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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1961)
P.*e a May XO, 1M1 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle BATTALION EDITORIALS A Little Help A group of Bryan-College Station teenagers out to prove that hot-rodding is a safe sport when conducted under proper conditions and hot rod drivers are “the best anywhere” hav§ organized the Brazos Valley Timing Association. One of the immediate aims of the group is to convince the citizens of Bryan and College Station that one of the best ways to promote safe teen driving and prevent city- street dragging and racing is to provide the young drivers with a drag strip. The association has already drafted a tentative constitu tion. Two things are needed, however, before the idea, which is basically good, can succeed. First the group must have the support of parents and every other Bryan-CoUege Station citizen. The youthful drivers realize that without the moral backing of the adult population nothing constructive can be done. More important, they need the material and professional help of some organized adult group—be it police department, P-TA or civic club—to help them plan and complete projects leading to safe driving. Second, the group need to work closely with the police, Highway Patrol, sheriff’s department and other law enforce ment agencies in learning the fundamentals of safe driving and drag racing, traffic laws and courteous driving. The first step has come from the kids themselves. They want to be good drivers. Now it is time for Bryan-College Station adults to give them a little help. JFK Told Censorship Out WASHINGTON — Repre sentatives of the American press told President Kennedy Tuesday there is no need for any censor ship of the news—^either govern ment or voluntary—at this time. In a speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. Apr. 28, Kennedy called for some form of self-censorship in face of the Communist threat to the nation’s security. Representatives of the press asked Kennedy to clarify his speech, and he conferred with them for more than an hour Tuesday. After the conference, a spokes man for the press, Felix R. Mc- Knight, said “The President as sured the group that the admin istration intends to continue its policy of free access to the news and that no form of restriction is contemplated or suggested.” McKnight, a graduate of A&M, is president of the American So ciety of Newspaper Editors and executive editor of the Dallas Times Herald. McKnight said he did not be lieve the world situation had reached the point where it was necessary to set up machinery to censor information that appears in newspapers. He said also there was no need now for additional self-restraint on the part of newspaper editors? “ . . . Okay! Okay! I’ll buy a ticket to th’ Aggie Follies Melodrama if you’ll rehearse your lines somewhere else!” Sound Off (Editor’s note: The accident between an automobile driven by A&M student Samuel J. Mackin and a panel truck driven by Bry an businessman Troy McElroy occurred about 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 2. No charges had been filed when the first story ap peared in the May 3 issue of The Battalion. Later Mackin and another youth, Michael C. Roll of Bryan, were charged with second degree negligent homicide. If found guilty, both coufd be fined up to $3,000 and sentenced to three years in jail. The headline on the May 3 Battalion story read: “Fatal Accident Injures One A&M Stu dent.) Editor, The Battalion: Whoever wrote the headline for the May 3 story on the acci dent between an Aggie and Mr. and Mrs. Troy McElroy made a mistake that turns my stomach. The headline gave a reader the impression that the only thing the Battalion had to report of any importance was the fact that an Aggie was hurt. Your headline didn’t say that because of the extreme recklessness of two Aggies that were racing down College Ave., two old peo ple that were as fine a couple as you could ever hope to find wei'e brutally killed. No, your headline had to plead for sympathy for an Aggie who deserves to be locked up from society for the rest of his life and never see an automobile again. I know Aggies stick to gether and all that but don’t you think that such an extremely slanted article is taking loyalty I would like to correct your article. Charges have been filed against both drivers that were racing down College. The charge was light—negligent homicide that will probably put the boys behind bars for only a few years. This charge is doing an extreme injustice to s.ociety. Fm an Aggie wife but I can’t let Aggies defend something like this. Mrs. R. J. Joubert U-3-D Hensel Apartments Editor, The Battalion: "The tragic accident of May 2 which resulted in the untimely and uncesessary deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Troy McElroy prompts the city council to ask the as sistance of the citizens of Col lege Station in putting an end to excessivp speeds and racing in the city. Since it is impossible for our policemen to patrol all streets at once, the council respectfully requests that any citizen who is a witness to speeding or racing' do everything possible to get the license numbers of the cars in volved, identity of drivers, time of day and location of speeding and racing, and report same to the city offices immediately. The council would like also to urge all parents to impress upon their children the value of safe and sane driving and encourage in them a due respect for com pliance with speed limits both in the city and out. The council will appreciate the cooperation of the people of the City of College Station in an endeavor to prevent another which two of our honored and respected citizens lost their lives. Ernest Langford Mayor, City of College Station Mr. Clayton LaGrone, Chairman, Student Welfare Committee: We wish to extend to you our appreciation for your efforts in behalf of the blood mobile at A&M. Certainly the collection of blood could not have been the success it was without your ef forts. We collected 177 units and found it necessary to reject 58 donors. The majority of these were temporary rejections and will be able to give at a future date. Of those collected, 35 units were taken as partial cost for the mobile, the remainder was placed in the Wadley Chil dren’s Research Blood Pool. All of these pints will be given free of charge to children^ afflicted with leukemia or hemophilia. It is only through cooperation between the blood bank facility and generous people such are found on your campus which will enable us to adequately care for children afflicted with these dread diseases. We wish you would express to other members of the Student Senate and to the Student Body at large our appreciation for as sisting us in this worthwhile cause. We hope that we can look forward to future coopera tion of this type. J. M. Hill, M.D., Director Wadley Research Institute and Blood Bank THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers 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; Allen Schrader, School of Arts and Sciences; Willard I. Truettner, School of Engineering ; Otto R. Kunze. School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Sta tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem ber through May, and once a week during summer school. Entered as second-class (natter at the Post Office b College Station, Texas, nnder the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Pres* Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4. YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 Advertising rate furnished on College Station, Texas. per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year, request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, BOB SLOAN EDITOR Tommy Holbein Managing Editor Larry Smith 1 Sports Editor Alan Payne, Ronnie Bookman News Editor Gerry Brown, Robert Denney, Rob Mitchell Staff Writers Johnny Herrin Photographer GOOD GRIEF! THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE.’* ©United Feature Syndicate, Inc. A brand new collection of Sunday PM/MW strips mmms SUNDAY By CHARLES Ni. SCHULZ The perfect spring pick-up ONLY ^ At your college bookstore HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON, INC. Bulletin Board The Lampasas Hometown Club will meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC Coffee Shop for an im portant meeting. The Bay Area Hometown Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the lounges of Dorm 5 and Dorm 15, and then go to Wehr- man’s restaurant for a dinner meeting. This will be the last meeting of the year. The Matagorda County Home town Club will hold a special meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the lobby of the YMCA Building. St. Mary’s Chapel will ob serve the following schedule for Ascension Thursday Mass: 6:30 a.m., 5:20 and 7:20 p.m. CAMPUS Theatre STARTS TODAY A ELIZABETH TAYLOR ROCK HUDSON JAMES m ><J DEAN m'— i VJotne rColorJ CIRCLE Drive-In TWO BIG HITS TONIGHT JOHN WAYNE A WARNER BROS RELEASE ' A Never A Western like it! Tf/Ji (*$mi SEARCHERS Tec M * C- O L- C fe. Jeffrey Vera Ward Natalie HUNTER • MILES • BOND • WOOD "This dirty fov/n will call you BAD!” JgfP WmSm% Cinema Scope JOHN SAXON SANDRA DEE TERESA WRIGHT JAMES WHITMORE VERSAIIN1ERN. 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