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n B. COFFLR COLLEGE ARCHITtst STUDjiNT MEMORIAL CENTER F. E. 3 COPIES Official Paper Of Texas A&M College And College Station Battalion Published by The Students Of Texas A&M For 73 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 48: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1951 Price Five Cents Bonfire Workers Mup D^ats Businessmen To Hold Forum, bratz m hace For pg Senator Discuss Indi vidual Enterprises Houston Walkup, industri- JL Houston Walkup, industri al-agricultural education maj or from Kirkland was elected senator of Post Graduate Hall. The election was held Monday night. The new senator is a sixth year non-military student. The election was called because of the moving of men into the dormitory. Heretofore it had been used for girls on weekends or other visitors to the campus. Walkup defeated his only oppon ent, David Gratz of Dallas, by a vote of 27 to 7. The election was delayed because of an insufficient number of candidates filing for the position. A decision to move men into PG Hall was made after the hous ing office received a large number of complaints from the students who were living three to a room. Under the Student Senate Con stitution there must be a senator from each of the dormitories. E. F. Graham William W. Buddie There can’t be a bonfire without plenty of wood, as these Aggies can readily testify. This pic ture was taken on the first day of work in pre paration for the annual bonfire Nov. 28, the night before the A&M-TU football game. Busses are making regular trips eacl< day to and from the cutting area located in the rear of the Bryan Municipal Playground. Small Blaze Gets Jump On Biggest Aggie Bonfire Randall Wins First In Builders Contest By HARRI BAKER Battalion Staff Writer A&M’s first bonfire of the year Mvas greeted .by enthusiastic wild cats yesterday afternoon, but the blaze was caused more from neces sity than a desire to get the jump on the big fire, scheduled to burn at 8 p. m. Nov. 28, the night be fore the A&M-TU football clash on Kyle Field. Several students, working around the site of the bonfire on the main drill field, decided it was too cold to stand around and freeze, so they touched off a small blaze of their Dwn. Meanwhile, work on what pro mises to be the “Daddy of all A&M bonfires” is progressing at a steady pace, Lew Jobe, head yell leader who is in charge of the work, said yesterday afternoon. The wood is being cut in an area behind the Bryan Municipal Play ground and from other locations near the campus. First Casualty First casualty of the bonfire pre paration occured Monday after noon when a junior in A Armor cut his foot while chopping. The vic- time, John Reeves of Belcherville, was taken to the college hospital whore four stitches were taken in the foot. His condition was not serious and he was released. While students were getting the Prill field ready for the wood which will be brought in in big quanti ties today, others were making per iodic trips to the cutting areas in buses. # When asked yesterday afternoon how the work was progressing, Jobe replied, “be sure and mention in the paper that John Tapley and I cut down a tree this afternoon.” The 65 foot center pole, fastened together in sections, which was ex pected to be put up yesterday af ternoon, failed to rise. However, it will probably be set up today, Jobe said. Then the work will be gin in earnest. As usual, most of those working on the bonfire are wearing fatigue uniforms. However, one new fea ture can be noticed. The fish stripe, absent from the freshman uniform for the past five years, is being worn by all first year men working in the bon fire. This stripe is is a white piece of adhesive tape which the fish sticks oh his fatigue so as to be more readily identified. -Upperclassmen Campus Beauty Efforts Continue Efforts toward beautifying the campus are progressing as fast as time, material, and available labor will permit, W. M. Ruff of the floriculture and landscape archi tecture department said. Work done in the last few days toward adding to the appearance of the grounds includes the remov al of arborvitaes around the Agri cultural Engineering Building and lawn improvements around Mark Francis Hall. “Many plans for beautifying the campus have been made,” Ruff said, “but it take time to replace trees, sow seed, plant flowers, and do the - other varied jobs required in carrying out this project.” Future plans for adding to the attractiveness of the campus in clude planting of deciduous trees on the campus this winter, Ruff said. Keeping Ball Wins Games, KiwaniansTold The Aggie basketball team last year kept possession of the basketball on an average of 26.7 minutes out of the 40 minute playing period. This statement was made by John Floyd, head basketball coach at A&M, Monday at a meeting of the College Station Kiwanis Club in the Assembly Room of the MSC. Floyd described the