The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 19, 1954, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 19, 1954, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextOirciilated Dally To 90 For Cent Ol Focal Residents ion Published By A&'M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 203: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1954 Price 5 Cents .Mew, In I luval Promised Soon ments DUVAL COUNTY OP)— The battle of Duval. County had many fronts Thursday. Cov. Shivers promised anew to clean up corrupt conditions in the turbullent South Texas county. A tty. Gen. John Ben Sheppard said you, could look for “new and interesting” developments there. A Senate battle loomed over ap pointment of a successer to oust ed 79th Dist. Judge Woodrow Luughlin. A group of Duval County mothers likened the county to a vist of “judge, grand jury and prosecuting attorney, with George B. Parr turning the screw.” Parr is the long dominat politi cal boss of bloc voting Duval coun ty. Testimony has* been that it was Pair who was at the root of the trouble that brought about the ous tin' of Laughlin by the Texas Sup reme Court. The millionaire has also been accused of being the cause of all the discontent that has rocked Duval County for months. Parr, 52, has accused Shivers and Sheppard of furthering their own political ambitions by making Duval County a target of investiga tion: Laughlin brushed off questions of whether he would appeal his ouster to the U. S. Supreme Court or seek re-election. The hint by Sheppard of new things to come meant new legal actions to be taken by the state. The attorney general has already taken one series of moves and has said misuse of public funds is under investigation. He said in Houston the people of Duval County were “not afraid any more” of Parr. The 1 1 attorneys who signed the petition for Laugh! in’s ouster of the four' county 79th District of fered themselves to fill the vacan cy. Qiai •ges In Fort Worth (lourt Assault FORT WORTH, March 19 (/P)—The defendant in a cus tody suit was accused of land ing a hard right to the jaw of it television cameraman today, knocking his camera and light to the floor. Key Herbert, a cameraman for WRAP-TV, said Gaylord Ray then stomped on the camera and light. Herbert said he was not seriously hurt by the blow. The fracas occurred in a hall way of the Tarrant County court house where Herbert was taking moving pictures of the crowd wait ing to attend a hearing on a di vorce and custody suit brought against Ray by his wife, Hubye Ray. Mrs. Ray was convicted last year of murder in the beating death of her foster son, Johnny Ray, 6. She gave birth to a daughter, Judith, while in custody awaiting outcome of an appeal. Her suit asked the custody of the girl be taken from Ray and given to her. Herbert said Ray walked up to him, cursed him, struck him in the face, knocking his camera and light to the floor, and then stomped the equipment Two deputy sher iffs jailed Ray at once on an as sault complaint. State Sen. Abe Kazen Jr. said he was opposed to any one of the 11 being appointed. Jacob Floyd, one of the 11 and bitter foe of Parr, said Kazen might be prejudiced regarding the appointment of Laughlin’s succes sor. “It may be that since Sen. Kazen is the son-in-law of Judge Manuel Raymond of Laredo, who is the attorney for Duval County, the (See DUVAL, Page 4) Composite Sets Will Hold Western Ball The First Composite Regi mental Ball will have as a theme, “The Great South west”. Everyone attending the dance will wear loud west ern clothes and no corsages will be permitted, said Vic Kennedy, Commander of the First Composite Regiment. The ball will be held in Sbisa hall from 9 to 12, Saturday, March 27. “The arrangements for the ball were agreed upon yesterday after noon at a meeting of the dance committee in Pete Hardesty’s of fice. Free soft di’inks and cookies will be passed out at the dance. Kennedy hopes for a good turn out of the seniors from the corps area. “This will be a stride to ward corps unity,” Kennedy said. “We want all the seniors in the co7'ps to come; they are more than welcome”, he said. Tickets to the ball may be se cured by making a contribution of one dollar to the Composite Regi mental Fund. Joe Warrick (dorm 15, room 212) and Phil Jacobs (dorm 15, room 213) will have the tickets until Friday, March 25. Af ter that time, tickets will be avail able in the guard room of Walton hall. High school students on the cam pus for High School Day will be invited to the dance. As yet no orchestra has been selected, but we will have one which will present listenable, dan- cabile music, said the commander of the First Composite Regiment. House V oies 11 own 'Fax Lowering Bill By Six Vole Margin WASHINGTON, March 18 UP)— The House beat down by a mai’gin of only six votes yesterday a White House-opposed Democratic drive to cut income taxes. Then it swiftly passed a huge tax revision bill cutting other taxes by about $1,397,000,000 this year. The action was a major victory for President Eisenhower, who appealed on radio and television Monday night for adoption of the tax bill as it stood and denounced AGGIE PLAYERS—Tins is the chorus for the forthcoming Aggie Players’ play “Oedi pus Rex”. They are (1 to r) Carthell Perude, Pat Crosland, Alan Soefje, Don Powell, Vic Weinig, Harry Gooding, Bill Swann, Bob Zarbock, and Don Fisher. 