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4 The Bryan Daily Eagle Eighty One Years Serving the Brazos Valley' (scoop Complete Wire Sorvico ot Associated Press VOLUME 81 BRYAN TEXAS WEDNESDAY MARCH 13 1957 TEN PAGES NO 211 outstand or Bermuda Tonight Tomorrow Egypt Back In Gaza not and Get Bases Near Egypt Is Winner Texas Central by As Chairman secretary to sec No Bombs Are District CP I 1 will make his the to the show KBTX Sets May 1 or Date for or Names Vance was also named was Wallace 10 year whiz at at win Waco future know calls quiz work should be completed in time to begin the original tele cast of programs on May 1 Harry Gillam manager of the new station said that the new TV station on Channel 3 will offer viewers a schedule the finest programs Pro grams will include live network shows from the ABC and CBS television networks live program produced in tire WANTS TEXANS TO KNOW ALL ABOUT ALAMO Applicants for absentee bal lots the April 2 senatorial election must bring their poll tax receipts County Clerk A Syptak pointed out today Because of the shortness of time since the ending of the poll tax sales the county tax assessor office ha not been able to complete the poll tax list Syptak pointed out and the receipt is necessary to furnish proof of eligibility to vote estimate that to keep only his combined salary of NEW YORK uP) A telephon ed bomb threat yesterday caus ed Trans World Airlines to or der fix of its planes to land at nearest airports Other bomb scares tonight prompted search es of planes here at Newark and Houston Tex No bombs were found a Rychlik Subpoenaed By House I CT Probers 21 that if he in time he night from the civil administration in Gaza while UN troops police the Is rael i Gaza border Israel withdrew from Gazalast week on the assumption that the UN Emergency orce would administer the strip and ti 1 Max Wayne Rychlik former ly of Edge in northwest Braz os county today was subpoean aed to testify before the House ICT investigating committee Rychlik a son in law of for mer Insurance Commission Chairman Garland (Chin k) Smith of Caldwell is to appear before the committee at 7:30 The former Brazos name popped into the investiga tion of the now defunct insur ance company when he was re ferred to by ICT president James Cage as having been paid $700 a month in return for what he said was in WASHINGTON Ul Harold Stassen leaves today for Lon don and talks which may be his swan song as President Eisen hower's special assistant to dis armament He is representing the United States at a meeting of the Unit ed Nations Disarmament Com subcommittee There have been persistent reports that he plans to quit his post when that meeting ends Stassen denied these reports March 1 but at the same time he declined to comment on oth er reports that he is thinking about running for governor of Pennsylvania next year BRYAN COLLEGE STATION AREA arm Service depart ment registered a maximum temperature of 73 degrees and a minimum of 56 degrees Tues day SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS: Partly cloudy and warm through Thursday with scattered show er northeast portion Thursday that Egyptian control would be reimposed Undersecretary Ralph Bunche and Egyptian Presi dent Nasser met for the first time to discuss the Gaze crisis Bunche talked for an hour and a half with Nasser then told newsmen the UN Emer gency orce would cooperate fully with the Egyptian admin istration in the Gaza Strip Ben Gurion spoke in reply to a deputy asking assurance the Israeli government would take political and security to prevent the return of an Egyptian regitne to the Gaza Strip or the present the Premier said Israel is trying to head off an Egyptian return to Gaza by He did not specify these but Ambassador Abba Eban hurried back to Washington from" a lorida va cation to confer with US offi cials Tax authorities he will be able about $28795 of winnings and old Computations indicated the federal government would col lect $95622 and the York State government $8983 in in come taxes for 1957 for a total of $104605 prize on the CBS to qual the network TV May 1 has been set as the the air" date for Bryans new television station KBTX TV Mitchell president of the Brazos Broadcasting company said today Construction of the studio building on East 29th Street is progressing ahead of schedule and the contractor expects to complete the building jy April 1 Mitchell said Engineering JERUSALEM I Prime Min ister David Ben Gurion told the Israeli Parliament today that his government reserves its of action" if the Egyp tians return to the Gaza Strip It was Ben Gurion's first comment since Egypt announc ed it was resuming control of the disputed Mediterranean coastal area The tough old Is raeli leader who ordered Israe Jjblitz invasion of Egypt last October warned that if "the time comes when action is ap propriate and necessary the Is rael government will not of course give prior notice of its The Gaza Strip Ben Gurion Hit staged juniors of Stephen Austin High School around the Bronco ield