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TEXAS A. & M.
VOLUME 45 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 6, 1945 NUMBER 11
Steers Rally To Beat Tired Aggies 20-10
Cadets Play Inspired Football;
Longhorn Reserve Strength Counts
(As per the terms set forth in the BATTALION of November 22,
which stated that the sports editor of the school that won the Thanks
giving Day game would have the privilege of seeing his story in
print of the other’s paper, we herewith present the write-up, as re
ceived in our office, of Jack Gallagher, a “Daily Texan” sports writer.
—Ed. Note.)
By Jack Gallagher
Daily Texan Sports Writer
An A&M eleven that lived up to the fondest expecta
tions of its backers for three quarters wilted before a de
termined fourth-quarter Texas onslaught and allowed the
Longhorns to push over two touchdowns and defeat the
Farmers, 20-10.
In winning their sixth straight over the Aggies, Texas
had to battle grimly to stave off an A&M rally which threat
ened to end the Longhorns’ domination over their rivals.
Forty-one thousand fans who jammed Kyle Field to
overflowing saw the home team come from behind to tie
the score at 7-7 and then go ahead on a third-quarter field
goal before the Steers took advantage of an Aggie miscue
early in the final quarter.
GOODE SCORES FOR AGGIES
This picture shows the start of the run by Rob Goode for the Aggie touchdown in the Thanksgiving
Day game. The ball was fumbled by Hart (not shown) and scooped up by Goode, who outran an All-Amer
ican of last year, Rechtol, around right end for the counter.
Pictured here are Aggies Moncrief, with face up, Engle, on ground, and Goode, arrow. Longhorns
shown include Bechtol, 81, and Wetz, 77.
Brazos Aggies Plan"Big Time"
Christmas Party for Grid Squad
Kiwanians Hear
Dairying Program
College Station Kiwanians heard
discussions of modern dairying
trends and methods Tuesday as
Dr. A. L. Darnell presented a pro
gram built around the Dairy Short
Course which ended here yester
day.
W, S. Arbuckle, of the dairy
husbandry division of the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station,
presented, figures illustrating the
production and distribution of dai
ry products during the war-time
period as compared with pre-war
years, and outlined with the use
of charts the salient points of sani
tation in dairy production.
Dr. L. R. Noyes of the Bureau
of Animal Industry, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, stationed at
Fort Worth, explained briefly the
work of the bureau in the dairy
industry. He was introduced by
Dr. Darnell.
Visitors at the meeting included
C. R. Heaton, Marty Karow, Gra
ham D. Purcell, W. H. Badgett, M.
C. Hughes, and a number of short-
course enrollees. Luncheon music
was provided by Mrs. Ralph Steen.
Boy Scouts Will
Have Circus Here
This Friday Night
There will be a Boy Scout circus
in the Animal Husbandry Pavilion
this Friday night at 7:30 p.m. All
of the Boy Scout troops and Cut
Scout dens in the Bryan and Col
lege Station area are to participate.
The circus will open with a pa
rade by the Cubs, in which they
will represent various circus types
in home-made outfits, such as ele
phants, giraffes, horses, ducks,
clowns, cowboys, and hillbilly
bands.
The regular Scouts part of the
program is to consist of demon
strations of scout games, signal
practice, first aid, knot tying, leaf
printing, plaster of paris casting
work, tent pitching, and a camping
expedition.
No admission will be charged
and everyone is invited.
Pamphlet for Vets
Is Prepared on
Surplus Property
A pamphlet designed to give
veterans full information on their
rights to buy surplus property
has been prepared by the Surplus
Property Administration.
The booklet sets forth the basic
facts about the preferences given
veterans in buying surplus prop
erty. The purchasing procedure is
outlined step by step. A list of dis
posal agencies and the kinds of
property they sell is included.
To cover all angles of the sub
ject, a series of questions and
answers received from veterans
has been added.
