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Number 263: Volume 65
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1957
Price Five Cents
Theron
Bootleg Moll
Admits Pay
To Reporter
TULSA, Okla., (IP) — A
woman who said she was
known in Oklahoma as “Queen
of the Bootleggers’' testified
yesterday she paid money to
a Tulsa Tribune crime reporter,
Nolen Bulloch.
Bulloch, Tulsa Police Commis
sioner Jay L. Jones, suspended
Police Chief Paul J. Livingston,
six suspended policemen and 11
other persons went on trial yes
terday on charges of conspiring to
import and sell liquor in constitu
tionally dry Oklahoma without pay
ing federal taxes. All pleaded in
nocent to the charges in U. S. Dist.
Court,.
The witness, Cleo Epps, told a
jury that during four months in
1948 she gave Bulloch money col
lected from night club operators
and liquor dealers. Bulloch wrote
no unfavorable news stories about
the donors in the period, she said.
Bulloch was branded by the fed
eral prosecutor as ‘the conduc
tor” in the alleged conspiracy.
Mrs. Epps, a middle-aged ex-
School teacher, said she aban-
Joned liquor connections and in
July 1953 operated a truck stop
consisting of a service station and
cafe near Tulsa.
The witness, who acknowledged
she had acquired the title of
“Queen of the Bootleggers,” ad
mitted she had twice pleaded
guilty to feddl^al liquor charges
since she quit the whisky-selling
business.
Both times, she said, she “took
the rap” for an associate on
charges of hauling liquor.
At her truck stop, she said, Bul
loch told her she would have to
pay or “he would close me up.”
“I told him I didn’t think he
could,” she said. “He wanted $2,-
tDOO a month.
“I told him I wasn’t violating
any law and I wasn’t going to pay
anybody $2,000.
“He told me I would be pad
locked, and I was.”
aren
lectecl
Prexy
.r^fl LoWO Grabs Future Profs
Head Yell Leader
In close races in yesterday’s Class Election runoff, Ther
on (Mac) McLaren edged out Bob Surovik by three votes for
president of the Senior Class and Ted Lowe beat out Jerry
McGown by 18 votes for head yell leader.
Being runner up McGown will be the other senior yell
leader next year.
The Class of ’59 sent 455 voters to the polls to elect
Gene R. Birdwell president of the junior class.
Elected president of the sophomore class was Allen N.
Burns.
Thomas Miller and Bob L. Williams edged past Ross F.
Hutchison to become yell leaders for next year’s junior
t . c j agg
Malcolm (Buddy) Maedgen
Teamsters
Reinstate
Dave Beck
HARD WORKING Robert Wenck, in charge of the lighting for the 1957 Aggie Follies,
“Operation: Coed”, repairs lights to be used in the student production. Culminating the
entertainment for Parent’s Day, the Follies will be presented May 10 and 11.
Ike Signs Postal Bill;
Summerfield Satisfied
WASHINGTON — (A>>Presi
dent Eisenhower signed a 41-mil-
lion-dollar appropriation bill for
the Post Office Department last
night.
Postmaster General Summer-
field immediately announced the
resumption of normal mail serv
ice, to be made effective within
24 hours.
The money will provide addi
tional operating- funds for the i'e-
mainder of this fiscal year, end
ing June 30.
President’s Message
“As you leave for your Easter vacation I want to sin
cerely express my appreciation to the student body and the
faculty for the wonderful cooperation I have had since as
suming the position of Acting President. To date you have
made this a very pleasant experience.
“I hope that you will have a great time with family and
friends during this spring holiday. Be careful on the high
ways because we want you back here.
“It will only be a short time after you return to college
until the end of the school year. You will be happy later
if you make of this a time of diligent work on those subjects
which you are taking. There is plenty of time left to raise
those grades one notch. You will be glad that you did.
“Best wishes—be careful.”
Sincerely,
'D. W. Williams
Acting President
In order to make it available
without further delay, Congress
put on an unusual display of speed
yesterday.
Summerfield, who had curtailed
mail service last week, said in his
statement last night:
“I am happy to announce the re
sumption of normal mail service
and am gratified to have the over
whelming affirmative vote of the
Congress giving the department
funds for this purpose.
“Within 24 hours mail service
will be back on nearly the same
basis it was prior to the issuance
of our or-der last Friday.
