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Number 230: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1952
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‘Bonfire Pole Goes
Up Today’—Collins
By BOB PALMER
Battalion News Staff
The center pole for the 1952
bonfire will be erected today, said
Tom Collins, head yell leader and
chairman of the bonfire commit
tee.
The center pole, approximately
60 feet high, has been donated to
‘ the college by the REA, he said.
R. S. Ennis, a Bryan contractor,
has offered his company’s services
to drill the post hole, Collins said.
Poor weather and lack of trans
portation hindered the opening
bonfire activities Monday, al
though several wood cutting crews
began clearing wood from land
located four miles east on Highway
6.
Donate Land
This land has been donated by
^ W. E. Street, head of the engineer
ing drawing department. Freddie
Wolters, Claude Burgin and Clyde
Goen have consented to let stu-
dents cross their land to reach the
wooded area.
The route to the woods will be
marked so it will be easy to find,
he said.
Plans have been made to ston
hauling -wood in time to get all
logs stacked on the drill field.
Enough timber will be cleared by
Wednesday to start hauling wood
to the bonfire site, Collins said.
Guarding the bonfire will begin
Wednesday night said Lt. Col. Tay
lor Wilkins, assistant commandant.
Guard schedules will be issued to
all units this week, he said.
Road Signs
Wilkins urged units not steal
road signs to use in the bonfire
area. Materials used in last year’s
bonfire signs have been stored in
0 X>ormitory 3 and may be used to
ieonstruct signs, he said.
Plans for the bonfire commit
tees were completed Monday when
committee heads and assistants
* were named to head various posts.
Wilkins will act as official sup
ervisor over the activities. Collins
and John (Dukey) Childs, coor
dinator of committee chairman,
will supervise constructing and co
ordination of bonfire activities.
The committees include wood cut
ting, center pole, transportation,
building supervisors, communica
tions, supply, emergency, guard
duty, stackers, refreshments, oil,
reconnaissance, guard fire wood,
engineering and house erecting
groups. Subordinate to the trans
portation committee are the per
sonnel and contact committees.
The wood cutting committee,
headed by Bud Williams includes
F. X. (Paco) Coronado, and John
Heft, assistant chairmen. Members
of the center pole committee in
clude Edward Bane, chairman;
Davis Bottom, R. T. McLelland, Vic
Kennedy and J. B. Michel.
Transportation Committee
The transportation committee,
under the direction of B. Q. (Buck)
Evans includes two subdivisions,
personnel and contact. Personnel is
headed by Pete Manos and Rex
Buchanan. Member's of the contact
committee are Robert McDowell
and Marvin Seth.
Building supervisors are Bill
Henderson, Jim Tyree and Vol
Montgomery. Members of the com-
(See BONFIRE, Page 2)
PLAN CORPS TRIP—Discussing- plans of the forthcoming- Aggie Corps Trip to Austin
for the Texas University game Nov. 27 are (left to right) W. L. Penberthy, A&M
Dean of Men; Weldon Kruger, Cadet Colonel of the Corps; Ed Brown, Austin CofC Con
ventions Chairman, and Arno Nowotny, Texas University Dean of Student Life.
Seniors Table
‘Board’ Again
The senior class indefinitely ta
bled a motion to rule out the
“board” as a means of physical
hazing yesterday.
In a voice vote the fourth year
men gave approval to a motion by
Student Senate president Bob
Travis to table a motion original
ly made at a class meeting Thurs
day night.
The motion was tabled original
ly because some seniors felt all
members of the class should have
an opportunity to vote on the mat
ter.
Travis Speaks
Travis said he had talked with
college officials and they express
ed the opinion seniors would not
be accomplishing anything by vot
ing out the board, something that
“I spoke with Dean Penberthy,”
is already a state law.
said Travis, “and he told me the
board was the least of his worries
as far as hazing is concerned at
A&M. He said it was the attitude
students have and the philosophy
Freshmen Choose
Top Officers Today
Fifty-one students have filed for
the freshman elections being held
today from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. at
the intramural stand in front of
Sbisa Hall. Twenty-one students
filed for positions Friday and Sat
urday.
R. R. “Tall” Moore, Bob Moore,
Ronald Lovett, and David E. Korry
are the latest applicants for pres
ident.
William B. Ledbetter, David
Wilkinson, Fred Gene Hill, Jack
Dennis Bishop, and Pete Vance
filed for vice-president.
For Secretary
New filings for secretary are
Lowell Keith Barber, Paul G. Mer
cer, David Crosby Parnell, Wayne
McFarland, Edward Stribling, John
Donnie Cain, and Jimmy E. Jones.
