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Thursday, June 25, 1959
The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
CADET SLOUCH
ttv Jim Earl*
“This is where we Aggies do our studyin’! It’s sometimes
referred to as th’ clay pits.” ”
An Editorial
Will They?
Tonight in the Consolidated Junior High School Cafe
teria, citizens of College Station will have a golden oppor
tunity to learn more about their public schools. As a results
of this meeting, they should see where their schools are
lacking and at the same time see where they (the citizens)
can join hand in hand to help their schools.
The meeting is spearheaded by the A&M Consolidated
School Citizen’s Advisory Committee, a group that has been
studying the Consolidated school system for the past sev
eral months. Now the committee feels that it is ready to
recommend a school program that is not only better than
the current one, but is designed to adequately prepare the
system for the years ahead.
But a better school system means an interested, open
minded following of citizens. Therefore, it goes without say
ing, that this committee’s work is useless without the back
ing of the people of College Station. In order to attain the
improvements needed in the Consolidated school system, it
will take a group of citizens who are not afraid to admit
that their schools can be improved, a group of broad minded,
civic individuals who are ready to roll back their sleeves
and say “When do we start?”
The system by which the public schools operate in Tex
as requires a great deal of local interest and support. Will
it be said of the people of College Station that they are
guilty of neglegence toward their public schools ? Or will it be
said that they are thoughtful and faithful toward their pub
lic schools ? The answer lies in the meeting tonight.
The meeting begins at 7:30. Will the people of College
Station see the room for improvement? Will they join hand
and hand to gain these improvements? Will they?
Engineering Station Makes
Iron - Nickel Alloy Studies
Better alloys may result from
j experiments at the Texas Engi-
, neering Experiment Station.
II The ef-fect of additions of zinc
to iron-rich, nickel-iron alloys is
being determined in materials re-
; search involving metallurgy.
How the zinc content affects cor-
: rosion resistance and magnetic
i properties is of special interest in
. the work. Dr. Bruce A. Rogers
' is the researcher in charge.
Iron-nickel alloys are important
in a number of ways. They have
valuable magnetic properties and
■ good resistance to corrosive at-
; tack. They also have especially
low coefficient of thermal expan-
; sion near the 35 per cent nickel
composition, and other features.
They will take up considerable
amounts of zinc and still retain
-f ductility.
However, much needs to be
learned on the change in proper
ties when zinc is added. It is this
gap in metallurgical knowledge
which the research' aims to fill.
Because of the volatility of zinc
in comparison with iron and nickel,
the alloys cannot be conveniently
prepared by melting. Accordingly,
the procedures of powder metal
lurgy are being used; that is, pow
ders of the different materials are
mixed and pressed into bars which
are then heated to bring about an
alloying action. Such bars are
then fabricable by pressing, swag
ing, or other operations into suit
able specimens for testing.
Birds of Paradise are found in
their natural habitat at only two
places on earth—their native New
Guinea and at Bird-Of-Paradise-
Island. The latter is a small is
land in the West Indies.
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Joe Steen, Dean Hord, Ernesto Uribe, John Wayne Clark....Staff Writets
Francis Nivers Photographer
Russell Brown Sports Correspondent
Clyde Student
Wins Award
In Agronomy
Wesley A. Robinson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Robin
son, Route 1, Clyde, has been nam
ed winner of a $3,000 four year
scholarship provided by th West
ern Compress and Storage Co. of
Abilene for a student in agronomy
here.
Robinson is a spring graduate
of Clyde High School where he
was in the top quarter of his class.
He was an active member of the
Future Farmers of America, be
ing named Chapter Farmer last
year.
Similar scholarships of $1,000
each from the same source have
been awarded Nathan Roeneal
Boles, son of Mr. and Ms. Monroe
W. Boles of 406 Wood St. Wint
ers, and John Robert Gannaway,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Gan
naway, Star Route, Haskell.
The scholarships have been
made available by the Western
Compress and Storage Company
with main offices at Abilene and
compresses and cotton warehouses
at Abilene, Hamlin, Rule ' and
Sweetwater. The scholarship re
cipient must reside in a ten county
area composed of Taylor, Nolan,
Mitchell, Runnels, Callahan, Scur
ry, Fisher, Jones, Haskell and
Knox counties.
Previous winners of similar a-
wards are David T. Richburg, Ros-
coe, who will be a senior at A.
and M. next year; Harold Don
Barton, Star Route, Sweetwater,
and Herman Ray Adams, Route 4,
Winters, who has completed his
freshman year.
Rev. Earle Martin
Ordained to Sacred
Order of Priests
The Rev. Earle Martin, Epis
copal Chaplain and director of the
Canterbury Bible Chair, was or
dained to the Sacred Order of
Priests this morning at St. Thom
as’ Chapel.
He was ordained by Right Rev.'
John E. Hines, Bishop of the Dio
cese of Texas.
The service was held at 10 a.m.
The Rev. Lane Denson, Episcopal
Chaplain at the Rice Institute and
at the Texas Medical Center in
Houston, delivered the sermon.
Clergy from Houston, Sealy, Co
lumbus and Tomball participated
in the historic rite of the church.
The ordaining was followed by
a luncheon in the parish hall.
Highlights and Sidelights
Legislators’ Second Special Session
Brings Show-down Votes on Taxes
By—Vern Sanford
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN, Tex.—At it again, for
the third time this, year, Legisla
tors go into the second special ses
sion wearier, but wiser.
