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Number 11: Volume 53
Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1953
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For 76 Years
Price Five Cents
A&M HONOR GUARD—The Ross Volunteers flank the first Texas governor to win on
both Democratic and Republican tickets, Gov. Allan Shivers. He voiced a prayer of
peace and urged the legislature to follow a sober course of reform at his inauguration
in Austin yesterday. Members of the official family sat behind him, with members of the
house and senate on either side. (AP Wire photo.)
Brodie Twin
Dies in Coma
A f ter 34 Days
CHICAGO, Jan. 21—UP)—
Tiny Roger Lee Brodie, Siam
ese twin who for 34 days
amazed the medical world by
; surviving a head-to-head sur-
fcical separation, died last night.
The Ifi-month-old boy had been
in. a deep coma since the history:
making operation Dec. 17. His
brain circulation was impaired and
his condition had been listed “very
precarious” since the separation
from his brother Rodney Dee.
Attending physicians had ex
pressed amazement that he sur
vived the 12 hour and 40 minute
operation.
The surgery on the twins, who
were born joined at the top of their
heads, was the first time in medi
cal history the patients had sur
vived such an operation.
Rodney, since the separation, has
undergone two plastic procedures
to put skin over his brain. He
fyas shown some signs he is on the
roadto recovery. However, he must
undergo further surgery and his
condition still is regarded as crit
ical.
“Roger’s death was not unex
pected development by any means,”
said a spokesman at the Neuro-
Psychiatric Hospital of the Univer
sity of Illinois.
Legislature Asks
Budget Stay Pat
AUSTIN, Jan. 21—(A 5 )—A stand-
pat state budget for the next two
years was recommenced to the
Legislature yesterday by its own
financial experts—the Legislative
Budget Board.
The board proudly place^ on
desks of senators and representa
tives a schedule of general state
spending that'would total ld2 mil
lion dollars for the biennium. That
is just a trifle more than the cur
rent rate of spending and would
require no new taxes.
This was the second budget sug
gested to the lawmakers within a
week. Last Thursday Gov. Shivers
presented a two-year spending plan
that would hit about 166 million
dollars.
Main Difference
The main difference lie in Shiv
ers’ ' recommendations for higher
salaries for many state employees
and college teachers.
The Legislative Budget Board
left the question of pay raises
Ike Gives 42m]
Inaugural Address
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—6T>—
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s inaug
ural address yesterday was the
42nd in the nation’s 164-year his
tory.
How come, since we’ve had
»*nly .32 men in the White House
before today?
It’s this way: 17 Presidents
served one elective term each,
making 17 inaugural addi’esses.
Nine — Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln,
Grant, McKinley and Wilson—
were elected to two successive
terms, making 18 more inaugural
addresses for a total of 35.
Cleveland was elected a sec
ond time after being out of of
fice four yeai-s, making two more
inaugurals for a total of 37.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four
elections brought four more in
augurals for a grand total of 41.
But that accounts for only 28
men making inaugural speeches
out of the 32 before today, doesn’t
it?
Well, there were four more
Presidents all right. But each one
«»—Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson and
Arthur—moved up from the vice
presidency because of deaths and
was never elected president on
,his own. They took an oath but it
was without frills of pomp and
speech.
Driver Lacks
Necessary GI
Equipment
SEOUL —hP)— A military
policeman stopped a Puerto
Rican jeep driver of the 65th
Regiment.
The authorization slip for
the jeep was blank. .
“Why isn’t it filled in?”
the M. P. asked.
The driver spoke for five
minutes in fluent Spanish.
“All I want to know is why
the trip ticket isn’t filled in,”
the harried. M. P. cut in.
The driver’s buddy answer
ed in English:
“He says he doesn’t have
a pencil.”
For 32 Minutes II.S.
Was Without Prexy
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—6P>—
The U. S. was without a presi
dent yesterday for 32 minutes.
The Constitution says the presi
dential term shall end at noon
on Jan. 20 Harry S. Truman’s
nearly eight years as President
came to an official end at that
hour.
Dwight D. Ensenhower did not
take the oath until 12:32 p. m.
EST 11:32 a. m. CST. Until then
he was only the President-elect.
Although Richard M. Nixon was
sworn in as vice president at 12:23
p. m., this did not make him
president, even theoretically, until
Eisenhower took the oath.
This is because no man is pres
ident until he takes the oath for
that office. And Nixon was sworn
in as vice president, not president.
strictly to the Legislature. It did
the same thing on the issue of
whether to spend an extra 100 mil
lion dollars per year on highways.
Senate and House members will
start scanning the latest budget
proposal today. They adjourned
after inauguration of Gov. Shivers
yesterday.
Months of work have gone into
the spending suggestions of the
governor and the budget board, but
the process of deciding how much
to spend it far from finished.
House and Senate committees
will hold hearings on requests of
the numerous state agencies and
finally come up with their own ver
sion of how much the state should
spend.
