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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1958)
i f INTRAMURALS Intramural awimming utartad Monday a/trmaon with tha Haas B iM-font rclaya. Taam* qualifying for tha final* in this avartl ara aa folloaa: A Ordnance 1 14 2 Squadron 1 1:17.2 Squadron 12 1:1ft H Infantry 1:1ft A Signal 1:18 9 Squadron 3 1:19 5 Squadron 14 1:19.5 A Field 1 20.5 Veterinary Hire# Selling Cookbooks AAM'a Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medicine Auxiliary m now aellmg cook books containing recipes donated by student and faculty wives Squadron 8 1:SM Ciaaa A 489-fbot relay* foil awed at 7:45 with the following teams qualifying for the finals. Squadron 6 1:13.9 Squadron 17 1:14 A Ordnance 1 1ft A Chemical 1:1&7 Squadron 5 1 18.4 Squadron 12 119.5 A Athlati. * l lfct A Infantry 1:19.9 B-AAA 1:20.1 The 34M)-faot freestyle events wera held Tueaday with the fol lowing Class B mm qualifying for the finale. ☆ a a National ☆ NHIPIPEI1WEEIC Th* Battalion -> College Station (Brazos Commty), Texas Wednesday, October 1, 1968 PAGJ1 6 NEWSPAPER ■■mm GUARDSYOUrI iBEEDOMSIi Spillane A Infantry 1:05 Locke A QMC 1:06.7 Sheppard A Field 1:07.8 Halligan A Chemical 1:08 Brothers A Infantry 1 (19.4 Badgelt A Composite 1H9.4 Murray Squadron 11 1:10.6 Jones C Field 1 12.8 Storey Squadron 3 1:13.5 The upperclassmen's 300-foot freestyle was won by B Ordnance. Class A men qualifying were: Williams B Ordnance 1:04 Sears Squadron 12 1 07.2 Fields C Composite 1:07.6 Gill Puryear 1 09.7 Fierce Squadron 5 1:11 Pest Squadron 17 1:11 Lenter Squadron H ,1:11.1 Fowler Squadron 19 1:11.3 Norvllle A Infantry 1:12.3 Sixty-Five ) ears Ago ‘Sully’ Got Issue of Battalion First By JOHNNY JOHNSON Battalion News Kditor Sixty-five years ago, a cadet- clad in the Confederate grey uni form of the time—strode into the office of AAM President lawrence was formed Societies l^owe Out By 1904 the two founding socie ties had lost much of their cam pus influence and with their de dine, The Battalion also suffered Tueaday, Oct. 7. THE Naked' AND THE I . Dead*: VasNesVcoet TTCHNKOtOh ALDO RAV Q-IFF ROBERTSON RAYMOND MASSEY i* n eva • SAsaasA mokxi Aggies - Try - Yoiiiigbloods- Special Lunch—(’hoiec of Meats <V Vegetables 75c Served at Noon A Evening* Hock AiiMing Midway Between South College Bryan A College lEGAL NOTICE taDiv vx e an onnfANri: phi PI BI.IC AaRIMc, OS or soniA) the i no ns PROVIDING r<)R A ON THE ULK*TJ/ON FOLLOWING DE TO ‘ INDUSTRIAL RIRKD AR EON t. . B►.GINN!to at the m«m< toutherly tar ncr of th# immdi ch> IiruU of the Ctty of Coll»s* Stttioo Tfiks thi* corner tt*o hr ns incaKU U tM IntarMrtion of th* NE right of way la* of th* Southern Pacific Railroad tT 4. N O Pivlsioel with th* »t*nai*n of tl* NW hn* of th* Waldo Walter tract of laac THENCE * 4.V W *i >1 fa*t ntervwt th* renter tin* Si th* ratd Southern tanfir Railroad at l(VS2 f**t tnt*r**ct th* r*nt*r lln* of th* I A G N Rauroad 'Mo Far i, and at 11* f**i hit*r*act th* BW tsht of war Hn* *f th* ••>d ISON IEIImad THENCE th a norttiw*at*rt)r dir** ton along tha naid RW right of wa> lira o fh* I S G N Rattmad a diatarr* of .VMS f**t to th* Inf r—rtion ot Mid railroad ngit of way Hn* with th* NE lln* *r *xt*nwMi of th* NE lin*. of ah A S M Col leg road known as tha Farm Center m*d fHENCE in a north eaafrly dira*ttofl goof tha pr*a*nt city llmita a diatanrt of J7» « f**t to th* NE nfht-M way th* Mu'horn Farifw Msll mad THENCE ta * *<ni'h*a»t*r'r d«r»< Mon aiwng tha NE r%»n of way tin* of th* kouttwm Parifir Ratrwad a dia'anra of <**• feet to th* pons Sf beginning BE IT ORDAINED by th* City Couacll •f th* City of Coll*# fit anon T*»a«i WHEREAS th* Clg Planning and Eon mg commiaaion aft * rnnautarat ton has m.