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Vol. 68 No. 74
College Station, Texas
Thursday, Feb. 12, 1975
omjzarisons made
Average GPR is 2.56
City bond election
planned for spring
By LYNN ROSSI
A $5 million city bond election for Col
lege Station is tentatively planned for this
spring, said Gary Halter, chairman of the
city council’s Capital Improvements
Committee.
The committee has not yet made any
recommendations to the council concern
ing the bond issue because of the current
public utilities controversy with Bryan,
Halter said. The proposed issue would in
clude sewer, water, and electrical system
improvements, in the event the city coun
cil rejects the Bryan utility contract.
If the utilities contract is settled between
the two cities, the portion of the bond issue
dealing with the utility improvements
would be deleted. Halter said.
The A&M Consolidated School Board is
also discussing a proposed $5 million bond
Other proposals are:
• One providing for street signals, bike
paths, and city street extensions. This
would cost $302,000.
• Bee Creek Park improvements, includ
ing tennis courts, baseball diamond, and
bridges, would total $144,000.
• A proposal to improve Oaks Park on Stal
lings St. would cost $57,000. Halter said
those improvements are now being
reevaluated.
• Anderson Street Park improvements
would total $35,000. Improvements for
Thomas Park, including a swimming pool
and tennis courts, are estimated at
$130,000.
• The Wayne Smith Park proposal in
cludes a parking lot, fencing and other im
provements. Its cost would be $20,000.
• The last proposal on the bond issue is a
$400,000 fund that would enable the city to
acquire more parkland.
City Manager North Bard ell said the
committee will present its recommenda
tions to the council. The council in turn will
decide which proposals should be placed
on the ballot. The council also will schedule
an election date for the issue. This will
probably be in late April or early May,
Halter said.
“We don’t want to rush into this, ” Halter
said. “We want everyone to know what the
needs are and what the committee’s think
ing is. In 1969 we built a new city hall. The
people have a right to know why we need to
expand it seven years later.”
ie average Texas A&M under-
uate’s GPR last semester was a 2.56,
rdingto statistics released this week by
i« Office of Student Affairs.
Iiis year grades were compiled by com-
uter and a comparison was made between
ion and women, on and off-campus stu-
ents, civilians and corps members.
Jrades were also averaged according, to
tudents’ ages, classifications and dor-
nitories.
Pnthe past it was done by hand for the
lent halls on campus, ” said Ron Blatch-
lAssociate Director of Student Affairs.
Last semester s grade reports show
Ipen with an average grade point ratio of
.66 and men with a GPR of 2.52.
Bn-campus students earned an average
)fl60 while off-campus students averaged
he statistics show the corps average for
semester is 2.24, and the civilian
fage 2.72.
he overall grade point ratio of each divi-
was compiled, as well as the number of
tndents in each category.
Mclnnis Hall ranked first among civilian
Bnitories with a 2.87 ratio, while Spence
lallcame in last with an average of 2.40.
the corps area, Dorm 3 was first in
scholastic achievement with a GPR of 2.44,
and Dorm 1, which houses W-l and 3 floors
GRADE POINT STATISTICS
Group
Division
Fall 75
GPR
Overall
GPR
Number of
Students
Age
16
2.21
2.39
9
17
2.79
2.79
86
IS
2.56
2.58
3,492
19
2.51
2.60
4,408
20
2.54
2.64
4,109
21
2.62
2.68
3,575
22
2.67
2.71
2,375
23
2.72
2.77
1,321
24
2.71
2.80
784
25
2.79
2.85
549
Over 25
2.76
2.92
2,990
Other
2.59
2.65
341
Class
l(Kr.)
2(Soph.)
3(Jr.)
4<Sr.)
2.45
2.48
5,284
2.47
2.60
5,092
0(undergrad.
2.62
2.70
4,959
spec, stud.)
2.80
2.79
3,807
6(grad. spec.
2.43
2.46
176
stud.)
