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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, July 14, 1953
Congressman Teague Reports
Hopes For Balanced Budget
As Appropriation Bills Are Studied
Army Reservists Face
Waning Intensive Training
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Washington, D. C., July 14—As
the House of Representatives has
completed its consideration of all
major Appropriation bills for the
fiscal year 1954, and the Senate
currently considers them, the pros
pects of a balang-ed budget re
treats farther and farther from
the realm of the possible; at least
for the foreseeable future.
More and more, the Congress
and the Administration x'ealize
that if everything is to turn out
alright, something must be done,
or it never will. The hard cold
facts facing us everyday in the
field of foreign affairs and our in
ternal domestic policies makes us
realize that the Federal govern
ment is committed in many fields
requiring enormous expenditures.
Deficit Financing Inflationary
The majority of the economists
in the country are generally agreed
that deficit financing is a major
cause of inflation—its continuance
takes on a sinister' appearance in
these troubled times. Unknow
ingly, unwittingly and without
fault of our own, the self-interests
of our great country has in some
instances, unfortunately been sub
ordinated to the interests of the
rest of the world. I have said
many times that America today is
the country to which the rest of
the world turns its troubled head.
They look to us for guidance—yet
comparatively speaking, we are a
baby in the field of foreign affairs.
The assistance we have rendered to
date, however, has indeed lended
stature to us. Some may question
our actions in> the field of foreign
affairs—I have at times—yet I
honestly feel that this God-fearing
nation has been destined to play
the role it is now playing. If we
are to fulfill this part, it is im
perative that we keep ourselves in
ternally strong, and to do so, we
must reduce in some measure our
tremendous expenditures. The Sen
ate recently adopted a resolution
in this respect by placing a limita
tion on certain of our foreign aid
programs.
Supports Expenditure Reductions
As I have done in the past sev
eral years, I again voted this yer
for every amendment designed to
reduce expenditures in non-essen
tial fields. I did suppoi’t amend
ments to restore certain funds in
the Defense appropriations; how
ever, but I hope that those who
are responsible for the administra
tion of these funds will be prudent
in their expenditure in order that
this country will receive a dollar’s
worth of defense for every dollar
expended.
Because of the chain of events
over the last several decades, the
necessity for a continuation of de
ficit financing has prevented us
from making provisions for debt
retirement. In this connection, as
early as 1949; February 7 to be
exact, I introduced a bill in the
1st Session of the 81st Congress
to amend sections of the Legisla
tive Reorganization Act of 1946 so
as to pi’ovide for the reduction of
the public debt by at least 10% of
the estimated over-all Federal re
ceipts for each fiscal year. Con
sideration was not given to this
measure as, at that time, we were
then engaged in a major prepared-
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‘Shanghai Pierce’ Relates
Story of Old-Time Rancher
NORMAN, Okla.—<^P) — When
Shanghai Pierce was building his
Texas cattle empire, only the brave
—and rascally — cattleman could
survive.
Shanghai was the bravest of
them all, probably the most pro
fane, the richest, the most colorful,
Garrett to Speak
At Legion Meeting
Roy Garrett of Bryan, post com
mander of Post No. 159, will speak
at the regular meeting of The
College Station American Legion in
the Senate Room of the MSC July
16, at 8 p.m. according to John
Kinconnon, post commander.
Garrett’s subject will be “What
Can the American Legion Mean to
a Community?”
Anyone interested in this discus
sion is cordially invited to come
out and bring a friend, said Kin-
cannon.
the loudest, possibly tire biggest.
And he may have been more of a
x’ascal than all the rest. It was
the last half of the last centui'y.
For the first time, the story of
Abel Head (Shanghai) Pierce has
been given full-length treatment.
The job was done by Chris Emmett
of San Antonio, whose “Shanghai
Piex'ce” was published by the Uni
versity of Oklahoma Press. The
326 - page, cai’efully - documented
volume sells for $5.
Boim in Rhode Island and soon
under the thumb of a sanctimonious
stox'ekeeper uncle there, Pierce
came to Texas as a stowaway. He
was 19 years old, six feet four, and
ah’eady had a voice to shake the
rafters.
