THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, September 13, 1962
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BATTALION EDITORIALS
Many Significant Events
To Highlight New Year
As sure as the weather has turned hotter and long- lines
have formed at practically every business establishment in
the area, school has begun.
Any further reminders will come Monday morning when
classes will slowly kick into gear for the long pull into the
dead of Winter.
Even though the signs are the same, in many aspects
this will be a year like no other in the long, colorful and
sometimes boisterous history of A&M.
Among the more notable things to mark on your calendar
and look forward to:
® Texas’ new Maritime Academy, operated by A&M
with headquarters in Galveston, opens for the first time thw
fall. Cadets will spend their first year on campus here and
their last three at Galveston.
Subcommittee To Open
Probe Of Mail Robberf
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WASHINGTON (A 3 )—A far cry
from the usual congressional
committee report is one being
prepared by the Government Op
erations subcommittee headed by
a Texas Congressman, Rep. Jack
Brooks of Beaumont.
It will be about the recent $1.5
Many Letters
To Constituents
Prove Worthy
• A new Aggie grid era opens under the coaching of
Hank Foldberg, a former star here who made All-America at
West Point. The new mentor’s first team is being rated a
strong contender for conference honors and may put A&M
back on its winning ways in football.
• A&M’s first convocation is scheduled Nov. 16 and will
see the Board of Directors’ Century Study response. Groups
both on campus and across the state have worked for the
past year on the Centum Study report to provide college
goals for the next 15 years.
• The Corps of Cadets will operate for the first time
under the Code of Conduct, compiled during the summer to
consolidate corps privileges and practices. The college’s Honor
Code enters its second year, after an initial year considered a
success in almost every quarter.
® Sports />ther than football will also see the Aggies
standing at or near the head of the class. Heavy returnees
from strong teams will be found in baseball, track, gold and
cross country, with basketball the only question mark. Here
Coach Bob Rogers has lost heavily via graduation and will
have to rebuild.
“ . . . blue cards, green ones and a few white ones—are you
sure you hafta have a pink one, sir?”
Gonzalez Studies
Federal Agencies
• Plans may be completed during the year for the first
state-wide 4-H Horse Show. Tentative plans now call for the
inaugural show in August of next year, with entries expected
from across the state.
• A new largest building on campus will be unveiled this
fall when the multi-million dollar Plant Sciences Building
opens. The huge building is fast nearing completion and
officials are eying an October opening date.
• This will also be the last year for veterinary medicine
students to attend semester classes. Beginning next fall they
will register under a trimester system, a plan that seems to
be fast sweeping the country and could conceivably be used
here college-wide in the not-too-distant future.
• The new Research and Development Annex is entering
its first full year of use, with a highly-interesting project
now underway. Research is being conducted on an Astro-
Kinetic Lift, a type of aircraft that may eventually be used
for both military and civilian uses.
These of course are onl ythe high spots of what looks
like a very interesting year—but don’t turn your head too
slowly, something might pass you by.
Get a flying start on Continental!
WASHINGTON
NEW ORLEANS
By TEX EASLEY
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON Rep.
Henry B. Gonzalez, Demo-San
Antonio, a virtual newcomer to
Washington, has under way a
campaign to make himself known
to top government officials.
Not only does he become ac
quainted with the leaders but he
has an opportunity to familiarize
himself with operations of their
offices.
Gonzalez, 46, won words of ap
preciation from Secretary of Wel
fare Abraham Ribicoff when he
visited the latter’s headquarters.
He said Gonzalez had been the
first member of the House to
visit him since he became a mem
ber of President Kennedy’s cab
inet.
Gonzalez entered the House
last November as the elected suc
cessor to former Rep. Paul Kil-
day, Demo, who resigned to be
come a member of the three-
judge Military Court of Appeals.
Starting with Secretary of
Commerce Luther H. Hodges, the
Spanish-speaking Gonzalez has
about gone through the Cabinet
and sub-cabinet ranks. When
possible, he takes along a mem
ber of his staff so he, too, can
get a better insight into what
makes the wheels of government
turn.
Gonzalez, in periodic reports to
constituents, isn’t hesitant to tell
about trips he’s invited to take
by virtue of his position. Some
members are reluctant to report
such trips for fear they may be
thought of as junketing Con
gressmen. Gonzalez, in a recent
letter to constituents, wrote:
“It came as a surprise to me
when Secretary of the Army, El
vis Stahr, invited me during the
last congressipnal recess to visit
in Germany for a wmrking in
spection trip along with six other
congressmen.
“At first I hesitated about go
ing, for it never was my desire
to be what some people call a
junketing congressman.”
He drew this conclusion from
his 10-day trip:
“It was a revealing experience
and a working experience and I
feel I can be a better congress
man for having done it.”
Gonzalez doesn’t expect to have
much free time in the near fu
ture. He plans to have his wife
and their eight children join him
when school begins again.
Mrs. Gonzales and some of the
children, who range in age from
4 to 21, were here to see him
sworn in when the new session
convened last January. Gonzalez,
who was uncertain if he would
have an opponent in the May
primary in a bid for a full two-
year term starting next January,
had little choice but to leave his
family at home until the future
was more certain.
Going through the Democratic
primary without opposition, and
with no Republican against him
for the November balloting,
things are looking up for Gon
zalez. He’s house hunting here
WASHINGTON UPJ—Rep.
Wright Patman, Demo—Texar
kana, is a firm—and consistent—
believer in the effectiveness of
the weekly letter to constituents.
He’s been writing them regu
larly for almost 30 years. The
number of “editions” he has is
sued now exceeds 1,3.50.
Patman, and the many other
members of Congress who also
write the weekly letters, feel they
are helpful in keeping their po
litical fences in good order.
Patman’s formula is to com
ment on matters of interest to
his Northeast Texas constituents;
why he opposes or supports a
particular legislative proposal,
and random observations on the
national or international scene.
He also includes comments like
this:
“One American farmer is
equivalent to five Russians
(based on 9 per cent of our pop
ulation engaged in farming, 45
per cent in Russia)” or “The
new measles vaccine is 90 per
cent effective.”
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million mail truck robbery in
Massachusetts.
“We’ll get it out as soon as
possible,” said Brooks. “But
right new we’re tied up with the
economy in government agencies
hearings. Meanwhile, we have
been assured by the Post Office
Department that additional se
curity measures, such as radio
controls, are being established to
prevent a recurrence of this type
robbery.”
Brooks’ group was in the midst
of a series of hearings, in which
cabinet members were being
called in to discuss how they
could cut down on the cost of
their departments, when the
Massachusetts robbery took
place.
Because his subcommittee is
supposed to check up on the effi
ciency or lack of efficiency of
departments, the routine economy
probe was temporarily set aside.
The two men who wei*e held up,
the mail truck driver and his
helper, came down from Boston
to testify.
Although the report and its
recommendations are yet to be
published, Brooks, in closing the
hearing, raised the question as to
why a million dollars or more
would be hauled about the coun
tryside in a regular mail truck.
It developed that money is being
transported in similar fashion by
mail trucks in many other places.
The report also may reflect
the annoyance of Brooks and his
colleagues at postal officials
from headquarters here who tes
tified about the Boston situation
but failed to volunteer the in
formation that money in a mail
bag being transported by mail
truck from Chicago to another
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