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    3 Productions Set For Fallout Theater Friday Night
“THE CLEARINGS”
.. . cast members are, from left, Louis Worn- Hastier and Virginia Patterson,
mer, Larry Baugh, Bernest Evans, Don
Three plays are on the agenda
for Friday night in the Fallout
Theater-Workshop.
‘The Return,” written by A&M
student Fred Rich, will be direct
ed by John Trott. The cast in
cludes Diana Weirus, Larry Kifk
and Trott.
Second on the program is “The
Lottery,” written by Shirley Jack-
son and directed by Gerald Gar
cia. Featured in this play are
Bill Lero, Sammy Lebello, Britt
Martin, Andy Tijerina, Herky
Killingsworth, Scott Marable,
Trudy Adams and Ann Spivey.
Also appearing are Patricia
Hill, Butch Baldridge, Roger
Killingsworth, Tom Morgan, Jody
Worsham, Jim Baily, Jim Davis
and Charles Jageler.
“The Clearings,” written and
directed by Virginia Patterson,
will conclude the evening’s enter
tainment. Bernest Evans, Miss
Patterson, Larry Baugh, Louis
Worn mer, Don Hastier and Rob
Cook make up the cast.
Curtain time is 8 p.m. Admis
sion is fifty cents. The Fallout
Theater is located in the rear of
Guion Hall.
. .. cast members are, from left, John Trott, Larry Kirk and Diana Weirus.
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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1966
Number 326
“THE LOTTERY”
. . . part of cast are, from left, Trudy Adams, Ann Spivey,
Pat Hill and Tom Morgan.
Skillman Joins B&U
As Deputy Director
Retired Corps of Engineers Col. Charles Spencer Skillman
joined Texas A&M’s Buildings and Utilities Department as
deputy director.
Skillman, 52, will direct production and distribution
of all utilities, announced physical plants director Walter H.
Parson.
The retired colonels have been acquainted 20 years
and worked together at the Fort Belvoir, Va., engineer
school.
“I consider Charley one of the finest officers in or
out of the service,” Parsons said. “The university is very
fortunate to get him in this capacity.”
With the Corps of Engineers, the New Jersey-born of
ficer was logistics director for the Army Test and Evalu
ation Command at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. He was
in charge of facilities, procurement, services and instru
mentation.
Skillman entered the Army Reserve in 1936 and went on
active duty in December, 1940. He served in the Burma-
China-India theatre during World War II. The 26-year
veteran was senior engineer advisor for the Korean Army,
and served in several engineer school posts, director of an
Engineer Research and Development Laboratory department
and commander of the Engineer Maintenance Center in
Ohio, among numerous assignments.
The logistics expert holds membership in Tau Beta
Pi, national army engineer society; the Society of American
Military Engineers of which he is past president and the
American Section of the Permanent International Association
of Navigation Congress (rivers and harbors work.)
Campus Landmark Bows Out
A campus landmark familiar
to thousands of Texas A&M
former students is being razed
to make way for parking im
provements.
The railroad station at Aggie-
land soon will be replaced with a
massive parking lot to accommo
date the mushrooming number of
cars on campus.
The frame structure is bowing
out in favor of the automobile
which led to the death of train
passenger service.
Thousands of Aggies have “hit
the ground running” at the Old
College Road Station.
Among them is Ernest Lang
ford, archivist for A&M. Fifty-
seven years ago, Langford step
ped reluctantly from a Houston
and Texas Central train. This
week, he watched workmen rip
the station earthward.
The former College Station
mayor seated himself on a cross
tie and dredged up memories
from long ago:
“In those days students either
rode the train or came to A&M
by horse and buggy,” he recalled.
“It took me 23 hours to get here
from Bertram in Burnet County.
I had to change trains at Austin
and Hempstead. If my ticket had
been for further up tbe line, I
would have kept right on going,
but I’m glad I stayed.”
“A. R. Cummins of Burnet, a
chap I met on the train,” Lang
ford continued, “was the only
human being other than Private
A. R. Wilson of Burnet that I
knew at A&M. Cummins knew
R. G. Sherrard, a major in the
cadet corps. Sherrard met us at
the train and got us registered
and housed within the hour.”
“Sometimes,” the historian
noted, “I wonder why the fresh
men who spend a week getting
straightened out don’t head for
home.”
Langford mopped his brow in
the 95-degree heat and went on:
“We made corps trips for years
by train. My freshman year we
beat Texas 23-0 in the rain at
Houston. And we beat ’em again
that year, 5-0 in Austin. Touch
downs counted five points then.
Louis Hamilton—we called him
Louie—ran a record 90-yard TD
in Houston, then notched a 10-
yarder in Austin.”
“You remember things like
that when you forget your birth
days,” he chuckled.
Back to railroading, Langford
commented: “College Station used
to have 12 passenger trains a day.
H&TC had the “Hustler,” “Sun
beam,” “Owl” and “Central Ex
press.” International and Great
Northern numbered its trains.
“The Owl was a famous night
train from Dallas to Houston, or
vice-versa,” Langford explained.
“Sometimes it had 18 cars with
double headers (two engines).”
Records show the “Owl” was
pulled off the line in 1958 after
86 years of service.
“I rode the ‘Owl’ a few days
before it was discontinued,”
Lanford confided. “It had shrunk
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RAILROAD REFLECTIONS
Texas A&M Archivist Ernest Langford fashions a fan
from shingles from the College Station railroad depot and
reminisces about the landmark’s history. Thousands of
Aggies were introduced to the campus at this location.
Passenger service was discontinued in 1958.
Air-Conditioning Boom
To Hit Campus Soon
to one day coach on the end of
a freight train.”
Dignitaries through the years
came to Aggieland by train.
Among them were presidents
William Howard Taft and Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt.