“Every effort, I can assure you,
will be made to continue to give
the public the best possible mail
service; to keep postal employes
on the job; and to operate as eco
nomically as we can.”
Weather Today
CLOUDY
High and low temperature read
ings yesterday were 73 and 65 de
grees. At 10:30 this morning the
temperature was 74 degrees.
Summerfield noted that the
emergency funds voted by Con
gress are six million dollars short
of the 47 million dollars he had
said he needed to finish out the
quarter without servicd curtail
ments started to take effect last
Saturday with the weekend clos
ing of all post offices and suspen
sion of Saturday deliveries.
Summerfield said the depart
ment is “still faced” with a diffi
cult job to maintain service within
the funds available.
No Aggie Muster
Here This Year
Aggie Muster on the A&M cam
pus will not be held this year be
cause of the holiday and no official
gathering is planned by the local
A&M Club, which had a meeting
recently.
Over 450 muster gatherings are
expected, according to R. B. (Dick)
Hervey, sedl-etary of the Former
Students Association. Aggies from
all over the woidd will band to
gether on April 21, Easter Sun
day, to remember their friends.
GALVESTON, UP) — The
Teamsters executive board
yesterday declared the sus
pension of President Dave
Beck from the AFL-CIO gov
erning body was without authority
and voted to give full backing to
their peppery chief. The Team
sters’ top brass said they would
not answer a summons to an AFL-
CIO Ethical Practices Committee
hearing May 6 until such time as
“fundamentals of fair adjudication
ai-e assured.”
A five-man committee was
named to consider the AFL-CIO
charges against Beck. The presi
dent of the AFL-CIO was invited
to appoint a similar committee.
The two committees would then
meet to consider the charges
against Beck, a motion adopted
by the group declared.
The decisions were announced
by William Flythe, public rea-
tions man for the Teamsters, who
said they were approved unani
mously by the 12 members of the
Teamsters executive board pres
ent.
The one-day strategy meeting at
this Gulf Coast seaside resort end
ed a few minutes after Flythe
read the resolutions and motion
to the newsmen.
The text of a motion adopted by
the board:
“The executive board requested
the general president to name a
committee for the purpose of dis
cussing the suspension of Execu
tive Council member Beck. The
general executive board requested
President Meany of the AFL-CIO
to name a committee to meet
with our committee for this specif
ic purpose.”
The text of a second motion:
“When any appearance is to be
made before the Ethical Practices
Committee the general board will
make such appearance.”
grabbed vice president of the
Class of ’58 as 369 voters
turned out to select officers
for next year.
Richard D. Stepp pulled ahead of
his closest contender, W. A. (Bill)
Myers, to become vice president of
the junior class.
James C. Alvis outdistanced Bill
D. Jobe to run away with vice
president of the sophomore class.
The Class of ’58 chose George
Ragsdale secretary-treasurer.
R. T. G. (Bob) Lassiter was elec
ted secretary-treasurer of the
Class of ’59.
Jeimy Don Smith nosed out
Wayne Schneider to grab secre
tary-treasurer of next year’s soph
omore class.
Following is a list of winners in
other races:
Class of ’58: Social secretary,
Travis C. Johnson; Historian, Joe
W. Cantrell.
Class of ’59: Social secretary,
Edward W. Hill.
Class of ’60: Social Secretary,
Joe B., Brooks.
Following is a complete tally of
election returns:
Class of ’58
President
Theron (Mac) McLaren, 246;
Bob Surovik, 243.
Vice President
Malcolm (Buddy) Maedgen, 189;
Bill McLaughlin, 167; Jack W.
Stone, 129.
Secretary-treasurer
Tom Harris, 135; Ray G. An
thony, 133; George Ragsdale, 213.
Social Secretary
David McLain, 80; James Gat
lin, 172; Travis C. Johnson, 236.
(See ELECTION, Page 2)
Get $25 Million
In Ford Grant
Ford Foundation officials
recently announced a $25 mil
lion appropriation earmarked
for students interested in en
tering the academic profes
sion to help combat the mounting
shortage of teache)'s in the na
tion’s colleges.
Locally, it is probable that A&M
students will be eligible to apply
for the fellowships in the fields of
natural sciences, mathematics, the
humanities and social sciences, ac
cording to Nick Quick, assistant to
the president.
