The Battalion ..... College Station (Bmxos County), Texan
PAGE 2 Wednesday, October 31, 1956
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US Pulls Citizens Out
Of Hot Mid-East Area
Yesterday the Gth Fleet was re
ported cruising' between Crete and
Cyprus, about 250 to 500 miles
from the Mediterranean entrance
to the Suez Canal.
State Department press officer
Lincoln White announced the de
partment’s efforts to divert mer
chant ships to ports which could
be used as evacuation points.
WASHINGTON, (A 5 ) — The Uni
ted States strove yesterday to
evacuate Americans from Middle
East areas on a “women and chil
dren first” basis.
With major airports in Israel
and Egypt reported closed to com
mercial traffic, the State Depart
ment was trying to get several
merchant ships to put into ports
where they could pick up Ameri
cans.
The U. S. Gth Fleet already was
poised in the eastern Mediterran
ean, reportedly ready either to aid
in an evacuation or to join any
U. N. action in the embattled re
gion.
And another Navy force-Hunter-
Killer Group No. 2—was presum
ably speeding to join the Gth Fleet
after breaking off late yesterday
a scheduled four-day visit to the
Netherlands.
The destination of the Hunter-
Killer Group was not disclosed.
But informed quarters said it was
moving toward the Mediterranean.
Major units of the Gth Fleet left
Turkish and Greek ports Sunday
night, after President Eisenhower
first expressed publicly grave con
cern over a military buildup in
Israel.
Sweetheart
Letters To The Editor
(Continued from page 1)
not yet found a place to stay. Any
one still hunting for a room
urged to contact Jim Hudson, in
Dorm 17, room 101.
Largely, the person responsible
for making this year’s ball the
“finest one ever” is Leroy (Bunny)
Foerster, chairman of the Air
p’orce Ball. Other chairmen and
their jobs include Byron King,
Sweetheart Committee; Brad
Crockett, Publicity; Dick Wall,
Date Wait; Bob Hoover, Decora
tions; L. E. Sheppard, Army Lia
ison; Bill Easley, Budget and Ber-
nie Clark, vice chairman in Charge
of Facilities. Maj. Edward W.
Rodgers is the Air Force faculty
advisor.
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Witches Fly Tonight
By HOWARD BENEDICT
Associated Press
Lock the doors and bar the win
dows. For tonight witches will fly,
black cats will shriek and ghosts
will be about the land.
What’s more, masked maraud
ers will rove about, soaping win
dows, ringing doorbells and carry
ing off gates.
It’s all part of the tradition of
Halloween, the celebration of
which has changed considerably
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since the Druids started the whole
thing in Ireland some 2,000 years
ago.
Back in those days-Oct. 31 was
set aside to honor Samhain, the
Druid god of the dead. On that
night the souls of those who had
died during the previous year
were supposed to come home, and
Druid priests lit huge bonfires to
warm the visitors.
About midevening, when the
fires were blazing briefly, the
priests grabbed a fellow Druid
and tossed him into the flames.
Just why they did this is not
certain, but one explanation says
it put Samhain in a good mood.
Later, Samhain’s holiday be
came confused with ceremonies
celebrated about the same time
of year by other peoples.
First to get into the act was
the Roman’s annual festival of the
harvest goddess, Pomona. This
goddess • traditionally was sur
rounded by products of the har-
(See WITCHES, Page 4)
Editor,
The Battalion
I see that the funny man has
struck again. Saturday morning
and again Monday morning this
clown gathered together his cour
age and poured paint on Sully. He
never seems to realize that Sully
is only a defenseless statute, and
this must be “funny man’s” meth
od of proving his worth as a man.
Up to this point, we have al
ways tried to be the optimistic
type of person who believed that
all the paint was thrown by either
local high school kinds or students
from other colleges, but lets not
kid ourselves.
Does it seem feasible that a
Baylor University student would
travel all the way from Waco with
a Coca Cola cup full of green
paint ? Of course not, yet a Coke
cup which had been filled with
green paint was lying beside Sully
Saturday.
Just what would cause this type
of behavior on the part of an A&M
student ? It appears to be the
work of some frustrated character
who expresses bis opposition to
A&M traditions and customs by
the use of negative means. Ap
parently he doesn’t like it here.
If tins is the case “funny boy”,
then we have what we believe is
the best solution for your problem
—GET THE H OUT OF HERE
and STAY OUT! Surely no one
can solve any problem by throw
ing things, much less paint on a
statue.
Everyone who attends this co
lege finds things that lie doesn’t
particularly like. The normal
nearly normal person will try,
through approved methods, to ad
just the situation to suit himself.
Though all situations are never
adjusted to suit everyone, in this
manner we have at least progress.
We hope that this letter will
bring about some favorable change
and help us progress in this situ
ation.
We would like to ask another
question. At what other college
would the college authorities al
low' monuments to be painted and
disfigured such as this? We’ll ans
wer that one ourselves; none that
w'e know of.
However, if an outfit paints its
emblem on a sidewalk here at
A&M ,there's h to pay. Why,
then, can’t something be done
about Sully ?
Of all the people on the campus
who could do something about the
obnoxious painter, the Campus Se
curity office has the most author
ity. Why then, hasn’t some col
lege official taken it upon himself
to see that the Campus Security
officers protect the statue against
such vandalism ?
However, the person who can do
most to alleviate the situation is
the emotionally immature adoles
cent who applys the paint.
At any rate, if the painting
keeps up, we might as well re
move the statue which was once a
sacred symbol to Aggies.
We show no respect for this
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Guy Madison
ALSO
“Phantom of the
Rue Morgue”
Gentleman” by allowing his like
ness to be publicly ridiculed in This
manner.
The statue, at this time, is per
manently ruined by the countless
exhibitions of immaturity, espec
ially the base upon which is in
scribed the token of our respect
and admiration for this man. In
stead of participating in these
juvenile practices, why can’t all
Aggies follow the example of this
great man who did so much for
our school ?
Lynn Pixley ’57
Donald Hicks ’57
Kirby Meyer ’57
Jack Chewning ’r>7
Louis Benavides ’57
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