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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, September 30, 1960
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BATTALION EDITORIALS
Yes or No
Trinity University may have bitten off somewhat more
than they can chew.
Yesterday the ambitious Tigers challenged Texas A&M
to a bonfire building contest. Although the idea seems rather
ridiculous, the San Antonio university seems to realize the
national acclaim that has been given to the annual Texas
A&M bonfire has yet to meet its equal across America.
The first impulse by Texas A&M students is to accept
the challenge and show Trinity University who’s boss.
But before any action be taken, it would be prudent to
look further into the issue. There are a number of un
answered questions that form loopholes. Think on these:
How will the contest be judged?
Who will judge it?
What are the rewards for winning the contest?
Will the contest be solely between Texas A&M and Trini
ty University or will it wind up being Texas A&M vs. San
Antonio—as evidenced by the aid expected from San Antohio
groups.
How long will the respective schools be allowed to work |
on their bonfires?
There is actually very little in it for Texas A&M thus
far, other than preserving their claim on the “World’s
Largest Bonfire.”
The challenge, for all intents and purposes, is valid. But
perhaps Trinity University should not be given an opportuni- “ . .. not only is it more comfortable but you can cut your
ty to chew that big bite. laundry bill in half if you wear your raincoat.”
Officials of Texas Cities Sound °ff
Plan for Population Growth
Editor,
The Battalion:
Special to The Battalion
Officials of Texas cities—repre
senting three out of four resi
dents of the Lone Star State—•
will meet in Galveston Sunday
to begin planning for a second
decade of what many officials ex
pect to be “even faster popula
tion growth.”
The forty-eighth annual con
ference of the Texas Municipal
League begins in the coastal city
Sunday with more than 2,000
municipal officials—from mayors
and councilmen to heads of city
departments—expected to attend.
The Galveston site is signifi
cant. There, more than half-a-
century ago, the nation’s, first
commission system of city gov
ernment came into being after
the Galveston hurricane. Today,
while few cities are searching for
any new form of government,
most Texas cities are hoping the
1960’s will produce new solutions
to their growing fiscal problems.
“Texas cities don’t face what
tan be called a financial crisis
yet,” says the league’s executive
director, Steve Matthews. “But
cities can see the crisis coming
unless action is taken to avei’t
it during the 1960’s.
“The No. 1 objective of Texas
municipal leaders at present is
to steer a responsible course so
that the problem is met in order
ly fashion and not left dangling
for solution by costly expedients
later.”
What faces the cities, Matthews
points out, is a conglomerate of
problems arising from rapid mod
ern growth and unchanged poli
cies from the past.
Only slightly more than a
Need For Secrecy
In Space Told
By The Associated Press
SANTA MONICA, Calif.—One
of the Navy’s top missile and
space specialists suggested Thurs
day that the United States be a
bit more secretive about some of
its space operations.
More privacy could be achieved
if launching operations were per
formed from ships at sea, said
Rear Adm. Charles B. Martell,
assistant chief of naval opera
tions for development.
In an address at a conference
of the American Rocket Society,
Martell pictured America’s mis
sile and satellite test ranges as
“fishbowl” operations.
“Attempts to maintain tight
secrecy have been abortive and
the information ‘leakage rate’ at
these sites is high because of the
basic nature of the operation, the
probing of the press and the com
petitive operation of industry
where success in future business
depends on publicity about to
day’s operations,” he said.
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Jim Reed and Kea Coppage - Photographers
decade ago, less than half the
population of Texas lived in cities.
Today city residents represent
three-fourths the Texas popula
tion.
By the end of the 1960’s, Texas
likely will be 85 percent urban
ized.
Over half the present popula
tion lives in the twenty largest
Texas cities and better than 80
percent of Texas population
growth is concentrated in only
about 15 counties.
Texas cities, collectively, are
serving more population than any
one of 42 state governments, but
these cities are largely limited to
the same revenue sources as when
the century began: that is, ad
valorem taxation of real and per
sonal property.
The same tax base supporting
the 852 Texas cities also supports
the nearly 1800 local school dis
tricts and the more than 800
special districts of the state.
In one sector alone, street con
struction and maintenance, mu
nicipal outlay is climbing by $27
million every two years and cities
are spending more than the state
itself spent only a few years ago.
Texas cities, however, rank
among the most self-reliant in
the nation. In only two other
states do cities receive less of
their operating expenses from
other levels of government.
“Texas cities like to, want to,
and mean to stand on their own
feet,” Matthews said. “But it is
hard to stand on our feet when
policies from the past are stand
ing on our neck.”
He noted that state statutes
rigidly limit city government ac
cess to other revenue resources,
that various laws permit state
actions to force up municipal
costs without permitting cities to
raise any new revenue to meet
those costs, and that these and
other limitations on municipal
finances have the effect of adding
millions to financing charges on
local bond issues.
“Cities have thier problems but
we recognize that this is a time
of acute change at all levels of
Texas government,” Matthews
added. “Cities want no favored
attention but we do feel that
Texas can’t afford inattention to
these city problems any longer.
