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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
Texas A«M
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WEEKLY
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
TEXAS A. & M.
VOLUME 45
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTENOON, NOVEMBER 29, 1945
NUMBER 10
40,000 Visitors Expected For Turkey Day Classic
Steers Are Favored To Win
Over Crippled Cadet Squad
Biblemen Strong on Reserves; Aggies
Will Bank On Flashy Ground Attack
By Harold Borofsky
Thursday afternoon the Texas Aggies will meet the
University of Texas Longhorns in the fifty-second grid
battle of a series that began in 1894 and which, since that
time, has provided more thrills, than any other football
rivalry in the nation. This will be the day when old timers
of both schools will get together and talk over the old days
—the days when Dick Todd or John Kimbrough was ramb
ling for the Aggies, or when Pete* Layden or Jack Crain
was dealing out misery on behalf of the Longhorns. All
through the series it has been a saying that no matter what
the records of the two teams were prior to Turkey Day, on
that day anything coul^. happen. This year’s tilt should live
up to that reputation.
The Longhorns, for the first timet
this season, will be at top strength.
Bobby Layne, one of the best
passers this conference has ever
seen, will be in fine condition and
will attempt to spark the Steer
aerial attack. Ralph Ellsworth,
speed demon who just recently re
turned from Annapolis, and fleet-
footed Byron Gillory will carry
the bulk of the running duties. But
the Longhorn backfield power goes
deeper than that, for Coach Dana
Bible’s roster is studded with a
crop of backs that would make
any coach proud. There is Jack
Halfpenny, the stalwart first-string
linebacker who starred in the
Longhorns’ goal-line stand against
the Aggies last year, Arthur Sweet,
George Graham, Guy Nunnelly, C.
D. Allen, Joe Baumgardner, Ran
som Jackson, and Tom Harrelson—
all with lots of experience and each
packing plenty of power.
The Longhorn line is again big
and rugged in all respects, starring
Hubert Bechtol, pass-snatching end
and All-America candidate, lanky
speedster Charlie Tatum, Peppy
Blount, whose last-minute pass
grabbing gave the Longhorns their
win over S. M. U. and Dale
Schwartzkopf, whose all-around
play has stood out all season. Then
there will be massive Harlan Wetz
and Jim Plyler at the tackle slots,
Wetz also handling the kickoffs
and Plyler doing the punting. At
the guard posts will be Walter
Keep and Sam Callan, while Dick
Harris will be over the ball at
center.
On the other hand, the Aggies’
power will be at its lowest ebb,
with Bob Butchofsky sidelined with
a kidney injury and Tom Daniel
out with a broken wrist. The Cadet
hopes will be pinned mainly on the
running power of the two leading
scorers in the conference, Rob
Goode and Preston Smith, and the
passing of quarterback Lillard
Hart, who will take Daniel’s place.
The blocking back duties will be
handled by Bill Engle, who has
(See AGGIES, Page 3)
Aggie-Texas Game
Will Be Broadcast
Around the World
Former students of the Texas
A. M. College and the University
of Texas in battle stations all over
the world will hear a play-by-play
account of the 52nd gridiron con
test between the big Texas schools
to be played on Kyle Field at Col
lege Station beginning at 2:30 p.
m., Thursday.
The Humble Oil and Refining
Company, which broadcasts South
west Conference football games
has made arrangements with the
Armed Forces Radio Services
whereby men and women in the
Armed Services interested in the
oldest football rivalry in the South
west will get the fast and colorful
action story by shortwave . from
powerful radio stations on our east
and west coasts.
Kern Tips, ace football announ
cer, will handle the play-by-play
report.
East Texas Exes
Book Aggieland
Band for Holidays
Featuring music by the Aggie
land Orchestra, the Texas A. &
M. Ex-Students East Texas Club
will present a dance in Longview
during the Christmas holidays, ac
cording to plans completed this
week.
The Longview dance will be held
at the Palm Isle Club on December
27, with music beginning at 9:00
p.m. Aggies who wish to attend
can secure tickets and reservations
by writing to Ed Caraway, Box
871, Kilgore, Texas or Pete Cash
ell, Box 2146, Longview, Texas.
Admission price is $2.50 per per-
Seniors to Have
Elephant Walk
Thursday Morn
Tomorrow morning at nine
o’clock will be the time for the
senior’s traditional Elephant
Walk. To the seniors it has a great
significance.
Every year on the mom of the
annual Thanksgiving Day game
with Texas University the tradi
tional Elephant Walk is held. This
is the last ritual of the football
year for the graduating seniors.
