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* The Battalion College Station (Brazos County)] Texas PAGE 2 Tuesday, November 12, 1957 Cadet SloucK by Jim Earl Man to Man BY JOE TINDEL everybody found out the good news or message their mid-semester grades Yesterday the bad, whichever carried. From the looks of a lot of Aggies gathered around bulletin boards of various departments, all news wasn’t good. The greatest thing about mid-semester grades is that they can be brought up—in most cases that is. -K -K -K It looks like the defense department finally woke up and let the Army try out its Jupiter C for launching a space satellite. Earlier indications pointed to a Defense department favoritism of the Navy Project Vanguard. * * * Yesterday was Veterans’ Day though probably few people realised that the name of the holiday had been changed from its old nomenclature, Armistice Day. ■K -K -K Last night at Memorial Student Center Council meet ing, Don McGinty, president, had just adjourned the group when councilmen broke out singing “Happy Birthday” to Dr. P. J. Woods, who celebrated his second birthday when the World War I armistice was signed. -k * * Last year’s Battalion managing editor Dave McRey- nolds was up for the Aggie-SMU game Saturday night and said he had just taken a job on the Galveston News as night city editor. He will be joining former Battalion sports editor Barry Hart who is police reporter for the News. So much for another week. This week’s game is the real clincher. Let’s show Rice we not only have the No. 1 team in the nation but also the No. 1 Spirit. Job Interviews v>- Highlights and Sidelights From Your State Capitol By VERN SANFORD Texas Press Association AUSTIN, Tex.—Days of old seem to have dawned over Texas lawmakers. They ended their first called session this week and launched into number two. It’s the first time in more than a decade that a governor has con vened a legislature in two rapid- fire special sessions. Main topic for the second ses sion is a bill to authorize closing of public schools threatened by occupation by federal troops. Gov. Price Daniel • issued the second call when it became ap parent that this issue couldn’t be squeezed into the final days of the first session. House and Senate had diffi culty coming to agreement on details of the first session’s five- point program: water planning, lobby control, crime study, prac tice before state agencies and money for an Insurance Depart ment building. BOND PROGRAM LAUNCH ED—At least one phase of Tex as water conservation program now has the official go-ahead. By approving a constitutional amendment, voters cleared the way for issuance of $200,000,000 in bonds to finance local water projects. Though only about one-tenth of the electorate-185,000-turned out, all three proposed amendments received approximately 3-to-l majorities. Two others will provide in creased retirement benefits for state employes and authorize higher old age pensions. THIS AifcJ'T EXACTIN' POkEE?, NC. K.K.r WE'CE MERELY RAlSlkj' FOXJDS FOR TM’ COMMODITY CUE^T** 1 Letters to the Editor The much thwarted O. D. has finally asserted himself in the person of Richard Roberson. Seems that Roberson found a use for the long knife that the child-savers must carry. He kill ed a dirty rat. Now, before, there has been little mention of dirty rats on our campus, except by subversive blabber mouths from “those other schools.” Well, Roberson found one, all the same. According to the slay er, “It was him or me so I whip ped out m’ blade and run him through.” The dirty little rat suffered a broken back and died almost im mediately. ★ ★ ★ With this Sputnik bit spooking the peoples of earth, everyone is looking for a safe place to hide. Well, a sophomore from Seoul, Korea, seems to have found one answer. Says Holim Kim with a twinkle in his eye, “When I go home I’m going to stay north of the 38th.” The following interviews will be held by in the Placement Of fice: Wednesday U. S. NAVY ELECTRONICS LABORATORY, San Diego, Calif., interviews electrical and mechanical engineering, physics and mathematics majors. U. S. NAVAL AIR MISSILE TEST- CENTER, Point Mugu, Calif., interviews aeronautical, electrical, mechanical engineer ing and physics majors. SPERRY ELEC T R O N I C TUBE DIVISION, Gainesville, Fla., will interview electrical and mechanical engineering and phy sics majors. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN TRADE, Phoenix, Ariz., will interview all engineer ing, all agriculture, business ad ministration, economics and agri cultural economics majors. GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUB BER CO., Akron, Ohio, will in terview chemical, civil, electrical and industrial engineering and chemistry majors. SINCLAIR REFINING CO. Houston, Tex., will interview chemical, mechanical and pet roleum engineering majors. News Welcomed The Battalion welcomes news contributions from its readers. Bring to Room 4, YMCA. COME AND SEE OUR WIDE SELECTION OF SPORT SHIRTS ALL STYLES ALL COLOIiS ALL SIZES POPULAR PRICES A&M Men's Shop YOUR IVY LEAGUE CENTER Dick Rubin, ’59 North Main North Gate THE BATTALION The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students in the Officy- of Student Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A.&M. College of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard, Prof. Robert M. Stevenson and Mr. Bennie Zinn. Student members are W. T. Williams, John Avant and Billy W. Bibby. Ex - officio members are Mr. Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader. Secretary. Tne 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 publi cation 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. Editor: The Battalion Judging from your editorial of Nov. 6, you seem to think that the party of Roosevelt and Tru man is the true Democratic party. It is not. Those men created the liberal wing of the party to fit their ideas, just as “modern Re publicanism” is far left of the Republican Party’s ideals. In equating Conservatism with unlawfulness you are placing dis credit not only upon the intelli gence of the readers of the editorial, but upon yourself as well by sinking to the muck throwing level. I hope the con servatives who read the editorial will show more charity to you than you have to them in ques tioning their patriotism. Peter Schaar ’58 Editor: The Battalion For quite a while now I have been reading your editorials deal ing with the segregation and in tegration issue with interest and amusement. If you want to get in on the political crusade being carried on by the Liberals and inspired Northerners why don’t you drop out of school and carry the fight to the Conservatives ? The East Texas and other Southern Con servatives in state and national government posts have been duly elected by the people. Their duty is to execute the desires of the people they represent. Two or three editorials on this national problem aren’t going to solve it. It shall be quite a while before this issue is settled to the satisfaction of everyone con cerned. Since a paper should present the views of both sides of a con troversy why not let the Con servatives have a field day with the editorial once in a while ? James B. Thompson ’57 Editor: The Battalion There seems to be a state of confusion prevailing in that in tellectual (?) and journalistic (?) mind of yours. If you know the difference be tween an editorial and a political advertisement, I’d like a factual editorial for a change. Jim Salmon ’57 Engineers Meet Bradford Wicks of Ames Labor atories, Moffett Field, Calif., will speak to a joint meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers-Institute of Radio En gineers tonight at 7:45. TUESDAY “Island in the Sun” With James Mason plus ‘A Cry in the Night’ With Edmond O’Brien TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY “DESK SET” With Spencer Tracy Katherine Hepburn PALACE LAST DAY “Public Pigeon No. I” FEET HURT? See COURT’S Shoes Shoe Repairs North Gate How to SHINE At Party Time Let our experts put new life into your party clothes .... CAMPUS CLEANERS STARTING WEDNESDAY Uto>l*i*r THTEY'.S/Ul. AN SIMMONS-JOAN FONTAINE PAUL NEWMAN -PIPER. LAURIE in CINEMASCOPE QUEEN TODAY p.eii: <■ u rt'/w; iiisi WELLES CITIZEN "Every scene comes witii the impact of something never ! seen before.”—iife THE MERCURY ACTORS Joseph Gotten . Everett Sloane George Coulouris • Paul Stewart Erskine Sanford • Ruth Warrick Dorothy Com ingore • Ray Collins William Alland • AgnesMoorehead WEDNESDAY LUL ABNER Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under 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 Mew City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. 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. 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