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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1954)
Pag-e 2 ~~ THE BATTALION - Thursday, August 5, 1^954 NEW GYM—Foundations are almost complete for A&M’s new required physical educa tion gym, behind the White coliseum. The new gym, which will have a common wall with the coliseum, will house the required physical education program. It will include a gym floor, classrooms, lockers, and offices. House Landslides Bill To Protect Witnesses WASHINGTON OB—The House passed overwhelmingly Wednesday a bill designed to foi'ce reluctant witnesses to testify on national se curity matters by granting them immunity from prosecution. But the House bill, approved 293-55, differs sharply from a mea sure on the same subject passed by the Senate last year, and neith er will become law unless the two houses can agree in the few days before adjournment. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell has asKed for some such law. The House also passed, by voice With the arrival of Pioneer air lines flight G2 here today, the City of College Statibn will have been served by a total of 12,000 Pioneer flights. The 12,000 flights to College Station have been provided by Pio neer between Feb. 19, 1947, when service was first inaugurated, and today, a period of seven and one- half years, W. ft. Morrison, Pio neer’s local manager, announced. On flight 62 today will be a letter’ from Gen. Robert J. Smith, Pioneer president, to Mayor E. E. Langford calling attention to the occasion, Morrison said. In the letter, Gen. Smith points out that “during these seven years and six months which Pioneer has -served College Station, 12,591 per sons have boarded the company’s planes in College Station for trans portation to other key cities in the ‘Southwest. At the same time, .12, 121 persons have come to Col lege Station on Pioneer planes for a total of 24,712 passengers in and out of your city.” > A total of 98,432 pounds of Uni- .ted States air mail has been board- ‘ed on Pioneer planes in College •Station, representing, according to post office department estimates -of 35 letters to the pound, some ‘8,445,120 pieces of mail. General ■Smith said in his letter. vote, a bill to speed up the con viction and punishment of witnes ses on contempt chai-ge§£for failure to answer questions before con gressional committees. This measure, which goes to the Senate, would permit a congres sional committee to go to Fedei’al Court for an order directing the witness to answer. Failure to com ply would place the witness in con tempt of court and subject him to immediate penalties. To be punished for contempt of Congress, a witness now must be cited first by the committee and Pioneer has also flown almost 45,000 pounds of air express and air freight from College Station since Feb. 19, 1947. “It is particularly gratifying to us that throughout the history of our scheduled operations, we have never injured a passenger,” Gen. Smith added. College Station first received service from Pioneer on the Com pany’s extension from Houston to Dallas via College Statjon-Bryan, Temple and Waco. Pioneer serves College Station with 4 flights daily providing service to aftd from the other 22 cities on the Company’s 2,000-mile system in Texas and New Mexico. : ' Predicted for Pioneer in the fu ture in a merger with Continel air lines. The merger is awaiting final approval by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Pioneer also flew its one mil lionth passenger yesterday. At the prove Thursday, August —“The Man from the Alamo” in technicolor, starring Glenn Ford. Monday, August 9—Broderick Crawford and Claire Trevor in Damon Runyon’s “Stop, You’re Killing Me”. then the full House or Senate, and the inatter then referred to the Justice Department for grand jury action and trial. The immunity bill is designed tp deal with witnesses who refuse tio’testify on the ground that testi mony they gave may subject 'them to prosecution for crime. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution provides they may not be forced to give such testimony. The bill would permit a promise to such witnesses That they would not be prosecuted. TUiey then could be forced to answer questions, un der pain of punishment for con tempt. It is based on the idea that the testimony which thus could be obtained from lesser wit nesses would aid congressional committees and might lead to pro secution of more important con spirators. The House measure would apply to ' testimony both before com mittees, and before grand juries and trial courts. The Senate ver sion would be limited to congres sional committees. The House bill would be limited to national security cases—espio nage, sabotage and similar of fenses. The Senate bill would not, and in addition would permit the House or Senate to ovei’ride the Attorney General’s objection to an immunity grant. Business Wives Plan Dinner-Dance At their meeting Tuesday night the Business Wives Club complet ed final plans for their dinner dance, to be held at 8 p.m. Aug. 14 at Maggie Parker’s Dining Room in Bryan. All married business majors, faculty members and other friends are invited to attend the dinner, said Mrs. Joy Jones, president. The fee of five dollars per couple vdll include dinner, dancing, drinks and ice. Reservations are to be called in to Mrs. Cynthia Allan at 4-4919 not later than Aug. 13. The dinner will be informal. After the business session mem bers played 42, bridge and monop oly. Guests at the meeting were Mrs. R. P. Wood and Mrs. H. G. Thomp son, jr., both faculty wives. Mrs. Jean Holcomb and Mrs. Helen Scott will serve as hostesses for the next meeting, which will be Aug. 17. Speaker Explains Kiwanis Key Club Melvin Munn of Dallas spoke to the College Station Kiwanis club Tuesday on “What your Key club means to you, your sons, and your community.” Key club, sponsored by Kiwanis International, is a high schftol ser vice organization. The local Ki wanis club is planning one at A&M Consolidated, with John Longley as chairman of the committee. Munn is district chairman for Key clubs. 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 summer 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 $ .75 pel month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by N a t i o n a 1 Advertising Services. Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. 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. 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. Harri Baker Editor, Advertising Manager Kerstm Ekfelt : .7. Woman’s Editor Larry Lightfoot Circulation Manager 12,000 Pioneer Flights Serve City Cadet Slouch TU1S IS NNUCxT I DOKi'T BEIMC CAvS-UOPf WAICE 'EM UP AN! ^ MOENl / 'V V" fcone rnia Foreign Aid Gets $319, WASHINGTON OP)— President $600,000,000 under the figure ap- Eisenhower won a $319,040,000 re storation of foreign aid funds in Congress Wednesday shortly after telling a news conference the Sen ate cuts Tuesday were so deep they would hurt this counti;y badly. The President termed the Senate action very unfortunate and added there seems to be a lack of com prehension about what the Krem lin is doing in the world. Before passing the authorization bill Tuesday, the Senate cut the figure to something under’ $2,700,- 000,000. This was more than $700,- 000,000 below the President’s $3,- 448,000,000 request and more than proved by the House. Conference committees of the two Houses got down to work quickly Wednesday composing dif ferences. Sen. Alexander Wiley ferecs agreed to put back $319,040,- I 000 or exactly half of the total : senatorial cuts. However, there re mained many unsolved dilfercnces between the Senate and House bills, l Senate cut oi ibout th< (Rep.) of/ Wisconsin, chairman of the Semite foreign relations com mittee, came out of the first meet ing to report an agreement to re store the total to above three bil lions. The House voted a $3,368,608,000 authorization. But a Senate com mittee and the Senate itself chop ped this by $638,080,000, slashing all items except $14’1,000,000 for technical co-opferation. Wiley said the Senate-House con- tw Asked Tuesday at his the President n he thought fortunate. thi n /died lash ws cc •ry un )RN1A Circumstances force me to be 6 to 14. Sor| August MRS. B. 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