Midnight wind-up of the second
session brought show-down votes
indicating what each house will and
will not accept in the way of a tax
program. Next conference commit
tee on taxes will know that the line
of compromise must be more finely
drawn between Senate and House
thinking.
In addressing the new session,
G'ov. Price Daniel reminded law
makers of the “up against it” state
of things. “Every function of state
government depends on enactment
of an appropriation bill before
Sept. 1 with a tax bill to support
it,” said the governor.
State’s fiscal year and present
appropriations run out Aug. 31.
Unless a new appropriation bill
can go into effect the next day, the
whole state operation — including
hospitals, schools, employe salaries
and pensions—will stop.
This is unthinkable, of course.
No lawmaker could go home and
face the voters with things in such
a state.
But there’s another pinching fac
tor which the governor emphasized.
Cost of deficit financing plus loss
of potential tax income means that
each day’s delay costs the state an
estimated $200,000. Despite this,
the House took a four-day weekend
and the Senate, SVz days.
But some lawmakers seemed to
feel the delays, deadlocks and head-
knocking were not necessarily ex
pensive wasted motion, but mile
stones along the long, hard road
to democratic compromise.
“We’ve crossed a lot of bridges
we won’t have to cross again,” said
Rep. Don Kennard of Fort Worth.
NO SURRENDER — Legislature
was thrown into another session
when the House rejected, 117-to-23,
a conference committee tax bill
that was largely based on Senate
thinking.
Senate approved, 19-to-12.
Some House members were in
dignant that three of the five
House appointees signed the con
ference committee report which
House opponents called a “com
plete surrender” to Senate wishes.
Social Whirl
The Aggie Wives Bridge Club
will meet tonight at 7:30 in the
Memorial Student Center. Hos
tesses will be Faye Brack and
June Brown.
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House passed a tax bill that was
divided about 50-50 between taxes
on business and selective sales tax
es. Senate pared back the business
taxes to about 18 per cent, added
new or heavier sales taxes to make
up the difference.
Conference committee proposed a
bill that would have raised $177,-
066,000 with essentially the same
levies approved by the Senate plus
a temporary hike from $1 to $2
in drivers licenses.
Appropriations conference com
mittee was reportedly deadlocked
and never made a report.
After the new session opened,
most of the same taxing and spend
ing bills were introduced again, in
cluding the twice-killed abandoned
property bill.
House quickly re-passed the
same appropriation bill it had pass
ed before. Most bills are expected
to follow the same pattern they did
in the last special session—up to
the point where the conference
committees start working out dif
ferences.
ONE MADE IT — Only major
money bill to make the grade is
the bookkeeping bill, passed by
both Houses and signed into law by
the governor.
Effect of the law is to change
accounting procedures so that an
VETERAN AT 12
ARLINGTON, VA. hf*)—At 12,
Boy Scout Bobby Neu is a veteran
at making presentations. He has
presented President Eisenhower
with a handbook for emergencies,
actor Danny Kaye with a Scout
pin and Allen Dulles, head of the
Central Intelligence with a simi
lar emblem.
He has also spoken at National
Presbyterian Church at Washing
ton, which the President attends,
addressed the Metropolitan Rotary
Club and spoken before the execu
tive council of the Boy Scouts of
America.
Bobby admits that “Dad helps
me outline talks.”
estimated $28,000,000 moe will be
credited to the state’s general fund
when the fiscal year runs out Aug.
31.
It means that much less that has
to be raised to balance the books.
STUDENT FEE BILL BACK —
Rep. W. S. Heatley Jr. of Paducah
re-introduced a bill to let colleges
require students to pay up to $30 a
semester for various campus serv
ices.
Bill passed the House last ses
sion, but died in the Senate on
the last day. Sen. William S. Fly
of Victoria was Senate sponsor.
Heatley, Fly and other support
ers pointed to the crying need for
new money and said college presi
dents were urging the bill. Oppon
ents said there were better places
to get money than from working-
their-way college studepts who
would rather do without the foot
ball tickets, parking spaces, etc.,
covered by the fee.
PUBLIC BEACHES ASKED —
Providing public access to Gulf
Coast beaches is the only non-mon
ey matter submitted by the gover
nor to the new session.
House passed such a bill over
whelmingly last session, but it died
in the Senate on the last day.
A recent State Supreme Court
ruling changed the general concep
tion of where the boundary line is
between private and public ownei’-
ship along the coastline. To clear
up resulting confusion, the House-
passed bill provided for a “public
easement” of 200 feet from the low
tide mark. It also prohibited fenc
es or other obstructions.
Rep. Bob Eckhardt of Houston
re-introduced the bill in the new
session.
OIL CUT AGAIN — Texas oil
production will take another tum
ble when the July allowable takes
effect.
Railroad Commission ordered
production cut by 226,044 barrels
a day and run on a nine-day pro
ducing pattern.. Ten producing days
were allowed for June which was
a cutback from May.
Oil men testified that they not
only had more gasoline than they
could sell,- but faced the prospect
of running out of storage space.
ARRANGED CONTRACTS HIT
— Atty. Gen. Will Wilson has filed
an anti-trust suit against certain
Houston electrical contractors and
an electrical workers union.
Wilson said his office had gath
ered evidence indicating the South
east Texas Chapter of the National
Electrical Contractors Assn, was
deciding in advance which member
of the group should be allowed to
make the low bid on a job. Then
others, said Wilson, would put in
higher bids.
Suit also charges that members
of Local 716 of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
aided the contractors’ association
by not sending enough workers to
jobs of non-members.
Price-fixing conspiracies, Wilson
declared, cut away the foundation
of a competitive free enterprise
economy.
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