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Tornado-Force Winds Tear Up CS Area Evidence around Texas A&M indicates that a tornado ripped over the campus early Monday morning, said university meteor ologist Jim Lightfoot. “Looking at the debris and the wind damage,” he said, “it looks like a tornado that was not touch ing ground that went over the campus.” “Looking at the debris spread over the campus,” Lightfoot add ed, “it looks like the tornado touched down somewhere else.” The TAMU weather station wind recorder, which is 60 feet off the ground, recorded one gust up to 95 miles per hour, Lightfoot said. Officials at Easterwood Airport reported 66-mile-per-hour winds, he said. Apparently suffering the most damage from the supposed tor nado was the Oak Forest Trailer Park located at 301 Krenek Tap Road whei-e eight trailer houses were destroyed and 10 to 12 others were damaged. Seven park residents were re ported taken to St. Joseph’s Hos pital, treated and released, as a result of high winds which hit the area shortly after midnight Sunday. The injured were Mr. and Mrs. Joel L. Harns, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Mc Call and Orville Price. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sanders of 2509 Texas Ave., were treated and released from Bryan Hospital after their trailer flipped over onto their two cars, College Station police re ported. University Police Chief O. L. Luther reported Monday after noon that two greenhouses locat ed west of the railroad tracks along Farm-to-Market Road 60 were destroyed. He also noted that a total of 27 automobiles were damaged as a result of the storm, including three which were extensively damaged because part of a tree fell on them. Other cars damaged were in parking lots 22, 23, 41 and 49. He said he estimated up to $600 damage to some cars and said numerous windows were broken out. Lightfoot said it appeared the areas in the path of the high winds or tornado received less rain than outlying, areas. On campus .97 inches of rain were recorded while at Millican, Light- foot’s residence, he reported 1.8 inches. He said other areas also reported rainfall up to two inches. With the passing of the Pacific cold front which triggered the wild weather, Bryan-College Sta tion received a continental front around 10 p. m. Monday. “I’m expecting our first frost Wednesday morning’,, he said. Lightfoot said the front sent Pan handle temperatux-es into the 30’s Monday. He said the front is a dry one. Battalion Vol. 67 No. 182 College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 14, 1972 845-2226 NSL Issues To Highlight Referendum A referendum will be conduct ed by the Student Senate Wed nesday to help determine the positions of the National Stu dent Lobby on issues, to decide what classes will be able to vote on yell leader candidates and to determine the freshman class of ficers for vice-presidential and presidential positions. The yell leader referendum asks whether the yell leader should be elected by the whole student body or by his respective class. Fred Campbell, chairman of the Senate Rules and Regulations Committee, said earlier this is the only part of the yell leader policy to be voted on for a change. Freshman elections held Nov. 8 did not produce a majority vote for either the vice-presidential or presidential candidates. Vice-presidential run-offs are between Andrea Hur holding 176 votes in the initial election and Stephen Smith holding 164. ‘Semi-Orderly’ Society Sought By Noted Author R DAMAGE was evident saw ■ning after a rough and wet n g ^ ,p to 95 miles-per-hour. Kes^ents of the OaK r Park in College Station were hit the barest winds while cars belonging o ■ - Bald- in the wild weather. (Photos by Gary Bald e Associated Press) “You have to work out a society that has just enough order to exist . . . and within the society, sufficient disorder so that we can feed our personal diversity into it,” said Robert Ardrey, noted author and evolutionist. Ardrey, speaking for the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation and in the Great Issues series, lectured on “Order and Disorder” before a large crowd in G. Rollie White Coliseum Monday night. “Things happen to you when there is too much order in society . . . people turn to drinking, drugs, anything to induce dis order that is intolerable to the durability of the society,” said Ardrey. Ardrey said that the American society was a victim of “over organization,” and diversity and individuality were also necessary in society that will thrive. In Ardrey’s studies of the “bi ology of behavior,” he has found that disorder or “elbow room” was needed to keep the “indi vidual from getting lost in the mechanical wilderness of the mod ern city.” “With the balance of disorder and order, you’ll have a society (See ‘Orderly’ Society, page 2) Greg Knape with 237 votes will compete with Philip Bohlman with 180 votes for the presiden tial position. The NSL referendum is being voted on by students throughout the country on the following issues: —1. Should Congress increase financial aid given directly to students, such as grants, loans, work-study, and G.I. Bill? —2. Should Congress help to fund day care centers on cam puses for children of students, faculty and staff? —3. At present, the costs of tuition, room and board at pub lic and private universities ai’e exempted from cost controls of the U. S. Price Commission (214 '/< inci’ease per year). Should Congress control these price in creases ? —4. Should Congx-ess permit “discount fares” on airlines fox- persons under 22 and over 65, thus preventing the Civil Aex-o- nautics Board from banning them ? —5. Should Congress allow voters registration by mail and enact other measures to increase voter participation ? —6. Should states repeal laws prohibiting abortion, thus leaving the decision to the woman, the doctor, and others directly in volved ? —7. Should the military be converted to an “all-volunteer” force when the present dhaft law expires on June 30, 1973? —8. Should Congress begin to convex-t from a defense in dustry-based economy to a civil science systems-based economy, involving research and develop ment of mass tx-ansportation, pol lution control, and health care systems ? —9. Should Congress more stringently control the possible influence of multi-national cor porations (such as I.T.T., Oil Companies) on U. S. foreign pol icy ? —10. Should Congress cut off foreign aid to military and col onial governments such as Rho desia and Portuguese colonies in Africa ? —11. Should Congress estab lish a system of national health insurance, including subsidization of student health insurance and campus clinics ? The vote will be taken on the basis of strongly favor, favor, don’t know, oppose and strongly oppose. