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THE BATTALION
Friday, January 8, 1954
Six Encores
Crowds Appiaude
S.A. Symphony
By BOB HENDRY
Battalion Feature Editor
The San Antonio Symphony
opened its Town Hall concei'ts last
night with Rossini’s “Overture to
William Tell” to gallop away with
the hearts of the audience.
Two crowds thundered for six
encores by the orchesti'a after it
had finished its scheduled perform
ances. “They were really a great
audience,” said conductor Victor
State o! Union
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tended unemployment insurance,
long-time housing loans and slum
cleai'ance, and federal aid for state
school building needs.
Sen. Duff (R-Pa) said the rec
ommendations indicate “the Presi
dent’s firm intention to fulfill all
his campaign commitments.”
Sen. Bridges (R-NH) voiced con
fidence the President’s program
would have “overwhelming sup
port, not only of all Republicans,
but all thoughtful Americans as
well.”
Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-
Ky) said the President “is assum
ing the leadership that the people
‘want.” He predicted enactment of
most of the program.
But Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore) found
the message only “a masterpiece
of platitudes, thereby raising false
hope.”
Significantly, perhaps, there was
almost no criticism of the Presi
dent’s disciission of foreign poli
cies, on which Secretary of State
Dulles supplied additional details
in a 214 hour closed session with
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee after the message was de
livered.
Dulles told the senators that both
the United States and Russia were
having foreign affairs troubles, but
added:
“As bad as our troubles are, I
wouldn’t trade our troubles for
theirs.”
Dulles defended the proposal to
withdraw two divisions from Ko
rea, explaining that additional
South Korean troops are being
trained. He was quoted as saying
tne North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization (NATO) is “in good shape.”
Sen. Clements (D-Ky) said he
sees in the President’s speech ap
proval of “the foi'eign policy which
the Democrats developed” and he
hopes Republicans now would sup
port the President, especially in-
continuing and expanding the re
ciprocal trade program.
But plenty of conti'oversy was
brewing in that field, as it was
learned a presidential commission
plans to recommend shortly fur
ther tariff cuts, carefully safe-
guarded. Many GOP lawmakers
have been urging higher import
duties on some items.
One administration headache in
the field of foreign relations per
sisted — the controversial amend
ment proposed by Sen. Bricker (R-
Ohio) to limit treaty-making pow
ers. President Eisenhower, Secre
tary of State Dulles, arid other ex
ecutive and legislative leaders met
yesterday with Bricker seeking a
compromise acceptable to him and
the administration.
But the senator said afterwards
they “reached no agreement and
nothing definite was accomplish
ed.”
Alessandro. “When they like some
thing, they let you know it.”
Because the new field house has
not been completed, two perform
ances Avere given by the orchestra
in Guion hall.
The symphony played Bizet’s
Symphony No. 1 in C major;
Divorak’s Slavonic Dance, opius 72,
No. 2 in E Minor, and opus 46, No.
1 in C. Major; White’s Five Minia
tures; and Saint-Saens’ Bacchanale
from “Samson and Delilah.”
Providing some of the best show
manship by any symphony director,
Alessandro carefully picks his pro
gram before giving a concert.
“Symphony music should be list
ened to for pleasure and enjoy
ment,” he said. “No matter what
people say about listening to opera
music for art and education, they
actually don’t like it unless they
enjoy the program.”
Asked if classical music is still
considered to be for older people
and “high - brows”, Alessandro
said, “Absolutely not. That’s prov
ed by the fact that 15-30 year-olds
buy more symphony recordings
than any other age group.”
Alessandro joined the San An
tonio Symphony three years ag'o
Avhen he became its permanent
musical directoi’. He is a native
Texan and attended Allen Academy
in Bryan in 1929 for one year.
The conductor started his musi
cal career in the East, ti’aveled to
Europe to study, and then returned
to America whex-e he founded the
Oklahoma City Symphony oixhes-
ti'a.
“It seems eyei'ytime I change I
ti’avel tdwax’ds the Gulf,” Ales
sandro said. “The next time I
change I’ll be in the watei\”
Editors
Letters
Editors, The Battalion
Instead of so .much publicity to
the dangers you believe to be in-
herent in the Student Life Commit
tee’s delibei’ations as to the neces
sity of a standing committee to
supeiwise student publications, why
do you still fail to introduce i-efine-
ment and discretion in the selection
of news articles to be planted?
