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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, March 13, 1987 MARCH 11,12,13&14 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Culpepper Plaza College Station on Texas Ave. (Near Hastings Books & Records) PRETEEN Wholesale prices on our wonderful Skirts, Sweaters, Co-ordinates, Dresses, Jumpers & Much, Much More. Arriving for the first time. Congratulations MAY Graduates Hard Work Deserves The Best Rewards Bud Ward is Your Aggie Connection for Fine German Cars. Graduate Financing Programs Now Availabiei May Graduation is AH You Need Come By or Calf Today for Details BUD WARD Volkswagen-Porsche + Audi “The Dealer With A Heart” 1912 Texas Ave. 693-3311 Under the water tower in College Station wmmmm ’ $ OPEN ^ SUNDAY & 1 boot cur SALE LASTS THURS.-SUN. % FRIDAY THE RKDOWN 13 th /Alness t I I MEN’S & LADIES’ $ ROPERS 45 I f | f. I JUST ARRIVED! 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A group of about 50 people from the Texas A&M Wesley Foundation will be spending Saturday through Thursday donating time, skill and labor on the renovation of a one- room mission in Valle Hermoso, Mexico. “In Valle Hermoso, they have a small Methodist mission — it needs quite a bit of work,” says Johanna Hume, a junior French and history major at A&M. The Mexico-bound group consists mainly of undergraduate and grad uate students from /v&M, plus a few local families from area Methodist churches, she says. The group plans to build a bath room, a fence and a sidewalk as well port a missionary,” he says. “With that $50, we buy all the supplies the missionary would need to do the project. The students themselves pay $30 for food and transporta tion.” The missionaries will take few provisions on the trip since they will cross the Mexican border. “We’ll take sleeping bags, power tools and scaffolding,” Hiser says. Since the missionaries will be working in another country, Hiser says they had to get permission to do so through a tourist visa. “Everyone must have one of three things to get past the border,” he says, “a passport, a birth certificate or a voter’s registration (card).” Hume said, “When you take a group into Mexico to work, they (of ficials) don’t look highly upon that because you are taking away jobs.” What’s up Friday UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will hold a peanut fellowship at 11:30 a.m. at Rudder Fountain and a study at o: 15 p.m. at the A&M Presbyterian Church. TAMU MEN’S TENNIS: will play Baylor at 1 p.m. auk Omar Smith Tennis Center. TRANSFER CAMP ’87/ STUDENT Y: applications: transfer camp counselors are available through todaycj the second floor of the Pavilion. Sunday BRAZOS VALLEY ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE FAMIL1 SUPPORT GROUP: H. Bailey Gallison of the Alzheimer Disease Research Center of the University of California San Diego will speak at 3 p.m. in the parish hallofl Thomas Episcopal Church. Tuesday COMMODORE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP: willmeei 8:15 p.m. in 105 Horticulture Forestry Sciences. MARRIED STUDENT APARTMENT COUNCIL: Kilims at 7 p.m. in the council room next to the garage. PEER ADVISER: applications are available in 108 YMQ through March 27. TWO- 640KB 8088-2 8/. Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battaliot 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working din I prior to desired publication date. Man convicted in 22-year-old murder coj 707 as doing sheetrocking and painting. Doug Hiser, work projects chair man for Wesley Foundation, says the students will build the bathroom from the ground up. “We are definitely going to try to get the bathroom done,” Hiser says. “That’s priority number one.” Another top priority is to get sup plies needed for the project, he says. The foundation, whose funds are heavily supported by the Methodist Church’s Texas Annual Conference, will spend between $1,500 and $2,000 on supplies, Hiser says. “We did a kind of fund-raising drive, in which we asked local Meth odist churches to donate $50 to sup- PAMPA (AP) —Jurors convicted a man Thursday who had escaped prosecution for murder for 22 years because authorities mistakenly listed him a “mental vegetable” after he killed his wife and shot himself in the head. Albert Branscum, 56, was con victed on a charge of first-degree murder with malice in the 1964 shooting of Glenna Fay Branscum, who had moved out of their home and begun divorce proceedings. He could be sentenced to life in prison and fined $10,000 when the trial’s punishment phase begins Fri day. Branscum was at first judged inca pable of standing trial because of his head wounds and was committed to a hospital. The case was reopened last year after a relative of Mrs. Branscum’s questioned the case’s status. Authori ties discovered Branscum had walked away from the hospital 20 years ago and had l)een operating a salvage yard in Konawa, Okla., since then. Prior to the verdict Friday, Branscum took the stand in his own defense and wept quietly as he spoke of the killing and nis attempted sui