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UW planning Sadie Hawkins
Saturday is Sadie’s day.
University Women’s Sadie
Hawkins Day will begin at 1:30
p.m. with a steak fry and games
in Hensel Park.
Tickets are on sale in room 103
of the Academic Building through
Thursday for $2.25 per couple.
The dress will be informal.
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Vocational guidance
conference theme
Vocational guidance confer
ences in San Antonio, Houston,
Dallas and Lubbock will be held
in April and May by the Texas
Education Agency and A&M.
Purpose of the conference
series is to strengthen guidance
services for Texas school chil
dren.
School superintendents in the
four areas have been invited to
send teams including a vocational
counselor, a regular counselor
and an administrator.
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Planet Jupiter
colloquium topic
A lecture on “Modern Prob
lems of the Plant Jupiter” will
be presented Thursday (April
15) in a physics colloquium by
Dr. Harlan J. Smith.
Dr. Smith is Astronomy De
partment chairman of the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin.
His talk will be at 4 p.m. in
Room 14() of the Physics Build
ing. Faculty, staff, graduate
students and the public is invited.
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Urban engineering
meeting subject
Spring meetings of the Texas
Section of the American Society
of Civil Engineers will be held
here April 15-17.
The society has selected “Ur
ban Activities and the Civil En
gineer” as the conference theme.
More than 350 civil engineers
from throughout the state are
expected to attend.
A wide range of technical pa
pers will be presented on topics
ranging from construction and
industry to urban planning and
development.
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Firemen schools
begin April 26
The Engineering Extension
Service will conduct its fourth
six-week recruit firemen training
school beginning April 26, an
nounced Instructor David White.
Recruit and probationary fire
men from municipalities and in
dustries are eligible to attend.
The course includes basic fire
fighting techniques and equip
ment operation, White said.
Classes are limited to 16 with
advanced registration necessary.
Total cost including registration,
meals and housing is $262 White
said. i
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Sports Car Club
meets tonight
Sports Car Club members will
rehash the recent Spring Time
Trial II at the Texas Interna
tional Speedway during a meet
ing today.
Event master Kerry Bonner of
Pasadena urged members to
bring their pictures of the 76-
entry TIS meet for group show
ing.
He said the 7:30 p.m. meeting
will be at the old College Sta
tion City Hall, 101 N. Church.
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Secretaries program,
buffet April 23
Area secretaries must make
reservations by Monday for the
April 23 dutch treat luncheon, a
part of the Secretaries Week pro
gram sponsored by the Bryan-
College Station Chapter, National
Secretaries Association.
Secretaries Week begins Sun
day and continues through April
24.
Mrs. Jean Hewitt, administra
tive secretary for the College of
Liberal Arts, said $2.25 is charg
ed for the noon buffet, April 23,
at Wyatt’s Cafeteria.
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Vet college plans
May open house
A&M College of Veterinary
Medicine will host its annual
open house from noon to 5 p.m.,
May 8, announced Dean A. A.
Price.
Veterinary medicine facilities
and the Texas Veterinary Medical
Diagnostic Laboratory will be
open to the public with veterinary
students conducting the tours,
Dean Price said.
Emphasis during the open house
is placed on showing the public
the veterinary medicine teaching
facilities and acquainting inter
ested persons with the field of
veterinary medicine.
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H. Ray Smith named
personnel director
H. Ray Smith has been named
personnel director, announced
President Jack K. Williams.
Smith joined the institution as
Assistant personnel director in
1967 and was named acting di
rector last December.
Dr. Williams noted that in
addition to having responsibility
for employment, personnel rec
ords and processing and training
activities for the university,
Smith also will have responsibil
ity for certain functions relating
to academic personnel and all
non-academic personnel of the
A&M System.
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Hawkins honored
by drivers education
Dr. Leslie V. Hawkins of the
Industrial Education Department
is the recipient of an honors
award of the Texas Driver and
Traffic Safety Education Asso
ciation.
The award is given to individu-
day
als making outstanding contribu
tions to driver education in Texas.
Hawkins, in charge of the driver
education teachers training pro
gram in the Industrial Education
Department since 1957, received
the award at a two-day TDTSEA
conference in Dallas.
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Haisler to present
structures paper
Dr. Walter E. Haisler, assistant
professor of aerospace engineer
ing, will present a paper at the
twelfth Structures, Structural
Dynamics, and Materials Confer
ence sponsored by the American
Institute of Aeronautics and As
tronautics and the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers.
The April 19-21 meeting will be
held in Anaheim, Calif.
Haisler’s presentation is titled
“Development and Evaluation of
Solution Procedures for Geomet
rically Nonlinear Structural Anal
ysis by the Direct Stiffness
Method.”
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N.E. students dismantle
training reactor
Senior nuclear engineering stu
dents are dismantling and re
assembling part of a small nu
clear reactor.
Dr. James B. Smathers, nuclear
engineering professor, said
17 students are involved in the
special laboratory exercise.
The low-power training reactor
located in the Mechanical Engi
neering Shops is being taken
apart by students who will then
reassemble the components to ob
serve responses of the reactor’s
neutron monitoring instruments.
Dr. Smathrs noted the experi
ment enables students to compare
actual laboratory results with
theoretical predictions.
He emphasized that the low
power of the very small reactor
used makes the procedure com
pletely safe.
