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inas and New Year holiday
(periods, the director of the Texas
(Department of Public Safety
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Col. Wilson E. Speir said that
[Si deaths are expected during
Ihe Christmas period beginning
it 6 p.m. Christmas Eve and
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[luting through midnight Dec. 28.
He also estimated that 33
[traffic deaths will occur during
the New Year holidays, from 6
|p.m. New Year’s Eve through
nidnight Jan. 4, 1970.
"We urge each individual driv-
t Associlir to accept the challenge of
bold donjproving that our estimates are
s C. SchLhigh,” Speir said. “Many holi-
third, rllay accidents can be prevented
and bovilif Texans will drive safely and
i kegliJrealize that no one is immune to
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Speir also announced that the
the holidays to enforce the laws
and aid motorists.
He said a special “operation
motorcide” will be in effect over
both holiday periods, during which
periodic tabulations of traffic fa
talities will be made and given
the widest possible dissemination
in order to focus public attention
on the added dangers present in
holiday driving.
The Battalion staff encourages
all students to drive carefully
during the holidays and wishes
all a merry Christmas.
Last Bait
This is the last issue of The
Battalion for 1969.
The Battalion Staff wishes you
a Merry Christmas, a Happy New
Year, and safe conduct on the
highways.
Drive safely.
Students from A&M will com
bine a non-denominational service
with Christmas carols tonight
during the annual YMCA-spon-
sored Christmas program.
Lighting of a 35-foot high
string of lights shaped like a
Christmas tree will conclude the
program.
Deputy Corps Commander Bud
dy Mason, a senior psychology
major from Virginia, will give the
call to worship at 7:30 p.m. on
the east steps of the System Ad
ministration Building. ,
The invocation will be given
by Chris Shaw ,a junior civil en
gineering major from Garland
and chairman of religious pro
grams, YMCA Cabinet.
Alan Byrd, senior pre-med ma
jor from Austin and representa
tive to the Civilian Student Coun
cil as Schumacher Hall president,
will read the Christmas scripture.
Frank Coulter will direct his
A&M Consolidated High School
Choir in four numbers.
Ed Donnell of Jones Creek,
senior psychology major, presi
dent of the YMCA Cabinet and
civilian student chaplain, will give
the Christmas message.
Donnell will speak on Isaiah,
chapter 9, verse 6-A: “For unto
us a child is born, unto us a son
is given.”
“O Come All Ye Faithful” will
follow, sung by the people attend
ing the program.
A&M’s Singing Cadets will sing
four carols, including “Coventry
Carol,” “Carroll Brothers’ Carol,”
“Jesu Bombino,” and “Hallelujah
Chorus.”
Otway Denny, junior political
science major from La Porte, will
introduce the Christmas lighting
program.
Robert Boone, Singing Cadets
director, will lead the singing of
“Silent Night” at the end of the
service.
The program is open to Texas
A&M students, faculty, staff and
the public.
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‘A Better Mood in America, ’
Nixon Administration Does
Officials Say
Some Back-Patting
iiBy Douglas B. Cornell
r\|*n [Associated Press Writer
111 U | WASHINGTON G'Pi—The Nix-
et a ne| on a ^ m > n > s tration, after taking a
relay f 00 ^ at 1969, is doing a bit of
a Indor 80 ** Patt' 0 ? Tor what it says
La th| is a better mood in America at
’ gear’s end.
of ToJ It also has decided self-con-
n, Marvlgratulations are in order for at-
won titempts at reforming the govern-
ld recolment and for shifting homefront
Jniversilpriorities, all under the banner
>ur teanjof “The New Federalism.”
as Afii This developed during a brief-
nd Okl|j n g which the White House
turned up a trio of top officials
>rs leaplto talk t 0 SO me 20 reporters on
domestic matters. The White
lor, coiHouse stipulated ground rules
fourth. 1 || arre( j nam i n g. the officials or
jump l|q UO ting them directly.
gh juml theme seemed to be the
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administration has made piro-
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gress in putting a new facade on
government, although it isn’t
getting all it wants out of Con
gress and is having some trou
bles with a financial crunch.
There were other plusses and
minuses.
In the plus column one or an
other of the three spokesmen
put what they interpreted as:
• A lowering of voices and a
good deal less stridency in the
national rhetoric—the whole war
moratorium thing has run its
course.
• An attempt to make the
government work better in such
problem areas as taxes and the
draft.
• Steps to broaden the base
for handling problems that in
volve more than one department
or agency by creating councils on
urban affairs, environmental
quality control and rural affairs,
to go along with the National
Security Council in the field of
defense and foreign policy—plus
another Advisory Council on Ex
ecutive Organization.
Additional questions have been
raised, one official said, about
the responsiveness of the govern
ment to such recognizable prob
lems as pbpulation. Some of them
require congressional action and
the administration, the spokes
man said, still is waiting for the
fruit to drop off the trees in
some areas.