2.83
2.93
761
7(grad. masters
3.00
3.14
1,965
8(grad. Phd)
2.72
3.00
941
Sex
Female
2.66
2.71
5,067
Male
2.52
2.59
14,251
All on campus
2.60
2.68
7,834
All ofF campus
2.54
2.59
12,573
Coqjs of cadets
2.24
2.32
1,904
Non-Corps on campus
2.72
2.79
5,930
All undergraduates
2.56
2.62
20,318
Jacob and the Indians Dav,d McCarro11
Leslie Denten portrays Jacob and Don Campbell is a Rabbi
in the StageCenter production of Stephen Vincent Benet’s
Jacob and the Indians. The production, which starts tonight
at 8 at StageCenter, is part of a series.
of civilian women, was in eleventh place
with 1.87. Several corps outfits have moved
since last semester, however.
Next year’s survey will include a com
parison of married and non-married stu
dents’ grades.
— Mary Alice Woodhams
Civilian Dorms
GPR Rank
Fall 75
GPR
Overall
GPR
Number of
Students
1. Mclnnis
2.87
3.03
159
2. Fowler
2.86
2.89
284
3. Keathley
2.85
2.91
276
4. Moore
2.83
2.93
254
5. Aston
2.82
2.86
476
5. Davis-Gary
2.82
2.89
254
6. Mosher
2.76
2.78 *■
654
6. Legett
2.76
2.79
167
7. Krueger
2.74
2.80
475
H. Hughes
2.73
2.79
189
9. Hart
2.71
2.78
274
9. Schumacher
2.71
2.81
191
10. Walton
2.70
2.77
337
11. Moses
2.67
2.73
255
12. Crocker
2.66
2.73
254
13. Law
2.65
2.74
207
14. Dunn
2.64
2.75
475
15. Milner
2.62
2.67
134
16. Hotard
2.55
2.67
91
17. Utay
2.53
2.65
223
18. Puryear
2.51
2.63
200
19. Spence
(Dorm 1 civilians)
2.40
2.48
67
Corps Dorms
GPR Rank
Fall ’75
GPR
Overall
GPR
Number of
Students
1. Dorm 3
2.44
2.55
147
2. Dorm 2
2.38
2.49
168
3. Dorm 5
2.30
2.34
200
4. Dorm 8
2.24
2.29
207
5. Donn 4
2.23
2.30
190
6. Dorm 10
2.22
2.31
195
7. Dorm 11
2.21
2.35
196
8. Dorm 6
2.20
2.25
205
9. Dorm 7
2.19
2.24
189
10. Dorm 9
2.13
2.18
166
11. Dorm 1 (W-l)
1.87
1.99
41
The College Station City Council
will meet tonight at 7 in the city-
hall.
issue for the construction of an elemen
tary school and additions to existing school
facilities. The school issue is now being
studied by the board’s Citizen’s Advisory
Committee.
Councilman Halter said his improve
ments committee plans to recommend to
the council that ten proposals be placed on
the city bond issue ballot. Voters woidd
then be able to vote on each proposal sepa
rately, a was the case in last November’s
state constitution referendum.
One proposal would include the drilling
of a 2-million-gallon-a-day water well.
Sewer, water and electrical distribution for
the existing utility system would also be
improved under the projected $2.7 million
proposal.
Another proposal provides for the expan
sion of the city hall, police station, fire sta
tion, and warehouse. These improvements
would cost about $1.1 million, Halter said.
INDEX '
Patty Hearst trial continues. Page
2.
Intramural facilities are ex
periencing overcrowding. Page 8.
Coach Shelby Metcalf talks about
the upcoming game with Texas
Tech. Page 7.
Reagan spends more funds than
Ford in the early primary states.
Page 2.
SCONA sessions began yesterday.
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Seven Duval officials
arrested by Rangers
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO, Tex. — Seven persons,
including members of the politically pow-
erful Carrillo family, former and current
county officials and a bank president have
been arrested here following a barrage of
indictments issued by a grand jury inves
tigating official corruption.