The booklet is being distributed
to seperation centers and other
key points in the armed services,
to Civil Service Boards to Veteran
Administration offices, and through
veterans organizations.
What’s Cooking
THURSDAY, DEC. 6
6:36 pun.: Ex-Servicemen’s Club
at Y.M.CJV.
8:00 p.m.: American Association
of University Professors at Y. M.
C. A. Assembly Room.
FRIDAY, DEC. 7
7:00 p.m.: Hillel Club in Hanu-
kah program at Y. M. C. A.
SATURDAY, DEC. 8
7:30 p.m.: Basketball, Texas Ag
gies vs. Camp Bowie at Gym.
SUNDAY, DEC. 9
2:00 p.m.: Dog obedience show
sponsored by Kennel Club at Ani
mal Husbandry Pavilion.
TUESDAY, DEC. 11
12:00 noon: Kiwanis Club at
Sbisa Hall.
THURSDAY, DEC. 12
7:00 p.m.: Brazos County A. &
M. Club Christmas Party at Sbisa
Hall.
Johnson Shows Speed
At that, A. & M. produced the
year’s outstanding find in little
Gene Johnson, Hebbronville, whose
running overshadowed that of his
more publicized teammates, Rob
Goode and Preston Smith. The Ag
gie touchdown twins managed to
collect a net of only 33 yards be
tween them for the day.
Johnson twice brought down Tex
as men when they were in the clear
and headed for apparent touch
downs, catching Ralph Ellsworth
and Byron Gillory.
It was a torrid battle of lines
all the way, with Texas’s super
iority in reserve strength the big
difference in the final reckoning.
The Longhorns had fresh men to
send into the fray at all times,
while A. & M.’s little-talented re
serves were used sparingly, with
the result that the regulars tired
badly near the finish.
Tackles Monte Moncrief and
Leonard Dickey, along with Ends
Norton Higgins and Bill Geer and
Guard Grant Darnell bulwarked
the Aggie line.
And while you’re handing out
the laurels don’t forget Coach
Homer Norton, who did as fine a
job of sideline coaching—without
being penalized—as has been ex
hibited on Southwest gridirons
this season.
Also, Tom Daniel, the cripple
who wasn’t supposed to play, turn
ed in a good game while he was
in there, showing surprising con
trol over a broken hand he wasn’t
even supposed to be able to bend.
Texas Line Stars
Texas line stars were David
Green, Sam Callan, Jimmy Plyler,
Harlan Wetz, Charley Tatom, and
Joe Mitchell, ably supported by
the superb secondary play of Jack
Halfpenny and Arthur Sweet. This
group was mainly responsible for
holding A. & M. to a net gain
rushing of 68 yards.
The Longhorns’ 227 yards on
the ground were accounted for by
Ralph Ellsworth, Ransom Jack-
son, Jack Halfpenny and Bobby
Layne.
Ellsworth shoved Texas into the
lead in the opening quarter by
romping 81 yards around the Aggie
right end. Hubert Bechtol, Half
penny and Callan did the blocking,
with Lillard Hart of A. & M. get
ting a crack at him around the 45,
but Ellsworth shook him off and
raced the rest of the way un
touched.
Aggies Tie Score
Johnson entered the game in the
second quarter, and went on a 45-
yard ramble the first time he got
his hands on the ball. The Aggies
had the ball on their 45 and seem
ed to be going nowhere, when sud-
PAPER DRIVE
Paper will be collected ..this
Saturday, December 8, from 8
until 11 a.m. Boy Scout troops
102, 411, and the Cub Scouts
will do the collecting.
....L. G. Jones, head of the paper
drive for the last four ..years,
states that this will be the last
of the drives, and that all Col
lege Station is asked to cooper
ate in making this one the big
gest and the best yet as a final
tribute to the scouts who have
worked so long and willingly in
this essential war work.
denly Johnson started out over the
right side of the Texas line and
zig-zagged his way down to the
Longhorn 10.
