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Number 14: Volume 51
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1950
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Senate and Life Committee
Election Scheduled Tonight
By DEAN REED
Ballots will be distributed to-
1 night at 7 for the general fall
elections, in which 35 Student
Senate members and three Stu
dent Life committeemen will be
chosen.
The Student Senate is A&M’s
representative governing body,
while the Student Life Committee
ranks just above the Senate as a
liaison between the student body
and the Academic Council, com
posed of the faculty of the college.
Corps students will elect one
senator from their respective dorms
and will vote on seven senators-at-
large. Civilians will cast their bal
lots for a senator from their own
dormitory or housing area, will
vote in the at-large race, and will
also elect the three members of
Student Life.
For Non-Regs Only
Only civilian students are allow
ed to run for the Student Life jobs,
and only civilian students will
vote on these positions, according
to Bill Moss, co-chairman of the
election committee.
Ballots in Corps dormitories will
be passed out by company com
manders, or their representatives,
and will be collected by 10 p. m.
Votes will be turned over to rank
ing cadet officers in each dormi
tory, who will see that they are
abulated in the presence of a
majority of candidates from that
dormitory.
The ranking -officer will count
only votes for his dorm’s Senate
position—not for senators-at-large,
Moss said.
CD’s Get Ballots
Company commanders in the up
perclassman area, including Hart
Hall, will pick up ballots in the
lounge of Dormitory 10 immediate
ly after the evening meal. Tabu
lations, plus the ballots, will be
turned in by the ranking officers
in this area to the cadet guard-
room in Dorm 12.
In the freshman area—Dorms 14
through 17 and Walton Hall—com
manders will receive their ballots
from the Walton lounge before 7
p. m. The ranking officers will
return the tabulated ballots there
by 11.
The election committee will count
all ballots to decire winners in
the senator-at-large race, in which
seven positions are open.
Housemasters in Charge
Housemasters of the civilian
dormitories—Law, Puryear, Mitch
ell, Leggett, Milner, and Bizzell
Halls—'Will receive ballots from
their respective counsellors by 4
p. m. today. Members of the elec
tion committee will pick up the
tabulated votes by 11.
All ballots should be collected by
the ranking officer or housemaster
by 10, in order that they may be
counted and turned over to the
election committee by 11, Moss
said.
Arrangements have also been
made for distribution of ballots in
the three housing areas—College
View, Vet Village, and Trailer-Pro
ject Houses. r
The official ballot in today’s.
Battalion is to be used only by
civilian day students, Bill Moss,
co-chairman of the election com
mittee, said this morning.
Housing areas will be sup
plied with mimeographed bal
lots, as will the battalion of
day student cadets.
Moss asked that all civilian
day students turn in their bal
lots to the Student Activities
Office, Goodwin Hall, before
noon Tuesday.
The election committee also
requested that today’s ballot be
used rather than the one print
ed in Friday’s Battalion, since
Student Life candidate Joe Ful
ler was omitted.
Below is a list of candidates to
be voted on tonight:
Student Life Committee
(Three to be chosen)
Abernathy, Sid B.
Barnwell, Milton L.
Fuller, Joe
Etheridge, James B.
Martin, Jim
Mullinix, Ted L.
Nance, Roy D.
Pitzer, Ernest T. Jr.
Tweed, Earl E.
Williams, Ray N.
Senator-at-large
(Seven to be chosen)
Adkins, William G.
Barnes, W. D.
Brown, Ferris R.
Carlson, Eric W.
Edwards, Curtis
Estep, Forrest L. Jr.
Johnson, Joe L.
Kernes, Floyd E.
MdAllister, E. Braden
McFall, John R.
Martinez, Thomas
Matthews, Robert S.
Mills, Robert G.
Oliver, Wade H.
Raley, Jackson L.
Reed, Dean
Roberts, Edward E.
Rollins, A1
Sherman, Earl D.
Walston, Dale E.
Wiggins, Ken
Dorm 1
Brabham, Bill
Dorm 2
Dorm 3
Napp, Don
Grant, Kenneth
Cornish, William R.
Dorm 4
No eligible candidates.
