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gents vicechalrman vicechairman Frank ErEr win Ito to immediate He mmediate action Herthreatened threatened to make the Texan a-aalaboratory for laboratory Departmentor the Department of Journalism or else to removeremove financialJthe paper from the financialfinancial suppIortof ppor of the blanket taxSsupport tax Tohe The unquestion- ¬ newsmen neSmen areunquestionare unquestion areunquestion alC Thenewsmen ably on Ithe thisthe Texanis Texans side thisthis wasev eVideyt afterawaseven was evenr more evident after aaa-aftera cight visit by Wednesday Wedn sd y night 1y thethe e committee to observe the staff mmittee j jIn in operation The editors metIn met Wednesday1 Wednesday dayloiigclosed W ll Sdly in a dayloiigclosedloseday ripclosed daylong closedlosed sessionon session University sity camonr Ithe the Unive cam ¬ pus but did Texan 4id not discuss Texaneditorial policy at lengthlength t Question PayPay InSlteadthey Insteadthey they questioned low5 Instead low TeJ n workerspay scales scal s 101 ersor ers workers Ply for Texan and th number of nonof nonnon small number umber the 8maU j rn 1ism majors writing Journalism journalism ltini fforfor for-rrT xan Committee rthe theTexan Chairmanthe Texan rComm1tt Chairman ChairmaBob Jackson of the ji CorpusCorpuCorpus nBobJackson BobJackson sChrjstijCallerTdmes ChrjstijCallerTdmes O said CallerTimess saidristi JCaller71dme Christi Christi Norjjournalism NOlljournalism had Notljournalism majors hadon ofalIghtth a1s att also caught the attention offfa1s Regent HeatH fears the Heat who fearsi fe s thepossibility infiltraHoJ f ofpossibilityof offfpossibilityof infiltration groops groups groupthe lfex Texan n by outside groopssOe lang r lies pri prj ¬ stThe current
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