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i ■m h * THE BATTALION Thursday, Februai’y 18, 1960 College Station, Texas Page 5 Tornadoes Wreck Homes, Buildings By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tornadoes tore apart farm homes, wrecked outbuildings and injured at least six persons Wed nesday night as violent weather touched off by a cold front hit South Texas. Snow fell from the South Plains of West Texas into the Dallas- Fort Worth area but in many places it melted as soon as it touched ground. Katy, 25 miles west of Houston, and the Groves community in the Port Arthur area, bore the brunt of about 12 tornadoes reported in South and Southeast Texas. Early Thursday skies over the state were clear and temperatures ranged from near 20 in the Pan handle to near freezing along a line from Lufkin, to Fort Worth, to Del Rio and to neap 40 along the coast. The lowest reading Thursday morning was 16 at Dalhart and the high was 44 at Brownsville, No rain or snow was reported. Violent winds lifted the roof off the house of Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Perkins at Katy. Mrs. Perkins, 26; her son, Jerold, 3, and a 7- month-old infant received slight injuries. Witnesses said the Perkins home was moved about 300 feet. Olympics To Open With Nixon Speech “It made a loud noise and was picking up water as it moved at about 40 miles an hour,” he said. Mrs. Wrygys ran from the house when she heard the noise but Car diff told her to go back inside and take protection on the floor. She and her son hovered on the living room floor as the twister moved the house and slammed it against a tree. A funnel was seen near Ful- shear, 35 miles west of Houston, during a thunderstorm. Two barns were destroyed and two power lines blown down near Groves in southeast Jefferson County and a tornado reportedly touched down in three places in that area. Residents of Clodine, about 35 miles west of Houston, reported seeing funnels but said none touched ground. SQUAW VALLEY, Calif. <^>— The $20,000,000 winter Olympics open today in traditional splendor with Walt Disney lending the Hpllywood touch and Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon pronounc ing the ceremonial opening words. There was the usual last minute bickering and wrangling but it seemed likely this would disappear in the heat of competition. The games have drawn 740 ath letes from 30 nations. Carol Heiss, pretty American figure skating champion was cho sen to take the oath on behalf of all participants, first time a woman has been given this honor in the Olympics. Disney, in charge of the open ing ceremonies which must con form in the main to Olympic pro tocol, brought together a chorus of 2,645 voices, designed fire works displays of the flags of the winter and summer Olympics and the United States, Aggie Exes Coach Top Judging Teams Esten Attending Principal’s Meet At Chicago Meet The house trailer of Mr. and Mrs. George Jenkins at Port Ar thur was blown over causing in jury to the couple. Lora Savant, 41, iPceived cuts and brgises when wind blew in the plate glass win dow at a Port Arthur cafe where she worked. All three were 1 hos pitalized. Missile Would Get C.S. 4 Stark Naked’ Three of A&M’s national champ ion livestock judging teams have been coached by Aggie graduates. One of the coaches was head of the animal husbandry department at the time of the victory, which in each of the three cases took place at Chicago’s famed Interna tional Livestock Show. John C. Burns took his team to Chicago and won the top honors in 1913. The coach and educator headed the A&M College Animal Husbandry Department from 1907 to 1920 and is now retired in Fort Worth. The next A&M graduate to pro duce a national champion team was W. L. Stangel, whose students beat all competition in 1919. He taught at A&M from 1916 to 1925, when he went to Texas Tech and became head of that school’s first animal husbandry department. Stangel later was named dean of agriculture at Tech and then retired several years ago with the title of dean emeritus. lastic and Military Student, won the Jesse Jones Fellowship and the Brewer Award in his senior year and was named as outstanding ani mal husbandry student and one of the top students in the school of agriculture in 1951, the year he was graduated. Dr. Dwain M. Esten, assistant professor in the Department of Ed ucation and Psychology at A&M is attending a meeting of the South Central District Association Second Annual Commissioners Me Draw Participants from 84 Coun _■ . * • ■ ec; County judges and