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Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1980 YO Ranch celebrates 100th United Press International MOUNTAIN HOME — One of the biggest parties the Texas High Country has seen in years was held this weekend to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the YO Ranch. Temperatures in the 30s and snow forced a Sunday morning chuckwa- gon breakfast to be cancelled, but Saturday night’s fun was not hin dered. Charles Schreiner threw the giant party for 2,000 invitation-only guests. Wearing a tuxedo and cow boy boots, he mounted a 2,000- pound longhorn steer named “Gov ernor” and rode it right into the mid dle of the cheering crowd. The hundreds of politicians, big game hunters and Hill Country gen try enjoyed exotic foods from seven countries, fine cheese and fruit, and crowded around a large table for for helpings of jackrabbit chili. An official for the party said the affair cost Schreiner approximately $20 per person. Now Better Than Ever. 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She began “playing around” with private planes at eight. Now at 27, she is the only Navy woman aviator qualified to land on aircraft carriers. “It was just great!” Lt. Donna Lynn Spruill said. Relaxing in her zip-up flying suit, Lt. Spruill, of Starkville, Miss., explained how to line up a plane with “the meatball” — the colored light on the carrier which helps orient the aircraft for a safe approach. But it’s clear the first excite ment of snaring the trip wire with the tailhook and bringing the bird, with its throbbing engines, to a jarring stop is giving way to day to a bittersweet disillusion ment. Four months after a first meet ing at Atlantic Fleet headquarters last fall, Spruill’s enthusiasm seems to be giving way to quiet anger. As a woman pioneer in the Navy, she has reaped a small whirlwind. And she’s run into a roadblock. The media has begun to pic ture her as the sexy single woman, the woman “airedale” (that’s a jab, in Navy lingo) who drives a yellow Mercedes and shakes her yellow curls lustily out of her helmet after a flight. Recently, a titilating write-up in a local newspaper prompted her male comrades to phony up a message, purportedly from the men of the carrier USS Eisenhower, requesting her out “on a VIP tour.” Spruill and others are also fu rious at a group of Navy, Air For Lt Donna Lynn Spruill, the roadblock is specific: the Navy will not train her to fly jets. Jets mean fighters, like the F-14 carrier-based inter ceptor. And the Navy will not hand out expensive fighter training to women when it is not going to employ women as fighter pilots. specific: the Navy will not train her to fly jets. Jets mean fighters, like the F- 14 carrier-based interceptor. And the Navy will not hand out expensive fighter training to women when it is not going to employ women as fighter pilots. “I’m having a hard time right now,” Spruill conceded. “Unfor tunately, I think they’re going to make me quit flying. Eventually, they have to. And flying is really my first love. ” Combat in the Navy is vastly different from killing your enemy in hand-to-hand combat as a Marine or Army infantryman may have to do, Navy women argue. “My concept of the Army is fox holes, tents, hand-to-hand, and Force, Marine and Coast Guard women who have posed nude in the April issue of Playboy. It undermines their efforts to be accepted as professionals. But beyond the publicity prob lem, Navy women see roadblocks in their careers as long as they are barred from combat jobs. By law, the Navy is not allowed to place women in combat situa tions, although it can assign then for up to 180 days on warships not in combat zones. It doesn’t help that the Navy has opened up 102 of its 118 rat ings, or jobs, to women. For Spruill, the roadblock is Spruill and others are also fu rious at a group of Navy, Air Force, Marine and Coast Guard women who have posed nude in the April issue of Playboy. It undermines their efforts to be accepted as professionals. real close encounters,” Spruill said. “In the Navy, we’re set aside from that. We don’t have to worry about not being as strong as some body else as long as we do our jobs. “The actual physical strengh isn’t involved. There’s no real need for us to be out I handling some 6-foot-5 gmnt 1 Petty Officer Kathiyne ][_ | v K 1 phey, 