Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, January 23, 1969 THE BATTALION Library Check - Outs Boom Ponce Program Cyclotron Increases Operatic Opens At Annex Library business has boomed here since relocation in the new building last summer. More people are using library facilities and materials, said Dr. James P. Dyke, director. He pointed to a dramatic increase in checkouts and greater in-building use of materials. “What is not reflected in the figures is that library patrons are using materials here where be fore they had to be checked out,” Dyke said. “The library has space for a person to sit down and work. Before, he had to balance his books on his knees or check them out for home use.” regular checkouts, reserve books taken for overnight use, reshelv ing materials from in-building use and several other categories. The first campus basic police course of the new year opened Monday with 31 officers across the state enrolled, Ira E. Scott reported. Texas A&M cyclotron reached another milestone with announce ment Tuesday that the multi-mil- lion-dollar nuclear device is now operating around the clock seven days a week. fall began 24-hour operations, Monday through Friday. “Everything has increased, in cluding inter-library loans,” Smith added. In one month in the new struc ture, 15,000 volumes were checked out, nearly doubling the previous one-month high in Cushing Library. Library public service director Jack Smith, who estimates a tripling of business in all areas, said 36,441 volumes were used in November. The figure includes Other factors include faculty studies, extension of daily check out times, inclusion of several previously separate departmental libraries, materials reclassifica tion for easier location and in creased enrollment. Scott, head of the Texas En gineering Extension Service’s Po lice Training Division, said the six-week course for law enforce ment officers is the 44th general course scheduled by his division. It continues through Feb. 28. Several top medical and space research institutions have ex pressed interest in utilizing the machine, Witsell pointed out. experiments and other pn initiated by various sources including the Activation h Research Laboratory. Gilbert Witsell, associate direc tor of the Cyclotron Institute, said the only scheduled interrup tions in continuous operations will be for routine maintenance from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. each Monday. Operating time has continually been increased since the 88-inch The first off-campus user was a University of Pennsylvania team engaged in cancer research. The group termed its first tests here “highly successful” and plans to return later in the year for more experiments. Clubs May Fih For MSC Room THESE PRC66 (3CCP THURSDAY- FRIDAY-JANUARY \9b9? I THIS COUPON WORTH W/ \oofcetGCM immms Wm**TtffcoMASe of - r- At brsaj ptueiHWieeix.i^.oNL*''' EXPIRES: Jlfi+J- X 5, .I9b c ?/ THIS IS IN ADDITION TO YOU* REGULARLY EARNED SAVING STAMPS I I I I I ) SAVING STAMPS I I I I I £■£^'’7 fLAvCHS SpBOt-i JELL*0 PEAS “/iWASS Segve The SbSj.. -Serve. P&61H meeix MEATS/ 5WB5 STEAK U'LPER. L0; 69 pou (jp 59f 89f SHOULDER gf ^ WASTE guess STEAK l&JeLESS f SAVOY ST^K RANCH STYLE fefrjgtess STEW MEAT ..w?, EATRA UE/^ 99 59 89 'Mint potvMHe. cpbtL.toonwKi BONNIE BAKER oiscaiMT prices ow IBM®I«*S CORN MEAL BAG pi60lv Wi00ly tfwce smhSf LETTUCE Head 15 C GRAPEFRUIT 1? 5^49 10^ iSisRiweS19^ .e 19 CORN COflflflILS CATSUP 5“ 1 l BOLn^ MOST MCW ^UPePNV>Wl ©UARAhiTEEp/ m *t COU£0^8W WYW1EMS at oui grc enc nes ma int' sai 1 24t tio: Wi go\ ter the knc 1 ize^ “ar soc grc did ear Ws I con wh in dis We “th adi wit •: bal tor