THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, January 12, 1967
■HIM
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Sound Off
Editor;
The Battalion:
Dear Editor;
This Saturday, Jan. 14, Texas
Woman’s University’s Student
Council of Social Activities is
sponsoring a Final Fling Dance.
We’d like to extend an invitation
to all Aggies.
The Final Fling will be from
8-12 p.m. in our Student Union
Building Ballroom. Admission is
25c and the dress, casual. The
Yaks will play.
I hope all Aggies will be able
to put aside their studies this
Saturday to make it up for our
Final Fling.
Thank you,
Jill Anderson
SCSA Publicity Chairman
TWU
Experts Says Future Housing
Limited Only By Imagination
“Girlfriend! Are you kidding? That’s a guy I went to
high school with who’s attending a well known university
now!”
Maddox Victory
Not Funny Now
Back in October, when Lester
G. Maddox won the Democratic
nomination for governor of Geor
gia, an editorial in the Battalion
called the situation “sad and
shocking.”
“The nomination ... may
someday qualify for the alltime
list of dubious achievements,” the
writer remarked, “but it now
turns out to be so funny it hurts.”
It isn’t funny any more. What
was then considered a fluke vic
tory didn’t provoke more serious
appraisals because most observers
gave the voters of Georgia'credit
for better judgment. The official
canvass by the state legislature
later seemed to strengthen that
viewpoint: Maddox finished sec
ond behind Republican Howard
Callaway, and though the large
number of write-in votes pre
vented Callaway from getting a
majority, there was reason for
hope that cooler heads would pre
vail when the race went to the
legislators.
They didn’t. Ignoring the re
sults of their own canvass, some
182 representatives voted for
Maddox, with just over a third of
that number supporting Calla
way. It could have been worse;
11 members abstained from vot
ing.
Maddox campaigned on issues
that would make Jack S. Phog-
bound blush. He was obliged to
present himself as the only “true
voice for patriotism, conserva
tism, liberty, states rights and
constitutional government, pri
vate property rights and free en
terprise” because he had abso
lutely no governmental qualifi
cations to emphasize. He said
race would be a major issue, but
he mentioned it rarely during the
campaign. He didn’t have to; his
flagrant defiance of federal law,
backed up by the axhandle-wield-
ing rednecks outside his cafe
teria, had already built for him
a far-reaching reputation.
Unfortunately, judging from
Tuesday’s election, that reputa
tion was qualification enough for
election to Georgia’s highest of
fice.
Concrete housing of the future
will be limited only by the imagi
nation of architects and builders,
an expert said here Wednesday.
Ted L. Edwards, district engi
neer for the Portland Cement As
sociation made the prediction at
the Texas Ready Mixed Concrete
Association Short Course.
Forty-five participants and
guests heard Edwards describe a
bright future for concrete in
housing.
“Concrete is a pliable and ver
satile material which can be pro
duced in any form, shape or col
or,” he said. “Not only is con
crete attractive, but its use in
building results in noteworthy
savings in fire insurance rates.”
Edwards showed color slides of
concrete housing in the United
States, England and Ireland. He
described a unique 180-unit pre
cast concrete motel on Padre
Island near Corpus Christi.
“Even the utilities were al
ready installed when the motel
was set in place by a crane,” he
said. “H. B' Zachry, a former
member of A&M’s Board of Di
rectors, contracted the job.”
Dr. Francis B. May, General
Business Administration Depart
ment chairman at the University,
predicted a “good, but not a ban
ner business year in 1967.”
May was the first speaker for
the three-day short course.
“This year could probably be
described as a Japanese reces
sion,” May commented. “Business
will grow at a slower rate, but
without a depression or reces
sion.”
The speaker referred to Presi
dent Johnson’s State of the Union
message Tuesday.
“A tax increase proposed by
the President to take the ‘steam’
out of inflation is very likely to
help the housing industry,” May
remarked. “It will enable the
Federal Reserve System to relax
monetary restrictions and in
crease lending capacity of banks.
Indirectly, this will increase the
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liquidity of the money market,"
Dr. May said the President’s
announcement that the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board will
make $1 billion available to build
ing and loan associations at, rath
er liberal terms will boost the
building industry.
“A better interest rate should
be a positive factor in helping
home building,” May continued.
“The housing industry was at its
lowest ebb in 20 years in 1966,
but the rest of the building in
dustry enjoyed a good year. En
gineering contracts in Texas
reached a peak of almost $1.5
billion.”
Fireman’s School
Schedules Class
For 20 Trainees
A five-day light-duty rescu
class at Texas A&M’s Firemen’s
Training field will be conducted
for 20 Texas game warden
trainees Jan. 30-Feb. 3.
John R. Rauch, Texas Fire
men’s Training School instructor,
heads the school which features
a night rescue operation Feb. 1
in “Disaster Village.” W. B. Dor
man will assist Rauch in present
ing the course.
Rescue squad organization, re-
connaisance, use of power rescue
tools and equipment, fire-fight
ing, casualty reports, visual aids
and instruction methods £
among topics for the week.
Guest instructors include Ted
Felds, chief of the Houston and
Harris County Civil Defense Res
cue Service, and Harold R. Soren
sen of the Brazos County Civil
Defense Rescue Service.
Course sponsors are the Office
of Defense and Disaster Relief,
Texas Department of Public
Safety and the Texas Firemen’s
and Fire Marshals’ Association.
Bob Evins, conservation super
visor for the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department, has charge
of the trainees for 16 weeks of
instruction at A&M.
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