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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. <A>) — 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.
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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 <j Maxshuiman
We, the makers of Marlboro, Philip Morris and Alpine are
now enjoying our sixth year with Max Shulman. Obviously,
we think he is a funny fellow. We think you’ll think so too,
if you look at his television series “THE MANY LOVES
OF DOBIE GILLIS”—and read his latest book, “I WAS A.
TEEN -A GE D WARF”
PEANUTS
By Charles M. Schulz
PEANUTS.
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BEING TWS 10EDNESDAY...
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