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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 15, 1967
CADET SLOUCH
Fish Class Climbs
To New Heights
The Class of ’70 has come through again.
Neither dark, nor Campus Security, nor acrophobia
could stay those gallant Fish from the swift resurrection
of their proud banner atop the Academic Building dome.
It looked as if the battle was lost recently when the
first banner, as well as the imprompt flag pole, was
removed as mysteriously as it had appeared.
The fact that it stayed up so long is mute testimony
to the fact that somewhere, somebody was chicken.
But the same cannot be said for the intrepid fresh
man class.
This is the first time in recent memory that a fish
class, or any class for that matter, has performed such
an act of “skill and daring?”
Since it is unlikely that the perpetrators will
forward to accept their acclaim, we have to hand
the Fish class as a whole. They’ve got hair.
come
it to
Return The Texas Saloon?
“Though the liquor interests piously pretend to be
interested in the public welfare, they’re actually looking
toward an increase in liquor sales of eight million gallons
a year in Texas,” Rev. Albert Tucker, executive director
of Texas Alcohol Narcotic Education, said recently.
According to the Rev. Tucker, advocates of open saloons
say that if a persoh could get one or two drinks he wouldn’t
buy a bottle, therefore total consumption of alcohol would
be decreased. “This is just propaganda for the gullible,”
he notes.
by jim Earie Marriage, Religion
Voiced At Forum
“The strongly religious person
should not marry out of his re
ligion and the moderately reli
gious person should be careful
and realize that mixing of re
ligions is a dangerous thing to
do,” Dr. Bardin H. Nelson said
Tuesday night in the last of the
YMCA’s Marriage Forums.
make the difference between suc
cess and failure.
He said “all persons thinking
about marrying outside of their
religions should remember that
there will be differences arising
from such areas as drinking, card
playing, religious education,
church orientation, birth control,
parental pressure and sex.”
Nelson, a member of A&M’s
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Sociology, spoke on
“Marrying Outside Your Faith”
and sited examples of marriages
which he has witnessed as a coun
selor at Louisiana State Univer
sity and at A&M.
‘The Draft, You’
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“Statistics show that marriages
in which both members belong to
the same faith are more likely to
remain together than jjaterfaith
marriages,” Dr. Nelson noted.
“The Draft and You” will be
discussed tonight at 7:15 in the
Methodist Student Center at
North Gate by J.M. (Ben) Daniel,
chairman of the local Selective
Service Board.
“This not only means marriages
between Catholics, Jews or Prot
estants, but also members of the
same church but from different
congregations or areas,” he add
ed.
“I’ve taken my blades out and it seemed to suit just right!”
Nelson also pointed out that
the “degree of maturity” of the
members of the marriage will
Daniel, who has been a mem
ber of the board for 16 years, will
answer questions about the pres
ent situation of the draft and its
future.
He will discuss who is being
drafted and the situation as it
stands in regard to students, fa
thers and others in line for the
draft.
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“What they’re really after is an 80 per cent increase
in sales,” the minister contends. “Right now, one gallon
of alcohol is consumed in Texas each year for every man,
woman and child. The states with liquor by the drink it is
80 per cent more. If the liquor interests get their way in
Texas, that per capita consumption could be increased to
1.8 gallons a year, or an additional eight million gallons
of alcohol a year.”
Dr. Abner V. McCall, president of Baylor University,
has urged Texas lawmakers to vote against legalized sale
of liquor by the drink, citing a need for stricter enforce
ment of liquor laws instead of “enlarging the scope of
liquor traffic to be regulated.”
Texas can expect to see 606 additional people killed
in traffic accidents in the first year if liquor by the drink
is legalized, according to a booklet now being distributed
by TANK.
“In the state of Iowa,” the booklet states, “fatalities
went up 20 per cent to 30 per cent after liquor by the drink
was legalized.” (These figures are based on the average
of the two years before and two years after liquor by
the drink.)
“During 1965, 3,028 people were killed in highway
traffic in Texas,” it continues. “Using the lowest Iowa
figure, 20 per cent, Texans could expect to see an additional
606 people killed in traffic if the liquor by drink were
legalized.”
The booklet also claims that “marked increases in as
saults, robbery by force, burglaries and homicides have been
seen when the number of outlets for the sale of alcoholic
beverages is increased.” It contends the relationship be
tween consumption of alcohol and serious crimes is un
mistakable.
The Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol reports
the “alcoholism is our most pressing public health prob
lem.” States with package and liquor by the drink sale
have almost 50 per cent more alcoholics than those with
package sales only, the Journal notes.
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and has been designated a “Dis
tinguished Student.” He recently
completed the Army Aviation
Campus Flight Program.
Shafer’s honors and awards at
the college level include listing in
Who’s Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Universi
ties, 1966 Danforth Award, Santa
Fe Education Scholarship, Op
portunity Award and Anderson-
Clayton Scholarship.
PAST AND present activities
by Gerald Smith are Freshman
Agricultural Society, Saddle and
Sirloin Club, Alpha Zeta, Gamma
Sigma Delta and Senior Meats
Team.
The student has received the
Moorman Company Scholarship,
Ralston Purina Scholarship,
Houston Association of Hotel and
Restaurant Meat Purveyors
Scholarship, and has been desig
nated a “Distinguished Student”
six semesters.
Gerald is the son of Col. and
Mrs. George P. Smith of Pine-
ville, Mo.
MacFarlane, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John F. MacFarlane of 7809
Ewing Avenue in Fort Worth, is
on the Student Agricultural
Council, Civilian Student Coun
cil, and is an Entomology Club
officer and a “Distinguished Stu
dent.”
Liquor by the drink has not solved the problems of the
other states that have legalized it. It will not solve Texas’
problems. It will only create new ones.
He also is winner of a Jesse
Jones Scholarship and is listed in
Who’s Who in American Colleges
and Universities.
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