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Lincoln Commission
Seven Texans Get
Distinctive Award
Uy TEX EASLEY
Associated Press
Seven Texans have been made
honoi'az’y members of the Lincoln
Sesquicentennial Commission — a
distinction accorded only some 75
individuals throughout the entire
nation.
Headed by Sen. John Sherman
Cooper (R-Ky), the commission
elected their honorary colleagues
in recognition of their standing as
authors, students and collectors of
items pertaining to the' assassinat
ed 16th President. Even Illinois,
the Land of Lincoln, has only eight
honorary members.
One of the Texans is a woman
—Mrs. Fancher Archer of Austin,
who is distantly related to the
Great Emancipator. Dr. J. J. Crum,
retired Amarillo physician and
another of the seven, is a third
cousin of Lincoln.
The remaining five are Buck
Hood, managing editor of the
Austin American Statesman;
Judge E. H. Swaim (cq), Eden;
John Rosenfield, Dallas; Ralph
W. Steen, Nacogdoches, and Lin
coln Borglum of Beeville, whose
father did the great head sculp
ture of Lincoln which has been in
the Capitol Rotunda for 50 years.
All of the Texans were nomi
nated by Sen. Ralph Yarborough
(D-Tex) who is one of the reg
ular members of the Commission
and a long-time Lincoln scholar
himself.
Two of the group attended the
dinner held at Washington’s Cos
mos Club—an exclusive organiza
tion of engineers and scientists,—
for formal designation as honor
ary members of the commission.
They were Editor Hood, who was
reader in Fort Worth, and Judge
Swain.
The Lincoln Sesquicentennial
commission, with headquarters in
the National Archives Building,
was created by Congress to Pro
mote and aid in the promotion of
observances of the birth of Lin
coln 150 years ago.
While he was in Washington,
Hood also conferred with Secre
tary of the Treasury Robert B.
Anderson and Senate Democratic
Leader Lyndon Johnson, and
other fellow Texans. At one time
he had helped the Treasury in the
sale of war bonds, handling pro
motion of drives.
The Austin newspaperman also
discussed the exhibitions to be
held in Texas later this year of
the art and literary works of the
famous World War I and II Ma
rine Col. John Thomason.
The Texas Heritage Foundation
is sponsoring the exhibitions of
Thomason, who was bon in Hunts
ville, Tex., in 1893. He died in 1944
at a Marine base in Coronado, Cal.,
after returning from active duty in
the Pacific. Thomason’s books on
the Civil War period included
“Gone to Texas” and “Lone Star
Preacher.”
Around the Capitol:
Publisher Riley Cross of the
Denton Record-Chronicle made a
fast trip to Washington to see
what could be done when plans for
the proposed $2,700,000 Civil De
fense bomb shelter at Denton ran
into trouble.
The Administration had recom
mended the shelter at Denton, one
of the eight regional centers for
the Office of Civil Defense Mob
ilization. It would serve as a mod
el for others and would be a struc
ture 140 by 160 feet, providing
30 pounds per square inch blast
protection, and a filter system
against radioactive particles and
biological and chemical agents.
The upper level would contain
an operations room, communica
tions center and decontamination
chamber, the lower level emergen
cy sleeping areas, mechanical
equipment and office space. Some
of the shelter ample for 200 em
ployes for day-to-day work and
500 in an emergency, would be
above ground.
When the House Appropriations
committee struck money for the
shelter—rejecting a subcommittee
recommendation—from a Supple
mental Appropriation Bill for the
year that began July 1, Cross got
busy with Texas legislators to see
what could be done. He met with
Sen. Lyndon Johnson and urged
that an effort be made to put it
in the bill when the measure reach
ed the Senate floor.
Wee Aggies
We Aggies like to read about Wee Ag
gies. When a wee one arrives, call VI
6-4910 and ask for the Wee Aggie Edi
tor
A future Aggie date, Joani Ma
rie, was born to Mr. and Mrs.
William Fenner, ’59, of C-14-B,
College View on June 30.
A future Aggie was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Jessie White of C-14-A,
College View on July 7. The boy,
Michael Ray, weighed six pounds
and eleven ounces.
