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Take Pride In Your Country—Fly The Flag On The 4th
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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1967
Number 450
Council Vetoes
Mayor’s Plan
THE PSYCHEDELIC SCENE
Tuesday evening the Memorial Student Center Summer and featured a group from San Antonio which had a unique
Directorate presented its first in a series of community musical presentation. See picture story, pages 4, 5.
dances. This one was termed the “Psychedelic Happening”
^1 Major Zipp
To Vietnam
Is Assigned
Cavalry Unit
Maj. Charles W. Zipp of Texas
A&M will leave the Military Sci
ence Department in August for
a 12-month assignment in Viet
nam.
An armor officer, he will be
assigned with the First Air Cav
alry Division at An Khe in the
central highlands.
Officer in charge of the ad
vanced section, Major Zipp has
been at A&M since September,
1964. The 38-year-old West Point
graduate, his wife Margaret and
three sons reside at 1217 Haines,
College Station.
The major will be serving his
third overseas assignment. After
commissioning in the infantry at
the academy, the Ranger School
Students Can Now Make
Fall Room Reservations
Texas A&M Housing Manager
Allen Madeley has issued a fall
semester room reservation call to
summer students.
He said students now in school
who expect to live in a dormitory
this fall should make room reser
vations at the Housing Office at
once, if room cards have not been
filled out previously.
“A summer school reservation
is for the summer only,” Madeley
pointed out. “Separate reserva
tions must be made for fall.”
He also noted that Aug. 15 is
the cancellation deadline, beyond
which room depost is forfeited.
The office anticipates heavy de
mand for dormitory space in
September.
graduate shipped to Germany for
three years. He transferred to
armor, and went to Fort Knox,
Ky., with the 6th Armored Cav-
Ky., with the 6th Armored Cav
alry. He was later assigned in
the office of G'-2, Armor Center
Headquarters, and the armor
career course at Knox.
Zipp returned to Germany in
1961 with the 2nd Armored Cav
alry for another three-year tour
before assignment at A&M.
The Rockville Centre, N. Y.,
native has been advisor to Cadet
Corps units and the Beaumont
hometown club. He works with
Boy Scout Troop 380, in which
his sons Al, 13, and Fred, 12, are
active.
The major’s academy appoint
ment was through the 36th In
fantry Division of the Texas Na
tional Guard. He served under
1943 A&M graduate Mike
Cokinos of Beaumont, Company
H-2 commander.
A&M Students
Get Tuesday Off
A&M students will not get Mon
day, July 3, off for an extended
4th of July holiday.
An Executive Board meeting
Tuesday discussed the possibility
of including the 3rd with the offi
cial school holiday on the 4th but
it was decided that classes would
meet as scheduled.
New Size Limit
Set On Parcels
Begins Saturday
Mailers will be able to send 25-
pound parcels between first class
post offices which are 150 miles
or more apart beginning Satur
day, announced Ernest Gregg,
College Station postmaster.
“The present weight limit is 20
pounds,” he said.
This is the first of five in
creases scheduled to take effect
annually until 1971, when a 40-
pound, 84-inch maximum size will
be authorized between all first
class post offices. Size limita
tions are now 72 inches in com
bined length and circumference
at the College Station office.
“The next increase on July 1,
1968,” said Gregg, “will raise the
weight limit to 30 pounds. On
July 1, 1969, the weight will be
increased from 30 to 40 pounds;
on July 1, 1970, the size will be
increased to 78 inches; and on
July 1, 1971, the size is scheduled
to be increased to 84 inches.”
Gregg also reminded mailers
that parcels weighing up to 40
pounds can be mailed between
first class post offices less than
150 miles apart.
Packages addressed to and
from 2nd, 3rd and 4th class post
offices, Alaska and Hawaii are
not affected by the increase in
size and weight provisions of the
Public Law 98-573, which became
effective January 15, he said.
Parcel post mailings to and from
these offices remain at 70 pounds
and 100 inches.
Proposal Needed
No Tax Increase
Summer Day Students Urged
To Park In Law Hall Lot
Day students who are having
trouble finding parking space
should use the Law Hall lot, ac-
August Graduates
Must Take Exam
Texas A&M seniors who expect
to graduate in August have one
remaining opportunity to take the
graduate record examination.
“The GRE will be repeated Aug.
11 and 12,” announced S. Auston
Kerley, Counseling and Testing
Center director. “This will be the
final opportunity for August
graduates to take it.”
Registration for the GRE, a
requirement for graduating sen
iors, may be accomplished any
time before July 21, he added.
The test, arranged on an insti
tutional basis, is restricted to stu
dents currently enrolled at A&M.
Two tests are administered, for
graduate students and graduating
seniors.
Earlier registrants will take
the GRE Friday and Saturday.
cording to Ed Powell, chief of
campus security.
