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By Laura White
Staff Writer
“Margaret Thatcher is the greatest
hing since sliced bread,” Sir Fergus
tontgomery said last night in his
resentation “Margaret Thatcher, the
Voman and the Politician.”
Montgomery, senior adviser to
hatcher and a member of Parlia
ment, gave an informal but informa-
ive lecture on the British Prime Min-
ter to a group of approximately 80
eople in Rudder Tower.
“Margaret Thatcher will go down
i history as the strongest British
, rime minister since Winston Chur-
k that he In hill,” Montgomery said. “1 honestly
link when she leaves Britain, it will
e in much better shape than it was
hen she inherited it in 1979,” he
“Margaret Thatcher will
go down in history as the
strongest British prime
minister since Winston
Churchill. I honestly
think when she leaves
Britain, it will be in much
better shape than it was
when she inherited it in
1979.”
Sir Fergus Montgomery
lid.
Although Thatcher wasn’t elected
rime minister until 1979, she has
een actively involved in politics
nee 1959 when she was first elected
ember of Parliament.
In 1970 Thatcher was the only fe-
iale in the cabinet.
Montgomery, chosen as Parlia-
lentary party secretary to Thatcher
1970, remembers the response
hatcher received by Parliament
hen she announced her intent to run
n^ropposition leader in 1975.
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Thatcher received over 50 percent
poverty the votes and was elected as oppo-
tion leader, much to the dismay of
any members of parliament, Mont-
mery said.
“Personally, I never thought the
iffy conservative party would be
e first to elect a woman as leader,”
Isaid.
In May 1979, Thatcher was elected
ime minister with an election theme
at stressed tax reform and conquest
f inflation (which had soared to 27
ireent in the United Kingdom)
>fn4vJ“For the first time in years, we had
a prime minister that refused to be de
flected from her intentions because of
political unpopularity,” Montgomery
said. “She didn’t back down from her
beliefs even when she wasn’t receiv
ing any support.”
Montgomery said Thatcher gave
the British people a sense of national
pride again in 1982, after the way she
handled Argentina’s invasion on the
Faulkland Islands.
“I don’t think any man on the cab
inet has the courage that Margaret
had in that situation,” Montgomery
said.
“Margaret treats people as human
beings,” he said.
“She builds a fund of goodwill that
stands her in good stead when times
are bad, even though she doesn’t al
ways appear favorable in the media.”
Thatcher earns the respect and ad
miration of everyone she works with,
Montgomery said.
“I think she’s smart in every sense,
and I’d never underestimate her,” he
said. “Last Thursday she turned 63
and I think she looks better than ever
. . . she hasn’t aged because she’s
doing something she loves.”
When Thatcher won the general
election for a third time in July 1987,
she became the longest serving prime
minister in this century.
The Battalion Wednesday, October 19,1988 Page 3
Anniversary of College Station
causes townspeople to celebrate
By Juliette Rizzo
Staff Writer
Today marks the 50th anniversary of
the incorporation of College Station, a
city that has come a long way from coun
try roads and saloons to growing busi
nesses and a thriving university commu
nity.
“We’ve been celebrating for the last
year,” Gracie Calbert, supervisor of the
College Station Community Center,
said.
Gary Halter, mayor from 1980-86 and
chairman of the Historic Preservation
Committee, said the commemoration of
the city’s anniversary began in Septem
ber 1987 with a contest. Local artists
were invited to submit pen and ink
sketches of historic homes campus
homes, which were judged and made
into a calendar, he said.
In 1987, a book was published in
honor of the city. “College Station,
Texas: 1938-1988,” was written by Deb
orah Lynn Balliew and compiled by Dr.
Henry Dethloff, a Texas A&M history
professor. The book recounts the estab
lishment and history of College Station.
College Station City Council voted to
provide Balliew with a grant to fund the
book, which is based on her graduate
thesis on the history of College Station.
On April 17, 1871, the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas offi
cially was established. Balliew wrote
that the city of Bryan wanted to support
the college, but students realized they
could not rely on a town so far away.
The school encouraged the development
of a new community and thus, College
Station was established about 60 years
before it was officially chartered in Octo
ber 1938.
“I’ve seen a lot of changes in the city,”
Patricia Boughton, a lifelong resident of
College Station, said. Born in 1932 in
what is now College Station, she said,
“I’ve lived here all my life, even before
College Station was declared a city, and
my father lived here long before that.
“I’ve seen it grow from a small coun
try town, bedroom community with little
business into a very well-planned city.”
Balliew wrote that to enable the com
munity to support the college, the Texas
A&M Board of Directors set aside land
on the north side of campus in 1912 so
businesses could be established.
Boughton recalls, “Back when I was
growing up, there was little around here.
There was nothing south of Park Place
and very little business at Noithgate. On
south side, there was a grocery store and
a drug store and there was a cleaners in
Eastgate. That was the extent of business
and there were few residential areas.”
On October 19, 1938, the citizens of
College Station voted 217 to 39 to incor
porate the city, which derived its name
from the railroad station where the vot
ing took place. Balliew wrote that the in
corporation would “insure the retention
of College Station, Texas for all time to
come.”
A&M professors primarily were re
sponsible for organizing and chartering
the city, Boughton said.
“They didn’t even have 10 cents to
start the city,” Boughton said. “With a
huge second-hand truck and 100 bor
rowed dollars, the city began.”
Once the city was chartered, the city
fathers created a planning and zoning
committee, and a city council was offi
cially established in 1939.
In 1970, the council was dissolved be
cause of opposition from City of Bryan
officials who asserted that state employ
ees could not serve on elected boards and
commissions.
In 1971, College Station Mayor D.A.
Anderson proposed an amendment to the
state constitution that ran on the Novem
ber 1972 ballot. The amendment passed,
and A&M professors and other state em
ployees were allowed to serve on the
council, but they were not paid.
It was only after 1970 that the city’s
real growth occurred. In 1970, the pop
ulation was only 17,000 — including the
university. Now, with the growth of the
university and local businesses, the
Texas Highway Department estimates
the city’s population to be about 52,000.
Boughton said, “When I was young,
the population of the city was only
3,000. College Station has come a long
way since then.
“It took a lot of work to bring business
and industry into the community, but
now it has diversified quite a bit. The
city has one of the lowest tax rates in the
state.
“The opening of Post Oak Mall in
1982 was really a big feather in our cap,”
U.S. Army Capt. Charles Jacoby
will speak on “Operation Urgent Fu
ry,” the invasion of Grenada, at 8
p.m. Wednesday in 701 Rudder
Tower.
The lecture will discuss the prob-
she said. “It is one of the city’s major
sources of sales tax revenue.”
A collection of College Station history
in story form backed by historic pictures
and documents is being compiled in a vi
deo to tell the story of the city.
Calbert said that the video and the
50th anniversary ball held in March are
the two main events of the anniversary
celebration. “The ball was a great suc
cess,” she said. The ball, a sold-out gala
event with a 1930s theme, brought in
proceeds to support the historic video.
The premiere of the video anthology
of “Golden Memories,” with a script
written by project chairman Dr. Sharon
Colson, will conclude the year-long an
niversary celebration next month, Cal
bert said.
lems of coordinating the attack be
tween the Army and the other armed
services. Jacoby was an infantry
commander with the 82nd Airborne
Division during the operation and is
now an instructor at West Point.
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