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Bennigans will open at
9:00 a.m.
on Sept. 29 before the football game.
Serving brunch til 1 p.m.
or order from our regular menu.
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WALTON AND MOORE HALLS
Present
The Theme #56 Party
ALL GIRLS FREE
KC BALLROOM
Sept. 28
8:00 till Yell
Shala’s
presents fun fall fashions
20% discount with this coupon
Culpepper Plaza
FRESHMEN &
SOPHOMORES
DON’T FORGET!
Class photos for the Aggieland yearbook con be
taken on campus or off. Both studios are open
weekdays only from 8:30-4:30 (closed 12-1:00).
Check schedule below for correct dates & locations.
Notice Change in Dates
SEPT. 17-OCT. 12 YEARBOOK ASSOCIATES OFFICE
(1700 S. Kyle behind Culpepper Plaza 693-6756)
OCT. 15-26 Pavilion
(on campus, for more information call 845-2681)
WHATEVER JOB SKILL YOU WANT
WE'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER.
From 03 Charlie (Physical Actiw
ities Specialist) to 98 Juliet (Electronic
Intelligence Specialist), there are over
300 different job skills to choose
from. Many are technical, many have
direct civilian job applications.
There are jobs in administration,
communications, electronics, medical,
supply, engineering, transportation,
jobs that are physically and mentally
demanding.
To find out which one you might
like to qualify to train for, talk to an
Army Recruiter.
Call: 775-2116
U.S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION
1679 Briarcrest Drive
Bryan, Texas 77801
ARMY.
BE ALL YOU CAN BE.
Page 8/The BattalionAThursday, September 27,
Veterans to fly
to combat site
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Nearly 200 vet
erans and relatives, many of them
Texans, will fly to Italy today to com
memorate a World War II battle that
one historian compares to the suici
dal Charge of the Light Brigade.
The group will go to the Rapido
River between Rome and Naples,
where 1,681 Americans from the
Army’s 36th Division were reported
missing, wounded or dead after Lt.
Gen. Mark W. Clark ordered them
acrossjan. 20-22, 1944.
The battle received little publicity
because the nearby battle at Anzio
and the bombing of the sixth-cen
tury Benedictine monastery at
Monte Cassino attracted the press’
attention.
“Rapido is in human lives much
more tragic than the Monte Cassino
bombing,” argues military historian
David W. Richardson.
Richardson will accompany the
group Oct. 4 when it dedicates a 10-
foot-tall granite memorial in Sant’
Angelo to the battle.
“It set the stage for the slaughter
that was Italy,” Richardson said, “an
almost hopeless battle against a ge
ography that even Hannibal didn’t
try to overcome when he marched
on Rome.”
Julian H. Philips, 62, was a com
pany commander when he and his
men gathered near the river four
decades ago.
“The first time I saw it I thought I
could jump it,” he recalled. “But it
was deep and it was fast.
“In my battalion, when the cross
ing was over, E Company came back
with seven men and no officers out
of 180-200 men,” Philips said. “F
Company had 14 men and no offi
cers. I saw bodies of men stacked
three-deep along the river.”
Philips never crossed that eve
ning. A few days later, however,kt
was ordered to cross to draw tit
Germans’ fire — enabling Americat
spotters to pinpoint German poa
lions. Taking five men, he crossed
for a brief time and returned-u
act that won him and his patrolSd
ver Stars.
Crossing the Rapido, however
never was meant to be more thana
diversion. Clark said that he wanted
to hold German troops and possiblv
draw them to the rugged area while
other parts of his 5th Army waded
ashore at Anzio.
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troops were to break the Germande
fense known as the Gustav Line,]®
fellow soldiers coming up from .4
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commander borrowed a few extn
divisions from Rome and pushed
back the British units who were sup
posed to hold the high groundsotli
Americans could cross.
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aged to cross the first night, wilhi
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2 men in helicopter
die in rescue attempt
United Press International
KERNERSVILLE, N.C. — A dar
ing two-man helicopter crew, killed
in a futile air rescue attempt, were
“men who never let fear stand in
their way,” fellow rescue workers
said Wednesday.
Pilot Tom Haroski, 39, and para
medic Stephen Richey, 25, died in
the fiery crash of a television news
helicopter Tuesday night while try
ing to save an injurea welder dan
gling 110 feet high from a water
tower.
The welder, Charles Tompkins,
19, bled to death while hanging by
his safety belt with the helicopter’s
rescue rope just 25 feet from his
reach, authorities said.
During the rescue attempt, the
helicopter’s rotor blade struck the
tower, flipping the aircraft onto a
building’s roof and sparking a natu
ral gas fire, which was quickly
brought under control.
“These were men who never let
fear stand in their way,” said Jim
March, of the Forsyth County Res
cue Squad. “It’s really a terrible loss.”
Another rescue sejuad member,
James Thompson, said,“They knew
what the potential for danger was.
Steve died doing what was important
to him — what made him happy.”
Tompkins was disassembling the
water tower with a cutting torch
when a 20-foot girder fell thewroitj
way and crashed onto hit
Kernersville Police Sgt. Rickie Rut
ley said.
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when it fell and trapped his Iff
against the tower, though the rest®
his body still dangled from hissafen
belt.
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like,” Rumley said.
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der and a 90-foot cherry picker
bring Tompkins down, but caM
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helicopter after 2 ‘/a hours of resent
effort failed.
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sort,” Rumley said. “When the hell
copter went up, he (Tompkia
wasn’t dead. We didn’t want to en
danger anyone’s life for anythingi
the world.”
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auxiliary officer with the Winstoc
Salem police. Police said he madt
many rescues, including findingM
men trapped for two days lastjulvi
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