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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1954
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Meadofjoin tCh iefs
Exp la in s Reserves
To Offset Army Cut
IJy LEE GARRETT
WASHINGTON, March 'l7—
Adrn. Arthur W. Radford said to
day a cut in the size of the Army
is to be offset by a more active
reserve program and an increase
in the ground forces of our allies,
partly through U. S. aid.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff explained the plan to ques
tioning members of a Senate Ap
propriations subcommittee in heal
ings on a money bill to finance
the Defense Department’s “new
look” planning. That program in
volves cuts in Army and Navy
manpower and a bigger Air Force.
Redford used the occassion also
to assert that:
1. “It is not correct to say we
are relying exclusively on one
weapon, or one service, or that
we are anticipating one kind of
war.” It is wrong to think, he
said, that “ability to deliver mas
sive atomic retaliation is, by itself,
adequate to meet our security
needs.”
2. The size of the proposed
forces was not based on any budg
etary limitation imposed on the
joint chiefs, but its members be
lieved that the U. S. economic situ
ation “is a great factor over the
long pull.”
The “new look” which fol
lowed the end of Korean fighting
is less a radical change than a
Aggie Follies
Deadline Set
For March 19
«
The deadline for making ap
plication to be in the Aggie
Follies of 1954' has been set at
5 p. m., Friday, March 19,
said Hollie Briscoe, Chairman
of the Follies committee.
Any A&M student interested in
being in the Follies may apply by
leaving his name and type of act
at Student Activities Office or with
John Akard (dorm 8 room 214),
Producer of the Follies.
The Follies is an annual variety
show put on the Friday and Satur
day nights before Mother’s Day. It
is an all student and faculty pro
duction.
One feature of this year’s show
will be a one act play by the Aggie
Players.
Tryouts will be held next week,
Akard said. Information as to the
time and place will be sent to those
tv ho make application to be in the
Tollies.
“We expect to have the best
talent at A&M in this year’s Fol
lies”, Briscoe said.
reappraisal of military methods
and “would have been done no
matter what administration was in
power.”
As the public hearing ended,
subcommittee Chairman Ferguson
R-Mich commented that Radford’s
testimony showed the program pre
pares “for all kinds of war, an
economic war, a propaganda war,
large or small wars.”
“It is an answer to those who
want an answer,” Ferguson added.
Radford was questioned exten
sively about the proposed reduc
tion in Army strength from 1,481,-
000 now to 1,173,000 by the end of
June, 1955.
Gen. Mhtthew Ridgway, Army
chief of staff, testified yesterday
he was concerned over the Army
cut “through which our capabili
ties will be lowered while our re
sponsibilities for meeting the con
tinuing threat have yet to be cor
respondingly lessened.”
MORE MONEY—Gov. Allan Shivers addresses a joint ses
sion of the first called session of the 53rd Texas Legisla
ture in Austin. The governor asked for new taxes to raise
$25,600,000 a year to give teachers a $402 annual increase
and state employes a $120 increase.
Mrak To Speak
On Dehydrating
Dr. Emil M. Mrak will discuss
“Problems in Dehydrating Foods
and Using Them Properly,” at 8
p. m. March 18 in the lecture room
of the Biological Sciences building,
Texas A&M College.
He is chairman of the division
of food sciences at the University
of California and his lecture will
be illustrated.
Dr. Mrak is a native of San
Francisco and took his academic
training at the University of Cali
fornia. He has served that institu
tion in food technology and junior
mycologist and one of the most
widely known scientists in his field
in the United States.
The public is invited to the lec
ture, Dr. Ide P. Trotter, dean of
the graduate school, announced to
day.
House Bill Gives
Money for Texas
WASHINGTON, March 17—GP)
The House passed yesterday and
sent to the Senate a $439,983,700
Army civil functions bill including
$10,740,000 for work in Texas.
The bill, passed by a voice vote
and with no changes from recom
mendations by the appropriations
committee last Thursday, is for
flood control, navigation and hy
droelectric projects in the year
starting July 1.
