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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1979
Girl, 16, impaled on fence;
spikes removed surgically
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eel thattheli THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO”: A story of an unusual circus
fire hazard fc which changes the lives of all who see it, starring Tony Randall as a
site. ■ mysterious Chinese ringmaster. Will be shown at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
DonalddariA j n Room 601 of Rudder Tower. Admission — 75 (G)
! e r?e m ?» BRARY REFERENCE DIVISION: A representative from Pre-
c e o owipT n tice Hall Loose Leaf Services will discuss the effective use of their
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Tax Service materials in Room 204C of the Library from 10:30 a.m.
to 12 p.m., and from 2:30-4 p.m.
jEXAS A&M FENCING CLUB: Will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 261 of
G. Rollie White.
(EAF AND HEARING IMPAIRED: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the
Brethren Church of Bryan-College Station to elect a vice president
and have a business meeting.
ILASS OF ’80 DANCE: Featuring Dale McBride’s Magic Valley
Band at Cell Block Five, from 8 p. m. to midnight. Admission — $2
per person, with SObeer. Everyone is invited.
$UMAN FACTORS SOCIETY: Dr. Earl Lafevers will discuss elec
tromyographic research in NASA manned space flights at 7 p.m. in
Room 342, Zachry.
,RT EXHIBIT: Trilogy Part I — THE EIGHT, from the collection of
J.W. Runyon ’35, will be on exhibit until Dec. 9 on the first floor of
the Library. Docents are available 12:30-1:30 p.m. Monday
I through Friday for guided tours.
TAMU EMERGENCY CARE TEAM: Mary Arnold will discuss crisis
|»l intervention at 7:30 p.m. in Room 308, Rudder,
hich to cM tt GGIE CHRISTMAS CARD SALES: The Class of’80 will be selling
and lumberlt |
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Christmas cards in the MSC and at the MSC Box Office in Rudder
Tower through Dec. 14. A package of ten is $2.50, and there are two
designs to choose from.
HI ALPHA THETA: The History honor society will meet at 7:30
p.m. in Room 502, Rudder. Gordon Daniels, diplomat-in-
residence at A&M, will discuss “Strategic Implications of the Mid
dle East Peace.”
SC POLITICAL FORUM: Aggieland pictures will be taken at 8:30
p.m. in the MSC Main Lounge.
ial Pow(r j40RIENTEERING CLUB: Will meet at 7:3j0 p.m. in Room 315,
>een for the0 Military Sciences Bldg. The Dec. 8 and spring meets will be
discussed.
irlpawavW RADIO: Group pictures will be taken for the Aggieland at 9
p.m. in Lounge B-l.
4ETHODIST STUDENT MOVEMENT: Will hold a marriage semi
nar discussing the spiritual aspects of marriage.
ENTECOSTAL UPPER ROOM: A Bible study will be held at 7:45
p.m. in the Meditation Room of All Faiths Chapel. Everyone is
welcome.
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; the MOBi ' AGGIE BO NFIRE: Will be lighted at 7:30 p.m. on the Duncan
1 f ? r 11 sever ^ i Intramural Field.
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louston andc PRAIRIE LEAGUE: Will have a concert in :G. Rollie' White .
•aclitional 'p t ' Coliseum at 9 p.m,,.aft@jn the Bonfire.
coach AlCoii ffHLLELFOUNDATION: Services will be held at 6p.m. at the Hillel
is pre-game Foundation. Refreshments will be served after the bonfire.
. .. ELEPHANT SHIRT SALES: Today is the last day to buy Class of’80
•vas brought s h} r t s in the MSC. The T-shirts are $4, and the Jerseys are $6.50.
SOCIOLOGY CLUB: Will meet at 7 p.m. in the library on the 10th
floor of Rudder. Ron Winns from the Placement Office will speak.
All Sociology and Liberal Arts students are welcome.
fire went in VICTORY CONCERT: With Terry Clark at 9 p.m. at the Middle
m theirsw School Auditorium (Jersey & Holick streets). Sponsored by Alders-
rom the It 5 gate United Methodist Church.
