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ffl i Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1966 Number 342 Conditioning Projects Booming AIR CONDITIONING ON THE WAY . .. chilled water pipes line drill field. New Traffic Plan Slated To Ease Game Congestion Radio-equipped traffic guides, designation of one-way streets and the cooperation of local resi dents are all part of a new plan Tryouts Scheduled For Fall Production StageCenter, Inc. will conduct tryouts tomorrow through Satur- i day for seven male roles in its P fall production, “The Fantas- ticks.” Auditions will be in the Par- | rish Hall of St. Andrews Episco pal Church in Bryan from 7-9 p.m. The play includes roles for a drummer and a piano player. to ease traffic and parking prob lems for the Saturday night foot ball game with Texas Tech. Bennie Zinn, director of student affairs, said more than 5,000 out- of-town cars are expected to jam the Kyle Field area, and he urged all local residents, including stu dents and faculty members, to leave all lots near the stadium open for visitor parking. He noted both traffic and park ing will be complicated this week end by the large amount of con struction on campus, plus the fact the new 500-car lot near the stadium will not be ready for use. STUDENTS WILL be asked to move their cars early Saturday from the west side of the campus to the east side, preferably behind the Geology building. He also re quested that faculty and local residents park east of Military Walk, in the vicinity of the Chem istry and Agricultural buildings or in the Academic building park ing lot. “If parking is conducted in the manner we prescribe, everyone will have a much easier time leav ing the campus after the game— and that’s the most difficult period,” Zinn said. Five streets will be made one way at the conclusion of the game to facilitate departure. Houston will be devoted to southbound traffic, Bizzell to northbound and Lubbock, Lewis and Lamar will be reserved for eastbound ve hicles. PRIOR TO the game, Zinn said, a series of signs will be erected to route as much of the southern traffic as possible through Jersey St. and the east entrance to the campus. Officers and attendants will be equipped with portable radios and be in continuous contact with a traffic observation control center located in the dome of the Aca demic Building. If a traffic jam develops in one area of the campus, Zinn ex plained, control center personnel can quickly spot it and radio in structions to divert the traffic to another route. Zinn said the traffic program Saturday night is based on a study by the Texas Transporta tion Institute. By JOHN FULLER Battalion Staff Writer Airconditioning projects for G. Rollie White Coliseum and the Duncan dormitory area are mov ing along “about on schedule,” according to Charles E. Brunt, assistant manager of physical plants. Brunt said workers have fin ished laying chilled-water pipes from the northern corner of the Memorial Student Center block to the edge of Lubbock Street, which the Coliseum faces. He added the street would not be torn up to continue laying pipe until after Saturday’s football game. HE EXPLAINED that since all outside portions of the proj ects depend on the weather, there is no estimate yet as to the ex act date of completion, but prog ress has thus far been satisfac tory. “The airconditioning of the Coliseum should be completed about the middle of January,” Brunt noted, “and we’re trying to have the dormitories in the east area ready by September of next year.” The pipelines consist of insu lated steel pipe carrying chilled water from the power plant to various buildings. About 5,500 feet of two 14-inch pipes will be buried along Military Walk, Houston Street and Joe Routt Boulevard. Water at 42 degrees, cooled by five 1,000 ton cooling units at the plant, will be pumped Fall Enrollment Sees Big Hike Texas A&M has an increase of 1,119 students over last fall, Registrar H. L. Heaton reported yesterday. Registration closed Saturday but several days will be required in data processing before final figures are available with a breakdown in classifications, he said^ A&M had enrolled 9,385 on this date a year ago compared to Monday’s 10,584. This year’s attendance repre sents a 12.8 percent rise over last fall’s comparable class day, Heaton noted. at the rate of 1,800 gallons per minute. ABSORPTION units evaporate a lithium bromide solution and spray it over the pipes to draw out heat. The chilled water is fed into refrigeration systems inside the buildings. Water returns at 56 degrees after passing through coil and fan units. The campus presently has 29 buildings airconditioned by the central system, amounting to 4,- 000 tons