Individual awards, which will be
applied to tuition and living ex
penses for the first year of grad
uate study, ai-e expected to average
$2,200. The program is an ex
tension and development of the
National Woodi’ow Wilson Fellow
ship Program.
Out of the total funds appro
priated, $200,000 will be made
available to the Association of
American Universities and its
affiliate, the Association of Grad
uate Schools, to provide for an
immediate increase of 100 Woodrow
Wilson fellowships for the fall of
1957. These fellowships will total
300 and the foundation hopes to in
crease this number to 1,000 per
year.
Recruiting for the program will be
conducted mainly by a corps of
100 or more faculty members, who
will give approximately one-third
of their time to" stimulating faculty
cooperation on about 1,000 college
campuses.
Nominations for the fellowships
will be made by local faculty mem
bers, and selection will be made
by regional committees and ia
national committee made up of
active university and college
faculty members.
Fees Payable
Fqurth installment fees are now
payable in the Fiscal Office. Dead
line for paying is April 25. A pen
alty of $1 is assessed for every
day over the deadline fees haVe
not been paid.
Once A Farmer--Now He’s
Faculty Exchange Postman
J. C. Carll
J. C. Carll, postmaster of the
college Faculty Exchange was a
successful farmer before he came
to A&M to work in the exchange.
Since 1943, he’s been plowing
throug’h piles of letters.
Because the government had cut
his cotton quota down to 17 aci'es,
he discarded his work clothes and
faim tools and left the farm to
work in the postal exchange.
Every day about 6,000 pieces of
mail pass through the exchange,
with the inter-depai’tmental cam
pus mail alone averging about
l, 500 pieces daily.
His staff consists of three assist
ant postal clerks and three part
time helpers. He and one assistant
arrive at the exchange about 6 a.
m. and finish their daily tasks
about 3 p. m. Evei’y other week
Carll and the assistant report to
work at 8 a. m. and finish their
chores about 5 p. m. with the
other two assistants taking the
“early shift.”
Usually, things go along smooth
ly at the FE, with few problems to
upset the routine, Carll said. One of
the biggest pi*oblems in handling
delivery occurs when mail is sent
Governor Refuses
Car Washing Bill
. UTICA, N. Y. — UP)— The
governor of Texas has rejec
ted a Utican’s request that
the Lone Star State pay for
a car wash.
Burt Hawks, a school prin
cipal, submitted a bill for $2.50
last month to Gov. Price Dan
iel. Hawks saki a rain storm
here March 13 contained Tex
as dust which dirtied his car.
Daniel replied Monday, “I
am afraid the State of Texas
must decline to accept any li
ability in the case of your
muddy car.
“Furthermore, $2.50 is an
outrageous price to pay for
car washing. The going price
in Texas is $1.25, despite the
water shortage. If ever you
grow weary of the high cost of
living in New York, the wel
come mat is always out in
Texas for emigrants.”
here addressed with only “Texas
A&M College.” Mail with that ad
dress is sent to the fiscal office
where it is opened and examined to
determine for whom or what de
partment it was intended.
He points out that the FE is not
a U. S. Post Office, but is strictly
a departmental mail service office.
Mail sent out by the FE is sorted
according to class and delivered to
the post office. Mail coming in is
sorted and delivered to the various
departments.
Carll supervises mail distribution
to a potential,of 302 mail boxes in
his office space of 15x40 foot plus
an 8x10 foot store room. He takes
care of additional boxes in the
Agronomy building which handles
mail for the Agronomy and Ento
mology Departments and the Agri
cultural Experiment Station. He
knows the department title and
position of every box in the FE.
“It’s not an easy job,” Carll
says, “but I like it better than
fanning. As a matter of fact, I
can remember when they built this
Academic building, but I don’t
guess I’ll see them tear it down.”
TRADING CANDY FOR SHOTS—Young- Stanley Decker,
age 21/2, stops his sniffling long enough to select two pieces
of candy after receiving his polio shot Saturday afternoon.
Peggy Finch and Dr. C. R. Lyons were in charge of this
part of the afternoons shot-giving. Stanley took his shot
like a man, but did have a few misgivings when his trous
ers were forcibly removed.