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I fc 1, w , I, , , *.*, ,%* *. '.•**■ ■■*•••• • • • • it a lion Sports V/SKIRT: den of nwise rdrobe costs a lit ase days—a factoi directly on eveij band's financijl ue, you may not husband. Yet. Sta- owever, the odis against the per f that condition, art to plan no#- wife and family :ene. e way. Invest ira ce program that the foundation loi ancial structure. the earlier you ;s coverage costa, re security you’ll ice to build. our office today, nd let’s talk about meantime give a the figleaf—and table it feels to vi !. Richardson e Campus fe Underwriter 3 _ 567-31S5 ENT _ LIFE any OF PHILADELPHI* Che Battalion VOLUME 64, Number 52 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1968 Telephone 845-2226 Nixon Aide May Advise I Six More Campus Parking Lots Troop Phase-Out In Viet | Planned For September, 1969 WASHINGTON UP) — If Hen- AS SPECIAL assistant, Kis- operations should be the creation ry A. Kissinger follows his own writings, his national secretary advice to Richard M. Nixon will stress conventional military pre paredness over a nuclear-only deterrent, the yielding of some defense responsibilities to allies, and phase withdrawal of U. S. forces from Vietnam. PRESIDENT-elect Nixon nam ed Kissinger as his special as sistant for national security af fairs this month. The Harvard scholar refused to state his views on major foreign policy ques tions. Saying he believes his new job “is consistent with making pub lic statements on substantive issues,” he invited a questioning reporter to read his books. KISSINGER has written three books on government affairs, edited a fourth and contributed one chapter to a fifth, concen trating on nuclear strategy and the Atlantic Alliance. While Kissinger has outlined his views in detail, Nixon avoid ed specifics during the cam paign, and so their affiliation be gins without major policy differ ences on the public record. singer will be in a position to strongly influence presidential thinkijig on foreign affairs but will not be tied to administrative chores as is the Secretary of State. McGeorge Bundy with President Kennedy and Walt Rostow with President Johnson were influential in the job Kis singer is getting. As a foreign policy advisor to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, Kissinger was heav ily involved in drafting the four- stage Vietnam peace plan un veiled during Rockefeller’s cam paign for the Republican presi dential nomination. THAT PLAN proposed a mu tual pullback and later with drawal of all outside military forces, internationally supervised elections in South Vietnam, and a reduction in the numbers of American forces in South Viet nam, even without North Viet nam’s cooperation in negotia tions. In August 1966, Kissinger wrote in Look magazine that “a purely military solution is im possible” in Vietnam, and said “the primary goal of military of secure areas” — a sort of flexible enclave theory. HE SUGGESTED that politi cal jockeying likely would occur if too many nations were bound up in negotiations, and said “it may be wiser to separate the issues into their component ele ments, each to be settled by the parties primarily involved. A larger conference could then work out guarantees for settle ments already achieved in other forums.” By TOM CURL Battalion Staff Writer Surveying is currently under way in planning the construction of six campus parking lots which will accommodate about 600 cars. Funds were allocated last month by the university board of directors and construction bids will be taken sometime early in ■£a Classes Begin At 8 Jan. 6 Students have a long Christmas vacation this year, but it will be two hours shorter than listed in the Memorial Student Center calendar, announced Registrar H. L. Heaton. Heaton said classes will resume at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 6. The MSC calendar erroneously indicated classes would begin at 10 a.m. Both students and faculty-staff personnel officially begin Christmas vacations at 5 p.m. Friday. Faculty-staff, however, will return to work Dec. 30 but take off the following Wednesday for New Year’s. drinking ^ears of red the turning 5tries - MSC To Be Partially Active Through Christmas Holidays A miniature Memorial Student Center will remain open here luring the Christmas holidays which begin Friday for students and faculty-staff. Students’ Christmas recess will lontinue through Jan. 6. The faculty-staff holidays include Dec. 21-29 and Jan. 1. The bowling and billiards area of the MSC will remain open throughout the Dec. 20-Jan. 5 leriod, closing only on Dec. 24 ind 25. MSC Director J. Wayne