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No. 122 College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 3, 1970
Warm,
cloudy,
humid
Wednesday and Thursday —
Cloudy to partly cloudy. Westerly
winds 10-15 mph. Low near 60,
high 82.
Saturday and Sunday — Con
tinued mild, partly cloudy. West
erly winds 5—10 mph. Low 65,
high 85.
Telephone 845-2226
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All dormitory room telephones
11 be connected for long dis-
nce service when students move
to their rooms in the fall, As-
kciate Dean of Students Don R.
Stafford announced.
[When the student picks up his
om key he will sign an IBM
Ird stating whether he wants
long distant toll service,
afford said.
|“Students should not charge a
pg distance call until he has
ned the card,” he cautioned,
a student makes a long dis-
iice call after signing up that
i will not want the service, the
liversity will take disciplinary
jtion.”
|lf the student moves he must
a transfer card stating
Jiether he wants the long dis-
|nce service in his new location,
hen there is a change of status,
{transfer card must be signed
the student.
The student must notify the
lephone company if he leaves
e university before the contract
up, Stafford said.
The long distance toll service
II be connected for nine months,
in the summer the student
III have to sign again.
(Stafford said this summer the
dents must sign for the long
Istance toll service as they reg-
ier Monday at Sbisa Dining
all. All students not signing
onday will need to report to the
lephone company business of-
te if they wish long distance
II service.
This new procedure eliminates
ay in providing long distance
vice.
acuity elects
jljive members
lib committee
[Faculty members have elected
Ive representatives to the Com-
pittee on Academic Freedom and
inure for academic year 1970-71.
| Academic Vice President Hor-
R. Byers’ office reported 534
iculty members voted for 18
hndidates ,two from each college.
| Elected to start terms on the
aring committee Sept. 1 were
frchie I. Flowers, veterinary pub-
thealth; Bob M. Gallaway, civil
fcgineering; Curtis L. Godfrey,
Mil and crop sciences,; Walter A.
ffarvel, psychology, and Bruno J.
Iwolinski, chemistry.
| The five-member committee
ars appeals referred through
Hie proper channels.
AND THE MONEY GOES HERE—Students line up in Sbisa Dining Hall Monday morn
ing, waiting to pay their fees for enrolling in the first summer session at Texas A&M.
Classes for the first summer session began Tuesday. (Photo by Pat Little)
University completes unique
program successfully
Texas A&M has completed a
unique experimental international
student program with 100 per cent
success.
Twelve students from Argen
tina have received Master of
Science degrees this year in agri
cultural economics by completing
their course work at the A&M
campus with all research and
theses requirements done in their
home country.
Normally the student would do
all research at the university.
E. Paul Creech, assistant direc
tor of A&M International Pro
grams office and Argentina pro
gram coordinator, pointed out the
program started Feb. 1, 1964,
under a contract with the U. S.
Agency for International Develop
ment (AID).
Creech said the purpose is to
give the National Institute of
Agricultural Technology (INTA)
in Argentina advice and assist
ance in advancing their agricul
tural economics service.
Texas A&M agreed to accept
12 master’s students from INTA's
experiment stations. The students
were required to complete all
course work at Texas A&M and
then return to Argentina to com
plete research, theses and oral
examinations.
All Argentina work was under
the direction of A&M staff mem
bers assigned to Argentina and
headed by Dr. Clive R. Harson
in Buenos Aires.
Students started enrolling in
1965, with most completing course
work by 1967. Each student was
allowed to bring his wife and
family for the one year to 18-
month schooling.
“Because of the pressure of
their jobs—there is a shortage
of trained technicians in Argen
tina—the students were forced to
work on their research and theses
as a sideline,” Creech noted.
However, in the spring of 1969,
Dr. Ray Billingsley of the A&M
Agricultural Economics Depart
ment spent four months in Argen
tina under the AID contract work
ing full-time with the A&M staff
and the 12 students in an effort
to accelerate the master’s com
pletion.
Creech said the teamwork by
Dr. Billingsley and Dr. Don Far-
-ris, liaison officer in the Agricul
tural Economics Department, plus
assistance from Argentina offi
cials, the A&M Argentina staff
and the students’ supervisors led
to completion of the program.
Six students graduated in Jan
uary and six more were awarded
degrees last Saturday.
‘‘The fact that Argentina stu
dents worked on Argentina prob
lems will have a lasting affect on
the research development in Ar
gentina,” Creech declared.
“This program also is unique
because it saves money. Not only
are the men put back to work
sooner, but there is a saving of
at least a year’s scholarship
money,” Creech says.
