Bryan-College Station Eagle from Bryan, Texas • 1

The Bryan Daily Eagle TOTAL DISTRIBUTION PRICE PER COPY RIDAY 10c 7778 Eighty One Years Serving the Brazos Valley Complete Wire Service of Associated Press VOLUME 81 BRYAN TEXAS SUNDAY JUNE 23 1957 16 Plus 8 Pages Comics NO 303 says Thousands Of Soldiers Due To Start 1 i On Way Home Soon New Tuition Rate Into 4 is were of Bryan and its companion Air Explorer Squadron 81 Star Waco Radio Men Buy Station WTAW Kills our happy meeting ATER OUR YEARS a 'ft A also All fantile Paralysis Dr Kns played a leading role in con $225535 SEOUL June 22 Commu nist North Korea confronted by the fact that new American weapons will be moving soon to South Korea proposed today to dicker again over the future of the divided nation Radio Pyongyang broadcast a caH by North Korea's Pre mier Kim 11 Sung for an im mediate conference of aU nas lions "concerned for the peace ful solution of the Korean question" unification of Korea should be left to the Koreans themselves by withdrawing all foreign troops from Korea in stead of introducing new weap ons into South he de clared at a reception in Pyong yang for a Soviet delegation headed by Ambassador A Puzanov At the same time the UN decision to disregard a prohibition in the armistice agreement of July 27 1953 and start arming its troops with modem weapons was denounced by the North Korean Commu nist party newspaper Rodcng Shinmoon The U' Command has been charging the Commu nists with violating that pro hibition and building up their forces with the aid of Red China almost since the ar mistice was signed A top 'Allied source in Seoul said UN forces in Korea will receive their first new fighting equipment in four years Mon day with delivery of a flight of 00 fighters all weather craftwhich fly faster than sound The first additions for ground troops in Korea will be a ship ment of new rifles bazookas and other infantry equipment for American divisions here There was no word how ever on when the weapons will arrive Indications here are that it has not yet been decided wheth er the coming weapons will in clude atomic missiles and rock ets Korean military leaders have repeatedly demanded atomic weapons to bolster the 21 ROK divisions Sources said however that if atomic weapons were (See NORTH KOREA Page 8) BRYAN COLLEGE STATION AREA: Temperatures began inching upward toward early summer marks Saturday max imum was 93 degrees with a 74 degree minimum recorded EAST SOUTH CENTRAL and NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS: Partly cloudy and warm Sun day and Monday with widely scattered thundershowers WEST TEXAS: Clear to part ly cloudy Sunday and Monday with isolated afternoon and eve ring thundershowers Pecos Val ley eastward the owners for five years Construction contracts total ing more thhn one million 'dol lars were acted upon direc tors of the Texas College System during their Saturday morning A total of $885948 tracts were awered DR JOSEPH KRIS ff 7 year old celebrat ed rescue from a narrow 24 foot the Hopper home in nearby Manorville five weeks ago Radio Station WTAW the voice of Texas College since 1924 Saturday was sold to Hardy Harvey and Lee Glasgow of Waco for $35257 Th? Waco men were high bidders for the station which has operated as part of Texas College since its initial broadcast 33 years ago ive other bids for the station were received SILL Okla June 22 tfl As bystanders at' a public demonstration watched an ar tillery shell fell among members of an attacking infantry battal ion here today killing four soldiers and injuring 10 Capt Robert Kren "public information officer at the world's largest artillery train ing center said that none of the bystanders was injured Usually between 200 and 300 persons attend the public dem onstrations Sill founded as an old cavalry post during the Indian uprisings is located in the Wichita Mountains of south west Oklahoma 1 The accident occurred on the east artillery range at a place known as Adams HiU Members of the 522nd Infantry Battalion were moving up the hill i a mock' attack supported by ar tillery Keen said a short round from an as yet unidentified gun fell into the group Helicopters which were taking part in the exercise rushed the dead and injured to the base hospital It is not known if any of the injured is in critical of serious condition Kren said no names of the dead will be released un til next of kin have been noti fied have said ather McCarthy Both missionaries were ar rested June 15 1953 Houle was sentenced Oct 30 1955 and McCarthy 865 days after his arrest They were freed last week Houle who is suffering from: a back ailment caused by months of sitting on a prisonfloor under difficult circum said day of my trial I had to have two guards partially! carry me I walk Ab one period I more or less He said the prosecutor made 4wo speeehs to an empty courts room apd a few hours later he was 'sentenced City Manager Casey annin hadan assistant in his office Saturday morning He was in troduced to an Eagle reporter as Mike annin four year old son of the city Manager Mike was visiting the office to "see what daddy It would take more than a morning to learn all the things that a manager of a city the size of Bryan does But Mike was willing He indicated this as he sat at the desk opposite his dad making out his own re ports This year 918 persons have (They said they had not been been killed compared to 967 beaten or physically mistreated steadily curtailed The operation is being