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College — Across From Weingarten “WORLD’S LARGEST PURE BEEF BURGER” • 14 Lb. Pure Beef In Every Whataburger • MADE WITH 100% PURE BEEF GROUND DAILY AT WHATABURGER PHONE 823—1864 — Your Order Will Be Ready 1967 Graduates of Engineering Computer Science Science Business Accounting Electro-technology Have you made a decision about your future employ ment? If not, visit our counselors and discuss industrial assignments and interviews with expanding companies. Call Memorial Student Center — 846-8721 after 5:00 p. m. on Tue., Dec. 6 or anytime Dec. 7 & 8 for an appointment. Placement fees are paid by the company. Employee Relations Counselors of The Southwest, Inc. 2427 Humble Bldg. Houston, Texas Fuller's Follies THE BATTALION Wednesday, December 7, 1966 College Station, Texas Page 3 Man Collides With Mother’s Car One of the Christmas tradi tions I’ve gotten pretty attached to is buying a copy of a certain Columbia Special Recordings al bum every year. (This is not a plug, any more than a movie re view is a plug for the local the aters. Honest.) So this year, true to form, I spent a hard- earned dollar on “Great Songs of Christmas, Album Six.” As I drifted off to sleep the other night, with the last notes of the recording running through my head, I began to dream. The scene was a big walnut-paneled office at Columbia Records. A meeting of the Executive Com mittee in Charge of Great Songs of Christmas was in session. At the head of the long confer ence table sat a man wearing a Santa Claus suit. Junior execu tives were conspicuous by their constant coughing as they smoked oversize pipes. “GENTLEMEN, you may have heard why we’ve called this meet ing,” the chairman boomed, after the room had settled down. “The Greatyear people have done some research and come up with some startling — nay, appalling—fig ures. “Our Christmas albums cost a lot of money to make. We get together the top names in the industry, back them up with big orchestras, promote sales with television advertisements during football games. The dollar we get for each record doesn’t begin to cover the expense; the whole point in selling these records is to get people into the stores to buy other things.” The chairman paused for em phasis. “Gentlemen, there’s a college kid in Texas, named John Fuller, who’s bought every al bum without spending a cent on those other things!” A GASP escaped all the junior executives simultaneously. Two attendants came running with smelling salts. “Are we going to let Fuller get away with this?” demanded the chairman, as foam began flecking his lips. “NO, SIR!” chorused the junior executives. “Are we going to produce the biggest disappointment he’s ever seen for Album Six?” he shout ed, jumping onto the desk. “YES, SIR!” the others cried trium phantly. “Then let’s get to work,” he said, stepping down and resuming his seat. “Now let’s don’t pull any punches. Let’s stprt off with a reaL bombshell. Let’s get Barbra Streisand to sing ‘Silent Night’ and ‘Ave Maria.’ Fuller can’t STAND Barbra Streisand.” The room rocked with applause. “AND THEN we’ll get a re cording of The King Family singing that brand-new, tradi tional old Christmas carol, ‘The Holiday of Love.’ ” “Great, Chief!” cried one of the horn-rimmed set. “Isn’t that the one that sounds like the theme song from some big beauty pageant ?” The Chief smiled benignly, nodding almost imperceptibly. “I commissioned it myself,” he sniffed, stroking his beard. “Bravo! A stroke of genius! You’ve done it again, S.C.!” rang out from the assembled execu tives. “I’D LIKE to sort of yell this out in the mess hall and see if anybody wildcats, Chief,” broke in one of the executives, who had spent the first semester of his freshman year at A&M before transferrin gto Columbia. “What do you say we put not one, but three King Family numbers ? They could do ‘Caroling, Carol ing,” which even they can’t mess up, and ‘It Came Upon a Mid night Clear,’ which they can and will.” The Chief beamed. “Farns worth, I think you’ve got the makings of a Senior Executive. We’ll do it.” Today American Association of Uni versity Professors will meet in room 145 of the Physics Build ing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday Abilene Hometown Club will