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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 52: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1951
Price Five Cents
Red Cross Mobile Blood Unit
Here for 107 Student Donors
The second round of blood dona
tions on the A&M campus got un
derway today at 12 noon when five
students were ushered into the
MSC room equipped for handling
the donors.
Before the afternoon is over 107
students will have given blood to
save lives of American soldiers in
Korea.
The mobile blood unit from Beau
mont Bed Cross Blood Defense
Center is handling donations on
the campus today for the second
time in the last two weeks. Its
first visit here was Nov. 13 when
6(1 students donated blood.
Sponsored by Corps
Sponsored by the corps of cadets,
the last drive had more local ap
peal than was anticipated. Many
students had to be turned down
Nov. 13 because of inadequate fa
cilities to receive donations.
Students who donate blood today
are those who could not be taken
care of last time, J. C. Fletcher,
chairman of the blood donations
committee, said.
Donations Every 15 Minutes
Donations were scheduled to be
taken every 15 minutes this after
noon, from noon until 6 p.m. Most
of the groups consisted of five
men, but a few had smaller num
bers.
Those donating today are corps
students over 21 years old. Stu
dents between the ages of 18 and
21 were allowed to give blood if
they had consent of their parents.
Later in the year, non-military
students will be given an opportu
nity to contribute blood, Fletcher
said.
“Since this drive is sponsored
by the cadet corps, students in the
corps are being given the first
chance,” he said.
The mobile unit will probably
make five or six more trips to the
campus during the remainder of
the school year, Fletcher added.
Requirements for donating blood
include:
Weight of at least 110 pounds,
normal temperature, blood pres
sure, and hemoglobin. No student
will be eligible to give blood if he
has had a blood transfusion within
the past six months or has given
blood within eight weeks.
Also, no student will be allowed
to contribute blood if he has had
a major operation within the past
six months or a tooth extraction.
Other conditions which will pre
vent prospective donors from con-
tributing blood include: malaria
within two years, tuberculosis, dia-
betis, undulant fever, or prolonged
fever, rheumatic fever, eczma,
acute dermatitis, poison ivy, acute
acne, boils or other prominent skin
diseases, any form of heart trouble,
kidney disease, chronic pulmonary
disease, jaundice or jaundice con
tact within six months, allergy,
hives, asthma, fainting spells, or
convulsions.
All donors who have had recent
immunizations such as rabies in
jections within past years, small
pox vaccination within a few
weeks, typhoid, typhus, plague, tet
anus, cholera, influenza, and other
fever immunizations within the
past two weeks will not be ac
ceptable until the prescribed per
iod of time has elapsed.
Enloe Tops Grain
Judging Contest
Corps to March
Into Kyle Field
For TU Game
The A&M Cadet Corps,
4761 strong, will march into
Kyle Field at 12:45 p. m.
Thursday for the A&M-TU
football game.
Leading the pass-by will be the
Corps Staff followed by the Con
solidated Band, the Senior Battal
ion, and the Infantry Regiment.
The First Air Force Wing, the
Second Air Force Wing, and the
Artillery Regiment will be followed
by the Composite Regiment, the
Armor-Engineer Regiment, the
Seventh Regiment, and the Eighth
Regiment led by the Fish Band.
“Assembly of units will begin at
12:30 p. m. in the new area and
the corps will move out at 12:40
p. m. announced Maj. J. C. Low-
91, operations officer. “All units
will march in a six man front to
nave time for other activities,”
he also said.
Units will be graded at the cor
ner of Houston and Lubbock streets
and between the two 40 yard lines
in Kyle Field.
Uniform for the Corps will be
Number one with green overseas
cap, khaki ties, and an outer gar
ment to be announced later if ne
cessary. Major Lowell also said
sabers will not be carried by com
manders.
Colors and guidons may be
drawn Thursday morning in Dorm
12 and will be turned in as usual
at the gun room under Kyle Field
upon dismissal of each unit.
Alton Enloe beat out competi
tors f r o m ten other colleges
Saturday to be named high point
man for the annual International
Collegiate Grain Judging contest.
He scored 1755 points of a possi
ble 1800 to defeat other challen
gers.
As a team the A&M group took
fourth place in the contest which
was held in connection with the
International Livestock Exposition
and Hay and Grain Show in Chi
cago.
