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TUESDAY — Partly cloudy & warmer. Mostly cloudy tonight. High 61, low 45. =pec - ing? 00 =1 Lu'l Z) =ien(li| - Stiii • 57^: lilt Che Battalion Acts Of Kindness Shown To Good Men Are Never Thrown Away. Vol. 67 No. 207 College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 30, 1973 WEDNESDAY — Fog in morn ing. Cloudy. High of 73. 845-2226 Classical Group T o Play Here i claimed expertise in Medieval and || Renaissance music return Wed- B nesday to A&M in the Town Bile Pit; Hall-Young Artists Series. The University of Texas at B Austin ensemble directed by Gil- ft bert L. Blount has been heralded pP|W » T in Texas, California and Mexico ||i for “high artistic and cultural I level of performances.” =1 INI, m l ment<| 5 the \ 1 room k ad. ►eWare| 5C Mi 'll Jf “Truly extraordinary” went the review of another Monterrey ' newspaper on the Collegium Mu- sicum’s performances last spring in various cities of Mexico. Playing a unique collection of historical instruments the UT College of Fine Arts group will appear in the Memorial Student i Center Ballroom. The concert be- i gins at 8 p.m. Offerings by the Collegium form a musical time-travel bridge that carries a listener back sev eral centuries. A variety of his- : torical instruments are employed to perform music of Adam de la Halle, Philippe de Vitry, Machaut and Telemann, to name a few. The instrumentation, partly the personal collection of Blount re- ? inforced through private pur chases by dedicated graduate stu dents, is used by a group made up of UT faculty, students from j various departments and inter ested Austinites, as well as grad uate and undergraduate music | students who acquire significant musical experience through the organization. Among the Collegium’s current instrumentation are consorts of Renaissance and Baroque record ers, crumhorns, flutes, viols, Rau- schpfeifen, psaltery, Medieval cup | bells, Renaissance lutes, minstrel j harp and clavichord, to sample a | few. Town Hall Chairman Philip Goodwin said admission to the TAMU concert is by separate se ries season ticket or single per formance ticket available at the Student Program Office in the MSC. OPEN HOUSE kicked off MSC Week Monday night with different center committees providing booths to recruit new members for the semester. Here, Randy Long, Marjie Dewey and Mark Boerger discuss last minute details for recruiting prior to the beginning of the open house. (Photo by Steve Krauss) Webb New MSC Council Head Don Webb was selected as the Memorial Student Center Council president for the 1973-74 school year in the Council’s monthly meeting Monday. Webb, a junior accounting ma jor from Arlington, will oversee all MSC activities and programs. Webb has held such offices as Fish class vice president, vice presidential assistant, vice presi dent of operations, debate team and Student Government Student Services Fee Allocation Commit tee. Approved by the Council for executive vice president of com mittees was Chet Edwards, a junior economics and philosophy major from Houston. He was for- mer/y vice chairman of SCONA 17 and chairman of SCONA 18. Bill Davis, sophomore account ing major, was approved as ex ecutive vice president of projects. Tim Clader, a fourth year chemis try major, will serve as Town Hall chairman and Ed Jarrett, junior history major, will serve as Political Forum chairman. In other action, Rochelle Lind sey, chairman of the Food Service Study Committee, reported that Howard Vestal, management services director, said the prices of two luncheons and dinners have been lowered. He added that the price for a student committee dinner had been lowered to two dollars per person. Food Services has also lowered the minimum number of people required for receptions from 100 to 30. The MSC Building Studies Com mittee made recommendations concerning the rental of cubicles to all student organizations. The Council approved of all organizations paying rent for cubicle space in the new MSC at the following rates: 1) a full cubicle including two tack boards, Grover To Speak Here In Thursday Noon Presentation On Texas Political Revolution The Republican gubernatorial candidate who narrowly missed being elected in Texas last No- vember will speak Thursday at A&M. Henry C. “Hank” Grover will be the guest of the Political For um Committee of the Memorial Student Center. Grover will speak in the MSC Ballroom on “A Political Revolu tion in Texas,” announced Chair man Mike Lindsey. The program will begin at 12:15 p.m., with ad mission 25 cents per person. “In suffering a narrow defeat to Democrat Dolph Briscoe in the general election, Grover provided one of the strongest showings of Republican power in Texas since reconstruction,” Lindsey pointed out. “As part of the new political revolution in Texas, he feels that in time the Republican Party will be the dominant political party in Texas,” he added. Now on the staff of Houston Baptist College, Grover was a three-time member of the Texas House of Representatives (1960, 1962 and 1964) as a conservative Democrat. After switching par ties in early 1966, he was elected to the Texas Senate with 67 per cent of the vote. Grover was re-elected in 1968, with over 73 per cent of the vote. While in the state legislature, the native Texan served on appro priations, youth affairs, water and conservation, federal pro grams and relations, commerce and industry, constitutional amendments and other key com mittees. He was vice chairman of federal programs and relations. The 13-year Houston public school teacher holds degrees from the University of St. Thomas and Houston and has done advanced study at UT-Austin. chair, desk, pencil drawer, drawer attachment, cubicle file drawer attachment and shelf with light fixture underneath at $20 per year; 2) a single file drawer