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The Battalion College Station (Braxoa County), Texat PAGE 2 Thursday, April 30, 1959 BATTALION EDITORIALS . . . Our Liberty Depends on the Freedom of the Press, And It Cannot Be Limited Without Being Lost . . . Thomas Jefferson Future, Not Past' Measures ‘Batf One year ago a small group of eager young journalists full of ideas and ideals took over the reins of The Battalion. The wheel has now made a full turn—that group today turned over the desks to a new staff. It is not unwarranted that these Ags be recognized. They have given more than a full measure of time and effort for their buddies and their college. Forsaking spare time, not to mention time on studies, The Battmen have sought the news and reported it as they found it—faithfully and without thought or promise to reward, save the reward that .comes for doing a job well. During the past year the college has been happy and sad, prosperous and penniless, jubilant and blue. And, as the case might be, The Battalion reflected the campus much as a mirror and recorded each day for posterity. As in all products of human endeavor, The Battalion has been plagued with, shortcomings and faults. Newspaper- ing is a strange business—it is the only profession that pub lishes its mistakes daily for all to see. On the other side of the ledger, The Batt has a lot of things to be proud of—^in a number of areas it .excelled far beyond expectation. Success or failure of The Battalion ’59 cannot be measured in terms of what has passed, however. The final test of the paper will be what comes in the future. If the things that this year’s Batt has stood for—progress, prosperity, education and equality—become reality next year or the next then the toil this year truly was not in vain. Responsibility for the continuation of a firm but yet compassionate stand for everything good for the college now rests with a new staff. Much of the destiny of the paper rests with the new editor, Johnny Johnson. The size of the task is somewhat awesome but their training and experience will prove equal to the task. Under Johnny Johnson The Battalion next year will con tinue to mirror the campus, unfettered and without privilege. It will continue # to stand up and be counted for A&M and en courage others to do likewise. And it will remain stoutly in dependent as in the past, always mindful of what people say and think but never swayed by the clamor of the mob. It will respect its freedom to say what it feels without previous license by tempering every printed word with the full measure of its responsibility to its readers, it college, its state and its God. Next year’s Batt—as this year’s—will continue to fight to make Texas A&M the best of its kind anywhere. With your help this fight can be won . . . U.S. Rejects Soviet Protest WASHINGTON—The United States Wednesday night rejected the Soviet Union’s newest protest against high-alti tude flights by American planes in the Berlin air corridor. The State Department brushed aside the Soviet com plaint less than two hours after Radio Moscow broadcast the text of a formal protest. The Soviets contended American flights higher than 10,000 feet are “completely devoid of legal foujidation.” In reply, a State Department spokesman reaffirmed that American planes will fly above 10,000 feet any time they be lieve it necessary for efficient operation. “The position of the United States government has been clearly and emphatically stated in its note of April 13,” said press officer Joseph Reap. Reap recalled these words in the American note: “Flights by aircraft of the United States do not require any prior agreement from the Soviet element, and the United States never has recognized any limitation to the right to fly at any altitude in the corridors.” SENIORS!! Buy your 1959 FORD from a senior at the lowest price you will find anywhere. Factory authorized dealer is an Aggie-Ex and has made a special price to Aggies. Buy now and you may have until July 15 to start low monthly payments. Call Murl Hoffpauir VI 6-4960 after 5:00 THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewall, director of Student Pub’ications, chairman ; J. W. Amyx, School of Engineering; Harry Lee Kidd, School of Arts and Sciences; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M., is published in College Sta tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem ber through May, and once a week during summer school. Entered as second - class matter at the Post Office in College Station, Texas, ■nder the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Ass’n. Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles, and San Francisco' Mall subscriptions are $3.50 per semester, $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, Col- legs Station, Texas. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telepl^ning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the Jditoriai office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. JOE BUSER ^ EDITOR Fred Meurer ^ Managing Editor Gayle McNutt .... Executive News Editor Bob Weekley Sports Editor Bill Reed. Johnny Johnson, David Stoker, Lewis ReddeII_...News Editors Bill Hicklin Assistant Sports Editor Robbie Godwin, Ken Coppage, Bob Edge, Jack Harts- field, Joe Callicoatte, Bob Saile, Jim Odom, Sam Spence, Leo Rigsby, Bob Roberts Staff Writers Ray Hudson ^Circulation Manager CADET SLOUCH by Jim Ear Ip Space* Radiation Underestimated “How can you emphasize a point in a ‘letter to the ‘Editor without using a dirty word?” Spunky ‘Coon Hound 9 Creeps Feeblyfrom Limestone Tom b OWASSO, Okla., (AP)—Spun ky Little Richard, a blue tick ’coon hound, crept from a lime stone tomb after six days and nights Wednesday and feebly crawled into his master’s arms. The 21/2-year-old dog scram bled into bright sunlight after 200 people had worked off-and- on until nearly noon to chip him from his rocky vice. A small dy namite blast, the last of six, and a jackhammer removed the final stubborn stone. As the crowd waited, Little Richard slowly ambled out into the waiting arms of his master, 20-year-old Larry Wilson. After a quick examination by Dr. John Collins, Little Richard was placed in an ambulance that had been standing by for several days. With siren screaming, it rushed him to an animal hospital in Tulsa. There, Little Richard flipped his tail from side to side, scratch ed a tick, then dozed off. Wilson and Don Davidson share the hound’s ownership but What’s Cooking The following clubs and organ izations will meet tonight. 