He went quickly to work becom
ing a cattleman. Like others, he
put his own brand on many of the
cattle then dx-ifting over the un
fenced coastal pastures. A knowing
banker offex-ed him unlimited cred
it. Shanghai was on the xvay.
Shanghai’s empire was along the
Hobson Wouldn’t Give Up
i Glory Hole’ For Anything!
AMARILLO—<A>)—J. M. Hobson
established his “Glox-y Hole” in de
pression days when he had plenty
of loafing time. Now that the 71-
year-old Amaxillo contx’actor is
semi-x’etired, he wouldn’t give up
his “Glory Hole” for anything.
The “Glory Hole” is a wox-kshop
in his basement where Hobson
makes things from wood. He still
has the same lathe, powered by a
Model-T Ford engine. And the
same jig-saw, constructed from aix
old treadle sewing machine.
Hobson’s workshop is not a
money-maker. He has made things
of evei'y kind of wood in the xxa-
tion. Except for the few items of
wqodwoi'k in his home, he has giv
en all his wox*k away. He esti
mates he has given away $12,500
of Ixis handiwoi'k.
“I have never sold an item,” Hob
son says. “They definitely ax-e not
for sale. I got the ieda of making
the hobby express my gratitude for
an appx'opriation of mankind.”
Coffee tables, lamps, library ta
bles, serving trays, nut bowls, pin
trays, plates, paper weights have
gone out in a stx’eam over the years
to those for whom Hobson has af
fection. Each item bears a num
ber, the date and Hobson’s name,
and each is recoi’ded in a book
here. Almost every state is repre
sented.
“I try to impress upon the young
wood-hobbyists of Amai’illo the
beauty of our native woods. I
make my most beautiful things of
wood found in Palo Duro Canyoxx
— cedar, mesquite, chinaberry,
hackberxy and cottonwood.” H e
also used Chinese elm, cheri'y, ap-
x-icot and peach wood, all found in
Amai'illo.
He has made oxxe discovery he
believes may be valuable.
“After 40 years of patching
splits in cui’ed wood, I learned a
simple way to di-y and season wood
without it splitting.”
He uses the same px-inciple our
fox-efathex-s used in curing meat—
He salts the wood down in barrels.
The sap is drawn out from the
wood by the salt before the wood
ages aixd cracks from the outside.
Texas Gulf Coast, centering in
Fort Bend County and around
Wharton. By purchase, foi’eclos-
xii'e, and other means he put to
gether moi'e than 100,000 acres
which made him one of the “Big
Pasture” men. He became so rich
he bought an Ai’kansas hotel when
refused a room, but still x*emem-
bered to dun a relative for a 25
cent pair of socks. He helped in-
tx'oduce the Brahman cattle to the
Southwest, but made most of his
fox-tune buying and selling the
tough range cattle of the time.
He was a vain; he built a monu
ment to himself topped by a statue.
He was crafty; he sewed the eyes
of a hex-d of mean cattle shut, sold
them to a naive Yankee who saw
them bx-eak loose and head for
home when the threads rotted. He
built a chux-ch for his people, swore
mightily when a storm levelled it.
But most of all he was a huge,
colox-ful, loud pex*sonality import
ant to Texas history. Emmett,
author of several books about Tex
as, has done a histox-ian’s job which
embraces not only Pierce and his
family but many other charactei-s
impox-tant to that part of Texas
history. Any family whose fore
bears lived and fought in Texas in
those days is likely to be named in
this book. As a regional histox-y,
it is excellent. As an account of
one of Texas’ most colorful men, it
is good.
Structure Analysis
Topic of New Book
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“Fundamentals of Structural An
alysis” is the title of a new civil
engineering textbook which A&M
researchex-s have recently published
through the Van Nostrand Com
pany.
Written by the late Dx\ A. A.
Jakkula (structural engineer, edu
cator, and reseax-cher and most re
cently executive director of A&M
Research Foundation) and Henson
K. Stephenson (formerly acting
professor of structural engineex-ing
at A&M and presently head of
structural engineering research at
the Texas Engineering Expex’iment
Station) the book is aimed at serv
ing both the instructional needs of
students and the review needs of
practicing professionals.
sic elements, fundamental princi-
The new text introduces the ba-
ples, and elementary procedures in
volved in the stress analysis of
stitistically determinate structures.