cide. He said he doesn’t rem< shooting or his suicide attei Branscum testified that riage was “like heaven "and was crushed when his out t)n him a week beforeil* PAfWSI (XT) PAI (AT) PAf CITirtN 1200 BMC 41M (a % "It just came to a poiE there was no way to go, m turn," he said. "I just could': it. I was afraid of losing mi just didn’t know what was happen to any of us.” In closing arguments, is District Attorney Harold called Branscum’s actions tated and vicious. Sat & Post 0 Family owns, operates country grocery Witt Store brightens small community By Ed Holtgraver Reporter CHVENDEKS-o-oi & 9 M 1 i $ | I This is farm country. Locals in the widespread commu nity of Whitehall think nothing of seeing as many tractors as cars in the early morning. Old farmhouses dot the land scape, most of them with pickup trucks parked in front of them. On a small hill, an old frame building rests on the corner of a three-way intersection. This inter section covers what would be consid ered the business district of White hall, a small community east of Navasota along Farm Road 362, about 10 miles south of Texas High way 105. The old frame building, a combi nation general store and gas station, serves as the only business in the business district. Weeds grow in the street at the in tersection. The town indeed is not a metropolis. The general store, called Sch- roeder Grocery, was built in 1934 and has old 1960s-style gas pumps out front. SPECIAL MARKDOWN * I 1 Several chairs sit by the door, waiting for the occasional afternoon visitor. Right now, they are vacant. At other times they are filled with the friendly talk of people wanting to find someone else with whom they may talk. Upon entering the store, an old, red Coca-Cola freezer — one that has been around for what must be forever — stands immediately to the right. It is not really old, like an an tique, but it has a certain style to it that the freezers in most convenient stores lack. As a visitor glances at the soda pop and then begins to looks around the rest of the store, a friendly greet ing is heard from behind the coun ter. “Hello, how are you today?” The smiling person behind the counter with the friendly greeting is Eleandre Feldmann. Somewhat short and middle-aged with gray hair, she looks over the counter and waits patiently as the customer walks around, deciding on what purchases to make. Outside, a man pulls up in a Ford truck and comes in to talk for a few minutes. He and Feldmann talk Schroeder Grocery in Whitehall, Texas Photo by Bill Hep about the times. They apparently are old acquaintances, talking cas ually. After a short time, the man leaves and drives off. But not without Feld mann telling him to be sure to come back. Just as the man leaves, a large truck drives up and stops next to the gas pumps. It’s a large Like Cola truck, and a delivery man gets out with a clipboard. Feldmann receives an order and the man brings three cases of soda from the truck. The man gets back in the truck and drives away, as this is the extent of the delivery. Today is a busy day. Feldmann began working at the grocery in 1977, and she enjoys her work at the store. But she forgot one very important thing that has changed since then. “Oh, only we did put in air condi tioning last summer,” she adds. The uncle she mentions is Mr. Schroeder, the man whose name is on all the store’s business cards. “I had been working at a dairy my uncle owned,” she says. “After he sold the dairy, I came here to the grocery to work . . . not too much has really changed since then.” Feldmann and her husband, Wil bert, own all the merchandise inside the store, though her uncle owns the building itself. Besides running the store, the Feldpianns keep cattle near their home and Wilbert bales hay. Mrs. Feldmann took over the da ily operations of the store when Sch- roecler’s wife died. She says her predecessor had her own way of doing things. “She (Schroeder’s wife) never used the winter daylight savings time in the grocery,” Mrs. Feldmann says. “Instead, she used ‘God’s time.’ She believed it was too wasteful, espe cially for farming. By the time a farmer got started in the fields again after lunch, it was alreadf® getting dark.” Most of the store’s visi® friendly, Feldmann says, » Aggies don't stop by too® she says, because the store is too far away to be affected'® traffic generated by Texas■ football weekends. “But the Renaissance helps a lot,” she adds. Against the far wall oftM ing, there are several large4;' all about seven feet high w'l doors and various suppliessi'l side. T hose cabinets cameootoS goods store in Navasota ini* says. They’re pretty nearly* by now, she says, guessingi|| cabinets are fairly valuable, y But anyone planning toi Shroeder Grocery should be* that a sign posted abovethei* reminds visitors that thestotil “no credit.” Jose's 4004 Harvey Rd. 776-8979 11-9:45 Closed Monday Zarape’s 308 Main Downtown Bryan 779-8702 9:30-8:45 Closed Mondays T-Bone Steaks Manus vary between restaurants. as in oar conn- • Books •Gr • Supplies Hours: M-F 7:45-6 Sat 9-5 845-8681 Call Battalion Classified 845*26'