carried' out officials said in such a way as to accord as fully as possible with the wishes of allied gov ernments and yet avoid any vita reduction in free world de fensive strength' At the same time it must conform to tight ening American government budget requirements Those are major considera tions How well plans now be ing brought to conclusion within the Eisenhower administration will meet them and other im portant considerations is a ques tion which will undoubtedly come up for debate as the oper ation progresses The communique issued last night by President Eisenhow er and Japanese Prime Min ister Kishi announced a prompt withdrawals! all US ground combat forces from Japan They will begin coming out next month and will number possibly up to 30000 men out of an estimated 100000 total ot UJS armed forces members now in Japan The remaining 70000 will be reduced further by June 1958 Officials predicted that in coming months the world will see a steady reduction in the number of American officers and men assigned to mili tary advisory missions abroad in the service personnel for eign base duty and even on a small scale of the forces stationed in Western Europe However State and Defense Department officials said that the European reduction would only be what is justified by the re equipping of divisions in Germany with the most mod em weapons thereby greatly in creasing their military strength or firepower Some officers and men will be home in the reorganization of units around new weapons it was said but the streamlined forces resulting will pack at least as powerful a punch as before? The reaction of the Western Europeans to talk of troop cuts has been the opposite of the Japanese The West (See SOLDIERS Page 8) By JOHN RODERICK HONG KONG June 22 An American Jesuit said today he as half carried half dragged from his hospital sick bed 1955 to be sentenced to four years imprisonment by a Chi nese Communist ''e1S "I was accused of spreading rumors and helping a spy" said ather John Alexander Houle 42 of Glendale Calif The charges he said were false ather Houle and ather Charles' McCarthy also 42 of San? rancisco arrived in Hong Kong tonight and told the story their imprisonment Condition Said The condition of Mayor Vance who suffered a heart attack early Tuesday morning Saturday night was said "to be about the same as riday" The mayor's con dition riday was termed by the attending physician Vance who is serving his first tearm as mayor of Bryan was stricken Tuesday while at his farm John Longley and Joe Sorrels of the College Station Kiwanis club left yesterday for Atlantic City where they wilket tend the Kiwanis International convention Lucky fellows the beach and boardwalk is ex cellent at this time of year The annual membership drive now in progress for the College Station Civic Association is be ing spearheaded by a member ship committee composed of Callender A Magee James Beaty Robert Hunt Jr Gordon Gay A Manning Morgan Butler Mrs Delaplane and Vic tor Schember rom ort Lee Va comes Items telling that Sgt Char les A Pantalion of Bryan and SC John Helm also of Bry an being assigned to the 1957 Quartermaster ROTC summer camp at the Virginia fort Sgt Pantalion will occupy the position of irst Sergeant (See SCOOP Page 8) Rains Dot Texas And Cause our Traffic Deaths North Korea In Mood To Dicker After UN Act Most of the mail that crosses a city editor desk is us ually a pain in the neck many letters contain useable copy but the vast majority of press handouts and what most of the letters are find their way quickly into "file Saturday a piece of mail from Pan American Coffee Bureau in New York caught eye being a coffee drinker anything about coffee intrigues us so we figured there might be something of value in the letter from the bureau But we were doomed to dis appointment after tearing into the three cent metered piece of mail we found exactly nothing not one single little note telling us about coffee! or anything else matter of fact probably someone in the plush Wall Street of fice goofed the envelope was empty darn no wonder the price of coffee goes up spending three cents to send an empty envelope to our desk wonder what the Coffee people wanted us to know most likely well never find out The younger set still contin ues to visit the million dollar courthouse to see the workings of the county govern ment Latest contingent to trod the terrazzo floors were Cub Scouts from Den 3 Pack 484 of Travis school Mrs Betty Kinman Den Mother and Mrs Paul Johnson accompanied Agj I i tijiu lor raising I non resident fees from their 1 present rates to a maximum of i $200 by September 1 1959 but with not more than a $50 per year increase until the maxi mum was reached This provi sion accounts for the variance in charges to nonresident stu dents at the colleges within the System rom Sept 4 1959 all the colleges will maintain uni form tuition fees for both resi dent and nonresident students the former being assessed $50 per semester and the latter The bill which authorized in creases in tuition fees also al lowed colleges to set up a sys tem of tuition scholarships through granting governing boards of state colleges author ity to set up a special fund for needy resident students These scholarships the bill states shall be awarded in an amount of $25 tb resident students only The scholarship committee in mak ing recommendations for such scholarships will take into con sideration need character: and scholastic record of the appli