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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1978
We Pick Up & Deliver
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Tri-State A&M Sporting Goods
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Savings from 20 % -50 %
All Clothing Reduced to Sell ^
Dear Swade jackets (7 only)
Reg. 24.95 Now 14 5 °
Weather Rite Leather look jacket (5 only)
Reg. 12.95 Now
Down-Look jacket (8 only)
Reg. 16.60 Now 12^^
Cal-Craft Dac II jacket (11 only)
Reg. 26.95 N ow 15^^
Browning Goos Down Coats (8 only)
Reg. 59.95 Now 39 95
Sunshine Mountain Down Jackets (13 only) Reg. 57.(X) Now 32 ^
Sports F'ashion Down jacket (27 only)
Reg. 39.95 Now 24 95
Wall’s Down jacket (9 only)
Reg. 55.50 Now 34 95
Wall’s Down jacket w/fur collar (2 only)
Reg. 73.50 Now 44 95
Browning SilverTip Down Coats (3 only)
Reg. 89.95 Now 64 95
Reversible Insulated vests (16 only)
Reg. 8.00 Now 4^^
Down and DacII filled vests (68 only)
Reduced Vs
|led Head and Browning Camo Coats
Reduced 40^^
Hunting Accessories
All hunting Pants, Shirts, V&
Caps, Insulated Booties Off
Assorted caps r-ec
Close Out 50% Olt
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Electric Sock and Gloves
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Re;:. 42.00
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Now 9 88
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Equipment
Hang Ten Hiking Type Boots
Reg. 50.25 Now 14** 9
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Chippew a .Boots
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Reloading
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Bag(250)
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89 c
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Box (100)
As/c about our Below cost close out
on famous brand guns including
Weatherby Shotguns, some Winchester
shotguns, some Remington shotguns,
Parker Hale rifles, Franchi & Savage.
All scopes in stock 10% off Dealer.
Lepold, Redfield, Weaur Bash & Leon
Bushnell.
Fishing Lures & Worms 30% off
All Rods reduced 20%
All Reels20% Off our Discounted Prices
20% off
All Tackle Boxes
Archery
Bows reduced — 30-40% up to 60%
off original suggested retail.
All accessories reduced Vi off shelf price
Alum, arrows with pro flee hi ng now l^^ea.
We are off to Market to restock for another great year.
We wish all of you a Happy New Year and say thanks
for the biggest year in our 10 year history.
846-3280
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Sporting Goods
3600 Old College Rd.
846-3510
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Homeowners should compromise
Houses need less frills
United Press International
CAMBRIDGE, Mass — A Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology
housing specialist thinks homebuild
ers can take a hint from the au
tomakers and begin offering smaller
homes with less frills at lower cost.
Dr. Bernard J. Frieden, professor
of city planning and former director
of the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for
Urban Studies, says Americans may
be on the verge of lowering their
standards in order to fulfill the
American dream of home owner
ship.
“A compact home does not neces
sarily mean a home of lesser quality,
but with fewer extras and smaller,”
he said. “I’m talking about a rollback
to the kinds of houses that were built
after World War II.”
Up to now, Frieden said, young
American families have been willing
to sacrifice a great deal in order to get
together that down payment to pur
chase their first home. “But there is a
question of how much longer they
can continue to sacrifice.” Frieden
said middle income Americans have
been employing a number of
strategies to cope with rising costs
that have put a price tag of $50,000
on typical new homes.
Husbands and wives both work;
moonlighting is common to boost
earnings. Couples take on mortgage
payments amounting to a third or
more of their income with the idea
that increased wages will lessen the
burden in the future. Some simply
cut back drastically on all other ex
penses to scrape the money to
gether, he said.
“But if home ownership costs con
tinue to outpace income increases,
fewer young families will manage to
buy the first home they can later use
as a basis for trading up,” Frieden
said. “Another downturn in the
ecomony could wipe out jobs for sec
ondary wage earners - thus blocking
the pooled income solution - and
possibly frustrate the expectations of
higher future incomes that heavily
mortgaged families have. ’.
Difficult as it is, Frieden said, the
American housing dream is dying
hard. People have a hard time ac
cepting the idea of a minimum home
just as many find it difficult to adapt
to a smaller car.
“Perhaps, as Detroit’s experience
with compact cars suggests, many
people want certain products to be
luxurious even if they must make
great sacrifices to buy them.’
While it’s pretty clear that most
young families want to buy homes,
and will make great sacrifices to buy
them, Frieden said. Those sacrifices
are becoming increasingly too much
of a burden and young Americans are
becoming frustrated at their inability
to purchase a home.
should be able to buy newly]
homes with fewer than seven \
at a price saving.”
Frieden said a “no frills con
home” would have no fireplace'
central air conditioning, no ’
wall carpeting, more modest |
scaping, smaller lots and fe»]
rooms. “Most of these things i
he added later. The immediatep
lem is getting that first home,”]
said.
However, he said, “with fewer
children now the norm, families may
decide they can get by with fewer
rooms than the large homes built in
the early 1970s provided. If so, they
The American dream is ownen
of a single-family home on itsu
lot. American’s probably won’te
give up that dream, but theycanj
cept a variation of it, Frieden thinU
New edition book relates
events in cowboys’ work
A new edition of Cowhand: The
Story of A Working Cowboy has
been published by the Texas A&M
University Press.
The book, initially released in
1948, was written by the late Fred
Gipson, widely regarded as one of
the Southwest’s great storytellers.
Gipson tells what the job of a real
cowboy was like, beginning about
1916. The story is told by recounting
much of the life of Ed Alford — or
“Fat,” as he was known - who now
lives in semi-retirement in Ozona.
Fat became a cowboy because he
didn’t like picking cotton. Short and.
even in his prime, potbellied, Fat
was a far cry from being a typical
cowhand by Hollywood standards,
Gipson notes, but he could get the
job done.
“He can rope a cow out of a brush
patch so thick that a Hollywood cow
boy couldn’t crawl into it on his
hands and knees,” the author ob
serves.
“He can break a horse for riding,
doctor a wormy sheep, make a balky
gasoline engine pump water for
thirsty cattle, tail up a winter-poor
cow, or punch a string of post holes
across a rocky ridge.
“He can make out with pateltl
gear, sorry mounts, and skimJ
grub, and still get the job donej
Gipson continues. “He can doilj
freezing weather or under a sunli
enough to raise blisters on a I
heel. And all the time, under i
circumstances, he works with I
thorough understanding that its
livestock that counts, not tle|
cowhand.
A&M accounts
for 40 percent
of research
Texas A&M University accounti
for more than 40 percent of there
search conducted by Texas pul
senior colleges and universities
1976-77, according to the Coordinat
ing Board, Texas College and Ini]
versity System.
A Coordinating Board repor
shows that Texas A&M s $51.8
lion — the most funded support ft
research in the South or Soutnwi
— accounted for 41.3 percent of4
$125.6 million total for the state’s!'
public senior institutions.
The Coordination Board tabula
tions showed research totalling $40'
for the University of Texas at Austin
UT-Dallas, North Texas State,
UT-El Paso, Prairie View A&M
VT-Arlington and UT-San Antonin
Texas A&M s total for the previous
year, $47 million, placed it 18th ra
tionally on the basis of figures com
piled by the National Science Foun
dation. The NSF has not yet released
its comparative figures for 1976-71
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