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Car-Train Wrecks
‘Joint Problems’
Car-txain accidents axe joint
problems that require joint solu
tions, Under Secretary of Ti - ans-
portation Everett Hutchinson
told participants in a grade cross
ing safety symposium Thursday
at Texas AM.
Hutchinson said the pximaxy
role of the Depar tment of Tx-ans-
poi’tation in the grade crossing
problem is to provide leadei*ship
and assistaxxce.
“The initiative is on your
shoulders,” the undei’secxetary
reminded the 175 transportation
authorities attending the three-
day meeting hosted by the Tex
as Transportation Institute and
the U.S. Department of Trans
portation.
“Pi’esident Johnson has re
peatedly called for a new part
nership between industry and all
levels of government in meeting
the nation’s goals,” Hutchinson
commented. “This meeting at
A&M is proof that partnership
can exist to everyone’s mutual
benefit.”
“WE RECOGNIZE that we
have a great problem,” he con
tinued. “That’s what the De
partment of Transportation is all
about—the focusing of normally
divergent views on a single is
sue.”
Hutchison cited the need for a
safety program that is much
more than just another expensive
federal project.
“It must be a program that
will allow local implementation
with a minimum amont of mon
ey,” he pointed out. “We must
find solutions that can fit into
city and county budgets.”
The speaker outlined aspects
of the problem which can be
tackled immediately. Among
suggestions outlined in an 11-
point program included:
A MORE accurate national
inventory of the grade crossing
situation is being undertaken.
The Federal Highway Adminis
tration is working with state
highway departments to complete
and update grade crossing data.
State highway departments are
being asked to take the lead in
organizing diagnostic teams
which will identify and recom
mend appropriate protective
measures.
Hutchinson also cited several
one-of-a-kind projects being im
plemented throughout the coun
try which perhaps may be ap
plied on a national basis.
“We are seeking to identify
crossings considered ‘high haz
ard’ due to the volume traffic in
such vehicles as tank trucks,” he
continued. “Many officials be
lieve we can make real progress
in a relatively short period of
time.”
HUTCHINSON said devices
have been developed which can be
placed in a truck or bus to auto
matically detect the presence of
a train.
“And our research capability
indicates a device may be de
veloped which could detect a
train and automatically stop the
vehicle,” he emphasized.
Hutchison reported the Depart
ment of Transportation plans to
i d e n t i f y crossings frequently
used by school buses.
“We are working with school
officials to reroute traffic or im
prove protection,” he said. “It
may be that any vehicle carrying
schoolchildren should be re
quired to stop at every crossing
whether a train is approaching
or not. This is already being
done in some areas.”
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GRADE-CROSSING HUDDLE
Railroad-highway grade crossing safety is the subject of
this conference at Texas A&M. Charles J. Keese, A&M’s
Texas Transportation Institute director, reviews a scale
model with Everett Hutchinson, under secretary of the
U. S. Transportation Department, and Dewitt C. Greer,
state highway engineer for the Texas Highway Depart
ment. The symposium attracted 175 men from 30 states.
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N. Vietnam Exaggerates Claim
Of Casualties, U. S. Asserts
SAIGON (A*)—The U. S. Com
mand said Thursday that North
Vietnam has been making exag
gerated claims of American cas
ualties for the epic battle of Dak
To last month, while minimizing
Communist losses.
“The propaganda move,” the
command said, “was, in fact, a
replay of the exaggerated claims
made for the preceding battle of
Loc Ninh. The North Vietnamese
propagandist didn’t even bother
to change the number of claimed
U. S. troops killed—they claimed
2,800 in each battle.”
The command said “actual
friendly casualties” Nov. 3-17,
when the heaviest fighting took
place in the Dak To area 270
miles north of Saigon, were 136
killed and 600 wounded. Ameri
cans and South Vietnamese killed
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
764 Communists during the same
period, the command said.
Cumulative casualty figures for
the whole month in that sector
were 1,836 North Vietnamese
killed, 280 Americans killed and
1,037 wounded, the command
said. South Vietnamese losses
were described as light.
Greenhut Article
Runs In Journal
Dr. M. L. Greenhut, Economics
Department head at Texas A&M,
is the author of a recent article
in the “Journal of Regional Sci
ence.”