Erdoe, a Daisetta senior and
member of Agronomy Judging
Team received campus-wide recog
nition in his junior year. He won
the Danforth Fellowship, which
gave him a four weeks expense
paid trip to the Ralston Purina
Mills in St. Louis and Camp Minni-
wannea in Michigan. He is vice-
president of the Texas Alpha Chap
ter of Alpha Zeta, an agriculture
honor fraternity, vice president pf
the Agronomy Society, and a mem
ber of Phi Eta Sigma.
Other members of the A&M
Agronomy Judging Team are: A.
4. Bockhot, Robstown; W. M. Le>v-
is, College Station; J. S. Newman,
Rockdale, Clarence E. Watson ris
coach of the team.
The team left Nov. 17, to com
pete in two National Collegiate
grain judging contests, one of
which was held in Kansas City
Nov. 20, and the other in Chicago
Nov. 24. The judging contests
consisted of three classes: Identi
fication of plants and grains, com
mercial grading, and commercial
judging. Over 240 different plants
and seeds had to be identified by
the judging teams according to
govemment standards.
Nebraska beat A&M for third
place honors by 1.4 points. Ok
lahoma A&M won first place in the
contests and Texas Tech received
second place.
All 11 teams attended a banquet
Sunday morning, where the win
ning teams and high point individ
uals were announced and trophies
and medals awarded. Monday
morning the Chicago Board of
Trade took the teams on a tour of
Chicago.
The team will return to College
Station on the noon train tomor-
TU Returns 800
Game Tickets
Texas University has return
ed approximately 800 tickets for
the A&M-TU football game
Thursday to the A&M athletic
department.
These tickets went on sale to
the public this afternoon at 1
p. m. Howard Nelson, ticket
manager, said. They will be sold
on a first come first served
basis and each person will be
allowed to buy ten tickets.
Nelson emphasized that these
tickets could not be exchanged
for date tickets. However, other
reserved seat tickets may be ex
changed for these ducats, he
said.
More Than 115 January ROTC
Graduates to Get Commissions
Biggest Bonfire
Nears Completion
R. E. Callendar
Speaks to Lions;
Officers Named
R. E. Callendar, assistant
county agent at large for the
Agricultural Extension Ser
vice, entertained members of
the College Station Lions Club
yesterday with pointers on deer
hunting in Texas.
Callender spoke at the weekly
meeting of the club, which was held
in the MSC.
A special coordinator for game
management in Texas, Callendar
explained the mistake commonly
made by hunters who try to esti
mate a male deer’s age by count
ing the number of points in its
horns. He showed samples of horns
shed by a young buck at the ages
of 1-5 years. The buck had grown
eight points the first, year, eight
the second, seven the third and
fourth, and nine the fifth.
“Game is a product of the land
and is produced by the land owner
or tennant. It should not be mis
takenly considered pi’operty of the
land,” Callendar said, “because it
may be raised in one place and
taken or killed in another.”
(See CALLENDAR, Page 3)
By HERB O’CONNELL
Battalion Staff Writer
Over a week in the making, the
1951 bonfire stands near comple
tion today despite persistent drizz
ling rains since Sunday.
Rains, accompanied by a crisp
north breeze, has slowed work
considerably but has failed to stop
bonfire construction.
“We have all the timber hauled
onto the drill field,” Ted Stephens,
chairman of the transportation
committee said. “It is now a mat
ter of putting it into place,” he
reported.
“If necessary, we will work un
til the Yell Leaders toss the torch
es on Wednesday night,” Stephens
said.
Wood hauling was completed be
fore the rains proved to be a ser
ious transportation handicap.
Armor to Light
Official tenders of the bonfire
will be the Armor outfits. As tra
ditional as the bonfire itself, the
Armor companies have oiled down
and flown their flags atop pre
turkey day game bonfires annual
ly, the senior class traditions com
mittee decided.
Guards have been posted around
the bonfire and at each entrance
to the campus since Thursday
evening. The guard wijl continue
through Tuesday night.
Non-military students have been
taking their turn at guarding dur
ing all meal formations. Composite
units will guard Tuesday evening
to allow students to attend the
Thanksgiving Dinner being served
in the mess halls at that, time.
