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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1951
SCARE SEASON ~COMES EARlY THIS YEAR
Vo tersTu rn No v. 13
AN TUESDAY, Nov. 13 the people of the State of Texas
"will ga to the polls and vote on an amendment to Article
VII of the Constitution of the State of Texas. This election
will be of tremendous interest to us here at A&M and all
our friends and former students throughout the state.
This proposed amendment is of interest to us because it
deals with the investment of the Permanent University Fund.
The investment income of this Fund is divided between the
University of Texas and A&M College with two-thirds going
to the University and one-third being received by A&M.
Under the Constitution, as it now stands, the invest
ments of the fund is limited to US Government Bonds, State
of Texas Bonds and certain types of Texas Municipal Bonds.
The proposed amendment would allow for a broader diversi
fication of investments. The reason that this broader in
vestment program is desirable is that during the past twenty
years, the interest rates on Government and Municipal Bonds
has declined.
The Fund earned better than 4% during 1933-34 where
as during the last year the rate was only slightly in excess
of 21/2%. Because Municipal Bonds are exempt from Federal
income taxes, they sell at yields that are even lower than
US Government Bonds.
The proposed amendment reads:
“That Article VII of the Constitution of the State of
Texas shall be amended by adding after Section 11 thereof
a new section to be designated Section 11 a which shall
read as follows:
“Section 11 a. In addition to the bonds now enumerated in
Section 11 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of
Texas, the Permanent University Fund may be invested in
such other securities, including bonds, preferred stocks and
common stocks, as the Board of Regents of the University
of Texas may deem to be proper investment for said fund;
provided, however, that not more than fifty per cent of the
said fund shall be invested at any given time in stocks, nor
shall more than one per cent of the said fund be invested in
securities issued by any one corporation, nor shall more than
five per cent of the voting stock of any one corporation be
owned; and provided further that stocks eligible for purchase
shall be restricted to stocks of companies incorporated within
the United States which have paid dividends for ten consecu
tive years or longer immediately prior to the date of purchase
and which, except for bank stocks and insurance stocks, are
listed upon an exchange registered with the Securities and
Exchange Commission or its successors. This amendment
shall be self-enacting.” (Meaning that if favorably it will go
into effect upon certification of the Secretary of State.)
This proposal is nothing but a matter of good sense. A
balanced fund of investments is a common business practice
used to guard against purchasing power risk incurred in an
investment program. Not only will the amendment provide
some protection against inflation, but it will also allow an
increase of the return from an average of 2 1 / 4 per cent to
one of 4 per cent or better.
Safeguards for the principal of the Permanent Fund
provided for in the proposed amendment are:
• Not more than 50 per cent of the Fund shall be in
vested at any given time in stocks.
• Not more than 1 per cent of the Fund shall be in
securities of any one corporation.
• Not more than 5 per cent of the voting stock of any
one corporation shall be owned by the Fund.
• Stocks eligible for purchase shall be restricted to
stocks of companies incorporated within the United States
which have paid dividends for ten consecutives years or long
er immediately prior to purchase.
• Stocks eligible for purchase, except for bank stocks
and insurance stocks, shall be listed upon an exchange regis
tered with the Securities and Exchange Commission or its
successors.
This attempt to increase the insome of the Fund, wdiile
following sound business practices, offers an opportunity for
us to increase the benefits which we and neighbors receive
from a bigger and better A&M College. It is for this reason
that the people of this state should feel an obligation to go
to the polls Nov. 13 and cast their vote for improved educa
tional facilities for themselves.
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Appearance Fine India Refuses
Red Threat
A-Bomb Test Tried
In Nevada Desert
The Battalion
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JOHN WHITMORE Editor
Joel Austin Managing Editor
Bill Streich 1 News Editor
Frank Davis City Editor
Allen Pengelly Assistant News Editor
Bob Selleck Sports News Editor
Pat Morley Women’s Editor
T. H. Baker, E. R. Briggs, A1 Bruton, Norman Campbell,
Mickey Cannon, Monte Curry, Dan Dawson, Bob Fagley,
Benny Holub, Howard Hough, Jon Kinslow, Bryan Spencer,
Ide Trotter, John Robards, Carol Vance, Edgar Watkins,
Berthold Weller, Jerry Wizig, Raymond York News and Feature Writers
Bob Cullen, Jack Brandt Cartoonists
Frank Scott Quarterback Club Director
Jim Jenson Photographer
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Gus Becker, Joe Blanchette, Ed Holder Sports News Writers
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By BILL BECKER
Las Vegas, Nev., Oct. 31—(A 5 )—
Another of America’s lethal atom
ic , bombs flashed in the desert
against a bright dawn today and
gave observers a man-made dis
play of fireworks that rivaled
the Aurora Borealis.
