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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 23, 1964 GUEST EDITORIALS Anti-Poverty Program Recruiting Workers Now that war has been declared on poverty, to the tune of $947.5 million, what next? Congress has provided the ammunition, but it cannot supply the people to man the guns. So, as he did on the famous World War I recruiting poster by James Montgomery Flagg, Uncle Sam is pointing his finger and saying: “I want you.” Specifically, the government is looking for about 6,000 full-time and any number of part-time volunteers to serve in three categories of the anti-poverty army: VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America.) This is the so-called domestic Peace Corps, which hopes to enlist 5,000 people from the age of 18 on up, including retired persons. VISTA personnel will be called upon for a variety of tasks, such as serving in federal programs dealing with mental health, Indians and migrant workers as well as in the Job Corps and local community anti-poverty programs. Like the Peace Corps, VISTA volunteers will draw a monthly allowance, and $50 will be placed in escrow to be paid to them in a lump sum at the end of their service ($600 a year). JOB CORPS. Needed in the first year are about 1,000 teachers and counselors to staff the rural conservation and urban training centers where an attempt will be made to salvage the potentials of thousands of school dropouts. Corpsmen will be paid salaries comparable to those they would receive as teachers elsewhere. COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS. Part-time volun teers of all ages willing to serve without pay are wanted for a variety of joint federal-local anti-poverty offensives. Such help might take the form of tutoring adult education classes or managing day-care centers for children while their mothers take lessons in health or homemaking or learn a work skill. Complete information about any of these services can be had by writing to the Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, D. C. 20506. THE WACO NEWS-TRIBUNE Bulletin Board WEDNESDAY The Christian Science Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Reading 1 Room of the YMCA Building. The Newman Club will meet at 8 p.m. at St. Mary’s Student Cen ter. The Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC. The Apartment Council will meet at 5:15 p.m. at the Coun seling and Testing Center. THURSDAY The Petroleum Engineering Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Harvey Kennedy at 727 Inwood'Drive in Bryan. The Architectural Wives Socie ty will meet at 8 p.m. in the Architecture Building. The El Paso Hometown Club will meet in Room 106 of the Academic Building at 7:30 p.m. The Deep East Texas Home town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Birch Room of the Memor ial Student Center. The Bay Area Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the As sembly Room of the MSC. The Galveston Island Home town Club will meet after yell practice in the YMCA Building. The Midland Hometown Club will meet after yell practice in Room 207 of the Academic Build ing. The Abilene Hometown Club will meet at 7:45 p.m. in Room 208 of the Academic Buliding. The Rio Grande Valley Home town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 108 of the Academic Building. Laredo Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the \MCA Building. The South Louisiana Home town Club will meet at 7:45 p m. in Room 106 of the Academic Building. The Waco-McLennan County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Gay Room of the YMCA Building. The Amarillo Hometown Club will meet after yell practice in the lobby of the YMCA Build ing. The Mid-County Hometown Club will meet after yell prac tice in Room 206 of the Academic Building. Ferreri’s Triangle Restaurant Invites You To Try Our AGGIE SPECIAL Also, try PIZZA, Spaghetti, Raviola, Mexican Food, and Seafood. Book Your Banquets and Special Parties Early. Accomodations From 10 to 200 Persons THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a university and community netvs- paper and is under the supervision of the director of Stu dent Publications at Texas A&M University. Members of tne Student Publications Board are James L. Lindsey, chairman ; Delbert McGuire, College of Arts and Sciences; J. A. Orr, College of Engineering; J. M. Holcome, College of Agriculture; and Dr. R. S. 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Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. EDITOR RONALD L. FANN Managing Editor - Glenn Dromgoole Night News Editor Clovis McCallister Asst. Sports Editor : Lani Presswood CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle a— College Expenses Continue To Rise 1 n Mutkc/M Sum | *T5|/*GlAlO V/fousolL J—" A “I don’t care what th’ whistle jock said to fallout in—I’ve been here a week, and that’s long enough to know that a raincoat and helmet liner is th’ only realistic uniform!” New Bahamas- 1 -Cuba Air Route Could Furnish Castro Supplies NASSAU, Bahamas (A 5 ) _ Government sources speculated Tuesday that Fidel Castro might have opened an air route between Cuba and Nassau in the hope that he could bring home badly needed American materials from the Bahamas. “We have told him that we will detain and deport any pas sengers coming in from Cuba on his planes,” a government source bility that he might try to buy American spare parts, machinery and other goods and fly them to Cuba. “He can buy these goods in Nassau just as well as he could in Miami.” Government officials started a hurried search of Bahamian cus toms laws, trying to find one that could be used to block such aerial shipments out of the islands. An earlier survey a year ago showed these annual averages: Public universities and colleges, $189 for room and $350 for board; private schools, $231 for room and $415 for board. said. “That would make it ra ther pointless for him to operate a passenger service. “We had overlooked the possi- NOW SHOWING i SANDRA DEE ROBERT GOULET mot WILLIAMS i * ms mrii) flKlmon M father COLOR, .mauriceCHEVALIER CIRCLE TONIGHT 2 Color Greats Elvis Presley In “KISSING COUSINS ,, “COMMONCHEROS’ QUEEN STARTS 2 P. M AND 8 P. M. THE MIRACLE OF flEmOHOMOHIS HERE! ATHEATROFILM Distributed by WARNER BROS. Exactly as performed on Broadway.... 2 Days • 4 Performances only • Sept. 23,24 PALACE Brcjan 2'8&79 NOW SHOWING “MARINE” Continued increases in college'f costs are shown in a new na tionwide survey by the U. S. Office of Education, reports Mrs. Wanda Meyer, Extension Service home management specialist. Median tuition charges — the halfway mark between those that are higher and those that are lower — increased $206 in private universities and colleges and $49 in state and other pub licly supported schools, the sur vey shows. The median tuition in private institutions rose from $534 for the 1958-59 school year to $740 for 1962-63. The median at pub licly supported institutions in creased from $134 to $183, in comparison. During the four-year period, tuition and student fees were up ped by 98 percent of the private institutions, while in state-sup- ported colleges and universities, 81 percent raised tuition and fees for state residents, and 91 percent increased charges to out- of-state students. The latest survey does not re flect additional increases in tui tion and fees effective in many institutions of higher learning with the beginning of the new academic year in September. These changes range from small amounts to “considerable amounts. 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