Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1966
Number 346
Parking Situation
Said Not Serious
By JOHN FULLER
Battalion Staff Writer
Campus Security Chief Ed
Powell said today many campus
parking spaces are not being used
and that the parking situation
need not present any important
problem.
“Anyone with a maroon park
ing sticker may park in any of
the lots designated for students
with 60 or more hours, or in the
overflow lots,” he noted.
Powell said the apparent over
crowding of the junior-senior lots
in the Duncan area could be cor
rected if more people used the
band dorm lot.
“That area is for the use of
anyone with 60 or more hours,”
he pointed out.
“The band has no right to keep
other cars out of there. We’ve
talked to the military leaders in
that area and have it worked
out.”
HE EXPLAINED that the
number of autos parked along
the adjoining streets because of
the full lot behind dormitory 5
was exceeded by the number of
empty spaces in the band lot.
“We first issued blue tickets,
warning those drivers that they
should be parking in the empty
spaces near dormitory 11,” Powell
said. “Later we began issuing
the standard yellow tickets to the
cars parked along the street.”
Powell said students had parked
along both sides of the street at
some points.
“This is dangerous because
that’s a very narrow street,” he
pointed out. “Rather than risk
having someone killed or injured
or having a car badly damaged
because passing vehicles can’t
maneuver safely, we’re trying to
move these cars to the other lots.”
POWELL SAID plans are being
made to transfer freshman and
sophomore vehicles from the lot
along Highway 60 north of the
cyclotron building to the large
lot south of G. Rollie White Coli
seum as soon as paving is com
pleted there.
Day student autos, plus those
of employes of the Cyclotron In
stitute and the Buildings and Uti
lities Department, will be park
ed in the former freshman-sopho
more lot, he added.
“We also hope to let day stu
dents park in the lot by the cot
tonseed laboratory, if it’s ever
Argentine Program
Contract Renewed
Renewal of a contract between
the State Department Agency for
International Development and
Texas A&M for economic devel
opment in Argentina was an
nounced today by President Earl
Rudder.
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Demonstration of SID AC (serial information dial access
control) equipment by Harry Proudman of Chester Labo
ratories was televised recently during- displays at Texas
A&M. The closed circuit TV hookup was projected on
a screen enabling- audiences of 250 to see demonstrations
of small pieces of equipment. Video tape recordings were
made of demonstrations.
The $424,517 contract provides
for technical advice and assist
ance to the National Institute of
Agricultural Technology of the
Argentina government.
The Department of Agricul
tural Economics, through the
College of Agriculture, has tech
nical responsibility for further
development of a national agri
cultural economics service in the
South American country.
“Nine INTA staff members
are registered in A&M’s gradu
ate school and others will arrive
for graduate study in 1967,” said
Dr. Jack Grady, head of the Inter
national Programs Office which
handles contract administration.
Three A&M agricultural econ
omists have worked in Argentina
since 1964. The new contract
provides for eight economists to
go to the country, four each in
1966 and 1967, he added. Argen
tine students do graduate re
search in their home environment
under supervision of American
graduate professors.
In addition to training activi
ties, technical advisory assistance
will be given INTA in evaluat
ing its agricultural economics re
search program to include re
search projects development, ad
vising other agricultural agency
administrators and special prob
lems consultation.
Dr. Tyrus R. Timm heads
A&M’s Department of Agricul
tural Economics and Sociology.
Dr. John McNeely, department
professor, leads international
agricultural development. Dr.
Vance Edmondson is party chief
with headquarters in Buenos
Aires and Clifton Bates, with
the project in Argentina two
years, will be campus coordinator.
paved,” Powell noted. He points
out that paving had been author
ized some 17 months ago but that
no action has been taken.
“As for freshmen and sopho
mores, we have more than enough
parking spaces — or will have
when the Coliseum lot is com
pleted,” Powell continued.
HE SAID THE new lot will
have over 500 spaces. The Nava-
sota and Hempstead lots hold
280 and 208 cars, respectively,
and Powell said the number of
vehicles owned by students with
59 or fewer hours was less than
the total in the three areas.