cant Traffic Deaths' Lower or May Rale Up AUSTIN June 22 UP The De partment of Public Safety said today the 1957 traffic death to tal is running 2 per cent below last year although 55 more per sons were killed iri May than in 1956 A total 18627 accidents dur ing May compared to 14992 last year was probably the big reason for last month's in crease The department's monthly re port showed 184 persons killed during May in motor accidentSj compared to 159 in 1956 Sale of the radio station was made by the board of directors during its Saturday meeting on the campus The sale is subject to CC approval Harvey is president of the Harvey Advertising Co Waco and Glasgow is part owner and manager of WACO and owner of Station KAND Corsicana Plans call for the continued operation of the station in the Bryan College Station area a spokesman at Texas said The new owners have 90 days in which to remove the studios from the System ad ministration building The By The Auocieted Pre Rains dotted Texas Saturday with a sudden downpour caus ing four deaths in a traffic ac cident near Paris Killed in a headpn collision during a blinding rainstorm near Paris were Mr and Mrs Henry Johnson of DePort in La mar County Charles Swinney of Scotts Mills Ore and his daughter Kaj 3 The Weather Bureau said scattered thunderstorms couldbe expected during the week end' Lufkin Galveston and the Athens area were among other points reporting rain Saturday Skies were clean in far West Texas in the afternoon and partr ly cloudy elsewhere Temperatures ranged from 79 at Lufkin to 97 at Wink The showers followed torren tial downpours riday that left up to 71s inches of rain near Corpus Christi in South Texas riday the first day of sum mer sent the? thermometer at Presidio soaring to 108 degrees the highest readingin the state HIGHEST AWARDS Troop 81 of Bryan and ill companion Air Explorer Squadron 81 lopped recent scouting history here riday night when four of its members received Scoui ing's highest ranks In the top photo David Lynch gets the Explorer Silver Rank awardpinned on by his mother whild his fahter Li Col Richard Lynch of Bryan Air orce Base watches In the lower photo three Eagle Scouts left to right George McLemore Roy Brit ton and Bobby OdstrciL pose with their mothers same order Mrs Odstrcil Mrs Britton and Mrs McLemore (Eagle Staff Photos by Don Bisett) vr By JOHN HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON June 2 Thousands of the Amer ican military men stationed in foreign lands will be com ing home as a result of a global review of defense needs it became clear today The decision announced last ijight to remove'all com bat ground forces from Japan is only a starter part of a far flung pattern Officials said today they do not yet know exactly how the world wide study will work out in the long run But there was no denying the fact that American commit ments abroad as expressed in numbers of men stationed in foreign lands and the amount of foreign territory put to American use are being steadily curtailed Gasoline Prices 3 Undergoing Hike Gasoline hikes of two tenths of a cent started throughout Texas last week and will con tinue this week irst notices reported in Bryan were sent from the Houston office of the Continental Oil Co to the Bryan office and were put into effect riday Monday Sinclair will join In with its two tenths of a cent increase This increase which will af fect all of Texas will boost prices to the motorist from about thirty and one half cents per gallon to about thirty and seven tenths cents on regular and from thirty three and half to about thirty three and seven tenths cents for ethel in some cases This increase will affect i all grades of gasoline kerosene and light 'fuel was reported that the increase was made to cover the higher cost' of wage increase and benefits to em ployees Trio rom Troop 81 Get Eagle Awards Three Boy Scouts from Troop 81 ot riday night re ceived the highest award Scout ing can bestow during ceremon ies termed by high district scout officials The scouts Ray Britton' George" McLemore and Bobby Odstrcil received their Eagle Scout badges from Dr Ide Trotter chairman from the Ar rowmoon District and had them pinned on by their mothers David Lynch who served asresident of the Court of Honor riday night received the Ex plorer Silver Rank Award which is comparable to' the Eagle Scout rank in equally impres sive ceremonies Leland Paine district ad vancement chairman called the Court of Honor since so many of scoutings advance ment ranks and awards made to members of a single troop and Explorer unit Scouts and Explorers from Troop 81 and its brother unit Air Explorer Squadron 81 re ceived every rank award except Tenderfoot and Life Scout In addition ceremonies transfer ring two Scouts from Troop 81 to Squadron 81 were perform ed the Apprenticeship rank was awarded to eight Explorers Ground Observer Corps wings and' certificates were presented six emergency service awards were made a Gold Palm for ad ditional merit badges above those required for the Eagle Scout rank the Sam Houston Area Council Rifle Champion ship award and merit badge awards highlighted the Court of Honor Scout ranks awarded were highlighted by Jerry Bishop and Byron Pruitt advancing from Tenderfoot to Second Class Jim Matthews James Rosier Jim Cood'y and Tarrence McKnight moved from Second Class to irst Class and Robert Whitten Johnnie Restivo Michael Zak and Larry Berry became Scouts The Court of Honor was unusual since it