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v v National Guard Head Says Army Driving Guard Out WASHINGTON, (A 5 )—The presi dent of the National Guard Assn, testified yesterday that the Army is trying to drive the Guard down “the road to extinction.” Maj. Gen. Ellard A. Walsh also took another swipe at Secretary of Defense Wilson for having said that during the Korean War the Guard was a sort of “draft-dodg ing” haven. AsM MENS SHOP 103 MAIN NORTH GATE No evidence has been produced or can be, Walsh said, to back up “the extremely serious, slander ous, and irresponsible charges which have been levelled against the National Guard.” Walsh spoke out in strong terms befoi'e a House Armed Forces sub committee. Chairman Brooks (D-La) said Wilson has been invited to appear before the subcommittee any day this week and “we hope he will avail himself of this invitation.” The subcommittee is taking a look at the Army’s six months re serve training program and the plan to apply it April 1 to all Na tional Guard recruits who have had no military training. FAST way to travel to n paso Fly low cost DC-6B coach from Houston WASHINGTON, D.C. Via fast connecting service from Dallas or Houston Call Continental at VI 6-4789 * g g ontmental MJUVEJS DINE OUT A Sure Way to Your Family’s Heart (The Wife You Save May Be Your Own) WEDNESDAY — DINNER MENU SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN (Served Family Style) $1.35 PER PERSON MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER DINING ROOM SERVING LUNCH —i 11:30 A.M. - 2:00 P.M., 7 DAYS A WEEK DINNER — 6:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M., Mon. thru Fri. CHALLENGING OPPORTUNITIES IN • Avionics * Inertial Systems • Computers * Missile Guidance • Jet Engine Fuel Controls W/TH @ THE ELECTRONICS DIVISION OF R&0U& W**** 9 Please contact your Placement Director today to arrange for interviews with General Motors recruiting representative MR. C. E. SUNDEEN who will be on the campus TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 g AC SPARK PLUG v .:,. >4 THE ELECTRONICS DIVISION GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION If that is done, Walsh said, “we are going to lose 100,000 men in two years, and with that, we are on the road to extinction.” “If our alleged friends in the Pentagon are permitted to have their way,” Walsh said, “then in truth we shall have had the kiss of death placed upon us . . .” Guard units of the National Guard, on whom the new training system would be imposed, number about 400,000 men. Another 60,000 in the Air National Guard would be unaffected. Whereas the Pentagon proposes to require six months of active duty for all new ground guards men, the Guard itself is willing to accept this only for those above 18% years. It suggests 11 weeks training for those 17 to 18% years old-who make up some 65 per cent of the total. The subcommittee is expected to offer some kind of compromise. Walsh said the National Guard isn’t opposed to six months of ac tive duty for anybody if such a training program is workable. All commanders, he said, want as much training for their men as possible. But guardsmen are civilians who have to make a living or complete an education, he said, and the sys tem has to be integrated into their lives. “It is going to be difficult to sell any training program,” he said. “I believe we can sell 11 weeks better than six months.” A&M Jersey Herd Rated Very Good A&M’s registered herd of Jersey cattle has been classified for breed type by Clyde K. Chappell, official classifier of The American Jersey Cattle Club, Columbus, Ohio. Chappell’s rating resulted in a herd average of 84.23 per cent on 107 animals. The breed’s all-time average is 83.78 per cent. One animal in the herd was rated excellent, 46 very good, and 50 good plus. The ratings are based l an official score card which allots 100 points for the ideal Jersey. New Method Found To Check Bridges A new method for determining bridge load limitations will be pre sented at the American Society of Civil Engineers in Jacksonville, Miss., this week, by H. K. Stephen son. Stephenson, heading structural research at the Texas Transporta tion Institution at A&M, will explain the method which provides a simple mathematical means for estimating how many vehicles a bridge might support simultaneous ly. Model TV HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (A 5 )—When Henry Ford made his Model A he probably never dreamed it would be equipped with television, but it has in Hollywood. Jesse James, 20, is a parking attendant at a night spot. He needed some way to while away the long night hours. So he installed a $115 television set in his Model A Ford, vintage 1928, for which he paid only $5. James put the TV in the trunk of the car. He hooks it up to the parking lot floodlight system. Now he can pull up an easy chair, open the trunk and watch the late, late show. “Of course I have to get up every once in a while to park a car or two,” he said, “but I try to do that during the commercials.” MILWAUKEE 2. WIS. FLINT 2, MICH. I promise to love, honor, obey, and to have all