page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, November 3, 1960
THE BATTALION
BY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
32 - Page Travel Brochure
Released For State Tourists
Special To The Battalion
AUSTIN—The release of a full-
color, 32-page travel brochure on
the State of Texas was announced
today by the Texas Highway De
partment.
D. C. Greer, state highway en
gineer, said the new brochure is
specifically designed for free dis
tribution to attract out-of-state
tourists. First of its kind ever
‘published in Texas, it is intended
to serve as a showcase of Texas’
[scenic, historic, recreational and
[cultural attractions,
i Greer described the colorful bro
chure, which covers the entire state
[geographically, as “another mile-
jstone in the travel promotion pro-
jgram conducted by the Highway
[Department.”
Next Highway Step
[ He said the next step in this
; program is the submission of a
[media advertising budget to the
Texas Legislature, which meets in
January. The Highway Depart
ment has asked,-, with the concur
rence of the Texas Development
Board, ifor an appropriation of
$300,00^ a year , for the, next two
years tb sUvert^se the £ta$tst
tractiorfe, ok "[Texas
The■ {nedjp . .advertising :pro-r
gram,” C teer|sai|, a igiectessity
tile ifowAward
halt
trend of the Texas tourist indus
try. The amount we will ask for
media advertising ($300,000 a
year) is the minimum required to
shore up the rapid decline in tour
ist revenue which Texas now
faces.”
Greer reviewed the progress
made in establishing a tourist pro
motion program in Texas. He not
ed that in the past Texas had been
unable to compete for tourists by
advertising because it was prohib
ited by the State Constitution. A
constitutional amendment was ap
proved by popular vote in 1958 al
lowing the advertisement of the
state’s tourist resources.
Now Authorized
The Texas Legislature in 1959
set up the legal machinery autho
rizing state media advertising and
delegating the responsibility for
this program to the Texas High
way Department. Senate Bill 152
stated that funds for media ad
vertising must come from the Gen
eral Fund, but no money was made
available in 1959 for this purpose.
Greer expressed confidence Sthat
funds iqr state advertising., would
btj majie available by^ the 1 coming
session of the Legislature. “IJ
M,
amendment authorizing state ad
vertising, the Legislature will fol
low this mandate from the people
by providing adequate funds for
an effective media advertising pro
gram,” Greer said.
20 Years Behind
Texas has fallen “twenty years
behind the times” in advertising
its tourist attractions, said Tom
H. Taylor, Director of the Travel
and Information Division of the
Highway Department. He pointed
out that revenue from the tourist
trade had fallen to a low of $431
million in 1959, a drop of $100 mil
lion in only two years. This rapid
drop, he said, is attributed to the-
advertising campaigns of other
states competing for tourists.
Noting that tourists currently
pay some $17 million annually in
direct state taxes, Taylor said an
effective media advertising pro
gram could increase tourist reve
nue brought to Texas and lighten
to some extent the state’s heavy
tax load.
“The tourist in Texas is good
for everybody,” Taylor declared.
“The money he brings into our
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By The Associated Press
HAVANA—The Navy’s chief in
the Caribbean disclosed Wednesday
that American mine fields were
planted a few weeks ago along the
fence enclosing the 45-square-mile
Guantanamo Naval Base—just in
case.
“The mine fields are labeled
plainly,” Rear Adm. Allen Smith,
commander of the 10th Naval Dis
trict, told reporters at the base.
“Dr. Castro has stepped up his
tempo and we have taken steps
accordingly. We have made our
defense a little tighter.”
He said his forces at the base
are strong enough to repel any
attack until reinforcements can be
sent—perhaps for 72 hours.
The defenders are a few hundred
U. S. Marines, squadrons of Marine
and Navy aircraft that come for
training, destroyers usually an
chored in the bay or close by, and
almost every one of the few thou
sand military men staffing the
base.
“We are hoping they will not
bother us,” said Smith. “But we
are ready if they do.”
The Guantanamo base, rather -
than Central America and Florida,
now commands the attention of
Cuban leaders in what seems to
be a desperate search for an in
vasion that doesn’t come.
