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.
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dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of
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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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Robert Wagner
Also
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the guy who can never remember
his name on the Steve Allen TV
show, is suddenly a very busy stage
actor.
Poston is subbing during the
summer for star Peter Ustinov in
“Romanoff and Juliet” and has
copped a lead role of his own in
an upcoming fall play, “Drink to
Me Only.”
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