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Number 198: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIADY, SEPTEMBER 1-9, 1952
Price Five Cents
Plans Complete
For Elections;
Filing Monday
Plans for conducting the student elections for the Stu
dent Senate, Student Life Committee and the Election Com
mission were completed yesterday.
Filingsi for the general elections begin Monday and will
continue through Thursday, Oct. 2. Elections will be held by
secret ballot, Oct. 6-9.
Representatives from the senior, junior and sophomore
classes formulated the proceedure with Bennie Zinn, assist
ant dean of men and advisor to the Student Senate, and Pete
Hardesty, Student Activities business manager.
Those present included: Charles R. (Bubba) Blank,
Robert L. (Bob) Andrews, Don Buchner, and Don (Red)
Young, senior representatives; T. B. Field, Bill Roland, Ted
Upmore, junior representatives; and W. R. Canon and D. P.
Wheat, v sophomores. Frank Manitzas, co-editor of The Battal-
~^ion also was present.
Saddle - Sirloin
Club Plans For
Annual Rodeo
Plans have been started for
f what promises to be one of the
roughest, toughest, and most
enjoyable rodeos ever held at
A&M, according to Roy Eng
land, chairman of ticket and pub
licity committee.
Sponsored by the Saddle and
Sirloin Club, the 31st Annual All-
Aggie Rodeo is scheduled for
October 3-4.
Bareback riding, calf roping,
bull dogging, saddle bronc riding,
bull riding, and ribbon roping are
only a few of the events listed to
furnish rodeo fans with a night
of wild and weird entertainment.
This years rodeo will be pro
duced by Roland Reid of Hills
boro. Performances will be both
Friday night and Saturday after
noon.
Proceeds will go to send judging
V teams to the American Royal Live
stock Show at Kansas City and to
the International Livestock Show
at Chicago. This is the club’s an-
^ nual project.
* Advance student tickets go on
sale for 50 cents next Wednesday.
These same tickets will be sold at
the gate for 60 cents. General ad
mission for adults will be $1.20
while reserved seats sell for $1.50.
Any student at A&M may enter
the rodeo.
Riddle Named New
Debate President
Joe Riddle, senior chemical en
gineering major from Dallas, has
been elected president of the Ag
gie Discussion and Debate Club.
Other officers also elected were:
vice-president Bert Weller, senior
English major from Harlingen,
Secretary-Treasurer John Samuels
of Galveston and Reporter Willard
, Jenkins, sophomore from Lamesa.
Riddle and Weller have been
«,jn the debate squad three years
a*nd, are both letter winners.
Samuels, a two-year member, is
also vice-president of the MSC
Council and is the debate club’s
junior representative on the Arts
and Science Council.
Druggist Meet
In MSC Today
McKesson-Robbins Co. will hold
a training school for clerks in the
Assembly Room of the MSC today,
according to C. L. Atmar of the
MSC business office.
Charlie Bell, sales manager and
Mr. Tomlinson, both of Houston,
will address about 20 assembled
druggists, sales staff personnel
and friends on various phases of
selling, display techniques and ad
vertising.
The first portion of the con
ference will occur in the morning,
followed by a noon luncheon at
the MSC. The afternoon lectures
will conclude the meeting.
Brazos A&M Club
To Meet Tuesday
The Brazos A&M Club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the club
house, according to Vice President
W. W. Meinke.
A double feature program will
be presented. It .wily be both la
dies night and coaches’
pight, he added.
The group, working as an un
official committee under the di
rection of Zinn, decided the fol
lowing points:
• Filings will be made as in
the past. Candidates will file ap
plications in the Student Activ
ities Office, Room 209, Goodwin
Hall.
• Secret ballots will be cast at
a central voting place, a booth in
the MSC promenade near the en
trance of the Postoffice.
• No candidates for any of the
offices would help conduct any
part of the election involving his
race. '
• Four election days will be
used. Monday, Oct. 6 sophomores
will elect their representatives.
Tuesday, Oct: 7, juniors will elect
their senators and members to the
election commission, and the fol
lowing days, seniors will elect
their representatives to both
groups. Thursday, Oct. 9, non
military and day students will cast
their votes.
• Separate ballots will be used
for each class and for each non
military dormitory and housing
section.
