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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Number 231: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1952
Price Five Cents
CC Drive May
Be Extended To
Increase Funds
Only $7271.15 of the $11,-
^ 019 Community Chest goal,
4 has been contributed, accord
ing to nearly complete reports
turned in yesterday to Ben-
nie Zinn, chairman of the Chest
Committee.
When, complete reports are in,
total continbutions will reach about
$8,000, Zinn said.
The Chest committee will meet
tomorrow afternoon to decide if
the drive will be extended past
today.
Several of the committee mem
bers have indicated they are in
lavor of extending- the drive, but
there probably will be no exten
sion made past Thanksgiving, Zinn
‘said.
This year’s drive started fast
during the first week, but bogged
down and is now almost $4,000
short of its $11,019 goal. After
being extended three weeks last
year, the 1951 Chest campaign
reached its goal of $9,850.
If the goal is not reached and
the drive is not extended past
this week, plans must be made
for cutting appropriations to or
ganizations benefiting from the
Chest. However, Zinn is hopeful
the entire amount will be made
this year and no cut in appro-
pritions will have to be made.
College Station
Community Chest
Goal $11,019.00
Total now 7,271.15
Still needed , 3,748.85
Extended deadline Nov. 19
J. C. Frazier Dies
From Heart Attack
Joseph C. Frazier, 48, died Mon
day of a heart attack suffered
While deer hunting at Rabbit Lane,
®west of Bryan.
A member of the A&M class of
•33 and a resident of 600 Bell St.,
Frazier had lived in College Sta
tion for 32 years and was an em-
plovee at the post office.
He was a member of the Ameri-
ran Legion, Oddfellows and the
Knights of Pythias, of which he
Was past chancellor.
Funeral services will b Q held at
30 a.m. Thursday at the Free Will
Baptist Church in Bryan, Rev. R.
B. Crawford officiating. Burial
will be in the Bryan Cemetery.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Alice Frazier, a daughter,
Mrs. Judv Knoll. Alameda, Calif.;
a son, J. C. Frazier, Oakland,
Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. May
Thomas, Port Lavaca, and Mrs.
R. L. Price, Houston; three broth
ers, James C. Frazier, Austin; Si-
Mas Frazier. Fort Worth, and Carl
Frazier, Falfurrias, and four
jrrandchildren.
I
Rain Causes Faulty
Telephone Service
Damage to cables by Monday
night’s rain made many of Col
lege Station’s phones inoperative
Tuesday in the Woodlands area,
on Main Street, and between
College Station and Bryan. <
“They will be repaired as soon
as workmen can find the holes
in the cables,” said J. R. Bright,
central office repairman.
The long dry spell was blamed
for so many phones going out at
the same time.
“If we had had several rains,
these holes would have showed
up one at a time,” Bright said.
“The dry weather cracks the cov
ering of the cable, then the
water gets in the cracks and
shorts them out.”
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FELLOWSHIP BARBEQUE—Many Aggies attended a
post-game barbeque Saturday held by the Aggie Christian
Fellowship, the non-denominational church group sponsor
ed by the YMCA.
TU Ducats Go
Off Sale Friday
Student and student guest
tickets for the A&M-Texas
game will go off sale at 5
p.m. Friday. Very few tickets
have been sold, said Pat Dial,
assistant business manager of
athletics.
Tickets will not be available
to students after Friday. The
remaining tickets will be sold
to the public as reserved seat
tickets.
‘Fish’ Name Dierschke
To President Position
By CHUCK NEIGHBORS
Battalion News Editor
Donald Dierschke of Squadron
20 won the presidency of the
freshman class yesterday from a
field of 14 competitors. Dierschke
is an agriculture major from Ro-
wena.
Weldon Walker was runner-up
in the election in which Dierschke
held a 16-vote plurality.
Jack Bishop was chosen vice-
Centerpole Raising
Delayed Until Today
Lack of dialling equipment de
layed raising of the centerpole un
til today, said Tom Collins, head
yell leader and chairman of the
bonfire committee.
