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Number 215: Volume 52
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER. 17, 1952
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A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price Five Cents
C of C to Fight
PMA Movement
To Temple
The College Station Cham
ber of Commerce has voted to
oppose the moving of the
Price Marketing Administra
tion from here.
Aggies Meet TCU Horned Frogs
On Kyle Field In Conference Tilt
Marion Pugh, president, said,
“We will fight the move by what
ever means we have.”
People in Temple have requested
that the PMA be moved there. No
decision has been reached on the
matter.
The College Station Chamber of
Commerce will work with the Bry
an Chamber of Commerce in wilt
ing letters to congressmen from
this district, enlisting their help in
opposing the move.
At their meeting Tuesday night,
the council also voted to use their
funds to help defray the expenses
of refreshments served to blood
donors when the Red Cross Blood-
mobile comes here Dec. 17.
The Community Chest drive was
given a vote of confidence by the
group, and support was offered
the drive committee.
Three hundred dollars from the
organization’s funds is to be given
to the library at Lincoln School
for Negroes. The money will be
presented in a ceremony next
week.
Dean J. P. Abbot was appointed
a member of the organization by
the president to fill the unexpired
term of Dean C. C. French. Ran
Boswell, College Station city man
ager, will serve as an ex-officio
member.
1952 AGGIE ELEVEN-^—With season record of two wins and two losses, the Aggie grid
machine will be looking for its first conference win against the TCU Horned Frogs. The
Aggies are underdogs and TCU will be favored by two touchdowns. An estimated
25,000 fans will be on hand to watch A&M and TCU battle for the 48th time.
Pogo Drawn, Gone by Dawn
Texas Is Big One,
Walt Kelly Says
Recreation Council
Asks Tax Support
By WALT (POGO) KELLY
An amateur artist who would
not be downed last night helped
fill in the time for an estimated
score of yawning fans. The all
but anonymous cartoonist, import
ed by underground railway from
a city called New York, scrawled
and doodled his way through moi-e
reams of news print that this of
fice can decently afford.
Kelly, who goes by name of
Walt, was so overcome with his
cwn brand of corn that a large
cigar was needed to refuel him.
Tired but game he fought his way
to the offices of The Battalion
through a horde of protesting edi
tors and wrote seven pages of
deathless prose.
The Prose was later given a de
cent burial behind the Mess Hall
and mine detector squads have
been given the alert. Anybody
finding the material will be held
responsible by the health depart
ment.
Kelly, when interviewed, gave a
glowing and unusual description
of Texas: It is a BIG one, he said
with never so much as a bow in
the direction of a quotation mark.
He left early today without pay
ing his bill and screamed “Etaoin
Shrdlu” at the Foreign Language
department. If they want to make
something of it, Kelly can be found
in Houston. It serves them right,
there at Rice.
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion City Editor
The College Station Recreation
Council has voted to recommend
to the City Council that the Recre
ation Council be put on a city tax
supported basis, instead of the vol
untary method now used to raise
funds.
An amendment to the city char
ter to this effect has been pre
pared by the Recreation Council
to be presented to the City Coun
cil.
Under the provisions of the pro
posed amendment, a tax of not
less than five cents and not more
than ten cents per one hundred
dollars of assessed property value
would be levied for recreation pur
poses.
“The cost to the average tax
payer would not be less than $1.50
and not more than $.‘1.00 a year”,
said Donald Burchard, chairman of
the Recreation Council. “College
Station’s lack of juvenile delin
quency is certainly worth twenty-
five cents a month.”
Total yearly revenue from the
proposed plan would be a minimum
of $1,250 and a maximum of $2,500
a year.
“The present method of raising
funds has not proved satisfactory,”
Burchard said.
Such oi'ganizations as the Cham
ber of Commerce, the Community
Chest, and the City Council don
ate money for the program, which
consists of sports and other activ
ities for the residents of the city.
Last summer 927 children and
adults participated in the program.
“We had to stop our program
in the middle of the summer this
year because we x - an out of money,
and unless something is done we
will have even less money to op
erate on next year,” Burchard said.
To present an amendment to
the city charter, the proposers
must have a petition signed by at
least 10 per cent of the qualified
votei-s of the city.
Turbulent Senate Completes
Kyle Field Seating Plans
Froggie Fans
Arrive Early
TCU CAMPUS, Oct. 17—TCU fans
armed themselves with a goodly supply of
cow bells, coins and confidence today as they
made final preparations for a journey to
College Station to investigate the resources
of the A&M Football team.
