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THE
BATTALION
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 129: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1959
Price Five Cents
Brazos County
Residents May
Get Tax Slash
A tax cut seems to be in the
Woods for Brazos County tax pay
ers.
The newly proposed tax of $.95
is the result of the half million
dollar budget which Judge W. C.
Davis presented to the county com
missioners last week.
If the new rate is to be ef
fective it will have to he approv
ed at a public meeting which will
be held next month. The date has
not yet been set.
The county commissioners which
met on July 20 were in agreement
over the budget, and they agreed
to pass it on to the public hear
ing.
The old county ad valorem tax
of $1.00 per $100 evaluation of real
property has provided the county
with a fund for the building of
county roads and other county
costs.
Judge Davis pointed out that
the state will pay approximately
$54,141 on the county road bonds.
Since the state will pay these
bonds it will not be necessary to
tax the people of Brazos County
for the payment.
The new budget dollar can be
broken down as follows: $.43 for
the general fund, $.26 for the per
manent improvements fund, $0.4
for the jury fund, and $.22 for
the road and biddge fund.
Some of the salaries that were
paid from the road and bridge fund
will be paid from the general
fund. This allowed the budget to
be cut in the road and bridge
fund some $5,000 since the 1959
budget. Judges Davis pointed out
that the commissioners will actual
ly have a bigger allowance for
their road and bridge fund than
they had last year.
Under the new rate the taxpay
ers will pay $246,400, motor ve
hicle registi’ations will add $175,-
000, officers’ fees and commis
sions will contribute $105,000, and
the remaining $43,500 will come
from sources and cash balances in
other funds.
Judge Davis described the new
budget which will go in effect
on January 1, if approved as be
ing ‘‘realistic.”
MSC ‘Den Dance’
Scheduled Tonight
Decorations on a western theme,
music by Johnny Lyon and the
“Nu-Notes” and a special floor
show have been scheduled for a
bonus Special Dance by the Me
morial Student Center Summer Di
rectorate Monday from 8 to 11 p.m.
in the MSC Ballroom.
Also on the Summer Directorate
agenda is the regular Thursday
night “Den Dance”, set for the
fountain room from 8:30 to 11 p.m.,
with music by the jukebox, tonight.
Fire Fighters
Firemen at the 30th Annual Firemen’s firemen, instructors, administrative staff
Training School, currently being held on the and visitors have been participating this
campus, are shown here working on a blaz- week in such fire as shown above,
ing airplane. Approximately 1,600 student
MSC Music Series
Hawaiian Dancer, Organist
To Entertain Here Sunday
Combining semi - classical and
classical organ music with ancient
Hawaiian song and dance, the Me
morial Student Center Summer Mu
sic Series will present Carl Moehl-
man, organist, and Mrs. Mary Lou
Thurman, Hawaiian dance instruc
tor, Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Main
Lounge.
Summer directorate host for the
pi’esentation will be Charles Dahl,
acting directorate chairman.
Included in Moehlman’s selec
tions will be Purcell’s “Trumpet
Tune”, the “Trio Sonata III in D
Minor” and “Dorian Toccata” by
Bach, and Mulct’s “Carillon-Sortie”.
A junior organ major at North
Texas State College, Moehlman is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B.
Moehlman, 1404 Beck St. While in
college this past year he was or
ganist for the Opera Workshop’s
production of Mascagni’s “Cavel-
leria Rusticana”, commencement
organist for mid-term commence
ment, played on four History of
Organ Literature Recital Series
programs and participated in other
organ and music activities.
Mrs. Thurman of 906 Mitchell
St., Bryan, is a graduate of North
Texas State College. She attended
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Carl Moehlman
. . . organist
the Kahelelani Hawaiian Studio in
Honolulu, Hawaii while her hus
band was stationed in Honolulu
from 1952-1955. She received her
teacher’s certificate for the instruc
tion of Hawaiian dancing there and
was president of the Kahelelani
Language Club.