Coach Ray George and his staff
will be the main speakers at the
Yell Practice. immediately after
the bonfire. Pinky Downs, annual
spokesman on the bonfire program,
and 19 senior football players will
also speak.
A trailer bed will serve as the
speakers platform. It will be lo
cated on the Southwest corner of
the drill field.
Aggie bonfire signs, represent
ing almost eveiy outfit on the cam
pus, have been put up on the North
and East ends of the drill field.
Plastered with Aggie poetry of an
anti-T. U. theme, the signs convey
the purpose of the bonfire to the
passing public.
The last regular Yell Practice
was held in the Grove last night
Scheduled for Tuesday night, it was
changed to Monday because of
Thanksgiving Dinner.
The bonfire will be set off at
8:15 Wednesday.
By GENE STEED
Battalion Staff Writer
Reserve commissions in the
Army and Air Force will be given
119 A&M Senior ROTC students
Jan. 25.
This announcement was made
yesterday by the military science
and air science departments.
“Air Force cadets who will be
graduated in January will be call
ed to active duty within 90 days
after receiving their commissions,”
Col. E. W. Napier, PAS&T, said
yesterday.
Call Within 90 Days
If a winter camp is held, the
call will be issued within 90 days
following completion of the train
ing period, he said. The notice is
the . last received from the Air
Force.
All prospective Air Force Jan
uary graduates are being advised
to apply for flying school, meteor
ology, or one of the other service
schools. These men may be reason
ably sure of being placed in the
type training school they desire,
Colonel Napier added.
On the Army side of the pic
ture the outlook is somewhat dif-
ferrent, at least for the immediate
future. There has been no defin
ite word received by the military
department telling when January
Army ROTC graduates will be call
ed to duty.
However, the Fourth Army, with
headquarters in San Antonio has
released information concerning
those students who might be call
ed into the army on graduation.
For the first year of active duty,
newly commissioned officers will
be assigned to company level ser
vice, if the present policy is in ef
fect following the first of the
year.
Combat Officers’ Assignment
Officers of the combat arms will
be assigned to line units on en
tering active duty or on completion
of the associate basic course at a;
branch school, if they attend the
school before receiving actual as
signment.
Officers in technical services will
be assigned duties in the same
manner as officers of combat arms,
providing suitable units of these,
services are available.
Administration branch officers!
will receive assignment to jobs
comparable to their rank and'ex
perience.
Guion Hall Passes
Distributed Dec. 3
Tickets to Guion Hall for
students engaged in extracur
ricular activities will be dis
tributed from the Student Ac
tivities Office beginning Dec.
3.
The tickets are being given un
der authorization from the Stu-
Ache ’n Back
Alumni Council
To Meet at A&M
Three states will be represented
at the District 4 American Alumni
Council meeting which will be held
here Jan. 17-19.
Seventy-five delegates are ex
pected to attend the meeting in the
MSC, said J. B. “Dick’ Hervey
chairman of District 4 and execu
tive secretary of the A&M Former
Students Association.
The organization is made up of
colleges and universities in the
United States and Canada which
have ex-student associations. Only
ex-student secretaries will repre
sent each college.
Puipose of the council is to Set
up a workshop conference of alum
ni to discuss problems and ex
change ideas in the alumni field.
They will discuss alumni funds
and magazines.
Principal speaker will be Char
les P. McCurdy president of the
A AC. McCurdy is also secretary of
the chapter of AAC at William
and Mary College at Williams
burg, Va.
A Lesson In Bonfire Building
By USA AXEHANDLE
Editor’s note: Before coming to
A&M, our future students wonder
just who does all the work on these
bonfires. After Thursday night all
of them will know. To check on
the completeness of the course Bon
fire, Building 101, an average
Freshman was asked for his opin
ions of the curriculum. The fol
lowing in his unbiased testimony.
“Everybody talks about the Ag
gie Bonfire, just why I never was
able to figure out. What could be
unusual about a bonfire; we built
lots of them in high school and
I never suffered from the ordeal. I
guess you understand that I had
never seen one of the Aggieland
variety.
“These bonfires we build around
here are rather unusual, I soon
found out. Somebody figured the
best way to start such a project
would be to dig a hole, 1 and that’s
just what they did—right in the
middle of that beautiful, smooth
drill field.
