THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, May 20, 1960
BATTALION EDITORIALS
. . . Journalism Which Succeeds Best —and Best
Deserves Success— Fears God and Honors Man; Is
Stoutly Independent, Unmoved by Pride of Opinion
or Creed of Power . , . Walter Williams
Inadequate
Texas A&M students have opened their hearts and dis
played sympathy and loyalty to fellow students and their
friends. This criteria was displayed in the donation to the
family of Miss Carole Shirley of San Antonio, who was kill
ed en route to the Senior Ring Dance here this past week
end.
Right at $1,275 was collected in the drive to present to
the family of the girl. Her death had put the already strick
en family — the father is an invalid — under even more
hardship.
The gift was inadequate, to say the least, when meas
ured with a human life. But such was not the aim of the
students who contributed to the cause. Theirs was the task
of doing what was possible for the parents after the passing
of their daughter.
Efforts displayed in the impromptu collection would
doubtless equal any on any college or university campus any
where.
Highest congratulations to the students who participa
ted in the drive. Their help has been a token aid to the mis
fortune of fellow students.
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle Backers Sure Of Pushing
School Construction Aid Bill
6
6
he’s sorta anxious to be a sophomore.”
Demos Appeal To Party
To Break SS Stalemate
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—Backers of a
school construction aid bill that
has been cleared for House ac
tion are confident they can push
it through.
But opponents have their own
ideas about pushing. - As Rep.
Graham A. Barden (D-N.C.) put
it:
“The federal government ought
to keep its nose out of education
and I’m not going to be the one
to push it in.”
The 975-million-dollar measure
edged past the Rules Committee
Thursday 7-5 for floor action
next Wednesday. It would pro
vide 325 million dollars yearly for
each of the next three years—
solely for school construction.
After the first year, states would
have to match federal funds.
The Senate already has passed
a greatly different school aid
bill. It would authorize $1,800,-
000,000 in grants wer a two-
year period, giving states the
right to use money for teachers
salaries as well as construction.
In the past, the House con
sistently has refused to grant
money for local schools except
for school districts with many
federal employes.
The Eisenhower administration
has proposed that instead of
making grants, the federal gov-,
ernment underwrite state school
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bonds for five years and pay half
the interest and carrying charges.
This proposal is expected to be
offered as a substitute when the
House bill comes to the floor.
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“OREGON TRAIIf
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TODAY THRU SATURDAY
Kirk Douglas
• “ ULYSSES”
Also
“CHANCE MEETING”
Again, But...
The possibility of Texas A&M having coeds in the fu
ture received its biggest boost ever in the opinion given yes
terday by the 10th Court of Civil Appeals.
The court again stopped the admission of women into
the all-male college, but declared that a Bryan woman should
be allowed to attend Texas A&M if she seeks a course in
floriculture leading to a degree. The basis of this opinion
came from the fact that Texas A&M is the only state sup
ported school offering a degree in the course she sought.
There may be more to the opinion than meets the eye,
however, as the coed issue has been progressing favorably
in the direction of their admission during the past year.
Despite the arguments that Texas A&M is an all-male col
lege, operated under military rules, the chances of admit
ting women to the institution are still in a position of going
either way. Still the recent decisions of the courts have
been somewhat toward the admission of coeds, as evidenced
particularly yesterday.
This decision could be another in the slow process of
eventually admitting coeds to the 84-year-old all-male col
lege.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Democratic
backers of a Social Security
health plan for the aged talked
today of an appeal to the party
leadership to break a stalemate.
The House Ways and Means
Committee Thursday climaxed
nearly two months of closed-
door sessions with a series of
test votes on health legislation.
Unable to muster a majority for
any of the various proposals, it
finally voted 13-12 to have one
drafted in detail for study in a
week.
There was general agreement
this vote did not represent even
tentative acceptance of the plan,
a state-federal program offered
by the committee chairman, Wil
bur D. Mills (D-Ark.).
Later, one of the backers of
the proposal for a hospitaliza
tion and nursing home program
tied to Social Security retire
ment said he expects its pro
ponents to seek a conference
with Speaker Sam Rayburn
(D-Tex.).
Rayburn, without endorsing the
specific Social Security plan of-
fei’ed by Rep. Aime J : . Forand
(D-R.I.), has indicated he favors
the principle of health benefits
for the aged financed through
an increased Social Security tax.
The Forand bill, first of the
old age health plans to come to
public attention, has inspired
strong support by union groups
and determined opposition by the
The Firing Line
It’s like being bitten to death by a duck. . . .
Unprecedented
A rash of posters on trees and signs on campus appear
ed over the past two days, advertising the services of local
bookstores. Displays of this type is unprecedented in recent
years.
Not only do these posters deface the campus, they are
\ flagrant display of someone’s disregard for the beauty of
A&M at a time when visitors are beginning to flock to the
fampus for the events which mark the closing of school each
year.
The owners of these stores must not realize that some
of the places they are placing their posters are also Memor
ials, such as the trees around the main drill field.
There should be other more lucrative ways of plying a
trade than pasting stickers on the trees on the campus.
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ATTENTION JUNIORS
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20 Pr. Serge Boot Pants and
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LOUPOTS
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: The fol
lowing letter was addressed to
W T . D. (Pete) Hardesty, student
organizations adviser, in refer
ence to the recent Parents’ Day
weekend activities on the cam
pus).
W. D. Hardesty,
College Station, Texas:
I want to express my apprecia
tion to you and the Student Sen
ate and all students of Texas
A&M for the great honor you
have bestowed upon me, being se
lected “Honor Mother of the
Year,” and for one of the hap
piest weekends of my life. I
thoroughly enjoyed every minute
of it as I have enjoyed every
thing I hai^e done for Bill (Curry)
in the past four years. There
have been many heartaches and
obstacles to overcome as well as
many happy moments. Please
convey my sincere thanks to
everyone responsible for this
wonderful, happy moment of my
life.
Mrs. Fred Curry,
Honor Mother of the Year
SHARE YOUR
WEALTH
We are not socialistic but we do believe
you can share your wealth of knowledge with
another Aggie by placing your old textbook on
the market. (He might draw the same profes
sor you had this semester!)
On second thought, perhaps you should
keep that personally annotated copy. It might
be worth its weight in gold to you sometime
in the future.
On the other hand — if you are not in
terested in gold — and feel you have to lighten
your payload on the long trek home—to MOM’S
COOKING—we would welcome the opportuni
ty to bid on the book.
Our offer will be the “FAIR MARKET
VALUE” and par for the course.
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Tommy Holbein Feature Editor ■
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Joe Jackson and Ken Coppage Photographers !
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American Medical Assn.—which
also opposes the proposals made
later.
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