Gordo's Sold; Bread Ends

*********************** * * * * * # **•••***• * * * * • • • • * ' CREDO The 56 r, Dallas, Texas, Thursday, July 2, 1964 anootf Gordo's Sold; Sj'utnit' Bread Ends Era By STEVE ROBERTSON teams are a familiar wall decora V I* and CAROL S1EBER tion to any regular Gordo-goer. Ulltltil After 12% years, of service to Relations with the LCB, how ' * 4 • %nB&i SMU, Gordo's Campus Corner ever, have been strained at times. Dr. Rickey will close this fall. After Septem When Gordo led the state in r+ ber, only a driveway will remain draught sales for three consecu where an SMU institution once tive years, there was quite a bit Ps! * , LvWVkasLr vHI Takes Job stood. of pressure in the checking of In an interview Monday, Gor I.D.'s. After Michelob was no don West, proprietor of Gordo's, longer available on tap, Gordo In Alabama told staff members that the own switched to Budweiser draughts ers of the property had offered instead. Sales dropped and the By JOHN HENSON him the opportunity to buy the problem was alleviated. Professor Harry Wynn Rickey site when the current lease ex West expressed no great dis is retiring after 27 years with pired. But as West could not af appointment at the prospect of SMU to accept an appointment ford the $115,000 he said it would closing down. He says he has long with Alabama College as Chair cost to stay in business, the prop been unable to expand because man of the Department of For erty went to Mrs. Baird's Bread of a lack of parking facilities. eign Languages. at an undisclosed sum. The only expansion opportuni He joined the faculty of SMU The building will be razed to ty came about five years ago in 1937, becoming the Chairman widen the Mockingbird Lane when Gordo closed his barber MKfl shop next door and opened a of the Department of French. Dr. entrance to the bread factory. back room. This room now ac Rickey became Henry Martin West says he intends to open another restaurant at the begin commodates more customers and i - Monger Professor of French in bridge players as well. 1963 and recently was elected ning of next year in a new loca tion. He will retain his old format "We have never had any com Professor Emeritus of French by petition from places on Green the Board of Trustees of SMU. of good food, brew and atmos phere in a larger place. ville Avenue," the proprietor In addition to writing Musset said. The loud, rowdy bunch, he Gordo's, a small, dark nook t * Shakespearien (Delmas Bordeaux, within walking distance of the explained, may go elsewhere, but 1932), Dr. Rickey co-authored, campus, has been a favorite this is a place where a boy knows with Lon Tinkle, Tresor Nobel gathering place of SMU students he can bring a nice date, get good (D.C. Heath, 1962). He is listed in the past. West attributes half food and have a coke, if he pre in Who's Who in America, Who's of his business to SMU customers. fers. Who in the Southwest, and the Insisting that the bar facilities In an article from Sports Illus -Photo by Mike West Directory of American Scholars are greatly subordinated to food trated last November, Gordo's THIRD ENTRY—Toni Pearce, 19, tries tree-climbing in a free moment, and has been president of Pi service, West frequently draws was described as "a tiny beer-piz- that is, between classes at SMU summer school and beauty contests. Delta Phi, the French Honorary older people and families as cus za-steak-sandwich parlor across Society, and of the South Central tomers. from the SMU campus. Modern Language Association. West, more affectionately "Through its portals stroll Dr. Rickey is known as "Gordo," has been ac many of Dallas' prettiest girls, its also President of tive in SMU campus life in recent brawniest athletes, its newspaper Le Cercle Fran- years. In 1958, his picture appear columnists, flacks, poets, politi caise de Dallas, ed in the Rotunda, and one year cians and anyone, in fact, who is As 3rd 'Queen' Nominee a member of the he personally led the KA's to a in enough know about the place By LINDA MARTIN American Asso Sing Song victory. He has been or who likes the world's best Miss American Hotrod Associa ciation of Teach deemed an honorary KA by pizza or steak sandwich or who Sparklers, firecrackers, foun tion in 1962. ers of French, many. wants Gordon West to cash a tains and rockets will have a She has brown hair, blue eyes, the Town and personal check." hard time holding a roman and stands 5' 6". Her measure A former ADPi housemother ments are 36-24-36, and she Gown Club, Sigma Pi, Pi Kappa was so fond of Gordo's pizza that Reminiscent of the past, West candle to this week's Miss Sum Delta, and an Associate member summed up