track last was adjudged the winner in the half time do ings which embellished the an nual Green White intrasquac spring football game (or news and picture of the game itself see the sports page in this issue) Each of the elaborate floats in the junior event portrayed a popular song from the Rock N'Rollish and Party to the ballad Gambler" i The seniors who placed sec ond staged a circus parade complete with band hones clowns and allegedly "wild" animals The sophomores sent out a group of girls Kilgore Rangereite style to do a rou tine with "Howdy Partners" lettered in green in the backs of their while shirts Before the game yell leaders football players bandsmen and choristers from all the element ary junior high and high schools paraded around the track then gathered in midfield to sing under the guidance of Carl Best choir di rector Sophomores at SA won $25 for selling the most advance tickets to the game but the' two junior highs Lamar and Anson Jones came in second and third beating out the junior and sen ior classes at SA Tax Receipt Needed or Absentee Vote Van Doren Gets 8100 Increase At Columbia Trotter Heads Scout AUSTIN (f! State Rep rank McGregor of wants io make sure generations of Texans their heritage He sponsors a bill io make it mandatory for high school students io take a semester of Texas history If also would be compulsory for students at state supported colleges if they did not take it in high school AUSTIN Gov Price Dan iel asked the Legislature again today to set up a nonpolitical nonpartisan state law enforce ment commission to curb wrong doing state officials The emergency request first made on Jan 17 was quickly followed up by the introduction ot such a measure HB855 by Rep Cory of Victoria co signed by 102 other House members Corv said the commission was needed to back crusade for law enforcement and for prompt investigation of allegations of misconduct against state offi cials and Vance Brvan home builder was elected chairman of the board of the Texas Cen tral Life Insurance Co when the annual stockholders meet ing was held yesterday at the Memorial Student Center A Dillard was re elected president Tom Sharp Jr of Waco executive vice president Dr Roy Smith medical di rector John Lawrence III general counsel and Mrs Gret chen Bailey was promoted from assistant Dr Charles Haas was named president of the College Station Recreation Council when that group met Tuesday night 'Oth er officer elected are lake isher vice president Mrs A Varvel secretary and Cub by Manning treasurer Mrs Matzen Mrs Harrison Hierth and Dr Butler were add ed to the council membership Dr Luther Jones is out going president and Mrs Klippie is the retiring secreta ry Plans for an expanded Little League program were included in the budget presented by Jack ugate Larry 'Hayes physical education teacher at Con solidated wilbconduct an eve ning weekly gymnasium class fqr women Bill Davis of the Bryan Youth Association was a visitor NEW YORK A old Bronx a science gets first crack ning a possible $256000 on a tel evision quiz show Robert Strom whose knowledge of chemistry phys ics astrophysics astronomy and other sciences is astounding Robert gave an example of his talent last night by collect ing the top $64000 ify for what "the world's show prize' Just prior sponsor Revlon cosmetics an nounced the prize system was being changed and raised to a possible $25J000 Dr Ide Trotter Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Texas College has been named chairman of the Arrow moon District scout committee Dr Trotter vice chairman of the committee replaces Mike Mistovich who is moving to Austin The new committee chairman has been active in scouting in College Station and Bryan since 1943 when he became associat ed with Cub Scouting at Consolidated school He later graduated along with his two sons to Boy Scouting in Troop 102 at College Station where Ide Trotter Jr gained the rank of Eagle Scout and Ben Trotter received the God and Country award for outstanding service to his church through scouting 4 Dr Trotter has served as troop committeeman fiairman of the troop committee acting scoutmaster and member of the Brazos District Committee He also has served on the district executive committee anti as a member of the Executive Board of the Sam Houston area coun cil He came to College in 1936 as head of the agronomy department He was elevated to Director of the Texas Agricul ture Extension Service in 1944 and later became Dean of the Graduate School in 1949 Be sides now being Associate! Dean the Graduate School he is professor of Agronomy 'and Ex tension Consultant on Person nel and Professional Improve ment He is 'a deacon in the irst Baptist Church in Bryan assist ant teacher of the Bible class and chairman of the finance committee of the church Unable to reach Rychlik by telephone at the horn of hi parent in Edge where he has boon visiting an Eagle re porter drove to the tiny farm ing community to interview the 29 year old Austin in surance man only to find that he had left for Austin early