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Number 51: Volume 52
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1951
Published by The Students
Of Texas A&M
For 73 Years
Price Five Cents
Rain, Mud Fail
To Halt Bonfire
By HERB O’CONNEL mation. Thanksgiving dinner is be-
Artist and Owner
Battalion Staff Writer
Drizzling rains and a sloppy
drill field failed to dampen the
spirits of weekend bonfire work
ers as they, attempted to make
the 1951 bonfire A&M’s biggest
and best.
Despite adverse weather condi
tions, some 3,000 grabbed a, rain
coat and made a Saturday after
noon and Sunday tour of the Mil
ler and Boriskie wooded areas.
Most of the ten hours Sunday was
spent in trimming, handling, and
hoisting into place logs which were
felled last week, according to Lew
Jobe, head yell leader.
Typical Weather
“This is typical bonfire build
ing weather,” Jobe said. “The past
two bonfires have been built un
der the same conditions.”
The bonfire is already taller than
last year’s. “The 65 foot centerpole
is 10 feet taller and the logs have
already been hoisted higher than
they were last year,” Jobe said.
Four floats and eight smaller
trucks carrying most of the tim
ber to the bonfire area oVer the
weekend skidded over the slippery
“mud roads” to and from the
woods. There is still some wood to
be hauled in, however, according to
Jobe.
The bonfire will be lighted at
8:15 instead of 8 p. m. Wednesday
as previously announced, Jobe said
today. The change was made to al
low Sunbeam passengers to see
the ignition. The train arrives here
at 8 p. m.
Coach Ray George and his staff
will head the list of speakers at
the bonfire yell practice. Others
speakers will include Pinky Downs,
perennial bonfire spokesman, and
19 senior football squadmen.
Trailer Bed For Platform
A trailer bed will be rolled into
the Southeast corner of the drill
field to serve as a speaker’s plat
form.
Non-corps students have been
guarding the bonfire during all
meal formations. Composite units
will take charge of the guard Tues
day during the evening meal for-
ing served in the mess halls at
this time.
Yell practice will be held tonight
instead of Tuesday night, Jobe
added, because of the Thanksgiv-
ing^dinner Tuesday night and the
bonfire Wednesday night.
Funeral Service
For Accident
Victim Set
Funeral services will be
held today in Waco for Walter
King White, 47, of Houston,
who was instantly killed in an
automobile accident on High
way 6 four miles south of College
Station Saturday morning.
The body was taken overland to
Waco this morning by the McDon
ald Funeral Home, Bryan. Enter-
ment will be at the Rosemont Cem-
etary in Waco this afternoon.
White was killed, his wife criti
cally injured, and Tommy Mullen,
17, of Houston, seriously injured
when their car collided with an
other car driven by Haswell Gir-
aud, of Bryan.
Giraud passed a car going south,
the direction in which he was head
ed, and met the White car, ac
cording to police reports. Giraud
was uninjured except for bruises.
The condition of Mrs. White
and Mullen was improved Sunday
afternoon, Bryan hospital reported.
Mr. and Mrs. White and Mullen
were on their way to Waco for
the Baylor-SMU football game
when the accident occurred.
White, w'ho resided on Clay^
Street in Houston, was a salesman
for the Sheppard Laundry Com
pany of Houston. He is survived
by his wife, Mrs. Mozelle White;
Mrs. Lola White, Savannah, Tenn.;
Mrs. Flora Dodford, Urban; Mrs.
Sarah Williams-Waco; Mrs. C. E.
Lucas, Waco; and Mi's. W. Z. Mc-
Corkle, Waco, sisters.
Other survivors are G. W. White,
Waco; J. R. White, Waco, and A.
G. White of Tennessee, brothers.
Houston Harte, owner of the
Biblical painting display “In
Our Image” is also editor of the
book. The paintings depicting
Old Testament scenes are being
exhibited in the MSC through
special arrangement with the
owner. Harte is co-owner of the
Hanks chain of Texas newspa
pers.