^ ‘"ulI ^AINT ANDREW’S DAY: Peanut Butter Fellowship and Junk Food
would bev Party from 11:30 p.m. to 12:45 a.m. at Rudder Tower Fountain,
to the Bow sponsored by UCM.
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GROMETS: Gaming sessions at 7 p.m. in Room 140 of the MSC.
Saturday
MSC BASEMENT COMMITTEE: Woody Woodruff, Jim Dawkins,
and Baylis and Schulte will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Basement
Coffeehouse.
“THE FIFTH MUSKETEER”: Beau Bridges, Sylvia Kristel and
Ursula Andress star in this ongoing saga of the classic novel. Will be
shown at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater. (PG)
NDIA ASSOCIATION: Will show the Hindi movie “Priyatama” at 7
p.m. in Room 112, O&M.
ALL-GIRLS-FREE PARTY: Will be held at 8 p.m. in Brazos Center.
Presented by Moses, Moore, Schumacher and Walton Halls.
FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE”: Robert Shaw and Barbara Bach
are on a World War II mission to destroy a bridge linking the
German forces with their Italian allies. Will be shown at midnight
in Rudder Theater. (PG)
FOOTBALL: The Aggies will play the University ofTexas at 1:30 p. m.
in Kyle Field.
CLEARANCE
Fall and Winter Fabrics — a
large selection from our regu
lar stocks — in time for holiday
sewing.
Woolens and Woolen blends 50% off
Vogue, Butterick, McCall patterns 50% off
Dark prints and solids
reg. $3.98 NOW $ 1 99
Polyester and cotton blends
Ultrasuede® reg. $50.00 NOW $ 35 00
With each purchase register for a $100 gift certificate to be
given away each month.
War life revealed
from WWI letters
A packet of letters found in the
Texas A&M University Archives,
written by a soldier during World
War I reveals how life was for the
men who fought with the Allies in
France and Germany.
“I got a great long gun with a sharp
thing on the end of it, he wrote his
folks. “I am sure I could kill a squir
rel with it. I wouldn’t trade it for
nothing, unless some dogs. ”
With his great long gun, the late
Felix J. Stalls of Deport shot a per
fect score on the Camp Travis rifle
range, a feat that astounded his su
periors. The best shot in the regi
ment learned on the creeks and river
bottoms of the Red River Valley.
The 70 letters of the stoical North
east Texas farmer were obtained by
history professor Dr. Henry De-
thloff through Texas A&M senior
Dean Murray, great-nephew of
Stalls and a member of the Corps of
Cadets from Houston.
“His letters show him to have
been a man of simple values and sim
ple tastes,” said Murray, who will be
commissioned in the Army upon gra
duation. “It’s refreshing to read
them.”
Rarely using periods and often
misspelling words, Stalls often asked
about the crops back home and more
than once in letters from overseas
mentioned his desire to get home,
“maybe in time to thin the corn. ”
Though he grew up near Paris he
never saw the sights of the same-
named city in France during a year
in Europe with Company E of the
359th Infantry, a regiment of “Texas’
Own” 90th Infantry Division. Com
pany E was formed of men from
Lamar, Fannin and Delta counties.
Stoicism of the soldier, first in his
company to make corporal at Camp
Travis, is revealed in an Oct. 17,
1918, letter to his parents.
“It’s looking like winter but why
should I worry. I have a good bed for
tonight and I let each day look out for
itself,” Stalls wrote less than a month
before the war-ending Armistice was
signed. The Armistice was accepted
by the Allies 61 years ago.
Sergeant Stalls wrote little of the
action he and two other Lamar
County soldiers, Clarence Nobles
and Edgar Hood, experienced. He
explained, “You get as much news
about the war as I do and quicker (in
the newspaper), so I will not try to
write it.”
His letters, censored to prevent
disclosing Allied troop locations, in
dicated he was given command re
sponsibility.