Its topics include external and in
ternal equilibrium, loads, roof trus
ses, wind loads, cables and arches,
mill bents, beams and girders, and
bridge trasses.
Mrs. Pate Given
Shower Tonight
Mrs. John Thomas Pate, the for
mer Martha Jane Arnold, will be
honored tonight at a miscellaneous
shower given by Mrs. Charlene
Taylor at 40 Jane Street.
Relatives and school friends will
assemble at 8 o’clock to surprise
the new bride. While she is open
ing the gifts a mixed Hawaiian
punch with assorted cookies will
be served to the guests.
Mrs. Pate is a graduate of A&M
Consolidated High School and has
been working this past year at the
E*ckaRge Stere. The gtricm .a
yes-dent of and „» attending
Allen Academy.
ness px-ogram, following our let
down after Woxld Wax- II. Of
course, the next year we became
involved in Kprea, and the measure
was never considered. The State
of Texas has a plan similar to this
which has px-oven very effective.
I feel the Federal Govex-nment
could benefit by it, and I hope that
either my measure or a similax- one
will be studied by the Congress.
Many Appropriations
Many of the monies appropria
ted by the Congress are used to
fulfill or pay for programs on
which the Federal Government is
committed by public law—or in the
case of many agencies in the gov
ernment—by contract. Many of
these bx-oad pi-ograms are both con
tinuing and costly and may not be
abandoned over-night without
gx-eatly endangering the domestic
and foreign economic and political
balance. The Appropriations Com
mittees in the House have been en
deavoring to bring maxxy of these
piugx-ams to a halt, or at least a
partial staxxdstill by meat-axe tac
tics in the funds they approve and
report to the House for its con-
sidex-ation. In my estimation, such
actions can only be termed “stop
gap” measures, at is would only
reduce the program for one fiscal
yeax-, and if the Committee did
not cut the monies again next fis
cal yeax-, we would not have gained
—but in all probability lose. It
is my personl feeling that if many
of these progx-ams are to be xe-
duced, or cut out entirely, that the
Congress should meet the issue
squarely and either amend or x-e-
peal the public laws which contain
the authority for the continuation
of the program in question.
After-Meet Party
Given by Stevens
An after-the-meet party was giv
en fox- members of the visiting
swimming teams Sunday night in
the yard of Mi-, and Mrs. A. B.
Stevens.
The pai-ty was sponsored by the
Stevens, the G. H. Drapers, and
the E. D. Parnells. Members of
the College Station swimming team
contributed sandwiches and ice
cold watermelons eaten “native
style.”
The party was a success in that
evex-yone came, ate, relived the
meet, and left fox* the long drive
home in a happy frame of mind.
Profs Attend
Fort Worth Meet
Three professors from the De-
pai-tment of Agricultui*al Educa
tion will be in Fort Wox-th July
21-24 for a meeting of the Texas
Education Agency and State FFA
Convention, said Henry Ross of the
Agricultural Education Depax-t-
ment.
Ross is the chairman of two com
mittees that will meet there. One
committee is writing a guide bul
letin on developing a teaching plan
for vocational ag, teachers. Ernest
V. Walton is also on the commit
tee. The second, committee which
Ross heads, will woi-k on the rules
and requix-ements governing- state
FFA judging contests.
J. R. Jackson is a member of a
committee which will select the
outstanding FFA boy dux-ing the
FFA convention.
Cook On Vacation
To Colorado Parks
Prof. B. D. Cook, assistant to
the dean of agriculture, left Fri
day on a vacation trip to Colorado
and Yellowstone National Park.
Cook said he planned to visit
several lumber camps and do some
fishing. He will retunx before en
rollment for the second summer
session.
Prior to his vacation, Cook spent
three weeks at Prairie View A&M
College, Prairie View, where he
taught a course in 4-H Club or
ganization and procedure. The
three weeks training program for
negro extension wox-kers was pax-t
of the regular summer session of
the college.