Floor Debate on Bills
The House and Senate will hear
floor debate on their committee
recommendations and eventually a
joint committee will probably get
together to produce the final
money-spending bills. That’s the
way the process usually works.
The Legislative Budget Boai’d
estimated 19 million dollars in gen
eral revenue would be left over to
meet additional requests which
would require more than 100 mil
lion dollars if granted.
These requests include $66 mil
lion for the next two years to im
prove the pay scale of public school
teachers from a minimum base of
$2,400 to $3,000 per year; $4 mil
lion for higher college teacher sal
aries; $4.4 million for higher state
employee pay; nearly $12 million
for tuberculosis hospitals and
prison construction; $5.6 million
for medical, dental and cancer
hospital buildings; $6.2 million for
modernization of the School for
the Deaf; $3,160,000 for new build
ings and dormitories for Texas
Southern University.
Bond Issue Defeated
n Election,
-325
Shivers Asks
To Improve State
AUSTIN, Jan. 21—(A 3 )—Unusual
religious solemnity marked the in
auguration yesterday f o r Allan
Shivers as governor and Ben Ram
sey as lieutenant governor, both
for their second elective term.
Fervent prayers for peace, mercy
and wisdom for mankind in a
troubled world came alike from
preacher and politician.
They overshadowed in emphasis
the practical pleas and programs
of the two officials who will guide
the state’s government for two
years.
The roars ol a 19-cannon mili
tary salute, jarred the earth and
rattled the windows of the capitol.
The echoes had barely died away
when the governor’s pastor, Dr.
Carlyle Marney, set the ceremo-
niol’s tone with his invocation:
“Let Thy mercies cover the
earth.”
Hope of Peace
And the 45-year-old governor
underlined these words:
“In an era of vast and even
frightening scientific progress, in
an atmosphere of international
danger and a time of grave domes
tic decision, we would be neither
the children of man nor of God if
we failed to put first in our
thoughts and prayers the hope for
peace and the preservation of our
way of life.”
From Ramsey:
“May God guide our leaders in
Washington—men of both of our
political parties—in their difficult
task of bringing us international
peace with honor.”
A crowd that some estimated at
25,000, some at less than 10,00,
massed around the south portico
of the capitol to see Shivers and
Ramsey swear to “preserve, pro
tect and defend” the constitution
of the state and nation.
Old Bible Used
Chief Justice John Hickman di
rected each to place his hand on
the 112-year-old Bible in taking the
oath.
The ancient book has so served
Texas through many turbulent po
litical years.
The whole inauguration was not
as solemn as the capitol ceremony.
For the first time since 1947, it
started with a parade and ended
with a whirl of social activities
climaxed with three separate in
augural balls.
It was an inaugural unusual in
other aspects.
It put into of ice, for the first
time in Texas history, a governor
and lieutenant governor who had
been nominated by both the Demo
cratic and Republican parties.
Improve State
Shivers called on the Legislature
•—meeting in joint session for the
inaugural—to work at a solid job
of improving state government. He
said the lawmakers’ opportunity
this time “is not so much to make
headlines as to make history.”
Shivers outlined again the pat
tern of government which he laid
before the lawmakers a week ago,
saying:
“These are merely general sug
gestions. There are opportunities
before us of saving money—and of
spending money more wisely. Few
of them offer a chance for spectac
ular reforms, but rather for in
creased economy and efficiency in
our government.”
Shivers wants the Legislature to
hammer at the problem of water
conservation, co-oi'dination of high
er education, improved school fi
nancing, government reorganiza
tion, better personnel procedures
for state workers, and a sound
building program. He has counsel
ed improved highways, a stepped-
up state tuberculosis program and
new taxes sharply limited to ac
tual needs.
Record 793 Ballots
Beal $650,000Man
By HARRT BAKER
Battalion City Editor
The A&M Consolidated School board of trustee’s $050,000
bend proposal was defeated yesterday in public election, 463
to 325.
This vote is unofficial, said H. E. Burgess, election judge.
The ballots have to be submitted to the County Commission
ers Court for verification.
A total of 793 votes were cast. The final count was 325,
for, 463 against, and five mutilated.
Earlier reports showed that there were about 650 voters
in the school district, but a record 788 votes were cast.
Supt. Les Richardson, who favored passage of the bonds
and was optimistic yesterday, said today, “I don’t know what
the school authorities are going to do. We’ll have to wait un
til the board meets in official session.”
‘‘There will be another bond issue proposed,” said E. E.
: ♦'Brown, president of the Consoli
dated board of trustees. “People
are aware of the emergency. We
can’t let education stop.”
Brown said he would call a ses
sion of the school board within the
next two or three days, possibly
today, for the purpose of releas
ing a statement about the election.
Not In Position
“We’re in no position now to
make a statement,” he said.
When asked why he thought
the bond issue was not approved,
Brown said, “I don’t believe it
was strictly mistrust of the boai'd
or the board’s figures.”
