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ASS 5 ft FDR FE 4 COPIES Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Number 205: Volume 52 The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1952 ihiblishec* By A&M Students For 75 Years Price Five Cents Filingfor Elections Will Close Today; First Vote Monday Today is the deadline for stu dents to file for offices in the com ing elections of Oct. 6-9. To date there have been a total of 176 candidates. The Battalion reported a wrong and much higher- figure earlier. Twenty-two candidates filed yesterday. Of these, all were can didates for the Student Senate ex cept three who filed for the Elec tion Commissjtfon. These three are Jerry L. Lejdwig, Ferman Glesier, N aml Marvih H. Ford, all juniors. Sehior candidates for the sen ate are Victor W. Gillett, T. E. Kelly, Alva Shepard, W. B. Travel- stead, R. F. Lannert, Doug Goode, and O. D. Bretches. Two juniors who filed for the senate yester- Two Judging Teams Enter • Top Contests Two judging teams representing * A&M’s dairy husbandry depart ment participated in out-of-state contests. The Dairy Products team com peted in the National Stu- dents Judging Contest in dairy products in Chicago, 111. Members recently took part in the South ern Regional Dairy Products Con test in Nashville, Tenn. in pre paration for the current event. Team members are James B. Hardaway of Leesburg, George Spaniel of Moulton, . Eddie L. Thompson of Waco, and Wesley E. Gross of Bonham. Frank E. Potter of the dairy husbandry de partment is coach. The dairy cattle judging team intered the National Dairy Con- jress at at Waterloo, la., this week. Before participating in the na- 7 tional contest, the team took part in a contest at Memphis Tenn., where it won third place in all events. Henry W. Haisler, of Cald well, won fifth place in individual ■' judging of all breeds. In addition to Haisler, team members are Billy Charles Presnal of Bryan, Alton P. Pyburn of Roby, and Curtis D. Reeves of Port Arthur. A. L. Darnell of dairy husbandry department is coach. ..... Army Rifles Ready Soon Ml rifles for ROTC drill have arrived and are being placed in the gun rooms of dormitories hous ing all ground force cadets, said <Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assist- . commandant. Cadets will begin drilling with f <Vifles Oct. 9, Wilkins said. Com manding officers of each company may issue rifles before the next drill period, he said. Otherwise rifles will be issued at drill next Thursday, Col. Wilkins said. Cadet officers and first ser geants will only have rifles for in struction purposes, according to Wilkins. Each cadet will be re sponsible for the conditions of his rifle and will be charged with hav ing it clean at all times, he said. Weather Today CLEAR WEATHER TODAY: Clear with a slight di-op in temperature from a mild norther. The high yester day was 93 and the low this morning 62. (No snow in sight.) day are E. R. Keeling and L. B. Brown. Sophomore Filings Sophomores who signed up yes terday in the senate race are John W. Benefield, Bob E. Stout, Earl R. Hall, Vervie Godwin, Charles W. Cox, James E. Gaffey. Civilian senate candidates regis- tered in yesterday’s filing are George M. Sturgis, and Ernest G. Horres, both of Law Hall; Lamar McNew of the day students; and Bill Harper, who misfiled as a senator-at-large. Most applications filed are for the senior positions in the senate. They number 46. Junior and soph omore classes have both drawn 43 candidates. Eighteen have filed for position on the Election Commission and six civilian students are candidates for the Student Life Committee. Other areas and their respective number of senate candidates are: College View, five; Law Hall, five; Puryear Hall, five; Mitchell Hall, two; Bizzell Hall, two; day students, two; senators-at-large (not a post) two. Election Schedule The election schedule is as fol lows: Monday, Oct. 6, sophomore elections; Tuesday, Oct. 7, junior elections; Wednesday, Oct. 8, sen ior elections; Thursday, Oct. 9, non-military and day student elec tions. Voting will be by secret ballot in a, central ballot booth in the MSC promenade near the Postof fice entrance. Separate ballots will be used for each class and for each civil ian dormitory and housing sec tion. Civilian students will be al lowed to vote for both their dormi tory and class representatives. Cor recting an earlier mistake in The Battalion, 1 only one man can be elected from each non-corps dirm- itary for student senator instead of