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Vol. 67 No. 159
College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 4, 1972
845-2226
Won’t Affect On-Campus Students:
Telephone Rate Boost Still Undecided
Additional public hearings con
cerning General Telephone Com
pany’s proposed rate increase for
Bryan-College Station telephones
are still pending decisions on
meeting dates.
The increase, still under inves
tigation in both cities, would
cause the monthly payments for
resident one-pai-ty lines to in
crease from $6 to $7.30, two-party
lines from $5 to $6.05 and four-
party lines from $4 to $5.50.
Long distance rates would re
main the same in all cases.
At recent public hearings in
both cities, the division manager
for General Telephone, Bill Irwin,
pointed out there had not been
an increase in rates in this area
since 1960. Since then the number
of telephones has more than tripl
ed in College Station and more
than doubled in Bryan.
With increased revenues, the
company plans to enlarge the
present Bryan offices to include
electronic switching and 114 dif
ferent switches for more com
plete long distance service, said
Irwin.
“We’re a growing community
where the sky is the limit,” said
Rex Bailey, general manager, at
the College Station hearing. “It
cost more to install phones, ac-
quii’e new and better services and
place and replace underground
cables.”
“On-campus students will not
be affected by the rate hike,” said
Irwin, “as they are on the Uni
versity Centrex system. Off-cam
pus students will be affected like
any other Bryan-College Station
resident.”
General Telephone concluded its
presentations at the identical
Bryan-College Station hearings
with a plea for prompt and deci
sive action on the behalf of the
city councils.
Bryan-College Station resi
dents voiced many complaints
concerning the telephone compa
ny’s services at the hearings.
Over-timed long distance calls,
voices on the line, difficulty in
hearing, busy signals before fin
ishing dialing and no service when
it rained were a few of the gripes
of thbse with resident one-party,
two-party or four-paity lines.
Small business owners pointed
out they would be unable to af
ford a metered system based on
conversational minutes as propos
ed by the company.
“I don’t understand a company
that cannot promise an increase
in proficiency but can promise an
increase in rates,” said a Bryan
citizen.
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Yarborough Cites A&M As
Being ‘Politically Influential’
By ROD SPEER
Former U.S. Senator Ralph
Yarborough called A&M the poli
tically most influential university
in the state at a McGovern-Shriv-
er campaign rally.
Yarborough spoke to a crowd
of about 75 at the Bethune Wom
en’s Club in Bryan Sunday after
noon.
“There are more people here
than wrote the constitution,” he
commented. “If they can win a
nation, you can win a county.”
The fast-talking Texas liberal
was highly critical of the Nixon
administration’s education policy.
“The money going into colleges
from the federal government is
10 per cent of what it was in
1968,” he said.
Yarborough rattled off a list
of statistics showing how the
Democratic Congress had aided
higher education between 1965
and 1970. Included were a $5 mil
lion grant for non-dormitory
buildings, a $50,000 grant through
Sweetheart Finalist Named
Where’s The Grass Going?
Six finalists for the Aggie
Sweetheart have been announced
by the Sweetheart Committee.
Applicants were required to
have at least 27 hours at A&M
and a grade point average of 2.25.
All-Ag Rodeo
Is Slated For
Thursday Night
Bronc bustin’ action will begin
at the All-Aggie Rodeo next
Thursday night at 8:00 in the
Bryan Rodeo Arena.
All contestants entering the
competition will be A&M students
or faculty. Members from last
year’s Regional Championship
Rodeo Team will be the featured
guests at the rodeo. This team
represented A&M at the Colle
giate National Finale Rodeo early
last summer.
Those members to participate
in the All-Aggie Rodeo include
Don Graham, Regional All-
Around Cowboy in bareback, sad
dle bronc, bull riding and calf
roping; Keith Chapman and John
Welch excell in saddle bronc and
bull riding; and Nick Buenham
will be in bareback riding and
calf roping.
This yeai*’s events in the rodeo
will include such acts as Cow
boy’s bareback bronc riding, sad-
dlebronc riding, bull riding, calf
roping and steer wrestling. Cate
gories for girls will offer clover-
leaf barrell racing and goat ty
ing. Special events on the agenda
will include a wild cow saddling, a
three-manned event and other spe
ciality acts by bullfighting
clowns.