Students filing for treasurer
since Thursday are Bolner An-
Bunny Hop Upsets
Smooth May Music
By JERRY BENNETT
Battalion News Editor
“The Bunny Hop” hibernated in
tbisa Dining Hall Saturday night.
Although Billy May and his or
chestra played some of .the smooth-
*st dance music heard at A&M,
students and their dates insisted
on doing the lively new dance to
practically any rhythm.
At first the rabbit dancers were
active in small groups only, but
grew in number throughout the
evening. Finally May took the
hint and played his own arrange
ment of the new hit while prac
tically the entire crowd hopped
conga-line fashion around the
floor.
This active exhibition conclud
ed the all college dance which was
highlighted by May’s popular or
chestrations and the vocals of Car
ole Simpson, Peggy Barrett, and
the Encores.
May and his orchestra gave an
hour’s, concert in Guion Hall be
fore the dance. Although May
played all the tunes which have
skyrocketed his record sales into
a small mint, the songs of the En
core quintet drew the most ap
plause. The group lived up to
their name several times during the
concert.
The football weekend started
Friday night in the candle lit at
mosphere of the MSC’s Cafe Rue
Pinalle. Carmen Hines, vocalist
from Foi’t Worth, sang to the
background of the MSC Combo.
B. Q. (Buck) Evans supported the
microphone as emcee for the eve
ning.
Clouds Hang Over Area;
No More Rain Forecast
Clouds still hung over College
Station this morning, although no
rain was forecast for the remain
der of Tuesday.
The first soaking downpour of
many months fell yesterday and
last night over the local area, reg-
DAMP
istering 1.60 inches at the Easter-
wood Airport CAA Communica
tions Station.
Grass and outdoor greenery had
lost their natural color over most
of the campus and city. The rain
was the first real precipitation to
alleviate the near drouth condi
tions here.
No cold weather is forecast for
the immediate future. With the
rain temperatures dropped only as
low as 53 degrees last night. High
yesterday was 80.
The wind shifted to the north
early this morning • and at 4 a.m.
was whisking by at 35 miles per
hour, with gusts up to 55 miles
per hour.
The Associated Press reported
heavy thundershowers at* Fort
Worth and Dallas. Hail accom
panied by high winds pelted most
of Fort Worth.
A cool front which lay on a
northeast-southwest line roughly
from Sherman through Fort Worth
and down to Southwest Texas was
scarcely moving. It was slightly
cooler behind the front.
thony, Edward Byrnes, and Buddy
D. Patterson. Billy Bob Trimble
filed for social secretary and R.
C. “Short” Moore filed for report
er.
Ten other students had filed
earlier for president. They are
Donald Joe Dierschke, William Le
roy Campbell, Weldon Walker, W.
H. (Bill) Williams, Richard Tin
dall, Edwin E. Churchill, Gus Mi-
jales, Frank Mann, Wayne Stone,
and Charles Davis.
Filed For Veep Post
Other students who filed for
vice president are Tom R. Turner,
Truman Kerr, Jim . Skipto, Dave
Davidson, Condon Terry, Paul Hol-
laday, Robert McClure, Don Em
erson, Roger Whitley, Eddie Joe
Dickerson, Richard N. Kane, and
Herbert W. (Bud) Whitney.
Robert C. Barlow and Phil Mc-
Nemer filed earlier for secretary
and Dexter Lackland and Charles
L. Willis filed for treasurer. Jer
ry L. Johnson has filed for re
porter, and Richard Gene Tongate
has filed for social secretary.
Only two students have filed
for freshman yell leader. They are
John D. Cunningham and David
Bailey.
Junior Gets
Top Attention
There’s a new little man
who gets the spotlight in the
Corps of Cadets this week.
He didn’t gain any particular
position in the corps personal
ly, but is responsible for caus
ing a division commander to
completely neglect his duties
during the early part of this
week.
His name — Joe Cummings
Wallace, Jr.
Latest report from the
stork, who visited in San An
tonio Sunday, indicate that
momma Connie and Joe Sr.
are doing fine. However, Joe
Sr. is debating how soon
he should teach junior to wag
his rattle to military cadence.
TISA Discuss
Committees
Organization of a state-wide
sportsmanship committee was one
of the topics discussed by the Tex
as Intercollegiate Student Associa
tion (TISA) at their first meet
ing of 1952-53, Saturday in Den
ton at TSCW.
Gene Steed, A&M representative
to TISA opened the discussion on
the sportsmanship committee. Bill
Farrell, SMU student body presi
dent, explained the purposes of
the Southwest Conference Sports
manship Committee, of which he
is chairman.
Stephen F. Austin College stu
dents, of Nacogdoches, decided to
adopt the establishment of a
sportsmanship committee as their
TISA district project.
