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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, March 31, 1960
Africans Try
To End Strife
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
OP)—Three thousand armed white
soldiers and sailors sealed off two
big Negro settlements near Cape
Town today as South Africa’s em
battled white supremacy govern
ment sought to check mounting
racial turmoil.
The navy men formed a cordon
around the Nyanga township while
the army encircled Langa. No
body was allowed to enter or leave
the settlements.
Carried Out Threat
Prime Minister Hendrik Ver-
Woerd carried out his threat to
use regular armed forces to pre
vent new Negro demonstrations
after rounding up 234 leaders of
the campaign of defiance against
the government’s race laws. Some
white liberals and Indians were
among thqse arrested.
A big army convoy moved into
this metropolis, 800 miles north of
the parliamentary seat of Cape
Town, amid rumors fhat Negroes
Senate To Vote
On Regulations
On Race Voting
WASHINGTON (A 1 )—The Senate
moved toward a showdown today
on the kind of proceedings to re
quire for Negroes seeking to reg
ister before court-appointed voting
registrars.
A House-passed bill provides for
simple, uncbntested hearings. The
Senate Judiciary Committee
adopted 7-6 an amendment to re
quire two days advance notice of
the hearings and permit county
and state registrars to sit in. There
was a dispute over whether they
could actively participate.
Crucial Outcome
Opponents of the committee
amendment said the outcome could
be crucial to the effectiveness of
the plan for court-appointed ref
erees to protect Negro voting
rights.
The issue was left dangling
Wednesday night after the Senate,
in a surprise burst of speed, took
up the House measure and adopted
all the other amendments recom
mended by the committee.
Sen. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., (D.-N.C.)
said this didn’t signal any collapse
of the fight he and other Southern
senators have been waging against
the passage of civil rights legis
lation.
“Approved Bill . .
“We just thought all the com
mittee amendments improved the
bill,” he told a reporter.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R.-N.Y.)
foresaw the possibility nonetheless
that the long Senate battle over
civil rights, now in its seventh
week, might be concluded by the
middle of next week.
Javits and other senators plan,
however, to offer additional amend
ments to broaden and strengthen
the bill. Javits himself introduced
three new amendments Wednesday
night.
Sen. Estes Kefauver (D.-Tenn.)
sponsored the amendment to let
city and state officials sit in on
the registration hearings and make
a transcript of the proceedings.
Improve Plan
Kefauver contended his amend
ment would improve the voting
referee plan rather than scuttle it,
but opponents argued that it was
“ an invitation to intimidation” of
Negroes seeking to exercise their
voting rights.
Sen. Hugh Scott (R.-Pa.) said it
would “do more to assure the in-
timiadation of persons seeking the
right to register and vote than
any proposal I have heard of yet.”
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Your family’s welfare may
well depend on itl
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ATE FARM UK IHSURAHCE COMPA
were planning a march on Ft.
Johannesburg Prison, where many
of their leaders are held.
All Night Meeting
The South African Parliament
met through the night in Cape
Town to speed action on legisla
tion for the outlawing of the Afri
can National Congress, the Pan-
Africanist Congress and other or
ganizations accused of plotting a
“massive revolt.”
The government has already as
sumed wide powers under the state
of emergency proclaimed Thurs
day for most cities and towns, in
cluding the right to arrest any
one in the interest of public safe
ty. The regulations include pro
visions for bans on the two chief
weapons used so far by Negro
leaders in their campaign against
the government—work stoppages
and demonstrations.
Offensive Action
With South Africa’s 10 million
Negroes forming the hard core of
the nation’s labor force, the emer
gency regulations make it an of
fense to organize a work stoppage
or for anyone to stay away from
his job with the intention to cause
“general dislocation or disable any
industry or undertaking.”
Magistrates and police officers
are empowered to ban meetings or
processions—the only exceptions
being church meetings,' school
classes and funerals of persons
who have “died from causes other
than violence.”
May Use Force
The proclamation warns thai
force may be used if any gather
ing fails to disperse after three
commands in a loud voice.
The armed forces were called
out in the Cape Town area after
30,000 Negroes demonstrated there
Thursday under the barrels of po
lice guns. Police held their fire,
and the demonstrators eventually
dispersed quietly.
