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4 r v r » 4^-!* •V.srfiKififcC-.iv n&Sg&Q&ait*' See Story Page 3 Number 304 Diooa conectea in tne drive win be donated to the Wadley Re search Institute and Blood Bank in Dallas. Blood donated is mainly used for leukemia research. Leukemia, or cancer of the blood, killed 12,000 persons in the United States last year. Morris pointed out that persons who donate a pint of blood will be entitled to draw blood without charge from the Wadley Blood Bank for themselves and their immediate families. The program has been in effect here eight of the last nine years. More than 29,000 units of blood have been collected during this period. The Wadley Research Institute and Blood Bank was established as a non-profit organization by Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Wadley in memory of their grandson, who died of leukemia. It exists solely from gifts and research grants. Rudder Meets With Students Housing Plans Aired Tonight MAN YOUR MANNERS PANEL Misses Sullins, Peters, Holland and Cater. Tessies Discuss Etiquette In 2nd Manners Program Consolidated Band Enter UIL Contest The A&M Consolidated Junior and Senior High School bands will enter the Region 8 University Interscholastic League Concert and Sight Reading Competition Thursday and Friday at Temple. The senior high band will play “The Impresario” by W. A. Mozart, “Au Pays Lorraine” by G. Balay and “Amparito Roca” by Jaime Texidor. The junior high band will play “Trumpet Voluntary” by Henry Purcell, “Air for Band” by Frank Erickson and “Loyality March” by K. L. King. By DANI PRESSWOOD Battalion News Editor Texas Woman’s University co eds charmed their second Aggie audience within a week Tuesday night as Jane Sullins, Carol Cater, Cheri Holland and Su zanne Peters presented a panel discussion of dating and table etiquette. The four Tessies comprised^ the second such panel representa tion from TWU this year in the YMCA Man Your Manners series. Miss Cater, a senior occupa tional therapy major, opened the exposition with some guidelines to follow when dating. “When you go into the girl’s home, remember that you are a salesman,” she said. “Youjre selling her parents that you are fit company for the little girl they raised.” She said neatness, cleanliness and dressing with good taste and appropriateness to occasion are musts. Miss Cater related a tale of a fictitious date with Batman, in terweaving several basic points to remember. “Be able to laugh at yourself and know your own shortcom ings,” she suggested. “A boy should be sure of himself, yet aware of his own shortcomings and tolerant of others.” Miss Peters, a freshman fash ion merchandizing major, at tempted to outline some “do’s” and “don’ts” concerning drinking in public although “whether to drink or not to drink is a per sonal choice,” she noted. “Many situations arise con cerning drinking in mixed com pany,” she explained. “You ought to know how much liquor you can hold before you do any drinking. If you get polluted on two beers, I suggest you re frain.” Boys should have respect and consideration for other persons at all times, Miss Peters stressed. Drawing Contest Winners Chosen Patrick Garcia of Corpus Christi Miller High School is the major winner in 1966 All-State Drawing Contests at Teras A&M, Contest Chairman Jim Earle has announced. Garcia won firsts in second year working drawing and architec tural drawing, plus second place in pictorial drawing. He was the lone double winner. Other first place winners are James E. Johnson of San Antonio Highlands in first year working drawing, and Nancy Tunnell of Van in pictorial drawing. Earle said 11,000 students from 175 high schools participated in the 24th annual competition. Plaques go to top three winners in each division. Duplicate plaques are awarded to winners’ schools. “You should ask your date if she minds if you drink. Don’t ever try to force your date to drink, and if she drinks and you don’t you should not present a puritan attitude.” Miss Sullins, a senior in ad vertising design, explained that table manners are “easy to come by. “You can find them in thou sands of books,” she said. “They’re like money in the bank to anyone who takes the time to learn them.” Also presenting a narrative starring Batman and Robin, Miss Sullins emphasized the import ance of good etiquette. “Some of the most important people you’ll ever know are peo ple you’ll eat with,” she pointed out. Speaking on public display of affection, Aggie Sweetheart Cheri Holland termed it “pretty terrible except in certain places. “You can say more with your eyes, a look or a squeeze of your hand than with all this over enthusiasm,” she remarked. Concerning a kiss on the first date Miss Holland said “some girls feel it is appropriate and some do not. “You can usually tell,” she added. She noted that if a boy doesn’t want to kiss a girl goodnight on the first date