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Page 8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1978 Living with the law My car broke down on the high way this week, and when I went hack with a friend to fix it three days later, I discovered that the Highway Patrol had had a wrecker tow it away. Can they do that? The police can have any car towed away by a private wrecker which has been abandoned on the public right of way for 48 hours. The owner of the car must be notified within 10 days of his right to reclaim the car upon payment for towing. Editor’s note: This column is provided by the students’ legal ad visers as a service to Battalion readers. Answers are general and should not replace the personal ad vice of an attorney. Questions for this column can be addressed to students’ legal advisers in Room 306, YMCA Building. Say ‘howdy/ revive tradition VOTE KAREN SHIPP for Freshman Senator Experienced — Reliable — Enthusiastic Leadership 3 Miles N. on Tabor Road Roy Robbins & The Availables From 9-1 p.m. STAMPEDE DANCE Every Thursday Night $2.00 per person All Brands, Cold Beer 45 Cents 8-12 By MICHELLE SCUDDER Battalion Staff One of the biggest traditions at Texas A&M University, the prac tice of saying “howdy, ” is suffering from a lack of participation. But “Howdy Days” are here again to help revive it. The Memorial Student Center, Residence Hall Association, Stu dent Government, Off Campus Student Association and the Corps of Cadets are sponsoring activities today, Thursday and Friday to stress Aggie friendliness. The 79th person to say “howdy ” to one person from each of the five organizations will receive complimentary dinner, concert, or movie tickets. Some “Howdy Days” activities include an Eat the Hell Out of Rice and a Traditions contest, both at Rudder fountain on Friday. “The student body has increased so rapidly that friendliness is beginning to lag,” Corps Commander Bob Kamensky said. “The po tential is still there, but a lot of people haven’t been reached by it yet. We’re hoping that during Howdy Days, people will catch the mes sage and we can rejuvenate the Aggie spirit that is lacking this year,” Kamensky said. Traditions programs, which detail general facts and knowledge about Texas A&M, will be presented by Corps of Cadets members on Wednesday and Thursday evenings to apartments and dorms on re quest, Kamensky said. Howdy messages will greet on and off campus students during the week as RHA is encouraging the residence halls to use howdy themes in their Rice University game spirit signs and dorm decorations and OCSA is decorating the shuttle buses with howdy signs. “People look down at the ground now instead of saying ‘hi’,” Jill Hall, OSCA president said. “We want to get them back into the mood again. We want people walking across campus to know it’s Texas A&M instead of some other Southwest Conference school. ” Howdy buttons will be on sale for 35 cents on the first floor of the Memorial Student Center Thursday and Friday. A videotape commercial will be on in the MSC during this week, in which Student Body President Bobby Tucker will be talking about Howdy Days and encouraging people to participate in it. Also, public service announcements on local radio stations will be promoting Howdy Days during the week. Howdy Days will be wrapped up by midnight yell practice Friday and the Texas A&M versus Rice game Saturday. MSC Arts with Theater Arts — Aggie Players Present Thanksgiving turkey higher supply down LEA & TERRENCE Performing Middle Eastern Dance Modern Dance and More Mime Magic Wednesday October 25 8 p.m. MSC Ballroom Room 201 Students $1.50 Non-students $2.00 Tickets at MSC Box Office "20 year& ol ballet lessons and you're rolling quarters on your stomach at a Greek restaurant" Lea’s mother United Press International WASHINGTON — If the turkey slices on your plate are a little thin this Thanksgiving, you can fill up with cranberries and sweet potatoes. The Agriculture Department said Monday that turkey supplies will be “light” during November, meaning prices will be higher. But cranberries and sweet potatoes will be “plentiful” and therefore more reasonable in price. Turkey supplies during November are expected to be 5 to 6 percent below last year, mostly be cause shoppers scared off by high beef prices have turned to substi tutes, including turkey. The supplies are expected to be 7 to 8 percent below the average of the last three years. The greater demand has raised the price of turkey as well as other competing meats. Current production of turkeys will be up 2 percent in November over last year, but the amount of turkey held in cold storage will be well below last year. Battalion photo by Pat O’Mi Sully gets a little elbow grease Freshmen from Squadron 10, “Titan 10”, polish the statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross in front of the Academic Building. Polishing Sully is a fairly regular ritual for freshmen members of the Corps, especially before i home football game or big event on campus Kids find use for chips MOSCO Madison t ipoken. The Cei bmmunis ilogans to i Slogans £ n the Sot United Press International CHICAGO — Officials of the Vermont Buildings Department can stop worrying. Thales Kaster’s junior high school students in Chicago have some swell ideas about what to do with 800 tons of soggy wood chips. Kaster, a teacher at Thomas Bre- nan School on Chicago’s South Side, saw a UPI dispatch in the Chicago Tribune last week detailing the plight of Vermont officials who in tended to use a huge pile of wood chips as fuel — until they realized the chips were waterlogged. He decided the problem would make a good exercise in creative writing. Allen Wilson, said thechipsu he used to make paper. One of his students, DeShonette Williams, suggested the chips could be made into “little tiny checkers” or a puzzle “for the children to use them for games or anything. . But all I can say is you should do some thing because if you don’t, there is going to be a big wood chip pile where it is. So do it quick.” A budding environmentalist. 'Most people think we k ve the 6] enough wood for paper, ” he i IreatOctol “But we are running out ofwoo! Pointed we need the wood chips.” nd glory tc s warmth igofchildr 'e socialist Practical: The department, she said, ski uccess f u ] | “sell them to a pet shop that ki || ment o j ( woodpecker and let him 1 them.” Chandra Brown — obvious! animal enthusiast — had the unique solution to the soggys problem. 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