Fifteen senators will be elected
by and from the senior class; ten
by and from the junior class; six
by and from the sophomore class;
two by and from the day students;
one by and from each of the sep
arate housing areas, Vet Village
and College View; one by and from
each of the civilian dormitories. ’
Only civilian students will be
allowed to vote in the election of
the three civilian members of the
Student Life Committee. The elec
tion Commission will be composed
of five seniors, five juniors, and
five sophomores, each elected
from his own class: The Student
Senate also will elect five mem
bers to the commission after the
senate is organized.
(Continued on Page 2)
Cellar-Favorite Ags Open
Season Saturday With UH
Cougar Eleven Favored,
A&M to Start Sophomores
CHAMP-COACH—Walter (Buddy) Davis, left, A&M
Olympic high jump champion, was honored at Beaumont
last night by members of the Beaumont A&M Club. Col.
Frank Anderson, right, track coach, was also praised.
By ED HOLDER
Battalion Sports Editor
Ray George’s 1952 cellar-predicted Ag
gies open the season tomorrow night against
the University of Houston.
The Cadet Corps of A&M had yell prac
tice last night, but according to the predic
tions of the other Texas daily newspapers,
they should have been having a prayer meet
ing.
And with the Cougars aching to cut
down their first SWC team in history, this
should be a close game and a tough one.
“The University of Houston has a fine
ball club, and they will be Lard to beat. They
also have a line that outweighs ours by a
Shivers, Beaumont Aggies
Honor A&M Olympic Champ
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Co-Editor
BEAUMONT, Sept. 19—Former
A&M Students of Beaumont threw
the door wide open to Olympic
champion Walter (Buddy) Davis
last night as they honored him at
a lavish dinner in the Hotel Beau
mont Rose Room.
Approximately 300 relatives,
friends, and former A&M students
attended the dinner. All tickets to
the affair were sold long in ad
vance to these people who came
to honor Texas’ first Olympic
winner. Davis broke the high
jump record during Olympic games
in Helsinki last July.
Governor Pays Tribute
Paying tribute to the great A&M
athlete, Gov. Allan Shivers, princi
pal speaker for the dinner, said, “If
this world had more fine men like
Buddy Davis who had the will and
termination to win and to do what
is right, the international situa
tion wouldn’t be what it is today.”
The governor said Davis is “a
champion in many ways.”
In conclusion to his speech, Gov.
Shivers presented Davis with a
Aggie Band Plans Full
Show For UH Saturday
The combined Maroon and White
bands will travel in full strength
to Houston for the A&M and
Houston game Saturday, according
to Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, band
director and counselor.
Composed this year of 182 mem
bers, the consolidated band’s
marching strength this weekend
will be made up of 170 musicians
and three drum majors, he added.
Nine men will be used as auxil
iaries in case last minute replace
ments are necessary, Col. Adams
said.
Abramson Gets
Promoted In Areo
II. Norman Abramson has been
appointed acting associate pi*ofes-
sor in the Department of Aero
nautical Engineering, A&M Col
lege. He will teach theoretical
aerodynamics, high speed aerody
namics and airplane dynamics in
addition to participating in aero
nautical research.
He comes to A&M from the
Chance Vought Aircraft Division
of the United Aircraft Corporation
in Dallas where he was employed
as a project analytical engineer.
Prior to that connection Profes
sor Abramson participated in
Navy guided missile research on
the West Coast. He received his
undergraduate and graduate train
ing at Leland Stanford University.
Mr. and Mrs. Abramson and
son, Philip David live at 605 Kyle
Street in College Station.
The freshmen band will not
make the Houston trip but will
go to all the conference games, he
explained.
Since the band has had a limited
number of practice periods this
week, it will not make any com
plicated movements or formations
for the Houston bout as it will
for later games, Col. Adams said.
At this week’s half time period,
the band will form the letters U
of H with the U and H measuring
10 yards wide by 30 yards long he
added.
Measurements for the word “of”
will be smaller, Col. Adams ex
plained.
large scroll signed by the hun
dreds of people present as a token
of their gratitude for what he has
done for A&M and the state of
Texas.
Col. Frank Anderson, track
coach,' and the man who helped
Davis become an Olympic cham
pion^ told Row A&M is proud of
Buddy. He cited several cases of
verbal and written praise given
Davis by A&M men.
Davis himself took the speakers
stand to recall events of his trip
to Europe including the track
meets he participated in after the
Olympic games. He said the great
est thrill of his trip, besides win
ning the high jump with a new
record, was taking part in the
opening ceremonies of the Olym
pics before 80,000 people while rain
was falling.
