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Number 59: Volume 58
BATTALION
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
3 More Days
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1959
Price Five Cents
House Re-Elects Carr As Speaker
Forbidden to Leave Cuba
Ag Home for Holidays
Finds Self in Revolt
Lubbock Solon
Takes Close Vote
AUSTIN, Texas.—Waggoner Carr won re-election Tues-
1 day by an eight-vote margin as speaker of the Texas House
; of Representatives.
The Lubbock man defeated Rep. Joe Burkett Jr. of Kerr-
ville, 79 to 71.
Then Carr took off his campaign badge, worn by his
supporters during a rousing first day of the new legislature’s
session. The action, said Carr, was a signal for legislators
to forget their differences of the long speakership race “and
work together from this time on for the people of Texas.”
The Carr victory was the closest in modern years. The
40-year-old Lubbock lawyer combined support from moder
ates, liberals and conserva- - *
Andres Carillo
. caught in Cuban revolution
Thi'ee Aggies came through
for a buddy this week.
Edward Hudson, agricultural
journalism major from Fredon-
ia, spent five days in the Bryan
Hospital over the Christmas
holidays suffering from acute
nosebleed. Before the bleeding
was stopped, Hudson had to
have two pints of blood, which
must be paid back at the rate
of two pints for one or $30 a
pint.
Coke Reed, William Dunn and
John Partridge answered the
call last week, donating a
pint each.
JReed is a freshman engineer
ing major from Austin. Dunn is
a junior business administra
tion major from Los Angeles,
Calif, and Partridge is a sen
ior mechanical engineer major
from Corpus Christi.
Graduation Planned
Saturday Morning;
330 Seek Degrees
Approximately 330 students will
receive their degrees in gradua
tion ceremonies in G. Rollie White
Coliseum at 10 a.m. Saturday
and more than 100 graduates are
to be commissioned as reserve
second lieutenants at 1:30 p.m., in
Guion Hall.
President M. T. Harrington will
g-reet the graduating class, their
families and friends. Harrington
will then present Dr. Paul Geren
executive vice president of Baylor
University, who will deliver the
commencement address.
Vice President Earl Jtudder will
deliver the principal address at
the commissioning exercises in
Guion Hall.
Dean John B. Page will present
candidates for Ph.D. degrees,
professional degrees and all mas-
teUs degrees in the morning ex
ercises.
will present candidates for the
bachelor of arts degree, bachelor
of business administration and
bachelor of science degrees. Can
didates for the bachelor of arch
itecture degrees and bachelor of
science degrees in the several
fields of engineering will be pre
sented by Dean Fred J. Benson.
After all degrees have been
conferred Robert D. Hyde will
lead the singing- of “The Spirit of
Aggieland.”
lives. While not a straightout
liberal victory, it was for that
legislative faction the hap
piest event in years.
Burkett’s support came mainly
from conservatives.
The winner’s backers can ex
pect to get choice appointments
to committees.
“Especially difficult will be the
roles of the revenue and taxation
and appropriation committees at
this critical time,” *said Carr.
This session faces the biggest
revenue-raising task in history.
Two hours before the session
started, Carr led his cheering
supporters in column file through
the capitol rotunda into the newly
decorated House chamber. They
had breakfasted together down-
town, and until after the election
Carr men wore their big white
badges, each dangling a small
car.
After three seconding speeches
for each candidate, members were
called to the chief clerk’s desk
one at a time to drop their ballots
in a box.
Hush fell in the big crowded
room as temporary reading clerk
M. K. Weitzel read each vote as
it was tallied. Most spectators
kept count. The lead seesawed
between Carr and Burkett until
about half the votes w r ere counted.
Carr then forged ahead. A
cheer went up as his total reached
76, enough for victory. Burkett
had 69 at the time. The secre
tary of state ordered the. count to
continue. Carr drew a standing
ovation after his 79 to 71 victory
w r as announced.
Burkett and most of his sup
porters applauded along with
Carr’s people. —Dallas News
Guide Posts
“The Lord is my light and my
salvation; whom shall I fear? The
Lord is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid ? Psalms
27:1
Teens Collect
Parts of Polio
Goal Saturday
A&M Consolidated High School
students netted part of a $2,000
goal in their “Teens Against
Polio” campaign Saturday morn
ing with a Toll Road Blockade at
North Gate.
The blockade was the first of
four schemes to raise funds for
the 1959 March of Dimes, accord
ing to Miss Patricia Jackson,
county chairman of the “Teens
Against Polio” Drive.
Other than the blockade, Miss
Jackson stated that a “Radiothon”
over Radio Station WTAW, a tal
ent show in the Stephen F. Austin
High School Auditorium, and a
“Teens Against Polio” dance
would be held.
The radiothon will be held
Saturday, Jan. 17, and the talent
show will be Jan. 26, she said.