commission- | lems which commissioneij ers from 84 Texas counties attend ed the second County Judges’ and Commissioners’ Conference held at A&M February 14-16. Attending from Brazos County of Elementary School Principals were Commissioners George Dunn Conference beifig held in Dallas, and W. A. (Bill) Stasney. Feb. 17-19. The “back-to-school” type con- - . < <rm ference program was developed Theme of the conference is “The I r x from suggestions by county om- Role of the Elementary School c | a j g _ j ts p r i mar y purpose is to Principal in Building a Better give those participating a better Community.” I 'mderstanding of the many prob- must handle in the disch their responsibilities. The three-day confer sponsored by the Texas tural Extension Service nij Lou Lost 20 to 24 Basketball \ Tickets The Other Day; If Aynone Finds Them Please Return Them. ' 1 I li By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (A 5 )—A surprise Soviet ballistic missile attack would catch the United States “stark naked” unless a missile killer such as the Army’s Nike- Zeus is perfected, says Gen. Ly man L. Lemnitzer. Winds reached a speed of 78 miles an hour in gusts at the Jef ferson County Airport near Port Arthur. Sheriff’s deputies at Angleton said a tornado was reported in that area but the only damage noted was two broken store win dows and two smashed windshields. Tornadoes were also reported in the area west of Houston at Ros enberg and Columbus. The Army chief of staff, in con gressional testimony released Wednedsay night, added new fuel to the tug-of-war over the Nike- Zeus development and the general defense debate. Coupled with Lemnitzer’s warn ing were these two new develop ments: In southwest Houston four plate glass windows were blown out of a bottling plant and a lumber firm’s display of a carport was blown over and demolished. The Houston area tornadoes hit shortly before the Weather Bu reau issued a tornado alert for that area at 3:55 p.m. The twist ers in the Port Arthur area came about 5 p.m. Before mid-evening the weather over the state grew calmer. Near Katy T. O. Cardiff said he saw a tornado pick up a horse :rom one field, carry it over a fence, and place it in another field Uninjured. Chairman Overton Brooks (D- La.) of the House Space Commit tee said in a letter to President Eisenhower that the 137 million dollars voted by Congress last year to develop the Nike-Zeus should be released. He said such action is essential. The funds have been withheld by the Defense De partment. Lt. Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau, the Army’s research chief, told the House space group the Army had asked that 25 million dollars of the frozen funds be released im mediately. The Brooks committee earlier had heard Dr. Herbert York, de fense Department director of re search, testify he had recommend ed withholding the 137 millions. York said the Nike-Zeus program had not yet proved workable. York’s view was challenged by Trudeau, who said he was willing to face Nike-Zeus opponents in a no-holds-barred debate before a congressional committee. Trudeau said the Nike-Zeus of fers the only possibility of a de fense against ballistic missiles be fore 1970 and could be ready “this side of 1965” if the program is allowed to advance at full speed. The third Aggie graduate to coach a national champion group was L. D. Wythe Jr. of Grand- bury. His students won the honor | in 1959, a time when the animal husbandry department was head ed, and still is, by Dr. O. D. But ler, also an Aggie graduate. Wythe left a record that is hard to surpass during his tenure as an animal husbandry student. He was a member of both the junior and senior livestock and meats judging teams in 1949 and 1950, Saddle and Sirlion Club pi'es- ident in 1950, commander of B Transportation Company in the Cadet Corps, Distinguished Scho- DISTANT VAULT TOMAH, Wis. (A>)—The Bank of Tomah and its vault are about a half block apart. The bank is temporarily located in an old grocery store but it con tinues to use the oW vault while a new bank is being constructed. BSTTOOP BOVS § 4 ► Cardiff and his brothers own one of three homes damaged by winds in the Katy area. Another was owned by the Herman Wrygys family. Mrs. Wrygys, 55, and her son, Roy, 15, escaped injury when twister damaged their home and a barn on their farm. Cardiff was working in a ma chine shop near the Wrygys home and said he saw the tornado fun nel form. A&M Staff Members Conduet Meeting Dr. L. S. Bird and Dr. H. E. 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