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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1966
Number 358
SMU Probation Lifted By NCAA
Corps Senior Critical
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Hugh M. Richards, 21, senior
mathematics major from Dallas,
was seriously injured early last
night in a one-car accident on
Farm Road 60 and the Easter-
wood Airport turnoff.
Sgt. Morris Maddox of A&M
campus security said Richards’
car left the road about 300 feet
east of the airport road, crashed
through two fences, and hit head-
on into a tree.
Farm Road 60 is being re
topped and consists presently of
a rough gravel surface.
Maddox, arriving soon after the
accident, said Richards com
plained of severe chest pains as
they awaited an ambulance which
took him to St. Joseph’s Hospital
where he was listed in very criti
cal condition.
Richards later underwent emer
gency surgery.
Fellow seniors from his Com
pany E-l, and scores of other stu
dents rushed to the hospital,
where after receiving more than
a dozen pints of extra fresh blood,
nurses turned away most of the
other students.
Maddox said the car in which
HUGH M. RICHARDS
Tops New Construction On Campus
Tree Is Tradition
By JAMES FLAKE
Bait Staff Writer
Cush question number one:
Why do Christmas trees grow
50 feet in the sky?
Hint: There's one growing
from the ironwork on the top of
the new Biological Science build
ing addition.
John Balwin, superintendent in
charge of construction on the Bio
logical Science building, has one
answer:
“I've always heard it was a cus
tom brought over from the old
country. When you top out a
building, it is traditional to put
an evergreen tree on its highest
point.”
“After the tree is placed on the
roof of the building, a celebra
tion is held,” he added.
“After the work day Friday, I
bought refreshments for the
crew, and we celebrated that
night.”
Thomas Plummer, inspector of
construction for the A&M sys
tem, expressed a different view
point concerning the tree.
“When I was working on a
bank building job in Dallas, we
had a similiar ceremony with a
cedar tree.
“The president of the bank who
owned the building was Jewish.
He informed me the placing of
the tree on the top of the build
ing was a old Jewish tradition.”
“Before I knew it, he had most
of the officials in Dallas together
at the building site and was per
forming his ceremony.
“After the ceremony there was
a celebration — refreshments and
all.”
There were still other opinions
expressed on the tree.
Lt. Colonel Albert R. Moses,
retired, added to the confusion.
“I’ve seen these trees on many
projects in Finland, Sweden, Den
mark, and Germany,” he added.
“They were always placed right
at the top of the structure, and
were always some sort of ever
green.”
And last but not least, a fel
low Aggie uncovered a bit of
historical information.
“When the old Norsemen com
pleted a new building, they dedi
cated it to the Norse God, Wodin.
It was here that they began plac
ing an Acacia tree on the top of
the building.
“When they finished the dedi
cation they cerebrated.”
Answer to cush question one:
So the people can celebrate.
Prof Solves
Roll Problem
Pronunciation of names is a
problem for everyone at the start
of a school year.
Edward Wilson, a faculty mem
ber of the government depart
ment, was calling roll several
days ago and was having dif
ficulty with the names. He was
well aware of the classes’ enjoy
ment of his trouble.
In answer to their laughter,
he told a story about one of his
colleagues. The man, of Oriental
extraction, had the same problem
with pronouncing names. Wilson
passed by one of the man’s
classes as roll was being called,
he heard: “one”-“here”, "two”-
“here”, “three’’-here.”
topping out biology
building
Club To Stage
Barbecue Party
Members of the Economics Club
are invited to a barbecue party
at 4 p.m. Friday at Indian Lakes,
announced President Jim Crook.
The site is located south of Col
lege Station on Highway 6.
Barbecue with all the trim
mings — beans, potatoes, pickles,
onions — will be served. Cost of
tickets is $1.50 for students and
$4 for faculty members and their
families.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
Richards was riding was totally
demolished.
Richards is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dick T. Richards of 5514
Southwestern in Dallas.
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Charter Flight
Scheduled For
Holiday Trip
Reservations are now being
taken for Christmas charter
flight from A&M to Washington,
D.C.
Larry Eicher, one of the stu
dents involved in the program,
said reservations should be made
as soon as possible. A $50 de
posit is required no later than
Nov. 1.
The chartered jet plane will
leave College Station Dec. 16,
and will return Jan. 1. Round-
trip fare will be $105.
The flight is exclusively for
student, faculty, and their im
mediate families.
The flight is not organized by
any specific group, but simply by
interested students wishing to
make the trip, Eicher said.
One advantage of the charter
flight is a great reduction in
rates.
Normal fare would be approxi
mately $180, Eicher said. An
other advantage is that the flight
will leave from College Station
and go non-stop to Washington
D.C.
