Show 2 STUDENT LIFE MARCH 30 1966 Bury Patch?"Grave Situation ‘TEOrLE AIU: just dying to get in here” THAT’S A familiar phrase but it’s literally true of USU’s campus In the middle of this expanding college campus is a berry patch— a ‘‘bury patch” that is Why it’s there no one knows for certain TI1E “BURY PATCH” spoken of is a cemetery and the reason no one knows for sure why it is there is the people who put 12-ac- re it there are there themselves WHEN THE Utah State Agricultural College was established under the Morrill Act of 1862 no one had the faintest idea that one day the small cemetery plot located quite a distance from the four original buildings would one day be “smack’ in the middle of a thrivd ing university campus But the inevitable on centers in and now students living the extermities of campus can be seen walking through the graveyard with no concern for the mortal remains of 12000 people lying there AFFORDING TO Robert Gibbons sexton there are more than 12000 buried here and s the cemetery is full lie speculates that the other will be filled by 1990 Mr Gibbons further stated that the cemetery hap-nede- two-third- one-thir- d camwas moved from below the brow of the m 1866 seven pus hill to its present position years after it was first located WITH UTAH State undergoging a major that desbuilding program space is one thing as vveii administration perately concerns the I as the students w ho must park their eais he to e ha campus is congested and students to downtown park their cars anywhere from the foot of neighboring Mount Logan The space problem is now causing the university to stretch out around the big "bury patch to a northern extermity now occupied by sheep and turkey pens The new football stadium will be built on a cow pasture and will be n barns and shacks surrounded by and all this while the “bury patch” sits nonchalant on the choicest piece of real estate in happy valley SINCE THE college was rightly the first on the hill being started in 1862 — four years before the cemetery was moved and since the cemetery has already been moved once the logical solution is to move it again A task force of unemployed workers could dig up tbe graves and transport them to another area Two hundred workers and fifty trucks could do the job in less than a month run-dow- TFSTS iNPICATe YOUR STRENGTH APEA5 AN' NONE OF THEM Students Should Apply With Industry With Logan’s Chamber of Commerce and the Employment Security Agency spending much effort to make Cache Valley an inviting place for one of the nation’s largest food producers to establish a plant we urge USU students to aid in the project Officials concerned have expressed that applications are behind expectations A goal of 3500 possible employees was set when applications were opened The company request In ed that five applicants be obtained for every position open Chamber of Commerce members are naturally concerned with future progress of this area and realize the value of such an industry locating here Students and student wives can benefit from employment with this company and at the same time help Cache Valley progress We urge students to apply 16 HAKPLY STUDENT WORTH LIES INMEg TH' EFFORT" I LAIRD WALKER JOHN I) TAYLOR LINDA EAGAR Editor-In-Chi- ef Manager Managing Editor by the Associated Crated during the school year students of Utah State UrmerMty Office room 315 Union Builext 534 or 535 ding Phone Entered as second class matter September 1908 at Logan Utah under the act of March 2 1S70 Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage in accordance with postal laws and regulations Subscription rates lor olf campus: $3 per year or $1 per quarter 13 per year out of country Zip Code 81321 Second Class Postage Paid at Logan Utah Issue No ly 752-410- Retrospect: 0 STUDENT RATES After 8 Months In Vietnam EDITOR’S NOTE: The author 26 spent parts of 1963 and 1964 as a U S Marine combat correspondent and photographer in Vietnam following more than four years on the reporting staffs of he Buffalo (N Y) Evening News and the Salt Lake Tribune Ifc is a senior journalism student from upstate New York This is the first in a series of columns In 1938-6- 0 Dawson was sports editor of Student Life By Dick Dawson ‘Life Columnist If one result of eight months in Vietnam can be likened to a bucket of memories it’s to see which of them rise to the top with the passage of time In two years the mind is well on its way to choosing the sub- stance of personal perspective f‘ 1 from the body of experience 1 Much of the “unforgettable” h sinks beneath the surface of f instant recall or settles out cn- J tirely On the other hand cer- sights sounds smells and sensations some of no particu- lar impact at the time rise as mental and sensual images Dawson that storm quickly to mind You rember sand and mud heat and rain cloudVoeked outposts the awesome beauty of the country’s northern mountain jungles and rain forests and stunning beaches of white sand and rich blue surf of individual helYou remember sounds tin mess hundred of a and fighters icopters and mortars of rockets line kits ip a chow over chatter and machlneguns or intercom of Vietis a Erike zone of a man who djing namese orphans at a Christmas party of your chopper taking hits of a jukebox late at night and far away of the fish sauce You remember smells nuoc man of sweaty troops of steak on Sunday of friends dead in the jungle too long You wonder what ever happened to “Mor pe-cular- I ain ! the sparky black and white terrier phine mascot who survived a butcher’s block and a lunch of rat poison as a chopping pup but in adulthood was continually returning to camp with a canine variation of a certain social disease You remember the cow that broke its airborne hobble and did a commendable free-fa- ll from 3000 feet the look on the faces of men confronted with the task of cleaning up a chopper that recently hauled live cows pigs ducks and chickens to government outpost in the mountains how the stomach knotted and the palms sweated every bit as bad on the 57th mission as they did on the Yes RATES ALLSTATE INSURANCE CO on auto has LOWERED insurance for students with good driving records old Liability rotes on single males 21 to 25 years only $7500 for a FULL YEAR If you are paying more than this contact the local Allstate Agent before paying your next premium for full details on savings N 1 LOCAL AGENTS 752-652- 5 CHARLES KLEINMAN HAROLD M FETERSEN Yes We Are Remodeling Again! first You remember haw your photographer beat you by seconds to a helicopter that never came back and wondering if he got a picture of the end the hot day in the peanut field with the downed chopper and the small cooler of beer they flew in the Special Forces teams at Nam Dong and Ashau of little Viet Cong activity in theircomplainin' sectors in those days You remember Ilerbie Coulter the man they called the human bowling ball because of his build who ate nothing but meat corn and ice cream each with mustard Saturday night in Da Nang and R & R to lion' Ko anc Bongkok and the colorful sim abo the thatch-roofe- d enlisted club that invited the camp to “Get High at the Shufly ” Tou remember a Green Beret medic named Wilson who pulled the rotting teeth of 72 Montagnards in one day at Ta Rau the heads of ailing infants smeared with a village witch doctor’s potion of water buffalo mail call memorial services and dung tracer bullets in the night sky You remember men discusing various means of rearranging the physical features of Vietmks on the front page of a week-ol- d 1 aeific Stars and and an implica-bl- e Stripes profound sadness when your lime in Vietnam was up TO GIYE YOU THE EEST IN SERVICE AND CONVENIENCE We hope you will drop in (watch out for that 2x4) and let us show you our diamond program Were o imitated but never duplicated Just received a P‘irce of 3A cts and these are the size and the quality a right price COME IN AND SEE THEM TODAY Thomas Jewelers 124 North Moin member 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