had an Southwest Conference quarter back Roddy Oebome of Texas College as a master of ceremonies and a former All American tackle from Texas Christian University Derrell Palmer on the Court pvpnt uuae nt tended by some 75 parents and friends of scouts being honored and attracted wide attention among scouting circles in the Arrowmoon District Adding to the unusual por tions of the ceremonies was the presentation of the Troop and Explorer charters by Jack Springer manager of the Bryan (See TROOP 81 Page 8) Storm Ends No Bill Due Iwere confirmed and one con tracts were awarded $225535 1 A dorrfilfory for at College and construction of a 20: million capacity pine i seedling nursery at Magnolia i Springs near Kirbyville Were the major items 1 Appropriations totaling $590 113 were made for maintenance repairs alterations and opera tions at the four colleges of the avsiriii uic uuitk eft vuxxege oia tion A new student center building was designated as the first to be built at Prairie View Col lege when funds become availa ble under college build ing amendment to the state con stitution Butler Inc' of Bryan was awarded a constructionContract for erecting concrete foundation basin at the wind tunnel The successful bid was $17075 Vance and Thurmond of Bry an were successful bidders on the construction of a swine building dairy judging arena building additions to the ento mology field lab and several small' buildings at the school of Veterinary Medicine The firm's! bid was $107420 Haws Roofing Co of Tyler won the contract to re roof Guion Hall the Civil En gineering Building ME shops and the power plant for $30064 American Desk Mfg Co of Temple received a contract for furnishings in the home eco nomics department at Prairie View College The bid was $26039 85 rank Rundell Co of Aus tin was awarded a $60581 con tract to construct a pine seed ling grading and packing build ing for the orestry Service at the Magnolia Springs nursery Stewart Engineering Co of Dal las bid $39240 to furnish and install materials and equipment in the grading and packing building Harmon West of Alto received a contract to construct an' office residence and sheds at the nursery for $39756 and Layne Texas Co of Houston will drill a water well and in stall a pumping system for $7 382 Waddell Construction Co of Beaumont will construct an underground irrigation sys tem and install pumping facili ties and build a dam and related construct lonWtheTiursiei'y' "for the National oundation for JA $113573 50 (See WACO MEN Page 8) Effect Sept 1 COLLEGE STATION Increased tuition fees for both resident and nonresident stu dents of the four colleges of the Texas College System will become effective on Sept 1 The new fees will double the tuition for resident students from the present $25 to $50 per semester Nonresident fees will be $200 at Texas College I $125 at all the other System colleges beginning Sept 1 Non resident fees will increase at the three other System colleges to $175 per semester beginning September 1 1958 and to $200' on Sept 1 1959 The fees are levied in ac cordance with the provisions of House Bill No 265 passed at the last session of the Tex es legislature The bill provided for the doubling of resident tuition fees effective on the first of this com ing September and for raisinu scoop O'BRYAN Kishi Leaves WASHINGTON June 25 Prime Minister Kishi of Japan ended his official stay in Wash inton today' tiymg on to New Vrirlf 4n KLaJS provided by President Eisen bower Two Tell Tale Of Red Prison Cotton Meeting Scheduled Here Monday Night The total market for US cot ton can dwindle to 8 million bales or grow to 16 million bales in the next four of five years acts supporting this state ment will be discussed at a special meeting of cotton in dustry members in County Agent Kimbrough's of fice Monday at 8 pm This meeting is one of a se ries being held in the major cotton growing counties of Cen tral Texas It follows a recent meefing at Waco where repre sentative groups of Central Texas cotton farmers ginners and other industry members listened to basic information on problem program and potential presented by staff members of the National Cot ton Council It was recommended by the group at Waco that the informa tion be taken to a wider cross section of the cotton industry through a series of similar coun ty meetings The local sponsoring groups transmitter site was leased io tor the meeting are the ginners Brazos County arm Bureau and the Extension Service Speakers at the meeting will in clude three staff members of the National Cotton Council All farmers and others inter ested in cotton are urged to attend the meeting BAY SHORE June 32 Young Benny widely assailed $1500 doctor 1 bill was tossed away today by a medical committee The committee ruled with Benny's physician agreeing that the boy's parents didn't have to pay the bill because they are financially unable io do SO Dr Joseph Kris veteran Long Island dpctor and special ist in anesthesiology had been bitterly attacked by private cit izens high medical officials and even senators for sseking the $1500 fee He contended it was a fair amount if the par ents were able to pay? But th storm of contro versy ended with the' physi cian and Mr and Mrs Ben Hooper Sr chatting happily following the committee rul ing Together they decided that any money contributions alrea dy sent by well wishers if ear marked for medicaj ex penses would be turned over to iil' I A i 3 Jk SheH Blast At ort CJLL 4 a3 nw I 11 I 4 I i.