Che Battalion
VOLUME 64 Number 120
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
Battalion Interpretive
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Total income in Brazos county
is over $98 million. Population
of Bryan-College Station and
Brazos County was 53,000 in 1967,
and has been increasing by 50 per
tent every 10 years.
Yet with all this prosperity,
conditions of extensive poverty
txist for 28.7 per cent of the pop-
ilation, whose annual income is
less than 3,000. In addition, there
are 1,211 persons on old age as
sistance, 17 blind people receiv
ing aid and 169 families receiv
ing public assistance for depend
ent children.
On any leisure drive down San
Jacinto Avenue in Bryan, one can
see a large area of substandard
lousing.
ACCORDING to Harmon Bell,
Bryan city commissioner, there
are 1,270 houses in the Bryan-
College Station area which are
inadequate for habitation, 1,587
louses with no bathing facilities
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with 1,237 of them serving two
or more families.
“The biggest problem in the
tommunity is the housing situa
tion for low income people,” ad
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leviate this situation?
THE CITY has applied to the
Federal Housing Authority for
rent supplements for 200 units for
poor families and is trying to help
builders by lowering its building
standards to make it less expen
sive to build low-cost houses,
Zubik said.
The mayor doesn’t believe zon
ing, which was turned down re
cently in a hotly-fought election,
would have a direct effect “be
cause it would pose more restric
tions.”,
Bell had a different view.
“Nothing is being done about low
cost housing. This is the saddest
situation that exists in this com
munity. It has been talked to
death,” he said.
“WE’VE TRIED everything,
but have not been able to get any
help. They promised to get rent
supplements for 200 units two or
three years ago. I don’t know
what became of it. I haven’t
heard anything about it,” Bell
added.
Bell also agreed that it would
help if the city lowered its stand
ards.
SCONA Summer Fund Drive
Seeks $10,000 In Contributions
More than 25 students are set-
8 % their sights on six metro-
xiiitan areas with hopes of
mising an additional $10,000
lor their fifteenth Student Con-
erence on National Affairs
SCONA XV).
Committee members scored a
% victory over the Easter holi-
lays, netting $11,000 for their
December 11-13 meeting. A $9,-
100 goal has been set at that
ime, said Harry Lesser of Bren-
iam, SCONA XV chairman.
Students will take next week’s
fund-raising c a m p ai g n into
Houston, Dallas - Fort Worth,
Jlidland-Odessa, El Paso, San
Antonio and Bryan-College Sta
tion.
The drives are part of an over
all effort to raise a minimum of
$21,000 which student leaders
feel is necessary for a successful
program next winter.
SCONA is the only student
conference that depends solely
on outside funds for support.
The conference annually features
outstanding personalities high
lighting world issues.
He added fund drives will be
made for the first time in the
Midland-Odessa and Bryan-Col
lege Station areas.
A third drive will be held in
Mexico City and Monterrey dur
ing August.
“Black Africa — the Dilem
mas of Development” is this
year’s topic.
A featured speaker will be
Time magazine special editor
John Scott.
Stafford Named To Succeed Zinn
As Next Associate Dean Of Students
Don R. Stafford, dean of stu
dents at Sul Ross State College,
lias been named associate dean
students, announced Dean
James P. Hannigan.
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pointment will be effective July
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Zinn who retires Aug. 31.
Hannigan described Stafford
“as an alert, young man with
many talents and abilities.”
Stafford, 31, recived his bache
lor’s degree in education from
Abilene Christian College in 1959
and his master’s degree in educa
tion in 1964 from Stephen F. Aus
tin. He has completed course
studies for a doctorate from Ok
lahoma State.
An avid sportsman, Stafford
earned three track letters at Abi
lene. Hobbies include sports of
ficiating.
He previously served as an as
sistant to the dean of men at
Oklahoma State and at one time
was a teacher and coach in the
Longview schools.
Stafford is a member of Phi
Delta Kappa, American Person
nel and Guidance Association and
American College Personnel As
sociation.
A native of Temple, Zinn
served as director of student af
fairs prior to his present assign
ment in July, 1966. He retained
his original title plus the added
responsibility.
Zinn joined the A&M staff in
1945 after five years of active
duty in the Army. He earned
both bachelor’s and master’s de
grees from A&M in 1926 and
1928.
As associate dean, he has co
ordinated dormitory counseling
programs and assisted the dean’s
office in administrative work in
volving the University Hospital,
Corps of Cadets, placement and
student aid, Memorial Student
Center, YMCA, housing and cam
pus security.
Zinn is a member of the Texas
Association of Student Personnel
Administrators, Southwestern As
sociation of Student Personnel
Administrators and the Texas
State Teachers Association.
He is a member of the A&M
Methodist Church and Sul Ross
Masonic Lodge.
Registration Schedule Set
For First Summer Session
Registration for the first six-week session of summer
school at A&M will take place Monday from 8 a.m.—2:30
p.m. at Sbisa Dining Hall, announced Robert A. Lacey,
registrar.