type of bas ketball A&M plays as character ized by a scientific offense organ ized so each player knows his every movement, and a good, tough de fensive game. The basketball mentor account ed for the Aggies fine defensive record last season by stressing that A&M kept possession of the ball longer than the opposing team. Floyd came to A&M as head basketball coach in 1950. He coach ed the frashman team at Oklaho ma A&M during the 1947 season. Dick Hervey, secretary for the Association of Former Students, introduced the speaker. Coach Floyd predicted A&M’s hardest games this year would he with Texas Christian Univer sity ,of Texas. He pointed out that TCU would have last year’s same starters, and UT had lost only one of last season’s players. “Sports participation teaches men to think,” Floyd said. He be lieved that participation in col lege athletics was justifiable if the player learned lessons which could be applied to situations which might arise after college. wearing fatigues have, as usual, attached their branch insignia on the fatigue cap. Most of the work has been done by those students who have not had afternoon classes this week.. However, following classes Saturday morning, all freshmen, sophomores, and juniors will take: George C. Randell, Jr., A&M architectural student from Hous ton, has been named top winner in a statewide competition for student architects in which $2,000 in awards were paid for the best building designs incorporating ad vanced techniques in the use of ex panded shale aggregate light weight concrete. The competition was sponsored | by the Texas Society of Architects and The Featherlite Corporation of Dallas. The Featherlite Gorpora- part in cutting and hauling wood tion, the South’s oldest and largest and building the bonfire. producer of expanded shale aggre- A&M department of architecture winners in statewide competition for student architects, sponsored by Texas Society of Architects and The Featherlite Corporation, Dallas, receive congratulations from Raymond Phelps, San Antonio, TSA president (third from left). The winners are, left to right, Robert A. Stinson, Dallas, second place award; George G. Randell, Jr., Houston, first, anti Louis E. Fincias, San Antonio, third. Key W. Ryan, member of the engineering staff of The Featherlite Corporation, is at the right. gate, is headed by Jack Frost, pres ident, and Alex T. Mickle, execu tive vice president. First At A&M Randell’s design placed first in the intra-college competition. at A &M and then won at the recent San Antonio convention of the TSA over entries from University of Texas, Rice Institute, Texas Tech and the University of Houston. The architecture department at each college submitted the three top designs created by its students. Randell Jftas awarded $180 for placing fii-st at A&M and received an additional special merit award of $200 at San Antonio. In the local competition, Robert A. Stinson of Dallas placed second, receiving an award of $120. and Louis A. Fin cias of San Antonio won the third- place award of $60. Boost Prizes The TSA Feathei-lite Competi tion will be renewed next year, ac cording to Executive Vice Presi dent Mickle, with the awards in creased to $2,500. “Use of expanded shale aggre gate, which is lighter and stronger than concrete made with conven tional aggregates such as sand or gravel, is a recent development in Southwest,” Mickle said. “The gra tifying success of the first student competition encourages us to hold it again in 1952 as a means of further stimulating interest among student architects in the revolu tionary building concepts made possible by the use of expanded shale aggregate concrete.” Missing US Plane Believed Fired Upon by Red Satellite Rritish-Hating Moslems Heads Unite in Cairo Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 21—(/P) Two British-hating premiers of the Middle East — Moham med Mossadegh of Iran and Mustapha Nahas Pasha of Egypt—embraced and kissed in a dramatic show of Moslem solidari ty here today. Thousands of Egyptian’s lionized the feeble Iranian premier, who arrived from Washington for a four-day state visit. They cheered him frantically at the airport, as he drove along the streets to the famous ►Shepherds hotel and as he paid his respects to King Farouk. Crowds outside his hotel hailed him as an “enemy of the British” and a “hero of revolution.” They shouted “revolution” and “we want arms” as the Egyptian premier drove away after a 50-minute call on the Iranian. Police declared a state of emer gency and stationed reserves throughout the city to preserve or der during the visit of Mossadegh, who is returning' home from a 40- day stay in the United States. Mossadegh has nationalized Brit ish oil interests in his country and thrown, out their technicians. Na has Pasha is trying to push the British out of the Suez Canal zone and Sudan. What they talked about was not disclosed. But it seemed obvious they were trying to