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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, June 21, 1962
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Morrill Act Was Signed
Almost 100 Years Ago
Progress Project
QUITO, Ecuador (IP)—Looking
for a do-it-yourself Alliance for
Progress project?
There’s a ready-made one in
Ecuador, and the cost is next to
nothing—as much as the cost of
a teacher’s desk or two, some
textbooks, tablets and pencils and
perhaps castoff children’s cloth
ing.
There are more. than 30 pri
mary and high schools in Ecuador
which bear North American
names, simply because the local
people wanted such names. They
are not asking to be adopted. The
thought has never occurred to
them. But some U. S. citizens
who have visited the schools think
it might be a good idea.
There is, for example, the John
D. Rockefeller Primary School in
Guayaquil. Paradoxically, it is
probably the most impoverished
little school in all Ecuador.
Other schools are named Wash
ington, Lincoln, Jefferson and
for other U. S. heroes, all of
them in need of simple equip
ment, most of their young pupils
in tattered rags.
High in the Andes, about 10,000
feet above sea level, is a remote
place—it could hardly be called
a village—called La Paz del
Rosal. It has a primary school
which was built from nothing by
the labor of the villagers them
selves. They call it The School
of the United States of North
America.
Lida Moscoso, 20 years old and
a high school graduate, is the
teacher in the one-room building
made of adobe bricks. It has only
the first and second grades.
Miss Moscoso is a remarkable
teacher, in one respect. She
teaches reading and writing to
43 first graders and 43 second
graders without benefit of text
books, because there are no text
books.
A textbook would cost the
child’s parents 10 sucres, which
is the equivalent of 50 cents. But
the average father in this com
munity earns only 20 cents a day
on a nearby hacienda, so buying
books is out of the question.
Miss Moscoso uses a black
board. She puts it in the center
of the room, to separate first and
second graders. One class does
its writing exercises on the board
while the other recites lessons,
and vice versa.
On the law books of Ecuador it
says that education is compulsory
for all children. But that is only
on the lawbooks. About 65 per
cent of the people—almost half
of all Ecuadoreans are of Indian
stock—is illiterate. And to talk
of schools in the remote fast
nesses of the Andes is often to
talk of impossibility. There are
no schools, for one thing. For
another, Indian families have all
they can do to scratch out a
meager living.
But many crave education for
their children, and the craving
is strong enough in some areas
to move them to action. That was
the case in La Paz del Rosal,
whose menfolk put up the school
building in 1946. Their proudest
boast now is that one of the pu
pils of the school of the United
States has gone as far as a
colegio (high school) in Quito.
That was achieved by his eight
uncles, between them earning
$1.60 a day, who hoarded their
savings for his education and
intend to send him on to the
university.
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Gov. Price Daniel of Texas has signed a proclamation
declaring the 1961-62 academic year “suitable for the ob
servance of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Land-
Grant Act of 1862.”
The Texas governor signed the papers in Austin Nov. 2
as college officials from Texas A&M and Prarie View A&M
served as witnesses.
Actual date of the signing of the Morrill Act, which pro
vided for the establishment of the two Land-Grant schools,
was July 2, 1862.
Provision has been made for a national celebration of
the Centennial by the United States Congress.
“Texas has benefitted greatly from the educational
programs and the training for citizenship and leadership in
the development of agriculture and industry afforded stu
dents by these institutions,” Gov. Daniel said, in signing the
proclamation.
Texas A&M, the state’s oldest tax-supported institution
of higher education, was opened Oct. 4, 1876, as a land grant
college on a 2,416 acre tract of land near Bryan.
Since then, the 85-year-old institution has grown in
physical size to 5,200 acres in Brazos County, 3,192 acres in
adjoining Burleson County, and 411 in Kimble County for the
Junction.
The physical plant is valued now in excess of $47-million.
Its fields of instruction not only includes agriculture and
engineering but also liberal arts, science, teacher education,
business administration and veterinary medicine. The college
also offers an extensive graduate program.
Prairie View A&M began operation March 11, 1878,
when eight students were enrolled. Now in its 83rd year.
