Battalion Editorials
Page 2
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1954
Will Sports Day Visitors
Next Year's Freshmen?
High School day for more than 1,000
visiting seniors will begin Saturday morning
with a welcoming speech by President Mor
gan. His speech will be followed by an
activity-packed schedule.
A showing of the recently completed
movie “We Are The Aggies” and tours of
the campus will keep the seniors busy during
the morning.
The "afternoon sports schedule will in
clude a varsity-freshman track meet, an
Aggie-Rice baseball game, a freshman-High-
land Park (Dallas) high school swimming
meet and a Baylor-A&M tennis match.
An intra-squad football game Saturday
evening will complete the High School day
activities.
Since first impressions are often lasting
ones, everyone connected with the school
should make an extra effort to see that the
visitors enjoy themselves thoroughly while
they are here. When they return home to
tell their families and friends about every
thing they saw and did at Aggieland, it
would indeed be nice if the good impressions
were carried over into the fall when they
begin selecting *a college to attend.
There is no w T ay of rating High School
Sports day as to the number of seniors who
decide to come to A&M as a direct result of
that particular visit,, but the number is
probably large.
If only one senior chooses A&M because
of what he sees here Saturday, the day will
be a success to a small degree. But regard
less of where they intend to go to college,
we should make sure that when they leave
here, it will be a hard choice to decide on
some other college.
One of the Last
Rebel Dons Gray Again
By S/Sftt Richard A. McCunc
Bryan Air Force Base
Walter Williams was sitting
quietly in the living room of his
country, home near Franklin, the
day the U. S. air Force moved in
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This might not be unusual except
that Walter Williams is the oldest
living veteran of the Civil War and
the air force was there to brief him
for a' job he will do on Sunday,
March 28.
The 111-year-old Williams will
be honorary base commander of
Bergstrom air force base, Austin,
when the jet fighter base plays
host to the National Sport Car
laces.
Two weeks ago, Maj. Victor W.
H. Rankin, project officer from
Bergstrom, began the task of co
ordinating Williams’ visit. He
located the veteran at his farm
home north of Bryan and promised
that he would be back in a week to
bring full particulars as to Wil
liam’s part ii* the day’s activities.
Supplemented with a writer and
a photographer, as well as an
authentic Confederate States Army
uniform loaned for the occasion by
Paramount Studios, of Hollywood,
Calf., Major Rankin returned. He
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was met at the Wilfiam’s home by
the veteran’s wife, Ella Mae, 80,
who marveled at • the uniform.
“Both he and his daddy had uni
forms, but they were burned in a
house fire years ago,” she said.
With the couple, Aho have been
married for 65 years, was a
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Gene Wil
liams, and Williams’ nurse, Mrs.
Francis Moss. Youngest of 19
children, Gene Williams was work
ing cattle on a nearby ranch. Gene
was a paratrooper in World War
II and has recently been in the
prize money as a rodeo performer
at Madison Square Garden.
Outfitted in the gray uniform,
Williams stood beside his frame
cabin to be photographed. He posed
with his sun-bonnetted wife and
Rankin, then lifted a military
salute to his hat brim.
Texas weather, in the form of
dust and high wind, harrassed the
picture-taking, but “the colonel,”
as the air force has dubbed him,
seemed not to notice. Although he
enlisted in the army in Mississippi
during the War between the States,
he returned to Texas after 11
months of service and has lived
here for nearly a century.
When asked about his rank in
the Confederate army, Williams
replied that he was a forage-mas
ter. His duties included riding
heard on 100 head of cattle to pro
vide Ijeef for the rebel masses.
Was he anxious to attend the
races, the major asked. Yes, was
the reply, he was looking forward
to it. The old gentleman then went
on to tell that he had taken an
airplane ride last October when he
was a guest at the State Fair in
Dallas. “We took him all over,”
said his wife, “it was so beautiful
there.”
“I like to ride in airplanes,” said
Williams, adding that he was
pleased that Trans-Texas airlines
was to fly him to Austin for the
day. He will travel with Mrs. Moss
and son Gene, but his wife will not
make the trip.
Meeting Williams at his home
Sunday will be Maj. Joseph S.
Michalowski, of Bryan air force
base, who will drive him to Easter-
wood airport to board the air
craft. When he arrives in Austin,
race officials have many honors
planned Tor the >honorary com
mander”, including a parade, re
view and a close-up look at the
stock cars.
THAT’S HIS NUMBER
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. VP)—Robert
Brody was at the Knox county
courthouse seeking a license num
ber for his car “with a lot of 13s in
it.” He explained: “I was inducted
in the army on Friday the 13th,
assigned to the 13th infantry, am
home on a 13-day leave and have to
report back to the base on the 13th
of the month. Figured I might as
well get a license number to keep
the luck up.”
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PRESENT ARMS—Walter Williams, 111-year-old Confed
erate veteran from Franklin, salutes to show off his new
Rebel uniform. He will be base commander for a day at
Bergstrom AFB Sunday.
The Battalion
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BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER
Jon Kinslow
Chuck Neighbors
George Manltzas
•Barbara Rubin.
James Earle
Larry Lightfoot
He’ll Be
on campus
to show you how to . . .
earn over
$5000 a year .. .
become an officer
in the air force
get a head start
in jet aviation ...
be a part of a great*!
flying team ...
as an Aviation Cadet. 1
See him while you can.^
Lt. John M. Gaskins
and Aviation Cadet Se
lection Team No. 204
will be at the MSG
Monday thru Thursday.
He will be available be
tween the hours 10:00
to 3:30 to those desir
ing further informa
tion on career opportu
nities in the Air Force.
Ellington
Air Force Base
Firebombs Spark
French Air Attack
HANOI, Indochina, March 26—
<2P)—F r e n c h planes dropped
streams of firebombs on Vietminh
troop positions around besieged
Dien Bien Phu today in a tremen
dous aerial assault.
The French said their American-
strengthened air arm inflicted
heavy losses on the Communist-led
rebels and upset their timetable
for renewal of new attempts to
crush the northwest Indochina for
tress with mass infantry attacks.
In a political development, a for
mer Premier of Viet Nam called
for a cease fire if possible now.
Tran Van Huu, who held the pre
miership of Indochina’s laigest
state from 1950-52, appealed also
to negotiators at the forthcoming
Geneva conference to end the war,
now in its eighth year.
TROUBLE IN OIL
OMAHO <2P)—When the Ervin
R. Simons of Omaha redecorated
their basement, they converted
their furnace from oil to gas. Later
their oil man came along with a
tankful for another house on the
same street and purely from force
of habit stopped at the Simon
home.
Eighty gallons of fuel oil had
poured over the Simon’s new base
ment before Mrs. Simon ran qut
and put a stop to it.
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CLASS REVIEW—Col. Shelley P. Meyers, PMS&T, left, and Col. John A. Way, PAS&T,
right, watch the corps of cadets as it formed yesterday in a practice for the review to be
held next Thursday for officers here for the school’s annual federal inspection. Tile
federal inspection will be Wednesday and Thursday.
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