there is no prob lem. “Boys have the advantage. They can just make an excuse and turn around and walk off.” In a question-answer session, Miss Sullins was confronted with the question of where the date sits when your car has bucket seats. “I think it’s kind of rude to ask her to sit on that thing in the middle,” she quipped. By ROBERT SOLOVEY Texas A&M President Earl Rudder will meet with more than 75 civilian and Corps student leaders tonight to discuss where the Corps will be housed next year. Dean of Students James P. Hannigan said Rudder will listen to the opinions of the students concerning centralizing the Corps entirely in the Duncan Hall area. The Corps is presently split with some units living in the Sbisa area. Hannigan said some of the outfits in the Sbisa area call themselves “the lost bat talion.” A survey poll conducted last week by first sergeants helped to determine cadet preference. Of the 1,441 that voted, 1,184 desired to live in the Duncan Hall area next year. Hannigan also conducted an informal poll at the last Student Senate meeting. Eighteen mem bers preferred to live in the Dun can area and three wanted the situation left as it is now. The recent water fight in the Sbisa area will enter into the decision, Hannigan said. He added the Housing Office wanted to wait until some qf the dormitories in the Duncan area had been renovated, b«t unit commanders had been constantly asking for an immediate change. “In the books, it was just a matter of time, and it will benefit the Corps,” Hannigan said. “It’s not fair to keep the civil ians and the cadets intermingled and in each other’s way. The Sbisa area is not suited for marching to and from meals as well as the Duncan area,” he added. Hannigan said it didn’t make any difference if the Corps was housed in the Sbisa or Duncan area so long as it was entirely together. He also said cadet leaders had talked with him and complained the outside corridors in the new dormitories were not conducive to unity. By living together, Corps mem bers and civilians could maintain separate quarters but still have close friendship through classes and university activities he claimed. The final decision will come after hearing cadet and civilian opinions and reviewing the polls taken last week. In the event of a move, dormi tories 10 and 12 would be re served for the Corps and dormi tories 17, 18 and 20 would be civilian. In any case, room reservations must be made this semester for next fall, although room regis tration scheduled to begin Thurs day has been postponed. Survey Shows Aggies Eat More For Less Money By GUS DE LA GARZA Battalion Special Writer Early returns in a nationwide survey show A&M students eat more for less money. This was reported by Fred W. Dollar, director of food services. Fourteen schools throughout the nation have answered thus far, he said. The survey asked 100 schools about their daily board costs, the number of feeding facilities available, style of feeding used, caloric value of the menu and other pertinent questions related to elements of operations. Among the out-of-state schools which answered were the Uni versity of California at Berke ley, Clemson University, Univer sity of Arkansas, Robert Morris Junior College at Carthage, 111., Ricker College at Houlton, Maine, and Seton Hall University at South Arange, N. J. Texas schools were Abilene) Christian College, Southern Methodist University, Universi ty of Houston, Baylor, Stephen F. Austin State College and Rice University. According to Demetre G. Pal- mos, office manager who made the comparisons, the schools which participated showed an average board fee of $1.95 per day, com pared with A&M’s $1.50. “We had hoped that some oth er school was charging $1.50 a day so we could visit them and maybe find out how to do better in some areas without sacrificing the quality of the food now served” Dollar said. Palmos reported the average number of meals served by oth er schools was 20.2 per week while A&M serves 21. “An interesting observation is that the university with the highest board rate, $2.54 per day, served an average of 19 meals per week compared to our 21,” Dollar said. On the average the daily calor ic value of the three meals served at other schools was 3,- 739. A&M’s caloric value ranges from 3,600 to 4,000, Palmos said. “Only five schools reported^ any caloric values, and others apparently made no realistic de termination.” As for the style of feeding concerned, all the school had two styles — cafeteria and family style. “There seems to be a trend away from family style feeding,” Palmos said. “Of the fourteen reporting schools only five served family style along with the cafeteria style,” Dollar noted. What do all these figures and averages mean? Dollar said the survey was undertaken to help increase student satisfaction with A&M dining accomodations. “We want to make this sur vey an annual affair to determine