A roughing penalty against the
Steers aided the Aggies no little,
putting the ball on the 1, from
where Goode picked Hart’s fumble
and skirted end for A. & M’s only
touchdown.
Ballentine’s extra point matched
Layne’s earlier effort and the
score was 7-7.
Passes from Layne to Bechtol
and Halfpenny gave the Lorig-
homs a first down on the Aggie
36 soon after the start of the third
quarter, but the Longhorn attack
stalled and Layne was content to
keep the Aggies bottled up for the
next ten minutes with coffin-comer
punts.
Apparently headed on another
(hive, the Longhorns lost 28 yards,
all the way back to their own 32,
on a quick lineup play. Plyler then
punted to Smith, who raced through
the whole Texas team after taking
the ball on his own 26, and was
finally downed by Dale Schwartz-
kopf on the Texas 16. Wetz ruined
an intentional fumble play by
falling on the ball, to end the
threat.
Cadets Take Lead
A. & M. came right back a min
ute later after Plyler kicked to
midfield. A defensive holding penal
ty gave the Aggies a first down
on the Texas 43. A Smith-to-John-
son pass put the ball on the 22, and
on fourth down Johnson carried to
the Texas 8. An excessive time-out
penalty and a stout Longhorn line
that didn’t yield an inch presented
(See FOOTBALL, Page 3)
By Bill Withers and Sam Nixon
The Corps was privileged to
hear the renowned Mr. John B.
Hughes last Tuesday night through
the channels of the Town Hall
program. Mr. Hughes spoke mostly
on the possibility of self-govern
ment for all of the peoples of Asia.
He discussed at some length the
situation in China that now exists
between the followers of Chiang-
Kai-Shek and the Chinese Com
munists to the north. His main
point was the example that the
United States nas made of the
Filipine islands. By this, Mr.
Hughes stated that he had refer
ence to the fact that the United
States had successfully controlled
the islands for a period of years,
and had also equipped them for
full and complete self-government.
All this was in addition to instill
ing in them a warm friendship and
admiration for their former mas
ters, he said, adding that the “edu
cation” of Filipinos to the demo
cratic way of life and government
had been effected by starting self-
government off in the small com
munities and towns and then work
ing up to the larger bodies of gov
erning agencies, after the natives
had learned the fundamentals of
Democracy at home. Mr. Hughes
Longhorn Pictures
Due December 15
Clubs wanting pictures in the
Longhorn must turn applications
to the Student Activities Office by
Dec. 15. Applications may be ob
tained from the activities office
now.
Applications will include an al
phabetized list of the members and
a list of the club officers if the
club desires a whole page. If a
half page is desired, only the list
of the club officers will be printed.
A whole page .will cost $25, and
a half page will cost $15. Appoint
ments for the picture will be made
by the Longhorn.
A last plea is being made for
snapshots of activities and student
life. These must be in by Dec. 15.
Also a last call is being made for
senior favorites and vanity fair
pictures.
I.A.S. TO MEET TUESDAY
' All students majoring in Aero
nautical Engineering are urged to
attend the meeting of the Insti
tute of Aeronautical Sciences to
be held in the Petroleum Building
next Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m.
strongly stressed the poignant
fact that the entire East needed to
be self-governed, and that this
procedure which we have introduc
ed for the first time in the history
of the world was the best, and
possibly the only way of accom
plishing this.
Japs Do or Die
In an informal interview, he
stated that his impressions of
Aggieland were beyond his ex
pectations, and that he was facinat-
ed with the place and the spirit
that prevailed here. He stated,
when being interviewed on world
affaii’s, that, it will take a lot of
re-education to ever get the Japa
nese to thinking along the lines
that is necessary before recalling
all the U. N. O. forces there. He
stated that the Jap soldier has no
initiative or ability to reason what
ever, and that whenever an ex
traordinary situation presents it
self, he is at a total loss to cope
with it, being guided only by a
blind and unreasoning indomitable
will to carry out his mission, as
he has been taught, or either die
in the attempt, either by his own
hand or by that of the enemy. ■
Quit School to Write
Mr. Hughes is famous for his
C. B. S. radio program, “News and
Arrangements have been made
for twelve ticket outlets for the
Christmas party of the Brazos
County A. & M. Club, honoring the
Texas Aggie football squad, which
will be held in Sbisa Hall the night
of Dec. 13, Secretary Fred Cavitt
said today.
