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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1981
Local
Program about
Williams to air
A special look at the Texas
A&M University presidency of
Jack K. Williams will be pre
sented on KAMU-Channel 15
tonight at 9.
Williams, who died Sept. 28,
served as Texas A&M president
from 1970 to 1977.
Two programs recorded in
the KAMU studios in 1970 and
1975 are conversations between
Williams and KAMU General
Manager Mel Chastain in which
candid statements are made ab
out administration of the Texas
A&M System.
Williams was a strong sup
porter of public broadcasting in
general and KAMU in particu
lar. His last appearance in
cluded in the special is from the
day he signed-on KAMU-FM in
1977. The radio station was a
project he had personally
undertaken.
“We could have shown a cou
ple of the old programs with
Williams sooner, ” said Channel
15’s program director Rodger
Lewis, “but we decided to wait
until several programs could be
edited together and until we
had time to inform our viewers
of the schedule change.”
The Soundstage program ori
ginally scheduled for 9 has been
rescheduled for broadcast
Saturday at 10:30 p.m.
Oil rig donated to Texas A&M
$400,000 rig will be used
for teaching, research
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By LAURA LARSON
Battalion Reporter
A working oil rig valued at about
$400,000 has been donated to
Texas A&M University’s pet
roleum engineering program by
Moore Petroleum Services of Mis
souri City.
Owner Jessie Moore, Class of
’43, made the presentation Sep
tember 26 at the Texas A&M Re
search and Extension Center west
of Bryan, where the rig is set up.
Dr. W.D. Von Gonten, head of
the petroleum engineering de
partment, said the rig will be used
for teaching and research.
He said that the rig will be
taken to Rockdale this week for
use in an underground lignite
combustion project which is spon
sored by a consortium of energy
companies. It will be returned to
the research annex in about two
months.
The rig may also be used for
evaluating deeper lignites in
Texas.
Dr. Von Gonten said the rig is a
piece of equipment his depart
ment has needed very badly for
quite some time. Never before has
the department had easy access to
a working rig.
He said the rig will give stu
dents a first hand opportunity to
work with drilling equipment
which they otherwise might not
have had. They will mainly work
with it in class groups.
Texas A&M boasts an enroll
ment of 1,450 petroleum en
gineering students — the largest
number of petroleum engineering
students enrolled in any American
college or university.
Today’s Almanac
United Press International
Today is Friday, October 9th,
the 282nd day of 1981 with 83 to
follow.
The moon is moving toward its
full phase.
The morning stars are Mars and
Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercury,
Venus and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Libra. American
evangelist Amie McPherson was
born October 9th, 1890.
On this date in history:
In 1701, Yale College, now Yale
University, was founded.
In 1910, forest fires in northern
Minnesota destroyed six towns
with a loss of400 lives and damage
estimated at $100 million.
In 1934, King Alexander of
Yugoslavia was assassinated by a
Croatian terrorist during a state
visit to France.
In 1975, Andrei Sakharov,
father of the Soviet hydrogen
bomb, became the first Russian
citizen to win the Nobel Peace
Prize.
A thought for the day: American
novelist Willa Gather said: “The
history of every country begins in
the heart of a man or woman. ”
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St. Mary’s Catholic Church
HOMECOMING FESTIVAL
103 Nagle, College Station, Texas
Sunday, Oct. 11 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Bar-B-Que Beef & Sausage Dinner
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Adults — $4 Children under 12 — $3
GAMES AUCTION REFRESHMENTS
COUNTRY STORE RAFFLE FOR CASH
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Petroleum Services of Missouri and Extension Center west of Bryan. I
United Way nears half of goal
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Texas A&M University faculty
and staff have contributed almost
half of the campus goal for the Un
ited Way campus drive.
Tim Phillips, co-chairman for
the campus drive, said that em
ployees have contributed
$25,822, which is 46 percent of the
goal.
Total contributions from the
student drive, September 28 to
October 2, have not beenc
lated, Phillips said.
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