THE BATTALION
Thursday, November 18, 1965
College Station, Texas Page 9
38 Bryan Rain Gauges Set
For Meteorology Program
FIRST DIVISION SET FOR AIRLIFT
li seemingly endless line of helicopters is parked on South Michelin Rubber plantation, 50 miles northwest of Saigon.
Tiet Nam’s “bloody route 13” near the headquarters area Plantation has long been a Viet Cong stronghold. (AP
[the 1st Infantry Division’s third brigade awaiting start Wirephoto via radio from Saigon)
If an airlift for a search-and-destroy mission into the
merican In Britain Finds
^adjustment To U. S. Hard
I Editor’s note — Hal Cooper
jently returned to the United
M*s after 17 1/2 years on the
P’s London staff. Here’s his
ount of his first impressions
his native hearth after long
pence.
By HAL R. COOPER
NEW YORK ^ — Saloons
ipen all day long instead of de-
|«ntly closed 15 hours in 24. Pri-
cars the size of pantechni-
jtons, Rugby matches on the
l&bbath. Race horses running
jtounterclockwise. People run-
|iing every damn which way.
We have made a prodigal’s
lietum from 17 1/2 quiet years in
ISgland. It was assumed that
juijustment would be difficult,
lint the reality is staggering.
ATTENTION!!!
ALL CLUBS
Athletic, Hometown,
! Professional, and
Campus Organizations.
Pictures for the club sec-
Itions of the Aggieland are
mow being scheduled at the
"Student Publications Of
fice, Y.M.C.A. Bldg.
|C0RPS SENIORS &
1ST SERGEANTS
YEARBOOK PORTRAIT
SCHEDULE
Corps seniors and outfit first
[sergeants will have their por
trait made for the Aggieland ’66
according to the following sched
ule. Portraits will be made at
lie University Studio in class A
| winter uniform.
Executive officers and first
[sergeants will also have por
traits made in GH caps for the
[military section.
Commanding officers will
[have full length portraits made
in boots. PLEASE MAKE IN
DIVIDUAL APPOINTMENTS
WITH THE STUDIO FOR
these full length por
traits.
[NOVEMBER
16- 17 Squadrons 1-4
17- 18 Squadrons 5-8
18- 19 Squadrons 9-12
19- 22 Squadrons 13-14
The mind, in fact, boggles.
There is, for example, the ef
fect on two London-born sons
aged 8 and 9. The 9-year-old,
whose broad A’s were the pride
of the household, pipes up with
“what are you, Daddy, some
kinda nut or something?” In the
purest accents of Long Island-
this after one month in America.
There is the dizzying selection
o f programs o n television,
where in England you explored
the only three channels, turned
the thing off and went to bed.
There are other trials:
The agonizing indecision when
confronted by a bar’s 77 vari
eties of bourbon and rye after
nearly two decades of no choice
but scotch.
The nagging fear of injury
when staggering away from the
newsstand with a Sunday edi
tion which outweighs the com
bined Sunday editions in Her
Majesty’s tight little island.
The necessity to buy an auto
mobile whether you want one or
not because everybody else has
one and the kids mustn’t devel
op a feeling of inferiority.
True, there are compensations
in living in America. It is pos
sible to buy a carton of cigarettes
without first floating a bank
loan-British price, 77 cents a
pack.
You can go into a soda foun
tain and call for a chocolate
malted milk and they serve you
a chocolate malted milk. Brit
ish reaction: “What’s a malted
milk?”
When it’s cold outside you just
pop inside somewhere and it’s
warm-central heating is the
norm, not a novelty.
There are green vegetables
the year around instead of noth
ing but brussels sprouts, the
number of ice cream flavors
seems unlimited, many high
ways outside urban areas were
designed for the motor car rath
er than the horse and buggy and
if you’re bored on a Sunday aft
ernoon there’s the movies or pro
football. In England Sunday is
for church, or you can take a
nice, long nap.
Everything is a little easier-
going in England. Take stu
dents.
When English students are in
a state of social ferment they
are likely to work it off by drap
ing a pair of black nylon panties
on one of the spires of Westmin
ster Palace, the home of Parlia
ment.
Here, they bum their draft
cards.
Band Still Leads
Corps Marching
After the Houston Corps parade
Saturday, the Aggie Band con
tinues in first place in Corps
marching.
The Band has a cumulative
overall score of 4,324 points. In
second place is Company C-2 with
4,267 points and in third place
with 4,245 points is Squadron 12.
These three outfits have been
battling for first since the open
ing day of organized drill. The
Band and Squadron 12 are sepa
rated by only 79 points. The
outfit that takes first place over
all for the year earns points
toward the General Moore Award.
Competition is also held be
tween the color guards of the
Corps, Air Division, and the First
and Second Brigades.
In the first-place spot after the
parade in Houston was the First
Brigade with 932 points. The
Second Brigade came in second
with 901 points. Air Division’s
897 points squeezed by Corps
color guard by only three points.
Overall standings for the year for
the color guards rank are:
First, First Brigade, 4,433
points.
Second, Second Brigade, 4,341
points.
Tied for third, Corps, 4,329
points and Air Division, 4,329
points.
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North Gate College Station
YMCA To Serve
Bonfire Workers
Loaded with cookies and cof
fee, YMCA members will serve
refreshments to bonfire workers
through Tuesday.
Eddie Carpenter, senior from
Taylor and YMCA cabinet presi
dent, said shifts for members
serving in the stacking area Fri
day, Saturday, Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday nights will be 6-9
p.m., 9-midnight, midnight 3
a.m. and 3-6 a.m.
He added students serving
Saturday, Sunday and Monday in
the cutting area will work 8-11
a.m., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 2-5 p.m.
Thirty-eight rain gauges will
be installed in Bryan in the next
few days for a Texas A&M De
partment of Meteorology research
program.
Dr. R. A. Clark, associate pro
fessor in meteorology and project
leader with Jake Cangelose for
Water Research Institute Project
5002, announced the double-
barreled study.
Concurrent with installations in
the Burton Creek drainage basin,
30 gauges will be set in the area
drained by East Yegua Creek,
above a stream gauge near Dime
Box.
The dual project initially will
run three years.
“The Burton Creek basin is
rapidly being urbanized,” Clark
said. “Probably 65 to 70 per cent
of it is in residential and business
areas.”
“The variation of rainfall over
a small area in addition to effects
of urbanization on surface run
off will be studied,” he added. A
stream gauge is to be put on
Burton Creek near Villa Maria
Road to determine variability.
Clark said the program, spon
sored jointly by the meteorology
department and Water Research
Institute, will probably extend to
cover a 10-year period.
Devices similar to a standard
weather buraeu gauge will be set
on steel posts imbedded in con
crete. The gauge, measuring
rainfall to 1/100th of an inch, will
be read daily. A clear plastic con
tainer four inches in diameter and
about two feet tall, it has a 10-
inch capacity.
Each gauge costs $13.40, Clark
noted. Total station installation
will be about $20.
Gauges will be set at selected
sites one-half mile apart over a
six square mile area bounded by
a line through the Circle Drive-In
Theater and College View, 29th
Street to Fannin Elementary
School and the railroad tracks
west of Bryan.
Present known station sites in
clude the Cavitt Street fire sta
tion, Bryan power plant, KORA,
WTAW and KBTX-TV.
Measurements in the East
Yegua Creek tasin are to be co
related with pictures made on
A&M’s dual-radar system.
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