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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1966
Number 329
B-CS Opinions Vary
Over SH 6 By-Pass
Public Hearing
Draws Crowd
Opinions varied Wednesday morning during a Texas
Highway Department route hearing of State Highway 6
by-pass around College Station-Bryan. Nearly 200 persons
attended the hearing at the Bryan Civic Auditorium.
The by-pass, as proposed by the Texas Highway Depart
ment, would intersect the existing SH 6 about 2.5 miles
south of College Station’s city limits and one mile north
of the Bryan city limits. It would travel in a line generally
parallel to the existing highway and be located to the east
of College Station—Bryan.
JOURNALISTS SELECT “MISS WORKSHOPPER” AND FOUR PRINCESSES
Marcella Biry, in right picture, from West Columbia was chosen as “Miss son, Miss Biry, Marvelyn Mathis from Hearne, Ginger Jakovich from
Workshopper” last night during the eighth High School Journalism Galveston Dominican High and Denni Davis from Dallas Woodrow
Workship. In left picture is the queen, second from left, and the royal Wilson,
court which includes, from left, Prissy Tata from Dallas Thomas Jeffer-
‘Birth Of Volcano’
Described By Prof
Professor Fred M. Bullard of
the University of Texas brought
a “do-it-yourself preaching” kit
to Texas A&M and received a
rousing welcome.
The volcanologist showed slides
and movies of Paricutin’s growth
in a “Birth of a Volcano” lecture
to NSF institute students and the
public.
“I screened these films for a
Baptist preacher friend once,”
the ebullient geologist remarked.
“He said if he could use them,
he would preach no more ser
mons.”
“I would show the film and
tell the congregation, ‘Brethren,
there it is,' ” the minister was
reported saying.
Bullard, who photographed the
Mexican volcano from birth to
death in 35mm slides and 16mim
color, intrigued and amused a
standing-room only audience in
the 241-seat Biology Building
auditorium.
He refuted several printed ver
sions of Paricutin’s origin.
“A farmer, Dioniso Pulido, and
his wife were herding goats in
the region that had experienced
earthquakes two weeks. They
saw the beginning.
“First, they saw a huge de
pression in the cornfield. Rum
blings commenced and columns
of white smoke rose from around
the edges of the hole. An explo
sion then blew rocks, debris and
red hot material into the air,”
Bullard described. “At that point,
our observations cease.”
“Pulido returned to the village
of Paricutin. He wanted to see
the priest, to make final arrange
ments. Most of the village had
Hunting Booklet
Now Available
The 1966 directory of “The
Best Hunting in Texas” is now
available at the Bryan - College
Station Chamber of Commerce
offices.
The directory lists day, year
and other lease provisions on
dozens of tracts in this area.
Such information as camping fa
cilities and water supplies also
is provided in the “best yet” di
rectory.
The 1965 edition of the book
let was a “sell-out,” reported Ag
ricultural Division Vice President
Lloyd E. Joyce. Increased sup
plies will meet the growing de
mand, he believes.
arrived ahead of him,” he con
tinued.
The NSF speaker, who may
return to A&M next year under
auspices of the Great Issues se
ries, related that as villagers
huddled together and watched ex
plosions from IVz miles away,
they did “what any college or
university faculty would have
done. They appointed a commit
tee to see what was what.”
Next morning, representatives
crept into the vicinity and found
a black cone of ashes and dust
120 feet high.
The following day, expert ob
servation began when distin
guished Mexican geologist Eze-
kuel Ordonez arrived. Bullard
came later from the National
University of Mexico, where he
was teaching volcanology under
Alliance of Progress arrange
ment.
His 1,200-foot color movies
and 35 slides depict cone forma
tion “bocas” (mouths surround
ing the vent where 1,970 degree
lava bursts from the ground),
spatter cones, lava flows inun
dating Paricutin and San Juan
villages, varicolored emissions
from the cone with missiles and
“bombs” showering from the
vent, 15 to 20 feet per minute
lava movement, chloride gases is
suing from bocas aerial scenes
from an Army helicopter and
other activity.
“It seemed a waste to sleep
with the greatest show on earth
going on,” Bullard observed. The
movie comprises 15 per cent of
film he exposed.
“Paricutin (15 miles from the
nearest highway and 200 miles
west of Mexico City) will not
erupt again,” he predicts. “It’s
easier for molten material to
break out elsewhere once a vent
has sealed.” Supporting his fore
cast are 100 other cones in the
vicinity.
Several problems were encoun
tered, though Bullard suffered
only a few wrist burns on photo
jaunts.
“Fluorine gases were emitted
with the dough-like lava. I dis
covered it when I sent off a roll
of 35mm film for processing. The
shots came back out of focus.
Fluorine had etched the glass of
my Leica lens,” he noted.
“Chlorine water purification
tablets were useless,” he added.
“There was already too much
chlorine in rainwater we collect
ed.”
