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Vol. 66 No. 130 College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 30, 1971
Thursday — Partly cloudy.
Southerly winds 10-15 mph.
Friday and Saturday—Cloudy
to partly cloudy, scattered rain
showers. Southerly winds 10-15
mph. High 89°, low 73°.
Sunday and Monday — Partly
cloudy. Southerly winds 5-10
mph. High 94°, low 71°.
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Anderson quits
mayor’s post;
council to meet
College Station Mayor D. A. “Andy”
Anderson has resigned his post effective today,
ending more than 13 years of continuous service to
his community.
The city council will meet next Wednesday
afternoon to set a date for the special election to fill
Anderson’s office. Mayor pro tern Fred R. Brison
will serve in the interim. City Manager Ran Boswell
said the council will have to wait 45 days to hold
the election.
Anderson’s resignation is the result of a suit
filed by A. P. Boyett, Sr. and other College Station
residents seeking to enforce a section of the state
constitution which prohibits the paying of state
salaries to officers, agents or appointees who hold
two positions of honor, trust or profit.
The suit was filed last summer, and in
November an Austin judge ruled the constitutional
provision applies to college professors and staff and
ordered the state comptroller to stop paying five
Texas A&M faculty-staff members serving on the
College Station City Council.
One councilman, Joe McGraw, did not seek
reelection and the other four were paid out of local
funds. An Appeals Court ruling upholding the
Austin court’s ruling broadened the meaning of it,
and forbade the use of any state funds—local or
otherwise—to pay the salaries of the four. Accord
ingly, A&M President Dr. Jack K. Williams ordered
all payment stopped until the men resigned from
the council and their replacements were installed.
The court decisions also have forced a number
of city school board members to resign, and has
created problems for cities across the state.
Anderson had announced after the Appeals
Court ruling he would continue to serve as mayor,
foregoing his paycheck. His term expires in April
1972.
Anderson said in his resignation letter he has
discussed the suit and his relation to it with lawyers,
and has decided his resignation is in the best
interests of all.
Dozier, the only A&M employee still on the
council, filed a writ of error with the state supreme
court last week. The court has turned down
previous writs.
“I cannot, of course, continue to forego my
check, borrow money from the bank, and go deeper
in debt financially for what now may be an
extended period,” Anderson said in his letter. “I
must consider subsequent events as they may affect
me in my university position and otherwise, should
I stay on.
“My deepest regret is to admit defeat to A. P.
Boyett, Sr. and others. Yet, I carry no hatred in my
heart for them,” the mayor said.
“They are, rather, to be pitied. He who is
greater than I will be the judge,” he said.
Anderson said the suit has been a trying
period for him and his family, and “it is difficult to
relate how it has affected my peace of mind.” He
asked College Station residents to understand his
position and the reasons behind his actions.
Anderson became mayor in April 1966,
succeeding Aimer Langford. From 1957 to 1963
Anderson was a councilman under Langford.
Between 1963 and 1966, he served as a member of
the planning and zoning commission.
PROSPECTIVE TEXAS A&M COEDS get together single coeds are expected before the sessions end in August,
during a freshman orientation program Friday. So far (Photo by Debi Blackmon)
350 coeds have attended the sessions, and about 1,000
Attitudes, values brought on
environment crisis, group told
A&M engineers to study
particle-type air pollution
Texas A&M University re
searchers are opening: up a new
front in the battle agrainst air
pollution.
While most of the attention to
date has been directed toward the
gaseous types of pollutants, Tex
as A&M engineers, backed by
NASA, will study the particulate
type of pollution—the 180 million
tons of particles pumped into the
U. S. air each year.
Specifically, they will measure
the chemical composition of the
particles, using a precise and
sophisticated nuclear means, acti
vation analysis.
“Early interest in air pollution
has centered around the gaseous
types because they are the ones
that smell bad and cause the pub
lic to become uncomfortable from
eye irritation,” said W. E. Kuy
kendall Jr., deputy director of
the Activation Analysis Research
Laboratory.
Until now, Kuykendall explain
ed, there has been no concerted
effort to do anything about the
airborne particles except weigh
them. The conclusion has been
drawn that approximately one ton
of pollutants is generated each
year for every man, woman and
child in the nation.
