Page 8/The Battalion/Tuesday, March 27, 1984
Cavalry trying to sell
7 Lippizaner horses
By LYNN RAE POVEC
Reporter
Parsons’ Mounted Cavalry is
trying to sell seven Lippizaner
horses that were donated to the
unit a year ago.
Cavalry commander Benjy
Shaw says the Cavalry members
have neither the time nor
money to train the animals to
pull the unit’s cannon.
“They’re not serving our
purpose, and they’re eating us
out of house and home,” Shaw
said.
Lippizaners are descendants
of horses that were imported
into Austria from Spain and
Italy during the middle 1500s.
Adult Lippizaners are all white,
and are famous for their danc-
of a basketball, said that it was
the largest one he had ever
seen.
“The horses that they do
nated us were not good quality
horses,” Kennedy said.
“They’re Lippizaners all right,
but they’re not what you’d call
show horses.”
Kennedy also said that the
horses were not trained.
“My assumption would have
been, if they came from that
farm, that they would have
been trained,” he said.
At the time the horses were
donated, then-Captain Mark C.
Waller was the Cavalry’s ad-
agrees with Shaw.
“Everybody’s got a different
way of training,” Gibson said.
“If you don’t have the same per
son on the same horse every
day, the horse gets confused.
We were not in a position to
train the horses like they should
have been trained. But then
again, we didn’t know we were
going to have to start from
scratch.”
mg.
Temple Farms in
Wadsworth, III., raises the ani
mals. In December 1982 it do
nated the eight horses — four
geldings and four mares, rang
ing from four to 12 years in age.
About eight months later, af
ter surgery for the removal of
fiLrt ovarian cyst, one of the
mares died of complications.
“I’m sure the horse had the
problem before we got it be
cause we only had it eight
lyionths,” Cavalry adviser Capt.
Edwin Kennedy said.
He said the veterinarian who
removed the cyst, about the size
“I told Mark that he was get
ting a bunch of green horses,”
Dr. Gary Koehler said. Koehler,
who has been the resident vet
erinarian for Temple Farms for
almost six years, told The Bat
talion that he selected the Lippi
zaners donated to the Cavalry.
Shaw said that when the Cav
alry first got the Lippizaners,
the main concern was to train
them to pull the cannon the
Cavalry fires before each home
game.
He said that to effectively
train a horse, the same person
has to work with the animal for
a few hours every day.
Dale Gibson, last year’s com
manding officer of the Cavalry,
RESTAURANT
The Cavalry borrowed
$1,200 from the Association of
Former Students to rent a truck
and a 32-foot horse trailer. The
first weekend in December
1982, Gibson and two cadets
drove to Illinois to pick up the
horses and bring them to Texas
A&M.
The Cavalry keeps the Lip-
pizzaners with its other horses,
most of which are quarter
horses, at Fiddler’s Green, the
Texas A&M-owned stable on
FM 2818.
David Rose, stablemaster and
two-year member of the Cav
alry, said it costs $250 to feed
one horse for a semester.
Junior trooper Steve Huff
said the Cavalry receives its
funds from three sources:
Texas A&M, donations, and
$180 semesterly dues paid by
members.
Shaw said half of the Caval
ry’s troopers own their own
horses, and each member has
an assigned horse to drill with.
But, he said, because of the
Cavalry’s obligations, members
have not been able to work with
the Lippizaner horses as much
as they would like to.
“The way our drilling goes.
Photo by DEANSAITO
Keith Anderson, a junior Building Construc
tion major from Helotes, hoses down Elephant,
one of the seven Lippizaner horses the Par
sons’ Mounted Calvary is trying to sell
we’d get started and a parade
would come up,” Shaw said.
Kennedy said he thought the
Lippizaners would have been
eye-catching had the Cavalry
been able to train them to pull
the cannon.
Rose
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Court discusses
tardy taxpayer
United Press International
expressed the same
WASHINGTON — The Su
preme Court agreed Monday to
rule whether taxpayers who get
their returns in late can avoid
paying penalties by blaming
professional tax-preparers for
the delay.
The government said the
case involves nearly $2 million
in penalties, and its impact
could be sweeping because “lit
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now have their income tax re
turns prepared by professional
return preparers."
Federal lawyers said many
taxpayers try to sidestep the five
C ercent penalty for filing late by
laming lawyers and accoun
tants, “even though their re
turns are negligently filed late.”
The case will be argued this
fall and decided by July 1985.
Its outcome will affect at least
240 similar cases, which are
pending.
Also Monday, the justices
split 4-4 to uphold an appeals
court ruling that jury instruc
tions given in a Michigan man’s
murder case were unconstitu
tional.
The case had offered the
court an opportunity to decide
whether its 1979 ruling on jury
instructions concerning what a
person intended by his actions
would be retroactive. The jus
tices, however, chose to pass by
that opportunity, leaving the is
sue to be decided in another
The Cavalry has been trying
to sell the horses by advertising
in the Houston Chronicle for
more than two weeks.
Justice Thurgood f
did not vote in the case,
the cou rt evenly divided. I
In other action, the cJ
placed on its fall scheduleaJ
to decide whether a federal]
peals court has the powerto]
view a Nuclear
Commission order deny!
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power plant’s operating lice]
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bels planning to di
NEW ORLEANS — Salvado
ran guerrillas detained newspa
per photographers from New
Orleans and Washington, D.C.,
overnight and discussed killing
them, the photographers said.
The two men and their
driver-translator were detained
in Comalapa, a small town
about 50 miles north of the cap
ital of San Salvador, while al
to take pictures of re-
to disrupt
national elections.
David Leeson, 26, of The
Times-Picayune The States-
Item in New Orleans, and
Dayna Smith, 32, of the Wash
ington Times, were released
unharmed Sunday morning.
Leeson said they saw between
300 and 500 rebel soldiers in
the small town, an unusually
large group of guerrillas.
“I began to feel we would not
be leaving this town that night
— that we probably had seen
something we shouldn’t have
seen,” he said. “Usually, jour
nalists would see only five or six
of them (rebels).”
There was sporadic gunfire
in the hills as Leeson and Smith
drank Cokes and listened
classical music on a tape
corder.
“We passed the time dis
cussing our situation,” Leeson
said. “I sensed that we could be
in more serious trouble than it
appeared.
“I felt strongly enough about
it that I wrote some brief notes
in case we ended up missing or
dead. Maybe later the notes
would be found.”
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guerrillas in a cornfield : Monday on
side of a mountain. The (Infers, a repe
the only one of the threeipv who help
speaks Spanish, said ther*f|n’s own co
were relieved by the gust cal conservati
which Leeson ate some toitlchambers,
and rice. and 13 othei
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guns — saying the trio^: actor James C
be killed because “it woi; Hollywood fi
good publicity because th mentor,
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photographers and driverSfrom the Ser
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gun to hold and a bandcjtelevision it
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smiled some more while ftigiant in the s
took my picture.” ment.”
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journalists,” and the trio!«> tears, claspe
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