At this time all the seniors lay
aside their dignity and pull their
shirt tails out to march to the low
and mournful beat of the piccolo
and brass horn. The Walk goes
down Military Walk to Legett Hall
and back past Hart Hall to Guion
Hall. It then returns to the flag
pole in front of the Academic
building.
The seniors fonn a long line that
zig-zag Across Military Walk in
the fashion of the dying elephant
when he goes to death. They form
the line one behind another, plac
ing their hands on one anothers
hips and then proceed with the
walk.
This age old tradition, which
dates back many years, portrays
the last journey of the old or
wounded elephant that realizes he
is of no further use to the remain
der of the herd. He goes off to die
“News and Views With John B. Hughes”
John B. Hughes
Kiwanis Hear
Bell Tuesday
The College Station Kiwanis
Club was treated to a very enjoy
able program when they held their
weekly meeting, on November 27.
A new members, “Spike” White was
taken into the club and made a
standing member. Joanna Wilcox,
pianist, and Bill Guthrie, soloist,
lent enjoyable aid to the session
with the songs, “Old Man River”
and “Give a Man a Horse He Can
Ride.”
Reverend R. L. Bell, of Bryan,
spoke colorfully in support of his
campaign for “Friendship Week”,
this year including November 25
through December 1. Reverend Bell
told of his experiences as “Sky
Pilot of the Rails”, a title which
he gained while working in behalf
of hoboes and unfortunates who
follow the train tracks. Interesting
side notes were delivered by Rev
erend Bell, and many details of the
life he led were given. Mr. Bell
gave as the topic for his discus
sion, this serious thought, “A
friend is the fellow who stops when
the rest of world goes by.” Recog
nized widely for his fine humani
tarian work, he has traveled for
eleven years through twenty four
states, in his attempt to help the
hoboes of the nation.
familiar “News and Views by John
B. Hughes”, will be featured on
Town Hall, Tuesday evening, Dec.
4, it has been announced by A1
Presnal, manager. The program is
scheduled for 8:00 in Guion Hall.
Recognized as an expert on Far
Eastern affairs, Hughes has had
wide experience as a war corre
spondent and observer. He was
with the landing party on Leyte
Island. He lived with Filipino gue
rilla fighters, has flown on bomb
ing expeditions, ridden in PT boats
on raids against Jap shipping and
survived days of incessant Jap air
raids.
More than six months before the
fatal Pearl Harbor attack, Hughes
predicted that the Japs would pro
voke war and that their attack
would be “relentless and swift”. A
keen study of the history of Japan
and Japanese psychology has given
Hughes a splendid background for
his Town Hall appearance, the sub
ject of which will be the post-war
problems of the Pacific.
Graduating from collegiate jour
nalism to general reporting, Hughes
has had a varied career that in
cludes editing a drama page, act
ing, writing and directing stage
productions, and finally radio where
he became one of the first to dis
cover the potentialities of news
casting. Hughes’ first radio ex
perience was in Tacoma, Weshing-
ton; and from there he went to Los
Angeles and eventual national re
cognition.
Pet Show Will Be
Over In Time to
Attend Bonfire
Ticket sales are brisk for the an
nual Dog and Pet Show sponsored
by the A. & M. Consolidated School,
it was announced here today.
The show is scheduled to start
at 6:00 p.m. at the Animal Hus
bandry pavilion and will be over
in time for spectators to attend
the Aggie bonfire. Entries must
be brought to the west entrance of
the pavilion not-later than 5:30
p.m.
Community Service
Is Scheduled for
Thanksgiving Day
A special Thanksgiving service
has been planned for students and
residents of College Station for
8:00 a. m. on Thursday morning
at the First Baptist Church. The
service is sponsored by all churches
of the community, with Rev. R. C.
Terry of the A. & M. Methodist
Church acting as chairman in
charge of arrangements.
A special feature of the program
will be two numbers by Aggie-
land’s own Singing Cadets. Rev.
R. B. Sweet, pastor of the Church
of Christ, will bring the thanks
giving message, and Rev. R. L.
Brown will be in charge of the
program.
The complete program is as fol
lows:
Organ Prelude
Hymn
Prayer
“Blow, Trumpets, Blow” (Rieg-
ger)—Singing Cadets
Scripture Reading—Elmo King
Prayer
Postlude—“Grace Be Unto You”
—Singing Cadets.
Local Chapter of
American Kennel
Club Is Formed
An affiliation with the American
Kennel Club was formed last Mon
day night in a meeting at Sbisa
Lounge, at which the Brazos County
Kennel Club was formed. College
Station is soon to be put on the
regular dog show circuit, as soon
as preliminary provisions of the
rules are complied with. Officers
that were elected were: J. A. Gray,
president; Mrs. Mary Van Buskirk,
secretary; and G. B. Winstead,
treasurer. Before qualifying for
recognition in the American Ken
nel Club, the local group must hold
a match show of pedigreed dogs.
