The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Tuesday, February 12, 1957
Liable To Be A Pinch In The End!
Letters to the Editor
G. F. Boyett
Services
Held Sunday
Guy F. Boyett, 61, Brazos
County commissioner for
eight years, was interred in
the Bryan City cemetery Sun
day afternoon. He died Sat
urday piorning at 6 in his home,
100 Boyett St., College Station.
A gxaduate in civil engineering'
in 1916, Boyett lived here all his
life. As a contractor, he was ac
tive in constructing both Easter-
wood Airport and Bryan Air Force
Base and had much to do with the
installation of Bryan’s first REA.
Boyett was a member of the
Knights, of Pythias and the A&M
Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Mary Boyett, College Station;
one son, Guy F. Boyett, Jr. and
two grandchildren of Bryan; two
sisters, Mrs. Bertha Boyett Cox
and Mrs. Frank Mathews of Col
lege Station; three brothers, Al
ton P. Boyett, College Station;
Norman Boyett, Marlin and Oran
Boyett, Uvalde.
Music Fan
PASADENA, Calif. UP>—William
B. McKesson, district attorney of
Los Angeles County, appeared for
a quiz session before a panel of
teen-agers. He was asked if he
thought rock ’it’ roll should be
outlawed and gave this answer:
“No. Personally I don’t ‘dig it, but
that doesn’t mean that I would want
to ban it. There are good and bad
elements in our current music. I
believe that most teenagers are
wise enough not to carry the bad
elements to excess.”
Editor,
The Battalion
I wish to take this means to
express to your readers, the stu
dents and the citizens of College
Station, my appreciation for the
splendid response to the recent
Christmas Seal Sale, of which I
was chairman. The purpose of this
campaign, as you know, was to
raise funds for the work of the
local Tuberculosis Association and
its state and national affiliates for
another year.
I have delayed writing this
“Thank You” note because contri
butions have continued to come
in since the holidays and I wanted
to include these donors. Of course,
the last donations are just as help
ful as the first and I do want to
thank each and everyone who
helped in any amount.
Also, I want to include in my
expression of appreciation your
staff and that of WTAW and all
the many volunteers who worked
on committees for the seal sale. I
found people most cooperative and
sympathetic with the program of
the tuberculosis association and
personally, I derived a great deal
of satisfaction in serving as coun
ty chairman for the sale.
Total funds received for the
sale to date amount to $6,206.72.
I am hoping- that even yet contri
butions will continue to be sent
in so that the total will reach
$6,250, an amount which will as
sure a continuance of the fine
work the TB Association is doing
in our county. The state and na
tion TB Associations will divide
18 per cent of the total, leaving
the remainder for the local pro
gram.
Of course, most of the contribu
tions for the seal sale come
through the mail. Besides the mail
sale,, this year’s fund includes $430
from A&M students and $75 from
the College Station Civic Associa
tion. The number of business firms,
local clubs and individuals who
contributed are too many to men
tion by name.
The Board of Directors of the
Brazos County Tuberculosis Asso
ciation joins me in this expression
of appreciation to each one of you
for his financial support, good
will and voluntary services in this
great campaign to control the
dreaded disease, tuberculosis.
Mrs. John Q. Hays
★ ‘
Editor,
The Battalion:
I want to take this opportunity
to thank the person who found
and turned in my laundry bundle
Friday morning, Jan. 25.
In my great haste to leave for
San Antonio after that last (ugh)
final Friday morning, I inadver
tently left my old dirty laundry
on top of my car. Needless to
say, it fell off.
My thanks also to the college
laundry for sending a notice to
me at home telling me my laundry
had been turned in and would be
ready when I returned from the
holidays. You indeed have taken
much worry off my mind.
This seems like a small thing,
and yes, it is. But still, I feel
it is small things like this that
make A&M so great.
Again, may I say thank you.
Karl J. Springer, ’57
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J E WE L E R
111 N. Main Bryan
Who Is This Missing Man
Called Oscar Zimmerman?
By JIM BOWER
A mystery entitled “Who Is
Oscar Zimmerman” may be de
veloping here in Brazos County.
Oscar first gained prominence in
a letter to the editor published
Sunday in the Biyan Daily Eagle in
which he criticized the “too high”
salaries and useless positions here
at A&M.
But from here, Oscar’s trail
grows somewhat hazy.
He does not pay taxes according
to the rolls of the tax assessor and
collector.
He is not listed in the latest
city-county directory.
He does not get any mail ac
cording to the rural carrier of
route 3, the route Oscar called
home in the letter. The carrier said
‘he hasn’t gotten any mail in the
last two years, anyway.”
There are six Zimmermans in the
telephone book. Five of these said
they never heard of him and the
sixth was not at home to be con
tacted.
Oscar must be better at typing
than writing.
Vic Lindley, Eagle editor, said
the letter was postmarked “Bryan”
and that it was typewritten (with
no typographical errors) but was
signed in very shaky handwriting.
Jumping off into his letter with
the statement that “it takes cour
age to stand up for the tax payer”,
Oscar told readers of his letter that
“top salaries at A&M are too high
and that many jobs and expense
could be abolished and some
salaries could be lowered.”
Oscar said he was answering
“Mr. Miller” who had earlier writ
ten a letter to the Eagle as a tax
payer and citizen protesting
against the proposed County Court-
at-Law.
“I want to urge another saving
for the tax payer,” Oscar said.
“Literally tens or hundreds of use
less jobs and high salaries have
been authorized there (A&M) and
with an obvious gross waste of the
tax payer’s money.
“You and I pay this bill through
taxation,” he said.
“I know of many useless
positions, or jobs, in many depart
ments at A&M, the Extension Ser
vice and other departments under
the college where the tax payer
receives nothing or practically
nothing, and which the Legislature
should abolish and terminate, for
the saving of the tax-paying man
on the street.”
If Oscar knew he wasn’t on the
tax rolls, he probably wouldn’t be
paying those taxes.
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In nine years, 220 A&M engi
neering students' have taken ad
vantage of the on-the-job train
ing offered by the Texas Engineer
ing - Experiment Station heat lab
oratory.
The number of students employed
per month averaged 15 and their
compensation about $5,000 per
year.
Work has been carried out in the
field and laboratory and has aided
toward research involving soil tem
peratures, moisture migration and
thermal conductivity.
MOORE RILL
(Continued from Page 1)
years ago.
“As to that business about
$20,000, that is entirely wrong,”
said Barron. “The Court would
cost the salary of the judge plus
about $400 per year for other ex
penses. Revenue from the Court
would double from the county’s
share at present.”
This is in direct opposition to
Rep. Dewey’s statement that
“there is no question about the
Court’s inability to pay for it
self.”
Asked why the bill calls for a
minimum salary of $8,400, Barron
explained that the figure was
reached by dividing the new pro
posed salary for district judges
in half and raising the total a bit.
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