at $4 per year; and 3) storage space at $4 for 33 cubic feet and $8 for 66 cubic feet per year. The yearly intake of funds with 100 per cent rental will total $1,700. Reasons for charging rent to organizations using cubicle space include upkeep, replacement and improvement of furnishings and an organization will be less likely to apply for more space than it really needs. Also, the “allocation of space will be more likely to receive the degree of scrutiny, review and revision it should receive at the end of each year, both by the MSC Council and by the organiza tion renting the space.” The Student Government and the MSC Council will receive of fices free of charge. The Student Conference on Na tional Affairs (SCONA) showed that as of Jan. 16 total funds available totaled $20,224.16 on the finance report presented at the meeting. This figure was the total of the balance brought forward by SCONA 17 ($2,314.16) and the total contributions to SCONA as of Jan. 16 ($17,910). Rod Serling will appear on campus April 10 due to the re quest of the Great Issues Com mittee. Serling, writer, play wright and television personality, is famous for such TV shows as “Twilight Zone” and “Night Gallery.” Serling is to speak on “The Impact of the Mass Media on To day’s Society.” Ralph Nader was also approved by the Council to speak the Fri day or Saturday of the SCONA weekend. A&M Prof Remembers LBJ Nuclear Power At A&M Ruled Out By Profs By Kenneth Stroebel When Lyndon Johnson died, Sid Cox did some remembering. “Our families came to the same area of Texas more than a hun dred years ago,” the A&M English professor said of the former Pres ident. “We went to school to gether over at Southwest Texas State, we were in many classes together, we were on the same debate team, we rode back and forth with each other from Blan co County while we were coming and going to school,” he recalled of the last surviving ex-President. In fact, the first time Cox visited the A&M campus, he was organizing student clubs in the University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. Southwest Conference to support Johnson. So well did Cox know Johnson, that within hours of President Kennedy’s death, the Tennessee State archivist contacted him for background information on the new President. Cox said Johnson had his sights on the White House before he left college and Cox predicted his suc cess because “he was a man of political nature and he understood what sound politics were based on.” “What struck me most about Lyndon Johnson as a person,” said Cox, “is the drive that he had. He had direction and he had pur pose, he knew where he was going and what he wanted and how to get to it.” Johnson drove himself and his workers and expected them to be hard-working, Cox admitted. “That might be hard on personal ity, but that was his way.” “I think that there was a credi bility gap between him and large groups, or perhaps between him and the press,” Cox observed, but emphasized, “in a small group of people he was very personable.” Cox cited several reasons for Johnson’s unpopularity, the first being people’s tendency to envy “somebody who does well.” Vietnam was an unpopular war, Cox said, and many blame John son for involvement. Of this charge, Cox said Johnson was executing basic policy that was predetermined before his admin istration. Cox pointed out, “The presiden cy has gotten to be such a big job that a man must depend on By VICKIE ASHWILL Staff Writer Nuclear power plants seem to be the best-known answer to the energy crisis, but the possibility of this type power plant ever be ing built on the A&M campus is slight. “I couldn’t justify having a nu clear power plant on-campus with the university's small electrical load,” said Dr. Robert G. Coch ran, Nuclear Engineering Dept, head. “The fuel shortage and energy crisis will become more prevalent each year under present circum stances until we can find ways to increase our rate of fuel supply,” said Dr. William Jones, Electrical Engineering Dept. head. The university is presently tak ing bids on two-million gallon fuel storage tanks. “But,” said Dr. John Denison (electrical en gineering), “these storage tanks will just keep the university op erating a few days longer under crisis conditions and will not real ly solve any problems.” “The only way to have avoided the nation-wide gas crisis would have been if it had been forseen at least 20 to 25 years ago,” said Denison. “If it had been humanly pos sible,” Denison said, “and the money, skill, personnel and manu facturing facilities were available, it is possible the crisis could have been avoided, but the time was too short.” The gas crisis has created a tremendous demand for oil, de mand for transport for oil and a demand for more fuel storage areas, according to Denison. “Artifical regulation of gas prices has discouraged gas pro duction and discouraged explora tion for new gas sources,” contin ued Denison. “We’re beginning to face a big energy crisis and the realization that the fossil supplies within the United States are dwindling,” said Cochran. “Every year, even with our knowledge of geology as it is today, more and more dry wells are being dug.” “Industry seems to be producing fuel about as fast as it reason ably can at this time,” continued Jones. “It takes a while to go from the present rate they pro duce fuel to the rate we need it.” “To help solve the on-coming crisis we’ve got to build all new power plants, as nuclear, and eventually change many fossil firing plants to nuclear.” Today there are 28 operating nuclear power plants within the United States and over 50 under construction or in the planning stages. In the Southwest three companies have announced plans to build nuclear power plants. This includes Gulf States Utili ties with a plant under construc tion in Beaumont, La. Houston