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Wir^ (P^ iCTKi v Health Trip Successful See Page 6 Che Battalion Annex Living Good. See Page 5 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1963 Number 139 Spurs, Boots, Broncs Supply Rodeo Thrills 2 Youths May Win Merit Scholarships CLASSES: , Port An Irackenridgi Her. 4, bL ark. 6, MiS ardson. 9,i las Samuel ifakLv. i X.-t New Billiard Tables Make Debate Students and faculty representative initiate Corps, Howard Head, MSC Council pres- Piimas. new billiard tables in the recreation room of ident, Dr. John M. Skrivanek, faculty rep- the Memorial Student Center. From left to resentative, Richard Moore, Civilian Stu- right, Paul Dresser, Cadet Colonel of the dents Council president. 4, Orange »y City. I Bell. 9, R 10, Nederli )enver City, •d. 4, Olnt; le. 7, Katy. 10, Atlantal any. 2, Loe|; Goldthwait# erson. 7,1] E), Ing'leside. Munday t® 1 VOTE IS 271-155 Tax Cut Bill Through House; Faces Rough Senate Action ? i WASHINGTON (A 3 )—The House passed Wednesday the biggest tax IJcut bill in history—President Ken nedy’s proposal for an $ll-billion {'slash with a share for practically P every U. S. taxpayer. 1 The measure now goes to the Senate where it faces a tough and ancertain future. It holds out the prospect of $100 ito $200 more take-home pay every year for the majority of tax pay ing families. THE VOTE on passage was 271 to 155. A total of 223 Democrats and 48 Republicans voted for the bill, and ■126 Republicans and 29 Democrats against it. I The administration wants to put the cut into effect in time for the I increased pay to begin showing next January. The House action \$as a double triumph for President Kennedy who had called the measure the keystone of his economic program. BEFORE PASSING the bill, the House defeated, 226-199, a Repub lican motion that would have made the tax cut conditional to Ken nedy’s submission of reduced spending budget for this year and next year. Chairman Harry F. Byrd, D.-Va., of the Senate Finance Committee announced that his group will start closed-door briefings on the bill Oct. 3 with congi-essional staff experts. Byrd indicated the public hear ings will not begin until the week Wire Review vitH a car- ?place the ;onverter nk bottle, axam. choice of :tra broad' ; dealer caoj onvertet | ny unclam-1 lase. Phi-1 ThisguaJ jntil Octoj •j<er dealet I joKfc SANTO DOMINGO —The Do- m'nican Republic armed forces and police overthrew President Juan D. Bosch today and summoned {{leaders of opposition parties to pick a “resnectable man” to suc ceed him. Military leaders charged Bosch’s administration was cha otic. Members of Bosch’s Dominican Revolutionary narty and their al lies were not invited to the ses sion aimed at setting up a provi sional government. BOGOTA, Colombia — Presi dent Guillermo Leon Valencia Wednesday blamed a terrorist plot of emergency proportions for the 36 bomb blasts that shook five Colombian cities Tuesday night. One bomb shattered windows at the U.S. center in Manizales. Another exploded in front of the presidential palace here damag ing the presidential guard’s dor mitory. Police said the explo sions caused no injuries. ★★★ LONDON — The long-awaited Denning reooi’t on sexual high jinks and security risks iu Britain Wednesday cleared Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his govern ment of blame in the John Pro- fumo-Christine Keeler scandal. Lord Denning commented, how ever, that the case may have dam aged U.S. confidence in Britain. U.S. NEWS MIAMI, Fla.—Hurricane Edith spun 80-mile an hour winds through the Caribbean toward Puerto Rico today and the Mi ami Weather Bureau said the storm may grow stronger. A hurricane watch was in ef fect for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Dominican Re public. Hurricane warnings were discontinued for the Windward and Leeward islands from Guad eloupe to St. Vincent. ★★★ TUSKEGEE, Ala.—One of 13 Negroes ”'bo desegregated the Tuskegee High School on Sept. 10 has been expelled, the Montgomery Advertiser said Wednesday. The Advertiser quoted “respon sible sources” as saying that Ed die Mathews, a 9th grade pupil, was expelled possibly for “insub ordination.” It could not be con firmed immediately. TEXAS NEWS GALVESTON, Tex.—A Coast Guard helicopter on a search and rescue mission crashed in the Gulf of Mexico about noon today, operations personnel at the Coast Guard station report ed. Another helicopter, dispatched to the scene, said the helicopter floated when it hit the water and that the two men it carried were in no danger. ★★★ AUSTIN—Gov. John Connally named today a 13-member Govei’- nor’s Committee on the Eradica tion of Tuberculosis in Texas. Dr. Charles A. LeMaistre, Dal las, was named chairman. The committee will recommend a long-range plan to the legisla ture for case finding, treatment and follow up on tuberculosis care. of Oct. 14. He has said the public hearings may run six weeks al though the schedule has not yet been made out. The Virginian is opposed to any tax reduction without off-setting spending cuts. THE KENNEDY timetable calls for two-thirds of the tax reduction for individuals to begin with the new year, and the rest in 1965. Ultimately the cut for average tax- paying families is estimated in the $100- to $200-a-year tax range. Time is a big problem, even if Congress i-emains in session through the fall—as expected. The Senate faces a long wrangle over the administration’s civil rights program. The Republicans proposed to make the entire tax cut depend on the President submitting spending estimates of not more than $97 billion for the fiscal year that started last July 1 and $98 billion for the following yeai*. He could either submit such statements at the regular time in January or else settle any doubts about the tax cut by publishing them earlier in the Federal Register. If the spending limits were sub sequently exceeded, the tax cut would not be canceled. Changes would take place in two stages—Jan. 1, 1964 and a year late) 1 .