THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, April 21, 1960
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle /| ustiii Faces Sit-in Threat
Worth Mentioning
By Johnny Johnson
Are the college students of Iowa more deserving of an
outstanding educator, scholar, scientist and administrator
than those of Texas?
That’s the question that comes to mind when one thinks
of the reason why Dean of the College and Graduate School
John B. Page resigned his position'at Texas A&M to accept
a job at Iowa State College as dean of the Graduate School.
For $2,600 more a year than his present salary, which is
a very sizable pay increase for anyone, Dean Page is leaving
Texas A&M and the service he has done countless numbers
of students in his 10 years here to give these same services
to Iowa students.
The case of Dean Page is - * :
not an isolated one. Only
two years ago Texas A&M
lost the services of Dean of
the Basic Division and Per
sonnel Service Robert Kamm to
a higher paying job as dean of
the School of Arts and Sciences
at Oklahoma State University
and Dean of the School of Arts
and Sciences Walter H. Delaplane
to Southern Methodist University.
Both of these men left for higher
paying jobs.
These three incidents, involv
ing only high ranking adminis
trators, do not include the count
less number of other scientists
and professors lost each year by
Texas colleges and universities to
other colleges and universities
and to private industry.
Texas A&M and the other
state-supported colleges and uni
versities constantly suffer not
oply from a loss of personnel but
also from the need for funds for
building and equipment use each
year.
It is definitely long past time
when the people, of the state of
Texas and their elected repre
sentatives in the Texas Legisla
ture should realize that if Texas
is not willing to support a first
rate higher educational system,
then they must be satisfied to
give up any hopes of ever having
colleges and universities capable
of producing the high type of
educated men needed to lead in
thp future.
Governor Price Daniel and the
Breckenridge Businessman Jack
Cox, seeking Daniel’s post, are
debating the question of how to
get the money Texas needs to
get out of , the red.
: The talking stage for any reve
nue-raising plan to provide funds
for improving the state’s educa
tional facilities is long overdue.
The time for action should have
bden last summer when the Texas
Legislature took three extra
sessions to phss a revenue bill
that accomplished nothing except
passing the issue to the next
legislative session.
What Tejfas needs, and . must
have if it is going to progress,
is some men in the Legislature
who are not politicians. We need
men to run the government who
are not afraid to pass a proper
revenue raising bill because they
feel if the bill is passed, their
constituents won’t re-elect them
to another do-nothing term.
Until Texas government comes
into the hands of this type of
Legislator, then Texas higher
education will continue to be
mired in the same disgraceful
shape it’s now in.
And few can deny that when
another Land Grant college can
afford to pay more for the dean
of its Graduate School than Texas
A&M can pay its president,
things are in pretty poor shape.
* * *
A cash prize of $250 is about
to go wanting.
So far only three entries have
been received in the second annual
C. L. Babcock Essay Contest on
“Advantages I Find at Texas
A&M.”
The new deadline for the con
test is Monday, April 25, which
gives anyone wanting to enter
four more days to write their
essays.
In addition to the $250 prize
for winning the contest, 10 ran-
ners-up will receive certificates.
Both the first prize award and
certificates will be presented at
the annual Press Club Banquet
Friday, May 13.
All entries should be prepared
•in regular manuscript form—
typed* double-spaced and with an
original and two carbon copies.
The essays should be at least
250 words and no more than 1,000
words.
It could be an easy $250 for
someone to pick up . . .
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By JAMES MARLOW
Associate Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON (A 3 )—The
scheduled debate between Sens.
John F. Kennedy and Hubert H.
Humphrey in the West Virginia
presidential primary should, in a
sense, be a kind of beauty con
test. But not quite.
The two senators are like a
pair of salesmen from the same
company, the Democratic party,
with the same label on their suit
cases, liberal, asking the cus
tomers to make a choice.
Social Whirl
The following clubs and organ
izations will hold meetings to
night at 7:30:
The Grayson County Hometown
Club will meet in the YMCA
Building. A film of the ’59 A&M-
TU game will be shown and re
freshments -will be served.
The Ruling Hometown Club will
meet at the home of Marshall
Frazier at 310 Kyle to discuss
plans for the formation of a
Caldwell County Hometown Club.
The Sam Houston Hometown
Club will meet in the Cabinet
Room of the YMCA Building.
The Brush Country Club will
meet in the Social Room of the
Memorial Student Center.
The El Paso Hometown Club
will meet in -Room 203 of the
Academic Building.
The Wichita Falls Hometown
, Club will meet in the MSC.
There isn’t much to choose be
tween their ideas on the kind of
administration they say the coun
try needs. They’re pretty much
the same. The choice to some ex
tent would have, to revolve more
around personality than pro
grams.
But the loser in the May 10
West Virginia primary will prob
ably blame his loss on more than
the way he parts his hair.
The two men tramped through
Wisconsin where Kennedy trim
med Humphrey but refused a
challenge to debate him. Ken
nedy explains he thought “it
would be harmful to the party
and candidates.”
Perhaps a much more persua
sive factor in his thinking then
was the belief he could wallop
Humphrey without going through
a debate. The polls at the time
indicated he was out in front.
He win by more than 100,000
votes.
In West Virginia—where Ken
nedy seems to have tougher go
ing than in Wisconsin—he says
he accepted the second Humphrey
debate challenge because of the
attacks on him.