To consider a newspaper above
censoi’ship is proper and in line
with the American ideals of a fi’ee
press, as is to consider tastefulness
and polish a necessity. Many of
your ai’ticles are definitely bimtal
and inurbane to this reader.
In considei'ing your x-ights, you
fail to consider the readei’s’ rights
the persons who most often decide
Avether a newspaper Avill succeed or
fall by the Avayside. Now about try
ing to please the readers as well as
youi’selves in the near futuro,
please ?
It is my conviction that the pi’e-
sent deliberations on censorship
for the Battalion ai'e a rosult of
the editors’ colossal inurbanty.
Shorty Clark ’54
Although Negroes foi’med 20 per
cent of the U. S. population about
1800 a. d., they noxv foi-m less than
10 per cent of the U. S. population.
News
Flashes
READING, Pa., Jan. 7 OP)—The
Reading ai’ea was shaken by eax-th
tromors today that tumbled sleep-
ei's out of bed, toppled chimneys,
x’attled houses and tumbled liquor
bottles from shelves in a state
liquor store.
The tremors Avere centered in
the Sinking Springs area, a com
munity 60 miles from Philadelphia.
* * *
BASTROP, La. (/P) — Six
persons died — five from one
family — in a head-on auto
mobile crash north of here yes
terday. Two others were in
jured. Police said Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Lynn and their
three children, all of Bastrop,
and Mrs. Ida Moore of Jones,
La., wei - e killed.
* * *
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 — (TP)—
Chester Lee Davenport, sought by
the FBI as one of its 10 most Avant-
ed fugitives, was arrested today
near Dixon, Calif., as he sat down
to milk a cow. Davenport’s name
had been posted on the 10 most
wanted list only yestei-day.
* * *
HOUSTON, Tex.—(TP)— Three
persons were killed and thx-ee
injured when a fire truck col
lided with an automobile and
rammed it through a shoAv
whxdow here last night.
* * *
CLEVELAND—(A 5 )—A 17-year-
old high school student who punch
ed his teacher in the eye was sen
tenced yesterday to an indefinite
term in the Cleveland Boys School
at Hudson.
Eniest L. Cookson, 62-year-old
science instructor, suffei’ed a lac-
eration above his eye after he
asked the boy to take his seat in
class.
Sfc * 5««
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 riP>—
—The Agriculture Department
failed today to decide on more
drought aid funds for Texas,
but an official said he expected
final action tomorroxv.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
UP)—Premier Daniel Malan’s Na
tionalist government has failed to
sell its racial segregation progi’am
to South Afi’ica’s most modei'ate
gi’oup of native leaders.
Outright rejection of Malan’s
Apartheid segregation program
AA T as voted yestei’day at the con
clusion of the foux’-day Location
Advisoi’y Boax-ds Congress — the
moderate native group.
Student Councils
To Hear Reports
Three student councils will meet
Monday night, with committee re
ports as the main item of business
for all three.
Meeting Avill be the Arts and
Sciences council, the Agriculture
council and the Memoi’ial Student
Center council.
The Arts and Sciences council
Avill hear a report on the Academic
council’s opinions of the evalua
tion x-epox-t made by W. H. Dela-
plane, dean of the School of Arts
and Sciences.
The A&S council will also dis
cuss the honor code.
No agenda has been nxade for
the Agriculture council meeting,
accoi'ding to Ken Hall, president.
J. Wayne Stark, MSC dix-ector,
will X’epoi’t on the MSC financial
situation to the MSC council. The
group AAill also hear reports on the
audio committee x'eoi’ganization
and the constitutioxxal revision.
All thi'ee groups will meet at
7:30 p. m. Monday in the MSC.
Extension Leaders
Planned for Panel
Four extension leader's are ten
tatively scheduled to conduct a
panel discussion before Ben D.
Cook’s agricultural education 441
class on Jan, 12,
Member's of the panel are J. D.
Prewit, W. M. Williamson, Floyd
Lynch, and Miss Gladys Mai'tin.
Prewit and Williamson avuII dis
cuss advantages of woi'king in the
extension field and retirement bene
fits of the extension service.
Miss Martin will tell how the
home demonstration agent woi'ks
in conjunction with the county agri
cultural agent.
Lynch wil cover all phases of
4H club work.
What's Cooking
Friday
7:15 p. m.—Fraternity of Alpha
Zeta, social room, MSC. To discuss
honor code.
7:30 p. m. — Texas A&M Radio
club, radio room, MSC.
Monday
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Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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