'Oedipus Rex’ To Re Given Twenty Students Show Interest in Missions At least twenty students at A&M are interested in becoming foreign missionaries. Dr. Ralph C. Lewis, a medical missionary from China who was here Sunday and Monday, held personal conferences with these students about the different as pects of missionary work. By JOHN AKARD The Aggie Players will present their second production of the year, “Oedipus Rex” in five perfor mances beginning Monday after noon in the ballroom of the MSC. “Oedipus Rex” is a classic Greek tragedy by Sophocles based on the hot-headed royal family of Thebes. Evening performances of the play will be held at 8:15 on Mon day, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights. Matinees will be held at 3:15 p.rri. on Monday and Tuesday. Tickets are 50 cents a person and may be purchased at the door. Vic Wiening will play Oedipus and Mary Mackin will play Jocasta, his wife. Antigone and Ismene, FBI to Investigate Anti-Negro Order WASHINGTON, March 19—UP) Atty. Gen. Brownell said yesterday he is having the FBI look into re ports that city officials at Winter Garden, Fla., Wednesday ordered seven Cuban Negro baseball play ers out of town. The group is training in Florida with the farm system of the Wash ington newspapers headed “town evicts seven Negroe Nat players.” He noted that city officials at Win- ter Garden were reoprted to have told the seven Negroes to “get out of town by sundown.” “The story implies a possible violation of civil 7'ights,” the at torney general said. “Now, we don’t kndnv whether federal law actually was violated. But the FBI has stai ted a preliminary in vestigation so that the criminal division of the department may de termine if a full investigation should be ordered.” Four Performances Set For Aggie Rodeo COTTON KING —D. L. Rich mond will be the 1954 Cotton King for the annual Cotton Ball. The annual Texas A&M In tercollegiate rodeo will be held at the Texas Aggie rodeo arena April 1-3. Performances will be at 8 p. m. each evening with a 2 p. m. matinee Saturday, April 3. The lodeo will be held according to the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association rules and is sponsored by the A&M rodeo club. Teams from colleges throughout Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Louisianna as well as some of the Southwest conference schools will be competing for valuable prizes as will as points that will be totaled at the end of the year to determine the champion NIRA cowboy. The rodeo stock is professional stock and will be furnished by Duke Gibbs, owner of the Triangle Bell rodeo ranch at Belton, Texas. Seniors to Meet Monday The nenior class will vote for its choice for a class gift Monday night. The meeting is set for 8 p. m. in the Memorial Student Cen ter ballroom. Other agenda items are the pre sentation of a proposed senior class constitution. Senior class presi dent Pat Wood urges all seniors to be present so the constitution com mittee will be able to continue their work. Jim Tyree, Traditions Committee Chairman will report on the work of this committee. The events in which the boys and girls will be competing are; Saddle Bronc riding, Brahama bull riding, ribbon roping, bareback rid ing, girls barrel race and a cutting horse contest. The cutting horse contest is something that is new to NIRA rodeos. This contest must be: Jjeld in accordance with the American Cutting Horse Associa tion rules and must be judged by ACHA approved judges. Oedipus’ daughters will be played by Martha and Texanne Esten. Rick Black will play Creon and Gene Stubblefield will be seen as Tiresias. Carthell Perdue and William Huettel will play messengers and Bill Stewart will play the Thebian Herdsman. Raoul Roth and Joe Allen will play the guards. The play will employ the Greek device of a chorus to carry the plot along and to keep the audience informed of what is happening. Members of the chorus are Harry Gooding, BUI Swann, Barbara Hird- well, Don Powell, Pat Crossland, Alan Soefje, Donald Fisher, and Bob Zorback. The chorus was trained by Vic Wiening. Costumes for the play are by Eleanor and Betsy Burchard. The sets are under the direction of Ra oul Roth. The director of the play is C. K. Esten. The special assistant is Fay Neale and the introduction for the play was written by Dr. T. F. Mayo. The great Greek tragedies which have lived through 2500 yeai’s are not the ordinary fare for theater goers. The plots have universal appeal and the dynamic characters go to their doom romantically or rationally, but always passionately. “Oedipus Rex” is one of these great dramas, perhaps the great est. Odeipus is the King of Thebes as the play opens. He has un knowingly killed his father, Laius, the previous king, and has married his mother, Queen Jocasta. A great famine is upon the land and no