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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 27, 1960 Texas Can Handle Fast ’60’s Growth CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle interpreting Special to The Battalion Texas cities are capable of handling an even faster rate of growth during the 1960’s than the dramatic expansion of the 1950’s. But much more attention will have to be given to planning that growth and to coordinating poli cies between the State Capitol and the 852 City Halls of Texas. These are the views of the man who has served the past year as president of the Texas Municipal League, Mayor Phillip Boeye of McAllen. Boeye, whose term will expire after the League’s 48th annual conference in Galveston Oct. 2-4 says: “Too many people in Texas seem to have the idea that Texas cities got their growth during the last ten years and that there will now be a sudden leveling off. Tha viewpoint could lead us into some unfortunate errors. “More people live in our Texas cities today than in any of about 80 percent of the states. Natural growth alone would assure a very considerable population pressure upon municipal governments. “But we must anticipate two new trends in this decade: “First, there will probably de velop far more city-to-city shift ing of population within the state. “Second, the chances are very strong that the prosperous Texas cities will serve as a powerful magnet for interregional popula tion movement, too, as more fam ilies in other states abandon rural or farm community life to seek opportunity in cities. “Until now, Texas growth has been predofninantly the result of the state’s own farm-to-city shift of population. We have had far less movement of population here from other cities than most growth states. But today metro politan Texas dominates not only the Southwest but competes with Chicago and the Great Lakes re gion’s cities as an attraction to those leaving the Farm Belt states. This will have its effect on our Texas cities. “The factor setting population movements into motion is the search for economic betterment. For this reason, Texas .cities which maintain high levels of op portunity and high standards of living will draw population from other cities which suffer from sluggish economic activity. Fam ilies won’t and can’t afford to stay put when their livelihood begins to suffer. “T h e principal metropolitan areas of Texas could very well experience an even faster popu lation growth than that of the past ten or twenty years. “The growth can be handled. No major metropolitan area of Texas is anywhere near its maxi mum population limit. But all cities are going to have to do a better job of planning for the fu ture—and I believe we must have much closer understanding and coordination between the state- level and the city-level.” BATTALION EDITORIALS Bring this ad for a FREE COKE or COFFEE The BARBECUE PIT North Gate Across from Aggieland Studios LET’S GET ACQUAINTED — YOU CAN WATCH T. V. Open 9 a. m. Close 7:30 p. m. Doyle Albright - Class of ’59 Expires Oct. 5, 1960 THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent ivriters only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewall, director of Student Publications, chairman; Dr. A. L. Bennett, School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. K. J. Koenig, School of Engineering; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in Colle tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, s her through May, and once a week during summer school. published l holiday periods, e Sta- eptem- Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by rtising New York Keprei National Adverl Services, Inc. City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. The Associated Press is i dispatches credited to it or spontaneous origin published in are also reserved. is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news se cre< Rights of republicatic excl not otherwise herein. credited in the paper and local news of ition of all other matter he News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 editorial office, Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery ci VI 6-4910 or at the call VI 6-6415. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. ufnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, Advertising rate f College Station, Tie furnished ixas. BILL HICKLIN EDITOR Robbie Godwin Managing Editor Joe Callicoatte Sports Editor Bob Sloan, Alan Payne .’. News Editors Tommy Holbein Feature Editor Larry Smith Assistant Sports Editor Russell Brown Sports Writer Jim Reed and Ken Coppage Photographers One Conclusion The figures released yesterday by Registrar H. L. Hea ton regarding the enrollment tabulations thus far bear a good measure of significance. Although the figures will not be complete concerning all classes until Oct. 15, the totals did show that 60 per cent of the frosh last year are back for the sophomore terms. That easily betters the mark last year when 55 per cent of the frosh returned for the sophomore year. One conclusion can be drawn from these tabulations: The efforts on the part of the administration, faculty and students were somewhat successful. Of course, there is a margin for improvement, but on the whole the changes instituted over the past two years—and there were many—have been beneficial. Take a look at some of them: The coed situation has been settled, at least for the time Ibeing; the question of compulsory and non-compulsory Corps las been settled; a new approach for handling freshmen stu dents has been instituted; a more concentrated effort on echolastics has been emphasized, just to name a few. And this year there have been comments from students, faculty and administration that Texas A&M is off to perhaps its best start in history. These favorable results have been building