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Sidelights on the Waco Invasion
The sports pages have already carried
the good news of the Baylor game Friday
night, but all of them missed one parti
cular item that needs a passing mention.
We refer to the presence of some 200 Ag
gies in the Baylor gym.
^ This may not seem like much of a
Brazos Bottom delegation, but look at the
circumstances. Not a ticket was sent here
from Waco. None were available at the
box office. The game was 90 miles away
and the weather kept the ducks grounded.
Nevertheless, when the Aggies took to the
court in Rena Mars McLean Gymnasium
they were greeted with a yell that solunded
ed like old home week at Kyle Field.
Up in the smoky rafters of the Baylor
stronghold were the travelers from A&M.
By hook or by crook they had invaded
the gym and infiltrated into what had been
a strictly partisan crowd. The biggest
part of the maroon and white delegation
was seated, standing, or kneeling behind
the Baylor band. But throughout the
building were spotted others and it wasn’t
long after the yell leaders became active
that everyone knew where they were.
We Can’t say for sure whether the sup
port of the “Sixth Man” had much to do
with the victory. We’ll never be able to
tell. But we do know this—A&M will be
remembered for haying brought a lot more
than a basketball team with it Friday
night when it invaded the land of the
Bear.
The Dallas News on Unavoidable Taxes .
! Our welfare staters to the contrary,
anyone with the rudiments of common
sense fact-facing in him knows that the
hill for every type of government ex
penditure is paid by every man, woman
and child within that government’s juris
diction. It is paid either directly in taxes
qr indirectly in the costs of goods and
services that are theinselves taxed. Every
penny of government expenditure must
come from the people.
That is the way the bill for the neces
sary rehabilitation of our mental care
system must be paid. It is a cost that
ajl Texas will share. But it is an essen
tial expenditure. This bill is unavoidable.
Governor Allan Shivers is sound
enough in asking Texans to tell him how
" they want the necessary taxes applied.
He wants the public itself to answer three
questions: ,
Should we spend the money? We can
say no and go on as we are with an utterly
inadequate program that must shame ev
ery Texan who understands even its bare
outline. ' • t ^>\ :
Should we go into debt (deficit spend
ing) or raise the money by higher taxa
tion? To put the books in the red is only
to postpone the issue. So the real question
is No. 3:
Who should pay the additional taxes?
~ If you are prepared to advise the Gov
ernor, what is your thinking? Do you
reason primarily that some means must
be found of having the bill paid by every
citizen except yourself? Or do you face
this issue squarely and admit that this is j
a job for all Texas?
If the tax is saddled on a few indus
tries, it must be paid by the customers
of such industry. It is not only fair but
economical to widen as far as possible the !
base of taxation to include the greatest
number of Texans in the bill paying. ,
We face an immediate expenditure toe
make up for long neglect. Once this is
paid, the annual burden will become light
er. But in all common sensei we must as
sume that there will be an annual, contin
uing cost that should and must be met.
It will probably pay for itself in reclaimed ;
human values that can not be shown on I
the books. But, in any event, it is an ex- j
penditure from which we should not
shrink.
This is not a stopgap program. This
is a permanent undertaking.
— The Dallas Morning News
Titusville’s Refineries: E Pluribus Unum
The small Pennsylvania town of Titus
ville is faced with a problem today that
many Texas cities and towns must solve
in the not-too-disfhnt futures: What can
we do after our oil plays out?
Titusville gave birth to the oil industry.^
There Col. Edwin L. Drake drilled the first
commercial oil well in this country way
back in 1859. Since then Titusville has
been rich and prosperous. Oil wells dot
ted the lands around her. Refinery smoke
blacked her houses. Abuhdant wealth
flowed from her sub-surface resources,
and Titusville had no worries.
. Now, Titusville’s oil is near gone. What
nuw be said of her oil refineries e pluribus
unum. Twenty-nine percent of her popu
lation is unemployed. Unless new and
cheaper methods are found to lift oil that
if left underground, Titusville must de
cline, and wither away.
Last week, bankers, businessmen, and
leaders of Titusville met to discuss the
town’s future. Her lavish oil productive
capacity gone, Titusville must turn to oth
er sources of income, other industries, oth
er means to employ her population.
Recommended to the group was a plan
to attract industries outside the oil indus
try, industries that would employ women.
In Titusville only the men work.
The Chamber of Commerce and the
Retail Merchants Association of Titusville
are embarking on a fund raising campaign
and the money will be spent in attracting
new enterprises to the town. Titusville
will discover in the next ten years either
that she will continue to hold her own, of
that she is becoming a ghost town where
riches once flowed, and memories only
linger to haunt.
A&M COLLEGIATE CHAPTER
Monday, February 6, 7:15 p.m.,
Ag. Eng. Lecture Room.
AGRONOMY SOCIETY, Wed
nesday, February 8, 7:15 p.m. A&I
Lecture Room. Election of Offi
cers, Cotton King and Court.
CREATIVE WRITING CLUB,
7:15, Tuesday, Room 328, Academic
Building.
