Recent Study Shows Need For New Campus Exchange Store/
By MIKE REYNOLDS
Day News Editor
A&M is in need of a newer and larger
Exchange Store.
At least that is the opinion of a re
cent study made by Store Manager Carl
Birdwell.
“The increasing demands for paper
backs and various school supplies from
Aggies make it imperative that the
Exchange Store be enlarged as soon as
possible,” according to Birdwell.
He was voicing a need that figures
make even more apparent.
A&M is lagging far behind many
comparable colleges in ample facilities
for student sales. The stores serving
students of the University of Mexico
and the University of Houston possess
15,000 and 30,000 more square feet of
retail space, respectively, than does the
Exchange Store.
The Exchange Store now has 8,000
square feet of working retail space.
For a school the size of A&M, a store
of 35,000 feet is the minimum, said
Birdwell.
The book department of the Exchange
Store occupies 2,500 of the 8,000 square
feet available. This department alone
needs at least 10,000 square feet.
A structural engineer has examined
the layout of the present store and
reports that it would not be feasible
to enlarge it. In all probability if and
when the new plans for a new Ex
change Store are discussed, a new site
will also have to be considered.
J. P. Hannigan, dean of students,
said a new store had been discussed,
but no plans had been made.
Although the student body has not
increased tremendously in the past few
years, the amount of money that each
student is spending in the store has
grown decidedly. Each student is esti
mated to spend $100 a year on various
articles obtained at the Exchange Store,
said Birdwell.
This added spending has led to a
greater variety and supply of items to
be kept on hand which in turn takes
up more floor space. Perhaps the most
apparent reason that students are buy
ing more is that the advances in the
quality of consumer goods has risen.
Birdwell commented that the Ex
change Store at one time did not even
carry umbrellas or brief cases but now
handles several thousands of dollars of
business in those two items alone.
An additional reason for the vanish
ing display and storage space is the
new concept of textbooks in the various
courses. Once each course required a
single text with the exception of the
science courses which had an additional
laboratory book. Nearly all of A&M’s
courses are geared for over two texts
now. There is an English course on
campus which requires fourteen vol
umes.
This added demand of textbooks
alone is overflowing the existing dis
play and stock areas of the Exchange
Store. The paperback books which are
such an important part of a college
student’s life are increasing rapidly
while the ability to stock these books
is stagnant.
If A&M is to keep abreast of other
colleges and universities, and the de
mand of its own students, it must not
just enlarge, but build from the ground
up, a facility that will be adequate for
the present as well as able to embrace
the needs of the future, Birdwell
stressed.
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1965
Number 128
George Jones Headlines
Louisiana Hayride Here
“Come along, everybody come will be George Jones, “America’s
along. Come while the moon is Number One Country Singer.”
shining bright. We’re going to Jones began his recording career
have a wonderful time on the with “Why Baby Why,” and now
Louisiana Hayride tonight. has to his name such recordings
With this, one of the largest as “She Thinks I Still Care,” “The
shows of its type will open in Window Up Above,” “White Light-
G. Rollie White Coliseum March nin,” and “The Race Is On.”
27. Other stars scheduled for the
The A&M chapter of Sigma show are Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnnie
Delta Chi, professional journalis- and Joanie Mosby, Nat Stuckey,
tic society, will bring the Louisiana Connie Smith and Don Bowman.
Hayride to A&M as part of its SDX is working with the Junior
1964-1965 activities. The entire Class to incorporate the Hayride
three-hour show will be broad- into the Junior Banquet and Ball
cast live over radio station KWKH, weekend activities. Arrangements
Shreveport, La., which has a cover- have been made for juniors to pur-
age area of 31 states. chase a package of tickets for ad-
Headlining a long list of stars mission to the banquet, hayride
CONNIE SMITH
. . . Once a Day
GEORGE JONES
. . . The Race Is On
JERRY LEE LEWIS
... Great Balls of Fire
Dr.R.E. Patterson
Elected Ag Chief
DALLAS (A*)—The director of
the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, Dr. R. E. Patterson, was
elected president of the Association
of Southern Agriculture Workers
Tuesday at the group’s annual con
ference.
