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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1968
Number 588
New
Aids
Council
County
By JOHN McCARROLL
Battalion Editor
The Brazos Valley Community
Council formed this week to bring
together efforts of the many
agencies created to cope with the
growing human problems, Mrs.
Felice Klein of the Brazos County
Counseling Service, said.
The Community Council has
been organized to serve as a
central clearing-house for prob
lems, services and community
programs.
A similar effort was made
earlier but was disbanded in 1953.
The Council, working with all
community organizations in part
nership wth interested citizens,
has as its purpose the encourage
ment and orderly development of
a balanced program of essential
health, welfare, recreation and
Summer Graduate
Deadline Friday
Friday is the last day to com
plete procedures for qualifying as
degree candidates for the first
term of the summer session,
Registrar H. L. Heaton has an
nounced.
All students, undergraduate and
graduate, who expect to complete
their degree requirement for the
first summer session must com
plete the procedures by 5 p.m.
Those registered for the second
term must meett he deadline at
5 p.m. on July 26.
Registration fort he Graduate
Record Examination is a required
part of the filing procedure. This
registration must be accomplished
between 8 a.m., July 15, and 5
p.m., July 19, for the expected
second summer session grduates.
The prospective degree candi
date must report to the Fiscal
Office and pay the graduation fee
of $5 for the GRE and $3 for the
diploma. Graduate students pay
only the diploma fee, the registrar
pointed out.
The candidate must then report
to the Registrar’s Office to file his
application for a degree and then
register for the GRE at the Coun
seling and Testing Center. Fees
must be paid before attempting
to register for the GRE.
Graduate students must apply
for degrees in both the Office of
the Graduate Dean and the Regis
trar’s Office.
other community services, with
the least amount of unnecessary
duplication, Mrs. Klein pointed
out.
Most of he problems and serv
ices in Bryan, College Sttaion and
the remainder of the community
can be divided into five general
areas of interest, she said. These
include economic problems of
people who need food, shelter,
clothing and other basic essentials
of living and, who for some rea
son, cannot provide them for
themselves.
Health services also need co
ordination on the community level,
along wtih counseling services,
Mrs. Klein stressed.
Recreation and formal and in
formal education services will also
receive close attention from the
Brazos County Community Coun
cil.
At the second organizational
meeting oft he council Tuesday,
by-laws were adopted and a steer
ing committee was appointed,
along with a nominating commit
tee to select officers.
Chairman of the steering com
mittee is Rev. William Oxley.
Serving on this committee will be
Mrs. David Falquist, Mrs. W. F.
Hughes, Holly E. Rees, Mrs.
Fannie Taylor, Earl Freeman,
Mrs. Frank Chmelik, Anestacio
Herrera and John B. Vittrup.
The nominating committee is
headed by Dr. Martin McBride.
Also serving on this committee
will be Andy Knegy, Mrs. Fannie
Taylor, Mrs. Klein and Mrs. M. L.
Parker.
The non-tax supported, non
profit organization was begun by
Mrs. Klein, Knegy and John Birk-
ner, director of the Brazos Valley
Rehabilitation Center.
The next meeting of the Brazos
County Community Council will
be on July 16 in the Blue Flame
Room of the Lone Star Gas Com
pany in Bryan. All interested
individuals or representatives of
service, civic or social groups are
invited to attend and join the
Council.
First Dance Set Tuesday
By Summer Directorate
‘THE SOUND INVESTMENT’
The first dance of the summer will feature a widely-known band from Houston at 8 p. m.
in the Memorial Student Center Tuesday. ‘The Sound Investment’ has recorded “Come
Back Baby” and others for release nationally.
Mosquito Control Pushed
In College Station Area
Residents and officials of Col
lege Station, joined by Texas
A&M personnel, are putting the
bite on the community’s mush
rooming mosquito population.
“We have two employes spray
ing full-time in campus areas,”
remarked O. O. Haugen, superin
tendent of operations for A&M’s
Physical Plant. “They spray
every day when the sun shines.”
The City of College Station is
attacking low areas where excess
Foreign Students
Form New Society
LEd. Wives’ Club
Holds Game Night
All wives of industrial educa
tion majors are invited to the
Monday night meeting of the In
dustrial Education Wives Club at
8 p.m., Mrs. Judy Devlin, club re
porter has announced.
A get-acquainted game night
will be in the Medallion Room of
the Bryan Utilities Building, Mrs.
Devlin said.
BB&L
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
The newly - organized Inter
national Student Society has an
nounced two programs for the
first six weeks of summer school
at Texas A&M University.
A watermelon party is planned
at 7 p.m. June 28 and a variety
show will be staged at 6:30 p.m.
July 12. Both are set in Hensel
Park.
The variety show will feature
performances by each country re
presented in A&M’s student body,
Rooh Partovi of Iran, Internation
al Student Council president, said.
“The society hopes to improve
culture communicatiaons between
foreign students,” said Partovi,
who is working on a doctorate in
petroleum engineering. “We also
want to improve communications
between foreign students and the
community.”
