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V?,o^ vv* ^ x. Circulated to < 4* .^^More than J)0% Of Wollesre Station’s Residents Number 55: Volume 51 t M~'l W 'W'lk ^ $ < M 0 Jhe Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1950 Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 194J) Contest Price Five Cents Cadet A • x nriT Against 1 \j Thanksgiving Bonfire Set Off Tonight on Main Drill Field Pa rade-Da n ce Share Top Bill On Corps Trip By DAVE COSLETT Aggies set their course for Austin and the final Corps Trip of the year tomorrow when school closes officially at 5 p. m. The Capital City will be waiting to receive the jinx- t breaking-bound cadets. Events planned in the city to the South include the Turkey Day game itself, a dance sponsored by the Austin A&M Club, and a full-dress march down Congress Street. The dance is set for tomorrow night from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m. at the Coliseum, located near the ball-park on Austin’s near south side. The Aggieland Orchestra will play for the $l-per-couple affair. Co-operating in presenting the dance are the Austin A&M Mother’s Club and the Capital City +A&M Club. Things take the military aspect Thursday morning as the Corps starts up Congress street toward the Capitol at 10 a. m. Assembly time will be 9:30 at Congress and 2nd Streets. Units will form on East 2nd Street. Dismissal area is the Capital grounds. A reviewing party will see the parade from the balcony of the Stephen F. Austin Hotel. Units to be Graded Units will be graded competitive ly by a judging party stationed on a platform directly in front of the hotel. The outfit receiving the highest grade will be declared winner of a new award being innovated this year by the Austin Junior Cham ber of Commerce. The award, a five-foot-long streamer appropri ately lettered in maroon and white, will be affixed to the guidon of the winning unit. Each cadet officer within that unit will also receive a circular key chain ornament appropriately inscribed. The outfit winning the distinctive streamer will be en titled to hold it during the two- year intervening periods between Austin Corps Trip Parades, Governor at Game The game at Memorial Stadium will find the Aggies battling this States and the Soviet Union had j year’s Southwest Conference fired their broadsides. The Russian j Champions in a try for the first The Symbol of Desire gales Attend Meeting Lake Success, Nov. 28— (AP)—A Chinese Communist Megation sat in the United .Nations meeting halls for the first time yesterday. It sat by silently as the Soviet Union charg ed the United States with aggres sion against Chimb and maneuver ed to. prevent the US from asking * 20 questions on Red China’s inter vention in the Korean War. The Chinese Reds also heard a speech by John Foster Dulles say- 'ing that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky and his gov- : eminent are plotting to break up the old Chinese-American friend ship to gain advantage for the Soviet Union. Through it all—in the political committee of the UN General Assembly and later in the security council—Chinese Communist dele gate Wu Hsiu-Chuan and his group said nothing. Their turn will come later when the United team—-Vishinsky and Jacob A. Malik—carried the ball for them today. Overshadowing the verbal blasts in the U. N. was the news from Korea that UN forces fighting there were in grave jeopardy from a fie ice Communist China counter attack. I.ed by UN officials, Wu and his delegation walked into the political chamber at noon, on in vitation of the committee. Vish insky was in the midst of a blast at the United States and was de manding that it show a “modicum of realism’ and recognize the Chinese people’s republic, which is the official name of the Commun ist regime installed in Peiping. Vishinsky pointedly stopped when Wu walked in and then wel comed him in the name of the Sov iet government. “I wish him success in his ac tivities, which are being inaugurat ed today in the United Nations,” Vishinsky observed. Vishinsky then put before the committee a resolution asking the Seem it,v Council to take the neces sary steps to make certain that aggression against China by the United States, as he described it, erase immediately. Cadet victory on the TU home- field. A&M has not beaten TU since 1939. Governor Allan Shivers will see the game. Cadets taking buses from down town Austin to Memorial Stad ium have been instructed to board buses marked Ridgetop, Country ; Club or Stadium. Special buses i will run from the Stephen F. Aus- (See AUSTIN, Page (1) By SID ABERNATHY Flames will begin to illuminate the drill field area at 7:45 tonight when the annual pre-Thanksgiving game bonfire is touched off by the three senior yell leaders By FRANK N. MAMTZAS Two coaches will be facing each other for the last time Thursday afternoon in Memorial Stadium. One will be seek ing to remain undefeated on the