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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1967
Number 475
TYPICAL PARKING LOT
If Aggies would start utilizing parking lots available, parking conditions would rapidly
improve on campus, Security Chief Ed Powell said Tuesday. The above parking lot, be
tween Law and Henderson Hall, typifies lots near the main buildings. Powell urged
students to use the perimeter lots, according to the color on their parking stickers.
Band’s TV Halftime Show
Gets Enthusiastic Reaction
Favorable response to the
Texas Aggie Band’s performance
on national television during the
A&M-SMU football game has
been sounded from Georgia, Cali
fornia, New York, Washington
and points between.
The band, directed by Lt. Col
E. V. Adams, turned in a six-
minute halftime performance
containing maneuvers not nor
mally attempted until latter
stages of the grid season.
The Colonel, as he is known to
bandsmen, rated the Sept. 16
performance flawless. He also
was pleased with the precision
of last Saturday’s drill in the
Cotton Bowl during the Purdue
game.
THE BAND cheeked in two
weeks ahead of registration for
six-a-day practice sessions. Prac
tice last week was bogged down
by rain from Hurricane Beulah.
Colonel Adams said a light
practice load is scheduled this
week with an idle weekend ahead.
A&M plays LSU at Baton Rouge
Saturday. The tempo will pick
up next Monday in preparation
Aggie Firemen
Assist Victims
Harlingen was the base of op
erations Tuesday for four men
from Texas A&M’s Firemen’s
Training Division who are assist
ing victims of Hurricane Beulah.
“People are really pitching in
and helping out down there,” re
marked A&M Fire Marshal El-
wood Sevison who returned to the
campus Tuesday after six days
in the Rio Grande Valley. “It’s
rough down there, but the people
are really battling back.”
Sevison and Bryan fireman
Walter Opersteny returned a 1,-
000-gallon pumper to the cam
pus. High water forced them to
take the scenic route home, from
Weslaco to Laredo to San An
tonio.
Remaining in Harlingen with a
Texas Department of Public
Safety rescue unit are Chief Hen
ry D. Smith, John Rauch, Jim
Bland and Bob Dobson. They are
working under direction of C. 0.
Layne, state Civil Defense direc
tor.
“We made several runs with
Kingsville fire trucks Tuesday
night and Wednesday before mov
ing to Harlingen and McAllen
Thursday,” Sevison noted. “In Mc
Allen we waded water to our
Waists to rescue about 75 persons
stranded in low-lying areas.”
The A&M team was dispatched
Saturday to help restore commun
ications in flood-ravaged Ray-
mondville. Sunday’s assignment
was a jaunt to Weslaco where the
A&M men helped supervise sand
bagging operations on levees be
tween Mercedes and Weslaco.
Rescue operations continued
Tuesday in Harlingen as rising
streams carried more water into
the city.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
for the A&M-Florida State con
test at Kyle Field Oct. 7.
Telegrams, phone calls and let
ters trumpeted the organization’s
TV exhibition.
A LETTER from Owego, N. Y.,
requested band history, member
ship, instrumentation and other
information. “I’ve never seen a
band of this nature. Your show
was tremendous,” wrote Huson
A. Wilkins.
“Looks great, sounds great, is
great ...” proclaimed ABC of
ficials.
“I got chills watching and re
calling my four years in the
band,” commented P. T. Rath-
bone, 1955 graduate who raises
sugar beets in Marsing, Idaho.
Another band ex, Bill Allred
Man is the most difficult natural
resource angle to figure in any
recreation program, and he should
not be left out of the picture, the
head of the Colorado State Uni-
verstiy Recreation and Watershed
Resources Department said here
Tuesday.
Dr. Arthur Wilcox, speaking
during the two-week Recreation
Management Institute, said it is
a mistake to ignore the human
factor.
“Man is part of our natural re
sources, and he should not be put
into a separate category, the de
partment head said. “He Is the
most complicated factor to handle
in a recreation program.”
SUCH WAS some of the recrea
tion management philosophy to
come out of the second day of the
institute. It is conducted by the
A&M Recreation and Pai-ks De
partment.
Purpose of the conference is to
give recreation managers and
technical specialists an accelerated
up-dating of recreation knowl
edge, concepts and skills. Enroll-
mentis limited to 30 persons.
Wilcox cautioned the group not
to get too far away from the basic
concept of recreation which is re
creation. Park and recreation ad
ministrators “are in an ideal posi
tion to be concerned about the
total problems of leisure.”
The speaker put resources into
three large classes in relation to
recreation. They were scenic;
scientific or natural history, his
torical sites, museums, etc.; and
strategic, which are areas stra
tegically located to care for
masses of people.
THE STRATEGIC class, he em
phasized, is the most important
in the long run.
Other speakers at the morning
session were Lemuel Garrison,
regional director of the National
Park Service at Philadelphia,
Penn;, and Robert Sharp of Den
ver, Colo., assistant regional direc
tor of the Bureau of Outdoor
Recreation.
Afternon speakers were Dr.
L. M. Reid, head of the A&M
Recreation and Parks Department,
and Dr. E. J. Dyksterhuis of the
A&M Range Science Department.
