v THE BATTALION PAGE 2 Tuesday, December 15, 1959 i\o Resignation GOP Tries to Sell Benson to Farmers WASHINGTON (AP) — Repub- “If anything is right, it ought licans are going to work on the to be done—and it will prove to job of selling Secretary of Agri- be good politics.” culture Ezra Taft Eenson to the Benson said the objective of his farmers, GOP National Chairman program is to “get government Thruston B. Morton said today. off the backs of farmers and elim- Morton, who has reported some inate ineffective acreage controls strong pressure within the party and artificial price-fixing carried to get rid of Benson as a political over from days of depression and liability, said he had anticipated war.” the secretary’s announcement Mon- He said “obsolete laws which day that he has no intention of hogtie farmers, destroy markets resigning. and pile up wasteful and costly “I have never thought he would stocks in government warehouses resign, nor have I suggested it,” must go.” He added that only Con- Morton said. “All I have done is gross can change this situation, to call the secretary’s attention to In a four-point farm program the fact that the Democrats have outlined in Minneapolis Monday made him a political whipping night, New York Gov. Nelson A. boy. Rockefeller seemed to agree gen- “We Republicans are going to erally with Benson. Rockefeller, have*to offset this. We are going who appears to be edging toward to get to work on the job of sell- entering the contest for the 1960 ing him to the farmers.” Republican presidential nomina- A. S. Mike Monroney (D-Okla.) tion, previously had defended Ben- said in a separate interview he son as “a dedicated public servant.” doesn’t believe the GOP will sue- The New York governor conced- ceed in such a selling job. ed the Eisenhower administration’s “Politically it’s good news for program has .not solved the farm the Democrats that Benson doesn’t problem. intend to quit,” Monroney said. “We might as well face the fact “But it is disastrous news for the that, as a nation, we have not farmers. It means more and more solved the problem from either crop surpluses and lower and low- the human or economic point of er farm prices.” view,” he said. In announcing he will continue He proposed (1) long-term gov- to fight for a “prosperous, expand- ernment rental of farms, with ing and free agriculture,” Benson farmers remaining on the land, said of; the administration’s farm (2) income “stabilization supports program: “The question is not, is f° r f arm families; (3) “energetic it good politics, but is it right?” market development” for products, • • i 4. » u and (4) “a vigorous job opportuni- Our program is right, he said. ' & j ty program” for farmers who want to leave the land. Farm experts here reported they found nothing particularly new in the Rockefeller program, said to have been prepared with the assistance of some of Benson’s aides. CADET SLOUCH TAKE IT EASY' it only takes A HOLE t m (Mi f NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL ’Vf' | AWOL DOG FOUND ST. LOUIS 6R)—Army Pvt. and Mrs. Alva Finchman Jr. drove 500 miles, searched several days for then drove back to Ft. Riley, Kan., their pet dog which was AWOL, discouraged. But the Humane Society didn’t give up. It continued running a newspaper advertisement. A week later, the dog, named Johnny, was found and shipped to the Finchams. It had bolted from a shipping irate at the Et. Louis Union Station. Direct import Sale 40*0FfL LOCKED SE Ring enlarged McCarty’s Jewelers North Gate College Station THE BAT1ALSOIM Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, 7ton- profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duevvall, director of Student Puolications, chairman ; Dr. A. L. Bennett, School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. K. J. Koenig, School of Engineering; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. 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News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI G-4910 or at the editorial office, Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR David Stoker Managing Editor Bob Weekloy Sports Editor Bill Hicklin, Robbie Godwin News Editors Joe Callicoatte Assistant Sports Editor Jack Hartsfield, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein, Bob Sloan, Bob Saile, A1 Vela and Alan Payne Staff Writers Joe Jackson Photographer Russell Brown ....CHS Correspondent by fim Earle Daniel UrgCS Social Whirl What’s Cooking “Sir, if you don’t excuse me from your Friday class so I can leave early—I’ll probably be killed on the road in a rush! Please spare me!” Safe Driving AUSTIN 0P>—Gov. Price Dan iel wants Texas drivers to be just as careful this year as they were during the Christmas-New Year holidays last year. The Department of Public Safe ty has estimated that 111 persons will die in traffic accidents Dec. 23-Jan. 3. “The 1958 Christmas holiday traffic death estimate was 95 but simply by doing what all good Texans should do at all times, driving safely and obeying the law, we held last year’s actual death list to only 63 names,” Daniel said in a special statement Monday. “What we need to do again this year is repeat our 1958 performance—drive safely and obey the law. The governor said Texas news papers, radio and television sta tions ' and billboard companies have again promised complete support of the drive to curtail holiday mishaps. The Civil Engineering Wives Club will meet Wednesday night at 8 p.m. in the South Solarium of the YMCA. Two guest speak ers will speak on “Traditions and Christmas Customs In the Phil ippine Islands.” All members are urged to bring their donations for the Christmas basket. Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center. The following clubs and organi zations will meet tonight: 7:30 Sons of Service will meet in Room 2-D of the Memorial Stu dent Center. Iron ore was first discovered in Minnesota in 1850. Minnesota is people scattered through more producing state. 