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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, July 26, 1962
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Cooperation Will Make
Campus Driving Easier
With the heavy construction work now under way on
campus, drivers are finding - their paths blocked more every
day: Much of this is necessary if the construction is to be
completed on schedule.
However, many of the traffic obstructions are not neces
sary. Observing a few obvious rules would alleviate the
situation and make it easier for everyone to perform their
tasks more efficiently.
College vehicles at work on projects, as well as those of
visiting contractors, could keep within designated parking
areas as much as possible. When those spaces are taken, park
ing on the same side of the street will prevent bottlenecks.
Even parking within barriers which are already set up
is possible in many cases. Vehicles parked directly across
from each other on many of our campus streets leaves room
for one-way traffic only.
When possible, vehicles should use the parking lots
available to them, keeping within regulations, of course. This
helps eliminate street parking to a large extent and allows
increased ease of traffic movement.
Heavy equipment on the streets are out of everyone’s
way and in working position when they reach their destina
tions, and the sooner, the better for traffic movement.
Most of all, it should be remembered that the construc
tion crews are attempting to arrange for the future comfort
of those who are on campus the year around. At the same
time, A&M’s staff and students also have places to go and
jobs to do. A spirit of cooperation between the two may help
both parties concerned.
In Memoriam
A&M’s Memorial Student Center is indeed the living
room of the campus. Its facilities are among the best to be
found at any college.
Since its completion almost eight years ago, it has been
a place where students and faculty members go for relaxation.
It has been a place where visitors could come and be welcome.
But the MSC, as it is called, is more than that. It is a
memorial to the Aggies who were not fortunate enough to
return from overseas in defense of their country.
Hats are not worn in most living rooms.
In this one, the added fact that it is a memorial has
always given gentlemen visitors and campus people alike an
added incentive for removing their hats while inside the
building.
Foreign Students
Like U. S. Cooking
Foreign students attending
A&M develop a real liking for
American style foods.'
The proof is in the sale of
American cookbooks to the stu
dents, who ask that the books
be mailed to their families and
friends. Especially those stu
dents from Asia come into the
Exchange Store, the College’s
book and supplies store, and or
der such books.
Manager Carl Birdwell says he
has noticed that such purchases
usually begin after a student has
been on the campus for two or
three months.
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EOBBIE D. GODWIN _EDIT01i
CADET SUHICn ^ by Ji'n Earlr J'pxQg DriVCPS Set Best
Safety Record In Histor
Special to The Battalion
A U S T I N—Texas has some
thing to brag about: The best
traffic safety record in Texas
history.
The National Safety Council
“grades” all states on traffic
safety. Of a possible 100 points,
Texas got 84 for its efforts to
solve traffic deaths and injury
during 1961. A big share came
from the second lowest traffic
death toll since 1949—“only”
2,314 killed on the highways in
1961.
California had the best score
with 86. Michigan was second
with 85. Texas tied with Illinois
and Ohio for third place among
the “big traffic” states.
Gov. Price Daniel said that
holding down the death rate de
spite steadily increasing traffic
made a real record—fewer deaths
per 100,000 miles tra>
ever before.
NEW INDUSTRY-6
as city is looking fors
try. But they are
Every state has son*-
industry-attracting In;
In May, Texas tiedi
nois for fourth placei:
her of new industri^
business. Each had 1
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1 ’****—,.
“ . . . and when I noticed what was happening I started
carrying my books with my left arm!”
HOWDY
from
PARIS, FRANCE
As you look around Paris, it
suddenly strikes you • that the
buildings are very old. A lot of
them were built one or two hun
dred years ago, and they are still
in daily use.
One good example of that is
the Palais Royal. This was built
in the seventeenth century by
Cardinal Richlieu as a great pal
ace for himself. It is located
in downtown Paris. While it
was being built, the French cour
tiers got wind of his plans and
began a gossip campaign saying
that it was pretentious for Rich-
lieu to live in a palace which was
better thati the one the king had.
So Richlieu had to give it, as a
gift, to the king.
The king had been living in the
Louvre, today the world famous
museum, which was a tiny place
compared to the^ one that Rich
lieu had built for himself. The
Chemicals and sandblasting
cannot be used to get the black
patina off them. They are
washed with soap and water la
boriously.
But the results of. the washing
are very good, because a lot of
the detail that ordinarily would
not stand out can now be seen.
There is a lot of little sculpture
work on the exteriors. It was
done by artisans in a bygone era
when they thought that even if
something were hidden in a far-
off corner where people never
saw it, their work was seen by
God.
They don’t tear down old build
ings here, just to build new ones.
It’s not like back home where
one week you go to a restaurant
or a building, and six months
later you return to find a park
ing lot or a new building going
Palais Royal boasted a theatre,
a great courtyard and many
apartments. All the French king
said was thanks a lot and then
his family lived there until Ver
sailles was built.
up on that site.
Theater Still Used
The Comedie Francais, the na
tional theatre of France, is the
theatre that was there. Now
adays, they play many plays
there which had their original
debuts.three hundred years ago.
A fact like this adds to the ex
citement of going to a perform
ance of a classic at this theatre.
After the French kings left
the Palais Royal, the apartments
began to be rented to people of
note, and many shops were op
ened in the courtyard. Many
famous people have lived in these
apartments. Sarah Bernhardt was
one of them. Collette, the author
of Gigi, was another.
The courtyard has all of these
little stores around its gallery
today. It is something like
Townshire. There’s a colonade
that covers the sidewalk near the
stores. Children play there and
people just stroll.
Many Restored
This building, like many others
is being restored by the French
minister of culture, Andre Mal-
raux. A great many of these
buildings are made of stone and
are a couple of centuries old.
Here I find the difference be
tween our new and their old
country. You can go to restaur
ants here that people went to
fifty or a hundred years ago.
This gives them time to cherish
the things around them.
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