Che Battalion
The Beginning
Is The Most
Important Part
Of The Work.
Vol. 67 No. 198
College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 10, 1973
WEDNESDAY—Ice and freez
ing rain. Sleet & snow today,
and tonight. High 31, low 27.
Winds from the north.
THURSDAY—Continuing sleet
& snow. Northerly winds. High
of 37.
845-2226
Greenhill
To Board
Gives Oath
Members
NEW FACES among A&M’s recently appointed direc
tors include Richard A. Goodson of Dallas (left), Clyde H.
Wells of Granbury and Mrs. Wilmer Smith of Wilson. Gov.
Preston Smith is pictured with Mrs. Smith, the second
woman in A&M’s history to serve on the Board of Direc
tors. Also filling a fourth vacancy is Joe H. Reynolds.
School Monday At A&M, Says Williams
Cold Weather Closes UT Extra Week
AUSTIN — Chief Justice Joe
Greenhill formally administered
the oath of office Tuesday to
three members of the Texas A&M
University System Board of Di
rectors, including the first woman
to serve on the board in nearly
50 years.
Sworn in during ceremonies in
the governor’s office were Mrs.
Wilmer Smith of Wilson, Richard
A. Goodson of Dallas and Clyde
H. Wells of Granbury and Dallas.
A fourth board member, Joe H.
Reynolds of Houston, was sworn
in previously. He fills the vacancy
created by the Nov. 27 death of
Dr. A. P. Beutel of Lake Jackson.
Mrs. Smith and Goodson suc
ceed H. C. Heldenfels of Corpus
Christi and Peyton McKnight Jr.
of Tyler. Heldenfels has served
two terms on the board. McKnight
has been elected a state senator.
Wells was reappointed for a
third six-year term on the board
and currently serves as its presi
dent.
Attending the ceremonies were
two other board members, H. C.
Bell Jr. of Austin and William
H. Lewie Jr. of Waco, and TAMU
President Jack K. Williams.
Mrs. Smith, 1938 graduate of
Texas Tech University, is a for
mer school teacher and president
of the National Extension Home
makers Council. She was named
“Texas Woman of the Year” in
1961 by Progressive Farmer Mag
azine and is a recipient of the 4-H
Silver Spur Award.
She is the second woman ever
to serve on the Texas A&M board.
Mrs. J. C. George of Brownsville
was a member from 1921 until
1926.
Goodson is a 1927 TAMU grad
uate and 1966 recipient of the uni
versity’s Distinguished Alumni
Award. He is a director and
former president of Southwestern
Bell Telephone and a former
chairman of the Texas United
Fund. He also is chairman of the
executive committee of Dallas
Federal Savings and Loan Associ
ation.
Wells, a rancher and business
man, is a 1938 TAMU graduate.
He also earned a degree in 1936
from Tarleton State College,
which is part of the TAMU Sys
tem. He was named “Man of the
Year in Texas Agriculture” for
1967 by the Texas County Agri
cultural Agents Association.
Reynolds, a 1947 graduate of
Baylor Law School, has practiced
law in Houston since 1949 and
formed the firm of Reynolds,
White, Allen & Cook in 1966.
Prior to moving to Houston, he
worked two years in Austin for
then Attorney General Price
Daniel. He also served as a spec
ial trial consel for the attorney
general’s office in the late 1950s.
Students attending the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin will
get an extra week’s worth of
Christmas vacation thanks to a
curtailment of natural gas sup
plies needed to heat and light
buildings.
A&M students, on the other
hand, won’t have the same ‘prob
lem,’ said A&M President Jack
K, Williams Tuesday night.
“We believe we are in a firm
situation as far as diesel fuel oil
supplies are concerned,” said
Williams. “A&M probably won’t
have any severe problems this
winter which will force us to
shut down operations.”
University of Texas regents
Tuesday told students to take the
extra vacation period.
About 38,000 students had ex
pected to start classes again next
Tuesday after the holidays.
Under the new schedule, classes
will begin Jan. 23.
UT President Stephen H.
Spun* also told employees to take
the rest of the week off. Heat in
campus buildings was turned off
at 5 p.m. Tuesday, and employees
will not return to work until told
to do so through news media.
.The total cut of natural gas
supplies began Monday morning,
and UT began using fuel oil to
generate its electricity. Heat
was cut off in most campus build
ings Monday night.
Employees were urged to turn
off all unnecessary lights and
such power users as the huge
campus fountains were turned
off.
The City of Austin has been
using fuel oil to generate elec
tricity since a partial curtailment
of natural gas supplies Sunday
followed by a total cut Monday.
