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un. JnsI TOWrN| :rest| Che Battalion Vol. 65 No. 63 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 3, 1970 Telephone 845-2226 CS City Hall May Be Ready Friday By Dave Mayes Battalion Editor College Station city officials may finally move into their new city hall Friday—two months be hind schedule—provided the build ing’s case of “chicken pox” can be cured in time. Contractor W. H. Barsh of Waco told the City Council Mon day night that the pox-like fun gus that has spotted the plastic acoustical ceilings in some parts of the building should be remov ed by the end of the week, weath er permitting. Barsh and architect C. R. Wat son of Bryan appeared at a coun cil session called to determine causes for delays in the comple tion of the $340,000 city hall and fire station, located across State Highway 6 from Texas A&M. The two-building complex was originally scheduled to be finish ed Nov. 24. Councilman James H. Dozier stated the council’s position this way: “We feel like we’ve been left in the dark.” Councilman O. M. Holt com plained that he did not know about any reasons for the con struction delays until the middle of December, when Watson sent a letter to the city attorney ex plaining some of them. Mayor D. A. “Andy” Anderson added that there have been “days and days when nothing has been done.” “I finally had to go in (to the city hall) at weekly intervals to find any progress you could see,” he said. Barsh said that there had been no construction delays due to negligence on the part of his com pany. He placed most of the blame for delay on Brazos Concrete Products of Waco, a subcontrac tor responsible for casting the components of the pre-stressed concrete sections used to build both structures. Barsh said the firm was 35 days late in deliv ering the sections for the city hall and 55 days late, for the Ross Volunteers to March In New Orleans Saturday Texas A&M’s Ross Volunteers assemble in honor guard forma tion Saturday for the highlight parade of the week-long Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans. Commander Marvin J. Hoelting of Nazareth will lead the 100- cadet elite honor military unit in a position directly in front of King Rex’s float in the colorful parade. The 83-year-old unit consists of three platoons, the staff and color guard. The Rex honor guard appear ance will be the second of the year for A&M’s oldest military organization. The white-clad Vol unteers, who traditionally form the honor guard for inauguration of the Texas governor, flanked Apollo 11 astronauts Neal Arm strong, Edwin Aldrin and Mike Collins in a Houston parade last August. At New Orleans, the company will quarter aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid, aircraft carrier to be berthed in the port of New Or leans. A social hosted by the New Orleans A&M Club also is planned for the senior and junior cadets. The cadets will leave A&M Saturday and return Feb. 11, ac cording to Army Maj. Jarrell Gibbs, co-advisor with Air Force Maj. Ray Copus. Frank K. Nico las, staff assistant in the Com mandant’s Office, also will accom pany the unit. The RVs also annually partici pate in San Antonio’s “Battle of Flowers,” Aggie Muster, Silver Taps and provide honor guards for visiting dignitaries. NEW NAME, NEW LOOK Assistant Chief Morris Maddox of the A&M University Police gets into one of the de partments new-style cars to begin a tour around the campus. The organization was formerly called Campus Security. See story, page 3. (Photo by David Middlebrooke) Area Businesses Comment On Proposed CS Ordinance Representatives from Lone Star Gas Co. and General Telephone [Co. of the Southwest submitted comments Monday night concern ing the new College Station subdi vision ordinance for consideration to the College Station Planning and Zoning Commission. Pervy Stone, of the Lone Star Hght-of-way department, told the commission he did not know how the company would be able to show the working pressure of all pipelines carrying inflamable liquid or gas as is called for in section of the new subdivision ordinance. “I don’t know how we’ll be able to furnish this information be cause the pressures can change frequently,” Stone said. “I know the pressures change and usually the only time one runs into real high pressure lines is when the pipe was laid before the city was built,” Codie Wells, commission chairman, said. He said the section was added to the ordinance so that prospec tive buyers will know what they are buying so they can be warned of the lines. Rudder Improving in Hospital fire station. He added that work was de layed some 20 days because of rain. Watson defended Barsh, saying that the man “has done every thing he can” to get the job fin ished as soon as possible. He said that he had tried to keep the city manager informed of possible delays as soon as Barsh notified him that they were likely to occur. Watson said he had just re ceived last week a letter from Barsh asking for a 55-day delay because of the panels. He added that delays of this nature at least in terms of number of days, were hard for Barsh to anticipate in advance. As late as September, he said, he expected the city hall to be completed before Christmas. Councilman Joe McGraw said that one reason the council be came upset and called this spe cial meeting was because Barsh’s requests for payment “came in like clockwork, as if there was no delay at all.” “I think the council is going to have to take some here,” Do zier said, “and invoke this pen alty clause” to get some mone tary settlement with the contrac tor for the delay. A payment to the city voiced by some councilmen was $5,500. City Attorney Don Dillon said that the architect must deter mine which delays are unjustified and how many days they entail. These days, Barsh, Watson and most councilmen agreed, should be determined in a joint meeting between Watson and the council. Once the number of days of un justifiable delay are determined, if any, the council will decide what action it will take. Anderson said he would call a meeting as soon as Watson had prepared a recommendation for the council. A&M President