Enrollment
Shows Gain
Second summer ses
sion enrollment at Tex-
-as A&M set a record of
4,150, Registrar H. L.
Heaton reported.
This figure is a 11 per
cent gain over the 3,824
students who attended
in 1965.
A record 4,805 stu
dents attended the first
summer session. The
second session will end
Aug. 26.
Fall enrollment opens
Sept. 14 when freshmen
report. Classes start
Sept. 19.
Texas A&M expects
11,000 this fall.
Clay, Stephen Buy
Stock From Bank
A substantial number of shares of stock in the Bank
of Commerce of College Station has been purchased by
Henry Clay and Stan Stephens, acting as trustees.
Clay is president of the First Bank & Trust and
Steven serves as senior vice president and trust officer.
“Each stockholder in First Bank & Trust will have
an opportunity to buy some shares of Bank of Commerce
stock in the near future if he so desires,” Clay said.
No immediate changes in personnel are planned for the
Bank of Commerce, he continued.
“The College Station bank will enlarge and improve
its facilities to provide greater service to meet the in
creased demand from the rapidly growing community and
Texas A&M,” Clay said. “Emphasis will be placed on
assuring convenient access to the bank.”
Clay revealed that property adjacent to the bank and
facing on Sulphur Springs Street and Texas Avenue had
been bought to expedite the improvements.
Improvements will include a modern, landscape drive-
in and additional parking areas.
“We plan a banking institution which will keep pace
with the progress of the college community and contri
bute to the unparalled growth at Texas A&M,” Clay assured.
After the hearing Joe G.
Hanover, THD District 17
engineer said he did not
know if the proposed route
would be changed or not.
“Any change in the proposed
site could only be brought about
by official requests for a restudy
between governing bodies and
the State Highway Department,”
Hanover said.
Hanover said the proposed
four-lane facility with frontage
roads and grade separations at
intersecting roads would cost be
tween $5.5-6.5 million. He pre*
dieted a completion time of about
three years.
Several officials from both
cities and interested citizens ex
pressed their views on the pro
posed route during the meeting.
“The attitude of the commis
sioners court is that we want to
put the by-pass where the Texas
Highway Department finds it
most feasible,” Brazos County
Judge W. C. (Bill) Davis said.
“The Bryan City Commission
feels the east loop would better
serve Bryan if it was further to
the east,” Bryan mayor J. D.
(Jack) Conlee. “Our major resi
dential growth is to the east and
southeast.” Conlee also urged
work towards the development of
west loop “as soon as possible.”
College Station mayor D. A.
(Andy) Anderson read a resolu
tion from the City Council en
dorsing the recommendations of
the THD for the “relocation of
State Highway 6.”
Mr. and Mrs. Nat B. Allen
asked that the location be moved
further to the east “so as not to
choke off eastern growth.” Mrs.
Allen said as the road is now
proposed, “it will go through our
backyard.”
Hanover said all the comments
will be transcribed and used for
evaluation purposes. He also said
another hearing, a schematic
hearing, would be held when the
exact right of way and grade
separations have been deter
mined.
Lecture Set
For Monday
Project Mohole field operations
chief Archie R. McLerran will
speak to NSF summer institute
participants and the public Mon
day at Texas A&M.
The 1939 A&M graduate’s lec
ture is at 8 p.m. in the Biological
Sciences auditorium. :
McLerran supervises research
and development for the project
aimed at drilling a hole through
the earth’s crust into the unex
plored mantle beneath.
Holder of seven U. S. and eight
foreign patents in oil field drill
ing equipment, he headed A. R.
McLerran and Associates, con
sulting engineers of Beaumont.
His firm designed rig layouts,
camps and transportation equip
ment for operations in Libya,
Trucial Coast, Trinidad, Colum
bia and Mexico.
McLerran was with Ideco 21
years before joining the National
Science Foundation’s field opera
tions office at Houston in 1964.
Escapees Caught
By Hobbs Police
Paul Norman Privet and Willie
Davis Jr. were to be returned to
the Brazos County Jail today
after being free for four days.
The two ex-convicts broke out
of the jail July 20 and were cap
tured Sunday in Hobbs, N. Mex.
after they had led Texas lawmen
in a 500-mile manhunt.
Both men signed waivers of
extradiction Sunday after ap
pearing before Hobbs Municipal
Judge Robert Sensing. The waiv
ers called for the pair to be
brought back to Texas with legal
action.
The pair is wanted for rob
beries in San Antonio and Hous
ton which were committed dur
ing their flight to freedom.
Candy Barr Returns To State Prison
From Battalion News Service
HUNTSVILLE — Texas Prison
Number 153781 returned to the
Texas Department of Corrections
here this week and hardly a head
was turned. There was not even
the slightest aura of excitement.
Such was not the case in Dec
ember, 1959, when TDC153781
first entered the Goree Unit of
the Texas Department of Correc
tions. At that time, representa
tives from all the major news
media were present. They knew
the nation wanted to see and
read about Candy Barr, the dar
ling of the Las Vegas, New Or
leans and Dallas strip joints, as
she entered prison.
