The Battalion College Station (Brazos CountyJ* Texas
Friday, February 13,1959
PAGE 3
“Lemme’ See ...”
Jim Archer, sophomore business arithmetic in the Memorial Student Center gift shop,
major from Wichita Falls, gazes over the Helping Archer make his decision is Mrs.
selection of Valentine candy on display Tom Covey.
jAggies Purchase
5,000 Valentines
For Love Tokens
Saturday is Valentine’s Day and
the love buff will again invade the
campus while the Aggie’s fancy
is dominated by thoughts of his
“sweet young miss” back home.
During the past three weeks the
Ags reacehed down in their pock-
etbooks to purchase tokens of love
in the form of cards and candy for
their special ones. Almost 1,000
boxes of candy and 5,000 valen
tines were sold to students in the
novelty shop of the Memorial Stu
dent Center, said Mrs. R. C. Rus
sell, department manager.
Mrs. Fussell reported that each
box of candy was individually
wrapped or packed for mailing.
She added that this year’s total
boxes wrapped was somewhat
smaller than last year’s total.
Only One-Sixth
Of Cars In County
Have New Stickers
Approximately one-sixth of the
cars registered in Brazos County
have their new safety inspection
stickers, according to E. C. Smith
of the Texas Department of Pub
lic Safety.
April 15 is the deadline for ob
taining the new stickers.
Each year many people wait un
til the last few days of the in
spection period to have their ve
hicles inspected, he said. Many
car owners will have to stand in
line as the deadline approaches, if
action is not taken now.
Besides being unsafe to operate
a car with defective equipment,
the person who drives the vehicle
without a valid inspection sticker
can be charged in court with a
violation of the traffic law and
faces the possibility of a fine.
Aggies Promoted
In Air Reserve
Five A&M students have been
promoted in rank in the Air Re
serve squadron in Bryan.
H. L. Boedeker has been pro
moted from staff sergeant to
technical sergeant; B. H. Atwell
raised to staff sergeant; R. C.
Gorman, staff sergeant; B. I.
Seely, staff sei’geant; and A.
Schouloff, staff sergeant.
Grumbles Attends
Turkey Convention
Dr. Leland C. Grumbles, head
of the Department of Veterinary
Microbiology, attended the conven
tion of the Minnesota Turkey
Growers Assn, in Minneapolis,
Minn., Feb. 6-7.
At the meeting Dr. Grumbles
participated on a panel for the
discussion of turkey disease and
research.
SPORT SHIRTS
Beautiful Selection for Spring
$2.95 to $5.00
A&M MEN’S SHOP
103 MAIN NORTH GATE
DICK RUBIN ’59
GOES AND
GOES AND
GOES ON A GALLON !
FOff BONDS
(Continued from Page 1)
streets are built and the bonds
sold.
• 8. The increased cost of heavy
construction has been estimated to
be 4!4 per cent a year by the city
engineer. This exceeds the bond
interest rate and a larger building
program would give us an addi
tional saving over piece-meal con
struction.
Bond Attorney’s Views
• 9. The city bond attorney,
E. L. Brown (Moroney, Beissner &
Co. of Houston), has never advised
the mayor and City Council to dis
card a bond program. The first
recommendation on Nov. 14, 1957
was as follows, and we quote from
that letter:
“The present basis of valuation
for tax purposes is 25 per cent of
the actual value, which is consid
erably lower than the basis of the
average city in Texas. In order to
authorize an additional $500,000
of bonds for street improvement
purposes, it is recommended that
the basis of valuation should be
increased to 50 per cent of the
actual value.”
(Yet in a statement to the Bryan
Daily Eagle, dated Nov. 12, 1958,
the mayor stated “the City Council
has discarded a bond issue of
$500,000 on the basis of advice by
Bond Attorneys.”)
In a letter of Dec. 11, 1958,
Brown made the same recommend
ation as he had made one year
earlier (Nov. 14, 1957) with a com
plete plan to use the bond issue
with the present “pay-as-you-go
plan.” (This letter is available to
you at the City Hall.)
In a telephone conversation with
Brown, bonding attorney for the
City of College Station, he stated
that he had never advised the City
Council against a bond issue and
had in fact encouraged the city to
adopt the bond issue. He stated a
willingness to be quoted on this
subject. (Phone number: Capitol
2-1282, Houston.)
Councilman Was For It
• 10. Councilman Joe Orr, in his
letter to the citizens of Ward I,
dated Jan. 10, 1958 stated:
“It is the responsibility of the
mayor and the City Council to de
cide upon a street program for the
city and to submit this plan for
your approval through a bond elec
tion—our street problem is the
most pressing and the most costly
one facing us. Most of the major
streets are narrow and completely
worn out. The cost of maintenance
is becoming prohibitive and it is
necessary that some major street
progi’am be started in the near fu-
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ture.”
Yet more than a year later citi
zens had to petition a bond issue
to get started this pressing job
quoted by Orr.
SUMMARY
1. The bond issue, when passed,
will make available funds for im
mediate action on our streets. The
Council has said that major thor
oughfares can be designated and
completed whenever they deem it
necessary. If the money is avail
able there can be no excuse for
waiting and the Council must ac
cept full responsibility for any
delay.
2. Cost to the average home-
owner will be $5.10 or 11 per cent
more than their present city taxes.
(Does not include school, county
or state taxes.)
3. Every fact presented to you in
this letter is based on documented
material which you as a citizen
should check for yourself at the
City Hall.
4. The city attorney, C. E. Dil
lon, has verified the statements
relative to the cost of the bond
issue.
5. We as citizens have attempted
to present these facts to you in an
unbiased manner and in no way do
we wish- to hinder the City Coun
cil, but desire to help them speed
the issue. We- desire improved
streets and a place to live in of
which we can be proud—College
Station, Texas.
Biscayne b-Door Sedan shows the Fisher Body beauty of Chevrolet’s lowest priced series for ’59.
CHEVY'S NEW HI-THRIFT 6
More miles are back in a gallon of regular-grade
gas—up to 10% more—and Chevy’s new Hi-Thrift
6 engine puts them there. It also gives you more
“git” in the speeds you drive the most.
Here’s an engine that always seems able to coax extra
miles out of a tank of regular-grade gas. In fact, if you’re
one of those drivers who keep tab on things like gas
mileage, you’ll soon see for yourself that this new Hi-
Thrift 6 gets up to 10% more miles a gallon.
Another thing you’ll like about this 135-h.p. 6 is the
now—see the wider selection of models at your local authorized Chevrolet dealer's!
extra pep it gives you for passing and climbing hills. This
is due to higher torque at normal speeds.
It may be hard to believe anything that looks and
moves like this ’59 Chevy can be such a stickler for
economy. But—whether you pick the Hi-Thrift 6 or a
vim-packed V8—this is just
one more reason Chevy’s
the car that’s wanted for all
its worth. Stop by your
dealer’s and see. The smart switch is to the ’59 Chevy!
More people keep going back for Camels
than any other cigarette today. The
Camel blend of costly tobaccos has
never been equalled for rich flavor and
easygoing mildness. Today as always,
the best tobacco makes the best smoke.
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cigarette-
have a CAMEL
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