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Page 12 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 4, 1973 THE BATTA1I Applications Now Available For Freshman Aid Program Physical Plant Gets Electric Ku nalnni V First time freshman students enrolling after July 1 are eligible for as much as $1400 in federal aid under the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program passed last year. Applications are available in the Student Aid Office, third floor, YMCA Building. Completed applications will be sent to the American College Testing Service. The ACTS then makes an analysis of the student’s financial need. The results are printed on a card and sent to the student. The card can entitle the student to a maximum $1400 grant. The grant is the result of Pub lic Law 92-318 passed last year amending the Title III education act. The program will eventually apply to all fulltime undergradu ate students. The program is restricted to freshmen this fall by the Depart ment of Health, Education and Welfare due to the funding level. TNT TEXAS NATIONAL THEATRES Cinema I&H UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER (Cinema I They had the perfect love affair. Until they fell in love. A Joseph E Levine and Brut Productions Presa-nutum Geiorge Segal Glenda Jackson A Touch Of Class i A Melvin Frank him j Original Soundrrack available on Brut Records ] An AvCO Embassy Release Technicolor’ Panavision* [P(j “SI" 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 (T^kwa/J) “DAZZLING! Once you see it, you’ll never again picture ‘Romeo & Juliet’ quite the way you did before!” -life PARAMOl NT PICTl RES r r« ni* k Hilt. I ll.M Franco Zeffirelli Production of ROMFaO jlllFI 1H " WC0, "" fl,ll ~Mnn / OilVIA HUSSEY/tEONARO WHIIING/MIIO O'SHEA/MICHAEL YORK/JOHN McENERY WlllAM SHAAESPEARTS PA1HEYW000 / NAIASEEA PARRY / ROBERT STEPHENS / ifef* / FRANCO BRUSAli and MASOUNO D'AMICO ANIHONV HAVEIOCK-Alifliil ami JOHN 5K3M: il-WiCCW |fl/||M] 2:00, 4:29, 7:00, 9:30 ELECTRIC AGE — Left to right, Tim Meade, Sharon Smith and Donna Ward sit on the first of eight electrically powered runabouts to be used by the Physical Plant Depart ment. A new ecology bug has been introduced on the A&M campus. This particular creature, how ever, will be utilized by the Phys ical Plant Department rather than entomologists. The bug is an electrically pow ered runabout which will become an integral item in the Physical Plant Department’s vehicle in ventory. Manufactured by Cush man under the trade name, “Titan,” the vehicle appears to be a cross between an electric golf cart and a small pickup truck. It has proved popular in many industrial applications. Customized with accessory equipment specified by Physical Plant, the Titan was selected after thorough research into the transportation needs of the de partment’s new area maintenance program. It will replace larger pickup trucks for many work functions. Powered by six 6-volt batteries, the Titan will travel 50 miles without a recharge. Equipped with a cab with removable door curtains for all-weather opera tion, the vehicle can transport two people and 1,500 pounds of cargo. Physical plant administrators see many advantages, both prac- cally and ecologically for the new runabout. From a practical viewpoint, it requires little road- space and is small enough for access to most areas requiring maintenance personnel and equip ment. On the ecological side, the vehicle is virtually noiseless and poses less drain on fuel sources during the current energy crisis. Due to its light weight and wide tires, it will not damage grass. One of the electric runabouts is already in use with Severn scheduled to go to worksw, Introduction of the Tite one of the early steps being 1 TEE sued by the Physical Platt partment to reduce usagi larger, more expensive veti Future plans call for replata of the ’/ii-ton pickup withaa er 14-ton “light utility trutk' Vishbo addition, a smaller station*! will be introduced to thee® fleet of full sized wagons are available to campus iq ent th ments on a low-cost rental 1 Train Lover Realizes Dream* FRESNO, Calif. (A*) — Willis Kyle says he always longed to “fool around” with trains. He has seen his dream come true in the ownership of three short line railroads. And in addition to fulfilling his ambition, Kyle says his little lines are doing very well finan cially. He is now president of the American Short Line Association. “You make a profit on a short line the same way you do if you run Santa Fe or Southern Paci fic,” said Kyle, who also is presi dent of a wholesale steel firm. “You have to go out and get cus tomers.” “I always wanted to fool around with trains,” he said in an interview. “One day, back in 1956, I happened to discover quite by accident that the Bank of Cali fornia was accepting bids for the Yreka Western Railroad Co.” ‘Aggieland’ Distribution Underway Aggieland ’73 is now being dis tributed to A&M students who previously placed order for the yearbook, announced Joe Arre dondo Jr., editor. The book contains a record 608 His $141,000 bid for the north ern California line, which another firm wanted for scrap metal, was successful. One of his first moves after getting the Yreka Western was to extend it’s track one half mile to a total of 11 miles, a short distance but enough to serve the mill of a lumber company signed on as a customer. In 1970, Georgia-Pacific Corp. sold him its 35-mile Oregon Pa cific & Eastern Railway Co. be cause the firm had depleted the timber in the line’s area. Kyle then formed a joint ownership agreement with Bohemia Lumber Co. He has common shares and Bohemia has the preferred shares and a way of getting its logs to the mill. Kyle’s third short line was ac quired this year, and it features passenger business. He went to Hawaii and bought the Lahaini Kaanapali & Pacific Railroad on the island of Maui. It specializes in tourism—about 900 sightseers a day—and Kyle plans no changes in cargo. “You can take a freight line and make it a passenger line, but it is tough to turn it around and make a pasenger line into a freight line,” he said. He has added passenger serv ice to the Oregon Railroad so tourists could view the area’s nat ural beauty. And movie production companies have used his Oregon railroad in five major films. Child Receives Traffic Ticket DES MOINES, Iowa <A>)_A 5- year-old boy has been ordered to go to court on a traffic charge. Patrolman Max Street said Monday he issued the ticket to Craig Johnson after the boy’s bi cycle collided with a pickup truck in front of the Johnson home Sunday night. The youngster is charged with failure to yield the right of way and is to appear in municipal court Sept. 27. Street said he issued the ticket because the Johnson boy had caused the accident. “It’s my job to issue tickets for mmmmm LAST DAY TODAY 1:30 - 3:35 - 5:40 - 7:45 - 9:50 GEORGE C. 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While retaining its traditional maroon cover with a metallic em bossment of the Aggie ring, the new yearbook features a more contemporary design with empha sis on color and special effects, Arredondo noted. The Aggieland is being distrib uted in the Student Publications Office on the second floor of the Reed McDonald Building. Arre dondo said a student who ordered the book last year need only pre sent his university identifeation card to obtain a copy. L.P.’s 8 Track Components TIPTOP 45’s Cassette Reel To Reel RECORDS TAPES Handling All Music and System Needs 823-5745 1000 South Coulter - Bryan Total Service Dept. Amps - Tape Decks - Radios Complete Systems ‘The B-CS Area’s Only Complete Stereo Representative” YEAR END CLEARANCE ON ALL 1973 MODELS YAMAHA - RENTON UNIVERSITY CYCLE ¥ 105 Boyett North Gate 846-3979