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Vol. 68 No. 13(3
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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 6, 1975
IBM 360/65
computer
This computer, an IBM 360^465 is
the smaller of the two computers
at TAMU. The other computer
which shares peripheral equip
ment (card readers, card punch,
tape drives and disk drives) is an
IMB 370^8145. The Data Proces
sing Center hopes to receive an
IMB 370ysl68 or similar equip
ment in the near future.
PRAIRIE VIEW — PVAMU’s
first building, Kirby Hall, has now
been preserved in a handmade scale
model presented to the school
through History Department
Chairman Dr. George Woolfolk.
Woolfolk, chief school historian
and recognized scholar, explains
that the miniature of Kirby Hall was
constructed by 90-year-old former
Hempstead resident William Dar
ter, now of Austin.
Mabelle Purcell of the Sam Hous
ton Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution gave the
model to PVAMU.
The historian, who also holds a
top post in the American Revolution
Bicentennial Commission of Texas,
said that the model represents over
100 years of education at the
school’s present site.
The main house of the Jared
Kirby plantation, Kirby Hall was
turned into a girls’ school in 1867 by
Kirby’s second wife. The plantation
was then known as Alta Vista.
The model of Kirby Hall, said
Woolfolk, will be painted and dis
played in the PVAMA Library.
The original building built just
before the outbreak of the Civil
War, was used until 1933 when it
was hauled off . Some of the build
ing’s doors still remain in structures
on campus, said Woolfolk.
The building represented 109
years of education. It was predated
by only a handful of colleges in
Texas.
Kirby Hall became the first clas
sroom building at the “Agricultural
and Mechanical College for Colored
Youth authorized in 1876 by the
Morrill Land Grant College Act.
Woolfolk said that the new school
opened for men in 1878 but was
temporarily closed and opened
again in 1879 as a coeducational
“Normal Institute. As Prairie View
expanded, the old building began to
slide into the background.
Eventually, the school returned
to its “A&M ’ designation. In 1922
Kirby Hall was cut into four apart
ments for faculty members. Eleven
years later, all but a few doors of the
mansion were hauled away.
In recalling the history of Kirby
Hall, Woolfolk said that other uni-
Workers continue protest
against ‘unfair practices’
The Electrical Worker’s picket of
the TAMU campus is still in prog
ress after eight days.
The pickets, members of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Electri
cal Workers Local 716, are protest
ing what they call “unfair labor prac
tices ’ by Collier Electric Co.
A Collier management represen
tative said no employees are in
volved in the picket. The represen
tative said the picket will have no
effect on their campus project and
added, “We will finish on time, as
always.”
Collier Electric has subcon
tracted the job of rewiring Sbisa Di
ning Hall.
The Union is based in Houston
and has 3,000 to 4,000 members.
Budget hearing
scheduled for
August 11
A public hearing on the prelimi
nary budget for the A&M Consoli
dated Independent School District
is scheduled for Aug. 11 at 7 p.m.
The hearing will be held in Room
7 of the Special Services Building at
1300 Jersey St.
Following the presentation of the
preliminary budget by Bill Lancas
ter, Budget Committee Chairman
for the Board, citizens will be al
lowed to address the Board concern
ing the budget.
The preliminary hearing will be
followed by a second and final hear
ing on Aug. 18. At that time the
Board is expected to adopt the
budget.
State law requires that the budget
be adopted prior to Aug. 20 and that
at least one public hearing be held
before adoption.
Beg your pardon
In last week’s edition of The Bat
talion, we incorrectly called a pro
test by the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers, Local
716, a strike. The protest which is
now in its ninth day is simply that —
a protest.
We appreciate the interested
persons calling the error to our at
tention.
Jim Kentzler, assistant business
manager of the union said, “All
members of Local 716 are involved
as a whole in protesting the unfair
labor practices.’’
A suit filed with the Fort Worth
office of the National Labor Rela
tions Board by the union against
Collier accuses the company of vio
lating the National Labor Relations
CS well ends
at 3800 feet
By JERRY NEEDHAM
City Editor
Drilling of the College Station
exploration water well ended Tues
day night at 10 p.m. at a depth of
3,854 feet.
Drilling of the well began in
mid-July after approval by the City
Council of a contract with the Wha
len Corp. of Dallas.
Under terms of the contract Wha
len Corp. agreed to drill a test well
to a depth of 1800 feet. City officials
gave approval on July 24 to continue
drilling to 3800 feet to determine
the quality and quantity of water at
that depth. The city is paying all the
costs of drilling from 1800 feet to
3800 feet.
The drilling operations were sub
contracted to Singer-Layne Texas
Div. A crew was sent from Midland
to handle the drilling.
Chuck Rogers, a driller for
Singer-Layne, said, “We will pull
out of the well checking for water
and taking samples as we go. ”
Rogers said the water samples
will be sent to a testing lab for
thorough analysis. The analysis
could take from several days to sev
eral weeks.
The 3,854 foot depth puts the
well into the Simsboro Sand forma
tion. The Queen City and Sparta
Sand formations lie above 1800 feet.
