The Battalion
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... College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Thursday, October 25, 1956
!timi MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Slbler
Answer for More Buildings
From all sides voters are being bombarded with cam
paign promises, charges, accusations and denials.
Almost hidden under this heap of political bombast is
a state amendment so simple that a first glance will fail to
reveal its importance.
Yet it alone is the answer to the growing crowded con
dition in Texas colleges and universities.
This solution, called amendment 3, asks the people of
Texas to allow 50 per cent of the permanent university fund
to be invested in corporate stocks and bonds.
Money for building classrooms and dormitories comes
only from this fund.
Anyone visiting campuses in Texas, and certainly this
one, can easily see the already desperate need for more class
rooms and dormitories. And the total college enrollment in
Texas now is only 77,000.
By 1970, it is expected to reach 123,000.
Where will these students live? Where will they study?
Will colleges be forced to turn students away because they
don’t have the facilities?
The only answer to these questions is a big building pro
gram—a big one over a long period of years.
At present, the permanent fund is invested entirely in
government bonds which bring a return of 2.7 per cent.
Adoption of amendment 3 wall increase this to 3.5 per cent.
This additional eight per cent will amount to more than
45 million dollars in 20 years.
Amendment 3 provides a sound, practical way of finan
cing this building program for all state colleges and univer
sities over the next 20 years without adding a single tax or
increasing a single tax rate.
Serious voters will ask about the risk of investing this
money in corporate stocks and bonds.
Eight safety factors listed below are insurance enough
to eliminate speculation and risk.
1. Not more than 50 per cent of the fund can be invested
in securities other than federal, state or municipal bonds.
2. Only stocks listed on exchanges registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commission may be bought.
3- Only stocks of companies incorporated in the United
States may be bought.
4. Only stocks of companies which have paid dividends
for at least ten consecutive years immediately prior to the
date of purchase may be acquired.
5. Not more than five per cent of the voting stocks of
a corporation may be owned.
6. Not more than one per cent of the Fund may be in
vested in any one corporation.
7. Only first lien mortgages guaranteed in whole by the
United States government may be purchased.
8. Trustees of the Fund will be subject to statutory re
sponsibility.
An immediate effect of adoption of the amendment
would be to eliminate for the next 20 years all demands upon
General Revenue Fund for appropriations to finance build
ings and other permanent improvements at all existing state
supported colleges, universities and related agencies.
Since 1951 the legislature has made appropriations to
taling $10,507,820 for buildings at institutions which under
the proposed amendment would get their building funds
either from the 5 cents ad valorem tax or the permanent
university fund.
TT TLJgNTP Sir KHINP ElffO—SLEPT BEHIND HIM IN HISTORY.*'
Hydrogen Bomb Called
Great War Deterrent
Letters
Editor,
The Battalion
I have just finished reading the
“Letters to the Editor” in todays
Battalion. Mr. Gooch, Mr. Klein
and Mr. Thomas are to be com
mended for their public stand with
regard to the letter written by
Mr. Robert C. Tinsley which was
published in a recent edition of
your paper.
It is my personal opinion that
men such as Mr. Tinsley have no
business in the Corps, much less
future commissioned officers in
our armed forces. No true leader
of men would ever make state
ments such as he made.
When a student chooses to at
tend Texas A&M College as a civ
ilian student, he is committing no
crime and should not be subjected
to humiliation by statements such
as those made by Mr. Tinsley.
I am bot]^ a gra'duate student
and a veteran of World War II
and outbursts such as Mi\ Tins
ley’s are personally obnoxious.
Albert R. M achel
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WASHINGTON, CP) _ President
Eisenhower yesterday called the
hydrogen bomb a great deter
rent to war-a weapon, he said,
which tells any potential enemy
it would be “suicidal” to attack
America.
The President set forth his views
in responding to questions put by
seven women on a nation-wide
radio-TV program sponsored by
the Republican Congressional Cam
paign Committee.