‘In Our Image’
Paintings Here
107 to Donate Blood
As Mobile Unit Returns
itural Co-op
Meeting Draws
Crowd of 155
Cabaniss Awarded
For Heroic Service
Chuck Cabaniss
Charles D. “Chuck” Cabaniss,
1950 A&M graduate, has been
awarded the Bronze Star Medal
“with Letter ‘V’ device for heroic
achievement in connection with
military operations against an en
emy of the United States.”
An infantry platoon leader in
Korea since mid-February of this
year, 1st Lt. Cabaniss was pre
sented the medal at a battalion
parade ceremony a few miles be
hind the Korean fighting front.
Cited for Action
Cabaniss was cited for action
in which he participated last sum
mer. Official Army comments ac
companying the medal explained:
“On June 3, 1951, the second
platoon, commanded by Lieutenant
1 Cabaniss, was assigned the mission
i of attacking Hill 466, near Sun-
(See CABANISS, Page 2)
An exhibition of 20 Biblical
paintings, which appear in the re
ligious book “In Our Image” went
on display in the MSC this morn
ing.
The display, sponsored by the
Art Gallery Committee of the MSC,
was secured by special arrange
ment with Houston Harte, owner
and editor of the book.
The paintings were done by Guy
Rowe, former cover artist for Time
magazine. Rowe, after being com
missioned to do the pictures, spent
four years in creating the master
pieces which appear in the book.
Nationally Famous
Before Rowe started the work,
he was noted as a master of color
manipulation. Since publication of
the book in 1949, the artist has
gained national acclaim.
The paintings, which are being
displayed here, are so strong and
forceful they are far different from
most other Biblical illustrations,
Mrs. Ralph Terry, advisor and in
structor for the Art Gallery group,
said.
School and church have been ex
tended a special invitation to see
the paintings which will be dis
played here until Dec. 10. The in
vitation w'as issued by Mrs. Terry
and Charles Stiefel, art gallery
chairman.
San Angelo Publisher
Harte, who conceived the idea
for the book, is publisher of the
San Angelo Standard-Times and
Evening Standard.
The publisher decided more peo
ple would read the Bible if stories
were illbstrated. After consulting
with outstanding ministers of the
nation, Harte commissioned Rowe
to do a series of approximately 20
Old Testament scenes.
During the four-year-period
Rowe worked on the paintings, he
did research to determine the char
acters of the Biblical figures he
planned to portray.
“It was two years,” the artist
said, “from my first conception of
Isaiah until the work was com
pleted.”
Harte seldom allows the val
uable paintings to be displayed
outside of San Angelo. A com-
MSC to Allow
Fix from RooJ
Ten or twelve cameramen will
be allowed to snap pictures of the
bonfire from the top, of the MSC,
M. E. Thomas, assistant to the
director of the MSC, said yester
day.
Letters have been sent to the dif
ferent camera clubs on the campus
and also to the local newspapers.
Each club and newspaper will senr
the MSC a list of two or three
photographers, and these camera
men will be issued a press card.
The selected cameramen will be
allowed to go on the roof of the
mittee from the MSC went to the I MSC the night of the bonfire by
west Texas city last week and presenting the press cards issued
brought the paintings here. I them.
Representatives of 47 rural
electric cooperatives, (155)
attended the Fifth Annual Job
and Safety Training Confer
ence for Texas Rural Electric
Friday and Saturday.
The conference was sponsored
by the Engineering Extension Ser
vice, the State Advisory Committee
for Rural Electric Cooperatives and
the Texas Education Agency.
Friday’s speakers included Frank
LaMaster, head of the job train
ing and safety division of the
Rural Electrification Administra
tion, Washington, D. C. He dis
cussed the benefits cooperatives ob
tain from the training program
and the effects of non-participa
tion of cooperatives and Harry C.
Hutchinson, factory representative
of the White Rubber Company,
who outlined the manufacturing,
testing and use of rubber gloves
in cooperative work.
Dr. Howard W. Barlow, dean of
engineering, welcomed the repre
sentatives to the colege.
W. W. Mills, chief of rural
electric training for the Engin
eering Extension Service and the
four field instructors, E. W. Ker-
lick, G. E. Baker, T. S. Watson
and W. O. Wood, who carry on the
job and safety training program
for the Service, gave a report of
their last year’s activities.