our clothes cleaned at CAMPUS CLEANERS CS May Host Boxing Meet Next Year College Station may play host to a regional Golden Gloves Boxing tournament next year, according to box ing coach Andy York. York talked to various officials of the Golden Glove organization while in Fort Worth for the state tournament recently. They assur ed him that College Station would be given a regional charter if enough interest was aroused, he told the College Station Lions Club luncheon yesterday. The Lions Club has sponsored annual tournaments in recent years, but winners were required to go to regional tournaments be fore being eligible for state com petition. If the yearly event was declared a regional contest, win ners would go directly to state. “A regional contest would bring many requirements,” York pointed out. “Each such contest must send a team of winners to the state com petition each year, which would mean expenses of at least $700.” Officials of this year’s tourna ment announced that the event had grossed $500 profit, with $135 go ing to the A&M Boxing team and the rest earmarked for Lions Club charity. “We would be competing with meets in Houston, Temple, Waco, Austin and San Antonio,” York continued, “but many people think that A&M students and other local and area youths would furnish enough contestants.” Decisions will not be necessary until late April, York said. Foreign Students Now Number 132 A total of 132 students from 36 foreign countries are enrolled at A&M for the spring semester, with 50 taking graduate courses. Countries represented include Mexico with 25 students; Pakistan with 16; India, 11; Peru, 10; Brazil, 9; Panama, 7; El Salvador, 6.; and Venezuela, 5. Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and Korea each furnished 3; China, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Iraq, Paraguay and the Phillippines each are represented by 2 students. Australia, Canada, Chile, Colom bia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Greece, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Scot land, Spain and Uruguay each have one student enrolled at the college. To The Victor CHARLESTON, W. VA. UP)— When Gov. Cecil H. Underwood called for the resignations of all state appointive officials, Roy Lee Harmon took him literally. West Virginia’s first Republican gov ernor in 24 years, Underwood asked the resignations to give him a free hand in reorganizing. Harmon, a Democrat, gave up a title he had held 17 years. He resigned as the state’s unpaid poet laureate. S H O E S BASEBALL TRACK GOLF CROSS COUNTRY BOWLING TENNIS LITTLE LEAGUE Student Co-op Meeting Tonight A. C. unter of the Hercules Powder Co. will speak to a meeting of the Entomology Society tonight at 7:30^n the Biological Sciences Building: Gunter’s topic will be “Job Op portunities in Industry.” Kellys Have It CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. John Kelly offered to cir4 some nomination papers for Cij Judge Clarence Rinehard. “I’ll; some good names on ’em, Jud; Kelly said. When he brought! papers back to the judge el signature — 20 of them — wa Kelly. THE PRIZE IS YOURS' MAM... YOU'RE INI MOW. THERE'S A PRIZE i'O LOVE TO WIN » A PIPE SMOKER. TOO 7 mm mm! YOU'RE FOR. s-f ITS (SIR WALTER A/lc! dai Ftczi~i _ SIR WALTER RALEIGH’S BLEMD OP CHOICE KENTUCKY BURLEYS IS EXTRA-AGED TO GUARD AGAINST TONGUE BITE. 24-PAGE BOOKLET ON PIPE CARE . JUST WRITE TO: SIR WALTER RALEIGH. ' DEPT. 7S1-B What’s Hoing... Pratt & Whitney Aircraft New "high-road” to JET ENGINE FRONTIER in Florida Heralding important things to come, work was begun in late summer, 1956, on a wide access road in a remote section of Palm Beach County, Florida. At the end of that road, situated northwest of West Palm Beach, a 500,000-square-foot plant destined to be the newest addition to Pratt & Whit ney Aircraft engineering facilities is already well under construction. Here, engineers and scientists will soon be hard at work dealing with new and in creasingly complex problems relating to ad vanced jet aircraft engines. Working in close coordination with men at other P & W A establishments — particularly the • com pany’s multi-million-dollar Andrew Will- goos Turbine Laboratory in Connecticut — this newest section of the Piatt & Whitney Aircraft team will face a challenging assign ment. They, too, will be concerned with design, testing and development of highly advanced, extremely powerful jet engines which will join a family already including J-57 and J-75 turbojets, currently playing important roles in the growing military and commercial air power of the United States. The engineering graduate who begins his career at this Florida facility will have the rare opportunity of keeping pace with its anticipated growth. In an organization re nowned for development engineering su periority, he will gain invaluable experience working on vital, long-range projects that are a challenge to the imagination. World’s foremost designer and builder of aircraft engines ‘ PRATT & WHITNEY AIRCRAFT DIVISION OF UNITED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION ♦ EAST HARTFORD 8, CONNECTICUT