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VOLUME 64 Number 133
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1969
Telephone 84S-2226
Racing Comes To College Station
^hen Speedway Opens November 9
NEW TEXAS INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY
llhis is an artist’s conception of the completed $8 million Texas Interna- by the Sports Car Club of America. (SCCA). The speedway utilizes 800
jtional Speedway, tabbed to open with the November 9 running- of the acres of a 2600 acre site and will provide four tracks in one.
I Texas International Canadian-American Challenge Cup Series sanctioned
Howard S. Perry will become
tivilian student activities direc
tor Sept. 1 at Texas A&M, head
ing a series of personnel changes
1
Perry Named Civilian Student Director
burglars Hit
2 Buildings
Burglars made off Sunday
night with about $7,000 worth of
Texas A&M office equipment
from biochemistry offices in the
Herman Keep Building and the
Feed and Fertilizer Control Serv
ice in the Services Building.
Campus Security Chief Ed
Powell said indications are that
thefts in the two locations were
ky the same person or persons.
“In both instances, a cutting
device was used to attempt to
cut a hole in the door glass next
to the handle,” Powell said. He
noted, however, that the burglars
ended up smashing the glass in
the Keep Building entry and
jimmying the lock in the Services
Building.
The security chief said there
are suspects and his office is
continuing investigation.
Taken from Keep offices were
three electric typewriters, a
atenocard recorder, portable dic
taphone, calculator, thermofax
copying machine and two table
lamps. Offices burglarized are
used by personnel under Dr. Jon
M, Prescott, biochemistry pro
fessor.
Five electric typewriters and
three dictating transcribers were
taken in the Service Building
theft. Reed McDonald heads
the Feed and Fertilizer opera
tion.
Powell said the thefts appar
ently took place between 8 p.m.
Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday and
that no vandalism occurred.
due to the resignation of Edwin
H. Cooper.
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan announced Perry will
succeed Cooper and Eugene C.
Oates, student affairs counselor,
will become residence halls pro
gram advisor. Perry is the cur
rent advisor.
Cooper has been civilian stu
dent activities director since the
post was created in 1967. He was
assistant to President Earl
Rudder four years and earlier
was wildlife conservation special
ist of the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service.
His resignation is effective
Aug. 31. The 1953 A&M gradu
ate said he is resigning to enter
a local business enterprise with
Kelly Broach. Cooper indicated
his family will i-emain here and
he hopes to maintain a close rela
tionship with the university.
“Ed has accomplished wonders
through the civilian student ac
tivities programs,” Hannigan
said. “We are very appreciative
of his work and accomplishments
and wish him the best.”
The dean noted personnel
changes will not affect civilian
student programs including the
residence halls program. It will
expand to include seven halls dur
ing 1969-70.
Four other appointments are
involved in the realignment, not
including recent appointment of
Don Stafford as associate dean,
replacing the retiring Bennie A.
Zinn. Residence halls counselors
Robert Chapman and Kirby Blev
ins will be joined by Jack Thomas,
Don Williams and Larry Rice.
Rice previously was civilian coun
selor to the Corps of Cadets.
Corps counselors J. Malon
Southerland and Mike Bozardt
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
will be joined by Larry Pollock.
Hannigan noted both Perry and
Oates were in on the student-
staff conference at Lake Buch
anan where the residence halls
program was born.
“They played significant roles
in its development, to the point
we feel we’re on the right track,”
the dean said. “We expect to
see within a year 100 per cent
participation in the program.”
A 1944 A&M graduate who
has been on the university staff
nine years, Perry will have re
sponsibility for overall activities
of more than 9,000 civilian stu
dents. He noted halls other than
the three in the pilot program
last year have already begun
adopting some of its elements.
The former school teacher and
coach said about 1,500 civilian
students will be directly involved
this year.
He praised the concept as the
main factor behind “a terrific
change among A&M civilian stu
dents during the last two years.
It is building cohesiveness within
all civilian student elements. The
change is apparent in attitudes
and interest in student govern
ment, activities and traditions.”