Fears of a similar demonstra
tion in Johannesburg led to spe
cial precautions there. It was
belived the army convoy brought
detachments of the white citizens’
defense force alerted Thursday or
regular troops to augment the po
lice.
Texas Politics,
Campaigners
Pick Up Speed
By CLAYTON HICKERSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
Office seekers stepped up their
activity Thursday, but Lt. Gov.
Ben Ramsey—opposed for re-elec
tion by Don Yarborough—let it be
known he hasn’t started yet.
Ramsey’s headquarters in Aus
tin said he was making plans for
an active campaign later.
Yarborough spoke Wednesday
before an electric cooperative
group and said “Equality with pri
vate power is a must for Texas’
REA co-operatives if they are to
meet the expanding power needs
of our modern farms and ranches.”
Yarborough told his Bellville
audience that Ramsey has “blocked
every worthwhile bill the REA co
operatives have attempted to have
passed.”
House Speaker Waggoner Carr
told supporters in Commerce, in
Northeast Texas, that revision of
the State Constitution is a must.
His statements followed by less
than 24 hours demands from the
League of Women Voters for such
revision.
Carr, candidate for attorney gen
eral, paid ti’ibute to the League
for “effectively working on con
stitutional revision.”
Atty. Gen. Will Wilson, seeking
re-election, toured the Lower Rio
Grande Valley and crossed paths
with Bill Allcorn, seeking^ re-elec
tion as land commissioner.
Short Course Students at Work
Petroleum engineers work on solutions of shown are, from left to right, J. L. Deryk
reservoir problems during a computing class Cooper, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; H.
of the Advanced Reservoir Engineering W. Olinger; and R. K. Rains Jr., Midland.
Course now in session here. Registrants Rains is a 1956 graduate of A&M.
A&M To Host FFA Boys
For Area III Judging Meet
The Area II FFA Judging Con
test, with 600 boys from 100 high
schools competing for top awards,
iwill be held at A&M Saturday,
April 9, according to Dr. J. R.
Jackson, professor in the Depart
ment of Agricultural Education
and general chairman of the con
test.
Beginning at 8 Saturday morn
ing, the boys will judge livestock
at the Animal Husbandry Pavilion,
dairy cattle at the Dairy Center,
dairy products in the Agricultural
Foreign Nationals May Apply
To Attend Williamsburg Meet
Fifty openings are available for
visiting students during the Inter
national Assembly to be held in
Williamsburg, Va., June 10-14, ac
cording to Robert O. Melcher, for
eign student adviser.
Students desiring to attend the
assembly must be a citizen of a
country other than the United
States and must intend to return
home at the conclusion of the pres
ent academic year. He must also
have completed at least one year
of graduate-level study by the end
of the present academic year.
Foreign students interested in
applying for the assembly may
get application blanks from Mel-
cher’s office, Room 27 Milner.
Selection will he made on the
basis of the applicant’s personal
qualifications, campus record and
reasons for wanting to attend the
assembly. Full consideration will
be given to applicants from all
geographic regions and from small
as - well as large educational insti
tutions.
The central theme of the four-
day conference will be, “The
American Image: Shadow or Sub
stance?” with discussions being
led by 10 authorities in politics,
history, economics, communication
and the arts. Emphasis at all
Ewing Brown Goes
To Tel-Aviv, Israel,
For 8-Week Duty
Ewing E. Brown, research sci
entist in the State Chemist’s Of
fice of the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station, left Wednesday
for an eight-week assignment in
Tel-Aviv, Israel.
His assignment calls for teach
ing feed microscopy to 50 students
for the Israel Ministry of Agri
culture. Feed microscopy is the
science of using a microscope for
floatation, dispersion, staining and
qualitative and quantitative anal
ysis of feeds.
Brown’s first stop will be Wash
ington, D. C., for orientation. He
will spend two days there and
then go to Tel-Aviv. The trip is
being sponsored by the Interna
tional Cooperation Administration.
^ DRIVE-IN
^THEATRE
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
“ROOM 43”
With
Diana Dors
“NEVER STEAL
ANYTHING SMALL”
With
James Cagney
times will be on the relaxed inter
change of ideas and opinions.
