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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1954
Some Money Matters
Students here sometimes complain about
the Exchange store, perhaps for no other
reason than that it is run by the college,
but these students often don’t realize what
the Exchange store does for them.
This week a committee met to divide up
the Exchange store profits—$20,000 for the
MSC’s student program, $1,000 for dormi
tory athletic equipment, and $2,900 for the
band.
This yvtxs all the profit for last year ex
cept $57.82, and all going to the students.
The figures over the last few years are
even more impressive: since 1945, the Ex
change store has given the MSC $212,645.93;
the student welfare and recreation fund,
$92,327.41; the library, $17,782.67; the band
$7,850; and $2,175.46 in profit sharing div
idends.
This is a total of $332,781.47 given away
in the last nine years—a nice record for an
organization some people say gyps the stu
dents.
Burning of SMU Floats
The corps trip to Dallas last weekend
was a big success from almost every stand
point. No one was seriously injured in the
trip up and back, the corps parade was en
thusiastically received by Dallasites and the
band performance at halftime was practic
ally flawless.
Only two things marred the trip. We
lost the football game and somebody burned
two SMU floats.
According to meager information re
ceived on the fires, a car near the scene had
A&M decals on the window and the occu
pants were shouting, “gig ’em.” That may
or may not be good evidence that Aggies
were the culprits.
Anyone with a dime can buy an A&M
decal and anyone with vocal chords can yell
a fairly authentic “gig ’em.”
More conclusive evidence is the report
that Dallas police are checking on the license
number of a car seen near one of the fires.
We’d prefer to wait for further information
on that car before trying to place the blame.
However, if it should develop that Aggies
were involved, college authorities should deal
severely with them for several reasons.
First the act was inexcusable and probably
pre-meditated. Second, the amount of loss
makes it a felony as well as arson, and last
but not least, the corps will be taking a trip
to Austin in a couple of weeks.
Those people in Austin might be pretty
touchy if we happen, to win the game.
‘Jumpin' General'
Gen. Gavin Visits A&M
Maj. Gen. James M. Gavin, the
army’s “jumpim’ general”, will be
{me of the guests here Saturday
for Fall Military Day.
Gavin, who is now army chief
of staff for operations, wears four
combat-jump stars en his para
chutist badge, for jumps in Sicily,
Italy, Normandy, and Holland.
He also wears six campaign stars
Maj. Gea. James M. Gavin
Will Visit Here
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for World War II campaigns with
the 505th parachute infantry regi
ment and the 82nd airbone infan
try regiment.
Gavin got into World War II in
1942, as commander of the 505th,
which he led when it spearheaded
the assult on Sicilyi
He was named assistant com-
mander of the 82nd airborne in
1943. This assignment was inter-
rupted by a temporary tour of duty
as airborne advisor to the allied
supreme commander.
After he returned to the 82nd,
he was made commander. He led
the division during its campaigns
in Holland, the Battle of the Bulge,
and the spring offensive of 1945
that ended in the surrender of the
German army.
After the surrender, the division
moved to Berlin, where Gavin was
U. S. representative on the city
government.
His service after the war in
cludes commanding the fif^h army,
the allied forces in southern Eu
rope, and the seventh corps in Ger
many.
He also was army member of
the weapons system evaluations
group of the defense department,
and chief of this group’s military
studies and liaison division.
He was named to'his present po
sition last April.
Gavin enlisted in the regular
army in 1924. After he had reach
ed the rank of corporal, he applied
for West Point.
He was accepted, graduating in
1929. He had the usual army as
signment then, including duty in
the Philippines.
He entered the parachute school
in 1940, with the rank of captain.
His medals include the Disting
uished Service Cross with an Oak
Leaf cluster, the Silver Star with
an Oak Leaf cluster, the Disting
uished Service Medal, the Bronze
Star, and the Purple Heart.
His foreign decorations include
the British Distinguished Service
Order, the Belgian Croix de Guerre,
the French Croix de Guerre, and
the Russian Order of Alexander
Nevsky.
Gavin is now kno4m as an ex
ponent of the “fast and hard-hit
ting” infantry team, composed of
airborne troops with highly mobi
lized ground units.
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BOB BORISKIE, KARRI BAKER Co-Editors
Social Whirl
Thursday
The student chapter of the
American Veterinary Medicine As
sociation Auxiliary of A&M will
meet in the social room of the Me
morial Student Center .at 8 pan.
tonight.
Cadet Slouch
by James Earle
Cover nor at 31
Stassen To Speak Here
By The Associated Press
Harold E. Stassen, Republican
leader and former governor of
Minnesota, will speak here Nov. 17
in the second in a series of talks
presented by the Great Issues com
mittee of the Memorial Student
Center.
Stassen was elected governor of
Minnesota at 31, the youngest man
ever elected to that office.
Almost two years before the 1948
elections, he announced his candi
dacy for the Republican nomina
tion for president with the state
ment that he wanted to steer his
party along a “truly liberal path.”
In the midst of widespread strikes
in the aftermath of the war he
declared for a national policy of
“taking arbitrary power away from
union leaders and giving it back
to the working men themselves.
Long an exponent of liberalism
in GOP councils, Stassen called on
his party to abandon “all remnants
of a policy of economic isolation
and assume “leadership of Ameri
ca in .a new policy of world-wide
economic participation.” He advo-
Don Covey, Texas Tech’s broad-
jumper, has won a $750 scholarship
from a, petroleum firm for his sen
ior year in competition among stu
dents-of engineering. schools in the
Southwest. In the top 3 per cent
of his class for the past three
years, Covey has an A minus aver
age.
cated low tariffs and a reciprocal
trade agreements program.
Stassen, a r s a religious leader,
had proposed his own peace plan
in an address before the North
ern Baptist convention. “The walls
o<f isolationism are gone forever,”
he said at that time. In 1942 he
waslchosen president of the Inter
national Council of Religious Edu
cation, a post he held for many
years.
He believed that religion would
contribute vitally to averting the
posibility of another World War.
His administration as governor
of Minnesota quickly gained him
national recognition. He was pres
ident of the National Council of
State Governments and chairman
of the Governors’ conference fn
1940-41. In 1939, when he took
office, the United States Junior
Chamber of Commerce named him
the nation’s outstanding young man
of the year.
B I G HOLIDAY S II O W
Clark Gable
“BETRAYED” — Color
Also Donald O’Connor
“I LOVE MELVIN”
First Show 6:30
What's Cooking
THURSDAY
7:15—Rio Grande Valley home
town club, room 3 C MSC.
7:30 — Galveston county home
town club, room 223 Academic,
plan dance.
Panhandle club, Academic build
ing.
Fayette-Colorado county club,
room 128 Academic, election of of
ficers and plan Thanksgiving par
ty.
Marshall hometown club, MSC,
guest speaker from home.
Corpus Christi hometown club,
MSC, information on Thanksgiving
party.
Port Arthur club, room 105 Biol
ogy building, discuss Thanksgiving
dance.
The University of Texas fields
fewer seniors in its starting lineup
in 1954 than any time since 1945.
Only three are ticketed for the first
string at this time and no more
than that are listed on the current
No. 2 unit.
TODAY & FRIDAY
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Miserasws
starring c.Hiu.r.o*
mitiR DESSA ROBERT ESMOND
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Rely On Us for
Superior Service
When you put clothes in
our hands, you know
they’ll be returned clean,
well pressed and in toy
form. Our reputation
rests on your satisfaction.
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HEY AGGIES . . .
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