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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
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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!
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ITS WORTH THE LOSS
IF I WIN THAT GAL!
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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
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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
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ander the Act of Con
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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.
During this Lenten Season, so that
everyone may have a really fine
Bible, we are offering the 10.00
genuine leather bound RSV Bible
for only 6.95.
There is some question of good
taste in reducing the price of the
Lloly Bible, but if we can make this
fine Bible more readily available
to more people, we’re glad to do it.
The second most used book
around the house is a good die
tionary. How often have you
fumed because your dictionary is
out of date? We’ve the most rep
resentative stock in this area. They
range from the pocket edition at
.35 to the library volume at 55.00.
We heartily recommend the Web
ster’s New World Dictionary, a
brand new up-to-date edition, at
only 6.75 for the Complete or 3.75
for the Concise edition.
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. Dulaney, Vice President
Pat Newton, Cashier
OFFICERS
Curtis Mathis, Assistant Cashier
L. E. Nedbalek, Assistant Cashier
Willard E. Williams, Assistant Cashier
Randal Brewer, Assistant Cashier
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