THE BATTALION Tuesday, April 25, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 3 520 H— paigon’s mayor wages war against sin SAIGON (JP) — With the way |he war against sin is going, the barroom mama-sans are down in Jthe mouth. L Montk B T n anticipation of a great peace time tourist influx, any year now, Ihe city fathers have decided to ^idy up Saigon’s morals. Mayor )o Kien Nhieu, a no-nonsense, jjaw-and-order type, has ordered [the girlie bars and Saigon-tea parlors to move out of the old downtown sin district by June 30 |to a swampy island in the Saigon River known as the ninth pre- tinct. The new area is just a hand grenade toss across the muddy ^•iver from Saigon’s bustling sky line of hotels and apartment buildings. It has plenty of room for Vietnamese growth industries like massage parlors and steam baths. But the mama-sans aren’t buy ing. One hitch is that there is no bridge to the island. The only way to get there is by leaky sampan or an indifferent ferry. Both run the risk of being swamp ed by freighters and navy gun boats churning up the crowded harbor. Besides, there are very few cus tomers, especially of the round eyed variety so dear to the purses of the mama-sans. “Who am I going to serve over My vote for Governor will go to BRISCOE, a man Texans can trust! ¥ RICK PERRY r there ? Viet Cong and Vietnamese isailors?” asked one mama-san who has presided over an estab lishment of choice flower petals since the days when Graham Greene was a boulevardier here. “Even now the Vietnamese sol diers who come in here won’t pay. I have to pay them to go away and not make trouble.” Te mama-san, already hard hit by the American troop withdraw al just when she had redone her bar in life-sized nudes painted on black velvet, had a point about the Viet Cong. The desolate island, veined with canals and rivulets, has been the launch site for many of the big rockets fall ing on Saigon over the years. In chasing the girlie bars across the river and into the bamboo trees, city fathers hoped to beg gars, street walkers, pickpockets, watch snatchers and allied artistes-de-flimflam would natur ally follow along. Leaving the E> BATTALION CLASSIFIED WANT AD RATES per fil day |0ne day 5re. Kental fees and sale prices are follows: Doctor’s Cap and Gown (rental) 88, Doctor’s Hood (rental) $7.88, Doctor’s $7.88, Cap, Gown & Hood (rental) $15.76, Mas ter’s Cap & Gown (sale) $7.61, Bachelor’s Cap & Gown (sale) $6.93. All prices in clude sales tax. Payment is required at the time of placing the order. 99tl6 i academ year in residence and credit for ninety-fi' passed i period c used in satisfying hour requirement. Students crei ster hours. 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Dodge Sales and Service Since 1922 1411 Texas Ave. — 823-8111 67tfn We Buy More Used Books— Because We Pay More— ASK THE AGGIES That Trade With Lou— rocketeers and the racketeers to each other’s tender mercies seem ed like a good idea at the time, but now the mama-sans are balk ing at moving to the designated sin island. Some have relocated along Plantation Road, out by Tan Son Nhut airport, which falls just inside neighboring Gia Dinh Prov ince, but the few U.S. airmen left like to get as far from the base as possible in their off-duty hours. Sales of Saigon tea, a watery concoction that the B- girls toss off at $2.50 a slurp in exchange for dreamy moments of hand-holding conversation, have not been brisk. A few have pad locked the old premises and pack ed the girls off, in platoon strength of 65 or more, to the seaside resort of Vung Tau, where competition already is keen and overcrowded. Other mama-sans have tried to diversify into beauty parlors, travel agencies, boutiques and souvenir shops. But with names like Honeymoon Spots, Crazi- Place, Whoopey and Play Girl, it’s hard to build a new following without calling in the sign painters. “Maybe I will open a pharma cy,” sighed one bar operator do ing business under the sign Pig Alley. The city cleanup is a phased operation, street by street. Some of the most famous havens of “foreign flower seekers,” as ad venturous gallants are called hereabouts, already have van ished. Le Club, immortalized in Gra ham Greene’s “The Quiet Ameri can” and frequented by over three decades of French and American fighting men, under a variety of names and owners, quietly be came a novelty shop last month. It sells ceramic elephants, water buffalo teeth masquerading as good-luck tiger fangs and jungle jackets embroidered with “Fight er by day, lover by night, drunk ard by choice” and similar saying favored by rear-echelon support troops. Since the American withdrawal has decimated business along Saigon’s Sin Strip leading down to the river, the bar girls sit in sad rows on wooden benches out side their establishments, calling out over the blaring rock music. Bulletin Board Tonight The Geological Society will meet in Room 105 of the Geology building at 7:30 p.m. Dr. David Eggler will speak on “Experimen tal Petrology.” The A&M Student Civil Liber ties Union will meet at 8 p.m. in the third floor lounge of Zachry Engineering Center. Fred Campbell new head of 9 72- 9 73 Singing Cadets Fred C. Campbell Jr. of San Antonio will head A&M’s Singing Cadets in 1972-73. New officers were introduced Saturday at the all-male glee club’s annual awards banquet. Other presentations included a plaque ot Mrs. James K. Henni- gan as an Honorary Singing Cadet and announcement of a $100 award to next year’s out standing member. Director Robert L. Boone said the top Cadet award to begin in 1972-73 becomes possible through a donation by Mr. and Mrs. James A. McLeroy, parents of the 1971- 72 vice president. Mrs. Hennigan was cited as an honorary member for exemplary service to the Singing Cadets. The wife of a TAMU industrial enginering professor assisted the group in brochures design, among other work. She joins Honorary Singing Cadets including Cong. Olin E. Teague, Mrs. John Connally, the late President Earl Rudder, Mrs. Margaret Rudder and Sergio Franchi. Working with Campbell next year will be vice president James L. Randolph of Wickett; business manager, William E. Reeves, Orange; publicity manager, An drew C. Briscoe, Rosenberg; librarian, Steven J. Evans, Hous ton, and newsletter editor, T. C. Cone, Winnie. Awards based on semester par ticipation were presented to the 54 Singing Cadets by Boone, out going president William H. Peavy of Dallas, and McLeroy, of Hous ton. Doctoral graduate students Tim J. 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