Che Battali
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, November 12, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
ATrticks Still Needed
Bonfire Work
■Trucks are still needed for
irk on the 1969 Bonfire, accord-
|g to head yell leader Sam
nrn.
“All the trucks we have now
ve come from outside sources,”
>rn said, “construction compa-
js and the like.
fin order to reach our goal
105 feet, we must have more
bcks,” the Houston senior con
tinued. “I think the students are
doing a terrible job this year on
helping get set up for Bonfire.
It’s theirs, and they need to work
on it.”
Chuck Holliman, Torn said, or
himself “or anybody” should be
contacted “as long as we get
trucks.”
The first sign of A&M’s 1969
bonfire—the centerpole—will
erected Monday.
Construction of the gigantic
Thanksgiving Day football game
bonfire during the following nine
days will follow a work schedule
approved by A&GYT President Earl
Rudder.
Undergraduate students will be
permitted to work only during
Nov. 22-24, the weekend and
As Possible ‘Death Ray’
A&M Prof, Student Find
New Use for Microwaves
An A&M professor and one of
i students may have concocted
forerunner of the proverbial
eath ray.”
They hope, however, their proj-
will have beneficial medical
[plications.
he study involves radiation
h microwaves modulated by
electrocardiogram (ECG) sig-
1 of the subject, a rat in the
st series of tests.
Dr. A. J. Giarola, electrical
gineering professor heading the
oject, emphasized the current
>rk is very preliminary. He is
ng assisted by Glen D. Ant
ler, senior from Longview.
‘We simply wanted to see what
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effect an ECG-modulated micro-
wave would have on a live sub
ject,” Giarola explained.
They found that a low-powered
(22.4 milliwatts) microwave
beamed on the chest of a rat in
creased its heartbeat about two
percent.
“If we can speed up or slow
down the heart,” Dr. Giarola ob
served, “it would have definite
medical applications.”
Although the professor now
knows that microwaves can affect
the heart, he still doesn’t know
how. He hopes subsequent experi
ments will provide the answer.
Giarola said a similar test was
conducted in Pennsylvania with
hemist To Speak Here
In Stress as Death Cause
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Prof. Henry Eyring, renowned
emical scientist known for re-
;ing and applying scientific
■inciples to the problems of
everyday life, will speak Thurs-
ly at A&M on “Death From
Aging, Cancer, Poisons and Other
Stresses.”
The 7:30 p.m. lecture in the
lemistry Building auditorium is
open to the general public as well
s A&M faculty, staff and stu-
mts, announced Dr. A. E.
artell.
The Chemistry Department
lead noted Professor Eyring is
'siting A&M this week as an
:ademic consultant to the depart-
ent’s development project.
Eyring, distinguished professor
chemistry and metallurgy at
ie University of Utah, also will
[present a 3 p.m. technical lecture
riday on “Thermodynamic and
ransport Properties of Liquids
nd Gasses.” It will be given in
oom 231 of the Chemistry Build-
g-
The professor has an outstand-
ig international reputation for
is research, attested by 450 pub-
cations and seven books. His
hief interests are statistical
thermodynamics, applications of
quantum mechanics to chemistry,
theory of rates of chemical re
actions and theory of fluid be
havior.
A 1923 graduate of the Uni
versity of Arizona, Eyring re
ceived his master’s there the fol
lowing year and the Ph.D. from
the Universtiy of California at
Berkeley in 1927.
He served on Wisconsin, Cali
fornia (Berkeley) and Princeton
University faculties 18 years and
moved to Salt Lake City in 1946.
At Utah he was chemistry pro
fessor, department chairman and
Graduate College dean until be
coming distinguished professor
this year.
Among numerous Eyring scien
tific and professional group mem
berships are the National Acad
emy of Sciences, American Philo
sophical Society and scientific
advisory board of the Robert A.
Welch Foundation. The former
American Chemical Society presi
dent also has headed the Ameri
can Association for the Advance
ment of Science and served on the
NSF national board.
the exposed heart of a frog. There
also was an unconfirmed report
in a national scientific magazine
that a monkey was killed recently
during a microwave experiment.