Membership forms may be ob
tained at the YMCA offices. The
society invites the public to join.
The society was created, under
sponsorship of Dr. Clinton Phil
lips, business administration pro
fessor. The governing body is the
International Student Council
which will serve all nationalities,
Phillips emphasized.
The council includes eight off
icial representatives — one from
each of the present foreign stu
dent organizations and an Am
erican representative.
Regular membership in the
society is open to all students.
Associate memberships are avail
able to interested persons.
HIGHWAY 6
The famous Highway that is now almost legend at A&M is up for a name change by the
College Station City Council (see story page 2).
normal duties, but they shoul
dered napsack spraying units to
disperse naptha-type spray in
pot-holes throughout the city.
College Station City Manager
Ran Boswell said Wednesday his
office has received few com
plaints about mosquitos in the
past several days.
Other contend the city’s phone
must have been out of operation
because giant-size mosquitos
have caused unusual concern by
parents and other residents of the
community.
Some suggested service clubs
tackle the mosquito problems
with their usual vigor for activi
ties which are beneficial to every
resident and visitor.
Col. Dollar Heads
Group To Houston
A contingent of 40 representa
tives of the Bryan-College Station
Restaurant Association will attend
the 29th Annual Convention of
the Texas Restaurant Associa
tion in Houston June 17-20th.
Headed by Col. Fred W. Dollar,
Food Service Director at Texas
A&M, President of TRA’si Bryan-
College Station Chapter, these
delegates will join between 12,000
and 15,000 other restauranteurs an
purveyors from Texas, Louisiana,
Arkansas, New Mexico and Okla
homa at TRA’s Texas Southwest
ern Regional Food Service Educa
tional Convention at Houston’s
new Exhibit and' Convention
Center.
“With 25 regular and 15 asso
ciate members, plus wives and
husbands of these members, we’re
going to show Houston that the
Bryan-College Station area is
well represented,” Dollar said.
The four-day Convention in
cludes 306 Exhibits, a new record,
as is the anticipated, attendance.
It is by far the largest food serv
ice trade show in the Southwest.
Other officers of the Bryan-
College Station Restaurant As
sociation who will lead the dele
gation are: 1st Vice President,
Willie Kniec, Willie’s Steak House,
Brenham; 2nd Vice President,
Floyd Swanzy, Swanzy Cafeteria,
Bryan; and Sec.-Treasurer, Sam
Enloe, CC Cafeteria, Bryan. Local
Directors are John Vitopil, Lone
Star Gas Co., Bryan; and Mrs.
Chris Norton, Coach Norton’s Pan
cake House, College Station.
State Director attending from
this Chapter is Gus Ellis of the
Dutch Kettle in Bryan.
service with good results.
“We are putting the trapped
mosquitos into dry ice, at least
minus 70 degrees centigrade,”
McBride said. “Thursday or
Friday, we will carry them to
Houston where tests will be made
to determine if the mosquitos
carry encephalitis virus.”
McBride observed different
species of culex mosquitos —
similar to the ones prevalent in
College Station — carry enceph
alitis and yellow fever viruses.
They do not, he added, have the
malaria virus.
“Birds, particularly sparrows,”
McBride pointed out, “are the
biggest carriers of encephalitis.
Epidemics usually start in July
or August in this part of the
country. We want to prevent
the probability of an epidemic
here.”
Players and fans alike are suf
fering mosquito maulings at Col
lege Station baseball and softball
parks. Some say it’s a blessing
so many games have been washed
out in the last couple of weeks.
University and city employes
are sticking with the rugged task
of stamping out mosquito larvae,
but voice concern about mos
quitos already flying around, an
noying and biting people.
“I know they are spraying the
creeks and bottomlands,” one
man commented. “Sometimes, I
think it’s too bad we don’t live in
a creek so we could escape the
mosquitos.”
Skin Graft Needed
By Burned Student
A Texas A&M student who re
ceived seccnd and third degree
burns from spilled gasoline has
been transferred to John Sealy
Hospital at Galveston for special
treatment.
John P. Dickson of Santa Rosa,
a senior management major, has
been in St. Joseph’s Hospital,
Bryan, since his accident May 22.
The 27-year-old married student
was burned on the hands and legs
while attempting to prime an
automobile carburetor.
Dixon’s wife, who works in the
A&M student apartments office,
said doctors indicated her hus
band’s injuries will require skin
grafts. The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert O. Dixon, Santa Rosa, he
has been working his way through
A&M. The family is expecting its
second child.
Sound Investment
Leads Off Series
water concentrates to make good Others wondered why aerial
breeding places for mosquitos. sprays have not been used in the
Mayor D. A. (Andy) Anderson city,
reported stepped up mosquito Dr. Martin McBride, city health
fighting activities by city em- .committee chairman, said mos-
ployes. Intermittent downpours quito cages suggested by Mayor
kept street crews from their Anderson have been pressed into
The first of a series of six
dances will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday
in the ballroom of the Memorial
Student Center sponsored by the
MSC Summer Directorate, Denny
Kniery, dance chairman, has an
nounced.
