Wednesday, October 24, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3
75th Anniversary Bonfire cutting
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By TRENT LEOPOLD
Stuff Writer
■ Cutting for the 75th Anniversary
Bonfire has been plagued with
|damp weather and an unusual num
ber of injuries.
I Bill Kibler, Assistant Director of
Student Affairs, said two students
|were severly cut, one student broke
his ankle and eight others sustained
inor injuries.
I “Emergency care officials were
able to take care of most of the acci
dents at the cutting site,” Kibler said.
“Most of the mishaps were fairly mi
nor, requiring a Stitch here and a
stitch there, but two students had to
betaken to area hospitals.”
Justin Powers got a six-inch cut
above his knee when the head of his
ax came off the handle.
A spokesman for Humana Hospi
tal said Powers had to have surgery
on the knee to sew the muscles back
together.
Scott Reagan had to be taken to
the hospital when he dropped a log
on his leg, shattering his ankle.
Frances Goff, a spokeswoman for
the A.P. Beutel Health Center, said
doctors had to put pins in his ankle
to help the healing process.
Goff said 20 stitches were re
quired to sew up a four-inch cut
Barry Dean Kellogg got on his foot
when the ax he was using slipped as
he chopped wood.
Kibler said the accidents at the
first bonfire cut seemed to be more
severe than normal.
“Accidents are going to happen,”
Kibler said. “The cutting safety
classes have helped reduce the num
ber of accidents, but when you have
a large number of people at the site,
some misfortunes are inevitable.”
In addition to injuries, efforts on
this year’s fire have been dampened
by the recent rainy weather.
“We use 18-wheeler, flat-bed
trucks to haul wood from the cutting
site to the bonfire site,” Kibler said.
“Recently the ground has been so
wet we haven’t been able to get
trucks into the area to load the logs.
“One cut was postponed due to
rainy weather, but we are hoping the
skies will clear for the next cut
scheduled for Nov. 3 and 4. The
main thing we’re hoping for is dry
ground, so we can load the logs on
the trucks and get them to the bon
fire site.
“If the rain quits it doesn’t nec
essarily mean the ground will be dry
enough for us to move the wood.”
Forecasters say an upper-level low
pressure area, and a stalled cold
front in the Gulf of Mexico are re
sponsible for the current rainy
weather in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area.
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President Reagan ran into his first
klers Tuesday at campaign stops
oh the West Coast, and Walter Mon-
fdale unveiled a 1960 letter Reagan
wrote to Richard Nixon, linking
John Kennedy’s policies to those of
Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler.
■Two weeks from Election Day,
Vice President George Bush milked
alcow in Mondale’s home state of
Minnesota, and Democratic vice
presidential candidate Geraldine
■rraro, in Little Rock, Ark., lashed
out at the GOP campaign’s “arro
gance.”
Reagan was interrupted by shouts
of “liar,” “warmonger,” and “there
you go again,” a line Reagan has
used against his rivals, throughout a
rally at the University of Portland,
and about six hecklers shouting slo
gans protesting the president’s Cen
tral American policies were removed
from the Seattle Center rally.
Several hundred anti-Reagan pro
testers also were outside both speech
centers, carrying such signs as: “The
smile that kills,” and “No Mo’ron.”
James Lake, Reagan’s campaign
spokesman, said the demonstrators
in both cities “reflect a certain level
of frustration and panic on the part
of local Mondale supporters.”
Mondale said he would request
that his supporters stop any type of
heckling at Reagan rallies.
In an effort to stop Reagan from
invoking the name of John Kennedy
and other Democratic heroes, Mon
dale, in Youngstown, Ohio, quoted
from a hand-written letter, signed
“Ronnie Reagan,” sent to Nixon
during the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy
campaign — when Reagan headed a
“Democrats for Nixon” group.
Confronted with the charge, Rea
gan responded that the letter “ap
pears to be accurate” but said it was
written before the 1960 election. He
said he was “pleasantly surprised to
find the difference between Ken
nedy the candidate and Kennedy the
president,” and lauded Kennedy’s
“toughness” during the Cuban mis
sile crisis.
Bush, visiting a dairy farm in Co
logne, Minn., was told agriculture is
in “a depression.” The vice president
asked for additional time, so the re
covery can reach all sectors of the
economy and economic growth can
bring the deficit under control.
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■ WASHINGTON — A bank rob-
bti called “the lady in gray” — wear
ing a gray beret and sweater, and
wielding what she claims is a gre
nade in a brown sock — is wanted in
■string of suburban holdups, police
said Tuesday .
■ The woman, also known as “the
■enade lady,” has hit six banks since
mid-August. The holdups are
mostly in Fairfax County, Va., but
on Sept. 26 she robbed the Central
National Bank in Wheaton, Md.
■“Each time she has made off with
a considerable amount of money,”
Fairfax County police spokeswoman
Carol Kitzerow said.
She staged her latest holdup Mon
day at a First American Bank branch
in Springfield, Va., and got away
with a duffle bag of money. As in all
her robberies, there were no inju
ries.
