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Published By
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For 75 Years
Number 233: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1952
Price Five Cents
Help Needed For
Bonfire Progress
More upperclassmen are needed
to work on the bonfire, said Tom
Collins, senior yell leader and
chairman of the bonfire committee.
Freshmen are doing- a good job
but more upperclassman are need
ed to give orders and coordinate
the work. Bonfire progress is not
equaling last year’s construction,
he said. Lack of transportation
Best Paintings
To Be Shown
In Eng Building
Some of the best paintings
* done by students of the MSC
Art Gallery Committee will
soon be put on exhibition in
the new Engineering Build-
^ ing, according to Mrs. Ralph Ter
ry, MSC art director.
Though no definite date has
been set, Mrs. Terry said it would
probably begin soon after Thanks
giving.
The paintings in the exhibit will
be changed from week to week and
it will be put on a competitive
basis, she said. No selections of
individual paintings have been
made yet.
“The exhibit will be the best
Work of the class. It will include
landscapes, still lifes, and possibly
portraits later on, “Mrs. Terry
said. “There will be oil paintings,
pencil sketches, and water colors
fn the collection.”
Mrs. Terry and H. W. Barlow,
dean of engineering, have been
e working together on arrangements
^ for the exhibit and will complete
them as soon as possible.
UT Welcomes
A&MStudents
A delegation of University of
Texas students and officials were
hex-e yestex-day to extend a cordial
welcome for Aggies to their Aus
tin canxpus for the A&M-Texas
Thanksgiving football game Nov.
27.
Details concerning the A&M vis-
*(t to Austin were woxked out by
ihe two groups.
The Texas delegation arrived at
11 a.m. and was met by the wel
coming committee of the Student
Senate. The visitoxs wex-e taken
on a tour of the MSC. The tWo
* groups also had lunch together in
the MSC.
From the University of Texas
wex - e Rush Moody, student body
/px’esident, Bob Kenney, Kay Tute,
" and Dari’all Williams. Also from
UT wex-e Dean of Student Life Ax-
no Nowotny and Bill Blunk, assist
ant to the dean of Student Life.
Telephone Service
Being Reactivated
Telephone sexwiee has been re
stored in the ax-ea between College
Station and Bi’yaxx after being
damaged by Monday night’s x-ain.
Some phones are still out in the
Woodlands and College Hills x-e-
gions.
“We expect to have all the
* phones back in operation sometime
today,” said J. R. Bx'ight, central
office repaiiman. “All our ci’ews
are working full time on the job.”
The rain got into cracks of the
* cables caused by the long dry
spell.
Weather Today
and insufficient commuxxication be
tween the bonfire sight and cut
ting ax-ea have helped cause the
delay, he said.
Not enough men with walkie-
talkie radios have showed up for
work, Collins said. Consequently
men in the cutting ai'ea have not
known when to stop work. This
has caused some groups to miss
dinner, he said.
A semi-tx’ailer hauled three loads
of wood yesterday and a bob-tail
tx-uck carr-ied two loads, he said.
Wood is being stacked around the
center pole at a steady rate of
speed, Collins said. Bonfix-e con
struction will pi’ogress more after
committee mistakes are corx'ect-
ed, he said.
Nine trucks ax’e expected to haul ^
wood Saturday and Sunday, he
said. A good xoute fx-om the con-
stiuctioix site to the cutting ax-ea
has been pxepax-ed, he said. A new
entx-ance to the cutting ax-ea has
beeix opened, Collins said.
MSC Plans
Bonfire Hop
The Aggieland Combo will
play for a bonfix-e dance Tues
day night in the MSC Bxill-
xoom. The dance will start
after the bonfire yell practice.
Tickets for the dance ax-e
25 cents, stag or dx-ag. The
tickets will be good for two
soft dx-inks at the dance and
sold at the Ballx-oom door.
“The low price is possible
through the large crowds at
tending after-game dances this
fall,” said Boyce Holmes,
chairman of the MSC dance
committee, sponsor of the
dance. “The bonfix-e is the first
of a series of Thanksgiving
season activities and, since
many students will have dates
for this night, we will give
them low-cost entertainment,”
he added.
War Hymn
Shocks SMU
History Class
An SMU coed was embar-
rassed this week when she
dx-opped her pux-se in a history
class there, according to the
Dallas Morning News.