Stark said daily newspapers, Magazines, dominoes, checkers Bnd other regular materials will )e available in the bowling-bil- iards area in addition to TV for bowl football and regular sched ule viewing. Students remaining on campus and local patrons may enter the Miniature MSC through the MSC post office, main doors next to the gift shop or bowling-billiards doors. All other MSC areas—the foun tain room, cafeteria, gift shop, guest rooms, browsing library, barbershop, general offices and Association of Former Students— will be closed Dec. 21-29. Western Union and travel serv ices will be available all days except weekends, Dec. 25 and Jan. 1. Building entrance to the ★ ★ ★ Holiday Schedule Posted By Library The university library will op erate on an abbreviated schedule during the Dec. 20-Jan. 4 Christ- Mas holiday period, announced Dr. James P. Dyke. The regular schedule will be resumed Sunday, Jan. 5, the li brary director added. A&M stu dents, who leave for Christmas et 5 p.m. Friday, will be back in elass at 10 a.m. Jan. 6. Library doors close at 5 p.m. Friday. Library holiday hours will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily ex cept on Saturdays, Sundays and specified dates. The facility will be closed Dec. 22, 24-26 and 29 end Jan. 1. It will be open from 8 a.m. until noon on Saturdays during the holidays. offices should be through the west front door, next to the West ern Union office. All regular MSC services will be in operation Dec. 30-31 and Jan. 2-3 except the barber shop and fountain room. MSC barbers will be on duty only on Jan. 2-3 during the holidays. Regular MSC schedules will re sume at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 6. United Chest Meets Goal Of $27,500 The College Station United Chest’s 1968 fund-raising cam paign generated enough donations to insure full implementation of its record $27,500 budget, the organization’s board of directors has announced. Monday marked the official end of the drive to raise funds to help support 16 civic and charitable agencies. Campaign Director E. H. Fen ner noted the $27,500 goal this year represented a $5,000 increase over the previous year’s budget, which also was a record. Fenner, assistant director of the Engineering Experiment Sta tion here, expressed appreciation to all the campaign workers and to the hundreds of persons who donated to the United Chest this year. Agencies sharing in the United Chest budget and the amounts they will receive are: College Station Community House, Inc., $2,500; College Sta tion Recreation Council, $2,500; Boy’s Club of America (Bryan), $3,000; Brazos Valley Rehabilita tion Center, $3,000; Brazos Coun ty Counseling Service, $2,500; Salvation Army, $1,350. Girl Scouts Area Council, $2,800; Boy Scouts of America, $3,000; American Red Cross, $3,- 500; Texas United Fund, $100; United Service Organization (USO), $300; Traveler’s Aid of America, $50; United Cerebal Palsy of Texas, Inc., $200; Girl’s Club of Brazos County, $1,500; and Texas Association of Mental Health, $450. DECORATIONS GO UP Althoug-h a gusty wind prevailed Tuesday, Texas A&M stu dents didn’t let it stop them from decorating their Christ mas tree. The YMCA cabinet officers decorated two 30-foot pines as background for Thursday’s Community Sing. A little horse-play between Dennis Turner (left, top) and David Howard (right, top) made things even better. Other students include (from left) David Spain, Jackie Clark, Ross Oliver, Charles Herder and Gary Anderson. Garrigan Barn To Be Revamped Garrigan’s famed horse barn has become the victim of progress at A&M and its disappearance sparks memories among old- timers. Once the delight of horse fan ciers, farmers and ranchers across the state when it was built in 1933, it will soon house the fast growing Recreation and Parks Department, headed by Dr. Leslie Reid. In the shadows of the greatness of the past, the horse barn will remain true to its tradition of housing the best. WHEN RENOVATION ends, it will be occupied by a department that has virtually grown from one man — Dr. Reid — in three years to a major department offering three degree programs, and a department which recently received national acclaim. Its gnawed stall openings now boarded up to provide needed of fice space and classrooms, the horse barn was once a “must” for many visitors to the campus, especially 4-H Club members and farmers attending short courses. Annually, between 4,000 and 5,000 persons would visit the stall of Pat Murphy Jr. “PAT MURPHY JR. drew spe cial crowds because he was an oddity in the animal world,” said James W. Potts of the Agricul tural Extension Service. “He