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The Battai jon Vol. 72 No. 37 Monday, October 23, 1978 News Dept. 845-2611 12 Pages College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611 Votes aren’t in, but... The Battalion’s cartoonist Don Powell suggests that the Aggies’ football coach may be looking for another job soon. See articles about Baylor University’s victory on pages 11 and 12. Tortilla curtain’ ;oing up soon ool 1 ol'268yari ricas - > with 34! United Press International ELPASO — The U.S. Immigration and turalization Service soon will begin rk on a 6.5-mile long, 12-foot tall steel Jmesh barrier — the “Tortilla Curtain” between El Paso and Juarez, Mexico, the purpose of discouraging Mexicans m making illegal entries into the United ites. Fhe INS says construction of the $1.4 Dion barrier will begin within the next months and should be completed in months. It will serve, the INS says, as a liable tool in preventing Mexican na- nalsfrom entering the U.S. This fence will be very much like the ice that exists between East and West rlin — a symbol of something between o countries. What can we say? It’s eboding, it’s ominous,” said Gaston De yona, director of international relations Juarez. De Bayona said relations between bis of750,000 and El Paso, with a popula- n of approximately 350,000, were the rushing i ense (194. 55). Arfcav i yield of S 109.2. aw SMUiw lead to moil] ond-place est ever” but the wall would symbolize exico s poverty and lesser world image. ! [We Mexicans are a little sensitive 973, Texasi Lf j ssues like that,” De Bayona said. ’ nill r ^ ,ere a symbol dividing Uickeyl ^countries, one more powerful than the 1 he effort s ^r.” ns of 28 # Hie barrier and a similiar one scheduled J catapult 1 tandem ;ame. urtis Dick 15 attemi tained hisl andem will •espectivel) as A&M stil lolding out total offens to be built soon in the San Diego area will be the first of their kind on any American border, the INS said. A concrete foundation buried at least 2 .feet into the ground will support a 5-foot- high steel wall that cannot be cut. Above the steel will be a mesh fence, leaning to ward the Mexican side and designed to wobble so it will be difficult to climb. Jesus Cuellar, a store clerk in Juarez, said the height of the fence would make little difference. The financial incentives would drive people to find a way over, under or around. “I don’t care how high they build this wall, the Mexican people will get across it,” he said. “When they build this wall, believe me, it will be two or three days and the people will find a way to cross again.” Though conventional fences exist along most of the border between Texas and Mexico, but they are easily cut through, scaled or dug under. U.S. officials are taking the position that the new barrier will be a non-controversial improvement in border control tech- .niques. The Mexican Affairs desk at the state department said they were aware that the INS was building the fence but did not view the move as important enough to warrant the issuance of a policy statement. J.S. farmers plan rip to Congress United Press International SPRINGFIELD, Colo. — The nation’s mers, who began tractor demon- as the rusks a tj ons j n major cities more than a year o to press their demands for higher [ices, will begin a tractorcade to Wash- gton, D.C., early next year, a farm okesman said Sunday. Derral Schroder, a spokesman for the e averaeic nerican Agriculture Movement, said he d other farmers plan demonstrations in ge cities such as Chicago and St. Louis i route to the capitol. He did not say how many farmers :ial isle Dr. Miller Have a question for the president of xas A&M University? or one of his staff? Die Battalion is offering a new reader’s :er section to give students more access the newspaper and to the University, alk with Dr. Miller” is a forum for lers to address questions to the admin- ation about University policies and edures. Questions should be addressed to The ttalion, 216 Reed McDonald, Texas M University, College Station, Tx. 0 n..Sa!r843.Th e letters should specify that they c i e for this column. Names and phone 3UIM1 linkers w jU be required on all questions Miller has the option to dechne to an- nr a question or request others on the aff or faculty to answer it. h Questions and answers will be pub- shed on the editorial page of The Battal- would take part in the effort, but said the trek would begin shortly after Congress convenes in mid-January and should take about two weeks. “We’ll give Congress or Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland the length of the time it takes us to get to D.C. to act,” Schroder said. American Agriculture was formed last year on the plains of southeastern Col orado by farmers who wanted more money for their crops. Organizers have urged farmers and ranchers to withhold their products from the markets. “We’ll camp anywhere and everywhere and become residents of Washington, D.C., until we get our demands,” Schroder said. The farmer said the national American Agriculture tractorcade will begin from five or six locations in the country, includ ing Lamar, Colo., Amarillo, Dallas, Houston, Bismarck, N.D., and Pierre, S P . ' , , We 11 travel about 100 miles a day, Schroder said. “We’ll have meetings every night and pass out fliers on the way. We’ll gather more tractors and supporters as we go.” Schroder said tractors from the West Coast would be hauled to the closest start ing point. He said the tractorcade would “parade through most of the large met ropolitan areas such as Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and Indianapolis.” “After reaching Washington, each morning we will travel to the Capitol to urge our congressmen to act,” he said. