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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.
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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.
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Yesterday was Veterans’ Day though probably few
people realised that the name of the holiday had been
changed from its old nomenclature, Armistice Day.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Katherine Hepburn
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