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Tuesday, January 24, 1984AThe Battalion/Page 11 CS man giving up historic property Around town Palo Alto battlefield site for sale Troupe searching for male dancers Male dancers are currently needed for in the Texas A&M Dance Troupe. Experience is helpful. Male dancers with experience in ballet, jazz or modern dance can contact Lynn Berry, room 268 East Kyle from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. by Friclay. Scholarship applications available Applications for the Joseph Milton Nance Tuition Free Scholarships in Law are now available. The scholarships are awarded to Texas A&M students planning to attend Baylor University School of Law. This year the number of scholarships awarded has been increased from two to three. Deadline for applications is Feb. 8. Students interested should contact Hilary Jessup, Acade mic Counseling Office; or Dr. J.M. Nance, Department of History. SIUC names Stickney fishery director Texas A&M fisheries expert Robert R. Stickney has been named director of the Southern Illinois University at Car- bondale (SIUC) Cooperative Fisheries Research Laboratory. Stickney’s appointment was announced Jan. 16 by SIUC president Albert Somit. Stickney has been a professor in Texas A&M’s Depart ment of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences for the past nine years. He also direwcted the Texas Agriculture Experiment Station’s Aquaculture Research Center at College Station and is president of the Fish Culture Section of the American Institute of Fisheries Research Biologists. The W.G. Mills Memorial Fellowship Committee is accepting applications for the W.G. Mills Fellowship in Hyd rology for the Spring semester. Deadline for application is Jan. 27. The Fellowships provide finacial support to four or more highly qualified graduate students in hydrology. Appropri ate areas of study include engineering hydrology, stochastic hydrology, hydrometeorology, geohydrology, watershed management and hydrologic techniques in water resources planning. Sales continues for pageant tickets Tickets are now available for the 5th Annual Miss Texas A&M Scholarship Pageant scheduled for 7 p.m, Feb. 25. Tickets are $3.50 for students and $6 for non-students and can be purchased at the MSC Box office. Volunteers sought for RSVP project The Retired Senior Volunteer Program of the Brazos County Community Council is looking for volunteers to be trained as mental health paraprofessionals to do counseling in local nursing homes. To help meet the need for mental health services for older persons, the Texas A&M Department of Educational Psycol- ogy, the Texas Agriculture Extension Service and the Re tired Senior Volunteer Program have joined to recruit, train and supervise the mental health paraprofessionals who par ticipate in the project. The first meeting for those interested in the project is Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the First Presbyte- rain Church of Bryan, 1100 Carter Creek Parkway. To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald. Attend the 1984 Career Fair Banquet Wednesday, February 1 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. MSC Ballroom Reserve a seat with the company of your choice. Tickets are on sale this week in the Blocker (Ab-A) foyer from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. $5.00 per person 9 OUT OF 10 PUPPIES PREFER THE BATTALION United Press International BROWNSVILLE — The site where historians believe the Bat tle of Palo Alto, the first engage ment of the Mexican-American War, was fought 137 years ago has been put up for sale by its College Station owner. A large realty sign stands be side the national historical monument and cannon com memorating the battle fought by Gen. Zachary Taylor’s troops in which an unknown number of soldiers died during a fierce artillery duel between 2,300 Americans and 6,000 Mexicans on May 7, 1847. Richard VanderGrift, an official with Tenneco Realty Co. of Houston, says the asking price is $2,500 an acre lor the property located at what he terms “a superb corner.” The land lies at the intersection of paved Farm Roar's 511 and Landslide buries Texan United Press International DEL RIO — Police tracking dogs searched unsuccessfully Monday for the body of a San Antonio man presumed killed in a landslide in a remote area near the Rio Grande. Edgar Joe Dorroh, 45, dis appeared beneath a mass of rock and debris that tumbled down a slope in the Amistad Recreation Area, located about 50 miles northwest of Del Rio, said assis- tant superintendent Don Goldman. The accident occurred at ab out 12 noon Saturday, when Dorroh tried to scale the slope and apparently caused the de bris to slide, Goldman said. A woman who was climbing with Dorroh was not injured and summoned park rangers for help. Two tracking dogs from the Midland Police Department could not locate the body Mon day, and Goldman said the search would resume Tuesday. “If they don’t find him tomor row, we’ll have to do some hard thinking,” Goldman said. “They (chances) don’t look good now.” Rescue efforts conducted Saturday and Sunday were dan gerous and frustrating, he said, as one man at a time tried to remove debris while tied to a rope anchored to a tree. “As they removed the rock, others would slide down,” Gold man said. Officials said Dorroh was trying to climb to a railroad bed constructed above the river ab out 100 years ago. Rocks blasted from the hillside to build a tun nel were dumped near the river, forming the slope that Dorroh '-was trying to climb. The accident scene is located in a remote area about three miles north of the confluence of the Rio Grande and Pecos River, Goldman said. 1847 between Br ownsville and Los Fresnos. But the property’s owner, re tired businessman Bert Wheeler of Gollege Station, says no one knows for sure exactly where the battle was fought, because the monument was put “in an arbit- ary place.” Wheeler, a history buff and collector of vintage newspapers, says numerous cannon balls have been found a half mile south of the marker on the north side of FM 511. VanderGrift says there is no water on the battlefield proper ty, but that it would be suitable for dryland cotton farming, or water could be brought in and the site developed. Its proximity to the Port of Brownsville also is a selling point, the realtor said. The Battle of Palo Alto, fol lowed by another conflict be tween Taylor’s forces and those of Mexican Gen. Mariano Arista the next day a few miles to the south at Resaca de la Palma, con stituted the only fighting of the war north of the Rio Grande. Arista estimated the Amer icans fired more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition while the Mexicans fired only 650 in the fray. Both sides fired cannon situated 400 yards apart, outside the range of small arms fire. There are differing figures on casualities, with Taylor claim ing fewer than 200 American and 2,000 Mexican casualties in the two battles. After those two engagements, Taylor’s troops marched all the way to Mexico City. The war en ded with the signing of the Trea- ty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on Feb. 2, 1848, establishing the Rio Grande as the border be tween the two countries. Three future U.S. presidents took part in the battle — Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin Pierce, along with Jefferson Davis, who later was elected president of the Confederacy. “When asked why he did not cut off his head, he replied, ‘Someone had done that before.’ This left no doubt in my mind but that the Battle of Resaca de la Palma would have been won just as it was if I had not been there.” When Taylor’s force later joined up in Mexico with one led by Gen. John E. Wool, Grant rode and fought in the same out fit with his future Civil War nemesis, Robert E. Lee. The Battle of Palo Alto also introduced the world’s first war correspondent, George Wilkins Kendall, according to an account in “The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas” by J. Lee and Lillian J. Stambaugh. TAMU PRE-LAW SOCIETY 1m Meeting Wednesday, January 25 7:00 pm 601 Rudder speaker Dean T.J. Gibson of the University of Texas Law School •Will also discuss semester activities and take Aggieland pictures Now! Layaway your Diamond for your Aggie Ring! FINt JEWKLRY 30% off Diamonds for Aggie Rings IVe also buy scrap gold at highest prices. 415 University Dr. 846-5816 —J [*—^ XL—1 7 P - HU Ur ^±1 u Day students get their news from the Batt. zancfii •Proms •Bridals •Wedding •Pageants •Formals Long & Short Memorial Headquarters Memphis. 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