of refrigeration. Thir teen buildings will be added un der present plans, bringing the tonnage to 6,400, Brunt said. Pipes have been buried along Lubbock Street between the Coli seum and the comer of the Dun can area, but contracts for the actual air-conditioning of the buildings will be up for letting in November and will be subject to the approval of the November Board of Directors meeting, Brunt pointed out. HE ADDED that contracts for air conditioning Duncan Dining Hall will be let in the first part of February, with the Board to consider the project that same month. Bids for expansion of the chilled - water plant expansion will be considered in April. Five rotating shifts of four men run the power plant, which produces power, steam, domestic hot water, heating, cooling, com pressed air and tap water. Ten dormitories are presently aircooled, with the 12 Duncan area dorms due air conditioning by the fall of 1967. 5 Civilian Students Restricted For Hazing By DANI PRESSWOOD Battalion Managing Editor Five civilian students have been placed on conduct probation for shaving heads of civilian fresh men, according to Dean of Stu dents James P. Hannigan. In addition to the conduct pro bation the students are restricted to the campus and must sign in at the Housing Office on week ends for the remainder of the semester. “This is the first case of civil ian hazing that has come to my attention in about 10 years,” Han nigan said. “Consequently we are trying to nip it in the bud.” The upperclassmen and fresh men involved are Latin American and it is believed the head shav ing is a relatively new tradition. The probation is a penalty just short of suspension, with further violations of University Regula tions resulting in dismissal. “Conduct probation is applied to cases we feel are serious yet short of suspension,” Hannigan continued. “This sentence makes these students especially vulner able. “They are liable to be suspend ed if they commit while on con duct probation an offense for which the sentence is not ordi narily suspension.” An additional restriction placed on students subjected to conduct probation concerns office holding. “These students cannot hold an elective or appointed office on campus while they are on proba tion,” he added. “This also rules out school trips.” Signing in and sitting restric tions are common practice in the Cadet Corps, Hannigan noted, but this type of punishment is used more conservatively among the civilian students. “While not used too often, this punishment crops up every once in awhile.” He said only one other civilian student is presently being sub jected to this punishment. His case does not involve the hazing offense. Aggie Band ’66 Football Makes Debut Town Hall Kickoff PAUL KRAMER Board Appoints Forest Service Associate Head Paul Kramer, 52, has been ap pointed associate director of the Texas Forest Service by the Tex as A&M System Board of Direc tors. Kramer, head of the Forest Pro ducts Laboratory of the Texas Forest Service for 11 years, as sumed the newly created post this week. He has been with the TFS since 1948. Dr. A. D. Fulwiler is head of the Texas Forest Service. Clyde Thompson, A&M board member from Diboll, cited Kram er for contributing “tremendous benefits to the Forest Products Industry, especially in the area of research.” Kramer is chairman of the Gulf States Section of the Society of American Foresters and is active in the Forest Products Research Society. A graduate of Washington State University with a bachelor’s de gree in botany, the Ohio native has done graduate study in wood technology at the Yale School of Forestry. He has published num erous articles related to Forest Products Laboratory research. Kramer and his wife live in Lufkin. They have a daughter at tending the University of Texas and a son at the University of Chicago. Christy Minstrels Here Friday By ROBERT SOLOVEY Battalion Staff Writer The New Christy Minstrels, the swinging Americana folk sing ing group, will open the Town Hall season Friday with their first appearance on campus. With seven boys and two girls, the night club, television, concert and recording group begin their show at 8 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The first of eight Town Hall presentations, the New Christy Minstrels won the heart of young folk singing America in 1964 with singles such as “Green, Green,” “Saturday Night,” “This Land is Your Land” and “Chim Chim Cheree.” FROM A performance for Pres ident Johnson to tours across the globe, the Christy Minstrels brought back the unfamiliar sounds and rhythms of the “hoot enanny.” Tickets for the expected sell out show are available at the Stu dent Programs Office of the Me morial Student