Texas projects and the funds
recommended included Port Aran-
sas-Corpus Christi waterway,
$500,000. Belton Reservoir $1,700,-
000; and Texarkana Reservoir
$3,000,000*
Ranger Trial
Of Parr Figh t
Set March 29
SAN DIEGO, March 17—CP)
The trial of two Texas Rang
ers charged with assault to
murder Duval County political
boss George Parr was set to
day for March 29 at Browns
ville.
The Rangers tangled with
Parr and his nephew, Duval
County Sheriff Archer Parr,
after George Parr arrived at
the court house to answer a
charge of illegally carrying a
pistol near a meeting of his
political opposition.
Parr came out of it with a
bleeding ear. The Rangers,
sent here several years ago to
patrol this politically stormy
ai'ea, are free on bond and
on duty.
New Bill Permits
Hiring of Mexicans
WASHINGTON, March 17—CP)
President Eisenhower signed yes
terday a bill to permit recruiting
of Mexican laborers for work on
farms in this country—with or
without the consent of Mexico.
The bill passed Congress before
the signing of an agreement last
week under which Mexico and the
United States will renew their co
operation on recruiting. Its pur
pose was to enable the United
States to carry on recruiting, even
if Mexico should refuse to sign.
Some congressman ui'ged the
president not to sign the bill on the
ground that the agreement made it
unnecessary. Assistant Secretary
of Labor Rocco Siciliano told a
Senate hearing last week that he
Legislature Hears
More on Duval County
AUSTIN, March 16 (A 3 )—Duval
County’s turbulent affairs were
brought back to the Legislature to
day.
Sen. Kilmer Corbin, Lubbock,
introduced a resolution to cut off
state funds to the South Texas
county until missing recoi-ds are
produced or a satisfactory audit
made.
Corbin wanted the senate to act
at once but objections of Sens. Abe
Kazen, Jr., Laredo, and Dorsey
Hardeman, San Angelo, forced it
to a committee for study.
The State Affairs Committee set
it down for public hearing March
24.
The measure requires action of
both houses.
Some senators privately express
ed doubt such action could be taken
through a resolution. Any other
route would probably require Gov.
Shivers to submit the subject to
the special session before it could
be considered.
The resolution said it is evident
“by reason of deplorable condit
ions involving state funds” that
corrective action should be taken.
Duval County affairs have been
under both state and federal in
vestigation. Atty. Gen. John Ben
Sheppard has charged irregularit
ies in the use of state funds and
State Auditor C. H. Cavness re
ported many records missing.
still considered the bill useful.
Taking note of the new agree
ment, the President said:
“While neither government as
sumes that this agreement will
prove to be the final answer to
the whole complex problem, it pro
vides necessary means for moving
forward to more complete solu
tions.”
Eisenhower said unforeseeable
future developments may some day
lead the two governments to deter
mine that formal agreement on
this subject “is no longer desirable
but that appropriate action by each
within its own jurisdiction is still
essential.”
He said that for a number of
years the U. S. Attoiney general
has had authority to admit Mexi
can farm 'workers under whatever
conditions he alone decided to es
tablish.
The president added, however,
that because of the wording of ap
plicable legislation there had not
been adequate authority for U. S.
governmental measures for pro
tection and placement of the work
ers at times when there was not an
agreement with Mexico.
“The present law is precaution
ary,” Eisenhower said.
★ Job Interviews ★
INTERVIEWS:
1. March 19—A representative
of the Aberdeen Proving Ground
(Maryland), Ordnance Corps, will
interview graduates in Mathemat
ics, Physics, Chemical, Electincal
and Mechanical Engineering for
work in the development and proof
testing of Ordnance material.
2. On Monday, March 22—Rep
resentatives from the Dallas office
of Sun Oil Company will interview
Petroleum and Mechanical Engi
neering and Accounting majors.
3. Mai’ch 23 and 24—Parkers
burg Rig & Reel Company will in
terview Petroleum Engineers for
work in the engineering design and
development of oil field production
equipment. They prefer to intei 1 -
view students who have completed
their military obligations.
