The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Wednesday, April 24, 1957
Board Denies
Parole For
Bascom Giles
AUSTIN, (TP) — Bascom
Giles yesterday was denied a
parole and must serve the re
mainder of his prison term
for felonies connected with
the giant veteran’s land program.
The State Board of Pardons and
Paroles, considering the case of
the 56-year-old former political
figure as a routine matter, said its
decision was “that the inmate
serve the remainder of his term.”
The board said Giles would have
to stay in the penitentiary until
Jan. 21, 1959 and the case would
not be reopened unless new evi
dence was brought to bear on it.
Giles was called from his cell
at the Huntsville State Prison aft
er he had his supper tonight
and informed of the board’s action
by Huntsville newsman Don Reid
Jr.
Reid said Giles seemed “very
much surprised and shocked.” He
said Giles said he did not care
to comment on the action.
Giles was sentenced to serve six
years in the penitentiary on con
victions of consenting to accept
bribes and being an accomplice
to theft.
Ross said no special hearing
was held in the Giles case, and
that there was no request for a
hearing.
Ross explained that when Giles
entered the penitentiary in Jan
uary, 1956, he became automati
cally eligible for parole in April,
1957.
However, he donated blood in
April, 1956 to the M.D. Anderson
Hospital and served as a trusty
which moved his eligibility for
parole to January.
The board, Ross said, was be
hind in its work and set the case
for review Feb. 27. It began dis
cussing it April 19.
HOLZMANN
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that was all there was to the
school.”
Travelers riding on the left, go
ing toward Dallas, or on the right,
going toward Houston, often left
College Station under the impres
sion that the college physical plant
consisted of a huge wooden build
ing and its campus was a mass of
mule lots and horse pens.
Holzmann served as cashier for
the College from 1922 until 1925,
when he was made chief clerk for
the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station. In 1926 he was nam
ed comptroller of the college, and
in 1948 he was promoted to comp
troller for the A&M College Sys
tem, consisting of four colleges
and five major service agencies,
with an annual budget of around
$30,000,000.
He went on modified service as
assistant to the present comptroll
er in June, 1953, and will retire
from this position on April 30,
completing 35 years service with
the college and System.
Federal Aid Given
To El Paso School
WASHINGTON, OP) _ Grants
totaling more than 10 % million
dollars to help school districts in
22 states relieve overcrowding re
sulting from federal activities were
announced by the office of edu
cation yesterday.
The facilities which the money
will help build are needed mainly
to care for children of families at
tached to military installations,
the announcement said.
A total of $56,362,713 of such aid
has been allocated thus far this
fiscal year, which ends June 30.
Additional applications are being
received.
Among the new grants:
Texas: Independent school dis
trict of El Paso, $438,170.
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Dave McReynolds Managing Editor
Barry Hart Sports 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,
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Bulganin Sends
Peace Letter
LONDON, — (TP)— Soviet Pre
mier Bulganin has sent a personal
letter to Prime Minister Macmill
an expressing hope for agreement
on all issues in the Middle East.
He also promised to stop nuclear
tests if the West will.
Moscow radio tonight broadcast
details of the letter delivered to
Macmillan three days ago. Reli
able informants in London said it
was 8,000-words long.
The letter appeared to be geared
to the new Soviet campaign to de
pict Moscow as a peace-loving
friend of the Arab world.
Today the United States leads
the world in merchant steamship
tonnage, with the United Kingdom
second and Norway third.
AERO WIVES HONOR SPONSOR—A surprise farewell party last week at the hpme of
Mrs. B. B. Hamner, 111 Kyle, honored Mrs. Fred E. Weick (second from right). Mrs.
Weick, who will make her home in Vero Beach, Fla., and Mrs. Hamner have been co
sponsors of the Aero Wives Club, members of which gave the party. Mrs. Weick was
presented with an honorary life membership in the club and a gift of Aggie frosted
glasses. Gathered at the refreshment table with her are (left to right) the Mesdames
Mary Leutzinger, Nora Cronk, Jan Gordon, Helen Miller and Hamner. Mrs. Cronk arid
Mrs. Leutzinger were special guests for the evening.
Annual Fish-Soph Judging
Contests Planned for May 1
The annual Fish-Soph Judging
Contests are expected to draw a
“bigger than ever” participation,
according to Mel Lebo, president
of the Saddle and Sirloin Club
which sponsors the contest.
Preliminary plans have already
been established for the May 1
event. Lebo says those freshmen
and sophomores wishing to enter
are to register on the different
Health Director
Speaks Her e Tonite
Dr. Simon Btesh, Director-Gen
eral of the Israel Ministry of
Health, will speak tonight at 8 in
the YMCA on “The Public Health
Program in Israel.”
Dr. Btesh has been the Director
of the Ministry of Health since
1953. He graduated from the Uni
versity of Beirut in Lebanon in
1932, and two years later joined
the Palestine Department of
Health.
In 1943 he became the Chief Phy
sician and Medical Superintendent
at the Tel-Aviv Government Hos
pital. He held this position until
1953, at which time he took over
his present position.
contest lists posted on the bulletin
board of the second floor of the
Animal Industries Building.
The contests are designed to give
those first and second-year stu
dents experience in order to better
prepare themselves for competi
tion for a place on the Junior and
Senior Judging Teams.
General Superintendent for the
Contest Jim Renich and his com
mittee members have outlined a
three-division contest for the oc
casion and will include Livestock,
Meats, and Wool Judging. .
Don Johnson will supervise com
petition in the Meats Division'; Dick
Thomas will serve as superintend
ent in the Livestock Division and
Glynn (Jiggs) Chandler will be
superintendent in the Wool Divi
sion.
Classes in the divisions are as
follows:
Livestock—fat steers; fat.lambs;
breeding heifers; fat barrows.
Meats—beef carcasses and pork
carcasses.
Wool—-medium wool; fine wool;
class on fineness, length and
shrinkage.
Members of the junior and senior
Livestock, Meats and Wqol Teams
will pick the various classes, make
the official placjrigs and take
reasons.
Any freshman or sophomore
(academically) in the School of
Agriculture is eligible to compete
in the contest.
Sophomores will be required to
give two sets of oral reasons for
their placings in the Livestock
Division and freshmen will answer
two sets of written questions.
Freshmen and sophomores will
be required to answer one set of
written questions on one class
the Meats Division.
One set of written questions will
be answered by both freshmen and
sophomores in the Wool Division.
Livestock competition will be
held at the Rodeo Arena and Meats
and Wool Divisions will be held in
the AI Building.
Joan Quasso Is
Leggett Sweetheart
Miss Joan Quasso of San An
tonio has been chosen as Leggett
Hall’s Sweetheart, according to
Hugh McLelawd.
Miss Quasso will represent the
dormitory in the Civilian Sweet
heart contest held this year in
conjunction with the annual Civili
an Weekend.
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