Center. The new group is rooted in the hertiage of the original Christy Minstrels of the 19th century. That early group toured the pre- civil war South and West with Edwin P. Christy. WITH SINGERS and music ians, Christy brought folk music to the people. The group finally appeared in New York and a rec ord 2,500 performances there, singing tunes like “Oh, Susanna” and “Old Folks at Home.” The “New” Christy Minstrels vowed to recapture that foot stomping minstrelship of old. Mustering the forces of top sound and musicianship, the group has been beamed over Russia’s State Radio and are presently planning a State Department tour of that country. Six of their record albums sold more than five million copies. THE GROUP’S- nine hail from California and Illinois to Sap poro City, Japan, and include Kiyoko Ito, Kim Carnes, Bob Buchanan, (Michael McGinnis, Mark Holly, Terry Benson, Kenny Rodgers, Mike Settle and Peter Morse. Instruments used by the Min strels include guitars, banjo, cow bells, wash boards, bugles, fifes, auto harps and the double bass tipple. One of their latest accolades was the background score for the comedy Civil War movie “Advance to the Rear.” The 272-man Texas Aggie Band makes its 1966 football halftime debut Saturday at the Texas Tech game. The band, under batons of drum majors William M. Hensley of San Antonio, Donald C. Burleson of Pasadena and Freeman J. Jarrell of Dallas, is centerpiece for 30 minutes of the 7:30 p.m. game. Bandsmen will play for the 20 to 25 minute marchin of the Cadet Corps, beginning at 6 p.m. The band will be the only per former at halftime. Col. E. V. Adams, entering his 21st year as bandmaster, said the drill will include a sideline to side line entrance and end with the Aggie Band’s famous signature, the block ‘T.’ The 40-yard-tall ‘T’ is not normally employed in the band’s first halftime drill. In the bugle rank of the na- tionally-famous organization will be right guide Jim R. Davidson of Poteet, combined bands com mander; White band commander David A. Kocian of Hallettsville; Maroon band commander Andrew A. Tijerina of San Angelo, and Ronald H. Schwank, Lorena. Also, Jack E. Myers, operations officer, Cleveland; J ackson N. Barnes, Clute; Michael R. Seale, liaison officer, Houston; David L. Holmes, combined bands executive officer, San Antonio; Dennis R. Blanton, scholastic officer, Lib erty; Francis E. Savage, adju tant, Glen Rock, N. J.; James A. McDaniel, Rockdale, and Richard Mergen, El Paso. The all-senior front rank of silver bugles leads the band through its intricate drill. Band size for the Tech game will be 255, including drum ma jors. The 252-instrument forma tion has 21 ranks, 12 men wide. “We will have 17 alternates from which a 22nd rank may be formed for the TCU game,” Colonel Adams said. “That will leave us thin on alternates and we need those ‘extra quarter backs.’ From our first rehearsal through Final Review, there will never be a time when every man is present.” The band’s 272-man roster in cludes 123 freshmen. Sbisa Cafeteria Lists New Hours The Sbisa Hall cash cafeteria will be open new hours to accept coffee break patronage, an nounced dining hall manager Harold Thearl. The facility, located in the east corner of Sbisa, will be open from 6:30 a.m.-l:30 p.m. weekdays, he said. Four new Sbisa employes were added for the facility. Do nuts, rolls, coffee and other bev erages are served during the be- tween-meals period. “This service is to accommodate those on coffee break in leisurely surroundings without the rush and push of going off-campus or to crowded facilities,” Thearl said. Stadium Expansion Pact Awarded To Diboll Firm NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS Temple Associates of Diboll was awarded yesterday the first phase construction contract for expanding Kyle Field on a low base bid of $1,352,170. Four bids were received. The Texas A&M System Board of Directors opened the bids at their regular meeting here. The Board’s Building Committee was authorized to make adjustments in construction alternates with the contractor. Construction will begin Nov. 1, two days after the Aggies close the 1966 home football stand against Arkansas. The project is set for completion before A&M’s 1967 home opener Oct. 7 against Florida State. The board awarded an $800,000 revenue bond contract to Rau- scher, Pierce and Co., and associ ates of Dallas for 4.6864 per cent annually. An additional $400,000 revenue bond contract to supple ment the seat option program went to Republic National Bank of Dallas and associates at 4.5 per cent per year. The new phase of construction will increase Kyle Field’s seating capacity from 39,000 to 54,000. A later addition will up capacity to 65,000.