Foreign Students
Guests of BSU
Foreign students at A&M will
be honor guests for a pre-Thanks-
giving Day game breakfast at the
Baptist Student Union Thursday at
8 a. m.
The breakfast, with a Thanks
giving theme, will be served in the
dining room of the Educational
Building of the First Baptist
Church of College Station.
Following the breakfast, a short
program will be held in the Bap
tist Student Center at 9 a. m. All
guests will be welcomed by Presi
dent M. T. Harrington, and the
Rev. Prentiss Chun, associate state
student director, will speak to the
group.
Tickets, which are 50 cents for
students and 60 cents for non-stu
dents, are now being sold by all
members of the Baptist Student
Union Council.
College-Bryan Toy Drive
Gets Slow Start-Jaycees
The drive to get toys for needy
children in the Bryan-Gollege Sta
tion area is “accelerating,” accord
ing to Don Williams, chairman of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
committee for Christmas giving.
After a slow start Tuesday, the
drive started “paying off” Friday,
when residents started bringing
outgrown, discarded, or broken toys
to the box on Main Street in Bry
an. The box, between 25th and 26th
Streets, has gathered “nearly all”
the toys collected, reported Wil
liams, but he added a box is also
on the courthouse lawn.
“Residents of both Byran and
College Station, who have toys to
contribute, or with names of needy
children to be included in the dis
tribution may call me at 2-1378, or
John M. Lawrence III at 3-3170,”
announced Williams. Lawrence is
co-chairman of the drive.
“We pick up toys from anywhere
in Bryan or College Station, if con
tributors are unable to bring them
to the boxes,” added the chairmen.
The drive is conducted by the
Jaycees each Christmas to biing
toys and “goodies” (which are
bought with money from the JCC
fund) into local underprivileged
homes, which have young children.
Police guard toys in the collec
tion boxes to insure safe keeping,
until Bryan firemen can pick up
repaint and repair the toys.
The firemen are already on the
job this year, with about 50 toys
of different types and sizes already
in condition, according to the com
mittee.
Each Jaycee is given a list of
four or five needy families just
before Christmas, and personally
delivers the cookies, candies, qnd
playthings.
“Those toys look almost like new,
when the firemen get through with
them,” Williams said. All the work
is worthwhile, when we see the
faces of kids receiving gifts they
thought would be denied them.”
“I don’t know how it happened
but somehow the whole thing got
off to a bad start. It seems that
the place chosen for the hole had
been dug up years ago and a pipe
of some sort planted there. Every
body got pretty mad about the
whole thing but that didn’t stop
us; we just started over again in
a new place.
“After the hole had been dug, I
found opt pretty quick just what
we freshmen were supposed to do
on this job. It’s a funny thing,
but they believe the human back
is much superior to machinery
around here. About 200 of my class
mates and I made like winches for
about an hour and finally got that
center pole set just right.
Fooled Again
“This bonfire building isn’t go
ing to be so bad after all, I thought
to myself. Gosh, What a surprise
I had coming. The next afternoon
found yours truly again standing
on the drill field. Somebody yelled
something about going out to the
woods so I hopped on one of the
trucks that kept going and coming
from some unknown destination.
“After meeting everybody on the
truck, we all settled down to en
joy the ride. Our pleasure didn’t
last too long because our driver
got a funny idea that driving on
roads was for sissies. Not satis
fied with driving on pavement,
he turned through a little hole in
the fence and took out cross-coun
try.
“We soon found out just where
we were going; somebody else
needed some human wood moving
machinery and it seemed we had
been chosen for the job. Never in
all my life have I seen so much
activity. The woods, or what was
left of them were filled with peo
ple.
Big Mix Up
“The whole scene looked pretty
confusing to me but everybody
seemed to know what they were
doing. The yell leaders and some
other seniors were running the
whole thing. I soon found out.
“My first few minutes were
spent wandering around trying to
find something to do. Suddenly
I found myself lifting a log with
a lot of other people. Whether
anybody else was lifting with me,
I’ll never know, because all I could
see was the back of the man in
front of me. Somebody must have
been helping because the log mov
ed.
“Moving that big piece of fire
wood evidently wasn’t going to be
enough. The fellow next to me told
me that we were supposed to carry
the thing over to a truck and
shove it on. Boy, it this job going
to he work, I said.