Dorm 5
Ruble, Charles R.
Elliott, Richard M. (Dick)
Dorm 6
Davis, Daniel W.
Dorm 7
Martin, Robert E. (Bob)
Rucks, James H.
Flukinger, Thomas E.
Mdver, Jes D.
Dorm 8
Boddeker, E. W. (Bill)
Rogers, Donald L.
Schechter, Adolpho S.
Kadel, Jim
McNeill, Charles
Dorm 9
Tanner, Jack A.
Frederick. A. W. (Fred)
Gorman, Ralph
Dorm 10
Killingstad, Hans R.
Kunze, Raymond T.
Dorm 11
Goodwin, Richard L.
Jack, Robert W.
Dorm 12
Fontaine, Thomas M.
Miller, J. S.
Kells, Edward Lee
Stuntz, John E.
Oglesby, John M.
Hart Hall
Ellis, Ralph
Sandlin, Roy E. Jr.
Walton Hall
Alexander, Joe R.
Meyers, Karl F.
Bernard, E. R.
Dorm 14
Germond, George F.
Dorm 15
Ray, C. L. Jr.
Griffin, Doyle R.
Dorm 16
Poynor, John Tom
Dorm 17
Manjeot, Lloyd H.
Law Hall
Carson M. C. (Pete) Jr.
Onstatt, Jimmy
Puryear Hall
Davis, Bill
Fineg, Jerry
Garrison, W. G.
Mitchell Hall
Allen, Jr. R.
Ellsworth, Bill R.
Legget Hall
Brunson, Nolan H.
Thomas, Charles W. Jr.
Milner Hall
Montgomery, I. E. Jr.
Bizzell Hall
Gibson, Alfred R.
College View
Beazley, Donald R.
Brown, George M.
Flanagan, Donald A.
Jenkins, Hayden L.
Weddell, L. B.
Trailer Area-Project Houses
Jewell, Thomas C. Jr.
Vet Village
Campbell, Billy A.
Piggott, Martin B.
Prather, Charles
Sky-Eagle, William A.
Day Students
(Two will be chosen)
Johnson, Howell
Moss, Bill
Stevens, Wesley
Webb, John O.
Young, George D.
Aggies After 3rd Straight,
OU 23rd: Ags Defeat Tech
OU Scouts Claim CadetsBetterTeam
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Two teams will be battling it out next Saturday at Nor
man, Okla., for the right of extending their winning streaks
another game. A&M will be looking for its third straight
win, while the Oklahoma Sooners will be aiming for their
23rd.
Speeches, Parade
High Ugh t Birthday
Autrey Frederick
“Fred” Frederick is senior mem
ber of this year’s Battalion ad
vertising staff. A senior busi
ness major, he has been selling
Battalion advertising since his
sophomore year and last year
received a student publication’s
award for an outstanding sales
job in 1949-50.
Administration Build’g
Contract Let By Board
Sturdivant, Robert L.
The A&M Board of Directors,
meeting in San Antonio Saturday,
gave the go-ahead for construction
of a new Administration Building-
on the campus.
Appropriations for new construc
tion throughout the A&M Systdm
totaled $600,555. An additional
$150,000 will go for new equip
ment. The Board also accepted
gifts, grant-in-aid, scholarships*
and fellowships totaling $172,270.
The contract for the College Ad
ministration Building went to the
Fisher Construction Company of
Houston. It totaled $216,330.93. The
Board appropriated $475,055 for
the contract plus cost of super
vision and contingencies.
Water Contract
Another contract, totaling $216,-
330.93 was awarded the E. E. Far
row Company of Dallas for the
construction of two water supply
pump stations and two steel re
servoirs. The Board also set aside
$83,000 to complete the $708,000
supply system for the college.
Contracts on three recently com
pleted projects were accepted.
The I. J. Parks Construction
Company of Austin got one of
these, $60,735 for construction of
a milking unit building at the new
Dairy Cattle Center.
The chancellor was authorized to
accept contracts and pay final
Stone to Address
Art Committee
Seymour Stone, famous portrait
painter, will be guest speaker at
tonight’s meeting of the Gallery
Committee of the Art Club, spon
sored by the Memorial Student
Center.