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN, Tex.—Whatever the
outcome of the summer tax battle,
when the smoke has all cleared,
the fire won’t be out.
Like live coals banked in ashes,
the tax issue will be ready to flame
up again when new fuel is added.
Sources of new fuel are easily
foreseeable.
Every member of this Legisla
ture, by his voting record, ex
pressed a tax viewpoint. Many of
them will hiive to face opponents
attacking this viewpoint in the
1960 elections. Since a new law
moves primaries up by two
months, campaigning will begin
long before the dogwood is out—
maybe while the Christmas lights
are up.
Many candidates may be wary of
lighting into an issue on which
it’s almost impossible to take an
all-around popular stand. But
whoever gets elected and comes
to Austin in 1961 will find the old
tax monster waiting, bigger and
fiercer than ever.
This Legislature will likely enact
just barely enough new taxes,
mostly on “old favorite” sources,
to cover the budget. But the 1961
budget will have to be bigger. For
some time population growth and
other factors have kept budgets
going up by about 10 per cent
every two years.
Additionally, there will be, as
always, demand for new programs,
new buildings, new spending. Hale-
Aikin school improvement pro
gram alone would call for at least
a $100,000,000 tax bill.
Only hope for avoiding an even
hotter tax battle in ’61 is for 1960
voters to give their elected offi
cials clear instructions on what
they want and how they’re willing
to pay for it.
BATTLE LINE S—Show-down
fight of the second called session
came on a $90,000,000-a-year tax
bill based on about three-fourths
selective sales taxes, one-fourth
business taxes. .
It was in line with the expressed
sentiment of the Senate, but many
House members regarded it as “an
other insult.” All the five Sen
ators and five House members on
the conference committee that
worked out the bill signed the re
port and recommended adoption:
It was designed to get revenue
from these sources over a 2-year
period:
TOBACCO—Cigarettes up 3
cents a pack (for two years—
then back to one cent) to raise
$60,000,000. Other tobacco prod
ucts, except snuff, a 25 per cent
tax to raise $13,500,000.
NATURAL GAS—raise in the
production tax from 7 to 8 per
cent to bring in $12,000,000.
CORPORATION FRANCH
ISES—increase of 75 cents per
$1,000 capital to May, 1960, 50
cent increase thereafter, to raise
$32,000,000.
UTILITIES—a 20 per cent in
crease in gross receipts tax ex
cept for telephone and telegraph,
for $3,000,000.
MOTOR VEHICLES—increase
in sales tax from 1.1 to 1.6 per
cent, for $20,400,000.
BEVERAGES—liquor up from
$1,408 to $1.68 a gallon, wine up
20 per cent, for $6,000,000.
BOATS, MOTORS, AIR
PLANES—a new 1.6 per cent
sales tax, for $3,250,000.
RADIOS, TELEVISIONS,
PHONOGRAPHS—a 2.2 per
cent sales tax, for $6,000,000.
CAMERAS—temporary 10 per
cent sales tax for $6,000,000.
Provisions for more vigorous
tax collecting would bring an es
timated $4,000,000 more.
Dr. T. B. Davich
Tours in Russia
Dr. Theodore B. Davich of
Bryan, an entomologist for the U.
S. Department of Agriculture do
ing basic research work on cotton
insects in cooperation with the
Department of Entomology, left
New York City recently for Rus
sia.
Davich is a member of an eight-
man team which has gone to Rus
sia for a 30-day inspection tour.
Primary objectives of the visit
will be a review and appraisal of
methods of insect control, and of
research in entomology in Russia.
The trip is being made under an
exchange program agreed upon by
the governments of the United
States and the Soviet Union in
January, 1958.
The team of entomologists will
travel throughout Russia and will
visit universities, experiment sta
tions and collective farms on the
7,000 mile tour.
Davich received his bachelor’s
degree from Ohio State University
and holds both M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in entomology from the
University of Wisconsin. He has
been at A&M for several years
and has gained wide recognition
for work done in his field.
The Davich family resides at
2104 Vinewood Drive in Bryan.
Manager Charlie Kress of the
Durham Bulls in the Carolina
League, broke into organized base
ball with Lenoir in the old Tar
Heel League in 1941.