The drilling equipment, provid
ed by R. S. Ennis, Bryan contrac
tor, was scheduled to be at the
bonfire site early yesterday to
drill the hole. No reason was giv
en by Collins for the delay. He
promised the equipment would be
there this morning and the pole
would be raised.
Possible injury was averted yes
terday when the trailer of a truck
Hanna Explains
Advertising At
Business Meet
“H o n e s t y knowledge of
your customers, merchandis
ing of your advertising, and
retailing experience are the
four things imperative to any
advertising manager,” said Mark
Hanna, advertising manager of
the Houston Press, to the Business
Society last night in the YMCA
Chapel.
The main topic of Hanna’s
speech was “Development of Sales
Through Newspapers.” A thorough
coverage of both local and nation
al newspaper advertising was giv
en by Hanna, and some of his
actual experiences were given as
examples.
In his lecture, Hanna exposed
some of the fallacies of newspaper
theory, such as comics are a main
means of improving circulation,
and radio and television have
greatly decreased the importance
of newspaper advertising.
Another theory which was ex
ploded at the meeting was a jour
nalism degree is necessary for suc
cess in newspaper work. While in
school, Hanna’s main study was
history. “I am just a business main,
in the field of newspaper adver
tising,” Hanna concluded.
Lincoln Students
Get Hot Lunches
Hot lunches will be served to
students at Lincoln School for
Negroes, starting Monday.
The lunches will be prepared in
the A&M Consolidated School
kitchen and taken to Lincoln in
hot lunch containers.
“This plan has been used in
many other schools,” Les Richard
son, superintendent, said. “It’s
more economical to prepare the
food in a central kitchen.”
College Officials Ponder
Newest ‘Stink’ On Campus
By BILL MOLER
Battalion News Staff
College officials feared a new
“stink” was brewing on the cam
pus but took no action since the
subject was Tabu.
Tabu is a deodorized pet skunk
belonging to Thad Howard, senior
veterinary medicine student from
San Antonio. Almost two-thirds
grown now, she was only six
inches long when he first saw her
in August.
Name Changed
The lady that sold Tabu to him
had named the skunk Stinky, but
“I just couldn’t see that,” Howard
said.
She is playful and affectionate,
but a one-man skunk according to
*. her owner.
“People have mixed reactions on
meeting her for the first time.
They either want to run, or they
want to come up and pet her with-
A out even finding out if she is de
odorized or not,” Howard said.
At first Tabu was raised at home
with the Howard’s cat as a play
mate. The cat soon started play
ing too rough, so Tabu came to
A&M.
Tabu has been all over the cam
pus; and has always been near
her master until recently, when he
boarded her with a friend nearby.
Howard will take her home
Thanksgiving to stay until sum
mer. He will start breeding and
raising skunks for market if he
can find a satisfactory mate for
Tabu.
Tabu Is Nearsighted
“I think skunks are nearsight
ed,” Howard said. “One night
while returning from the MSC, I
traveled a zig-zag path. Tabu
was fairly close, but she followed
my trail instead of coming straight
to me.”
Tabu thi’ives on dry dog food
and water, but also loves milk, ice
cream, cheese, sardines, and let
tuce. She likes to sleep during the
day and scuffle with small do^s
fox a pastime.
$345 Netted
By TB Drive
Three hundred and forty-five
dollars has been collected during
the first two days of the Brazos
County Tuberculosis Drive which
began Monday.
The association sets $5,000 as its
goal each year, said Mrs. R. H.
Bush, executive secretary of the
Brazos County TB Association.
Eighty-two per cent of the total
contributions are used in Brazos
County. The rest is divided be
tween the national and state funds,
Mrs. Bush said
Aggie Talent Show
Auditions Underway
Students with talents other than
getting off probation may audition
for the Aggie Talent Show sche
duled Dec. 5.