The meeting will begin at 7:15
in the Art Room on the third
floor of the MSC. A short business
meeting will precede artist Stone’s
talk, according to committee chair
man Jimmie Williams.
amounts due when the construction, A sum of $6,500 from the Special
covered by four contracts of the Improvements Account was alloted
Biological Sciences building is fully
completed. This totals $559,481.
Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist re
ceived confirmation of his award
of the following contracts: Brazos
Construction Company, Marlin,
$10,179 for storm and sanitary
sewers; C. L. Andrews of Bryan,
$78,313.55 for concrete street pav
ing and sidewalks; Houston Show
Case and Manufacturing Company
of Houston for $27,742 for gift
shop fixtures and miscellaneous
counters and booths for the MSC;
and James C. Edwards of Dallas,
$5,415.92 for barber shop equip
ment for the MSC.
Greenhouse Construction
An appropriation of $25,000 from
proceeds of the Permanent Univer
sity Fund Bonds was alloted for
a greenhouse for the Horticulture
Department and authorization of
plans and construction. The green
house will be built on the horti
culture farmland.
Special SP Train
Set for Oklahoma
A special train is scheduled to
leave College Station at 8 p.m.
Friday for the A&M-OU foot
ball game in Norman, Okla.
Students wishing to attend
the game can purchase round-
trip tickets at Student Activi
ties Office in Goodwin Hall for
$9. Tickets purchased at the
train station will cost $10.35.
The train is scheduled to ar
rive in Norman at 7 a.m. Sat
urday and will leave at 1 a.m.
Sunday. It will arrive in Dallas
at 7 a.m. and will remain there
until 4:30 p.m. so students can
attend the State Fair. It will
arrive back in College Station
at 8 p.m. Sunday.
to installation of street lights in
the block occupied by the Memorial
Student Center.
The Board also gave $5,000 to
the 75th Anniversary Fund to be
used in conjunction with the var
ious events and celebrations sche
duled in the next few months.
In other parts of the A&M Sys
tem, Arlington State College re
ceived $70,000 for equipment for
its newly completed $350,000 En
gineering Building. Contracts tot
aling $333,04 on the building were
accepted. An $8,000 appropriation
was made toward construction of
an implement building on the East
Farm.
Tarleton Ag Building
Tarleton State College received
$25,000 for equipment for its near-
(See SCHOLARSHIPS, Page 4)
J. J. Sperry Child
Stricken by Polio
By JERRY ZUBER
Governor Allan Shivers will de
liver teh main address at the 75th
Anniversary Day program on Kyle
Field Wednesday morning, Oct. 4.
Activities get underway at 10:30
with a Corps parade, followed by
an exchange of greetings from the
Former Students Association, A. E.
Carraway, ’34; the student body,
A. D. Martin, ’50; and the faculty,
Ernest Langford, ’13.
Response to the Governor’s ad
dress will be given by John New
ton, ’12, vice-president of the A&M
Board of Directors and chairman
of the 75th Anniversary Commit
tee. M. T. Harrington will preside
over the program.
Free picnic lunch will be served
outside the stadium immediately
following the morning program, ac
cording to J. J. Woolket, executive
director of the 75th Anniversary
Committee.
A special luncheon for visiting
dignitaries is tentatively scheduled
for 12:30 in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom. Also in the MSC
will be a historical display depict
ing 75 years of A&M progress.
The display wil be in rooms 2A, 2B,
2C, and 2D, according to Hal Mose
ley, of the Architect Department,
who is handling the exhibit.
Classes will be from 9:40 a.m.
Garter Snake
Cages Gorilla
Chicago, Oct. 2 —UP)— Bushman,
the Chicago’s famous gorilla, es
caped from his cage at the Lincoln
Park Zoo yesterday but keepers
prevented him from gaining access
to the park grounds.
For more than two hours, the
huge, fierce 550-pound ape roamed
through the b i g monkey house
while keepers sought to coax him
back into his cage. They finally
succeeded, with the aid of a two
foot gaiter snake!
