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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, January 29, 1959
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JOE BUSER EDITOR
Fred Meurer Managing Editor
Gayle McNutt —u. Executive News Editor
Bob Weekley Sports Editor
Bill Reed, Johnny Johnson, David Stoker, Lewis ReddelL...News Editors
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Jack Teague, Henry Lyle Staff Writers
Earl Doss, Laney McMath Photographers
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Cash or Credit...
College Station citizens face on Feb. 17 what is pos
sibly one of the most important elections ever held in the
city—a $350,00d street improvement bond election.
The tax bonds, if approved, would make more money
immediately available for the street improvement program.
But such a bond issue also brings on many complications
which make the package deal not quite as good as the wrap
per makes it appear.
This is one solution to the street problem—and the will
of property owners will rule on Feb. 17. But Mr. Property
Owner, before you vote know what you are voting for.
The bond election is contrasted with the pay-as-you-go
program adopted by the City Council last October. Each
citizen received a copy of the program by mail in November.
It represented several months of careful study and consid
eration and reflected as many suggestions and opinions ex
pressed by citizens who attended the council meetings as
was possible.
The Council unanimously endorses the pay-as-you-go
plan as the best way to go about improving streets and
thoroughfares. The bond election was called in response
to a petition for such an election signed by 265 citizens.
Both plans have faults and it is impossible to select
any plan which will please everyone. Whatever your per
sonal opinion, it is good to share it with others and learn
how they feel about a common problem.
Tonight you have that chance, Mr. Property Owner.
The College Station Kiwanis Club Civic Affairs Committee
is holding a public discussion for the sole purpose of airing
the pros and cons of the street improvement bond issue.
The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p. m. in the Consolidated
High School Auditorium. City officials will be present to
answer questions and explain complications of both plans.
Attend this meeting if at all possible—for your own
good and for the good of your neighbor. You have an im
portant decision to make Feb. 17.
Pay Your Poll Tax. . .
College Station residents have only two more days in
which to pay their 1959 poll taxes.
Failure to part with such a nominal token will mean that
residents cannot vote on such bond issues as the $350,000
street improvement bond election Feb. 17.
City Manager Ran Boswell said that any person who
cannot produce a poll tax receipt will not be allowed to vote
in the important upcoming bond election.
And to adequately run the City of College Station the
citizens of the community must support it to the fullest. If
you fail to vote in elections, you are failing to support the
bettermen of your community.
Pay your poll taxes and vote.
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Alarm or Concern?
By BILL REED
Battalion News Editor
Communism today is a tre
mendous concern to many Amer
icans and others seem to think
it has been stamped out of the
Americas and that there is no
longer any need to be alarmed.
In a parade of opinion poll con
ducted by the Associated Collegi
ate Press, the ACP found that
many college and university
newspapers have taken editorial
stands on Communism. Many of
these newspapers feel that col
lege students today are being
suspected of breeding Commun
ism in their ranks, as they go
from class to class jokingly call
ing each other “Comrade.”
Sure, students have to file af
fidavits saying that “he does not
believe in, and is not a member
of and does not support any or
ganization that believes in or
teaches the overthrow of the
United States Government by
force or violence or by any illegal
or constitutional methods.”
But, isn’t it true that the work
ing public also has to file simi
lar affidavits when applying for
a job and the like ?
This act of the government and
other agencies turns out to be a
prime method of combating Com
munism for the good of our Free
Nation. There is no need to be-
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A girl—Charlotte Nadine—who
may one day be applying for a
date through the TWU Date Bu
reau, was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Freddy Hopson, ’60, 100 S. Fair-
view, College Station. Born at
10:35 p.m., Jan. 22, in St. Joseph
Hospital, she weighed 5 pounds,
12 ounces.
Mr.
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come alarmed of being accused
when it is a policy for all citi
zens to live by.
It seems that the college news
paper that took this stand is ar
guing with the general public to
see who will call who a commun
ist.
The real problem seems to be
that the majority of the U. S.
poplation thinks that Communism
has been abandoned, so why wor
ry about it.
According to an American
medical missionary to China, we
have “lulled ourselves into be
lieving that we have stamped out
the germs of Communism.” This
makes an excellent situation, be
cause this is the ideal time in
which Communism works most
effectively.
Most frightening was his testi
mony that here in the United
States, Communism is literally
the religion of the youth, the
ideology of the student. Students
shrug their shoulders, laugh and
joke: “Hey Comrade. Cell
meeting tonight.”
And yet we question whether
we students are not too compla
cent about our seemingly secure
position; whether we are not of
ten foolishly blind to dangers
from other sources that would
threaten our freedom.
Are we being alarmists, or is
there real need for concern ?
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