8c Black And White Prints A&M PHOTO SHOP Accidents Will Kill Many In Nearing Holiday Season By DAVE STOKER Battalion Managing Editor The “slaughter” month is here again and with the holiday sea son nearing and traffic mounting, the month of December will no doubt end in sorrow for many people across the United States. As in the past, many people in the United States will die in traffic accidents over the Christ- ms and New Year’s holiday pe riods. Campaigns have started every where to get drivers to practice good safety habits on the high ways to possibly reduce the num ber of deaths in December, the worst month for traffic fatalities. The number of deaths tabulated for both the Christmas and New Year’s holidays last year, in cluding traffic, fires and miscel laneous, was 1,335. This includ ed 93 in fires and 97 in miscel laneous type accidents in addi tion to traffic, during the Christ- Civilian Student Portrait Bates Set Civilian Students will have their portrait made for The Ag- gieland ’60 at the Aggieland Studio between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. according to the following schedule. Coats and ties should be worn. All Sophomores and Jun iors (Civilian) must have their pictures taken before Dec. 17th. Civilian Senior and Graduates (Including Jr. and Sr. Vet Med., 5th Year Architects) Jan. 6-7 A-D Jan. 11-12 E-K Jan. 13-14 L-R Jan. 18-19 S-Z TUESDAY ‘THE NAKED MAJA’ With Ava Gardner Plus “GO, JOHNNY GO” With Alan Freed TODAY & WEDNESDAY AI HER BIGGEST, BOLDEST, BBT! ,p BOYER ^ HENRI VIDAL -> Xtms TtCHNICOiOR* i Show Opens At 6 P. M. mas weekend. Traffic accidents over the four- day New Year’s holiday in 1958- 59 cost the nation 377 lives, more than for an ordinary 102-hour period but fewer than expected for the holiday. The final count for both the New Year’s and Christmas holi days, each covering a four-day period, was under preholiday es timates of safety experts. The number of traffic deaths was 13 under the National Safety BIGGEST ELEVATOR ELIZABETH, N. J. ) — The world’s largest elevator is being used • between here and Staten Island, N. Y.—to raise and lower a draw bridge. When the 558-foot-long Arthur Kill Bridge opened recently it be came the longest vertical-lift draw bridge in the world. When a ship wants to pass un derneath, the elevator lifts the en tire bridge on two casements. The bridge, owned by the Balti more & Ohio Railroad, can lift 65 70-ton cars at one time. Council’s estimate of 390 for the holiday. The council had esti mated 620 would be killed. Chirstmas of 1956 was the worst year for traffic fatalities for that holiday. The toll then was 706 deaths. The worst New Year’s holiday traffic toll was counted in 1956-57 when a record 409 deaths occurred, also during a four-day weekend. As the season of cheers nears, everyone is urged to conduct themselves in the safest manner to keep their season of cheers from being a season of tears. WATCH Jan. 6th Issue of the Battalion for a variety of BIBLE COURSES (Accredited Courses) for Texas Aggies FLY TO CONTINENTAL \ AiauaMs i Quick connections to ALBVQUERQDf EL m$Q VIA JET POWER Call your Travel Agenf, or Continental at VI 6-4789. I nCtapus With MaxfMman {Author of “I W as a Teen-age Dwarf” “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.) DECK THE HALLS When you think of Christmas gifts you naturally think of Marlboro cigarettes, leading seller in flip-top box in all fifty states—and if we annex Wales, in all fifty-one—and if we annex Lapland, in all fifty-two. (This talk about annexing Wales and Lapland is, incidentally, not just idle speculation. Great Britain wants to trade Wales to the United States for a desert. Great Britain needs a desert desperately on account of the tourist trade. Tourists are always coming up to the Prime Minister or the Lord Privy Seal, or the Thane of Glamis, or like that and saying, “I’m not knocking your country,'mind you. It’s very quaint and picturesque, etc., what with Buckingham Palace and Bovril and Scotland Yard, etc., but where’s your desert?!’ ••Ibaf mkrep you? desertP Before I forget, let me point out that Scotland Yard, Britain’s plain-clothes police branch, was named after Wally Scotland and Fred Yard who invented plain clothes. The American plain clothes force is called the F.B.I. after Frank B. Inchcliff, who invented fingerprints. Before Mr. Inchcliff's invention, every body’s fingers were absolutely gjassy smooth. This, as you may imagine, played hob with the identification of newborn babies in hospitals. From 1791 until 1904 no American parent ever brought home the right baby from the hospital. This later be came known as the Black Tom Explosion. (But I digress. England, I was saying, wants to trade Wales for a desert. Sweden wants to trade Lapland for Frank B. Inchcliff. The reason is that Swedes to this day still don’t have fingerprints. As a result, identification of babies in Swedish hospitals is so haphazard that Swedes flatly refuse to bring their babies home. There are, at present, nearly a half-billion unclaimed babies in Swedish hospitals—some of them well over eighty years old.) But I digress. Marlboro is, of course, an ideal Christmas gift for your friends and loved ones who enjoy filter cigarettes. If, on the other hand, your friends and loved ones like mildness but don’t like filters, then you can’t go wrong with a carton of Philip Morris. If your friends and loved ones like a subtly mentholated cigarette that combines refreshing taste with high filtration, then buy a carton of Alpines. (Alpines, incidentally, are named after the late Albert G. Pine. Al Pine worked all his life to invent a cigarette that would combine light menthol and high filtration, but alas he never succeeded. As by-products of his research he did manage to invent the atom, the gooseneck lamp and the cocker spaniel, but the lightly mentholated high filtration cigarette, alas, never. Now this dream is realized, and what could be more fitting than to pay tribute to this gal lant man by calling this cigarette Alpine?) © W5