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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1951)
College Station’s Official Newspaper; Circulated Daily To 90% of Local Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Published by The Students Of Texas A&M For 73 Years Number 58: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1951 Price Five Cents iggest’ A&M Bonfire Will Burn Tonight Bonfire Blazes System Campus By HERB O’CONN EL Battalion Staff Writer Evidence of thousands of man hours oY cutting, stacking and haul ing will go up ip smoke when the 1951 pre-Texas University game bonfire is touched off at 8:15 to night. Traditionally the year’s biggest drawing card, the bonfire and football game are expected to at tract some 20,000 cars and a crowd of more than 51,000 people to the campus Wednesday and Thursday. Size Breaks Records Off to an early beginning, this year’s bonfire was destined to break all records in size. Despite foul weather conditions, it is still the largest in many years, claim several old timers on the campus. The mammoth log structure neared completion this afternoon despite a weekend of rain and slop py working conditions. The rain slowed construction consiredably and log hoisting was continued on the drill field last night in order to have the bonfire completed on time. Automobile headlights were used to work by. “We’ll be ready,” Lew Jobe head yell leader, said last night. Most of the work was done by hand. The only power equipment used this year was the trucks used in hauling the timbers and a winch truck used to hoist some of the logs into place. A thousand gallons of oil will be used tonight to saturate the bon fire. Armor units will use 100 one gallon buckets in “bucket brigade” fashion to transfer the petrol from trucks to the crown of the bonfire. rU Game Tickets Still Available A limited number of tickets for the A&M-Texas University football game Thursday are still available at the Athletic Depart ment office, said Howard Nelson, ticket manager. Approximately 800 tickets were turned back by TU and were placed on sale Wednesday at 1 p. m. for the public. Nelson said these tickets could not be exchanged for date tickets. The oil was donated by local filling stations. At approximately 8 p. m., the band will move out from the corps area led by torch bearing senior Yell Leaders. After circling the drill field by way of the M S C, they will march up to the bonfire and lighting ceremonies will begin. Spirit, rising steadily as game time nears, is expected to reach a peak tonight as the flames roar skyward from the bonfire. The bon fire symbolizes the Aggie’s “burn ing desire” to beat the Longhorns ; in their annual grid battle Thurs- ; day. Yell practice will be held at the j Southeast corner of the drill field immediately after the outburst of emotion simmers down. Coach Ray George and his staff will be the P main speakers. Also scheduled to j speak are P. L. “Pinky” Downs Sr., jj annual Aggie informer, and 19 * senior football players. A truck trailer will serve as the speaker’s platform. Sbisa Dance After Yell Practice, students and guests will move to Sbisa Hall for the after-bonfire dance and the music of the Aggieland Orchestra. Beginning at 10- p. m., the dance will continue until 1 a. m. Ad mission will be $1.50 stag or drag. Classes have been dismissed Thursday morning. Students will spend the morning preparing for the four-day Thanksgiving holi days. The traditional Elephant Walk will begin at 10 a. m. Thursday. A symbol of the senior’s last day as the “Twelfth Man”, the sen iors will make a snake-like journey from the flagpole in front of the Academic Building, up Military Walk to Sbisa Hall, and back. Three Academic Schools List 20Percent on Probation '• : ' • • : p P Twenty percent of the students enrolled in the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Agriculture are on academic probation, the deans announced yesterday. Of the 3,807 students enrolled in these three schools, : 783 are on academic probation. The School of Engineering leads the list with a 22.7 percent. Arts and Sciences is sec ond with 19.2 and Agriculture is low with an 18.5 percentage. According to assistant dean R. P. Ward, the engineers have three percent less now than at this same time last year. Declines have also been noted in the School of Arts and Sciences, said Dr. J. P. Abbott, dean of the school. Although the agriculture school ranks last, a decided ! increase over the past three or four years has developed, says Dean C. N. Shepardson. The general answer obtained as to why students were i on probation was, “not enough studying.” ♦ A total of $67,017.87 in grants- in-aid, scholarships ‘and fellowships was accepted by the board of di rectors of the A&M System at its meeting here today. More than $35,000 of the total was in scholarships for A&M Col lege and Prairie View A&M Col lege, including $25,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Jessee Jones, through Houston Endowment, Inc., for es tablishing a scholarship fund for nurse education. Prairie View Contribution Also accepted for Prairie View was a contribution of $134.35 from