Institute Director Kenneth
of Wills Point, admired the di
rector’s relinquishing a chance
for national publicity. Adams
cued the band’s entrance after a
one-sentence TV interview, forc
ing cameras to swing to the end
zone.
“The band’s performance
brought lumps to my throat,”
penned Paul Wood, a professor
at Texas Tech who formerly in
structed history and government
at A&M.
Mrs. J. K. Jarvis of San An
tonio out-phrased all accolades.
“You stole the show,” she
wrote. “People I talked to after
ward didn’t mention the game,
which was outstanding. They
asked ‘Did you see that great
Aggie Band?’”
Butts of the A&M Recreation and
Parks Department said the con
ference, the first of its kind in
the United States, involves eight
federal agencies and personnel
from local and state park depart
ments. Meetings are planned on
a twice-a-year basis.
Senate Plans
Varied Slate
For First Meet
The Student Senate will hear
imports on matters ranging from
Sweetheart selection to debate
activities Thursday when it meets
for the first time this year.
Senate President Jerry Camp
bell said the meeting will be in
room 3D of the Memorial Student
Center, immediately following
yell practice.
Preliminary plans for selection
of this year’s Aggie Sweetheart
will be announced by the Senate’s
Sweetheart Committee, Campbell
said. Another committee will re
port on seating for home football
games.
Campbell said representatives
of the Debating Club have re
quested a hearing on possible
Senate financing of their activ
ities. The A&M Mothers Club has
largely contributed to the group’s
fund in the past, Campbell ex
plained.
Senators will also hear a report
from the executive committee on
its meeting last week, at which
a measure was passed to provide
approximately 10 “Keep Off the
Crass” signs for the MSC lawn.
Campbell said the signs, which
will read “This is a Memorial
to A&M War Dead—Please Keep
Off,” will be in place “hopefully
before the Florida State game.”
Miscellaneous reports from
other Senate committees are also
expected at the meeting, Camp
bell noted.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
Human Element Must Figure
n
For Complete Rec Program
Powell Urges Use
Of Perimeter Lots
By JOHN JAMES
Parking areas are actually in
creasing faster than enrollment
at A&M, despite the difficulty
in finding spaces near dormitories,
Ed E. Powell, Campus Security
chief, said Tuesday.
Newly constructed parking area
number 49, along Highway 2154
on the west side of the campus,
was designed to accommodate 630
cars at a cost of $80,000, .while
the $70,000 Kyle Field parking
annex can handle 510. These and
other facilities under construction
have been designed to keep pace
wtih the rapidly expanding enroll
ment, Powell said.
When coupled with pre-existing
parking areas, the new lots bring
the total number of parking
spaces to 8,016, he explained, in
cluding 2,970 for staff and 5,046
for day and dormitory students.
According to figures released by
Powell, 2,854 staff and 4,928 stu
dent parking permits were dis
tributed during the past spring-
semester. Although current fig
ures have not been compiled, they
are not expected to greatly sur
pass last semester’s, he noted.
Powell was quick to point out
that figures on permits assigned
in past semesters include an un
known number of motorcycles and
scooters, which have their own
designated parking areas. He also
commented that many of the cars
registered are used as “second
cars,” which are not on campus
at the same time as the owner’s
other vehicle.
Bob Evans Named
Job Service Head
However, finding a parking
place near dormitories and class
room buildings continues to pre
sent problems to the 50 percent of
A&M students who operate ve
hicles on the campus.
“The problem here is that stu
dents are unwilling to make use
of those parking spaces located
in the more remote sectors away
from buildings and dormitories,”
Powell asserted.
Future parking lots, all of which
are financed solely by the revenue
from parking permits and fines,
will be constructed along the
perimeter of the campus rather
than nearer to the academic area,
he added.
“We cannot have an academic
area concentrated enough that
students can easily walk from one
side of the campus to the other if
the center of the academic area is
dotted wtih parking lots,” Powell
commented.
Long-range plans disclosed by
Powell call for the eventual elimi
nation of all major parking areas
in the central academic area of
the campus. With the continu
ance of new building construction,
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| Harlingen Struck |
I By New Floods 1
By JACK KEEVER
HARLINGEN. (A*) — The Rio
Grande, chasing new thousands
out of its path with unstoppable
force, crashed through a levee
upstream from flood-hit Harlin
gen Tuesday night.
A new surge of floodwaters—
already at record levels—bore
down on ravaged Harlingen.
In Austin, Gov. John B. Con-
nally rushed out of a dinner
gathering to take personal con
trol of Valley evacuation at the
state’s Emergency Operating-
Center. “We’ve got real prob
lems,” the grim-faced governor
said.
Communications with Harlin
gen were almost impossible. A
steady stream of vehicles pushed
north from the city, carrying
thousands of evacuees and the
few belongings they could salvage
from the flood.
The first word of the levee
break north of Harlingen came
when a military radio operator
bumped off conventional traffic
for what he called an “urgent
message.”