Auditions are being held at 7:30
p. m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in
the MSC Social Room, said Miss
Betty Bolander, MSC program con
sultant. Special arrangements will
j be made for students unable to
Included in its $5,000 goal this (™eet "this schedule, she said,
year is the $1,000 set aside by I Sponsored by the MSC Music
the College Station Community Committee, The Aggie Talent
Chest. | Show will have approximately 20
Play May Threaten
Actors ’Reputation
By JERRY BENNETT
Battalion Amusements Editor
The Aggie Players may have in
jured their future reputation last
night vdth the production of “All
My Sons” in the MSC Ballroom.
Only later plays will prove if
they can equal the fine example set
with their first presentation of the
year. Talented acting combined
with an outstanding story, forces
the campus thespians to insure
their future performances don’t
fall flat in comparison.
Harry Gooding, as Joe Keller
who lied and cheated for his sons,
All-Faith Chapel
Enters First Stage
The new All-Faith Chapel is en
tering the planning stage with ap
pointment of an all faith commit
tee to work with college officials
in determining a site and plans
for the building, Dick Hervey, sec
retary of the Former Students As
sociation, said.
The new Chapel is a project of
the 1952 Development Fund pro
gram. The council has allocated
$35,000 of this year’s fund. About
$40,000 of the receipts from next
year’s program will be channeled
to the chapel fund, Hervey added.
Anyone vdio has any ideas as to
location of the chapel, style, or
anything else about it, should con
tact Arch Baker, college architect,
said Hervey.
Freshman Band To
March At Halftime
The freshman band will march
at halftime of the A&M-TU fresh
man game, Saturday, said Lt. Col.
E. V. Adams, director of the band.
This is the first time for the
band to march at a freshman game
this year and they will be part of
a triple-action program planned
for the halftime.
The freshman drill team, direct
ed by Lt. J. C. Brusse, will march
and the Di-urn and Bugle Corps of
the Austin Shrine Temple will
round out the program, Adams
said.
only to lose their love, turns in an
admirable portrayal. He heads a
capable cast which includes Jerry
McFarland, Iris Bullard, Virginia
Lemmon, Bill Witty, Richard
Black, Joan Brown, Roger Melton,
and Jeanne McMullen.
The cast never fails to hold the
tragic mood of Arthur (Death of a
Salesman) Miller’s Broadway play.
They project the characters” per
sonalities with understanding and
confidence.
C. K. Esten Directs
Lender the direction of C. K.
Esten of the English department,
the play is presented “in the
round.” The audience sits around
the stage instead of facing it.
Since the seats are placed closer
to the stage, spectators become
more intimate with the play’s at
mosphere.
Esten said audience comments
concerning the play were the most
favorable he has ever received.
B. B. Smith is stage manager
and John Samuels is in charge of
publicity.
Tickets for tonight’s perform
ance can be purchased from the
cast or at the ticket booth by the
MSC postoffice. Price is 50 cents.
Austin Club Holds
Corps Trip Dance
The Austin Club M'ill hold a
corps dance at the Austin city col
iseum Wednesday Nov. 26, from
8-12 p. m., said J. G. Fritts, presi
dent of the club. Midnight yell
practice will be held after the
dance.
The coliseum is located next to
the Colorado River by the Lamar
and Barton Springs Roads. All
ai'rangements for the dance have
been made by Mrs. H. W. Zuch,
president of the Austin A&M
Mothers Club.
There will be plenty of room for
everyone, said Fritts, and set-ups
will be served by a catering ser-
vice. The dance will be informal
ofr everything not in uniform.
Tickets may be obtained from
Austin club members. They are
selling for $1 per person.
acts ranging from crooners to tap
dancers. Two of these acts will be
selected to represent A&M in the
Inter-collegiate Talent Show dur
ing the spring semester in the
MSC.
Some participants in the Decem
ber show may be selected to per
form out-of-town, Mis£ Bolander
said. Representatives of outside or
ganizations sometimes select A&M
talent to perform for their clubs
or conventions, she said.
