Board Finds Few Friends
For New Auto Insurance
By JOE BENHAM
AUSTIN (JP)—In its present
form, the state’s new auto insur
ance program has a few friends
in the insurance industi*y and a
lot of enemies in the legislature,
testimony at a State Insurance
Board hearing indicates.
The hearing, which drew more
than 1,000 witnesses and specta
tors to the House Thursday, con
tinues Friday.
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The board scheduled the public
airing and agreed to consider all
suggestions for improving the sys
tem after Sen. Grady Hazelwood
and several other groups and in
dividuals attacked the plan.
Main features of the program
are designed to reward careful,
accident-free drivers with lower
premiums, leave rates at current
levels for drivers with a few acci
dents or moving traffic violations
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and penalize accident-prone, reck
less motorists with higher rates.
The board heard 34 witnesses
including 15 members of the Legis
lature suggest everything from
leaving the plan as it is to junk
ing it.
Most of the insurance men, law
yers, legislators, lawmen and in
dividual citizens endorsed the idea
of setting insurance rates to re
ward careful drivers.
But virtually all agreed the plan
needs revisions.
The section which makes the
record of moving traffic violation
convictions during the last three
years a consideration in setting
rates drew the most fire.
A Houston attorney, James L.
Norton, said the provision violates
constitutional guarantees against
ex post facto laws—statutes penal
izing persons for acts which are
illegal after they are committed.
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Friday, January 15, 1960
THE BATTALION
Aggie Club Board
Meets Sunday
The Aggie Club, a non-profit
corporation dedicated to the ad
vancement of a strong, well-round
ed athletic program at A&M, has
received 2,600 contributions
amounting to $40,300 from former
students and friends of the college
during 1959.
All monies collected by the Ag
gie Club after expenses of solici
tation, are turned over to the De
partment of Athletics for athletic
scholarships.
Aggie Club President Wesley
McKemie, ’37, of Tyler, reported
that this was the most successful
fund drive in Aggie Club history,
exceeding by several thousand dol
lars the amount collected in any
previous year.
Said McKemie, “It is heart
warming to see the great and loyal
corps of former students of our
college support with their time and
money all aspects of the A&M pro
gram—academic, scientific and
cultural, as well as athletic en
deavor. The Aggie Club, an or
ganization separate and apart from
the Association of Former Stu
dents, has undertaken the job of
providing financial aid for the
athletic program in a manner ful
ly approved by the Southwestern
Conference. Thanks to the great
effort on the part of hundreds of
Aggie-Ex solicitors, the club has
set a new record in donations for
this purpose.”
The Board of Directors of the
Aggie Club will meet at 10 a.m.,
Sunday, in the Senate Chamber of
the Memorial Student Center.
LINDLEY
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opposition to Johnson, Lindley said
he didn’t think so.
“If Johnson were a Texas oil mil
lionaire, it certainly would have an
effect,” commented Lindley.
Following the press conference,
Lindley was guest at a coffee with
Student Publications student staff
members and students from the
Department of Journalism.
New officers for 1960 will be
elected and plans made for the so
licitation for the new year.
GREAT
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tal aid also,” he emphasized.
The Soviet Union and America
have only one real common interest,
according to the noted journalist,
and that lies in the area of weapons
disarmament.
Lindley said Russia, as well as
the United States, is troubled over
lack of control and supervision of
modern methods of warfare.
“The Soviet Union and the
United States are both aware that
in the expanding technological ad
vancement of the world today, the
era of atomic and hydrogen bombs
will not remain in the hand's of any
two powers,” Lindley said.
He followed up his statement by
predicting that within another 10
years some 15 nations may possess
nuclear weapons.
“Russia is just as interested as
the United States in keeping the
capabilities of nuclear warfare out
of the hands of would-be aggres
sors,” added Lindley.
In predicting the future in the
cold war, Lindley believes that
countries troubled with communist
intervention today will win the
hard struggle if America main-
tdins her continued suppoi*t.
But what about Russia?
Lindley thinks America’s hope
lies in the evolution of the Soviet
doctrine from the Communistic
theory to a more open form of
government, thus paving the way
for better relations and more hu
man understanding between the
divided worlds.
The Newsweek chief closed by
adding, “It is not a struggle be
tween Democracy and Communism,
as most people believe. It is one of
freedom versus tyranny. The So
viet people, like the Americans,
just don’t like to be told what to
do.”
Vet Prof Writes
Texas Horseman
Feature Article
Dr. H. E. Redmond, professor of
medicine and surgery in the De
partment of Veterinary Medicine, is
the author of an article on lepto
spirosis in horses in the January
issue of The Texas Horseman mag
azine.
Leptospirosis has only recently
been recognized as an important
ailment in horses. The disease
causes anemia through destruction
of red blood cells.
The Texas Horseman specializes
in news of horses horsemen care
and training of the animals and
is published in Houston.
Oak RidgeLecturer
To Deliver Speech
In Physics Building Six Staff Members
“Thermonuclear Studies at Oak
Ridge” will be the topic of the
speech delivered by Dr. P. R. Bell,
a member of the 1959-60 team
traveling lecturers sponsored by
the University Relations Division
of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nu
clear Physics. Bell will present his
lecture in the Physics Building,
Room 320, at 4 p.m. today.
Bell is a well known authority
in the field of nuclear instrumen
tation and is presently co-director
of the Thermonuclear Experiment
al Division of the Oak Ridge Na
tional Laboratory where he is mak
ing outstanding contributions to
knowledge of thermonuclear re
actions.
The well known work of Bell
and Jordan on linear amplifiers,
plus height analyzers, and other
nuclear electronic devices, indicate
Bell’s stature in the field of instru-
nientation. He is also a member
of the American Physical Society
and of the Institute of Radio En
gineers.
Bell will arrive on the campus
about noon Friday and those who
wish to visit with him should do
so before his lecture at 4 p.m.
Promoted
Alex Caldwell has been pro
moted to administrator of
the Agriculture Department
Commodity Exchange Au
thority. Caldwell succeeds
Roger Kauffman who re
tired. Caldwell is a native
of Ennis. (AP Photo)
To Judge Show
Six members of the A&M facul
ty arid college system have been
named as judges for the various
departments of the 1960 South
western Exposition and Fat Stock
Show to be held in Fort Worth
Jan. 29 through Feb. 7.
Open show Dairy Cattle and the
Junior Dairy Calf Show will be
under the able supervision of A. L.
Darnell, Professor Emeritus, of the
Dairy Science Department.
O. D. Butler, Head of the De
partment of Animal Husbandry,
will judge the Brahmans. Swine
and the Junior Pig Show will be
supervised by F. I. Dahlberg, also
from the Animal Husbandry De
partment.
Lambs will be judged by Roy W.
Snyder, Livestock and Meat Spec
ialist from the Extension Service,
College Station.
Open Show Barrows will be
judged by T. D. Tandsley, Jr. Ani
mal Husbandryman with the Ex
tension Services of College Station.
Turkeys will be judged by E. D.
Parnell, of the Department of Poul
try Science.
ANNUAL CLEARANCE
SALE
The Exchange Store Announces Its Annual Winter Clearance of Men’s Sportswear.
Savings Up To 1/3 Of Former Price.
Included Are All Fall and Winter Sport Shirts, Sweaters, Jackets, Woolen Sport
Slacks and Coats.
SALE STARTS 8:00 A.M. SATURDAY, JAN. 16
STORE WILL BE OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY
THE EXCHANGE STORE
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