this morning Earlier this week Rychlik had told newsmen that while he at tended Texas College where he received a degree in accounting he had worked part time for the Bryan News whiblj ceased publication in 1952 He said he did a little advertising work while holding the part time job 1 Walter Doney owner of the News Office Supplies company and former publisher of the News said today place him We had a number of part time employees1! just re member Smith who published the Caldwell News a weekly news paper in Burleson county be fore becoming an administra tive aide to former Gov Allan Shivers told the Associated Press never received one of the money the former ICT management company paid his son in law Shivers appoint ed Smith to the insurance com mission Smith who resigned from tho commission in January 1956 in the midst of a storm of criticism said he advised Rychlik to accepting in view of the fact that Ben jack Cage presi dent of the management firm' gave him no duties Chairman Scott McDonald of the House ICT Investigating Committee said that Rychlik was the man referred to by ICT President James Cage as having been paid $700 a month in return for what he called Rychlik told the Associated Press that he had been am ployed by Benjack Cage io establish an advertising and public relations office here (See RYCHLIK Page 10) A MOTHER AND HER BABY A fleeting response of a baby's love of his mother is captured by the camera at Po mona Valley Community hospital Pomona Calif where John Gaunt five mytfths old lies with both legs in trac tion because of a broken left thigh His mother Mrs John Gaunt 16 dally plays with her baby but it will be another three weeks before she can take him home He's been in the hospital for three weeks already Both legs were placed in traction io insure uniform growth (AP Wirephoto) WASHINGTON (J) Presi dent Eisenhower disclosed to day he will take a trip on a Navy cruiser to the Bermuda conference in hopes of clearing up his head cold and ear infec tion Eisenhower told his news con ference he had been thinking of going to lorida for several days and had had many invitations to visit that state Bui he said he has now de cided to go by ship io Bermu da where he will meet Prime Minister Macmillan of Great Britain on March Eisenhower said can clear his desk will sail tomorrow Norfolk Va He said a few days aboard ship would not require setting up a new communications sys tem with Washington as would have been necessary if he had gone to lorida JOSEPHINE HULL DIES NEW YORK If Actress Jose phine Hull who won acclaim for her Broadway and movie portrayal of lovable humorous eccentric old ladies is dead at 71 Daniel Asks Commission On Officials i NEW YORK LB Charles Van Doren winner of $12900 in television quiz show appear ances is getting a $100 a year salary increase as a Columbia University instructor The pay boost effective July 1 will make his salary $4500 station's studios and syndicated features Among programs listed by Gillam as scheduled for the new station are Lawrence Welk Rin Tin Tin ord Theatre Ray Anthony and Jim Bowie Temporary offices have been set up by the TV company in the Varisco building These will be used until the broadcasting studios are ready for occupancy 10 Year Old Gets Crack At S256000 Dr Haas Heads Council orX CS Recreation k4fr NEW TV STUDIOS Here's an artist's conception of Bryan's new TV station KBTX TV scheduled to go on the air "May The studio is designed by Martin Lemmon tc MerreL Bryan architects The building and transmitting lower are located on East 29th Street Stassen Off On What May Mrs Bailey a director as Moon of College Station Directors re elected include Nat Allen Jr Butler Mit Dansby Claude A Edge Mills Walker and Vance all of Bryan Pau) Bryant Culpepper and Marion Pugh of College Station: Holland Porter of Caldwell Also Louis Bate John Popp and Jack Stringer Waco Janssen Pawkett George Rhine and Edgar Von Scheele of San An tonio John Bunyard of Car thage: Dr 'Maurice Gage of Teague: rank Matush Jr of Temple: John Mayfield of Houston Homer Pitner of Denton Sullivan Crock ett and Jasper Wilson of reeport The company which began writing insurance in March 1956 now has $2153617 life in surance in force and $1258000 accident insurance in force Dil lard reported Total annual pre miums force are $63692 Bryan't amily Newspaper Over 7600 Daily DR IDE TROTTER To Appear Before Panel the record Bunting chairman of the steering com mittee for the game We re ferred to him as president but that was last year Reuben Bond is president this year Reuben' Dave and many other men of the community including the principals of the various schools did a lot of work to put the event across Congressman Olin Teague has entered the Weafer family story in the permanent record of the proceedings of the Con gress for March 4 with the fol lowing comment "Elizabeth Weafer of Bryan Texas along with her husband has brought small fry football into big time I believe that Mr and Mrs Weafer are to be congratu lated for their untiring work with the youngsters