up for the past two or three years. The problem now is to insure that these efforts continue to bear fruit. It’s not a time for lackadasial attitudes. Read" " Classifieds “ .. . we’re sure glad to see you got th’ Aggie Spirit, Fish Jethro, but I don’t think you should carry a football player off the field by yourself again.” Sound Off Editor, The Battalion: Bravo and Credos to Mrs. J. E. Billingsley, C-10-A College View! I agree with her 100 per cent. About this time last year I wrote a very similar letter that was published in The Battalion. For weeks afterward everyone I saw went out of their way to pat me on the back but no one both ered to air their views with let ters to the Editor. The .only written response that I received was an unsigned copy of a press clipping from an Aus tin paper showing the $4 price of date tickets at the University of Texas. Well, I know a lot of Aggies that have been unable to pay their Student Activities fee this semester (us included) and we certainly will not be able to at tend the game at this price. It is a gross unjustice and “highway robbery.” Anyway, Mrs. Billingsley, there will be quite a large number of good Aggie families listening to the game on the radio because of these prices. Mrs. Marlene Rushing, Bryan, Texas Social Calendar | The following clubs will meet tonight: The Geology Wives Club will hold its first social of the year in the Brooks Room of the YMCA, at 8 p.m. All Geology and Geophysics wives are invited to attend. The Modern Language Club will have its organization meet ing in Room 127 of the Academic Building at 7:30. The Dames Club will hold the first business meeting of the sea son in the South Solarium in the YMCA at 8. The Wildlife Management Wives will have a tea in the home of Mrs. W. B. Davis, 712 Mary- lake, at 7:30 p.m. The Horticultural Society is having its first meeting this se mester in the Horticultural Build ing at 7:30. All students inter- eseted in horticulture or related fields are urged to attend. The Pre Med-Pre Dent Society will meet at 7:30 in the Biology Building. The Entomology Society meets at 7:30 in Room 105 of the Bio logical Sciences Building. There will be a meeting of the History Club at 7:30 in Room 113 Nagle Hall. It will be an organi zational meeting to adopt a new constitution, elect permanent of ficers and formulate the year’s program. Grading System WillNeedOverhaul The nation's beef grading sys tem will need overhauling in the near future if it is to accurately reflect the wants of the con sumer, iDr. Harold Schultz of Oregon State University said at A&M. Dr. Schultz, president-elect of the International Institute of Food Technology, was the main speaker at the recent meeting of the Texas Section of the Institute of Food Technologists. He is head of the food technology de partment at OSU. The speaker urged the beef in dustry to support research aimed at defining fresh beef in terms which will designate true quality —eating quality. But, he cau tioned against complete abandon ment of the present grading sys tem, as such a step would only lead to confusion. “I: predict that when a satis factory method of grading beef is designed, it will give major importance to consumers’ genu ine desires,” Dr. Schultz said. He said discrepancy lies in the fact that the meat grader de pends on sight and feel to label beef in its proper category. But the housewife relies on sight and then palatability after the meat has been prepared. Price is an other big factor. Grade does not always reflect what the meat will be like when jt is eaten, he said. Therein is the shortcoming of the current grading system. Dr. Schultz said surveys have shown that a majority of con sumers prefer beef falling into the grade known as Good because it is generally acceptable in qual ity and is lower priced than meat in the Choice and Prime grades. According to Dr. E. E. Burns, associate professor in the A&M Department of Horticulture and councilor of the institute’s Texas Section, the meeting is held each year to exchange ideas and pre sent technical information in the commercial food field. Most of the persons attending represented the commercial food industry in Texas, he said. 1WIHB CWSSlfiEP FOR Qpick0K Get a flying start on Continental! WASHINGTON NEW ORLEANS CHICAGO NEW YORK Convenient connections at Dallas and Houston with fast 4-engine non-stops east. For reservations, call your Travel Agent or Continental at VI 6-4789. Vr' CONTINENTAL AIRLINES * tkisrwk kktirvrn \jr AT ^ DRIVE-IN .THEATRE m-fR£E TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY “PORTRAIT IN BLACK” with Lana Turner Plus “OUR MAN IN HAVANA” with Alec Guinness Khrushchev Becomes A Sort Of Gay Troubador of Gloom By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press News Analyst UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.— There is an oppressive air of un easiness settling over the United Nations. Nikita Khrushchev cre ated it. The rotund leader of world communism, giving the impres sion of one trying to use the U.