In Bryan tickets may be secured
from Fred Cavitt, Ivan Langford
at College Station are being made
by S. A. Lipscomb, Casey & Sparks,
George McCulloch, Luke Patra-
nella, Harry Boyer, Fred Hale, J.
D. Prewit, P. C. Colgin and P. L.
Downs, Jr.
Price of each ticket is $1.50. Of
this amount, $1.00 will go to the
Subsistence Department for the
meal of the ticket holder, while the
extra 50 cents will go in the pot
toward the meal of a football play
er. It takes the purchase of two
tickets and this extra $1.00 to pay
the way of one of the bqys who
cai’ried the Aggie colors this sea
son, Cavitt said.
This Christmas party will be
“big time”, according to W. R. Car
michael, club president. “We were
told the club wanted a real party or
nothing, and we are going to give
Views”. He is an authority on Far
Eastern affail's, in spite of the
fact that he had never visited that
portion of the globe until he spent
some six months in the Filipines
with the American Forces as a
war correspondent. He stated, with
a grin, that this setup enabled him
to contact people coming into Cal
ifornia from that section of the
world and get their opinions on
the Far Eastern situation. Thus he
was able to claim that he was able
to issue “News and Views” from
that portion of the world without
subscribing to the numerous pre
judices which always assail those
who actually visit there. He had a
part-time job with the Long Beach
News. “After a while, I saw that
I couldn’t expect to continue work
ing on the paper and still graduate
from High School. One or the other
had to go. So I quit High School
and took a full-time job on the
paper.” He said that after this
job came a period of free-lance
writing, and after this was finish
ed, Mr. Hughes started his now
famous radio program.
In leaving, Mr. Hughes restated
his former feeling of delight at the
Aggies hospitality and promised
to give A. & M. a feature spot on
some of his broadcasts in the near
future.
them a real party,” Carmichael
added.
Main speaker will be Morris
Frank, feature writer for the Hous
ton Post, whose talk at the Dean
E. J. Kyle banquet last winter
long will be remembered by those
present. Another specialty will be
an act put on by Herman Engel,
manager of the Houston Fat Stock
Engel number report it worth go
ing many miles to see and hear.
Rounding out the main part of the
program will be demonstrations of
magic by a young lady from Dallas
who is in great demand as an en
tertainer in North Texas.
Aggie Chem Profs
Will Read Papers
At Regional Meet
Papers by two Texas A. & M.
professors will be included on the
program of the American Chemical
Society’s regional meeting in Aus
tin on December 7 and 8, it was
announced yesterday.
Dr. C. M. Lyman, chemist for
the swine division of the Agricul
tural Experiment Station, will re
port on amino acid requirements
of certain lactic acid bacteria and
the effect of carbon dioxide, oxygen,
and pyridoxime derivatives, and
Dr. Fred W. Jensen of the college
chemistry department will read a
paper on “Analyses in high frequen
cy fields”. Other Aggie staff mem
bers who will attend the meeting
include Dr. M. T. Harrington, Dr.
W. M. Potts, and Professor C. W.
Bishop.
Plans for the meeting include a
banquet at the Austin Hotel on
Friday to be followed by smokers
presented by Phi Lambda Upsilon
and Omega Chi Epsilon,- two chem
istry societies. On Saturday the
Chemistry and Chemical Engineer
ing departments of the University
of Texas will hold open house, and
a tea is scheduled for Saturday
afternoon under the auspices of
Iota Sigma Pi.