two. Seniors Devise Seating Plan for Kentucky Game A seating arrangement for A&M students at the Ken tucky game has been devised by the senior class and will be used for this game, said Joe Mattei, senior class president. The seating arrangement is a modification of the plan used last year which was drawn up by the Student Senate. The only change in the senior’s plan is that civilian and corps seniors will be in the same sections. Members of the senior class voted on this arrangement, although deciding where students will sit in Kyle Field is a function of the Student Senate. The senate will probably approve this arrangement or decide on a new one after it con venes for the first time next week, Mattei said. Students will be expected to sit in the places indicated on the map, the senior class president added. Student Injured After Dormitory Explosion By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion Co-Editor A fireworks explosion in Dox'- mitory 10 last night set off mass confusion among students in the upperclassman Corps area and led to the injux-y of a student who fell into a steam tunnel. Injui'ed was Clarence (Buck) Gay, sophomore fi’om Fort Wpifh who is student electi’ician for three doi’mitories. Gay entered the tun nel in an attempt to px-otect the dormitory’s electrical equipment from students who wex'e swai’ming all over the area. With a flashlight in hand, ex citement caused him to miss the steps and he di'opped ten feet between the steam pipes into the tunnel. He received a cut ov er the left eye and multiple cuts and bx-uises on his body. •v f // $ rx*H 4 I •'.'j —Ail KYLE FIELD SEATING ARRANGEMENT—This is the way stu dents will sit ij) the A&M section of Kyle Field at the Kentucky game Saturday 1 night. Seniors will sit from the 50 yard line to the goal line,, They will .enter the stadium through Ramp P and sit in the area from the main aisle up to the 'toj? of the stadiunh. Juniox-s will be admitted to a sectioxx which extends fi’om the end zone to the 40 yard line. All Juniors will enter thx-ough Ramp O. The juniors will sit above the eighth i‘ow and up to the main aisle, whex-e the senior section begins. The juniox-s will also occupy the area from the main aisle to the top of the stadium between Ramp O (goal line) and Ramp N. Fxeshmen and Sophomores will enter thi’ough Ramps N and M and will occupy the first eight rows from the 40 yaxd fine (next to the band) to the end zone. From the end zone to ramp N they will occupy all seats up to the main aisle. Beyond section N in the end zone, freshmen and sophomores will be allowed all seats from the bottom to the top row. Ray Graves Speaks To QBs Tonight Ray Graves, ace Aggie play- caller and passer will speak to night at the Quartexback Club in the MSC Ball Room at 7:30. A double featui-e program is scheduled. Two thrilling game films, Oklahoma A&M and the University of Houston, will be shown. Gx-aves will make a short talk on how the team is shaping up so for this season, and how he thinks the Aggies should do against Ken tucky Saturday night on Kyle Field. Narrate Films He will then proceed to nari’ate the films, and explain the differ ences between the Oklahoma Ag gies and the Houston Cougars. The essential diffei'ence was the defense they ran. Graves will ela- Dance Scheduled For Kentucky Tilt A dance will be held after the Kentucky game, Satux-day, Oct. 4, on the MSC Stax-light Tex-race, Betty Bolander, MSC program di rector, has announced. The dance will begin immediately after the game and will last until 12 p. m. Music will be provided by the Aggieland Combo and refresh ments will be sold, said Gordon Geddes, dance chairman. Ross Volunteers Organize Tonight The Ross Volunteers will hold their first meeting of the year after yell practice tonight in Room 3D of the MSC, said Joe Wallace, commander of the RV unit. Coffee and cookies will be served. Committees will be appointed and plans for the yeax* will be dis cussed, Wallace said. All seniox-s who want to remain active in the ox-ganization must be present, he commented. Applications for membership in the Volunteers must be ixx by Mon day night, Oct. 6, Wallace conclud ed. borate on this point, as well as the mistakes made by each team. Gx-aves is the man who leads the Aggie attack at quax-terback on the split-T formation coached by Head Mentor Ray George. He has thx-own 27 passes and completed 15 of them for a total gain of 182 yards and an average of .555 on connections. This places him third in the confex-ence. Fourth Among Ball Carriers