University of Texas’ grid- As the flames soar upward so. will the spirit. Speeches ; iron, and the other will be wanting his last Southwest Con- will be given by Coach Harry Stiteler, senior members of the ference victory. football team, Barlow “Bones” Irvin and Pinky Downs, in termingled with numerous yells. At 7:30 p. m. the band will move out from the Corps Area lead by the three torch bearing yell leaders, Don Joseph, James Pianta, and Ed Fulbright. After circling the Drill Field by way of the Memorial A&M’s Plead Football Coach Harry Stiteler is the for mer while TU’s Blair Cherry is the latter. Coach Stiteler took over the reins of Aggieland’s rapidly fading football team in 1948 and since then has reared an eleven which is rated among the top in the nation. A Stiteler coached team has never been beaten in Mem- Student Center, they will march up to the bonfire and the I orial Stadium which may counterbalance the fact that a A bonfire similar to this one of last year will burn tonight on the Main Drill Field at 7:45 p. m. bringing to an end a week-long job of cutting, carrying, stacking and finally burning the bonfire. As the bonfire burns, coaches and senior team members will come up and make short talks. A&M’s Own Music Made into Album Four selections from music of A&M will be included in a Guion Hall concert in the middle of Jan uary for the purpose of premiering to the College, its students, exes, and faculty members, the records featured in a new album soon to be published by the Recorded Publica tions Company of New Jersey. The announcement was made by C. G. “Spike” Yv’hite, speaking in behalf of the Record Album Com mittee, which met yesterday. The' selections, to be played at the concert as they were recorded, include “The Twelfth Man,” “The Spirit of Aggieland,” “Silver Taps,” and “The War Hymn.” Recordings by the Aggie Band, the Singing Cadets, and the Aggie- A Felled Tree . East Texans Slate Thanksgiving Party .\ Thanksgiving dance will be held by the East Texas Club at Club Do-Se-Do, Friday, Dec. 1- at 8 p. m. Club Do-Sc-Do is located be tween Longview and Kilgore. (kicking Banned On Drill Field Automobiles in the New Area will be removed by Monday from the Infantry Drill Field, south of dormitory area, Fred Hickman, chief of campus se curity, has announced. Overflow from the student parking ureas may park on Lamar Street or Lewis Street. Only the south side of these streets will he open for park ing. With the help of a lot of buddies it isn’t so hard to get the heav iest of the logs stocked up on the top of the ’50 bonfire. Scenes like this have been going on between classes, after class . . . and some during classes, land Orchestra will be made Dec. 13 in Guion Hall for the New Jer sey company. Albums will be out approximately Jan. 15 and. should be ready for sale the night of the concert. Co-produced and directed by David Haines and Allen Walden, the program will feature other special arrangements by the dif ferent musical organizations. Let ters will be sent out soon, White said, to discover the possibilities of securing the song writers, them selves, to appear on the program and be interviewed. The album of two records will cost $3 and will he entitled “Songs of Texas A&M”. Also additional information, history, and pictures of the musical aggregations will be inclined in the cover. A&M Cover The cover, in maroon and white, will have a picture of the Academic Building as sketched by Bob Cul len of the A&M Press. Sale of the albums will also be I made throughout the dormitory' areas by four members of the band ' and four members of the Singing j Cadets and Orchestra. Approxi- , mately 1,500 will be made-up, I White says. But the first selling wave will bggjn after the concert. Albums . will he sold in the lobby. The pre miering will even possibly include a pair of special search lights, appropriate for such an occasion, White added. Two Year Project The possibilities of making new records of the Aggie songs have been discussed and debated for ovfer two years, White,says, and the purpose of this album is of getting some “good” records. After the concert date, album orders will also be taken at the Former Students Association, says Dick Hervey, executive secretary of the organization. Ex-students may send in their $3 and have the album mailed to their address. The Recorded Publications Com pany has turned out albums in the past for the music of such schools at Pitt, University of Kansas, Vil- lanova, Colgate, Yale, University of Indiana. University of Mississ ippi, and the University of Okla-< homa. Members of the Album Commit tee are Bill Turner, Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, Ken Wiggins, David Haines, Joe Pike, Ceorge Charl ton, and Allan Walde. five lighting ceremony will com-f ~ mertce. A truck trailer will be located at the East end of the Drill Field in front of Goodwin Hall to be used as a platform for the yell lead