Powell explained that the fresh
man-sophomore lot near the cyclo
tron reserved for residents of Leg-
get, Milner, Mitchell, Walton, and
all the new and reconditioned
dormitories except Henderson
Hall, has space for 285 cars but
only slightly more than 200 cars
have been parked there lately.
Powell said the lot to which
the cars will be transferred was
used for the first time at Satur
day night’s football game, al
though it is not yet paved.
“THE ONLY TIME we’d have
real trouble with that lot would
be in case of a really heavy rain,”
Powell noted.
He added that day students may
park facing west on Bizzell Street
south of Lubbock Street in order
to relieve the stress brought
about by campus construction
projects and an increase in the
number of student automobiles.
Powell said no figures are
available yet concerning this
year’s registration.
“We’re still registering cars,
and we just don’t have the staff
to sort out and count up all the
registrations this early,” he ex
plained.
Powell said it will probably be
a few weeks before totals can be
released.
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PARKING CRUSH
In one of the more cramped lots.
Grad Enrollment
Rises To 2120
Enrollment in the Graduate
School now stands at 2,120 stu
dents, according to Dr. R. W.
Barzak, Associate Dean of Grad
uate Studies.
Dr. Barzak said this is an in
crease of almost 300 over the
enrollment of last fall, and it is
a slight increase over the all-
time high of last spring.
He said although the draft
has played a part in the high
enrollment, it has not caused as
much increase as had been ex
pected.
Hoss Volunteer
Officers Named
Corps Commandant Col. D. L.
Baker released yesterday appoint
ments and assignments of cadet
officers and noncommissioned of
ficers in the Ross Volunteer Com
pany for 1966-67.
Thomas C. Stone was named
commanding officer and Robert
A. Holcomb executive officer.
Neal C. Ward was appointed ad
ministrative officer and Robert
Computer Orientation Meet
Scheduled Here Tuesday
Aggie Band Featured
On Radio Show
The Texas Aggie Band will be
featured on the Kern Tips Sport
Show on 14 state radio stations
tomorrow.
The five-minute show will car
ry information and music by the
nationally - famous organization
which made its 1966 halftime de
but Saturday in the A&M-Texas
Tech game.
Stations receivable in College
Station carrying the program in
clude KVET, Austin, 7:30 a.m.;
WFAA, Dallas, 7:05 a.m.;
WBAP, Fort Worth, 7:25 a.m.;
KPRC, Houston, 6:55 a.m.;
WOAI, San Antonio, 7:15 a.m.,
and KWTX, Waco, 7:25 a.m.
A Computer Orientation Semi
nar is scheduled Oct. 1-13 at Tex
as A&M.
Designed for the layman, the
seminar sponsored by the Center
for Computer Research in the
Humanities will describe com
puter operation and how com
puters may be programmed to
serve humanists.
“A second aim is to acquaint
people with computer terminology
for the November conference on
computers in humanistic re
search,” center director Milton
Huggett said. “Discussions will
be quite elementary.” Huggett is
coordinating the seminar, sched
uled Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday nights in the Memorial
Student Center.
College of Liberal Arts mem
bers and other interested persons
are invited, he added.
Gene Dippel, computer pro
gramming languages instructor
in the School of Business, is the
principle speaker. He will dis
cuss computer makeup, how it
“thinks” and how people com
municate with computers.
His discussion will be sup
ported by A&M faculty members
with computer-oriented research
projects in the humanities.
Dr. H. O. Hartley, Institute of
Statistics director, will speak on
“Disputed Authorship of ‘The
Federalist Papers’: The Mostel-
ler-Wallace Statistical Study.”
English graduate student James
Pye will discuss “Decision-Mak
ing in a Folklore Study.”
“Communicating With a Com
puter in Anglo-Saxon” is the
topic of English professor R. V.
Roach.
A. Beene selected operations of
ficer.
Platoon leaders include John
P. Tyson, John L. Willingham and
William C. Haseloff Jr.