“My lieutenant is not with us right
now and I am in charge of the pla
toon. I am hardly capable of taking
charge, but I guess I am or they
would not give me the place. I sure
will be glad when the lieutenant
comes back.”
Unscathed by enemy weapons
fire. Stalls was hospitalized once.
“We went over the top yesterday
morning. I never got wounded but I
got some gas. Not very much, just
enough to send me off for three to
four days,” he wrote, trying to keep
his mother from worrying. “A few
got killed in the drive but we went on
after the Huns. The worst of all they
shot my lieutenant and killed him
right by my side. It is the lieutenant I
thought so much of. So when they
killed him I takened the men and
went right on with the fighting.
A Jan. 19, 1919, letter, after fight
ing ended, revealed, “I saw lots of
things that I do not want to see any
more. You cannot imagine what hap
pens in war. Anybody that has saw
what I have does not want to see any
more war.”
Stalls never complained about
food, but dietary variety crept into
his thinking as time neared to ship
home in mid-1919.
“Be sure to save me some eggs, for
I am egg hungry,” he wrote.
About Christmas time, 1918,
when he sent home a coupon for a
three-pound Christmas box each sol
dier was allowed (he asked for coco
nut and peppermint stick candy and
a fountain pen), Stalls commented
on his condition, “I’m not sick, just
sore and I sure do need the rest.”
United Press International
NEW YORK — A teenage girl
who fell five floors down an airshaft
was impaled Wednesday on a spiked
iron fence for several hours before
rescuers cut her loose with portions
of the fence still in her, police said.
A Bellevue Hospital spokesman
said Lori Morgan, 16, of Old Bridge,
N. J., was in critical condition follow
ing surgery to remove the iron fence
spikes in her body and to repair
broken bones.
Rescue teams freed Miss Morgan
from the 12-foot-high fence in the
alley next to the building only by
sawing through the spikes.
“Miraculously there were no vital
organs hit,” the hospital spokesman
said. “That’s what saved her.”
Police said they did not know if
anyone was on the roof with the girl
when she fell about 5 a.m.
Wednesday.
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2528 S. Texas College Station
Texas Legislator
John Sharp
discussing
“Permanent Uni
versity Fund —
What it Means to
T.A.M.U. and to
YOU.”
December 3, 1979
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UNIVERSITY
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CHAPEL
315 N. College Main
846-6687
Hubert Beck, Pastor
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BEHOLD
DON’T LET CHRISTMAS CATCH YOU BY SURPRISE!
PREPARE FOR IT NOW . . . NOT ONLY BY SHOPPING
EARLY AND SENDING CHRISTMAS CARDS IN TIME,
BUT BY WORSHIPING. WE’D BE GLAD TO HAVE YOU
SHARE OUR PREPARATIONS SUNDAY.
WORSHIP SERVICES AT 9:15 A.M. AND 10:45 A.M.
WORSHIP CELEBRATION AT 6 P.M.
Midweek Service of Meditation and
Contemplation with Holy Commun
ion every Wednesday at 10 p.m.
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SWEATER LEGS
Academy Award Winning
THE
SEVEN
PACES
OF
DR. LAO
starring
Tony Randall
Barbara Eden
Thurs., Nov. 29
8 & 10:30 p.m.
601 Rudder
75# w/TAMU ID
presented by
MSC Cepheid Variable
MEAT, FISH and LIQUOR CO.
SERVING LUNCH MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 11-2.
Now featuring a large assortment of salads, sandwiches and
burgers.
SERVING DINNER MONDAY THRU SATURDAY
AT 5 P.M.
Prime Rib, Steaks, Lobster, Stuffed Flounder and many
spectacular desserts.
NEW — WONDERFULLY ORIGINAL MAD MIN
UTES.
From 4:30-6:30 — All drinks poured double with a variety
of hot and cold hors d’oeuvres.
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Culpepper Plaza
Open 10-6 Mon.-Sat.
LUNCHEON PARTIES
SPECIAL DINNER OCCASIONS
REHEARSAL DINNERS
815 Harvey Rd. College Station
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