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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1968)
TTI Signs Proved Three Students Czech Enrollment 0 Are Injured Life-Savers In Use in Auto Mishap Highest In Nation THE BATTALION Thursday, May 23, 1968 College Station, Texas Page 7 Breakaway highway signs de veloped by Texas A&M’s Texas Transportation Institute have proved their life-saving value during 27 months on the firing line, the U. S. Department of Transportation reported this week. Federal Highway Administra tor Lowell K. Bridwell said tabu lations by the Texas Highway Department during the period re vealed only one fatality in 117 collisions involving signs mounted on TTI’s breakaway supports. The same report noted 80 deaths resulting from Texas acci dents involving non-breakaway type signs. Breakaway supports, built with a slip plate at the base and a hinge joint seven feet above ground, are designed to move for ward and upward on impact, out of a car’s way. Texas was the first state to use the breakaway signs. They have been so successful that several other states introduced them on a trial basis and the Federal Highway Administration has since banned installation of rigid ly fixed sign supports. The same prohibition was im posed on installation of rigid light poles, another area pioneered by TTI. The only Texas fatality involv ing a breakaway sign occurred when a small car, traveling at approximately 75 mph, skidded into a sign. The victim’s head, believed to be outside the car window at the time, struck the support. The driver and another occupant of the vehicle were not injured. Only two serious injuries were reported in the Texas survey and they were believed to have been sustained when a vehicle hit a bridge parapet after colliding with a breakaway support. Three Texas A&M University sophomore architecture students suffered serious injuries in a one- car accident Wednesday night in Bryan. Bryan police said the driver, Robert Arthur Bueker of Dallas, and passenger Thomas Wilfred Thorpe of Corpus Christi were transferred to Methodist Hospital in Houston after emergency treatment in Bryan. Roy W. Roundtree of Pitts burg (Tex.) was listed in “satis factory” condition early Thurs day at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan. A nurse’s report indicated he suffered multiple lacerations and abrasions over most of his body. The extent of Bueker’s and Thorpe’s injuries was not im mediately known. Texas A&M, located in the center of a large Czech-speaking population segment, is doing its share toward instructing students in the Czech language. An A&M Modern Languages Department survey reveals that 33 of 83 students studying Czech in reporting institutions are at A&M, according to Dr. John M. Skrivanek and Joseph J. Skri- vanek, professor and instructor of Slavonic languages. “Several religious and fratern al organizations in recent years have helped Czech students by establishing scholarship awards for those needing financial aid,” noted Dr. Jack A. Dabbs, depart ment head. The U. S. Office of Education classifies Czech as a critical language. As a language of convenience for residents of Southeast Cen tral Texas and a language of 10-DAY SALE! Buy now for vacation driving! lowest prices ever on world-famous f?r*$tottt"500" Full 4-Ply Nylon Cord Tires Buy the first tire at our low everyday trade-in price get the second tire for HALF PRICE- SAVE s 13 50 to s 24 80 per pair' See the FIRESTONE SAFE TIRE MAN In the checkered shirt for SIZE Tubeltts Blackmails Tubeless Whitewalls Fed. 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Total enrollment in Czech from reporting colleges and universi ties showed A&M with 33; Uni versity of Texas, Austin, 23; University of California (Berke ley), 15; Harvard, 12; University of Nebraska, 11; Portland State College, 8; University of Chicago, 8; University of Washington, 3, and University of Michigan, 3. YMCA Schedules Coffee Break Once again the YMCA has de cided to set up a Coffee Break during finals week. Last semester over 1,000 cups of coffee and 300 dozen donuts were sold. The “Coffee Break” will open each night at 9:00 p.m. and close around 2:00 a.m. It will begin Sunday night, May 26, and con tinue through Friday night, May 31. Tables will be set up in the lobby