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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 18, 1962
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Action Is Needed Now
To Stop Auto Carnage
Wesley Paul Hudson, ’64 from Houston, was killed
Sept. 9 when his car went out of control and overturned
near Marshall, Ark. An Aggie fellow-traveler was injured.
The Battalion heartily endorses the Student Senate’s
planned, effort and hopes a real solution can be forthcoming.
Laundry Shows Its Critics
Something always has to be the scapegoat-
the college laundry.
It came really as no surprise that recent testing has
proved the laundry one of the best in the nation.
The real surprise will still have to be the end of com
plaints—only who will be the scapegoat then?
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Van Conner -— Sports Editor
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CADET SLOUCH
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by Jim Earle Qfo Jfy Achin’ Headcick
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A tragedy left over from the 1961-62 school year has
already made its presence felt during the infant ’62-63
session—death on the highways.
Already one Aggie has lost his life on the highways
and a former student in the Class of ’63 has been killed
in another crash.
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Special to The Battalion
NEW YORK—Completely ex
ploding that rosy, nostalgic and
time-honored myth that “college
day are carefree days,” a recent
survey discloses that young
adults of college age—19 through
24—suffer not only the mpst fre
quent headaches, but the most
severe ones of any other compar
able age group.
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Robert Strange, ’63 from Lubbock, has died in a crash
last week just reported to The Battalion over the past week
end. Strange did not attend both sessions last year but
was registered here during the ’59-60 and ’60-61 school terms.
These two deaths come on the heels of a tragic year
just past in which seven A&M students were killed in auto
mishaps. Also Gov. Price Daniel has issued a special appeal
for school traffic safety after noting that deaths among
high school and college students have had “a dangerous
upward trend.”
The time indeed is now. If student traffic deaths are
to be brought to a minimum, action at the present time can
be the only answer.
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Even the harassed businessman
takes second place to students,
with a total of 77 per cent suf
fering frequent headaches as a-
Future Dates
HI
Daniel asked all connected with schools and colleges,
“and above all the students themselves,” to emphasize traffic
safety during “Texas School Traffic Safety Week,” which
will be observed next week.
The annual safety effort is aimed at stopping an upward
trend in the deaths of drivers ages 15-24, Daniel said.
“From 1957-60,” the governor cited, “traffic deaths in
this group had dropped from the record high of 615 in 1956
to 510 in 1960. Then they increased sharply to 567 in 1961.”
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Student Body President Sheldon Best said here Monday
plans are being formulated to emphasize traffic safety
through action of the Student Senate.
... “I can’t get over how nice th’ upperclassmen have been
to me!”
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TODAY
Southwest Power Pool Comput
er Conference
Dallas Power & Light Co. Man
agement Seminar
WEDNESDAY
Texas Plant Food Education So
ciety
THURSDAY
Home Ventilating Institute
Student Senate
Steak fry for football team
FRIDAY
Favorite food show
SATURDAY
Football at LSU
SUNDAY
Landscape design seminar
MONDAY
MSC Council
Constitution Week
The Senate will meet for the first time Thursday night
and will probably announce its plan at that time.
Efforts of this kind should indeed be made now and not
later after a string of football weekends that will see Aggies
by the hundreds flocking to the highways.
Laundry Places
Set By CS Mayor
A look at this fall’s schedule shows road games in
Houston (2), Dallas, Waco and Austin—all of which will
be heavily attended by students and others connected with
the college.
High In Testing
These football weekends, of course, will be followed by
Thanksgiving, Christmas and semester recess—at which time
the campus will look practically deserted.
-just ask
For years on end students have constantly wailed about
the supposed inefficiency of the laundry. Now, however,
they will have some facts and figures pulling against their
every argument.
Tests results from the Ameri
can Institute of Laundering show
consistently high marks for the
college laundry, Tom Cherry, di
rector of business affairs, report
ed Monday.
The laboratory division of the
American Institute of Launder
ing conducted a battery of tests
recently and listed results in four
classifications.
These were white family work,
white family flats, white com
mercial flats and white shirts.
The two tests made for each cate
gory were tensile strength loss
and whiteness retention.
The white family work show
ed a tensile" strength loss of
five per cent and a whiteness re
tention of 96 per cent. In the
categories, not over 5 per cent
tensile strength loss and 96 per
cent whiteness retention are con
sidered excellent.
White family flats showed a
tensile strength loss of four per
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cent and a whiteness retention
of 99 per cent, both also in the
excellent classification. The same
followed for white shirts, which
had a tensile strength loss of
four per cent and a whiteness re
tention of 97 per cent.
White commercial flats tested
with a tensile strength loss of
eight per cent and a whiteness re
tention of 99 per cent. The 99
per cent retention is considered
excellent, with the eight per
cent tensile strength loss in the
good category.
James H. Kingcaid Sr. is mana
ger of the college laundry.