Hannigan said Oates, through
his closeness to the program as
Davis-Gary Hall counselor, has
developed “rapport with students
that tremendously benefits the
program. Students have a great
deal of respect for him.”
The Trinity native who came
to A&M in 1964 following 23
years Army service indicated
that the residence halls program
strives for balanced student de
velopment through academic
achievement and extra-curricular
activities involvement.
“Scholastically, all 17 halls
were above average last year,”
the 53-year-old 1941 A&M grad
uate observed. “Halls in the pro
gram were even higher scholas
tically and, from this, some good
competition developed.”
He noted two innovations are
due this year. On the Friday be
fore the Sept. 15 start of fall
semester classes, residence hall
councils will conduct freshman
“ice breakers” at which new ci
vilian students will have oppor
tunity to get acquainted.
Distinctive wearing apparel
denoting hall membership also is
in the mill, Oates added.
Perry and Oates will have of
fices on the first floor of the
renovated YMCA.
400 Will Attend
Freshman Camp
Texas A&M officials estimate
400 freshmen, one-fifth of the
1969 crop, will attend a special
three-day YMCA Freshman
Camp at Methodist Lakeview
Assembly Grounds near Pales
tine Sept. 6-9.
“We are still getting requests
from new freshmen,” reports
Logan Weston, YMCA coordi
nator.
Ninety-seven of the top under
graduates have been selected as
counselors for the camp, Wes
ton said, and 23 university and
civic leaders will meet with the
new “fish” to explain the impor
tance of a good education.
Weston said the camp’s pur
pose is to orient students on
college life, A&M customs and
traditions and leadership.
The 16th annual camp starts
early Saturday, Sept. 6, when
University President Earl Rud
der will welcome the select
group to A&M. The campers
will travel to Palestine aboard
school buses and return early
Tuesday morning.
YMCA Cabinet President Ed
Donnell of Jones Creek said the
camp “gives new students a
chance to meet their fellow
freshmen, make friends and
learn a lot about A&M during
bull-sessions in the cabins.”
Donnell said the fish who at
tend were hand-picked by the
University on the basis of their
past leadership performances.
“The camp is actually four
camps in one,” Weston noted.
Campers are housed in modern
cabins with about 100 students
in each camp. The camps are
divided into groups that are giv
en Indian names, Weston said,
and each cabin houses 12 fresh
men and three counselors.
“This allows one counselor to
every four freshmen,” Weston
pointed out.
Facilities at the camp include
two lakes, two modern swimming
pools and equipment for boating
and fishing. There are lighted
concrete tennis courts, softball
diamonds and lakeside taber
nacles and worship areas.
“For the past 14 years many
freshmen who took advantage of
this opportunity have shown out
standing leadership ability in
the Corps of Cadets and civiliah
activities,” Weston said.
The non-denominational camp
is for male freshman students
only.
Margolian, general
ager of Texas International
Speedway, has announced that
ticket reservations are now being
accepted for the November 9 Can-
Am and the December 7 NASCAR
Grand National auto races.
Ticket reservations may be
made through the Speedway
offices, College Station.
“Texas International Speedway
was most fortunate in being se
lected as the site for both NAS-
CAR’s and the SCCA’s final
championship events of the 1969
racing season. In a span of less
than four weeks, Texas racing
fans will have the opportunity to
enjoy a full season of racing. We
are accepting reservations in re
sponse to an unprecedented ad
vance demand,” Margolian said.
Now under construction, the
$8 million Texas International
Speedway will include 26,000 con
tour grandstand seats with back
rests which have been specially
designed to give the spectator the
finest viewing of any speedway
in the world. One hundred per
cent visibility of the two-mile
super speedway and pit area, and
95 percent visibility of the entire
three-mile road course combine to
Policemen Find
Words Strong
What happens when you call a
policeman a “pig” the first time
to his face?
Officer James L. Hazlitt of the
Mesquite Police Department
found out Tuesday during a semi
nar at the 12th annual Police
Community Relations Institute.
Patrolman Roosevelt Ford of
the Dallas Police Department was
playing the role of a militant
Negro stopped by Hazlitt on a
traffic violation. Ford called Haz
litt a “pig” and “honkie.”