- The individual income tax return due next April would, however, reflect the old rates, since they would be on 1963 income. David Kent and Donald McCrory | of A&M Consolidated High School are semifinalists in 1963-64 Meilt Scholarship competition. Kent is the son of Mr. and Pdrs. Jack Kent, 823 Rosemary Drive. His father is an A&M mathematics professor. McCrory’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey E. McCrory, 704 Pershing. His father, who had been assistant to President Earl Rudder,* was named this summer as Executive Director of the A&M Development Fund. Consolidated Principal E. P. Oz- ment said 25,000 students took the test. Seven hundi'ed were selected semifinalists in Texas. He added that more than 16,500 high schools participated in the March testing program. \ MARGARET BROWN, Sam Hen ry Creswell and Russell Hanna, also of A&M Consolidated, re ceived honorable mention in the competition. Kent and McCrory are among 13,000 high school seniors in the status. Semifinalists in the com petition are those making the highest scores in each state and U.S. territory, The two College Station youths are now a step closer to winning a four-year, $6,000 scholarship to the college or university of their choice. When asked for his reaction to the honor Kent said, “Of course I. am happy about it. The thing I like best is thht I will have a larger selection of colleges that I can attend if I do get the scholar ship.” The tall younster said he ten tatively plans to study physics at the University of Michigan. “I’M VERY pleased,” said Mc Crory,, “I didn’t expect it.” Civilian Student Council To Hold Meeting Tonight The Civilian Student Council will hold its first meeting this semester Sept. 26, 7':30 p.m. room 3D in the Memorial Student Cen ter. Items on the agenda include in vocation, roll call, additions or corrections to the minutes, fol lowed by treasurer’s report and parlimentarian’s notes. Also on the agenda is the Lake- view report by Jeff Harp, followed by the standing committees and the sweetheart selection committee ap pointments. Next on the agenda will be the student senate report by Jeff Harp, followed by new business and adjournment. Coats and ties will be worn to all meetings. College Station Adds 13 Miles To City Limits The College Station City Council passed an annexation ordinance earlier this week that added 4,100 acres of A&M University land, increasing the community’s area to 13 square miles. Ordinance 378 provided that A&M land on the city side of the Brazos River be included in the city limits of College Station. Until the or dinance the town’s city limits had included almost seven square miles. The move was .made in advance of changes in Texas law which clamp down more on cities’ powers of annexation. According to Mayor Pro Tern Joe Orr the ordinance was passed at this time to avoid more compli cated procedures required under the new laws. He added that Col lege Station has consented to re linquish claim to land bordering Bryan city limits which might fall into the latter’s “natural sphere.” The College Station council also conducted a public hearing on re zoning a tract of land in back of the Saber Motel. Parts of lots 31 and 32 in the D. A. Smith Sub division will be changed from a business and apartment district to a fii'st business district. City Manager Ran Boswell explained the redistricting was considered necessary for an addition to the Saber Motel to be constructed. The council also approved a rec ommendation that the Brazos County Youth Counseling Service charge fees for its services. The low bid of $4,160 for Houston’s General Electric Co. was accepted for electrical supplies. He added that he plans to at tend either A&M or the University of Texas. McCrory wants to study architecture. The Merit Program was estab lished in 1955. Grants from the Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York provide the funds. Almost 7,500 young scholars have received the scholarships since the program began. DAVID KENT DONALD MCCRORY All Aggie Contest To Open Tonight About 1500 people are expeced to attend the three-day All Aggie Rodeo this weekend, according to Dr. G. T. King, sponsor of the A&M University Saddle and Sirloin Club. The 42nd rodeo for A&M students only will begin Thurs day at 8 p. m. at the Texas Aggie Arena and will continue through Saturday night. Seven events have been scheduled for the meet sponsored by the Saddle and Sirloin Club, consisting of bareback riding, bull riding, tie-down calf roping, ribbon roping, steer dogging, a greased