It seems her compact drop
ped out of the falling hand
bag and jax-x-ed against the
floox*.
Suddenly, strains of the Ag
gie War Hymn floated
through the stunned x-oom. Hex-
compact had a built-in music
box.
Rumoi’s from SMU are that
she will have to take a loyal
ty oath. By the way, the MSC
gift shop has the compacts.
Payne Wins Third
In Essay Contest
Thomas L. Payne, an agi-onomy
student, placed third in a national
essay contest on agronomy spon
sored by the American Society of
Agronomy. Thex-e were 61 contest
ants in the contest.
The three top winners split a
cash px-ize of $200 given by the
American Potash Institute to pay
expenses to the meeting held in
Cincinnati. The wixxnex-s wex-e an
nounced at a banquet Wednesday
night in Cincinnati.
Payne is the son of Mx\ and
Mrs. Leo H. Payne of Stanton.
Crops Judging Team
Leaves for KC Soon
The cx-ops judging team, coach
ed by Clax-ence E. Watson, will
leave College Station on Nov. 22.
They will go to Kansas City, Mo.
fox- a contest on Nov. 25. The team
will then go to Chicago, 111. in
time for a contest thex-e on Nov.
29.
The team is composed of Roy
Bx-uns, Tom Payne, Leonard Thox-n-
ton, and J. C. Clark.
Tight Battle Expected Saturday
In Annual 4 Fish’-Short horn Till
Sqd. 3 Responsible
AF Flags Wave
High Over Campus
.'SPiiP. -y /i .
SINGER —Roslind Beene will
sing with the Aggieland Ox-ches-
tx-a in Austin Wednesday night
when the Cadet music-makers
furnish the dancing melodies for
the Austin Club’s annual ball in
the Austin Auditorium.
Athletic Council Hears
Date Ticket Report
The date ticket committee of the
Athletic Council wilj x-eport to the
council today in the MSC, said W.
L. Penberthy, chaix-man.
A report on px-ogx-ess of Kyle
Field expansion plans and council
financial status also will be dis
cussed, Penbex-thy said.
By BOB HENDRY
Battalion News Editor
“Oh, say can you see”—the three
Air Fox-ce flags flying from the
water towex-, Academic Building,
and UT bonfix-e,
These bannex-s which can be
seen “by the dawn’s eax-ly light”
ax-e conspicuously absent of stars,
but support in white letters the
words “Squadron 3.”
The flags wex-e placed on their
towering stx-uctures thx-ough the
aex-ial gymnastics of Bob Clark,
junior business major fx-om Hous
ton; sophomore Clayton Wilcox of
Lake Pasadena, ‘ Cal.; Hubex-t
Wyatt of Houston; Don Walker of
McLeod; and six other Squadx-on
3 cadets.
It is the belief of the cadets in
volved that Squadx*on 3 xxot only
holds the outfit i-ecoi-d for the
most flags oxx the campus, but is
also the first Air Fox-ce squadx-on
to participate in the unofficial
corps-wide competition.
First In History
The banner flying fx-om the bon-
fire centex-pole coxxld vex-y easily
be the fix-st flag other than that
of the ax-mored cavalx-y ever to
rest*oxx the stx-uctux-e in its histoi*y.
Clax-k and his followers began
their aex-ial demonstx-ations at
about 12:45 Wednesday night.
Ax-med with their home made em
blems, the gx-oup marched up to
the bonfire whex-e Clax-k px-oceeded
to scamper up the 52 foot pole and
x-aise the flag.
“The oxxly thing hard about put
ting up the flag,” said Claik, “was
climbing xxp the pole. For a xxxinute
we thought we wex-e going to have
some tx-ouble with some fx-eshmeix
Acts Auditioned
For Talent Show
Two auditions wex-e held last
night for the Aggie Talent Show
scheduled for Dec. 5.
The acts auditioned were Pete
Mayeaux, junior fx-om New Ox--
leans who sings, and a trio com
posed of Severen Schaeffex-, Mal
colm Stephen, and Jex-ry Lindex-.
The trio are freshmen fx-om Mex
ico, and they will sing Spanish
folk songs and accompany them
selves on two guitars.
Auditions ax-e held each Tues
day and Thuxsday evening at 7:30
in the MSC Social Room. Students
that are unable to meet oxx these
nights may ai*range for special
auditions by contacting Miss Bet
ty Bolaixdex - , MSC progx-am con
sultant.
