A&M LAUNDRY PUNCHES BUTTONS
Amoing extras provided by Texas A&M’s laundry is replac
ing missing buttons. Mrs. Joyce Gerzik operates one of the
plant’s two machines that automatically sews on the fas
teners.
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
Corpus Christi Hometown Club
will meet in the MSC at 7:30
p.m. Picture for Aggieland will
be taken.
Dallas Hometown Club will
meet in rooms 2A and 2B of the
MSC at 7:30 p.m. Free coffee
and donuts.
El Paso Hometown Club will
meet in room 3C of the MSC at
7:30 p.m. All members attend.
Important.
Fort Bend County Hometown
Club will meet in the Burch Room
of the MSC at 7:30 p.m.
San Angelo-West Texas Home
town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in room 108 of the Academic
Building and then move to the
MSC to have the Aggieland pic
ture taken. Corps members wear
Class A Winter uniform, civilians
wear coat and tie.
FRIDAY
The Political Forum Commit
tee will meet at the noon hour in
room 309 of Nagle Hall. Dr. Ro,
asst, professor of government will
present an informal discussion on
“Revolution of U.S. Policy in
Vietnam.” All interested persons
are invited to attend. Sandwiches
and cold drinks will be available
at a slight charge.
Oft-Cussed A&M Laundry
Does Massive Task Well
By STEVE KGRENEK
What are the most often
heard grips on the A&M campus?
The food? Yes.
The Corps? Yes, griped at and
about by both members and non
members.
The university laundry? Yes,
and the complaints it receives are
just as. groundless as those re
ceived by the Corps and the food
services — maybe even more
groundless.
If you don’t believe that state
ment, read on as we follow your
bundle of laundry through the
numerous processes that bring it
back to you cleaned, folded and
pressed.
The process starts when you
fill out your laundry tag. This is
the most impartant action you
make in the cycle. If you make
a mistake, it will probably be
caught but may slow things down.
Then you deposit the bundle at
your assigned pick-up station.
Now it’s out of your hands and
into those of Bob Hartsock, man
ager of the university laundry.
YOUR BUNDLE is then picked
up in one of three trips the truck
makes from each station to the
laundry. There it goes in with 79
other bundles to make up an
80-bundle lot which is the stand
ard lot size the laundry is geared
to handle. The lot is then given
to the markers.
There are 12 markers, six on
each side of a conveyor belt which
brings them the bundles. They
check the student count on the
laundry tags and mark every
other piece of laundry, each un
marked piece and those pieces
with faded marks. Socks are
bundled together and a marking
tag is affixed.
When a marker finds an error
in the student count she calls her
supervisor to verify the error and
a change correcting the laundry
tag is made. The markers also go
through the pockets of shirts and
pants and articles found are
tagged and sent to the laundry
lost-and-found department. The
marker puts each piece back on
the conveyor and it is carried to
the classifiers. The markers
handle 300-350 pieces an hour.
ONE CLASSIFIER takes out
all drip-dry articles so that they
will receive the special treatment
they require. Two other classi
fiers break the remaining laundry
into several categories, each re
quiring different washing pro
cedures. , Colored sport shirts
make up one category. They are
washed in water set at 90-100
degrees so that the colors will not
fade. White shirts are broken
into two categories, those to be
starched and those requiring no
starch. Khaki and blue jeans,
towels and underwear and linens
make up the other categories.
After being classified the laun
dry is moved to the washers in
large bins. Washing time is 35-40
minutes. After washing it is put
in an extractor to be spun dried.
This gets the clothes about as dry
as your mother’s washer does on
its spin cycle. From here the
categories are again taken to dif
ferent stations. Khaki and blue
jeans go to the tumblers where
they are pre-dried for pressing.
SHIRTS GO to the shirt finish
ing unit, linens go to the flat
work ironer and socks, underwear
and towels go to the tumblers to
be completely dried. Drip-dry
articles are treated one of two
ways. They are either completely
dried in the tumbler or they are
air dried if they require this
special treatment.
Khakis and jeans go on to the
two pants units where one of the
two operators finishes them. Each
operator finishes 22-25 pants per
hour.
Shirts go to one of five two-
operator shirt units to be fin
ished. A hundred to 115 shirts can
be processed through these five
units In an hour. They are then
inspected for broken buttons,
poor pressing or tears. These de
fects are repaired free of charge,
buttons are replaced, tears are
mended with mending tape and
poor pressing is redone. The
laundry tries its best to return
clothing to the student that is
ready to wear. All top buttons
are buttoned and the shirt is then
sent to the folding table.
AFTER BEING folded all the
laundry is sent to the bundling
tables. Here girls sort it out into
bundles according to laundry
marks, have each bundle checked
by a supervisor and then wrap
each bundle for return to the
pick-up stations. The tag which
has gone through the front office
to be recorded is attached to the
return bundle when it is wrapped.
This tag bearg the amount of
charge on the laundry, if any,
and some other important in
formation. On it is marked any
damaged or lost articles for
which the laundry is responsible.
NOW THAT you have your
laundry back, did you know that
it took the 119 productive per
sonnel only one and one-half to
two hours to process it; that you
can request and receive emer
gency service; that the laundry
averages 150,000 pieces of laun
dry a week.; that it is one of the
largest if not the largest institu
tional laundry in the nation; that
it is self-sufficient?
And that for your student
laundry fee you get 30 pieces of
laundry a week not 23 or 25 as
most assume; that if you tag a
stained garment near the laun
dry mark 99 percent of all stains
can be removed; that your over
count charge is less than one-
third of a commercial charge for
th same articles?
Also that rubber raincoats can
not be laundered and that your
contact lenses don’t belong in
your laundry bag?
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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Thursday, January 5,1&;
Law Enforcement School Scheduled
A general school for law en
forcement officers is scheduled
Jan. 23-Feb. 17 at Texas A&M
University.
Wallace Beasley, coordinator
for A&M’s Police Training Divi
sion, said the course provides
basic skills and knowledge for tli
rookie and broader concepts f«
the more experienced officer.
Twenty officers are expect*;
for a month of training at A&M’s
Memorial Student Center.
Grand
Opening
The New
Handy Burger
same location
at North Gate
203 University Drive
featuring delicious....
sandwiches
fried chicken
malts - shakes
soft drinks
Call 846-7466 and
Have your order ready
when you arrive.
Hays Invited
To Bring Group
On British Tour
Dr. John Q. Hays of Texas
A&M has been invited by World
Crossroads of Learning, Inc., to
take a selected group of students
to observe London theater next
summer. *'* s »
Students interested in drama
will be given a first-hand look
at British theater training cen
ters, old and new London stage
plays, and meet British actors,
teachers and directors.
The July 5-Aug. 10 tour will
include visits to Edinburgh, the
Lake Country and Shakespeare
theater at Stratford, Dr. Hays
said.
He was extended the invitation
as a follow-up of his year as a
Fulbright Professor of American
literature at the University of
Cape Town, South Africa, in 1965.
“London is the capitol of Eng
lish-speaking stage,” the A&M
English professor of 37 years
said. Tour participants will be
announced later this school year.
CIVILIAN
SENIORS
and
GRADUATE
STUDENTS
Will have their portrait
made for the Ag-gieland
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THRU JANUARY 15
Portraits will be made at the
University Studio (coat and
tie).
ATTENTION ! ! !
ALL CLUBS
Athletic, Hometown, Pro
fessional, and Campus Or
ganizations.
Pictures for the club sections of
the Aggieland are now being
scheduled at the Student Publi
cations Office, Y.lVf.C.A. Build
ing.
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