French Throw Back
Vietminh Attackers
HANOI, Indochina, March 16 <A>)
—French firepower stopped
screaming Vietminh attackens
within a half mile of the heart of
Dien Bien Phu today. The Com
munist-led rebels, suffering casu
alties estimated unofficially up to
8,000 in four days of battle, picked
up their dead and withdrew to the
hills to regroup.
French troops hurled back furi
ous assaults by the rebels, who
fired rifles, pistols, machine guns
and threw grenades and even
spears in an attempt to knock out
the French command post in the
center of the beleaguered key
fortress in northwest Indochina.
But sheets of heavy fire from
American-supplied guns tore wide
gaps in the ranks of the Vietminh.
As nightfall approached they tem-
gorariljr broke oi'i' frontal assault
and retreated to the hills under a
dashing rain.
Bodies were strewn over the
rain-soaked plain of Dien Bien Phu
where the Vietminh had chosen to
make its biggest effort of the Indo
china War, now in its eighth year.
The Vietminh’s chief motive ap
peared to be a desire to achieve
the strongest position possible for
the talks on Asian problems at
Geneva beginning April 26. Both a
Korean and Indochinese peace will
be taken up, with Communist
China present.
The main assault on Dien Bien
today was from the north. A
French army spokesman said the
rebels picked up thousands of their
dead and wounded. Unofficial es
timates put today’s rebel killed at
3,000 and total casualties since the
battle opened on Saturday night at
between 6,000 and 8,000.
4. March 24—Arthur Andersen
& Company will interview gradu
ates with accounting majors for
positions that are open on the
staff of the firm in offices through
out the country. This is an inter
national firm of accountants and
auditors providing services in the
areas of auditing, tax accounting,
and administrative accounting, in
cluding systems.
5. March 24—A representative
of the Baumont division of Sun Oil
Company will interview Electrical
Engineering and Physics majors
at the B.S. and M.S. levels for
laboratory work.
6. March 24—A representative
of the Houston office of Minneapo-
lis-Honeywell Regulator Company
will interview Mechanical, Electri
cal and Chemical Engineering
graduates for sales engineering
work in their commercial and in
dustrial air conditioning division.
7. March 24 — Columbian Car
bon Company will interview Chem
ical Engineers for positions as Jun
ior Process Engineers in a furnace-
type carbon plant. This company
has announced a starting rate of
$385.00 per month.
8. March 24 and 25—The West
ern Company of Midland, Texas
will interview Mechanical, Petro
leum and Electrical Engineers-^'
Men in these classifications are
employed in an on-the-job experi
ence program in field work with
advancement based on individual
ability.
10. March 25—The Fort Worth
Production Division of the Gulf
Oil Corporation will interview Pe-
tx - oleum Engineering graduates for
Petxoleum Engineer Trainee open
ings in West Texas and New Mexi
co. Txaining pexiod of 18 to 24
months’ duration in pxoduction and
engineexing phases of oil field pro
duction work will lead to classifi
cation of Junior Petxoleum Engi
neer.
Rayburn Says ike’s Tax
Plan Aids Unner Class
Junior Ducats
On Sale Note
In SA Office
Tickets fox* the Junior Class
Banquet and Dance Satui’day
are now on sale in the student
activities office, second floor
of Goodwin Hall.
The tickets will be on sale
until noon Satux-day.
The banquet will be at 6:45
p.m. in the banquet I’oom of
Sbisa Mess Hall. The dance
will begin at 8 p.m. in the
main room of Sbisa. The Ag-
gieland ox*chesti'a will play for
the dance.
A class sweetheaxt will be
selected from five finalists at
the dance.
Oilman Spots
Money Bag;
Youths Caught
OZONA, Tex., March 16 (A 3 )—
Two young men held up the Ozona
National Bank today and were
spotted from the sidewalk by an
oilman as they stuffed money in a
suitcase.