his experiences mer Campus nominee, Toni weighs 120 pounds. the sorority would order 30 pizzas Toni transferred this summer of the Association des Professeurs at a time for house dinners. "They have been interesting Pearce. - Francaise in Amerique. years, working and growing, Toni, 19, was Miss Flame of from Stephens College in Colum Gordo says that he has "never meeting people." Dallas, Miss Mile of Dimes and bia, Mo. "It is a lot more casual Dr. Rickey served with the had any trouble with, or com than SMU, stated Toni. "We wear AEF in 1918, becoming the plaints from, the officials of the cut offs and sweatshirts even on youngest top sergeant in World school." He donates to SMU dates. There are more gathering War I. He attended OCS at Lan- every year and is a member of places near the campus than at gres, France, in that year and was the Mustang Club. Pictures of Texas All-Stars Fife SMU and with two girls' schools commissioned 2nd Lieutenant. SMU championship basketball to one boys' school, we were still During World War II, Dr. outnumbered." Rickey served in the South Scranton's Gridders A graduate of Woodrow Wilson Pacific, where he was promoted By BILL JAYNES challenge, and bet a pair of silver High School in Dallas, her home from major to colonel. He re •• • town, she is taking Old Testa ' H One of SMU's freshman foot spurs against Gov. Scranton's ceived the bronze star and two two lumps of coal and a miner's ment and New Testament in July 2-: ball signees, Mike Babina, 6-5, summer school. battle stars and was decorated by 210 lb. end from Grand Prairie, hat. "Bedtime Story", Palace The When asked if she has ever had France with Off icier d'Academie will compete in the Big 33-vs- ater Seven other SMU signees will any embarassing moments, she and Off icier d'Instruction Pub- Texas All-Stars football game compete in the Texas High July 2-: commented, '1 don't get embar lique. School All-Star game this sum "Circus World", Capri Theater this August in Hershey, Pa. rassed very easily but I felt a After his return from World Outstanding Texas high school mer. Six of them will play for the July 2-: little strange when I walked into War I, Dr. Rickey became the players will be pitted against north and one for the south. "Night Must Fall", The Dallas • McElvaney on the first day of 1921 Southern AAU pole vault those in Pennsylvania at the Northern team members will Theater Center summer school. I thought it was champion. He continued at Tu- challenge of Pennsylvania's Gov. consist of five backs including Fincher." lane, graduating in 1922 as the July 2-s Scran ton. Mike Livingston, 6-4, 190 lbs. "The Carpetbaggers", Majestic Toiii plans to spend part of only senior to be initiated into He made the challenge in a from Dallas' South Oak Cliff; her summer traveling. "AH of my Theater Ralph Weaver, 6-2, 195 lbs. from Phi Beta Kappa. (He is a charter tape-recorded message to the Jay- friends are getting married,'' she Garland; Ricky White, 6-1, 180 member of the Gamma Chapter, July 8-: cee convention in Dallas last week commented, "and I will be going lbs. from Dallas' Woodrow Wil Phi Beta Kappa, at SMU.) He "My Fair Lady", Dallas Sum at which Texas' Gov. Connally from one wedding to another." son; Mike Janzen, 6-0, 190 lbs. remained at Tulane as a visiting mer Musical Hall was a keynote speaker. Toni will be a junior at SMU lecturer in 1922. Gov. Connally accepted the (Continued onvpage 2) in the fall. : 2 THE SMU CAMPUS Thursday, July 2, 1964 The Conservative Credo Throughout history, governments had by them has been insignificant when tremely difficult to talk modern day mise of importance in their political been based upon the combined rule of compared to the horrors, wars, persecu politics utilizing popular terminology, philosophy: both believe that man is brute force and mysticism. The few tions, confiscations, famines, enslave particularly if one is a student of his essentially helpless (as an individual, liberties allowed to men were never ments, the carnage that has been per tory. particularly) in a hostile universe or in recognized as rights, but were granted petrated by mankind's governments. Today, a "conservative" is a person one which he can never comprehend, as favors from the government. It was It is not as protection against private who desires to conserve the ideological that man is basically irrational and in the concept of rights that crippled action, but against governmental actions liberalism of the men who founded the capable of supporting himself or of totalitarian governments for a brief that the Bill of Rights was written.

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