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(Staff Photo by Gus De La Garza) Enrollment Tops Old Record As 9,385 Students Register For Aggie Sweetheart 23 Tessies Reach Semis Open Letter To Aggies Dear Aggies, Received any per fumed letters lately ? What Aggie wouldn’t like to find an extra letter with the feminine touch in his mail box ? If you would, why not write your boxmate at Texas Woman’s Univers ity? We have boxes numbering up to 3800. If your number at A&M is above this, you might write any number below that. With Corps Trip only three weeks away and a whole year ahead of us besides, this might be your opportunity to make contacts on our campus. Have any doubts about your success in writing? Check Mike Reynolds’^column on page 2 for answers to some inevitable ques tions. Some young lady at TWU will love writing you and hearing from you. Sincerely, J^oL rjCeii let Johanna Leister Aggie Sweetheart JOHANNA LEISTER ... Aggie Sweetheart as CONSOLIDATED TAX SUIT WILL BE APPEALED The College Station City Coun cil approved Monday night sev eral revisions to street construc tion policy, including a 50 cent per front foot hike to homeown ers for the paving of streets without curbs and gutters. The Council authorized the new rate, from 75 cents to $1.25, but retained the current rate of $3 per front foot for paving streets which also have curbs and gut ters installed. In addition, the Council ruled that citizens signing petitions re questing a street to be paved must own a minimum of 60 per cent of the street’s total front footage. The previous figure was 70 per cent. Deadline for such petitions to be presented to the Council for consideration was set for Feb. 1 of each year. All petitions re ceived after that date will be de tained until the following year for action. In other action the Council ap proved letting of a contract for $9,090.37 to the Econolite Corp. for a traffic signal system to be installed at the corner at High way 6 and Jersey St. The bid was higher than that submitted by Signal Sales and Maintenance Corp. of $8,999.98, but councilmen approved the Econolite bid because that firm’s components are interchangeable with parts of signal systems cur rently in use in the city. The Council also promised to consider complaints from two South Knoll Addition homeown ers that streets and curbs in the area are deteriorating and cause poor drainage. Tech Game Film May Be Shown Senior class officers, working with Coach Bud Moore, are con sidering the possibility of pre senting the Georgia Tech game films, announced Norris Cano, class president. The presentation has been ten tatively scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Guion Hall. Seniors will be admitted free, and others will be charged a small fee to cover the expenses. Pinal confirmation of the show ing will be announced Wednesday afternoon. City Attorney John Sandstedt was requested to draw up an or dinance levying a $5 charge on dog owners whose pets are im pounded by city authorities. Developer Bill Fitch’s request for replatting of various lots in the South Knoll Addition and D. A- Smith Subdivisions was ap proved contingent upon similar action by the Planning and Zon ing Commission at its next meet ing. The Council also approved two ordinances providing for public hearings on the question of re zoning certain lots in the Tauber Addition. The hearings are sched uled for the Oct. 25 meeting. Bonfire Goes On Tighter Work Plan “This year’s bonfire will pro ceed according to a streamlined plan,” said Joe Bush, head yell leader. The plan, in the form of an operations order, covers four pages. The separate phases of construction and cutting will be headed by section chiefs who will be responsible to Bush, who is in charge of the entire operation. “Operation Blaze” as the new plan is called, was formulated with the “able assistance” of Frank K. Nicholas of the Com mandant’s Office. The section leaders, as named by Bush, will be: Transportation - Don Mica; Stacking - Bill Seerden and Mike Houston; Traffic Control - Henry Goodwin; Equipment Procure ment - Jimmy Jones; Radio - Tom Brown; Centerpole - Bob Rutledge, and Secintel (Intel ligence) - Ronny Liston. Finance nance Chairman has not been appointed. Secintel, the intelligence opera tion, promises to be the most in teresting feature of the new plan. Security of the bonfire will cover the cutting and stack ing areas as well as the TU cam pus since Bush claims to have agents in Austin who will give reports on any suspicious activi ty. Final enrollment figures re leased Saturday by the registrar’s office of Texas A&M show an all-time high of 9,385 students enrolled. The current figures eclipse the old mark of 8,651 set in 1946. This year’s total exceeds last year’s high of 8,201, with an increase of 1,184 or 14 per cent. In 1964, the increase was only 101 over the previous year. A&M Registrar H. L. Heaton also noted a rise in coeds from 1964. A total of 373 coeds en rolled, as opposed to 254 the previous Septemtber. Although the total enrollment skyrocketed, the enlistment of freshmen in the Corps of Cadets declined. Since membership in the Corps was made voluntary, only 1,416 joined, as compared to 1,499 last year. Ninety-five per cent of the 1964 freshman class joined the Corps, while 77 per cent en listed this fall. But the entire Corps was expected to number over 3,000. The 1963 fall enrollment bet tered the spring total by 1,995 students. The coed total climbed to 278, an increase of 24 over the previous semester. Students are reminded that Thursday is the last day to drop a course. Twenty-three girls from Texas Woman’s University were selected Saturday as semifinalists for Ag gie Sweetheart. Finalists will be named this weekend at Denton. Vieing for the position are Janie Wellborn of Fort Walton Beach, Fla.; Bonnie Rowe of Washington, D. C.; Jeanne Ruck- man of Chelmsford, Mass.; Don na Jean Shults of Houston; San dra Marin of San Antonio; Vir ginia Portt of Shreveport, La.; Lou Ann Hays of Demmitt; Suzanne Gilbert of Oklahoma City; Suzanne Hastedt of Rich ardson; Pat Harris of Alexan dria, Va.; Ginger Green of Cor pus Christi; Romelia Quintanilla of Harlingen. Esther Molder of Mineral Wells; Suzi Long of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico; Sue Krohn of Hous ton; Suzanne Koegl of Dallas; Cheryl Holland of College Sta tion; Kathy Nairm of Fort Worth; Dee Ann Warf of Alice; Stephanie Winters of Garland; Pat Bone of Dublin; Judy Bos- baugh of Houston, and Jane Day of Premont. Semifanilists were selected by Alan Gray, air division conmand- er; Ralph Filburn, Corps com mander; Roland Smith, Student Senate president; Mike Rey nolds, issues committee chairman, and Terry Norman, Civilian Stu dent Council president. Bob Boone, student programs director, was advisor for the selection committee. TWU coeds assisting the com mittee were Judy Jones, student council social chairman; Paula Rich, campus government presi dent, and Johanna Leister, reign ing Aggie sweetheart. Class representatives from A&M will select sweetheart fin alists this Saturday on the TWU campus. Boone will accompany Ronnie Coleman, sophomore class presi dent; Clint Ward, junior vice president, and Norris Cano, sen ior class president, for the selec tion. The finalists will be on cam pus Oct. 8-10 and will be pre sented during the Aggie-Uni versity of Houston game Oct. 9. The new Aggie Sweetheart will be named Oct. 10. Mac Bennett, Normangee at torney, lawyer for the plaintiffs in the tax suit Roy W. Kelley and Others vs. The A&M Con solidated Independent School District, indicated Monday that he W’ould appeal the case to the Court of Civil Appeals in Waco. Bennett gave notice of appeal Monday morning after his final motion for a new trial was de nied in Bryan by 85th District Court Judge John M. Barron. The plaintiffs in the case were attempting to have 1965 Con solidated tax renditions and as sessments voided on the basis that the school district deliber ately an dintentionally omitted ately and intentionally omitted rolls. An 85th District Court jury found in favor of the school dis trict following a week long trial last month. The jury said that the omission was not deliberate and intentional. See Tessie Tales On Editorial Page