National Open golf champion
Tommy Bolt shot a record 60 in
the 1954 Insurance City Open at
Wethersfield, Conn.
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Grove to Provide Top
Movie Entertainment
BY DEAN HORD
Battalion Staff Writer
Entertainment galore — that’s
what is in store for those students
who pay their student activity fees
for the oncoming summer term.
The principal part of this enter
tainment includes twenty-eight mo
tion pictures to be shown in The
Grove beginning each night of the
semester at 8.
“The Matchmaker” starring An
thony Perkins and Shirley Booth
will open the series Monday. It
will be followed the next night by
“Frankenstein 1970” starring Boris
Korloff. “Life Begins at Seven
teen” starring Mark Damon and
Luana Anderson, “Strange Intrud
er” with Edmund Purdom and Ida
Lupino, and “Valerie” starring
Stenting Hayden and Anita Ekberg
will complete the first week’s run
of movies.
The week beginning July 27 will
contain “Oregon Passage” star
ring John Ericson and Lola Al
bright, “Good Day for a Hanging”
starring Fred MacMurray and
Maggie Hayes, “Rock-A-Bye Baby”
starring Jerry Lewis and Marilyn
Maxwell, “The Tall Stranger”
starring Joel McCrea and Virginia
Mayo, and the 1953 academy
award winning “From Here to
SAVES A DOGS LIFE
MILWAUKEE <A>) — Spotty, a
mongrel dog can thank fireman
Gordon Rotta’s knowledge of arti
ficial respiration for his life.
Rotta, fighting a fire in a home,
found Spotty unconcious under a
bed. He carried the pooch outside
and applied artificial respiration.
Pretty soon Spotty moved his head,
rolled his eyes and began breathing
naturally.
“By the time we had our hoses
rolled up, Spotty was up and in
pretty good shape,” Rotta said.
Eternity” starring Burt Lancaster,
Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra,
Montgomery Clift, and 1953’s best
supporting actress of the year, Don
na Reed. This dramatic presenta
tion of James Jones’ best-seller is
recognized as one 6f Hollywood’s
all time “greats.”
It is the story of love and pas
sion torn from the pages of World
War II. It has conflict, acting, de
sire, and above all a thrilling pre
sentation of human emotion.
The week beginning August 3rd
will contain “Senior Prom”star-
ring Jill Corey, Bob Crosby and
Paul Hampton, “The Last Blitz-
kreig” starring Van Johnson and
Dick York, “Queen of Outer
Space” starring Zsa Zsa Gabor
and Eric Fleming, “Three Violent
People” starring Charlston Heston
and Anne Baxter, and Hollywood’s
presentation of Harold Robbins’
book “Never Love a Stranger.”
“Never Love a Stranger” stars
John Barrymore Jr. and Lita Mi
lan.
The week of August 10-14 will
contain “Crime Against Joe” star
ring Julie London and John Brom-
field, “Tarawa Beachhead” star
ring Kerwin Matthews and Julie
Adams, “Beau James” with Bob
Hope and Paul Douglas, “Forbid
den Island” With Jon Hall, and a
weekend double feature “Colossus
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of New York” with Mala Powers
and Robert Hutton and “Space
Children” starring Michael Ray.
August 17th opens another week
of good entertainment with “Gid
eon of Scotland Yard” starring
Jack Hawkins and Diane Foster.
The four succeeding pictures of
that week will be “Gun, Brothers”
starring Buster Crabbe and Neville
Brand, “Man Inside” starring Jack
Balance (the unforgettable actor
of reptillion fury in “Shane”) and
Anita Ekberg, “Apache Territory”
starring Rory Calhoun and Bar
bara Bates, and “Enemy From
Outer Space” starring Brian Don-
levy and Sidney James.
The last three movies of the
season to be presented in The
Grove will be “The Buster Keaton
Story” starring Donald O’Connor
and Ann Blyth, “Hot Rod Rumble”
starring Leigh Snowden and Joey
Forman, and the last picture of
the season will be the last comedy
of the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis
team “Hollywood or Bust.”
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CAMPUS
Merrill (Pinky) May, manager
of the Alamance Indians (Burling
ton, N.C.) in the Carolina League,
broke into organized baseball with
the 1934 Durham Bulls.
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