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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1980
DIETING?
Even though we do not prescribe diets,
we make it possible for many to enjoy a
nutritious meal while they follow their
doctors orders. You will be delighted
with the wide selection of low calorie,
sugar free and fat free foods in the
Souper Salad Area, Sbisa Dining Center
Basement.
OPEN
Monday through Friday 10:45 AM-1:45 PM
QUALITY FIRST
Local
B
TI to present
open house
Brazos Republicans gaining
By BERNIE FETTE
Battalion Reporter
Texas Instruments Inc. will pre
sent an open house in Room 212 of
the Memorial Student Center on
Sunday from 4:30 to 9p.m. and Mon
day from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Fields of specialty studies related
to electronics that will be repre
sented include Digital Systems
Group, Geophysical Services Inc.,
Equipment Group and Semicon
ductor Group.
Also featured will be a guest
speaker, Dr. John R. Hanne, assis
tant vice president and manager of
advanced technology research and
design.
Hanne will speak on “Semicon
ductor Technology: Foundation for
Data Processing” at 7:30 p.m. Sun
day in Room 212 of the MSG.
Caperton still has a fight
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When the
JULIE NEVELS agg&S
OCTOBER
QUART CAN QUEEN
JULIE NEVELS HAS BEEN ELECTED CELL BLOCK 5
QUART CAN QUEEN FOR OCTOBER. JULIE IS A
SENIOR HEALTH MAJOR FROM SAN ANTONIO
(CHURCHILL) WHERE SHE WAS ACTIVE AS A CLASS
OFFICER, A MEMBER OF THE DANCE TEAM, THE
TENNIS TEAM, AND A CLASS FAVORITE. HERE AT
A&M SHE IS A MEMBER OF THE HPE CLUB AND THE
AGGIE CLUB. YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE HER AS THE
CAMERA GIRL FROM SKAGGS. JULIE IS 5'9" WITH
LONG BROWN HAIR AND HAZEL EYES. SHE LOVES
DANCING, THE BEACH, AND SPENDING TIME WITH
HER FIRENDS AT CELL BLOCK 5.
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Block 5 is Where It’s At
Julie’s at a Lot of the Time Too)
NOTICE NOTICE
ALL AGGIE TEAM DOMINO CHAM
PIONSHIP TOURNAMENT SPON
SORED BY TAMU TEAM HAND
BALL STARTS AT CELL BLOCK 5
NOVEMBER 10. FOR INFORMA
TION CALL 779-7642.
By SCOT K. MEYER
Battalion Staff
On May 4, Kent Caperton defe
ated incumbent William T. Moore in
the Democratic primary. The victory
came after a long and difficult cam
paign, in which Caperton was the
underdog. But the Fifth District seat
in the Texas Senate was not Caper-
ton’s yet, and he knew it.
Caperton still had to face Republi
can N.A. McNiel, and although the
Texas Observer said “a McNiel vic
tory over Caperton in the fall would
be more startling than Caperton’s
May victory over Moore,” Caperton
had no intention of writing his oppo
nent off.
“The Republican Party in Brazos
County is very well orqanized,”
Caperton said over the summer,
“and I have no intention of becoming
overconfident.” McNiel said recent
ly that he could beat Caperton be
cause he was a conservative, while
Caperton is a liberal.
McNiel has said that the conserva-
—
tive-liberal split would be crucial in
the election, with conservative
Democrats joining the Republicans
to defeat Caperton.
Charles Bredwell, a worker at Bra
zos County Republican Headquar
ters, also said that conservative
Democrats will be joining the Re
publican Party, although he said it
may not happen for a couple of years.
“People who are Democrats in
Texas would probably be Republi
cans anywhere else in the country,”
who
are
V.
cLiqdsey’s
JEWELERS
“People
Democrats in Texas
would probably be Re
publicans anywhere
else in the country”’
says Charles Bredwell,
a Brazos County Re
publican worker. “As
the population of peo
ple from out of state in
creases, you’ll see a
split occur in the
Democratic Party. ”
he said. “As the population of people
from out of state increases, you’ll see
a split occur in the Democratic
Party. ”
Bredwell said the out-of-state
Democrats are more liberal than
Texas Democrats, and as the party
moves to the left, conservative
Democrats will switch to the Repub
lican Party.
