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Page 6BAThe Battalion/Thursday, May 3, 1984 Illegal dog, cock fighting called ‘primitive United Press International MCALLEN — Although thousands of Americans con sider it sporting to watch roost ers and dogs fight. Humane So ciety officials say it is cruel, illegal and too often tolerated by society and law enforcement officers who turn their backs. The Humane Society of the United States spends more time than it would like trying to put a halt to cockfights and dogfights — the favorites of the so-called “blood sports” — that have grown into multi-million dollar gambling industry in the United States. Although most state legis latures have outlawed the events that leave thousands of animals dead or maimed, HSUS officials say lax enforcement of the laws have allowed them to continue and spread. The confrontations between two fierce well-trained animals appeal to the baser instincts of certain humans who thrill at the sight of blood, and too often the callous attitude toward pain and deaths of animals spills over to the participants’ regard for fel low human beings, HSUS offi cials contend. HSUS Gulf States investiga tor Bernie Weller says he con siders blopdsport spectators “a bunch of sadistic macho-type characters. Thousands of people attend the unlawful animal fights and illegally gamble on which dog or fighting cock can defeat or kill the other for prize money that goes to the owner-trainer, Weller said. Weller said his travels through Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas have developed “documented proof of law enforcement officers making bets and directing traf fic” at the illegal fighting pits. “A lot of them (law officers) feel there is absolutely nothing wrong with it,” Weller said, “It is against the law, and these le gal people need to get involved and not be afraid to act.” Because there are so many lo cal law enforcement “leaks” that forewarn cockfight and dog fight enthusiasts of an impend ing raid, Weller said he has taken to dealing only with “the highest form of law enforce ment intelligence” in his efforts to ferret out and halt animal fights. Weller accompanied Texas Rangers and state troopers on a recent raid of a cockpit at nearby Sullivan City where they found 300 boisterous fans at a “four-cock derby” that could have won a breeder up to $10,000. No one was arrested at Sulli van City, but the officers took names for future prosecution. Weller said among items found at the cockpit were some gaffs and spurs — sharp devices at tached to the cocks’ feet to make their thrusts more lethal — along with a shoulder patch for a Harlingen, Texas, police uni form. Ten days after the raid, Hi dalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra reported through his secretary that he was “nego tiating” for some of them to pay misdemeanor gambling fines to two justices of the peace, but the two judges’ offices reported no one had appeared to pay a fine. fate of a fighting cod' better than what happen average chicken” — bj head lopped off and ij up on the dinner table. 1 One breeder of fighting cocks at San Antonio said the “Thai’s a pretty far way to rationalize wroi as being right,” counli Meade, the regional dii the Gulf States office HSUS. “Some cockfighi its long history and the that President Jefferson cockfighler. But its doesn’t make it right ajjj than slavery was right,’’ ^ jiiIi.-ih .I COUPON ‘‘t ' <1 ■ MM MM ■ 3 §*\ INTERNATIONAL HOUSE *'»**«* RESTAURANT ALL YOU CAN EAT Buttermilk Pancakes Offer expires $i 79 May 31, 1984 4 p.m. - 6 a.m. 7 days a week ■i INTERNATIONAL HOUSE of PANCAKES « RESTAURANT 103 N. College Skaggs Center m # # ■ m # # # # # ■ # Nurse remembers WWII China United Press International VIGTORIA, British Colum bia — When the Canadian sur geon Norman Bethune went to China to tend the sick and wounded during the Japanese invasion in World War II, a fashionable young woman was by his side. Barely 2G, Jean Ewen Kovich traveled with Bethune in 1938 to a country reeling under the onslaught of the well-equipped Japanese Army. Bethune and his nurse moved across the dusty plains near the Yellow River by train, trucks, mule carts and on foot — with the advancing Japanese forces close behind and enemy aircraft overhead. They survived the attacks and reached the wartime base of the Chinese Red Army at Ye- nan that year. Together, they tended to soldiers and civilians alike everywhere they went. When Bethune met Mao Tse- tung, Chou En-lai and others who were later to rule China, his nurse was there as well. For Bethune, it was a journey that made him a Chinese na tional hero — and martyr. The Canadian surgeon, born in Gravenhurst, Out., died in 1939 in north China of blood poison ing contracted while perform ing surgery at his frontline medical unit. He was eulogized by Mao, and is known by vir tually every Chinese. With the possible exception of Marx and Lenin, Bethune is still the most revered foreigner in Cominu- nisl