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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, October 28, 1966 Racing Tires Bad For Street Travel Sound Off “We should have been suspicious when they asked us to come down a day early!” Secretariee Try Harder Beth Hutchinson, secretary in the Department of Nuclear En gineering, says secretaries are trying to improve their status in the professional sense. Mrs. Hutchinson said it is now possible for industrious secre taries to earn a degree as a Cer tified Professional Secretary. At present she is serving as the president of the Bryan-Col- lege Station chapter of the Na tional Secretaries Association. “It is possible to get a degree by taking tests much like the bar exams,” she said. “A girl may take all six areas on a test if she desires but she must take again any one she does not pass. The exams are offered only once a year so it is usually better to take only one a year to be sure that you pass. The six areas offered are: (1) Human Relations (2) Busi ness Law (3) Business Adminis tration (4) Accounting (5) Sec retarial Skills and (6) Secre tarial Procedures. Of 1,565 candidates, only 260 passed in 1966. Mrs. Hutchinson returned Thursday from the regional meeting of the NSA. The pro gram was presented in Spring- field, Mo. with representatives from Texas, Louisiana, Cali fornia, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. The qualifications for becom ing a CPS are: (1) One year of college (2), at least five years experience and (3), recommenda tion of the employer. The international convention in 1967 will be in Toronto, Can ada. All delegates are expected to attend this convention, as well as a large number of the 3,590 cer tified professional secretaries. AKRON, Ohio — The growing use of racing tires on sports and high performance cars for street travel is a practice that should be Hipped in the bud, warns the manager of racing tire develop ment for the world’s largest rub ber company. “If you want to compete on a race track, use racing tires. But if you want extra performance on the highway, get high-perfor mance passenger tires. Racing tires are not the answer,” is the blunt advice of Harold E. Mills of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. “There are a number of major differences between a tire de signed for the street and one de signed for racing,” Mills ex plained. “Probably the most im portant are that race tires have no rubber sidewall protection for the carcass cord — they’re de signed that way to dissipate heat generated at racing speeds — and no protection from the effects of weathering.” A passenger car tire has thick sidewall rubber to protect the carcass from curb-rub damage. And the rubber is compounded to withstand the effects of weath ering, or oxidation caused by ex posure to ozone and heat—a tire’s two worst enemies. “There are no curbs to be rubbed on a race track, and a racing tire is not expected to be in use for a long period of time,” Mills noted. “On the other hand, a passenger tire is expected to withstand exposure to the ele ments.” Mills said another very im portant difference between a rac ing tire and a passenger car tire is in tread design. The tread of most race tires has a compact design, with very narrow grooves and blades to give maximum traction on a dry race track. A passenger car tire must have a more open tread design to per form well on wet roads. The more open a tread design, the better it is able to wipe away water Opinions expressed "‘'in TM 'Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community neivspaper. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Arts; Dr. Robert A. Clark, College of Geosciences; Dr. Frank A. McDonald, College of Science; Dr. J. G. McGuire, College of Engineering; Dr. Robert S. Titus, College of Vet erinary Medicine ; and Dr. A. B. Wooten, College of Agricul ture. THE BATTALION ' This Associated Press'is entitled exclusively to ■'the use for ^publication of all news dispatches, credited to it* or not publication of all news dispatches, credited to it or no herwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneou in. Rights of republication of all othe serein are also reserved. 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The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building, College Station, Texas ?6 per school abject to 2% Address: MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Publisher Texas A&M University Student Editor Winston Green Jr. Managing Editor Robert J. Solovey News Editor - John Fuller Staff Photographer j Russell Autrey This is Russ Kennedy of Balboa Island, California, on an in-port field trip as a student aboard Chapman College’s floating campus. The note he paused to make as fellow students went ahead to inspect Hatshepsut’s Tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, he used to complete an assignment for his Comparative World Cultures professor. Russ transferred the 12 units earned during the study-travel semester at sea to his record at the University of California at Irvine where he continues studies toward a teaching career in life sciences. As you read this, 450 other students have begun the fall semester voyage of discovery with Chapman aboard the s.s. RYNDAM, for which Holland-America Line acts as General Passenger Agents. In February still another 450 will embark from Los Angeles for the spring 1967 semester, this time bound for the Panama Canal, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Denmark, Great Britain and New York. For a catalog describing how you can include a semester at sea in your educational plans, fill in the information below and mail. and maintain sure traction on a wet road. “When we design a race tire— be it for stock cars, sports cars, drag racing or what-have-you— our main considerations are for good handling and stability characteristics and heat dissipa tion. We are not concerned with a comfortable ride, squeal or noise factors,” Mills said. “Tread wear is often only a secondary consideration, and we are only concerned with providing wet track performance in certain sports and formula car tires. “For example, at the Le Mans 24-hour race this year, Goodyear had three different tires availa ble—for dry, damp and wet con ditions,” he said. “Our primary aim is for high speed durability,” Mills continued, “which means producing a tire able to withstand and dissipate the tremendous heat encountered by a tire on a car going 200 miles per hour or faster. A passenger car tire never encounters those kind of conditions.”- The Goodyear official added that a race tire is designed for a much wider wheel than is a pas senger car tire, and for best per formance carries considerably higher inflation pressures. “If a wide race tire is mounted on a conventional passenger car wheel,” Mills said, “the result is a small ‘footprint” because of abnormal curvature of what is intended to be a wide, flat tread, and abnormal tread deflation. The tire will wear out quickly.” Editor, The Battalion, I am writing in response to the letter from Mr. Tice on Oct. 26. Mr. Tice said “When freshmen whip out to civilians their lan guage is not full of courtesy and respect.” On numerous occasions I’ve whipped out to civilians “Howdy, my name is Webb,” and gotten the reply “Jones,” or “Smith.” Now Mr. Tice, that’s not even a complete sentence, not to mention the cold clammy handshake that accompanies it. I don’t deny the Corps of Ca dets has its two-percenters. We also have many mistakes, but if you will come by my room I’ll loan you some “Brasso”. Your halo has a few blemishes. Gary Webb ’68 P.S. I don’t know what kind of university you think this should be, but I’m pretty proud of the one we’ve got. YMCA Poll Shows Religion Preferences Fifty-nine per cent of Texas A&M’s fall enrollment is Baptist, Methodist or Catholic, a YMCA denominational preference list shows. YMCA General Secretary J. Gordon Gay’s figures reveal 2,- 271 of A&M’s 10,706 students are Baptists. Methodist preference was given by 2,163 and 1,905 pro fessed Catholic faith. Slightly over 10 per cent gave no preference. A&M students claim 25 different faiths. The compilation listed Presby terian, Lutheran, Episcopal, Church of Christ, Christian, and Moslem (in that order) promi nent among the 25 faiths. UNIVERSITY RESTAURANT Next To Campus Theater Special For Tues. - Wed. - Thurs. - Fri. CHICKEN IN THE BASKET 75c FREE COFFEE 7 P. M. TO 10 P. M. 1 BOSTITCH REGAL SWEEPSTAKES! 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