The Battai jon
Vol. 72 No. 37 Monday, October 23, 1978 News Dept. 845-2611
12 Pages College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611
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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.
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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.
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of750,000 and El Paso, with a popula-
n of approximately 350,000, were the
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.