The deadly beauty was dropped
by an Air Force B-29 from an
altitude of perhaps 30,000 feet.
It burst in red and white glory at
an altitude of about 1,000 feet
above the floor of the Yucca Flat
test site.
The reaction that followed the
rising mushroom and the great
cloud, provided a display of col
ors’ ranging from gray and blown
to royal purple and baby pink.
This third and largest detona
tion in the current series of tests
by the Atomic Energy Commission
was witnessed by hundreds of mili
tary observers and at least five
congressmen. Troops, moved into
Camp Desert Rock for army man
euvers in connection with atomic
weapon tests, were not involved in
the operation.
Final Tune Up
It was believed that today’s
atomic display was perhaps the
final AEG tune-up before the army
maneuvers, which will test with
ground troops the tactical capabil
ities of smaller atomic weapons.
There was a phenomenal double
action burst as the large atomic
bomb let loose today with brilliance
resembling an exploding sun. The
blast waves rolled over the deSert
and shook Henderson, Nev., 95
miles distant but no shock was
felt here although it is 20 miles
nearer the site.
The great burst came at 30 sec
onds after 5 a. m., CST. on Mt.
Charleston 50 miles from the site,
where Tstood. The first blast noise
came, at 7:05 a. m. It was an
abrupt boom but there was no
Ample Clothing
Available For
Korean Troops
Washington, Oct. 31—(A 1 )
A Senate Armed Services sub
committee said today it has
been assured that ample sup
plies of warm clothing will be
available for U. S. troops in Korea
if the fighting continues into the
winter.
Chairman Lyndon Johnson (D-
Texas) said the subcommittee on
military preparedness sent inqui
ries to the Army, Air Force, Navy
and Marine Corps because of “fears
expressed by some men in Korea
that they would be inadequately
clothed against the rigors of the
coming winter.”
He quoted the departments as
saying there are now on hand in
Korea sufficient stocks of cold
weather clothing to supply all per
sonnel until the end of December
and that additional shipments now
on the way would take care of the
men’s needs for the rest of the
winter.
“It was stated,” Johnson report
ed in a statement, “that tempora
ry shortages may arise unavoidably
in forward areas because of trans
portation difficulties but that oth
erwise all would be adequately
supplied.”
Johnson said his subcommittee
would keep “a continuing check”
on the situation.
Secretary of the Army Pace told
the subcommittee the army has
developed new cold weather cloth
ing which will reach Korea in
quantity in time for the coldest
months, Januaiy and February.
Among these items will be a new
type of combat boot, made of rub
ber and completely waterproof,
and with one-half inch of wool
insulation sealed into the sole and
top.
The Marine Corps report also
said it is furnishing to all ma
rines in Korea “a new cold weath
er boot employing a sealed-in prin
cipal of incuiation which it is an
ticipated will eliminate frost-bit
ten feet.”
wave shock. A second or so later
same a second boom. A minute lat
er some observers heard a smaller
reverberation, possibly an echo.
The blast was believed to be
America’s 20th nuclear explosion.
It appeared at least three times
as powerful and bright as a med
ium scale blast last Sunday. Ob
servers reckoned it as equal to 100
of the co-called baby A-bombs, one
of which began this test series Oct.
22.
Here is what it looked like from
an elevation of 8,000 feet on Mt.
Charleston.
Bright As Sun
A white flash as round and large
as the sun strikes the eyes with
an impact almost finding. Then
the white ball contracts and red
streaks appear. A smaller red ball
glows at the center. It seems to
rise and suddenly bursts open
again.
A tower of gray fissioned smoke
rises into the air, climbs to a
height of perhaps 3,000 feet and
bulges out into a mushroom of
royal purple. At the base of the col
umn a large gray cloud spreads
out.
Eight minutes go by. The mush
room pushes higher and higher and
turns white on top. The whiteness
is probably from condensation of
carbon dioxide particles and it ap
pears that the top cloud has be
come a snow cloud. A small white
ice cap forms a halo above the
cloud, then is quickly gathered in
to it.
White Separates
Ten minutes pass and there
comes a wondrous transformation.
The white top cloud is almost
separated from the grayish brown
column and it develops ridges like
the seams on a baseball. The,seams
thrust out to reveal the interior
of the cloud which is a baby pink.
The pink glows softly through the
white fleecy coating.
The white cloud finally breaks
away from its column and all the
pink becomes one big splotch. Fin
ally the cloud becomes just like
any other cloud and trails away.