“While weighing tells us the
mass of the pollutants,” Kuyken
dall adds, “we are taking it one
step further and attempting to
identify the composition of this
material everyone is breathing.”
“We don’t know how much of
what elements are in the air in
the form of particulates,” the re
searcher said, “and we don’t know
at what rate they are increasing
or what the effects are.”
Working with NASA’s Lewis
Research Center at Cleveland, the
Texas A&M group hopes to rec
tify that situation.
Kuykendall and his associates
initiated the project with state
funds channeled through the uni
versity’s Texas Engineering Ex
periment Station.
Air samples are being taken in
Houston and forwarded to College
Station for analysis. With the in
fusion of NASA funds, Cleveland
becomes the major test site for
what could develop into a national
study.
“It’s easy to envision our serv
ing as the center for a nation
wide air quality survey,” Kuyken
dall said.
Plans call for eventual analysis
of 2,000 to 3,000 samples from
Cleveland per year.
“We will turn the data over to
NASA, which will study how it
relates to various pollution
sources and make an assessment
of potential health hazards,” the
Texas A&M engineer explains.
Activation analysis, a process
in which chemical composition is
determined by nuclear radiation,
is capable of detecting traces of
elements too minute for meas
urement by other means.
The Texas A&M group will be
checking for presence in the air
of approximately 35 elements—
including such metals as arsenic
and mercury.
“In short,” Kuykendall con
cludes, “we are trying to identify
the enemy.”
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Today’s environmental crisis is
the result of human behaviors,
attitudes and values, a prominent
educator said last Wednesday at
Texas A&M.
“People are preoccupied with
economic and material gains,
more with personal gratification
than society’s well-being,” said
Dr. James Swan, one of several
featured speakers in an Environ
mental Education Workshop for
teachers from a five-state South
west area.
The University of Michigan
School of Natural Resources of
ficial suggested teachers can con
tribute significantly to develop
ment of new values in students
and society. The process, Swan
said, should be founded on pro
viding a forum for consideration
of social values and exploring
behavioral and environmental
consequences of the values.
“Some may question whether
teachers should attempt to influ
ence values,” Swan observed. “I
believe it is impossible not to
try.”
A Texas Aggie who believes
the dog “is the best detector the
Army has today” heads an inten
sive developmental program to
create a “superdog.”
Col. M. W. Castleberry, 1941
veterinary medicine graduate of
Texas A&M, commands the pro
gram at Edgewood Arsenal, Md.
It may be 10 years before su
perdog arrives, but when he does
he’ll be a superior dog for both
military and nonmilitary use.
“This is a superb idea, one
with tremendous potential,” the
San Benito native declared.
“Scientists have shown that by
breeding selectively you can get
more milk from cows, more wool
from sheep, more beef from cat
tle. In the 10th generation, 10
years from now, we’re going to
have a superdog,” Castleberry
said in an Associated Press in
terview.
The Army veterinarian claims
the dog is the Army’s best de
tector.
“You can talk about all the
electronic gadgets you want, but
the dog is the best,” he said.
“The dog has proved himself
time and again in Vietnam.”
He listed several currently held
values behind the environmental
crisis, which Swan said Ameri
cans rated in a 1970 poll ahead
of crime in the streets and drug
abuse.
Man tends to want to subdue
nature, rather than coexist with
it, he said. Work is done for
work’s sake, emphasis is placed
on efficiency and proficiency and
progress is held in reverence.
“People are preoccupied with
material comforts, such as elec
tric toothpicks and foot stools
and other trinkets to make living
easier while increasing power
consumption,” he enumerated.
Faddishness—the consumption
of more exotic goods—is a way
of life in the United States.
Great faith is placed in the pow
er of science and strong national
istic sentiments submerge con
cern for others.
“Students are aware of a dis
crepancy between what they
think should be happening and
what teachers and administrators
think should happen,” he added.
Undergoing superdog training
at Edgewood Arsenal are 297
dogs, including 256 German shep
herds. The German shepherds
were chosen as the backbone of
the tests, Castleberry explained,
at the recommendation of Uni
versity of Maryland doctors who
conducted extensive studies on
seven breeds.
