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Number 58: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1951
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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
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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
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Following the trend of most military units on the
campus, C Armor drew and erected this sign near
the site of the Texas University game bonfire to
be burned tonight. The signs depict the spirit
caused by the txjnfire and what the bonfire sym
bolizes to A&M students.
—Staff Photo by Dick Zeek
It was the second big contribu
tion made by A&M students to the
desperate call from fighting fronts
for blood to be given to injured
combat men.
Two weeks ago the unit’s initial
visit found 66 students responding
to the first call.
Long List
A long list of students is still
on hand for future donations to
the blood unit. Only men 21 years
of age or older have been allowed
to donate blood thus far. 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
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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.