Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1972 Page: 16 of 20
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THE RIO GRANDE HERALD
THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1972
PAGE 16
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Following six months of train-
ing, a broken wrist and multiple
cuts and bruises, Raquel Welch
has completed filming MGM's
Kansas City Bomber," action-
drama in which she plays a
super-competitive R oiler
Games skater.
An ad for the film bills her
as "The Hottest Thing On
Wheels." "It should say, The
Sorest Thing On Wheels'," Ra-
quel moans, confessing that
she's not the athletic type. Yet
she insisted on doing her own
skating for the movie , as de-
monstrated by the accompany-
ing photos showing her being
wiped out by actress Helena
Kalllaniotes. Helena, the tough-
talking hitchlker from "Five
Easy Pieces," was a national
figure skating champdurlngher
high school days, while Raquel
had not skated since grade
school in San Diego, California.
"One thing that attracted me
to Kansas City Bomber'," says
America's sex goddess, who
purchased and personally de-
veloped the property, "Is that it
shows the difficulty of a wo-
man trying to make It in a
sport like this. You don't And
many women In body contact
sports, and Roller Games Is the
toughest. The women skaters
have a very rough image, but
they really have a very rough
Image, but they really have the
same wants and feelings as the
rest of us. This film shows
both sides of their character."
Directed by Jerrold Freed man,
"Kansas City Bomber" was
made with the full cooperation
of the National Skating Derby
Inc., seen on TV as Roller
Game of the Week, and Its pre-
sident, William J. Griffiths.
Among the well-known skating
stars appearing with Raquel are
Judy Arnold of the Philadelphia
Warriors, Little Richard Brown
of the Baltimgr^-Washington
Cats, Sally Vega, Ralph Valla-
dares, Honey Sanchez and Tom
Cres of the Los Angeles Thun-
derblrds, Bob Corbin and John
Hall of the Cleveland Bucks,
Judy Sowinskl and Ronnie "Psy-
cho" Rains of the New York
Bombers, Robin Hughes of Aus-
tralia, Yoko Sasaki and Miki
Tsunoda of Japan, plus John
Parker and Betty Brown of the
Northern Hawks. Announcer
Dick Lane also plays a part.
As Raquel nurses her injur-
ies, she says "I think I'm ready
for a romatlc comedy. How-
ever, I got a call the other day
about playing the first female
pro football star and it might be
Interesting to tackle that."
Sheik Shakbut, the former ru-
ler of Abu Zaby who allowed
slave-trading in his Trucial
State until 1964. feared modern-
ization would ruin his land and
tried to refuse payment for oil
found there. Forced to accept
the money, he kept it under his
bed where rats gnawed through
a fortune in banknotes before he
was deposed in 1966.
foiKs & Facts
John Olson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. MarkOlson, 703 W.Second
St., Rio Grande City, Texas,
among 880 graduating seniors
who received degrees Sunday,
May 14, from St. Mary's Uni-
versity in San Antonio, Texas.
The Very Rev. Louis J.
Blume, S.M., president of the
university, conferred the de-
gree. William F. Quinn, first
elected governor of Hawaii,
gave the commencement ad-
dress.
The graduating class was the
largest in the history of St.
Mary's.
FT. LEAVENWORTH, Kan.
—Army Lieutenant Colonel
Robert G. Haltiner, son of Mrs.
Lola Haltiner, 207 S. Avasolo
St., Rio Grande City, recently
completed the regular course at
the U.S. Army Command and
General Staff College, Ft.
Leavenworth, Kan.
General William B. Rosson,
Commander in Chief of the U.
S. Army, Pacific, was the grad-
uation speaker for the class of
1,268 U.S. army, navy, marine
corps and air force officers
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and 95 allied officers.
The 10-month course at the
army's senior tactical school
prepares the students for duty
as commanders and as princi-
pal general staff officers with
the army in the field from di-
vision through army group, and
at field army support and field
army support and theater army
support commands.
The college's primary objec-
tive is to prepare selected of-
ficers for duty in the field dur-
ing wartime. Emphasis is on the
art of command. The college al-
so prepares students to perform
equally well in such varied du-
ties as operational research and
formulation of military doc-
trine.
Col. Haltiner entered the ar-
my in 1959 and was last stationed
in Germany. He has served in
Vietnam and holds the Bronze
Star Medal, the Army Commen-
dation Medal and the Bronze
Star Medal.
A 1950 graduate of Rio
Grande City High School, he re-
ceived a bachelor's degree In
1954 from the University of
Texas and a master's degree
In 1967 from Indiana.
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Trejo, Raul. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1972, newspaper, July 13, 1972; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194363/m1/16/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.