Touching everyone with her sin
cerity as well as her love and de
votion for Buddy, Mrs. Walter Da
vis gave praise to her husband
through two vocal selections^ Be
fore the songs were finished, she
wasn’t the only person in the
room whose eyes were clouded with
tears.
Her singing was held as a com
plete surprise to Davis. Mrs. Da
vis’ vocal talents as well as her
sincerity were warmly received by
the people attending the banquet.
Best Wishes Offered
Offering best wishes to Davis
were Gibb Gilchrist, chancellor of
the A&M System; Dr. M. T. Har
rington, president of the college;
and A. F. Mitchell, president of
the Former Students Association.
Introducing Col. Anderson was
Joe (Tommy O’Brien) Trum, Beau-
Southern to Talk
At Kiwanis Club
Hoyle Southern, agricultural
economist with the Department of
Agriculture, will speak to the Ki
wanis Club at their regular week
ly meeting Tuesday in the MSC.
Southem will talk on “The FAO
Technical Assistance Progi'am.”
Social Club Plans Tea
For Sept. 26 in MSC
Final plans for the opening tea
honoring new women employees
and wives of new A&M employees
have been completed, according to
Mrs. C. C. Doak, president of the
College Women’s Social Club. The
tea will be held Sept. 26 in the
MSC.
The group met in the home of
Mrs. Doak.
Other officers of the club in
clude, Vice-president Mrs. J. S.
Mogford; General Chairman, Mrs.
Ernest Langford; Secretary, Mrs.
A. B. Curries; Treasurer Mrs. R.
D. Turk; Reporter Mrs. R. E.
Snuggs and Parliamentarian Mrs.
Bennie Zinn.
The following interest groups
are open to members. Women who
are interested in any particular
group may call the group chair
man for further information: art.
Mi’s. Joe Motheral; foods, Mrs.
Royce LeRoy; golf, Mrs. J. J.
Woolket; handicraft, Mi-s. H. E.
Hampton; neighborhood book
gz-oup, Mrs. E. L. Angell; new
comers, Mrs. Ray George and
swimming, Mrs. William McCully.
All women employes of A&M,
wives of employees of the college,
wives of local ministers and
YMCA workers and wives of for
mer college employes are eligible
for membership in the College
Women’s Social Club, said Mrs.
Doak.
mont radio sports commentator
who accompanied Davis and Col.
Anderson to Helsinki.
Trum told of many of the color
ful things which took place at the
Olympics. He said Davis and Col.
Anderson were so prolific in their
praise for A&M, members of a
Canadian Athletic Club had decid
ed to send some boys to A&M in
stead of to Michigan State as had
been their practice in years past.
Presiding as master of ceremon
ies for the banquet was Tyree Bell,
of Dallas, vice-president of the
A&M System Board of Directors.
In charge of arrangements for
the banquet and introducing visit
ing guests at the dinner was C. L.
Babcok of Beaumont. Kenneth
Montague, president of the Beau
mont A&M Club welcomed guests
to the banquet.
Dinner music was furnished by
Mrs. Bedford Pace of Nederland,
friend of the Davis family. In
vocation was given by Clark A.
Mathews, supex-intendent of schools
in Nederland.
Language Dept.
Adds Two New
Profs to Staff
Two new members have
been added to the teaching
staff of the Modern Language
Department. They are Doc
tors Edward Stack and Lester
Beberfall.
Dr. Stack, who is teaching first
and second year French, feels
right at home, having taught in
military schools before. He did
both his graduate and undergrad
uate work at Princeton University
and has taught at N. Y. and Cul
ver Military Academies, Cornell
and Delaware Universities, and
LSU.
Dr. Stack says that he is look
ing foiward to hearing the famous
Aggie Band about which he has
heard so much about.
Dr. Beberfall, German and
Spanish insti'uctor from Wayne
University, is waiting the arrival
of his family, which includes a
set of two-week-old twins, from
Deti - oit. He received his BA
fi'om CCNY and his graduate
degree fi'om the Univei’sity of
Michigan.
Ministers to Hold
Meeting Monday
The A&M Ministerial Associa
tion will have its monthly potluck
supper Monday, Sept. 22, at the
A&M Presbyterian Church. The
meeting will start at 6:30 p. m.
All local clergy, religious woxk-
ers, and their families are invited,
according to J. Gordon Gay, pres
ident of the association.
