Careful Driving Must Be Observed “I shouldn’t have skipped this afternoon’s class. But who can wait when a long evening in Dallas and Ft. Worth calls ? “The weather’s fine, the road straight and smooth. “Look at that deer! What a beauty, and in broad daylight. “Watch out! A farm truck! Where? There!” Too late. You’re dead. But being among the 52,000 people each year to die in the twisted hulk of razor sharp metal and glass is too easy. Few fear a quick death. Your friends aren’t as lucky. One is thrown from the car. His skull is fractured. He’s alive. A vegetable. Your roommate is fortunate. Your wandering eyes have only cost him an arm. How could it happen to you? You’re not the type to speed, well, not over 80 mph. You wouldn’t stop to buy beer with a false I.D. and then drive on. You wouldn’t think of flooring the accelerator to clear that yellow light. And who needs seat belts ? They’re for airplanes or people who can’t handle their cars. Your car’s a beauty. A $3,000 investment, but well worth it. A GTO with 300 horses, racing stripe, wide tires, and dual carburetors. “Thanks for the car loan, dad. Thanks for paying for my education. Thanks for the years of schooling, love and attention, for the “cush” packages and for the pleasant weekends at home. “Think mom, they paid tribute to me last night. Silver Taps is a great tradition. We just gathered for another Aggie last week, and the week before for yet another. “I’m not alone. Next week another will probably join me.” CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “Before you go further, let me say I’m in complete sym pathy with you, but those marks on my bulletin board represent men whose rides leave early Friday! Don’t any of th’ guys with cars have Friday classes?” Bulletin Board TODAY Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, October 19,1967 The Fort Bend Hometown Club will meet in Room 3A of the Me morial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. The Orange Hometown Club will meet in the Rotunda of the Academic Building at 7:30 p.m. The Houston Hometown Club will meet in R o o m 201 of the Physics Building at 7:30 p.m. The Election Commission will elect officers in the Art Room of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. The San Antonio Hometown Club will meet in Room 145 of the Physics Building at 7:30 p.m. The Corpus Christi Hometown Club will meet in Room 3C of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. The Rio Grande Valley Home town Club will meet in the Birch Room of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. The Mid - County Hometown Club will meet in Room 2D of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. The Deep East Texas Home town Club will meet in Room 3C of the Memorial Student Center Anyone can With Eaton’s Corrasable Bond Typewriter Paper, you can erase that goof without a trace. 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But drive as though your life depends on it. It does. John Hotard Kid Loses Stand; Battle Shapes Up These are the times that try men’s souls. In the course of our nation’s history, brave men have rallied to protect free enterprise. Today, a new crisis has arisen. The Bre vard County Health Authority— better known as the BCHA—-has shut down, in the name of public health protection, a kid’s thriving enterprise. Citizens, HEAR ME OUT!! Billy Churchill is 11. He lives in Satellite Beach, Florida. Dur ing August and September, he earned $27. He put $12 in a col lege fund and bought a dog with the other $15. Billy Churchill runs—or rather, he DID run—a sidewalk refresh ment stand. Last month, the county closed him down. Why? He didn’t have separate bath rooms for male and female cus tomers. SEPARATE BATHROOMS?!? “I’d let Billy’s customers use our two bathrooms if they’d let him reopen his stand,’’ Mrs. Churchill said. The county clamped down on Billy after a neighbor complained that he was selling frozen refresh ments without a permit. The health department said that the stand would have to be shut down because it did not have the separate facilities. Billy’s father is going to take the issue to Governor Kirk—then to Washington, if necessary. This case will probably go all the way to the Supreme Court. They’ll rule in favor of the county. This will mean that kids across the country will have to shut down their lemonade stands, not to men tion all “drive-in groceries, side walk fruit stands and traveling circuses” as Mr. Churchill put it. I can see it now . . . Final Re view at A&M. As the TV cameras show the Corps passing by, they pan the reviewing stands, and there, each in its appropriate corner, are two Rent-A-Johns. The White House will get the word: Either put segregated out door rest rooms in the Rose Garden or no more tea parties. This also goes for the Easter Egg Hunt. Down on the Lower Pedernales, LBJ will say to the Prime Minis ter of Lower Sloberia, “Down theah is the South Fawty wheah I hold muh Bahbeecues. See those two buildings in that clump of mesquite down theah? Those are muh segregated rest rooms.” The Battalion is organizing the national headquarters for SOULS (Save Our Unintegrated Lemon ade Stands). Contributions are now being taken. Give today and help Billy in his fight for free enterprise. Sound Off Editor The Battalion: The following letter is directed to that person who took a basket ball marked, “PE 5”, from the annex gymnasium on Monday af ternoon. Perhaps you feel that you have, “put one over on the school.” Perhaps you are an Ag gie fish who feels that it is “good bull” to get a new basketball for your outfit to use in intramural practice. But, no matter who you may be, you have not, “put one over on the school,” and what you have done is certainly not, “good bull.” The ball you have taken will be paid for, not by A&M, but by cadet Charles Wofford to whom the basketball was checked out. If it is “good bull” to steal from an Aggie buddy, then Aggie tra ditions have changed in recent weeks. This letter is written by an at tendant at the Physical Educa tion dressing room. I do not know cadet Wofford personally. My on ly purpose in writing to Sound Off is to air one long held gripe. That being that some Aggies, who would never think of stealing any thing from a person, will take highway signs and markers, (and basketballs), perhaps never real izing that somebody must pay for them. In this case an Aggie is out $12. Bill Turney ’66 tions that both Corps and civilians honor anyway. Yours, Frank M. 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