THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 30, 1962
36th Plans cadet slouch
by Jim Earle
BATTALION EDITORIALS Anniversary
:
Only Drivers Can Impede
This Weekend
Labor Day Traffic Death
The scene won’t quite be the same, but the end results
could very well be . . .
Some students, faculty and staff members will pull away
from the campus Friday afternoon with high sights of a
merry Labor Day weekend in front of them. There won’t
be as big a traffic jam as at the beginning of the Christmas
holidays, but one fellow high way-traveler will still be there—
death.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has predicted
that 30 persons will die on the state’s highway during the
holiday weekend stretching from 6 p. m. Friday to midnight
next Monday. The only thing wrong with these death predic
tions is that they are usually painfully accurate.
But in the brighter side, a like total of 30 deaths was
predicted for Labor . Day a year ago—only 21 Texans died,
however.
Why? More than on observer will give the credit to the
state’s “Drive Lighted and Live” campaign, instigated only
a few years ago but already widely heralded.
It’s really very simple—drivers are asked to burn their
lights during daylight hours to remind themselves and their
fellow motorists to exercise care on the crowded highways.
It seems everyone has a part—the actual motorist, the
simple bystander and the professional man whose job it is to
protect highway travelers.
Of course accidents will happen. But 30 accidents won’t
happen this weekend on Texas’ highways. If that many
people are killed, many will have died at the careless hand
of a fellow-citizen.
Special to The Battalion
ABILENE — Maj. Gen. Everett
S. Simpson, commander of the
36th Division of the Texas Na
tional Guard, has been announced
as keynote speaker for the 1962
Reunion of the 36th Division at
Abilene this weekend.
In addition to serving as a re
union for the 36th, Pete Evans,
a member of the Lost Battalion,
is attempting to contact all mem
bers of the Lost Battalion in order
to urge their attendance at the
reunion. Members of the Lost
Battalion were captured in the
Pacific during World War II and
spent some 44 months as pri
soners.
Registration for the reunion
will begin at 3 p.m. Friday on
the mezannine of Hotel Windsor.
Registration will reopen at 8 a.m.
Saturday with a Board of Di
rectors meeting and committee
meetings scheduled at 9. The first
general session will convene at
10 a.m.
The end result, therefore, rests with the individual
driver.
Gen. Simpson has had a long
and distinguished military career
in the T-Patch Division. During
World War II he stood out in
combat, winning numerous de
corations while serving with the
142nd Infantry.
Texan Changes
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WASHINGTON GP) — One of
the most basic changes in the
foreign aid program in years has
been brought about in large part
through the efforts of Texas
Congressman Jim Wright.
An amendment he offered when
the bill came up to extend the life
of the program was accepted by
a decisive vote. Now that the bill
is law, State Department officials
have been seeking his advice on
the best way to get the idea into
operation.
The Wright plan calls for em
phasis on making of loans rather
than outright grants and seeing
that the money goes as directly as
possible to individuals for such
things as buying homes or farms
or small businesses. This con
trasts with the heretofore normal
pattern of allocating money to
foreign governments with the
hope that it will trickle down and
create more jobs.
“Too much stress has been
placed on big, grandiose projects
too far removed from the plain
citizens to have much real grass
roots impact,” Wright said.
The aid now will be channeled
so far as possible through cooper
atives or savings and loan in
stitutions, which will in turn let
the money out on long-term, low
interest rate basis to individuals.
Wright got the idea fros ^
missionary in Peru, who toUli f:
lack of credit holds back advaj
ment of the so called little
there more than anything,
In addressing the Houseina
port of his amendment, Wti
said lack of progress ofsomei
tions seemed to be tied to lad
opportunities of its citizens.
“For generations,” he cott
ed, “ a person born of avei
modest circumstances has fe
doomed to remain forever ini
circumstances.
A&M To Aw
East Texan,
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A&M has been asked by
East Texas Chamber of Comae
to work out an agricultural [i
for the 72-county area, it
announced Wednesday by
ber President Fred Pool.
The plan, to be formulate!
conjunction with the chaii
agricultural committeej/wl
put to use alongside ? 0peisl
BIG. This manuever is alreali
progress to improve indiis
conditions in the area and I
been called a success up tot
date.