The purpose of the theme, a
provocative topic, is to encourage
a frank and personal analysis of
the significant phases of the Amer
ican experience of each participant.
Informal presentations,' question-
answer sessions and general dis
cussion periods along with tours
of thq historic area provide the
framework for the conference.
Deadline for applications is to
day and applicants will be notified
before April 30.
Engineering Building, meats in the
Animal Husbandry Building, poul
try at the Poultry Center and soil
near the Agronomy Building.
Awards Assembly
After 1 the tabulation of contest
results, the group will assemble
in Guion Hall at 2 p.m. for the
presentation of awards.
E. V. Walton, head of the De
partment of Agricultural Educa
tion, will assist Lester Buford,
area supervisor of vocational agri
culture, in presenting awards to
winning teams and high point in
dividuals, Jackson said.
The top 10 per cent of the teams
will represent Area III in state
competition April 30, he added.
A&M staff members, along with
students, who will officiate the
contest are W. T. Berry, Dr. R. E.
Leighton, Dr. Murray Brown, Dr.
A. V. Moore, Dr. I. I. Peters, Dr.
G. T. King, Doug Wythe, Cecil
Ryan, E. D. Parnell, J. F. Mills,
O. M. Holt, Dr. Jarrel Gray, Dr.
Earl Knebel, Dr. Ben Cook and
graduate assistant Chester Booth.
Like To Walk?
Prof, Ag Prepare
For 100-Mile Walk
Anyone care to walk 100 miles
in a week?
If so, perhaps you would like
the kind of research being con
ducted by Dr. O. C. Wallmo, as
sociate professor in the Depart
ment of Wildlife Management.
Wallmo, along with graduate
student E. D. Michael, will leave
the second week of April to run a
population survey of the desert
mule deer in the 100,000-acre
Black Gap Wildlife Management
Area in the Big Bend Country.
Big Bend Project
According to Wallmo, his proj
ect is part of the Big Bend Eco
logical Survey, a study being con
ducted by the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station under contract
with the Texas Game and Fish
Commission. ■
The survey includes running a
number of transects, each of which
TODAY THRU SATURDAY
Iho
Spirit
of
St. Louis
JAMES
STEWARTi
Cinemascope
WarnerCoior^=J
Also
is three feet wide and a quarter
of a mile long, he said.
Check Signs
By noting the abundance of deer
sign left in the strip over a three-
month period and applying it
mathematically, the number of
deer in the area can be estimated,
the wildlife specialist said.
In checking these strips, Wallmo
noted that he and his assistant
probably will,walk about 100 miles
during their week-long stay at the
area.
The smwey was begun in 1957
and has been conducted every year
since, he added.
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ORANGE JUICE
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FRUIT PIES
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SHORTENING 3^59'
Strawberries Red Prince . . . 10-Oz. Pkg. 2For 39c
Libbys Pineapple & Grapefruit Juice . 46-Oz. Can 29c
Rosedalc Peaches . Halves or Sliced 2^ Can 4 For $1.00
Rosedale Pears 2!/2 Cans 3 For $1.00
Rosedale Peas 303 Can 8 For $1.00
Rosedale Corn . Cream Style or Whole 7 ■ 303 Cans $1.00
Uncle Williams Pork & Beans ... 3 - 300 Cans 25c
Tuna . . . . . Bits-of-Sea Yz Size Can 5 For $1.00
Lilly, Sanitary or CarnationMellorine % Gal. Sq. Ctn. 49c
Eggs ...... Mayfields Grade AA Med. Doz. 39c
Adolphus Rice 2 Lb. Box 29c
Napkins . . . Elcor White or Colored Cello Pk. 10c
Stockton Catsup . . . . . 12-Oz. Bottle 2 For 29c
Nabisco Premium Crackers Lb. Box 25c
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Valley Juice
Large Crisp
ORANGES s 29'
2 beads 25<
Jumbo Stalk ] 5<
10 lb. bag 49'
Russett or Red
Armour Star
Limit Whole
Six Lb.
29
Lean, Center Cuts
FRYERS
PORK CHOPS
PORK CHOPS
ROUND STEAK
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B ACO N Range Brand Thick Sliced
RATH HAMS
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mm
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ib. 39c
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