Cooperative managers speakers
and line foremen discussed respon
sibilities of management and the
advisory committee to the job
and safety training program and
the benefits a cooperative receives
from participation in the job and
safety training program.
Congressman W. R. Poage of
Waco was the banquet speaker Fri
day night.
♦ Some 107 students will donate blood for American sold
iers in Korea tomorrow when the mobile blood unit from the
Beaumont Red Cross Blood Defense Center makes its second
visit to the campus within two weeks.
On its first trip here, Nov. 13, only 66 students were
allowed to give blood. The number of donors was restricted
because of the shortage of facilities.
Donations will begin tomorrow at 12 noon and will con
tinue until 6 p. m.
Groups composed of approximately five students each
have been scheduled to give blood at intervals of 15 minutes.
The donations will be taken in Rooms 2A and 2B of the MSC.
Student response to the first blood unit visit was so good
that plans are being made to bring the unit back to the
campus at regular intervals, J. C.
Fish Complete Grid Season;
Drop 27-13 Tilt to Shorthorns
A&M Consolidated Places 8
On All-District First Team
By GUS BECKER
Battalion Sports Writer
A promising Aggie Fish team
ended up the season with a three
won and two lost record with sev
eral of the Fish giving notice that
they will see action on the Varsity
next fall.
An airminded Shorthorn foot
ball team eliminated the Aggie
Fish from a chance to tie the SMU
Colts for the Freshman Confer
ence Crown Saturday in Memorial
Stadium in Austin by defeating
the Fish 27-13.
This victory put the Yearlings
one-up in the five game series
sponsored by the Shriners.
An expected record breaking
crowd was kept at home by morn
ing showers and threatening skies
at game time, and only 6,000, the
smallest crowd since the Shriners
took over sponsorship, were on
| hand for the kickoff.
The first quarter was a score
less duel with the Shorthorns los-
George Jackson
Defensive Halfback
Jerry Leighton
Offensive Halfback
A&M Consolidated captured
eight of the eleven places on the
District 24-B All-District team in
balloting of coaches here last week.
Consolidated, Bi-District champ
ions, will play the winner of the
Sugarland-Corrigan game in re
gional competition some time with
in the next few weeks.
All but one of the Tiger for-
ward wall landed positions on the
line, and Lightnin’ Jerry Leighton
and Willie Arnold, top scorers in
the district landed halfback posi
tions in the backfield.
On the defensive side of the for
ward wall, Consolidated placed
George Johnston at defensive half
back.
The offensive district team has
Bobby Jackson of Consolidated and
David Peacock of Magnolia at end,
Tom Wade and Dan Williams of
Consolidated at tackle, Jimmy
Bond and Don Royder of Consol
idated at guai-d, and Pinkey Coon-
er of Consolidated at center.
(See PICTURE, Page 3)
Town Hall Tickets
Scarce, White Says
Very few r tickets are left for
all request program to be pre
sented by the Houston Symphony
Orchestra Dec. 11th. in Town Hall,
C. G. “Spike” White, director of
Student Activities, said.
The Town Hall ducats may be
obtained at the Student Activities
office or the Guion Hall box of
fice and will be good for the re
mainder of the season.
All requests are welcomed by
Director Efrem Kurtz and should
be turned into the Student Activ
ities by Saturday noon, White said.
Several requests have been re
ceived but more are needed to com
plete the program of the Houston
group.
Morley and Gehart, the dual
piano team who appeared with
Fred Waring for several years,
and the Revelers, nation’s fore
most male quartet, round out the
Town Hall agenda for the 51-52
season.
ing a scoring opportunity when
Glenn Dyer dropped a pass in the
end zone.
In the second period, the Maroon
and White Fish started a drive in
their own 37 yardline which was
stopped inches short of the double
stripes.
Moved to TU
Two pass plays from Joel Smith,
Fish quarterback, to end Bennie
Sinclair were responsible for 36 of
the yards with Warren Anderson
and James Self turning in some
fine runs to move the Fish down to
the Yearling eight yard marker.