But the city has adequate oil stor
age facilities for about a week
Statewide Demands For Gas
Hurting Big Plants, Cities
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Strong demands for natural
gas by Texans has prompted gas
utilities to curtail service to some
large-volume users in many areas
hit hard by the current winter
storm.
A spokesman for the Texas
Railroad Commission said Tues
day, “There is no question the
problem is statewide. We have
had calls from north and west
and south Texas and from the
Panhandle.”
The spokesman had no figures
on the number of plants or cities
affected by the curtailments.
Various utilities across the
state explained that service to
residential users of natural gas
was not affected. The problem
was explained as one of trans
mission rather than supply.
With heavy demand for gas
to be used for heating, existing
pipelines are not sufficient to
carry gas to serve all customers.
To lessen the burden, supply to
the largest customers is curtailed.
In Dallas, Southern Methodist
University announced suspension
of classes Wednesday and Thurs
day.
Fuel oil was also pressed into
service in San Antonio power
plants for the sixth time this
winter. Both cities are served by
Coastal States Gas Producing
Co.
In the Panhandle and South
Plains, Pioneer Natural Gas Co.
curtailed gas supplies to oil mills,
cotton compressors and meat
packing plants. Cities affected in
clude Midland, Amarillo, Big
Spring and Odessa.
A utility spokesman said plants
affected are those with “inter-
ruptable” contracts, meaning
Batt To Resume
Daily Printing
Beginning Tuesday, The Bat
talion will resume its daily
publication Tuesday through
Friday each week. The “Batt”
staff wishes each student good
luck and good times during the
coming semester.
that curtailments are written into
their contracts in case of short
ages.
Two Lubbock electric utility
companies, who have been cut
back, reported a five-day supply
of fuel oil to fire power plants,
with a new shipment due to ar
rive tonight.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area,
at least 10 plants have shut down
or severely reduced production,
including National Can Corp., and
Fritz W. Glitch, Inc., both of
which employ about 500 persons.
In Galveston, three plants em
ploying nearly 900 persons , were
Projects Valued
At $30 Million
Texas A&M enhanced its status
during 1972 as the state’s leading
university research center, accord
ing to a report by the Coordinat
ing Board, Texas College and Uni
versity System.
The document covering fiscal
year 1972 showed TAMU projects
valued at $30,950,432, represent
ing more than 40 per cent of all
research funds reported by the
state’s 24 pubic senior colleges
and universities.
“We are proud of the progress
and level of our research en
deavors,” noted TAMU President
Jack K. Williams, “and while the
dollar value indicates the size of
our program, the true value is
in the state and national im
portance of studies conducted and
the very great benefits the public
derives from research results.”
TAMU’s diverse research pro
gram includes projects ranging
from highway safety to marine
resources and air and water pol
lution studies, as well as several
medically-relatfed projects.
TAMU’s research funding for
fiscal year 1972 included $12.5
million for agricultural studies;
$7.1 million, engineering; $3.8 mil
lion, marine sciences; $2.7 million,
physical sciences, and $1.5 million,
veterinary medicine.
shut down due to the curtailments.
They are GAF, Marathon Refin
ing and Texas City Refining.
In other parts of the South
west, Arizona Public Service Co.
has asked its industrial users to
curtail consumption of gas for
the second time in less than a
week.
Schools in a number of Okla
homa cities were told to cut off
gas furnaces. Deliveries also were
curtailed to industrial and com-
merical consumers.
of normal power generation,
while UT-Austin has only mini
mal oil storage capacity.
The only campus activities that
will continue in operation will be
the student health center, the
campus police and laboratories
that are conducting critical re
search that cannot be interrupted.
Spurr and UT System Chan
cellor Charles A. LeMaistre told
the regents that there was no
assurance the gas shortage might
not cause additional closings dur
ing the winter.
Spurr said fuel oil on hand
Tuesday morning would have
lasted the University only until
3 p.m. Thursday.
Newly elected regent chairman
A. G. McNeese said the UT-Aus
tin crisis is symptomatic of the
“problem we have in supplying
natural gas and energy power
today. This is true all over the
state and all over the country.”
Austin Mayor Roby Butler said
that if Coastal States Gas Pro
ducing Co. has not resumed gas
supplies by Wednesday the city
will have to ask for a voluntary
citywide cutback in electricity
use.
The curtailment is the seventh
this winter by Coastal States for
Austin's city-owned generators.
Residential gas users are supplied
by Southern Union Gas Co. and
have not been affected by the
cutback.
Joe H. Reynolds
Day Care Center
Taking Requests
Applications are still being accepted by the directors of the
A&M Student Government’s Day Care Center which will begin
operations this Monday.
