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Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, October 1, 1964 THE BATTALION The Dome Gets Bigger And Better ’ SOME WILL WALK, OTHERS WILL RIDE .. ramps and escalators will whisk spectators to their seats. BRAKE ADJUSTMENT and WHEEL BALANCE ANY AMERICAN MADE CAR Replacement parts and Torsion Bar adjustment not included INCLUDES Just say 'Charge it ★ Adjustment of brakes for all four wheels and brake fluid if needed ★ Balancing and weights for both front wheels NEW TREADS APPLIED ON SOUND •TlltS BODIES OR ON TOUR OWN TIRES TUBELESS WHITEWALLS (Narrow or Wtdo> FOR ANY SIZE (Narrow or Wlda) 4!49 4S Plus tax and 4 trade-in tires Our New Treads, identified by Medallion and shop mark are GUARANTEED 1. Against defect* in workmanship and materials during life of tread. X. Against normal road hazards (except repairable punctures) encoun tered in everyday passenger ear use for 12 mouths. Replacements prorated ou tread wear and based on list prices current at time of adjustment. 7nT.7Bt; Geo. Shelton College Ave. At 33rd Free Parking TA 2-0139—TA 2-0130 warn BY MICHAEL REYNOLDS Day News Editor The eyes of Texas and the na tion will figuratively and, in many cases, personally be on the Har ris County Domed Stadium in Houston when it opens in early April of 1965. The stadium could turn out to he a great tourist attraction drawing out-of-state money into the southeast Texas economy, as well as being a sports palace for many residents of the states and probably many Aggies in the bar gain. Although A&M has cancelled the University of Houston from its schedule, the Aggies could con ceivably play in the stadium next year, if and when the young Bluebonnet Bowl game takes up residence under the dome along with the Colt .45's, the Houston Oilers and the Cougars. The Houston Fat Stock Show and Rodeo will be another draw ing card that could introduce many citizens of Brazos County as well as students and faculty of A&M to the stadium. When completed, the stadium and the proposed Y-shaped live stock hall will provide the world’s largest convention facilities, drawing groups from throughout the state, the nation and the world. What member of any of these groups, especially the sports fans, would mind traveling the dis tance to Houston to see a game or show that would go on, regard less of outside weather, at a mod erate 72 degrees? Gone will be the long walks through parking lots at the mer cy of the elements. Plans call for a covered walkway to the stadium to be no further than 150 feet from any car in the circular park ing lot—which has a capacity of 30,000 cars and 500 buses. Gone will be long lines waiting for tickets. A pneumatic carrier tube running from a central dis tribution area will provide cus tomers at any gate with complete selectivity of seats, and in record time too. Gone will be the long climbs to uncomfortable wooden seats. Sen. - Ifex., win ’hursdaj anquet = affair is a„d Braz: |rats. The se rrive aE slated t« throutth« reception Y arbor ear on ision si an i Junior C a noon 1 During schedule* speak ir turning ception s COLT’S HOME IN THE DOME stadium will seat 53,000 for football, 45,000 for baseball and 66,000 for boxing. Since the playing field is 31 feet below ground level, spectators will enter the stadium at about mid-point. All that will remain will be a short distance to walk on gently sloping ramps or esca lators to plush, completely up holstered seats on any of six seat ing levels. Once in their seats, a view will be presented to the spectators which will fill them with awe . . . the world’s largest unsup ported domed area. It will be 642 feet from side to side (longer than two football fields). Even now, with construction work only 75 per cent finished, the view is spectacular. With nothing to use as reference on the floor of the stadium, the eye fails to register the true size of field. Every seat in the house will be well worth the money because the roof gives the spectator the ef fect of being twice as close to the play in action. It is equally hard to believe that the roof is actually 208 feet above the field. Obviously many sports writers have been taken-in by the optical illusion, as is shown by requests for the baseball commissioner’s Student interested ‘t|| have a s; 1 (firsthand only” mee day in thi ter Balln Andrews v her husba The Me. son, all re unteers, a “A real Rrted by He said ^ will be ma Kte Frida 75 PER CENT FINISHED lower level seats will rotate on tracks for football, baseball. office to rule on balls hitting the dome. Real evidence of any hitter’s prowness is lacking. Even using fungo bats under ideal conditions “UNi ' yielded only one successful hit, and that one failed to hit the top of the dome. It struck near the side at the 182-foot level. Since the floor of the stadium : I Thirty testing se; nesday an . day. The ply no c Texas Parade Photo L t h e through F day and 1 Ig to tc is still being used daily by bull.| ust regj dozers cranes and trucks, it hail- been impossible to start prepar-B ing the grounds for grass. Br The A&M Agricultural ExtenflYCniJ sion Service did extensive re-f search to discover what type ol grass would best suit the covered air-conditioned stadium., Troy I nl Gary “They told us Tiffway Bermp(li|'j?" t0n ] i ° would be the best for those cotB 1 era a the Text ceive th ditions,” said John Giles, publicity director for the Houston Sports Association, and owners of the Colt .45’s, chief tenants of the multipurpose building. designat an of th Kemp] WORLD’S LARGEST AIR CONDITIONING TOWER . . . Only other comparable tower located at Manned Space craft Center in Houston. DUCTS RING SPECTATOR AREA unit produces 6,000 tons of cooling capacity. 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Post, thing is a gamble. We will not! know whether it will or will not! until we do it the first time,” said | Giles. Because the dome is the first! of its kind in the world, theen-l tire construction of it has been a I gamble. No one had built one be^ I fore and no one was 100 per cent] sure that it could be built. live ant MuJccArt Supply 'ptclu/te }haAM4- •923 Sa Col Av« - Bry«R,T«*ij “Sports Car Center” Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sales—Parts—Service ■ “We Service All Foreign Cars"! ■1422 Texas Ave. TA 2-4517; St. Thomas’ Episcopal Chapel 906 Jersey St. South Side of Campus Invites anyone interested in The Episcopal Church to to an INQUIRERS’ CLASS Sunday Evening 8:00 p. m. First Class October 4, 1964 Regular Service of the Episcopal Church Sundays 8:00 a. m. 9:15 a. m. 11:00 a. m.; 7:00 p. nn Wednesdays 6:30 a. m. 7:15 p. m. Canterbury Association - Supper 6:30 p. m. Wednesdays. G TEI Wee all te kno\ Ram; is so so lo food he’d] Temp for h Pares Salat of! 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