A dozen policemen armed with
rifles and shotguns stood guard
Kathleen Sperry, three year old
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Sperry inside and outside the building.
of College Station was taken to
Providence Hospital in Waco Fri
day with an attack of polio. Dr.
Sperry is an instructor in the
Biology Department at A&M.
The child was taken to a local
hospital Friday morning for treat
ment of a throat ailment. There
the case was diagnosed as probable
polio an the Sperrys left for
Waco, where the diagnosis was
confirmed.
Definite improvement was re
ported early Saturday night, and
Kathleen was said to be breathing
and sleeping almost normally.
Dr. and Mrs. Sperry have two
older daughters and a son younger
than Kathleen. They plan to re
main in Waco until the early
part of this week.
Edgar Robinson, Bushman’s
keeper, was bitten on the right
forearm during attempts to return
the ape to confinement.
How the gorilla got out of his
cage was not immediately deter
mined. A keeper found the door
of Bushman’s cage open and sound
ed an alarm.
Efforts to frighten the gorilla
back into his cage with two small
alligators proved futile.
Finally, Robinson sent for a two
foot garter snake. Using a long
pole, the wriggling snake was
pushed toward Bushman.
At the sight of the tiny snake
the burly gorilla let out a fright
ened roar and dashed into his cage.
Attendants shot the bolt and se
cured it with a padlock.
until 1 p.m. and all offices will be
closed at thatt ime so that all fac
ulty members, students, and college
employees desiring to attend the
program may do so.
A 75th Anniversary Handbook
wil be distributed to visitors Wed
nesday. The booklet relates the
history of A&M and lists the varied
service program carried on by the
A&M Extension Service, the newly
organized A&M System and its op
eration is explained and discussed.
Tours of class rooms will begin
at 1 p.m. to give campus visitors
a close-up view of the academic
side of college life. A president’s
reception will be held in the MSC
beginning at 4 p.m. to close out
the day.
An Anniversary Jamboree birth
day party will be presented in
Guion Hall at 7:30 p.m., under di
rection of Bill Turner, director of
musical activities. There will be
no admission charge for the show.
Campus Clubs
Given Meeting
Space in MSC
Request for meeting rooms
for a regular time and day
have been granted for cam
pus clubs in the Memorial
Student Center, Miss Betty
Bolander, assistant social director,
has announced.
Monday nights—Vet. Wives ’54,
Vet Wives ’53, Pre-Law Society
and Camera Club.
Tuesday nights—Landscape Art,
Range and Forestry Club, Society
of Automotive Engineers, Institute
of Aeronautical Sciences, Agrono
my Society, Poultry Science Club,
Rural Sociology, American Chemi
cal Society' Ag Economics Club,
Business Society, Midland Odessh
Club, Kream and Kow Klub, and
Society for Advancement of Man
agement.
Wednesday night — Agriculture
Council, Vet. Med ’51 Wives, Jr.
Chapter A.V.M.A. Auxiliary, Ar
chitectural Wives, Aggie Discus
sion and Debate Club and Hillel
Foundation.
Thursday night—Student Senate
Lavaca Club, Four States Club,
Robertson County Club, Ft. Worth
Club, Pasadena Club, Amarillo
Club, Trans Pecos Club, Rio Gran
de Valley Club, Bastrop-Lee Club'
Wichita Falls Club, Corpus Chris-
ti Club, Abilene Club, Collins Coun
ty Club,, Economics Club, and Vet
Wives Bridge Club.
A representative from each of
the groups listed above should stop
in the Front Office today or to
morrow to pick up specific date,
rooms and times from Miss Bolan
der.
Head Football Coach Harry Stiteler was well pleased
with the performance of the Cadet eleven Saturday night
against the Texas Tech Red Raiders. A&M defeated Tech,
34-13.
On the other side, OU scouts who saw the game in Ala-
•fmo Stadium at San Antonio,
I claimed that the Aggies would be
' successful this coming season
against the Sooners, last year hav
ing played Oklahoma a 13-33 ball
game.
