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The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1960
Number 135
Myers Says Cadets Look Dull For Opener
Thomas Puddy
Dies in N. Y.
Thomas Garrison Puddy, long time manager of Guion
Hall and one of the beloved figures on the A&M campus, died
early Monday morning at the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital
in Saranac Lake', N. Y.
Puddy died at about 6 a.m.
Monday after a long illness. He
was 48 years old.
Puddy was born in Helton. Dec.
7, 1912. He came to College Sta
tion from Houston in 1942 as man
ager of the Guion Hall Theater,
a. post he held until shortly before
his death.
Very popular with both students
and faculty .of the colletre. Puddy’s
method of running Guion Hall
was an example of economical and
worthwhile recreation.
Active on Campus
In addition to managing the mo
vie theater, Puddy was active in
campus activities such as the Ag
gie Players and the Camera Club.
Puddy’s three daughters, Sarah,
Jean and Sally, all grew up on the
A&M campus. Sarah and Jean
later married Aggies.
All three girls attended TWU,
where Sallie was elected Rosebud
Queen last year.
Puddy won The Battalion Award
for Outstanding Service to Stu
dents.
He is survived by his widow.
Mrs. T. G. Puddy of 1515 Sulphur
Springs Road, College, Station;
three daughters, Mrs. George
Johnston of Bryan, Mrs. Roland
Beasley of Port Arthur and Miss
Sally Puddy of Freeport.
His mother, Mrs. Cassie Puddy
of Belton; two brothers, George
Puddy of Los Angeles, Calif., and
Alfred Puddy of Hollywood, Calif.;
three sisters, Mrs. James Schol-
berg, of Dallas, Mrs. Frank Arthur
of Port Arthur, and Mrs. Howard
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Thomas G. Puddy
... beloved campus figure
Skelton of Houston, and three
grandchildren.
Memorial Services
Memorial services will be held
Sunday, Sept. 18, at 2 p.m. at the
AH Faiths Chapel. The Rev. Mr.
Norman Anderson will officiate.
Memorail Funeral Chapel is in
charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Puddy has asked that me
morial gifts be given to the Me
morial Scholarship fund of the
Association of Former Students.
The fund is administered jointly
by the Association of Former Stu
dents and the Student Senate.
Band To Polish
Half-Time Show
The famed Texas A&M band, under the direction of
Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, will put the final touches on their
drill at Kyle Field at 7:30 tonight, to which the public is
invited. The drill is in preparation for the appearance of
the band at Louisiana State Uni-> —
versity Saturday, for the football
game between the Aggies and the
Tigers of LSU.
Col. Adams is beginning his fif
teenth year as band director at
A&M with the largest number of
band members in the history of
the school. The band is now com
posed of 273 members. Two hun
dred and fifty-one’ members will
make the trip to LSU.
Thirteen states are represented
in the band, including 104 fresh
men.
Cadet Leaders
The head drum major is David
Lee Voelter of Marlin, Maroon
Band drum major is Fred L.
Buckner of Lockhart and the
White Band drum major is Rob
ert S. Harris of San Antonio.
Opening the program in between
halves at LSU Saturday night, the
band will make its entrance onto
the field with a new type spread
formation, .with the seniors in the
front line in boots. From that
they will go into the popular criss
cross maneuvers. The band wiT
then salute LSU by spelling out
“LSU Tigers,” and will play the
LSU fight song, “Tiger Rag.”
They will leave the field with the
marching block “T.”
The band will travel to LSU in
special coaches, leaving Houston
at 9:15 p.m. tomorrow and re
turning to Houston Sunday morn
ing.
The trip is made possible by a
former student in appreciation of
the band’s appearance in the
Bluebonnet Bowl game in Houston
'ast year.
New Cafeteria
Plans Saturday
MSC Opening
The new $8,000 Memorial Stu
dent Center Cafeteria is scheduled
to open either Saturday or the
first part of next week.
Charlie Cosper, assistant MSC
director and business manager,
said Tuesday construction work
ers are awaiting the arrival of a
few additional materials and may
be able to finish Friday. He add
ed, however, “It does look nearly
impossible now but we might make
it.”
The cafeteria, located directly
west of the MSC gift shop, will
seat approximately 75 persons, be
sides the spacious dining room fa
cilities that seat over 100.
Entrance
Thg entrance will be directly
across from the west entrance to
the gift shop where display case
now stands.
Ralph Mulhouser, kitchen engi
neer from Houston, is advisor and
consultant for the project. Work
on the project is being done by
MSC maintenance personnel.
Adolphe F. DeWerth, head of
the Department of Floriculture
and Land Architecture, is in
charge of the floor construction.
J. Wayne Stark, MSC director,
added Tuesday a new acoustical
ceiling has been added to the din
ing room in an effort to decrease
excessive noise.
