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Thursday, August 13, 1959
The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
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Col. Hollingsworth
Assigned to Hood
Col. James F. Hollingsworth,
’40, was named deputy comman
der of Combat Command A, 1st
Armored Division at Fort Hood,
Aug. 6.
Hollingsworth has had a color
ful career in the army which be
gan after he graduated from A&M.
He was a member of the 2nd Ar
mored Division as it moved from
North Africa to Berlin.
He started his military career
as a platoon leader, later a com
pany commander, then a battalion
and finally a regimental size task
force.
During seven European cam
paigns, Hollingsworth earned the
• Distinguished Service Cross, the
nation’s second highest combat
decoration. He was also awarded
the Silver Star four times and the
Bronze Star an equal number of
times.
Hollingsworth also wears the
Purple Heart with four Oak Leaf
Clusters for five wounds suffered
while in action.
He is a native of Sanger, Texas
where he graduated from Sanger
High School before entering A&M.
Hollingsworth attended the Com
mand and General Staff School at
Fort Leavenworth and is a 1957
graduate of the Army War Col
lege.
He is now 41 years old and was
promoted to his present rank in
1956.
REVERSE REACTION
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. CP)—Tony
Hostetler brought his family here
from Nashville, Tenn., and dropped
into an appliance store to visit
friends.
Five-year-old Tony Jr. slipped to
the rear of the store, saw an elec
tric golf cart, boarded it and
pressed a button.
It took off in reverse and
banged against two electric stoves,
two refrigerators and an air con
ditioner before a brick wall halted
it.
Damage: about $1,200 to the ap
pliances; none to Tony and very
little to the cart.
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN, Tex.—Quiet has set
tled over Texas’ Capitol Hill after
202 days of hubbub.
As legislators packed up to go
home, directors and employees of
state agencies were filling scratch
pads with figures. For most state-
supported activities, the new bud
get which goes into effect Sept. 1
will mean more funds. Altogether,
$300,000,000 more.
There were some disappoint
ments, of course, in the appropria
tions bill. Many programs got
less than had been asked for, some
salaries were cut, and there were
riders and restrictions in other ac
tivities.
But, overall, there was more re
lief and rejoicing than tears and
complaining. Most seemed to re
gard the new budget as the best
that could be hoped for in such a
“hard year.”
For their parts, lawmakers were
eager to go home and “mingle with
the folks.” Ahead lie probable
showdowns on new spending for
welfare and public schools, and, al
ways, the inching up every two
years in general spending.
BUDGET BREAKDOWN—Tex
as’ new record high budget of
$2,418,000,000 was reported out af
ter 95 days of haggling in confer
ence committee.
But once out, it zipped through
both houses, with only 8 dissent
ing votes in the Senate and a 108-
to-30 vote in the House.
Spending from the general rev
enue fund, the state’s multi-pur
pose housekeeping kitty, totals
$322,800,000. This is up $42,000,-
000 from the present biennium.
To show how hard up the state
was, more than 56 per cent of total
general revenue spending — or
$185,000,000—will have . to come
from the new tax bill passed this
session.
sliced on major items:
PUBLIC SCHOOLS — Received
an appropriation of $744,904,500,
an increase of about $85,000,000
mostly because school spending
has an “escalator clause” which
ties it to enrollment.
HIGHER EDUCATION—Got the
biggest increase from the general
revenue fund of any program. It
was boosted by more than $12,000,-
000 to a total of $130,933,424 for
the state’s 18 tax-supported col
leges and universities. Increase
was only about half what was
asked by the Commission on High
er Education.
University of Texas officials
saw one of their fondest dreams
come true in that the “available
fund” (income from the Universi
ty’s permanent fund) was left free
for buildings and “excellence” pro
grams.
HOSPITALS, SPECIAL
SCHOOLS, YOUTH COUNCIL—
Allotted a total of $90,456,554, an
increase of $6,348,252.
