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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,
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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.