Lighting and Power who has an nounced two sites for plants in the Sealy-Bellville area and Tex as Utilities, which plans to build a plant in the Glen Rose area. It is expected that the first Texas plant will be operating in the 1979-81 period. “The Southwest is presumably the last area to come around to building nuclear plants because the area is supposed to have so much fuel,” said Jones. “There is not much difference in the general efficiency of a modem gas power plant and a nuclear plant. Everyone is build ing them because they are cheap er in generating electrical power than other types of fuel,” said Cochran. “Also utilities can ob tain long term fuel commitment for nuclear power whereas they can not for fossil power.” Companies such as General Electric and Westinghouse are building nuclear plants. The plants, licensed for 40 years, are 30 to 33 per cent come efficient. The only difference in power plants is in what produces the heat to create the energy, said Denison. “Present nuclear plants get their heat by fission. In this proc ess one recovers a very small per cent of the energy contained in nuclear fuel,” he said. “Our long term hope is for nu clear fusion which would make available an unlimited supply of energy,” said Denison. “However, this may be far in the future.” Gas is one of the cleaner com bustion fuels, said Jones. But even then, a certain amount of pollu- (See Nuclear, Page 3) Weekend Vandals Slash Tires On Cars In A&M Parking Lot Six autos belonging to A&M students, were reported vandaliz ed in parking lot PA-23, early Sunday morning. The front tires of the six autos were slashed, and all had a Krue- ger-Dunn sticker displayed with their parking permit. Parking lot PA-23, designated for junior and senior parking, had been occupied by senior mem bers of the Corps by mutual agreement of the Corps and Krueger-Dunn residents. Five of the cars belonged to Dunn Hall residents who had parked their cars in the lot for the weekend. The remaining auto belonged to a Corps junior. “We don’t mind anybody park ing in the Corps area during the weekend,” said Campus Police Chief O. L. Luther, “just as long as they remove their cars before Monday so that the boys that are assigned to that lot will have some room to park.” When asked if weekend park ing might be restricted to lots that are normally allowed for stu dents to park in on weekdays, Chief Luther said, “We just might have to do that.” The five civilian owners of the vandalized autos are Peter M. Winters, Terry E. Hiefner, Clif ford Edwards, Fred C. Campbell Jr. and Polibio Diaz. Bruce Mills was the only mem ber of the Corps to have his car vandalized. New Toothpick Use Found By LARRY THOMPSON Staff Writer Hobbies are as American as mom, apple pie, and obscenity. While most people collect stamps or coins, Lloyd Morris collects toothpicks. Not only does he collect toothpicks, he builds with them. Morris got the idea when he saw a small bridge built by a friend. It inspired him to build his own. His first effort was also a bridge, a truss bridge the height of a toothpick and two feet long. The project took about four days. Morris’ most recent accomplish ment is a suspension bridge pat terned after the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge is five feet long, three feet high, and four inches wide. Approximately 3,000 toothpicks were used to construct the bridge which took six weeks to build. Morris, a sophomore Civil En gineering major, thinks his hob by complements his engineering. “It gives me a practical example of stresses and mechanics,” he stated, “My studies also helped me on the truss work.” Since he plans to go into con struction work, Morris might be building full scale bridges in the future. Morris’ next project is a replica of the Eiffel Tower. He plans to build it as close to scale as pos sible. It will be six feet tall. The detailed work will probably require at least two months for completion. Approximately 5,000 toothpicks will be required to build the tower. For the unveiling ceremonies, Morris will paint part of the Tow er with black light paint and dis play it under a black light. About thirty people attended the last ceremony, when the bridge was unveiled. The replica of the Eiffel Tower will probably draw an even larger crowd. While model building is just a hobby, Morris finds it so interest ing that he works on it about four days every week. He used to work four hours at a time when he first started. As for what to do with the replicas, Morris plans to keep them unless someone wants to buy them. Living in Puryear Hall, he fac ed the problem of moving the models home without breaking them. To accomplish this he built the bridge so that it can be taken apart and plans to do the same with the tower. Unless someone buys them, Morris will keep the models at home. Or, in his words, “I’ll put them on display in my mansion when I get rich and famous.” advice from people who are sup posed to be trusted advisors” and Johnson’s decisions were based on this advice. “I last saw him a little over two months ago,” Cox recalled. “Our names, along with those of other prominent former students, were unveiled on a plaque at the rededication of the Old Main Building at Southwest Texas State.” Of Johnson’s untimely death scant days before a Vietnam peace resolution was initialed, Cox said, *T’m convinced that Lyndon knew that he was not going to live long.” He remembered, “I saw him on that occasion for the last time and I thought then that he was dying.” Two months later when the nation lost a President, Sid Cox lost a friend. TOOTHPICKS and the American way were coupled together by Puryear Hall’s Lloyd Morris in the construction of A&M’s only five-foot long model of the Golden Gate Bridge. Six weeks and 3,000 toothpicks were required for its construction. (Photo by Steve Ueckert)