Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 9, 1964 THE BATTALION
An Old Game Still Survives
With New Name—‘Billiards’
Remember when the ladies were
all fired up to rid the country with
that bad old thing called pool ?
Pool apparently has survived,
although the game has a new name
—^“billiards”—and don’t be caught
saying pool.
That smudged expression (pool)
has gone with the spittoons, the
clouds of smoke and the cigar butts
on the floor.
What makes the victory sweeter
is the increase in women players.
Anyway, the whole thing came
to light again this week with the
departure of Omar Flores, an A&M
University junior from Mexico, to
a national billiards play-off in
Albuquerque, N. M., Saturday.
FLORES earlier had beaten com
petition from a four-state area at
a regional tournament held at the
University of Texas by the Associ
ation of College Unions.
He won first place in three-
cushion billiards, one of four divi
sions, and a plane ticket to the
play-offs. Another event was for
coeds.
If he wins in New Mexico, Flores
will advance to the national tour
ney in Arizona, May 1-2.
Nowadays, when anyone says
“billiards,” he usually is referring
to pocket billiards, played on tables
with six holes or pockets.
To excell at cushion billiards,
one must practice with the zeal of
an Olympic champion. The cue ball
must ricochet from three sides of
the table before striking one or
both of the other balls.
CUSHION, incidentally, is the
padding extending around the
table.
A Laredo high school graduate,
Flores feels that his opponent may
have an advantage since the two
NBA Plans Inking
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ST. LOUIS (A*)—The National
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will be competing on his table. The
winner of Region 10 is John Gran-
nis of the University of New
Mexico.
One of the secrets of the game,
Flores pointed out, is to become
acquainted with the cushion re
sponse of the table. It’s necessary
in order to determine the amount
of roll the cue ball will take when
struck with the cue stick.
Flores isn’t majoring in billiards,
petroleum engineering instead. He
has six years of experience in
billiards competition, however.
THE 24-YEAR-OLD Agujita,
Coahuila, resident advanced to the
national play-offs by beating stu
dents from Rice, Texas, and Okla
homa universities, in addition to
A&M competition.
Most billiard rooms in student
centers over the nation are cater
ing to women, with pastel decor,
wall-to-wall carpeting, air-condi
tioning and piped-in music.
Flores said the game is more
popular in Mexico. The billiards
is becoming a popular family game.
A table can be installed for only
$1,500, he said.
A&M Gets Unrestricted Grant
The Atlantic Refining Company has presented a $1,000 un
restricted grant to A&M University’s College of Engineer
ing. Hugh D. Sheffield of Houston, a senior engineer with
the firm, presented the check to Dean Fred J. Benson,
left, of the College of Engineering.
Staffers To Attend Meet
Three A&M University staff
members will attend the Associ
ation of College Unions’ 50th anni
versary meeting at Indiana Uni
versity, April 19-22.
J. Wayne Stark, director of
A&M’s student center, will partici
pate on a four-man panel discus
sion of program responsibilities of
union directors. Stark was associ
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Miss Gladys Black, foods direc
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services seminar sponsored by the
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Some Texas Aggies are club
presidents, other are married,
some earn their way financially,
and others rank high academically.
Few combine these factors like
Wallace L. Johnston, A&M Uni
versity senior from Beaumont.
The 27-year old Johnston plans
to graduate in May with a degree
in industrial education, then com
mence graduate studies here.
The Johnstons—have two daugh
ters, Paula Louise, four years old,
and Jana Lynn, two.
A 1955 graduate of Beaumont
High School, Johnston is the son
of Mrs. W. F. Stanley of 1920
Wall, Beaumont. His father died
in World War II action with the
merchant marine.
Johnston serves as president of
the Industrial Education Society,
the Student Engineers’ Council and
the University Inter-Council, an
organization of officers of student
councils from three colleges. He
also is the reporter for Iota Lamb
da Sigma, national honor society
for industrial education majors and
a member of the University safety
committee.
“These organizations do not
meet at the same time and their
busier times are at different peri
ods of the year,” Johnston ex
plained.
