Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1966
Number 3l|»
Service Groups
Place Emphasis
On Youth, Needy
By JUDY FRANKLIN
Battalion Staff Writer
Editor’s note: The following is the first installment of a two-
part series outlining the aims and functions of service clubs in the
College Station-Bryan area. The concluding segment will appear
tomorrow.
College Station and Bryan service clubs are placing emphasis
on the “youth” and the “needy.”
Staging fund-raising projects throughout the year, these organ
izations donate money, equipment, clothing, food and special serv-
ives to promote school functions and aid underprivileged individuals.
One particular organization, the Bryan Lions Club, concentrates
chiefly on student services.
ABIDING BY THEIR motto, “We Serve,” this group provides
a scholarship to a Stephen F. Austin High School student who is
going to A&M, sets up classes for needy people living in Brazos
County and adjacent areas and donates to the Little League base
ball organization.
W. N. Colson, club president, says their most important work
involves buying glasses for school children who haven’t the money
to buy them and providing recreational activities for youngsters.
“Most of the park facilities were furnished by the club, and
we built the only three wading pools in this area,” he said.
The group leader explained that buying the glasses are based
on recommendations by the school nurses.
“If we don’t think the parents can afford them,” Colson re
marks, “the Bryan Lions Club will buy them.”
Along with the other Lions Clubs in the state, this group par
ticipates in the Texas Crippled Children’s Camp program in Kerr-
ville by sending local youngsters to two-week summer sessions there.
SETTLED ON 750 acres with facilities worth almost $1 mil
lion, the camp furnishes therapy and recreational activities at
these sessions, which are set up six to eight times during the three
month period.
,, College Station Lions Club, headed by Robert Schliedei', Jr.,
also works with the camp. For nine months members aid in sending
blind people there to be trained to be “useful citizens.”
“We are vitally concerned with helping the blind and work
ing with sight conservation,” Schlieder says.
He added that one blind man the Lions sponsored from Madison-
ville now manages a movie theater.
In addition, they sponsor kids at the summer camp. Schlieder
sees the program as giving children a chance to break away from
their “normal routine.”
THE COLLEGE STATION club has an agreement with CARE
to furnish school kits for students in Honduras, trying to “help
kids help themselves at a later date.”
At the local level these activities are listed as the organiza
tion’s chief projects: Maintaining concession stands at the College
Station July 4 community picnic, helping A&M Consolidated Band
Booster Clubs raise money, and selling light bulbs and Christmas
trees.
The group also places emphasis on recognizing teacher-student
achievements. Outstanding teacher awards are presented to Con
solidated elementary, junior high and high school instructors.
They support FFA work, by purchasing prize chickens at a
poultry show, and also set up FHA awards.
A THIRD LIONS service club, the Bryan-College Station Even
ing Lions, distinguishes itself by the numerable activities members
undertake during the year.
Basing actions on profits made from their Halloween candy sale
and Indian Turkey Bake, Evening Lions are actively participating in
special group projects.
Besides sending three area representatives to the Crippled Child
ren’s Camp, they aid special education classes in all schools by
donating tape recorders.
“We principally work with retarded children,” First Vice-Pres
ident Lowell Jones says.
He explains that the group donates money and collects old
clothes for Bowie Elementary School’s “Clothes Closet.” From there
articles are parceled out among the needy.
IN CONNECTION WITH the community drives for the needy
at Christmas, Evening Lions staged two city wide “kiddy” movies
at the Place Theater in Bryan this year. The movie fees — canned
food — was distributed to local families.
Special projects set up by the organization have helped a College
Station girl go to Bogota, Colombia, for an eye operation and bought
a new gas stove for a Negro family whose house had burned down.
Other functions are supporting FFA broiler sales and donating
to the Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center.
Pappas Blasts
Student Apathy
*111111 Elections
Officers for the Ross Volunteers Company
for 1966-67 include, from left, Robert Beene,
operations officer; Bob Holcomb, executive
officer; John Willing-ham, second platoon
leader; Tommy Stone, commanding officer;
NEW RV OFFICERS
Vic Schmidt, first sergeant; Bill Haseloff,
third platoon leader, and Paul Tyson, first
platoon leader. Not pictured is Clint Ward,
administrative officer.
Duncan Hall Basement
Handles All Food Storage
By GUS DE LA GARZA
Battalion Special Writer
If you ever want to raid for
food, try Duncan Hall first.
According to Oscar C. Plant,
acting warehouse manager, Dun
can Hall handles the storage for
all Texas A&M food operations.
Plant said Duncan’s warehouse,
which occupies the entire base-
men area, has four storage areas
—dry storage, meat, produce and
frozen foods. In addition to the
storage areas, Duncan also has a
bakery and butcher shop which
serves all food service operations
on campus.