Upon her return to the United
States, she founded a branch of the
Roger McFarland
Quits Aggieland
Fort Worth UP)—A butch hair
cut that didn’t come off and a shift
to a T formation halfback spot
which he didn’t like reportedly were
the major reasons why sophomore
football prospect Roger McFarland
quit A&M.
These reasons came from the
typewriter of Roy Edwards, Star-
Telegram sportswriter and col
umnist.
McFarland was a Fort Worth
Paschal High School star who cast
his lot with the Aggies last year.
He was the star of the freshman
team and was considered a top
candidate for the varsity this fall.
But he quit and will now attend
the University of Colorado. Mc
Farland was said to have objected
to a butch haircut that is decreed
for freshmen at A&M—not forever
but just for one more day so he
might be presentable to a so
cial engagement. McFarland subse
quently turned up at home.
Aggie C®ae;h Ji m Myers coaxed
McFarland into returning. Discip
linary action was taken against
those who would have sheared his
locks.
But it left some hard feelings
and McFarland’s position became
somewhat uncomfortable. A&M
gave him his written release.
Kahelelani Club in Louisville, Ky.,
and taught Hawaiian dancing three
years in the Louisville YWCA. In
her program Mrs. Thurman will
present an introduction to Ha
waiian song and dance, with em
phasis on the ancient style of Ha
waiian Hula.
Tennis Tourney
To Open Monday
The College Station Recreation
Council has set the dates of July
27-31 for the Third Annual Sum
mer Tennis Tournament for resi
dents of Brazos County.
The site is the A&M Physical
Education Courts, according to
Horace Schaffer, head of the tour
ney.
No entry fee will be charged for
entrants in the six divisions with
ribbon awards for first and second
place finishers in all categories and
a trophy for the winner in the sin
gles division with most entrants.
The tourney’s six divisions con
sist of 11-under, 12-13, 14-15, in
the Boys and Girls division; 16-18
junior section, 19-29 seniors, and a
30-over group for veterans.
Any entrant can play both sin
gles and doubles in the division.
Playing times are 8 a.m. for the
15-under divisions and 5.30 p.m. for
the 16-over groups.
Anyone interested in the compe
tition is asked to call Horace Schaf
fer at VI 6-7324 or Jody Rush at
VI 6-6006.
Buchanan Honored
At Fort Hood Camp
Cadet Frank B. Buchanan, a stu
dent of A&M, was appointed Ca
det Brigade Commander, Saturday,
July 11 for the second formal
ROTC parade at this year’s sum
mer camp at Fort Hood.
The ca'dets passed in review be
fore some 30 officials from Fourth
Army area colleges and universi
ties who were at Fort Hood on an
inspection tour of the ROTC train
ing.
Cadet Buchanan is Corps Color
Guard and Sgt. Major 2nd Regt.
and a member of the Ross Volun
teers. He was also the social se
curity of the junior class last year.
Buchanan is the son of Maj. and
Mrs. F. B. Buchanan of San Fran
cisco, Calif.
Firemen to End
School Friday
1,600 Participate
In Blazing Event
State Legislature
Adds to Employes
Present Holidays
The Texas legislature has added
five days to the now present nine
days of holidays for full-time col
lege employes. It goes into effect
the next fiscal year.
It should be noted that provision
was made for educational institu
tions to adjust the actual observ
ance of these holidays as will per
mit the most efficient operation.
A&M, operating under this pro
vision, will add these holidays to
the two weeks annual leave which
the full-time employees now re
ceive.
This will provide for a three
weeks vacation period, but it is
not required that the entire three
weeks be taken consecutively.
The deans and heads of depart
ments will take on the responsibil
ity of determining when these
leaves will be taken.
Dr. M. T. Harrington, Chancellor,
said due consideration should be
given to the efficient operation of
the department concerned while de
termining when the individual em
ployees may take their vacations.
