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
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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
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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.”
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