On 23 tries with the ball he has covered 101 yax-ds to set his pex-- try at 4.4 yax-ds. Graves ranks fourth in the SWC in leading ball carx-iers. In total offense, he has gained 283 yax-ds on 50 plays for a 5.7 yds. average and thix'd place in the conference among leading total offense leaders. A senior letterman, Graves stands six ft. 1 inch and weighs 170 pounds. He is 20 years old and hails fi’om Stephenville. His major is Business Administration. FIRST—Ray Anthony and his orchestra will px-esent the first Town Hall concert Monday in Guion Hall. Costly Tank Prank Remains Unsolved List Investigation of the costly tank painting is at a temporax-y stand still, Col. Joe Davis, commandant, xevealed yestei’day. Whether the investigation will be handled by the college or by the railroad is undecided, but prop er action will be taken soon, he said. Kentucky Game First Review The cadet corps will march in its first pass by of the season Sat urday night at the University of Kentuck football game, Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins announced yestex-- day. Class “A” uniforms will be wox-n by all cadets. Fix-st call will be sounded at 1830 hours with move out at 1835 hours. The cadets will pass through Gate 2 to the rear of Kyle Field where they will be dismissed. Promotions Released With the appxoval of the Presi dent and the Dean of Men, 36 ca dets wex-e named to positions of cadet rank effective immediately, announced Colonel Joe Davis, com mandant. Appointed cadet 1st Lts. were Sampson C. Guthrie, Jr., White Band, Pit. Comdr.; David H. Smith, White Band, Athl. Offr.; Jack K. Reynolds, A Ax-rhor, Pit. Comdr.; Gene Kennedy, B Ax-mox-, Schol. Offx-.; Francis Bethancoux-t, 2nd Bn., P I Offr.; John J. Selig- man, C FA, Exec. Offr.; Richard K. Rains, Jx\, A Ox-d., Exec. Offr. James A. Cx-oziei-, A Ox-d. Asst. Pit. Comdx*.; Edwin L. Jones, Jr., A Ord., Ath. Offr.; Nox-man W. Naugle, Sig. Cox-p, Asst. Pit. Comdr.; Alva P. Shepai-d, Sq. 14, Ath. Offr.; James H. Cumley, A Co, Pit Comdr.; Don S. Tabb, Pit. Unofficial Record In Town Hall Race By JOE HIPP Battalion News Staff As predicted the non-student classic got off to an eax-ly stai't. An unofficial x-ecoxd was set by Pete Hardesty in the non-student Town Hall ticket line last night. Hax-desty, business manager of Student Activities, went to Guion Hall immediately after the fresh man game and started the line. “I had never been in this line before and was cux-ious about spending the night in Guion Hall,” said Haxdesty. Although fix-st in line, he spent most of the night dozing in his car. Stealing the show was Michael McGuire, 14, son of Mx\ and Mrs. J. G. McGuix-e, 113 Langford. Mike got to the line at 2:30 a.m. to get second place. “Dad wanted good seats so I came over on my bike to get ’em,” Mike said. Wide awake, despite his long vigil, he made a sharp contrast with the sleepier members of the line. Dr. W. M. Potts, of the Chem- istx-y department, was thix-d at 3:15 a.m. and Dr. W. L. Pox-tei’, head of the Mathematics depax-t- ment, was foux-th, arriving at 4 a.m. Both were x-unnex-s-up last yeax-. Another line, popular at the time, was the line for coffee and cake. C. G. (Spike) JVhite, assist ant to the dean of men for stu dent activities, was sex-ving to all membei-s of the line. The only claim anyone had to a position in the line was a small ticket with their place numbered on it. Several of the eax-ly risex-s were to be seen dozing away in the big soft chairs of the Guion Hall lounge. Activity x-eached a peak when Mrs. Polly Patx-anella of the Stu dent Actiivties office arx-ived With the tickets and Hax-desty stepped forward to buy the fix-st four tick ets. Comdr.; D Co.; Bobby L. Myers, E Co., Exec Offr.; Frederick W. Threadgill, E Co., Pit. Comdx-. Ralph Night, E Co. Pit. Comdr.; Wallace Gax-rison, F Co., Pit. Comdr.; and Winfred E. Gx-imes, SQ 22, Pit. Comdr. Promoted to Staff Sergeants wex-e Jex-ry V. Post, White Band, Sup. Sgt.; James W. Bass, A FA, Asst. Sq. Ldr.; Jesse F. Fox-d, A FA, Asst. Sq. Ldr.; James L. Mil- stead, A FA Asst. Sq. Ldi\; Rob ert G. McCandless, A FA, Asst. Sq. Ldr.; Alton W. Pex-x-y, A FA, Asst. Sq. Ldi\; Joe F. Rose, A FA, Asst. Sq. Ldr.; Billy Grissom, F Co., Asst. Pit. Sgt.; Edward Stall- witz, A FA, Asst. Sq. Ldr.; and John A. Steen, Sq. 14, Guide. New coxpox-als are James A. Wilson, A FA, Guidon Beax-er; Wil liam H. Carlton, D Co. Guide; and Lonzie A. Paxker, D Co., Guide. Geox-ge R. Harper, 3rd Regt., and Glenn R. Parma were pro moted to the x-ank of Major. James