She added that no place has been
named for the dance on Jan. 31.
Miss Jackson stressed the qual
ity of work done by Helen Klipple,
chairman for the drive at Consol
idated, and all the students who
participated. “They did an ex
cellent job and many people who
were stopped complimented them
on their work and enthusiasm,”
said Miss Jackson.
Insurance Plan
Paying to Aggies
Eleven Aggies have collected
claims totaling- $1,572.85 from a
new accident insurance plan in
augurated Sept. 1, according to
Mrs. Gene Taylor, secretary to
Dr. C. R. Lyons, director of A&M
Student Health Services.
Most of the claims were col
lected in the months of Novem
ber and December, Mrs. Taylor
said.
Carr Named House Speaker
State Legislature Opens;
Senate Votes May 12 End
By ROBBIE GODWIN
Battalion Staff Writer
Andres Carillo, junior animal
husbandry major, had the rather
dubious distinction of being smack
in the middle of the Cuban revolu
tion during the Christmas holi
days.
He arrived in Havana Sunday,
Dec. 21, to find his friends betting
among themselves as to the day
Batista would le^ve.
He said, “Everyone knew he was
through. It was only a question
of when he would leave.”
The day Batista left, Jan. 1,
the militia began organizing to
prevent plundering, said Carillo.
The spasmodic fighting in the
streets kept people indoors most
of the time.
“One time I started to the
grocery store and the militia told
me to take another route because
there was fig-hting in the street,”
he said.
A general strike was called in
Havana in support of the new
president on Jan. 1 and lasted un
til Jan. 4. On Jan. 5, the first
newspaper to appear in four years
without government supervision
was published, said Carillo.
“The fighting w.as mostly Ba
tista’s gangsters and army men
fighting for their lives,” said
Andres. “After three days, the
fighting nearly quit in the city.”
The militia, Andres related,
was begun underground much
earlier and that many of the men
were 21 or under. He said they
were able to stop most of the
Groups Can Apply
For MSC Rooms
Applications for meeting
rooms for student organizations
and clubs for the spring sem
ester will be accepted in the
Social and Educational Depart
ment of the Memorial Student
Center beginning at 8 a.m. Fri
day. Mrs. Ann Keel, MSC Soc
ial Director, said yesterday.
Any student organization or
club desiring a room must sub
mit an application Jan. 16, she
said.
plundering, but that the home of
one of Batista’s men had three
large air conditioning units torn
out of the wall.
When asked about destruction
of the city during the fighting,
Andres said “Nothing w r as hurt
much. All of the parking meters
were torn out of the street be
cause they belonged to Batista’s
brother-in-law.”
When Andres started to leave,
he received another surprise. He
was stopped at the airport and
told that no Cuban citizen was
permitted to leave the countx-y.
Then Jan. 6, students attending
schools in the United States wexe
permitted to leave. Two days lat
er, anyone residing outside the
country was released.
He said no parties were being
given in Havana to celebrate be
cause the rebels were forbidden
Radio’s ‘Liim’
To Give Speech
At Symposium
Chester Lauck, vice president of
Continental Oil Co., Houston, will
be the after dinner speaker at the
banquet of the 14th annual sym
posium on Instrumentation for the
Process Industries on the evening
of Jan. 22.
Lauck is Lum of x-adiq and TV’s
Lum and Abner.
Master of ceremonies for the
banquet will be Di'. J. D. Lindsay,
head of the Department of Chem
ical Engineei’ing.
Vice President Earl Rudder will
give the welcoming address at the
opening session of the symposium
Jan. 21.
More than 350 engineers and
others are expected to attend the
three day symposium conducted by
the Department of Chemical En
gineering. N. E. Welch, an in
structor in the department, is the
symposium director.
Several technical papers will be
presented and infox-mal discus
sions will be held on the problems
of measurement and control.
to drink when they first entered
the city. “They were carx-ying
arms at the time,” said Andi-es,
“and Castro didn’t want them to
stax-t any trouble.”
When asked about Batista’s
government, Andie said he used
torture a lot.
“I attended a militia meeting
with my friend one night. We saw
the bodies of two people tox-tux-ed
by the police. My fx-iend desci-ibed
the methods that had been used.
They hit them with sand bags,
with wire covex-ed with tape and
jabbed knives in their elbows so
the marks would not show.”
When asked what he thought
of Castros govex-nment, Andre
said he didn’t know too much yet,
but the people were behind him
100 per cent. He said he thought
they were honest, and were not
communist.
He said the Univex-sity of Ha
vana, which has been closed fox-
three years, was already making
plans to re-open he said, “I wasn’t
surprised. We knew it would hap
pen, but we just didn’t know
when.”
Ag Receives
Needed Blood
College Station
C of C Elects
New Officers
Lucian Mox-gan was elected
president of the College Station
Chamber of Commerce at its first
meeting of the year, Monday.
