ri your cooperation, I’ll be your [nd and we’ll get the job done and wbe have some fun together. If I ii’tget your cooperation, I’ll be a [an so-and-so and we’ll still get Ijob done.” me Rangers were specialists in phibious warfare, attacks on for- ed enemy positions and night op- ions. “We did not have a special way of operating,” Eikner said. The mis sion was assigned and their training was adapted for every individual mission. Eikner said the Normandy inva sion was the first full operation for the battalion as a whole. “It did appear to be a suicide-type mission,” Eikner said. The Rangers were confident though, he said, be cause their training was so intense and they knew what to expect. In the attack on Pointe du Hoc, the 2nd Battalion was faced with scaling cliffs that rose 100 feet from the landing beach and wrestling guns and positions away from the Germans at the top of the cliffs. They suffered a casualty rate of 60 per cent. Gen. Rudder was wounded twice, but refused to be evacuated. The assignment of the attack at Pointe du Hoc at Normandy led Gen. Omar Bradley to “No soldier in my command has ever been wished a more difficult task than that which befell the 34- year-old commander of this Ranger Force.” After the war ended, the War Department issued a book on small unit operations describing the Normandy invasion as one of the four outstanding operations of the war. The Ranger veterans will meet with Rudder’s widow, Mrs. Mar garet Rudder in her College Station home tomorrow. “He thought an awful lot of these men,” she said "It’s quite a tribute to him.” Eikner said the trip to College AN EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL PRE-SCHOOL — GRADE IX 2505 South College Avenue Bryan, Texas 822-2715 Gen. Earl Rudder at Normandy during D-Day in f[ (UJp -foT kjoUr cgV-, , -truck; ©T camper hlo -bp, No Spil I, hlo Splatter barcja.aLaiq -to harvdkz Thermal protcchon Wza:pS driot-i VioV or prilnk - thro lid praiOtnfi. 5>piI \oV<z.r or-5p\a2>Wincj -Snaps oo4- for aaisq cl<z.ani r>c^ Vteqic. fa:>V'<zn<£r ” ancViora holdar to .Sor fao<z 1 EAST 2% STREET WAREHOUSE 3715 EAST 21th STREXT (713) 84to-477l TOWU } COUNTRY CENTER Station was designed to allow the men who were unable to attend his funeral in 1970 to pay homage to him. Rudder is honored in a memorial service by the people of the Pointe du Hoc region every year on the an niversary of his death, Mrs. Rudder fregnancy benefits clause o longer a requirement United Press International STIN — Insurance companies [not be required to provide preg- fcy benefits to basic accident [1 health policies and probably refuse to sell such protection li as a supplemental coverage er [an. 1, the chairman of the Me Insurance Board said yester- le Christie said the 2-1 vote by estate board Monday will make it [xt to impossible for individuals to |ain insurance protection for med- costs connected to pregnancy childbirth. doubt it will even be offered,” jstie said yesterday. “It’s really g to discourage any type of lernity benefits in individual Jcies.” [lost group insurance policies in maternity benefits, but 20 to per cent of Texas residents are jered by individual policies ier than group programs. ore juveniles e authorities ter arrests United Press International JSTIN — About half of the e than 59,000 children, aged 6, who were arrested last year rienced their first contact with nile authorities, the Texas Judi- Council said yesterday, uring 1976, juvenile authorities prted a total of 59,965 children e processed in 67,047 referrals robation departments. The dl said 55 per cent of the refer- had their first contact with renile authorities. Police departments made 86.2 er cent of the referrals while the gaining 13.8 per cent were made gocial agencies, parents, schools other sources. he council said 79 per cent of the :rrals during 1976 were attend- school at the time of their con- with juvenile authorities; 15 per t were drop-outs and 2 per cent e suspended or expelled from ool. The three-man insurance board last December voted to require in clusion of pregnancy benefits individual health and accident poli cies issued after Jan. 1, 1978. Insurance companies protested vigorously and Christie’s counter parts on the board switched sides Monday to drop recjuirements for including pregnancy benefits in basic coverage and also to make it more difficult for companies that want to provide such protection on a supplemental basis. Ned Price and Durwood Manford voted to recjuire any company wish ing to offer pregnancy benefits to provide payments at least 10 times the daily room and board benefit specified for other medical cir cumstances. “Although it sounds good it means pregnancy benefits are less likely to be included, ” Christie said. Christie said one company had filed a proposal for an experimental policy that would provide partial pregnancy coverage one year after a policy was purchased and complete coverage after three years. “The tragic thing is that even that experimental policy will be prohi bited,” he said. Industry spokesmen said men and elderly people will never need preg nancy benefits and do not want to pay for coverage they cannot use. Christie said women are forced to pay for a number of coverages they cannot use such as insurance bene fits for prostate surgery. He said pregnancy benefits should be in cluded in basic health policies. “I think it’s the fair thing to do,” Christie said. “Unfortunately preg nancy is still considered by some as something that’s voluntarily as sumed and in many cases it’s not. Besides it’s a joint effort between a male and a female.” said. There is also a French memo rial service held on June 6, the an niversary of D-Day. A monument built with funds raised by the French was also placed on the beach at Normandy and de dicated to the Rangers and Gen. Rudder. Rudder was appointed vice presi dent of Texas A&M in 1958 and be came president a year later. He was named system president in 1965 and held that position until his death March 23, 1970. The public ceremony is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. in College Station Cemetery and will include a color guard composed of Aggies from the 49th Armored Division and a fly-by of Texas National Guard jets. After the services, the Rangers will tour the J. 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