children are being born. Ci'eon, Oedipus’ brother-in-law, reports that the Oracle of Delphi has said the famine would not end until Laius’ death has been aveng ed. Oedipus resolves to right the wrong that has been done. ‘ Little by little the truth comes out and Oedipus realizes the great mistake that has been made. In remorse he blinds himself and Cre on grabs the throne. In the final humiliation, Creon banishes Odei pus from the kingdom. Cook Will Serve As Ag Consultant Ben Cook, assistant to the dean of Agriculture at Texas A&M Col lege, will serve as a consultant dur ing the agriculture session of the Texas Junior College Teacher’s As sociation meeting at San Angelo College, March 18-20. J. W. Autry, head of the Agricul ture Department at Tarleton State College, Stephenville, will serve as recorder for the session, and Dr. Neil C. Fine, assistant dean of agriculture at Texas Tech, Lub bock, will serve as consultant, along with Cook. The session has listed for dis cussion, ‘Recommended Extra-Cur ricula Activities,’ ‘Need for Re vised Curricula,’ ‘Public Relations in Agi-iculture,’ and ‘Needed Facili ties in Agriculture.’ Dairymen Hear Shepardson Last Wednesday “We are facing: a changing situation in the dairy busi ness,” Dean C. N. Shepardson of the Texas A. and M. School of Agriculture, told 70 dairy manufacturers and their represen tatives Wednesday morning at A&M College. The group attending the annual Dairy Manufacturers conference conies from all over Texas and from surrounding states. “Formerly we based our industi’y on butterfat”, Dean Shepardson continued, “Now we are faced with the changing value of butter- fat and now must take greater recognition of milk solid-non-fat. “It is the cheapest animal pro tein food we can get.” Dr. Bernard Weinstein, research chemist of the Crest Food Co., Ashton, Illinois, told the group, “The housewife is continually look ing for better-tasting and more nutritional foods. “Proteins have long been known as the near perfect food” Ed Nelson, plant superintendent for the Carnation Co., Houston, told the group “the determining flavor is the determining factor in the purchase of all dairy products. “Milk is naturally endowed with a fine, light, delightful flavor. All we have to know is preserve it.” The two-day conference will touch on most of the current prob lems of the dairy monufacturing industry., both promotional and technical. Among sessions fea tured on the program are scoring clinics, milk, cottage cheese, but termilk and ice cream and mellor- ine. Dr. A. V. Moore of the Dairy Husbandry Department at A. & M. College is chairman for the con ference, which is sponsored by the Department of Dairy Husbandry. Rue Pinalle Op ens After Talent Show The Rue Pinalle, located in the ping pong room at the M. S. C., will open immediately after the Intercollegiate Talent Show on Fri day. It will last until 12 p. m. and there will be an enjoyable floor show. Don Friend, a junior from Brownwood, will act as the even ing’s emcee. Julia Ann Ferguson from Stephen F. Austin College in Nacogdoches will present a unique dance. Corland Thurman, a torch singer, and Fannie Lou Mainei’, an organist, will also be featured in the entertainment. The Caper’s Combo will provide the evenings’ music. Tickets can be purchased- after the talent show at the bowling alley desk. Admission is $.60 per person. Soft drinks will be sold. Tension Grows In Middle East Jew-Arab Row TEL AVIV, Israel, Mar. 19 Reports of Israeli and Arab troop movements and an an nouncement that Israel will demand United Nations ac tion for the slaying of 11 Jews by marauders tightened the tension in the Middle East today. An Israeli spokesman blamed neighboring Jordan for the killings by an armed band that boarded the Israeli bus in Scorpion Pass in the Negev Desert yesterday. Jordan “bears all responsibility” for the slaying, the spokesman de clared. Israeli sources said bloodhounds, put on the trail at the secene, tracked the marauders to the Jor dan bordei*, 12 miles away, and declared an Arab headgear of the type worn by Jordanians, was found in the blood-smeared bus. But in Amman, a Joi'dan gov ernment representative denied his country was to blame, and de- clai-ed Jordan was ready “politi cally and militarily to meet any developments that might arise.” The Isi-aeli spokesman called the incident a “warlike act” and said “the evidence points to the fact the outrage was organized and committed by Jordanians from Jor dan territory.” He added that the Israeli gov- ernment intends to take the mat ter up with the United Nations probably in the form of a protest and a demand for action by the Security Council. the Democrats’ income tax cut plan as unsound election year poli tics. By a 210 to 204 roll call vote, taken amid volleys of applause ’rom packed galleries, the House rejected the Democratic move to raise the individual exemption for each taxpayer and dependent from $600 to $700 a year. This would have meant a tax cut of $2,400.