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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1978
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W. R. BILL OWENS
AS SHERIFF MEANS
COMMON SENSE LAW ENFORCEMENT
ARE WE GETTING FULL BENEFITS FOR WHAT THE
SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS COSTING NOW? AUTO THEFT UP
172 PERCENT, RAPE and MURDER UP 33 Percent,
Robbery up 123 Percent in the past year. BRAZOS
COUNTY Only. WHY.
If the party leaders had had their way you could have
voted for only one man for SHERIFF. BILL FOUGHT
FOR YOUR RIGHTS THEN, SUPPORT AND VOTE FOR
HIM NOW. HE WILL MEET WITH ANY GROUP AND
ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. PHONE 779-4325. HE
CANNOT STOP CRIME BUT HE WILL SURE SLOW IT
DOWN.
VOTE W. R. BILL OWENS FOR SHERIFF VOTE
POL. AD PD FOR BY FRIENDS OF OWENS FOR SHERIFF COMM.
CO-CHAIRMAN LEO OWENS CLASS 82, 2308 CAVITT. BRYAN.
‘Give me your neck! 9
Count Dracula, alias Mike Hathoway (upper left), stepped out from
his web-enclosed dwelling at Hart Hall Tuesday to greet about 100
kids from the Wellboume Road Mission.
The kids were welcomed by residents of Mosher and Hart Hall to
the Hart-Mosher Halloween Mall Ball Dance and Trick or Treat
festivities. Every ramp of Hart Hall had a different theme awaiting
the little trick-or-treaters, ranging from a dungeon to a military
environment.
Dr. Jarvis Miller, president of Texas A&M University; Dr. John
Koldus, vice president for student services; and Ron Blatchley, as
sociate director of student affairs, were among the judges who voted
Ramp D, the Dungeon, as winner among the 10 ramps.
Mosher Dorm Council President Joanne Xavier and Hart Dorm
Council President Mike Taylor headed the event.
“It was a lot of work,” Taylor said. “We started getting things
together on Sunday.”
“It was also a lot of fun, ” he said. “It gave residents a chance to work
together and get to know one another. ”
The kids went from ramp to ramp 7-8:30 p.m. After they left, there
was a Halloween Mall Ball Dance for the residents of the two dorms
outside Hart Hall, where Dracula was caught biting Beth Galindo
(right), a freshman from Mosher majoring in secondary education.
Battalion photo by Philip Martinez
LaGrange chicken ranch back
Book on Texas legend planned
United Press International
DALLAS — The author of “The Happy Hooker” and “The French
Connection” is planning a definitive history of one of Texas’ most
legendary establishments — the Chicken Ranch in LaGrange.
For almost 40 years men sought anonymous thrills about 90 miles
southeast of Austin in Miss Edna Milton’s famous whorehouse, closed
in 1973 by order of Gov. Dolph Briscoe.
Robin Moore, who authored the above-mentioned best sellers and
many others, is collaborating with scenarist Fred Halliday on what
they hope will be a wide ranging history tentatively titled “The
Chicken Ranch.”
“It’s nothing to do with the Broadway play,‘The Best Little
Whorehouse in Texas,” Moore said. “We re mining a new mother
lode of gold — we hope.”
Since the house has been closed and Miss Edna no longer owns the
land, Moore hopes to find a structure similar to the plain, farm-style
house which was located — as almost any young man who attended
the University of Texas or Texas A&M University can recite — “on
the second dirt road on the left off state highway 71. ”
A recent meeting in DaUas was the first of several planned between
the chronicler of the life of Xaviera Hollander, perhaps the epitome of
big city “sophisticated” prostitution, and the straightforward former
proprietress of La Grange’s somewhat folksy house.
“We hope to, expect to and plan to bring from her a whole new
series of ideas,” Moore said, as Halliday inteijected “and the whole
history of the city. ”
While waiting for Miss Edna — it was a tense, expectant period for
Moore — he discussed some of his earlier works.
