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th The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Tuesday, April 2, 1957 Main Thing Is to Vote Today is a day of decision for the voters of Brazos County as it is for voters all over Texas. For the first time in Texas since the Civil War a Re publican is a strong contender for U. S. Senator. The Democratic Party lines are well drawn between the traditional states’ rights., conservatives and the liberals of the National Democratic Party. Here in College Station, young people have begun to organize a Young Republican group favoring the Repub lican candidate for the Senate. A similar Democratic group should begin to form. All of these developments point more and more toward a two party state which many people believe is long overdue. One question voters will have to answer is whether they are going to vote for either a liberal or conservative Demo crat and keep the Senate in Democratic hands or elect a Re publican to possibly switch the control. They also must ask themselves who will serve the best interests of Texas, a traditionally Democratic state, and who in their opinion will represent Texas in a way that will aid long-needed progress for the state. That’s the picture roughly. Liberal or conservative Democrat, or Republican, vote as you will, but VOTE. Letters to the Editor Editor, The Battalion: A&M is fortunate in having a recently remodeled hospital. The efficiency of this remodeled (in terior) plant is also supposed to be better. However, though the plant it self may be more efficient, the personnel certainly is not. I base this statement upon a personal ob servation and I hope it does not reflect the general character of the hospital personnel. The waiting room was crowded and it was obvious that the nur ses had their “hands full.” Then, like a child, one of the student at tendants threw a monkey wrench into the procedure by starting a half hour long bit of horseplay with the nurse. He took a $5 bill she had given him for change, which belonged to a student wait ing his Salk vaccine injection and then refused to return it. What followed can only be de scribed as the height of puerility. While several students waited for treatment the nurse and two stu dent attendants giggled, wrestled and neglected their duty for al most 30 minutes. If anyone had been in need of quick medical attention he would probably still be waiting for it. This is not meant to be a per sonality slam, but instead to strike the serious note that a hospital is no place for this kind of adoles cent behavior. A chain is only as good as its weakest link or a hos pital as good as its personnel. Henry Heatherly ’59 ^(>.(■^1^.1,H111 11II|U|TIiMiixhTlMl ■ r\ Seven Facul ty Men Bound for Meeting Members of the Veterinary School faculty will attend the seventh annual conference on “Diseases in Nature Transmissible to Man”, to be'held in Austin April 4 and 5. WATCH THAT BALL OR I’LL TAKE YOU!, PAL! _ / ITS WORTH THE LOSS IF I WIN THAT GAL! T cm SENATE RACE (Continued from page one.) Harris County, with 355,000 eligible voters, “holds the balance of power unless the voters decide to boycott the election and I don’t think that is likely.” He appeared Monday night on three Houston television programs. He warned voters against losing Democratic control of the Senate through election of a Republican. C. D. Hart Leads Cancer Society The American Cancer Society will be led in the Brazos County area by Charles D. Hart, of the American General Life Insurance Co. Vel Prof Rejects High Lions’ Post Alvin A. Price, of the Depart ment of Veterinary Anatomy, told the College Station Lions Club' yesterday he could not accept their nomination for him to run for District Governor of District 2-S-3, Lions International. “I am aware of the magnitude of this high office,” Price said in a prepared statement read to the club at their weekly luncheon yesterday. “There are reasons whjf I cannot be a candidate. . . at this time. I do not want to appear vague or my sterious, but the reasons are per sonal.” The club voted unanimously to accept Price’s withdrawal and ex pressed their regret that he could not run. The Cartoonist As Seen By Himself Collins’ Cartoons Spice Batt Pages NOV) G0T7A Go.. ^ WOT GO mSTo, o A 0-V.q > . _ "/IN INSURANCE POLICY FOR ANY SIZE HALO' EUGENE RUSH- - COLLEGE STRTIO/MjTEXA-S YOURE A PIPE SMOKING MAN ? THEN YOU'RE FOR AAE • sir Walter ra<leigh‘s 6LEMD OF CHOICE KENTUCKY BURLEYS IS EXTRA-AGED TO GUARD AGAINST TONGUE BITE. 24-PAGE booklet ON PIPE CARE . JUST WRITE TO: SIR WALTER RALEIGH, DEPT. 785-D LOUISVILLE, KY. The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, dally newspaper ol the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, Is published by students In the Office of Student Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications lo Koss Strader. The governing body of ail student publications of the A.