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Army Association Banquet
President Earl Rudder will ad
dress the Assn, of the United
States Army’s “Star Spangled”
Banquet at the San Jacinto Inn
in Houston, Dec. 16.
The address will be a part of
the climax of the information
effort by the Chapter and will be
held near the historic battle
grounds.
George Carmack, editor of The
Houston Press, will be a featured
second speaker.
Col. Temple B. Sebastian, Jr.,
president of the San Jacinto
Chapter, local Veteran Adminis
tration official, and the Com
manding Officer of Houston’s 3rd
Battle Group, 90th Texas Infan
try Division, yesterday announced
a three-point program for the
association for Houston. The
colonel is an A&M graduate.
The purpose of the program is:
(1) To acquaint the public with
the purposes, aims and objectives
of the association.
(2) To strengthen local support
of the United States Army in its
vital role in the national defense
and
(3) To bring to the local public
a message of vital importance in
the national interest.
Among the objectives of the
association said Col. Sebastian, is
to insure that this nation shall
never again follow the disastrous
policies of the 1930s and 1940s.
Sometimes referred to as the
Army’s “Navy League,” member
ship in the association is open to
both sexes, as well as veterans
and members of the armed forces.
The association began forming
chapters in 1957 after a merger
of the old Infantry, Artillery and
Coast Artillery Associations some
years earlier, and it is dedicated
to only one purpose: To insure
the interests of the United States
Shivers For GOP—
Still Bitter at Dems
Now that the work on the part
of President Earl Rudder, Col.
Joe Davis, and the Corps of
Cadets to unify the Corps is be
ginning to bear fruit, there seems
to be one man of authority who
is still fighting to divide the
Corps and to tear aparts the one
ness it stands for.
If this man’s policies continue
at A&M!, we will soon have two
Corps, one Air Force and one
Army, in which seniors do not
wear boots and in which a uni
form (Air Force blue or Army
green) would be worn only to
military or air science classes.
If his actions should be al
lowed to go without strong oppo
sition, many cadets and former
students will begin to doubt the
sincerity of the administration.
We should congratulate, not
humiliate, those Drill and Cere
monial cadets who show enough
interest in the Corps to give up
their Saturday mornings. They
give up much of their own time
to helps the Corps progress.
Dick McGaughy, ’61
By The Associated Press
WACO — Byron Skelton, na
tional Democratic committeeman
from Texas,, charged Thursday
that former Gov. Allan Shivers
is backing the GOP presidential
ticket because Sen. Lyndon B.
Johnson and Rep. Sam Rayburn
once handed him a political de
feat.
■ Skelton made the claim in a
speech to a group of Central
Texas Democrats here to plan
for the visit of former President
Harry S. Truman.
Truman speaks in Waco Coli
seum Oct. 11.
The defeat handed Shivers by
Johnson, the present Democratic
vice-presidential nominee, aided
by House Speaker Rayburn, was
in 1956 when they won control of
the state Democratic convention
from Shivers.
The former governor for three
straight elections has supported
the Republican presidential
ticket.
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“No one was surprised when
Allan Shivers made his endorse
ment of the Republican nominees
Wednesday ... It would have
been a real surprise it he had
followed any other course this
year,” Skelton said.
“The amazing thing about his
working for the Republican Party
is his total lack of gratitude for
all of the honors and offices he
has held during his adult life from
the Democratic Party. For 22
years he was elected to office in
Texas as a Democrat and by the
Democrats of this state.
“But it seems he could not re
sist the call of the Republican
State Convention held in Galves-
to nlast week to lead their cam
paign for Richard M. Nixon and
Henry Cabot Lodge in Texas
when by resolution they invited
him to be their leader.
Army in its vital role as an in
dispensable instrument in the
national security.
The association has the en
dorsement and support of several
dozen local civic leaders, geneial
officers and publishers.
The event is expected to be
highlighted by the presence of
such Houston notables as Mayor
Lewis Cutrer, Gen. A. D. Bruce,
chancellor of The University of
Houston; John T. Jones, publisher
of The Houston Chronicle; Wil
liam P. Hobby, Jr., of The Hous
ton Post and various Army gen
eral officers as special guests.
Banquet tickets, $6 per person,
will be available to the general
public only through Sakowitz
Stores, or by sending check to:
Association of The United
States Army
p: O. Box 13097
Houston, Texas.
It will be a ladies and gentle
men dress optional affairs, except
that for military and reserve per
sonnel uniforms would be pre
ferred.
Keeping with military custom,
all tickets are numbered and the
name and address of purchaser
recorded at time of sale to insure
proper seating arrangements.
The Student Arts and Sciences
Council will meet Monday, Oct. 3,
in Room 3D of the MSC at <:30
p.m.
BA Wives Club will have a tea
in the South Solarium at 7:30
p.m., Monday, Oct. 3.
Tuesday 4 Oct.
The Handball Club will meet at
8:00 p.m. at the handball courts.
The Arts and Handicraft Group
of the A&M Social Club will meet
at the home of W. C. Adams, 1027
Walton Dr. at 9:30 a.m.
The M. E. Wives Club will meet
in Room 109 of the M. E. Build
ing at 7:30 p.m.
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