Stark also said the dining room
will feature a choice between table
service and going through the
cafeteria line. Portions of the
dining area may also be reserved
by groups, the director added.
Work on the
around Aug. 10.
project began
High In Praise
Both Cosper and Stark were
high in praise of the new cafeteria
and called it the answer to feed
ing large weekend crowds.
Cosper also emphasized that the
cafeteria line will enable many
more persons to be waited on in a
shorter amount of time.
One of the main features of the
new establishment is a “Lazy Su
san” revolving, circular salad and
chilled fruit display.
A glassed-in lobby is still another
feature of the new project.
A&M, LSU Collide
In Baton Rouge
After handing out some praise for his Cadet football
team earlier this week, Coach Jim Myers came back yesterday
describing the whole club as looking “dull and listless” for
their opener with the Tigers of Louisiana in Baton Rouge
Saturday.
Hampered by injuries, the Aggies worked out for an
hour and a half yesterday, devoting most of the workout to
passing and kicking.
Disabled List
On the disabled list were Wayne Labar, guard; George
Hogan, tackle; Jim Harper, guard; Jon Few, halfback; and
Richard Love, end. Love is definitely out for the game and
will not make the trip, but the - * r.
others are expected to go to
Louisiana State, A&M Grid Opener
... off to a good start?
ConventionPIaimed,
Other W ork Moving
Texas A&M has landed a national intercollegiate con
vention.
The National Intercollegiate Flying Convention will be
held on the campus of Aggieland in April, J. Wayne Stark,
director of the Memorial Student'^
Center, announced Tuesday.
Details of the convention are
not yet complete, Stark added;
however, schools from Michigan,
Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois, Mexico
and as many as 20 other states
are due to be represented.
The director added this year
will be the first time the Flying
Convention has been held this far
south.
The Flying Kadets Committee
of the MSC Directorate will spon
sor the program and iron out the
additional details after they or
ganize for the school year.
Jazz Group Scheduled
Stark also announced Tuesday
the Dukes of Dixieland will ap
pear on campus the weekend of the
Texas Tech football game, Sept.
24, under the sponsorship of the
MSC Music Committee.
The director added the commit
tee, which has no chairman at the
present, is also attempting to book
several other jazz bands for ap
pearances here.
These include, Stark continued,
the Gulf Coast Giants of Jazz and
the North Texas Lab Band. The
Gulf Coast Giants were reportedly
a big hit among summer students
here this summer, while the North
Texas group won first place in
the national Intercollegiate Large
Jazz Band Contest at Notre Dame
University last year.
Talent Shows Set
The director also revealed the
MSC Talent Committee, headed by
Rodney Kelley, a senior civil en
gineering major from San An
tonio, will sponsor the two annual
talent shows held in Aggieland.
They are the Aggie Talent
Show, set sometime in December,
and the Intercollegiate Talent
Show, scheduled Mar. 10.
Stark also said no speakers have
been definitely confirmed for
SCONA VI, even though around
five have indicated they would
like to appear for the nationally-
known conference. Tom Reid, a
senior industrial education major
from Dallas, is chairman of
SCONA VI.
HOW MANY? WHO KNOWS?
Saturday Tells EnrollmentTale
LSU Extends
A&M Invite
To Reception
Louisiana State University has
extended an invitation to the stu
dents of A&M who will be in
Baton Rouge for the season grid
opener to attend a reception in
their honor Saturday from 2-4
p.m.
The reception will be held in the
LSU Fieldhouse and the hostesses
for the event will be the “Angel
Flight,” a coed drill team. Nu
merous cadet officers from LSU
will also be at the reception.
Roland Dommert, president of
the Student Senate, said that the
LSU Fieldhouse will also serve as
headquarters for A&M students
Saturday.
Dommert urged students to at
tend and also added that tickets
to the game will be on sale to
A&M students from 9 a.m. Satur
day until kickoff.
The tickets may be purchased
at the ticket office at the north
end of the stadium.
Baton Rouge.
In order to close the gap at
j halfback left by Few, Myers
j has moved Quarterback Babe
| Craig to this position. He will be
running behind Ronnie Ledbetter
I and starter Randy Sims who can
i play both halfback positions.
Shakeups
( A couple of shakeups have taken
place in the Aggies’ starting line
up which found Larry Broaddus
nudging out Roy Northrup at cen
ter and Sam Byer drew a nod
from Myers to start at fullback.
Both Byer and Caffey have had
a running battle for the fullback
slot since practice opened and
both have turned in top perform
ances at their position.
LSU will meet the Ags with
their traditional three platoons con
sisting of the White Team, Go
Team and famed Chinese Bandits.
