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Student group to travel
to Mexico over break
to renovate mission
By Sondra McCarty
Reporter
This Saturday, a busload of stu
dents will travel to Mexico, but they
aren’t regular spring-breakers going
for the hot sun, cool surf and a
week-long party. These students,
and a few local families, will devote
most of their vacation to helping
people who are less fortunate.
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.
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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
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District Attorney Harold
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tated and vicious.
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Family owns, operates country grocery
Witt
Store brightens small community
By Ed Holtgraver
Reporter
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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.
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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.
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