The auditioning board is made
up of members of the music com
mittee of the MSC. A maximum of
25 acts will be axxditioned with 18
or 20 of them being chosexx for the
show.
There wex-e three persons audi
tioned Tuesday. They wex-e Coxx-
nie Eckard, a sophomox-e fx*om Dal
las, another singer; Louis Douglas,
a freshmaxx from Cox-pus Chx-isti, a
tap dancex-; and Jimmy Hax-x-ison,
Jr., of San Axxtoxxio who sings and
accompanies himself oxx the guitax-.
“We need many nxox-e acts for
the show,” said Miss Bolandex*.
“Some of the acts will be fox-
activities other than the Aggie
Talent Show.”
Thex-e will be people present that
will be looking for talexxt for pri
vate confex-exxces and baxxquets, she
added.
who were putting up their bon
fire sign along the edge of the
drill field.
“They came up to us,” continued
Clax-k, “and said, ‘What’cha doing?
Lighting the Bonfix-e?’ We said
‘Yes,’ so they left and went on
about their business.”
AF Wings Needed
The group’s next stop was the
water tower. They arrived at the
tower at 2:15 a. m. Clark grabbed
a flag, and off he went into the
wild blue yonder. “I didn’t look
down at all while I was up there,”
said Claik. “The only bad part
of the climb is whex-e the ladder
comes out to go over the rail. At
that point I wished I had worn my
Air Force wings.”
Clark and the whole group
swears that he wasn’t di-unk when
me climbed A&M’s “Materhox-n.”
The dax-edevils decided that the
next raising of the squadron’s
“Old Gloxy” should take place on
the top of the powerplant’s smoke
stacks. Leaving most of the group
to guard their px-eceding Iwo Jima
opex-ations, Clark and the others
left.
Upon reaching the smokestacks,
they found that there was no way
to get up them, so the idea was
abandoned. When they i-etui*ned,
the gx-oup found that Wilcox,
Wyatt, and Walker wex-e doixxg
some of their own flag raising on
top the Academic Building.
‘Fish’ Told ‘to Get’
“After we got that one up,”
said Clax-k, “we started to come
down, but, we found five fx-esh-
nxen coming up with their flag. We
took it away from them . and told
them they had to wait until ours
had been up a day or so.
“I gave it back to them this
monxing,” he continued, “and I
pi-edict that it will be up soon, be
cause they really wanted to put
it up.”
The gx-oup finally completed its
flag-raising-aix-boi*ne opex-ations at
4 a. nx. Thui-sday monxing. “We
statioxxed guai-ds and told them to
come in about suxxx-ise,” said Clax-k.
“That idea x-eally paid off. It
(See FLAGS, Page 2)
Shrine Game Usually Shows
What Teams Will Do Later
A preview of the Aggie-Longhorn game of 1955 may be
played on Kyle Field tomorrow at 2 p. m. when the Aggie
Fish and the Texas Shorthorns meet in their annual Shrine
sponsored battle.
The Fish and Shorthorns have met 14 times and the
winner of the contest has usually prevailed four years later.
Out of 11 games, the winner of the freshman tilt has been
the winner four years later eight times, while the loser won
only three.
The series started in 1934, when the Fish met the
Shorthorns in Austin after the SWC gave official sanction
to a loop of first-year players.
In the first game, no touchdowns were scored but John
Morrow of the Aggies kicked two field goals to give the
Maroon and White a 6-0 victory.
The Shorthorns hold an edge in-+ ‘
Red Feather
Drive Extended
Until Dee. 5
The Community Chest
drive will be extended until
Friday, Dec. 5, it was decided
at a meeting of the Qhest
Committee yesterday.
Total collected as of yesterday
is $8,074.76. Another $500 was ex
pected to come in today, bi’inging
the total to $8,574.76. Tlxe goal is
$11,019.
“The ones who have given have
given a lot,” said Bennie Zinn,
chairman of the Chest Committee.
“It’s the ones who have not given
that are hurting us.”
Zinn said that if 200 mox-e people
would give a day’s pay, eight dol
lars, the drive would go over the
top.
“I believq we will make oui’
goal now,” Zinn said.
All but nine businesses in Col
lege Station have contributed to
the Chest. Those who have given
will be px-esented a cai’d to put
ixx their window.