BATTALION Wednesday, April 14, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 3
BOY POWER IS NO MATCH for 100 pounds of Great Dane as six-year-old Kevin Slas-
teen of Dallas learned while on a friendly walk with Shelia. The eight-year-old dog
proved to have a mind of her own as she yanked the leash away from the boy send
ing him sprawling. (AP Wirephoto)
May 1 application deadline
for 6 Clipper’ summer cruise
May 1 is the deadline for spring
high school graduates to sign on
for A&M’s European “Summer
School at Sea.”
Adm. James D. Craik, super
intendent of the Texas Maritime
Academy, said the June 5-Aug.
12 program includes visits to
Denmark, the Netherlands, Por
tugal and the Canary and Virgin
Islands.
In addition to visiting foreign
ports and getting a taste of life
at sea, Admiral Craik said stu
dents have the opportunity to
earn six hours of college credit
in English, American history or
mathematics.
Credit for the courses can be
applied to degree requirements
at Texas A&M or any other col
lege or university, the admiral
noted.
The Atlantic cruise will be
aboard the “Texas C 1 i p p e r,”
TMA’s 15,000-ton converted
oceanliner. It originates in Gal
veston and includes a stop en-
route at Philadelphia.
“Summer School at Sea” is
sponsored jointly by TMA and
Texas A&M’s College of Liberal
Arts.
Costs, including room, board,
laundry and tuition, total $650
for Texas residents and $800 for
out-of-state students.
Additional information or ap
plications may be obtained from
the Enrolling Officer, Texas
Maritime Academy, Texas A&M
University, College Station, Tex
as 77843.
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DETROIT CP) — Five rock mu
sicians and 15 of their hippie-
style friends have moved into a
mansion in Detroit—and appar
ently they’re most welcome ten
ants as they repair and refurbish
the 47-room estate and keep van
dals away.
“We’re doing what we can. It’s
a great old house and we can
help fix it up,” said Larry Mer-
ryman, 23, who heads the Stone-
front rock band that lives and
practices in the home’s theater-
size ballroom.
Emanuel J. Harris, a Detroit
attorney who now owns the man
sion, once the home of millionaire
Gar Wood, said the young people
have been devoting part of each
month to refurbishing and repair
ing the area. He said they also
have been protecting the place
from vandals.
AUSTIN OP) —Lt. Gov. Ben
Barnes said Tuesday the cost of
public welfare will bankrupt the
state within two years if major
changes are not made in the
medical assistance program.
Barnes told a news conference
that welfare recipients are get
ting better medical care than all
Texans “except the very, very
rich.”
The rapidly growing rolls of
aid to families with dependent
children—increasing at the rate
of 12,000 a month— is the main
reason for the soaring costs, he
said.
Barnes discussed welfare be
fore releasing a summary of the
Senate’s two-year spending bill,
which indicates the legislature
will have to come up with $662.6
million in new taxes, without in
cluding a second year of welfare.
Adding the second year would
raise the tax bill to some $950
million for the biennium, and
Barnes said he would not support
a tax bill until Texas’ welfare
program is “better coordinated”
and “we take a more realistic
approach to medical services.”
“I’ve become very impatient
with the handling of the system
of welfare in the state and the
Besides Merryman and four
other band members, the granite
mansion on small Greyhaven Is
land in the Detroit River is the
residence of 15 other persons,
ranging in age from 8 to 40.
There also are 5 dogs, 9 cats and
5 kittens.
Prior to Merryman’s signing of
a $700-a-month lease eight
months ago, the mansion had
gone through a number of rent
ers who let repairs slide and the
grounds become overgrown with
weeds.
Police said the group has caus
ed no problems except for “ex
cessive crowds at times.” They
said the neighbors — there are
three other houses on the island
—have had no complaints other
than those about the traffic prob
lem when there are parties at
the mansion.
nation, and I don’t think tax
money is being as wisely or as
economically spent as it could be,”
Barnes said.
For example, he said, welfare
recipients now get unlimited doc
tor’s care under medical—some
thing few, if any, private insur
ance policies provide.”
“We are committed to a wel
fare program we literally cannot
afford,” he added, and if it keeps
on “Texas will be bankrupt in
two years.”
He said he had appointed a
committee of legislators, insur-
ancemen and representatives of
the Texas hospital and medical
associations to work out within
a week a program for a “maxi
mum level of medical services at
a substantially reduced cost.”
Barnes said he planned to go
to Washington next week to see
if the federal government could
assume more of the costs, or al
low Texas to reduce its services.
He said “cutbacks” would have
to be cleared by the federal gov
ernment.
Middle-class Texans cannot af
ford the type of welfare care be
ing provided for welfare recipi
ents, Barnes said, “and I don’t
think it was intended that way.”
“The only difference between
their parties, the neighbor’s and
ours was that they lined up Cadil
lacs and Imperials and we had
beat-up Chevys and Volkswag-
ens,” said Roselyn Leonard, who
sings folk songs professionally
with her husband David and lives
in the mansion with her two
daughters, ages 8 and 10.
Current projects of the com
munity are planting a flower and
vegetable garden, mowing the
lawn, removing the stumps of
dead trees and patching together
some balustrades along the river
side of the house.
They already have repaired
much of the wiring and plumb
ing, painted numerous walls in
the maze of stairways and rooms,
and replaced many storm win
dows.
Singing Cadets
elect officers
The Singing Cadets have elect
ed William H. (Bill) Peavy of
Dallas president for 1971-72.
Serving with Peavy next year
will be James C. McLeroy, vice
president of Houston; Fred B.
Jackson, business manager of
Rockport; and James L. Ran
dolph, publicity manager of
Wickett.
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Barnes claims welfare cost
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