Gary Hlavinka and Joe Dannenbaum find time for a milkshake in between classes at the
Creamery, which is on Spence Street across from the Data Processing Center. It is open from
8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, and from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
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By KRIS WIESE
Battalion Reporter
Students have been lured oft
the regular path to class by
the thought of an ice-cream
cone or malt from the Texas
A&M Creamery.
But the sales of these tasty
treats, along with butter,
cheese, eggs and meat, is
not the primary purpose of
the Creamery, said T.C.
Arrington, Creamery and
Meat Lab superintendent.
“Our primary purpose is
teaching and research,”
Arrington said, “if it weren’t
for that, we wouldn’t exist.”
Students in the dairy sci
ences get practical experi
ence in processing dairy pro
ducts, he said.
Arrington, who has been
with the Creamery for 20
years, said milk is processed
every Monday, Wednesday
and Friday by the dairy scien
ce classes. It is then used to
make ice-cream, butter and
cheese on Tuesday and
Thursday.
The eggs and meat are
processed by the poultry and
meats classes, he said, then
sold at the Creamery.
Anyone interested in
seeing the processing is wel
come to watch the students
work, Arrington said. The
classes can be viewed
through large windows which
line the Dairy Sciences
Building.
Because of the frequent
processing, a fresh supply of
products is always available,
Arrington said.
The Creamery’s fans
know that a fresh variety of
flavors is on hand for them,
too, including vanilla, choc-
late, strawberry, blackberry,
blueberry, pecan, coconut
and choclate chip.
“The flavors are switched
weekly,” Arrington said, “but
chocolate and vanHIa are al
ways available.”
The Creamery, which op
erates under the Department
of Animal Sciences and the
Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station, is self-
sufficient.
“We make a small profit
but we have to carry our own
weight,” Arrington said.
Since it is part of the Texas
A&M University System, the
Creamery doesn’t compete
with private business
through advertising. But that
is not a problem, Arrington
said.
“We have all the business
we can handle without the
ads.”
This lack of competition
creates a nice benefit for cus
tomers — lower prices.
The prices are also lower,
Arrington said, because the
Creamery doesn’t deliver the
products.
“We are cutting out two
middlemen, the grocer and
the delivery boy.”
Milk is the “bestseller,”
with students being the “best'
buyers.”
The Creamery also has
some devoted younger cus
tomers, Arrington said. Sev
eral mothers have told him
when the Creamery is closed
for holidays, they freeze
enought milk to last until it
reopens.
“The kids just won’t drink
anything else.”
The Creamery, which is on
Spence Street across from
the Data Processing Center,
is open 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m.
weekdays, and from 8:30
a.m. to noon on Saturday.
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Students in Dr. Don Richter’s dairy processing class make egg-nog which will be sold at the
Creamery.
Greeting cards cost about 60 cents
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NEW YORK — The price of
Christmas cards is up about 20
percent over last year but only a
Scrooge would object.
The average Christmas card,
one which would appeal to a dis
criminating sender, is running
around 60 cents, about a dime
more than last year, according to
industry sources. About the
cheapest Christmas card
around, bought by the box, is 30
cents. Classy cards bearing en
graving, jacquard silk scenes,
tapestry and fine reproductions
of Old Master madonnas can run
up to $3.
“Inflation means nothing
when it comes to Christmas
cards,” said George Clark, man
ager of the Curzart shop in mid
town Manhattan which special
izes in cards from small com
panies with reputations for taste
ful, artistic Christmas greetings.
“People don’t want to think of
themselves as Scrooge. They
don’t stop buying cards just be
cause the cost is up, but maybe
the more expensive cards are
taking the place of small gifts.
You’d be surprised at the kind of
people who seem to think no
thing of plunking down $3 for a
card. Office secretaries, for inst
ance.”
Increased costs of paper and
printing are the reason for the
inflationary hike in Christmas
card prices. Some 38 billion
cards will be bought—about the
same number as last year — but
the sales total will be around
$1.2 billion instead of 1978’s $l
billion, according to a spokes
man for the National Association
of Greeting Card Publishers.
Although there are no revolu
tionary changes in card design,
the U.N.’s Year of the Child ob
viously inspired a great many
designs involving children.
Household pets run a close
second and the religious theme
has been “born again” in a big
way accompanied by quotes
from the Bible and messages
about sharing and loving. The
official Christmas stamp bears
Gerard David’s madonna and
child from the National Gallery in
Washington.
The elegance of metallic foils,
satiny finishes, luminous pearly
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effects and restrained glitter is
the mark of the 1979 card. The
card awarded the Printing Indus
tries of America’s annual award
for excellence of design bears a
Christmas tree formed out of
shiny gold, green and red letters
spelling "A Very Merry
Christmas.”
Hallmark, which accounts for
some 50 percent of Christmas
card sales in America, says the
trend is inspired by younger
buyers “who want to send cards
that reflect their attitudes and
lifestyles.”
“The disco-inspired shiny,
satiny look is perhaps the most
noticeable design trend this
year,” said George Parker, vice
president and creative director
of Hallmark. “There is a definite
trend toward an uptown kind of
elegance, but there’s nothing
subtle about it. We also think
silkscreen prints appeal to youn
ger buyers.”
Hallmark doesn’t stint on
cards for the traditional buyer,
however. It has introduced a
new Christmas Heritage line
featuring fine quality color
photographs of holiday settings
in Colonial Williamsburg, Va.,
houses accompanied by sen
timental messages.
Also traditional are the cards
of an unusual new line designed
and published by a 150-person
cooperative community at Tur
ners Falls, Mass., to raise funds
for a solar-heated village. It fea
tures beautifully designed, old-
fashioned representations of
Santa and his reindeers, instead
of the jogging, golfing, tennis
playing, bibulous Santas por
trayed in some sportier card
lines.
The Year of the Child concept
can be aided directly by pur
chasing cards from UNICEF,
which offers a wide range of de
signs by artists around the world
for as low as 30 cents. CARE,
Inc., will send a holiday card to
friends, relatives or business
associates saying a contribution
(minimum $2) has been made in
their name to help destitute peo
ple, mostly children overseas.
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If you want to be correct in
sending out personalized greet
ing cards, on which the name of
the sender is printed, follow
these guidelines drawn up by
the National Association of
Greeting Card Publishers:
The husband's name appears
first (Mr. and Mrs. James Dug
gan). Without titles, either name
may come first (Helen and
James Duggan or James and
Helen Duggan).
A father’s name appears first
when children’s names are
added (The Duggans — James,
Helen, Robbie and Jane; or
James, Helen and the Children;
or The James Duggan Family; or
Mr. and Mrs. James Duggan and
Family).
Informality is generally the
rule for a single person (Helen
Trent or Richard Scott). A
widowed or married woman
uses her husband’s name first
(Mrs. Norman Woods); a di
vorced woman uses her first
name first (Mrs. Helen Woods)
or possibly her maiden family
name first (Mrs. Jones Woods).
Although some people tend to
add Jin apostrophe before the
“s” on last names to make them
plural, it is incorrect usage.
Simply add an “s” to all last
names (Smiths) except those
ending in “s”, which get an “es”
(Loomises).
Titles are always spelled out
(Doctor, Captain, Lieutenant).
Officers of the Army, Marines
and Air Force use title with grade
of Captain and above. Officers
of the Navy use title with the
grade of Lieutenant Comman
der or above. In all services,
officers of junior rank use “Mr.”
with the grade and organization
on a second line (Mr. James
Duggan, Second Lieutenant,
U.S. Marine Corps).
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