More than 200 student and between 30
and 40 faculty tickets have already been
sold for the Saturday afternoon game be
tween TCU and the Aggies and Frog follow
ers have charted literally dozens of.
buses for the 160-mile trip.
Riotous doings are being plan
ned for the weekend with frivolity
bursting forth from all sides.
A&M Student Senate repre
sentatives were on this campus
Wednesday spreading the word
about the variety of entertain
ments that await the wandering
TCU student.
Frankie Caide will move onto the
Aggie pasture Saturday- night,
playing a concert in Guion Hall at
7:15 p. m. and a dance in Sbisa
Hall at 9 p. m. Tickets for the
concert are 75 cents and for the
dance, $2.50.
Rue Pinalle Set
Graves Leads
A&M Attack
A&M will try to stop the TCU Horned
Frogs march to a SWC title when the two
teams collide on Kyle Field, tomorrow after
noon at 2 p. m. The Frogs are leading the
conference with a record of one win and no
defeats, while the contest will mark the en
trance of the Cadets into SWC play.
Saturday’s game will be the 48th meeting
of the two elevens, with the Farmers holding
an edge in the series, 25 games won to 18
Friday night the Farmers will
present their version of a French
night club, Cafe Rue Pinalle, for
anybody who is feeling a contin
ental tinge. The show will begin
at 10 p. m. and admission is 00
cents.
A&M’s student center will be
open to TCU visitor-s, with three
places serving meals during the
day.
In the main lobby of the stu
dent center will be an information
booth to guide visitors on the
campus and to serve as a free ex
change center where football tick
ets may be bought and sold.
TCU Yell Leaders and mem
bers of the Student Congress will
be met Saturday morning by Ag
gie yell leaders and Student Sen
ate. They will dine together in
Duncan Hall.
Attendance Estimated
Attendance for the ball game
has been estimated at 25,000 al
though tickets are still selling.
TCU students will sit on the
east side of Kyle Field, south of
the 50 yard line.
The A&M newspaper reports
that accomodations will be hard
to find in College Station and
Bryan. Guest rooms in the MSC
have all been reserved and tour
ist coui'ts and hotels were to be
overflowing today.
(See FEW ROOMS, Page 2)
Band Promises
New Drill Show
After three weeks of get
ting back into the habit of
precision marching, the Aggie
Band will take the field in
an entirely new drill. The
half-time performance this week
will not contain any movement
previously done on the field so far
this year.
The 180 piece marching band
will enter from their usual north
gate line in their well known
“Serpertine Entrance”, and will
proceed to the south end where
they will execute the well receiv
ed “Lost Indian” counter-march.
From there the crossed letters—
FROGS—will be formed saluting
the TCU rivals.
Moving back into band forma
tion, the unit will continue their
precision marching by executing
a new movement designed by two
of the band members, Danny How
ell and Jack Merideth. Among the
members of the band this is known
as the “Howell-Merideth Mad-
deness.”
Completing this eye-catcher, the
well i-emembered Aggie Marching
T will be formed. To the strains
of the War Hymn, the T will
counter-march and melt at the east
side lines.
Nursery Opens For
Local Grid Fans
A supervised nursery at St.
Paul’s Methodist Church, located
at Cavitt and Waverly in Bryan,
will be open at 12:30 p. m. Satui-
day to care for children of parents
wishing to attend the game, said
Mrs. Don Box.
A charge of 50 cents an hour
per child for this service will be
made. For further information
call 4-9767 or 3-3398.
for TCU with four games ending
in ties.
The series began in 1897 with
the Horned Frogs taking the first
game by a 30 to 6 count. The Ag
gies then won 18 straight games
from the TCU squad befoi-e final
ly being edged out 3 to 0 in 1925.
In 1926 and 1927 the contests
ended in ties, and it wasn’t until
1936 that a Cadet team posted a
victory over the Horned Frogs.
Aggies Score
The largest score against the
Frogs racked up by the Farmers
was in 1919 when the Aggies won
48 to nothing. TCU’s largest vic-
tory margin was in 1938 when they
won the conference and beat the
Cadets 34 to 6.
The Aggies have kept the Frogs
from scoring in 14 contests, while
the Horned Frogs have shut-out
the Cadets seven times.
Both teams enter the battle with
a season record of two wins and
two defeats, the Homed Frogs
bowing to Kansas and UCLA while
the Aggies lost to Kentucky and
Michigan State.
TCU Had Breather
TCU had a breather last week
while the Aggies were being over
run by Michigan State, a home
field advantage is with the Ca
dets, however.
Both elevens will have a half
back who won’t be able to see fic
tion in the tilt.