The rodeo is being sponsored
by the Texas Aggie Rodeo Asso
ciation and produced by the local
ly-owned Bryan Rodeo Company.
Admission will be $1.75 for adults
and 75c for children .under 12.
CSC Chairman
Post Available
The Executive Committee of
the Civilian Student Council is
now accepting applications for
the position of chairman of the
Public Relations Committee. This
committee was formed in the last
meeting of the CSC for the pur
pose of publicizing upcoming CSC
events.
The position of chairman is
open to any residence hall resi
dent with more than 25 semester
hours. Applications can be obtain
ed at the CSC Office in the MSC
or by contacting Bill Suter (5-
3105) before Friday at 5:00 P.M.
The finalists were chosen during
an interview with the committee
based on appearance, poise, per
sonality and communicative abil
ity.
The six finalists are Dianne
Brown, sophomore elementary ed
ucation major from Los Angeles;
Becky Ferenz, a junior in first
year vet medicine from Crowley;
Penny Ball, junior education ma
jor from Tulsa; Merrill Mitchell,
sophomore management major
from Bryan; Gwen Flynt, sopho
more political science major from
Bryan.; and Becky Upham, junior
zoology major from College Sta
tion.
Students may vote on their
choice Wednesday Oct. 11 in the
library, Memorial Student Center
and the guard room in Sbisa.
The six finalists will be pre
sented during the Mac Davis and
Helen Reddy concert at Town
Hall Oct. 13. They will again be
presented during the half-time of
the A&M-Texas Tech game Oct.
14 at which time the sweetheart
will be announced.
An informal dance will follow
the game in Duncan Dining Hall
from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. The
dance, jointly sponsored by the
Student Senate, Civilian Student
Council and the Corps of Cadets,
will feature a live rock band at
$1 per couple and 50c stag.
The Aggie Sweetheart Commit
tee is made up of Ron Bento,
chairman, Virginia Ehrlich, Barb
Sears, Lloyd Gibbs, Nat Hardy,
Nich Jiga and John MacDiarmid.
the Department of the Interior
and $9 million worth of grants
through the National Science
Foundation, of which $1.5 million
went to oceanography projects.
Yarborough called revenue
sharing a hoax and said the states
will get less money as a result of
it. He feels catagorical grants are
better than leaving funds distrib
ution up to the “mercy of the
state legislatures.” He attacked
state legislatures, saying corpora
tion?; control them “in virtually
every state in the nation.”
“The middle class is being hood
winked by the Nixon administra
tion,” Yarborough said. He said
he feels the middle class is
squeezed for tax dollars while
the rich slip by. He called the
Nixon administration the “big
bankers administration.”
Yarborough defended CBS’s
study entitled “The Wheat Steal”
and said the Republicans robbed
the Texas wheat farmers of hun
dreds of millions of dollars.
He attacked Nixon’s wage-
price freeze saying it froze only
wages and not corporate profits.
He accused Nixon of furnishing
war instead of jobs.
“We need to get out to the eld
erly and tell them where their
social security increases came
from,” Yarborough emphasized.
He said Nixon wanted only a
five per cent increase but Rep
resentative Wilbur Mills and
House and Senate liberals fought
for and got a 20 per cent increase.
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FREDRIC HAND capped his visit to A&M with a con
cert in the Memorial Student Center ballroom Tuesday
night. He visited and ‘jammed’ with students Monday and
Tuesday in informal sessions.
New Instrument Landing System
Installed At Easterwood Field
Official commissioning of a
new instrument landing system
brings the renovation program at
Easterwood Airport one step
closer to completion.
Federal Aviation Administra
tion representatives gave the sys
tem the official go-ahead after a
series of check flights proved it
ready for day-to-day operation,
Easterwood Manager Truett
Smith said.
Smith explained the ILS has
three parts: a glide slope signal to
tell the pilot how low or high he
is on the glide path approach; a
localizer to determine the drift
Applications For Rhodes
Scholarships Available
Dr. Richard Ballinger of the English Department announced that
applications for Rhodes Scholarship will be available until Oct. 11.