Greenhut said “Interregional
Programming and the Demand
Factor of Location” deals with
adjustments required of a mathe
matical programming model
which considers impacts on lo
cation of different pricing sys
tems over an economic space.
Campus Security Moves
Against Theft Increase
DECK THE HALLS
Christmas spirit is running rampant at A&M, as these views of Dormitory 9 show. At left,
crepe-paper ribbons festoon the hall and lend a green-and-red glow to the ceiling lights. At
right, freshmen’s “Letters to Santa” ask for fitting gifts for upperclassmen. Other dorm
decorations around the campus include Christmas tree, mistletoe and holly wreaths.
Hope Diamond Heir’s Death
Still Unsolved, /. P, Says
Thieves Steal
21 Tape Decks
PLANO, Tex. (AP) — The
cause of the death of 25-year-old
Evalyn McLean, once an heir to
the exquisite Hope diamond, will
not be known for two to three
weeks, a justice of the peace said.
B. B. Carpenter, the magistrate,
said the contents of the dead wo-
WASHINGTON <A>) _ Presi
dent Johnson, who voiced a
sharply worded attack on con
gressional Republicans two days
ago, made it a point today be
fore a bipartisan White House
audience to concede that Repub
licans aren’t always wrong.
The occasion was an East
Room ceremony at which John
son signed into law a measure
aimed at increasing consumer
protection against flammable
clothing, draperies, upholstery
and the like.
But the chief executive quickly
departed from his prepared text
about flammable fabrics to ad
lib a long section in which he had
kind words for Republicans as
well as Democrats — and in
which he made a strong appeal
for more consumer legislation.
With many Congress members
in his audience, Johnson said,
“You better get busy because the
women of this country are get
ting tired of such things as dis
eased meats, dangerous gas pipe
lines and other hazards.”
In referring back indirectly to
his partisan address Tuesday at
the AFL-CIO Convention in Mi
ami Beach, Johnson said he didn’t
want to get personal or involve
himself in a name-calling contest
or say anything ugly about any
one.
Then he went on to declare
that some congressional Repub
licans indeed have voted for the
kind of legislation he espouses.
In a House speech Wednesday,
Republican Leader Gerald R.
Ford, of Michigan, had taken is
sue with the President’s Miami
Beach speech, in which Johnson
said the “old Republican buggy
can only go one way — and that’s
backwards — downhill.” Ford
retorted that “the Great Society
of Lyndon Johnson has become a
runaway locomotive with a wild-
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Association, Your Sav
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man’s stomach will have to be
analyzed by a toxicologist.
However, he said an autopsy
Thursday showed that Miss Mc
Lean’s body bore no marks of
violence. The Hope diamond has
brought ill luck to many who
have been associated with it.
eyed engineer at the throttle.”
Still ad libbing, Johnson noted
he had asked Congress for twelve
consumer protection bills this
year and that four have been
passed. He indicated he has
strong hopes for two more be
fore adjournment — interest rate
disclosure and gas pipeline
safety.
Blood Drive Ends;
345 Pints Given
For Servicemen
Texas A&M students stood in
long lines Thursday to donate
blood for U. S. servicemen in
Vietnam.
Drive chairman John Daly of
Corpus Christi expressed satis
faction with the 345 pints con
tributed during the three-day
drive.
“We’re planning another drive
in February and we are looking
forward to greater success,” he
commented. “Interest in giving
was highest at the end of the
drive.”
Daly’s observation was mir
rored by students who waited
several hours Thursday to make
contributions. Eighty-five persons
were in line at mid-afternoon.
Bill Carter, Student Senate
vice president from Decatur, said
increased facilities are needed to
process more donors at one time.
A spokesman for Blood Services
of Houston, the collecting agency
for the sponsoring A&M Student
Senate, said about 60 prospective
donors were rejected because of
colds and other reasons.
The total may climb slightly
higher Friday. Students who have
their own transportation could
give Friday at the College of
Veterinary Medicine where a
Blood Services’ mobile unit was
to collect blood for a faculty
blood bank.
THE BODY was found Tuesday
in her ranch home where she
lived alone. Carpenter said neigh
bors in this Dallas suburb went
into her house when they became
suspicious because of a lack of
activity for several days.
He said the body was fully
clothed in blue jeans and a sweat
er and lay on a heating pad on a
bed. There was no indication of
foul play, he said.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Thursday and then the body
was cremated.
