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MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1981
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Field worker, 129, dies;
age ‘a question for God’
United Press International
ROSWELL, N.M. — A field
worker believed to have been
born on Christinas nine years be
fore the start of the Civil War has
died of kidney failure at the age of
129.
Jesus Coronado, born some
where between Corpus Christi
and Robstown, was believed to
have been the oldest New Mex
ican at the time of his death early
Friday, in St. Mary’s Hospital.
A search of church records in
the Diocese of Corpus Christi in
the late 1960s failed to turn up a
birth or christening certificate for
Coronado, but family members
said he was born on Dec. 25, 1851.
He outlived three wives and
fathered at least 19 children, the
last born when he was 85. He said
in an interview in 1979 he worked
until he was 97, picking cotton as a
field hand.
Asked once through an inter
preter how he had managed to live
so long, Coronado smiled and
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said: “That is a question for God. ”
But, he added: “I always ate fri-
joles (beans) and potatoes every
day.”
Although his memory failed
him in later years, he still recalled
the violence of “contrabandistos,”
the bandits along the Rio Grande,
and remembered the excitement
the first automobiles generated.
He said the little advice he
could offer others was: “It is good
to get up early to work in the
morning light and air, to be clean
and to work hard.”
The important things to him, he
said, were “to have a job, a family,
To be able to work for the family
— to earn enough for the food and
the clothes.”
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What’s up at Texas A&M
Monday
LUTHERAN STUDENT MOVEMENT: Bible study at 7:3«
p.m. (Room T.B.A.)
OFF CAMPUS CENTER: Roommate session form 3 p.m. to 4
p.m. in 137 MSC. Come and find a roommate for the spring
semester.
DELTA “Y”: Hay ride at 7 p.m. All freshmen are welcome. Meet
by Rudder Fountain.
iner Secretary of State ofTexas, will be speaking at 7 p.m. it;
Rudder.
SAN ANTONIO HOMETOWN CLUB: Meeting to discuss
party preparations at 7:45 p.m. in 109 Heldenfelds.
SOLLEGIATE 4-H CLUB: 4-H and Food Science Christmas
party at the Q-huts from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m, Lots of fun with
food and square dancing.
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL: Bible study at 8 p.m.
in the University Lutheran Chapel, 315 n College Main.
ATASCOSA COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: Meeting at 7
p.m. in 604 Rudder. McMullen County welcome.
TAMU GAMERS (GROMETS)s Pearl Harbor Day presenta
tion by Professors Beaumont, Bradford and Melosi at 7:30 p.m.
in 301 Rudder.
A&M CYCLING TEAM: General meeting at 8 p.m. in 140
MSC.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Bible study at 7 30
p.m. in the Student Center and night prayer at 10 p.m. in St.
Mary’s.
FORENSIC SOCIETY: Discuss spring competition at 7 p.m. in
109 Military Science Building.
DEBATE SOCIETY: Finalize entries and travel arrangements
for California swing at 7 p.m. in 109 Military Science Building.
PARKER COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: Discuss Christ
mas party at 7:30 p.m.in 507 Rudder.
VOCAL MUSIC: The Vocal Music Christmas Concert will he
held at 8 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. Admission is $1.00. The
Texas A&M Women’s Chorus, Century Singers, And Revellers
will sing a variety of Christmas selections form classics to jazz and
swing.
Tuesday
YOUNG CONSERVATIVES OF TEXAS: George Shake* for-
HORSEMANS ASSOCIATION: General business ml
7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg.
STUDENT DIETETICS ASSOCIATION: Christmas.
7:30 p.m. at Kim's house. Sign up to bring food in 310 Kiel
Please bring a small gag gift.
INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL: Entries close at 5p.m.
up in 159 East Kyle.
TEXAS STUDENT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION:
day mixer with professors over lunch form 11a.m. to Ip.
104 Harrington.
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Speaker from Dow Chemical Co. will speak at 7:30 p.m. in
Zachry.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Christmas
will be held outside of St. Mary’s Church at 7:30 p.m.
HILL. COUNTY CLUB: Party at 7:30 p.m. in Brownstonei
#81 on the Southwest Parkway.
TAMP MICROCOMPUTER CLUB: Cyclotron touratlp.
Meet at the Cyclotron.
MSC CHRISTMAS PROGRAM: Pictures taken with Saatu
Mrs. Claus from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the MSC mainhalk
CARP: film showing of “Revolution in El Salvador, Komarm
Reality " at 3:30 p. m. in 140 MSC. Also at 8 p.m. Thursday
Sc. Everyone invited.
MSC TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY: Dr Vandiver^
speaker, joins Cindy Green, Miss TAMU, in lighting alii
tree from noon to 1 p.m. in the MSC main lounge. ScottZs
pianist, will entertain.
Wednesday
MID-EAST DIETETIC ASSOCIATION: Social
7:30 p.m. at 1202 Caudill, College Station. Bringtavoriteta
recipe.
OMEGA PHI ALPHA NATIONAL SERVICE:
rneetin at 6:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder. Pledge meeting foil:
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WASHINGTON — Even the
Christmas season did not stop the
steady rise of unemployment in
the United States, which hit a six-
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year high of 8.4 percent in
November.
“What we do not need, as we
head into this holiday season, is an
administration that plays Santa
Claus for the wealthy and Scrooge
for average families, the needy
and the working men and women
of America,” said Sen. Edward
Kennedy, D-Mass., one of the
harshest critics of President
Reagan’s economic program.
“The president promised that
his economic plan would bring
jobs, jobs and more jobs. Instead,
it has brought recession, recession
and more recession,” he said.
The Labor Department said
more than 9 million Americans
were unemployed in November,
noting that Christmas shopping
failed to curb the upward trend,
with officials reporting that mer
chants hired fewer workers than
usual in the pre-holiday period.
Actually, more than 10 million
Americans are out of work, but
only 9 million are counted by the
government as technically unem
ployed. Another 1 million, accord
ing to latest statistics for the third
quarter of 1981, are too discour
aged to look for a job and, there
fore, not included as part of the
workforce.
Ray nu
Novell
In October, the number of un
employed Americans seeking
work was at 8.5 million, and the
unemployment rate was 8 per
cent.
Reagan called the high number
of Americans unemployed a very
great tragedy, hut White House
officials remained optimistic his
economic program will reverse
the trend.
“This is the price youli
pay for bringing down ii
Deputy Press Secretary
Speakes said. “We feel pi
asures are in place to put
nomy back on track. We
unemployment will begiiitt|
next year.’’
AFL-CIO President
land said the adminisl
promise of eventual recou
hardly reassuring to the 9
Americans now jobless."
Blue-collar workers andiB 8 u
gers bore the brunt ofNovei E
downward economic trend I
21.8 percent rate for tea I
was a record high since tlie!f
Department began 1)1
monthly statistics in thtl
1940s.
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Fewer unsafe toys foun
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WASHINGTON — Investiga
tors for the Consumer Product
Safety Commission say they ha
ven’t found any unsafe toys on
store shelves this Christmas sea
son, but that could be because
budget cuts mean they have fewer
people looking.
“At this point, we haven’t had
any problems, but
one never
knows,” Commission Chairman
Nancy Steorts told a news confer
ence Friday.
Agency toy expert Elaine Bes
son added: “Right now, I don’t
have a toy that I’ve seen that I’m
concerned about.”
Commissioner Stuart Staffer
said the agency, following a 26
percent budget cut, has fewer toy
investigators and cannot conduct
as many indepth investigations. It
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situents.
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