Students wishing to audition
should contact Miss Bolander in
the MSC Directorate Office. Ap
plicants may bring their own ac
companists or the MSC Music
Committee will furnish them. Mem
bers of the committee and local
residents in the music field will
act as judges.
The talent show is open to A&M
students only. Miss Bolander said.
Journalism Club
Hears Ramsay
Jones Ramsey, A&M sports pub
licity director, spoke on various'
phases of a reporter’s job to the
Journalism Club last night in the
MSC. ^ «pi4l
Ramsey gave accounts of ex
perience he had while working as
a repoi’ter before coming to A&M
this year.
Bishop John E. Hines
Coadjutor of Texas
Bishop Hines Will
Speak Tonight
The Rt. Rev. John E. Hines,
Bishop Coadjutor of the Texas Di
ocese of the Episcopal Chui’ch, will
speak tonight at 7:15 to students
and their friends of the St. Thom
as Episcopal Chapel.
Bishop Hines, formerly dean of
Houston’s Christ Church cathedral,
is one of the younger bishops in
the Texas Episcopal church.
“This is the first of a series of
monthly meetings af which Texas
bishops will speak,” said the Rev.
R. L. Darwall, pastor of St.
Thomas.
carrying men back from the woods
broke lose while the truck was
attempting to turn around. The
accident was caused by a broken
kingpin.
The truck, operated by Edwin N.
Flynt, sophomore from Ennis, may
not be used today. It was loaned
to Flynt by the Mid West Con
struction Company of Dallas, and
was the only truck being used
until Friday.
Businessmen Donate Trucks
Businessmen in Bryan have do
nated trucks for use in hauling
Avood for the bonfire beginning
Friday. There will be ample trans
portation for working on the bon
fire Friday, Saturday, and Sun
day, Collins said.
Some timber was cut in the
woods yesterday, Collins said. Most
of the work done in the woods
yesterday was on roads leading to
the cutting areas. Some places in
these roads had to be repaired
because of recent rain.
“Everything will be in shape by
the time more tucks are avail
able,” Collins said.
Need More Help Soon
There have been enough men
working on the bonfire, but we
will need more help when wood
from the cutting area is hauled
in, Collins added.
The centerpole of this year’s
bonfire was estimated by Collins
at 66 feet. Guarding of the bon
fire will begin Wednesday night,
with guard schedules being issued
to all units this week.
‘Treasure’ Next
For Film Group
“The Treasure of Sierra
Madre”, director John Hus
ton’s immortal movie of vio
lence and greed in the moun
tains of Mexico, will be the
feature attraction of the A&M
Film Society, Monday night in the
MSC Ballroom.
Critics voted it one of Holly
wood’s “great” films. “Treasure”
received academy awards for the
best director and supporting actor
of the year. “Oscars” went to
father and son team, John and
Walter Huston. Humphrey Bogart
Avas nominated for the year’s top
acting honors for his performance
in the movie. Tim Holt and Bruce
Bennett also star.
Filmed on location, the story
concerns the doAAmfall of three
human derelicts hunting for gold
in the wilds of Mexico.
Based on a novel by B. Traven,
the script was written by director
Huston. Huston also penned and
directer “The Maltese Falcon”,
which the Film Society screened
eaxfier this year. His other suc
cesses include “African Queen,”
Red Badge of Courage,” “Key Lar
go” and “We Were Strangers.”
Civilian Mess
Hall Success,
Said Peniston
“I feel the civilian mess hall is
a success and that the students
like it,” said John Q. Peniston,
supervisor of subsistance, yester
day.
Peniston said 237 students have
signed up for the dining hall so
far, and he expects the mess hall
to continue at least till mid-term.
If enough students sign up for
the civilian mess hall when the
next payment is due Dec. 18, it
will continue until mid term, Pen
iston said. The next payment will
be $42.00, the same as for Coi’ps
students.
“Students get the same menu as
the Cox-ps mess hall,” Peniston
said.
hoAV
for.”