also was a fine animal and performer when Owen Garrigan, who had charge of A&M’s horses, put him Bryut Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. BB&L —A.dv. PROGRESS CONTINUES Another of A&M’s famous landmarks—Garrigan’s horse barn—has fallen victim to the rapid changing university which has long since entered the space age. The bam, built in 1933 for $25,000, is undergoing renovation to the tune of $100,000 to house the fast-growing Recreation and Parks Department. through his paces.” Pat Murphy Jr. was the off spring of Old Beck, a cotton mule, who foaled her colt on Sept. 23, 1923, at the antique age for a mule of 22 years. The colt was born in the old A&M Animal Husbandry pasture. In the years following, Pat Murphy Jr. was trained to five gaits by Garrigan, a master horseman who supervised con struction of the barn—reportedly one of the finest in the country at that time. AS A RESULT, the barn drew an unusually large number of visitors when rural people were on the campus, added Potts who first visited A&M with the 4-H in 1925. He joined the A&M staff as a 4-H Club worker in 1938 and transferred to his present position in 1949. Garrigan was a native Irishman with mustache and brogue to match, and he quartered many remarkable stallions through the years in his barn. He died in 1952, the year the barn became headquarters for ag ricultural administrative offices. Recalling many outstanding stallions, F. Ike Dahlberg remem bered Flowerdale as the earliest. He was grandson of Man-of-War. DAHLBERG, who joined the former Animal Husbandry De partment in 1936, has been a student at A&M and worked with Garrigan. Dahlberg retires in January. Bobby Jones proved a popular Morgan stallion and sired many “good buggy horses.” Dahlberg said. Liberty Loan, an American Sad dle horse, likewise proved himself and went on to receive national attention. 1 “THIS BREED was gaited,” added Dahlberg, and “known as ‘high tails’.” Dahlberg emphasized Liberty Loan “sired a good many show horses” including William the Conqueror. “William was a champion in most every show he entered,” Dahlberg continued. “A&M went out of the Percher- on (draft horse) business in 1939, and sold its American Sad dle horses in the early forties . . . about the time of the rise of Quarter Horses,” he remi nisced. The first quarter horse at A&M was J. W. McCue. A second stal lion, Bubbles Dexter, and six mares were added later. “LAST OF THE popular stal lions here was ‘U Made It,’ a registered Quarter Horse given by the Army Remount Station in Oklahoma,” Dahlberg concluded. Time has passed the old horse barn, however, and Dr. Reid and his staff will start moving in “sometime next month.” Of the department to be housed in the horse bam, Dr. Donald E. Hawkins declared that “the A&M program is simply phenomenal. The growth rate in student en rollment, the quality of faculty and students, and the establish ment of B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. de grees in the space of less than three years is not duplicated any where in the country.” Hawkins, executive secretary of the Society of Park and Recre ation Educators, added his pro fession sees “A&M as a national center of excellence.” When workmen finish their job next month, the only visible sign of the past at the horse barn will be its copper and bronze weather- vanes—one a cowboy trying to rope a rabbit! 1969, according to the university physical plant office. “AS A ROUGH estimate, I would guess the lots might be ready for use next September,” said Charles E. Brunt, physical plants assistant manager. The largest lot will be located at the southwest comer of Biz- zell and Lewis Streets and will accommodate 220 cars in the lighted area. ANOTHER lot with spaces for about 120 cars will be built be tween the Entomology Field Lab oratory and the overpass on Farm Road 60 west of the rail road tracks. Gravel-surfaced lots are plan ned for south of the Biological Sciences Building (60 cars), north of the Engineering Build ing (45) cars and southeast of the Engineering Extension Serv ice Building (36) cars. CAMPUS Security Chief Ed Powell reports that the parking area south of G. Rollie White Coliseum to the south end of Kyle Field has been restricted to day students only except after business hours and on weekends. “We were allowing dormitory students to unofficially park there until we needed the spaces for day students,” Chief Powell remarked. “We put courtesy tickets (no fine involved) on the dormitory Ex-Commandant Dies Of Cancer General Guy S. Meloy Jr., for mer professor of military science and tactics and commandant of cadets from 1946-48, died last