The seven were rounded up Wednesday
by Texas Rangers who fanned out in this
South Texas county armed with arrest war
rants issued by District Court Judge Dar
rell Hester of Brownsville. All seven were
booked and then released after posting a
total of $242,500 in bonds.
One person named in the 35 indictments
as not immediately arrested and the ninth
person named, former Duval County judge
Archer Parr, is currently serving a ten-year
prison term in the federal penitentiary at
Marion, Ill., on a perjury conviction.
The arrests were the culmination of more
than a year of work in this county by a
special task force sent by the Texas Attor
ney General’s office. Most of the cases had
been prepared last year, but were held
back by the investigators waiting for the
expiration of the term of a grand jury which
had been appointed by a judge who was one
of those indicted. The cases were taken to a
new grand jury last week.
Those indicted were:
— B.O. Goldthorn, president of the
First State Bank of San Diego, named in
five indictments accusing him of felony
(See Indictments, page 5)
Getting high
The Rudder Tower has been getting some periodic exterior
maintenance lately. These workmen are working their way
down the east face of the building caulking the windows.
Gramm:
Bentsen race hurt
Poor showings in the Mississippi and Ok
lahoma presidential caucuses will hurt
Lloyd Bentsen’s bid for a second term as U.
S. Senator, one of his opponents said yes
terday.
Speaking before about 70 persons at the
Captain’s Table restaurant in Bryan,
Senatorial candidate Phil Gramm noted
that Bentsen has been working toward the
Presidency for three years. “I don’t think a
man can take the beating as he’s taken and
not hurt him in his run for the Senate,”
Gramm said.
Bentsen announced Tuesday that he was
dropping out of the Presidential race to
devote full time to his campaign for the
Senate.
Gramm, a 33-year-old Texas A&M
economics professor on leave-of-absence,
immediately launched into his three main
campaign issues: inflation, unemployment
and the energy crisis.
Gramm blamed inflation on four causes:
the government’s failure to increase taxes,
special interest groups that want grandiose
projects at home but refuse to pay for them,
people on welfare, and “the giant corpora
tions that want to get on welfare.”
He singled out the government bail-outs
of New York City, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
and Penn Central as cases of corporate wel
fare. He said he did not consider the oil
Phil Gramm
“We cannot do ev
erything for
everybody.”
depletion allowance to be a case of govern
ment subsidy.
“We re going to stop inflation only when
we put the federal government on a budget
like everybody else,” Gramm said. “We
cannot do everything for everybody. ”
Gramm said he encourages employment
in the private sector as opposed to placing
persons on the federal payroll.
He suggested the following as solutions
to the energy problem: increase domestic
production of energy resources, de
regulate natural gas prices on interstate
sales, establish a national energy program.
The Democratic candidate said detente
has been an international policy of conces
sion and should be stopped.
“Looking at our foreign policy in terms of
what we have given relative to what we
have gained, detente has been a very poor
policy, ” Gramm said.
First Northgate resembled Old West
By JAMIE AITKEN
For many years there was no
Northgate at Texas A&M. Thirty
dasses were graduated before the
first building appeared beyond the
original north wall.
The small agricultural college was
virtually isolated except for the rail
road west of campus. Bryan was still
“a spell down the road, even by hor
seback.
Boyett’s Store was the first com
mercial business of Northgate. It
sold groceries and general merchan
dise and through the years evolved
into what is now Charlie’s Grocery.
W. C. Boyett, proprietor of the
store, owned most of the land north
of campus. When the Post Office
opened in his building he took over
as postmaster for the area.
The row of shops that today forms
Northgate began to lake shape in the
1920s. Cafes, tailor shops, and photo
supply stores occupied buildings ad
jacent to Boyett’s Store from 1920 to
1927.
Commercial photography came to
A&M in the form of a Czechoslova
kian immigrant, Joe Sosolik. In 1929
Sosolik set up his photo shop in a
building owned by E. J. Kyle, dean
of agriculture, at the site now oc
cupied by Loupot’s Bookstore.
