Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1966
Number 338
A s Registration Continues
Campus Feels
Parking Pinch
STRANDED MAGGIE IN A SEA OF CARS
senior Toni Horn surveys jammed Law Hall lot.
Night Club Performance
Opens In Guion Tomorrow
Nightclub star Anna Chalet
will present an exclusive one-
night singing engagement at 8
p.m. tomorrow in Guion Hall.
Miss Chalet, a 10-year show
business veteran, plans a versa
tile show with a “few surprises
for the Aggies.”
Presenting her first show in
this area in two years, Miss Cha
let has geared her show to the
interests of the Corps of Cadets
iecause of “a deep admiration for
the Twelfth Man.”
I “I was seriously injured in
automobile accidents two years
ago,” she said, “and the Spirit
of the Twelfth Man made me
want to get back into the field.”
The show, presented by the
Aggie Players, will open with a
song entitled “Today I Love
Every Aggie” and move into
Miss Chalet’s renditions of songs
such as “Hard Hearted Hannah”
and “Bill Bailey.”
A Judy Garland medley and a
“Frock-in-Tail Monologue” will
also highlight the performance.
Backed by the five-piece Fred
die Noble Orchestra, Miss Cha
let will close the show with a
pair of surprise numbers for the
cadets.
Tickets will be on sale at the
Piggly Wiggly Supermarket and
at the door for $1 with student
identifications cards and $1.50
without. The box office opens
at 6.30 p.m.
“We want as many of the
Corps there as we can get,” she
said. “If enough students show
up after the first performance
I’ll play the same show in its
entirety again at 9:30.”
Singing out of her hometown
Houston, Miss Chalet recently cut
six “pop” recordings. She plans
to return to the night club cir
cuit after her performance here.
The company with the Anna
Chalet Show includes, director
Robert Thompson and costume
designer Anne Thompson. Carol
Hill serves as lighting designer
and public relations manager.
ANNA CHALET
First Bank .& Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
MSC Rooms Open
For Reservation
Application for meeting rooms
for student clubs and organiza
tions for the fall semester are
being accepted in the social and
educational office of the Memor
ial Student Center.
MSC Social Director Mrs. Ann
Keel stressed the service is strict
ly a courtesy for student groups
and that a room rental charge is
not made to student organizations
for routine meetings.
Prices Reduced
On Date Tickets
Reduced price date tickets at
$4 for football games are on
sale through Friday at G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
All tickets bought after that
time will cost the regular $5.
Date and student tickets for
out-of-town games will be sold
for one week ending at 5 p.m.
the Wednesday before each
game. Student activity cards
and identification cards will be
required when purchasing
these tickets.
Ticket booths will be open
from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday and 8 a.m. -
noon on Saturdays. The booths
will remain open during the
noon hour Monday through
Friday.
By JOHN FULLER
Battalion Staff Writer
Campus Security officials said
yesterday an official tabulation
on the mushrooming campus
automobile population will not be
released until next week.
Security Chief Ed Powell re
ported that registration cards
still have not been sorted out or
counted because the staff has
been busy getting autos regis
tered.
“Until registration tapers off,
not even a rough estimate can be
made,” Powell said.
Although the number of stu
dent and faculty autos is not
known, and the number of park
ing spaces has been fluctuating
with the construction projects on
the campus, the cars overwhelm
ingly outnumber the spaces. Some
students have reportedly had to
park off campus because they
were unable to find room in the
north side lots, and auto owners
in the Corps area have been
forced on occasion to park on
parking lot access roads.
Adding to the parking head
aches is the temporary disuse of
the lot south of Guion Hall, which
has been torn up in connection
with the White Coliseum air-
conditioning project. A related
problem has been the cutting off
of campus thoroughfares by con
struction works such as the new
library and the Biological Science
Building addition.
The number of registered cars
was listed as 7,782 last spring,
with 6,395 parking spaces at that
time. By August, the number of
spaces was up to 6,495 and the
summertime car population was
reportedly about 7,200.