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Library, Sbisa news stand, academic build ing and the guax-d house. A student I.D. and activity card are requix-ed to vote. Lyric Art Quartet Set For Wednesday Night Concert Artist Showcase will present the Lyric Ax-t Quax-tet at the Bryan Civic Auditorium Wednes day at 8 p.m. Organized in 1955, the Lyric Ait Quartet is composed of nine musicians based in the southwest and acclaimed as one of the most promising groups in the nation. The quai'tet plays a repertoire of txaditional music and it has had the distinction of introducing new works of contemporary com posers. The concert here will con sist of three parts: Beethoven- Opus 18 No. 1, Brahms Piano Quintet and Debussy Quartet. Since 1956, the quartet has been presented in concert series at Rice University, presented over 200 concerts for Houston students and made a film in 1967 for Houston educational television. The members have made sev eral recordings, performed at the June Musical Festival in Albu querque, New Mexico, and pre sented various other concerts throughout the southwest and east. Members of the quartet have had outstanding careers as both chamber music musicians and as soloists. Fredell Lack is the first violin ist, recently returned from hex- seventh European concert tour. Albeit Muenzer also plays the violin in the group. At present he is an associate concertm of Deepwater Port Will Boost State’s Economy A deepwater terminal off the Texas coast could create 336,770 new jobs in its first 10 years of operation and add $119.4 billion in benefits to the state’s economy, estimate Texas A&M University researchers. These figures were released to day as part of a recent study jointly conducted by the Texas Super port Study Corporation, a nonprofit oxganization formed in 1971 to conduct studies on a Texas superpoxt, and TAMU’s Industrial Economic Research Di vision. Purpose of this teamed reseax-ch effort was to assess the economic impact on the state of a moored terminal in deep Gulf water. TAMU’s Sea Grant College Pio- gram provided paxtial support for the work. “The results of this study prove beyond a shadow of a doubt our long-standing conviction about what a deepwater terminal will do for Texas,” noted Ray R. Brimble, TSSC chairman. “It is obvious that Texas can wait no longer but must proceed quickly to provide these much needed facilities so that our state's economy can continue to grow and prosper.” According to final figures in the report, entitled “The Eco nomic Impact of a Deepwater Terminal in Texas,” the dollars- and-cents benefit to the state dull ing the first operational decade of the terminal would begin at a rate of $4.4 billion per year and increase to $21.2 billion a year by the 10th year. “New refineries and petro chemical plants along with sup- poxting services such as tugs, barge transport and pipeline con struction will show the most inx- mediate effects, but other activ ities such as xetail and whole sale trade, commercial construc tion and home building will also experience gains,” pointed out Dan M. Bragg, pxincipal investi gator for the TAMU study. “If Texas is to maintain its national leadership in oil refin ing, the state’s refining industry must also double in size by 1985,” he added. According to the study, the nation is faced wtih the px*ospect of serious oil and gas shortages in the years ahead. The proposed deepwater terminal would be used to offload imported crude oil from supertankers to feed the Texas refinery and petrochemical complex, which now provides about one-fourth of the nation’s oil refining and more than half of the petx-ochemical processing- capabilities. By 1975, a terminal capable of handling Texas im- poxts would require at least two unloading buoys and is estimated to cost $175 to $250 million. “Without a deepwater terminal, (See Deepwater, page 2) the Houston Symphony and is also on the faculty at Sam Hous ton State College. Wayne Cx-ouse, principal violin ist, has appeared as soloist with the Houston Symphony. Also per forming from the Houston Sym phony is Shirley Tx-epel, cellist. Remaining quax-tet members are Ralph Berkowitz, cellist, George Robert, piano, Maurice Bonney, violist, Betty Ann Whiton, con trabass and Albex-t Hex-sh, piano. A&M student tickets are $1 and a student date ticket is $1.50. All other tickets ax-e $2. Thex-e are no resex-ve seats . Junior Class To Sell Shirts Junior class members will take ox-ders now through December for their annual sale of Aggie T-shirts. Juniors from each dorm and Corps outfit will be going door- to-door to sell the $2.50 shirts. Shirts will be white on maroon representing various A&M fac tions such as the class year, corps of cadets, the band and other related school activities. “With organization of this sale of T-shirts will be the class of ’74’s best oppor-tunity to raise money for the best class ball we’ve ever had to date, but the whole class will need to back us if we expect an over-all success,” said David Carpenter, junior class president. T-shirts will be delivered with in two weeks after sales conclude in November. University National Bank ‘On the sidr of Texas A&M.” —Adv.