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By MICHAEL SHRIRO
Reporter
One of the most vivid images of
the Old West is branding time, when
ranchers would burn their brand
into the sides of their animals —
brands such as the XIT, the Lazy J,
the Open A Bar and the Circle C.
These and other brands are
burned into the oak panels of the
O.B. Butler Branded Stairwell in the
Kleberg Animal and Food Science
Center.
The stairwell, which was named
for Dr. O.B. Butler, associate deputy
chancellor for agriculture, has a
board for each Texas county. Each
county’s board has the county name,
the county brand if it has one, the
prominent ranchers’ brands and
brands from the historical ranches in
that county.
Butler says the brands on the
stairway were selected through a
long process.
“We had the brands selected in
each county by . . . building commit
tees through the county extention
agent,” he says. “The producers in
each county are members of these
committees, which are associated
with the Texas Agricultural Exten
tion Service.
“Those people selected eight
brands to put on the stairway. Then,
if the county had a historical society,
we asked tne county agent to ar
range with that group to select a cou-
S le of brands that no longer existed,
ut had great historical significance.
Also, the directors of the Southwes
tern Cattle Raisers Association and
the regents of Texas A&M who
wanted to put up their brand could
do so.”
Butler says he got the idea for the
stairway when he was head of the an
imal science department.
“It was not an original idea,” But
ler says. “In my old office in the Ani
mal Industries Building, which I oc
cupied for 22 years, there are brands
on the paneling.”
When the building was dedicated
in 1934 to the pioneer cattlemen of
Texas, the Southwest Cattle Raisers
Association came to A&M. D.W. Wil
Hams, then head of the animal sci-
Bush's political swing
continues across Texas
Associated Press
WICHITA FALLS — Vice Presi
dent George Bush plans to head for
Dallas and Fort Worth today to con
tinue five days of self-proclaimed
“out and out political activity” in
Texas.
In his wake, he was bolstering the
campaign treasuries of some I exas
GOP congressmen and the state Re
publican Party as well as laying some
groundwork for a possible White
House bid in 1988.
On tap today are appearances at
the U.S. League of Savings Institu
tions convention and a pair of fund
raisers for U.S. Rep Steve Bartlett,
all in Dallas, plus money-raising
events in Fort Worth for the Texas
GOP.
On Saturday, the vice president
held five fundraisers for freshman
U.S. Rep. Mac Sweeney before fly
ing to Wichita Falls for three similar
affairs for another Republican
freshman, Beau Boulter.
The final Boulter fundraiser din
ner drew 176 people who paid $500
per plate — a total of $88,000 — for
a chance to hear Bush speak.
“This is probably the largest, the
best — I’m sure — ever held in the
city of Wichita Falls,” Boulter said.
Bush kept his own political plans
under tight rein, saying his top
priority is to keep Repiihlicans in
control of the Senate next year and
battle “a real problem” in the Demo
crat-controlled House.
“We’ve got to make the House
more like the Senate,” he said.
When asked specifically if he
planned a run for the presidency,
Bush said at a news conference that
he would make a decision after the
1986 elections.
He acknowledged that a political
action committee has been set up in
his name but said it was lo help can
didates in elections next year. How
ever, he said because the 1988 dele
gate selection process was beginning
already in early 1986 in Michigan,
“We’ll have to do something there —
not that I’m running, but to protect
myself.”
Later, when talking about the pre
sidency to Boulter supporters at a
rally, he asked them to ‘save a little
politics for the future. Heaven
knows what’s going to happen.”
He also said that every day when
he drives through the White House
gates, “I still get a kick — a lump in
my throat. I feel that way every day I
go to work.”
Bush told reporters that a new
proposal aimed at trimming the nu
clear arsenals of the United Slates
and the Soviet Union does not signal
any change in the Star Wars missile
defense plan.
In his weekly radio address Satur
day, President Reagan said the new
proposal builds on elements of an
earlier U.S. proposal and the Soviet’s
counter offer. Reagan did not out
line specific details, but accepted a
50 percent reduction in nuclear ar
senals proposed by the Soviets.
Bush aiso provided no specifics,
saying only mat the new proposal
did not mean the United States was
retreating from the Star Wars pro
ject, also known as the Strategic De
fense Initiative.
U.S. Army stuck with bill
for treating Salvadoran
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — The U.S.
Army has been stuck with the cost of
treating a colleague of a former Sal
vadoran presidential candidate who
was hurt when a bomb he was build
ing exploded in his face, the San An
tonio Light reported Sunday.
The kill is for $l,610-a-aay treat
ment Fernando Sagrera received
during two months he spent for
treatment at the Institute for Surgi
cal Research at Brooke Army Medi
cal Center in San Antonio.
According to the newspaper, it is
not clear who allowed him into the
country and why his medical bill re
mains unpaid after 16 months.
Sagrera, a close colleague of Rob
erto D’Aubisson, the former right-
wing Salvadoran presidential candi
date, came to the burn center in May
1984 to receive treatment for severe
burns, officials said.
The State Department, responsi
ble for screening visa requests, re
fuses to say why Sagrera was allowed
into a U.S. Army medical facility.
“We’ll have to give you an official,
‘no comment,’ ” State Department
spokesman Gregory Lagana said.
But a former top Salvadoran offi
cial, who asked not to be identified,
said the U.S. government agreed not
to pursue payment of the hill in ex
change for information on death
squads operating in El Salvador.
The official said Sagera was in
jured when a bomb he was con
structing blew up in his face.
He said Sagrera’s burns came
from sulf uric acid he had been using
to construct a time-delay fuse.