With the loss of ten top letter-
men from their past Sugar Bowl
Championship team' Oklahoma did
n’t seem weak Saturday, troun
cing Boston College 28-0. Of
course, the win wasn’t as convinc
ing as the 46-0 shellacking which
the Sooners handed Boston last
year, but it shows that the Red and
White isn’t lacking in scoring pow
er.
OU Scores Early
OU marched 53 and 41 yards for
TDs in the first two periods, then
struck through the air for a third
counter before calling it a day
cashing in on a third period Bos
ton fumble. Fullback Leon Heath,
Oklahoma’s All-America candidate
and only returning regular from
last year, seldom carried the ball.
In Alamo Stadium 24,000 foot
ball fans saw the Aggies rip across
the ground for 224 yards and fly
through air for 85 to defeat the
Raiders- who in the last quarter
were in a word—exhausted. Hard
running by Bruisin’ Bob Smith on
a pitch out play seemed to work
miracles and 'ran the Tech defense
ragged as Smith gained 147 yards
ifi 27 carries and also scored three
touchdowns to continue to lead the
conference.
But the real star in the fray
could have easily been Quarterback
Delmar Sikes, who after three
years on the bench, has for two
consecutive games led the Cadets
to triumph. Sikes is the only A&M
quarterback in the last three years
to have really had possession of a
winning Aggie club.
Farmer Team Tough
At the present time, the Farmer
eleven is a rough, tough team
which can and will beat other
teams mainly because of its hard
charging backs and powerful line.
If the Aggies should develop a
quick know how with all their other
advantages, many an Aggie dream
could be complete.
Both teams started off fumbling
at the beginning, but the Cadets
scored first in the initial period
with a touchdown pass from Sikes
to Andy Hillhouse, climaxing A
&M’s seven play drive which con
sumed 69 yards.
Darrow Hooper
Hooper, who in reality is a
quarterback, is now leading the
SWC in PAT completions. The
man with the educated toe has
successfully kicked 10 of 12 tries
for a .834 average.
Camera Clubmen
To Hear Smith
“Special Effects for Advertising
Agencies” will be the topic of
Zevell Smith, San Antonio portrait
and commercial photographer, at
the Camera Club meeting tonight
at 7:30 in room 3-B of the MSC.
Smith, a member of three pro
fessional photographers associa
tions is> considered the best photo
grapher in San Antonio, according
to Thomas E. Harding, president
of the Camera Club.
“Mr. Smith has the largest and
best equipped studio in San An
tonio and does all the advertising
photographs for the advertising-
agencies in that city,” Harding
added.
The speaker will be a guest of
the Memorial Student Center.
journalism Majors
To Organize Club
Journalism majors and persons
interested in journalism will meet
Tuesday after yell practice in the
Journalism building, formerly the
Kelly House, to organize a club.
Officers will be elected and a
program for the year outlined.
Refreshments will be served.
Parachutes Needed by Press Box Occupants . .
68,000 Witness Houston Stadium Opener
By HERMAN C. GOLLOB
Batt Special Correspondent
Heaven knows we hate tattle
tales, but we just can’t pass up this
chance to squeal on what those Rice
Owls did to the Santa Clara Broncs
Saturday night at the spanking
new Houston Stadium.
Before 68,000 bi-pardisan ofician-
adas, quarterback Vernon Glass
passed the Feathered Flock to a
27-7 win over the dogged West
Coast Equines, who never knew
they were beat.
All Rice’s tallies came as the re
sult of Glass’ bulls-eye pitches—
two to Billy Burkhalter and one
apiece to Bill Howton and George
Glauser.
Defensively, the Owls line play
ed its usual namby-pamby game
drumming up business for truss
companies and leaving their op
ponents painfully writhing on the
field.
But the game was anti-climacti-
cal, being overshadowed by the un
inhibited festivities which herald
ed the opening of the new stadium,
and by the awesome spectacle of
the cavernous double deck struc
ture itself.
Saturday morning 75,000 foot
ball feverish Houstonians lined the
downtown streets to watch an hour-
long parade which keynoted the
Houston Stadium opening celebra
tion.
With a cute little girl cough
ing down our neck, a sweet old
lady elbowing her way ahead of
us, and pick-pocket rummaging
around in our hip-pocket, we
watched the procession of 33
high school bands, eight drill
units, and 12 Rice Institute
floats.