Earl Rudder, who has been in a Houston hos pital since Friday, was reported in improved condition Tuesday. Rudder is undergoing treatment at Methodist Hospital for spasm of the arteries due to high blood pressure, university sources re ported. He was transferred from a Bryan hospital to Houston after becoming ill Thursday. FIGHTING THE ELEMENTS Aggies scurried around the campus Monday, bundled up to keep out the cold, biting wind. Temperatures dropped yesterday, were expected to drop more Monday night. (Photos by David Middlebrooke) Cold, Wind Engulf State By The Associated Press Saw-toother winds kept Texans shivering over a broad expanse of the state this morning. Fortunately for residents of the Panhandle-Plains sector and far West Texas, where it was coldest, the icy breezes of the day before subsided. The Weather Bureau reported up to 4 inches of snow blanketed areas around Pine Springs and northeast of Van Horn, both in the mountains of far West Texas, but the fall abated sooner than expected. As much as 5 inches more had been predicted. Official observers said enough snow fell during the night and early today to lay a light cover let down the west side of the Texas Panhandle also. There was no word of any travel difficulty, however. Temperatures near dawn ran as low as 12 degrees at Marfa, 13 at Plainview, 14 at Lubbock and 15 at Perryton. Freezing weather enveloped all of the state except the Lower Rio Grande, where Brownsville registered 40 degrees at the same hour. Clearing skies helped the mer cury drop throughout the state, and the bitter winds shifted southward with an arctic front which thrust into the Panhandle Monday. It was fair every where this morning except for a few clouds in the Northern Pan handle. Except for a little warming across the Panhandle and North west Texas, little change was forecast. Readings at other points this morning included Amarillo and Wichita Falls 18, San Angelo 19, Dalhart 20, Denison, Sherman and Texarkana 21, Killeen 22, Abilene 23, Dallas and Tyler 24, Childress, Fort Worth, Longview, Midland and Mineral Wells 25, Austin, Big Spring, College Sta tion and Lufkin 26, Beaumont, Cotulla and Port Arthur 28, Del Rio, Houston and San Antonio 29, El Paso and Wink 30, Vic toria 31 and Palacios 32. For Football 11-Game Season Approved By Administration Officials Stone told the council a con servative estimate for a high pressure line would be 100 pounds plus. Stone said he was submitting the comments for consideration and that Lone Star Gas was not opposed to the ordinance. Tommy James, from the Bryan office of General Telephone, ask ed if the company must secure a permit from the city before it begins any construction. “It does not mean you neces sarily have to have a permit,” Wells said. He said that the city likes to have the utilities laid before the streets are put in to prevent the cutting of streets. In other business, the council denied a request for rezoning by V. H. Litchford of a tract of land approximately 100 feet wide and 700 feet long extending from State Highway 6 east along the south city limits of College Sta tion. Texas A&M’s administration Monday approved recommenda tions of the athletic council that Athletic Director Gene Stallings be allowed to schedule an 11th football game on Sept. 12, 1970. Stallings said he was negotiat ing for a home game on that date and hopes to make final arrange ments in the near future. A&M’s athletic council, com posed of five faculty members and headed by Dr. O. D. Butler, voted in favor of the 11-game proposi tion in a meeting Sunday in Dal las. A&M’s athletic council favored the proposition because: 1— The new academic calendar calls for classes to begin Aug. 31 and there would be no problem of having the first game before stu dents arrive on campus. 2— The additional game would lead to only three more days of practice at the beginning of the season. With a Sept. 12 game, the players would start practice on Aug. 19. With a Sept. 19 game, the players would start practice on Aug. 22. 3— There would be no addition altime away from campus in 1970 with a home game. The time away from campus would be very slight with a road game since the team ordinarily departs on Friday af ternoon prior to a Saturday game. 4— An 11th game would provide A&M with an additional home game, at least every other year, thus providing additional enter- WEATHER Wednesday — Partly cloudy. Wind East 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 43, low 22. Thursday—Cloudy. Wind South 5 to 10 m.p.h. High 48, low 37. tainment for students, faculty and fans. 5—The additional revenue from an 11th game would provide great assistance to the total athletic program. 6 — The participating players strongly favor an additional game because they would be engaged in an intrasquad scrimmage on the Sept. 12 date if there was no game. Licht Killed In Monday Auto Mishap Arthur W. Licht of El Paso, sophomore architecture major, was killed Monday morning when his car hit a bridge and plunged into a deep ditch on State High way 21 west of Bryan. A Department of Public Safety spokesman said the accident oc curred about 1 a.m. but was not discovered until about six hours later. Licht, who was thrown from the vehicle, was traveling alone, the DPS spokesman said. The accident occurred eight miles west of of Bryan. He was believed to have been returning to school from San Antonio, where his mother, Mrs. Richard H. Licht, is a graduate student at Our Lady of the Lake College. The 21-year-old student resided at 2104 Cavitt in Bryan. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. professor in accounting dept.; Dr. Lannes H. Hope, in counseling and testing dept.; and Harry L. Kidd, assistant to the dean in the Graduate College. Committee members are, in ad dition to Dr. Butler, head of the animal science dept.: Dr. Charles! H. Samson, head of civil engi neering dept.; Walter S. Manning, g : || j FOULED Pat Kavanagh goes up for two during Saturday’s A&M- Southem Methodist University game, and is fouled by the Mustangs’ Gene Phillips, who was fouled out of the game on the play. Steve Niles (52) looks on. See story page 5. (Photo by Mike Wright)