Geologist to Speak
On El Paracutin
Dr. Preston E. Cloud, United
^States Geological Society, will give
a non-technical lecture this Wed
nesday night at 7:30 p.m., in the
main lecture room of the Geology
building. Dr. Cloud has been an
observer with a scientific -party
that was making geophysical stud
ies of the new volcano, El Para
cutin, in central Mexico. He made
many intensive kodachrome movies
of the volcano.
Dr. Cloud is a distinguished geol
ogist and speaker, and the program
will be well worth anyone’s time.
Therefore, all geology students,
and people interested in geology
are urged to attend.
Gilchrist to Talk
on A&M’s Problems
At AAUP Meeting
President Gibb Gilchrist will
speak on “Problems of Texas A.
& M.” when the American Asso
ciation of University Professors
meets on December 6. President
Gilchrist will discuss the various
phases of student life and faculty
supervision. His recommendations
in regard to these questions will
involve improvements of college
life and routine.
The meeting will get under way
promptly at 8:00 p. m.
Field Trip Planned
To Rio Grande
Seven senior students of the
Texas A. & M. College department
of horticulture who are taking a
special course in citriculture will
make their annual week’s tour of
the Rio Grande Valley December
8-16, it was announced today by
Dr. Guy W. Adriance, head of the
department, who has been taking
his students into the Valley each
year since 1922.
The first trip was made in 1922
by a group of 12 students who
were accompanied by A. T. Potts
and Dr. Adriance. In the period
just preceding the war, three dif
ferent classes made additional trips
to the Florida citrus section for
the purpose of studying the in
dustry there.
Many students who have made
these field laboratory trips in the
past have engaged in citrus work
in the Valley and have made out
standing contributions in orchard
management, nursery work and
fruit and vegetable processing.
The group will leave here De-
ecrnbsr 8 and spend the night in
Kingsville. After a brief visit to
the King ranch they will go to
Bayview in the lower Valley near
Brownsville.
Bayview will be headquarters
for a portion of the week, and then
the party will spend some time
near Elsa and Edcouch at Rio
Farms.
At Bayview the group will as
sist in a cooperative research pro
ject on citrus orchard soils and
root development. At Rip Farms
they plan to study methods of or
chard management in a number
of outstanding groves. A visit also
will be paid to the commercial
freezing plant at Brownsville,
juice plants at Weslaco and Elsa,
fruit and vegetable packing houses,
and nurseries. They will spend
some time at the Agricultural Ex
periment Station at Weslaco. A
visit also will be made to th« gua-
yule plantings and bulb farms in
Hidalgo and Willacy counties.
Making the trip with Dr. Ad-
(See FIELD TRIP, Page 4)
New Kennel Club
Sponsors Show On
Canine Obedience
Dogs trained in obedience work
will be demonstrated to the public
in the A. & M. animal husbandry
pavilion at 2 p. m. Sunday in the
first event under sponsorship of
the newly organized Brazos Valley
Kennel Club, it was announced to
day by Mrs. D. E. Von Buskirk,
executive secretary.
The South Texas Obedience Club
of Houston will put on the exhibi
tion for the local group, and the
public is invited to attend. Joe
Coulson, president, and J. B. Gard-
: ner, vice-president, from Houston,
! will bring the trained dogs of mem
bers of the Houston organization.
In order to help the Brazos Val
ley Kennel Club to organize an
obedience class, the Houston people
have offered to give the instruction
to all interested in training their
pets. The training is exactly the
same as the preliminary training
given War Dogs, it was pointed out,
and all training is done through
kindness and gentle commands.
All residents of this area are
invited to attend, and an oppor
tunity will be given all those in
terested in joining the Brazos Val
ley Kennel Club to do so at the A.
& M. animal husbandry pavilion
Sunday afternoon.
Enjoyed His Stay At Aggieland. . . .
John B. Hughps Gives His “News
And Views” In Interesting Talk
and John M; Lawrence. Tickst sales Show. Those who have seen the