meet at 7:45 in the MSC lounge area for the Aggieland picture. Wear coat and tie and Class A winter uniform. Port Arthur Hometown Club will meet in the Anderson Room in the YMCA at 7:30 p.m. Beaumont Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 226 of the Academic Building. Bring your dues. Russian Club will have a meet ing in room 302 of the Military Science Building at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Claud Davis of the Government and History Department will talk about his travels in Russia. Ev eryone interested is invited to at tend. Waco Hometown Club will meet in the Reading Room of the YMCA at 7:30 p.m. Bring your sweetheart pictures. Brazoria County Hometown by John Fuller Farnsworth blushed furiously and sat down, too drained of emo tion to do more than grin and nod feebly. “NEXT, WE’LL have the New Christy Minstrels—I mean, the NEW New Christy Minstrels—” The Chief chuckled briefly, glared around the room, and was quickly answered with other chuckles. “. . . to sing a song from ‘Marne.’ ” “Tremendous, S.C.!” broke in a bright-eyed, pink-cheeked Tex as grad. “I always say, there’s nothing like a Broadway musical as a source for traditional, rev erent Christmas carols!” “Then, just to keep Fuller on the string until the very last minute,” the Chief went on, “we’ll include a few actual Christmas songs. I thought we’d get somebody like Ray Conniff and the group to sing ‘Hark, the Herald Angels Sing’—it’ll look good on the cover—but here’s the clincher:” (Here, S.C. paused until the room was deathly still, then continued in a dramatic stage whisper.) “We’ll have them do it to a Cha-cha beat.” The room exploded with cheers; paper wads filled the air; the jun ior executives lifted the Chief and carried him out on their shoulders. And then I woke up. Club will meet in room 228 of the Academic Building at 7:30 p.m. Will discuss the Christmas party. Austin Hometown Club will meet in room 208 of the Aca demic Building at 7:30 p.m. Deep East Texas Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 2-A of the MSC. Impor tant that all members be there. Houston Hometown Club will meet in room 201 of the Physics Building at 7:30 p.m. The Christ mas Party, New Years Party, and Club Picture will be dis cussed. San Antonio Hometown Club will meet in room 113 of the Biology Sciences Building at 7:30 p.m. Bring your girl’s picture for the Sweetheart selection, or turn it in to Dennis Hohman, dorm 6, room 319; or Jim Hoop er, dorm 7, room 205. A Christmas Bazaar will be sponsored by the Chemical En gineering Wives Club in front of Lester’s in Townshire Shopping Center from 9:30-4:30. As R. Noyles watched a car skidding toward the pickup truck in which he was riding he recog nized the driver was his mother. The car hit the truck, bounced off and plunged over a 200-foot cliff. Noyes leaped out, ran to the edge and peered over with dread. Emerging from the battered car far below were his mother, Mrs. Marie Yvonne Noyes, and brother, Daniel, 11, of Nelson. They were only cut and bruised. Keyed-up students unwind at Sheraton... and save money Save with weekend discounts! Send for your free Sheraton ID card today! It entitles you to room discounts at nearly all Sheraton Hotels and Motor Inns. Good over Thanks giving and Christmas holidays, summer vacation, weekends all year round. SEND FOR YOUR FREE ID CARD! I I COLLEGE RELATIONS DIRECTOR c/o Sheraton-Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. 20008 Please rush me a free Sheraton Student ID Card (or a free Fac ulty Guest Card). I understand it entitles me to generous dis counts all year long at most Sheraton Hotels and Motor Inns. Address Student □ Teacher □ Sheraton Hotels Motor Inns AN OPEN LETTER Hello Aggies, For several weeks we have been running our adver tisement in the Battalion telling you about Aggieland Recreation Center located behind Betty’s Fashions in the Redmond Terrace Center, College Station, Texas. We’ve told you that we have two five by ten billiard tables, two five by ten snooker tables, sixteen four by eight billiard tables, seven pin ball machines and other games. That we are open 7 days each week from 8 a. m. till midnight. That no alcoholic beverages are sold or allowed. 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