the Texas Colored Vocational Nur ses Association for a nurse educa tion scholarship fund. The board accepted scholarships and fellowships for A&M Col lege totaling $10,755 and a total of $31,308.52 in grants-in-aid to various parts of the A&M System. ‘Sully’ Sloshed With Paint 4s Scandalism Backfires Former Student’s Open House Slated Open House will be held in the MSC Thanksgiving Day for all former students from 9 a. m. until 12 noon in the Former Student’s Association offices. J. B. “Dick” Hervey, evecutive secretary of the organization invit ed all former students, their fain- ilies and guests to attend and in spect the Association’s new offices in the west wing of the MSC. This is what the bonfire will look like tonight shortly after it is set afire at 8:15 p.m. Termed the “largest in history,” the bonfire burning will culminate two weeks of hard labor by A&M students who have cut, stripped and hauled trees from nearby woods onto the main drill field. Painting of college campuses | struck home last night when the ! statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross was sloshed with a yellow paint. The painting of “Sully” was dis covered at 8 p.m. Freshmen in the nearby area and bonfire guards washed the water based paint off before it had time to set. No damage was done to the' statue it was reported. Second Painting Spree This was the second campus painting spree discovered in the past two weeks. The first was on the campus of Texas University. Second Blood Unit Visit Here Receives 100 Student Donors More than 100 A&M students gave their blood yesterday during the second visit of the Red Cross Mobile Blood Unit to the cam pus. 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Parental consent is required for men and women from 18-21 years of age. Within 72 hours, the whole blood taken at the units temporally set up will be used in Korea. . Curtis Deaver, agronomy major from Tolar, summed up the atti tude of the donors by saying, “I’m a veteran of overseas service—I know how the boys over there need the blood.” Corps Idea Using an idea conceived and planned by members of the A&M Corps of Cadets, J. C. Fletcher and his committee of students are re ceiving overwhelming results with their drive for blood donations. Fletcher said future dates for visits to the campus by the unit are still tentative. He expressed his desire for a regular date set each two weeks so that students could better plan for their dona tions. MSC Plans Buffet Dinner Thursday Due to the crowd expected for the r ! urkey Day Game tomorrow, a butfet luncheon will be served in the Assembly Room of the MSC from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. said Miss Teresa Tunnell, food director. Tickets for the luncheon are now on sale at the main desk of the center at $1.50 each. Sack lunches and coffee will be sold at stands situated at the fountain room entrance and across the street from Kyle Field. The fountain room, coffee shop and dining room will be open as usual. The fountain room will stay open until 12 p. m . she added. “This is not primarily a corps function,” the committee chairman explained. He said the initial call had been directed toward corps members, but non-corps men and wives of students as well as resi dents of College Station will be worked into future schedules of the blood unit’s visits. Tentative plans with the unit’s director call for visits periodically throughout the school year. (See BLOOD, Page 2) RVs to Escort Wanda Harris Into TU Game Miss Wanda Harris, Aggie Sweetheart, will be escorted into the A&M-TU Thanksgiv ing football game by the Ross Volunteers, A & M’s official honor guard. Representing the TSCW student body at Denton, Miss Harris will be presented to Eric Carlson, corps commander, representing the A&M student body. Miss Harris will enter Kyle Field under escort by a platoon of sen ior Ross Volunteers commanded by Dick Ingels, RV company com mander. The party will march east to the center of Kyle Field, turn left, and proceed to the ramp used to transport the A & M Consolidated Band into the stands. Here the pre sentation will be made. The Aggie sweetheart will carry a bouquet of flowers given by the Office of Student Activities. She will arrive at Aggieland at 6 p. m. today and will attend the bon fire ceremony tonight. Her date for the weekend will be Paul Sheaf- fer. T his will be the first time the Aggie Sweetheart has been pre sented to the student body at the Thanksgiving game. Miss Harris was chosen Sweetheart of A&M by a group representing the student body in October. She is a sopho more at TSCW. A group of A&M freshmen paint ed signs on the side of several buildings on that campus. When first reported to college officials here, and at TU, it was believed the damage was done by non-A&M students. After inves tigation, however, it was found the men painting the campus also dec orated' several of the bridges be tween here and Austin. At one place they left their unit number. Painting done. in Austin and along the road to College Station was with a yellowish green paint and was splashed on one of the main buildings on the campus. A panel of cadet