The cloudiness from the blast re
mains in the sky for two hours
and spreads some 50 miles across
the horizon.
At 11 a. m. (PST) the radiologi
cal safety unit of the AEG report
ed that “no measurable radiation
above normal background had been
found in the areas adjacent to the
test site.”
The flash was reported seen in
points as far distant as Needles,
Calif., Cedar City, Utah, and Eu
reka, Nev., all roughly in an arc
about 250 miles from the test site.
The shock was reported felt in
communities of searchlight, Nev.,
and Mountain Pass, Calif., both
about 130 miles away.
Congressional representatives in
cluded Senators Zales H. Ecton (R-
Mont) and George W. Malone (R-
Nev.) and Reps. H. Carl Anderson
(R-Minn.), Prince H. Preston (D-
Ga.), and Albert Gore' (D-Tenn.).
Articles Weak
By JOHN WHITMORE
Battalion Editor
“There have been some changes made.” This is a line
in a song and is also the impression one gets from reading
the October issue of The Engineer.
From the front cover, which has a picture of an electric
“steam” shovel to the last blue colored ad* the magazine has
something new. And in many cases these renovations are
good, but in others they are weak.
On the physical appearance* of the magazine, it might
be said it is the best looking book put out in The Engineer
history.
When one goes inside the cover and looks at the physical
arrangements of the stories, the magazine leaves the im
pression of a well planned and well executed make-up.
Trouble rears its head when the readers start reading
the subject matter. The articles, in general, appear tt) be
hastily written and hastily edited. This engineering technical
publication has stories which would be better suited in an
arts and science publication or a humor magazine.
But as a partial excuse the editorial, located across
the page from an excellent picture, censures the readers
who would just read the jokes. At the same time the
editorial asks them to come up and write a story. This
shortage of workers is evidenced throughout the mag
azine, but little regard or criticism can be given on this
point because this is a common occurance among student
publications.
One of the finest articles appearing in the magazine, en
titled “Hellova Shortage of Engineers” from Fortune Maga
zine, is easy to read and contains a lot of good information for
the near-graduating senior. The article says there is a short
age of 60,000 engineers in America today.
It goes on to cite examples of various firms trying to
hire entire graduating classes—without interviews or check
ing records. Salaries, according to Fortune, are going up
for the engineer.
But all of this is in the magazine and is of such import
to the seniors, it could not honestly be condensed.
Comments and reflections of a summer spent at
Junction by civil engineering students and geology stu
dents reads like excerpts from a teen-age girls diary.
The authors apparently attempt to write a humorous
article but it gets out of hand. However there are an
nual like captions under the pictures to detract from the
main story.
A. J. Craig, author of a feature entitled “Light Air
craft” does a good job in a few words. He recaps the prob
lems and possible solutions in getting a light plane for the
general public. However the article is counter-balanced
with two good pictures, which do not add a thing to the
story. A detracting part of the make-up of this story is
the “house-ad” in the center of the story.
Highlight of the magazine is the run-down on color
television. C. E. McCullough explains the workings and
problems confronting color television. He tells in simple
terms the fight between the RCA and CBS systems of send
ing the color images over the airwaves.
Realizing the lot of the instructors in the school,
The Engineer has a short feature on Charles J. Keese, in
structor of civil engineering. This is a good, wholesome
step forward to give the men in the departments pub
licity.
Across the page from the well written feature on Charles
Keese is a personal opinion column written by a freshman,
sophomore, junior and senior. The subject under discussion
this month was hazing. The men expressed their views.
Outside of a disertation on the Dynamics of Lip
stick Distribution, the only other noteworthy article in
the magazine is The Engineer Supports. This month
they got behind the senior class in the handling of the
discipline of corps members. However, they qualified
their support to include only the times when the senior
class was running A&M.
Off hand The Engineer editor seems to be missing the
idea behind the authorization of the cadet officers to handle
the discipline of corpsmen. The authority was vested in the
cadet officers and not to the senior class.
It appears as if every college magazine has to have its
joke section, and The Engineer is no exception. The jokes
are new and fresh. The engineering articles are few and
far between.
Notes From
Grad School
The increasing world-wide repu
tation of the Graduate School of
A&M is made evident by the cur
rent enrollment figures.
For the fall semester of 1951-52
there are 31 students enrolled from
outside the continental United
States. They represent 16 foreign
countries and one United States
possession.
A year ago the corresponding
figures were 21 students from out
side the continental United States
representing 11 countries and one
United States Possession.
In twelve months time this group
of students has increased 50 per
cent in both numbers and coun
tries represented.