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. Flying in formation over the Texas A&M University campus Saturday Outlaws airplane stunt group. They were warming up in preparation for afternoon, these aerobatic planes were piloted by members of the Texas their first weekend air show performance at Coulter Field in Bryan. flying high at Coulter Field Airshow By MARK BEATTY Battalion Reporter Rolling planes filled the sky Saturday and Sunday at Coulter Airfield as the Texas Outlaws Flying Circus showed its stuff. The Texas Outlaws, a newly organized group of stunt pilots from Alvin, per formed stunts before a crowd of about 300 this weekends The pilots, who own and maintain their own planes,'have a variety of professions. The group includes a surgeon, an electri cian, a musician, an areonautical techni cian, a cropduster and a radiator mechanic. “Our group consists mainly of busi nessmen,” said Chuck Stockdale, the show’s coordinator who is also a pilot. “Some of us fly for a living, some of us fly for a hobby.” W.T. Lummus, a pilot and owner of a Student dies Mark Alan Prachyl, 21, a senior ag ronomy major from Dallas, died Friday night in a College Station disco. A spokesman at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan said this morning that the cause of death has not yet been determined; the time of death was set at 9:40 p.m. Silver Taps for Prachyl, who lived at Y3I Hensel Apartments, will be Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. Services were today at 10 a.m. at St. Bernard’s Catholic Church in Dallas, with (the Rev. Richard E. Johnson officiating. radiator shop in Houston, said the group, now three years old, started in Alvin south of Houston. “We love to entertain ourselves,” he said. “We fly for each other, too.” Decathlon, Starduster, Citabria, The Pitts and the Great Lakes are just some of the names of the special airplanes the group uses. Each pilot performed an act of his own with stunts different from the others. The comedy act, performed by Bruce Bohanen, a 20-year-old crop-duster from Alvin, had the crowd on the edge of its blankets. Bohanen stumbled through the crowd acting drunk. Police handcuffed him and took him away, but only temporarily. After appparently escaping from police, he reappeared on a motorcycle and drove wildly through a roped-off area while police and other pilots tried to apprehend at local disco Rosary was said at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Bu rial will be in Calvary Hill Mausoleum in Dallas. Prachyl’s family requested that memo rials be made to St. Bernard’s Catholic Church or St. Bernard’s Catholic School. Survivors include his wife, Mary Pat ricia Prachyl, a Texas A&M student; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Prachyl; two sisters, Annette and Janet Prachyl and a brother, Joe Prachyl, of Dal las. him. He managed to get away from them and hopped into an already idling plane. He took off and put on a nerve-wracking show. Bohanen threw a dummy out of the plane to make the crowd think he was really drunk and had fallen out. The plane took a nose dive, came up again and disap peared over the trees in a distant field. Back on the ground, pilot Lummus said putting on a show is hard work. They spent a week just advertising in the Bryan-College Station area. FORT WORTH — A bank is relieved, a courier service employee is probably in trouble and John Cary is left with only the wistful dreams of what he could have done with $1.3 million. When Cary’s curiosity led him to pick up a package on a city street last Friday, he found four neatly wrapped bundles containing $1,303,194.14 in personal, business and travelers checks ranging in amount from $1.35 to $77,000. He didn’t have to wrangle with his con science, though — the checks were non- negotiable. Cary, 34, president of the Fort Worth School of Aviation at Meacham Field, said a million thoughts ran through his head when he opened the box. “I wondered what I could do with all that money,” Cary said. “I thought to my self ‘could this be money tossed out after a bank robbery?’ It’s hard to control your thoughts at a time like that.” “We don’t make a nickel on the shows by the time we pay to maintain the planes and take care of other costs,” he said. “We usually just break even. ” Between them, the pilots perform at 30 or 40 shows over a nine-month period each year. Most of the shows are in Texas, Ar kansas, Louisiana and New Mexico. No matter what the cost, Lummus said the pilots enjoy sharing their talent with the people. “I think the kids enjoy it the most,” he said. He said he doesn’t normally stop and pick up packages on the street, but “the traffic was light and I stopped just out of curiosity I guess. I almost drove on.” Even though the checks, which were worthless to Cary, eventually will be re turned to the Hurst, Texas, bank for which they were destined, he said he couldn’t help but think “what if?” “That could have changed the course of my life in a little different circumstances,” he said. “I can think of a lot of things I could do with it.” Instead, Cary is holding the checks until a representative of the bank can retrieve them. The bundle was en route from a San Angleo, Texas, bank when it became sepa rated from a courier who had picked it up at Meacham. Had the money been in cash, Cary likely could have expected a sizable re ward. Then again, he said, “If it were $100 bills, I’d probably have had a wreck going home.” Big ‘bucks’ found in bundle United Press International Cycling Season The Texas A&M University Cycling Team sponsored five races Sunday race. Left, another racer is passing an official holding lap cards. Please on the Drill Field. The cyclist above is entering a curve during the first see an article about the race on page 10.