Also appearing in the parade
was Patti Page, nationally famous
thrush, now singing at Houston’s
Shamrock, whom the Rice Student
body elected sweetheart of Hous
ton Stadium.
Early that afternoon we dropped
in on Sandy-Haired Bill Whitmore,
Rice sports news director, to pick
up our Press Box pass.
Three hours later—5 p.m.—we
were at the mammoth stadium,
gazing from the botom at the tow
ering press box and wishing that
Whitmore had included a para
chute with the pass.
On our way up we met Glenn
Ford and Valli, (The White
Tower), who had given up the
foolish climb. They advised us
to follow suit, but our spasms of
fool-hardiness, we ignored them.
A flurry of snow and a St. Ber
nard greeted us at the top.
Taking our seat in the press box
we opened our program to the sec
tion concerning the new stadium
to see if our estimate concurred
with that of the author. Luckily
it did, so we’l quote from the pro
gram: “ . . . stadium built in ten
months . . . stands slant at a con
cave angle, providing a greatly im
proved direct line of vision of the
playing field . . . elimination of a
track puts spectators right on top
of the field of action. . .
. . . Triple deck press box serves
300 newsmen, broadcasters, and
photographers. First deck is the
radio level, second deck is press
row and the top deck is for pho
tographers and newsreel camera
men.”
We glanced up from our pro
gram and noticed the old Rice
Stadium standing disconsolately
in the background, much the
same as a ten-year-old kid who
watches his parents neglect him
and fawn over his new little
brother.
By 6:45 p.m. both the stadium
and press box were at least three-
fourths full. Earlier Houston high
school bands had marched into the
north end zone, turning that sec
tion of the stadium into a kalei
doscope with their multi-colored
uniforms.
High school drill teams began
their pre-game field activities soon
after 7 p.m., and their fast-step
ping, intricate maneuvers elicited,
robust ovations from the crowd.
Next, Patti Page, whom one
would think has consecrated her
self to Rice, minced out to the
50 yard line and accompanied
by a 4 piece combo, sang “I Don’t
Care if the Sun Don’t Shine,”
and “Back in Your Own Back
Yard.”
After Miss Page had left the
field, an announcement was made
concerning Baylor’s afternoon rout
of the University of Houston. The
(See STADIUM, Page 4)
Gridiron Sketch
A&M First Downs
19 First Downs
224 Net Yards Rushing
81 Net Yards Passing
16 Passes Attempted
7 Passes Completed
0 Passes Intercepted By
6 No. of Punts
39.3 Avg. for Punts
2 Fumbles, Losing the Ball
31 Yards Penalized
Tech
15
217
56
16
7
0
8
26.3
3
30
Smith ignited the attack with an
18-yard sprint around right end
on the familiar pitchout play which
was used numerous times. The
next two plays were Smith again-
first going through left tackle for
three, then back around right end
for 24 yards and a first down to
Tech’s 21.
Gallopin’ Glenn Lippman, the
third ranking rusher in the SWC,
gained three yards through right
tackle, and Smith went around
left end for eight yards and anoth
er first down. Smith tried right
tackle but with no results, then
Sikes whipped out an eight yard
pass to Hillhouse in the end zone
for the Cadet's first counter.
D a r r o w Hooper successfully
kicked his first of four conver
sions.
No Time Wasted
Tech wasted little time as they
took Hooper’s kickoff and returned
same to their 20, from where they
went the rest of the way in 10
plays, gaining five first downs
along the way. It was Dick Jack-
sion and Tim Hatch, alternating
most of the way, and the scoring
blow came with an eight yard pass
from Pete Edwards to Jackson in
the end zone. Hatch clicked with
his first PAT boot.
A Tech fumble on their own 47,
recovered by Aggie Alvin Langford
set up the second A&M TD. Smith
again was like a tank on the
ground, as he gained 38 of the 47
yards. A ten-yard pass to Hill
house accounted for the other
yardage and the final run for the
score came about on a screen pass
play, Sikes to Smith.
Tech again caught fire eating
(See AGGIES WIN, Page 4)