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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.