in the State of Texas as they are the back bone of our Some youngsters well known in Bryan were the subject of a squib in Paul columnin The Dallas Morning News the other day Dealey Dechert 10 and Robert 5 are niece and nephew of (Bill) Thoma son of Bryan Recently they came across some old phono graph records that had been left by a former occupant of a house into which they moved Dealey read off some of the titles to her brother They were mostly dance band records from the Telling his motherbout it later Robert said: "You know all those rec ords had the same name They're all called Wolftrot" Succeeding John Newton on the board of directors of the Magnolia Petroleum Co is Sanders who has been assist ant manager of the refining di vision at Beaumont since 1938 John a Bryan native is retir ing May 1 and was recently feted at a dinner in Beaumont Sanders is a 1919 graduate of Georgia Tech ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia Emperor Haile Selassie is re ported favorable to a US re quest for Ethiopian bases flank ing Egypt provided Ethiopia gets more American aid Vice President Nixon during his current visit has pressed the American request for an Air orce communications base and anchoring facilities at the Red Sea port of Massawa Word of the American aims brought im mediate reaction from Moscow and Cairo Russia was said to havewarned Ethiopia it might get embroiled in a major war al leging the United States wants to store atomic and hydrogen bombs on Ethiopian soil Egypt's President Nasser sent a special envoy to Addis Ababa before Nixon arrived reported ly with an urgent request for the Emperor to visit Cairo Nas ser views the vice president's African tour lis part of a con centrated US attempt to iso late Egypt from her neighbors SEA Junior The De Soto division of Gen eral Motors is having trouble getting the car name spelled right They have seen it pop up as Desoto DeSoto and DeSota but what hurt most was when a car came off the assembly line with the nameplate reading as pretty as you please The company likes it De Soto with a space and cap ital They think how Hernando would have liked it We understand their prob lem Here we have the La Salla Hotel which handles the spelling the sama way although that explorer ap pears to have written it Rob art Cavelier Sieur de la Salle The photo of Riedel new superintendent of the Consolidated Schools as used on the front page yesterday was taken by Gene Sutphen and should have been credited to Aggieland Studio 6i Clifford Gwinn Thompson Of Bryan has been pledged to the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Texas Tech Gwinn is a gradu ate of Stephen Austin High School Adcock cadet at the US Military Academy West Point stands 28th in his class academically and recent ly wrote the Consolidated Schools at College Station where he studied for eight years to say am indeed in debted to Consolidated for a sound foundation in edu Israel Not Bound If READY OR ACTION Keeping their weapons ready for action a battalion of Danish and Norwegian UNE soldiers push back Arab demonstrators during rioting outside headquart ers in Gaza Arab demonstrators shouted for immediate return of Gaza to Egyptian govern ment (NEA Radiophoio) told the Knesset never be longed io the Egyptians and was of use to them only the purpose of attacks threats against Israel" In Cairo officials the Egyptians appeared to be moving toward a compromise providing for Egypt to handle The United Nations aband oned today its attempts to set up an administration in the Gaza Strip under the UN Emergency orce Dr Ralph Bunche trouble shooting UN undersecretary met for 90 minutes in Cairo with Egyptian President Nas ser then told newsmen no attempt would be made io postpone arrival of an Egyp tian administration in Gaza I BRYAN says That was quite party the Bryan school children held at Bronco ield last night with the Green and White intra squad football game massed singing stunts and floats Un der auspices of the Asso ciation it was an ing success But we need to set straight on RED ACE (NOT OURS) The Abingdon Press of Nash ville has just belatedly sent us some material on Dr Roy Smith former editor of the Christian Advocate who con ducted a preach ing inission at the irst Methodist Church re cently We can't say better late than never because due to bur lack of proper background rtia terial bn Dr Smith some of our readersTgot the mistaken im pression that Dr Roy Smith identically named Brylin physi cian was doing the preaching The one who talked here is probably best known for his newspaper syndicated Bible columns and he conducted a splendid mission herd ONE WAY AVENUE NEW YORK I) famed 5th Avenue may become a one way thoroughfare ac cording to plans by Traffic Commissioner Wiley Wi ley: this week transformed sec tions of 6th Avenue and Broad way into one way streets Aim Ike To Sail 11 i 1 i A as Might Trip Bd I W' A A tip 4 a 1 0 1 Jl Hl 4 '5 I 1 5 Xs te '0s AJr a 1 1 "A 3'1Prim Per Cepy 1 a 4 5c 1.

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