From here the Shorthorns stif
fened their forward wall and stop
ped Anderson on the fourth down
try just shy of pay dirt.
After the Orange and White
freshmen had kicked out of the
hole, the A&M Fish had another
chance from the Yearling 32 yard
stripe, but were stopped by a pass
interception.
Quinn and Simick
With Billy Quinn and Chester
Simick carrying the pigskin for
the Shorthorns they gained the
Aggie Fish 26.
A determined effort stopped the
Yearlings ground progress so they
took to the air with quarterback
George Tucker flinging one to end
Wayne Delaney good for 25 yards
on the A&M Fish 5 yard line.
Fullback Edward Kelly crash
ed over for the score and the Year
lings were out in front 6-0 when
the try for point was wide, with
3:45 minutes left in the first half.
The half ended with the Aggie
Fish marching toward the Yearling
goal.
A recovered fumble by A&M
Fish, Fred Broussard, set the stage
for the first Maroon and White
talley to start the third period.
Fish Take to the Air
Stopped on the ground, the Ag
gie Fish also took to the air with
a 42 yard touchdown pass play
from Smith to Joe Schero after
2:25 minutes were gone in the sec
ond half.
Smith’s try for point was good
and the A&M Fish were out in
front 7-6.
After an exchange of pass inter
ceptions, the Shorthorns marched
from their own 41 to the pro
mised land via passes from Tucker
to back Harry Burke and end How
ard Moon.
This time Kenneth Harlow’s try
was good and the Yearlings were
out in front to stay 13 to 7.
To start the fourth quarter, the
Shorthorns with Quinn running and
Tucker passing crossed the double
stripes for another score and after
the Aggie fish failed to move,
scored again to go out in front 27
to 7.
With three minutes left in the
game, Smith passed to Schero
again for the final A&M Fish TD
of the game.
The try for extra point failed
and the contest ended 27-13 in
favor of the Shorthorns.
5 Billion Tax
Helps Inflation
Says Sen. Aiken
Washington, Nov. 26—(TP)
The new $5,691,000,000 tax
law is “working in reverse by
breeding inflation instead of
retarding it,” Senator Aiken
(R-Vt) said today.
The Vermonter told a reporter
the law, which went into effect
Nov. 1, hasn’t slowed buying much
if any and actually is pushing up
living costs “because manufactur
ers are passing a big slice of the
tax on to consumers in the form
of higher prices for their goods.”
He added:
“The cost of living goes up
workers demand and get higher
wages, and you have the same
vicious circle—except that the sit
uation now is being aggravated.”
Aiken expressed his views as the
Senate-House committee on defense
production called Price Director
Michael V. DiSalle to a public hear
ing (10 a.m., EST) for a report
on operation of the revised eco
nomic controls law Congress en
acted last July.
An aide said DiSalle’s report
would deal mainly with what has
happened under provisions which
President Truman sharply criti
cized in signing the law. Mr. Tru
man asked for repeal of those pro
visions, which he said would make
it more difficult to control infla
tion, but Congress adjourned last
month without acting on the re
quest.
Senator Maybank (D-SC), chair
man of the joint committee, told
newsmen he is reserving judgment
on whether the law should be re
vised when Congress reconvenes in
January.
Maybank meanwhile quoted elder
statesman Bernard Baruch as tell
ing him inflation is “this coun
try’s No. 1 enemy and, unless halt
ed, will destroy the taxpayers.”
Baruch, Maybank added, believes
the wage-price control law should
be strengthened and that the meas
ure should be “enforced to the
hilt.”
“Mr. Baruch told me that infla
tion is adding terrifically to the
cost of our defense program,” May-
bank said.
Aiken said he. had felt the new
tax increase would have a defla
tionary effect, but that it is work
ing the other way around.
Fletcher, chairman of the blood
donations committee, said.
Sponsored by the Corps of Ca
dets, the donations will be handled
in the same manner as on the first
visit. Students giving blood tomor
row are those who could not be ac
commodated on the visit two weeks
ago.
Requirements
To donate blood, a student must
be 21 years old. or older. Those
between the ages of 18 and 21 will
be allowed to give glood if they
have their parents’ permission.