UNIVERSITY officials have
tried to discourage campus park
ing by raising parking fees. Stu
dent rates went up to $10 for 12
months, $9 for nine months, $5
for fall and spring semesters and
$4 for summer school. Faculty
and staff members must pay a
one-third increase in fees from
$7.50 to $10. Reserved parking
fees are up from $8 to $11, and
duplicate auto stickers are now
$1.
An increase in parking areas
has been achieved by paving an
area near the Cyclotron Institute
on the north side of the campus.
Dean of Students James P. Han-
nigan said about 600 spaces in
that area are now in use.
Additional new parking spaces
will be gained by paving land on
the southeast side of Kyle Field.
Hannigan said at last check
workmen had put down a lime
covering and should soon have the
asphalt top on the lot. He said
500 cars can park in the space,
but the other third of the area
will be used for parking heavy
equipment for use on the stadium
expansion.
HANNIGAN ALSO noted work
on the .new four-lane highway
near the College Station Railroad
Depot is underway. School offi
cials had worked out a property
exchange agreement with Brazos
County officials to use the cur
rent strip of Wellborn Road and
adjacent property for paved
parking areas in return for land
to construct the highway. Con
struction crews began grading in
the new highway area midway
through August.
Hannigan said the university’s
aim is to “promote the campus
more and more as a pedestrian
center, with large parking lots on
the perimeter.”
He added that “we prefer to
add new parking areas in this
manner rather than by tearing up
islands of grass in the middle of
the campus.”
THE FRESHMAN and sopho
more lots, typical “perimeter”
areas, are due expansion within
the next two years. Other park
ing eventually will be added near
the railroad tracks in the new
dormitory areas on the northwest
edge of the campus.
Hannigan predicted another
year of predicaments for out-of-
town football fans, since the dirt
lot east of G. Rollie White Coli
seum is expected to be taken for
equipment storage areas by the
contractors for the Biological
Science Building addition and
White Coliseum air conditioning.
KK’S STRIKE AGAIN
. another student’s wallet $2 lighter.
500 Veterans Gain
GI Bill Benefits
Approximately 500 service vet
erans will attend Texas A&M this
semester with the assistance of
the G.I. Bill,” Student Affairs Di
rector Bennie Zinn announced yes
terday.
Zinn urged each veteran to
familiarize himself with the new
program in order to prevent cost
ly misconceptions of the benefits.
The Veteran’s Administration
forewarns veterans attending
school to be prepared to pay ex
penses for at least two months.
Zinn explained. Reason for this,
he added, is that since a monthly
certificate of attendance signed by
the veteran is sent to the VA, the
first month must be paid for
before such a record is filed.
Processing consumes time up
until the 20th of the following
month, when VA mails the pay
ment checks. Proper and prompt
sending of these certificates will
eliminate delays.
Allowances are given in ac
cordance to semester hours for
which veterans are registered. The
number of dependents also deter
mines the allowance received.
Fulltime students may receive
from $100-$150 monthly depend
ing upon dependents. Three-quar
ter time students may receive
from $75-$115 a month while half
time students are allotted $50-$75.
Fulltime loads are 14 semester
hours or the equivalent, three-
quarter time equals 10-13 hours
and halftime is 7-9 semester
hours. The rate of established
charges for tuition and fees for
less than halftime students is not
to exceed $50 if more than one-
quarter time and not to exceed
$25 if quarter-time or less.
College Station Health Group
Appointed By Mayor Anderson Grad Lecture
Series Begins
A City Health Committee has
been appointed by College Sta
tion Mayor D. A. Anderson to
study health problems in the city
and coordinate with local health
groups.
The City Council has tentatively
approved the committee but form
al action on the proposal is sche
duled for the council’s Monday
meeting.
“The purpose of the committee
is to keep informed of health
problems within the city and make
recommendations to the City
Council for action on such matters
that may affect the health of the
citizens,” Anderson said.
The compiittee will concern it
self with health hazards posed
by mosquitoes, rodents, rabies and
air, water and food pollution, the
mayor added.
Dr. Martin McBride is chairman
of the committee. Other mem
bers include Dr. T. O. Walton Jr.,
Dr. E. D. McMurry, Dr. Manning
A. Price, Dr. Herbert W. Hooper,
Dr. R. D. Radeleff, J. H. Sorrels
and James E. Poore.