Even though it was just a
play role, Hazlitt admitted the
word “pig” affected his perfor
mance.
“I wasn’t expecting it. It was
the first time I had actually been
called a pig,” he admitted.
Patrolman Ford said verbal
abuse is nothing new to him. He
is considered an “Uncle Tom” by
militant Negroes and many call
him a traitor for being a cop.
“I have had other personal
abuses,” Ford told 35 police of
ficers in the group seminar. “I
don’t like it, but it’s part of the
job, so I accept it.”
The increasing trouble with
militants—mO|St of them paid to
break down the police systems—
was discussed by the officers.
Cheif Deputy Sheriff Jacque
Woods of Brazoria County sum
med up the feelings of the group
when he said, “both blacks and
police are in the minority. It’s
the one per cent of each of us
that hurt the rest.”
Latin American policemen isaid
there is increased militancy in
their race and they often are
accused of being a pawn for the
white man’s “establishment.”
Officers from Dallas, Houston,
San Antonio and smaller areas
described problems they had in
dealing with minority groups.
Dr. Matthew N. Cooper, head
of the Psychology and Guidance
Department at Texas Southern
University, led the group discus
sion and role playing. He told
the officers militants represent a
small minority in the Negro popu
lation, but they were well or
ganized and had made progress
with the young.
He noted that fear of becoming
involved and fear of police cre
ates the majority of the com
munity relation problems.
“The minority has to be as
sured that police don’t think all
of his race are thieves and
crooks,” one patrolman said.
“And the policeman has to be as
sured that the minority doesn’t
think all cops are pigs.”
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
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make Texas International unique
among motor racing facilities.
Grandstand seats for the Nov.
9 Texas International Can-Am
are priced at $20, $15, $12 and
$10. Grandstand seats for the
Dec. 7 Texas 500 NASCAR Grand
National cost $25, $20, $15 and
$10. Infield admission for spec
tators and their vehicles is $8 for
the Can-Am and $6 for the
NASCAR Grand National.
Professional auto racing has
been a long time coming to Texas,
but when the green flag is
dropped November 9, more than
200 acres of parking area, 26,000
comfortable grandstand seats, and
infield facilities for an additional
25,000 fans and their vehicles will
be in readiness to provide true
Texas hospitality to guests from
all over the Southwest.
More than 100,000 are expected
in the Bryan-College Station area.
United Chest
Raises Budget
College Station United Chest
officials announced today a record
$28,050 budget goal for the 1969
fund-raising drive.
The board of directors approved
the budget at its Monday meeting.
United Chest Fund Inc. presi
dent Wesley E. Donaldson said
the 1969 campaign will be con
ducted Oct. 1-18.
“Considering the budget’s em
phasis of College Station activi
ties, we feel residents will be
willing to discharge United Fund
contribution responsibilities with
in this period,” he added.
Donaldson said this year’s bud
get will support 20 charitable and
civic agencies, one more than last
year, with only a two per cent in
crease over the 1968 goal.
“More requests than ever be
fore were submitted for board
consideration,” the Texas A&M
purchasing director noted. “The
board naturally had to limit these
some in putting the budget to
gether.”
Donaldson said the 1969 budget
emphasizes College Station pro
jects, with primary support ear
marked for under-privileged,
youth and charitable organiza
tions.
Hanna Appointed
Aerospace Head
Air Force Col. K. C. Hanna has
been appointed professor of aero
space studies and commanding
officer of the Air Force ROTC
detachment at Texas A&M, Presi
dent Earl Rudder announced.
The 26-year military veteran
veteran succeeds Col. Vernon L.
Head as the ranking Air Force
officer at A&M.
Colonel Hanna, 44, previously
was assigned to Air Force Head
quarters in the Pentagon as
operations staff officer and divi
sion chief.
He graduated last June from
the National War College, senior
Department of Defense school for
military officers.
The Indiana native whose home
of record is Greenville, Tex., holds
an undergraduate degree from
the University of Nebraska. He
completed requirements for a
master’s degree to be awarded in
September by George Washington
University.
COL. K. C. HANNA