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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1957
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Israelis Slate
Sinai Pull-out
By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER
UNITED NATIONS, UP) — An
Israeli delegation spokesman an
nounced last night that Israeli
troops will pull out of the Egyptian
Sinai Peninsula by Jan. 22 except
for one point commanding the
Gulf of Aqaba.
He said U. N. Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold was informed
of the decision by Israeli Ambas
sador Abba Eban yesterday.
The development came signifi
cantly just before the return here
of Mrs. Golda Meir, Israeli foreign
minister, and as the African-Asian
bloc in the U. N. moved to get
U. N. censure of Israel for slow
withdrawal. The Israeli Cabinet
has been under strong domestic
pressure not to yield any further
ground.
In Jerusalem, informants said
Eban would hand Hammarskjold
a proposal that the U. N. guaran
tee freedom for Isi’aeli shipping
through the Red Sea Gulf of Aqaba
in exchange for further withdraw
als.
But Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan, Is
raeli chief of staff, told reporters
after witnessing Israel’s withdraw
al from El ’Arish yesterday, that
he had no conferences scheduled
with the U. N. force chief, Maj.
Gen. E. L. M. Burns, to discuss
further withdrawals. The A1 ’Arish
retreat was the second phase of a
promised Israeli pullback.
It left Israeli forces on a line in
northern Sinai only 10 miles from
the old Egyptian-Palestine frontier
and the Gaza Strip.
The promised Jan. 22 withdrawal
would take the Israelis out of the
desert and beyond the international
frontier, the delegation spokes
man said.
He added that Eban told the
secretary general Israel is willing
to discuss the question of removing
troops from Sharm el Sheikh, com
manding the Gulf of Aqaba and the
Straits of Tira, which lead to the
southern Sinai port and Israeli
naval base of Eilat.
The spokesman said Eban has
offered to discuss with Hammar
skjold ‘points pertaining to pre
vention of belligerence” in that
‘Fish’ Takes
Test Series
For Academy
Phillip Robberson, a fresh
man in Squadron 20, is pres
ently undergoing testing at
Ellington Air Force Base for
possible entry into the Air
Force Academy.
Robberson, from Decatur, Ill., re
ceived a congressional nomination
to be accepted for the testing and
held further eligibility by being
already in military training.
The Air Force Academy, tem
porarily located at Lowry Air
Force Base, Colorado while its per
manent structures are now being
erected at Colorado Springs, Colo.,
has a four year college training
course leading to a bachelors de
gree and a regular commission in
the Air Force.
Robberson is being tested at El
lington AFB because it is his near
est testing center.
Ike Outlines Program
Of $76 Million Relief
No Sounding Board
Says Paschal Price
“We will not be a sounding
board for A&M College or anyone
else,” Paschal Price, publisher of
the Twin City Star told College
Station Kiwanis Club members at
their luncheon yesterday.
Price and the Texas business
men who are backing the new
Brazos County newspaper plan to
U.S. College Students Favor
Hungarian Aid Without War
Sophomore
Hospitalized
After Collapse
Clarence Cowart, s o p h o-
more Industrial Engineering
major from Jasper, under
went major surgery for a rup
tured spleen yesterday in St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan, hos
pital authorities said.
Cowart, a member of A AAA,
collapsed at his desk Monday night
while studying and was rushed to
the College Hospital. He was
transferred to St. Joseph’s where
an operation revealed his trouble
to be a ruptured spleen.
Calls for blood donors went out
in the Memorial Student Center
and radio station WTAW. Suffi
cient donors were found, hospital
officials said.
“His condition is satisfactory
now,” hospital officals say. “There
is no need for more blood if the
patient continues in the same con
dition.”
By JOE TINDEL
College students across the na
tion feel that there is a way short
of war which the United Nations
can help Hungary regain freedom.
An Associated Collegiate Press’
poll of a cross-section of college
students said that 48 per cent of
those interviewed hold this view.
Only 27 per cent said there isn’t,
while 25 per cent were undecided.