“The floodway levee near Farm
Road 506 has broken,” the mes
sage said. The area on both sides
of Harlingen and at nearby La
Feria was taking more water.
The worst of the Harlingen
flooding was yet to come. The
Rio Grande’s crest was still up
stream. The flooding Tuesday
knocked over the best barriers
harried disaster workers, using
Army earth-moving equipment,
could put in its path.
he explained, lots will be plowed
under to make way for such new
features as a multi-story Ex
change Store, and most of the
campus’ streets will be closed to
vehicular traffic to become large
walkways.
“It is possible A&M will have
to adopt a program similar to that
of Cornell and other universities,
of removing all pai’king areas to
remote locations and providing
some form of commuter system to
and from the campus,” Powell
noted.
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Powell Announces
New Fine Law
A change in speeding and
parking fines procedure was an
nounced Tuesday by Ed E. Powell,
chief of the campus security
office.
“Our new policy will be similar
to those used by other law en
forcement agencies throughout the
state,” Powell said. “Although
the long-standing policy of $2
fihes for non-moving and $3 fines
for moving violations will be re
tained, fines not paid for rein
statement of parking privileges
within the 72-hour deadline will
be filed at the justice of the
peace court.”
Once a violation has been filed
with the justice of the peace, the
violator will be subpoenaed to ap
pear and present his case, he add
ed. Those found guilty will face
fines ranging from $10 to $200.
“The new policy will go into
effect right away,” Powell com
mented.
Robert O. Evans, director of
A&M’s new Placement Corpor
ation Service, will assume his
duties at the end of September.
PCS, formaly the Placement
Service Office, will arrange stu
dent conferences starting on Oct.
9 for the more than 350 companies
scheduled to interview graduating
seniors.
Evans said any student need
ing help may seek the advice of
the PCS.
Evans, Class of ’56, returns to
A&M with experience in finance
after graduating with his degree
in business.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day of this week the PCS has had
conferences with the seniors.
This Is Last Day
To Drop Classes
Today is the last day for
Aggies to add or drop class
es. Permission to do so must
first be obtained from the
head of a student’s depart
ment and then approved by
the dean of his college.
Cooper Sets Guide Lines
For More Civilian Activities
New director of civilian stu
dent activities is Edwin H. Coop
er, previously assistant to Presi
dent Rudder and a man who has
been associated with A&M near
ly all his adult life.
Cooper brings to his new posi
tion nearly 15 years of exper
ience gained within the A&M
systems, both as a student and
an employee. A native of San
Marcos, Cooper graduated from
A&M with a degree in wildlife
management in 1953.
After serving two years as
tank platoon leader in Germany,
he worked with the Texas Ag
ricultural Extension Service as
a wild life conservation special
ist. In October, 1963, Cooped was
appointed assistant to Rudder.
“We want to make a student’s
stay here at Texas A&M a plea
sant experience, Cooper said
Tuesday.
Cooper’s office plans to do
more than bridge the communi
cations gap between the stu
dents and faculty and staff. He
also plans to make sure the stu
dents have a voice in such im
portant matters as the handling
of food services and the estab
lishment of new recreational ar
eas near the campus.
“There are really no limita
tions in scope to the number or
kinds of activities with which
this office may work,” Cooper
commented.
“RIGHT NOW, we are work
ing closely with the Civilian
Student Council and the Grad
uate Student Council to set up
positive programs directed pri
marily to large groups of stu
dents rather than to individuals,”
Cooper continued.
“Of course, individual student
consultation,” Cooper reminded,
CIVILIAN SIGN
Civilian students enter the spirit of the up-coming - match with LSU in Baton Rouge by
making a sign to back the team. The Dorm 18 student put up the sign Tuesday.
“is already handled by the four
professional studlent counselors
who have offices within the civi
lian dormitories. These men will
aid me in working out programs
relating to the whole group.”
Two such programs “relating
to the whole group” which Coop
er is presently considering are
the establishment o f student
committees t o participate i n
meetings with food services rep
resentatives and with off-cam
pus recreation facilities plan
ners.
INITIATED EARLY last
year, a committee consisting of
Civilian Student Council mem
bers and other students met
monthly with food services rep
resentatives to discuss problems
related to the management of
Sbisa dining hall. Students of
fered suggestions as how to im
provement could be made in food
selection as well as in dining
facilities.
Cooper is also working to find
ways in which students of A&M
may have access to recreational
facilities near the campus. To
day he was to meet with Dr.
Leslie M. Reid, Head of the Rec
reation and Parks Department,
and Tom D. Cherry, Vice-Presi
dent for business affairs, to ex
plore the possibilities of develop
ing recreation areas in the A&M
Research Annex, Hensel Park
and various wooded areas near
by.
IN ADDITION to these sites,
Cooper hopes to make good use
of the recreational opportunities
afforded by the new lake the
city of Bryan is to build.
“I do not plan to pursue any
real major changes this year,”
Cooper said, “because I, myself,
have to find out exactly what
the students want. After I have
lived with the students, eaten
with them, and visited them in
their dorms day and night, we
will both have a better idea as
to which goals we should strive
for.”
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav-
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
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