establish their own Middle East axis. Several thousands Egyptians shouting, “liberty, unity, evacua tion,” were waiting when Mossa degh’s chartered plane landed at Farouk airport. The premier was practically carried down the steps of the plane and police had to open a way through the crowd. Eight New Albums Played in MSC Eight new record albums of mus ical comedy and light opera were played Monday night at a listen ing party in the MSC. Brief comments on the new rec ords and their composers were made by Jimmie Rollins, head of the MSC music committee, and re freshments were served. Selections included were Jerome Kern's “Show Boat,” Irvin Ber lin’s “Annie Get Your Gun,” Vic tor Herbert’s “Naugthy Mariette,” and Sigmund Romberg’s “New Moon.” Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Nov. 21— | ing with freight and supplies for the American embassy here. It had eight hours supply of gasoline and was last heard from nearly eight hours after its de parture. At that time the pilot messaged: “Low on fuel. Not sure I can make Venice or emergency land ing.” “The plane, according to Yugo slav sources, reported itself over Zagreb when actually it was over Varazin (40 miles to the northeast of Zagreb and on the Drava),” the embassy statement said. “It is believed the pilot mistook the Dra va River for the Sava River.” The embassy said the transport later was sighted north of Viro- vitica, 60 miles southeast of Varaz- din and only 1 about 10 miles from the Hungarian border. It finally was traced as far east as Jasa Tomic, about 50 miles northeast of Belgrade on the Ro manian border. “It was fired upon by Hungarian border guards, according to a re port from the pilot,” the embassy statement said. “It finally went ,as far as Jasa Tomic, where it was fired upon by the Romanian bor der guards.” The embassy said it was believed the pilot then realized the plane was off course and turned about. In two later reports he said he was near Zagreb and then west of (A 5 )—A U. S. military plane carry ing diplomatic cargo and four crewmen was fired upon by Hun garian and Romanian bolder guards Monday and is now missing, the American Embassy announced Tuesday night. Sketchy details from Yugoslav sources suggested the plane had been from 40 to 200 miles off its scheduled course to Belgrade from Erding Air Base near Munich, Ger many. Reports from the pilot, as dis- cdosed by the Embassy, made no mention of damage from the shoot ing. A day-long search was carried on Tuesday by British, American and Italian planes along Italy’s Adriatic Coast from an air base at Treviso, Italy, and will be ex tended into Northern Yugoslavia Wednesday. The embassy said it was be lieved the missing crewmen be came lost and mistook the Drava River, flowing close to the Hun garian and Romanian borders, for the Sava which marks the air cor ridor to Belgrade. Both rivers are tributaries of the Danube. The Drava runs 40 miles east of the Sava’s course. The U. S. Air Force announced early Tuesday that the plane, a two-engined C-47 transport, left Erding Air Base Monday morn- Zagreb, headed towards Udine in Italy. U. S. Ambassador George Allen said Yugoslav civil and military authorities were giving “full co operation’ in the search foT the plane. Inquiries to U. S. diplomatic, missions in Hungary and Roma nia concerning the aircraft had not yet been answered, he added. A spokesman at the U. S. lega tion in Hungary said the Hun garian government declared it knew nothing about the missing plane. It first was feared that the plane had crashed-landed in the rugged Alpine country and the search was concentrated west of the Italian- Yugoslav border Painting by Terry Exhibited in Austin A painting by Mrs. Ralph Ter ry, instructor for the MSC Art Gallery Committee, has been se lected to appear in the Texas Fine Arts Center Exhibit at Laguna Gloria, Austin. The painting, “Three Eggs and a Lemon,” was among 150 chosen fvpm 518 entries. The exhibit is to run from Nov. 11 to Dec. 3 at Aus tin and then it is to go on a year’s tour. Freshmen Told Grades Lowest Since 1947 Dr. John R. Bertrand, dean ■ of the Basic Division, told : members of the Freshman! Class last night that mid-se-1 mester grades made by fresh-! men were the lowest since 1947. Bertrand called the meeting to discuss the “problems facing all of us—probation and lack of aca demic progress.” Several possibile difficulties were outlined. These were ad justing the student to differences in college and high school work, enrolled in an unsuitable field, inability to read and concentrate, improper use of study time, and mistake in being in college in the first place. Bertrand said be wanted to stop a rumor that had been circulating among the freshmen. “Any one who resigns now cannot enter school here later,” he said. “If you have proved that you are not capable of doing the work, you will not be al lowed to re-enter A&M.” It was also announed that there would not be an