“She usually hands a note over to
a teller stating that she has a hand
grenade and wants the money,” Kit
zerow said. “She’s usually holding a
sock with a roundish object in it. It’s
unknown what’s in there.”
Grenades are usually available to
the military only. “I’d like to see
someone call her bluff. No one
knows if that’s really a grenade in
there,” Montgomery County, Md.,
police Sgt. Harry Geehreng said.
But Geehreng said such a ploy
would be dangerous.
The woman police call “the lady in
gray” is always dressed in a floppy
gray beret, a baggy gray sweater with
a collar, and a gray skirt or gray
slacks. She also wears dark glasses,
and uses the same note.
The case is puzzling because
“women usually don’t get involved in
crimes of violence,” said Dr. Walter
Rowe, a professor of forensic sci-_
ences at George Washington Univer
sity. “Our culture even has an effect
on the crimes women commit.”
Kitzerow called the case unusual.
“I can’t remember the last woman
bank robber we’ve had,” he said.
“The odds of her getting caught, of
course, increase as she continues.”
Her luck almost ran out last week.
At a bank on a busy highway in
Bailey’s Crossroads, Va., a teller
pointed to an empty cash drawer
and said she had no money. The
“lady in gray” insisted, but the teller
prevailed and the woman left empty-
handed.
The Texan restaurant
started as a hobby
By VIVIAN SMITH
Reporter
It isn’t often that a hobby be
comes a profitable business, but
that’s what happened when Tap
and Diana Tapley bought The
Texan restaurant 17 years ago.
Tapley was a physics professor
at Texas A&M and his wife was a
homemaker when they bought
the drive-in from the 30’s era.
Neither had previous restau
rant experience or training. They
simply are interested in food and
love to experiment, Diana Tapley
said.
“We’ve been cooking as a
hobby ever since we were married
— and that’s been 34 years,” she
said. “When we bought The
Texan it was a drive-in. We kept
it as a drive-in for two weeks.
However, we kept the original
menu of hamburgers, pizzas,
french fries, etc. for much longer.
“We gradually changed the
menu — removing certain items
and replacing them with dishes
we had developed.”
She said the food is gourmet,
and credits her husband with the
development of most of the
menu. He developed many of the
secret dressings and sauces they
now use.
Additional recipes on the
menu were gathered by Tapley’s
mother. His father was a member
of the Boston Symphony Orches
tra, and his mother traded reci
pes with performers from around
the world, Diana Tapley said.
For example, the broiled
chicken with orange and oregano
is courtesy of a French musician
who was forced to flee Paris when
the woman he was living with be
came jealous and tried to kill him.
In addition, the Tapleys still
experiment with new food items
for the menu after going home at
about 1 a.m. It takes a long time
to develop something they both
like, Diana Tapley said.
For a wine to appear on their
wine list, a wholesaler must select
a wine he thinks will meet their
criteria from hundreds of labels.
Then the Tapleys drink — not
taste — at least three bottles each
at different meals to determine if
the wine is true to type, if it com
pliments the customer’s foods
and if the taste of the third bottle
is as pleasant as the first. It also is
important that the wine be appro
priately priced within its type, Di
ana Tapley said.
Even after 17 years in the res
taurant business, both Tapleys
still love cooking.
“One of us is always in the kit
chen,” sh^ said. “We cook every
entree that leaves our kitchen.”
And you shouldn’t be in a
hurry when you come to The
Texan, Diana Tapley said.
“Many people come here to
celebrate special occasions such as
anniversaries or birthdays,” she
said. “We want you to enjoy a lei
surely dinner as if you were
guests in our home.”
Smooth, efficient and friendly
table-side service are important to
the Tapleys for this reason, she
said.
The Texan’s system of service
has been developed according to
the Tapleys’ taste and consists of
two waiters for each of the two
larger dining rooms.
One waiter is the rapotier. He
never leaves the section and
serves all of the food and drinks.
The second waiter is the logisti
cian. He does all of the leg-work.
He brings the drinks from the bar
and the salads and entrees from
the kitchen to the rapotier who in
turn serves them to the custom
ers, she said.
The Tapleys have hosted seve
ral celebrities in their 17 years at
The Texan, she said. Ricardo
Montalban, Myrna Loy and
Henry Mancini all had dinner at
The Texan while in Bryan-Col-
lege Station for performances.
“Probably one of the most ex
citing nights for me was when
Gene Hackman had dinner here
with a close friend one night,” Di
ana Tapley said. “Everyone spent
the entire night trying to decide if
it was him.
“When they were leaving, the
friend said that he was Gene
Hackman. I was in the kitchen
w r hen I heard about it and I
rushed out to ask him for his au
tograph as he was getting into his
car.”
On another occasion. Bob
Lilly, a former Dallas Gowboy,
visited The Texan. “My daughter
was so excited to see him that she
kept his fork and hung it in her
room,” he said.
The Texan is busiest on the
weekends of home football games
where they serve an average of
100 people per night, she said.
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