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The Battalion
Page 7
A&M aids Soviet economic rebuild ing
By GREG MT. JOY
Of The Battalion Staff
Several Texas A&M professors
might lead the way in the effort to
save the Soviet Union’s crumbling
economy.
The Soviet government has
agreed to send 12 to 15 businessmen
to an executive development pro
gram in May at the A&M study cen
ter in Castiglione Florentino, Italy.
A&M’s Center for Executive De
velopment will provide training in
marketing, finance and manage
ment for middle- to upper-level
managers from the Soviet Union, as
well as businessmen and -women
from Europe and North America.
Duke Hobbs, director of the Exec
utive Development Center, said
economists in Eastern Europe and
the Soviet Union are facing prob
lems their economic systems have
not prepared them to deal with.
Therefore, they have turned to
A&M’s program.
“We’ve seen the communist sys
tem truly does not work,” Hobbs
said. “Now we are going to attempt
to help them move to the capitalist
system, and we believe A&M is in a
good position to help.”
The program in Italy is the start
ing point for giving more help to the
Soviet Union through A&M.
A similar program has been
planned for March 1992 at the Insti
tute of Political Science and Socio-
Economic Planning in Sverdlovsk,
Soviet Union.
Hobbs said Sverdlovsk is an ideal
target for the establishing of capital
ist methods in the Soviet Union.
“Sverdlovsk is home to the na
tion’s largest industrial complex,”
Hobbs said. “It employs 180,000
people, and produces everything
from spacecraft to washing ma
chines.
“ Unfortunately, as is the case
throughout the Soviet Union, the
distribution system is hopelessly in
adequate.”
Hobbs said A&M professors will
do the majority of the lecturing at
the Italian seminar.
“We have not officially called for
volunteers to teach,” he said. “But,
from the excited response we have
received so far, there shouldn’t be
any difficulty getting people.”
The Center for Executive Devel
opment also is planning a professor
exchange program. This initiative
wcmld bring Soviet professors of po
litical science, sociology and business
to A&M.
Hobbs said the exchange program
fits into the overall efforts to provi-
dea beneficial situation for business
men.
“The executive development pro
gram helps meet the needs of Amer
ican businesses to familiarize them
selves with European business
methods,” Hobbs said. “The upcom
ing formation of the European
Common Market makes this famil
iarization vital.”
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Ringside seats roped fast
Rodeo insiders snatch relinquished stalls
FORT WORTH (AP) — Two cov
eted Stock Show Rodeo stalls were
lassoed by Stock Show insiders re
cently despite a 22-year waiting list
for the ringside seats.
The prestigious stalls, often inher
ited, sometimes snatched up in di
vorce settlements, were relinquished
by death and bankruptcy. The seats
are priced from $2,300 to $4,700.
This doesn’t surprise me in the
least,” said a disappointed O.G. To
bias, a veterinarian who applied for
box seats in 1970 and is No. 2 on the
waiting list.
“Even though we had an applica
tion in for 21 years, it’s pretty politi
cal out there.”
Stock Show director Robert
Gunn, whose 1969 box-seat applica
tion tops the waiting list, said the
waiting list “is not a sham.”
Thursday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: general discussion at noon. Call C.P.D.E. at 845-
0280 for more information.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: general discussion at 8:30 p.m. Call C.P.D.E. at 845-
0280 for more information.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: general discussion at 6 p.m. Call C.P.D.E.
at 845-0280 for more information.
AUDUBON SOCIETY: meeting, Dr. Douglas Welch, TAMU Horticulture Extension,
speaking on xeroscaping-landscape and water conservation at 7:30 p.m. in
the College Station Community Center, 1300 George Bush Drive Call Joan
at 845-2351 for more information.
OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTION AND EXHIBITION: exhibition:
Catching the Eye: Form, Color, Motion. Rudder Exhibit Hall at 8 p.m. Call
Catherine at 845-8501 for more information.
DPMA: ICPD: Texas Instruments at 7 p.m. in the Former Students Center. Call the
BANA office at 845-1616 for more information.
UNITED STATES STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: first general meeting for the spring
semester at 7 p.m. in Bizzell Hall West basement. Call 846-4629 for more in
formation.
PEOPLE FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: meeting for everyone who
say no to this War. Welcome at 5:30 p.m. under the Academic
dome. Call Cara at 693-3663 for more information.
wants to
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CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: Campus Crusade for Christ/Life Line weekly
meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 108 HECC.
Friday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: general discussion at noon. Call C.P.D.E. at 845-
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western dancing to follow at 6 p.m. at Garfield’s in the Holiday Inn. Call 845-
1741 for more information.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: weekly Bible study at 6 p.m. in A&M Presbyterian
Church office. Everyone welcome. Call Stacy at 847-5300 for more informa
tion.
SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM: Twelfth Candle Yuletide Celebration
in Middle Ages style. Newcomers are encouraged to attend. Come join us for
food, dancing and fun at 7 p.m. in the Wellborn Community Center in Wel-
born. Call Star at 845-7768 or 846-3113, or Michael at 845-1365 or 268-7737
for more information.
OFF CAMPUS AGGIES: Dinner Club at 6 p.m. at the Longhorn Tavern, Highway
21 and Texas Avenue. Call Brian at 823-6517 for more information.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no
later than three business days before the desired run date. We publish the name
and phone number of the contact only if you ask us to do so. What’s Up is a Battal
ion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run on a first-
come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you have ques
tions, call the newsroom at 845-3316.