The A&M delegation began dis
cussion of honor systems. Rice stu
dents said their honor code, work
ed on the same basis as the na
tional system*
A banquet was held in Hubbard
Dining Hall at TSCW following
the meeting.
College Station
Community Chest
Goal $11,019.00
Total now 4,891.25
Still needed 6,127.75
Extended deadline„Nov e 19
A&S Council Votes
Commentator Aid
The Arts and Sciences Council
passed a motion last night to un
derwrite The Commentator, mag
azine of the School of Arts and
Sciences for $350.
This amount is needed to con
tinue the magazine this year, said
Roland Bing, manager of Student
Publications. Due to the drop in
enrollment and lack of advertisers,
The Commentator would have to
halt publication unless the council
agreed to give it financial sup
port, he said.
With the $350, The Commenta-
^tor still has a chance to become
self-supporting next year, Bing
said.
Sixteen members attended the
meeting. Fifteen voted to under
write The Commentator. One
man cast a no vote.
The money will be taken from
the council’s funds which amount
to $450. The $100 left will be
enough to finance the council ac-
Student Life Asks
Clubs ’Cooperation
The Student Life Committee man must be at A&M six semesters
took action yesterday to encour
age campus organizations to ob
serve proper meeting nights es
tablished by the committee as
published on the all-college calen
dar.
The committee was told many
clubs are not following the sched
ule established last year.
The schedule, as approved by the
Executive Committee is as follows:
Monday—honorary societies, school
councils, and home town clubs;
Tuesday — technical and depart
mental clubs and societies; Wed
nesday — religious activities;
Thursday—all other clubs and so
cieties; and Friday—called meet
ings.
Motion Passes
The Student Life Committee
passed the following motion 15-1:
“Moved that the Student Life
Committee secretary write the
people who provide meeting rooms
for campus organizations and urge
them to please follow the sched
ule printed on the all-college cal
endar in alloting rooms so all or
ganizations may not compete or
conflict with one another; and
that the secretary ask a repre
sentative of the MSC to meet with
the committee to discuss its direc
torate organizations meeting dates;
“And that no publicity or an
nouncements may be given a meet
ing wjiich does not fall under the
established meeting night, except
in case of emergency which is de
termined by the office of Student
Activities.”
Who’s Who Explained
Clarification of Who’s Who se
lection rules were introduced. Dis
cussion concerning a committee
ruling last year which made a stu
dent eligible for Who’s Who only
tivities, said Dr. J. P. Abbott, one year brought out the fact
before consideration for Who’s
Who. Also pointed out was the
rule is not retroactive, which will
allow certain students who received
the honor last year to be eligible
again this year.
Committee chairmen for Who’s
Who reported. Bill Brucks, non
military student committee, and
Danny Howell, military student
committee, told their progress in
initial selection of candidates for
Who’s Who.
Selection for the honor will be
made at the December meeting.
which they have for hazing that he
is mostly opposed to.”
Travis also told of a conversa
tion he had with a member of the
A&M System Board of Directors,
Rufus R. Peeples of Tehuacana.
“Peeples told me the motion was
the silliest action the class could
take. He asked what we would
gain by okeying a state law. ‘It
won’t help your cause,’ ” Travis
quoted Peeples.
The tabled motion read as fol
lows:
“We, the senior class, see the
problems of the administration, es
pecially hazing, which is deemed
unlawful by the constitution of the
state of Texas. We agree, as a
body, to suspend the use of the
board in the Corps of Cadets be
cause it is unlawful. And if this
agreement is ever violated a com
mittee composed of cadets in the
corps, appointed by the president
of the senior class, will make out
positive and strict disciplinary
measures immediately and justly
to the violator. This program will
function continuously through each
succeeding class.
“Now the class of 1953 has seen
the problems of the Texas A&M
College and has acted upon them.
We respectfully submit a report
of the problems of the Corps of
Cadets and hope the board of di-
I'ectors and the college administra
tors will follow the suggestions
offered by the grievance commit
tee, which is vested with the faith
of all classes.
Amendment to Motion
“Amendment 1: Delete the
words—‘appointed by the president
of the senior class’ and substitute
the words, ‘chosen at a senior class
meeting.’
“Amendment 2: Delete the
words—‘especially hazing’ — and
substitute the woi’ds, ‘especially
the problem of the use of the
board by cadets.”
(See SENIOR MEET, Page 2)
Parents Hear Plans
For New Schools
The A&M Consolidated school
board presented its plans for a
school building program to more
than 150 members of the Mothers
and Dads Club last nght.
Three plans presented were:
• Build a new high school ad
jacent to the present school and
an elementary school in the Col
lege Hills Area.
• Rearrange the present facil
ities to provide more room for the
expanding lower grades.