pig race and a girls’ barrel race. Late Wednesday night, 29 students had been entered in the bareback riding contest, 26 in bull riding, 20 in tie-down calf roping, 20 in ribbon rop-"* ing, 15 in steer dogging and j 10 girls in the barrel-race I event. Deadline for entries was to have been Thursday noon. Entrants for the greased pig race will he chosen before each night’s performance. Tickets are being sold by the some 100 members of the Saddle and Sirloin Club. Advance tickets ai'e selling for 60 cents for stu dents and 75 cents for adults, while prices at the gate will be 75 cents for students and 90 cents for adults. “Proceeds go to help pay ex penses for livestock, meat and wool judging teams at meets in Kansas City, Madison, Wis., Chi cago, Denver, Fort Worth and Knoxville, Tenn.,” King- said. A silver buckle will be given to ^the highest individual in each event, King announced, and the rodeo’s all-around cowboy will re ceive a special buckle. Judg-es for the meet are Jack Ruttle and Ken Doris. Ruttle, fi-om New Mexico State Univer sity, is taking work toward the completion of a doctoo-al degree at A&M. Doris is a senior in the College of Veterinary Medicine and is a past president of the A&M Rodeo Club. Mike Drake of Alice is the Sad dle and Sirloin Club’s general chainnan of the rodeo. Officers in the club include Joe Sagebiel of Fredericksburg-, president; Billy Harve Reagor, vice-president, and Franklin Reagor, secretary, both of Llano; Kenneth Radde of Me ridian, treasurer; Tom White of Canyon, reporter, and Stanley Mil ler of Brady, the group’s Agricul tural Council representative. Band Boosters Meet Tonite The A&M Consolidated Band Boosters Club will have its first meeting of the school year Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. According to Joe C. Brusse, president, the group will plan the year’s activities, with special emphasis on the annual band carnival which is scheduled for Oct. 19. Other officers of the Band Boosters Club are Mrs. Bill Braddy, vice president; Mrs. George L. Huebner, secretary; and B. F. Liles, treasurer. A reporter will be elected at the Thursday meeting. Band calendar sales began Saturday, with band members canvassing most of the College Station vicinity. Orders for calendars and listings still may be made by contacting Mrs. Robert L. Whiting or any band member. Proceeds from the calendar sales thus far amount to more than $250. Talking Mobster At Capitol For Chat With Investigators WASHINGTON <A>) _ Joseph Valachi, the talking mobstei’, came out of hiding today and traveled to Capitol Hill for a private talk with senators investigating the Black Hand of the Mafia. The star witness’ appearance at the closed session was billed as a rehearsal for his testimony Fri day when he gets his chance to put the finger publicly on his for mer bosses in the crime syndicate. Reputedly the ruling commis sion of La Cosa Nostra has put a $100,000 price on his head. Police believe any member of the syndicate could collect the bounty by killing the 60-year-old convicted dope peddler and mur derer. But since the Capone era of tommy guns spouting fire from speeding sedans, the mobsters have learned a little finesse. A New Yoik police official reports the gang was thinking of employ ing public relations to repair the damage Valachi may do to its pub lic image. THE SENATE Investigations subcommittee arranged today’s session to give its members a chance to appraise the story Va lachi was expected to tell of bru tal murder, crime for profit and terrorism. DR. J. M. NANCE A&M Profs History Book Labeled Best “After San Jacinto,” a study of Texas-Mexican frontier relations in 1836-41, by Dr. Joseph Milton Nance of the A&M University his tory faculty, has been chosen as the best Texas history book of the year. Dr. Nance will be among the authors honored in Austin Oct. 19 at the 15th annual Writers Roundup sponsored by the Austin Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, na tional fraternity for women in journalism. “After San Jacinto” is the first of three volumes Dr. Nance is writing on Texas-Mexican rela tions between the Texans’ War of Independance and the annexation by the United States'. The second volume should be printed within the next few months. The Univer sity of Texas Press is the pub lisher. Dr. Nance heads the Department of History and Government at A&M. He joined the faculty here in 1941. The professor began collecting material for the story of Texas- Mexican relations almost as soon as he came here. “The members of this year’s committee felt that the creative excellence of your book made you eligible for this award, and we are proud to honor you at the 15th annual Writers Roundup,” Round up Chairman Anna Brewer of Aus tin wrote to Dr. Nance. $2,954,000 Paid For UT Oil Leases AUSTIN (A 3 ) — Leases on 153 tracts of University of Texas land, totaling 50,621 acres, were ap proved Wednesday by the boai-d in charge of leasing. One sixth royalty was reserved by the state under all leases sold. The leases brought a total bonus of $2,954,000 with an average bo nus of $58.35 an acre. The largest bid was on a drill ing block sold to the Union Oil Co. of California for $214,000. Phil lips Petroleum Co. topped all oth er spending with a total of $900,000 in bids. i