The A&M experiment differed
drastically from the frog test in
that the rat’s heart had not been
removed from the body, but rather
was completely shielded by skin,
muscle and bones.
Anesthetized for the experi
ment, the rat suffered no appar
ent ill effects. Its ECG was de
tected by applying positive and
ground leads in the left leg and
a negative lead in the right arm.
The ECG signal was then used
for amplitude modulation of the
microwave beamed on the rat’s
chest..
“Much remains to be done be
fore reasonable explanation may
be presented for the observed
phenomenon,” Giarola admitted.
“The single experiment provide
us wtih only a limited amount of
information, and the interpreta
tion of the results is thus very
difficult.”
“The most positive result,” he
added, “is that the microwave
used does have an influence on
the ECG of the rat.”
The professor said experi
mentation could conceivably pro
gress to the point the heart could
be stopped. With more power,
the procedure could possible be
accomplished from considerable
distance.
That, Giarola concluded, could
be a “death ray.”
WEATHER
Wednesday—Partly cloudy to?
cloudy. Afternoon rainshowers,
southerly winds 10-20 miles per
hour. High 84, low 67.
Thursday — Cloudy. After
noon rainshowers and thunder
showers, southerly winds 10-20
m.p.h. High 78, low 70.
Houston — Partly cloudy.
Northeasterly winds 10 m.p.h.
70 degrees.
Monday preceding the annual
event, according to Dean of Stu
dents James P. Hannigan.
Graduate classes will not be
dismissed and the period is not
considered a holiday for universi
ty employes, he said.
Hannigan said junior and sen
ior students who do not have aft
ernoon classes may perform prep
aratory work on Nov. 13-14, 17-
20 and 25, in addition to the
Nov. 22-24 period.
Torn, in charge of the construc
tion, said work has been organ
ized to fit the schedule. Center-
pole erection by Company D-2 and
the tying in of core logs will take
place next week.
Some preliminary cutting on
Leo B. Margolian’s land seven
miles south of College Station on
Highway 6 will be done during
the week with the majority of it,
loading, transporting and stack
ing the logs to be carried out
Nov. 22-24.
Torn said Margolian’s provision
of a cutting area closer to the
bonfire site than in previous
years increases the possibility
of the 1969 bonfire being “the
largest ever.”
Rudder requested the Com
mandant’s Office, Accident and
Fire Prevention Committee and
the Firemen’s Training School of
the Engineering Extension Serv
ice to cooperate in safety aspects
of the bonfire.
Bonfire yell practice, at which
the stack of logs will be burned,
is scheduled the night of Nov. 26,
the day before the A&M-Texas
football game on Kyle Field.
Filing Opens
Thursday for
Fish, BAs
Filing for freshman class offi
cers and senators will open
Thursday, announced Mike Wiebe,
Election Commission vice presi
dent for publicity.
A junior Senate reprsentative
for the College of Business Ad
ministration will also be elected,
he said.
“The last day to file will be
Nov. 20,” he said, “with elections
scheduled for Dec. 10 and a run
off, if needed, on Dec. 17.”
Applications for president, vice
president, secretary-treasurer, so
cial secretatry and five senators
at large can be picked up in the
Student Programs Office from 8
a.m.-5 p.m. through Nov. 20,
Wiebe said.
Polling places in the freshman
election, he said, will be the base
ment of the Memorial Student
Center, the newstand by Sbisa
Hall and the guard room of dorm
2. The Business Administration
representative election will be
held in Francis Hall, room 152.
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CONCLUDING CEREMONY
The Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band, playing the Aggie War Hymn, lead the way toward the
reviewing stand Tuesday afternoon in a Corps review held to salute the veterans who
are students at Texas A&M. The event rounded out Veterans Day activities which in
cluded placing wreaths at war memorials around campus and observing a moment of
silence at noon. (Photo by David Middlebrooke)
Veterans Day Marked
By Review, Wreaths
Texas A&M’s 3,000-member
Corps of Cadets honored the esti
mated 1,000 veterans attending
the university with a military re
view Tuesday, climaxing a full
agenda of Veterans Day activities.
The A&M observance also in
cluded a minute of silence at
noon, placement of wreaths on
campus memorials and display of
more than 100 American flags
along the university’s main en
trance and around the parade
grounds.
