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| Page 2 J , / ! ' TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1960
Phones, Fires, and Volunteer Firemen
College Station’s Fire Department an
swered a call last night—a chimney fire at
the home of D. B. Gofer in South Oak-
wood. No damage yeas done.
Had the fire been bad, however, many
of the volunteer firemen might have ar-
| rived too late to do anyone much good.
Why?—simply because a few curious cit
izens of College Station monopolized the
[fire station phone and prevented firemen
from finding the location of the fire.
FirO reports at night in College Station
are received in the college power plant
where the siren is set off. Volunteer fire
men report to the fire station and pick up
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ttle phone to find where the
man On duty in the power plant tells them
—when citizens are co-operative enough
to leave the phone line open.
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If a curious citizen gets on the line,
the firemen have no chance to get the in
formation they heed. At least one fire
man last night failed to get to the fire for
this reason. 1 '
Next time you hear the siren, stop and
think. Then^ielp the men whose job it is
to protect you. Denying your curiosity
may save your neighbor’s property—or
perhaps his life.
Death and Taxes -- Half Realized Today
are carried on because income and other
obvious taxes are charged.
Patriotically, we should all feel proud
to pay income taxes to help the federal
government of the United States of Amer
ica. Actually, our selfish tendencies goad
us into deducting everything we can, and
evading every dime’s taxes we think wc
can get away with.
Wars take billions of dollars, and hold
income taxes at high levels. The present
trend in government with its many addi
tional services heretofore regarded as re
sponsibilities of the individual, costs us
billions more.
| Whatever attitude we take—whether
to deduct all we cap or to pay all we can—
the income tax form has that sort of “gig
me” look.
And our high phrased moralizing on
the privilege of paying taxes fades into
bloated figures iiii the “deductions” col
umn. V
Tomorrow is one day in the year that
our parents can consider us assets in
stead of liabilities—for that day. is the
last one for filing last year’s income tape
reports. '.\ !l ; , V
AH through the year our letters home,
our telephoned pleas for “just five bucks
more,” our various subtle and pointed re
quests for money are received with a grim- f
ace. But oh their ingome tax forms, fath
ers proudly mark doiwn as deductions the
rhohey their sons.at A&M cost them.
On March 15, ive may feel justly proud
that we have contributed in a way to our
parents’ pleasure. _ - ^
The two inescapables—death and tax
es—are half Realized each March 15.
’ Though death is not attained on tfiat day,
taxes must be faced—and be paid.
Expenditures of the federal govern
ment are financed 80% by the revenue
gained from income taxes. The vast gov
ernmental programs of good and waste
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Too Much Power for SEC Hands . . .
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The Frear bill (S.2408) reached the Frear bill comes from
Senate with an approving pat from the
Securities Exchange Commission, which
-tvith less than complete frankness, defined
it as “a proposal to safeguard investors
in unregistered securities.” Snorted Syrus
Eaton, “They ought to title it a ‘proposal
to increase the business of the New York
Stock Exchange and to expand the ham
stringing operations of the SEC.”'
Under the terms of a bill that is about
j what Eaton says of it, any issuer engaged
in interstate Comirierce or in business
affecting interstate commerce or the se
curities of which are regularly traded by
use of the mails or by any means or
instrumentality of interstate commerce
must file the burdensome Reports with
the SEC. This routine has already pra
tically killed off, because of high, cost
large part of the listed securities ^busi
ness. The proposed regulations iwopld
now strike the over-the-counter mark
which ie? financing the greater part of x
American industrial expansion today.
Apparently the only demand for the
e commission
itself, reaching opt for more power. The
objectionable character in that is that it
is power that small enterprise would have
to pay for without compensating return.
There is no noticeable investor demand.
The American investor is adequately
protected under existing laws against al
most everything except the strangling
capacity of regulation itself.
It is small business that will be most
affected by passage of the Frear bill. The
National Security Traders Association is
convinced that a crippling blow would be
dealt the over-the-counter industry. Life
insurance and cotton companies only favor
the bill if they are excluded from its opera
tions. The expenses in legal and account-
acs-s—kie requirements would be out of propor-
, a tiorrtty almost all small enterprise ability
to pay. In case of material recession, the
effects of theibill could b| t disastrous, j
SEC, having dried; up one form of
security business, is reaching out for more
ind too much power.—Dallas Morning
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Job Calls
The college Placement Office an- AGRICULTURE:
nounces the following interviews
and job opportunities. Men inter
ested in any of these positions •!
listed below should contact i the
Placement Office in the Adrtiin-
istration Building.