-wnmended tha taiifit as Induatral Eon* all that eerfai* area of Iaa4. de *• r bed as follow* BEGINNING at tha moat noutherly ror her* of the preaent rit limit* of th* City of Colt*** Btatiam Tegas Thi* mmtr at «o being lorated at th* interne, tion of th* NE right of way line g th# Routhem Pa c fle Railroad 'T S ft O Divisioni with the rxten. of of the NW lln* of th* Waldo Walker tract of land THENCE h 44 W at 52 fs*t latarsart »ti« renter line of th* «aN Southern Psfinr Railroad at 10St f**t msrasst th* rgntar lm* of th* t A O N Ralmed 'Mo Far i and at IIM faet intcra**l th* SW right of a ay lm* of th* said ISON RatlnMd; THENCE in a northw«t*rty direct ion along the aa'd SW right of way lm* of the ISON Railroad • Siatanr* of 52n* f**t to III* Interaer'ion of Mid railroad right of way iin* with th* NE lm* or extewnlon of th* NE line *f an A S M College road known a* th* Farm Center road THENCE in * northeasterly dir*ct ion along the pr**em city limit* a dt*'ah«* of 3T8 S fee’ to in* NE nghl-of way *f th* Sou' hern ParifM Railroad; THENck tn * eoufhaastrrly diewrtlon along th* NE right of way of th* Southern Fseifir Railroad a diatanr* of «W f**t to th* point of beginning Raid are* to he u**d for ’b* followibg bur [ion** Eor any i**a permit ed tn Firet ■u*in*aa Dtatrut Nn I aa new at pointed and ront ain*d in Ordinanr* M and n addition th*r*to for th* following pur pane* gaaolme etorag* and bluk »ta liana lumber and material rard. shop* for cunt am work or th# manuf act ur» of artM-l** tn he »oid at wholesale or retail war* how*# and etoragr depot* Aty of aatd bOtMing* to he of corrugated he*' iron maaanry or wood ronatruetion provided that th* u*e I* not nosioua or off*n»iv» by r«a*wh *f g*« Odom duet of •rrvk* to th* •ataMwhed r**idontial arwa aad WHER E a k fh* City Planning and Eon ing Communion after ron»ld*r»t von hg* recommended that th* power r*ouir*Si*nt* M th* old ordinance be rlimmotw It Mi hereby ordered that a pubi r hdartng ah* he held in th* Ctty Halt at 7 nty p m October Kith 1S6* on th* gueatian of •atabUahing an ' Induatnal Eonr” within th* city limit* and thmtnattng to# power raouiremema a* eontamad in the Alaanc* Notire of ** id 'hearing aha 11 be nuMtshcd In th* official etly new .paper at !**•■ ts*n day* prior to th# data of Mid hearing PASHED AND APPROVED anc nattered pwbi.«h*d thia th* 22nd day of hrptamber A.. D. IBM APPROVED »* Ernest Laagford Mayor ATTEST S N M McGmais City waarsiary PALACE Bryan 2'5S7*^ LAST DAY Parisienne^ STARTS THI RSDAY ^Toughest (inn In Tombstone*" QUEEN LAST DAY ’King Creole* Starts tomorrow "DOl’tLS FEATt RE" u AcroM The Bridge^ ^Manhunt** CIRCLE MTCDNESDAY OCTOBER 18,1958 Soviet, L. S. Press In Sharp Contrast Bv HENRY CAWiT LODGE > situation. H« is more responsible, 1'. S. Representstivr to (be | but no more free, than his readers. 1'nited NalioftH ^ His aditonnls reflect not his point Freedom of the press is so much j of view but that of the Communist Party He has but one news afency. TASS, which transmits to him daily the material he is to print. There is no use trying to start an independent newspaper in the Soviet Union. Such things are for bidden Under the State Secrets ankle and cannot walk, he sudden- Act it is a ciinte even to possess, ly real ires what a marvelous ma without authoruatinn, a m:meo- chine his bfaiy is. He realises that K'aph machine or the jelly for a the mere ability to walk is a price- hectograph less gift. (.overnmenl Officials Perhaps we Americans would Government officials in free understand more vividly what free-j countries may sometimes think dotn of the press menns to us if we wistfully how easy it would be to tried to imagine living in a roun-’ govern if only they, like the Soviet try where the press is not free- I dictators, did not have to endure for instance, the Soviet Union 'the goading and nagging of a free Every newspaper in the Soviet ! press. But that, of course, is an Union is controlled, directly or in- ; illusion. To govern without a fr*e Sullivan Ross and saluted: “Sir, until in the fall of ‘04, when I wish to present you with the j sweeping changes were made first copy of our new student pub ! The Bait became a weekly papet lication. We