Children aged two—four years are eligible for care at the
center, which will be open from 7:30 a.m. through 5:30 p.m.
during the week. The center will follow the campus calendar of
school days.
The center was originally located at the Lutheran Center
behind College Station’s Lutheran Church, but has been relocated
at the Unitarian Church, 305 Wellborn Rd., in College Station.
Virginia Leahey, chairman of the center’s board of directors,
said the center is being relocated because the Unitarian Church is
not charging as high a rental fee as the Lutheran Church.
Rental cost to the organization is $75 per month with all
utilities paid for. Parents of children will expect to pay $55 per
month per child. This payment will include one hot meal each
day and a morning and evening snack.
Parents wishing to pick up applications can find them at the
Student Programs Office in the Memorial Student Center between
8 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily. A medical report should be turned in
with the application
An orientation session for interested parents will be held at
the Ui itarian facilities at 7:30 p.m. Friday, said Leahey. She
added that anyone wishing to donate supplies or toys are
welcome to do so.
Leahey may be reached at 846-7201. Inglis can be contacted
at 846-0779.
Enrollment Increases, Program Expansion,
New Facilities Highlight 1972 Activities
Sharp increases in enrollment,
expansion of key programs, open
ing of new facilities and construc
tion of others highlighted 1972
activities at A&M.
TAMU recorded the state’s
largest enrollment increase last
fall with the registration of 16,156
students — including a 53 per
cent gain in the number of women.
Total enrollment was up 9.3 per
cent over the previous year.
Officials of TAMU and Baylor
College of Medicine announced
DESPITE THE BLANKET of ice covering Bryan-College Station registration pro
cedures continued today. The students above are picking up their schedules in Room 3B of
the Coke Bldg, as delayed registration and adds and drops continue through Friday of
next week. (Photo by Steve Ueckert) ;
far-reaching plans for coopera
tive programs in medical and
allied health fields. Included in
the plans are establishment of the
Institute of Comparative Medicine
and joint endeavors in biomedical
engineering and marine biomedi
cal research.
In conjunction with the coopera
tive program with Baylor Medi
cal, TAMU has requested ap
proval by the Coordinating Board,
Texas College and University Sys
tem, to begin a special pre-clinical
medical education program. If
approved, students selected for
the program would enter a two-
year medical course at TAMU
after their sophomore year and
then transfer to Baylor Medical
for their final two years of study.
TAMU also has requested Co
ordinating Board approval to
establish a new college of law.
In addition to offering traditional
law courses, the proposed col
lege would develop specialized
legal programs related to certain
fields in which the university is
already well established such as
marine science.
The Coordinating Board is ex
pected to act on the medical and
law requests shortly after the
first of the year.
As part of its expanding med
ically-related programs, TAMU
has adapted its cyclotron for use
by the University of Texas M. D.
Anderson Hospital and Tumor In
stitute in treating patients with
certain types of cancer.
New TAMU facilities were ded
icated and formally accepted
throughout the state. On the main
College Station campus, a $10
million engineering center was
opened and named in honor of
H. B. Zachry of San Antonio, a
recipient of the university’s Dis
tinguished Alumni Award. Two
other recipients of the award, J.
Harold Dunn of Amarillo and C.
C. Krueger of San Antonio, were
similarly honored with the formal
opening of two new residence
Banking is a pleasure at First
Bank & Trust. Adv.
halls offering the first on-campus
housing for coeds. Other campus
facilities placed in service during
the year included the educational
television building and the chem
istry annex.
The entire campus was dedi
cated to the Sea Grant concept in
special ceremonies commemorat
ing the university’s designation
as one of the nation’s first four
Sea Grant Colleges.
Dedication ceremonies also were
conducted in Galveston for the
first two buildings on the univer
sity's new Mitchell Campus. Ad
ditionally, the institution’s aca
demic and research activities at
/Galveston were realigned and
designated the Moody College of
Marine Sciences and Maritime
Resources.
Elsewhere around the state, the
university opened its Agricultural
Research and Extension Center
at San Angelo and formally ac
cepted a portion of the assets of
the Texas Research Foundation
at Renner, redesignating it the
Texas A&M Research and Exten
sion Center at Dallas.
ETSU-A&M Game
Is Cancelled
Due to bad weather and hazard
ous road conditions, tonight’s bas
ketball game between East Texas
State University and A&M has
been cancelled, announced A&M
Sports Information Director Spec
Gammon this morning.
Gammon said the game will
not be rescheduled and the Ag
gies next action will be at 3:30
p.m. Saturday against Arkansas,
weather permitting.
He added that fans who had
already purchased tickets for to
night’s game could get refunds
at the Athletic Department’s Bus
iness Office or by mailing tickets
to the same.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.