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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Tuesday, January 15, 1957 Little man on campus by Dick Bibter ers Yet Land Inform the Public Buy (Ed. Note—This is the third of a series of articles dealing with a number of bills which mem bers of the Texas Press Associa tion have drawn up for presenta tion to this session of the State Legislature. The proposed bills deal with Insurance Laws, Veteran Land problems, Freedom of the Press, Protection of Public Funds, Election Code and other such problems which face the people of our state today.) This article is in relation to Bill No. 3-which proposes the state require every applicant wishing to purchase land under the Texas Veterans’ Land Act to give notice of his application by publication for three consecutive issues in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of his residence. In the event the land is located in a different county, he is also required to publish notice of his application in a newspaper for three consecutive issues in the county where the land is located. In the event no newspaper is published in either the county of his residence, or where the land is located, he would be required to publish the information in the newspaper of an adjoining county. The bill provides the Veterans’ Land Board shall prescribe the forms for publication and the necessary information to be includ ed on the forms. The past history of the Veterans’ Land program of our state indi cates the citizens of Texas were not aware of who was purchasing land under the program, who the sellers were, or the price being paid for the land. It is believed that if the public has notice of the buyer, seller, lo cation of the land, and the price being paid, for thq land, any evidence of fraud, or wrong-doing, vull be immediately called to the attention of the Veterans’ Land Board. There will be little likelihood of fraud in the future if this bill is enacted into law. (Ed. Note—write your repre sentative and urge the accept ance of these bills. The first of these were presented to the House of Representatives yester day in Austin.) ''anp now, pfc aoppAte, nv wiu relate m expediences AM0N6 THE HEAD SH£lNKlN<3 NATIVES OF CENTRAL AMEKl CA'! Twin-City Star To Hit Streets In March Rep. Dewey Named Committee Head Rep. B. H. Dewey Jr. of Bryan is chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee, Judiciary, which will consider the General Appro priations Bill for more than $2 billion for the next two years, Waggoner Carr, speaker of the Texas House announced recently. Dewey is also vice chairman of the Privileges, Suffrage and Elections and the Interstate Co operation Committees. Also he serves on the Congres sional and Legislative and Rules Committees. Dewey is serving his third term on all these groups except the Interstate Cooperation and Rules groups. Shocking Discovery EDMONTON, Alta. (A>) — The thief who took 3,200 feet of film from the car of Arthur Bolle must have received quite a shock. There was 2,800 feet of film on nervous breakdowns and depressive feelings and 400 feet on digestive ailments. First issues of the Twin- City Star are scheduled to be on newsstands in March, Pas chal Price Publishers, Inc. of ficials say. The publishers plan to make it a six-day-a-week morning paper and will report events of Bryan, College Station, Brazos County and the surrounding area as well as wire service accounts of state, national and world news. Press facilities and the corpora tion offices Mull be at the former Shopping Center on Texas Avenue in Bryan, president of the corpora tion Paschal Price says. Besides Price, directors of the interim board are John Mayfield and Clarence Jamail of Houston; Herbert Shaffer and Marion Pugh of College Station; Bert Pfaff of Tyler; John Hill Jr. of Dallas, Tony Heldenfels of Corpus Christi and Pat Stanford of Midland. Heads of major departments have been hired and will report for duty as soon as equipment is in stalled. The paper will be “staffed exclusively by experienced person nel” officials say. “Our advance circulation cam paign is meeting good response, indicating the community’s desire for a good live wire home town paper,” Price says. George L. Hurst of the Houston Chronical for the past seven years has been named Production Man ager. Ag Club Wins Award Cave I From Council Members of the Agricultur al Economics and Rural So ciology Club will be presented a gavel, made from the wood of Gathright Hall, for their attendance at the Agricultural Convocation which was held this fall, announced Woodrow Free, president of the Agriculture Coun cil last night. “This gavel will be passed on to the club in the School of Agricul ture which has the most people represented at future convoca tions,” Free said. Meeting at the home of Dr. J. C. Miller, dean of the School of Agri culture, members of the council elected Benny E. (Bud) Fichte to replace Bob Johnson as senior rep resentative to the Inter-council Committee. Other business rounding out the meeting was the volunteering of a nine-man committee to prepare a pamphlet designed for high school seniors telling of the advantages of majoring in agriculture at A&M. Members of this committee are Tommy Smith, chairman, Joe Dan Boyd, Benny Fichte, Bob Foster, Carl Chumney, Vol (Smokey) Da vis, Wilfred Element, Melvin Lebo and L. H. Harbers. WhaVs Cooking The following organizations meet tonight: 5:30 Galveston County Club meets in front of the College Administration Building for Aggieland picture. 