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Monday, October 29, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 Boomtowns can be profitable By MARCUS MILES Reporter | Small communities can profit from the “boomtpwn” experience if they are flexible and involve youth and newcomers, Dr. James H. Copp, a Texas A&M rural sociologist says. 1 Copp said leaders in towns hit by booms caused by the oil and gas in dustry should involve newcomers in adership roles in order to prevent aturnover in leadership. I “When leaders try to keep their cards close to their chests and resist change, leadership tends to turn over,” he said. “Newcomers bring new ideas, and along with youth they create a great demand for services.” Financial leaders, especially bank ers, play an important role in the success of a community during a boomtown experience, he said. “Bankers must be willing to put their money where their mouth is,” Copp said. “They must be willing to invest in areas that will help the com munity prosper. Often these areas don’t yield the highest rate of inter est, but they may be in the best inter est of the community.” Planning ahead is another benefit, he said. “For example, Caldwell was a pro gressive community,” Copp said. “It was slightly ahead in areas such as water and sewer services and hospi tal facilities.” This is a plus for any community that has a boomtown experience, he said. “Communities that didn’t prosper during their boomtown experience were totally unprepared,” Copp said. “They lacked forward planning in areas such as water, sewer, tele phone, fire, and police service.” People in the successful commu nities have different attitudes, he said. “They tend to see things differ ently, they are upbeat and open to outsiders,” he said. ast senator talks to book collectors ^ ral 'l km (j outage andt o pursueat ourses and r Ml acadfj By MARY ANGELA LEBLANC Reporter I Ralph Yarborough, a former U.S. inator from Texas, told some book collectors at Texas A&M that they Several injured on rural Halloween hay ride should write down their family histo ries because those stories will be- iix)rne important through the course of time and may soon become his tory. BYarborough, a book collector himself, spoke to a group of about ilu ni critenai 50 at the 12th annual Student Book Departmoi | Collector’s award ceremony Friday. I His lecture was entitled “Books in grade atm Mv Baggage: From Oral history to <!' elec Modern Presses.” or high ttjH'The first few years of history I donafk-H of 100). h percenifj nized stanfc t battery, i m Indepi* icipated rj : highsdwoljH WALLER — At least 12 people at tending a community Halloween nsolidatedl P ar| y were injured when a car side- tid a cent | w 'P ec l their nayride wagon in rural lent andli; Waller County, of ficials said Sunday. 0 students si I Two of the most seriously injured, rrla^ofjtv.119-year-old Russell Burns and 14- superiniM y eai -°l c l Michael Williamson, of i Indepei WeiKaj The Royal Connection Duplicate Bridge ACBL bill hasn'tbffiil905 Wellborn Rd. C.S. 764-8129 Wednesdays 7:30 p.m. kids, bun then it’s learned was oral history,” Yarbo rough said. He said he learned about the Civil War from the tales of veteran sol diers who had returned from the war. He said he learned more from his uncle’s oral description of Indian raids, cattle drives and observing the migrating buffalo than he could have learned from any textbook. “Truth was the hallmark of their narrations,” Yarborough said. Before the winners of the collec tion contest were announced, Yarbo rough displayed some of his rare books to the audience. The first of these books was “The Commonplace Book.” Each page was separately printed and illus trated. The book has 50 limited edi tions. Another book, “The Printing Arts in Texas,” is a limited edition of 10 copies. These books were given awav by the author, and the recipients of the books had to pledge never to sell them. The winners’ names and the names of their book collections are: Richard D. Spence, “The Rise of the Common Man: The Ages of Jeffer son and Jackson”; Patrick R. Ryan, “English Renaissance and Reforma tion"; Micheal Smolen, “From Em pire to Island: A Study of English Colonialism”; John Adams, “The Best of the West: Two Dozen and One Books on the Range Cattle In dustry”; Timothy W. Houseal, “A Natural History of Michigan and the Western Great Lakes Region”; Wil liam J. Treat, “U.S. Postal History: The Classic Years of 1848 to 1861”; Steven Kirk Bane, “A Collection of Books on the Third Reich”; David Ragsdale, “Early Female Prose Writ ers (Before 1875)”; and Jimmy Drozd, “History of the Colorado Rockies.” The winning book collections will be on display for two weeks in the first and second floor display cases at the Sterling C. Evans Library. 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Waller County Sheriff Ronnie Sit- ton said the accident, which oc curred at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday night, was one of the worst ever in a rural area. “We’ve got some people that are going to have permanent injuries, and 1 mean permanent,” he said. “1 think one of the people is probably going to lose a leg.” Sitton said up to 30 people, rang ing in age from a 16-month-old baby to adplts, attended the Halloween party sponsored by a community grocery store. The party goers were riding in a hay-covered flatbed truck being pulled by a pickup truck. Sitton said a car driven by 29- year-old Marilyn S. Langdon of Wal ler collided with the trailer. Slouch By Jim Earle SPECIAL ‘I understand it usually rains during bonfire season. SHOP ALL FOLEY'S STORES MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY 10 TO 9:30. (DOWNTOWN HOUSTON MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 9:30 TO 6, SATURDAY 'TIL 5:30). 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