• Build three new elementary
schools, one in each of the city’s
main sections.
The need of a school building
program was emphasized by Sup
erintendent Les Richardson.
“In the next eight years, the en
rollment of Consolidated will al
most double,” he said.
Increased Enrollment
The “war boom” of babies is
hitting Consolidated now and will
continue to be felt until 1962, ac-
Aggie Players
Present ‘All My Sons’
By BOB HENDRY
Battalion Amusements Editor
Opening the curtain on their, in
itial program of the year, the Ag
gie Players will present their ver
sion of “All My Sons,” a drama
written by Arthur (Death of A
Salesman) Miller, at 8:15 tonight
and Wednesday in the MSC Ball
room.
For the first time at A&M, The
Aggie Players are staging a “the-
atre-in-the-round” play. The audi
ence completely surrounds the act
ors, causing the spectators to feel
like they are on the stage with
the actors.
Theatre-In-Round
This situation gives the audience
a chance to view the players more
closely, and enables them to see
the actors’ facial expressions bet
ter. To watch a play from a the-
atre-in-the-round is comparable to
the view obtained at a boxing
match.
The greatest drawback of the-
atre-in-the-round is that it is prac
tically impossible to arrange suit
able stage props. The audience us
ually must call upon its imagina
tion if they play is to have any
success.
“All My Sons” is another of
Miller’s psychological dramas
which have made him famous. Mil
ler combines . plot, setting, and
timing masterfully, but, as in
“Death Of A Salesman,” he again
places the most emphasis on char
acter development. The plot of the
play evolves around a scandal
which happened during World
War II. The play opens with the
sons of Joe Keller and George
Deever, next door neighbors and
business partners, returning home
after the war. While the two boys
were overseas, their fathers be
came engaged in manufacturing
airplane parts for the government.
Plot Thickens
Under the influence of money, it
seems that the partners decided
that quantity was more important
than quality and sold the govern
ment some defective parts. Uncle
Sam retaliated by arresting the
two. Deever was tried and sent up
the river, and, not being gifted
with the talents of Willie Sutton,
was kept there. Keller, through
lack of evidence, was released.
Deever’s son George, quickly
finds, however, that Keller’s de
fense during the trial was of the
same quality as his business deal
ings. The play then proceeds to
develop the incidents which hap
pen because of this discovery.
Starring in the production are
Harry Gooding as Joe Keller, Iris
Bullard as Kate Keller, Jerry Mc
Farland as Chris Keller, Virginia
Lemmon as Ann Deever, Bill
Witty as George Deever, Richard
Black as Dr. Jim Bayliss, Joan
Brown as Sue Bayliss, Roger Mel
ton as Frank Lubey, and Jeanne
McMullen as Lydia Lubey.
Back-Stage Staff
Director of the drama is C. K.
Esten. B. B. Smith is stage man
ager, and the business and pub
licity manager is John Samuels.
Anyone who has neglected to
purchase his tickets may still ob
tain them from any of the cast,
or from the ticket booth by the
post office in the MSC. Tickets
are selling for 50 cents.
cording to a survey of the area.
This survey estimated that in
1962 Consolidated will have an en
rollment of 1400, compared to 860
now.
At the present time. Consolidat
ed uses each of its classrooms 90
per cent of the day. The national
average for classroom use is 75
per cent of the school day.
School Board Favors Plan
The school board favors the plan
to build a new high school plant
and a College Hills elementary
school. They propose buying the
section of land adjacent to the
present school, extending to High
way 6, for the high school. Several
sites are being considered for the
elementary school.
The proposed high school would
have about 16 classrooms, science
laboratories, an auditorium, a shop,
a home economics laboratory, and
a music room.
Three Schools Not Practical
Bill Caudill, architect employed
by the school, said the plan of
building three elementary schools
would not be economical from the
standpoint of construction, main
tenance, and future needs.
To finance the buildipg program,
(See SCHOOL BOARD, Page 2)
Texas Lions
Run Crippled
Kids ’ Camp
The. Lion’s Club crippled chil
drens’ camp was explained to
members of the College Station
Lions Club Monday in the MSC.
Jack Rowe, representative of the
Texas Lion’s League for Crippled
Children at League, showed films
of the new camp and told of plans
for opening it this summer.
The camp will be operated this
summer for two-week periods with
a capacity each period of 120 chil
dren between the ages of 7 and 17.
New structure is planned to be a
camp and not a hospital, Rowe
stressed. It is operated free of
charge for children.
He received $155 in membership
subscriptions at the meeting yes
terday from local Lions. They had
ah-eady given $81 and are now sell
ing Christmas Cards to benefit
the Crippled Children’s camp,