W. Allbx-itton, 3rd Wg., axxd Randal L. Cheves, 3rd Regt., wex-e appoint ed Master Sergeants. Alois J. Jaeger, F Co., was appointed Pla toon Sex-geant and was promoted to the x-ank of Tech Sex-geant. The explosion occurred at about 9:30 p.m. according to Robin Ran- sone, sergeant of the guard, who investigated the disturbance. Ran- sone had just i-etux-ned to the guard room in Dormitox-y 12 when someone rushed to the window and asked for a doctor or an ambu lance—saying a student had fallen into the steam tunnel. Hospital Slow Robex-t A. Ruiz, corporal of the guaxd, called the college hospital i and was told they would send some one ovei". Ruiz said he waited a few minutes and no one came. He then called a Bryan doctor and was advised to contact the college hos pital. Another doctor was called and he promised to get medical aid to the injured student. Twenty minutes aftex- the fix-st call to the college hospital, Ruiz called back and was told the am bulance would not stai't. In the - I meantime a student employee, Wil liam Parson, from the hospital rushed over to Dox-mitory 10 in a borrowed car, but thought Gay’s injux-ies could be such that he would be hux-t more if tx-ansported in a car. Parson x-eturned to the hos pital and with the aid of freshmen in a neax-by dormitory pushed the ambulance until it started. Rushed to Tunnel Martin Clemmons, sophomore from Port Arthur and Gay’s room mate, said he x-ushed down into the tunnel as soon as he had word of Gay’s injux-y. Clemmons said he and a few other unidentified stu dents treated Gay for shock, but did not attempt to lift him out fox- fear of internal injuries. After a hux-x-ied tx-ip to Dormi tory 10, a chain blocking vehicle entrance to the area was found locked, but finally bx-oken down by the ambulance. Parsons and sevex-al assistants lifted Gay out of the tunnel on a stretcher and rushed him to the hospital. They left the dormitory at 10:20 p.m., 40 min utes after the accident occurred. Dr. J. E. Marsh, college physic ian, arrived at the hospital a few minutes after Gay was brought in and found a gash over the left eye x-equiring four or five stitches. Gay, who was unconscious until just before he was helped out of the tunnel, told a Battalion x-eport- er at the hospital, “I don’t know why I went down there, but I’ll never do it again.” He probably was still dazed at that time. Cadet officer of the guard Cliff Schaffer and officer of the day Norman (Bubba) Buescher assert ed that Gay did not receive medical (See CORPS, Page 3) Concession Stands Provided for Game Student concessions, sponsox-ed by the Athletic department, will be provided for the A&M-Ken- tucky game, announced Joe G. Fa gan, concession manager. Soft dx-inks, ice-cx-eam, hot-dogs, peanuts, popcox-n, pillows, pen nants and eye-shades will be sold by students in the stands and at various concessions places around the stadium, he added. Appx-oximately 30 students will dix-ect traffic and help conduct the pax-king of cai*s befox-e game time. Students wanting to work dux-ing home games should apply in the office of Campus Security. Programs for the game will also be sold by students during the game, said Roland Bing, manager of student publications. Aggie Band Plans New Maneuvers As recall echoes fi-om the walls of Kyle Field for the first time this yeax-, the Aggie Band will step off into one of the more com plicated drills this year. Led on the field by Doyle Kx-ue- gex-, head dx-um majox-, Jerx-y (Pinkey) Jordan and Geox-ge Brun er, the 180-piece band will open the dx-ill with an entirely new en- tx-ance made up of minstx-el turns. After reaching the far end of the field, they will execute the well, known “continuous coantex- march,” followed by a right and left flank movement. Next come two of the double minstrel turns the Aggie band is known for. The next new move ment is one designed to make your eyes jump back to the field from your date or coke. The max-oon and write bxigade will fox-m the letters—T-E-X-A-S A-M-C and K-E-N-T-U-C-K-Y. Still holding the letters, the mem bers will march off the field, with the lettex-s melting as they hit the sideline. Rootin,’ Tootin’ Rodeo Set Friday The most rootin’, tootin’ Aggie Rodeo will be the best yet, said Roy England of the xodeo commit tee today. A&M’s 31st annual All- Aggie Rodeo will be held Friday and Satux-day. Advance tickets are now on sale in the Sstudent Activities Office for 50 cents. Cost at the gate will be 60 cents. General admis sion tickets are $1.20 and reserved seats $1.50. .