-N. machinery as a private toy, has become a sort of gay trouba dour of gloom. His General Assembly speech Friday — his second before the U. N. and by far the most be wildering — seemed to dash any hope that this session might pro duce a real contribution to lessen ing tensions that have the world’s nerves on edge. Khrushchev not only set back the cause of peace, but did him self a disservice if his primary idea in coming to the United Na tions has been to impress the world of-his truly peaceful inten tions. There is a lot of dismay around the corridors of this big glass building today. It is not confined to those Western Europeans and Americans who may have hoped for some concrete advance from this historic session. Khrushchev just about told the U.N. in so many words that he will not tolerate any action on its part that interferes with Soviet plans and policies. The Soviet Union was upset by events in the Congo, where Sec retary - General Dag Hammar- skjold won the support and ad miration of most U. N. members in his handling of a crisis that the Soviets apparently, wanted to convert into a situation of chaos. So, Khrushchev tells the U.N.: Let’s get rid of Hammarskjold; in fact, let’s abolish the post of secretary-general and set up an executive board where Commu nist representatives can raise hob with any peace mission the U.N. might try to undertake. Some delegates even suggested that Khrushchev might not have been wholly serious in his pro posals to rip up the U. N. ma chinery and move the headquar ters to some other country. But if he was not serious, then he did an even greater disservice to the cause of peace. Peace-making in a nuclear age is a life-or-death affair that does not lend itself to airy clowning. Khrushchev also aroused disap pointment with his other propos als. On disarmament, he offered PALACE Bryan Z‘SS19 LAST DAY “MA BARKER S KILLER BROOD” STARTS TOMORROW If you never see another COMEDY you must see Fast, ribald and frivolous, a spring tonic L v-x. ©I laughs. ' J' ' - < •' VJ_ . ' ' • - QUEEN NOW SHOWING “PSYCHO” just some new, glittering ribbons wrapped about a tattered old package. As for his proposal to end all colonialism at once, even those in areas thirsting for independence might be expected to detect the patent transparency. The proposal was in the typical Khrushchev style — the subtle approach of the sledgehammer. When Khrushchev speaks about disarmament, he demands total and complete disarmament, know ing there is no possibility of it in a world like this one today. When he speaks of freedom for colonies, he thrashes out in all directions at all dependent areas, regardless of their status or even their will ingness to be “liberated” under Soviet auspices. With Khrushchev it’s usually all or nothing. And the suspicion is that what Khrushchev wants in the long run is nothing. OnCatopos with teShukan (Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf”, "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.) THE PLEDGE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN Today’s column is directed at those young female under graduates who have recently pledged sororities and are wor ried, poor lambs, that they won’t make good. Following is a list of simple instructions which, if faithfully observed, will positively guarantee that you will be a mad success as a sorority girl. First, let us take up the matter of housemothers. The housemother is your friend, your guide, your mentor. You must treat her with respect. When you wish to speak to her, address her as “Mother Sigafoos” or “Ma’am.” In no circum stances must 3'ou say, “Hey, fat lady.” Second, let us discuss laundry. Never hang your wash on the front porch of the sorority house, This is unsightly and shows a want of breeding. Use the Chapter Room. Third, meals. Always remember that planning and preparing meals for a houseful of healthy girls is no simple task. Your cook goes to a great deal of trouble to make your menu varied and nourishing. The least you can do is show your apprecia tion. Don’t just devour your food; praise it. Exclaim with delight, “What delicious pork jowls!” or “What a yummy soup bone!” or “What scrumptious fish heads!” or “What clear water!” Fourth, clothing. Never forget that your appearance re flects not just on yourself but on the whole house. It was well enough before you joined a sorority to lounge around campus in your old middy blouse and gym bloomers, but now you must take great pains to dress in a manner which excites admiring comments from all who observe you. A few years ago, for example, there was a Chi Omega named Camille Ataturk at the University of Iowa who brought gobs of glory to all her sorors. Camille hit on the ingenious notion of suiting her garb to the class she was attending. For instance, to English Lit she wore a buskin and jerkin. To German she wore lederhosen and carried a stein of pilsener. To Econ she wore 120 yards of ticker tape. Her shiningest hour came one day when she dressed as a white mouse for Psych Lab. Not only her Chi Omega sisters, but the entire student body went into deep mourning when she was killed by the janitor’s cat. Finally, let us take up the most important topic of all. I refer, of course, to dating. As we have seen, the way you dress reflects on your sorority, but the men you date reflect even more. Be absolutely certain that your date is an acceptable fellow. Don’t beat about the bush; ask him point-blank, “Are you an acceptable fellow?’’ Unless he replies, “Yeah, hey,” send him packing. But don’t just take his word that he is acceptable. Inspect him closely. Are his fingernails clean? Is his black leather jacket freshly oiled? Is his ukelele in tune? Does he carry public liability insurance? And, most significant of all, does he smoke Marlboros? If he’s a Marlboro man, you know he has taste and discern ment, wit and wisdom, character and sapience, decency and warmth, presence and poise, talent and grit, filter and flavor, soft pack and flip-top box. You will be proud of him, your sorority will be proud of him, the makers of Marlboro will be proud of him, and I will be paid for this column. © 1960 Max ShulmaO The makers of Marlboro, having paid for this column, would like to mention another of their fine cigarettes—mild, un- fdtered PI ip Morris—available in regular size or the sensa tional new king-size Commander, Have a Commander—= welcome aboard. PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz THAT 5 KIND OF Disappointing...! thought I LOOKED PRETTY GOOD UP THERE! THAT WAS BEETHOVEN'S SONATA NO. 11, OPUS 22 LITTLE BV LITTLE BEETHOVEN 15 SNEAKING AROUND, OVER AND UNDER W. MENTAL BLOCK!