The group also elected the fol
lowing other officers: Heibert
Thompson, vice px-esident; Mrs.
Max-ion Pugh, treasurer; and Mi’s.
Chris Gx-oneman, secx-etary.
Don Dale, outgoing president,
x-eported the appointment of E. R.
Alexander as representative for
this organization on the Medical
Center board of this area.
The chamber commended the
City of College Station on its con
tinuation of the clean-up dx-ive. It
also approved the x-epox-t of Mrs.
Pugh on prograss for beautifying
Highway 6 in the city limits to
observe Civic Beautification Week
beginning March 22,
It was mentioned that the Com
munity Chest Drive for 1958, un
der the leadex-ship of Gibb Gil
christ, went over the top. The
1959 Chairman of the dx-ive is Dick
Hex-vey.
Dean Gustav M. Watkins will
px-esent candidates for the bache
lor of science degrees in the fields
of agriculture.
Dean George W. Schlesselman
Dr. Paul Geren
. . . commencement speaker
AUSTIN hT>—A divided House
i-eelected Rep. Waggoner CaiT of
Lubbock speaker, Tuesday, while
the Senate jarred the 56th Legis
lature’s opening day with a well-
backed motion to end the session
May 12.
Displaying a down-to-business-
quickly mood, the Legislature
wheeled swiftly through opening
formalities delayed only by the
close contest for House leadership
between Carr and Rep. Joe Bur
kett Ji\ of Kerrville. Carr won
79-71 in a secret ballot.
Thei-e was little horseplay and
a minimum of oratox-y as the
House chose its presiding officer
and the Senate named vetex-an Dal
las lawmaker George Parkhouse as
president pro tempore.
The Senate finished its organiza
tion in less than 40 minutes and
notified the House it was ready
to go to work. Then it adjourned
until 10:30 a.m. tomorrow.
Completion of foi-malities in
cluding the election of numex-ous
officers and aides ate up most of
the day in the House.
The 56th session, facing monu
mental pioblems of spending and
taxing-, was given a solemn invo
cation by Secretary of State Zollie
Steakley who told the House in a
brief opening speech:
“You must pay due regard to
the solemn stewai'dship of a bil
lion dollar business—the people’s
business.”
The session, before it ends, must
appx-opriate or allocate mox-e than
a billion dollars for state business
but its chief problem will be in
making up a huge deficit in the
genex-al revenue fund and finding
additional new general fund
money to carry on state services.
Much of the billion-dollar budget
comes from other sources, such as
fedex-al aid. But this Legislatui-e
has the job of finding new general
revenue money in amounts various
ly estimated at from 167 million
dollars to more than 200 million.
The 46 new House members and
3 new Senators and all the return
ing lawmakers were quickly given
the oaths after the session began
on the dot at 12 noon.
The Senate’s sudden, unexpected
action in setting a date for final
adjournment actually was agreed
on even before the session started.
This happened at the usual reopen
ing caucus at 10 a.m.
Sen. Fx-ank Owen III of El Paso
offered the x-esolution, saying: “It
is our job to finish the work we
have to do and go home.”
May 12 would be the 120th day
of the session, which is the length
of sessions suggested by the Con
stitution. Also, the $25 a day pay
of legislators ends on the 120th
day.
Nobody could remember an ear
lier get-a-move-on and be-done-
with-it resolution. Usually the
lawmakers don’t even begin think
ing sex-iously about a windup date
until late in the session.
With the speakership election
out of the way, it was expected
that the House could without much
more delay get its committee as
signments and go to work on sub
mission and processing of bills.
News of the World
By The Associated Press
Turncoat Gets Parole
WASHINGTON—The Texas tourncoat from Kermit,
Claude J. Batchelor, won a federal parole Tuesday.
The former soldier, convicted of aiding the enemy after
North Korean Communists captured him in 1950, will be re
leased March 18 from the Federal Correctional Institution
at Texarkana. The U.S. Parole Board granted him freedom,
for which he has been eligible since 1957.
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Faubus Offer Solution
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Gov. Orval E. Faubus, who
closed Little Rock’s public schools to block integration, Tues
day proposed what he apparently considers a long-range
solution to the racial problem.
The governor, in his third-term inaugural address, asked
the Arkansas General Assembly to consider a constitutional
amendment which would permit school districts at their
option to allot each student his prorata share of public edu
cational funds for use at any school of his choice.
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Castro Defends Executions
HAVANA—Rebel chieftain Fidel Castro defended Tues
day the mass executions of Batista supporters convicted of
war crimes. He declared they were necessary “to purify the
nation.”
As he spoke unofficial sources estimated the total of
such executions at 150.
Castro made the statement in a speech after Roberto
Agramonte, the new foreign minister, asserted that the death
sentences were required to prevent vengeful Cubans from
taking the law into their own hands.