- 000,000 this year. This test vote was overwhelm ingly along party lines. Support- , ing the income tax cut were 193 Democrats, 10 Republicans and 1. independent. Opposing it were 201 Republicans and 9 Democrats. The revision bill, as passed, carries a variety of tax reduc tions in the form of many bigger deductions for individuals and busi ness. On final passage of the bill, the vote was 339 to 80. Voting for it were 208 Republicans and 131 Dem ocrats. Against it were 5 Republi cans, 74 Democrats and 1 inde pendent. Both sides worked strenuously to corral votes to the very last, and tension rose in the crowded chamber when the r’oll call on the income ■ tax reduction at last got under way. Adding to the sus pense over this hot election year issue, nine members reversed themselves after casting votes for oi' against the Democrats’ pro posal. Rep. Fulton (R-Pa.) announced he was going to vote with the Democrats and started to explain why. Speaker Martin R - Mass told him sharply speech - making was out of order. Fulton shrugged and said in that case he’d vote with the Republicans. Democrats weren’t giving up. They planned to try again in the Senate, where Sen. George D-Ga. is sponsoring a proposal to raise (See TAXES, Page 4) Brock To Explain Laws At Mineral Wells Meet F. D. Brock, chief of the Texas Feed Control Service, College Sta tion, Texas, will leave for Mineral Wells, Texas April 11, where the Texas Feed Manufacturers are hav ing a meeting. Mr. Brock will explain to the members the functions of the new Texas feed laws that will affect them. The meeting will last through April 14. Faculty Discusses J I Mvision I Problems At its March 16th meeting the Arts and Sciences Faculty learned of the problems and progress of the-Basic Division since its organi zation in 1950. The report took the form of a Two Cattlemen Get Jail for Smuggling WACO, March 19—UP> — Two Southwest .cattlemen were given federal prison sentences and heavy fines in a Federal Court yesterday after lieing convicted of smuggling a rare breed of cattle into the Uni ted States from Mexico. Judge Ben Rice jr. gave a five year prison sentence to Alph Broussard, Lafayette, La., who had pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggling the cattle. He fined Broussard $10,000 and gave him 30 days to straighten out his af fairs before the sentence begins. William Babb of Del Rio, was sentenced to three years and fined $5,000. If the fine is not paid within 90 days, two more years sentence will be imP osec ^ Babb filed an appeal- eminent had charged the tv o men took part in a smug£l' n £ P ° which 69 head of rare and costly Charolaise cattle were ,,, to the United States. The cattle was valued at more than 1 million dollars. panel discussion under the chair manship of Dr. Ralph Steen. Dean Bertrand served as target for questions by the other members of the panel, wdio were Professors Hays and Durst, Assistant Pi’o- fessors Medlen, Stack and Burk- halter. Dean BerGand expressed a firm belief in three basic principles: that what is best for the student is best for A&M; that students should be helped to make decisions, rather than be told what to do; and that a freshman student with serious intentions should have time to make academic adjustments. In other business Dean Dela- plane made appointments to com mittees for study of the by-laws and for study of the operation of faculty government. Also Dr. Jen sen gave a progress report on the work of the Research Committee. April Science Meet Set A regional meeting of the Texas Collegiate Academy of Science will be held here on April 2 and 3. Col leges and Universities from all ovei the eastern portion of Texas will send representatives to the meet ing. One of the most interesting parts of the program will be the pre sentation of ten minute papers on tooics from many of the various phases of science. Several Aggies will present papers. , Livestock Show Starts Saturday In Cattle Center The Saddle and Sirloin club’s an nual Little Southwestern livestock exposition will begin at 1:30 p. m. Saturday, March 20 in the Beef Cattle Center following presenta tion of the judges. Gene Turnbow, class of ’40 and former A. H- student and ex-judg ing team member, will judge all hqrse classes. Tommie E. Stuart, class of ’42 and assistant manager for the Essar Angus ranch at San Antonib, will judge the cattle clas ses. Sheep classes will be judged by J. M. Jones and Marvin J. Bridges will judge the swine classes. Roy Snyder, extension service meat specialist, and Roy Simms, A&M locker plant manager, will judge the hams at the ham show. The judge of the Grand Champion an imal will be Walter Rice. The champion showman of the Little Southwestern will receive a handsome pair of cowboy boots coui'tesy of Mr. A. C. Litterst, Jr., shorthorn breeder from Buda, Tex- The annual ham sale will climax the Little Southwestern and the auction will begin at 7:30 p. m. in the Beef Cattle Center with Walter S. Britton, nationally known livestock auctioneer, doing the auctioning. Weather Today FAIR with DUST Fair today with dust; clearing m late afternoon. High temperature yesterday 70. Low temperatur* this morning 61. __ ~

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