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Page 2 THE BATTALION Tuesday, July 6, 1954 The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summ#r terms, and examination and vacation periods. The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $9.00 per year or $ .76 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under tlie Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Harri Baker Editor, Advertising Manager Kerstin Ekfelt Society Editor Larry Lightfoot.. _• 1 —Circulation Manager Military Junta Jails 2,000 In Guatemala GUATEMALA CITY — Guate mala’s five-man military junta said Monday that 2,000 persons had been jailed in a roundup of Communist supporters of the de posed Arbenz regime, with fur ther arrests coming as soon as jail space becomes available. Col. Elfego Monzon, temporary head of the junta, announced that Guatemala is now firmly re-estab lished in the family of Western democracies after a 10-year swing to the left. He said the country would have no further dealings with the Soviet orbit. Relations with Czechoslovakia, the only Hon Curtain nation with a diplomat ac credited to Guatemala, will be sus pended at once, he said. Guatemala will respect the right of asylum under which Former President Jacobo Arbenz and his foreign minister, Guillermo Toriel- lo, have taken sanctuary in the Mexican embassy. But Col. Mon zon. said the new regime would not grant safe conduct for “criminals” among the scores who have taken asylum in foreign embassies. These criminals include Arbenz and Toriello, according to rebel leader Lt. Col. Cai'los Castillo Armas, who presided jointly with Col. Monzon at the Junta’s first press conference. Col. Monzon announced Guate mala would rejoin the organiza tion of Central American States, from which it resigned more than a year ago when the organization denounced Communism. The na tion also will support the Organ ization of American States and re frain from intervention in other countries. All assets known to be Com munist were frozen Monday. Col. Monzon announced suspension of the Agrarian law, thus barring fur ther land confiscation unless the law is reapproved in the new con stitution, which is highly unlikely. A constitutional convention will be called in the near future. Col. Monzon said. The Junta pledged full freedom of the press, which operated under stern censorship during the last weeks of the Arbenz regime. Foreign investment, frightened away by Arbenz, will be encour aged. Col. Monzon said the na tion’s new economic policy would be to assure security for capital investments that would further Guatemala’s economic develop ment. He conceded that the pres ent economic condition is shaky. Speaking in a low, barely audi- able voice, the 40-year-old rebel leader denounced as “absolutely false” reports that the Junta wants to abolish social reforms. Segregation (Continued from Page 1) Texas Education Agency report ed that 1,704,327 children were eli gible for public schools in Texas this year. By September, 1955, another 100,000 youngsters will be come of school age, it noted, con tinuing the trend of all years since World War II. The board called for bids next November on an estimated $5,500,- 000 worth of free textbooks. flie “minimum foundation pro gram” provided by state and local taxpayers will cost about $224,000,- 000 this year. Next year’s cost is estimated at $258,000,000 because of increased enrollment and higher teachers’ salaries. The Legislature this spring voted a $402-a-year raise in teaching sal aries. The new minimum is $2,804 a year for a beginning teacher with a bachelor degree. 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He warned against a “surge of carelessness” by weary motorists intent on ticking off the last few miles home. “Experience has shown,” he said, “that the final day of a holiday recreation period is usually the most costly in terms of accidental death and injury. It is then that the traffic is heaviest and the driver is most irritable. Irritability causes many accidents.” Fireworks, once counted a major hazard of Independence Day cele brations, killed two youngsters, one in Illinois, the other in Maine. Last year, only one death was reported as caused by fireworks. In 1952 the figure was two. The record number of July Fourth traffic deaths—Tor a three- day (78-hour) period—was 366 in 1952. The all-time accident toll for the three-day July 4 holiday, in all types of mishaps, was 676 in 1949.* (Second in a Series) What Are The Duties of the District Judge? The Petit Jury Panels . . . 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