for people wishing to take ^ break from studying. Coffee will be IOt/ and donuts will be 5^ each. This year iced tea will also be sold for 10^. The meeting rooms on the second floor of the “Y” will also be open for anyone wishing to get away from the dorms to study. A&M TRADITION BEGINNING? Richard L. Calvert of Shreveport accept a pair of senior boots more than 30 years old that he will wear at Texas A&M University next year. Col. Jim H. McCoy presented the apparel for retired Army Col. William C. Washington of Austin, a 1912 graduate who thought an Aggie could make use of them. New Senior Wears Grad’s Gift Boots DirectoryDeadline Set For Friday Friday is the deadline for re turning faculty-staff listings for Texas A&M’s 1968-69 campus di rectory, reminded University In formation Director Jim Lindsey. Lindsey said it is particularly important that this year’s direc tory be as complete as possible because every telephone number on campus will change August 18. He noted information cards for the new directory were mailed to all campus offices earlier this month and should be returned to the Student Publications Depart ment in the Services Building. When Richard L. Calvert steps off for the second half of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets final review Saturday, the Company G-l cadet will be wearing senior boots more than 30 years old. The junior industrial technolo gy major from Shreveport, La., was presented the distinctive Aggie military uniform items this week by retired Army Col. Wil liam C. Washington of Austin, a 1912 A&M graduate. The unique circumstance oc curred when Colonel Washington was at A&M recently for a Sul Ross Reunion. “My grandson (William W. Beard of Westport, Conn.) show ed me his senior boots. They cost more than $100,” the 79-year-old Aggie-ex wrote the commandant’s office. HE FIGURED some cadet in a financial squeeze might be able to use his officer boots. They were worn the last time in 1937, before the knee-length boots were phased out by the Army. Boots became a part of the Aggie senior’s uniform in the mid-1920’s. Colonel Washington’s boots were made by Dehner’s of Omaha. They wouldn’t fit Beard. The retired officer mailed the boots so one of next year’s seniors would be able to wear them Sat urday. Col. Jim H. McCoy, comman dant, and Lt. Col. Robert H. Baine, associate professor of mili tary science, immediately sought a likely candidate. Finding a size 8D foot and small calf for the 17-inch tall boots might have been a problem, but Colonel Baine enlisted as sistance of junior cadets. John McGowen of Fort Worth located Calvert. THE CADET technical sergeant who marched with the Freshman Drill Team, Calvert will have the boots altered slightly before he wears them. “I suggest that next year when you graduate, another junior be found that can wear Colonel Washington’s boots,” McCoy told Calvert at the presentation. “Colonel Washington makes a cadet proud to be an Aggie,” Baine said. “This gentleman hasn’t forgotten what Aggie loyalty means.” Don’t Tread On Aggies, Preston! An ad implying that ONLY PRESTON SMITH is respon sible for appropriating $1,298,000 for Texas A&M is INCOR RECT. SMITH did not by himself give A&M anything. He is only ONE out of a TEN-member Legislative Budget Board (See p. 616 of the Texas Almanac) that ONLY RECOMMENDS appro priations to the legislature. AGGIES check PRESTON’S PAST PERFORMANCES on the Legislative Budget Board. Note the way last year he fought SENATOR MOORE, SPEAKER BARNES and GOVER NOR CONNALLY. DON’T take OUR word for it. Ask anyone close to the Legislature what PRESTON SMITH’S attitude toward A&M is. There is no question that DON YARBOROUGH’S values are higher than SMITH’S which means that he will make a greater effort to help A&M in particular and education in gen eral than SMITH. EUGENE LOCKE SHOULDN’T be GOVERNOR OF TEX AS but he was right when he stated that PRESTON SMITH IS THE LOBBYIST’S CANDIDATE. LOBBYISTS support him because they THINK he will keep taxes low. They’re right. SMITH will keep taxes low at the expense of education, clean air and water conservation and many other decent programs for Texas. CM ANYONE RECALL WHAT SMITH HAS SAID ABOUT ANY ISSUE DURING THE CAMPAIGN? Pd. Pol. Adv. by a Concerned Aggie EX—Don Dietz, Corpus Christi, Texas