State Department officials refused
to comment on the specifics of how
Sagera was hurt.
An embassy official said he
thought Sagrera was allowed into
the tlnited States after D’Aubisson
had made a special plea.
Sagrera came to Brooke with
burns on 41 percent of his body,
medical center spokesman Ray Dery
said.
TAMU
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Abroad
College of Liberal Arts
Come find out about
all opportunities offered
Summer 1986
Nov. 5, 8:30 p.m.
Rudder Rm 301
Study Abroad Office
101 Academic Bldg.
845-0544
College of Liberal Arts
Ms. Ann Todd Baum
Rm. 802 Harrington
845-5143
ence department, invited the asso
ciation’s directors to bring their
branding irons and put their brands
on the paneling.
“When animal sciences moved to
the Kleberg Center, I first thought
about moving the paneling to my
new office, hut it cost too much,” he
says. “Then I decided to make stu
dents feel at home to put up a board
on the stairway for the 254 counties
in Texas wiih the county name and
brand on them. Also, I decided to
put up a brand book and register
these brands.
“Any student studing animal sci
ence who came from any county in
Texas could go there, see a brand he
would recognize, look the brand up
in the book, see who it was, and feel
at home.”
Butler says he didn’t know the
stairwell was going to be named for
him.
“That was done by Clyde Wells,
who was chairman of the Board of
Regents at that time,” Butler says. “1
had been telling people the selection
of people to put then brands on the
stairway was going to be difficult.
The ones rejected would resent it. So
1 was telling people if they com
plained that 1 was not going to put
my brand on the wall.
“Then without me knowing about
it, they prepared that little plaque
and dedicated the stairway in my
name.” 4
What’s up
Monday
AGGIE TOASTERS: (a student group organized to helpsiu- f
dents conquer stage fright, improve puWic speaking skills)
will meet at 7 p.m. m Blocker.
IEEE-EMBS: will meet for group photo at 6:30 p.m. in the
MSC, casual attire. Bowling after picture.
PHI THETA KAPPA: will have its Initiation Banquet at 7:30
p.m. in 228-229 MM
ACM-IEEE/COMPUTER SOCIETY: will take yearbook pic
tures at 6 p.m. in Zachrv lobby. Meeting to follow.
LAND DEVELOPMENT CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. it) Ml
MSC fora speaker.
CLASS OF "SS: will sell T-shirts today through Friday 4:30
p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Sbisa and at the MSC 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
TAU BETA PI: will have a pledge test at 7 p.m. in 203
Zachry.
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: will have square dance lessons at 7
p.m. at the Pavilion.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES: Applications for Cotton Bowl rep
resentative are now available in 208 Pavilion and are due
Nov, 8.
MSC CAMERA COMMITTEE: will meet at 7 p.m. in 3fc>
Rudder.
CO—OP STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have Don Card
ner speak about graduation plans at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT: will have an Issues & Griev
ances meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 231 MSC.
Tuesday J|
CVCLING TEAM: will meet at 6 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
TAMU ONE-WHEELERS: will meet at 6 p.m. in the Grove.
WILDLIFE BIOLOGY SOCIETY: wil! meet at 7:30 p.m. for
club pictures (MSC) and at 8 p.m. in 100 Harrington fora
meeting.
HILLEL FOUNDATION: will meet at 6:45 p.m. at Zachry
forAggieland picture. Meeting at 7:15 on Israel trip,
SOCIOLOGY CLUB: w ill meefatlBO p-nL mTSTTrademk
Building.
TAMU SCUBA CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 504 Rudder.
TRAP & SKEET CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 110 Military
Science Bldg.
ALPHA ZETA: will meet at 7:15 p.m. in Zachry lobby for pic
tures.
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: will meet at
8:30 p.m. in 145 MSC.
JUVENILE DIABETES ASSOCIAION: will have an organi
zational meeting at 7 p.m. at Brazos Valley Rehabilitation
Center (2nd floor conference room) 1318 Memorial.;
§ Brvan — near St. Joseph Hospital.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES: Appl icattons available for the
TAMU Association of Professional Women Conference
through November 5. For more information, call 845-1133
or come b\ 208 Pavilion.
CENTER FOR RETAILING STUDIES: will meet at 8 a m .
in J53 Blocker to hear Stewart Orton, vice president, Fed
erated Department Stores. Anyone interested in a tour of 4 ,.
Foley’s should meet outside mall entrance at 3 p.m,
DEL RIO HOMETOWN CLUB: wdl meet at 6:30 p.m. in
MSC piano lounge for yearbook pictures.
VET CLASS OF ’89: will have ”42” Registration 10 a.m.
through 5 p.m, today, Nov. 7, 12, and 14 at Kleberg and
Vet Soiool Foyer.
SAILING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 109 Military Science
•y
DELTA SIGMA PI: will have a food drive 8c toilet articles
drive for Brazos County Red Cross 10 a.m. through 5
p.m.at Blocker and Rudder Fountain,
CAP & GOWN SENIOR HONOR SOCIETY: will meet at
8:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder. Aggieland picture at 7 p.m. at
Zachry.
MSC LITERARY ARTS: will meet at 8 p.m. in MSC Main
Lounge for pictures and general meeting.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF SAFETY ENGINEERS: mil
meet at 7 p.m. in 342 Zachry.
DEPT. OF MODERN LANGUAGES; Spanish
“Retrain de Familia” at 7 p.m. in 153 Blocker.
ON-CAMPUS CATHOLICS: will meet at 9:30 p
Faiths Chapel.
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