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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1965)
Columns • Editorials • News Briefs Che Battalion Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, November 19, 1965 • Opinions • Cartoons Features State Capitol Roundup Texas Press Association AUSTIN — A facelifting of the Texas road side scene is about to take place. Gov. John Connally has pledged full coopera tion with the Federal government in connection with the new Highway Beautification Act. A THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Joe Buser, chairman; Dr. David Bowers, Collegre of Liberal Arts; Dr. Robert A. Clark, College of Geosciences; Dr. Frank A. Mc Donald, College of Science; Dr. J. G. McGuire, College of Engineering; Dr. Robert S. Titus, College of Veterinary Medicine; and Dr. A. B. Wooten, College of Agriculture. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. News contributions may be made by telephoning 846-6618 846-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building, r advertising or delivery call 846-6416. Mail subscriptions are $3.60 per semester; $6 per school year; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building, College Station, Texas. EDITOR GLENN DROMGOOLE Managing Editor Gerald Garcia Sports Editor Larry Jerden News Editor Tommy DeFrank Photographer Herky Killingsworth Amusements Editor Lani Presswood legislative council committee here now is consider ing the legal steps necessary in Texas to enforce provisions of the Act. This to prevent loss of U. S. funds. State Highway Engineer D. C. Greer is out lining an initial plan of compliance with the Fed eral law which proposes control of scenery-spoiling billboards and junkyards and general scenic en hancement along 17,589 miles of Texas' Federal- Aid highways alone. Texas Highway Department, Greer reports, al ready is taking steps to put into effect an ex panded program of landscaping and beautification at a cost of about $10,000,000. Program will cover a two-year period and will include planting pro jects, rest areas, irrigation systems and possible scenic easements at selected overlooks and natural- beauty spots. Greer anticipates Texas will get about $6,- 000,000 a year in federal funds for this work. He has called for a complete inventory of junkyards and large outdoor advertising signs and devices within 660 feet of highways. Some of the junkyards, Greer emphasized, will be screened by plantings, fences and other means in the near future. Meanwhile, information from the inventories will be used in studies of needed state legislation, including zoning of industrial and commercial areas along the state highway system as called for in the beautification act. Criminal Code Texas’ much-maligned new code of criminal procedure was defended by State Bar official, Fred Erisman of Longview, at a three-day insti tute to study its provisions here. Erisman said code brings Texas criminal sta tutes in line with modern-day decisions of U. S. Supreme Court. It means little to law enforcement, he maintained, to obtain convictions, only to have Supreme Court set the defendant free because of unconstitutional procedures. SEMINAR REMADA INN College Station NOV. 22—7:30 P.M. Current Market Trends by Mr. Alfred E. Goldman Research Dept. A.G. Edwards & Sons Member New York Stock Exchange Refreshments Served CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “We should have a bonfire every month! Nothing creates a greater appreciation for class!” ON OTHER CAMPUSES HOUSTON The University of Houston is again striving for the recogni tion that they feel they deserve as a large university. A stump speaking program that is patterned after the Uni versity Texas’ program went into effect last Thursday. The campus also is still caught in the middle of anti-anti-U. S. policy demonstrations. Sigma Nus erected a sign pledging their support, and car owners were re ported to be painting their win dows with appropriate slogans. Cougar Aggie Joke: Did you hear about the Aggie that want ed to burn his draft card and forgot to take it out of his pocket ? MISSISSIPPI The Mississippian reports: Last year it was the sculpture cut for men, complete with hair dryer, hairnet, mudpack, and everything. This year, along with the hairdos it’s ruffled shirts and lipstick for men. But I guess that beats the draft. Nothing could blow the Army’s mind any more than somebody, reporting for a phy sical wearing lipstick, a pink ruffled shirt and a pair of high heels. CHAPMAN The floating campus of the Seven Seas Division of Chapman College, the M. S. Seven Seas, left New York Oct. 20 on a 108 day voyage around the world. The Seven Seas will travel to Europe, then through the Medi terranean to the Near, Middle and Far East before returning to Los Angeles Feb. 4. The 300 students from 41 states carry a full load of col lege courses with classes held daily aboard ship. TEXAS WESLEYAN “The Rambler” from Texas Wesleyan College says: Engi neers calculate the number of blasts that will come from the auto horns in a traffic jam as equal to the sum of the squares at the wheels. TWU The Daily Lass-0 of Texas Woman’s University has been running more than its share of news concerning the Aggies. Dur- ing one week when stories were run on the Aggie Players, a post game story, a pre-game story and a column ran, one advisor re marked, “What are you running, an Aggie paper or a TWU pa per.” Another Look At Viet Protests Tim Lane A judge, ruling on a charge against members of a student protest group in Austin several weeks ago, said something that seems to have been scarcely no ticed. I don’t think it deserved to be buried in the bottom of stories stuck on page umpteen of most newspapers. The students I am referring to had been demonstrating against the administration’s Viet Nam policy, after being refused a pa rade permit by Austin city offi cials because of the nature of their demonstration. The judge, whose name I wish I remembered, expressed his vehement disagreement with and disapproval of the purpose of the demonstration, but dismissed the charges, saying: “It would be strange indeed if, at the very moment some of our young men were fighting to protect the rights of minorities to freedom of speech and opinion, we censured you people for dar ing to express an opinion, how ever objectionable that opinion might seem.” This, to me, gets right down to what our country is really all about in a way that people who wave their patriotism in front of their own eyes, until they get blind spots, cannot see. It, for example, is a strange piece of logic to say that Joe College, because he thinks the President and his administration are making a mistake by waging a containing war in Viet Nam, is disloyal to his country or to the men who are fighting that war. If he honestly thinks it is a mistake for his country to be fighting in Viet Nam, it would be more disloyal for him not to say so. And saying so cannot in any logical way be construed to mean that he is being disloyal to the men fighting there — although this twist of double-think is per formed by some weighty official every time such a demonstration is held. The young men fighting in Viet Nam, like GI’s anywhere, have orders to follow. And any good enlisted man can tell you that the Army requires that he must do things, not that he must like to do them. It would seem “strange indeed’ if the men who were fighting for a right were allowed to have that right, while those for whom they were pre sumably protecting it were not. 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