One such area takes in meas
ures to fulfill Nixon campaign
promises to bring law and order
to the land.
On the minus side, one spokes
man conceded the obvious—that
Senate rejection of Judge Clem
ent F. Haynsworth, Jr. for the
Supreme Court was a straight
away defeat.
Another lamented that prob
lems of welfare, education and
unemployment still defy solution
in times of unprecedented pros
perity. He also said he would
have to agree with a newsman
that some of the administration’s
stands on civil rights appeared to
be heel dragging to black and oth
er Americans—and represent a
primary. failure.
Asked how the intellectual
community reacts to the Presi
dent, he said it sort of dislikes
Nixon whereas it loathed, feared,
hated and despised Lyndon B.
Johnson.
One gratifying development
for the administration has been
what it considers a show of lim
ited hut growing cooperation
from Democratic leaders in Con
gress, especially in the Senate.
The names figuring in this in
cluded Majority Leader Mike
Mansfield, J. W. Fulbright,
Chairman of the Foreign Rela
tions Committee; and Albert
Gore of Tennessee, who has had
a key role in fashioning the tax
reform bill.
One spokesman said Mans-
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field’s disposition to work with
Nixon in a more or less under
standing way in foreign policy is
far out and beyond what it was
toward the end of the Johnson
admiinstration and the early days
of the present one.
Vet College Gets
Gift from Ag-Ex
Dr. and Mrs. Harry B. Reele
of Galveston have presented Tex
as A&M a gift of corporate stock
for the College of Veterinary
Medicine.
The gift was formally present
ed to President Earl Rudder by
Dr. and Mrs. Reele’s son, Sirel A.
Reele, a third-year veterinary
medicine student.
Dr. Reele received a veterinary
medicine degree here in 1939.
His son is scheduled to gradu
ate in August.
By Larry Heinzerling
Associated Press Writer
DAYTON, Ohio _ “Go
ahead,” a mother said, prodding
her hesitant daughter. “It’s Santa
Claus. Tell him you’ve been a
good girl and give him a big
hug.”
The occasion was typical of
Christmas, except this Santa was
black.
Leonard Eggleston said race
never has been a problem in his
Santa role.
“I was amazed,” he said.
“They come sit on my lap. They
kiss me and tell me what they
want. It’s nice to see how things
are changing compared to years
back. I guess there has to he a
first time for everything.”
Eggleston, 63, a retired factory
worker, was hired last year to
play Santa at an Elder-Beerman
store which serves a predom
inantly black neighborhood. White
children and their parents come
to see him too.
James Welsh, a manager at
the store, estimates that more
than 3,000 children have visited
Eggleston so far this year.
Welsh said Eggleston was hired
after there were some inquiries
about why there wasn’t a black
Santa at the store. “It came out
very well,” he said.
A check of department stores
in other major Ohio cities indi
cated Eggleston may be the
state’s only black Santa.
“I enjoy it fine,” said Eggles
ton. “At first I thought 1
wouldn’t like it, but it’s more
enjoyment this year. I talk to
the kids, see what they want, tell
them to write me letters, ask
them how good they’ve been.”
His wife enjoys being married
to Santa. “Everywhere we go,”
she said, “we’re greeted with a
ho ho ho.”
Darkoch Voted
Fish President
In Run-Offs
Four Freshman Class officers
were elected Wednesday in a
run-off election.
Bill Darkoch was elected pi-esi-
dent; Mike Holley, vice president;
Mike Milliner, secretary-treasur
er; and Larry Moore, social secre
tary.
Darkoch won over Wajbic
Nichols 356 to 252. Holley had
264 votes to John Adcock’s 177
and Mike Major’s 146. Milliner
had 333 to Rod Dickenson’s 242,
and Moore had 383 to Duke Jones’
181.
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ids. Staff, Students: All Enjoyed the Christmas Party
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A&M architects hosted elementary
school children to a Christmas party Wed
nesday but it was hard to tell who was having
more fun—the kids or the architecture
students and staff watching the kids.
Approximately 1,000 elementary age
children from the Bryan-College Station area
were treated to the party, which included
talks with Santa Claus, play on giant toys, an
exhibit of smaller toys and a wall of paper to
write on. All toys were made by the Aggie
students.
One small boy put his thanks on the
wall: “Santa is an Aggie.”
The displays were inside the main floor
and outside the building. It didn’t take the
mob of small fry long to give everything a
well-worn look.
Graduates students Mrs. Fredda King
and Jay Belford, both urban planning majors,
coordinated the program for the College of
Architecture.
One architect looked on in disbelief as a
toy he spent eight hours building was scat
tered about a display table in less than a
minute.
“I don’t believe it,” he whispered with a
smile.
Refreshments were served to the
children and the college held its faculty, staff
and student family party among the remains.
Area school kids wait in line . . .
. . . to see Santa at Architecture Christmas party. (Photos by Jim Berry)
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