Students whose last names begin with H, I, J, K, L, M,
N, or O, Lacey noted, will registef beginning at 8 a.m., while
those whose last names begin with P—Z will begin at 9:30
a.m. Those with last names beginning with A—G will register
starting at 1:30 that afternoon.
Lacey also said that students should first obtain card
Packets at the news stand near Sbisa, fill in required informa
tion, and then enter Sbisa through the east entrance and
report to their academic departments.
Late registrants for the first session must enroll by 5
P.m. on June 5. The second six-week session will begin on
July 14.
“The cost of property and
meeting city standards makes
housing selling for $7,000 to
$8,000 hard for builders to make
a profit on,” Bell said.
Negro credit is another prob
lem which is aggravating the sit
uation, Bell, who is the local
NAACP president, said.
“An average Negro can finance
a $3,000 to $4,000 automobile, but
he can’t buy a home in this com
munity,” he said.
LOW PAY is the main reason
they cannot finance a home, Bell
said, citing low city wages as an
example.
Bell took from his desk several
pay check stubs which had been
attached to city payroll checks.
One of the stubs belonged to a
Negro who received $241.19 for
April 1969 while working full
time.
“These people can’t afford the
$15,000 houses which builders
must build to make a profit,” Bell
asserted.
“If these things were looked
into, something could be done. I
don’t have anyone to accuse for
these conditions, but somebody’s
responsible,” he added.
BRYAN CITY Manager Fred
Sandlin admits that there is a
shortage of low cost housing for
sale and that the city hasn’t come
up with a plan, but he places the
blame on other problems.
“Inflation has made it difficult
to keep the budget balanced. The
sales tax was a real life saver,
but we need added revenue,”
Sandlin explained.
Keeping competent help is an
other problem, Sandlin said, not
ing that “the city has 40 jobs
open at the present.”
There are several county-ad-
ministered poverty programs
which are now helping poor peo
ple.
PROGRAMS provided by the
Texas Department of Public Wel
fare are Old Age Assistance
(OAA), Aid to Families with
Dependent Children (AFDC), Aid
to the Blind (AB) and Aid to the
Permanently and Totally Dis
abled (APTD).
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TAKING SHAPE
Plumbing and freshly poured concrete staircases rise above in the area. The modern dwellings for married students
the foundation of a new apartment building under construe- are scheduled for completion by September. (Photo by Bob
tion in the College View area. The unit is one of several Stump)
being built by Temple Associates to replace older housing
Caused By Boiler Failure
Power Loss Darkens Campus
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Managing Editor
Parts of the A&M campus
were without electricity for about
three hours late Monday night
and early Tuesday morning due
to a boiler breakdown at the
A&M power plant.
At 10 p.m. Monday, explained
W. E. Holland Jr., assistant di
rector of the Physical Plant De
partment, automatic controls shut
off the number nine boiler at the
power plant. This boiler, he said,
is the largest at the university
and supplies about a third of the
steam power needed to provide
power and air-conditioning on
campus.
WHEN THE boiler shut down,
a 12.5 Kilowatt steamroperated
generator, A&M’s largest, also
shut down.
“At first,” Holland commented,
“We thought that maybe the au
tomatic controls had gone amiss,
as things like that sometimes do.”
Power was restored at 11:30
p.m., after preparations which
included re-firing the boiler were
completed. A short while later,
however, part of the tubing sys
tem in number nine boiler rup
tured, causing a permanent shut
down of the boiler and its gen
erator.
BOILERS seven and eight re
mained functional, and the uni
versity’s two other generators—
a 3,000 KW and a 5,000 KW—
along with an old tie-in with
Bryan’s power system (3000 KW)
were able to provide enough pow
er to restore lighting to most of
the campus, but not enough for
full air-conditioning.
“Areas that required air-con
ditioning to operate, like the Data
Processing Center and the Cyclo
tron, were not able to operate
Tuesday,” noted Holland.
Wednesday, he added, one of
the university’s eight chillers
used for air conditioning was in
operation.
A&M PERSONNEL, along with
General Electric engineers,
worked all day Tuesday to make
a larger tie-in between Bryan
and A&M (20,000 KW capacity)
under construction for some time,
operational.
Power was off four or five
times Tuesday, Holland ex
plained, as engineers adjusted re
lays and transformers on the new
tie-in and periodically switched
the load from the old tie-in over
to the new one to test the set
tings.
After the load on the new fa
cility got so high, Holland said,
the circuit would switch out, leav
ing parts of the campus without
power until the old tie-in was
reconnected.
“AT 9:30 Wednesday morning,
the DPC was able to operate, us
ing its own air-conditioning
units,” Holland said. “By 5 Wed
nesday afternoon, the new tie-in
was operational, and the campus
had full power and air-condition
ing facilities.”
“If this were to happen again,”
he added, “no one on the campus
would know it, since the new tie-
in is working. If a problem de
velops, we can switch over to
Bryan.”