what other schools are doing so we can improve,” he said. Most students are aware of the board increase for the fall semester, but many wonder why, Dollar said. To help clarify the situation a ramdom sampling of food price increases since Sep tember was taken. “Maybe if we present this In formation to the student, he’ll have a better understanding why the board fees will increase.” According to Dollar, percentage increases since September, 1965, were; veal, 31.30 per cent; sliced bacon, 28.26 per cent; pork loins, 10.40 per cent; tea, 81.63 per cent; flour, 4.98 per cent, and pink salmon, 22.03 per cent. Of 11 major items sampled all showed an increase. “Even our food service work ers are costing 17 per cent more than before,” Dollar said. Arts Association To Meet Friday The Texas Industrial Arts Stu dent Association Fair is expected to attract more than 1,000 high schoolers here Friday and Satur day. Woodworking, metalworking, crafts, drafting, electricity and technical writing exhibits will be displayed in DeWare Field House. Officers for 1966-67 and a sweetheart will be selected during the association convention. They will be introduced Saturday dur ing a luncheon at Sbisa Hall. First Bank & Trust now pays 4%% per annum on savings cer tificates. —Adv. WhaVs Latest Wind Velocity At Paducah? STUDYING THE WEATHER PICTURE ... weather station manager Jim Lightfoot with his instru ments. By JOHN HOTARD Battalion Special Writer Anyone care to know which way the wind is blowing in Paducah ? How about the barometric pres sure in Chattahoochee, Fla.? (Yes, Virginia, there is a Chat tahoochee, Fla.) Would you settle for the up-to- the-minute weather in the Col lege Station-Bryan area? All this and other information is now available on the third floor of Goodwin Hall where the Department of Meteorology has put on display various instru ments used to measure the weather. One can find the tem perature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction and barometric pressure at a glance. The dis play is just one part of the weather station which the de partment has set up this year. On another wall are weather maps received over a facsimile recorder which the department recently installed. These differ ent maps, similar to those shown on television weather programs, show various data used in fore casting the weather. They are electronically received from Hous ton, but originate at the Na tional Meteorological Center ^n Suitland, Md. These maps adcL another facet to the weather sta tion. Still another part s the radar equipment used by the meteoro logists. It’s primarily used for short range forecasting (1-6 hours) and tells of approaching severe weather such as tornadoes and thunderstorms. Get all this data together and throw in the human factor, in this case, Jim Lightfoot, the weather station manager, and you’ll find a sunny day for a picnic. But picnic forecasting is not why the station was set up. “Our primary reason for being here is to teach and train mete- ologists,” Lightfoot said. “We’re not a weather station per se, but a training center.” Lightfoot, a retired Air Force master sergeant, pointed out that this station has several differ ent types of instruments. “In this way, the students learn to work with the differ ent types of equipment which they’ll encounter in the field” Lightfoot remarked. “Our stu dents get both theory and prac tice. Our practical application is one of the best.” The facsimile recorder is a great aid to the department. Without it, only short range fore cast (12-18 hours) were possible. Now a few-day forecast is re ceive over the “fax” every three days. “To duplicate the data received from the fax, we would need one more teletype machine, one large computer and about 30 men em ployed full time, plus a com puter crew,” he said. Research also plays a large part in the department. A 19- foot square platform on top of Bizzell Hall will soon house more equipment, including an evapora tion station and a net radiation station, which measures solar* energy given off by the earth’s surface, in addition to the two radar dish antennae presently up there. “Meteorologists don’t attempt to control the weather, but rath er to identify the factors which affect weather,” Lightfoot add ed. “Our research will help in this respect.” Students are encouraged to stop by the third floor of Good win Hall and take a look at the instruments and the weather maps. The maps may be a little difficult to understand, but if you can catch Lightfoot when he’s not walking around with his head in the clouds, he’ll probably take the time to give you a brief rundown. How accurate are they? It’s practically in the bag, because you’re getting it straight from the horses mouth. However, the best way to tell whether or not it’s going to rain is to watch the entrance to Goodwin Hall. If somebody goes in or out car rying an umbrella, you’d better grab yours.