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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, February 13, 1969
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Listen Up
The Battalion:
The 1969 Military Weekend will
feature two dances, the Combat
Ball on Feb. 28, and the Military
Ball on March 1.
All Army cadets are encouraged
to enter their dates, names in the
Combat Cutie contest at the
Combat Ball.
I’ve heard fish have the best
looking girls, but right now the
class of ’72 has yet to enter one
name in the contest.
The classes of '71, '70 and '69
aren’t heavily represented either!
To make this Combat Ball the
best ever, we need more interest
from cadets. I sure would like to
see all classes make a showing in
the contest.
Applications for the Combat
Cutie contest can be picked up in
room 123 of dorm 2 or from each
company first sergeant.
All Air Force seniors may pick
up invitations and tickets to the
Combat Ball in room 123 of dorm
2 beginning Monday evening.
These seniors will be charged a
nominal fee of one dollar.
The ball will feature “The
Clique” from Houston.
Arthur Stites ’69
Military Weekend Committee
“We’ve hit a new low! We used to get ‘Dear John Letters’
and now we get ‘Dear John postcards!’ ”
Questions Remain
On Phone Service
The Battalion published Wednesday an article concern
ing complaints about local telephone service. In the story,
General Telephone Company presented its point of view,
along with an insight into future developments planned in
this area. When these developments, such as Direct Distance
Dialing, become reality, service in the Bryan-College Station
area will undoubtedly be greatly improved.
During his conversation with The Battalion Tuesday,
Bill Erwin, General’s division manager, heard the customer’s
side of the story, perhaps for the first time. Some things
were brought to his attention that he will almost certainly
check into and possibly correct.
During the give-and-take session, though, some things
were said that might seem confusing on second examina
tion. As an example, Erwin mentioned that he felt staffing
was adequate in this area. Perhaps he wasn’t aware that
he contradicted himself in the same statement by saying
that the repair and installation men work a six-day, 10-
hour-a-day work week. Adequate ?
While answering questions, Erwin also said service calls
were handled as quickly as possible, usually within two or
three days. While the statement is no doubt true, we can
only wonder why people should have to wait that long to
have troubles corrected, especially in an area where a con
tinually growing university is located. The problem couldn’t,
perhaps, be one of service personnel shortage?
In connection with service, Erwin mentioned that a
call to 18, repair service, was all that was needed to get
a problem corrected. Some of the complaints received, how
ever, indicated that at least some customers are not getting
satisfaction from repair service people. Erwin made a note
of that fact at the time, and will presumably check into it
as soon as he can.
In Tuesday’s information exchange, both sides, the
customer and the service, learned some things they probably
had not known. It remains to be seen whether or not this
will result in more understanding on the part of the custo
mer and improved service locally from the phone people.
—David Middlebrooke
the BATTAL|ON
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
Midland Hometown Club will
meet at 7:30 in the MSC.
Grayson County Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room
3-C of the Memorial Student Cen
ter. This is a reactivation meet
ing- and all Grayson County resi
dents are urg-ed to attend. For
further information contact Tom
Bonn, 845-6004, or Jack Roy, 50
Mitchell Hall.
DeWitt-Lavaca County Home
town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in room 203 of the Academic
Building-. Spring party will be
planned.
Texas A&M Chapter of DPMA
will meet at 7 p.m. in room 104
of the Teague Building. The
charter meeting of the organiza
tion will be discussed. All mem
bers and prospective members
should attend.
Panhandle Area Hometown Club
will meet at 8 p.m. in room 3-B
of the MSC.
Bell County Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC
lobby. Picture will be taken.
Sweetheart will be chosen; bring
pictures of candidates. Class “A”
Winter or midnights, coat and tie
for civilians.
Texas A&M Gavel Club will
meet at 7 p.m. in the YMCA
basement.
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| Johnson Admits Mistakes |
| In Dealings With Youth |
Those readers who are uninter
ested in magazine article reviews
should skip this column. Those
readers who are even less inter
ested in a review of a magazine
article in which Lyndon Johnson
discusses his administration’s fail
ure with American Youth should
turn immediately to “Bulletin
Board.”
In neither case, however, will
the reader collect $200.
The article will be featured, in
the March issue of True Maga
zine and while beating a dead
horse is considered a useless art,
the avid historian may display a
half-hearted interest.
For Mr. Johnson admits a
mistake.
It should be understood that
this was not a big mistake, but
more of a misunderstanding. For,
while Johnson gives his adminis
tration a “decent grade” for ef
fort in attempts to communicate
with young people, he allows a
“poor grade” for effectiveness.
JOHNSON STATED a definite
belief that people in high levels
of government are insulated from
the thoughts of youth. He said
he tried to soften this insulation
by deliberately building a staff
which included a large number of
young people. The nine “young
people” he listed had an average
age of 30, which many youthful
dissidents may consider closer to
middle-aged.
Surprisingly, Johnson feels
that his estrangement from youth
did not result from policies in the
Vietnam war, but from the feel
ing that democratic channels are
inadequate for expression of this
disagreement. He does not dis
cuss the Vietnam situation fur
ther.
YET JOHNSON’S interview is
more sad than bad. He feels
obliged to give one-man confir
mation of his accomplishments.
Unfortunately he seems obligated
to tie them to a dollar sign.
On the eve of his departure
from the White House, he was
still committed to the economic
view of progress. Richer people
are happier people.
On the youth movement and
Negro rights Johnson said: “I
shudder to think what would
happen to the whole operation if
two things hadn’t happened: one,
if I hadn’t done what I did do.
I took a budget of $116 billion
and turned it into a budget of
$184 billion.
“Basically, much of that — $17
billion really — was extra for
Viet Nam. But the rest of the
money went into programs that
greatly benefited these people.”
ON EDUCATION: “Today fed
eral grants, loans and work-study
programs are helping nearly 125
million young Americans through
college. Over 100,000 young men
and women have completed Job
Corps training; more than 1.2
million Americans have enrolled
in the Neighborhood Youth Corps;
over 23,000 in Uuward Bound.”
This economic outlook of John
son’s is partly understandable—
for he spent his youth in the de
privation of the Depression. What
is not understandable is that
Johnson recognizes that present
security has allowed youth to
switch priorities from economics
to social justice and political
equality, yet for five years he
met these new questions almost
totally with money answers.
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