official corps trip to Austin this week for the Fish- Shorthorn game. 20 in Running For Posts On CC Board Twenty names will be on the ballot for College Station Development Association and Chamber of Commerce direct ors at the annual meeting Tuesday, Dec. 11, with ten to be elected. Nominees are: Mrs. C. B. God- bey, Ralph Rogers, Earl Cunning ham, Dr. C. C. French, C. W. “Cotton” Price, Jerome Zabik, Dr. F. C. Bolton, H. D. Bearden, Mrs. Tom Taylor, K. A. “Cubby” Man ning, Mrs. H. E. Burgess, R. L. McCarty, Mrs. J. C. Miller, Charles N. Smith, John H. Pruitt, Braw- ley M. King, G. E. Madeley, Har old Sullivan, James B. Baty, and Tad Moses. Additional nominations | may be made- by petition of mem bers. Voting may be either by mail (absentee ballots) or in person at the annual meeting, which will be held in the College Station State Bank board room at 1:30 p. m. Three of the ten vacancies on the board are to succeed W. R. Horsley, J. P. Sorrels and J. R. Oden, whose terms have expired. One is to succeed J. L. Bearries, re signed, and six are for additional members, increasing the board from nine to 15 members as re quired by the constitutional amend ment passed at the last annual meeting. This year the additional place* were filled , by interim ap pointments. Also on the ballot this year will be a proposal to change voting procedure so that all ballots will be cast either in person, or by mail rather than the alternate action now permitted. Members of the nominating com mittee are chairmen of the stand ing committees, with J. R. Oden and J. R. Roberis as co-chairmen. Holdover members of the board of directors are: M. C. Pugh, R. L. Hunt, J. E. Roberts, John B. Long- ley and Joe Motherall. Ex-officio members are Gibb Gilchrist, M. T. Harrington, L. S. Richardson, and Raymond Rogers. By BILL STREICH Battalion Staff Editor Four prominent Texas businessmen will oppose the stand that individual enterprise can no longer meet the needs of the United States. The program will be presented at a special town hall meeting tonight in Biological Sciences Lecture Room. More than 300 A&M students and residents of College Station are expected to attend in addition to the panel. The program, sponsored by the Texas Manufacturers Association, is one of a series of similar presentations being held on campuses of Texas colleges and universities. Aim of the panel discussions, which will be conducted in the style of a New England Town Hall, is to provide an inter change of views between students and businessmen on cur rent politico-economic trends in the United States, T. W. Leland, head of the department of business administration, ♦'said. “Free Enterprise,” said Ed C. Burris, executive vice-president of the TMA, “has a story to tell, and it certainly behooves those who have profited under it to try to tell that story. We all know that government, to the tub-thumping of its thousands of propagandists has been encroaching rapidly on free enterprise.” Members of the panel who will appear on tonight’s program are E. F. Graham, vice president of the Southwestern Gas and Electric Co. of Marshall; K. R. Dailey, as sistant mahager of the employee relations department of the Hum ble Oil and Refining Co. of Hous ton; C. E. Lyon, general manager of the Diamond Alkali Co. of Hous ton; and William W. Boddie, di rector of public relations for the TMA in Houston. No Speeches No speeches will be made at to night’s program, Leland said. In stead, members of the panel will answer and discuss questions asked by members of the audience. Graham, one of the members of the panel, is active in civic and social activities in east Texas. He is a past director of the TMA, East Texas Chamber of Commerce and Marshall Rotary Club. Beside^ being president of the Marshall Chamber of Commerce, the panel member is vice president of the Central East Texas Fair Associa tion. He also is a director of the Mai’- shall Community Concert Associa tion, trustee of East Texas Bap tist College and a member of the Texas Baptist General Convention. Boddie has been director of pub lic relations' of the TMA since 1949. From 1940-47 he was asso ciated with Newsweek magazine in various editorial capacities, work ing in New York, Washington, Rome, and the South Pacific area. Public Relations Later, he was research secre tary to Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and did agency public relations work in Houston. The third member of the panel, Lyon, designed the construction and operation of a chlorine caustic chemical plant and was ont of a group of eight appointed by the department of commerce to tour chlorine caustic plants in West Germany. , He is an active member of the American Chemical Society and a (See FORUM, Page 4). Wood chopping around A&M means only one thing. It’s time to build the biggest bonfire of them all. Here’ one student vigor ously goes about chopping up a log while others gather pieces from trees recently felled.