Did he think he was getting a reputation as an author obsessed with
prostitution?
“‘The Happy Hooker’is an important book. If anybody really reads
it, it goes beyond the story of a whore; it’s a story of big-city corrup
tion,” he said.
Moore was working for New York City’s Knapp Commission with
then-Mayor John Lindsey when he became involved in Hollander’s
story, and he s proud of the results of the commission’s graft and fraud
investigations.
“We got one state supreme court justice off the bench and a bunch
of police. I try to be a crusader. I don’t just write a book to make
money. I try to figure out other aspects. ”
Finally, more than an hour late for their appointment. Miss Edna
arrived, a tall, thin woman apparently in her late 50s whose conserva
tive pantsuit, scant make-up and schoolteacherish glasses seemed out
of character on someone who spent 12 years running a bawdy house.
Whether Moore got the information he needed to sell his idea to
publishers and film companies is not known, since the shrewd, cau
tious Miss Edna immediately made known her feelings about having
a reporter present.
“There’s some things you say for a book and some things you say for
an interview,” she said.
But she did sum up her expectations for the project:
"We want it to be where it’s an interesting book, without naming
names and having somebody say, ‘I’ll sue the hell out of her.’”
Fibre optics to open up a whole
new era of communication style
(IN THE MSC)
At Last Year’s Price, You Will Be Pleased With
These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods.
Each Daily Special Only $1.69 Plus Tax.
“Open Daily”
Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. — 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M.
United Press International tronic impulses, to Complete the
OTTAWA — Threads of glass one computer revolution by next year,
six-thousandth of an inch thick will Elie, the community west of
carry 350 residents of an obscure Winnipeg chosen for the experi-
prairie town into a new world of ment which will cost as much as
home banking, electronic shopping, $9.5 million, will, among other ben-
databanks — and television. efits, receive access to such mun-
Scientists expect fibre optics, the dane luxuries as single-party tele
hair-thin glass fibres carrying elec- phone lines, five channel television
MONDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
Salisbury Steak
with
Mushroom Gravy
Whipped Potatoes
Your Choice of
One Vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread and Butter
Coffee or Tea
TUESDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
Mexican Fiesta
Dinner
Two Cheese and
Onion Enchiladas
w/chili
Mexican Rice
Patio Style Pinto Beans
Tostadas
Coffee or Tea
One Corn Bread and Butter
WEDNESDAY
EVENING SPECIAL
Chicken Fried Steak
w/cream Gravy
Whipped Potatoes and
Choice of one other
Vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread and Butter
Coffee or Tea
THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL
Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner
SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE
Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad
Choice of Salad Dressing - Hot Garlic Bread
Tea or Coffee
FRIDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
BREADED FISH
FILET w/TARTAR
SAUCE
Cole Slaw
Hush Puppies
Choice of one
vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Tea or Coffee
SATURDAY
NOON and EVENING
SPECIAL
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Dumplings
Tossed Salad
Choice of one
vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Tea or Coffee
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and FM radio.
But the grand plan will have Elie
residents subscribing to the Global
Village envisaged by communica
tions theorist Marshall McLuhan —
home banking, teleshopping and
videotex all in a sophisticated two-
way television hook-up into a data
bank.
“For the first time,” Communica
tions Minister Jeanne Sauve said,
“one single umbilical cord will
provide the electronic link between
the consumer and the outside
world.”
Canada has many towns like Elie.
While the nation’s communications
capabilities have grown 10 million
times since the turn of the century,
and per capita investment in the in
dustry leads the world, more than a
quarter of Canadians live in
technological backwaters.
Experts are convinced that glass-
fibres, capable of carrying between
It may be another 10 to 20 years
before fibre optics can be put to use
in remote areas across Canada.
“You’re looking at something
which was conceived in 1977 and is
to be evaluated in 1982,” said Bob
Ferguson of Northern Telecom, one
of two companies competing for the
trial contract.
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