Prairie View’s campus has grown from an original appropria
tion of $20,000 to over $10-million in physical facilities.
Enrollment at the school has shown a steady increase.
At present, some 2,920 are enrolled.
Both Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M are a part of
the A&M College System.
Other institutions and services that make up the A&M
System are Arlington State at Arlington, Tarleton State at
Stephenville, Agriculture Extension Service, Agriculture Ex
periment Station, Engineering Experiment Station, Engineer
ing Extension Service, Texas Transportation Institute, Texas
Forestry Service and other services.
HOWDY
from
PAR/S, FRANCE
“ so he bought this tape recorder so he wouldn’t have
td come to class!”
Texas
Say In
Hep
Has
Spending
By TEX EASLEY
Associated Press Special Service
Ecuador Has Real
WASHINGTON (A>) _ Demo
cratic Rep. George Mahon of
Lubbock has a major say in the
government’s spending of billions.
As chairman of the House Ap
propriations defense subcommit
tee, he usually has the last word
on the biggest single money bill
that Congress considers. The
money this measure appropriates
amounts, in most recent instance,
to about $50 billion for the year
starting July 1.
The tall and affable Mahon,
who keeps trim and brown with
an occasional game of golf, ranks
second to Chairman Clarence
Cannon, 83-year-oid Missouri
Democrat, on the full Appropria
tions committee.
Generals and Admirals wearing
two, three and even four stars,
come almost meekly before
Mahon and his subcommittee to
plead for dollars.
When the House passed a bill
increasing the national debt ceil
ing from 300 billion to 308 billion,
Mahon voiced telling support for
the measure.
If Congress wants to do some
thing about cutting down the
nation’s debt, he declared, it
should do it through reducing
appropriations.
Simply putting a debt ceiling
at a lower level than the sum of
appropriations would, in effect,
empower the executive branch of
the government to make the de
cisions as to where programs be
cut back, he argued.
He also related that his sub
committee had carefully de
termined how much money the
Defense Department should spend
in the next fiscal year, and that
if there was to be a cutback in
defense pi’ograms it should be
decreed by Congress and not the
executive branch of government.
Shortly after the house passed
the debt ceiling bill President
Kennedy phoned Mahon and
thanked him for the help he had
given in getting the measure
through.
Mahon said he told Kennedy he
CITY ORDINANCE
ORDINANCE NO. 348
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR A
PUBLIC HEARING ON THE QUESTION
OF REZONING A STRIP OF LAND IN
THE GORZYCKI ADDITION 115* X AP
PROXIMATELY 1,400’ FROM DISTRICT
NO. 2. SECOND DWELLING HOUSE
DISTRICT, TO DISTRICT NO. 5, SECOND
BUSINESS DISTRICT.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council
of the City of College Station, Texas:
WHEREAS, the City Zoning Commission
after consideration has recommended the
rezoning of certain areas of land herein
after fully described : now therefore.
It is hereby ordered that a public hear-
■ aMd ■ City Hall
ing shall be held in the City
at 7:00
p. m. on July 20, 1962, on the question of
rezoning areas within the city limits as
follows:
1. A 115’ strip of land in the Gorzycki
Addition beginning at a point 175’ NE
of the intersection of FM 60 and Meadow-
land Street
and paralleling Meadowland
sion
Street and extension Thereof in a NW
■ -— :r — - ,4,...... of approxim
idai
N
lately
ection for a
1,400’ to the A. & M. College property.
' Notice of said hearing shall be publish
*in the official city newspaper at least
fifteen days prior
' ” 1 —iring
'spapi
_ id date of said
public hea _
Passed and approved this the 15th day of
June, 1962.
APPROVED:
s/Ernest Langford
Mayor
ATTEST:
s/K. A- Manning
City Secretary
had been inclined at first to vote
against the measure, but decided
not to because of the importance
of the defense money angle. He
then urged the president to do
his best in trying to bring about
a reduction in the government’s
non-defense expenditures.
By J. DONALD DELIZ
PARIS AT LAST
Here we are in Paris whose
nickname is “the City of Light.”
