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t «cto»ni ceirrtH, mc. >•0. BOX 45436 -f "“****, T*X. T5B33 Battalion VOUMK 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1968 Number 5% —* — Of Discussion Sen. Moore Protests SDS Rally & BI/)W HARD MR. SULLY, SIR After a fellow’s been standing for decades in all kinds of weather, he needs a little looking after once in a while. New freshmen from F-l, B-l and Sqd. 6 get in some practice this week polishing up the statue of Pres. L. Sullivan Ross in front of the Academic Building. ■ rr " — ;—^——— HemisF air LandBuy ing State Senator William T. Moore demanded a full investigation of the subversive, leftist influence at the University of Texas after a group of faculty and students from Austin staged a revolution ary rally here Wednesday. "I was shocked to learn that Austin members of the Students for a Democratic Society were in our community to ftp read their discontent with America,” Moore said. “These young leftists have been called a serious threat to our country by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and they are not welcome here.” The senator noted that Texas AAM had banned beatnik groups and had prohibited the long-haired band from using A AM facilities. The rally which attracted about 200 curious citixens was held in a public park, he said. U I was particularly dismayed by the featured speaker at the meeting, UT Professor Lawrence Caroline who called for a revolu tion to change America,” Moore : reported. “As a member of the Senate Finance Committee charged with the responsibility for spending millions of dollars for higher education, I believe the people of Terfas expect us to insure their tax money is being wisely spent. We may have been derelict in our duty if we have appropriated funds to pay the salary for professors who spend their time traveling around preaching revolution.” “I cannot understand how Board Chairman Frank Irwin. Chancellor Harry Ransom and other University of Texas offi cials can permit their faculty and students to travel around corrupt ing our young people,” Moore continued. “I plan to ask the Senate for a full investigation of the subversive influence at the University of Texas.” Varied viewpoints on the revolt on American campuses will be ex pressed tonight in a Memorial Student Center Great Issues pre sentation at Texas AAM. The 8 p. m. special program, serving as a prototype to possible future Great Issues panels, will be in the M8C Assembly Room, announced David Maddox at Col lege Station, chairman. Admis sion will be free. year in order te interest majority of the students. the Housing Office Says 30 Halls Ready For Fall Discussing the topic will tot O J Centrex In Effect Monday, Was Miricle hays Grad New Directories Available |^«H acquisition preparatory to only did we have the convention construction of HemiaFair ’68 center area cleared but we had should rank as a modern miracle, more than 60 per cent of the 404 m % a f a 1 S 4 a M Careful planning, exact tiifce- tables and coordinated effort pro duced the miracle, according to John H. Mcllhenny, 1956 Texas AAM graduate who was. “archi tect" of the fastest such job on record. • Mcllhenny, Urban Renewal ii (Agency project administrator, de scribed how the 120-acre down town San Antonio development came about at the sixth Right of Way Seminar at AAM last week. In 1963, the convention center complex je# HemisFair was a hodgepodge business district of 82 businesses and dwellings of 35 families and 122 individuals. la five years, the run-down area of ‘.crowded, unkempt homes and deteriorating business structures was transformed into a steel, glass, marble,, water and park wonderland To (hake the transition on time for HemisFair opening April 6, 1968, agency officials had to con demn, acquire and clear land to turn over to construction crews in 1964. “Everybody said we wouldn’t e,” Mcllhenny said. “Not rJ get it done,' Unnrersify National Bank ‘On the side of Texas AAM. —Adv. parcels for the entire project. The AAM industrial technology and industrial education graduate told highway, pipeline and utility right-of-way planners at the three-day seminar that planned and coordinated condemnation and acquisition procedures was the key. i “We went to the judge we knew would handle all the condemnation cases and explained what we planned to do. We supplied and kept up to date in his office maps showing the areas in which we were working,” the administrator described. The court knew whether one parcel of land in a certain seg ment was all that remained to be condemned. The agency re tained the same commission to work several parcels remaining to be acquired in a given area. “We knew some of the cases would be complicated and take time and that some people would not agree with the project ini tially,” Mcllhenny! noted. To establish some titles, the agency had to dig into Texaa history to locate the Madre Ditch, through which some of the people in the Alamo escaped before Santa Anna attacked. Some land parcels were Ideated in reference to the waterway, which was found. The work involved surveying 103 architecturally -significant structures, 30 of which were saved and incorporated into the Hemis Fair layout. The agency, as part of ita nor mal operation, helped relocate the businesses sad citixens who re sided in the area. • “Many built brand new busi ness establishments and the new homes these people occupied were almost always better than their original abode,” Mcllhenny ex-, plained. “One business was a run-down building. They built a 8500,000 new structure that won an architectural award.” Diversion of the San Antonio River into the project and cutting it under two streets for which bridges were built on the ground then excavated beneath were typ ical other problems. The Urban Renewal Agency’s work has revitalized the. down town San Antonio area. “City, county and state taxes in the area of the convention center amounted to 855,000 in 1961,” Mcllhenny noted. “Today, it's 8200,000.” Construction promises to boom after