Builds Appetite
“A whole day spent in playing
pack mule for oak trees is just
what a fellow needs to build a good
appetite. The mess hall food sure
seemed good that night, but not
half as good as that sack.
“The next day found us on the
way to the woods again. The best
cure for a sore back is some more
lifting. I found that out the hard
way. Gee, was my back sore!
These days in the country ought
to be a part of the PE program.
“Sunday afternoon I decided to
stay on the campus and see just
what was done with all the wood
I had carried. The pole we had
helped to set now sported a block
and tackle on top and was piled
high with wood. A few fellows
were standing on top of the stack
directing others in putting on more
logs.
Easy Job
“My job consisted solely of hold
ing on to a rope and pulling when
somebody yelled. Back and forth
we walked, not knowing just what
we were pulling on. Something
must have been getting done be
cause that stack was readily grow
ing. If they keep this up all the
Aveek, there won’t be another tree
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dent Life Committee. Students en
titled to the passeswill be grten
16 tickets for the entire ‘ school
ar.
“Free Guion Hall admissions abe
being given to provide a, slight
award for the student’s efforts and
to serve as an incentive for other
students to participate in various
extracurricular activities.” C. G.
“Spike” White, secretary of the
Student Life Committee said.
Tickets Used as Desired
Tickets may he used in any way
desired. A student may take 16
friends to one show or he may
attend 16 shows himself. To enter
Guion Hall the passes must be
presented at the box office where
they will be exchanged for a regu
lar admission ticket.
A Federal tax and service charge
of ten cents must be payed.
Only One Set
Students may qualify for only
one set of tickets regardless of
the number of activities he par
ticipates in. Those authorized to
receive the free tickets include all
cadet officers with rank above Lt.
Col., all organization commanders,
officers of the Junior and Senior
classes!. Drum and Bugle Corps
members and Seniors in the band.
Others entitled to the tickets are
the Junior and Senior Intramural
Managers, Student Senators, Stu
dent Life Committee members,
editors of all the student publica
tions, Yell Leaders, housemasters,
Fish numeral winners, and officers
of the Singing Cadets.
A Coast Artillery
Leads Corps Drill
A Battery Coast Artillery is
leading the corps in competitive
drill standings, according to fig
ures compiled by the Military*
Science Department.
Commanded by Cadet Captain
C. R. Hackney of Huntville, A
Battery tied with six other units
for seventh place in the corps par
ade in Houston Saturday.
Other leading units in Saturday’s
parade were the Maroon and White
Band, first place; D Squadron Air
Force, third place; E Battery Field
Artillery and B Battery Coast
Artillery, fourth place; A Squadron
Seniors, sixth place and B Com
pany Infantry, C Company Infan
try, D Company Infantry, A Bat
tery Coast Artillery, A Company
Engineers, B Squadron Air Force
and E Squadron Air Force, seventh
place.
Annual Bonfire
Dance Wednesday
The annual Bonfire Dance, spon
sored by the Student Actrtities
Committee, will be held Wednesday
night, according to Pete Hardesty,
business manager for student ac
tivities.
The dance will begin at 10 p. m.
following the burning of the bon
fire, and will continue until 1 a. m,
Bill Turner and the Aggieland
orchestra will furnish the music,
Admission will be $1.50 “stag or
drag,” Tickets are now on sale at
the Student Activities office in
Goodwin Hall and will also be on
sale at the door Wednesday night.
A&M System Board
To Meet Here Nov. 28
The regular meeting of the
board of directors of the A&M
System, will be held Nov. 28. The
board will meet at the college at
9 a. m.
Bonfire Takes Shape •
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Hundreds of students gather on the Main drill field Sunday after
noon to take part in building the biggest bonfire in A&M’s history.
Already 10 feet taller than last year’s bonfire, the center pole mea
sures 65 feet. Scattered around the base are logs, which were
hauled in from the cutting areas Sunday. When this picture
was taken late Sunday afternoon, the biggest portion of the days
work had been completed. Monday afternoon, despite the cold r "
rainy weather more students appeared on the drill field ready to le
put on the finishing touches. Wednesday afternoon, hundreds of ‘T
gallons of oil and kerosene will be used to saturate the logs in as
preparation for the annual Bonfire Yell Practice that night.
te.