“My letter will remain in that pile
until it is conducive for me to get a
box. Once you understand the inte
gral mechanics of the show, it be
comes very clear,” said Gunn, a for
mer steer wrestler.
Stock Show president W. R. “Billy
Bob” Watt Jr. told the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram that politics has noth
ing to do with corralling box seats.
Business considerations do.
One of the choice boxes this year
was snatched up by Overton Park
Bank, one of the show’s financial
backers and an institution that has
rancher Cass Edwards, the Stock
Show’s vice president, on its board.
That box seat came on the market
after the death of Dr. A. Keller Doss,
a rancher-physician whose family
had leased the seats since the 1950s.
Overton Park was among the first
local institutions to make a king-size
contribution toward building the
Will Rogers Equestrian Center. That
fact, not the bank’s connection with
the Edwards ranching family,
moved the bank to the top of the
waiting list, Watt said.
Doss’ widow, Betty Doss, 78, said
she had second thoughts about for
feiting her inheritance and called
Watts the day after she mailed a let
ter giving up her seats to ask him to
disregard her letter. But the box had
already been promised to Overton
Park.
The 156 boxes — spartan cubicles
eye-level with the steers — seat six,
eight or 12 spectators and are re
served for the 28 performances of
the Stock Show Rodeo. The rodeo
runs in conjunction with the 95th
annual Southwestern Exposition
and Livestock Show, which starts
Friday and runs through Feb. 3.
The last time a box came on the
market was in 1988, the year that
ticket holders were assessed $200 a
seat to help finance the completion
of the Equestrian Center.
Rather than pay up, many surren
dered their boxes.
None were up for sale in 1989.
But Perry Bass received a box after
Stock Show officials asked NCNB
bank to relinquish one of its five
boxes for the billionaire.
PI LAMBDA PHI
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Sunday 1/20 Informational Meeting ©504 Rudder 7:30
Wed. 1/23 Scavenger Hunt at The Top
Thurs. 1/24 Comedy Club ©Sundance*
Sat. 1 /26 Smoker ©MSC 206*
1/27 Superbowl Party Location TBA
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Pi Lambda Phi is a non-sectarian Fraternity. We do not discriminate
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CATCHING THE
Man shows spark
for old fire trucks
Flli
PYOTE (AP) — Bob Siekman sat
in his restored 1928 La France fire
truck and talked about his lifelong
love of shiny red fire engines.
“When I was a little kid growing
up in Rising Star (east of Abilene), I
watched a man build one,” the Pyote
resident said. “Back then, I thought
that fires were very exciting, the
most exciting thing in the world.”
Siekman became a fire truck col
lector about 20 years ago when he
accidentally made the successful bid
at an auction.
Currently, two of his five trucks
are restored and running.
“I used to spend more time on my
fire trucks, but that was before Betty
f ot hold of me,” he said. A longtime
achelor, he married seven years
ago. His wife, Betty Siekman, is
Ward County health nurse in Mona
hans.
“I thought when I retired from
the dirt moving business last April I
would spend more time working on
my fire trucks, but even retired I
don’t have much time. Betty has lots
of projects for me,” he said.
The two are community volun
teers in Monahans and Pyote. A typ
ical range of activities included driv
ing a cancer patient to Houston,
then turning around and selling
popcorn and Cokes during a cowboy
poetry reading at the Million Barrel
Museum in Monahans. They also
are members in the Baptist Church
and serve on the advisory council for
the West Texas Children’s Home in
Pyote.
Siekman bought his 1928 La
France from Sam Howell of Odessa.
One of the things that fascinated
him was that the truck had only trav
eled 8,000 miles.
The truck come from Slaton, near
Lubbock.
“There’s not anything wrong with
the engine.” The truck has an 826-
cubic-inch engine and gets about 2
miles per gallon.
His other restoration is a 1950 La
France that was in service near Chi
cago. It has 20,000 miles on it. The
14 ladders expand from 14 to 50
feet.
“The 150-gallon tank is not a lot ot
water, but it does have a 750-gallon-
per-minute pumper.”
The V-12 engine has 24 spark
plugs. “All old fire trucks have dual
ignition.”
ART EXHIBITION IN
RUDDER EXHIBIT HALL, TAMU
JANUARY 17 - FEBRUARY 17
OPEN DAILY 8 AM TO 11 PM
FOR TOURS CALL 845-8501
BATTIPS
Anyone with story suggestions can
call BATTIPS, The Battalion’s
phone line designed to improve
communication between the news
paper and its readers.
The BATTIPS number is 845-
3315.
Ideas can include news stories,
feature ideas and personality pro
files of interesting people.
THETA CHI
FRATERNITY
Ask not what a Fraternity can do for you
but, what you can do as a Theta Chi
Thurs., Jan. 17 - “Meet the Fraternity”
MSC Room 230 & 231 7-9 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 19-
Northgate Night Out
Flying Tomato upstairs* 7-10:30 p.m.
Mon., Jan. 21 - I’ve been hypnotized
Rudder Theatre
(Listen to KKYS for info) 7-10 p.m.
Wed., Jan. 23 - Poker Smoker**
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