ers and speakers. Begins Late Actual work on this year’s bon fire was late getting started be cause the Drill Field had to be used for parking during the Freshman game. The centerpiece was erected late Thursday after noon but no other wood was on the field until Friday. Woodcutting was started earlier in the week and the job of haul ing the logs, boards, and other inflamable material to the cam pus began Friday. The Landscape Art Department loaned trucks for the job as did several business men in the College Station area. Wood Donated Wood came from the land of C. 1. Miller about two miles off the Hopston Highway South of College Station. Miller also provided a large part of the wood used in last year’s 50-foot bonfire. Another contributor to the con struction of the bonfire was the cont''iieting firm now working on .'the now administration building, j They drilled the hole for the 50- foot centerpole. The bonfire this year will be about equal to those of previous years despite the late start in getting things underway. The size can best be summed up in a remark by one of the Freshmen: “No one would dare estimate the number of feet of lumber on that heap unless he was a mathematics wizard like my algebra prof or a damn fool.” t ‘Entire New War’ Faces UN Says Mac Tokyo, Nov. 28—'A*)—General i world. MacArthur warned today that his | The General launched his “end retreating United Nations army | -the-war” offensive last Friday and the non-communist world face j with a promise that U.S. troops “an entire new war” because of j would be “home by Christmas.” the crushing Red Chinese interven-1 n e acknowledged Tuesday—Five tl0 T. 111 R°U a ', , • . I days later—the grave crisis in Ko- Thcn the high commander, m an i ). ea brought on by the presence of extraordinary communique, a y tens .of thousands of fighting Chi- knowledged that he is powerless to | nef . t , troops, cope with the undeclared Chinese L, , “ . . belligerents i J he ke F statement calling MacArthur said the Chinese are I ^P ,oniatic solution to sto P building forces in Manchuria and for a Red China from further aggression was pouring them by tens of thousands!^ 6 j 1 ) :i final paragraph, issued into battle across an international I after h >s Personally signed corn- frontier respected by the UN. , jjun.qtie ~ ~ ' It said: No. 14 was first distrib- Batt Announces Holiday Schedule Wednesday’s, Friday’s and Monday’s issues of The Battal ion will not be published this week while the College takes time out for Thanksgiving Holi days. After Thursday’s Battalion, the first paper will appear Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 5. . Over. 200,000 Red Chinese ale on ! the Korean battlefrontg and many more are coming from Manchuria. The issue of Chinese intrusion now must be settled on diplomatic levels, he said—byHhe United Na tions and the governments of the Third Grade To Present One Act Play An original play will be pre sented tomorrow morning by mem bers of Consolidated School’s Third Grade. The play, based on a chapter of ; a book by Enid La Monte Meadow- | croft, deals with the first time 1 Thanksgiving was .celebrated. The first scene of the one act play, depicts a meeting of the Pilgrims in Common House, where they discuss the matter and decide to set aside one day to have a harvest feast and give thanks for the good crop. Scene two s h o w s the Pil grim mothers and children prepar ing food and getting ready for the great feast. In the third scene five Indians participate in the feast. They are only part of the 29 costumed char acters of the play. Ca.pt. Miles Standish, William Bradford and Chief Massasoit, are well known characters of the play. Cadet eleven has never defeated the Longhorns in Austin. Cherry, who ends his claim to the head mentor’s chair af TU at the close of this season, will not only be hoping to defeat the Ag gies on the Texans’ home field, but will also be trying to give to the Steels their first clean South west Conference Championship. It will be offense against defense as the strongest and most consis tent offensive team in the confer ence will entangle the eleven with the best defensive record, and the defensive team is a 14-point fa vorite to win. Sparking the Cadet offense will be the sizzling trio of Smith, Glenn Lippman, ami Billy Tidwell, all under the direction of capable Quarterback Dick Gardemal. Together with their greatly im proved line in front of them the Aggie quartet has gained 2567 yards on the ground, a new high for the Southwest. Conference and “This situation, repugnant as it j at the present time is 732 yards may be, poses issues beyond the ; ahead of second place Texas Chris- authority of the United Nations i tian. A&M has averaged 382 Military Council — issues which must find their solution within the councils of the United Nations and chancelleries of the world.” The warning came as Chinese Reds in overwhelming numbers smashed for.the