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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
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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.
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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
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Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
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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.