Field Day For Sociologists
THE BATTALION
Customer Actions Provide
Humor In Exchange Store
Sociologists could have a field
day in the Exchange Store, inter
preting the actions of customers.
“We don’t try to sell these
young men something they don’t
want,” remarked Mrs. Elizabeth
Marquart, a 17-year employe. “A
freshman bought a lot of luxury
items he didn’t need. Thirty min
utes later he was back, sheepishly
asking to trade them for articles
he needed.”
Some of the boys could write
“how to” articles for Heloise.
Mrs. Rosalyn Mauk chuckled as
she told a story: “A boy told
me he washes his bluejeans in
the shower . . . while he’s got
them on . . . rinses ’em the same
way.”
Mrs. Mauk has a daughter who
is a freshman. “She took a
‘Leather Legs’ (senior) to the
Fish Ball.”
“This is satisfying work,”
smiled Mrs. E. E. Schaudies.
"Some of these boys have never
bought their own clothes before.
They have no idea what sizes
they wear. We help them co
ordinate colors and select becom
ing clothing.”
She, too, had an amusing story.
“A Fish came in carrying a
pack . . . excited, hot and nerv
ous during registration,” she re
called. “He was searching fran
tically for a mattress cover. I
told him he didn’t need to buy one
because he was using the mat
tress cover to carry his other
articles.”
Assistant Manager Bob Bar
ham told this one on himself.
“A few years ago, I was show
ing an architecture staff member
some merchandise. He candidly
commented: ‘Bob, you have the
largest stock of the sorriest tem
pera paint I’ve ever seen.’ ”
Barham shook off the slam
with “What’s good to one is not
necessarily good for another.”
Quiz pads, toiletries and shav
ing gear are the most popular
items for the store which, ac
cording to Cargill, expected to
gross $970,000 this year.
The store has a busy mail
order business. Decals and Ag
gie sweatshirts are big sellers.
Miss Hattie King, an 18-year
employe, doubles as a counselor.
“I’ve talked many a boy out
of dropping out of school. We
are about the last people who
have a chance to salvage stu
dents. They often come here to
sell their books.
“Usually, they are freshmen
who suffer under needling,” she
explained. “Rain on ’em, I tell
the boys . . .You will be doing
the same thing next year.”
Sometimes Miss King tries to
shame boys into being men.
“A boy came in wearing bangs
not long ago,” she grimaced. “I
said I thought I’d see an Aggie
wearing a skirt first. His face
turned flame red, but he still
wore bangs the next time I saw
him.”
Howard Mitchell, merchandise
CS Post Office Receives
Medicare Benefit Forms
College Station Postmaster
Ernest Gregg announced today
that application blanks for sup
plement Medicare benefits are
available at the general delivery
window of the main post office.
The application blanks are be
ing made available as the Social
Security Administration seeks to
contact 3.1 million senior citizens
before the March 31 deadline im
posed by the Medicare law.
tional forms are available as
needed.
Through direct mailings and
other means, the Social Security
Administration has had contact
with 16 of the 19.1 million citi
zens who will be 65 or over on
July 1. Of the 16 million who
replied, less than one million said
that they did not want to sign
up for the supplement program.
President Johnson has pro
claimed March as National Medi
care Enrollment Month and has
urged all federal agencies and all
citizens to cooperate in enrolling
senior citizens in the program.
The supplement program costs
$3 a month and provides doctor
bills and other benefits. Persons
65 and over are eligible for the
basic hospital benefits under the
plan.
Initially, some 2.5 million appli
cation blanks were distributed to
nearly 34,000 main post offices
throughout the country. Addi-
Senior citizens who reached 65
before 1966 face a two year delay
if they do not sign up by March
31.
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manager and a 34-year Exchange
Store veteran, praised Aggies for
helping people when the chips
are down.
“Right after I got married
years ago, my wife and I made a
trip to Mexico City,” he remin
isced. “Roads were bad then.
About halfway back to Laredo,
the car hit a boulder in the rain.
It punctured my gas tank. Car
after car passed us. One finally
stopped.
“Three lion-hunting Aggies
spotted the A&M sticker on my
car and stopped to help. One boy
fished out a geology pick he had
bought at the Exchange Store.
He used it to ream out the punc
ture, cut a cunk of wood from a
tree to plug the hole, then siph
oned gas from his car to get me
rolling again.
“I had them for dinner at my
house several times after that,”
he said.
Mrs. Frank Ish, a 10-year em
ploye, claims there’s something
special about Aggies.
“I didn’t realize 9,000 boys
could be as nice as the Aggies,”
she exclaimed.
“One hot registration day, a
tall, heavy-set jovial looking red
headed boy with blue jeans was
leaning against a column. He
seemed disturbed, so I walked
over and said ‘Howdy, is there
anything I can do for you?’”
“He replied: ‘Lady, I done
been did.’ ”
Wednesday, March 16, 1966
College Station, Texas
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Institute Receives $22,000
For Transportation Research
Transportation economists of ments each year.
Texas A&M have received $22,000
in funds for the second year of a
continuing minimum-cost study
of motor carrier shipments in the
Southwest.
The grant was made by the
Southwest Motor Freight Bureau,
which publishes rates and pro
vides tariffs for several hundred
common motor carriers in Texas,
Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkan
sas whose trucks handle almost
twenty million separate ship-
The grant was announced by
Dr. C. V. Wootan, associate exec
utive officer of Texas Transpor
tation Institute and head of the
transportation economics depart
ment, which is conducting the
research under a contract of the
Texas A&M Research Founda
tion.
About 65 per cent of the na
tion’s high school graduates do
not attend college.
CYCLOTRON BREIFING
Maj. Gen. Alvin R. Luedecke, rig-ht, gets a construction
report on the $6 million Cyclotron Institute from Dr. John
A. McIntyre of the Cyclotron staff. Framework of the in
stallation is in the backgrown. Leudecke, deputy director
of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute
of Technology, spoke at A&M recently about U. S. un
manned space programs.
Payne To Present Agriculture Speech
Teaching agricultural me
chanics will be the topic of a talk
to be presented to Area 5 voca
tional agriculture teachers March
22 at Anna.
The speaker will be Jake
Payne, of the Texas A&M De
partment of Education.
About 25 teachers are expected
to attend the session.
1965 -1966
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