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Mentors Messengers:
• promote awarness of the Tx A&M Mentors
program among students
• assist members in their functions
For more information contact: James 260-4667, Jill 693-9429, Cheryl &
Dian 846-1310, Caroline 46-1671
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THE HARD WAY
Luby’s Cafeterias, Inc., operating cafeterias in Texas, Oklahoma,
Arizona, and New Mexico, is looking for 24 people to enter its man
agement traininua program in March.
To qualify, you must:
You will receive:
• Be at least 22 years old
• $19,200 starting salary
• Be willing to relocate
•Company funded profit
•Have a stable employment
sharing/retirement
history
•Group health, life and
•Be college educated or have
disability insurance
equivalent experience
• Relocation expenses
•Have little or no food service
•Merit raises and
experience
advancement
This is a serious offer by an established and rapidly growing com
pany. We invite you to call or send your resume and find out more
about us. You will be amazed at the proven earnings potential of a
career with Luby’s.
Interviewing in your placement center
November 11 and 12
or call Tom Youngblood or Wayne Shirley
(512) 225-7720
(No collect calls please) or write P.O. Box 33069,
San Antonio, Texas 78265
Luby’s Cafeterias, Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange with sales
exceeding $240 million last year.
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Choosing weapons involf
sacrifices for some officec
ODESSA (AP) — For some police
officers, the perfect weapon involves
a sacrifice.
Odessa police Sgt. Frank Beam
forsook concealment when he chose
a stainless steel Smith and Wesson
.357-caliber Magnum for protection
during his days as a patrolman.
Although the same gun with a
blue-steel finish is less visible at
night, especially in such seemingly
dangerous conditions as when an of
ficer follows an armed suspect down
a dark alley, Beam preferred relia
bility to concealment.
“I got it because I was out in the
weather, and it had to operate,”
Beaip said. “My life depends upon
it.”
He explained that stainless steel
guns, while more easily seen at
night, are less likely to malfunction
due to rust from humidity and rain
than ones with a blue-steel finish.
“It’s a whole system of give and
take,” Beam said. “The department
sets limitations, but within those lim
itations there are myriads of choices.
Grip, weight, caliber, finish, all of
those things. It’s just personal pref
erence.”
However, Cpl. Vic Sikes, who car
ries a .357-caliber Magnum, said he
didn’t sacrifice a thing when he
chose his revolver.
“Some people consider the weight
of carrying this weapon a sacrifice,
but I don’t hardly notice it,” Sikes
said. “So, no, I don’t think I made
any sacrifice on it. I’ll defend it to
the death. I like it.”
Sikes’ revolver, a blue-steel Smith
and Wesson with a 3 Va-inch barrel
that weighs close to 3 pounds, re
sembles the one he carried for 10
years before it was stolen.
“I like the blue-steel because it
doesn’t reflect the light as well,” he
said.
He prefers the short barrel be
cause pulling it from the holster is
easier.
Although it might require more
maintenance than a stainless steel
weapon, Sikes said cleaning it is a
matter of routine rather than incon
venience.
Police Cpt. John McAhon says of
ficers supply their own handguns to
“I got it (the gun) because
I was out in the weather
and it had to operate. My
life depends upon it. ”
— Odessa Police Sergeant
Frank Beam
meet department regulations that
recjuire lawmen to carry either a .38-
cahber special revolver or a .357-cali
ber Magnum with barrel lengths be
tween 31/2 and 6'/2 inches.
Jon Thomas, manager of the
Sportsman’s Den in Odessa said re
volvers available to officers cost be
tween $325 and $400. But some
guns, like the Colt Python .357-cali
ber Magnum, sell for about $700, he
said.
He suggested that some officers
select a weapon simply from peer
pressure.
“Police officers are Is I
else,” Thomas said. ‘Ill |
buddy that he looksiMi i
carries a Python, thenWi
a Python.”
Sgt. Maria Allaire, *81 N
with the Odessa Police Hi] 1
for nine years, said sherf I
revolver before become |
officer, and she purctais ' '
gun upon her fathers ted i
tion.
“Of course when 16* i
here I didn’t bow S ^ \
guns,” Allaire said."M)id H
policeman for 35 yean,a f
gested Smith and Wesffl 1
“At the time I thoujlii p
ting a .38 special, butwk I
the option of swappis :
kinds of ammo, 1 dtoK |
.357. The silver-tip&’- 1 jH
needs to do. It has its C* n
point. I don’t need to# ij
load.”
Sikes explained than ; \\
bullet holds more gut? I
c ause of its longercasm; 1 i
vides greater velocity 2
than a .38-caliber rotml |
which may be used ins'''
Magnum.
Thomas said the insf „ ,
cers he has sold guns®! I
.357-caliber MagnumI
which he said usually^ f
by security guards.
Sikes, who has carrie*' ^
he was 18 years old, saii* i
has never fired his tf'- I
line of duty, he has ^ ;j‘
the holster many times ||
Friends develop alternative fa 1
using quail, crawfish for Iive0
MILLER GROVE (AP) — Dodg
ing claws and pointed beaks are a
way of life for Lee Roy Tipton and
Bill Spears.
These men are developing an al
ternative farm, raising quail and
crawfish.
Within two years, Spears — who
now manages a Burger King restau
rant in Sulphur Springs and Tipton,
a journeyman pipefitter — expect to
quit their current jobs and, with their
wives, make their 48 combined acres
support both families.
About five years ago, the longtime
friends and neighbors in Irving de
cided to get away from the “rat race”
in Dallas and move to the country.
They settled on the land they bought
near this Hopkins County commu
nity and eventually decided to start
developing a business.
It has been an after-hours project
for the last two years, but Spears and
Tipton now have their bobwhite
quail business in full swing.
Spears said, “We raise Northern
Jumbo Wisconsin Bobwhite Quail
for either live sale or dressed for the
table. These quail can be released
into the wild or eaten. They are
about 50 percent bigger than wild-
reared quail.”
Raising these birds is similar to
chicken farming. An incubator is
kept at 101 degrees for 23 days until
the thumb-sized fledglings are
hatched.
Life for the young birds is pro
tected after hatching, but there are
major pitfalls for the unwary chick.
Tipton said, “These birds can be
cannibalistic. You can only rear birds
hatched at the same time together. If
you mix them with older birds, the
older birds will attack them.”
As the birds approach maturity,
they are placed in a large pen that is
covered over to keep them from es
caping. A waist-high platform is kept
in the middle of the pen and the
birds develop their wings by flying
up to the platform.
Even at this stage, there are haz
ards to the birds.
Tipton said they have to discour
age hawks, owls and snakes that try
to get an easy meal.
The men also have launched into
a crawfish business.
The rearing of crawfish requires a
pond with water about 20 inches
deep. Then men put out bales of
coastal bermuda hay-
the pond as food for®]
Tipton said,
of crawfish — Louis® 11 '
and Deep River Wfo
keep the pool aerate
gen), and the temp 1 ]
stay below 90 degrees
To keep water befo;
dug a 16-foot-deep]
From the bottom of]
cool water is circulate]
crawfish pond during s! ' 11
The usual problem] ^
turtles, herons and 1
farmers.
Not only are the 11
take advantage of r(l! |
duck hunting, buttle | .
offer quail hunters so 1 * f
their land. The ideal]
private bird hunting-
quail are released |
hunters. The birds’ 11
in the flood plain be - 1
pools.
The current era# i.)
the first in a series ofk|
the men plan to dig®
10-acre lake to prod] ?
water in summer fo r ;
ponds.