He also works 25 or 30 hours
weekly as an assistant student
Program advisor at A&M’s Memo
rial Student Center.
This workload seems relatively
easy to Johnston for he has
worked 70 hours weekly at different
jobs in the summer.
THE TEXAS Aggie assumed a
Houston newspaper route shortly
after coming to the campus early
in 1961 following his discharge
as an Army aircraft mechanic.
Later, he became campus circula
tion manager, as well as holding
such jobs as movie projectionist.
“We thought for awhile that
we’d lay out a year and then go
to school, but the more we thought
about it, the more we thought we
Local Schoolgirls
Seek FHA Award
Six local high school girls are
candidates for the State Future
Homemakers of America degree.
Two senior students at A&M
Consolidated High School and four
juniors are seeking the State de
gree, the highest awarded in FHA
work.
Girls seeking the degrees are
Harriett Hierth, Ann Kirby, Bar
bara Staten, Kathy Sperry, Sharon
Yeager and Yolonda Burkhalter.
If they are chosen to receive
the awards, the six girls will be
honored at the State FHA meet
ing to be held in Austin May 1-2.
At a recent meeting of the Area
VIII FHA group, Linda Isbel of
the local chapter was installed
District II president and Miss
Burkhalter was elected area sec
ond vice president.
Ag Ed Supper Set
The Agricultural Education
Wives’ Club is sponsoring a pot
luck supper Saturday, at 6:30 p.m.
in the Agricultural Education
Building, Room 109. All of the
girls and their husbands are urged
to come and join in the fun and
entertainment provided for them
committee chairmen said. All they
need to bring is their favorite
dish, their silverware and their
husbands, the sponsors said.
Hu
should go ahead,” Johnston a
“After all, while in the Army
lived on a tight budget.”
in the service for 35 months.
Mrs. Johnston has helped l,,,
serving as a departmental see
tary on campus. She now open;
a nursery. She is the daughtet
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Lester of 2|
Brunson, Midland.
JOHNSTON began to en;
working with hand tools, to t»
things, while at Howard Paji
College as a speech major,
built sets for dramatic productii;
“While I was in the seni
I thought about liking to works
hands,” he said. He decided
industrial education at Texas A1
following his discharge
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A&M University Saturday.
The 21 persons attending theEt
gineering Extension Service 1
school have been busy from 8 a.i
until 10:30 p.m. since Monday,
John R. Rauch and other men
bers of the Texas Firemen’s Trail
ing School have directed resca
problems involving “hurricanes,
“floods” and fires, demolish!
buildings and man-made destw
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Friday, trainees were alerted of
mock disaster, created by a itatlon
“atomic blast.” Sirens and loiiJ
speakers sent the trainees to th £
scene, appropriately labeled "d
saster street. 1
AT THE disaster site, student
found a smoking building wit
screaming women and children o
the upper floor and ’’bodies” unde
a collapsed brick wall.
To make the situation seem real
instructors provided sound effettf
over a speaker system, and "vis y/* 6 .^ 0
tims” had appropriate makeup, in
eluding torn clothing and smoke
faces.
None of the persons being re
cued laughed, nor did any of d
students. It was all serious bus
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ness. Students were graded, an ver. C asts.
a critique followed. ' 00 mom
The rescue was quickly con
pleted, first aid was given an
the “injured” rushed to a ten
porary field hospital.
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nndition.
Instructors during the week in ia£| e thrl
eluded Theo H. Felds of HobK
ton, city-county civil defense res
cue chief; Wallace A. Bear®
Kingsville fire chief; H. G. Hood
College Station, coordinator of tl
Brazos County civil defense read
service; and Gilbert Eimann, Ai!
University fire chief.
Math Contests Set
For April 28 Here
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The annual Mathematics Contes
examinations are scheduled fo
Tuesday, April 28, from 7:301
9:30 p.m. The freshman conte
will be held in Room 223 of tl
Academic Building, and the Soph
more contest in Room 225.
Prizes offered this year in eatp^^
of the contests are: first pris
gold wrist watch; second pris
$15.00 and third prize-$10.00,
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