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: SS «r ' Versit y »t: he o omplet, without )S e who' iroedbiin ently ^ of bundf hllions irance. nts ost bought at flea markets Medal collection tells history By CARSON WEST Battalion Reporter MOST PEOPLE PROBABLY ouldn’t know what the Star of Jalipali is. ft; But Col. James R. Woodall, Ullt *ommandant of the Corps of ’adets at Texas A&M Univer- ity, can tell you: it is a medal warded by the government of lan d-anil.( urkey in 1915 during the Gali- niarkedlj ali cam pat n. The Star of Galipali is one of jbme 200 medals Woodall has collected. It is worth about $50. I Woodall began his medal col- -Jtction while he was in Germany lL I the 1950s.‘Y was it an antique tllcl itore in Germany and they had quite a few medals there for sale, he said. “I started looking at them and just kind of on a whim I bought and Iron Cross. | After that I saw the number of l » e( ^ s available in the flea mar- kets and antique stores of Europe, so I started buying illy proved] ;pert exi ? V a eSt ? 1 m “ IN EUROPE THE best place to go is the flea markets, ' '' Woodall said. “You can get them rie :: Ithere at a reasonable price. Now He inflation is such that the price ial apparetH medals since I started collect- foranti-Soi inghas more than doubled. This .van. Zatififr n ' ce ‘ n a wa Y because my coi tion has appreciated quite a bit." | Woodall said a medal’s value is ised on its scarcity. “They are just like coins,” he said. “How do you establish the Hue of an 1865 half dollar or an 18.")0 dime? It’s based on de- feand. Medals are the same way. ■me, like the Army Good Con- ^ Bet Medals ... can be bought Sometimes for as dollar each, k Here are so many of them no I on. really wants them. But here’s a Cuban Occupation ^HJ Medal that is worth $125. It s the H supply and demand.” WOODALL SAID THIS de- md has caused some people to roduce medals and sell them originals. He said this is espe- lly common among German dais. Cheese smells; man sues United Press International CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Wayman R. Brown says he got an upset stomach and was humiliated by a false charge of shoplifting over a package of cream cheese. In a $250,000 suit filed Tuesday against Kroger Co. and an em ployee, F. “Gene” Bell, Brown said his troubles began when he bought the cheese last January and went to his car to taste it. The cheese didn’t smell right, and after a few bites, Brown said he vo mited. A clerk agreed to swap products, gave him a replacement and walked away to dispose of the spoiled cheese. In the meantime. Brown charged. Bell assaulted him when he began sampling the new packet of cheese. “I was grabbed, jerked and pushed and told I was a shoplifter and a thief,” Brown charged in his suit. THE BATTALION Page 9 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1979 Change FAT FEVER into LOSE 17-30 lbs. in just 6 weeks, at the DIET CENTE Call Nadine today 779-6124 OPEN 7:00-1:00 3:00-6:00 SAT. 9:00-12:00 SK ABOUT OUR GUARANTEE Col. James Woodall, commandant of the Corps of Cadets, displays part of some 200 medals he has collected since 1950. Battalion photo by Bill Wilson TES *ar ks as rive tomer l help ness “Any time you find something with a swastika on it you have to be very skeptical because any thing with a swastika has in creased in value in the last few years so there are a lot of repro ductions and fakes on the mar ket, he said. Woodall said medal collecting is a fascinating hobby for him be cause he has always been in terested in history, especially military history. “There’s a story behind every medal, said Woodall. “You can almost tell the history of a coun try by its medals. You can take the medals and lay them out in chronological order and have the history of the country, at least the military history.” WOODALL SAID MOST medal collectors eventually con centrate on one particular period of history for their medals. Most will concentrate on one war or even on a particular campaign such as the Crimean campaign or the British campaigns in the South African wars, he said. Some even concentrate on one particular type of medal such as the Legion of Honor of France of the Iron Cross of Germany, Woodall said, adding that he hasn’t specialized. “I guess I’m a generalist, he said. “If I can find one at a rea sonable price I get it.” Woodall, who graduated from Texas A&M in 1950, said he has noticed quite a proliferation of ribbons and medals in the Corps since his return. “It used to be that there were only ribbons that you could re ceive. They were the Ross Vol unteer and Distinguished Stu dent. I came back and some of these guys look like Audie Mur phy they had so many ribbons for different things. I’m not sure that I know what they all are, even. ” Veatment of women in Corps studied (Continued from page 1.) going through the chain of command of the Corps with their problems. And many people said some of the prob lems are caused by a small, vocal group of male cadets. “There’s a handful of cadets who think jfs their crusade to try to run off the girls, 'and they’re the ones everyone sees,” said Capt. William R. Faulkner, an Army fROTC instructor. “The vast majority of them would like to ee a lot of the petty nonsense stop. “What disappoints me, as a former member of the Corps of Cadets, is that we apparently have such few men in the Corps who have the backbone to stand up and say, ‘Hey, this is not right. Let’s get on with business, with what the Corps is all about. ”’ Sharon Mabry, commanding officer of W-l, said, “Many guys support us, but it’s silent support.” Some women also complain of exclusion from Corps activities. Several Corps or ganizations, while not having official rules barring women, have never had a female member. These include the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band, the Ross Volunteers, Parson’s Mounted Cavalry, and the color guard. The women also have “very few chances BE kb at true leadership,” said Abbot, the only woman on ij Qpyps staff. /‘Some p^qpTe say that women should just be glad tqi be here,” said Melanie Zentgraf, former first sergeant of Squadron 14. “But when you’re part of an organi zation, you want to participate. “They say, Yes, you can wear the uni form, but you can’t participate. ” Lt. C.V. Prevatte, of the Navy ROTC, said, “We in the military would not, in our own organization, sanction the kinds of exclusion the women have here.” She said the only activities women are excluded from in the military are those involving combat. 2 PRICE FALL & WINTER 696-9626 J»I»i K*«J| Vi 1 H« nwf« ~ T , : w 3901 S. Texas JOGGING IKIT^ASSl Hi is having a February Special! Reg. 33 95 Regular Burrito Tostados Pintos & Cheese only 39c 10:00 A.M.-10:00 P.M. With This Coupon Void After Feb. 28, 1979 each TACO BELL 3901 S. Texas Bryan CLIP & SAVE i THGO BELL itAfei attic NEEDS Woodstone Shopping Center 907 Harvey Rd. 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