San Antonio Makes Bid
To Train Air Officers 1
By TEX EASLEY
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON 65 > > — A run-
nerup in the hot competition won
by Colorado Springs for the Air
Force Academy, San Antonio bids
fair now to win recognition as
the home of a permanent school
turning out half or more of the
Air Force’s new officers.
The Air Academy output is
some 600 officers annually. The
output at San Antonio under a
program set into operation only a
couple of years ago is more than
2,000 a year and is expected to
reach 5,000 by 1965.
Relatively unknown to the pub
lic is this new Air Force Officer
Training School which may re
gain for San Antonio prestige en
joyed before World War II when
Randolph Field was called the
West Point of the Air, and neai*-
by Kelly and Brooks fields shared
fame.
Lindbergh and Doolittle were
but two of the famous fliers who
trained in San Antonio.
Only college praduates are eli
gible for admission to the new
Officers Training School. After
90-day courses they receive second
lieutenant commissions as non
flying officers.
They must sign up for three
years service.
Revival of San Antonio’s lofty
aeronautical status were told here
by Maj. Gen. John H. Foster, a
San Antonio insurance man when
not on active duty in the Air
Force. He is national president of
the Reserve Officers Association.
With Maj. Starr Kealhofer, a
reservist who is assistant manag
er of the San Antonio Chamber
of Commerce, Foster came to
Washington to back up a recom
mendation by the Air Force and
President Kennedy’s budget bu
reau that $3,827,000 be appropri
ated for new buildings at the
San Antonio school.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee knocked the item out of
military construction money bill.
Foster and Kealhofer were here
trying to get the money restored
by the Senate.
“The training school at San
Antonio will move right along
notwithstanding this particular
appropriation,” Foster said.
“But we do hope the money will
be appropriated, because the new
buildings it is intended to provide
should assure the permanency of
the school.”
If provided, the money would
be used to build on “Medina
Base,” near Lackland AF Base,
a military and professional train
ing building at a cost of $1,287,-
/IS Teachers
Are Offered
NSF Course
A&M will offer a special cour
se in earth science in September
for high school science teachers
within commuting distance of Vic
toria.
Beginning Sept. 10, and spon
sored by the college under a spec
ial National Science Foundation
Grant, the supplemental training
course for junior and senior high
science teachers will be held one-
night a week during the 1962-
63 school year at Victoria College.
Deadline for fall semester en
rollment is Sept. 5, Coleman
Loyd, NSF coordinator here said.
Twenty - six secondary school
teachers of science subjects will
be selected for the course.
A NSF grant of $9,530 will
finance the special in-service
course that will cover geology,
meteorology and oceanography.
Teachers will receive a mileage
and book allowance. They earn
three-semester hours of credit to
ward an M.S. degree in education
with a science option.
Dr. M. C. Schroeder, associate
professor of geology here will di
rect the course with assistance
from Dr. H. R. Blank, professor
of geology and geophysics. Dr.
Dale Leipper and Dr. Vance E.
Moyer of the Department of
Oceanography and Meteorology
wall give class work in those sub
ject areas.
THE BATTALION
Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the site
000; a headquarters, $490,000;
quarters for 576 cadets, $1,570,.-
000; a mess hall, $400,000; and a
sewage treatment plant, $80,000.
The current OTS class of ap
proximately 500 is being trained
partially at Lackland and partial
ly at some of the existing build
ings on Medina Base — an in
stallation erected on a quadrangle
layout a few years ago for highly
hush hush joint Atomic Energy
Commission-military operations.
Under the broad plans outlined
by Foster, the AEG would be pro
vided buildings at Lackland to
compensate for some $6 million
worth of existing facilities at
Medina diverted to OTS use.
Foster and Kealhofer were con
fident of enthusiastic support
from San Antonio Rep. Henry
Gonzales and Sen. Ralph Yarbor
ough, D-Tex., who is a reserve
colonel.
Not so sure about Sen. John
Tower, R-Tex., they went to his
office and emphasized a point
they trusted would strike home
— economy.
“This new program will save
the taxpayers untold millions of
dollars,” said Kealhofer.
“All of these boys who enter at
Medina will have gone through
four or five years of college at
their own expense and obtained
their degrees.
“After just 90 days of con
centrated tax-p^id training, they
are commissioned.
“It cost $50,000 a year to put a
boy through the Air Academy.
They turn out 600 a year, we’re
to turn out 5,000, about half the
Air Force officer intake require
ment. That is a lot of saving.”
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