President Osvaldo D o r t i c o s
spelled this out here Tuesday night
before a gathering of presidential
\■ » - ' / -T? i -
palace employees. He said Presi
dent Eisenhower’s announced firm
sta S d 0 $.!l an & na W w ¥, in ^ nd ; ed
only to justify “art armed aggres
sion agrtinst our country.”
Doi Meo's implied th^t’-the' United
States’ lease on the big naval base
can be ahroftatj^ j/iApiit any meed
for U. S. consent, which is counter
STOLEN HORSE STUMBLED
to the American stand.
“Have these gentlemen in Wash
ington forgotten that all that is
needed is the agreement of the
Cuban people?” he asked.
Both Prime Minister Fidel Cas
tro and Foreign Minister Raul Roa
asserted earlier that Guantanamo
is now the center of agression
against Cuba.
One Cuban revolutionary leader
after another has shouted that in
vasion is just around the corner
and that “every Cuban must be
ready to shed his or her blood to
defend the nation' against .Yankee
imperialism.”
Invasion watching and waiting
is felt on both sides of the long
fence that winds around the Guan
tanamo Bay installation.
“The situation is tense because
we are in a position of waiting
for someone else to do something,”
said Smith.
Cuban leaders have definitely
shifted the emphasis in the propa
ganda that bombards the Cuban
public to keep them alert and loyal
to the Castro regime.
The main theme of the- invasion
warnings that went throughout
Cuba a week ago was that men,
ships and planes allegedly were
being grouped in Guatemala—all
set for an attack on Cuba.
Ex-Con Cought In Laredo
After Week-Long Manhunt
WEEKEND
(Continued from Page 1) ,
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By The Associated Press
LAREDO, Texas — Curtis Lee
Jones, 38-year-old Arkansas ex
convict accused of murder, rape
and kidnaping, surrendered with
out a struggle Tuesday after the
stolen horse on which he was at
tempting to escape stumbled and
fell.
Jones, object of an intensive
week-long manhunt, was captured
on the Callahan Ranch, 20 miles
north of Laredo.
He threw up his hands after a
member of a posse fired a shot
gun blast over his head. He later
told newsmen he had lost his loaded
.22 caliber pistol when thrown from
the horse.
The shotgun blast was fired by
State Highway Patrolman Jack
Carpenter, one of the four officers
summoned to the ranch after being
notified that Jones had forced a
woman living on the ranch to feed
him.
“I was coming in to give my
self up,” Jones later told a news
man. “I thought they were going
to kill me. If he hadn’t shot at
me I would have surrendered any
how.”
The capture ended a giant man
hunt started six days ago after
he kidnaped his 21-year-old cousin
and her m^^qrnpanion in Fort
Worth, tried to strangle the man
with a rope and raped the young
woman, and the!} .kidnaped an ex-
nine hours later and Jones dis-1 Jones said that after he freed
appeared on foot. Mrs. Sosa and Carlos Guardarra-
The manhunt switched to Laredo mas, the pair kidnaped in San
Monday when Jones abducted a | Antonio, he drove down a side road
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The “blast,” sponsored by the pectant mother and her baby
Dalla'^AMiJ' Cftib,‘ has had many
months of .pfenning to go into it,
and from all rmiicatiens^should be
“one for thg books!”
. ik || m ■
daughter from a rural home west
of Fort Worth*
The young mother and child were
freed unharmed in San Antonio
woman tavern owner and one of
her employees in San Antonio,
drove southward toward the Mexi
can border and freed the pair out
side Laredo.
Jones told his captors he hid in
an all-white car taken from the
San Antonio woman, Mrs. Rosa
linda Sosa, 30, in a clump of brush
on the big Callahan Ranch.
John Ardnt, ranch manager, told
officers Jones turned up at one
of the houses on the ranch about
2 p.m. Tuesday, waved a pistol and
ordered the housewife to feed him.
After he ate, the housewife
asked Jones to let her go and, to
her surprise, he did. She hurried
5 miles to the main ranch house
and Ardnt notified the Highway
Patrol.
