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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.