AID Washington officials have
asked for a sample copy of a
thesis with plans to encourage
other land grant colleges to start
similar overseas projects.
I research librarian has
gold fever’-collects rare books
Fred S. White, research libra-
ian of the Texas Transportation
istitute, has a f6rm of “gold
jver”—rare book collecting.
The A&M staff member who
las been in library work 35 years
Mys he has had the book-collect
ing “hug” since he was 15 years
t
At that time, he worked as a
ge in the San Antonio Public
rary.
"Book collecting is a fascinat-
ig field,” he declared. “A fellow
mce told me it is just like gold
ever. I’ll admit he’s right.”
Though rare book collecting is
lucrative hobby, the 50-year-old
jlTl librarian says it means much
ore to him in personal satisfac-
] on than an investment.
Book collecting is. ranked close
iiehind land buying on urban
fringe areas among top invest
ments listed by the Wall Street
Journal.
“I really began to pursue it in
Ernest for the sake of my sons,”
White said. “We had good rapport
going through Little League
taseball, and I figured this would
be a good way to maintain it the
Jear round. They took to it like
bucks to water.”
Frederick Jr., a 1968 Texas
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
A&M graduate now a missile of
ficer at Little Rock AFB, estab
lished a profitable business as a
rare book dealer. His dad and
mother, Edith, are taking care
of it evenings and weekends until
Fred Jr. finishes his Air Force
tour.
Chris, a sophomore history ma
jor at A&M, has also invested in
the pastime. He owns the com
plete works of J. Frank Dobie,
including a rawhide bound edition
of “The Longhorn.”
The elder White, whose chief
interest is Texana and publica
tions on his hometown San An
tonio, notes book collecting can
take any of numerous directions.
“True collectors say I’m too
broad, but I’m interested in any
thing done on Texas,” the Alamo
Heights High, Trinity University
and Our Lady of the Lake College
graduate stated. “It’s an endless
search.”
His oldest son once said his
father wears out a car a year
looking for books.
“The thing that makes book
collecting interesting is trying to
find an item that has made its
way into the bibliographies but
doesn’t seem to exist,” White
said.
He noted that one of the really
great Texas collectors, Earl Van
Dale, often told the story of
hearing about a book he wanted
being located in Amarillo. Dale
immediately left Austin and drove
all night just to look at the vol
ume.
White, who has 100 hardback
books and 300 pamphlets on San
Antonio and says he has hardly
scratched the surface, indicated
he has handled non-collectors’ re
quests to price books.
“It’s hard to explain,” the own
er of probably the only copy of
Rowan Green’s “History of Col
orado County” added. “People
‘Texas Clipper’
sails for Europe
The “Texas Clipper,” Texas
Maritime Academy training ship
carrying 186 students, sails Sat
urday for Europe.
Adm. James D. Craik, TMA
superintendent, said 105 of the
students are cadets enrolled in
the academy’s four-year program
leading to degrees in marine
transportation or marine engi
neering. The eight-week, 12,303-
mile cruise is part of their annual
training.
Remainder of the students are
spring high school graduates en
rolled in Texas A&M’s “Summer
School at Sea,” offering them the
opportunity to take two freshman
courses in English, history or
mathematics.
think that if a book is old and
in bad condition, it’s real valuable.
It’s not so much the date of pub
lication. Condition of the book
has a lot to do with it.”
“When someone shows me
something junky,” he commented,
“I tell them no offense is meant,
but I wouldn’t take it as a gift.”
Among the scarce items White
keeps in a bank vault is a copy
of “San Juan de Ulloa,” a book
in French about the 1836 revo
lutionary barricade at Galveston
by ships of the French Navy.
One of White’s collector ac
quaintances, Herbert Fletcher of
Salado, claimed he had worked his
entire life to obtain the book. In
order to publish an English trans
lation, Fletcher borrowed a Li
brary of Congress copy.
“When collectors get together,”
the member of A&M’s Student
Publications Board described,
“talk frequently turns to deals
they’ve made. The only one I get
gleeful about is one of Paul Well
man’s two or three non-fiction
books, ‘Callaghan.’ ”
Fred saw it on a New York
book store shelf, picked it up and
found the volume on the Callag
han ranch was unpriced. He in
quired whether it was for sale.
“Yes, but it isn’t worth a
damn. You can have it for $3,”
the dealer replied. White says it
would bring $50.
Faculty, staff
to be assigned
designated lots
Texas A&M faculty and staff
members will be assigned to spe
cific parking lots starting with
the fall semester, reports Uni
versity Police Chief Ed Powell.