The readers and viewers were
rewarded. Candy Barr alternate
ly wept and laughed as she walk
through the security gate of the
Texas women’s prison.
Now, six and a half years later,
having been free on parole for
more than three years, Candy
Barr — Juanita Phillips in pri
vate life — came back to prison.
This time, to make preparations
for her appearance at the Texas
Prison Rodeo in October.
She had driven from her home
in Edna, Tex., to meet with Ric
hard C. Jones, director for treat
ment, to discuss her proposed act
(she will sing at the Prison
Rodeo) and her costume (she will
wear something simple and in
good taste”). When the busi
ness at hand was concluded, she
expressed a desire to visit the
Goree Unit where she had served
three years in prison.
There she visited with Warden
Velda Dobbs and talked with in
mates she had served time with.
She posed for pictures and later
returned to the Huntsville Unit
where she was interviewed by the
inmate master of ceremonies for
the Prison Rodeo and the in
mate editor of the prison news
paper, The Echo.
Prison personnel who knew her
“back when” were pleased with
her visit and even more pleased
with her as a person who had
adopted a new philosophy of life.
She said, “You won’t believe
this, but right now I am a com
pletely contented and a happy
person. I have my daughter, my
parents, my family and a host
of friends who are good, solid
‘square’ people. Know what I do
in my spare time? I fish.”
Speaking freely and frankly
about her past life, she referred
to her eight years of show busi
ness as an “unreal thing — the
people were unreal — the life was
unreal and, consequently, I didn’t
know who or what I was. I was
unreal myself.”
About her three and one half
years in prison, the petite, 5-feet-
3, 31-year-old blond with blue
eyes and almost perfect mea
surements (36-23-36) says, “I
needed the time — I had a big
jolt, 15 years is a long time —
but I want to say this — I need
ed it. It woke me up. Not
at first, but after about two
years, it was then that I began
to realize there was a purpose to
life that I had been missing.
“You want to know something?
I worked in the prison library
for a year and that is what start
ed me back on the right track.
I started reading. I read every
thing I could lay my hands on.
And, I still have the reading
habit.”
What does she read now ?
“You name it — Bainbridge,
Schlesinger, Hemingway — the
whole spectrum. I write poetry
too, and I have written two songs
I hope to get published in the
near future.”
What was the roughest part
of her re-entry into a free soci
ety? “The first 90 days. The
trouble was me. Although I had
taken a fresh look at my purpose
in life, I still clung to the idea
that society owed me something
for having locked me up in pri
son. Then one morning I said,
‘who are you kidding — society
doesn’t owe you a thing — you
owe yourself.’ When I started
paying the debt to myself, I
found that society accepted me
and I had a good life.
“There were bad times. Peo
ple were sometimes cruel. My
daughter, for example, took con
siderable ridicule for a while, and
I guess I learned something vital
from her. She took the abuse
and kept her head high. She is
an honor student now, and people
have stopped giving her a bad
time.”
Candy Barr’s eyes twinkle with
satisfaction as she relates how
she was called on at the last
minute to help out at her daugh
ter’s school play. The teacher
had become ill and Candy was
asked to take over. She says,
‘I worked like a beaver. I built
scenery, rehearsed the kids and
the play went over fine. The
audience loved it. At the end, I
sang a song I learned at Goree.
‘Let Us Pray.’ Later, the kids
bought me a candy dish, and I
now consider it one of my prized
possessions. Success is found in
strange places, isn’t it?”
How does she feel about re
turning to perform in the Prison
Rodeo? “I’m scared, but I
won’t let that stop me. This is
something I want to do more
than anything else. I want to
put on this show solely for the
benefit of the inmates. I under
stand their problems and what
they are up against, and I be
lieve I can help a little. Listen,
these are my kind of people. I
was one of them, and, in some
respects, I still am. I want
them to say to themselves, ‘Man,
if she can do it, then I can. If
she can make it on the outside, I
can.’ And that is exactly why I
am interested in doing this. May
be it will help a little — not me
— them.”
Will she re-enter show busi
ness? “Right now, I would say
definitely not. I have no such
plans. I have had opportunities
— movies and other offers — but
I am too happy and contented to
spoil what I have. You know
something? For a long time I
didn’t know who I was, then
when I found out, I didn’t like
myself one bit. I changed what
I was, and who I was, and now
I like me.”
She walked down the prison
corridor to the front door. She
signed the visitor’s register in
the “out” column, told the officer
on duty, “I’ll see you in October,”
arid, as the security door slid
open, she — Juanita Phillips,
Candy Barr, No. 153781 — walk
ed out into the free air and to
ward the parking lot. Like her
daughter, her head was held
high and she walked with a cer
tain dignity and confidence.
A trusty watching from the
bull ring said to himself, “Recon
what the boys in LA and Vegas
would think about her now?”