The A&M Dean of Agricultura
heard speakers urge continued
technical aid to developing nations
before next year’s conference was
set for Jackson, Miss.
Patterson told the meeting of
some 1,500 farm scientists and
specialists that reducing costs was
the most challenging problem in
agriculture. He disagreed with
those who feel one of the industry’s
biggest headaches is the crop sur
plus.
and ball, thereby providing them
and their dates a full evening of
entertainment.
Nat Stuckey will present after
dinner entertainment at the Jun
ior Banquet.
“We hope we can help make this
one of the best junior weekends
ever,” said Glenn Dromgoole, pres
ident of the student SDX chapter.
Last year SDX sponsored the
Harlem Globetritters as part of the
chapter’s 1963-64 activities. Pro
ceeds from last year’s show and
the Hayride will be used to im
prove the journalism program at
A&M, and tentatively calls for a
scholarship to be offered high
school students interested in ma
joring in journalism or agricultur
al journalism at A&M.
Tickets should go on sale about
the first of March. Prices for
tickets bought in advance will be
$2.25 for reserved seats, $1.75 for
general admission and $1.25 for
students. Tickets bought at the
door will be 25 cents higher.
Everyone has been urged to buy
their tickets early to be assured a
seat.
ANNIVERSARY GIFT
. . . Col. Adams gets reserved parking place.
Col. Adams
No Problem
Finds
After
Parking
19 Years
After 19 years as director of the
Texas Aggie Band, Lt. Col. E. V.
Adams finally has his own park
ing place in the band parking lot.
Starting his 20th year as he
turned into the band lot Mon
day morning, Col. Adams spotted
an empty space in front of the
South door of Dorm 11.
“As I neared the space in the
newly paved lot, I noticed a con-
create marker labeled ‘RESERVED
BAND DIRECTOR’,” he said in a
conversation with The Battalion
Tuesday night.
Searching his memory, Col.
Adams recalled when he was in
the Aggie Band, then under the
direction of Col. Richard Dunn.
Even at that time he was look
ing forward to someday replacing
Dunn.
Upon graduation Col. Adams
gained experience by directing
some high school bands in the
East Texas and Gulf Coast areas
of the state. He started the bands
at Humble and Nederland high
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
VIENTIANE, Laos—Artillery fire was exchanged
20 miles east of Vientiane Tuesday between feuding
rightist factions of Laos’ national army, but an
agreement was later reported reached for a peaceful
settlement.
★ ★ ★
LENS, France—A pre-dawn explosion ripped
through a huge coal mine near this city Tuesday,
killing 21 men.
The victims were part of a small off hours
maintenance and security crew. A few hours later
about 1,200 miners would have been at work.
National
MIAMI, Fla. — Captured anti-Castro guerrilla
leader Eloy Guiterrez Menoyo said on Cuban radio
and television Tuesday night that he had been
trained by the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency.
He also claimed that he and his followers used
Puerto Rico as a way station en route to Cuba and
that they were aided by the former governor of the
commonwealth, Luis Munoz Marin.
it if it
WASHINGTON—The 42 C133 cargo planes of the
Military Air Transport Service have been grounded
for nearly a month after an accident following the
takeoff of one such plane from Wake Island, the
Air Force said Tuesday.
“They are expected to remain grounded until the
investigation of the accident is completed or until
the outcome of current flight tests being conducted
at Edwards and Wright-Patterson Air Force bases,”
the Air Force said.
it it it
WASHINGTON—State Department officials said
Tuesday they have no information to indicate that
Indonesia has the capacity to make atomic bombs
or is engaged in serious atomic weapons research.
A claim that Indonesia would soon have atomic
weapons was published at Jakarta.
★ ★ ★
CHICAGO—A former Army private was arrested
in his home Tuesday shortly after a federal grand
jury accused him of delivering 15 United States
passports to Soviet representatives in East Berlin.