“We in the Corps of Cadets
wished to express our apprecia
tion to A&M’s veteran student for
their service to our country in
the proud tradition of our fore
fathers,” explained Corps Com
mander Matthews R. Carroll, sen
ior from Annandale, Va.
“This day,” noted the message
read during- the review, “has been
one for all Americans to pause
and acknowledge with grateful
respect and admiration the loyal
ty, honor and sacrifices of the
veterans of the armed forces of
our land.”
“These men whom we honor
today,” the message continued,
“symbolize the root substance of
our corporate national personal
ity, the ingredients of which are.
★ ★ ★
idealism, self - sacrifice, faith,
bravery, compassion and patriot
ism — not short, frenzied bursts
of emotion, but long enduring
love of country, firm holding and
sure.
“They are the tested ones, the
quiet power possessed of a reason
that stabilizes our nation in tu
multuous times, in moments of
challenge and confrontation.”
Col. Jim H. McCoy, comman
dant, was joined in the reviewing
party by Medal of Honor winner
Dr. Eli Whiteley.
Whiteley, a professor at A&M,
won the nation’s highest award
for valor in World War II.
★ ★ ★
Corps To Begin Weekend
With Parade in Houston
Houston’s Main and Fannin
Streets will showcase Saturday
morning the A&M Corps of Cadets
on one of its bi-annual Corps Trip
football jaunts.
The 35-minute parade led by
Cadet Colonel Matthew R. Carroll
of Annandale, Va., will help set
the stage for the 2 p.m. Texas
A&M-Rice football encounter at
Rice Stadium.
Thirty-one units of the 3,000-
member Corps will assemble at
9 a.m. on Bell Street. Carroll, his
staff and the Aggie Band turn
onto Main at 10 a.m. to start the
parade.
Army and Air Force units com
prising the Corps will march
north on Main, turn east on Texas
and south on Fannin to return to
the assembly area for dismissal.
Army Maj. Gen. Felix A. Davis,
75th Maneuver Area Command
commanding general of Houston,
will take unit salutes at Rusk
and Main.
Others with Davis on the re
viewing sttand will include A&M
President Earl Rudder, the uni
versity’s board of directors and
deans and Gen. George P. Munson,
assistant district engineer of the
Texas Highway Department in
Houston.
Invited to be in the reviewing
party are Brig. Gen. Russell
Guiteske, 446th Troop Carrier
Wing commander; Col. Morgan
Beamer, Ellington AFB com
mander; Houston Mayor Louis
Welch and city councilmen.
Davis, 42, commanded Army
Engineer units during World War
II and the Korean conflict and
has been with the 75th 10 years.
The Houston native took command
of the unit in 1965.
He served three years in the
Navy as a seaman, attended the
U. S. Naval Academy and was in
the Aleutians and the China-
Burma-India theater during WW
II.
Students, Administrators Work To Improve Laundry
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ly Dale Foster
battalion Staff Writer
You are in your room, resting
ialf-asleep atop the books on
'our desk. Your roommate re
urns from picking up his laun-
iry, screaming something unin-
eliigible about the type of serv-
ce and cursing an imaginary fig
ure.
“My laundry came back two
days late, and I had a date for
die football weekend.”
“I am missing a button on one
of my best shirts.”
“They lost one of my socks
somewhere over there.”
“A pair of my jeans was mis
placed, and I haven’t gotten them
back for over a week.”
“The limit on the amount of
laundry we can have is too low.”
Those problems that are legi
timate, and not just exaggerated,
will find ready ears before mem
bers of the Campus Laundry
Committee.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv,
“We do have a procedure where
any student with a complaint can
take it up with the committee,”
noted Director of Management
Services Howard Vestal. “We go
to great lengths to try to remedy
any problem the student may
have.”
“Anything we ruin or lose, we
will assume responsibility for and
will compensate the student,” add-
6d Campus Laundry Manager
George Hartsock.
The 10-member laundry com
mittee is composed of Director of
Civilian Student Activities How
ard Perry, Assistant Commandant
Maj. Edmond S. Solymosy, Hart-
sock, Vestal, and six .students.