PilotBails Out
In Solo Flight
Somebody in Sommerville
saw a man parachute
from a jet ti*ainer plane near
the town yestei'day afternoon.
Dx\ G., V. Pazdral called
the ambulance operator. They
sighted the parachuting man
in the sky and started out.
When Airman Cadet Sig
urd Jordan, 22, reached
ground, Pazdral and the am
bulance were waiting. The ca
det suffex-ed multiple frac
tures of the left arm. He was
on a solo training flight fi'om
Bryan Air Force Base.
A&M Mothers Clubs
Meet This Weekend
The Executive committee of
State Federation of A&M Moth
ers Clubs will meet Saturday and
Sunday in the Social Room of the
MSC.
wide margin,” said George.
“We have a number of inexperienced
sophomores. They’ve been looking better
though, and showing more spirit and enthus
iasm than I’ve seen in a long time,” he con
tinued.
“Our men in the line are small—very
small when compared to the U of H’s big
boys, so we will have to depend a great deal
on speed and determination,” George said.
From the other side of the fence we hear
such news as, “This first week of work has
been the most pleasant of any I have spent
in my 20 years as a coach.”
This was the remark made by Coach
Clyde Lee of the Cougars after six days of
f woi’kouts.
Coach Lee also said his second
and third string men were just
slightly behind his first team vet-
erarxs. This means plenty of depth
for the Houston club, an item
which the Aggies lack at all posts
except end.
Ray Graves, A&M’s quai'ter-
back, will join his talents with
the running of halfback Don El
lis and Raymond Haas, and full
backs Connie Magourik and Don
Kachtik to try and break the big
forward wall of the Cougax-s.
Bobby Dixon and Durwood Scott
will have the job of opening the
tackle slots. They will be out
weighed from 10 to 20 pounds by
the U of H defensive tackles.
At the guards will be Marvin
Tate and Sid Theriot. These ai’e
the two little sophomores whom
Coach George has px-aised often.
Both will be facing men nearly 30
pounds heavier.
Dai-row Hooper and Eric Miller
are at offensive ends, but here the
weight is more evenly matched.
Both are lettermen, and will be
counted on a great deal as targets
(See FOOTBALL, Page 2)
Rice Fellowship Gets
Additional Grant of $ 600
The Texas Rice Improvement
Association of Beaumont has sent
to the Texas Agi'icultural Experi
ment Station $600 “in continued
support of the Ai’thur Howell Boyt
Rice Memorial Fellowship.” The
fellowship is now held by Lloyd
Crane.
The fellowship was establiehed
in 1950 by the American Rice
Growers Cooperative Association
and the Texas Rice Improvement
Association, as a memorial to Ar
thur Howell (Capt) Boyt, who was
for many years a top-i - anking lead
er in the rice industry.
The organizations set up $1,800
by the American Rice Gi’owers
Association, to be for the payment
of the salary of the holder of the
fellowship and $600 from the Tex
as Rice Improvement Association,
for expenses.
The fellowship calls for the de
velopment at A. and M. College of
Naval Reserve Unit
Available for A&M
Naval Resex-ve officers and en
listed men in this area have an op
portunity to maintain contact with
the navy through affiliation with
the URR Unit 8-3, Eighth Naval
District, according to Commander
Norman F. Rhode, commanding
officer of the local unit.
The unit has programs of in
struction and interest to all navy
pei’sonnel.
Officers connected with the local
unit had had a lot of training duty
with naval establishments on the
west coast, Washington, D. C.,
New Yoik, Chicago, and Florida.
Comdr. Rhode, USNR, professor
of electrical engineering, desides
that all reservist interested in
joining the naval volunteer re
serve research unit A&M should
contact him in Bolton Hall.
a man who will be interested in
the improvement of rice and who
will continue working with the
Beaumont Experiment Station Af
ter completing his college course.
Selection of the man to receive
the fellowship is left to Director
A. D. Lewis and Supt. W. C.
Davis of the Beaumont station.
The .holder of the fellowship is
expected to be I’egistexed in the
gx-aduate school.
Seniors Schedule
Meeting Tuesday
The Senior Class will hold its
first meeting of the year in the
MSC Ballroom Tuesday night af
ter yell pi’actice accox*ding to Joe
Mattel, class president.
All of the recently appointed
committees are expected to give
their first repoi’ts at that time.
Weather Today
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FAIR
WEATHER TODAY: Fair and
scattered clouds. The high yester
day was 91 and the low 68.