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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1980
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By MARY ANN SNOWDEN
Battalion Reporter
You must be a senior to wear the
Aggie boots. And if you want new
ones, you must have about $350.
Due to the higher price of hides,
the cost of senior boots for the Texas
A&M University Corps of Cadets
has risen signficantly over the past
two years.
John Holick, owner of Holick’s
Boot Co. & Insignia Inc., a supplier
of senior cadet boots, said the price
of boots was approximately $275 in
1978. Today the standard price of his
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boots is $375, with spurs and chains
costing an extra $30.
Holick uses seven different kinds
of leather when he makes a pair of
boots, although it is all of French
calf. He said the leather he uses must
be imported from France, because
he can’t find the grades of hide that
he uses in the United States.
“The United States does produce
much shoe leather,” Holick said.
“But the quality is not suitable for
the senior cadet boots.”
Holick said it takes about 18-20
hours of labor to construct one pair of
boots. However, seniors must order
their boots about one year in adv
ance, because the store takes orders
for up to one year of production.
For every hide used for a pair of
boots, about 30 percent is waste,
Holick said. The scraps are then sold
by the pound for one-tenth of the
Most skins produced
in the United States are
unsuitable because
they’re torn, cut or
scratched by the barbed
wire fences the cattle
are kept in.
original price.
Victor Caudillo, owner of Victor’s
Just Boots, another supplier of cadet
boots, said the cost of his boots now is
$339.95, up from $297.95 in 1979,
not including chains and spurs.
Caudillo also uses French calf
skin. He prefers it because most
skins produced in the United States
are torn, cut or scratched by the
barbed wire fences the cattle are
kept in.
Caudillo said the cadet must place
an order about four months before
the boots are needed. He said about
18-24 man-hours are put into each
boot.
About two skins are used in each
pair of boots, Caudillo said, and ab
out 40 percent is waste. The belly
and the legs of the hide constitute
much of the waste because those
parts stretch too much to be of any
value.
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Frank Dicharo, owner of Tk
lage Cobbler, also supplies thei ^
to the cadets. He prices his boj j,
$385, exclusive of chains andsj t .
up from $325 in 1979.
Dicharo said he uses Frenc;
skins “because it is the best It,
on the market.”
Dicharo said the cadetsi
order their boots about one yi
advance and that it takes aboutti
three days for construction ol
pair of boots.
The Model Boot Shop in Hot
is another supplier of the«
boots. Jerold Cecala, owner, si
standard price is $450 a pair
Model Boot Shop does not
spurs and chains.
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tragedy. The opera begins in Paris
with Violetta, a young courtesan,
falling in love with Alfredo, a young
man of a respectable family.
Violetta and Alfredo live together
for a while, but at his father’s plead
ing she leaves him to save the good
name of the family. Violetta’s heart is
broken and just as Alfredo returns to
her, she dies of a broken heart.
The production is under the gen
eral direction of Beverly Sills, with
Candace Goetz portraying Violetta
and William Livingson as Alfredo.
Director Frank Corsaro is well-
known in New York City for other
operas he has directed such as
“Madame Butterfly,” “Don Giovan
ni” and “Of Mice and Men.”
The performance will begin at 8
p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. Tickets
are available at Rudder box office.
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The Brazos Symphony Orchestra opens its concert season at M
p.m. Sunday in Rudder Theater.
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The concert is co-sponsored by the Opera and Performing AA
Society at Texas A&M University.
Tickets are $3 for adults, $2 for students and $1.50 for children undei
12. Advance tickets can be purchased at Prioriteas, 3609 E. 29th,ou (season,
the door before the concert. ; Wednes
The concert will include Schubert’s “Rosamunde Overture’aaijldeemed tl
Tchaikovsky’s waltz from “Eugene Onegin” under the directionobwhen the t
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The second half of the program will feature Rossini’s “Stabat Mate plS, 15-7.
under the direction of guest conductor Carol Smith of Sam Houste Head (
State University. The orchestra will be joined by the A&M Cor® |whose tear
dated High School Choir and the Bryan High School Choir. Thechom ( four match
are directed by James Matheny and John Hombeck. cord to 17-
Soprano Linda Poetschke of Houston, mezzo-soprano Bartm hing to pu
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metaphysics, epistemology anib
losophical logic through the W2
The collection has many
17th through 19th century Gen
and French philosophy, and
number of texts and commenta
British and American metaptfi
and epistemology through thel
nings of modern logic, Hodges
Also included in the collectio
47 rare volumes, Hodge said,
a 1651 first edition of Thomas!
bes’ Leviathan.
The books were collected byf
dall and his father from the late:
century through Randall’s
ment in 1967.
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