The Chest Committee will meet
again Dec. 11 to make cori-ections
in the budget, if necessax-y. If the
goal is not reached, cuts will have
to be made in the allotments of
the pai-ticipating organizations.
the series with nine wins against
five for the Fish. There have been
no ties in the series, but; in 1938,
the Aggie Fish missed an extra
point which could have tied up the
game 7-7, allowing the Shox-thonxs
a 7-6 win.
In 1939 the game almost ended
in a tie, but the Yearlings block
ed a fish punt behind the end zone
for a safety and a 2-0 victory.
The largest score made by the
shorthoi-ns was in 1950 when they
ran wild over the Fish on Kyle
Field, 46 to 6. Largest max-gin of
victory for the Fish was in 1935
when Dick Todd x-an loose on Kyle
Field for an 18 to 0 win.
Both squads have played four
games this season, with the Shox-t-
horns having a 2-2 won-lost record
and the Fish a 1-3 won-loss record.
Each squad has also played three
mutual opponents, Baylors’ Cubs,
Rice’s Owlets and TCU’s Wogs.
Against the Cubs, the Short
horns lost 20-35 while the Fish won
21 to 20. Both teams lost to the
Owlets, the Yeax-lings 14 to 28,
while the Fish wex-e stomped 69
to 7.
The Shorthorns defeated the
Wogs 48 to 0 while the Wogs
downed the Fish 19 to 7.
Fish in Top Shape
The Fish should be in good phy
sical shape, bax-i'ing last minute
injux-ies while the Yearlings ax-e
expected to be in good shape also.
Px-obable starting line-up for the
Fish on offense will be ends; Bill
Schrader and Bill Stx-ange, tackles;
A1 Zuckex-o and Foster Teague,
guax*ds; Jack Powell and “Tex”
Millin, center; Eai-1 Connell, Half
backs; Jex-x-y Houston and Billy
Pete Huddleston, fullback; Don
(See SHORTHORNS, Page 2)
Faculty Ticket Query
Set by Student Senate
A committee to study considex-a-
tions the Athletic Depax'tnxent can
make for the faculty was formed
last night by the Student Senate.
On a proposal by Senator Doyle
Lowry, who was appointed chair
man of the new committee, the
senate approved investigating the
football ticket sales procedui-e
hex-e. The committee was instx-uc-
ted to x-epoi’t back to the senate
‘A&M Doesn’t Have A Chance’
UT Fans Boast ‘No Doubt’ Win
CLEAR
4 WEATHER TODAY: Clear with
Grinds out of the south with a
xfjlocity of about 12 miles per
bjhxr. The low this morning was
v *Ǥ , 6.
By ED HOLDER
Sports Editor
“The Aggies don’t have a
chance against Texas.”
“Yeah. I don’t see why we even
play those guys. If the game wex-e
hex-e at home we might have a
chance, but down there in Memox*-
ial Stadium, it’s suicide.”
These words might be expected
from a lot of fans in Texas, but
the last people on eax-th we ever
thought of hearing it fx-om was an
Aggie. But low and behold, the
above quotes were taken stx-aight
fx-om the mouths of two “Fighting
Texas Aggies,” as they busily went
about their wood stacking.
Open Your Ears
Don’t take our woxd for it.
j Just open your ears and listen to
the comments going on right
around the bonfire on the drill
field. Are they right in what they
say ? Are we wasting our time cut
ting wood, and spending enough
man hours to constx-uct a super
highway fx-om College Station to
Denton ?
These men are basing their op
inions on the fact A&M hasn’t
beaten a Texas team on the gx-een
tux-f of Memox-ial Stadium since it
was built. In fact the Cadets have
failed to outscore the Ox-ange and
White playing in Austin since 1922.
A majority of the SWC football
fans seem to concede the victory
to the Longhorns, if the game is
played in the Capitol, long befox-e
the kickoff.
Coach Gil Steinke of the Cadets
says, “We will have to be at our
best "to win.” At least the coaching
staff is looking fox-ward to the
game with hope, but it seems thex-e
ax-e a number of men in the “spirit
ed” coi*ps who don’t agroe. That’s
when your school spirit dies, when
the spirit for the football game
dies, and from where we sit it
looks like the sun is slowly setting
on the last of the “Spiiit of Ag
gieland.”