Broken down by sexes, 51 per
cent of males said there is and 30
per cent there isn’t. Only 19 per
cent were undecided.
More coeds, 44 per cent, said
there is a way while 24 per cent
said there isn’t. 32 per cent were
undecided.
Most common to students favor-
CS Police Force
Adds Three Men
Three new police officers, two
of them “rookies”, have been ad
ded to the College Station police
force to bring the body to its full
strength of five men, according to
City Manager Ran Boswell.
Arlan Williams and William A.
Lusk, Hearne, and L. L. Peikgrt
of Corsicana are the new employ
ees. Lusk and Peikert are in train
ing.
Lee Norwood is chief of the
College Station police force. The
remaining officer is Melvin Lue-
dke.
Ike Calls For
Record Budget
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (A 5 )—
President Eisenhower handed Con
gress today the biggest budget in
peacetime history—a monumental
$71,807,000,000 spending program
designed mainly “to deter and, if
need be, to defeat aggression.”
Despite the huge contemplated
outlays, Eisenhower figured that
income for the fiscal year 1958,
which starts next July 1, will
exceed outgo. That would mean
the third balanced budget in a
row.
To provide “a wise and reason
able degree of protection for the
nation,” Eisenhower urged that
Congress put 63 cents out of every
dollar—a total of $45,300,000,000
—into shoring up defenses of
America and the free world.
The budget lays expanding em
phasis on guided missiles and nu
clear arms.
Blended into the government fi
nancial blueprint is Eisenhower’s
Weather Today
Forecast calls for continued
cloudiness in the area. Yesterday’s
high was 40 degrees and this
morniing’s low, 32—the reading
at 10:30 this morning.
legislative program, in massive
detail. Mainly it is repetitious.
The President asked for most of
the items on the list in his State
of the Union message to Congress
last week or in other messages in
past years.
Again the program rules out a
tax cut in favor of applying ex
cess revenue to trimming the huge
national debt.
In developing plans for the com
ing year, the President said he was
guided by such objectives as:
“Peace, justice and freedom for
our own and other peoples;
“Powerful armed forces to deter
and, if need be, to defeat aggres
sion;
“A healthy and growing econ
omy with prosperity widely
shared.”
Once more Eisenhower ear
marked the bulk of the budget to
keeping the nation’s military
forces in “their present high state
of readiness” and to introducing
“new weapons.”
Again it urges peaceful proj
ects—federal aid for building
schools, a broadened health pro
gram, stimulation for housing,
help for farmers and small busi
nessmen.
ing action short of war is the feel
ing that the free world and espec
ially the United Nations should
exert pressure such as economic
boycotts on the Soviet Union.
A junior from one school gives
this opinion:
“We should place embargos on
Russian trade and send UN ob
servers into Hungary.”
Another college junior suggests
another form of pressure.
“Exert more propaganda pres
sure; Russia is highly sensitive to
world opinion,” he says.
Some students feel diplomatic
maneuvers are the answer. Others
advocate another summit confer
ence. A few students feel that we
should go as far as to threaten
Russia with war.
One sophomore feels we should
insist that Communist satellites
be allowed political independence
by freedom of choice at the ballot
box. A sophomore coed at another
school expressed a different opin
ion.
“I think Russia is afraid to start
a war and we could do almost any
thing to free Hungary,” she says.
A freshman coed at another col-
Rebel Leader
Set To Die
In Hungary
BUDAPEST, (TP) _ A Com
munist military court was report
ed to have imposed a death sen
tence yesterday on Josef Dudas, a
leader of Hungary’s uprising
against the Russians.
A usually reliable source said
Dudas, a bold looking man with a
varied political background, was
condemned on charges that includ
ed seizure and suppression of the
Communist newspaper Szabad Nep
Oct. 29.
Confirmation was lacking. Hun
gary’s government — controlled
press has said not a word about
Dudas’ trial, though it has ac
knowledged the imposition of 22
death sentences so far under a
martial law decree that makes
even the illegal possession of am
munition a capital crime.
