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Call 845-2611 A&M professor capture^ spirit of leader in print * wde ' By Jena Atchison Reporter The spirit of Freda Kirchwey, one of the most influential leaders of the women’s movement in the 1920s, has been captured in print for the first time by Dr. Sara Alpern, asso ciate history professor at Texas A&M. The book, entitled “A Woman of the Nation," describes Kirchwey as a public figure in the 1920s and her involvement with the publication of the Nation. Alpern says motivation to write Kirchwey’s biography came from a collection of Kirchwey’s es says. “I did extensive research in librar ies which held collections of her per sonal papers and those of her con temporaries,” Alpern says. “I also did extensive oral history interviews with her friends, relatives, Nation colleagues and ideological opponents,” he says. “A Woman of the Nation” can be divided into two parts, Alpern says. The first half describes Kirchwey’s devotion to women’s issues. The sec ond half describes her involvement with international issues during World War II. Kirchwey was born in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Sept. 26, 1893. She was raised by highly educated parents who provided her with the same ed ucational opportunity. In 1915 she married Evans Clark, but kept her maiden name. In 1917 she began her career as a journalist with the Nation, one of the most liberal publications in America, Alpern says. Within a year, she was promoted to editor of the international section. In 1923 she became managing edi tor of the Nation. Alpern says Kirchwey was a mod ern woman attempting to combine a career with marriage and family. De termined to be happy and successful in both sectors of her life, she struggled intellectually and person ally to achieve this goal. Primarily concerned with wom en’s issues, as editor she published .i series called “These Modern Wo men.” She encouraged prominent women to anonymously wi ite to the Nation about their relationships with men and their struggle between ta reer and marriage. A turning point in Kirchwey’s life, caused by personal tragedies, re sulted in a voluntary leave of ab sence from work. In January of 1930, on an indefinite leave of ab sence, she tried to nurse her dying son back to health. He died later that year. In August of 1932 she was asked to return to the Nation as ex ecutive editor. When she returned, she concen trated on making the Nation a its first met Wednesday weapon against histism, sht 7:30 p.m. Kii( hwe\ bought the \jl ^ I he mai ■ betoming iwuer, edit will be to cl publishei until 1955. prove sched \s ,i response to personal man eampai dies anti realities of the world: | Tentative sis, she used the paper as a; • Sept. 1 gaiuia tool tint inn World War to run may "Hei I of the Pavilit and international importance’ 1 pern says. ■ "Site involved in seversfc^^ # ferent organizations. " Alpern, “but her primary interest, in* mem an< Nation. “The many oi fiuenlial eminent Alpen rums tin peaceful Kirch we' 1 iiiih ■ throuc Nation had difli choi for r Kir it th :hwey ho t war, disc and w Altt she la A V> pu ng Alper tire Satk rvard Ur Books an Residents clean after stem devastates town, injures 11 ■USTIN (y ustice of the ' arobably will lill Clements < !. The Repub lasn't yet mac o bp point tc -hief Justice igntngjan. 1. Just back in ioning in Col co, Clements neiribership i nandatory foi nent. “Not neces )lietl. “But in >e.” The gover ront-runner f “I haven’t lo ‘I hjave no can nind. I’m goir )f different pt idvice and co SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Work crews and residents began cleaning up Tuesday after a devastating storm uprooted trees, severed power lines and toppled a 500-foot commu nications tower onto an apartment complex. The thunderstorms, packing 68 mph winds, roared through about 6 p.m. Monday and cut electricity to about 64,000 homes. Eleven people were injured but only two remained hospitalized Tuesday, officials said. The weather had calmed substan tially by Tuesday, but the National Weather Service predicted that more rain would fall over the next two days. City Public Service spokesman bara Stover said 300 employees rked through the night to restore to most of the residents, but ihl homes were still without elec- tric Tuesday afternoon. Services crashing through the roofs of two-story apartments, injuring five people, none seriously. Rosalinda Salinas, 29, among those injured in that incident, re mained in good condition at Baptist Medical Center Tuesday and said she remembered very little about the crash. “I saw the news and I saw the way the tower fell and our apartment went directly in half, right where our dining room table was,” she said. “It just knocked me down. My husband said I almost went through the fioo- rand into the apartment under us." I, " s ' 1 1 if"! ' pod tilings." else n would te.ilh h.iwd • ™ - - thing worse.’ The high winds alsodes •esumes and Saying “it’s y ng appoint n " dined to aci cp .mduir home of , wnmaine ie p ame a months pu i'( ■■■:< riittee to recor tic .itcd lot a km . I.!, ('t.itinn - ;hi4fjustice. Ir.i'-rtl Mond.iv fioni t Hill, an ou Hospital, of finals sakl. doing away wii partisan judici; Five otheis inside a n' dements to af " hen the stoim hit uerecutb'| met ii-selecli falling from wind-shattered f lows. An- "it is not confined to any partic ular area of the city,” Stover said. “There are people who are still hav ing difficulties. They’re all over. We haven’t even begun to calculate dol lars.” The high winds sent a 500-foot tower owned by Metromedia Paging She said her two daughters dria, 6, and Jennette, 2 — were watching the rain from the window and were not seriously hurt. The girls and Mrs. Salinas' husband, Da vid Salinas, 35, were treated and re leased from Baptist Medical Center, officials said. Sue McNew, 31, was in fait lion at Baptist Medical will] arm, said a hospital spokesmas 1 asked that her name not herd The other four were treatedi leased. id Mrs. Salinas suffered head back lacerations, buj was more con cerned about finding clothes for her family Tuesday. “I’m kind of glad it was me instead of the girls because I can stand live pain,” she said. “I also told the dot- Two pol pad sustain of damage six police c damaged a them, poli Lopez said. Metrome helicopters on < about S45,000 in flying debris at headquarter] a utility pofet spokesman Ro Tex hop dia th were and a wot mantle the off. les manage uranee adji f tlie fallen Former representative looks for nomination to commission seat AUSTIN (AP) — Former state Rep. Ed Emmett said Tuesday he is seeking the Republican nomination for the Railroad Commission seat held by Democrat Jim Nugent. Emmett — who lost to Milton Fox and John Thomas Henderson in last year’s GOP primary for the commis sion seat — said Nugent “is still try ing to regulate the transportation and energy industries like a good of boy spoils system.” spe Committee. He said he will conduct the 1988 race differently from his 1986 race for the Railroad Commis- Texas has become unattractive to businesses “simply because our in trastate trucking rates set by the Railroad Commission are so much higher than the interstate rates which are set by free-market compe tition,” Emmett said. The commission also “has got to be innovative” in regulating the en ergy industry, he said. “Natural gas prices have been arti ficially driven down because the commission has not taken a strong stand to protect the rights of all min eral owners and producers,” he said. Nugent, a commissioner since January 1979, said Emmett’s asser tions “are hardly worth answering.” sion. “I spent too much time talking to a very small number of Republican activists,” he said. “My whole pur pose is to get name and to establish the Railroad Commission as a high- profile race.” Emmett, who estimated that he will spend $500,000 on the race, said Kent Hance’s bid for the other open commission seat will be an advan tage. Hance, appointed to the com mission by Gov. Bill Clements after Democrat Mack Wallace resigned, must run next year to fill the term that ends in 1990. “People are going to be paying at tention to the Railroad Commis sion,” Emmett said. But the incumbent added, “I have a question about his competence” be cause as executive director of the Texas Association to Improve Distri bution, Emmett “masterminded” passage of a bill in the Legislature “under the guise of deregulation” that had to be amended in the spe cial session. “It required every pickup and Suburban to register with the Rail road Commission and pay a registra- :ion fee and an insurance filing fee,” Sfugent said. “We got that changed in a special session because we thought that was ridiculous.” Emmett, now a Round Rock resi dent, represented Harris County for four terms in the House, serving as a Nugent said he does not know how much money he will spend to keep his seat, but “looking at (Em mett’s) record of getting votes in the past, it may not cost too much.” Also Tuesday, Rep. Clint Hack ney kicked off a 10-day state tour in his campaign for Hance’s commis sion seat. “What I want to show the people and take to the voters is the impor tance of the Railroad Commission,” Hackney, D-Houston, said. “It can create jobs, it deals with the safety of our railroads and a safe environ ment and it needs to deal with the future of transportation in the state of Texas.” Hackney said if he wins the Dem ocratic nomination he will stand a good chance against Hance. “He’s a Bill Clements appointee, and he now calls himself a Republi can,” Hackney said. “I think being a Republican any time is a little bit of a detriment in the state of Texas.” DALLAS (A gings and cool survival hopes floundered in l seven hours i sized, one of th Before they day, the Five p pilot fish — su< ers that usual! said survivor 1 ^Milton, Fla. IN. I A /'X A ■ It was Rok' NASA views hit diirincr a s ready t< ;tal and t hit during a sc six miles sou escape plan4.£? rtson; from shuttle Andy Mountz, and Terry Ev were rescued ; HOUSTON (AP) —Engine fishing at NASA are considerM plucked them f einet gein \ procedure thatcs Robertson p allow space shuttle astronaut 1 * 1 ®*' 0 the mis return to earth safely if twoof| “Randy was shuttle’s three engines fail was 1 20 seconds of launch. “W Randy r I ’he procedure is known as the quick thirii Split-S maneuvei and would?|>oing down si: vide the crew an alternati't* 1 ^*^; to think. I ditching a shuttle in the ocfStuf ( to take. H the Houston Chronicle . At Masseys Tuesday The procedure has ana tage over other emergency under consideration in the"' of the Challenger disaster to 1 ® it could enable the ere" spacecraft to return in tad runway at the Kennedy H Center in Florida, the newsp a i reported. The Split-S would be eff ft ” if two of the three liquid-l" main engines quit within^ 1 ' onds of liftoff. At that poi 111 third main engine and the solid-fuel rocket boosters 1 would be firing. According to the plan, computer software could P gram a flight path to enabR 1 shuttle to turn and glide 11 landing in Florida. At donned life However, the third mail’' gine would have to be shut£•_ and the external tank that l 11 ! lit]uid hydrogen and oxyge' 1 j the engines would have town soned. Edward M. Henderson, ( of the Mission Operations H analysis branch at Johnson S; Center, said the maneuver " J be part of a “contingency a plan for situations in which' ll j than one major shuttle iff fails during launch. No decision has been mA' include the Split-S among | abort plans, he added.