Page 2 THE BATTALION Wednesday, March 17, 1954'
Whoop a!
McCarthy Croup
To Pro be A mi yRotc
WASHINGTON, March 17—GP)
The Senate subcommittee headed
by Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) voted
yesterday to conduct its own inves
tigation of the angry row between
McCarthy and Army officials—
and to do it in public with the
embattled chairman out of the driv
er’s seat.
This was just about what Mc
Carthy wanted and he described
himself as “perfectly satisfied.”
His Army antagonists couldn’t be
reached for comment but asso
ciates said they’d be certain to
appear at the hearings.
The sessions probably will be
televised.
Today’s action came at a show-
clown session of McCarthy’s Per-
Jnancnt Investigations subcommit
tee. That’s the group McCarthy
wapted to handle the probe. Dem
ocratic members contended its
parent body, the Government Op
erations Committee, should do it.
Sen. Mundt (R-SD) insisted to the I
last some committee remote from
the fray should get the job.
McCarthy won his point, though,
and then all seven members
agreed on other ground rules for
the inquiry into the bitter contro
versy between McCarthy and the
subcommittee’s counsel, Roy Cohn,
on the one hand and Army Sec-
Forest Fires
Burn 6,800 Acres
Forest fires, fanned by high
winds, continued to scorch large
areas in Southeast Texas, J. O.
Burnside, head of the Fire Control
Department of the Texas Forest
Service, reported today.
The high winds of the past week
end caused 100 wild forest fires
to spread rapidly, burning approxi
mately 6800 acres on Saturday and
Sunday. Eight fires remained un
controlled Monday morning.
“Already this year we have lost
twice as many acres of East Texas
woodlands in forest fires than were
burned in the 12-month period last
year,” Burnside said. “More than
50,000 acres have burned this year,
compared to only 25,000 in the
calendar year 1953.”
Incendiarists were , responsible
for setting most of the forest fires.
Many of the fires .were set at night,
which handicapped detection and
suppression efforts.
retary Stevens and Army counsel
John G. Adams on the other.
Highlights of the agreement:
1. Cohn will be sidelined for
purposes of this investigation and
a special staff will be hired. A
rumor spread, but couldn’t be nail
ed down, that committee Demo
crats failed in an effort to have
Cohn suspended as chief counsel.
2. Mundt, as second-ranking Re
publican, will sit in for McCarthy
as chairman. All other business
will be shunted aside, another
meeting will be held next Tuesday
and the public hearings—with wit
nesses under oath-—probably will
get going later next week.
Info Agency
Rejects Books
By McCarthy
WASHINGTON, March 17
(IP)—Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.)
said today the U. S. Informa
tion Agency has rejected, as
“not suitable reading - ” for its
purposes two books he has written.
McCarthy told a reporter he had
offered the agency a free supply
of his books “McCarthyism, the
Fight for America” and “Amer
ica’s Retreat from Victory” for
use in overseas libraries, operated
by this government in many for
eign lands.
He said Theodore C. Streibert,
new head of USIA, has written
him, rejecting his offered gift on
grounds the books are “not suit
able reading” for the purposes of
the library program, which is to
provide foreign readers with easy
access to information giving a true
picture of life in this country as
one answer to Communist propa
ganda.
McCarthy asserted:
“If I was really interested in
getting these books into the libra
ries, I presume I could accomplish
that by joining the Communist
party. I’m not that interested.”
He obviously was referring to
charges he made frequently during
an investigation of the overseas
library program last year that
many books by Communist or Com
munist-sympathizing authors were
included in the libraries.
Airliner Crash
In West Texas
Has ]N o Injuries
MIDLAND, March 17—(TP)
A crippled airliner made a
forced landing yesterday on a
mesquite dotted ranch, skid
ding a half mile and tearing
off a wing.
The pilot and two of the eight
passengers aboard the 44-passen
ger Continental Airlines craft were
slightly hurt. All were shaken up.
The plane, a Convair 340 en route
from El Paso to Tulsa with sched
uled stops at Midland and Wichita
Falls about four minutes after
takeoff.
The airline would not say what
caused the mishap. Passengers
said the plane lost its power short
ly after takeoff, recovered it mo
mentarily, then lost it again.
The pilot, H. E. Persing of El
Paso, evidently was attempting a
turn in hopes of making it back
to the Midland air terminal. Plane
parts were scattered along the
half-mile skid path, three miles,
southeast of the airport and about
eight miles west of Midland.
Persing was treated for scalp
cuts and bruises. The other two
crew members were not hurt. Two
passengers, M. L. Sweeney, of Al-
tus, Okla., and Paul Shaffer of
Odessa, suffered slight injuries.
Taxes
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page revision bill a proposal re
ducing taxes on dividends to stock-
holders.
He said the dividend proposal
“follows the Republican party’s
policy of favoring the few.” He
estimated the loss in revenue from
this proposal alone would amount
to 814 million dollars. But only
eight per cent of American fam
ilies own stock, he said. And six-
tenths of one per cent of American
families own 80 per cent of all
stock and thus would get 80 per
cent of the tax benefits, Rayburn
added.