The training starts soon after
the dogs are born, with the plac
ing of the puppies in a 30-degree
room for one minute, then put
ting them into a device that re
sembles a tilted merry-go-round
and whirling them about for one
ininute.
Castleberry said the initial
chilling and spinning makes for
a better dog in later life by get
ting it accustomed to stress and
conditions that are far from per
fect.
Other training includes a fetch
test, a rag agitation test and
runs through a complicated
maze.
In the end, the Army hopes
selective breeding and upbring
ing will produce a dog superior
in physical condition, trainabili-
ty, intelligence, temperament and
ability to perform difficult tasks
“There are three alternatives to
this conflict. They can drop out,
believe that education has no re
lationship to the world and that’s
the price one has to pay to get
ahead, or get mad and tear
things up.”
Swan pointed out the extent to
which values can blind people to
the increasingly poor condition
of their environment. A series
of 20 color slides in which the
sky became increasingly hazy
and polluted were shown. The
last two photos showed industrial
plants belching smoke and fumes
into the atmosphere.
“Children who live in areas
with consistent clear skies be
came aware of the air pollution
by the fifth slide. People with
money who can afford frequent
visits to such places spotted it
early,” Swan related. “Those
who don’t have the money to oc
casionally get out of the inner
cities didn’t become aware of the
pollution until the last two
slides.”
He suggested numerous class
under the most rigorous and con
fusing conditions.
“Temperament is the big prob
lem,” the colonel says. “You
want a bold, outgoing, self-con
fident dog.”
Candidates for the superdog
program that don’t measure up
are either sold to private owners
or transferred to other military
uses, Castleberry said.
Independence Day holidays and
first session exams will shut
down the Grove Theater for six
nights during the first two weeks
of July.
Movies under the stars will
take Friday, Saturday and Sun
day holidays for the July 4 week
end.
Students, faculty and staff be
gin the three-day holiday at 5
p.m. Friday. Classes resume at
8 a.m. Tuesday, July 6.
No Grove movies are scheduled
July 8-10, when the first six-
projects teachers might use to
increase student awareness of
pollution problems. Class records
of respiratory problems com
pared with records from another
locale, measuring dust falls in in
dustrial areas, observing growth
patterns o f sensitive plants
placed in various sites around a
city and watching fish placed in
selected water samples were
among his suggestions.
“The situation has to be per
sonalized,” he stated.
“Suppose,” he theorized, “there
were 100 of us here and I told
you we would not eat lunch to
day. Instead, we pile 100 sand
wiches in the middle of the room.
Then six of you eat as much as
you want, while the rest of us
watch. After the six finish, the
rest of us can have what’s left.”
Announcements
can be ordered
until July 9
Seniors who will complete de
gree requirements this summer—
either in July or August — can
order graduation announcements
this week or next, Assistant MSC
Director Sanders Letbetter said
Tuesday night.
He said the announcements
may be ordered at the building
cashier’s office in the west end
of the MSC. He noted Texas A&M
has no summer commencement
exercises, and the announcements
are only that.
The building cashier’s office,
part of the Student Finance Cen
ter, is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. week
days.
week summer session ends. First
term final examinations are on
July 8 and 9.
Features during the first part
of final week are “Great Cath
erine” on July 5, “Strategic Air
Command” July 6 and “The Hap
pening” July 7. Nightly presen
tations for the remainder of the
summer begin July 11 with
“Moonshine War.”
Second summer term registra
tion is July 12. Second session
classes run from July 13 to Au
gust 20.
FOUR HIGH SCHOOL cheerleaders and twirlers take
time out from a one-week summer camp to visit the statue
of Lawrence Sullivan Ross, former Texas governor and
thirds president of A&M. The girls are, from left, Sherrie
Rowland, Lexington High School; Rita Junker, Lamar High
School, Rosenberg; Brenda Shofner, Eagle Pass High
School; and Barbara High, South Houston High School.
Mrs. Kathryn Fain of Rosenberg is conducting the camp
for 185 high school students from three states.
Aggie-ex seeks to create
4 superdog’ for Army use
Grove will not show movies
for the next two weekends
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