Handling 40,000 Customers Is Quite a Job
Cooperation of Visitors and
Corps Requested Tomorrow
The task of caring for forty
thousand football fans on the A.
& M. campus is an operation car
ried out by a small army of be
hind-the-scenes workers to whom
Turkey Day spells labor instead of
pleasure.
The job this year will be greater
than ever before, college officials
realize, because no special trains
or buses are available and conse
quently every man, woman and
child who comes from out of town
will travel by private automobile.
Figuring an average of six persons
to the car, that will mean about
6,000 automobiles to handle during
the day. Then, besides the prob
lems of traffic and parking, there
are arrangements to be made for
alumni meetings, meals, first-aid
stations, rest rooms, drinking wa
ter, parcel checking, and a host
of other problems, some of which
will probably not become apparent
until the big day.
Long years of experience at
handling the Thanksgiving Day
crowds have given college authori
ties a wealth of experience along
INSTRUCTIONS TO AGGIES
FOR THE THANKGIVING
DAY FOOTBALL GAME
1. Get to the stadium early,
preferably as soon after 1:00
P. M. as possible.
2. Aggies and their dates will
enter through one ramp only.
This is Ramp P and is for sec
tions 129, 130, 131 and 132, which
will be roped off. Student O.D.s
and state police will be posted
on the ropes and also at the
ramp entrance.
3. Persons entering the Aggie
section must have either a cou
pon book or a ticket with that
section number. However, any
Aggie in uniform who has cou
pon book may take his date into
the section no matter where her
ticket is located.
4. Class sections will be strict
ly observed.
day. So, park your car in one of
the three FREE parking lots as
soon as you reach College Station,
and walk to the game or to an/
of the other places on the campus
son, tax included. In order to se
cure reservations, tickets should alone so the rest of the herd will I these lines, and arrangements have
be purchased early by Aggies and not see him in his suffering. The : already been made which, with the
ex-students. /seniors are in the same mood at cooperation of the Aggie coitis and, • > Th*
Other dances are being booked I this time of year, since they realize j the general public, will permit ™ IS 0 7\ S1 ’ 18 1U ^
by the Aggieland Orchestra for it is their last Thanksgiving Day I an orderly handling of the huge VV1 e en orce S1IC n
the Christmas holiday season, with game, and feel old and of no furth-! pleasure-bent crowd. rain tractors will be stationed
dates already arranged for Brady,
on December 29 and San Angelo on
December 28. Open dates are De
cember 26 and 30.
er use to the up and coming un-1 Here are the instructions for the
derclassmen that are still young day:
and will see more “Turkey Day” J 1. No cars will be allowed to
games with the University. ! cruise around the campus on game
at each parking lot, and every vis
itor may rest assured that he will
be given help in reaching a hard-
surfaced highway after the game!
2. Visitors will be fed in both
Duncan and Sbisa dining halls, at
75tf per person beginning at 12:15
p. m. Other places of business on
and off the campus will be equipped
to feed visitors. The student body
will be fed at 11 a. m. in order to
give visitors plenty of time to eat.
3. Guion Hall is designated as
headquarters for Texas University
alumni and friends. The College
Y. M. C. A. will be Texas A. & M.
headquarters for the day.
4. Numerous campus buildings
will be open and maids will be in
attendance at rest rooms for ladies
in the following: Kiest Lounge,
Bizzell Hall, basement of Academic
building, Leggett and Mitchell
halls, Cushing Library, Dormitories
1, 3, and 5 in the new campus area,
and in the row of project houses
nearest parking area No. 2. FOL
LOW THE SIGNS.
4. A first aid station will be es
tablished on Clark Street leading
to the main entrance to the football
field.
5. Parking areas are designated
as follows:
I No. 1—Old drill field south of
Law and Puryear halls, including
area west of Law hall and old res
idence area south of drill field.
This area is in the center of the
campus and probably will be the
last emptied after the game.
No. 2—Playing field area south
of stadium and north of project
(See COOPERATION, Page 2)
Pre-Game Festivities Will
Include Bonfire and Ball
Great Pile to Be Lit at 7:30; Corps
Ball at 10:00 to Be Season’s Best
Spirit will reach a high for the year at the annual bon
fire tonight at 7:30. The bonfire and yell practice will pro
ceed as in past years, with the band falling out at 7:30, go
ing to the steps of the C. E. Building for a short yell prac
tice, then the Corps will fall in behind the band and circle
once around the bonfire- After this the Corps is to take
the regular yell practice sections, facing the bonfire. While
the yell practice is starting, the junior yell leaders will light
the fire. The yell practice at the fire will probably consist
of the yell leaders talking, and the coaches and the team
saying a few words.