Noncommissioned officers in
clude Victor H. Schmidt, first ser
geant; Gregory S. Carter, first
platoon sergeant; Troy H. Myers,
second platoon sergeant; Michael
S. O’Hara, third platoon ser
geant; Charles N. Robertson, sup
ply sergeant, and Manzell L.
Shafer, public information ser
geant.
William R. Hindman, Terry C.
Aglietti and David J. Cruz are
platoon guides.
Squad leaders include Richard
E. Burleson Jr., Gary W. Foster,
Terrell S. Mullins, Arturo Esqui
vel, Roy E. Massey, Michael M.
Tower, Gerald A. Teel, Lawrence
P. Heitman, Joseph D. Rehmet,
Douglas V. Marshall, Donald E.
Woods and Richard Kardys.
Color guard members are Da
vid A. Kocian, Wayne B. Fudge,
Sammy W. Pearson, Hardol C.
Schade III, Steven V. Gummer
and Michael R. Walker.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
Old Days Gone
Cadet Corps Not The
By LOWELL JONES
Battalion Special Writer
The Corps is just not what it
used to be.
“When I was here, things were
run in a strictly military fa
shion,” says Bennie Zinn.
Zinn enrolled at Texas A&M in
September, 1922, and the life was
anything but easy. Rising with
the dawn, his outfit, Company B,
Field Artillery, drilled for at
least a half hour before break
fast.
If it was Thursday, they spent
the entire morning after chow
drilling. Since they were an
artillery company, they used
horses and French 75 MM
howitzers on caissons.
ALL CADETS were required
to know not only the manual of
arms, but how to disassemble,
assemble, and clean every weapon
they had. ROTC in those days
was designed to train the cadet
for every possible aspect of a
field officer’s responsibilities.
Finally noon would roll around
every day just like it does now,
and the cadets would march to
lunch.
“At the table,” said Zinn, “we
ate just like we did at home. We
didn’t have people asking us
questions and making us sit up
straight and stiff. For announce
ments, we sat up with our hands
in our laps. We were restricted
on certain kinds of cush. For a
year I didn’t have any pineapple
or apricot pie. That was no great
loss. I liked other kinds better
anyway.”
After lunch, there were classes
that were just as tough on fish
as they are now. Zinn was an
engineering major his first year
and he faced about the same
courses that challenge the ma
jority of today’s freshmen.
IMMEDIATELY after evening
chow there was a brief yell prac
tice, held on the steps of the
YMCA.
The cadets went directly from
yell practice to their quarters,
where they hit the books. Each
fish had an upperclassman as
signed to help him with problem
courses.
“Cadets helped each other.
Everybody looked out for the
other guy,” Zinn said.
On Sundays, everybody went to
compulsory chapel. Later in the
afternoon the band would march
and play concerts at different
spots on the campus for the enter
tainment of the cadets and any
one else who wanted to listen.
“We didn’t get off campus
much. At North Gate there was
one drugstore and one grocery
store. That was it. I was here
four yars and I think I went to
Bryan twice,” Zinn recalled.
“WE DID GO home for Thanks
giving and Christmas, but we
were required to wear our uni
Same
form at all times, no matter
where we were. It was good ad
vertising for the college.”
After four years which seemed
terribly long then and all too
short now, Zinn was graduated
in 1926.
He began his educational
career teaching at Hearne. After
three years there he went to
Temple, where he taught high
school and junior college. He held
this position until 1940, when he
went into the Army.
He served honorably for five
years, including four in World
War II in the European theater.
IN 1945 HE returned to the
states and a position at Texas
A&M College. He’s been here
ever since.
“If I were to give any advice
or criticism,” said Zinn, “it would
be that freshmen of today are
required to do so many things
that seem to be a waste of time.
If all cadet units would really
work towards good military lead
ership and cooperation, the kind
of esprit-de-corps and tradition
you want will be developed and
you won’t have any of this time
wasting.”
OLD ARMY
In the days of the horse-drawn artillery.