The two men’s views, because
they are rather similar, may not
be an important factor in sway
ing West Virginia voters. But
the sight of the two men in ac
tion and* close up will provide a
chance to weigh their presidential
looks.
But even if the primary results
force one or the other to give
up his presidential hopes, the
loser is apt to place the blame
on something besides the debate.
Kennedy as a loser might feel,
for instance, that his Catholi
cism, which didn’t keep him from
winning, in Wisconsin where 30
per cent of the people are Cath
olic, was what killed him in West
Virginia where the Catholics are
only 5 per cent.
AUSTIN (A 5 ) — Austin eating
places had the threat today of
sit-in demonstrations or desegre
gation within a week.
The warning was passed out
late Wednesday by a so-called
“interracial coalition” of Uni
versity of Texas students follow
ing a breakdown in peace talks
sponsored by the Austin Commis
sion on Human Relations.
“If there are any other nego
tiations, they will have to be set
up from the beginning,” said the
Rev. Brandoch Lovely, spokesman
for the commission and local
Unitarian pastor. “I am very un
happy .that Austin is evidently
not able to resolve a common
problem, as it has in the past,
without resort to other than rea-
sontable and harmonious means.”
The group of about 12 white
and Negro students gave the sit-
in ultimatum to reporters after
taking part in a closed session
with Lovely and a group of white
and Negro businessmen.
“If Some satisfactory means is
not found in a week an inter
racial coalition of student groups
will be forced to use methods at
their disposal to present the prob
lem effectively and to find a
satisfactory solution,” said the
statement.
Reporters and photographers
were ousted from the negotiations
in the auditorium of a downtown
bank. So were a number of stu
dents from the Episcopal and
Presbyterian seminaries here and
a number of Negro university
students who had not been invited
as representatives of organiza
tions. Some said there were no
students present from Huston-
Tillotson College, local Negro
school, at the meeting. The Hus-
ton-Tillotson student council re
cently passed a resolution asking
merchants to desegregate eating
places.
Lovely said only six of 15 eat
ing place operators in downtown
Austin and the University area
showed up for the meeting.
“Apparently the rest prefer to
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Texas A&M College.
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(Student Publications, chairman; Dr. A. L. Benne
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*S. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine.
L. A. Duewall, director of
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unze, School of Agriculture; and Dr.
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Congressman Olin E. Teague is:
• Chairman, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
• Chairman, House Subcommittee on Research and
Development, Space Committee.
"From time immemorial, seniority of service in the Congress has
been recognized as vital to a Congressman’s committee assign
ments, influence and value of service to constituents . , . "
For 14 years "Tiger" Teague has built a
national reputation for
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in the Congress of the United States.
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Lawrence College to Puerto Rico
where they viewed the life of a
people crowded and sometimes
underfed. They got a few lessons
in practical control of the over
crowded situations in lectures, too.
But combining business with pleas
ure, the coeds also enjoyed diving
off Las Croabas. Talk with your
sociology prof. Who knows?
Picture Features
Among the pictures this week,
LIFE went to Paris and caught
The pictures of the Peugeot kidnap
ing, both the circumstances before
and after the happy return of the
boy to his parents.
Stateside again, the photogs
took off for the ol’ ball game with
How did you vote in the last a new slant added. The people of
election and why ? Was it family San Francisco are rowing out to
pressures or was it the endless the game these days. With the
hours in front of the family radio new Candlestick Park built on
or television sets watching the Candlestick Point, which sticks out
front-running candidates receive into San Francisco Bay, many of
their nominations at the national the fans went out in boats,
conventions? This subject and
many more of the problems faced on 'y P al ’t is getting
by the candidate for high political Most of the boat-happy fans
offices are discussed in a feature wac ie through the mud to
article by Len Hall in this week’s 8 ' et k ac k to ti 16 ' 1 ' crafts. The tide
LIFE. had gone out' while the game was
going on.
He shows how the political pic
ture has changed with the advent Mind Studies
of airplanes, better roads, radio Do you ever wonder what goes
and finally, television. The article on in the mind of a pro golfer or
points out that the individual pitcher or others in the big mo-
voter’s voice is becoming increas- ments? Well, here is your answer,
ingly important, and that’ the
political boss is fast losing power
since the coming of
groups.
Census Problems
Not every census taker had it as
easy as the one who distributed
the blanks among the companies
on
Arnold Palmer, recent winner of
amateur ^ as f ers tourney tells what he
thought at times when the chips
were down. They don’t always add
up to golf, but they are interesting.
Miscellany
Photographer in Arizona must
campus and received their use 2,000 mm ' telephoto lenses to
answers from the tactical officer recrea te a sunset which any Texas
in each dormitory. citizen can see on any bright
> summer afternoon. Substitute a
Take Hawaii for example. These little cactus of the Texas variety,
enumerators braved jungles, vol- and you don’t need the big lens,
canoes and vicious dogs to get their That’s Texas’ answer to the Ari-
results in the newest of the 50
states.
zona photographer’s challenge.
Southern Trip
Even though the authors of
LIFE didn t include Texas, their
planned trip through the South
eastern states seems like one which
any vacationer in that part of the
United States should consider. It
goes by all the famous Civil War
spots, and includes some of scenic
beauty as well. If any of you are
planning a trip in that direction,
take a look at the map and some
of the places you might visit.
College Students’ Travels
On the college scene again,
cameramen followed a
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