call it The Battalion, and lost its literary magazine characteristics. The Association of Students, in which every cadet was automati cally a memlier, took over the pa and With this brief ceremony hint ing only faintly at formality — Volume 1, Number 1 of The Bat talion was officially launched into i per and selected the editor a continuous record of publication | business manager. a part of the American way of life that we take it for granted. It is Finals in all events will be held 1 hard for us really to grasp its that has stretched across the years and has survived many perilous testa. Published Monthly Published monthly from October, 1893. until June, 1904, the first issues more nearly resembled a magazine than the present news- paper Staffs Form The staffs of The Batt and The Longhorn (annual) formed the Publication Society in PJ06 which is the forerunner of the present A AM Press Club. In l‘.K)7, the two publications se cured an office to call its own, with one desk, one table, several value because we never b«d the experience of being without it. A health man lakes his body for granted in much the same way But if he sprains a muscle in his Orgsnized under the sponsorship , ** nd ‘ >v ‘‘ n “ telephone. of two literary societies — The Stephen F. Austin and (alliopean —The Battalion was actually the j J u,u ‘ descendant »f The Collegian First Conflu t of publication and administration came in 19*iH when s on The Matt's staff suspended as a result ol publication first printed in 1K7H. j cr ’* u m,, K prudent. C. P. only two years after the college! hountain, head of the Department opened. Under the leadership of ‘ English, was ordered to censot the same two societies which up untii past the turn of the century boasted the tnemlrership of four out of five students—The Colieg lan was renamed The College Jour nal and was issued under that name from lftft9 until publication was suspended with the January issue of 1893. The Battalion star ted that same fall. First Batt ' The first Batt was printed with directly, by the Soviet Communist ' press means to govern in a state a newspaper format, the first is- Party. of suspicion and hostility between j sue being 12 pages, each about a ftaviet Reader government and people, not to | quarter the size of present-day ., , ... ., , (know what is on the people's Battalion pages. Then it reverted The Soviet reader finds all the , , ! , , , , , ... ... . . j minds, not to be able to see discon- to the size and style of the old news carefully selected and tailor-| , . L „ . ed to fit the “party line”, if some tent until it has grown to such j Journal until l!*n4 l>ong Essays A long critical essay on Shake speare's interpretation of King . , , , ....... proportions as to threaten the state thing good happens in th# United .. States which conflicts wjth official l 1 86 Soviet picture of AmeMcan life— Complications such as an improvement in race! T*' 1 * leads to a situation where ; John wa« the mam story in the relations or a rise in wages the | dl8 * ent 18 ^presentad by police: | first Battalion. Other Batts de chances are he will never read I un80und policies are continued j scribed "Life in the U. S. Army " about that If something really bad w,tl,out ch * llen K* ; offin » l d ‘ , * ,t The Batt was the catch all pub- happens in the Scrviet Union, he 1 and corrufUu,n floun * h; 1 f,,r I l,, ' ,,, on of the IKPO's. serving the will probably never read about that 1 lrut ^ ^ killed, and the peopl e, un 1 functions as the newspaper, either. He may hear by the grape- exercise their God given The Aggieland, The Texas Aggie vine about a mine cave-m in the become pawns of the state, .and The ( ommentator future Battalions in accordance with a rule long in effect, but sel dom enforced. Halt Boasts By 191fi, The Battalion boasted "the largest college circulation in the South During World War I, The Batt lost some prestige to a faculty staffed daily bulletin which pub lishetl college