“We have more behind-the-
scenes activities here than most
students realize,” said Joe G.
Marek, buyer for Food Services.
“Duncan warehouse is like a
central ‘clearing house’ for the
other departments,” Plant added.
‘Hollow Crown’
Opens Thursday
The Contemporary Arts Com
mittee of the Memorial Student
Center will present the premiere
performance of “The Hollow
Crown” at 8 p.m. Thursday in
the MSC Ballroom.
The StageCenter, Inc., produc
tion is a series of dramatic con
cert readings and songs repicting
the history of the British Mon
archy from William I to Queen
Victoria.
Admission charge is 50 cents.
“They come to us for their needs.”
Marek said the departments
served by the Duncan clearing
house are Sbisa Hall, the Memo
rial Student Center food service,
Duncan Hall, the Research Annex
and the A&M Adjunct during the
summer.
The dry storage area holds ap
proximately 20,000 cases of in
stitutional sized cans of various
goods, Marek said. All the
merchandise is sampled and
bought for quality. The ware
house is full of nationally known
brands of food stuffs.
Usually $35,000 to $45,000 in
consumer supplies such as nap
kins, toothpicks, dishes, pots and
pans are also kept in the ware
house, he said.
Vegetables bought are Grade A
or Grade A Fancy and kept in
coolers which keep them fresh
at 45-50 degrees.
“All produce is bought fresh
twice a week — on Mondays and
Fridays,” Marek said.
The meat used by the other
operations is kept at the ware
house in walk-in refrigerators,
Plant said. Normally, meat bids
are solicited by phone and award
ed on a one price basis. Waco
and Houston are the big sup
pliers, he said.
$30,000 Fire Hits
System Building
Fire caused $30,000 damage to
heating and cooling equipment
in the System Administration
Building early Friday.
The blaze was reported at 4
a.m. by a passerby. Campus fire
men snuffed the flames before
they spread from a mechanical
room on the ground level.
Three-60-ton chillers in the
pump room and 220-volt electri
cal service were destroyed, noted
Walter H. Parsons Jr., director of
the physical plant. Water damage
to adjacent offices was minor, he
reported. Cause of the fire has
not been determined.
Meat bought is delivered week
ly and the butcher shop cuts it
up. Pre-cut meat is put in the
refrigerators and doled out when
asked for, Plant explained.
Hot rolls, donuts and sweet
rolls are baked in large quantities
at the bakery, Plant said.
“Our ovens hold 24 pounds of
hot rolls per oven. “We usually
bake 10,000 hot rolls per day,”
he said.
Besides hot rolls, donuts and
sweet rolls, the shop bakes all
the pies and cakes served daily.
By JOHN FULLER
Battalion Staff Writer
Election Commission Chairman
Harris Pappas Monday termed
the 5 per cent voter turnout in
last Thursday’s Student Senate
elections “ridiculous” and called
for much greater student interest
in the Senate.
“Obviously, too many people
fail to realize this election is
actually more important in stu
dent government than any of the
year’s previous elections,” he
said. “The representatives in the
Student Senate are, after all, the
legislators who initiate student
policies.”
Pappas noted that poor voting
turnout has been the case for the
five years in the Senate’s college
elections, but asserted that a
greater interest in the activities
of the Senate are becoming ever
more important in view of recent
Corps-civilian friction.
“The civilians criticize members
of the Corps and vice versa,” he
remarked, “and the issues in
volved can be better settled
through Student Senate policy
than by the Administration.
“The Civilian Student Council
is a fine coordinating body for
the cvilian students, while Corps
Staff operates on a similar basis
for the military, he added, “but
little has been achieved in bet
tering relations between the
two.”
Pappas said action by the Sen
ate “could be the only feasible
method of uniting these two
groups.”
“It would seem that the recent
incidents of vandalism would, at
the very least, lend an element of
rivalry to these elections, so that
students would turn out in large
numbers — civilians to elect civil
ian representatives, Corps mem-
26 Air Force ROTC Cadets
Selected For Scholarships
Twenty-six Air Force cadets
have been selected for Air Force
ROTC Scholarships.
Awarded to students possessing
skills and backgrounds required
by the Air Force, scholarship
winners were announced by Brig.
Gen. William C. Lindley, com
mandant of Air Force ROTC.
The A&M students, 25 of which
will be juniors next fall, were
among 1,000 recipients in 180 U.S.
colleges with four-year ROTC
programs.
Each scholarship pays tuition,
lab expenses and books, plus $50
a month. A high grade average,
AFOQT score, physical qualifi
cations and personal standards
must be met for selection.
Certified for scholarships by
AFROTC headquarters were jun
iors Lonnie C. Minze, John C.
