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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, October 12, 1967 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle John Hotard No Need To Be Homesick, Seminoles Bring Rain With’em I thought the ballgame Satur day night was a bit unfair. Not only did Florida State bring their own Seminole Indian, but they tried to create their own Ever glades. For those of you who missed this great Second Coming of the Flood, I’ll enumerate. The festivities started about 6 p.m., when this raincloud passed over the stadium, saw that there was going to be a ballgame and decided to stick around for three quarters. This cloud apparently wasn’t stadium broken, and down came the rain. Out came the umbrellas. At this time, and in the en suing three and a half hours, the fans learned something about umbrellas. One, an umbrella will leak after one hour in the rain. Two, if you are sitting in a stadium, and the people on both sides of you have umbrellas, then your umbrella must be UNDER their umbrellas. If not, then the rain hits your umbrella, rolls off onto their umbrellas, which, in turn, rolls off and potars into your lap from two directions. So, everybody was sitting there, trying to get his umbrella under everybody else’s. These people, I might mention, were civilians, who have been accused in past weeks of being summer soldiers and sunshine patriots. We were there, filling our section, with the rain coming down, watching a team with an 0-3 record. I, fortunately, did not get wet during the game. When it started raining, about 250 of us decided to take a stand. This stand we took was located under the over hang of the new section under construction. Because it was un der construction and considered unsafe, the Authority had the area roped off and guarded by two Special Policemen. It was beautiful. Here’s two guys standing there, and they look down and see this mob, arm ed with umbrellas, charging on ward and upward. It looked like the Women’s Christian Temperance Union bearing down—in this case, up— on the Long Branch Saloon. One turned to the other and said, “Uhhhh, Ralph, do you see coming what I see coming?” “Yep.” “Well . . . we could try and stop them.” “Yep. Then again, we could run.” They ran. About this time the game start ed. It was a good game, consider ing the rain. The leading ground gainer for the Aggies was Harvey Webfoot, who carried the ball 134 times for 987 yards. He was the one who ran onto the field every play with a dry ball. Ross Brupbacher did his usual half gainers, only this night he landed in real water. This type of game also inspires comments from the crowd: “Hey you with the pink para sol, get out of the Aggie section!” “Are you enjoying the game, sweetie ? ” “How should I know ? I can’t see over the umbrellas.” “Honey, how come they made all y’all march in when it’s rain ing so hard, huh?” “Is it true the Trigon is going to order OD umbrellas?” “Well, I’ll take my chances under the overhang. I’d rather get crushed instantly than die next week of pneumonia.” “It doesn’t look like a very big cloud. It should pass over by the time the game starts.” Fire Chief In Kiwanis Reveals Stats Fire Program “We appreciate your enthusiasm, fish Jethro, but you’ve expressed your feelings toward Tech sufficiently with-out wearing your spurs to bed!” Bulletin Board Odds Decrease; Now Only 15V2-1 Texas A&M University’s record 12,029 enrollment this fall inclu des 770 women, also a new high. Registrar H. L. Heaton noted the distaff increase is almost 200 over last year when 578 regis tered for courses. One other notation concerning the gals: 484 are married, so no increase in the number of Aggies staying in College Station on the weekends is expected. THURSDAY The Amarillo Hometown Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Chicken Shack for dinner. All are requested to bring $1 to eat. The Brazoria County Hometown Club will hold its organizational meeting after yell practice in Room 2-C of the Memorial Stu dent Center. The Matagorda Hometown Club will meet in the Art Room of the Memorial Student Center at 8 p.m. The Texarkana Hometown Club will hold its organizational meet ing at 7 p.m. in Room 2-D of the Memorial Student Center. The Waco - McLennan County Hometown Club will meet in the Reading Room of the Y.M.C.A. immediately after Yell Practice. Port Arthur Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Lounge of the Y.M.C.A. Galveston Island Hometown Club will meet in Room 3-C of the MSC after Yell Practice. Austin Hometown Club will meet after Yell Practice in Room 3-B of the MSC. Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet in the MSC at 7:30 p.m. Bell County Hometown Club will meet in the MSC after Yell Practice. The Beaumont Hometown Club will make plans for the New Year’s Eve party after Yell Prac tice in the Social Room of the Memorial Student Center. The Orange Hometown Club will meet in the Rotunda of the Academic Building at 7:30 p.m. Is fire prevention strictly a subject to be discussed with chil dren once each year during Fire Prevention Week? Ask the families of the 12,000 persons—33 per day—who die each year in the U. S. as the re sult of fire. Check with the owners of the 1,500 homes which are destroyed each day by fire. Put the question to members of the nine churches and patients and others persons associated with the 12 hospitals and nursing homes which go up in flames every 24 hours. And how about the owners and employees of those 114 stores and 144 industrial plants which are here today and gone tomorrow, thanks to fire? These are the thought-provok ing statistics cited by Texas A&M Fire Chief Woody Sevison during a Fire Prevention Week talk- demonstration Tuesday at the weekly luncheon meeting of the College Station Kiwanis Club. Bringing the statistics a little closer to home, Sevison noted the Texas A&M Fire Department, which also serves the community, answered 158 alarms last year. Referring back to those 12,000 fire deaths recorded nationally each year, Sevison said 30 per cent of them are children—and one-third of those children had been left alone when the fire broke out! How many parents think about fire and fire prevention when giving their baby-sitters instruc tions while they go out for the evening? Chief Sevison contends the vast majority of baby-sitters, most of whom are young teenagers, don’t know how to cope with a fire, or even how to report one. (That number, incidentally, for the bene fit of teenagers and non-teenagers alike, is 846-4567 in College Sta tion and 822-1213 in Bryan.) What baby-sitters should do in the event is get the children out of the house, call the fire de partment and then notify the parents—in that order. Baby-sitters should also make a complete check of the house every 30 minutes, Sevison adds. Additionally, they should also make sure the children are where they are supposed to be, the chief advises. If the children are sup posed to be in bed, make sure they are there—and not in the kitchei playing with matches. Sevison’s talk also dwelt upon a couple of commodities which an found around most homes and an potentially deadly because they are frequently misused: iteni such as women’s hair spray it pressurized containers and gaso line. While pionting out that notali pressurized products are flam mable, Sevison warned that many are and can go off like a bomli if subjected to extreme heat. Vt- por from these containers could set a woman’s hair on fire if sprayed near a flame. Gasoline vapors also can be as destructive as dynamite unde certain conditions. Gasoline is designed for use it internal combustion engines, ami only for that, Sevison cautioned. Fire prevention is a subject foi children, Sevison concluded, tot not just for children. Stallings Guests On Aggie Hour The Aggie Hour has been re vived by Wayne Prescott of Houston and Ron Hinds of Mid land. The two Aggie juniors will emcee the radio program on Tues day and Thursday nights from 10:10 p.m.-11 p.m. The first edi tion of the show is set for tonight. Typical fare will include pop music, interviews with campus personalities, and campus news. Aggie football coach Gene Stall ings will be the program’s fint guest. He will discuss the Texas Tech game. The tiny republic of San Mark hires its policemen from Italy. With nearly everyone related to everyone else, the Sa mmarinesi feel that only foreigners can sent impartially. JJiwfehfoemot: ********++*+***** REDEEM THIS COUPON FOR 50 FREE TOP VALUE STAMPS I With Purchase of 17-Oz. Can Johnson’^ CREW BATHROOM CLEANER Coupon Expires Oct. 14, 1967. 0< THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student ivriters only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community netvspaper. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use f- republication of all news dispatches credited to it or n otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneoi origin published herein. Rights of republication of all othi matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim rman Arts; F. S. Whit, ers Lindsey, chairman; White. Coll Titus, College of Veterin lege of Agriculture. 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Since Shake-A Pudd’n does not require refrigeration, it lends itself to use in dormitories (surely one of the most primitive societies), thereby fulfilling this basic, instinctual human drive at the precise moment it arises. Francine Factor, Dept, of History Of tremendous historical significance. Had Shake-A Pudd'n been discovered in the 18th Century, the French Revolution would probably never have taken place when it did. Marie Antoinette’s famous remark, “Let ’em eat cake,” would no doubt have been transformed to “Let ’em eat pudd’n,” thereby appeasing the masses for at least another century. Harry Holesome, Dept, of Health Education The American Dream come true. Shake-A Pudd’n combines healthful nutrition, bracing exercise and, above all, Good Clean Fun. An essential part of the Physical Fitness Program. Sylvia Cimbiil, Dept, of Psychology Truly Freudian. Powder and water are mixed in a cup, an obviously mammalian formation, seen on a deeper level as Mother. 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