Cook and G. L. Smith, Dean of
Agriculture at Prairie View, con
ducted a group of students on a
weekend trip to Monterrey, Mexico
early in June.
Catalog Unchanged
Fop Second Terra
There have been no courses ad
ded or dropped that are offered in
the catalog for the second semes
ter of .summer school, said H. L.
Heaton, registrar.
He.?a44 "that AH courses 'Rill Es
-offered if enough students enroll in
them. .
AUSTIN — Texas Army reserv
ists without prior active military
service will converge .^on Camp
Chaffee, Arkansas, this' week for
two weeks of intensive basic mili-
tax-y tx-aining, accox-ding to Col. M.
E. Jones, Chief of the Texas Mil-
itax-y Distx'ict.
An anticipated 150 resex-vists
from 75 Texas cities will xende-
vous at 10 Texas points to board
busses, trains and commercial air-
linei-s for the trip to the training
site.
Texas Forms
Pact With
New Mexico
The attorney generals of Texas
and New Mexico have proposed
that the two states pioneer intex--
state water conservation with an
undergx-ound water compact regu
lating futux-e wells along the bor
der.
After a two-day conference x-e-
cently in Austin, Attorney Generals
Richard H. Robinson of New Mex
ico arid John Ben Shepperd of Tex
as released a joint statement in
which they advocated coopex-ative
settlement of legal problems fac
ing both states.
The conference was primarily
devoted to water problems. The
pending suit by Texas against New
Mexico over division between the
states of water from the Rio
Grande, a potential suit by New
Mexico against Texas over drill
ing of Texas water wells along the
boi'der, and the background of the
Pecos River compact wex-e discus
sed.
Sheppex-d and Robinson pxoposed
that the underground water prob
lem be settled by an Interstate Un
derground Water Compact in which
the two states would agree on the
spacing and capacity of border
water wells dx-illed in the future.
Suggested by Shepperd, the
px-oposed compact would be the
first in history dealing wits un-
dex-gx-ound waiter of two states. The
statement pointed out that the
proposed compact would consex-ve
critical undergi-ound water supplies
and lead to fair and just settlement
of the problem without a lawsuit.
More air travel has been author
ized this year than last due to the
distances involved. Rendezvous
points are Amarillo, Austin, Beau
mont, Dallas, Fort Worth, Harling
en, Houston, San Antonio, Tyler
and Waco.
The 15-day period from July 12-
26 includes tx-avel time to and from
Camp Chaffee. The summer sched
ule is designed to supplement in
struction reservists receive in
weekly home-town training pex-iods.
Trainees will be attached to the
95th Infantry Division and will
be accompanied to the training site
by a non-commissioned officer from
each of the rendezvous points.
The basic tx-aining schedule in-
eludes marksmanship, physical
tx-aining, disassembly and fixing of
the M-l x-ifle and carbine, road
mai*ches, bivouac, hand grenade
practice, combat and counter intel
ligence, known distance and tx-ans-
ition firing, day and night map and
compass reading, camouflage and
concealment, hasty field fortifica
tions and intrenchments, combat
formations, scouting and patroling,
close-order dxill and manual of
Pakistan j
Displayed^ f
A collection ofi
of the natives of
exhibit in the dis;
MSC.
This collection
other things, diva:
dex-ed handbags, : records '
laces, rings and r.ollege St
Also displayed lining Me
candlesticks and . July 12.
M. A. Khan, tfest and b
fox-mer student of ^ amsol b J
with the Consulat-
kistant in New -e 513 co
items to be broojsenting 1
will be on displahed swii
July 15, said Mrsyided inti
of the MSC. s for age
hediates
hd Senior
'iTophies V
Pest Control Meet
Planned for July 17
An estimated 75 persons will at
tend a Pest Control Shoi't Course,
sponsored by the Entomology De-
pai-tment, in the MSC July 17.
Registration will be in the lobby
of the MSC from eight a.m. to 12
noon on Fx-iday. A registration fee
of $3.00 per person will be charg
ed.
Thex-e will be a luncheon at
12:15 in rooms 2C and 2D of the
MSC.
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