Why? Well, I found out that in
the Middle Ages the light was
learning, and people came here
for the university. Nowadays the
light is “la dolce vita” (high liv-
ing)—the night clubs and the
sidewalk cafes.
The weather has been surpris
ingly mild with lots of rain, cool
evenings and mornings. It doesn’t
seem like summer at all. 1 was
struck particularly by the misty
mornings which are kind of
poetic. The city takes on a
strange glow. Everything seems
bluish-gray. This is due to the
fact that the buildings are made
of a type of limestone which
turns bluish-gray as it ages.
I always had wondered what
had become of “No Man’s Land”
from World War I. Now I know,
for I am living on it. In 1928,
as a symbol for peace, the nations
of the world built student dorms
for their students attending the
Sorbonne (The University of
Pai’is) on it.
Each nation has a dorm which
is called a pavillion. This is a
fancy name for dorms like those
we have at A&M. The only dif
ference is that here we have
chambermaids and bedding is
supplied.
The most outstanding struc
ture that one notices here is the
'Eiffel Tower which every tourist
knows symbolizes Paris. It is
eyecatching because it is so tall
compared to all of the buildings
which are all five or six stories
sat there. I paid him.
me thinking how strar;
foreigners are, and then,
myself. They are notfof”"^
yc
high at the most. This in its
day was like the Needle in the
World’s Fair at Seattle, it was
the symbol of an Exposition and
today remains as just a tourist
attraction. For about only twenty
cents, you can take the elevator
to the top where there is. a res
taurant. The city lies under you
like a land of dreams. It is so
nice that I have met many people
who are genuine Parisians there
having dinner and taking in the
view.
Yesterday I was sitting in a
park chair near the Champs-
Elysees, a park-like boulevard. I
was thinking to myself about
how funny the streets look over
here. You really don’t expect
modern cars to be coming from
them. Most of the streets are
cobblestone and are very narrow.
The ones that are wide are so
wide that the tiny cars that they
have here look silly on the wide
streets.
Then there are so many big
town squares and famous
churches that break up the order
ly flow of traffic, that it makes
a strange confusion for the
I am.
1 went to the Gallerie'
ette, a department store;
town Paris. They call dt A 1 '
stores galleries, because 406 ' ‘
made up of many fbPu r P (
balconies which look doe 4041,11 1
main floor. T De l
I saw a group of hat; 1 c f' 01
pers crowding around i 1 ^ 68
and my curiosity got tin
me. I pushed and sk inc ^ '■
the best of t hem, and w!f£ S ' H ’'
to the counter I saw if aI P’
were selling. It wase^ 0 ' 14 '
leather luggage import! a-Ttl -
the United States. Igii n * I f a ^
like imported things too. ons( 1 n
jfeit.
When Fire
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stranger who is just observing.
You really expect Marie An
toinette to come down them in
a tumbril or something like that.
Suddenly I was disturbed in
my musing by a fellow in a uni
form coat with a badge. He asked
me for fifty centimes (about two
cents) for sitting in the chair.
I was going to refuse, but he ex
plained that the city licensed
him to put the chairs there and
keep the place clean. For this
service, he charged those who
Who Answer
KANARRAVILLE, I'ti
When the fire whistle Six J
this country town of 2%ve be
it’s the women who anutions
call. ser mi
The full complemeai ^
volunteer fire departmeiag- nari
dinarily 20 women. i ac( , C(
“However, four of oi al | and
teers are taking time o&jg ma
babies,” says Mrs. Che; eer; j nf ,.
Hams, the energetic leat.
The all-women fire,
, ms wer
was organized a year!
explains, because too e
were occupied with cl ’’ ^ irs
farms and ranches, and' Ca ^ en
of town when the fires SAN
The town already
engine at its disposal, 1;^^ ' n
sat idle through too k ^ 11
for lack of an organizei JlFNl
ment. Ul: ‘ n ’ D 1
When a weed fire !,<)
two homes the ladies k ^°n-t
gether and asked a mer 8 *' weI
train them in the use BOUf
fighting equipment. °cke, i
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