Although in the long run Bredwell
would like to see more voters think of
themselves as Republicans, for the
time being he will be content if they
just vote Republican.
“We need ticket-splitters,” Bred
well said. "Anytime a Republican is
elected, it’s because Democrats have
voted for him, because there are
more Democrats than Republicans.”
Bredwell, who is coordinating Jeff
Brown’s county attorney race, said
the Republicans have two things
going for them in November.
First of all, this is a presidential
election year. “Reagan and Bush
might pull votes for the Republi
cans,” Bredwell said.
The other factor Bredwell sees as
helping the Republicans is a tenden
cy towards less straight-ticket
voting.
“Fewer people are just turning the
lever at the top towards ‘Democrat,’”
Bredwell said. “More people are
looking at all the choices.”
But the Republicans still consider
themselves underdogs in the upcom
ing race. Bredwell said the state par
ty office has a goal of getting someone
in office in this county in 1984. The
state office is not confident of win
ning races in Brazos County this
year, he said.
In his book, “Texas in 1964 — A
One Party State Again?,” author
Douglas Weeks argued that, at least
in 1964, the Republican Party in
Texas “is no real party at all.”
Katye Kowierschke, Brazos Coun
ty Republican chairman, said she
campaigned door-to-door for Barry
Goldwater in 1964. Goldwater’s
campaign, which served as the basis
for Week’s book, was not successful
— either in Brazos County or in
Texas.
Kowierschke worked for Sen.
John Tower, R-Texas, in 1966, as a
co-chairman for the county, and the
chairman of Woman Power for
Tower.
“The Tower campaign was the
turning point for us.” she said. “That
was when we began to put the party
together.”
The Republicans have been very
successful in Brazos County since
then, Kowierschke said. The county
carried for Tower, and has continued
to go for Republican candidates in
most national elections.
Brazos County is listed as “mostly
Republican” in the book “The Chal
lenge of Texas Politics.” By "mostly
Republican,” the author means that
Brazos was carried by the Republi
can candidate in two of the following
three elections: the 1976 Carter-
Ford and the 1978 Hill-Clements
and Tower-Krueger races.
All of which might lead one to be
lieve that the Republican Party is no
longer the underdog, at least in Bra
zos County. But its successful record
in national elections has not been
matched by equal success in local
elections.
with rain, so
on wading tl
lower en
Kowierschke said no Repii
candidate has ever won an eU
for a county-wide office in [P° nl ^ 0iK
County. I° s( J“* toe s?
John Raney ran for countyj J ie ^
1978, “and ran a really good]^ ( ir s 1 ame
Kowierschke said. Ip 3 )' 5 ^ een
He carried 42 percent oftt*® * n a , \ eav
Raney said he did perceiveht® 1011 ^ 1 <ara ' 1
an underdog, and that Reptlr?~f r ] vat ^
candidates will be underdogs lie br id
election. But the party ij . ? V<
now, he said, and all AeraceKTr saK '
familiar with “are very winal* sa ^ s n
Republicans.
Raney is currently workiDtjji; A
the Billy Beard campaign, or''land in hi
Kowierschke said one re
Republicans have not wonii
is that very few candidates k
hy to drain
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troblem.
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lies in a low
! Mr. Wash
“Fewer people areji >ni! nights
turning the lever
top towards Dei Mrs. Wa
crat, ” Charles
well says. “More ps
pie are looking at alh hard rain
choices.
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ts so bad,
rd. “Out i
■ in this li
Both said
“The best
out that dite
Hervey Stre
This year, though, Kowien
said, “We have four qualifiedp
running in county elections']
The four are: Beard for (
commissioner, Brown for
attorney, Paul Madison for
able, and Winfred Pittman fora
able.
Whether this will be thei
that turns the Republican Prt|
a viable force in county pot
something no one will venti
guess. But Kowierschke, Rant]
Bredwell all say that sooner O')
the county will become two-p
all levels.
‘The voters should be g
choice, ” Kowierschke said.
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