Although the Tigers have lost the
services of several greats like
Johnny Robinson and Billy Cannon,
they still have a threatening attack
revolving around Wendell Harris,
Mickey Mongram, (Bo) Strange
and Earl Gros.
Forty-one men will leave for
Baton Rouge when the plane takes
off Friday at 2 p.m., with a work
out slated that afternoon.
AGGIES
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R. Smith
W. Simmons
..... W. Labar
L. Broaddus
. C. Franklin
W. Freiling
... B. Phillips
P. Berry
R. Sims
B. Caskey
S. Byer
A. Bourgeois
.. B. Richards
.. R. Winston
... B. Strange
E. McCreedy
B. Booth
M. Mangram
.... D. Jenkins
... W. Harris
... H. Bourque
D. Daye
A&M Receives
$24,000 Aid
In Petroleum
A&M has received a grant of
$24,000 from the Petroleum Re
search Fund of the American
Chemical Society for a three-year
research project on the chemical
composition of asphalt.
The grant will support a grado
uate student at A&M and provide
also for technical assistance, equip
ment, and supplies.
The ACS grants are made in
the interest of advanced scientific
education and fundamental re
search in the petroleum field. Ap
proximately $1,500,000 was allo
cated in 224 grants during 1959
from the Petroleum Research
Fund. The graduate student being
chosen for the A&M project will
be directed by Dr. Ralph N. Trax-
ler, professor of civil engineering,
who has 30 years experience in
asphalt research and technology,
and written numerous articles and
developed various patented pro
cedures.
Asphalts are complex mixtures
of hydrocarbons and sulfur, nitro
gen, and oxygen compounds and
present many problems in applica
tion. Therefore the A&M research
will attempt to provide fundamen
tal knowledge concerning the
chemical natures of these various
components so that control of the
properties essential for satisfac
tory service under the wide range
of conditions encountered with
pavements, roofs and other appli
cations will be possible.
Various advanced techniques
now used in the study of hydro
carbons and related materials will
be applied in the research.
The work will be conducted
through the Texas Transportation
Institute.
Estimates, or better, “wild
guesses,” as to the number of
freshman students to enroll at
A&M this fall range from a con
servative 1600 to a healthy 2000.
The registrar’s office said it
would be impossible to make any
kind of accurate estimate until
after registration.
Fiscal Department Auditor Wal
ter F. Berndt said the Fiscal De
partment ‘counted 1650 receipts
yesterday, after entering fresh
men paid their fees.
“But you can’t make any kind
of estimate from that,” he said.
“Some paid early, by mail, and
some won’t pay until next week
sometime. Then there were a
number of duplications when a boy
failed to pay something and had
to pay it later and get another
receipt.”
Berndt said they did take a
rough count of the boys going-
through the line.
“I had some checkers count them
as they paid their fees for a ten-
minute period. We figured an
average of 78 boys went through
the lines in ten minutes. We
worked about four hours altoge
ther, so that would mean about
1872 boys went through the lines.
“But this isn’t very accurate
either,” he added.
Director of Student Affairs
Bennie A. Zinn said he expected
about 300 veterans to attend
school this fall under the G.I. Bill.
In addition, about 50 orphans are
expected to enroll.
Zinn said about 25 veterans and
20 orphans would enroll in the col
lege for the first time this fall.
Zinn said all veterans attending
school under the G. I. Bill must
report to the Office of Student
Affairs in the basement of the
YMCA.
“Veterans who fail to report
may have some difficulty getting
their first check,” Zinn said.
Zinn said there were 200 apart
ments in the College View and
new Hensel Apartment projects
still to be rented.
All 60 of the Project House
apartments have already been
rented. There are 30 vacancies at
College View, and 170 of the new
Above and Beyond—Section 4, Page 1
Hensel Apartments haven’t been
rented, Zinn said.
Registration for ’ the fall se
mester will be conducted in Sbisa
Dining Hall Friday and Saturday,
Sept. 16 and 17.
Registration cards may be
picked up at the newsstand next
to Sbisa Hall according to the
following schedule:
Friday, Sept. 16
1:00 to 3:00—All whose sur
names begin with C, D, E, F.
3:00 to 4:30—All whose sur
names begin with G, H, I, J, K.
Saturday, Sept. 17
8:00 to 10:00—All whose sur
names begin with A, B.
10:00 to 11:30—All whose sur
names begin with T, U, V, W, X,
Y, Z.
1:00 to 3:00—all whose sur
names begin with L, M, N, O.
3:00 to 4:00—All whose sur
names begin with P, Q, E, S.
The Dukes of Dixieland have accepted an football game here. The group is being
invitation to play for an all-college dance brought to Aggieland by the Memorial
Saturday, Sept. 24 after the Texas Tech Student Center Music Committee.