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.
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