Thomas and Mitchell A. Wood
ard of Houston; Stanley P. Clark
and Don J. Currie of Bryan;
Laurence S. Melzer, Midland;
William C. Grothues, San An
tonio; Robert H. Stodghill, Cor
pus Christi; Kenneth C. Ander-
First Bank & Trust now pays
4% % per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
son, Robstown; Wayne J. Baird,
Big Spring; Frederick J. Becht,
El Paso; Samuel D. Brown Jr.,
Conroe; Jimmy L. Daniel, Sher
man; Moses Herrera, Palestine,
and Joe P. Mahoney, Mathis.
Also William R. Hammond,
Grenier Field, N. H.; Dean L.
Christiansen, Niles, 111.; Richard
L. Engel, Brookfield, Wise.; Burl
E. Glass, Belton, Mo.; Anthony
W. Groves, Tucker, Ga.; Alan C.
Jaeckle, Covina, Calif.; Fred M.
McConnell, Fairfax, Va.; Jeffrey
C. Nieland, Oxon Hill, Md.; Rob
ert J. Solovey, Silver Spring, Md.,
and Thomas E. Upton, Mount
Holly, N. J.
William W. Turney Jr. of Hous
ton, a senior pre-medicine major,
was selected for a special schol
arship for fourth-year Air Force
ROTC students.
bers to elect Corps representa
tives,” he pointed out.
“If so much interest can be
aroused through juvenile activi
ties like water fights and egg
throwing, which resulted in
strong protests from both frac
tions, then why can’t more ener
gy be channeled into constructive
purposes — such as electing a
Student Senate to try to work
out the problem?”
Senate seats in sophomore,
junior, and senior classes were
filled in Thursday's elections. On
ly one post remains undecided,
the senior position from the Col
lege of Liberal Arts.
Pete Garza and Larry Heit-
man received 14 votes each and
thus forced a runoff election.
The Student Programs Office an
nounced Monday the runoff has
been scheduled for Thursday in
the Memorial Student Center.
Corps
Receives
Top Rank
The Corps of Cadets was
awarded a satisfactory rating in
the annual General Inspection, a
Commandant report to President
Earl Rudder reveals.
Senior division ROTC units are
given one of two ratings by the
regular Army inspection party:
satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
“The inspection report reflects
that Texas A&M ROTC students
are being trained in an outstand
ing manner,” said Col. D. L.
Baker, professor of military sci
ence' and commandant.
The report complimented aca
demic support, cadet officers
briefing, office administration or
ganization and maintenance and
Corps appearance, bearing and
review.
“Excellent support given the
Army military training program
by institutional authorities is
highly gratifying to and appreci
ated by the Army,” the report
said.
“The Corps deputy commander,
brigade, battalion and company
commanders presented a one hour
briefing on organization and
function. The ability, manner
and method of presentation by
these outstanding cadets was of
the highest order.”
The briefing was conducted by
Cadet Col. John D. Gay of Hous
ton, deputy corps commander;
Cadet Col. Leonard D. Holder of
San Antonio, Second Brigade
Commander; Cadet Lt. Col.
James D. Jones of Lovelady,
First Battalion Commander, and
Cadet Maj. William R. Ward of
Austin, Company C-l commander.
FORMER CORPS COMMANDER TOP ROTC GRAD
Lt. Neil L. Keltner receives the Hughes
Trophy in recognition of being named the
outstanding ROTC graduate of 1965 in re
cent ceremonies at the Pentagon. Corps
Commander in 1964-65, Keltner received the
award from Deputy Under Secretary of the
Army for Manpower Arthur W. Allen, cen
ter, and Lt. Gen. John L. Throckmorton.
Keltner will attend Final Review for the
Corps May 28, at which time his award will
be displayed.
Final Exam Schedule
Final examinations for the spring semester 1966
will be held May 30-June 4 according to the follow
ing schedule:
Monday, May 30
Monday, May 30
Tuesday, May 31
Tuesday, May 31
Wednesday, June 1
Wednesday, June 1
Thursday, June 2
Thursday, June 2
Friday, June 3
Friday, June 3
Saturday, June 4
Saturday, June 4
8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
8-lla.m.
1-4 p.m.
8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Classes MWF8
Classes TThSFl
Classes MWF9
Classes MWThl
Classes MWF10
Classes TF1
Classes M3TThlO
Classes MWTh2
Classes MWF11
Classes M4TThll
Classes TTh9F2
Classes TF2 or
TWF3 or TThF3
Final examinations in courses with only one
theory hour per week as shown in the catalogue
will be given, at the discretion of the department
head concerned, at the last meeting of either the
theory or practice period before the close of the
semester.
UNIDENTIFIED FLAPPING OBJECT
Unknown culprits scaled the heights of the Academic Build
ing this week to plant their flag atop the dome. Whoever
feels so inclined may read its contents simply by flying
up to Prexy’s Moon or by writing in care of The Human
Fly.