THE BATTALION
Pag-t 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 22, 1968
B John McCarroll -,
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Letters come across the desk of an editor at a fantastic
rate. Anyway that’s what I’ve always been led to believe.
It seems that lately no one has seen fit to write a
letter to the editor—kind of discouraging.
Then it happened. One of the brightest letters of edi
torial comment came across this desk the other day.
One Patrick J. Scott, a senior electrical engineering
major, gave us a break. He wrote one of the most humorous
satires that I’ve seen in a long time.
In his letter he referred to a mistake which appeared
on page one of last week’s issue which was the misspelling
of the word “miracle” (just to set the record straight.)
This mistake will, no doubt, go down in journalism history.
So will his letter.
It was really a pleasure to receive criticism from a pro
like this man.
He approached the problem beautifully. To begin his
satire he chose small-sized stationery and hand-wrote his
letter. He even left all of his crossed-out words and cor
rected spellings right there in the letter. Such finesse!
Next he made gramatical errors at a fantastic rate. We
had 294 square inches to fill on page one last week and made
that staggering mistake. Yet in his first three sentences
he managed to fit in two gramatical errors! This man could
work with the best of them.
Yes he is a remarkable satirist. In his short letter he
was able to convey his message clearly.
We must agree with Mr. Scott—we hate to see any
thing second-rate about A&M. And he did a really first-
rate job.
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Another Aggie joke: A sophomore marketing major
entered a beauty contest and won.
This student won a regional elimination in the 13th
Texas Beauty Pageant runoff. C. J. Patterson however is
a Maggie and not an Aggie.
Carol stacks up well against her competition. She is
5-3, 115, 35-24-35.
When she competes against 17 other regional winners
Saturday night in Waco for the right to represent Texas
in the next American Beauty Pageant, she faces a slight
disadvantage—she’s the only A&M student that has ever
entered a beauty contest.
Let’s hope she starts a new tradition here and we can
be the home of the Southwest Conference Football Champs
and the most beautiful girl in America.
It may draw more football players and beautiful girls
if she did.
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Sound Off
"BUT I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING
TO PICK TH' LAUNDRY UP! . . . "
Esquire Says A&M
No Hippie Heaven
TTI Gets Contract
For Dallas Project
Texas A&M’s Texas Transpor
tation Institute has been awarded
an $847,000 contract by the U. S.
The Texas A&M research in
stitute will establish an office
in Dallas Sept. 1, the director
Bureau of Public Roads to pro- noted, with an initiaT four-man
vide a computerized traffic con
trol system for Dallas’ North
Central Expressway and support
ing street system.
TTI Director Jack Keese said
the first phase of the three-year
project should be operational
within a year.
Keese noted the $847,000 rep
resents only federal participa
tion. Funds furnished by the Tex
as Highway Department and the
City of Dallas will increase the
total program to “considerably
over $1 million,” he added.
The Dallas project will be an
expansion of programs which TTI
has operated in Houston the past
four years and in Detroit since
1966.
Keese said the TTI system
will control Central Expressway
traffic between downtown and
the new Lyndon B. Johnson Free
way.
Postal Station
Plans Revealed
A contract has been awarded
to Dr. and Mrs. Harold E. Red
mond to build a new postal station
in College Station and lease it to
the Post Office Department, Post
master General Marvin Watson
announced this week.
Known as the College Hills Pos
tal Station, it will be erected in
the Redmond Terrace Shopping
Center on South Highway 6.
Construction is expected to start
immediately with completion seen
before the end of the year.
The new building will be leased
to the Post Office Department for
10 years with options to renew
the lease, Watson said.
staff. The staff will be headed
by Dick McCasland, a research
engineer who has been associated
with TTI 10 years and has been
in charge of the Houston Gulf
Freeway project since 1964. Sev
eral members of TTI’s staff in
College Station and Houston also
will participate in various phases
of the Dallas project.
First phase of the Central Ex
pressway program, Keese ex
plained, involves installation of
a digital computer to monitor
traffic sensors which will be in
stalled along the freeway and on
the adjacent street network.
A control system then will be
installed on the freeway entrance
ramps, he continued, with the
computer monitoring and con-
troling these traffic signals on
the freeway and arterial streets.
“We expect to have the com
puter and sensors installed on
the freeway within a year,” Keese
said. “The following year we will
expand the surveillance and con
trol system into the arterial street
network.’
McCasland noted the Dallas
project “will start where the
Houston project leaves off.”
“The Dallas freeway control
system will be installed as an
operational system, based on the
findings and results of the Hous
ton and other freeway control
projects,” he explained.
“It’s an implementation of re
search results,” McCasland add
ed.
He said the principal objective
of the Central Expressway pro
ject is the design and evaluation
of a control system that coor
dinates the operation of a free
way and supporting arterial
street network.
Texas A&M is no hippie hea
ven, Esquire magazine points up
in its September issue.
“Is there a campus left that
hasn’t been touched by student
rebellion?” Esquire asks in its
back-to-school section.
At the height of last spring’s
nationwide campus offensive, an
Esquire editor typed a letter on
plan stationery and mailed copies
to 10 pillars of the national com
munity.
The letter read in part:
“I am the father of a bright,
healthy young man who will be
entering college next year, and
to tell you the truth I’m worried.
I do want him to get a good edu
cation but I don’t want him to
turn into a bearded, pot-smoking,
draft-dodging leftist.
“David is a straight-A student,
so I imagine he would not have
too much difficulty getting into
a good school, and fortunately
I can afford to send him any
where, whatever the tuition.
“. . . I don’t care where the
colleges are located: I’d send my
boy to the farthest corners of
this country just to get him a
decent place of higher learning.”
Replies from the organizations
placed Texas A&M on a limited
list. Answers came from the
YMCA, DAR, Shriners and
Knights of Columbus, among oth-
Editor,
The Battalion:
I was pleased to hear of the
generous sacrifices made by the
students of Texas A&M in their
recent gesture to help feed the
orphans of Vietnam. I have seen
the tragedy of this war reflected
in the faces of the orphaned chil
dren throughout Vietnam, and
can assure you that your gift is
most welcomed.
Gerald F. Faulkner ’64
Advisor, Vietnamese Navy
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Editor,
The Battalion:
For the past three years I’ve
read the Battalion and seen many
mistakes put on it’s (sic) many
past pages. Most of them have
not seemed too gross or negligent,
but the rate at which they have
been appearing in the past year
seems to have increased some
what.
It seems ashame (sic) that a
student newspaper which is dis
tributed over a considerable area
outside of Bryan-College Station
cannot be thorough enough to
catch mistakes such as the one
I’ve enclosed. It seems apparent
that someone is too lazy to con
sult a dictionary, too rushed to
check, or incompetent as a proof
reader.
Sure, mistakes happen to every
one and I’m not excepted; but I
can just see a teasip showing the
“Batt” around to his friends and
saying, “Hey! Look what the
Aggies have done now.”
Maybe I’ve blown this incident
all out of proportion, but I don’t
like to see anything second-rate
about A&M when a little more
thought and effort can make it
first-rate.
Patrick J. Scott ’69
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U. S. History
Wednesday
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Zoo
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Thursday
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