The Battdlion College Station (Brazos County)\ Texas
PAGE 2 Tuesday, April 29, 1958
An Editorial
Why Not a Leash?
Last night the question of a leash Jaw for dogs was
brought before the College Station City Council.
Although the councilmen considered the question briefly,
no move was taken to imply that such a law might possibly
be passed.
Dogs have been renounced as “man’s best friend” and
no doubt in many cases this is true. But recently in Dallas
one of “man’s best friends” ripped a young child’s face to
shreads in spite of the baby’s father’s efforts to puli'the dog
away. This was a rare case and fortunately not too many
such instances occur. But to a father or mother, are all the
dogs in the world worth the maiming or death of their child ?
And of course, no sensible person is going to say that
all dogs should be destroyed to free the world from such
happenings. Dogs can be and for the most part are gentle
and domestic pets and truly a friend. But roaming the
streets, even the most docile canine can contract rabies and
become a crazed killer.
A leash law would surely cause little ill will among the
community. Especially since most dog owners keep their
pets penned or on a leash anyway. But a glance around the
city any day will show that this is not entirely true.
College Station has been lucky thus far. No serious at
tacks by dogs have occurred. This may not be the case for
ever. Now is the time to do something about the free-roam
ing dog problem. The lives of children are not worth risking
needlessly, no matter how small the risk.
Call your councilman and give him your views on the
subject. A leash law will be insurance for some child’s future.
Let’s keep dog “man’s best friend” in College Station—at the
end of a leash.—GM
Dave Fitch, School of Business
Administation, was named presi
dent of the College Station Lions
Club by acclamation yesterday as
the Lions elected officei’s for 1958-
59.
Archie Flowers, Don Hood and
Charlie Wootan were voted 1st, 2nd
and 3rd vice-president respectively.
Johnny Watkins was named secre
tary-treasurer with William R.
Miller his assistant.
Directors of the club, elected for
a two-year term were George Hu-
ebner and Frank Barnard.
Chaidie Haas, current president,
will turn over his gavel to Fitch
July 1, and the new slate of offi
cers will assume their posts.
Otlter business conducted at the
meeting included the report that
the club had donated $150 from
their projects fund to the Brazos
County Crippled Children’s Clinic.
Ed Svendsen was given the Lion
Tamer Title and Mac Prescott
named assistant Lion Tamer. Red
Cashion was chosen tail twister
and Freddie Walters was made his
assistant.
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“Now, now, Fish Jethro! Let’s be more patient with
upperclassmen!”
Man to Man
By JOE TINDEL
As I type out these last lines of the year, I can’t help
looking back to other columns and the events which have
occupied the pages of The Battalion during this year.
It’s been a great year really. Despite the fact that
tempers flared from time to time, Aggies started thinking
about what they wanted in the future for their school. They
took much more interest in campus affairs.
★ ★ ★
First, it was the honor code squabble. Now we are well
on the way to having two honor codes or maybe one for the
entire student body rather than one for the Corps alone.
Second, the compulsory Corps controversy arose. The
board had ruled on the issue but there were forebodings on
its effect on enrollment. There were words exchanged back
dnd forth, but such controversy is good if it stimulates
thought.
Third and probably greatest, was the controversy over
co-education. Some wanted it and some didn’t but the court
in Bryan made up our minds for us. Time will tell its effect
on A&M.
During this time we hired a football coach and one left.
The single wing replaced the split-T and John Crow walked
off with nearly all the football honors in the nation. Charley
Krueger didn’t do bad either. Nor did any other member of
the Aggie team.
We got to see the first year of basketball under Coach
Bobby Rogers and he showed us quite a season.
Besides being without a coach we had been without a
vice president for some time. We got one in February—Earl
Rudder, former student, war hero and politician. He’s per
forming his duties well now.
It’s been a big year and only the future can tell how
profitable a year it has been for A&M.
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As I write the last 30 on “Man to Man” some hardwork
ing Battalion staffers are readying themselves to fill the “old
heads’ ” shoes.
If they get your cooperation, next year will be a good
year or maybe even better than ever. Good luck and we’ll
see you around the campus.
Local Lions Club Elects President
AUSTIN, Tex.—If you drive a
cai% 1958 will be a good year to
pay closer-than-ever attention to
how you drive it.
Under Gov. Price Daniel’s
“Texas plan” to reduce highway
tragedies, the spotlight will be
on individual driving practices as
never before.
Speeders and drunken drivers
will be prime targets.
Governor Daniel is heading a
drive to mobilize all the state’s
resources to combat “the threat
of public disaster. Annual loss
of life, health and property in
traffic accidents,” he said, “is
greater than the loss sustained in
all our natural disasters com
bined.”
Five-point “Texas plan” in
volves (1) cooperation between all
safety and enforcement officials,
(2) formation of local traffic
safety councils, (3) public edu
cation to the problem, (4) road
improvements at hazardous spots
and (5) more rigid enforcement
and certainty of punishment for
violations, especially drunken
driving and speeding.
Last year 2,539 persons were
killed in traffic and 122,000 were
injured. Even so, 1957 ratio of
fatalities to miles traveled was
down—from 6.5 deaths per 100
million miles in 1956 to 6 deaths
per 100 million miles in 1957.
Department of Public Safety
Director. Homer Garrison Jr. at
tributes the reduced rate to lower
average speed. Texans saved 111
lives, he said, by slowing down
average speed by 1.6 miles per
hour.
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Goal for 1958 is more ambitious
—to save 254 lives or one for each
Texas county.