When the officers arrived, Jones
dashed to a horse he had left sad
dled and tried to escape across a
pasture. The horse stumbled,
throwing Jones to the ground, but
he bounced up running.
Then Carpenter, after shouting
for him to halt, cut loose with a
shotgun blast. Jones hesitated,
whirled around and raised his
hands in the air.
The four officers quickly hand
cuffed and chained their prisoner
and brought him to Laredo.
.' He was dressed in a red-striped
Western style shirt and olive green
pants.
FBI agents joined sheriff’s offi-
. cers and ^ijafe patrolmen in ques
tioning the prisoner.
outside Laredo Tuesday.
He said he hid Mrs. Sosa’s white
car under some brush and spent
the day in the car. Once he heard
a radio broadcast by Sheriff Por-
firio Flores of Laredo urging him
to surrender.
Leaving the car, he walked
about 15 miles north to the home
of Mrs. Cristobal Armendarez on
the Callahan Ranch.
Mrs. Armendarez, whose hus
band works as a fence rider on the
ranch, said Jones demanded food.
He later said the bowl of beans
she served him was all he had eat
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SCA Awards
Announced
For New Year
Student composer's residing any
where in the Western Hemisphere
are eligible to win awards totalling
$11,500 in the 1960 Student Com
posers Awards (SCA), it has been
announced by^Caarl Haverlin, Pres
ident of Broadcast Music, Inc.
BMI annually sponsors the com
petition designed to encourage the
creation of concert music by young
composers. The 1960 contest is the
second in which composers from
countries other thaja the United
States and Canada are'eligible to
cofnpete. . . m* . ;
“We are pleased that our deci
sion to extend SCA to the entire
Western Hemisphere, made with
the approval of the National Judg
ing Panel, showed immediate and
impressive results,” Mr. Haverlin
said. “Two of the six young com.
posers who received awards thif
year were from South America—c>
Mario Davidovsky of Argentina,
and David Serendero Proust of
Chile.”
With the 1960 awards, more
than $65,000 will have been pro
vided by BMI during the past nine
years to SCA winners. Announce
ment of the 1960 awards will be
made no later than June, 1961,
with sums ranging from $500 to
$2,000 to be granted at the discre
tion of the judges.
SCA 1960 is open until Feb. 15,
1961, to residents of any country
in the Western Hemisphere who
will be under twenty-six (26) years
of age on Dec. 31, 1960. Entrants
must be enrolled in accredited sec
ondary schools, colleges or conser
vatories, or engaged in private
study with recognized and estab
lished teachers.
CORPS SENIORS
and
MILITARY STAFFS
Aggieland
Portrait Schedule
CORPS SENIORS AND
OUTFIT FIRST
SERGEANTS will have their
portrait made for the “Aggie-
land ’61” according tef the fol
lowing schedule. Portraits will
be made in Class A winter uni
form at the AGGIELAND STU-
a C L between the hours of 8
A. M. and 5 P. M.
Executive officers and 1st ser-
P’ ea T 1 |s W *R have portrait made
m GH cap.
Commanding officers will have
^•PLEASE MAKE AP-
PONTMENT FOR THESE
LENGTH PORTRAITS,
AT THE STUDIO.
Nov. 2 . 3 Squadrons 5, 6, 7, 8
Nov. 3 - 4 Squadrons 9, 10, 11,
Nov. 7 -8 Squadrons 13, 14, 15,
16, 17
Nov. 8 - 9 Maroon & White Band
i n the corps on any
I™UJ 0TH . JUNIORS AND
SENIORS, will have their por-
’c?>> made f° r the “Aggieland
bl according to the following
schedule.
Nov. 9 - 10 Corps Staff, Cons.
Band Staff
Nov. 10-11 1st Brigade, 1st and
2nd Battle Group Staffs
Nov. 14 - 15 2nd Brigade, 3rd,
4th, and 5th Battle Group
Staffs
Nov. 16 - 17 1st Wing, 1st, 2nd
Group Staffs
Nov. 16 - 17 2nd Wing, 3rd and
4Ui Group Staffs