The two nations contributing the
most students are India and Pak
istan with five each. Egypt follows
with four students and the United
States Possession, Puerto Rico, has
three. China has two students
while Cuba, France, Guatemala,
Iraq, Lebanon, Mexico, Paraguay,
Peru, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay,
and Venezuela have one each.
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By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
India, as you know, has refused
all along to believe that Red China
is so bad, as painted in the west.
India, as represented by people
like Panikkar and Prime Nehru,
thinks she can play the role of
“third force” between the contend
ing groups and come out of it
without getting involved, and per
haps with an enhanced position
for herself.
Panikkar now excuses Red Chi
na’s conquest of Tibet, which made
India very nervous at the time,
by explaining that the Reds are
only following through on tradi
tional Chinese policy as maintain
ed by Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nation
alists. He seems to overlook any
Tibetan rights in the matter, or
Royal Couple
Welcomed By
Trumans
Washing, Oct. 31—(A 5 )—Princess
Elizabeth and her husband will
get a rousing—though maybe a
damp—welcome today on their
first visit to the United States.
The President, Mrs. Truman, and
Margaret will be at the airport
at 3 p. m. (CST) to meet Elizabeth
and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
And they had better have their
raincoats along. The weatherman
forecasts that showers are likely.
Even so, thousands are expected
to line historic Constitution Ave
nue for a look at the royal couple.
A crowd was assured when Mr.
Truman announced that federal
workers who could be spared should
be allowed to leave their work for
an hour or so.
Millions more will watch the ar
rival on coast-to-coast television.
The royal couple has an incredi
ble schedule for their 45-hour visit
to the nation's capitol. Every min
ute is accounted for, with recep
tions and dinners almost overlap
ping each other.
The first of these dinners will
come tonight, with the Tramans
entertaining. It will be a small
dinner (it has to he because the
Blair House dining room will seat
only 18 to 20), but it will be for
mal.
Although Elizabeth and Philip
will be here for less than two full
days, they are scheduled to meet
practically every government of
ficial, diplomat and congressman
who is in town.
In addition, Elizabeth and Philip
will visit George Washington’s old
home, Mt. Vernon; the Unknown
Soldier’s Tomb in Arlington Ceme
tery, the Washington Cathedral,
the Supreme Court building, the
Library of Congress and the House
and Senate.
their long maintenance of freedom
from Chinese control, and the im
plications of conquest by force.
He likewise attributes Chinese
military intervention in Korea to
China’s traditional position, rather
than to the machinations of inter
national Russian Communism.
Danger of Chinese
There is, of course, some ground
for this argument. It was, how
ever, only one of the two main rea- .
sons why this column constantly
warned, during the first four
months of the Korean war, of the
danger of Chinese entry.
The other was Mao’s proclaim
ed alliance with Moscow, the ori
ginal Russian military support of
his campaigns against Chiang Kai-
Shek through the supply of cap
tured Japanese arms, and his de
pendence upon Russian arms for
support of any important military
effort. The MiG’s over Korea hard
ly testify to any great separation
between Moscow and Peiping.
Panikkar also tries to make
something of the fact that Mao’s
regime does not claim to be a
“Communist government.” The am
bassador’s remarks on this subject
indicate something less than full
knowledge of Communist dialects.
Kremlin Doesn’t Claim
The Kremlin doesn’t claim a
Communist government, either, and
by its totalitarian acts has mur
dered the old theory that under
Communism the government was
eventually expected to wither away
in a society in which one produces
for all and all for one.
Panikkar has never been accused
of being a Communist nor even a
good Socialist. But he was once
connected with the Nationalists
movements in Java and Indochina,
one of which involved at the time
extreme hatred of things western,
and the other has turned Com
munist.
America Not Happy
The United States was not hap
py when Panikkar was acting as
go-between in the original United
Nations efforts to reach a settle
ment with Mao over Korea.
Panikkar’s return home has beer,
followed by the arrival in New
Delhi of a Communist Chinese
“cultural mission,” which in any
country familiar with Communis!
practice means a propaganda tour
The mission is the guest of the
Indian government, and was wel
comed by various Indian associa
tions.
In the meantime, Nehru contin
ues his practice of ruthless sup
pression of Communists in India.
Those from across the Himalayas
and the China Sea, for some rea
son, seem far less sinister to him.
Milligan Elected Prexy
Of Collin County Club
Tom' Milligan was elected presi
dent of the Collin County Club at
a meeting held recently. He is a
junior Ag. Ed. student from Celina.
Other officers elected were Jack
Morris, vice president and Kenneth,
secretary-treasurer.
Club members selected the third
Thursday of every month as their
regular meeting date.
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