7:30 American Society of Agricultur al Engineers meets in the Agri cultural Engineering Building. Caterpillar Tractor Company will present the program. American Veterinary Medical As sociation meets in the Veterinary Hospital. Dr. A. J. Sorenson of the Department of Animal Hus bandry will speak on “Nutrition’s Effect on Reproduction”. The annual State High School Golf Tournament is held on the 18- hole golf course located on the campus of A&M. Power Plant Starts Adding New Equipment Installation of a turbine- generator and cooling tower has just started at the A&M Power Plant, according to T. R. Spence, physical plants manager. Work is the result of a contract awarded by the Board of Directors at a meeting November 1956. “Previous orders have been placed by the college for the tur bine-generator, the condenser and the boiler to serve this new instal lation,” Spence says. “The bid also includes the necessary addition to the power plant building.” The total project will cost $1,- 180,000, he says. It will add a 5,000 Kilowatt electric generator. This will double the electric gen erating capacity of the plant. The turbine-generator is being manufactured by the DeLavel Steam Turbine Co. of Trenton, N.J. at a total cost of $293,000; the condenser by the Condenser Serv ice & Engineering Co. of Hoboken, N.J. at a cost of $53,715; the boil er by the Henry Vogt Co. of Louis ville, Ky. at a cost of $175,488, Spence says. J. F. Pritchard & Co. of Kan sas City will manufacture and in stall the cooling toM r er at a cost of $41,295. H. J. Hogan, local con tractor of Bryan, has already com pleted the foundations for the boil er. Work now starting is a con tract with Lufkin Construction Co. of Lufkin, Tex. for installation of all the equipment other than the boiler for $528,560. Spence expects the new genera tor will be on the line by Sept. 1, 1957. With this important addi tion and the interconnection which has already been made with the Bryan power plant, the electrical needs of A&M college are amply provided for with adequate stand by capacity for a number of years to come, Spence said. Crawford Is New Acting Assoc. Dean C. M. Crawford has been pro moted from head of the Me chanical Engineering Department to acting associate dean of engi neering, according to an announce ment by Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., dean of engineering. Dr. C. M. Simmang has been named to replace Crawford as act ing head of the ME department. The appointments were effective Jan. 1 through Aug. 31. Crawford has been with the ME department since 1919 when he joined the college as instructor. He has been head of that department since 1929. Dr. Simmang came to the de partment in 1937. He is a World War II veteran, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel in the field artillery. He was. commander of a battalion in the Pacific which re ceived the Presidential Citation for action in the Phillippines. Both men are graduates of A&M. DROUGHT A 49-bell carillon to be built in Washington, D. C., was presented to this country by the people of the Netherlands. (Continued from Page 1.) He reported on studies by range people that say it will be a long time before grass would grow even if rain did come. He said that drastic livestock shifts have oc curred that sent prices far below the level before the drought hit, and discussed economic studies of how the farmers are suffering heavily. He concluded, “As we see it, all adds up to this: Even if the rains come, the federal government must continue widespread programs. If the rains don’t come the govern ment is faced with more drastic action than ever before.” Timm said he found the Presi dent very earnest, sincere and con cerned with what he saw. “He was very interested in what we said,” Timm said. Of drought policy, Timm said Ike hopes for most of the efforts to be for a long term program, but recognizes the need for short term aid to help the struggling farmers survive. A&M Creamery supplies Grade A milk to the dining halls, hos pital and the MSC. ATTENTION, MEN! Those who rented our Books for 95c for the semester — Please get them back to us as soon as possible after the exam. LOUPOT’S Trade With LOU, He’s Right With You J , ~(0V) GOir/i G(? XY SOT GO mSTc, ' . l As sp INSURANCE POLICY FOR ANY SIZf HALO' £UGENE RUSH- - COLLEGE STATION,TEXA-S LFL ABNER By A1 Capp The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, la published by students In the Office of Student Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications Is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A.&M. College of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard, Prof. Tom Leland and Mr. Bennie Zinn. Student members are John W. Gossett, Murray Milner, Jr., and Leighlus E. Sheppard, Jr., Ex-officio members are Mr. Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader, Sec retary. 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