To be eligible, a candidate must be between the ages of 18 and 24,
unmarried male, should not have less than senior classification and have
at least a 3.5 grade point ratio.
Quality of both character and intellect is the most important
requirement for a Rhodes Scholarship.
“I will make recommendations to the vice-president of academic
affairs. Dr. John C. Calhoun, who will summit the candidates name to
the state committee,” Ballinger said.
Thirty-two scholarships will be awarded to students in the U.S.
Grants of $3,840 for one year will be awarded to winners.
left or right; and marker beacons
and a compass locater to tell the
pilot the exact distance from the
approach end of the runway.
The system will initially allow
precision approaches for aircraft
to minimums of a 250-foot ceil
ing and three-fourths of a mile
visibility. Future installation of
an approach lighting system will
allow the minimums to be re
duced to a 200-foot ceiling and
one-half mile visibility.
Smith said the improved instru
ment system should increase the
time the airport is open, giving
the facility a near all-weather
landing capability.
Other projects completed in the
$1 million renovation program in
cluded leveling, strengthening and
overlaying the north-south pri
mary instrument runway and ad
joining taxiway and rebuilding a
large portion of the aircraft apron
to include large aircraft parking.
A clear zone and aircraft over
run were also added to the north-
south runway. Additionally the
east-west runway was equipped
with a runway end identification
lighting system.
Smith added the new hangar be
ing constructed for TAMU air
craft should be completed in No
vember.
Mental Health Concepts Changing
By VICKI ASHWILL
B-CS City Reporter
“The concept behind mental
health is change,” said Dr. John
Holbrook recently. He is a psy
chiatrist in charge of the Central
Brazos Valley Mental Health
Center in Bryan.
Yet people in today’s society
continue to punish those who want
and need to change by seeking
professional help, continued Hol
brook. For example, most busi
nesses and insurance companies
will turn down a person if they
know he has seen a psychiatrist
or been in a mental health clinic,
he said.
“There is a stigma inside most
people which makes them afraid
to seek help. Today’s society does
not help this situation any,” said
Holbrook.
Many students will not use the
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
center because it is public, even
though employes of the center
cannot discuss anything they see
or hear at the center. Also, par
ents of minors do not have to be
informed of the child’s visit.
“I think it takes a sensible per
son with a great deal of courage
to come into the clinic,” said Hol
brook.
The clinic deals with all types
of problems from drugs to emo
tionally disturbed to mentally re
tarded persons.
“The largest drug problem we
have in this area is alcohol,” said
Holbrook. “Cold-turkey” is the
only method the center provides
at this time to immediately help
the addict. There is a follow-up
program which does include ses
sions with a counselor or psychia
trist.
The clinic also deals in somatic
psychiatry, or mental problems
created because of a physical
problem.
“We are not evangelistic, nei
ther are we selling mental health.
We are here for people to use in
an appropriate way,” Holbrook
pointed out.
In-patient services, 24-hour
emergency service, partial hospi
talization, out-patient service and
training, education and research
are the five areas the clinic has
worked in since it opened a year
ago. The center serves Region 13
which includes Brazos, Burleson,
Leon, Robertson, Madison, Wash
ington and Rhines counties.
“We have a community mental
health clinic which in its design
is 10 years ahead of all the major
cities in Texas,” said Holbrook.
Staff members include a psy
chiatrist, drug expert, child psy
chiatrist and a trained staff of
clinical people superior to any
around, continued Holbrook.
A “Halfway House” with a six
month live-in program helps
young adults who are emotionally
disturbed or mentally retarded
prepare for a job and a social
life.
“The center itself has approxi
mately 13 children in it,” said
Kerry Hope, mental health work
er. “Here they can work in areas
such as arts and crafts, sewing
and other recreations. There is
also a play therapy room where
we can learn more about a ehild’s
problem by watching him.”
The center, located in the old
St. Joseph Hospital, is not com
pletely finished. The government
provided 56 per cent of construc
tion and renovation costs but the
center has had to pay the remain
ing amount, said Holbrook.
Students from A&M’s environ
mental design department helped
the clinic in the reconstruction
last spring, said Holbi'ook. “With
their help, thousands of dollars
were saved in renovation costs for
the center.”
Banking is a pleasure at First
Bank & Trust. —Adv.