The lot, located between Jones
Street and Main Drive on the
west side of Law Hall, may be
used during the summer ses
sions for both dormitory and day
students.
“It is closer to the Academic
area than some of the other lots
now being used by day students,”
commented Powell. “This lot
should be especially helpful to
students having classes in the
Academic, Nagle and the Physics
buildings.”
The Law Hall lot is reserved
for dormitory students during the
regular school term.
by WINSTON GREEN
Battalion Editor
The College Station City Coun
cil voted at its recent meeting to
delay further action on a five-
year, $537,000 city improvement
plan submitted by Mayor D. A.
(Andy) Anderson.
The 4-3 vote before approxi
mately 125 College Station citi
zens will table the mayor’s plan
until the council decides to take
up the issue again.
According to Anderson, the im
provements would not involve any
new taxes.
“Costs of these improvements,”
he said, “would be financed
through a 30-year bond issue.
We are sufficiently solvent to
pay the annual bond premium
and undertake other city improve
ments.”
The mayor’s plan called for:
• Construction of a city hall
on property owned by the city
on State Highway 6, costing
$200,000.
• Construction of a fire sta
tion-police headquarters on SH 6
property and purchase of equip
ment for the fire station, costing
$137,000.
• Purchase of the right-of-
Lions Club Plans
Fourth Of July
Event At Stadium
The College Station Lions Club
will sponsor a “July 4th Chick-N-
Cue” at the A&M Consolidated
football stadium from 5-9 p.m.
Tuesday.
The “Chick-N-Cue” will include
a chicken dinner “with all the
trimmings—beans, potatoe salad,
pickles etc.”
There wdll also be carnival
booths and such games as sack
racing and egg throwing.
According to a Lions Club
spokesman, there will be $300
worth of fireworks displayed dur
ing the evening, courtesy of the
College Station Recreation Coun
cil.
Tickets are $1.50 for adults,
and 75 cents for children. All
proceeds will be used for Girl
Scout Council activities, Scholar
ship awards and the crippled
children’s camp.
way for the SH 6 eastern bypass
and for an interchange, costing
$120,000.
• Extension of University
Drive (Farm to Market Highway
60) to SH 6 interchange, costing
$80,000.
The split vote, according to
one councilman, was not due to
the entire project, but to the
priority given to certain projects.
Councilman Homer Adams, who
voted ag*ainst the plan, said “Not
all of the mayor’s proposals are
bad. I believe the order of im
portance is where we differ.”
Adams pointed out several
other projects, including the
sewage disposal study planned
for 1968-69, as important for the
city’s future.
Also mentioned was a plan to
extend the lighting of South Col
lege Avenue from the Bryan city
limits to University Drive.
The roll call vote delaying ac
tion on the mayor’s plan was:
For tabling — Adams, A. P.
Boyett, B. J. Cooley and A. L.
Rosprim.
Against tabling—Robert Rhode
Against tabling — Robert
Rhodes, Anderson and O. M. Holt.
Immediately following the vote,
Anderson spoke again, seeking
public support for his plan which
also included: a proposed inves
tigation of federal funds for the
purchase of several new city
parks; the changing of the name
of College Station, (“since A&M
is no longer a college and the
town is no longer just a station”);
consideration of charter amend
ments, a sewage disposal survey;
a cultural center; and a study
to seek water and electricity at
cheaper rates instead of continued
purchasing of these utilities from
Bryan.
More than a dozen spectators
were recognized by Mayor Pro-
tem Holt and spoke out in favor
of placing the plan before College
Station citizens for a vote. They
also urged the council to settle
any internal conflict causing the
split voting and agree upon some
type of compromise plan.
The majority of those who
spoke, voiced strong approval for
a new city hall, fire station and
better police facilities.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
Sj SUNNYSIDE UP?
Hf With the College Station temperature hitting the mid-90’s for the past several days, Ken
^ Lucus and Betty Franklin see if it is really possible to fry an agee on the pavement. Lucus
is a psychology major and Miss Franklin is a sociology major at A&M.
123 Cadets Train
At 20 Air Bases
Texas A&M’s AFROTC pro
gram has 123 cadets among 7,100
attending field training this sum
mer at 20 Air Force installations
across the U. S.
Col. Vernon L. Head, professor
of aerospace studies, said 65 A&M
cadets are attending the first
summer session, June 18-July 15.
Fifty-five will participate in field
training July 30-Aug. 26.
The on-base academic and phys
ical programs are requisite to
commissioning as Air Force offi
cers and are administered by over
400 Air Force officers.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, your sav
ings Center, since 1919
Adv.
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STILL LOTS OF ROOM
This photograph, taken during the late morning, shows that many day students are not
taking advantage of the convenient Law Hall parking lot. Too many students are at
tempting to use the smaller, more crowded lots. See story above.
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