INTERVIEWS:
(1) March 15 — International
Business Machines, Houston, Tex
as, will interview electrical, mecltf
anical, and management engineers,
and business and accounting grad
uates.
(*2) March 16-17--Bell Telephone
System representatives will inter
view electrical, mechanical, civil,
and architectural engineers and
business and accounting graduates.
ENGINEERING:
(1) 1'he Anton G. Carter Foun
dation, Fort Worth, is interested
in employing a geologist for well
testing and structural geplogic
mapping in New Mexico. (Will
consider petroleum-geologist^ and
geological engineers also.)
(2) There is an opening with
the’ Galveston Pickery, Inc., for a
mechanical engineer interested in
Warehousing work.
j (3) The Hawaiian Sugar Plant-
ers’S Association is instituting a
training program to selected grad
uate chemical engineers. The ob
jective is to train men for tech
nical positions in the raw sugar
factories in Hawaiian industries.
(4) Moody ^Compress & Ware
house Company in Galveston is
interested in mechanical or elec
trical engineers who would like
to enter the field of cotton hand
ling.
Examinations Now
In Civil Service
Examinations for the positions
of Student Aid Trainee apd Jun
ior Topographic Engineer in the
Civil Service may be applied for
at the post office before March"
23.
Starting salaries range from
$2,650 to $3,825. Farther details
may be obtained from the civil
service secretary at the College
Station post office, j
Official Notice
All Physical Education Majors including
Freshmen are requeued to chetJk with the
department secretary before Saturday,
March IK.
•’ • C. W. Landis*
Physical Education Department
Notice to food Technology majors, please
contact A. V. Moore. Dairy Department,
phone 4-5524, before ; Thursday noon, March
10.
Bible Verse
Heaven and earth shall pass
away, bi^t my words shall not pass
away.
—Matthews 24: 35
SKYWAY SHOWS 6:45 - 8:30
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TOWN HALL — 8:00 P. M.
Chop Suey
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delicious foods pre
pared especially for
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HOTARD’S
Cafeteria
(1) The Mexico-United States
Commission for the Eradication of
Foot and Mouth Disease is inter
ested in employing young men as
livestock inspectors. Qualifications
are at least five years experience
in ranching or farming, complete
fluency in English and Spanish,
25-45 years of age, ability to sad
dle, bridle, ride and care for horses,
and capable of roughing it and
living on regional diet* in Mexico.
\ representative of this commis-*
.■ion will ihterview applicants in
Uvalde, Texas, March 0 thru 14,
and in Alice, Texas, March 15-21.
LIBERAL ARTS:
(1) The Colgato-Palmolivc-Peet
Company has openings in South
Texas for men to handle retail
sales work of their product to the
grocery trade.
(2) Joske’s of Houston has the
following openings available: (a)
man to be trained in the personnel
division; (b) accountant to under
study the controller; and (c) man
for employee training work.
(3) The Seven-Up Company
of St. Louis, Missouri, has an
opening in the Texas area for a
Technical Counselor. This man will
visit their franchise plants for
the purpose of aiding the plant
owner in problems of production,
sanitation, and general quality con
trol. Prefer a man at least 25
years old and one who is willing
to travel. Training preferred is
in chemistry or bacteriology.
“Job Calls” is also a radio pro
gram broadcast over WTAW every
Monday afternoon from 5:55 to 6
W. R. Horsley, director of the
Placement Office, is the program
announcer.
Shepardson Attending
Meetings This Week
C. N. Shepardson, Dean of Ag
riculture, will attend a meeting
of the Texas Cattle Raisers As
sociation at San Antonio March 14
and 15 and a meeting of the Fed
eral Reserve Bank Board in Hous
ton March 16.
^British
Wins Secon
Do-or-Die Vote
London, March 14.-d- UP)—
The Labor government won
its second straight do-or-die
confidence vote in the new
House of Commons last night.
By a margin jof 814 to 289,
Prime Minister Attlee’s cabinet
beat down a Conservative motion
of censure on ito housing policy.
If the motion had carried, the l*®"
bor government would have been
obliged to resign: , 4 a 1
In the long debate before the
vote, Winston Chiirchill’s Conserva
tives blasted health minister An-
eurin Bevan from all sides.