officers and military officers are investigating the case. Men Involved Called They have called the men in volved in the painting to appear before the panel. This group is holding final details until further evidence is discussed. Penalty for the men involved has not been set, and will not be set until all of the evidence is in and the panel can come to a con clusion as the relative guilts of al linen involved. The panel will make its recommendations for pun ishment to the Dean of Men. Another session of the panel is set for today. This is the first complaint lodg ed against the Aggies this year. Last year the cadets received state wide attention by stealing the Bay lor Bear. A&M also lost last year’s game with Baylor. In regard to the painting inci dent last night, officials said they were not certain the job was done by outside students. They based their opinion on the fact the paint used was water soluable and not an oil paint. Agricultural research drew the bulk of the grants, with $22,808.52 going to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station to finance its research projects. Another $4,000, from Central Power and Light Company, Corpus Christi, will be; shared by the Ex periment Station and the Agricul tural Extension Service for re search and demonstration work with grasses and legumes in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Win ter Carden areas. Finance Cancer Research Prairie View received $1,500 from the American Cancer Soc iety to help finance the Cancer Research Center at Prairie View. Scholarships for A&M College accepted by the board came front the Oak Cliff Rotary Club of Dal las, Dallas Garden Club, Brown- ing-Ferris Machine Company, West Texas Utilities Company, Ralph McCullough, Tennessee Gas Trans mission Company, Southern Un ion Gas Company, Texas Textile Mills, Hereford Lions Club, Mr. and Mrs. J. Rodney Tabor, East Texas Chapter, A. P. I., and Clint Murchison. Ag Grants-In-Aid Grants-in-aid to the Agricultural Experiment Station included $4,350 from the Research , Corporation, Williams-Waterman Fund, New York for further study of the ef fects of antibotics on poultry. (See DIRECTOR, Page 4) French Speaks Traditional Senior At Citizenship Elephant talk Set Court Session The annual senior’s Elephant Walk will be held tomorrow at 10 a. m., announced Lew Jobe, head yell leader'. Jobe said the seniors would form in front of the Academic Building flag pole and the procession would get underway promptly at 10 a. m. He said the group will walk about the campus, going up mili tary walk toward Sbisa Hall and then around by the MSC and back to the flag pole. The Elephant Walk symbolizes that seniors are of no further use to the Twelfth Man and as a re sult they walk aimlessly about the campus as an elephant looking for a place to die. Tradition usually calls for the seniors to dress in any way ex cept regulation. The system of checks and balances the three depart ments of government, execu tive, judicial, and legislative, exercises over one another prevents the autocracy of the mob or individual. This statement was made by Dr. C. C. French, dean of the college, at nationalization ceremonies held at the District Court House in Bryan Tuesday. Five new citizens heard Dr. French explain the form and genus of the United States government. Privileges bring responsibilities, he stressed, while explaining Ameri can rights and the system of rep resentative government. He urged the new citizens to use their right to vote. Animal Husbandry Stables A amed After Owen Garrigan The board of directors of the A&M System today named the new horse barn of the Animal Husbandry department, “Garrigan Stables.” The name is in honor of' Owen Garrigan, “gi'and old man” among Texas horsemen. Owen Garrigan has been con nected with the Animal Husbandry department for 35 years. Five years ago he went into semi-re tirement but an inherent interest i Owen Garrigan as well as a working interest in the department, is as strong today as it was 5 years ago. The “Mr. Horseman” of Texas joined the Animal Husbandry staff of A&M in 1916. His speciality is gaited saddle horses and in that field he is one of the most widely known authorities in the United States. Garrigan came to the U. S. from Ireland, where for uncounted generations his people had been horsemen. His first day at A&M us stable superintendent of the An imal Husbandry department was as spectacular as is his everyday life today. He looked over the stable, saw some horses and im mediately appraised them for what they were, to the amazement of the onlookers and his superiors. He established himself as an au thority on horse flesh and the breeding of horses, that is still lasting. Soon Texas horsemen looked to the college and soon the college was the recipient of fine horses, which were placed in the breed ing stables. It wasn’t long be fore horses at A&M were looked upon as being among the finest. Garrigan had a way with horses. He trained them as no other per son had trained them before. The horses responded and it wasn’t long before horses trained by this Irishman were winning first prizes at the horse shows over the state.