■ tt’.” . . V. Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, February 9, 1968 New York City Rhodes Scholar Classified 1-A In Smelly Peril To most Texans, crowded New York City seems remote and removed from comfortable Southern spaces. A few may have some experience with the “big city” if they live in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio or even El Paso, but no city in the world can compare to New York in size, type of inhabitant and monumental social problems. The nation was stunned when they saw the Nov. 9, 1965 electric power failure plunge 30 million people and a third of the United States into darkness. New york became the focal point for observation at the time with people stranded in elevators, on city streets, and in offices. The lack of electricity had virtually cut off eight mil lion people from the rest of the world, and halted them from their daily activities. All but lovers were happy when the lights came back on. The crush of millions of people creates many other problems though, among them providing millions of pounds of meat and potatoes by rail, air, and truck each day. And wherever you find people eating you find garbage. In most communities its disposal isn’t exceptionally dif ficult. Imagine though, the fume-de-mal in a city the size of New York when the lowly garbage collector goes on strike. For seven days and seven nights New York’s finest have been on strike and 60,000 tons of garbage and refuse presently lie in the streets. Garbage collectors walked off their job last Friday over a wage dispute. Although it’s in defiance of a state law which forbids state employes from striking, the coffee grinds, cigar butts, and orange peelings continue to mount. The problem doesn’t end there. The 10,000 members of the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association also operate the city’s snow removal equipment, and as of Thursday a sizeable winter snowstorm was predicted for the New York area. The perils are ones of emergency vehicles unable to move, disease and fire. Maybe an enterprising Southern businessman flying over New York a couple of months from now will tamp down the mile-high rubbish obliterating the city and start over again by selling it back to the Indians—cheap. By YERN SANFORD Texas Press Association AUSTIN, Tex. — Around and around goes the Texas Liquor Control Board inquiry — and where it stops nobody knows. Threatened with disclosures that would “blow the top off” ir regularities in operations of some of its field personnel, the board heard just enough to rattle its windows at a one-day public hearing here. Widely - heralded fact - finding- proceedings before the three- member board developed little evidence. But the probe, according to LCB Chairman W. D. Noel of Odessa and First Assistant Atty. Gen. Nola White, coordinator, will continue behind the scenes. Gov. John Connally said the fact that only five witnesses showed up for the hearing (when 500 had been invited) was “very disappointing.” Ex-inspector William B. Groce and Raymond L. Valenta, among seven Dallas LCB employees fired on December 13, provided most of the testimony. They denied any wrongdoing and demanded exoneration of any part in alleged rigged sale of a confiscated $78 truck and the reported trading of 11 bottles of confiscated liquor to an auto painter. Dallas Assistant Dist. Atty. William F. Alexander repeatedly questioned Groce and Valenta about their association with a 417-pound private investigator named Smokey Joe Smith. Smith is under indictment on charges growing out of alleged efforts to “fix” liquor license suspensions. That some partiality was shown Great Issues SOMembersW orkHard When should a committee be a corporation? Answers may be varied, but one such instance should be the Great Issues Committee of Texas A&M University’s Memorial Student Center. The committee, which lists 30 highly active members, is a seg ment of the Memorial Student Center Council and Directorate. Its objectives are primarily to serve students with intellectual, informative speakers and pro grams. Each sub-division of the com mittee actually ranks as a com mittee within itself. THE COMMITTEE chairman, Gerald Moore, senior physics major from Arlington, is candid about the committee’s objective. “We’re trying to provide speak ers and programs which will broaden the scope of a culturally isolated community. Operating on a $10,000 budget funded by student activity fees, the Great Issues Committee ef forts last year were attended by more than 35,000 persons. Of that number, an estimated 30,000 turned out for Space- Fiesta related exhibits. HYDRO-SPACE FIESTA, chaired this year by Larry Scott, a senior mathematics major from Cleburne, is drawing response from every member of the Great Issues Committee. More than 1,- 000 hours of planning and ar rangements have been socked into the program and related exhibits. Another sub-division is the Speaker Series, chaired by David Maddox, a junior management major from College Station. That group’s presentation this school year has included Martin Agron- sky of “Face the Nation” televi sion fame, and John Ciardi, poe try editor for the Saturday Re view. Frances Kimbrough, junior modern language student from Bryan, heads a film series tabbed the “World Around Us.” Alfred Lilenthal, a Middle East authori ty, drew a large audience as one MOTHERS-TO-BE At this special time you need the extra support of a special maternity foundation that will... 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He also finds time to teach a senior physics class at A&M Consolidated High School and works part time as a physics curriculum assistant in the university’s Creative Applica tion of Technology to Education Center. “Many of our members spend virtually all their spare time working on Great Issues proj ects,” Moore explained. “They sacrifice time and sometimes grade points to work on these programs which they feel are beneficial to fellow university students and the community.” “It’s satisfying to do a job well and advance to another,” he con f tinned. “We feel that members gain experience in arranging pro grams, financing’ and budget con trol, public relations and a num ber of other areas.” SCHEDULING and financing are complex problems for com mittee members. They realize that big names cost big money and that the magnitude of the names has a direct bearing on the size of audiences. “We try to find the most knowl edgeable people available, work out a suitable financial agree ment, then search for a suitable time and place for him to make a presentation,” Moore remarked. Prospective additions to the committee’s programs are consid ered annually. Now under study are informal panel discussions of speaker’s subjects before and after presentations. “There’s one good thing about our heavy schedule of programs,” Moore pointed out. "If we don’t do as good a job as we would like to have done on one program, there’s always the opportunity to improve on the next one.” Bulletin Board TODAY The Society of Iranian Stu dents at A&M will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the YMCA. The MSC Bridge Committee will meet at 7 p.m. in the Social Room of the Memorial Student Center. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion T *\ e . 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