“We may have slipped up by
not getting the facts before the
public soon enough,” he said. “The
opposition did a mighty good job
of twisting that up.”
Before the election, Brown had
said: “It’s in the bag.” He pre
dicted that the bond issue would
carry two to one.
The $650,000 provided by the
bonds would have been used for
the construction of a new high
school and an elementary school.
Opposition to the proposal was
based on the 50 per cent tax
raise the school board said they
would have needed to pay for the
bonds and doubts as to the abil
ity of College Station to support
a $650,000 bond issue.
Clerks for yesterday’s election
were Mrs. Dan R. Davis, Mrs. A.
D. Folweiler, Mrs. Curtis Williams,
and Mrs. Marion Pugh. The elec
tion was held in Consolidated’s
Supt. Les Richardson
“I don’t know”
music room.
Directions for Registration
Friday Afternoon, Jan. 30, 1953
On this day only new Basic Division students who have
done no college work will be permitted to register. They will
register in the Registrar’s Office beginning at 1:00 p. m.
Saturday, Jan. 31, 1953
On this day, others will register in Sbisa Hall. Registra
tion cards will be released according to the following sched
ule :
8:00 to 9:00—All whose surnames begin with T, U, V, W
X, Y, Z.
9:00 to 10 :00—All whose surnames begin with L, M, N. O.
10:00 to 11:00—All whose surnames begin with P, Q, R, S.
1:00 to 2:00—All whose surnames begin with C, D, E, F.
2:00 to 3:00—All whose surnames begin with G, H, I, J,K.
3:00 to 4:00—All whose surnames begin with A, B.
PRESIDENT’S FOREIGN POLICY COMMANDS SUPPORT
Ike Starts First Day Without Cabinet
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—(A 3 )—
President Eisenhower’s no - ap
peasement foreign policy creed
commanded widespread support to
day in a Congi-ess marking time
for an early blueprint of his do
mestic program.
As the din of a three-day inau
gural celebration died away, the
34th President faced the task of
putting into a State of the Union
message his' ideas for carrying on
the “Great Crusade” • he pledged
before his landslide vote victory
last November. No date for deliv
ery of the message has been an
nounced.
Eisenhower’s inaugural address
yesterday was a broadly stated
outline of his foreign policy creed.
He left for later messages the de
tails of his international and do
mestic programs.
Thus Congress and the nation
had to wait a bit longer to see just
how great a change in executive
thinking was entailed by the shift,
after 20 years, from Democratic to
Republican control of the White
House.
Row Over Wilson
Because of a row over one pro
posed appointment and the objec
tions of Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore) to
quick Senate action yesterday on
nine nominations, Eisenhower
started his first full day in office
without a Cabinet. That could be
changed by likely Senate votes to
day on eight Cabinet jobs.
There was little but delay in
sight, however, for Charles E. Wil
son, whose prospective nomination
for secretary of defense has been
challenged because of his General
Motors holdings. A new hearing
for Wilson, originally set for to
day, was postponed until Friday.
Except for the Cabinet appoint
ments, there was no business be
fore the Senate today, and the
House was in recess.
Support of Everyone
Eisenhower apparently could
count on much two-party backing
in Congi’ess for his foreign pro
gram, as he outlined it broadly in
his 20-minute inaugural address
yesterday.
Standing bareheaded in the win
ter sunshine on a stand in front of
the Capitol, the new President told
the world that great as are the
problems at home, America’s over
riding concern 4s to make certain
“that the future shall belong to the
free.”
Reaffirming his campaign stand
for co-operation with other free na
tions he said that “no free people
can long cling to any privilege or
enjoy any safety in economic soli
tude.”
Assume Responsibilities
But he said other nations must
“assume, within the limits of their
resources, their full and just bur
dens in the common defense of
freedom.”
The first task of statesmanship,
he continued, must be to “develop
the strength that will deter the
forces of aggression and promote
the conditions of peace.”
Then he sounded his keynote:
“Realizing that common sense
and common decency alike dictate
the futility of appeasement, we
shall never try to placate an ag
gressor by the false and wicked
bargain of trading honor for secur
ity. For in the final choice a sol
dier’s pack is not so heavy a bur
den as a prisoner’s chains.”
Shivers Sends Ike
Short Texas Salute
AUSTIN, Jan. 21—(/P)—Gover
nor Allan Shivers yesterday sent
President-elect Eisenhower a
short-wave salute reminding him
that Texas was one of the states
that “liked Ike.”
This was the message, sent by
E. C. Bartholomew, member of
the American Radio Relay League:
“Dear Mr. President: The state
of Texas joins the other forty-sev
en states in honoring you as our
duly installed leader, and wishing
you a significant and successful
administration. Texas was one of
the states that ‘liked Ike’ on Nov.
4; Texas is intensely interested in
your program for domestic pro
gress and international peace. We
offer our prayers and co-operation
for our great country.”
Weather Today
WINDY
WEATHER TODAY: Clear and
windy. The high yesterday was 64
and the low this morning was 37.