“Staff parking will be assigned
on a priority basis to be determin
ed by the zone administrator,”
Powell disclosed. Parking permits
will be issued only for the number
of spaces available in each lot.
“We expect it to stop all the
hunting,” he chief declared.
Powell said the university had
random parking for staff mem
bers in the past, except for those
members who rate reserved park
ing places.
The seven zone administrators
will schedule meetings with de
partment heads to determine pri
ority ranking in the lots, Powell
noted, with the zone administra
tor responsible for final decisions.
Powell emphasized he believes
there is room in staff lots for all
staff cars, including those driven
by students’ wives working on
campus.
However, once a vehicle has
been assigned to a lot, it cannot
be parked in any other staff lot.
On-street 30 minute parking will
be allowed for conferences and
short visits to other areas of the
campus, Powell said.
Another regulation effective
this fall is that visitor spaces may
not be used by the faculty, staff
or students.
“Visitor parking places will be
strictly for visitor use,” Powell
emphasized.
Several new assigned parking
areas have been designated.
They include all of Military
Walk, Main Drive from Military
Walk to Houston Street and La
mar Street and Lamar Street
from Houston Street to Coke
Street.
The staff stickers will have
one-inch overlay numbers showing
in which lot the car must be
parked. New 12-inch by 18-inch
white signs will be posted show
ing the lot numbers.
Powell disclosed the Law Hall
parking lot—No. 9—will be di
vided for the fall semester with
day students in one-half of the
lot and dormitory students in the
other half.
“The students will not be al
lowed to cross-over,’ Powell ad
vised.
A 1,000-car parking lot is ex
pected to be considered by the
A&M System Board of Directors
at their June 30 meeting. Powell
said he expects the lot to be ready
by this fall, with the lot open to
any student or staff member with
Senator Tower
sends telegram
of endorsement
Senator John Tower endorsed
the 4,000 signatures he received
last month from state Young Re
publicans and Young Americans
for Freedom in support of Pres
ident Nixon’s Southeast Asia
policies in a telegram to state
Young Republican and YAF of
ficials.
“Congratulation on your signi
ficant effort in collecting nearly
4,000 signature on your petition
in support of President Nixon’s
policy concerning Cambodia and
his efforts to attain a just and
lasting peace in Southeast Asia,
This king of spontaneous support
from the broad majority of Amer
icans is particularly necessary at
this time to place the attitude of
the American people on this issue
in its proper perspective before
the eyes of the world,” The tele
gram said.
“I appreciate and I know the
President appreciates your ex
pression of support. Thank you,”
Tower concluded.
a parking sticker.
Parking violation fees will also
change this fall. Fees will start
at $2 and double with every of
fense. If an owner receives six
tickets, his parking privileges will
be restricted for the remainder of
the semester, Powell warned.
He mentioned some drivers
have paid as many as 40 tickets
in the past.
Members of the College Station
Planning and Zoning Commission
reviewed a slide program depict
ing the university campus as it
would appear in the next 10 or
20 years during their meeting
Monday night.
The program, presented by Dr.
Charles Pinnell, director of Plan
ning and Analytical Studies, was
part of the University Master
Plan for Development and is
based on alleviating traffic prob
lems.
The plans, based on an enroll
ment level of 20,000 students,
represent preliminary plans of
the firm of Caudill, Rowlett &
Scott of Houston. Dr. Pinnell said
he anticipates the enrollment to
Fines will be handled through
the police office. Violators must
bring the ticket to the office,
where the records are checked,
and a card will be issued stating
the number of tickets prior to the
paying of the fee at the Fiscal
Office.
The added trouble will guar
antee compliance with the park
ing regulations, Powell added.
reach 20,000 by 1978.
Dr. Pinnell emphasized most of
the slides concern concepts, rath
er than specific plans. The con
cepts he presented centered
around creating more of a pe
destrian environment and elimi
nating automobiles in the center
of the campus.
“However, we’re trying to make
plans to accommodate the auto
mobile,” Dr. Pinnell said. He add
ed that the university could de
velop a shuttle system, with the
university financing it.
Dr. Pinnell said the only plans
which will be considered in the
near future call for construction
of two of the four four-story
(See Slide, page 2)
A BROTHER REMEMBERED — Pfc. Hiram L. Wright
squats beside the grave of his brother with dispatch orders
to Viet Nam in hand. Marine Cpl. Herman W. O. Wright
Jr., Hiram’s brother was killed in Viet Nam Nov. 18, 1968.
Hiram, a volunteer, leaves for his army assignment in Viet
Nam today. (AP Wirephoto)
Slides depict
future campus