Sevan replied: I u I
“If I go down to history as
nothing else, I will go down as the
The Conservatives had claimed
that Britain is short 6,000,000
homes, described Labor’s whole
housing policy as a flop, and de
manded that Attlee resign.
Bevan and other Labor party
members retorted that the Con
servatives, if they had their way,
would turn the “speculative” build
ers loose on housing for private
sale, while the poor went homeless.
Rural Sociology
Job Series Begins
The Job Opportunity Series spon
sored by the Rural Sociology Club
starts Tuesday at 7:30 p. in. ini
Room 208 of the Agriculture Bulld-i
ing.
John R. Case, Harris Cbunty pro-;
batioh Officer, will be first * “
speakers for tho sorips. He is a
graduate of A&M, class of '45, *rith
a major in rural sociology.
Cage will give an informal
on the duties of a probation
cer and outline job opportuniti
in such work.
The Opportunity Scries has been
arranged to familiarize students
of sociology *dth the variety of
work that sociologists do, BiU Adii
kins, social chairman of the Rural
Sociology Club, 1 said. In addition,
Job openings will be sought and
job contacts made.
Anyone intedested in the field
of sociology is invited to attend,
according to Adkins. Refresh
ments will be served.
Mrs. Bill Turner Dire<
Cotton Pageant Style
By RAY WILLIAMS
Trying to tell mother’s what to
have their daughters wear Is al
ways a problem. But try telling
100 of them what to wear.
Mrs. Bill Turner, director of the
annual Cotton Ball and Pagr
Stjle Show, has this very dii-
along with being in
of the style show and ar-
the program for the big
event.
Hailing from McKinney, Texas,
she is the wife of Bill Turner, dir
ector of the Aggieland Orchestra
and the Singing Cadets. She is
r graduate of North Texas State
College in Denton, where she was
A&M Wildlife Men
Attend (Eonference
“Are We Wrong About Conser
vation 7” was the main topic of
the 15th Annual North American
Wildlife Conference held last week
in San Francisco.
who left
March 3 and returned March 12,
were Dr. W. B. Davis, head of the
Delegates from A&M
and returned March
Wildlife Management Department,
Dr. George A. Petrides, leader of
the Texas Cooperative Wildlife
Unit, Wendell Swank, sponsor of
the Fish and Game Club, and 11
wildlife management majors.
This! years’ discussion on water-
fowl was held on March 8 by How
ard Dodger),, Executive Secretary
of the Texds Game, Fish, and Oys
ter Commission. I
Admin
Mira. Turner,
dentUf the N
member of the G
worker of
other
, work on
how began
not be comi’
Ion mkjor.
past presi-
ters Club, a
len Club, an
First Meth-
a member, of
organizations.
se
He
style
will
the
Inch
work is
tails of the Ifity
being worked <
Bros. Department
The theme b“ !
program is }o
tion of other a
system. Paj
groups from Arlii
rie View and TS 1
Working in' Conjunction with
Mrs. Turner for! the presentation
of the show is Professor E, L,
Whiteley, faculty supervisor; Da
vid Rives, social; secretary, assis
tant Tommy puffy, and the Cot
ton Committed. This committee is
made Up of Frank Zabcik, Ray
Kunz, Earl Smith, and Jack Rank
les.
pageant and
January and J
ted! until after
{mountain of
j the Sets and de
show, which is
*t with Sanger
store of Dallas.
used for the
lude participa-
in the A&M
sting will be
on State, Prai-
ampii
Mayo Speaks at Hillel
Meeting Wednesday
Dr. Thomas F. Mayo, Head Of
the English Department, will ad
dress an open meeting of the Hil-
lej Club on Wednesday evening,
March 15, at 7:15 n. m. in w$e
YMCA Cabinet Room.
Dr. Mayo’s subject will be “Why
I am a Liberal”, Josh Trieman,
president of the club, said today 1 .
PALACE
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WEDNESDAY & THURS.
—Keatii res .Start—
1:50 - 4:35
This excitiJ g story depicts
the adveht( re, courage and
love of thh nurses trapped
on Correjpidir at the begin
ning of thg war.
QUEEN
LAST DAY
WED. - THURS.
Greer Garson
‘Desire Me”
1:00 P.M.
—Feature 11:30 P.M.—
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