Page 10 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1978
Buyer’s guide
to used cars
United Press International
NEW YORK — The soaring costs of new cars may drive 13.5
million Americans into the used car market this year. Experts at
Hertz, the nation’s largest retailer of used cars as it rotates vehicles
from its rent-a-car fleet, offer these suggestions to reduce the odds on
winding up with a “lemon”:
—Ask for a history of the car that will show what repairs and service
has been performed. Acquaint yourself in detail with what warranty,
if any, is offered and what its exact provisions are.
—Examine the exterior for dents, scratches and rust, especially the
small spots that could grow into big spots. Open the door and look on
the hinges for paint bverspray and check in the wheel wells for paint.
Extensive repainting could mean the car has been in a serious acci
dent.
—Lift the hood and check its underside, under the insulation, for
signs of engine fire. Examine the engine wiring and hoses carefully,
looking for wear.
—Inside the car, check the carpeting for fit and wear, and look over
the accelerator and brake pedals for excessive use. Do they suggest
more mileage than the odometer shows?
—In the trunk, check the spare tire and lift the floor mat to look for
signs of water leaks or flooding. Check for major new welds that show
major body repairs have been done.
—Start the engine and drive the car over a clean area of concrete or
pavement, or over papers spread on the ground. Let it idle there, and
while it is doing that, check the exhaust. It should be clean after the
engine warms. Black smoke is a trouble sign.
—After five minutes, drive the car aw^y and check where it stood
for leaks of oil (black), transmission fluid (red) or gasoline (brownish
stain).
TP&L, honors pair
with scholarships
Campus names
Electrical engineering stu
dents Paul M. Davis of Lubbock
and Thomas L. Anthony of
Shreveport, La., have been
awarded scholarships at Texas
A&M University.
Provided by the Texas Power
and Light Co., the awards are
$600 each for the 1978-79 school
year.
Scholarship and interest in a
career in the power field were
major factors in their selection
for the scholarships, noted Dr.
W.B. Jones Jr., Electrical Engi
neering Department head.
He said TP&L has provided
strong support to the depart
ment many years.
Davis is a senior in electrical
engineering; Anthony is a
University and has been a
teacher and administrator at
Texas A&M since 1959.
Monroe is also a professor of
history and has won several
awards from accomplishments in
teaching, research and univer
sity service, including the Texas
A&M Faculty Distinguished
Achievement Award in Teach
ing, an award presented by the
Association of Former Students
upon the recommendation of
faculty and student representa
tives.
Texas A&M’s Student Senate
selected Monroe as the Out
standing Administrator on cam
pus in 1975. He was chairman of
the University’s Centennial
Committee in 1976.
junior.
Aggies win annual
library awards
Monroe honored
by Austin College
Dr. Haskell M. Monroe Jr.,
dean of faculties and associate
vice president for academic af
fairs at Texas A&M University,
has been honored by Austin Col
lege in Sherman with its Distin
guished Alumnus Award for
1978.
Monroe is a 1952 Austin Col
lege graduate with a bachelor’s
degree in history and English
and later a master’s degree in
history. He received a doctorate
in Southern history from Rice
Book collections on topics
from the 18th Century English
literature to plant physiology
have earned Texas A&M stu
dents cash awards.
Seven $100 prizes and three
$25 honorable mentions were
given recently in the Texas
A&M University Libraries’ Sixth
Student Book Collectors Con
test.
Winners are:
Jonathan R. Farris, sopho
more wildlife-fisheries science
major of Crosbyton, for his col
lection “Evangelical Christian
Studies,’’ the Louis Hartung
Award.
George M. Hiller, graduate
student in finance, Dallas, “So
You Want to be a Millionaire,”
Library Faculty Award.
Jon Sven Knudson, graduate
student in history. College Sta-
tion;“AggieCon VI-IX: Books by
the Guests,” the English De
partment Faculty-Thomas F.
Mayo Award.
David J. Ragsdale graduate
student in biology. College Sta
tion, “A Sampling of 18th Cen
tury English Literature,” the W.
Guy Show Jr. Award.
Paul Reilbach, plant physiol
ogy graduate student, Bryan,
“Plant Physiology: Past to Pres
ent,’’ the Edith Gott White
Award.
Elissa Jean Sanders, senior in
animal science, De Leon, “Fun
damental References for a Com
bined Training Institution,” the
Frontier America Corp.-Fred
White Jr. Award.
Troyce Wilson, sophomore in
marketing, Sanger, “A Study in
Tolkien Mythology and Arthu
rian Inspired Literature,” the
Library Binding Co. Award.
Honorable mentions went to
Carolin E. Coad, senior in
elementary education, Houston;
Lyman W. Grant Jr., English
graduate student. Temple; and
Donald Slater, geology and
chemistry senior. Orange
Grove.
Friends of the Texas A&M
Library President Jeff Dykes
made the awards.
Houston Rockets in 1976
played one season of p
sional basketball in Holland
joined Coach Metcalfs
Barry Davis accepts
post in admissions
year ago.
One major award was un
claimed for lack of entries. It is
the James M. “Cop” Forsyth
Award for books on mechanical
engineering.
Barry Davis, a former two-
season All-Southwest Confer
ence basketball player at Texas
A&M University will become as
sistant director of admissions
at the University in mid-
Deccmbcj.
Davis currently is graduate
assistant coach to Aggie Basket
ball Coach Shelby Metcalf.
Dr. Bill Lay, director of ad
missions, said Davis will work in
academic recruiting both on the
campus and throughout the
state.