Shortly afterwards, Jeff Casey and
Bill Sparks bought some real estate
at the corner across from Sosolik’s
new studio and erected a two-story
brick building. The building still
stands today as the oldest structure
at Northgate. Casey and Sparks soon
established the Aggieland Pharmacy
where Campus Photo Center now
operates. A Mrs. Wright ran a board
ing house upstairs.
Next door to Sosolik’s studio was
Youngblood’s Cleaners. Mrs. Par-
khill’s Cafe and a variety store filled
the vacancies down to Boyett’s
Store. Except for Aggieland Phar
macy, Northgate could have been a
picture out of the old west; with
planked walkways elevated above
the mud of the unpaved road. The
wooden buildings were built with
high facades.
In 1929 the Northgate of the old
west burned. A fire in Youngblood’s
Cleaners destroyed that building,
Sosolik’s new studio and Mrs. Par-
khill’s Cafe. Youngblood moved to a
new addition of shops which opened
along College Main. Sosolik moved
as well, settling a block north of his
burned-out shop. University Studio
operates in the same building today.
Following the fire Kyle con
structed a new brick building on the
site of Sosolik’s old shop and opened
a pharmacy and cafe. In 1930,
Zubik’s Uniform Tailor Shop opened
on College Main and Joseph Holick
began shoe repair for the first time at
Northgate.
A few of the Northgate merchants,
including Sosolik and Holick, had
started their businesses years earlier
on campus. In 1928, A&M President
T. O. Walton ordered all commercial
businesses off campus.
W
Photo Courtesy of University Studio
Northgate
This 1921 photograph shows the Northgate commercial district, as seen through the old north gates to campus.
In the early 1930s, C. W.
Lipscomb, the pharmacist at Aggie
land Pharmacy, bought Dean Kyle’s
building and opened his own
drugstore.
Northgate developed steadily
through the remaining years, with
the incorporation of College Station
in 1938. Northgate became the
downtown area and saw the con
struction of numerous churches and
a city hall.
The year 1940 found Loupot’s in a
seven-foot-wide shop next to
Boyett’s Store. Boyett’s did not be
come Charlie’s Grocery until 1949.
The infamous Aggie Den followed
soon after. Only in recent years has
Loupot’s occupied the Lipscomb
building.
The old trolley that used to con
nect College Station and Bryan has
long since passed into history. There
are no more gates at Northgate, and
besides, the last of the armed guards
graduated years ago.
Northgate merchants aid area
The organization is spearheaded
by a photographer. Its vice-
president is the man behind the
counter at University Cleaners and
laundry. The group’s secretary-
treasurer runs News Office Supply.
Jim Berry, Bernie Gessner, and
Marilou Harvey are the officers of
the Northgate Merchants Associa
tion (NMA).
Funded to provide a common
ground for discussion of mutual
problems and plans, the NMA has
been successful in improving park
ing, university relations, promotion,
advertising, appearance and main
tenance in the Northgate area.
Berry, a photographer for Univer
sity Studio, became acting head of
the NMA last April after he and other
concerned merchants met to discuss
parking problems.
“Last year the parking problem
Was atrocious,” explained Gessner,
vice-president of NMA and owner of
University Cleaners. “The two-hour
zone was not patrolled well. People
would park their cars outside a busi
ness and leave them for the rest of
the day.”
Noticeable changes resulted from
NMA action. Two-hour parking was
reduced to one hour and old parking
spaces at street corners were re
placed with bright yellow “no park
ing” stripes.
Other problems the NMA has en
countered center around city ordi
nances. A new sign ordinance would
have made almost every sign along
the streets of Northgate illegal had it
been in effect while the shops were
going up.
“All signs have to be 18 feet from
the curb, Beriy said. “That would
put my sign about where I m stand
ing-
“We re interested in maintenance
and appearance. But if those signs
are to be painted, they would have to
be dont^ where where they are. If
they come down, they’re down for
good. Berry said.
— Jamie Aitken
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