news and became the official publication of the col lege until its death in 1926. (ontrol I’assed In 1928 control of The Batt pass ed to a Student Activities Com mittee forerunner of the Student Life torn mittee with plans to help the paper regain prestige. From 1930 until 1943 the news paper staff fostered a monthly magazine which was substituted once a month for the regular is sue of the paper. Forerunner of today’s Student Publication Board a faculty Pub lication Committee—was establish ed in 1929. but without the power of censorship. Since that time, editors may be held liable after publication of material, but publications may not be faculty-reviewed in advance. Publication Hoard A central Publication Board was formed in 1931 with explicit or ders to put the publications pro gram on sound footing. The Publirations Bqard and th# Student Activities ( onimittee were merged ui 1941 to form the Stu dent Lif# Committee, a composite group of students and faculty, which had control of the publica tions program until the spring of 1953. At that time the Student Pub lication Board was formed in a conflict which saw the ro-editora rf The Batt at the time resign un- ler the cry that the new board would bring censorship. Old Hoard The okl board was replaced by the recently organized new hoard which is revamping the program. In 1989-40 The Batt jumped from its onoe-a week publication to publishing three days a week. During the war, with the absence of regular students, much Of The Batt s space was devoted to armed service groups training on the campus. It was also during the war that the summer Battalion be came a regular part of the pro gram. The student administration fra cas in the spring of 1947 produced so much news that The Batt was swamped The first “extra” edi tion of The Battalion was run off on a mimeograph one Saturday afternoon to ci^er events happen ing since the regular printed pa per was put to press a few hours before. Since that time The Battalion has grown to its present four-days- a week (publication. It haa also gained full memhaiship in the As sociated Press and has won num erous prizes and top rating* in national newspaper contests. next town, an epidemic or a flood which haa taken many lives; or a not put down by fence But Soviet 'C3MI special June commencement Thus our free press, which is so familiar to us, is a mighty force I uf The BhU M . rved tht . . ^ or 8° ,,d ' The possession of it is annual with one of the largest such newspapers are silent about thoee U P ^at gives I'f* j the June, 1896, issue, con taining 74 pages, many of them full-page pictures of the year's activities Under editorial pressure by The Battalion in 1895, The Olio, fore runner of The Longhorn (old an nual) and the present Aggieland, things Nothing wa* ever published it8 valu « and im P art8 lu8ter U ' lht> in the Soviet Union about the v,o- j na,m> ,,f ^°P le al1 ovpr th * w,,rld lent riots—witnessed by foreign tourists-which swept Tiflis in Soviet Georgia, just after Stalin We should not take our free press for granted Freedom carries with it responsibility to decide each died in 1953. The Soviet citizens!*' 8 * 1 ^ l ’ nd * r our 8 >' 8U * m editor and each reader—as a citi has to rely on the rumor mill for ! news of such events. Soviet Editor The Soviet editor is in a aimilar Social Whirl Physiral Education Wives will meet for the first time this year tonight at 7:30 p.m in the home of Mrs. Marvin Thompson, B 7 A College View. The Chemistry Wives Clab will meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. In the home of Mrs Billie Schneider, 4301 Aspen St., College Station. All chemistry majors, wiv#« are cor dially invited to attend. ten—must decide for himself how he will discharge his responsibility to the end that freedom itself will be strengthened, and with it the good life to which freedom is an open door. INKED JUMP BOOTS with or without Zippers? 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