Saturday at Brooke General Hos pital, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, of complications caused by cancer. General Meloy’s last assign ment before his retirement from the U. S. Army in July, 1963, was Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Command and commanding general of United States Forces in Korea. On retiring in 1963, General Meloy settled in San Antonio. There he became southwest re gional vice president of Freedoms Foundation and mayor of Terrell Hills. General Meloy’s first wife, Catherine Louise Cahill, died in 1959. He is survived by his three sons, Guy S. Ill, William N. and John N.; his second wife, Therese Fischer Meloy; one brother, Alex ander S., and five grandchildren. students’ cars and explained to some of them that we needed the lot for the day students,” he con cluded. Princeton Poet To Give Next Grad Lecture Poet Theodore Russell Weiss of Princeton will be guest speak er for the second 1968-69 Uni versity Lecture Series presenta tion Jan. 9, announced Dr. Ed win Doran, series chairman. Weiss, a Danforth visiting lecturer, will discuss “Poetry Now: Tradition and Break through” at 8 p.m. in the Mem orial Student Center ballroom. Presently professor of writing, Weiss was Princeton’s writer-in residence in 1966-67. He form erly taught English at Yale, the University of North Carolina and the University of Maryland. Professor Weiss, author of six poetry books, has published poems and articles in most of the major literary magazines, ob served Dr. Doran, assistant geo sciences dean. Noted for his penetrating an alyses of both traditional and current trends in American poetry, Weiss is a member of the Wesleyan University Press Po etry Board and has served as editor of “The Quarterly Review of Literature” since 1943. Among many honors bestowed upon the Princeton professor were the Ford Foundation Fel lowship for Poetry and Greek Literature in 1953-54, first place in the Wallace Stevens Awards in 1956 and a National Founda tion of Arts and Letters grant in 1967. Dean Doran pointed out the admission - free University Lec ture Series is designed to give the faculty, students and general public the opportunity, to hear authorities discuss subjects of broad social, political and intel lectual interest. International Club To Form Tonight Students interested in forming an International Club will meet tonight in the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 in Room 2C. The results of a questionnaire regarding the formation of the club will be discussed, according to Wayne Prescott, executive vice president of the MSC Coun cil and Directorate. Ags To Have Annual Feast More than 7,000 plates heaped with roast tom turkey, cornbread dressing and all the trimmings will be attacked this evening in A&M's two dining halls. The annual Christmas dinner will be served from 4:30 to 6:15 p.m. at Sbisa Dining Hall and 7 p.m. in Duncan, announced Fred W. Dollar, Food Service Depart ment director. The menu also will include cranberry sauce, candied sweet potatoes with marshmellows, but tered peas, combination salad with dressing, hot rolls, relish tray, milk and coffee topped off with mincemeat pie, hard candy, mixed nuts and fruit. Dollar said guest tickets at $1.50 each are available at either dining hall. Church Answers YMCA Plea, ‘Adopts’ Three Needy Families The First Christian Church of Bryan has ‘adopted’ three needy families as a part of A&M’s YM CA program to help families this Christmas. The response came in answer to a plea by YMCA general secre tary Logan Weston that “there are many needy families in the Bryan-College Station area who will not have a Christmas unless local residents help.” Weston and his student cabinet officers have been asking students and faculty members to help by “bringing food and clothing to the Y for distribution.” Response has been limited, he added. Weston said he had names of “several families” who can still be adopted for Christmas. He suggested other church groups— including individual Sunday School classes — could adopt a family and “make someone happy this Christmas by sharing.” Weston noted that in addition to adopting three families, the Christian Church is providing $60 to help supply fresh produce. “It’s an excellent opportunity for churches, merchants and civic groups to participate,” he added, pointing out vegetables and fruit are also needed. Persons interested in donating food and clothing, or adopting a family are requested to contact the Y office on campus. WEATHER Thursday — Cloudy. Intermitten rain. Northerly winds 10-15 mph. High 51. Low 39. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv.