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•rv r<& \S A>®\e« 0 Circulated to More than 90% Of College Station’s Residents Number 34: Volume 51 . . v : Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland)* TEXAS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1950 Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest Price Five Cents Arena Builders .: . - ; - Mid §£ , % I ' iig || I If If IS, *m am m \ m 4 Finishing touches are being applied to the new Rodeo Arena which will be completed for the first All Aggie Rodeo Friday and Saturday. The new arena is located West of the railroad tracks across from the ball parks. Lending a hand in the construction are in the usual order, Jess Carpenter, Gus Wheeler, Bill Ketchum, Bob Mc Guire and Charles Thomas (behind the gate), Jackie Longbotham, Pat Mitchell, president of the Aggie Rodeo Club, Clyde Martin, and Satch Smith (standing on platform). 29th Annual Aggie Rodeo To Open Chutes Friday By SID ABERNATHY What promises to be one of the wildest, Toughest, and most enjoy able rodeos ever held at A&M will unfold Friday night at 8 p.m. when the chutes of the new rodeo arena swing open for the 29th Annual All Aggie Rodeo. The same rodeo stock that was used in the Prison melee at Hunts ville will be here'to give the Aggie Fair, Favorite Pics Still Needed Vanity Fair and Senior Favorite pictures are still needed for the Aggieland, ac cording to Jim Modlin, asso ciate editor Aggieland 1950 To date very few pictures have been turned in, Modlin said. All entries should be turned in to Student Activities in Goodwin Hall. Six girls will be selected from nil entries by a national celebrity yet to be named. Winners will be presented to the student body at some major Spring social event. Winning candidates, must be pre sent for the presentatiion cere monies. Seniors who submit the winning entries will be notified at least two weeks in advance of the presentation. Pictures required of Vanity Fair nominations ai’e; a full length shot in formal attire, a bust picture in formal attire, and a full length photo in sports attire. All pictures should be 5 x 7 glossy prints. Senior favorite pic tures should be bust shots of the same size. Any senior can enter as many candidates as he likes. A charge of $1.50 will bfe made for each nomin ation for Vanity Fair and each picture for the Senior Favorites section of the Aggieland. Riders a hard, interesting tussle. Bareback riding, saddle krone riding, steer dogging, calf rop ing, bull riding, wild cow milk ing, specialty acts, and the fa mous and familiar performers at all rodeos—the rodeo clowns— will combine to furnish rodeo fans with a night of wild, wooly, and weird entertainment. A second perfoi’mance is slated for Saturday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. It will be over in plenty of time for the night football game with Arkansas. The Saddle and Sirloin Club and the Rodeo Club, tiring of the anti quated facilities of the Animal Hus bandry Pavillion and with the aid of some $9,000 of Exchange Store profits, have constructed them selves a new arena for this and future rodeos. Up to date in every respect, the new arena is 225 feet long and 135 wide complete with a catch pen at one end and stock pens at the other. Work on the new arena, located West of the baseball field and across the railroad tracks, was be gun about the middle of September and has been going at a fast clip ever since. All the work, with the exception of the leveling of the arena area and the digging of a few post holes, has been done by members of the Saddle and Sirloin Club and the Rodea Club. The men devoted a large part Smitham ’15 Dies After Long Illness Verner R. Smitham, an A & M graduate and former Farm Secur ity Administration director, died yesterday. Smitham ’15 became city mana ger of Lufkin in 1925 and later served as city manager of Big Spring and Wichita Falls. He left the city manager pro of their off hours to construction of the arena. Practically every hour of the day a number of men clad in blue jeans or over alls can be found sweating under the load of heavy work. But most of the work is finished now. By Friday night it should all be completed. The lights are ready to be turned on and construc tion of permanent bleachers has begun. These bleachers will seat approximately 1,000 and portable bleachers from the Grove will seat another 1,000. Although most of the work is completed, Pat Mitchell, president of the Texas Aggie Rodea Asso ciation, says there is still work for those men willing and able to work. Proceeds from the two perform ances this weekend will go toward financing the livestock judging teams of the school. The Saddle and Sirloin Club an nually sends the teams to the In ternational Livestock Show at Chi cago and the American Royal Show at Kansas City. Chest Collections Begin November 20 Community Chest collections will start Nov. 20, announced CC Secre tary John B. Longley this morning. Requests from fourteen organiza tions amounting to $13,35.0 were re ceived by the CC Committee at a" meeting late Friday night in the YMCA. This afternoon at 3 o’clock dis cussion on the budget will be con tinued and the amount of this year’s drive will be set them, Long- ley added. The meeting will be held in the YMCA. Bruised Aggies Meet Arkansas In Ti tle Decid er By Frank N. Manitzas Battalion Sports Editor A badly bruised Aggie team will take on the Arkansas Razorbacks this Saturday night at 8 on Kyle Field when the two elevens meet for the 23rd time. A&M will be trying to even up the standings at 11-all— there are two ties—and to stay in the Southwest Conference title race. Arkansas bowed out of the race two weeks ago, falling to Texas University, 14-19. They lost this past Saturday to Vanderbilt, 13-14. At Baylor’s homecoming last Saturday, the Bears ended their weekend of events with a 27-20 victory over the Aggies. It happened the way that A&M Football Coach Harry Stiteler said, “We just took an old fashioned country lick ing”. Stiteler didn’t mean that the Bears’ attack was old fash ioned, not by a long shot. Theyt r passed all over the field using wide open tactics with Quarterback Lar ry Isbell starring for the Bruins. He completed 13 of 23 attempted aerials for 200 yards and four touchdowns. In the closing moments of the game, the Bears were on the Ca dets’ two-yard line heading for an other score which they neither wanted nor needed as time ran out. But it wasn’t all together a stout-hearted, rough—rowdy fight ing line and flashy backs that won the game for the Bears. They got all the breaks needed to score. Five Fumbles—Hurt Five fumbles and three pass in terceptions put the Cadets on the road to ruin and gave the Bears the needed opportunities to score. Numerous penalties against the Aggies at crucial times also hurt considerably. But Coach Stiteler is not as far down m the dumps as many be lieve. “We made too many mistakes to win the ball game, and we have and can play better ball—but don’t forget the Bears, they were play ing heads up ball. “Some of our key men were hurt early in the game, and although they will be ready to start work ing out with us Monday, we need ed them against Baylor, and we didn’t have them,” Stiteler conclud ed. Smith Went for 101 Bruisin’ Bob Smith, who took a bruising as well as dishing it out this time,’ gained 101 yards in 6 carries, and would have easily gain ed more had he played the second half. Smith continues to lead the con ference in ground gaining with a total of 696 yards in 106 carries, an average of 6.5 yards for carry. Both Smith and Glenn Lippman were hurt in the weekend fray, but word from A&M’s Head Train er, Bill Dayton, is that all of the team will be OK for the Arkansas game, barring damage that may occur during the week in scrim mages. Team Okay, But Bruised Dayton added that although the majority of the team is badly bruised, there are no sprained wrists, ankles or permanent inju ries which will prevent anyone from working out. Everyone is expected for workouts today. A&M scored twice before the Bears knew what happened. The first was a 69 scamper by Bruisin’ Bob for a touchdown on the initial play of the game. Dick Gardemal was calling signals at the time, and Darrow Hooper kick ed the extra point. (See FUMBLES, Page 4) Takes More Than One ■V ■/-. m >4! A & 4 1 * M m' •mm V Tripping the Fantastic .. ^ , ,, Tr _ . .fession to become state director Deadline tor both Vanity Fair 0 f pgA. i n 1941 he became and Senior I* avorites is Dec. | ac t;j n g c jty manager 0 f Dallas and was made city manager in 1945. He resigned in 1947 to become owner and operator of an extermin ating company which he actively headed until the became ill last January. He was a past president of the International City Managers As sociation. Smitham was born in Dublin, Erath County and was reared on a Bosque County farm near Walnut Springs. Funeral services will be held in Dallas at 4 p. m. Monday. A&M Club Slates Sports Banquet The Brazos County A&M Club’s annual Winter Sports Banquet hon oring A&M’s football and cross country lettermen will be held at Sbisa Hall the night of Jan. 6, 1951. General chairman Allan Madeley said that Newt Hielscher will be master of ceremonies with the prin cipal speaker to be named later. G. C. (Spike) White is program chairman. John B. Longley, Bill McCully, athletic director Barlow Irvin, and W. N. (Flop) Colson, president of the Brazos County A&M Club are among others help ing- with an-angements. These banquets annually are at tended by several hundred sports enthusiasts. Tickets will go on sale later. Dance Instruction To Soon Outlaw Aggie Toe-Crushing Car Collision Fatal for Two CS Residents Miss Sara Neale, A&M Li brarian, and Garland J. Etie, Jr., 10-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Garland J. Eite of College Station, were killed in a four-car crash Saturday after noon on the Beaumont Highway near Devers. Garland Etie, business adminis tration major, was hospitalized at Liberty with fractured ribs and possible head injuries. His wife, also employed as li brarian at A&M, was hospitalized with a fractured light thigh, right arm, right hand, and cheek bone. According to highway patrolmen, the accident occured when a car carrying two Negroes attempted to pass a truck and collided head-on with the convertible driven by Etie. G. E. Hill, Negro of Hankhamer, was also killed in the crash. The other Negro, Robert White of Hankhamer, is in serious con dition in the Liberty hospital. Patrolmen said the two cars, af ter colliding, bounced into the truck. Then another car traveling East collided with the rear of the Etie convertible. The driver of this car and the truck were not injured. The Etie family and Miss Neale were en route to Beaumont to spend the week-end with Mrs. Et- ie’s parents. m Charley Royalty, Cadet halfback continues to drive under the pressure of two unidentified Bay lor players while another comes on to help down him. Royalty carried the ball three times in the game for a total of 23 yards, and it was his first appearance in a game since dislocating his shoulder after the VMI game. Engineer’s School Plans ASEE Branch A group of faculty members of the School of Engineering has adopted a constitution for a branch of the American Society for En gineering Education. Abouf 25 members of the en gineering faculty met Wednesday night, and Dr. J. D. Lindsay, head of the Chemical Engineering De partment, presided as temporary chairman. Dr. Lindsay was auth orized by the group to appoint a nominating committee for perman ent officers. Following the brief business ses sion, Dean H. W. Barlow, R. L. Peurifoy of the Civil Engineering Department and W. E, Street, head of the Engineering Drawing De partment, gave their impressions of the national ASEE meeting in Seattle last June. Aggie Name Sweetheart Selected; Secret Until Thursday A 13-man Aggie delegation got the past week-end off to an early start last Thursday with a journey to TSCW to choose from 12 nomi nees this year’s Aggie Sweetheart. The lady of their choice will be named dn a state-wide release Thursday. Her first official function will be her presentation between halves of the A&M-SMU game Armistice Day. At that time she’ll receive the traditional kiss, bouquet of roses, and salute from the Aggie Band. Tessie senior competitors for the title were Marianne Souders, a 5’ Heart Attack Fatal For \\. H. Dameron Wallace H. Dameron died of a heart attack Thursday on the grounds of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Substation near Son ora where he had been superin tendent since 1928. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Saturday in Sonora with burial at Eldorado. Dean and Mrs. I. B. Boughton, assistant station director, R. E. Patterson, Dr. J. C. Miller, Dr. Vernon A. Young and J. M. Jones, are among those from College Sta tion who will attend the funeral services. Dameron was graduated from Wyoming with a bachelor degree in 1927 and immediately became wool and mohair specialist for the Ag ricultural Experiment Station. In this position he supervised the operations ■ of the Station’s Wool Scouring Plant until his appoint ment as superintendent of the So nora station. Bible Dedication 5”, blue-eyed, auburn-haired lass from Fort Worth; Carole Perkins, a 5’ 8”, a browned-eyed brownette from Pampa; Dorothy Mangum, a 5’ 2”, brown-eyed brownette from Cotulla; and Carrie Fenichis, a 5’ 4’, brown-eyed brunette from Fort Worth. Junior contenders were blue-eyed, blonde, Charlotte Williams, 5’ 4”, from Munday; hazel-eyed, brunette Ina Hubbard, 5’ 4” from Texarka na, Tex.; green-eyed, blonde Martha Gill, 5’ 3” from Houston; and blue eyed, blonde Johnnie Neal, 5’ 4”, from Olney. Sophomore candidates were Betty Ann Timmerman, 5’ 6”, green-eyed blonde from New Braunfels; Nan cy Coolidge, 5’ 6 M> ”, blue-eyed blonde from Kansas City, Mo.; Nan Hassler, 5’ 4”, brown-eyed brown ette from Memphis, Tenn.; and Betty Joe Slaughter., 5’ 2”, brown- eved, titian blonde from El Dorado, Ark. The Tessie selectees played host to the Aggie selectors Thursday evening and all day Friday. Major activities included a welcome sup- National 4-11 Club Delegates Named College Station, Tex., Oct. 29— CPI—Mary Wanda Kachtik of Cam eron County and Eddy Bell Johnson of Victoria County are Texas’ del egates to the 1950 National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago, Nov. 26-30. Floyd Lynch, state 4-H Club leader at A&M Extension Seiwice here, announced a total of nine winners in this year’s state-wide 4-H club contests. Three members from Bastrop j gie Rodeo will be discussed at a County were among the winners. I meeting of the Texas Aggie Rodeo Fred Fiebrich, Jr., 17, won the • Association Tuesday night at 7:30 state poultry contest. He is the' p. m. in the Animal Industries son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fiebrich, 1 Building. per Thursday night, and a picnic, square-dance and mid-night snack Friday. The entire group was introduced Friday night to President and Mrs. John A. Guinn of TSCW and Dean of Women Mrs. Mary Huffard. The square-dancing Friday came as part of the Annual TSCW Corn- Husking Bee which also featured husband, hog and chicken calling, costume judging, and dormitory