HemisFair closes in October, he added. “We're trying to keep streets open for fair visitors now," Mc llhenny said. “Land buying on the edges of the fair is very active now." Directories listing Texas AAM’s new Centrex telephone numbers are now available in Room 216 of the Services Build ing,- announced Jim Lindsey, uni versity information director. Limlpey said the directories should be picked M^no later than Friday, the last^fiSness day be fore Centrex goes into effect and most campus numbers change. Centrex, he noted, is a com plete telephone central office designed to serve the specific needs of AAM. The new system, with its own exchange identified by an 845 prefix, officially goes Into effect at 8 a.m. Monday. Lindsey requested that one ‘representative for each campus department or office pick up the total number of directories re quired for that facility, rather than have individuals obtain sin gle copies. The new directory is a tem porary edition designed to meet faculty-staff requirements until a permanent directory is issued about Nov, 1. A temporary student directory, listing the telephone numbers of persons who made advance dorm itory reservations, will be pub lished just prior to the start of the fall semester. Both temporary directories are being furnished at no cost u> campus users, Lindsey noted. He pointed out that both the temporary and permanent direc tories have a new format similar to standard city directories. Indi vidual listings, processed through AAM’s IBM 360 65 computer, are printed in consideraMy larger type than in previous years. Dean of Students James P. Han- nigan; Dr. William C. Gibbons, Political Science Department chairman; Griffin L. Venator of Dallas, former Civilian Student Council president, and Richard L. Engel of Elm Grove, Wis., former Cadet Corps wing commander. The panel members will repre sent the administrative, faculty, civilian and Cofpe points of view. The Rev. Wesley Seeliger of St. Thomas Episcopal Chapel will moderate. ~ • * , Each panel member’s presenta tion will be followed by discussion and questions from the floor and other panel members, Maddox said. “A tape recording will be made and checked to determine student interest,” the senior management major added. “The discussion will be kept on a general level and will not be allowed to center on AAM,” Engel said. Great Issues brings to the cam pus widely-known speakers and discussions vary U,rw«b« u tth. A total of ,80 residence halls « will be open for room aasign- be menta for Am fall semester, ac- Texas Clipper’ Due Next Week After sailing the equivalent of over half-way around the world, Texas AAM “floating classroom,” the Texas Clipper, and ita crew of 211 students return home Sun day. The converted oceanliner op- erlands; Lisbon, Portugal; Gibral tar; Canary Islands and San Juan, Puerto Rico. "Summer School at Sea,” an academic program for recent high school graduates and college freshmen, accounts for 114 of era ted by AAM’s Texas Maritime the students aboard the “Clipper.” Academy completes its 13,000- mile, two-month European cruise Friday but will make a two-day goodwill visit to Corpus Christi before docking at Galveston. TMA officials said the vessel will arrive in Galveston at 8 p. m. Sunday after departing Corpus Christi early that morning. In addition to the students, thf “Clipper" will be carrying several state officials and other dignitaries who have accepted in vitations to board at Corpus; Christi for familiarisation with the academy's operations at sea. The cruise began June 16 and included visits to New York City; Oslo, Norway; Amsterdam. Neth- Remainder of the youths are Texas Maritime Academy cadets who are taking their annual sum mer crufcie and operating the ship under the guidance of academy personnel. Yell Practice Set An "Old Army” yell prac tice is ket for tonight follow ing "The Appaloosa” showing at the Grove Theater, The yell practice will begin about 10:30. Yell leaders at the last impromptu practice - were not exactly “elected,” but spirit was high, according to ' many attending the pre season * session. cording to Allan M. Madeley, housing manager. Students who expect to live in a residence hall for the fall semester and have not yet made reservations should report to the Housing Office and fill out room reservation cards as soon as pos- J sible to insure placement. \ At the end of the summer ses sion, halls 1 through It and 14, 15, and 16 will not be available for students to transfer belong ings for the fall semester. Stu dents who will live in one of these halls in the fall may either taka their belongings home with them or make arangeraents with the Agronomy Society’s storage group. “A” ramp basement of Walton Hall will be open from 4 p.m. to 5, Aug. 22 and 23 for anyone wishing to store items between the summer and fall ' sessions, Madeley continued. Summer rooms must be vacated 1 of all personal belongings by Friday, Aug. 23, unless the same students will be occupying the same room in the fall, be said. Students who will live in any other-hall aaust move thole be longings Is their new rooms by , 7 p.m., Aug. 23. Those halls ' whifh are not being used for summer school (Hast, Law, Pur- 1 year. Mitchell, Legett, Milner, Walton, and 181 will be unlocked from 1 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Thurs day, Aug. 22 and Friday, Aug. 23, to accomodate students who must move, the housing manager said. In order to protect student property, all halls except Moses (17) and Schumacher (22) will be locked at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23. Schumacher Hall will be avail able between terms only to stu- denta who have been assigned there for the fall semester. Such students may make arrangements at the Housing Office to live in their fall rooms. All other stu dents requiring accommodations between terms should report to the Housing Office for an as signment in Moses Hall. Bryaa BaiMiag A Lean Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. Mud Tug-of-War Is (See Column Page 2) . ’/ft Ty*. I,