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BUKUnea Page 4 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 10, 1970 v '> ir* ' 5PR1WB V FlLiU fESmai Begins FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20 with “La Doloe Vita” SEASON TICKETS AVAILABLE at Student Programs Office MSC On Range Cattle, the Old West Library Receives Rare Books The University Library has ac quired the unique Jeff Dykes Range Livestock Collection of books. Assembled by J. C. Dykes, 1921 A&M graduate of College Park, Md., the 4,182-item collection con tains many sought-after collec tors volumes and extremely rare books, including two original edi tions of the “big four” range cattle rarities. Acting library director John B. Smith said the Dykes collection provides a worldwide selection of titles on range cattle but that its scope also embraces fiction, his tory and poetry of the Western United States. Located in Special Collections, the Dykes collection will be re stricted to in-library use, accord ing to Mrs. Evelyn King. “The collection is ready for use and we will help anyone in locat ing research items,” the special collections librarian said. Cata loguing is now in progress. Originals of '"the “big four” range cattle books are James Cox’s “Historical and Biographi cal Record of the Cattle Industry and Adjacent Territory,” a his torical and biographical source, and “Range and Ranch Cattle Traffic” by Joseph Nimmo, a Treasury Department official who researched a petition to Congress for a permanent 50-mile wide national cattle drive trail. Other big four items obtained by Dykes in facsimile form are “Prose and Poetry of the Live stock Industry” and McCoy’s “Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and South west.” The Maryland collector also ranks “The Texas Stock Direc tory” with the big four. The book of marks and brands was com piled by San Antonio area stock- men W. H. Jackson and S. A. Long in 1865. Volumes on range cattle in South Africa, China, Russia and Argentina, among others, and on all breeds round out the nucleus of the collection. Rare first and second editions in many areas overlapping range cattle will be of interest to re searchers in American history, English literature, ecology and range land, Mrs. King said. Such a book is one of the first two editions of Dana’s “Twp Years Before the Mast.” Publish ed in 1840 and one of the older items in the collection, the fam ous work contains a chapter on hides for which cattle were slaughtered exclusively. “A very rare member of the collection is A. S. Mercer’s ‘Ban ditti of the Plains.” It reported an unpopular viewpoint of cattle men’s invasion of Wyoming in the 1890s and all but a few copies smuggled out to Denver were destroyed,” Mrs. King explained. The Dykes collection copy was obtained from a U. S. Congress man who had each page lined with silk to protect the paper. Mrs. King said that all items in the collection will be kept in original condition. Catalogue numbers will be on acid-free paper flags inserted between book pages. Many volumes are shelved in original dust jackets. An open end collection, the assemblage will be added to by Dykes and the library, with his approval. He spent last summer in England for this purpose and plans to seek cattle items in Wales and Scotland this year. Sheet music, a Jamaica farm herd book, first editions auto graphed by publisher, designer and author, items from other famous collections, government pamphlets and a program from the first rodeo presented in Paris, France, are in the collection. MSC Directorate Restructured (Continued from page 1) temporary Arts Committees of the directorate. This will include evaluation of the committee pro grams, providing public relations for assistance. He will also have other duties assigned him. The vice president for recrea tion will have the same respon sibilities as the vice president for issues, only the committees the recreation vice president will be involved with are the Camera, Radio, Recreation, and Travel Committees, along with the new singing group being formed as a directorate committee. The vice president for enter tainment will be concerned with the Town Hall, Aggie Cinema, Host and Fashion, and Basement Committees, having the same du ties in his area as the other two vice presidents do in theirs. The vice president for opera tions will handle such things as the annual awards banquet, the annual Association of College Unions convention planning, and special events, and will be in charge of the directorate’s Pub lic Relations Organization (PRO). Each of the four vice presi dents, along with the executive vice president, will have direc torate assistants assigned to him to help him in his job. Directorate assistants are soph omores whose job is to assist di rectorate officers. The council comptroller, along with the council historian, a post created last year, will also have directorate assistants assigned to them. Joe M. (Mac) Spears III, MSC Vv Maybe we can light your fire. Chances are, we can. Particularly if you’re interested in Engineering or Management positions. Or in Accounting, Research and Development, Sales or Marketing. Sit down and rap with him awhile. The only way to find out is to see the Alcoa representative when he arrives on campus. It could be a blazing success. Get together with Alcoa: February 17,1970 An Equal Opportunity Employer A Plans For Progress Company Change for the better with Alcoa ES ALCOA Council and Directorate president, told council members that the change allows for future growth of the directorate. As new com mittees are formed, Spears said, they can be assigned to the ap propriate vice president, or a new vice presidential slot can be created to equalize the load among the vice presidents. Earlier in the meeting, council- men heard a report by Davis Mayfield III, chairman of the Ski the Alps—70 Committee. Mayfield told the group that the project had been a great success, and that he thought it could be done again next year with fewer problems, since experience would help. He also told the council that the project was only worthwhile if it became a continuous thing —otherwise all the effort that had been put into this year’s trip would be wasted. Council Secretary-treasurer and MSC Director J. Wayne Stark said that he thought the project should be continued, but with the joint sponsorship of the council and the university. Flannigan then moved that the $40,000 in Taxes Returned to City Texas A&M collected $39,512 in sales tax for the City of Col lege Station last year, announced A&M Controller Clark Diebel. The university derived the one- percent city sales tax primarily on food served in its cafeterias and purchases at the Exchange Store and Memorial Student Cen ter gift shop, Diebel noted. He said the university remits the entire four-percent sales tax, including three percent for the state, to the state comptroller, with notation of the amount to be credited to the city. The total covered the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 1969. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED council proceed to convince the university to underwrite the pro gram for the 1971 semester break. The motion was passed by the council, as was another one by Flannigan congratulating Stark and Mayfield and the com mittee for putting the trip to gether. Spears reported that Town Hall, contrary to previous plans, would attempt to have a program for Civilian Student Weekend, the last weekend in April. The committee had been plan ning a show for Military Week end instead of Civilian Weekend, since the civilian fete had had a Town Hall for the past two years, Spears said. Representatives of the Civil ian Student Council, however, came to him, Spears said, and asked if a Town Hall could be scheduled for Civilian Weekend, since it was one of the weekend’s big selling points. Spears said that A&M President Earl Rud der was approached about the matter, and managed to provide $4,200 for a Civilian Weekend performance if Town Hall can find an attraction. Stark reported that, with prof its on the Sabicas and Harlem Globetrotters’ appearances, Town Hall was showing a profit. May the fox and coyote live happily ever after. Fox: girl. Coyote: boy. They meet, they mate, and suddenly responsibility becomes a much more important word. 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