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
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science for several fields of ad
vanced study, the language “is
of great use to Texas students,”
Dr. John Skrivanek pointed out.
One of the nation’s largest areas
of residents of Czech extraction,
the Texas “community” numbers
some half million persons, he
estimated.
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