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By KATHY BRUEGGEN
I The Aggie Band was blaring
[ When Johnny Comes Marching
■Home” as the last few stragglers en
tered G. Rollie White Monday to
|attend All-University Night.
What may have been the first yell
■practice for many, turned out to be
Ian example of what makes Aggie-
|land tick.
Two freshmen “sweet young
Ithangs,” Debbie Shafer of New
jBraunfels and Sharon Burris pf San
■Antonio agreed that although A&M
lis a big school and offers variety, it
[still retains the “small school” at-
[mosphere.
Many maroon and white Texas
[Aggie T-shirts were sprinkled
[among the khaki-colored uniforms
although one didn’t need glasses to
see that the Corps far outnumbered
the non-regs. However, a Walton
Warrior banner indicated that the
civilians weren’t to be overlooked.
Various outfits and dorms spurted
out mild obscenities as they belted
out their individual yells.
As if on cue. Reveille began con
stant barking immediately after the
prayer. From then on it was pep
talk, plenty of whooping and hear
ing about Aggie Spirit.
Steve Eberhard, president of the
Student Body, said that because of
the new construction, A&M is going
to be bigger and better. This com
ment received mild cheers, over
powered by loud hisses. He went on
to say the student body would be
bigger and better as well and that
this would be especially true for the
Fightin’ Texas Aggie football team.
Dr. Williams made a smash hit
when he said, “This is the year we
go to the Cotton Bowl.” Williams
spoke of A&M’s enrollment of
21,000 plus and said, “All those that
couldn’t get in here have gone to the
University of Texas. They’ve all en
rolled in Home Economics there.”
Williams commented on the
Aggie’s forthcoming football season:
“We’ve got some owls to pluck,
some frogs to gig and some Red
Raiders to hang by the neck. All I
know is that when they come up
here, we try to be nice to them and
all they do is ring those damn bells.
And I know one other thing. At the
end of the season, we’ve got some
Longhorns to butcher.”
Steve Taylor, head yell leader,
told a funny about how he was ac
cused by a “bouncer” (dorm
mother) of molesting girls at Baylor
because he said “howdy” to all he
met. He then spoke of Aggie Spirit
and urged all students to be nice to
Rice. Taylor said, “Meeting people
and showing people you care is the
spirit of A&M. But I don’t think we
should limit it to just this campus.”
Coach Emory Bellard introduced
the coaching staff and players and
gave a brief pep talk. He said,
“We re gonna fight. We re gonna
fight like gangsters and we re gonna
win. I promise that. You just be
there on the 14th.”
The band then broke into the
yells and ended with everyone
proudly singing “The Spirit of Ag-
gieland.”
FIRST YELL PRACTICE of
the year was led by head yell
leader Steve Taylor in G. Rollie
White Coliseum Monday night.
He led a group of largely corps
and freshmen at All University
night. (Photo by Gary Baldasari)
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UNIVERSITY CENTER TOURS acquainted new students with the MSC at Freshman Open House
Saturday night. The open house showed students the building and the various organizations at TAMU.
(Photo by Douglas Winsbip)
By GERALD OLIVIER
An attorney was retained by the
College Station City Council Friday
to represent 12 present and former
employes of the city in a $50,000
suit filed by Ralph Bobbitt, owner of
Bobbitt Trailer Park at FM 60 and
FM 2818.
Bobbitt’s park was serviced by
the Bryan Rural Electrification Ad
ministration (REA) until 1972,
when the city of College Station an
nexed the property and purchased
the electrical rights.
L.P. Dulaney, director of public
works and one of the plaintiffs
Shuttle buses, carpools, bicycles
offer major means of transportation
named in the suit, said electrical
service was continued to the trailers
already in use at the time of the
transfer. Dulaney said that future
hook-ups were not serviced unless
they met specifications of College
Station.
The suit alleges conspiracy on the
part of the plaintiffs to destroy
Bobbitt’s business. Plaintiffs other
than Dulaney named in the suit are:
J.B. Hervey, former mayor; W.E.
Johnson, Jr., chief electrical inspec
tor; Jim Dozier, city attorney; Ran
Boswell, city manager; Gail Smith,
administrative assistant to the
utilities department; Clarence
Green, city electrician; R.M. Wil
liams, assistant electrical inspector;
D.B. Jones, administrator of utility
department; Joe Guidry, city elec
trician; and Shirley Urbanovsky,
utility department employe.
Larry Bravenec, city councilman,
said the council voted unanimously
to retain Sears and Burns of Hous
ton as attorneys in the case and to
pay all legal fees.
The suit was discussed in closed
session and the meeting was tem
porarily opened to vote, although
no one left the council room to make
that announcement, said Bravenec.
The Texas Open Meetings Law
allows closed session discussion of
pending litigation, but all votes
must be taken in a public meeting.
The suit will be heard before
Federal District Court in Houston.
Today
Campus transportation comes in
a variety of methods, the three most
common being shuttle bus, private
cars, and bicycles.
Four different bus routes are co
vered during the 7 a. m. to 6 p.m.
school day service. Rounds are
made every 15-20 minutes.
A station wagon will serve those
students remaining on campus from
6-10:40 p.m. Individuals using this
service call the Physical Plant De
partment at 845-4311.
Passes or coupons are presented
at each boarding. These are availa
ble through the Fiscal Office with
passes costing $15 per student per
semester, $22.50 for students and
spouses together and $20 for staff
and faculty. A book of ten coupons is
available at $1.50 for students and
$2 for non-students.
Route maps are available from the
University Police, basement of the
YMCA.