Below are listed the holidays au
thorized for the fiscal year begin
ning September 1, 1959:
November 26 and 27—Thanks
giving recess
December 22-25 inclusive —
Christmas recess
January 1—New Year’s Day
April 15—Spring holiday
July 4—Independence Day
100 HS Students
Visit Here Tuesday
One hundred junior high school
students from the Spring Branch
High School spent Tuesday here.
The students, accompanied by
supervisors, visited the School of
Veterinary Medicine, the Oceano
graphy and Meteorology Depart
ment, the Physics Department and
Nuclear Reactor Center.
Guide Posts
“In a free country there is much
clamor with little suffering; in a
despotic state there is little com
plaint but much suffering”—
Caruot
The 30th Annual Firemen’s Training School literally
began like a “house o’ fire” here this week with firemen
from all over Texas and several other states participating
in the event.
Arriving here Sunday, the firemen began a fire fighting
campaign that has seen the use of houses, gasoline pumps,
butaine tanks, small oil storage tanks, trucks, airplane
fuselages, refinery mockups and pit fires.
The annual school will close tomorrow.
The Army, Air Force, Navy and private industry have
also participated in the school. Manufacturers are providing
modern fire fighting equipment for the school. Major oil
companies supply gasoline,
kerosene, crude oil and butane.
Industries and insurance com
panies furnished engineering
personnel to help the perma
nent staff of the school.
Throughout the week student
firemen have been introduced to
almost every kind of fire known
to community life. Fires of every
kind have been started on the av
erage of five times a day.
Fortunately no serious accidents
have been reported as of yet.
The legislature of Texas estab
lished the firemen’s school in 1930
as the Texas Fireman’s Training
School to be a year-round pro
gram by the Engineering Exten
sion Service of A&M with the co
operation of the Texas Education
Agency.
Its operation is under the aus
pices of the State Firemen’s and
Fire Marshals’ Assn, of Texas.
Spencer, Johnson
To Wed in August
Mr. and Mrs. Dan W. Spencer
of Dalhart have announced the en
gagement of their daughter, Miss
Rosalie Spencer of Bryan to John
Haskell Johnson Jr.
Miss Spencer, who is program
advisor in the Memorial Student
Centei’, is a graduate of SMU
where she was president of Mor
tar Board and a member of Sigma
Kappa sorority.
The groom-to-be is the son of
Mrs. J. Haskell Johnson of Bo-
gata and the late Mr. Johnson.
He is the 1959-60 editor of The
Battalion and vice-president of
Sigma Delta Chi, national journal
ism fraternity.
The wedding will be August 29
in the Central Methodist Church
in Dalhart.
William G. Adkins
Publishes Article
The article “Economic Impacts
of Expressways in Dallas and San
Antonio” by William G. Adkins,
head of economic research at the
Texas Transportation Institute,
appears in the July 1959 issue of
the Traffic Quarterly.
The article describes in detail
and with numerous illustrations a
recent research study that was
conducted in San Antonio on the
influence of its expressways on
real estate development.
The magazine in which the writ
ing appeared is produced by the
Eno Foundation for Highway
Traffic Control.
Fire prevention is a major ele
ment of the school, but actual fire
fighting expericene courses are
also taught. Also one of the
courses is designed to train men
to teach other firemen. There is
included a course in rescue work.
It incorporates such phases as
artificial respiration to be admin
istered to victims of smoke as-
phixiation.
The history of the firemen’s
school has witnessed only one in
jury inflicted during the classes.
That occurred when an instructor
fell from the top of a gasoline
truck after setting it on fire.
This year’s firemen’s school, has
been considered a definite suc
cess, and the majority of the fii-e-
men feel that they have definitely
improved their fire-fighting abil
ity as well as improved their
knowledge of fire prevention and
rescue work.
Bankers Meeting
Bankers from all over the state of Texas the Texas Farm and Ranch Credit School
met here Tuesday and assisted members of for Community Bankers to be held at A&M
the Department of Agricultural Economics Nov. 29 through Dec. 1.
and Sociology in developing a program for