Battalion Editorials
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1955
Act Your Age
It’s now time for many College Station residents to quit
acting like children and thinking only of themselves and start
acting like adults and think of their children.
A&M Consolidated School faces a serious problem. It
does not have the money it needs to operate this coming
school year as it should.
And the blame does not fall entirely upon the shoulders
of the school board. In fact, they took steps which were
entirely laudable in many instances.
A deficit is faced—but only because the embittered atti
tude on the part of many citizens has kept the board from
'‘■'\king action along certain lines which, under better circum-
anc s, they might well have taken.
The low school tax is the major outcome of trying to
please both sides of the fence. Apparently to avoid stepping
on toes the board has kept the tax rate low.
Why ?
When they first wanted a bond issue the citizens de
feated it.
When they finally got what they wanted, they did not
get enough.
But they got it—and they had to make good with it or
suffer the eternal damnation slung at them by the citizens.
They built a good plant—revolutionary in design, admittedly
—for which they have been both praised and belabored.
But expenditures kept rising and the board plunged in
to provide the type of facilities a community like ours de
serves to have. Undoubtedly, they got in deeper than they
realized, but even that was not enough to supply the schools
with all of the equipment they should have.
Consolidated will have to skimp along next year on the
barest necessities. And the basic reason for it goes back to
the apathetic attitude of the people of College Station.
Take an interest in the schools; find out their needs;
then reconsider your opinions. Act like parents interested in
their children’s school.
The Battalion
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By MRS. LUKE PATRANELLA
This week’s guest editor of Family Favorites is Polly Patranella,
bookkeeper with the Office of Student Publications. Mrs. Patranella,
who grew up in nearby Grimes County, has one son, Kenneth, 13, a
student at Lamar Junior High School in Bryan.
14 cup butter
1 !4 cups sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
2 cups flour
4 T. sour milk
Banana Nut Cake
1 t. soda
3 mashed bananas
cup chopped nuts
1 t. vanilla
Pinch of salt
Cream butter and sugar well. Add beaten eggs and beat all well.
Sift flour, soda and salt and add with milk. Beat real well. Add
mashed bananas and nuts. Bake in tube pan about one hour at 325
degrees.
Banana Icing
% stick butter or oleo 2 small bananas
1 box powdered sugar 1 cup nuts
Mix all together well. Makes a delicious, rich icing.
Applesauce Cake
1 cup white sugar
!4 cup brown sugar
Vz cup butter
2 eggs
114 cups raw apples, chopped fine
2 cups flour
114 teaspoons soda
1 t. baking powder
14 t. salt
1 cup raisins
1 cup dates
1 cup dates
1 cup nuts
Spices
Mix dry ingredients well. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs.
Roll fruit in flour. Add your flour and other ingredients to creamed
sugar mixture, a little at a time, and beat well. Bake one hour in a
tube or loaf pan at 350 degrees.
Pecan Butterscotch Cookies
2 cups brown sugar 2 cups flour
14 lb. butter 1 cup chopped pecans
2 eggs, well beaten
Cream butter and one cup sugar. Add one well-beaten egg and
mix well. Add flour and work in gradually. Spread this mixture to
thickness of pie dough on buttered baking sheets. Brush thoroughly
with half the remaining cup of sugar and egg well beaten. Then cover
with pecans. Sprinkle the rest of the sugar over all. Bake until brown.
Cut in bars, and let them remain in the pan until cool.
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Letters to the Editor
Editor,
The Battalion
What is wrong with some Ag
gies ? Don’t they like to see a
pretty green drill field ? It looks
like some are doing their best to
leave paths across the field. Why
don’t we try to keep it all green
instead of only partly green ?
We know it is a senior privilege
to walk across the grass, but I
think seniors also should have some
sense. If they don’t get some
sense at this stage in their career,
they will never have any.
This letter is not only for priv
ilege-happy seniors, but for every-
Although the number of textile
mills in New England has declin
ed sharply in recent years, remain
ing mills still employ 170,000 peo
ple.
CContinned from Page 1)
(Thus, the tax rate was set and a
budget will have to be adopted to
fit this rate. Rather backward way
to do things, and the city must ac
cept its share of blame for this as
well as the board for letting it oc
cur.)
Discussion of the validity of set
ting the tax rate before a budget
was adopted caused a stir among
board members and the few College
Station residents at the meeting.
Some felt the rate was valid and
some felt that it could be changed
since it might not be a legal way
to adopt a budget. (A check with
Atty. Gen. John Ben Sheppard
Tuesday revealed that the tax rate
was valid and would apply for the
coming school x year. Dr. Richard
son said yesterday.)
In a straw vote taken at the
meeting the board members there
voiced approval of a raise in school
tuxes. This approval was seconded
by a citizens committee, composed
of the residents at the meeting,
which quickly formed under the
guidance of Herschel E. Burgess.
The group unanimously adopted a
resolution, moved by Dr. Luther G.
Jones and seconded by John J.
Sperry, which read: “It is the
sense of all of the citizens present
at this hearing on the school bud
get that the boarcfof trustees take
such action as necessary, including
the raising of the tax rate if re
quired, to provide necessary-funds
to take care of accumulated cur
rent obligations and to support the
type of education program to which
the community is entitled.”
The budget under consideration
for the coming school year is
roughly $362,000. It would /take an
estimated $400,000 to pay off the
debt owed and still maintain the
(See Consolidated, Page 4)
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