Davis was unanimous All-
Southwest Conference in 1975
and 1976, the conference’s Most
Valuable Player in 1975 amd
co-captain of the 1976 team.
A star athlete at Galveston
Ball High School, Davis played
in four national playoffs at three
different levels during his col
legiate career: the National As
sociation of Intercollegiate Ath
letics tournament while a
freshman at Sam Houston State
University, the National Junior
College Tournament when a
sophomore at Hill Junior Col
lege and two National Collegiate
Athletic Association post-season
tournaments during junior and
senior years at Texas A&M.
Davis was drafted by the
Cobb, Rainey top,
in Aggie Rodeo
Bobby Cobb and Glenl ,thei
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Rainey took top honors in
annual All-Aggie Rodeo at Tej|en poi
A&M.
Cobb, a
medicine major from Hasl
was named All-Around Cowl
and Rainey, agricultural
nomics major from Rockw
was named All-Around Cowjil
More than 100 contestm [tumc
competed for over $5,00(li m this
prizes during the event. ure e
Other first place winnn l ' oveis
were: ^ 1
Cobb, bareback bronc rill ^ m
and bull riding; Joe Duiloi . ist se ‘
Junction, saddle on broncii * es ar
ing; Mark Ivy, Mountain Hon ) e the
tiedown calf roping and sit | had
wrestling and Bruce Parli its a
Kerrville, and Randy Stewj igory.
son, San Saba, team roping, per Bo
In the women’s divisin
Linda Rodgers, Odessa, ban hrougl
racing; Glenda Rainey, brcai dioys
way,and Cass Behrmanji 15 P a
eral Wells, goat tieing.
The All-Aggie Rodeo is
sored each year at Texas i I
by the Texas Aggie Rodeo 1
sociation. The organizatis
founded here in 1949, isspi
sored by Corkey Sandel.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Lyle
Sankey, big and hard-muscled,
stood near the crowded entrance of
the rodeo’s contestants-only area,
calmly winding adhesive tape
around his left elbow.
Spectators in the grandstand
above sipped lemonade in the
bright afternoon sun while the cow
boys adjusted chaps, saddles and
spurs for the day’s events.
The style and attitude of the
rodeo contestant has evolved out
the myth of the American cowboy.
It is America’s own version of the
medieval knight — traveling alone
toward some ambiguous destina
tion, single-mindedly following
some unwritten code.
Sankey would have laughed to
think of himself as the outgrowth of
a myth. But his main concern at that
moment did fit the pattern: He
wondered how he would place in
this rodeo, Cheyenne Frontier
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And remember we give 20% more in trade for used
Days, and how he would get to the
next one.
“It’s just a businesslike thing once
you’ve been on enough of these
animals,” he said. “You just try to
make a good ride and hope your
horse bucks so you can win some
money.”
In the money department, San
key has not done poorly. By early
October, he had climbed from fifth
to third in the all-around-cowboy
standings, with winnings of $42,123.
Most of it, he said, goes for travel,
and Sankey is not against using
whatever is at hand to get to the
next rodeo.
One evening in July, for example,
he and another cowboy were
pressed for time and hired a
helicopter to take them from the
Cassville, Mo., rodeo to the Bran
son, Mo., “Heart of America”
rodeo. The craft landed right in the
arena and a picture of Sankey run
ning for the bucking chutes made
the front page of Prorodeo Sports
News.
Sankey, like all professional
athletes, has mastered a mode of
speech that is protective of his inner
moods. Wrapping his elbow in a
tight figure-eight pattern (a protec
tion against hyper-extension of the
joint), talking in his friendly
athlete’s monotone, he might just as
well have been in a locker room.
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But Sankey, 24, and his com
are only distant cousins of thee
low athletes in team sports.
Rodeo cowboys are alone on
road. They answer to neithem ^
nor trainer, and they knowthep
of this freedom well: They rat I f
their own expenses from to»'j
town. Moreover, each rode:
quires an entry fee that is M
fundable if the cowboy cannotu 1URF1
on time because of fiat tiw ^ H
mechanical breakdowns. nessee
Looming more ominously is? 11 Slnce
contestant's realization that ill f (
Uni
injured, the “payroll” stops
cause of this, cowboys are
about refusing medical treal
that may keep them out
arena. Rodeo lore is full ofsti
cowboys competing with
bones, hut perhaps themostii
ible of all is the tale of
Horse” Crosby of Kenna,)
who continued to compete
Salt Lake City Roundup ol
even after a steer ran its horn
nostril and punched his eye
its socket.
The optic nerve was notsei
and — after surgery and
ne
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the arena the next afternoon t pas A
join the competition. He endfi iy Fran!
as the top money winner. |es 16
It was Owen Wister who •erence
ported this mounted laborer: ^ for hi
the reality of his mundane t* franklin’:
myth and legend. In his novel, nst SMI
Virginian,” appearing in 191). Scarce
gave the cowboy personal sW scoring
and a sort of rustic nobility. W attemp
cowboy was important not fa 1 'Vo moi
he did, but for who he was
cause of this, his book makes* s) and
mention of cowboys at work. 1 Bumett
is only one four-line reference
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Monday throuf
Friday
Aggies, you can make a difference
on Nov. 7 you can help elect
Edward W. Valenta
(republican) class of ’73 Brazos County T^ash
Assessor-Collector
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Mr. Mi
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He is a lifetime resident of Brazos County and is qualified througli
his graduate studies at A&M in the fields of education, history, and
public administration to deal with the problems of a growing college
community.
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Pd. pol. adv. by N. A. McNeil, class of 35; Joe H. Valenta, Class of ’70; Mrs. Edward W. Valenta
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