Friday, January 30, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5
fficial says sale
of 24 rockets was
areless slip-up’
lOR'I BLISS (APj — A “careless
ilip up” allowed two dozen armed
rockets to be left in wooden crates
iok! to a Mexican businessman, a
■. Army spokesman said Thurs
day
^■"he man, who purchased what he
hought were empty wooden crates
catl 'itln auction, took all but one of the
rockets to neighboring Ciudad Jua-
nena?rez, Mexico, Fort Bliss Military Res-
ffice. “rvation spokesman Lt. Col. James
son said.
■
ro( ket was also discovered
^^Hie ol the crates the man left be-
lind at the base, the nation’s largest
[i terms of area, Lawson said.
■I^Kraving the rockets inside crates
er ' ■were supposed to be empty was
perfefh inadvertent sli]), a careless slip-
lt Iftjtp," Lawson said.
^■riicials were negotiating the re-
urn. of the weapons, which were
eized l)\ the Mexican army at the
lusinessman s lumberyard Monday,
,;nvon said.
I hey (Mexican army authorities)
re anxious to give them back to us
and we’re anxious to get them back,”
Lawson said.
The 4 Vi-foot-long rockets would
have exploded only if they had been
exposed to flames or an electrical
current, not by being dropped, Law-
son said. The low-spin, folding-fin
aircraft rockets, which are fired
from helicopters, contain about four
pounds of Composition B-4, a “very
insensitive” explosive material.
Military officials would not release
the identity of the businessman, who
bought 147 wooden crates at an auc
tion at the Department of Defense
Reutilization and Marketing office
in Fort Bliss on Jan. 22. He notified
Fort Bliss officials last Monday that
he had found some rockets in the
crates, Lawson said.
Lawson said people who deliver
and accept crates at Fort Bliss must
sign documents ensuring the boxes
are empty and ready to be disposed.
“The system has a series of redun
dant checks,” Lawson said. “What
broke down in the procedure, which
99 percent of the time works, is still
under investigation.”
Late payment for prize pig
made to “swine-died" teen
■OUSTON (AP) — Kingwood
eer|-ager Debra Camden felt
swine-dled” when her prize-win-
ini pig was barbecued and the man
/hq bought it failed to pay her the
4,q00 he bid for the sow.
Itltook the threat of grand jury ac-
ion against bar owner Richard Son-
iekl Wednesday to get the money
lamden, 19, had been planning to
se [to study veterinary medicine at
ex; < A&M.
*|H>nfield turned up with a cash-
it’s, heck for $3,950 — the amount
still owed Camden —just before he
was scheduled to appear before a
Harris County grand jury consid
ering theft charges against him, said
prosecutor Jean Spradling.
Sonfield was the high bidder for
the grand champion pig last March
at the Humble Junior Livestock
Show.
One week after the auction, Son-
field barbecued the pig at his bar,
the Hog’s Breath Saloon. Sonfield
said the barbecue raised $2,500 to
help defray a friend’s medical bills.
30-Loves group offering support
to tennis team trying to net wins
Photo by Mark Figart
Lorraine Rodriguez, president of the 30-Loves Tennis Club, keeps
score during a practice match for the Texas A&M tennis team.
By Lisa Vandiver
Reporter
Anyone who has attended a
Texas A&M men’s tennis match
has seen the young women sitting
in the “lifeguard chairs” on the
court, avidly watching balls fly
across the net.
These women are not rep
resentatives from the United
States Tennis Association as are
those at other tournaments; they
are students devoted to support
ing and keeping score for the
men’s tennis team. They are the
30-Loves.
“It’s a cutesy organization, but
it’s a lot of hard work,” says Lor
raine Rodriguez, president of the
30-Loves.
Bridget Brennan, a 30-Loves
member, agrees with Rodriguez
and emphasizes the difficult men
tal task of keeping score.
“It’s really hard,” Brennan
says. “There are no official
scorekeepers because the team
plays by the honor code. The
players rarely announce the score
to each other — you have to keep
track mentally, and if you even
blink for an instant, you’re lost.”
In addition to keeping score,
the members promote the team
and gather support for it. In pre
paring for the first match of the
season, which will be held Feb. 6,
the women have been busy mak
ing a promotional poster and cre
ating tournament schedule cards
to gather support for the team’s
1987 season.
The group’s work is not limited
to the men’s team, however; they
also will keep score for the wom
en’s team during certain confer
ence tournaments.
Not only do the women strive
to provide crowd support for the
team, but they also try to give
support to the players.
“It’s nice to know someone’s
there, that someone is talking to
me,” team captain Dean Goldfine
says. “I appreciate them and they
help me try a little harder.”
Marcel Vos, a senior member
of the team, agrees that the group
provides emotional support to
the team.
“It’s a psychological advantage
over your opponent to know
they’re there,” he says. “You have
someone behind you. That might
not work directly, but indirectly,
because your opponent knows
that the girl on the court is sup-
porting you.”
The 30-Loves’ planning and
hard work to advertise the team
has paid off, Goldfine said, be
cause more students attended
tennis matches last season than in
previous years.
When not working on publicity
campaigns or a match, the
women plan mixers and parties
for the team.
“Since the players go to school
in the morning, practice in the af
ternoon and study at night, they
really don’t go out very much,”
Rodriguez says. “So we try to
have social functions and parties
for them.”
Applicants wanting to become
members of the organization
must undergo an interview proc
ess in September. Membership is
not limited to females, but only
females have been members since
the organization’s start.
Tennis coach David Kent cre
ated the organization in 1984 to
help the team gain the much-
needed crowd support and to aid
the spectators in keeping score.
30-Loves improvements last
year included reducing the num
ber of members from 40 to 20
and becoming recognized by the
University.
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