The student representatives are
Robert Harding, Jack Hollimon,
and Albert Kinkead from the
Corps of Cadets, and Alan Byrd,
Gene Fisher, and Allen Mikulen-
cak from the civilian student body.
The two groups are apointed an
nually by Corps Staff and the
Civilian Student Council, respec
tively.
“We have had the committee
fop three or four years,” Vestal
said, “and it has worked very
well. Our main problem is that
many students don’t know the
committee exists.”
“Hopefully, Mr. Hartsock can
reconcile any matter that comes
to his attention, but if the stu
dent is still dissatisfied, he can
appear before the committee,” he
continued.
Vestal also emphasized that the
student members of the committee
make the decision on what is an
appropriate compensation.
“In addition, we try to get at
least one individual from each
student group to serve on the
committee the following year to
provide continuity for the com
mittee,” he commented.
Vestal believed that the com
mittee served two good purposes,
“It represents the interests of
students with regard to laundry,
and they, in turn, have done us
a favor.”
“There is a lot of special treat
ment given to the students’ cloth
ing,” he reported. “Two girls
are hired just to sew on buttons,
and another does nothing but
look for rips and tears.”
He added that the laundry tries
to hold the costs down for the
student to give him his money’s
worth, noting that he felt that
the users are given a tremend
ous bargain on the deal.
Pointing out that at many uni
versities the laundry and other
service facilities are contracted
to private enterprise, he said that
this results in higher prices for
the students because the private
businessman has to make a prof
it.
“Every month or so we price
out a typical bundle at commer
cial laundries,” Vestal continued.
“Also, we authorized five more
pieces in each bundle this year.”
Hartsock said that the most
recent survey was taken in Sep
tember.
“We priced a 35-piece bundle
at the laundries in College Sta
tion and downtown Bryan and
the average cost was $4.35. This
compares to our charge to the
student of about $1.50,” he re
lated.
Dorm students are charged $25
per semester for use of the cam
pus laundry facilities which in
cludes one bag of 35 items per
week. There is a charge for ex
tra clothing.
“Extra items cost about one-
third of what local commercial
laundribs charge,” Hartsock add
ed. “We desperately try to main
tain a one-day service, but some
times we get behind.”
He figured that one lot of
clothes, which consists of 144
bundles, is run through the laun
dry each hour of a 40-hour week.
The dry weight of a lot is ap
proximately 1,800 pounds.
“Of course, this does not in
clude the laundry we do for the
faculty nor the uniforms and
work clothes for university em
ployees,” he continued.
“We’re almost at capacity
now,” the laundry manager said.
“As more dorms are built and
opened and students pay the com
pulsory laundry fee for use of
the services, one of three things
would have to be done; have two
shifts, go to a three- or four-day
delivery schedule, or automate the
plant as much as possible with
new machinery.”
A tour of the plant shows that
steps are taken to insure that no
problems will arise. Laundry bags
are turned inside out, item counts
are double-checked, all items are
given an identifiable mark, and
at the end of the process, there is
touch-up work and more recounts.
“Ban-Ion shirts and stay-
press trousers are given extra
handling,” Hartsock said. “All
other items are divided into six
or seven wash categories. Also,
laundry bags are washed because
I feel that there is no purpose
in using dirty laundry bags for
clean clothing.”
Vestal noted that some troubles
result from labor problems due
to a saturated labor market in
this area.
“We have a tough time hiring
enough people. This not only
applies to the laundry, but also
to food services and other campus
facilities,” he said.
“We are working at almost a
50 per cent handicap at the pres
ent time,” related Hartsock. “We
have hired a total of 18 bundlers,
and eight we now have are
trainees.”
Vestal pinpoints two labor prob
lems: the Fair Labor Standards
Act cut the possible number- of
hours that could and were being
worked from 54 to 40, and the
heavy labor has shifted off of
an almost all-male work force to
a largely female force.
“We are desperately in need of
three men right now,” Hartsock
added.
“We get about 20 or 25 students
in the office each week with some
sort of problem,” he continued.
“Sometimes problems arise when
students borrow clothing and we
end up with different laundry
marks in the same bag.”
“Each laundry mark issued to a
student is good for 20 years,” he
concluded.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
H B <Sc L —Adv.