“Just imagine,” Rayburn declar
ed. “Giving e 814 million dollai’S in
tax relief to six families out of
every thousand in the country,
while all other families put to
gether would not get anything like
this amount.”
The human brain reaches al
most its full weight in the seventh
year.
SEEING DOUBLE?—These six-year-old twins, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Burney of Ed
inburg, make friends with some more doubles — the three-day-old calf twins born to
their Jersey milk cow. The boys, Charles Lee and Chester Wayne, are used to the
twins, since another cow gave birth to twins last July.
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MOW’D YOU LIKE TO...
earn $5000
a year AND
be an
officer
in the U s S.
air force?
I.t. John M. Gaskins and
Aviation Cadet Selection
Team No. 204 are coming to
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Meet them at the MSC dur
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New Weapons List
Loses Secrecy Tag
DOC HULL will be the master of ceremonies for the Inter
collegiate Talent Show. Hull is KVOO’s disc jockey for the
Sleepwalker Serendae.
State Officer Talks
To Water Workers
The Texas state health officer
said today at Texas A&M College
that at last 29 new public water
systems were constructed last
year to serve communities or sub
divisions, the residents of which
were utilizing unsafe facilities up
to this time.
Dr. George W. Cox, speaking at
the Texas Water and Sewage
Works Association meeting at
A&M, also said that 41 new sewage
treatment plants or major plant
additions were completed in 1953
and 33 other communities had new
plants or major additions under
construction at the close of the
year.
“To give better assurance that
water of safe quality was being
supplied 19 communities also initi
ated continuous chlorination or
provided additional facilities for
disinfection and 47,322 samples of
water from public water systems
were submitted to our laboratories
for check bacteriological analysis,”
Dr. Cox said.
“To maintain higher standards
of water and sewerage system
operation and maintenance, the in
terest of the members of your pro
fession to secure certificates of
competency or to renew them has
been very encouraging.” he de
clared.
“During 1953 six hundred and
fifteen certificates were issued to
water system operators; 303 were
issued to sewerage system ope
rators and 27 operators of bottled
water plants obtained their cer
tificates of competency during the
first year that these special cer
tificates were issued. At the close
of last year, there were 2,159
valid water plant operators certifi
cates, 673 sewerage system opera
tors certificates and 27 bottled
water plant operators.”
English Teacher
Files Slander Suit
HOUSTON, March 17— <A>> —A
$75,000 slander suit has been filed
against three school administra
tors by a high school English
teacher who was suspended last
week after being accused of read
ing vile literature to his students.
The suit filed by Peter Jaeger
alleges the officials conspired to
smear him as a “Communist and
as being un-American.”
WASHINGTON, March 17—</P)
A virtually complete catalog of
American weapons—existing, new,
in production and ordered for pro
duction—turned up today without
any kind of secrecy label.
Identified as a “production rec
ord” and bearing the signature of
retiring Deputy Secretary of De
fense Kyes, this Defense Depart
ment directive became availabel to
reporters in a daily batch of ordi
nary departmental orders.
Public relations officers obvious
ly were taken by surprise.
The intended purpose of the doc
ument was to serve as a basic
form for reporting production pro
gress of all weapons for the armed
forces.
By coincidence, it was circulated
in the Defense Department at about
the time the Army was announcing
it had invited approximately 115
members of Congress to attend a
series of demonstrations of recently
developed weapons at Ft. Bliss and
Ft. Hood, Tex., and the White
Sands Missile Proving Ground, N.
M., March 25-27.
It also followed by a day a
cryptic statement by Gen. Matthew
Ridgway, Army chief of staff, be
fore a Senate Appropriations sub
committee that the Army will “ex
tend our anti-aircraft capability by
the development of a markedly
improved missile to be used with
essentially the same ground equip
ment as the present Nike system.”
Here are some of the items listed
or indicated in the production re
port:
1. The Nike antiaircraft guided
missile now is in its seventh form
of revision, apparently the mark
edly improved missile of which
Ridgway spoke.
I 2. The Army is using or plans
i to use in addition to its own Nike
I missile one developed and used by
the Navy, the Terrier. The list
carries that antiaircraft missile
for both Navy and Army and in
cludes a land-based launching rack
for use by the Army and Marine
Corps.
3. The first indication of the
huge size of the Army’s big bomb
ardment rocket, “Honest John.”
The report shows the rocket is of
726 millimeter diameter—about 30
inches. Honest John is intended
for reaching well back of enemy
lines with a powerful explosive. It
is not a guided missile, but is
aimed like any rocket or shell.
4. References to a large number
of new aircraft, some of which
hitherto have been on the secret
list.
Navy items included new tor
pedoes, tubes and related equip
ment specially designed for de
stroying enemy submarines.
In addition to already generally
known guided missiles, the depart
ment identified such other weapons
as the “Talos,” an anti-aircraft
missile, apparently still experi
mental, designed by the Navy; the
Navy air-to-surface missiles Dove,
Petrel and Gordon; air-to-air mis
siles launched from aircraft against
other aircraft weapons named the
Oriele and Sidewinder.
Will Speak Over WTAYV
Mrs. R. E. Leighton of the A&M
Methodist Church will speak at
9:30 p.m. Thursday over WTAW.
The topic is “What Have You Done
With Your Time”. v
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