Official Notice
Tuesday, February 7 is the last
day for making changes in Regis
tration. Courses dropped after
this 1 date will be dropped with
grades of F.
} M. T. Harrington
/l Dean of the College
NON-VETERANS, NON-CORPS
AREA ROTC STUDENTS, Tues
day, February 7, 5 p.m. Assembly
Hal).
PANHANDLE CLUB, 7:15 p.
m., Thursday, Lounge Dorm Nine.
KREAM AND KOW KLUB,
Tuesday, February 7,J 7:30 p.m.,
Roc|m 203 Ag. Building. Club to
reorganize, refreshments will, be
seryod,
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB,
Tuesday, February 7, 7:15 p.m. A
&I Lecture Room.
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Sixty-three EnroU
In New Departmeni
The College Station Address !
By DEAN REED and CHUCK CABANISS
i (With Apologies to Abe Lincoln)
One score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought
forth, upon this campus, a basketball championship, con
ceived by Coach D. X. Bible, and dedicated to the proposition
that other SWC teams are inferior.
Now we are engaged in a great conference struggle, test
ing whether our team, or some other team, so conceived, and
so dedicated, shall emerge"victorious.
i Tuesday night we will meet SMU on a great battlefield
of this war, Perkins Gymnasium in Dallas. We will go to
dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those Mus
tangs who will give up their hopes that A&M’s hopes might
live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should beat
them-
But in a larger sense we cannot deviate—we must con
centrate—we cannot lose this ground.
The world will little note, nor long remember, what we
say here, but can never forget what the Cadets will do there.
It is for us, the team and its supporters, to dediciate our
selves to the unfinished work which the team has, thus far,
so nobly carried on.
We here highly resolve that this team shall not fight in
vain; that this school shall have a new birth of victory; and
that this achievement of the Aggies, by the Aggies, for the
Aggies, shall not perish from this campus.
What’s Cooking
JOHNSON COUNTY CLUB,
Thursday, February 9j 7:30 p.m.
Room 22,7 Academic) Building.
Party to be planned.
Classes have started in the first
courses in oceanography ever of
fered at A&M, with an enrollment
exceeding expectations.
the
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two courses offered during the
spring semester totals 63. In the
geological oceanography course
21 have registered and in the in
pry course there are 42.
rgest Class in U. 8.
Dr. teipper believes the 42 stu
dents in the introductory clams
may constitute the largest class in
oceanography in the United States.
The subject is offered at A&M
only at senior and graduate levels.
Since oceanography deals with all
sciences that affect, or are affect
ed by, the ocean, Dr. Leipper
pointed out, that the study is of
great importance to the Gulf Coast
area. !
About half the enrollment in
the introductory course is made up
of students in geology or petrol
eum engineering. There are a num
ber of biology students in the
class, but a large portion of the
group is composed of studontjs in
such seemingly unrelated fields as
mechanical engineering, civil j en
gineering, pre-medicine and arch
itecture. | j . I
Survey of Students
Leipper conducted a sur-
i ascertain what prompted
students’ interest in the sub
ject. Many, he found, served in
the Navy during World War H
and are seeking the answers to the
mysteries of, thi
interested
marine jndustri
coMt.
But one student, a
gineer. professed to be
course solely because
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VA Plans Refund
Of Overdue Cuts
Veterans who receive National
Service Life Insurance dividend
checks from which previous over
payments by the VA have been
deducted, were advised by Dr.
George T. McMahan, manager of
the Waco Veteran? Administra
tion Center, that the Finance di
vision of the regional office under
whose jurisdiction the veteran’s
account is maintained, would re
fund any overdue deduction.
In a few cases, cash payments
made by the veteran and deductions
previously made by the Veterans
Administration, plus the amount
deducted from the dividend, exceed
the indebtedness .pf the veteran
to the Government)
The refund of these overdeduc
tions will be madd automatically
as soon as advice; regarding the
amounts deducted from each such
individual dividend check is re
ceived by the local regional office
from Washington, D. C. In view
of the neceasity for full informa
tion being supplied to the region
al activity by Washington, vete
rans are urged not to contact the
local Veterans Administration of
fice, since the accounts will be
justified automatically as soon as
the information ia received.
civil en-
taking thf
it waa the
finrt opportunity he had found to
take a course with his roommate,
a biology student Furthei
he asked that he and his i
be seated next to each
the classroom. ,
Members of the class
enter a wide range of vocations,
frotm off-shore drilling to that of
a salesman. ,
. Department to KxpaaJ; |) -
While only two courses In
oceanography are being offered
this spring, plans call lor offer-
inf 14 courses for seniors and
graduate students during ! fM
1960-61 school year. The stafL
now consisting solely of Dr. Leip
per and Dr. W. A. Armstrong
Price, wi|l he increased to five
by next September. if j); < "
Dr. Leipper was mildly concern
ed for the future of the oceano
graphy department during regis
tration this week when a student
approached his desk and asked
to enroll in a; course in water polo.
His concern was alleviated, how
ever, by the fact that students
were being enrolled in physical
education classes at the desk ad-
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Used by AH M*]
A photographic library has been
set up in the Animal Husbandry
Department.
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