‘This
many
enables us to know
students to px-epax-e
px’esident of the class Avith a plux’-
ality of moio than 35 votes ovex*
his nearest opponent, Davis Wil
kinson. Bishop is in Co. B, and is
a CE major fx’om Dallas.
Elected to the secx*etary post
AA r as Bob Bax'low, of College Sta
tion. He is a basic engineering
major in a composite outfit.
Buddy Patterson of Dallas was
elected treasux-er for the fx’eshman
class. He is a pre-dental major
from Dallas ixx the freshman band.
The social secretax-y race was a
close one with Billy Ti’imbie nar
rowly defeating Jex’ry Johnson, 275
votes to 72. Tximble is an ME ma
jor from Hendex'son, in the fresh
man band.
In the yell leader contest, J. D.
Cxmningham of Squadron 20, Dav
is Bailey of B Co., and Paul Holla-
day of II Co., won over other caxx-
didates from the Basic Division
outfits.
OFFICIAI. ELECTION RETURNS
President
W. H. Williams Jr 30
William Leroy Campbell 24
Gus S. Mijalis 2S
Frank Mann 51
Edwin E. Churchill Jr 16
Richard A. Tindall 32
Donald J. Dierschke 90
David E. Kerry 2S
Ronald Lovett 14
Bob Moore 3S
R. R. Moore 33
Weldon AValker 74
Charles B. Davis 2
Wayne T. Slone 25
A'icei President
David Wilkinson 56
William B. Ledbetter 49
Truman D. Kerr 6
Richard N. Kane
Jim K. Skipto
Davey Lee Davidson
Condon H. Terry
W. Paul Ilolladay, Jr
Robert M. McClure
R. D. Emerson
William Roger Whitley
Tom R. Turner
Eddie Joe Dickerson
Herbert W. (Bud) Whitney
Pete Vance
.lack Dennis Bishop
Fred Gene Hill
Secretary
Phil H. McNemer
Robert C.
y E.
John Donvie Cain 46
Edward Stribling ; 20
Wayne McFarland 4 7
David C. Parnell 65
Paul G. Mercer . . . 75
Lowell Keith Baber 87
Treasurer
Buddy D. Patterson I?!
Dexter Lackland 98
Charles L. Willis 79
John E. Bryant, Jr. 81
Edward Byrnes 30
James Robert Stephens 72
Anthony J. Bolner 72
Social Secretary
Richard G. Tongate 272
Billy Bob Trimble 275
Reporter
Jerry L. Johnson 248
R. C. Moore 291
Yell Leaders
•T. D. Cunningham 2 0 3
Bud Rhodes 77
Wavne G. Mulloy 54
Clyde Haak S3
David Bailey ZOO
Louie Durst 106
Wayne T. Slone 43
Charles Cypert 50
Don Stewsrt X°2
Rex Rowell 75
Jim Stenhens 05
Larry Griffin 102
Paul Holladay 143
Allen Greer 4 6
Don Durrow *■. 64
T.erov Campbell 81
Ed Dardaganian 135
(Bob) Barlow 105
Jimmy E. Jones 64
Airmen Steal
Gas From
Student Cars
Three airmen caught stealing
gasoline fi'om students cars Avere
fined $38 each in the 1st Pi’ecinct
Justice Court, Monday.
William B. Williamson, Clifford
E. Buxton, and Ixvin W. Nelson
\A T ere charged Avith theft of pi’op-
ertv under the value of $5.
The trio, stationed at Bx-yan
Air Foi’ce Base, was caught in the
act of siphoning gasoline from a
student’s car parked near Dormi-
torv 16, Thursday night.
They were arrested by Officer
Batten of the Campus Secux-ity
Office, and turned over to Brazos
County officials last week.
Weather Today
BACK TO NORMAL
WEATHER TODAY: Clear with
low winds out of the north. The
high tempei’ature yesterday Avas
72 and the low 42.