The pair fled without the loot
and were collax-ed by the oilmaix
and another citizen ixx a creek bed
some 100 yaxds fium the bank.
L. H. Smith and Billy Bxuce,
both 21 axxd of Junction, were
chax-ged with armed x’obbery.
Sheriff V. O. Earnest said this
happened:
Two men dx - ove into this West
Texas town axxd entei'ed the bank
just before 3 p. m. One foxced eight
bank employes into an office and
locked the dooi*. The other started
filling a suitcase with money lying
loose in tellers’ cages.
They had locked the fi'ont door
of the bank. While they were stuff
ing money into the suitcase, Byron
Williams, Ozona oil lease broker',
looked in and saw what was going
on. He ran to give the alax-m.
Then Williams returned to the
bank with a pistol he had bori'ow-
ed fi-om the sheriff and saw the
pair running toward the creek bed.
They had taken off, the sheriff
said, because within a few minutes
after Williams gave the alarm 15
or 20 armed citizens had gather'd
around the bank.
The men went out the back,
climbed over a gi-ocery store and
sprinted toward the cx-eek bed.
Williams and Dick Henderson, a
rancher, set out aftei' the pair and
ovei'took them. Williams held the
gun on the pair while Henderson
took a I'evolver from one of the
men.
Smith and Bx-uce will be given
a heai'ing tomoi'row morning. The
shei'iff said the men told him they
“cased” the bank yesterday and
thought it would be an easy rob-
bexy.
Nobody was hux-t.
West Texas Manhunt
Spreads After Escape
Texan (Naims Program
Means Special Benefits
WASHINGTON, March 17 — (TP) — House Democratic
leader Sam Rayburn of Texas told the nation last night Presi
dent Eisenhower’s tax program would give six times as much
relief to upper income brackets as to the great bulk of tax
payers.
Rayburn, in a statement prepared for radio and tele
vision broadcast, assailed the Republican program as a re
vival of the philosophy that special benefits for the wealthy
“may eventually trickle down to the great majority.’’
But in actual practice, he said, little or nothing ever
trickles down.
Rayburn said that is why House Democrats are fighting
"Ho amend the GOP-sponsored
tax revision program to in
crease individual income tax
exemptions for each taxpayer
and each dependent by $100.
In the Senate, Sen. George D-Ga
is px'oposing a $200 increase this
year and $400 next.
Rayburn ui'ged the $100 boost
“so that you and evei'y taxpayer
in this counti'y will get real tax
relief.”
He and two other Democratic
Congress members took to the air
to answer an addi'ess by President
Eisenhower Monday, denouncirig
the Democratic tax-cutting plan as
unsound and politically inspired.
Eisenhower said the nearly 2!4
billion annual loss in revenue from
the Democratic proposal would be
a serious blow to the government
and would undermine the “corner
stone” of his domestic program.
The GOP is pushing a tax i'e-
vision bill which would cost the
Treasury about 1% billion a year
as it now stands. It overhauls
most of the existing tax laws and
provides for more liberal deduc
tions for many items ranging from
medical expenses and retirement
income to dividends and business
depreciation.
Eisenhower contends this is as
far as the goveinment should go at
the pi'esent time. He says the bill
would benefit millions of individ
uals and encourage “the growth
and expansion of industxy, the
ci'eation of jobs.”
Rayburn spoke on the eve of
House debate today on the cri--
tical election-year tax issue.
He was joined by Sen. Geoi'ge,
senior Democi'at on the Senate Fi
nance Committee, and Rep. Cooper
D-Tenn, ranking Democi'at on the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee.
A few hours earlier, House
Speaker Mai'tin R-Mass said after
a 214 hour closed door caucus of
Republican House membex-s he was
confident the Democratic dxive for
an exemption increase would be
beaten “by a vex-y comfortable
mai'gin.”
The House is scheduled to vote
Thui'sday.