“The corps marched to the sta
tion to hear President Taft speak
about three minutes from the
back of the train,” Langford
reminisced. Ca p t a i n Andred
Moses, A&M commandant, pre
vailed on Taft’s people to stop
the train here during a Southern
swing in the spring of 1910.
Roosevelt stayed the better part
of a day for a review in his honor.
Termites had eaten the foun
dation to pieces 40 years ago,
Langford said. Carpenters jacked
the building three feet off the
ground and replaced 8 by 8 pine
sills 40 feet long. The old sills
were so damaged that a man
could carry one under his arm.
A freight room on the south and
a portico on the north were add
ed then.
The I&GN was later bought by
Missouri-Pacific. H&TC has long
since been the property of South
ern Pacific. It’s lines were in the
area before the college was char
tered. Work began in 1860 was
interrupted by the Civil War.
After the war construction rolled
from Millican, 20 miles to the
south, and the railroad was open
ed to Bryan in August, 1867.
Langford said the H&TC ran
the first train from Houston to
Dallas July 16, 1872.
Changing times have pushed
passenger trains into museums,
but the memories linger. Wreck
ing crews swarmed over the sta
tion while a photographer snap
ped pictures. Progress has little
respect for sentimentalists.
Texas A&M will have 55 air-
conditioned buildings when proj
ects approved by the System’s
Board of Directors are complet
ed.
Installation of chill water lines
to G. Rollie White Coliseum and
east dormitories will initiate
projects. Physical plant mana
ger W. Howard Badgett esti
mates work will begin within a
month.
About 5,500 feet of two 14-
inch insulated steel pipes will be
buried four feet deep alongside
Military Walk, Houston Street
and Joe Routt Boulevard. Along
with 2,000 feet now installed to
cyclotron, civil engineering and
geology buildings, lines to go in
to service almost doubles campus
chill water line circuits, Badg-
ett’s figures show.
Water at 42 degrees tempera
ture is produced at A&M’s power
plant. The operation utilizes five
1,000 ton cooling units.
Three new units to carry addi
tional cooling loads are being
planned, revealed chief plant en
gineer James C. Redman.
The 260,000 gallon system
chills the water and pumps move
fluid at 1,800 gallons a minute
to prevent soaked collars, frayed
nerves and increase work capaci
ty. Water returns at 56 degrees
after going through coil and fan
units.
“I expect few people know
campus air-conditioning comes
from this building and how it is
produced,” Redman said.
Absorption units evaporate a
lithium bromide solution, spray
ing it over water pipes to draw
out heat. About 400 kilowatts
an hour is required to operate
each unit at 20 pounds steam
pressure.
Largely automatic, the system
requires only IVz hours of an
operators’ eight-hour shift. Time
is spent logging, oiling and
cleaning equipment. Maintenance
problems are few.
“The secret of an absorption
unit is keeping it under vacuum,”
Redman noted. When air leaks
in, which has happened six times
since 1958, water boils off and
solution solidifies.
“We close off water, shoot
steam to the chamber and break
up the lithium bromide, circulat
ing water at intervals to get it
going again,” Redman said.
“Usually, it takes an hour or two
to clear up.”
Solidification doesn’t cause loss
of air - conditioning. Tempera
tures may rise slightly, but
functioning units carry the load.
The trouble-free operation se
cludes workmen who run the 40-
foot long, 20-foot high double
barrelled units.
Five rotating shifts of four
men run the plant that produces
power, steam, domestic hot
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
water, heating, cooling, com
pressed air and tap water. Work
under stationary engineers Fran
cis Arnold, Eugene Lenz, Loss
Warlick, Douglas Lewis and
T. L. Calvin assure that refrig
erators stay within load limits.
Each unit averages 800 tons an
hour. Space is available for the
three planned units.
The system now carries 4,208
designed tons, but requirements
will multiply as construction is
completed.
Air-conditioning planned in
cludes the 12-dormitory east
area, giving A&M 22 cooled
dorms, Duncan Dining Hall and
G. R. White Coliseum.
New construction on Cushing
Library will make it A&M’s
largest building, with more than
four acres of floor.
“It will require 750 tons of
air-conditioning,” Badgett said.
Future system air-conditioning
projects includes a proposed au
ditorium.
“We run at 65 to 70 per cent
diversification,” he added. Re
quirements for cool air in the
coliseum, for example, will be
offset by lowered usage else
where.
As buildings are added to the
system, plant production of cool
water must be stepped to meet
demands.
Power plant personnel know
how to play the game coolly.
RoomReservations
Now Available
Students who will attend the
second summer term should re
port to the Housing Office and
sign up for rooms, said Allan M.
Madeley, Housing Manager.
The following schedule starting
at 8 p.m. through 5 p.m. should
be followed:
Today through Tuesday stu
dents who wish to reserve the
room they now occupy should
sign up.
Wednesday through June 15
students who wish to reserve a
room other than the one they now
occupy may sign for rooms on
a first come, first served basis.
Male single undergraduate stu
dents are required to live on
campus unless they live with
their families, Madeley said. Ex
ceptions to this policy may be
filed with the Student Affairs
Office.
TO PERFORM AT FOLKSONG CONCERT
Ann Balling-er, left, and Louis Wommer will perform dur
ing a folksong concert featuring Texas A&M faculty and
students at 7:30 p. m. Sunday at Guion Hall’s Fallout
Theater. Sponsored by the A&M John Avery Lomax Soci
ety, the two-hour program is open to the public. Admission
is 50 cents per person. Other performers include Grant
and Bertie Thomas, Dick Gustafson, Bob Robinson and
Mary Kay Hurbert, Ken Curry, Diana Hoge, Jim Pye and
Jim Newett, plus the Wanderers from Lake Charles, La.