The four count indictment charges Paul Carl
Meyer, 25, of Chicago with turning the passports
over to Soviet agents in February 1963.
it it it
SELMA, Ala.—Cheering, hymn-singing Negroes,
undeterred by mass arrests which sent hundreds
to jail earlier in the day, assembled at another mass
rally Tuesday night and promised still more demon
strations Wednesday.
Texas
AUSTIN—Texas motorists did some speeding
after the 70 miles limit went into effect but most
soon settled down to slower driving, the Highway
Department reports.
The department recently checked 25,000 cars in
30 locations. Only 5.1 per cent exceeded the speed
limit.
schools.
Separation from the service after
four year’s duty made it possible
for him to realize his dream and
he became the Aggie Band direc
tor on Feb. 1, 1946.
The band performance at the
University of Texas game last
Thanksgiving was the 150th half
time drill under the leadership of
Col. Adams.
Not one to wave his own flag.
Col. Adams is slow to take credit
for what ”His” band does.
“The members of the band have
always had the desire to do well,”
he said. “This makes it easier
on my part.”
Deaths Attributed
To Snowball Fight
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. UP)—Police attributed two deaths,
and possibly a third, Tuesday to a raging snowball fight
that erupted Monday near the University of Tennessee cam
pus during a snowstorm.
A university freshman, Mamell Goodman, 18, Swamp-
scott, Mass., was shot fatally by an irate truck driver whose
vehicle was pelted by snowballs thrown by students.
Another truck driver, Walter Lee Yow, 55, died Tues
day at a doctor’s office where he had gone for treatment of
injuries suffered when*
ear
struck on the head by a snow
ball during the incident.
Roland F. Lawson, 58, died
of a heart attack seconds
after his car was pelted by the
snowballing students. His wife
blamed his death on the snowball
fight.
“There’s no doubt about the
deaths of Goodman and Yow,” said
Police Chief French Harris.
“They are a direct result of the
snowball fight.
“I can’t say about Mr. Lawson’s
death. But I think his wife has
every right to blame it on what
occurred out there near the uni
versity.”
Harris threatened mass arrests
of university students in any such
future snowball affair. The uni
versity also threatened disciplinary
action.
President Andrew D. Holt of the
university ordered an investigation
of the snowballing which led to the
fatal shooting of Goodman.
Police said truck driver Wiljiam
Douglas Willett Jr., 27, Greeneville,
Tenn., was charged with second
degree murder and released in
$2,500 bail.
Willett told police he didn’t mean
to shoot but added: “They kept
throwing snow in my eyes and I
fired a shot to scare the gang as
they closed in on me.”
Harris said police had been re
ceiving complaints for years about
students throwing snowballs at
motorists.
SPACE FIESTA
U.S.Committed
In Space Race
Expert Claims
By TOMMY DeFRANK
An aerospace affairs expert
claimed Tuesday that the United
States is committed to the con
tinued exploration of space in order
to insure against its use for mili
tary domination by belligerent
nations.
Lt. Col. Richard B. Olney, head
of the Aerospace Presentation
Team from the Air University, told
the opening night audience at
Space Fiesta—'65 that the develop
ment of military systems for space
defense is essential to maintain
peace and guard against aggres
sion.
“Only through early strength
can we insure that no power . . .
will use space to enslave a free
people,” Olney said.
The three-man team presented a
briefing on America’s past space
accomplishments, projects current
ly in operation, and systems pro
posed for the near and distant
future, including the giant Apollo
manned space project scheduled for
launching in 1970.
Olney explained the Apollo set
up, designed to orbit a three-man
astronaut team around the moon,
land two men on the moon’s sur
face for up to 48 hours, and return
all three safely to earth after a
three-day flight.
Maj. J. B. Pitner summarized
past accomplishments and future
projects with unmanned payloads.
He explained the importance of
early satellites such as the Van
guard and Explorer series, and he
discussed the moon pictures taken
last year by a Ranger VII rocket.
He also discussed the Surveyor
Project, a proposed vehicle which
could land gently on the moon and
operate for 30 days. The vehicle
could take photographs with color
and black and white cameras and
could also gather samples of the
lunar surface and analyze them in
a built-in laboratory. Information
could then be transmitted back to
earth.