A 20-year-old welder was the lat
est addition to the official list.
The trade union paper Nepakarat
announced the welder, Istvan Hor
vath, is to die and others of a
fighting group he Iqd—'the num
ber was not stated—are going to
prision for 5 to 10 years for “dis
arming revenue officers” and oth
er offenses in Budapest.
Secrecy shrouds the trials.
Florist Conference
Commercial florists from Texas
will hold their annual conference in
the MSC Saturday through Mon
day. About 120 persons are ex
pected to attend. Sponsored by the
Department of Floriculture and
Landscape Architecture, A. F. De-
Werth of that department will be
chairman.
lege believes “moral support and
encouragement by the free na
tions” is the answer.
Students who say there is no
way to aid Hungary short of war
feel that Russia is too strong to
bully and the UN is ineffective.
“As one of the two powerful
nations in the world today the
USSR will not allow outsiders to
change its basic policy,” a senior
from one college says.
A freshman coed says Russia has
already stated that there will be
all-out war if anyone interferes.
Another freshman says:
“You can’t talk with Russia and
get anything done.”
Finally a sophomore coed ex
presses her views.
“Unless Russia would relent,
there seems to be no alternative
other than war, as much as we
would hate to witness it.”
Students who were against start
ing a war said that it is heart
breaking to freedom-loving na
tions of the world that they are
unable to give Hungarian freedom
fighters anything but moral en
couragement, lest other action
cause a general war between the
East and the West.
New Program
To Encourage
Ag Professors
A new fellowship program
to aid staff members in ob
taining advanced degrees has
been announced by Dr. J. C.
Miller, dean of the School of
Agriculture.
The fellowships are called the
Chas. N. Shepardson Fund Grants
and are financed by the Shepard
son Fund.
According to an agreement be
tween Mr. and Mrs. Shepardson
and the college, the fund is pro
vided “To encourage young mem
bers of the staff of the college to
make their professional careers in
teaching and to assist such staff
members in improving their com
petence as teachers.”
Fellowships of $500 will be
awarded on the basis of the staff
member’s devotion and interest,
capacity for and need for further
preparation, need of financial as
sistance, and promise of advance
ment and improvement.
The committee that will select
fellowship recipients consists of
the dean of the School of Agri
culture, the president of the col
lege, and other members appointed
by the president.
Charles N. Shepardson, former
dean of agricultui’e, is now agri
cultural member of the Board of
Governors for the Federal Reserve
System, Washington, D.C.
He and Mrs. Shepardson estab
lished the fund “To the end that
the teaching program of the col
lege would be strengthened for the
benefit of its students and for the
advancement of its educational
purposes.”
have their paper circulating “dur
ing March,” he said. They expect
ultimately a circulation of 25,000,
with 15,000 of these outside Brazos
County.
“Right now there is little free
dom of the press,” he said, “due
to ‘gutless’ editors and publishers
who bend over backward to ap
pease advertisers and business
interests.”
Price stressed that the new
publication would be devoted to
local news with “only enough”
national wire service news. He
said that the editorials would not
be affected by any outside interests
of any kind. The new paper will
“probably” lease the United Press
wire service he added.
In stressing that his paper would
not be a sounding board for A&M
he said, “Right now I would advo
cate in an editorial that the Chan
cellor of the A&M System not live
on the A&M campus.”
Library Schedule
During exams next week, the
College Library will keep regular
opening and closing hours. The
library plans to be open from 8
a. m. to 5 p. m. on Monday, Jan.
28 through Feb. 1. Beginning
Monday, Feb. 3, regular hours
will again be followed.
Drough t-Plagued
Farmers to Benefit
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WICHITA, Kan., UP)—President Eisenhower yesterday
outlined administration plans for a 76-million-dollar program
of supplemental emergency relief for drought-plagued farm
ers and ranchers.
On the longer-range aspect of the problem, the Presi
dent called for a reappraisal of credit policies—both govern
ment and private—to determine whether more liberal loans
can be extended to those who have been hard hit by one of
the worst droughts in history.