Carpenter said Dalas County
medical examiner Earl Rose said
results of the work of the toxi
cologist would take “at least two
to three weeks.”
“THAT JUST leaves us no
where,” he added. “I can’t make
any formal ruling until we get
that analysis.”
Carpenter said neighbors of
Miss McLean said she was “a
moody person, rather strange,
with few friends.”
A former Dallas debutante, she
was the daughter of John “Jock”
McLean of Palm Beach, Fla. She
never married.
BY BOB PALMER
Campus Security officers have
started foot patrols equipped with
walkie-talkies and have increased
the number of men on night duty
to meet a rise in parking lot
thefts.
Campus Security Chief Ed E.
Powell announced the changes
Thursday.
Since Dec. 1, 21 stereo tape
decks, 2 batteries and 5 tires and
wheels have been stolen from
jg vehicles parked on campus, Powell
reported.
“It’s out of this world,” Powell
said of the lengthy list of articles
reported stolen. “This beats every
thing I have ever run into in the
way of theft.
“I AM SURE it is not students
who are just taking a tape deck
for themselves,” he theorized.
“It’s either outsiders or a small
clique of students with a pipe
line to San Antonio or Houston.”
Powell said he does not expect
the thieves to market the stolen
goods locally.
“We have just had bad luck in
catching them,” Powell continued.
“We have been sitting in a park
ing lot each night, but while we
were there they would strike at
another spot.
“We are just too undermanned
to be everywhere at once.”
THE..SECURITY chief describ
ed his theory on how the thieves
work.
“They have one or two guys
watching while one breaks into
the car and jerks out the tape
deck,” he remarked. “These decks
are only secured by a couple of
thumb screws and are easily re
moved.
“Two boys did report that they
had their car broken into,” he
noted, “but since they had their
tape deck bolted in, only the
tapes in the glove compartment
were taken.”
The thieves are almost im
possible to detect, Powell com
mented.
“Students are moving through
the lots at all hours of the night,
and unless we hear or see some
thing suspicious, the thieves look
just like students.”
ANOTHER TRICK that the
thieves possibly are using, ac
cording to Powell, is leaving the
loot in the trunk of a car in the
lot and not moving the car until
the next day.
Powell praised the cooperation
of students found in the lots at
night when questioned by security
officers.
“A&M is not the only school
that has been hit by this prob
lem,” he said. “The University of
Texas, North Texas and Sam
Houston have lost much more
than we have.”
POWELL POINTED that an
other dangerous period is ahead
as students prepare to leave
campus.
“Every year we have people
losing their clothes when they
load their car the night before
they leave. Some of them did not
even lock their cars.
“Locking the car does not al
ways work either,” Powell said.
“These thieves think nothing of
throwing a brick through the
window.
“Go ahead and load the trunk,”
he advised students, “but leave
the rest in the room until you are
ready to leave.”
Astronomers
Form Group,
Vote Officers
The Brazos Valley Astronomi
cal Society elected Jim Thomas
of Baytown pre|^dent of the
newly-formed amittetfF "astrono
mers group.
The society will enable mem
bers of allied interest to do
planetary, lunar, variable star
and meteor observing, astropho-
tography and telescope making.
Meetings and star parties will be
scheduled once a month. Lectures
and member presentations are
planned on various aspects of
astronomy.
Dr. E. E. Vezey, Texas A&M
Cyclotron Institute research sci
entist, is the society advisor.
About 20 members include A&M
students, faculty-staff members
and area high school students.
“Any interested persons of the
area are invited to become mem
bers,” Thomas said.
The society will meet again at
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10,
in Room 145 of the Physics Build
ing, the president added. A star
party is planned with members
providing telescopes. Prof. Jack
Kent of the A&M Mathematics
Department wil discuss satellite
tracking in the event of incle
ment weather.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
GIG ’EM
Freshmen “hump it” during Thursday night’s yell practice, the last before A&M’s Jan.
1 Cotton Bowl game with Alabama. Head Yell Leader Neal Adams urged students at the
yell practice to get to the Cotton Bowl by noon, because pre-game activities will move
the singing of the War Hymn back to around 12:10 p. m.
Johnson Spares Kind Words
For Republican Congressmen