China. Kovich was Bethune’s nurse during his first seven months in China. Now 72, after a nursing career and raising a family, she is retired and living in a modest one-room apartment in Victo ria. She jokes about her “tale of woe” with the temperamental Bethune — they never got along. They had met briefly in New York but their first real en counter came on a China- bound ocean liner in Vancou ver in January 1938. Wearing an overcoat and a hat adorned with feathers, the Scottish-born Mrs. Kovich, then M iss McEwen, was piped aboard by a fellow countryman in Highland dress under the in credulous gaze of Bethune. “So he said, ‘Oh, you’re what I have to go to China with,”’ Ko vich recalled with Her reply: “Don’t chum, I don’t know got with you, either!" Kovich was chosen sponsoring Communist Canada to go with Bethi cause she had been to Unite Texas summer program to challenge children United Press International Show the world a Brilliant education. An A&M Senior Ring is recognized all over the world as a symbol of an outstanding education. A diamond set inside the shield adds “brilliance”. The Diamond Room has been setting the highest quality, hand-picked diamonds into Aggie Senior Rings for over eleven years. Don’t entrust the symbol of your education to just anyone, the Diamond Room does it right — in just one day! FREE SETTING THROUGH MAYS! DIAMOND ROOM 707 Shopping Village/College Station/693-7444 Member American Gem Society From CATS to FISH and CHIPS, the Gifted Students In stitute in Arlington offers chal lenging 1984 summer pro grams for bright students, near geniuses and geniuses, a pe rusal of its catalog shows. CATS puts brainy kids on stage and in the wings during a two-week session opening July 29 at the Creative Arts Theatre 8c School (CATS) in Arlington. Students say lines, sing songs, execute dance steps. Other times during the sum mer mind-stretching fun, gifted entering grades five to 11 run sound, dim lights and move sets. The insider experience is ex pected to whet appetites of a few for a career in acting, sing ing, dancing, designing, cho reographing and writing. For the others there will be the life time knowledge of how theater works, satisfying a gifted child’s curiosity. The FISH and CHIPS pro gram, set for Southwestern University in Georgetown, casts the super bright kids in a com puter-assisted study of fish. The FISH and CHIPS stu dents, entering grades six to eight, will help the Inland Fish eries Division of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department study fish populations in a con trolled reservoir. The FISH and CHIPS pro gram, like others in the Insti tute’s catalog, isn’t all work, says associate director Laura Allard. Students will have supervised use of the university’s recre ational facilities after daily work is completed. The gamut in cludes swimming, tennis, rac- quetball, golf. Allard said the Gifted Stu dents Institute for Research and Development also does re search on identification, cultiva tion and conservation of gifted nesses, and provides schools with consultation service on gifted youth. She said each summer the programs enroll a few geniuses; the rest are gifted. “In every school about 1 per cent of the students will be gen iuses,” Allard said. a missionary nurse anon Chinese. Although sm never a party member,iF ther was. Tom Ewen itoba blacksmith, was (£| eight Communists amsl Winnipeg for sedition i» and served five years in p;® Kovich says Bethune kB palled by the lackofevei SAN AT mentary hygiene and Hocratic care in China at the time, yd Tex “I don’t think thatht®kinga h< knew what he was gettinip| ( ' vote i He couldn’t fathom thefity' 11 Satin there were people whofflppite i know anything about i' an an d J and sterility and all thisMpg * nt l stuff.” Vg proc t nearly ev fwront-ri dy to ride Hy of tin el|gates at All thre trough Sa ■Hispani ne of the i . fifecent Tt Other Institute sumnr g ul yi an grams for the gifted ini Texas ai are offered at Texas ftjdi, a t e( | j, University, Fort Worth;!y, ma> wl western University, ( av a s the town; Southwest TexasQ, ^ Mo University, San Marcoslj§ ;irt sou . Pan American Universit)M ew } iere b urg. B s and p Two other prograMhlre there scheduled for Quebec,( gatesat sta and Cuernavaca, Morelos,Bckson t ico. “Vivir En Espanol" Hlibow C June 17 and runs a moijamc voles Centro Bilinque Muliiafifipaign i in Morelos. nces were “Live in Spanish withaavored to ish-speaking Mexican Strength in studying Spanish and KVotild do es fascinating Mexico in atom'.oing KfKcinn for .212 nf i mersion session for 32 ,212 of the says the catalog. The propf win the for students entering graciad 644 ant ccdlege freshmen. Magazine looking for top 50 chefs Unitec United Press International WESTPORT, Conn. — One of America’s growing numbers of food magazines is conducting a nationwide search for the United States’ top 50 chefs, res taurateurs, food producers, vintners and authors. 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