THE BATTALIONPage 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, July 5, 1962

CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle WHITELEY

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PARIS, FRANCE

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By J. DONALD DELIZ Some Paris People

Yesterday I had an overdose of art at the Louvre museum. That is, as the Parisians put it, where the girls live. There is for instance, Venus de Milo, Mona Lisa and Nefretiti. It is disappointing to see these works of art after you hear so much about them all your life. Some­how they seem dwarfed compared to their reputation. But the na­tives over here do go to see them.

I was talking to a shapely bru­nette girl at the Sorbonne who told me that she liked a particu­lar painting by Watteau called “A Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cytheria,” and that she went to see it every so often. She some­how felt that it was partly hers. The museums charge abput twen­ty cents as an entrance fee, but the Pai'isians still go there, so it shows a genuine interest and love of art on their part.

There is a park in front of the Louvre called the Tuileres. I go there often just to sit around and watch Paris people. At first, I thought most of the men seemed very studious looking, for they practically all dress in suits and carry a briefcase. I happened to be around the park at noon time and saw them taking sandwiches out of the briefcases. I guess the briefcase is the French na­tional lunch pail.

I walked very slowly out of the Tuileries and into that space of cars, rushing like asteroids, called the Place de la Concord. It is a very large down town square of which there are many in Paris. They have an Egyptian obelisk on it called Cleopatra’s needle.

In the days of the French revo­lution, the guillotine stood on this spot. It made me shudder to think of the blood that was shed on this place in 1789. Too bad that Cleopatra’s needle was­n’t there at the time to sew some of the heads back on.

The Left Bank is an interest­ing place. The river Seine runs across the city and all along its banks a levee has been built, be­cause the Seine acts insane at times. This cement embankment

has been built to keep it within it bounds. High above these there is a wall and on top of these there are market stalls.

These are very small and or­iginally were merely used book places. But people have told me that little by little they have be­come more bazaar-like. They buy or trade all sorts of inter­esting items. I have seen Samu­rai swords, etchings, books and even oil paintings there. One can browse along the length of the Rive Gauche (Left Bank) for houi's on end.

The merchants here like to haggle about prices. Solely for the purpose of amusement, I set my eye on a pair of antique pis­tols. Two hundred new French francs was the first price that the stall owner quoted—he would take no less. He dramatically swore that they were trophies that had once belonged to Mar­shal Foch himself. I merely shrugged and walked off, and he called out after me that as a sacrifice he would let me have them for one hundred and fifty new francs.

Out of sheer meanness, I care­fully looked at them again and then walked away. The stall owner then said that his wife would kill him, but he recog­nized a real enthusiast when he saw one. He called me back with, his new price of one hundred new francs. This time I continued walking, for I did not have the slightest interest in buying the things.

French merchants in small shops and book-stalls along the Seine love to bargain. They thrive ancl glow with this type of bargaining-. Along with it, they get to use all of their Gallic flare for drama. To me it is interesting to see how low a price can go, and I get to practice my French.

Just then we had a flash of lightning and the rolling roar of thunder. It was threatening rain. I ducked into a small cafe fearing that the rain would not be water, but the Reign of Terror returned to avenge itself on me for having bandied words with a French Merchant.

the streets of Nazi-held Sigol- sheim, France. He cleared one enemy nest after another in spite of withering fire. Reaching a building held by fanatical Nazi troops, he blasted out a wall with bazooka fire, killed five of the defenders and forced the remaining 12 to surrender. As he emerged

to continue his fearless the ciataion continues, ‘he gain hit and critically ?——~ In agony and with one eye by shell fragments, he sk.RDThis men to follow him thrcF 1

ITYnext house. He remained t^Qp head of his platoon until pep evacuated.” EC1.

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Wyatt, director of Office of Pro­grams, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is sched­uled to speak in Wichita Falls Aug. 11. Occasion will be the luncheon which will close the 32nd annual convention of West Texas Press Association to be held Aug. 9-11.

Wyatt was secured for the luncheon speaker by Rhea How­ard, publisher of the Times Pub­lishing Co., which will be host

for the luncheon at the Wichita Falls Country Club.

Arrangements for the speaker were made through Vice Presi­dent Lyndon B. Johnson and Hi- den T. Cox, assistant administra­tor for Public Affairs.

Another feature of the lunch­eon with be a 58-minute docu­mentary film, “Friendship Sev­en,” which follows activities of Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., when he orbited the earth.

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By TEX EASLEYWASHINGTON (A5)—Ten Tex­

as members of the House some­times are called upon to straddle state lines to deal with local problems in neighboring states and Mexico.

One example of the kind of interstate complications that can arise is found in the state’s 1st congressional district — that of the dean of the Lone Star dele­gation, Rep. Wright Patman of Texarkana.

The Texarkana federal build­ing is set down squarely on the Texas-Arkansas boundary line, the division being right at the general delivery window of the post office. Patman says its the only building he knows of that houses federal district courts of two states.

Three Texas congressmen oc­casionally deal with local prob­lems that have international angles—Reps. J. T. Rutherford, whose district starts in at El Paso and goes along the Rio Grande down past the Big Bend country; O. C. Fisher, whose dis­trict fronts on the Mexican bor­der for a short distance; and Joe Kilgore, with a Rio Grande boun­dary stretching from above La­redo down to Brownsville.

Moving counter-c lockwise around the map from northeast Texas, where Patman’s district borders on Louisiana and Okla­homa as well as Ax-kansas, the other Texas congressmen with state line districts are Reps. Ray Roberts, Graham Purcell and Walter Rogers along the Okla­homa line; Rogers, George Ma­hon and Ruthexford along the New Mexico line; and Jack Brooks and Lindley Beckworth along the Louisiana line. Con- gx’essmexx from adjacent states also must deal at times with

Texas pi'oblems.House Democratic Leader Carl

Albert of Oklahoma is one. His district is just across the Red River from Robex-ts’ district.

“The folks in my district not only have common px’oblems with the people across the line in Tex­as,” Albert says, “but an awful lot of them are related. That goes for me, too.”

Albexf is a native of McAles- ter, Okla., but his mother’s side of the family lived in north Tex­as for four generations. A great-great-grandfather, Solomon Scott, was bonx in the East in the late 1700s and moved to the Sherman area when Texas was a republic. He died ixx 1870 and was buried in Sherman. Albert’s mother, now deceased, was Leona Scott, born in Gainesville in 1886.

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