Traveling time is also consider
ably reduced by the jet flight
compared to other means of
transportation.
There are still seats available,
Eicher said. Interested persons
should contact Eicher at X-4-E
Hensel Apartments, or N. K.
Cranfill at 6-A Puryear Hall.
THE “FOUR FRESHMEN”
The “Four Freshmen,” nationwide campus A&M campus Friday for an 8 p. m. Town
singing- favorites will roll onto the Texas Hall performance.
Marketing Specialist Shows
Bananas As Good Food Value
Nuclear Reactor
Cooling System
To Be Installed
By GARY HERD
An external cooling system for
the nuclear reactor pool at the
Nuclear Science Center is being
designed for installation by the
end of this summer.
Bovay Engineering, Inc. of
Houston are the designers. The
National Science Foundation is
supplying the funds ($110,000).
Design-time for the cooling sys
tem is four to six weeks and
should be completed in November.
The cooling system consists of
primary and secondary loops. The
primary loop, constructed of stain
less steel, transfers heat from
the reactor pool water to the
secondary loop, made of carbon
steel. The secondary loop re
moves heat to the cooling tower.
The heat is then released into the
atmosphere.
The cooling system is required
for future increases in reactor
power. Present power level is
100 kilowatts. It will be in
creased to 1 megawatt (1 million
watts) by the installation of a
Triga reactor in the near future.
A stainless steel lining for the
reactor pool, the first modifica
tion, was installed March 7.
Stainless steel is used to elimi
nate impurities in the pool water,
which would result in radioactive
contamination.
The reactor core is composed
of aluminum, water, and uranium.
The isotope U236 makes up 93
per cent of the uranium. The
core, suspended from a bridge,
can be moved by rails to any
part of the pool.
Funds for the reactor, over
$1 million, were supplied by the
State, the National Science Found
ation, and the U. S. Atomic En
ergy Commission. The reactor
was completed in 1962. The re
actor is available to other insti
tutions and industries in the
Southwest.
Dr. John D. Randall is director
of the Nuclear Science Center.
The banana is probably one of
the oldest fruits known to man,
says Mrs. Gwen Clyatt, Exten
sion consumer marketing special
ist at Texas A&M University. It
is a native of India.
The people of the United States
import more bananas than any
other country —• almost 3.5 bil
lion pounds annually. An aver
age person eats about 17 pounds
per year.
Banana stems haven’t hung in
a grocery store for quite a num
ber of years. Growers discov
ered that bananas were more
easily handled if they were cut
in “hands” and 40 pounds packed
in a special carton. Leaving that
big banana stem back in Central
America cuts down on the ship
ping weight. The bananas reach
our markets in better condition,
thus cutting down on waste.
Bananas now cost less per pound
in our markets than they did ten
years ago.
Vegetable counters are well
stocked although none are excep
tionally abundant. Carrots, soft
and hard shell squash, green pep
pers, sweet potatoes and dry
onions are among more attrac
tively priced items. Cauliflower
quality is good although some are
rather small.
Fresh pork prices are a bit
lower as supplies increase. Bos
ton butt roasts, and shoulder
steaks are good values. Attrac
tive prices will be seen on some
brands of bacon and sausage.
Features in the beef depart
ment include some of the popular
steak cuts, boneless and chuck
roasts. Ground beef, very versa
tile, is a good value.
Fryer chickens continue to be
an excellent value. Turkey roasts,
turkey rolls or turkey parts are
excellent for menu variety.
If you need to stretch your
milk money, do it by purchasing
non-fat dry milk and evaporated
milk to supplement the whole
milk for your family. Remember
that skim milk and buttermilk
are lower in price than whole
milk and both can be a pleasant
change.
Medicare Cards
As ‘Good As Gold 9
Medicare’s health insurance
cards are “good as gold” for get
ting one admitted to a hospital
or identifying him as eligible for
physicians’ services under the
hospital insurance plan.
Miss Leota C. Lane, Texas A&M
University family life education
specialist, points out, however,
that an individual who seeks to
receive assistance from the insur
ance plan should be aware of
certain conditions which might
affect payment of his medical
expenses.
Hospitals and nursing homes
must meet minimum care stand
ards in order to receive payment
for services under the Medicare
program. In addition, under Medi
care, patients’ conditions will be
reviewed every 20 days and certi
fied as requiring additional hos
pitalization. If the doctor de
termines that hospitalization is
not necessary at the time of re
view, the patient will be required
to pay his own bills in full, if he
remains in the hospittal.