This week, the 175th anni
versary of the adoption of the
U. S. Constitution, has been
designated Constitution Week in
the city of College Station in a
proclamation signed by Mayor
Ernest Langford.
In the proclamation, Langford
urged all citizens to pay special
attention to the constitution and
the advantages of American
citizenship.
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gainst 80 per cent in the col
lege group.
It might be said that head
aches linked to higher education
compose a literal “four-point pro
gram” that forms the king size
headaches. Roughly, the four
points fall under the categories
of finances, friends, finals and
the future.
It is certainly no secret that
the cost of -education has zoom
ed, making the financing of a
college career a serious problem.
And many a young co-ed and
college boy worries about being
popular, gaining admittance to
the “right” fraternity or sorority
—in short making friends.
Final exams are equally jt
as headache instigators. Shi
burn the midnight oil crams
for tests, and work what a
have been a simple headadit
a four-star splitter becatut
anxiety and lack of sleep.Is
pyramid on top of all to.
big blockbuster headache.
Even though earning a tij
education brings on a ta
crop of headaches, it certai
has long-term advantages. Os
the most obvious is that col
graduates average $200,00(11
in income during their ean
years, than those who have:
completed high school.—A sti
tic well worth thinking ak:
On Campus
with
MK§hi
{Author of “7 Was a Teen-age Dwarf," "The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis," etc.)
ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR
With today’s entry I begin my ninth year of writing columns
. in your school newspaper for the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes,
Nine years, I believe you will agree, is a long time. In fact,
it took only a little longer than nine years to dig the Sues
Canal, and you know what a gigantic undertaking that was!
To be sure, the work would have gone more rapidly had the
shovel been invented at that time, but, as we all know, the
shovel was not invented until 1946 by Walter R. Shovel of
Cleveland, Ohio. Before Mr. Shovel’s discovery in 1946, all
digging was done with sugar tongs—a method unquestionably
dainty but hardly what one would call rapid. There were, natu
rally, many efforts made to speed up digging before Mr. Shovel’s
breakthrough—notably an attempt in 1912 by the immortal
Thomas Alva Edison to dig with the phonograph, but the only
thing that happened was that he got his horn full of sand. This
so depressed Mr. Edison that he fell into a fit of melancholy
from which he did not emerge until two years later when liis
friend William Wordsworth, the eminent nature poet, cheered
him up by imitating a duck for four and a half hours.
But I digress. For nine years, I say, I have been writing this
column for the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, and for nine
years they have been paying me money. You are shocked. You
think that anyone who has tasted Marlboro’s unparalleled
flavor, who has enjoyed Marlboro’s filter, who has revelled in
Marlboro’s jolly red and white pack or box should be more than
willing to write about Marlboro without a penny’s compensa
tion. You are wrong.
Compensation is the very foundation stone of the American
Way of Life. Whether you love your work or hate it, our system
absolutely requires that you be paid for it. For example, !
have a friend named Rex Glebe, a veterinarian by profession,
who simply adores to worm dogs. I mean you can call him up
and say, “Hey, Rex, let’s go bowl a few lines,” or “Hey, Hex,
let’s go flatten some pennies on the railroad tracks,” and he
will always reply, “No, thanks. I better stay here in case
somebody wants a dog wormed.” I mean there is not one thing
in the whole world you can name that Rex likes better than
worming a dog. But even so, Rex always sends a bill for worm
ing your dog because in his wisdom he knows that to do other
wise would be to rend, possibly irreparably, the fabric of
democracy.
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It’s the same with me and Marlboro Cigarettes. I thinl!
Marlboro’s flavor represents the pinnacle of the tobacconist’s
art. I think Marlboro’s filter represents the pinnacle of the
filter-maker’s art. I think Marlboro’s pack and box represent
the pinnacle of the packager’s art. I think Marlboro is a pleas
ure and a treasure, and I fairly burst with pride that I have
been chosen to speak for Marlboro on your campus. All the
same, I want my money every week. And the makers of
Marlboro understand this full well. They don’t like it, but they
understand it.
In the columns which follow this opening installment, I will
turn the hot white light of truth on the pressing problems of
campus life—the many and varied dilemmas which beset the
undergraduate—burning questions like “Should Chaucer class
rooms be converted to parking garages?” and “Should proctors
be given a saliva test?” and “Should foreign exchange students
be held for ransom?”
And in these columns, while grappling with the crises that
vex campus America, I will make occasional brief mention of
Marlboro Cigarettes. If I do not, the makers will not give me
any money. © isos musm?*
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The makers ot Marlboro will bring you this uncensored,
free-style column 26 times throughout the school year. Dur
ing this period it is not unlikely that Old Max will step on
some toes—principally ours—but we think it’s all in fun and
we hope you will too.
PEANUTS
By Charles E ^
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