Motor vehicle regulations hinge
on purchase and comprehension of
parking permits.
Those people owning two or more
motor vehicles must register each
vehicle separately. Those with more
than one vehicle, but using only one
at a time on campus register them
both under a “duplicate” permit.
Those with this permit display a
card on the driver’s side of the front
windshield. Failure to display this
results in a ticket.
People who are carpooling with
three or more people can register all
cars under one permit and may park
the vehicle driven that day in the
drivers’ appropriate parking lot.
Again a card is displayed on the
driver’s side of the front windshield
with failure to do so a ticketable of
fense.
Spaces marked for disabled per
sons and “Reserved” are used by
vehicles displaying the proper per
mit. Those vehicles illegally parked
in these spaces will be towed away
or immobilized by wheel locks.
Parking violation fines are five
dollars up to five tickets. Drivers
exceeding this number have their
permit revoked for the remainder of
the year starting Sept. 1.
Delinquent tickets, those paid
after a seven calendar day grace
period, are an additional $5. Fines
are assessed in the Fiscal Office,
Coke Building.
Three non-registration violations
result in police impoundment of the
vehicle.
Permits are displayed on the seat
tubes of bicycles. Those not display
ing the permit are ticketed and must
pay a fine and register the bike be
fore it is released. Bicyclists are
asked to take every precaution
against theft.
Today in the Batt
Summer summary p. 2
Academic Council p. 6
Shuttle bus schedule p. 8
Weather
Considerably cloudy and cooler
with scattered showers today,
tonight and tomorrow. High
Tuesday 72°; low tonight 57°.
Rain delays
apartment
construction
THE BIG PUSH was needed Saturday to win the annual pushball
contest. The contest took place on the drill field and dorms, both
men’s and women’s, competed against each other. (Photo by David
Kimmel)
By ROD SPEER
Construction of Phase 2 of the
Scandia Apartment complex on An
derson Street has been delayed by
rain and, as a result, incomplete
apartment units were rented, forc
ing some students to fend for other
housing.
About 140 of the 208 units in
Phase 2 have been rented, accord
ing to Ja Juana Allen, manager. At
least 48 of those are in the “more
complete” stage with stoves, furni
ture, refrigerators and air condition
ing and are currently occupied, she
said. Other apartments are in vari
ous stages of construction and re
nters live in the incomplete units or
seek temporary or permanent hous
ing elsewhere.
Four buildings with eight units
and two with 16 units are in a
skeletal stage with little more than
two-by-fours in place and Allen said
construction on these structures has
been halted to concentrate efforts
on the near-complete buildings.
She said construction crews are
working seven days a week but
could not say when the units will be
finished.
Gene Holmes and Paul Gibson
are two undergraduates living in an
incomplete apartment unit in
Phase 2. They moved in Saturday,
had a refrigerator installed yester
day and expect & stove in a day or
two.
Living without air conditioning
was their main concern, but they
have few other complaints. They
said they have not signed a lease yet
and will not be charged for rent until
the unit is finished. They have only
invested the $50-per-person de
posit.
“We can’t charge rent when ten
ants don’t have air conditioning, a
stove or a refrigerator,” Allen said.
She said no leases have been signed
for Phase 2 apartments.
Food price
rise hits
14 per cent
Food prices continued their re
lentless climb during August, rising
to a level 14 percent higher than a
year earlier, an Associated Press
marketbasket survey shows.
The AP checked the prices of 15
food and nonfood items in 13 cities
on March 1, 1973, a,nd has re
checked at the beginning of each
succeeding month.
The latest check, at the start of
the Labor Day weekend, showed
that during August the marketbas
ket went up in every city surveyed
except Dallas, Tex., where it drop
ped by a penny. The average in
crease was 4% percent. During
July, the AP marketbasket rose in all
13 cities.
Many increases reflected higher
prices paid to farmers and there
were indications of further boosts
because of the recent Midwest
drought that severely damaged the
corn crop that feeds the nation’s
dairy cows, poultry and beef cattle.
The Agriculture Department re
ported Friday that the price index
for raw farm products rose 3 per
cent from July 15 to Aug. 15. The
increase followed a 6 percent boost
during the previous month.
The increases come after a period
during which farmers complained
they were losing money on their
products.
Farmers still are getting less than
they did a year ago when some
prices were at record levels. But re
tailers claim rising costs of transpor
tation and other items have pre
vented them from passing the sav
ings on to shoppers.
The latest AP survey showed that
prices at the beginning of Sep
tember were up in every city
checked since Jan. 1, an average of
11 percent over the eight-month
period.
Bargains were as hard to find as
ever. Preholiday sales on meat
helped cut the price of chopped
chuck, pork chops and all-beef
frankfurters in a few cities, but
over-all, there were more increases
than declines in the price of meat.
Eggs went up in every city
checked; sugar was up again in 11
cities; coffee was more expensive in
eight cities; so was butter.
Rising world demand has pushed
up the price of the raw sugar and
boosted profits for refiners. Since
last September, the price of a five-
pound sack of granulated sugar has
risen an average of 143 percent, ac
cording to the AP survey, jumping
from 74 cents to $1.80.
The increase ranged from 129
percent in Boston 79 cents to $1.81,
to 202 percent in Atlanta 64 cents to
$1.93, over the 12-month period.
Eggs went up in all 13 cities, an
average 12 percent. But in every
city except Albuquerque, N.M.,
they were 19 percent lower than
they were last September.
The AP survey covered Albu
querque, Atlanta, Ga., Boston,
Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los
Angeles, Miami, New York,
Philadelphia, Providence, R.I., Salt
Lake City, Utah, and Seattle.