Mai'tin said Eisenhower’s appeal
last night had been “veiy effec
tive” in swinging over doubtful
GOP lawmakers. House Republi
can leader Halleck of Indiana,
echoing Martin, told reporters aft
er the caucus: “The Democratic
motion will not pass.”
But Democi'atic leadei-s also pre
dicted victory for their side in the
big-stakes battle which was certain
to resound throughout the congi'es-
sional election campaigns this fall.
Cooper said thx-oughout the Re
publican tax i-evision program*,
“The wage earner appeal's to be
the fox-gotten man.”
Rayburn explained the Demo
cratic amendment not only would
propose an exemption inci'ease but
would knock out of the giant, 875-
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Safety Confab
Starts In Dallas
On March 29
The 15th Annual Confer
ence of the Texas Safety As
sociation will be held at the
Baker Hotel, Dallas, March
29-30. Col E. B. Tilley, Presi
dent, announced today. In announc
ing the meeting, Col. Tilley said
“No Texan can fail to show in-
cx-eased concei'n for the steadily
growing number of injuries and
deaths due to traffic accidents.
With the number of vehicles on
Texas streets and highway grow
ing at a record x'ate, traffic safety
is eveiybody’s business.”
Sectional meetings for industry,
fleet operators, school and colleges,
traffic, police and ti’affic court
representatives, farm and x'anch,
and women’s groups are scheduled
for the two - day meet. General
Chali'xman for the Conference is J.
Thurman Green, Safety Dix-ector,
Sun Oil Company, Dallas.
Greek Letter
Fraternities
Studied By Ags
“Are professional fraterni
ties -wanted by the students at
Texas A&M?” asked Charles
N. Shepardson, dean of the
School of Agriculture, at the
Moxiday night meeting of the Stu
dent Agricultural Council.
Dean Shepai'dson explained that
several groups have asked permis
sion to oxganize pi-ofessional
fraternities at A&M. The pi'esent
regulations permit no such oi'gani-
zations to be formed. The only
Greek letter oxganizations which
exist on the campus at the pi'esent
time ai'e honorary fraternities
which were approved by the Board
of Dii-ectors in 1947. Action by the
Board of Directoxs would be neces-
saxy befoi-e any professional
fraternities could be brought to
A&M.
The Executive Council has de
cided to determine through the
school student councils whether
the students want professional
fraternities or not. The student x-e-
presentatives fi-om departmental
clubs have been asked to find out
what the opinions of the membei's
of theii' clubs ax-e on the subject.
BIG SPRING, March 16 (A 3 )—
A manhunt spread out over West
Texas today for three of five pi'i-
sonei's who escaped from the How-
aid County jail.
The five, including a convicted
killer and a man nabbed in a run
ning gun battle at Coloi'ado City
last Januaxy, slipped from a foui'th
floor window into the eai'ly moi'n-
ing daxkness.
Police discovex-ed the bx-eakout
when they stopped two men acting
suspiciously on a Big Spring stx-eet.
They were recognized as px-isonexs
and were quickly x-etux-ned to their
cells.
Hours later, no tx-ace of the other
thxee was reported. The five es
caped by removing baxs from a
window.
One of the two recaptux-ed des
peradoes is Randall Hendricks,
convicted last week of mui'der
without malice in the death of his
wife, Pati'icia, 14. She was shot
while the two wei'e driving fi'om
Abilene to Big Spx-ing. Hendxicks,
20, of Sweetwatei', was sentenced
to five years.
The other prisoner i-eturned to
jail is Jack Thompson, sentenced
to five years on a robbery by as
sault conviction.
Two of the three at lax-ge were
awaiting tx-ansfer to Huntsville.
They are David Leach, captured
last January in a gun battle with
officers at Colox-ado City and given
a five-year forgery sentence; and
John Spi'inger, sentenced to thi’ee
years for auto theft and wanted in
Michigan as a fedei'al pax-ole vio
lator.
The thiid man still at libex-ty is
Thomas Taylor, chaxged with
armed robbery.
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
Cloudy and occasional light rains
today and tomorrow. High yester
day 61. Low this morning 37,