Names like Gib Dawson, Tom
Stolhandske, Harley Sewell, and T.
Jones ax-e making a lot of people
put the “No Doubt” sign on a
Texas victox-y this yeax-. No doubt
the boys fx-om Austin have the
power, the speed, and a conference
record of no defeats going into
the A&M game. Hex-e is another
point in their favox-.
Aggies Nearer Bottom
The Aggies ax-e neax-er the bot
tom of the heap than the top.
Chalk up another point in the
Steex-’s favox-.
Texas is 12th in the nation and
first in the SWC in total offense.
Give them another nod.
They axe 11th in i-ushing of
fense. Hex-e is another weight on
their end of the see-saw which is
steadily becoming one-sided.
About the only thing in favor
of A&M on the books is they have
a passing game which can pose as
a thx-eat to any team. That’s all.
They don’t have a top ranking-
offense, defense, ground game, or
recox-d. According to the book-
keepex-s, in other words, they don’t
have a chance.
But there is a little thing called
the upset that keeps the light alive
in the bonfix-e-building cadets out
on the dx-ill field and in the woods.
And to px-ove that the upset isn’t
impossible, let’s look back at the
yeax* 1940. John Kimbrough and
his boys who had won the national
championship the year before for
A&M, were sailing through the
season like a boat on a smooth
lake.
Storm Hit
But the storm hit in the fox-m of
eleven inspix-ed Steex-s who hadn’t
shown well at all. They had won
a few, but wex-e supposed to be
stomped by the Cadets. It all hap
pened down in Austin, in the fatal
Memox-ial Stadium, and when the
smoke cleax-ed, the Steex-s were on
top of the pile 7-0. But this upset
was in Austin, and that’s whex-e
the Aggies play. Could it happen
the other way around ? Your guess
is as good is mine.
before presenting their findings
to the Athletic Council.
Many senatox-s felt that “par
ents and dates were mox-e import
ant than the faculty.” Others ex-
px-essed opinions that “the faculty
should make some effort in taking
cax-e of themselves.”
Traffic Committee Work
The senate also appx-oved con
solidating future x-eports of the
traffic committee with a similar
organization of the senior class
in trying to impx-ove the campus
paxking situation.
Senatox" Jack (Spud) Mergle’s
motion was passed that Senate
President Bob Ti*avis wx-ite Pres
ident M. T. Harx-ington and inquix-e
on the unanswered requests sub
mitted by the traffic committee
last year. Senate Advisor Bennie
A. Zinn, assistant dean of men, ex
plained the college was tx-ying to
improve the parking situation. He
said the senate should work with
W. H. Badgett, manager of phys
ical plants and hedd of the col
lege’s traffic study group.
Committees Report
Committee reports from the
senate’s standing committees also
were presented.
Gene Steed, chaix-man of' the
welcoming committee, explained
the group had “established better
i-elations between A&M and other
schools thx-ough their woxk this
fall.”
Reporting for the social com
mittee, chairman Lamar McNew
said the group had approved Ca
det Col. of the Cox-ps Weldon
Kruger as the official escox-t for
the Aggie Sweetheart Claire Wil
liams of San Antonio and TSCW.
Miss Williams or her alternates,
if she is unavailable, will x-epresent
I all conference activities.
College Station
Community Chest
Goal $11,019.00
Total now 8,074.76
Still needed 2.944.24
PS Slated to Hear
Astronomy Lecture
J. T. Kent of the mathematics
department will speak on astrono
my at the Physics Society open
house 7:30 p. m. Fx-iday, in x-oonx
320 of the Physics Building.
The Physics Society has plan
ned this open house for the Col
legiate Chapter of the Texas Aca
demy of Science. Also planned for
the open house is a demonstration
of modern physics equipment. In
cluded in this demonstration is a
cloud chamber and X-x-ay analysis
machine.
If weather permits, a telescope
will be set up for use of those at
tending.
“All undex-graduate students in
terested in the sciences ax-e eligible
for membei*ship in the Collegiate
Academy and ax-e cordially invited
to attend Friday’s meeting,” said
James Tillotson, px-esident of the
Physics Club.
Ducats Open to Public
Tickets to the A&M-UT
game will go on sale to the
public at 8:15 a.m. Satui-day
in the Athletic Office, said
Pat Dial, assistant business
manager of athletics. Tick
ets will be sold on a first come
first served basis.