The Committee said the women it
chose to appear on the program
were “repi-esentative of all walks
of life and various sections of the
country.”
In discussing the H-bomb, Eisen
hower did not touch on the pro
posal by Adlai Stevenson, that this
country take the lead to end H-
bomb tests.
However, on another proposal
advanced by Stevenson — that
thought be given to ending the
military draft-Eisenhower stuck
to his position that the draft must
be continued at this time.
Mrs. Louis Martin, a Negro
mother of 12, who lives on a farm
near Salisbury, Md., told the Pres
ident she is worried about the H-
bomb, and asked:
“What is the future of our fami
lies in this atomic age?”
Solemnly Eisenhower replied:
“the world must find a peaceful
solution” to the great problem the
superbomb presents.
“We can never have a hydrogen
war and still have a civilization,”
ho said.
Aircraft Damage
Totals $75,000
) Damages to 27 aircraft during
the storm Saturday at Eastei’wood
amounted to $75,000, according to
H. G. Smith, airport manager.
Of the 27 planes, which were
the lighter, high-wing type, 15
were damaged to the extent they
could not be flown from the field.
Yesterday afternoon five planes
remained oh- the field. Only two
j of the 27 damaged were beyond
i repaix-.
Two San Antonio men were in-
I jured when the plane they were
| sitting in was lifted into the air by
the 90 mile per hour wind and
! flung ag’ainst the ground.
Group Of Scientists
Plead H-Bomb Ban
WASHINGTON, <A*)—The Fed-ban thus offers a maximum
eration of American Scientists I certainty of detection—of viola-
said yesterday an international
agreement to ban H-bomb tests
would be a hopeful break in years
of stalled negotiations.
It discussed the question in a
statement issued 24 hours after
President Eisenhower rejected in
detail arguments advanced by Ad
lai Stevenson, the Democratic
presidential candidate, for taking
steps now to end the hydrogen
bomb explosions.
Eisenhower said “for the sake
of peace itself” the United States
must continue its nuclear weapons
tests until securely guarded inter
national agreements make it safe
to end them.
The scientific federation con
tended yesterday that a reliable
monitoring system could be esta
blished and “a nuclear explosion
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tions—without requiring unlimited
international inspection.”
“An agreement to a ban on all
such tests would be a break in
years of stalled negotiations, and
would give hope to millions around
the world that more comprehen
sive agreements on arms limita
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The federation describes itself
as a nonpartisan organization of
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The Battalion
The Editorial Policy of The Battalion
Represents the Views of the Student Editors
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
THEY KILLED
MORE WHITE MEN
THAN ANY OTHER TRIBE
IN HISTORY
Lockheed Representatives of the California
Division and the Georgia Division
will be on campus
Mon. & Tues., October 29 & 30
You are invited to consult your
placement officer for an appointment.
Separate interview’s will be
given for each division.
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JIM BOWER Editor!
California Division activities in Burbank
cover virtually every phase of commercial
and military aircraft. Seventeen different
models of planes are in production, including
cargo and passenger transports, high Mach
performance fighters, jet trainers, radar
search planes, patrol bombers.
B. S. graduates who wish to attain a Master’s
Degree will be interested in the California
Division's Masters-Degree Work-Study
Program. In the program, participants achieve
their M.S. while working concurrently
on Lockheed’s engineering staff.
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At Lockheed in Marietta, Georgia, new
C-130A turbo-prop transports and B-47 jet
bombers are being manufactured in the
country’s largest aircraft plant under one
roof. The division is already one of the
South's largest industries. Moreover, a new
engineering center is now in development as
part of the division's expansion program.
In addition, advanced research and develop
ment are underway on nuclear energy and
its relationship to aircraft. A number of
other highly significant classified projects
augment the extensive production progranu
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This broad expansion program is creating new positions in each division.
Graduates in fields of: Aeronautical Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics and Physics
are invited to investigate their role in Lockheed’s expansion.
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