Several TAMU wells in the
Queen City and Sparta Sand forma
tions were abandoned in the 1940’s
because of a large amount of sulfur
in the water.
Jim Dozier, College Station
Councilman, said, “I understand
from the electric logs taken during
drilling that there is a considerable
quantity of water in the Queen City
and Sparta sands.
“If the water in the Simsboro
Sands happens to be of good quality
and since the sands are characteris
tically prolific producers, we can
take the option of producing a
Simsboro well,” Dozier said, “but
the chances of this are slim. ”
Dozier said that if College Station
wanted to produce water from the
Simsboro Sand, a new contract
would have to be made with Wha
len.
If the search for potable water is
successful. College Station will buy
water from Whalen to supplement
their purchases from Bryan.
Moody college to offer
marine biology degree
GALVESTON — TAMU’s Moody
College of Marine Sciences and
Maritime Resources will begin of
fering a new degree program in
marine biology this fall.
A petition protesting the proposed
rate increase by General Telephone
was scheduled to be made available
for signatures at 8:00 a.m. today in
the MSC. David Reedy, a local
businessman, and TAMU graduate
student and former student body
president Steve Eberhard are spon
soring the petition. The petition
lists several grievances that the two
sponsors feel would make General
Telephone ineligible to ask for the
increase. When completed, the pet
ition will be present at the next Col
lege Station City Council meeting.
Act of 1935.
Collier is accused in the suit with
hindering union activities and dis
criminating against employees for
the purpose of discouraging mem
bership in a union.
The controversy arose when Col
lier Electric Co. fired two men with
low seniority because of a decrease
in the work-load. At least one of the
men was a union organizer. He was
supposedly paid by the union to
work for Collier.
A federal investigation will be
conducted regarding the suit. Col
lier said that by yesterday no federal
agency had contacted the firm.
Kentzler said, “The length of the
picket will depend on the federal
investigation.”
Equalization
board sets
dates
Meetings of the Board of Equali
zation of the A&M Consolidated
School District Tax Office are
scheduled for Aug. 6 and Aug. 8 at
the Tax Office, 107 Timber St.
Citizens who wish to appear be
fore the Board concerning their tax
valuations or revaluations may do so
between the hours of 5:15 p.m. and
9:00 p.m. on Aug. 6 and 1:15 p.m.
and 8:00 p.m. on Aug. 8.
Appointments can be made by
calling the Tax Office at 846-1815.
Mr. Bill Miller, Tax Assessor/Col
lector, said, “The appointment is for
the convenience of the taxpayer and
is not necessary. Any taxpayer may
appear before the open meeting of
the Board of Equalization. Without
an appointment, those desiring to
be heard will have to wait their
turn.”
Each year the school district tax
office re-appraises a portion of the
district for tax purposes. This year
the College Hills addition, which is
the largest sub-division in the dis
trict, is being revaluated. According
to Mr. Miller, this area has been
undervalued at less than the aver
age tax-market value for at least
three years.
Today.
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Weather
Partly cloudy and warm
Wednesday and Thursday.
NE winds 5-10 mph. High
both days low 90’s. Low
tonight 72.
Kirby hall model presented
Vet school gets three professors
Three new staff members have
been announced for the TAMU Col
lege of Veterinary Medicine’s
Physiology and Pharmacology De
partment.
Dr. William Jenkins, Dr. Max St.
Clair Amoss Jr. and Dr. Duane Carl
Kraemer have joined the depart
ment, said Dr. James McCrady,
department head.
Kraemer will be an associate pro
fessor at TAMU. He comes from the
University of Texas Medical School
at San Antonio where he was a clini
cal associate professor. He has also
been foundation professor at the
Southwest Foundation for Research
and Education in San Antonio.
Amoss comes to TAMU from the
Salk Institute. He will be an assis
tant professor here.
He taught at Baylor College of
Medicine until joining the Salk In
stitute in 1970.
Jenkins, who will be a visiting lec
turer here, most recently was head
of the veterinary physiology de
partment in South Africa’s Univer
sity of Pretoria.
Amoss and Kraemer will also
have duties with the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment Station.
Basement snackbar to open
Food Services is planning to
reopen the “basement” snack bar in
time for the start of the fall semes
ter. The lower-level snack bar,
which is located adjacent to the
bowling lanes and the bookstore,
will supplement the current ser
vices provided by the MSC
Cafeteria. The “upstairs snack bar
will continue its present operations,
with the exception that during the
lunch hour it will be converted to a
cafeteria line. Hours of operation for
the basement snack bar have not
been set.
Lobby chooses Gramm
versities on building programs
should arrange for pictures and
models of older buildings.
Only in this way, he said, can pre
sent day students share a sense of
history with their university or col
lege.
Woolfolk came to Prairie View in
1943 with a doctoral degree from
the University of Wisconsin. Since
then, he has come to head both the
History Department and Campus
Textbook Committee.
He holds memberships in the
Waller County Historical Survey
committee, Association for the
Study of Afro-American Life and
History, Texas State Historical As
sociation, Southern Historical As
sociation, Organization of American
Historians, American Historical As
sociation, American Association of
University Professors and Texas
State Teachers Association.