third straight day against tiie shattered UN line in northwest Korea. Field dispatches said the Eighth Army—110,000 battle-hardened Al lied troops—was in retreat all along the flaming 75 mile north west front. Aggie Bus Planned For Cup Tilt Trip yards per game on total offense. The Cadets are also the highest scoring aggregation in the league, | having gained 304 points in their | first nine games. Defensively, Texas is the best : in the conference, although their i record is for etdlit gahi'es. In [ each of these games, the Steers j have held their opponent to an av- I erage of 254.5 yards. But something else may steal | the spotlight from the two coaches and from A&M’s terrific ground I gaining trio. It may be the ex- | pected rushing duel between the present leader in SWC ground j gaining and the person who was largely responsible for TU’s win | over the Cadets last season. Bruisin’ Bob Smith of the Ag gies and Byron Townsend of the Longhorns will be the running sparkplugs, for each team. The former will try to maintain his present 136.1 yard average per rame in ground gaining, while to the A Cumbersome Log . . . Provisions are now being made With the Korrville fius Co. through.; the Ames Travel Agency, North Gate, for a bus to make the found trip to the President’s Cup Game I in Washington, D. 0. Dec. 9. latter, Townsend, will try to dupli- The bus company has stated ; cate his feat of last year, when.he that it will send a 33 man bus on j scored three touchdowns and gain- the trip providing that a full busied 138 yards in 23 carries on Kyle can be obtained. Field to give the Orange and The trip, which will cost $38 j White a 42-14 victory over the for the round trip, will begin at I Maroon and White, the most hu- noon on Thursday Dec. 7. The bus j miliating loss the Cadets have will return before classes begin on Monday Dec. 11. Students interested in the trip should contact Bill Powell in Dorm 9-405 or the' Ames Travel Agchcy. taken from the Steers since 1898. Captaining the A&M team in its last conference game of the sea son which will determine the sec ond place position in the league race, will he Linebacker Bob Bates and Guard Max Greiner. 53 j For these two seniors the game [ will serve a triple purpose: • It will be the first time since | they have been attending A&M . : that the odds give a slight hint to- Thomas E. Flukinger, senior en- ual . ( j s th ( . Cadets pulling an upset.' Fhikinger Awarded Engineer’s Ribbon gmecring student from Houston, will he the first Aggie to wear the ROTC Award of Merit and the Society Ribbon, awarded by the Society of. American Military En gineers. The medal, which is gold-colored, is a picture of the head and should ers of a soldier, who faces right on the medal. He wears a helmet and is ns'ing a transit, all within a rectangle placed horizontally. The medal is suspended by a ring from a ribbon composed of a • It will be a good stepping - stone towards the Aggie post sea son game against Georgia in the first Annual Presidential Cup game. • And, last but not least, it will be a wedding present for each man. Both of the players will be mar ried Saturday. Bates will repeat the vows with Miss Billie June Holick of Bryan and Greiner will many Miss Bob bie Sue Cain of Beaumont. Greiner, who last year was giv- lack stripe, a white stripe, a red stripe, another white stripe, and . t . n honorable mention by the SWC | a black stripe. Collegiate Sport Writers and was awarded the Best Blocker Award will be'the only player irr the con- ; ference to receive his fourth letter I this season. He will probably be the last person to ever receive a fourth letter in the same sport, if Plans for sending two delegates ' rules hold, to the National Intercollegiate Bat «' s . ,las already been named Rodeo Convention will be discussed i t0 ^ "Biers All-Southwest eleven at a special meeting of the Aggie ! and will probably receive greater Rodeo Association at 7 p. m. m futu 'e awards. Rodeo Association Sets Special Meet tonight in the Library of Animal Industries Building. the From below the bonfire even looks big ger. Men work up on the slack to put the logs firntly in place. Men on top direct the ef forts of (he men swinging the logs on bottom. Post Bonfire Dance Slated for MSC A post bonfire dance will be held tonight in tire Ballroom of the MSC from 9-12 p. m. Music, selections, which will be furnished by a juke box, will be played according to requests from the dancers. Rounding out the offensive team will be All-Conference End Andy Hillhouse, who will be flanked at the other position by Charles Hodge. At the tackle posts will be Sam Moses and Dwayne Tuck er, in the guard slots will he Greiner and Carl Molberg, while All-Conference candidate Hugh Meyer will start at his regular center post. Last year, Molberg was pre sented the Most Valuable Player Award for playing his position ap proximately 60 minutes during the (See UNDERDOG, Page 3)