7:15 The San Angelo-West Texas Hometown Club will meet to night in Room 103 of the Agri culture Building. 7:30 The Southwest Texas Home town Club will meet in Room 108 of the Academic Building. The Brush Country Hometown Club will meet tonight in the Coffee Shop of the Memorial Student Center. The Deep East Texas Home town Club will meet in the Sen ate Chamber of the MSC tonig-ht. The Galveston County Home town Club will meet in the Gay Room of the YMCA to elect the officers for the new year. it was Wilson who used Little Richard last Thursday night for the fateful raccoon hunt that led to the trouble. Pursuing a ‘coon, Little Rich ard was led into the jumble of fissured rock and fell into the crevice. Collins, who stood by through out the night as the workers scratched at gritty limestone and stubborn granite, saul the hound lost about 10 pounds’ of the 60 he weighed before his ordeal. The veterinarian said Little Richard “has every chance in the world to pull through.” Wilson and Davidson sighed with relief. “It sure feels good,” said Wil son. “I started out with a pick to dig him out, then we got help from everybody.” Davidson said “it all depends” when asked if the dog would be used again to hunt. “If Dr. Collins says he can,” he added, “then we might. But it will be a long time.” The hound was fed a ration of hamburger and canned dog food early Wednesday by a tiny Owasso high school pupil, Don Dillard. It was the first anyone was able to squeeze through the chipped opening for direct con tact with the animal. Social Whirl Thursday Aggie 'Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 in the Memorial Student Center. Sunday Industrial Education Wives Club will have their annual pic nic at Hensel Park, Area 2 at 3 p.m. Please Call Joan Asher at VI 6-8298 after 5 for reserva tions. WASHINGTON (AP) — The natural band of space radiation which could imperil space travel extends—at least at times—much farther aloft than previously thought, Dr. James Van Allen said Wednesday. He said estimates of the hand’s extent were revised on the basis of measurements by the first U. S. artificial planet. Van Allen, of the State Uni versity of Iowa, is the principal discoverer of the radiation belt- really two separate belts which hang suspended like monster doughnuts around the earth, but with openings above both the National C of C Changes Policy Toward Tariffs WASHINGTON (AP) — The U. S. Chamber of Commerce Wednesday modified its long standing policy on tariffs arid trade at the insistence of dele gates demanding protection for domestic industries. A resolution adopted at the chamber’s 47th annual meeting retains the organization’s en dorsement of a trade agreements program providing selective tar iff revisions and an orderly and gradual reduction of other bar riers to world trade. But the chamber erased por tions of its policy statement which in the past have committ ed it to: 1. repeal of the “buy American” laws; 2. a declaration that government and business should encourage increased im ports into the United States; and 3. a declaration that this gov-ernment should oppose re strictive practices in the ad ministration of its foreign trade policy. The shift in the chamber’s trade policy was understood to be disappointing to the organi zation’s new president, Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor. Canham is an outspoken advocate of a freer in ternational exchange of goods and ideas. North and South Pole regions. Van Allen said measurements radioed back from the Pioneer IV space probe, while en route to its orbit around the sun, ten tatively indicate that: The outer limits of the Van- Allen radiation belt extend, at least at times, to an altitude of 52,250 miles from the earth, compared with a distance of 33,- 500 miles clocked by Pioneer’s predecessor, Pioneer III. The latter soared to an altitude of some 70,000 miles before plung ing back into the earth’s atmos phere. Thus, Van Allen told a space symposium sponsored by the Na tional Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society, the new dimensions of the belt are tentatively estimated this way: 1. The radiation belt closest to the earth begins at about 1,300 miles altitude and extends about 3,000 miles from the earth’s sur face estimated. 2. The outer belt begins at about 8,000 miles and extends to 52,250 miles—or 18,750 miles farther than clocked by Pioneer III. Violence ('on tinues In Kentucky Strike WH1TESBURG, Ky. (AP) — Hidden snippers and guards at a nonunion coal mine skirmished Wednesday in the predawn. In a neighboring county, dynamite knocked out another coal-loading plant in eastern Kentucky’s bit ter coal strike. The mine operator said he had enough and was quitting the state. Slugs ripped through some buildings during the battle near Mayking but there were no cas ualties. The guards, unable to spot their assailants, fired at rif le flashes 300 yards away. “I am closing down the opera tion and leaving the county,” said owner Jack Blair. “I would rather sell peanuts for a living than put up with any more of this.” Registrar Aide Attends Meeting Ray G. Perryman, associate reg istrar, attended the 45th l annual meeting of the American Assn, of Collegiate Registrars and Admis sions Officers, held recently at Pittsburgh, Pa. More than 800 registrars and admissions officers from colleges and universities throughout the na tion participated in the convention. 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