How much of a bargain the
Medicare physicians’ services cov
ered prove to be may depend on
how your doctor handles reim
bursement for his services. There
are two options for his billing
procedure.
He can bill Medicare for the
portion allowed for his services
and bill you for the rest. If he
chooses this route, he must accept
the payment which has been
established by Medicare as appro
priate for local medical costs.
The only alternative is that he
can bill you directly for the entire
amount. In this case, you must
obtain from him a signed state
ment of what he treated you for
and how much he charged for the
treatment. You then submit this
bill, attached to a form provided
by Medicare for this purpose, and
receive a refund for the part of
the treatment covered by Medi
care.
When arranging for medical
care to be covered under Medi
care, determine ahead of time
which of the two plans your doc
tor intends to use. If he plans to
bill you directly, find out what he
plans to charge for his services.
Then check with your local Social
Security office to determine if
these charges are in line with
accepted Medicare payments for
your city. If his charges are ex
cessive, you could end up paying
a great deal in addition to the
Medicare payments.
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Game Tickets
Almost Gone
Tickets to the Texas A&M-
Arkansas football game Satur
day, even end-zone seats, are be
coming a rarity.
All we have left,” said athle
tic business manager Pat Dial,
“is 6,500 to 7,000 deep end zone
tickets.”
Dial made the remark yester
day as lines grew longer at sales
windows in G. Rollie White Coli-
“It looks like we won’t have
any ‘Knothole Gang’ tickets for
this game,” Dial pointed out. In
previous games, younsters of
school age have been able to buy
end zone tickets for $1.
The Aggie-Razorback crowd is
expected to be the largest since
the Turkey Day tussle last year
with Texas. That would mean a
virtual sellout.
Dial said maximum seating at
Kyle Field is 38,500.
Aggies Stay
On Blacklist
Until Jan. 15
From the Associated Press
Hayden Fry, athletic director
and football coach of Southern
Methodist, expressed great plea
sure Tuesday upon hearing that
the school had been taken off
the probation list of the NCAA.
He announced it in the middle
of football practice and was met
with enthusiastic yells and whoops
from the players.
“The Southern Methodist coach
es, players and students are ex
tremely happly that the NCAA
rules committee has followed the
recommendations of the South
west Conference and removed the
Mustangs from their two-year
probation period,” Fry said.
Southern Methodist was put on
probation with sanctions at the
spring meeting of the confer
ence at Lubbock in 1964 for re
cruiting violations, mostly con
cerning the alumni.
The conference removed it at
the May meeting, but the NCAA
had to wait until its infractions
committee met to follow suit.
The coaches and players indi
cated by their response to the
announcement that being able to
play in a bowl game would serve
as a further inspiration for win
ning the Southwest Conference
championship.
The conference champion is
automatically host team in the
Cotton Bowl.
SMU is undefeated in confer
ence play thus far and is only
a half-game back of leading
Texas A&M. The latter is not
eligible for a bowl game since
it is on indefinite probation and
can’t compete in the bowls until
after Jan. 15. Most bowl games
are played around Jan. 1.
Student Grader
Life Big Task
Leading a dual life by being a
part-time grader for a college
course and a part-time student is
the lot of Mac McGuyre.
McGuyre became a grader and
student assistant for Dr. Law
rence S. Dillon, professor of biol
ogy in the spring semester of last
year.
There are two student assist
ants in each class. Their jobs are
make seating charts, to check roll
and grade tests.
There are about 12 minor
quizzes and three major quizzes
per semester. Each grader grades
half of the tests.
“It is very nice to be on the
other side of the red pencil for a
change,” McGuyre said. “The
money comes in very handy and
the work is enjoyable.
“I have to go to all the classes
but unless there is a quiz to
grade, I can study after taking
roll.” The pay is six dollars per
week.
An interesting sidelight to this
story is that McGuyre’s room
mate is a student in the course.
McGuyre grades his paper and if
his roommate makes an “A”,
there may be some questions
asked.
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NON-REG SPIRIT
Civilian Sign
Indicates Spirit
The Spirit of Aggieland is pre
paring itself for gridiron battle
early this week.
On the north side of Mitchell
hall, a large sign—the first we’ve
seen—depicts a large c lea ted foot
giving a very tame “razorback”
the supreme boot.
Tim Huser, and Lee Stanford,
civilian students residing in
Mitchell, said it this way:
“We just wanted the Ags to
know that everyone on this cam
pus is for number one all the way.
“So we got together, collected
the money from the dorm stu
dents and started working on it
while the Ags were romping over
the Baylorites.”
The sign may begin a new era
in A&M dining halls. It states
explicitly:
“Pressed ham for Sbisa!”