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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1961)
Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, November 16, 1961 BATTALION EDITORIALS [ Four Too Many Texas A&M students stood quietly in the cold midnight air Monday and listened for the third time this year to the three rifle volleys and the soft strains of muted bugles that meant “Silver Taps” for another of their number. But Monday’s “Silver Taps” was especially disheart ening. The needless deaths of Patrick Lee James and Cle- beart Houston Jones, two fish buddies on their way back to school after a pleasent weekend, brought the number of tragic traffic accidents involving A&M students this year to four—too many by any count. Of these four deaths in the first three months of school, none were justified. Excessive speed, falling asleep at the wheel, not paying attention to the road, drinking while driving—in short, childlike driving, are all potential killers, as we all have so vividly seen this year. We could recite rules and reasons for safe driving from now on. But everyone has heard these rules from the time they were small children. It is safe to assume the four who were killed knew the rules. They knew the rules, but they didn’t follow them—and they are dead! Perhaps now the rest of us will pay a little more atten tion to our driving. Bulletin Board Hometown Clubs The following hometown clubs will meet tonight in the Aca demic Building: Abilene club will meet in Room 204 at 7:30 p.m. Amarillo club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 206. Dallas club will meet in Room 306 at 7:30 p.m. Fort Worth club will meet in Room 226 at 7:30 p.m. Pasadena club will meet in Room 128 at 7:30 p.m. Pictures for the Aggieland will be made in class “A” winter uniforms in front of the Richard Coke Build ing. Rio Grande Valley club will meet in Room 227 at 7:45 p.m. The Thanksgiving party will be discussed. Spring Branch club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 207. St. Thomas club will meet in Room 206 at 7:30 p.m. Weatherford and Vicinity club will meet in Room 205 at 7:30 p.m. These hometown clubs will meet tonight in the YMCA Building: Denton club will meet in the lobby at 7:30 p.m. Waco-McLennan County club will meet in the^lobby at 7:30 p.m. Matagorda County club will meet in the Anderson Room at 7:30 p.m. Deep East Texas club will meet in Room 102 at 7:30 p.m. Grayson County club will meet in the Gay Room at 7:30 p.m. Pictures for the Aggieland will be taken and plans for the Thanksgiving party will be made. These hometown clubs will meet tonight in the Memorial Student Center: Galena Park club wilj meet in the upstairs lounge at 7:30 p.m. Officers will be elected. Big Thicket club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3-B. Guadalupe Valley club will meet in the main lounge at 7:30 p.m. South Louisiana club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3-C. Home town club picture and Thanks giving holidays will be discussed. Bay Area club will meet in Room 2-A at 7:30 p.m. The club sweetheart will be elected and tickets may be picked up for the Thanksgiving party. Port Arthur club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Build ing. Plans for the Thanksgiv ing party will be completed. -Job Calls- Friday Welex, A Division of Halli burton Co.—Electrical engineer ing (B.S., M.S.), mechanical en gineering (B.S.), and physics (M.S.). THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers Only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a journalism laboratory and community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. McMurry, School of Engineering ; Otto of Veterinary Medicine. director of Student Willard I. and Dr. E. D. 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