He has been listed in the Direc
tory of American Scholars, Who’s
Who in the Southwest, Who’s Who
in the South, Outstanding
Educators of America, International
Director of Scholars, Contemporary
American Writers and the 1973
Minnie Stevens Piper Professors.
TAMU team
ends study
of Texas fort
A group of TAMU researchers
have concluded a month-long pro
ject at Ft. Richardson State Histori
cal Park in North Central Texas.
The fort site is at Jacksboro, half
way between Fort Worth and
Wichita Falls.
During the project, the group has
discovered the sites of a barracks,
officers quarters and walkway
around the parade ground.
Their information, including lo
cations of windows and doors and
specific dimensions, can be utilized
by architects restoring the fort’s
buildings. Ft. Richardson was es
tablished in 1867 and abandoned 12
years later.
Dr. Harry Shafer of TAMU notes
that this is the first time TAMU has
engaged in this kind of “historical
archaeology.”
“This type of archaeology in
volved a different kind of technique
use so that architects may do a
realistic restoration of the sites, ” he
said.
Home gardens
offer savings of
$190 a month
PRAIRIE VIEW — Vegetables
from a home garden can save a fam
ily of four as much as $190 a month,
said a PVAMU graduate student.
The figure has been determined
by Johnny Dews who is conducting
studies for his master’s degree.
Dews raised six small plots using
natural fertilizer and calculated the
cost of the vegetables produced if
bought in the market.
The longer growing season for the
Texas Gulf Coast can mean seven to
nine months of growth and savings,
said Dews.
He is currently preparing the test
plots for a fall garden.
Dr. W. Philip Gramm, TAMU
professor of economics, was elected
a Director at Large for Common
Sense, Inc., a public interest lobby
group which held its first annual
meeting in Austin last weekend.
He was also appointed director of
the group’s Research and Action
teams.
Gramm is a Georgia native who
has been at TAMU since 1967. He is
widely published on economic sub
jects such as energy, inflation, bank
ing and the environment. He has
been consultant to the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare,
the Texas Hospital association and
the Canadian government.
Language workshop scheduled
About 20 students are scheduled
to enroll.
A German language workshop for
incoming TAMU freshmen began
last Monday.
Lasting for two weeks, the prog
ram is designed for intensive review
by students with one or more years
of high school German.
The workshop should enable the
students to begin their study of lan
guage on an intermediate or upper
level by placement in one or more
Former Students to play golf
TAMU’s Association of Former
Students will hold its 1975
Alumni-Faculty-Staff Golf Tourna
ment on Aug. 22-23.
Played on the par 70, 6,244-yard
TAMU course, the alumni tourney
will be a 36-hold competition under
Florida scramble rules. Approxi
mately 144 golfers are expected to
play.
Prizes are planned for the first
three four-man teams plus distance
and accuracy awards. Friday dinner
and Saturday breakfast and lunch
are scheduled at the Aggieland Inn.
A women’s program is also planned.
The tournament provides finan
cial support for the TAMU golf
program. The 1974 event earned
$1,000.
Winners last year, at 10 under
par, were Ed Ruhmann of Kenedy,
TAMU Professor Emeritus Dr. Carl
Tishler; Marvin Tate, assistant ath
letic director, and Jim Page, ac
tivities vice president of the associa
tion.
Association Field Director Tom
Nelson and Luke Harrison, TAMU
course pro, are arranging the tour
nament.
Davies appointed by Briscoe
AUSTIN — Alfred I. Davies, a
member of the TAMU System
Board of Directors, has been ap
pointed by Governor Dolph Briscoe
to the newly created Joint Advisory
Committee on Government Opera
tion.
Davies is Sears, Roebuck and Co.
executive vice president in charge
of Southwestern territory.
He was one of the first five ap
pointees named by the governor to
the so-called Little Hoover Com
mission created by the Legislature
according to the Associated Press to
make state government more
economical.
Also named were Calvin Guest,
president of Bryan Building & Loan
Association; R. J. Nunley, Sabinal
rancher; Harry M. Provence,
editor-in-chief of the Waco News-
Tribune and Times-Herald and
chairman of the Coordinating
Board, Texas College and Univer
sity System; and Herbert Frensley
of Houston, president and chief
executive officer of Brown & Root,
Inc. The governor will make four
additional appointments.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby will chair the
committee, which also will include
House Speaker Bill Clayton, three
state senators and three other
members of the House of Represen
tatives .
Davies, a 1935 TAMU graduate
was appointed by Gov. Briscoe to a
six-year term on the TAMU System
board in January.
Protest petition available
A petition protesting the pro
posed rate increase by General
Telephone was scheduled to be
made available for signatures at
8:00 a.m. today in the MSC.
David Reedy, a local business
man, and TAMU graduate stu
dent and former student body
president Steve Eberhard are
sponsoring the petition. The
petition lists several grievances
that the two sponsors feel would
make General Telephone inel
igible to ask for the increase.
When completed, the petition
will be present at the next Col
lege Station City Council meet
ing.