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.