Capt. D. R. Hoskins described
technological advances in booster
rockets. He gave a history of
boosters beginning with the Thor
and Atlas rockets, and he explained
the development of the Saturn V,
the mammoth spacecraft designed
to generate 7V& million pounds of
thrust while launching the Apollo
capsule.
Hoskins also reviewed achieve
ments in manned space flights. He
explained the role of the X-15, in
developing new aircraft such
as the controversial B-70 bomber
and F-lll TFX fighter-bomber,
both capable of speeds in excess
of 2,000 miles per hour. He dis
cussed the Gemini project, slated
to orbit two astronauts for a two-
week period later this year.
Riedel Reports
Green-less Menu
At Consolidated
Turnips greens will not be on
the menu of A&M Consolidated
School cafeteria from now on.
Parents and students were not
eating in the cafeteria and were
complaining—a past time enjoyed
by most Aggies—because of greens
and other vegetables on the menus.
Because of this, Supt. W. T.
Riedel told trustees that future
menus will not include greens.
“Still, I don't believe a decline
in students eating in the cafeteria
was felt when greens were served,”
Riedel said.
Mrs. Ed Feldma, dietician at
the school, said, “I just don’t know
why (parents and students) pick
on turnip greens, in fact, it has
been about five weeks since they
were last served.”
Students questioned on the topic
were in favor of the ruling of not
having the greens.
Ricky TheBerge, junior, said,
“It is fine with me. They always
serve enough food and their cook
ing is good, except the greens.”
Another junior, Doug Venuti,
said, “Greens do not appeal to me,
so I guess the situation suits me
fine.”
“I eat them at home,’ said Mil-
ton Young, senior, “but I just
couldn’t eat them at the cafeteria.”
“It’s all the better with me,”
commented sophomore Stephen
Henry.
Eat
Female
Pie And Like It
Judge Tells Juvenile Delinquent
MIDLAND, UP) — Lawyer Noel
Cason stood up in county court,
picked up a strawberry cream pie
and pulled it back to throw.
The target was a Midland High
School athlete.
The youth chose a pie in the
face instead of being placed on
probation as a juvenile delin
quent because he threw a pie in
the face of a woman.
But his victim, Mrs. Jim D.
Martin Jr., saved him at the last
second.
Mrs. Martin had been the youth’s
pie in-the-face victim as a prank
of instances about that time in
which a youth would ring a door
bell and throw a pie into the face
of anyone who opened the door.
The Keystone cops punishment
was devised by County Judge Bar-
barba Culver. Judge Culver asked
the youth if he wanted pie or
probation.
“Take the pie,” attorney Cas
on advised.
“Okay,” replied the youth.
“Now who will throw the pie?”
asked Judge Culver, looking at
Mrs. Martin.
“No,” replied Mrs. Martin in
horrified tones. “I couldn’t do
that.”
Judge Culver looked at Mr. Mar
tin.
“I wouldn’t perform an indignity
like that on any one,” replied
Martin.
Judge Culver looked at the
youth’s mother.
“If it has to be,” replied the
mother. “I’ll throw it.”
At this point, Cason interceded.
He said he felt it was a matter
for the attorney to handle and
picked up the pie.
“No, no,” cried Mrs. Martin,
“Don’t do that.”
Judge Culver released the de
fendant without probation.
G. Rollie White Rites Held
BRADY UP) — G. Rollie White,
89, McCulloch County civic leader,
ranchman and for more than a
quarter century a director of A&M
University, died early Tuesday. He
had been in the hospital 18 months.
He had lived in the county 88
years and was president of the
Commercial National Bank for
more than 50 years until his retire
ment.
Services will be held at 2 p.m.
Wednesday at St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church in Brady.
Survivors include a brother, W.
N. White; and a sister, Mrs. Fred
Wulff Sr., both of Brady. A nep
hew, Fred Wulff Jr., is president
of the Texas and Southwestern Cat
tle Raisers Association.