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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1966)
r fm! i !r " : i Mf ‘ •’ I Page 4 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 27, 1966 Law Enforcement Academy Lures West Texas Policemen The Texas A&M - sponsored Southwest Academy for Law En forcement began yesterday at Big Spring. Scheduled at Howard County Junior College, the four-week school is expected to attract scores of police officers from West Texas. Classes will be held seven hours a day. Wallace D. Beasley, coordina tor of police training for the En gineering Extension Service, said instructors Bill E. Caffee, Steph en Clark, Roland Howerton and Ira E. Scott will assist in con ducting the school. Other speakers and topics in clude Jay Banks, Big Spring Po lice Chief, “Mob and Riot Con trol;” John Burgess, Big Spring City Attorney, “Laws of Evi dence;” Fred Creech, National Auto Theft Bureau, Midland, “Auto Thefts and Fires;” Big Spring Police Captain R. E. Du gan, “Defensive Driving;” Lyn wood Elliott, chief legal exami ner of the Texas Liquor Control Board, “The Liquor Act;” Big Spring Corporation Court Judge Bill Eyssen, “Court Room De meanor,” and Seminole Attorney Stephen Haley, “Aspects of DWI Law.” An estimated 7.5 billion mi croscopic meteorites pepper the earth daily, but only about 90 large meteorites weighing up to 10 pounds strike the earth each year. Students Serve esda As Stat Trainees Four students have returned from a summer as trainees with the Department of Agriculture’s Statistical Reporting Service in Austin. They are Albert Menn and Ed gar Ohlendorf of Lockhart, John nie Cosper of Edna and Larry Sommers of Temple. Menn is a senior in agricultural engineering, Cosper a senior in agronomy, and Ohlendorf and Sommers are juniors in agri cultural economics. WHEELED SERVICE ... Sbisa dining improvement. Clary D. Palmer, statistician in charge of the Austin office, said the quartet studied procedures in developing estimates in connec tion with the state’s $2.5 billion annual farm income. STOP AND CHECK WHAT WE SELL Converse AH Star & U. S. Keds Tennis Shoes Handballs & Gloves Soccer Shoes A&M Stadium Blankets Gym Shorts & Sox Wool & Orion Sweaters Tennis Rackets & Balls Sporting Goods Of All Kinds Close-Out On School Supplies ED GARNER’S STUDENT CO-OP STORE North Gate Sbisa Features Food On Wheels Food on wheels is served stu dents and faculty through mod ernization of Sbisa Dining Hall. A portable cash cafeteria line — completely on wheels — in the Sbisa main hall supplements four other food service arrangements in the older of A&M’s two dining halls. Located in a multi-purpose hall, the 67-foot long cash cafeteria line can be removed in less than an hour for registration, dances, banquets and other functions held in the 78 by 255 foot room. President Dwight Eisenhower once spoke at a banquet there. Twelve stainless steel and for mica units connect to form the serving line, which includes meats, vegetables, salads, des serts, coffee, tea and milk served by meter-flow apparatus, ice dis penser and soft drink bar. Power and water connections are made unit-to-unit in railroad train coupling fashion, with only two sunken outlets in the floor necessary for the entire opera tion. let. The electrical coupling tech nique is the only one in the U.S. “Our cash cafeteria is not the ultimate in efficiency,” Dollar added, “but it’s a basis for devel opment. The operation will be under constant study.” The two-line checkout counter includes a coffee server designed by Harold Thearl, Sbisa manager. Thearl’s server brews coffee in the low compartment of a stain less steel cabinet and pumps it to dispensers on top. The self-service, $16,000 facil ity is expected to handle 500 cus tomers at peak times, he added. Dining hall net gains are turned back into food service. Dieters won’t have any trouble pushing away from cash cafeteria tables. The serving line can be rolled out of reach. “We can disconnect the power, place a steel plate over the re ceptacle and pour water on it,” noted Fred Dollar, food service department director. “Students will dance right over it and never know they are on a 208-volt out- Post Office Adds 120 New Mail Boxes The College Station Post Office has installed 120 new post office boxes, postmaster Ernest Gregg said yesterday. “We didn’t want to install them until we needed them,” he said, “and now we need them. There were several students who were unable to get boxes.” The post office will start assigning mail boxes today. The students travel throughout the state gathering information for crop acreage and production forecasts and on livestock num bers and production. They inter viewed farmers, ranchers and businessmen, and visited cotton and corn fields to make plant, boll and ear counts, Palmer said. After gathering the informa tion, the students returned to the state office and summarized the data with electronic data pro cessing machines. “The group also assisted in ar riving at recommendations for state estimates,” Palmer explain ed. Read Classifieds Daifl Presenting the JADE EAST VALETRAY The exhilarating elegance of Jade East in a handsome new setting. Man’s Dresser Valet together with 4 oz. bottles of Jade East Cologne and Jade East After Shave. $9.00 complete. Key ring and Buddha Cuff Link/Tie Tac Set not included. Swank sole distributor. Available at fine stores everywhere. One d; it CIRCLE FLOORS and CARPET CENTERS announces their factory SEASON END CLOSE OUT CABIN CRAFT CARPETS SS^-SOr® off reg. price CONTINUOUS FILAMENT — $2.95 A up NYLON, ACRILAN, PROPALENE-OLEFIN AREA-RUGS, THROW RUGS *2 95 » a,s © ? 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