“Love Street” is the theme of
the psychedelic happening staged
by the Sound Investment, form
ally the Dimensions, from Hous
ton.
Good music, wild lights, and
blue pillows are just a few of the
attractions slated for the dance,
Kniery points out.
A light show is planned and
psychedelic pictures will cover
the walls in the same manner as a
moving picture, ever changing and
always different.
The Sound Investment is known
state-wide and has put out a re
cent record called “Come Back
Baby” on the Laurie label from
New York. They have appeared
on television in Dallas, Houston
and San Antonio and also ap
peared in stage shows in these
cities.
Dress is casual and the cost will
be $1 per person.
The Summer Directorate is di
vided into four committees. They
include the Dance, Recreation,
Action and Publicity Committees.
The president this summer is
Ron Hinds. Vice-president in
charge of operations is Kathy
Cotropia, and vice-president of
programs is Harry Snowdy.
The dance committee is headed
by Kniery. The function of this
committee is to plan the dances
Summer Semester
Registration Up
Texas A&M’s first - semester
summer enrollment totaled, a re
cord 5,385 students, announced
Registrar H. L. Heaton.
Total for the same period last
year was 5,309.
Heaton said main campus re
gistration hit 4,980. The remain
ing- 405 students included 166 at
the Texas Adjunct at Junction,
211 at the Texas Maritime Ac
ademy and 28 at the Marine Lab
oratory, both at Galveston.
The first semester of summer
school concludes July 12, with
second-semester registration be
ginning July 15.
for the summer and get them
going. This includes getting a
band, decorating the ballroom and
getting refreshments, Hinds said.
The recreation committee, head
ed by John Bendele, sponsors the
talent shows and is planning a
barbecue or watermelon feast at
the Grove.
The action committee is just
that. This committee will organ
ize sports tournaments and trips
to the HemisFair and the Astro
dome.
Anyone having a special talent
should come by the Student Pro
grams office in the MSC, so that
they may participate in a talent
show, Hinds said.. Jack Abbott
headst his committee during the
summer.
The publicity committee is
headed by Clair Adams.
Students Ready
For Sea Cruise
Texas A&M “Summer School
at Sea” participants will report
to the Texas Maritime Academy
at Galveston this week for three-
day operation in preparation for
their European cruise.
Adm. James D. Craik, TMA
superintendent, said the two-
month program this year has at
tracted a record 112 spring high
school graduates and college
freshmen.
The students cast off Saturday
for the 13,000-mile jaunt aboard
the “Texas Clipper,’ a large
oceanliner converted to a floating
classroom.
“Summer School at Sea” stu
dents will be joined by 124 TMA
cadets participating in their an
nual summer training.
Ports of call in Europe are
Oslo, Norway; Amsterdam, Neth
erlands; Lisbon, Portugal, and
Gibraltar. The ship will visit
New York enroute and return
via the Canary Islands and San
Juan, Puerto Rico..
“Summer School at Sea” partic
ipants have the opportunity to
earn six hours of college credit
in English, history or mathe
matics.
The program is jointly sponsor
ed by A&M’s College of Liberal
Arts and TMA, also a division
of the university.
Can Machines Ever
Replace Teachers?
“Any teacher who can be re
placed by a machine should be.”
Education is moving from
“teaching as telling to teaching
as guiding,” Dr. Ole Sand of the
National Education Association
said here this weekend.
The NEA’s Center for the Study
of Instruction director discussed
schools as educational enterprises
rather than stations for pumping
information into students at the
annual Texas School Administra
tors Conference.
“We are moving from group
to individual education,” Sand
said in his inquiry, in which the
school is not for information dis
semination but for argument.”
“Covering content was difficult
in the old one-room schoolhouse,
the former public school teacher
and Wayne State University ed
ucation professor told 700 con
ference participants. “Knowledge
doubled from 1750 to 1900, 1900
to 1950 and 1950 to 1960.”
Technology is presently pro
viding the means of releasing
teachers from a strict presenta
tion of fact to discussion of the
information in seminar-type class
es, he said.
The three-day A&M conference
will investigate new educational
technology in use in Texas, spot
lighting means Sand discussed of
“raising the teacher to a higher
point of professionalism.’
Innovative programs under
study of conference demonstra
tion groups include television
teaching strategies, cooperative
teaching, elementary physical fit
ness, staff development and driv
ers education, among others.
James L. Olivero, assistant sec
retary of the NEA’s National
Commission on Teacher Education
and Professional Standards, will
look futher into innovative pro
gram developments in a Tuesday
general assembly address, “It’s
Happening Now.”
Texas school superintendents,
administrators and instructional
supervisors will have a smorgas
bord Monday evening. Demonstra
tions, discussion and presenta
tions will continue through
Wednesday.
The conference is sponsored by
the Texas Association of County
Superintendents, Texas School
Administrators Association, Texas
Association of Instructional
Supervisors and A&M’s Educa
tion Department.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
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