Donors must weigh at least 110
pounds. Extremely obese persons
will be allowed to participate in
the donations if they have the
consent of their physician. Tem
perature, blood pressure, pulse
and hemoglobin must be approx
imately normal.
No student will be allowed to
give blood if he has had a blood
transfusion within six months or
has given blood within eight weeks.
Also, unless approved by physi
cian, no person will be allowed to
give blood if he has had a major
operation within six months or a
tooth extraction.
Other Conditions
Other conditions which will pre
vent prospective donors from con
tributing blood include: malaria
within two years, tuberculosis, dia>
betis, undulant fever, or prolonged
fever, rheumatic fever, eczma,
acute dermatitis, poison ivy, acute
acne, boils or other prominent skin
diseases, any form of heart trouble,
kidney disease, chronic pulmonary
disease, jaundice or jaundice con
tact within six months, allergy,
hives, asthma, fainting spells, or
convulsions.
All donors who have had recent
immunizations such as rabies in
jections within past years, small
pox vaccination within a few
weeks, typhoid, typhus, plague, tet
anus, cholera, influenza, and other
fever immunizations within the
past two weeks will not be ac
ceptable until the prescribed per
iod of time has elapsed.
Light Food
Dr. Raymond O. Dart, director
of the Beaumont mobile unit, said
prospective donors should not eat
(See BLOOD, Page 4)
Local Churches Set
Community Services
The annual community Thanks
giving service for the College Sta
tion residents and students will be
held this year at the A&M Metho
dist Church at 6:30 a. m., Thurs
day, according to Norman Ander
son, chairman of the program com
mittee.
“We Give Thee Thanks”
The Rev. Clarence W. Ketch,
Pastor of the A&M Christian
Church, will speak on the theme,
“We Give Thee Thanks,” and the
Presbyterian Girl’s Choir, directed
by Miss Carolyn Mitchell, will pre
sent special music.
A special offering will be taken
at the service to be sent to Korea
for aid in the relief of war vic
tims.
The program committee, com
posed of Ministers Norman An
derson and James F. Jackson, of
the Presbyterian and Methodist
Churches of A&M, states:
Day of Sentiment
Thanksgiving is a day that
should be filled with sentiment
of noblest quality by every Ameri
can home. On this day, Amei’ican
loyalty and religious fervor com
bine in us and seem almost as one.
The idealism that has been histor
ically associated with our Ameri
can loyalty and the religious faith
in God, and which was so evident
in the first Thanksgiving should
impell us to look to Him in grati
tude for all that has made and
can continue to make America
great.
Privilege to Join
Every family in our community
(should feel a sense of privilege in
being able to join the other fam
ilies of the community in this
Trankgiving Service, to thank God
for all his bountiful blessings, the
Rev. Anderson said.
Breakfast at 7:30 a.m.
The mess halls will serve break
fast at 7:30 a. m. Thursday, so
the students who wish to attend
this service will not miss the meal.
The service will last from 6:30
to 7:15 a. m., said James F. Fow
ler of the A&M Church of Christ,
TU Magazine
Portrays Life
Of the Aggie
A&M made the off campus
press again this week. How
ever it wasn’t published in the
best light. No, the publisher
didn’t spend a lot of type or
time telling about the Aggie foot
ball team.
In fact, the publisher didn’t try
to build up the college on the Bra
zos a bit. The publisher in this
case is the University of Texas
Press and the publication is the
Texas Ranger.
The group under the capitol
dome devote their November issue
to the Aggies. The cover starts the
magazine off with a bang by print
ing the poem by Edwin Markham.
In part, the poem said about the
Aggies, “Bowed by the the weight
of centuries he leans upon his hoe
and gazes on the ground . . . “ and
“whose breath blew out the light
within this brain ...”
Orange and white publishers and
editors spend two pages explain
ing the evolution of the Aggie. It
takes a “typical student” Herman
Your as a freshman and leaves
him when he is a senior with the
singular ability to tell the dif
ference between a colonel and a
cow.
All and all the group from the
university have done o good job in
“floating out” their younger
brother.