26, of State College, i is the first woman to qualify,,. V l crewman on the kind of pl.T® 8 urt ' Spruill flies. ' ea .' s ’ Sl She agrees with Spruill, jc ] concedes, though, she's "nolmR ^ p keen” on hand-to-hand comk BU | ,]j But she thinks Navy wok® c , •. ought to be allowed if they are willing and interestetfE/ , j r( Murphey recently spentK night on the carrier EisenUM^ y and spotted many job possihiliivBF for women. “I can see a lot more jo!; I' 1 thi: women could do. Mess coi ;e H s * ron Radar room. Radio room' irdmals, Spruill adds: “Some ni, 250 deg not suited for combat eitl l l so Right? But if women are capa n en an ^ and want to, that’s great.fj ight should be determined on anii he “froz vidual basis.” 10 use of The Navy, as well as the -heck the Force, is asking Congress toi ry of the cind the law barring womenfr :oo,” Bei combat. Forex , If the law is reversed, thet y| 1 wit j sion to assign women to coKfc ts — or not to assign them -« chr01 lie with the secretary of the Na )ut Navy Secretary Edward Hi( j iscnver . go favors removing the legal! „ n U..* tL.V , , ■ed to But ms rier but with this kicker; “I’m absolutely opposed! women serving in combat, ! says. Fantasy Island’house is raided U.S. CXPCCtS IHOrPc United Press International Friday night. United Press International LAKEWOOD, Colo.— Eight persons have been arrested in a raid on an alleged house of prostitution called “Fantasy Island” that offered services ranging from $15 drinks to a $180 champagne bath with two hos tesses. Agents from the Lakewood De partment of Public Safety sur rounded and then raided the house Friday night. Agents began investigating the house, which opened in February, after receiving several complaints from persons who received brochures from the business. The circulars said Fantasy Island pro vided “an island of Utopia” for busi nessmen and featured hostesses ca tering to “every whim that the busy executive really deserves.” support for boycot 1 no WE BUY BOOKS Attention Students: ,•-< W ji ’> -: - • MSC Town Hall is in the process of conducting a random survey of 2,000 Texas A&M University students. EVERYDAY! IMSCI ... AND GIVE 20% MORE IN TRADE ON USED BOOKS! TLOUPOT'Srn BOOKSTORE Northgate — Across from the Post Office llown holll United Press International COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Government officials predicted Sun day that America’s boycott of the summer games in Moscow would re ceive widespread support from the free world. Egyptian athletes were the first to get on the boycott bandwagon, and Canada, West Germany, and Austra lia appeared ready to join the United States. Aides to President Carter said they felt more nations would fol low now that the U. S. Olympic Com mittee has officially agreed to stay away from the games. “We are confident that other lead ing nations of the free world will join in this demonstration that no nation is entitled to serve as host for an Olympic festival of peace while it K tii NEW persists in invading and subjiinfter the another nation,” Carter’schicioompute sel, Lloyd Cutler, said. partmenl In an ABC interview in fe a P er ‘ lt< ton, Deputy Secretary ofSta!; >ay . ren Christopher predicteiLs 20 n Olympics will be “only a shiiB^ es in what was expected before the !^ a s P ec Soviet invasion of Afghanistan iea ' Sen. Frank Church, chaintf j. . , the Senate Foreign Relations f IS 1 mittee, also said America’s° r “may be willing, many of ther.„. romc re join with us in boycotting the pics.” “t, ^ lop e: The USOC voted by a marcunfamilk 1,604-797 Saturday to supper be afraid ter’s demands for a boycott bthlir abi of the Soviet Union’s invar the way Afghanistan. business In cor data pre The results of the survey will be presented to the Town Hall selection committee, which consists of three faculty members and fifteen students, that represent a cross sec tion of campus (twelve students are non Town Hall members). The feedback from the survey and the selec tion committee will help Town Hall determine student (entertainment preferences for the 1980-81 Town Hall season. If you receive one of these survey forms in the mail please fill it out completely and mail it back in promptly, so that we can begin our booking process for next year as soon as possible. Thank you for your coop eration. 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