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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1969)
Couples To Rent 24 Apartments Two of seven new units, con taining 12 apartments each, un der construction in the College yj e w area are complete, and two more are scheduled to be ready f or occupancy by married stu dents next week “if everything falls in place,” according to Howard Vestal, management services director. Original plans called for two of the new units to be completed by the start of the fall semester, but Temple Associates, Inc., of Diboll predicted last June that they would have four units ready for the fall semester. All that remains to be done on the two units is to move in furni ture and install appliances, a project that began last Saturday, Vestal explained. The new units are also called College View and rent for $115 per month. They follow the Hen- sel apartment plan, Vestal said, but come completely furnished, down to a washer and dryer in each apartment. Rent also in cludes utilities and air-condition ing. Completion of the seven units will make available 84 individual apartments. The seven old bar racks-type dwellings that were demolished to make room for the new units contained only 56 apartments, so the university gains 28 apartments as a result of the project. “These new apartments are larger than the ones in Hensel,” Vestal commented, “and they are really marvelous. They have to be seen to be believed. We are even installing vertical Venetian blinds so the students will not have to buy drapes when they move in.” According to Charles C. Hal- tom, student apartment manager, the remaining three units should be ready for occupancy by the beginning of the spring semester. He said that his office has 70 applications for the 48 new apart ments, with over 300 applications for College View and Hensel apartments. He expects only about 100 openings prior to the start of classes, however. Assignments to the old College View and Hensel apartments have been full since mid-July, he added. NEAR COMPLETION Construction on three of the seven new College View apart ment units is completed. Two of these are ready for oc cupancy and furnishings are soon to be moved into the third. When all seven are completed, they will bring the total university-owned apartment total to 804. (Photo by Bob Stump) THE BA 1 IALION Wednesday, September 10, 1969 College Station, Texas Page 3 Memorials To War Dead Will Get A New Look Soon Memorials to Aggies who died in World War I will have a new look this fall when they are re placed and reset, Walter H. Par sons, Physical Plant director, an nounced in June. The memorials extend from the West Gate World War I mem orial along Jones Street in front of the Memorial Student Center, on Houston Street at the south corner of Bizzell Hall, and on Lamar Street to Hart Hall. Since their dedication in 1919, some of them have disappeared entirely, others are in need of repair. Parsons initiated the project to replace the memorials as the re sult of an editorial in The Bat talion. “I want to get this project done as soon as possible,” Parsons said, “I don’t want anything on this campus that the students would be ashamed of.” A new type of stone marker is planned, Parsons explained, that will have a concrete base extend ing out from the memorial about six inches on all sides and set flush with the ground. This, he said, will enable the large lawn- mowers to cut the grass im mediately around the memorial. The markers will also be turn ed around, so they face the side walk instead of the street as they presently do. This will be so people attending reviews and oth er special events can view the markers “without stepping out in the street and getting run over,” Parsons adde. Built-in flag brackets will be another feature of the new mark ers, one added as the result of an Alpha Phi Omega project initiat ed at Final Review last May. APO members placed American flags at each of the war mem orials, something they plan to do for all future reviews and spe cial events. Replacement of the markers will not be too costly, Parsons said, and would be a good class project. Whether or not it be comes one, however, the univer sity plans to have them replaced, he added. “It’s a shame they were al lowed to get the way they are,” the director commented. The markers were dedicated in ceremonies in front of Guion Ifall on March 2, 1919, as a tribute to those Aggies who had given their lives in World War I. At those ceremonies the then A&M Presi dent W. B. Bizzell officiated, and L. J. Hart, then president of the A&M Board of Directors, was the speaker. Dorsey Appointed Admissions Head Dr. Oscar L. Dorsey of San Angelo State University in San Angelo was named director of admissions in June. Dorsey will head a new pro gram emphasizing recruitment of more highly qualified students at both the undergraduate and grad uate levels. Dorsey has been a member of the ASU faculty since 1958 but served as assistant to A&M’s lib eral arts dean while studying for his Ph.D. degree here two years ago. Centrex Phones Now Have Direct Distance A&M students and faculty, as well as Bryan-College Station telephone customers can now dial their own long distance calls as a result of an Expanded Direct Distance Dialing (EDDD) system made operational Aug. 17 by Gen eral Telephone Company of the Southwest. “This new system will speed up service considerably,” said B. A. Erwin, General’s division man ager in the Bryan area. “It will help eliminate misbilled calls, since the equipment automatical ly bills the call to the number it is dialed from.” Students having phones which are part of the Centrex system on the campus may use EDDD, Erwin noted, but they must first sign the long-distance agreement with the telephone company, as in the past. Once that is done, he emphasized, the student will have full use of the system’s facilities. To dial long distance calls, Er win continued, a student or fac ulty member on campus must first dial 9 to obtain an outside line. Then he must dial an access code (either 1 or 0) to obtain use of the equipment, dial the area code of the city he is calling (for areas outside the 713 area), then dial the number he wishes to call. For cities within the 713 area. Dialing only the access code and the num ber being called need to be dialed. For station-to-station calls, the access code is 1. For station-to-station calls, the access code is 1. For person-to- person, collect, and credit card calls, or calls charged to a third number, the access code is 0. After dialing is completed on calls using the 0 access code, the company explained to customers, an operator will come on the line to obtain the information re quired to correctly complete or bill the call, then release the call for processing by the EDDD equipment. IMMEDIATE ACTION! Send Your Girl Your P. O. 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