&M. College of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Dr. Carroll D. Oaverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard, Prof. Tom Leland and Mr. Bennie Zinn. Student members are W. T. Williams, Murray Milner, Jr., and Leighlus E. Sheppard, Jr., Ex-officio members are Mr. Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader, Sec retary. The Battalion is published four times a week during the regular school year and once a week during the summer and vacation and examination periods. Days of publication -are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year and on Thursday during the summer terms and during examination and vacation periods. Subscription rates are $3.50 per semester, $6.00 per school year, $6.50 per full year or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-clase matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, ander the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. Member of: The Associated Press Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., a t New York City,. Chicago, Los Angclee, and San Fran cisco. One member of the Battalion staff this year who has possibly caused more comment than any other one person has been the man responsible for the editorial car toons which appear regularly in the paper. The person who draws these “animated editorials” is a 23-year-, old veterinary medicine major, Don Collins. Collins, like many of his class mates at the Vet Hospital, is no stranger at A&M having first en rolled back in September of 1951. He pursued a degree in Wildlife Management at that time and upon graduation turned to Veteri nary Medicine. In the process of roving about College Station and his home town of Houston he met and mar ried his wife, the former Elise Sanders of Houston, in April jof 1954. When asked if he intends to pursue his Cartooning after grad uation Collins says he probably will only “do a few medical illu strations unless a better oppor tunity comes along to practice my hobby.” His hobby, by the \Yay, caused quite a bit of perplexity among the students here last semester. Unknown to many persons all car toons are not intended to be humorous. The ones Collins draws are this type. The “Editorial Cartoon” has long been a device of newspapers to get across to the reader an idea or tell a story. Many newspapers in the U. S. use these cartoons for their trade mark. The Chicago Daily News runs one each day, in full color, on page one. The cartoonist, Herb Block, of the Washington Post is known around the world for his political cartoons. Such cartoons get across, in a drawing, an editorial opinion which may take a thousand words or more to explain in print. Even the “Cadet Slouch” car toons had quite a bit of editorial opinion in them. Collins belongs to that limited number of people able to take an idea, transmit it through a drawing pencil into animated life in a cartoon. A student of Ferman Martin, political cartoonist for the Houston Chronicle, Collins’ cartoons have gained in popularity since first appearing last semester. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (VI 6-6618 or VI- 6-4910) or at the editorial office room, on the ground floor of the YMCA. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (VI 6-6415) or at the Student Publications Office, ground floor of the YMCA. JIM BOWER Editor Dave McReynolds Managing Editor Barry Hart Sports Editor Welton Jones City Editor Joy Roper Society Editor Leland Boyd, Jim Neighbors, Joe Tindel News Editors Jim Carrell Assistant Sports Editor D. G. McNutt, Val Polk, Fred Meurer, Joe Buser, Jerry Haynes Reporters John West, C. R. McCain Staff. Photogi-aphers Don Collins Staff Cartoonist George Wise Circulation Manager Maurice Olian CHS Sports Correspondent Browsing Thru Shaffer’s A home is not a home without a Bible. The new Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible is one of the simplest and easiest to read. They ai'e priced from 3.00 to 17.50. 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SHAFFER’S Book Store College Station Open 8 AM to 6 PM While I’m trying the next case, take my trousers to be pressed at — CAMPUS CLEANERS Condensed Statement of Condition FIRST STATE BANK & TRUST COMPANY Bryan, Texas At the Close of Business March 14, 1957 ASSETS Cash and Due From Banks $2,492,790.95 U. S. Government Obligations 2,651,700.00 U. S. Government Cotton Loans 774,947.07 Municipal Bonds 30,800.00 Loans and Discounts 2,369,053.40 Banking House, Fixtures and Parking Lot 88,376.09 Stock of Federal Reserve Bank 6,000.00 Other Real Estate .1 2.00 TOTAL ASSETS - $8,413,669.51 LIABILITIES Capital Stock T $ 100,000.00 Surplus - — 100,000.00 Undivided Profits : 258,211.45 Reserve for Taxes n_- - - ——- 36,192.63 Deposits - — 7,919,265.43 TOTAL LIABILITIES $8,413,669.51 FIRST STATE BANK & TRUST COMPANY Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation W. J. Coulter, President W. S. Higgs, Vice President J. N. 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