Anderson said the committee, if
approved by the council will work
cooperatively with the governing
board of the Brazos County
Health Department and the Texas
A&M Health Committee.
The statement of policy estab
lishing the committee provides
that its members be appointed by
the council for terms concurrent
with that of the mayor.
Anderson noted the idea of
establishing a city health commit
tee was prompted in a conversa
tion with McMurry several weeks
ago but was brought to the
mayor’s attention more forcefully
when he received several calls
pertaining to possible encephalitis
cases in the College Station area.
Dr. A. A. Smales, Analytical
Sciences Division head of the
United Kingdom Atomic Energy
Authority, will give a Graduate
College lecture tomorrow.
“Problems in the Meteorites,
the Role of the Analytical Chem
ist” is the topic of Smales’ 8 p.m.
free public lecture in the School
of Architecture Auditorium.
The president of the Society for
Analytical Chemistry received
B.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees from the
University of London and be
came a fellow of the Royal In
stitute of Chemistry in 1951. He
was awarded the Order of the Bri
tish Empire in 1960 for research
work.
Analytical sciences and geo
chemistry are primary research
interests of the speaker.
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Johnny Mathis Tops Spring Bill
Christy Minstrels Start Town Hall Season
5
By ROBERT SOLOVEY
Battalion Staff Writer
The folk singing, folk swing
ing New Christy Minstrels are
first of a lineup of eight acts set
for this year’s Town Hall per
formances.
The array of stars include the
“Doc” Severinsen Sextet, The
Four Freshmen and Fred Waring
and the Pennsylvanians for this
fall.
Spring attractions include popu
lar vocalist Johnny Mathis, the
University of Texas choir and
Dallas Symphony Concert Or
chestra, the Serge Jaroff Original
Don Cossack Chorus and Dancers,
and as a Town Hall extra, the
World famous Harlem Globetrot
ters.
The New Christy Minstrels,
here Sept. 30, are seven men and
two girls best known for their
rollicking, foot stomping folk
music and for greatly populariz
ing the “hootenanny.”
THEIR STRING of recording
hits includes “Green, Green,”
“Saturday Night” and “Chim
Chim Cheree.” Six of their al
bums have sold a combined total
of five million copies.
A Town Hall extra is “Doc”
Severinsen, assistant director of
the NBC Orchestra, and solo
trumpet of the orchestra under
the direction of the Tonight
Show’s Skitch Henderson. He
performs Oct. 14.
Entertaining close to a quarter
of a million people a year, the
Four Freshmen will liven G. Rol
lie White Coliseum Oct. 28 with
their versatile and professional
vocal styling.
Their own relaxed kind of hu
mor, the ability to play seven
different instruments and their
smooth harmony make the Four
Freshmen ever-popular entertain
ers.
FRED WARING and the Penn-
fjylvanians will celebrate a half
JOHNNY MATHIS
... popular recording star here Feb. 13.
century of entertaining America
with a musical show entitled
“First Fifty Years” Dec. 7.
Mathis, who appears Feb. 13,
has an unusual and universal ap
peal apparent in such gold rec
ords as “It’s Not For Me To
Say,” and “Chances Are.”
The previous week, on Feb. 6,
Meadowlark Lemon will demon
strate his uncanny basketball
skill and humor as the Harlem
Globetrotters visit Town Hall as
an “extra.”
The Globetrotters have enter
tained in 87 countries and an esti
mated audience of 50 million peo
ple. With the skill necessary to
win any conference title, the
Globetrotters will play ball for
Aggies as they have done for
families everywhere.
ROUNDING OUT the year will
be the Palm Sunday performance
of the University of Texas Choir
and Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
The last presentation will be
“24 uniformed White Russian
giants,” the Don Cossack Dancers,
whose Russian dancing and sing
ing have made them world favor
ites for more than 40 years. The
group appears April 19.
All tickets may be purchased
in the Student Programs Office
of the Memorial Student Center.
FOLK SINGERS FIRST TOWN HALL SHOW
. . . New Christy Minstrels perform Sept. 30.