1 Following the bonfire, there will
be a Corps Ball in the mai* hall
Mayor Asks Help
In Reducing City
Firefighting Cost
Taxpayers of College Station
have paid approximately $225.00
for fire calls during the past three
weeks, according to Mayor Ernest
Langford.
Ninety per cent of the calls wei'e
the result of carelessness, accord
ing to Langford, the chief cause
being the accumulation of rubbish
in violation of Ordinance No. 67,
Section 1 which reads in part:
“It shall be unlawful for any
owner or lessee, occupant or any
person in charge of any premises
in the City of College Station to
allow tr-ash or rubbish to accum
ulate to create a fire hazard or to
become injurious to health.”
The ordinance provides a viola
tion penalty of $50.00, the cost of
a fire call. Violations .of the or
dinance will be strictly enforced in
the future, Langford stated, and
investigations will be made in all
cases by the fire marshall.
“This is strictly a cooperative
matter,” Langford stated in ap
pealing to citizens of the city to
avoid burning rubbish in places
where grass will catch fire and
to refrain from turning in alarms
on grass fires where property is not
endangered. The mayor called at
tention to the service offered by
the city in hauling away rubbish
for a charge of $1.00.
Ashton Assigned to
Write History of
Livestock Industry
Di\ John Ashton, of the Texas
A. & M. College School of Agri
culture, will be relieved of all
teaching duties at the end of the
current semester and will devote
his entire time to writing a history
of the livestock industry of the
Southwest, it was announced today
by Dean Charles N. Shepardson.
Dr. Ashton has spent the last
fifteen years collecting data and
doing research on this project,
Dean Shepardson pointed out, and
it is believed that the livestock in
dustry will appreciate his contri
bution of a complete history of the
business of furnishing meat to the
tables of the nation.
Dr. Ashton, professor of agricul
tural journalism, has written many
articles on agricultural and live
stock subjects, and for many years
has been closely associated with
this type of work, having edited
newspapers and magazines prior
to his return to A. & M., where he
graduated in 1906. Dr. Ashton also
served a year as exchange profes
sor to Nicaragua under auspices
of the U. S. State Department.
Potter Discusses
Atomic Energy
A discussion of atomic energy
by Dr. James G. Potter, head of
A. & M.’s physics department,
featured the November meeting of
the Brazos County A. & M. Club
last night. The meeting was held
at the Bryan Country Club.
Plans were completed for the
annual Christmas party to be held
next month.
of Sbisa. The dance will be in
formal, and the price Js $1.50,
stag or drag.
This is expected to be the largest
dance ever held at Aggieland be
cause of the large numbers of vis
itors that will be present on the
campus, including exes, returnees,
and T. u. visitors.
The Aggieland Orchestra
play for the dance.
will
Utah Prof to Head
New Department of
Range Management
The growing demand in Texas
for range management specialists
will be met by the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas, it
was announced today by Dean
Charles N. Shepardson of the
School of Agriculture.
Dean Shepardson announced that
Dr. L. A. Stoddart, head of the de
partment of range management at
the Utah State Agricultural Col
lege, has accepted headship of a
Department of Range Management
at Texas A. & M. College.
Dr. Stoddart will arrive January
1, and will organize and direct the
teaching work in this field, and
get research projects lined up im
mediately. The course in range
management will be available to
A. & M. students in September,
1946, Dean Shepardson announced.
Dr. Stoddart took his bachelor’s
degree in range and forestry at
Colorado A. & M. College as well
as his master’s degree in range
management. His doctorate was
completed in 1934 at the University
of Nebraska. A year was spent in
Washington as range agent for the
Soil Conservation Service, follow
ing which he joined the faculty
of Utah State as professor of
range management and soil con
servation, heading that department.
He held that position for 10 years
prior to his acceptance of the
Texas A. & M. post.
Author of numerous articles and
research reports, Dr. Stoddart al
so has written a textbook on range
management which is used in
eight of the twelve colleges teach
ing the course. In two years during
which Federal Civil Service exam
ination records have been studied
by thre Society of American Forest
ers, Utah men have surpassed
those from any other school in all
phases.
Dr. Stoddart is 36 years of age,
is married and has three children.
He is chairman of the Interagency
Range Committee and vice-chair
man of the Society of American
Foresters section, as well as a
member of numerous professional
societies and fraternities for re
search scientists.
Creation of the department of
range management, Dean Shepard
son said, is in line with the policy
of A. & M. College to provide in
struction in any field where there
is a definite demand for graduates
with specific knowledge and train
ing.