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
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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.
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Ascension Thursday Mass:
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