This is to be used to improve
medical care in state hospitals and
to build a new mental hospital at
Denton, a new dormitory for de
linquent boys at the Gatesville
school and a new building at the
Gainesville School for Girls. It
will also cover some salary in
creases and cost of some repair
and remodeling in the vast hos
pital and school systems. It does
not allow for setting up the juve
nile parole system ardently desired
by the Youth Council and recom
mended by Gov. Price Daniel.
STATE EMPLOYES—Lower-
bracketed employes, from $2,400
to $6,000 annually, will get a $180
a year raise. It’s not a lot—$15
a month more in the employes’ pay
envelopes—but it will cost the
stat^ about $14,000,000 for the two
years.
JUDICIARY—Will receive $9,-
336,769 from general revenue, a
$312,779 increase. Most of this
goes for new district courts plus
briefing attorneys and secretaries
for the Supreme Court.
PRISON SYSTEM — Operating-
budget increased by $2,800,000 plus
$7,720,000 to provide additional
buildings for a prison population
soaring toward 11,000.
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Service’s School
Popular Project
Extension
Becoming
The word about the Engineering
Extension Service’s school for op
erators of heavy earth-moving
equipment really seems to be get
ting around.
Two students, one a French me
chanic from Noumea, New Cale
donia, and the other a transporta
tion superintendent for the Trans-
Arabian Pipe Line Company, Bei-
dut, Lebanon, recently completed
training on the A&M campus as
members of a class for operators
of heavy construction equipment.
An earlier class enrolled five
young Indians from the Menomi
nee tribe in Wisconsin. They re
ceived training as .part of a na
tional education program designed
to prepare young Indians for vo
cational pursuits.
The mechanic, Bernard Le Bou-
hellec, is employed by the Meto
Company, a French organization
with nickel mining interested in
New Caledonia and also distributor
for Caterpillar tractors in the
Southern Pacific island. The trans
portation superintendent, James H.
Grimes, is headquartered in Beirut
and is in charge of maintenance
of all heavy equipment for his
company.
LeBouhellec, as French as a be
ret, spent eleven months in this
country, training at the Cater
pillar school in Peoria, Ill., before
coming to College Station for the
Engineering Extension Service’s
six-week heavy equipment opera
tors school. The Meto Company
sent him here for training, and on
his return he will train some 80
New Caledonian men in the use
of heavy-duty eai’thmoving equip
ment.
He said he was particularly im
pressed by the equipment and
training facilities of the Engineer
ing Extension Service’s operator
school and he regretted not being
able to stay for another six weeks
“because there are many thing I
have yet to learn about so much
equipment.” The Heavy Equip
ment Operators School currently
operates about $750,000 worth of
equipment on several thousand
acres of land adjoining the col
lege’s airport. The six-week
classes are offered in operation of
heavy construction equipment and
power crane and shovels and are
conducted thrughout the year with
a one week break between schools
Grimes, an employee of the
Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Com
pany for eight years, was on va
cation in this country and paid
his own way at the school during
his vacation to get operating ex
perience so he could better super
vise maintenance. His vacation
finished, he had to return to Le
banon after four weeks of the last
school.
“Our island, located about 1,000
miles northeast of Australia, is
300 miles long and about 30 miles
Bernard LeBouhellac
Be well groomed
for success
That “like new” look we give
your clothes is sure to make the
right impressions whether
you’re on the job or on the
town.
CAMPUS
CLEANERS
wide, and contains one of the
world’s largest high-grade nickel
deposits. Most of the mining there
is by the open-pit method, and we
have much of the same kind of
equipment you have at this school.
I am in a hurry to get back and
get to work,” LeBouhellec said as
he left for the West Coast on the
first leg of his trip back home.
Social Whirl
Tonight
The Aggie Wives Bridge Club
will meet at 7:30 in the MSC. Hos
tesses will be Kay Hurley and
Frances Mills.
Monday
The M.E. Wives Club will have
a social at 7:30 p.m. at the home
of Mrs. J. H. Caddess-, 707 South
Haswell, Bryan.
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