It’s up to every Texan, said
the governor, to “accept traffic
safety as a do-it-yourself pro
ject.”
TOWARD SAFER ROADS—
An important aim of the anti-ac
cident campaign is a $43,000,000
program to rebuild some
hazardous spots in the highway
system.
Governor Daniel and State
Highway Engineer DeWitt Greer
formally launched this work by
placing a .“drive carefully” sign
by a narrow bridge on a farm
road near Austin. Scene of pre
vious accidents, the bridge is to
be widened.
MONEY HUNT—Gloomy pre
dictions abound as government
and industry leaders look toward
the state’s 1959 financing prob
lems.
A “conservative estimate” by
Sen. William S. Fly, chairman of
the Texas State Tax Study Com
mission, is that $45,000,000 per
year in new revenue will be need
ed just to maintain present state
services.
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
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Melodies of Wind Quintet
Pleasing to Series Audience
By WELTON JONES
A touch of the intricate
melodies and countermelodies
that make up chamber music dif
fused themselves in the Memorial
Student Center last night as one
of the better touring wind
quintets provided by the MSG Re
cital Series this year performed.
Although Series Chairman Jim
Jones and MSG Director Wayne
Stark spoke briefly before the
performance about the need of
student interest and assistance if
the programs are to continue,
neither performers nor audience
lacked enthusiasm.
Included in the program were
two pieces in the traditional
chamber music style, a Quintet
by Franz Danzi and a Mozart
Divertimento, originally written
for two basset horns and a bas
soon and performed by Charles
Russo on clarinet, Melvin Kaplan
on Oboe and Bassoonist Morris
Newman.
The pieces, both written at the
end on the 18th century, illu
strated the fragile beauty and
intricateness inherent in small
ensemble works.
In a more energetic mood, the
quintet executed the boisterous,
gambling “Kleine Kammer-
musik, No. 2” by Yale Univer
sity’s Paul Hindesmith. The num
ber is a personal favorite of this
particular group and they barked
it out with a will, seeming at
times almost to be caricaturing a
wind quintet.
The other two numbers on the
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TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
T Was A Teenage Werewolf”
With Michael Landon
Plus
“Invasion Of The Saucer Men”
With Steve Terrell!
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LAST DAY
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Tarnished
Angels
program were selections from
Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite” ar
ranged by Kaplan and “A Wood
land Serenade” by Herbert
Haufrecht. The first reminded
many of Allen Schrader’s music
written for the Aggie Players’
“Macbeth” this year and the se
cond was a sprightly, syncopated
romp that belied the title.
On Campos
with
MaxShuIman
(By the Author of “Rally Round the Flag, Boys! “and,
“Barefoot Boy with Cheek”)
SWEENEY IN THE TREES
Spring is here—the season of tree-sitting contests. This I ap
plaud. Tree-sitting is healthful and jolly and as American as
apple pie. Also it keeps you off the streets.
Tree-sitting is not, however, without its hazards. Take, for
example, the dread and chilling case of Manuel Sigafoos and
Ed Sweeney, both sophomores at the Nashville College of Folk
Music and Woodworking, and both madly in love with a beau
tiful alto named Ursula Thing, who won their hearts singing
that fine old folk song, I Strangled My True Love with Her Own
Yellow Braids, and I’ll Never Eat Her Sorghum Any More.
Both Manuel and Ed pressed Ursula to go steady, but she
could not choose between them, and finally it was decided that
the boys would have a tree-sitting contest, and Ursula would
belong to the victor. So Manuel and Ed clambered up adjoin
ing aspens, taking with them the following necessaries: food,
clothing, bedding, reading matter, and—most essential of all-
plenty of Marlboro Cigarettes.
We who live on the ground know how much you get to like
with a Marlboro. Think how much more important they must
be to the lonely tree-dweller—how much more welcome their
fine, mild tobacco; how much more gratifying their free-drawing
filters; how much more comforting their sturdy, crush proof
flip-top box. Climb a tree and see for yourselves.
tree SITTING CONTESTr
Well supplied with Marlboros, our heroes began their tree
sitting contest—Manuel with good heart, Ed with evil cunning.
The shocking fact is that crafty Ed, all unbeknownst to Manuel,
was one of three identical triplets. Each night while Manuel
dozed on his bough, one of Ed’s brothers—Fred or Jed—would
sneak up the tree and replace him. “How can I lose?” said Ed
with a fiendish giggle to his brother Fred or Jed.
But Ed had a big surprise coming. For Manuel, though
he did not know it himself, was a druid! He had been abandoned
as an infant at the hut of a poor and humble woodcutter named
Cornelius Whitney Sigafoos III, who had raised the child as
his own. So when Manuel got into the tree, he found much to
his surprise that he had never in all his life felt so at home
and happy. He had absolutely no intention of ever leaving.
After seven or eight years Ed and his brothers wearied of the
contest and conceded. Ursula Thing came to Manuel’s tree
and cried, “I am yours! Come down and pin me.’!
But Manuel declined. Instead he asked Ursula to join him
in the tree. This she could not do, being subject to mopery
(a morbid allergy to woodpeckers), so she ended up with Ed
after all.
Only she made a mistake—a very natural mistake. It was
Jed, not Ed, with whom she ended up.
Ed, heartbroken at being tricked by his own brother, took
up metallurgy to forget.
Crime does not pay.'
® 1958 Mai Shulman
This column is brought to you by the makers of Marlboro
Cigarettes who suggest that if you are ever up a tree when
trying to find a gift, give Marlboros. You can’t miss!
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