The Farmers will miss the run
ning of Raymond Haas, who was
injured in the Spartan run-awdy,
while the Frogs have lost John
Haiwille, who was hurt in the
Trinity fracas. .
In the SWC where mental condi
tion means a lot, both squads
should be up for the game. The
Aggies remembering last years up
set, while the Frogs are thinking
about the Cotton Bowl.
The weather for the game should
be ideal.
A double wing or*a spread will
probably the offense the Homed
Frogs will use.
(Cee GRAVES, Page 2)
By BOB HENDRY
Battalion News Editor
The Kyle Field seating arrange
ment discussion empted last night
into one of the hottest class dis
tinction battles probably ever
staged in a Student Senate meet
ing.
Everything but blows was ex
changed by the non-reg, corps sen
ior and junior representatives in
an effort to obtain what they con
sidered a fair arrangement of their
class seating sections.
Arousing the ill-feeling among
the classes was the seating ai - -
rangement committee’s plan of al-
loting 10 rows of seats to the non-
regs, 18 rows to the corps seniors,
and 12 rows to the corps juniors.
The non-reg section runs around
the top of Kyle Field from ramp
Q to ramp L, the section between
ramp Q and P being reserved for
seniors and graduates and that be
tween ramp O and P for juniors.
Ten rows from the top, the senior
section which runs from the end
of the senior section to the end of
the stands from ramp Q to ramp
O.
Underclasses Crowded
Freshmen and sophomores have
been crowded, except for a small
section from ramp O to the goal
posts which is reserved for soph
omore and freshmen with dates,
into the end zone seats running
from lamp L to the date section.
The committee gave three pri
mary reasons for the abolishment
pf the former sophomoreS-fresh-
men section. They were: 1) the
senior class consists of such a
large number that more seats are
needed, 2) juniors usually take
over half of this section anyway,
and 3) this plan keeps the ramps
to this section from becoming too
congested by sophomores and
freshmen.
Ide Trotter, junior representa
tive, immediately challenged the
so called need of the seniors for
the numbei* of seats alloted. Trot
ter, by computing the approximate
number of seats available in this
section while the arrangement was
being explained, found that the
seniors had been alloted about 300
more seats than their number call
ed for.
Sections—All Full
Lyle Wolfskill, senior chairman
of the committee, answered, that
the number of people taking senior
privileges, former students and
others who managed to sit in this
section filled these.
Non-reg representatives Doyle
Lowrey, David Rice, Ray Rush
ing, and Jack (Spud) Mergle
launched their attack against the
arrangement, arguing that not
only were the number of seats in
sufficient but the civilians also
were being discriminated against.
They maintain that 10 rows of
seats were not enough to cover the
estimated 1,700 civilians and the
guests they wish to bring. Their
only good seats, they said, were
those directly above the corps sen
ior section.
The corps seniors fought back
by saying that they had waited
three years for a good seat at the
games. The non-regs already had
had the privilege of sitting* there
and now it was the corps turn,
they said. Besides, they continued,
the civilians were forgetting the
intermingling of former students
and others into their section.
Long Battle Ends
After the battle, which began
at about 8 and ended at 9:45 p. m.,
only one thing had been accomp
lished. An extra row of seats from
the corps senior section adjacent
to the non-reg rows was alloted
to the civilians.
Class cards will be passed out,
said Wolfskill, which shall be giv
en to dates, and guests and guides
at the entrances composed of stu
dents from each class, will direct
persons to the proper sections.
Entrance into stadium will be
regulated continued Wolkskill.
Corps seniors only will enter
through ramp Q. Corps juniors,
non-regs, and seniors may enter
through ramp P and Q. Sophomore
and fish will enter by ramps L, M,
and N only.
After an hour and a half of
deliberation, 11 rows of seats have
been designated to cover 1,700 non-
regs, 17 rows for 1,000 corps sen
iors, 12 rows for 1,000 corps jun
iors, and the rest for sophomores
and freshmen. None of these fig
ures cover dates or guests.
“Class distinction prevails—so
does the seating arrangement,” one
senator said after the battle.
Neiv Seating Arrangement
Seating arrangements as completed by the Student Sen
ate last night are: Non-corps’ section, the top 11 rows,
from the 50 yardline to the turn; corps seniors’ section,
17 rows from the main aisle up and down and from the
50 to goal line; corps juniors’ section, 12 rows from the
40 to the goal line; freshman and sophomores have the
rest. Entrance into the stadium seats will be: corps
seniors ramp Q, civilians and juniors ramps P and Q,
sophomore and freshmen ramps L, M, N.