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THE BATTALION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1979 Page 9 the state ^Region’s first church found Male queen draws line; kiss is out sstimatedati ghout the 15 jj United Press International walls, coUap* £L PASO — The recent rediscov- oads, shattej.ry of a little known parish chapel ruction toft stablished in a stable about 1730 is >ment. ausing Roman Catholic historians to s of the revise previous accounts of the es, with pfc [lurch’s history in the Southwest, reels. jccording to a Vatican expert. ■rtical cracks J dike wallsof«Nuestra Senora De Las Caldas , which caJO 111 Lady of the Hot Springs) was vital toll ike first parish church established in imy. the region that now is Texas, New as “all but Mexico, Arizona and California, said kers and soil® ^ ev - Ernest J. Burrus, director to restore F th® Jesuit Historical Institute of ning by Rome. Burrus said he hopes ar- aeologists will try to find the re- nains of the old parish church, hich was destroyed in an Indian Irising 230 years ago. 26S eservation may keep supervisor —..istorians formerly thought the |l)|| Irst parish churches were estab- “ ed in the region in 1852, Burrus ^aBenzvi said. In that year, Franciscan law by perk-missionaries withdrew from the re fer the mygion and were replaced by priests 1 the stagep ig no iraui d a sub; ir health of m child." : also e steps in bom alive 1 he M alien t was Kb United Press International nd hisec AUSTIN — Assistants to Gov. Bill Clements Wednesday said they t probably 4 0U ld recommend to the Texas In- en for si ji an Commission that Emmett Bat- sr birth an;| S{ . embattled supervisor of the to inducefil a | iaina .Coushatta Indian Reserva- mages vita tion be allowed to keep his post at Hst temporarily, n temporarB •forming a!>||Members of the reservation’s tri center. iil council met with Paul Wroten- rarges carrif|ery and Doug Brown for 1V6 hours iptofivevto discuss Battiste’s ouster. The 10,000 fine, loi mmission earlier had requested tiste’s resignation. under the Bishop of Durango, Mexico. But Tom Diamond, a historical re searcher and attorney, recently dis covered a 1744 map reference indi cating the existence of Las Caldas a full century before establishment of the other parish churches. “It was a parish with a nonmissio nary priest in charge of it,” Burrus said. ‘‘That’s really what’s sensational about this discovery.” The missions have drawn exten sive historical attention, but Burrus said he could find only one modern- day reference to the parish church of Las Caldas. Dr. C.L. Sonnichsen’s history book, “Pass of the North,” devotes two paragraphs to Las Cal das. Sonnichsen wrote that Benito Crespo, Bishop of Durango, sent the Rev. Jose de Ochoa to establish the church sometime after Crespo visited the area in 1730. Nearby Franciscans, according to Son nichsen, felt the church, a converted stable, was inapprorpiate for worship services. In 1744, a visiting Franciscan showed Las Caldas on a map of all the Southwest Missions. The visitor also mentioned Las Caldas in a report to civilian and religious authorities in Mexico City, Burrus said. The traveler counted about 60 Indian families attached to El Capitan, the hacienda or estate which supported Las Caldas. In 1766, another Franciscan re ported to Viceroy Cruillas of New Spain that the Suma Indians revolted in 1745 “in the newly formed curacy of Las Caldas.” The Indians de stroyed the entire settlement in 1749, according to Sonnichsen, but were subdued and taken to the nearby Mission of San Lorenzo El Real, now located across the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. All the colonial maps identifying Las Caldas showed it a few miles Northest of San Elizario, a historic community in the Texas Rio Grande Valley on the outskirts of El Paso. Burrus, who worked out of the Vatican for 25 years researching and publishing books on Mexican colo nial history, is a native El Pasoan who returned a year ago because of the harsh winters in Rome. United Press International INDIANA, Pa. — Indiana Uni versity of Pennsylvania’s 1979 Homecoming Queen plans to ride in the parade and do all that tradition dictates for a reigning beauty, but draws the line at kissing the college president. Tim Carroll, 20, a junior jour nalism major, was announced the winner Tuesday in Homecoming Queen balloting by Indiana stu dents. Carroll said he entered the contest to underscore the absurdity of a con test based on beauty. “The whole homecoming thing is a joke,” he said. “There are no issues debated. You just have to put up a bunch of posters and whoever shows the most cleavage wins.” “I want to be called queen and I’ll do everything expected of the queen, except kiss the IUP president (Dr. John Worthen),” he said. OLID WOOD FURNITURE SOLID WOO '-'T Big Results! CLASSIFIED ADS! 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