Eisenhower announced, too, that Western railroads have
agreed to extend another program designed to provide relief.
The railroad’s 50 per cent reduction in freight rates for hay
R ! *s* Draw
Sympathy
From Crowd
Members of the Ross Volun
teer Company drew more than
the usual admiration of mili
tary “spit and polish” at yes
terday’s Inaugural Parade in
Austin, according to the As
sociated Press reports.
Sympathy seemed to go all-
out to the lads, clad in their
spotless, white cotton uni
forms, which were no match
for the cold chill atmosphere
of Austin.
Most people on hand for the
celebration felt the need of
wool overcoats rather than
white cotton blouses.
shipments was scheduled to
have expired today.
The cut will be continued
through March 31, the Presi
dent said.
All of these relief steps—with
the emergency 76-million-dollar
program subject to congressional
approval—were set forth by the
President as he concluded a two-
day tour of the Southwestern
drought area.
His short-range emergency plan,
on which Eisenhower said he will
seek swift congressional approval,
calls for:
® 1. Authority to use 25 million
dollars from the federal disaster
loan revolving fund to provide ad
ditional emergency livestock feed
assistance to drought — stricken
farmers and ranchers.
• 2. An extension until June 30,
1958, providing for use of 25 mil
lion dollars in unobligated funds
(See IKE, Page 2)
Always A Cheery Smile
Housing Office Dorm Clerk
Looks After Her Aggies
By DAVE McREYNOLDS
Every day a smiling, joking,
middle-aged woman smiles her way
into the hearts of Aggies over the
Housing Office desk.
Whether reserving rooms, look
ing for lost keys, wanting to make
room changes or just looking for
a buddy’s address, students can’t
miss Mrs. Mary Vance who usually
takes care of these matters.
Unlike most people who deal
with the public, Mrs. Vance invar
iably greets each student with a
smile, a kind word, and usually
succeeds in sending him away in a
better frame of mind. She knows
most of them by their first names.
Her public is not like other pub
lics. It is mostly teen-age stu
dents who come into the office
she’s been in since 1950, feeling
they have the weight of the world
on their shoulders. These are the
times when her goodwill gets a
real test.
All students dropping out of
college must check by her desk.
As dormitory and room reserva
tion clerk, she has to initial their
checkout slip and accept their
room key. At this time Mrs. Vance
does Jaer best to talk the student
into reconsidering his move, sleep
on it a night, and come back the
next day. Many of them stay in
school.
“I wouldn’t change jobs with any
one on the campus,” she says “It
gives a person a chance to come in
contact with the boys and think
young.”
Mrs. Vance has her own ideas of
age, for as she puts it —
“We are all growing older,
whether we accept the fact or not,
when your hair turns grey you
can say it’s just premature, but
when your joints begin to ache, it
begins to dawn on you.”
Mrs. Vance was very familiar
with the A&M campus when she
accepted the job in the Housing
Office back in 1950.
As a girl she used to “hang
around” the old Aggie Grocery
Store, which her father, Phillip
Andrews, managed.
The store was located where the
Building and College Utilities
headquarters is now.
“No, I didn’t meet my husband
there,” she laughed. “He was a
Bryan boy.”
The lucky man is F. D. (Granny)
Vance and he and Mrs. Vance have
two children, a boy and a girl. The
son, Richard is a sophomore at
A&M. Their daughter, Pat, will
graduate from Stephen F. Austin
High School in Bryan this year.
Mrs. Vance’s smiles and “pats
on the back” have not gone un
noticed. According to other mem
bers of the office force she has re
ceived numerable letters, cards
and phone calls from the parents
of students the world over for her
thoughtfulness to their sons.
“Maybe I talk too much,” she
says, “but each boy is an individ
ual with me and if you don’t think
about the students what would
make the college go anyhow ?
There would be no school without
the boys,” she pointed out.
Mrs. Mary Vance