folk-song competition. Four members of the A&M dele gation served as judges during the evening. These were Joe Fuller, Student Senate parliamentarian; Bob Allen, Senior Class civilian vice-president; Allen Eubank, Stu dent Senate social committee chair man; and Roy Nance, Aggieland ’51 editor. Senior Class Social Secretary Kenneth Shaake and queen nominee Ina Hubbard walked away with corn-huskin’ crown in a special Ag- gie-Tessie event. Members of the A&M group were guests on a tape-recorded radio show over TSCW station WCST. Other Aggie selectors were Sen ior Class President Dare Keelan, Student Senate President Bill Parse, Student Life Committeeman Wilman D. Barnes, Colonel of the Corps A. D. Martin, Commentator Editor George Charlton, Social Committee Member Karl Meyers, Social Committee Member Tom Flukinger and Battalion Co-editor Dave Coslett. Aggie Rodeomen To Meet Tuesday Final plans for the coming Ag- Aggies, are you a social leper Toe-breakers who aren’t very 1 instead of a social lion just be- adept at tripping the light fan— cause some narrow minded young tastic to the intoxicating tune of j lady objects to your crushing her a fox-trot shouldn’t try to become j toes every time you take her a Fred Astaire in one easy course dancing? by trying to learn the samba, Do the beautiful young queens tango or one of the other more register a trapped look on their difficult dances until they receive painted faces instead of a look further instruction in the manly of breathless adoration when you are of fox-trotting. Ex-Student Assigned To Carswell Air Base Second Lt. Kenneth W. Hen dricks, an A&M graduate, has been assigned to the 7th Bomb Wing at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, according to an announce ment by Brig. Gen. C. S. Irving, commander. invite them to trip the light fan tastic ? If the above is true then do not dispair for your day of glory is soon to come. Just as soon as the dance committee of the MSC finish the planning, free dance instruction for those Texas Ajize will be one of the feature attractions of the Mem orial Student Center. The gems of wisdom should be remembered when it comes time to fill out the questionnaires and it asks what type of dancing you are interested in. If your fox-trot could stand some polish then place those ,two little magic words, “fox-trot,” in the vacant blank. The questionnaires should be clipped, filled out, and placed in i ■■ mri§, I Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes- the box that will be located next to day of this week will see ques- the inside entrance of the post tionnaires placed in the Battalion office in the MSC by Wednesday to help get the necessary informa- night. Uion to get the classes underway. (Today’s Blank on Page 2) rnoto uy Battalion Chief Photographer sain Molinary E. C. Martin, member of the local Gideon Camp, left, formally dedi cates Gideon Bibles to the Memorial Student Center at a ceremony held at 10 a.m. Friday in the MSC. J. Wayne Stark, director, ac cepts the Bibles in behalf of the MSC. Red Rock. Morris Kastner, 18, son of Mrs. Dora Kastner, McDade, is the 1950 winner of the field crops contest. Frances Jean Mullins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. G * 1 . Mullins, McDade, won the public speaking program. Miss Kachtik, 15, and Miss John- Ison, 16, Texas, national congress | delegates, won the Clothing Achievement Award and the gul den contest respectively. Miss Kachtik is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kachtik, Browns ville. Miss Johnson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Johnson, Victoria. Clinton Hodges, Sterling County, was named champion sheep and wool producer for the year. Clin ton, 16, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hodges, near Sterling City. Robbie Striet, Wilbarger County, win the state citizenship award for girls. Don McGuinty, Dickens County, took the public speaking contest for boys and T. G. Herr ing, Jr., Crosby County, won the Dairy Achievement Award. Howard Altenhof of Guadalupe County and Carolyn Curry of No lan County were named to receive the 1950 leadership awards. Plans will be outlined for draw ing of stock and also the definite amount for entry fees and dates the rodeo books will open and close will be discussed. Bob McGuire and Gus Wheeler will report on the progress of con struction on the new arena. At the last rodeo meeting a six man team was elected to repre sent this school in the Texas A&I Intercollegiate Rodeo to be held in Kingsville Nov. 9-11. Team members elected were Mar tin Manuel, bareback bronc and bull riding; Jackie Longbotham, bareback bronc and bull riding; Clyde Martin, saddle bronc and bareback riding; Bill Lockridge, Bull riding; Jack Willingham, calf roping and team tying; and Tom Harrison bareback bronc riding. All who wish to join the rodeo association should get their dues in to Don Tabb in the near future. Parnell Attends Meet E. D. Parnell, professor of poultry husbandry was in Chicago last week attending a meeting of the American Feed Manufacturers Association Survey Committee.