“Also, with this new connec
tion, we’ll be able to take equip
ment out of operation annually
for maintenance work with no
loss of power experienced,” Hol
land concluded.
Faculty To Select
Tenure Committee
Nixon Challenges ’69 Graduating Class
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TO THE 1969 GRADUATING CLASS
TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
Each generation, shaped by forces outside and within it, asks
the question it must ask. Some generations, concerned with
the building of a nation, ask "How?” Other generations,
needing to set priorities for the future, ask "What?"
Your generation has asked "Why?"
As Americans we must together ask all of the big questions
and seek to find answers. How we build a better America,
what kind of nation we want, why we pursue certain goals
instead of others -- these are not problems to be faced by
one generation and ignored by another. All of us must face
them.
A college education in the humanities and sciences teaches
us that the real power to deal with these problems comes
out of the human mind and the human heart. All power
must be disciplined by trained intelligence and tempered
by compassion.
Each of you is a center of power. Your professional or social
or religious or political activity will determine the shape of
the future of your nation and of the world.
The question asked by your generation -- Why? -- is one that
must be answered not only by the quality of your rhetoric but
by the quality of your lives. It was in your college years
that we were first made aware of those "people talking without
speaking, people hearing without listening."
What you have brought and will continue to bring to American
life is not the sound of silence, but the sound of a generation
which will work to ensure that, in the words of William
Faulkner, "...man will not merely endure: he will prevail.”
A&M faculty members are be
ing asked this week to elect a
five-member Committee on Aca
demic Freedom and Tenure, said
Dr. Horace R. Byers, A&M aca
demic vice-president.
Byers also announced the se
lection of eight professors to
serve on the Faculty Advisory
Committee.
The two committees are being
set up in accordance with pro
visions of A&M’s recently adopted
statement on academic freedom,
tenure, and responsibility. The
statement follows the policy of
the Coordinating Board, Texas
College and University System.
BYERS explained that propos
als for termination of tenured
faculty would initially be pre
sented to the advisory committee.
It a mutually agreeable decision
is not reached with that commit
tee, the person involved may re
quest a hearing before the tenure
committee.
Faculty members have received
ballots listing 16 professors who
have been nominated for the ten
ure committee by their colleagues
in the various colleges. Each fac
ulty member will vote for five
persons, Byers pointed out, with
the five receiving the highest
number of votes being elected.
VOTING results will be an
nounced as soon as all ballots are
tabulated, Byers said, hoting that
ballots must reach his office by
5 p.m. Monday.
Nominees for the Committee
on Academic Freedom and Tenure
are: Dr. Wilbourn E. Benton, po
litical science; Dr. Charles L.
Boyd, veterinary medicine and
surgery; Dr. Leonard R. Burgess,
management; Dr. Edwin B. Doran
Jr., geography; Dr. Esko J. Dyks-
terhuis, range science; and Dr.
Davis A. Fahlquist, geophysics.
ALSO Dr. Howard L. Furr and
Bob M. Gallaway, civil engineer
ing James R. Gardner, urban and
regional planning; Dr. Herbert H.
Lang, history; Dr. Rudolph E.
Leighton, animal science; Dr.
John Nuttall, physics; Dr. Ken
neth R. Pierce, veterinary pathol
ogy; Melvin M. Rotsch, architec-
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ture; Norman A. Stewart Jr.,
management, and Dr. Ralph A.
Zingaro, chemistry.
Members of the Faculty Ad
visory Committee, selected by an
advisory committee or the equiva
lent in each college are: Dr, Page
W. Morgan, College of Agricul
ture; Richard Vrooman, College
of Architecture; Dr. Russell A.
Porter Jr., College of Business
Administration; James H. Cad-
dess, College of Engineering; Wil
liam R. Bryant, College of Geo
science; Dr. Carroll D. Laverty,
College of Liberal Arts; Dr.
Charles E. Gates, College of Sci
ence, and Dr. James H. Denton,
College of Veterinary Medicine.
BB&L
Four Ags Named
As Top Alumni
At Commencement
America’s top highway admin
istrator, the president of a major
university and two prominent in
dustrialists have been named
“distinguished alumni” of Texas
A&M.
The honorees are Francis C.
Turner of Washington, D. C.,
federal highway administrator;
William E. Morgan, president of
Colorado State University at Fort
Collins; Walter Claude (Maggie)
McGee Jr. of Houston, chairman
of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.,
and Edward Joseph Mosher, also
of Houston, vice chairman of the
board and chairman of the execu
tive committee, Mosher Steel Co.
Jointly selected by the univer
sity and its Association of For
mer Students, the four were pre
sented awards at commencement
exercises Saturday.
“These awards do more than
recognize these men of achieve
ment,” pointed out President Earl
Rudder. “They present to the
people of Texas and the nation
evidence of the effectiveness of
A&M’s role in higher education.”
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.