D. B. COFFLR
COLLEGE ARCHIVIST
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Circi^a^g^! I^aily 7
To 90 Per Cent
Of Local Residents
Number 121: Volume 53
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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1953
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ALMOST COMPLETE—Herb Cabla, junior veterinary medicine major from Sinton, en
ters the new veterinary hospital which is rapidly nearing completion. The new hospital
is located across the railroad tracks just west of the campus on the road to Easter-
wood Airport.
New Construction
Nears Completion
A $238,000 construction program
is nearing completion here.
Approved by the board of di
rectors in June, 1952, the program
allowed first for a $21,000 system
of storm sewers which was follow
ed by the paving and graveling of
several streets at a cost of $140,-
ioo.
Shifting Clay
Causes Sinking
Of Building
Shrinking and swelling of
the blue clay level that build
ing foundations in this area
rest upon has caused four
college buildings to sink
slightly, necessitating deeper
foundations for them.
According to T. R. Spence, man
ager of A&M system physical
plants, the present foundations of
these buildings are around 10 feet
deep. The new foundations will go
to a d'epth of 20 feet.
The buildings needing deeper
foundations are the Academic
building, College hospital, Library,
and Exchange store.
The new foundations will still
r est on clay, but at this depth the
clay is less liable to shrink and
swell with rains, Spence said.
The geological formations under
this are made up of clay and sand
for considerable depth, according
to S. A. Lynch, head of the geo
logy department.
Economics Club
Elects Martin
J. N. Martin of Athens was
elected president of the Economics
club Tuesday.
Also elected at the organiza
tional meeting were J. T. Roberts,
Winnsboro, vice president; E. A.
Fernandez, Sherman, senior re
presentative to the Arts and
Sciences council; and J. S. Wil
liams, Austin, social secretary.
The fourth Tuesday of each
month was selected as the regular
meeting date for the club.
Weather Today
The construction of the Physical
Education building will necessitate
wider sidewalks along Lubbock
street, between the building and
the upperclassmen dormitory area.
This and other sidewalks will be
constructed in the future, accord
ing to T. R. Spence, manager of
the A&M system physical plants.
Girders for the roof of the 7,000-
seat Physical Education building
are now being placed in position.
Sidewalk construction will in
clude widening of a section of walk
on the east side of the MSC, re
placing a section on the west corner
of the Chemistry building, the west
side of Bizzell street, and an ex
tensive system of walks in the area
between the Academic building and
Military walk.
The recent completion of a four-
lane boulevard between the system
administration building and Sul-j
phur Springs road was the main
street construction job, Spence
said.
Other street coftsti'uctionf was
Throckmorton street, payed; Hous
ton street, to be paved; and a
graveled street from the System
administration buflding to A&M
Consolidated higb school.
Spence said that the graveled
streets would probably be paved in
the future, after the gravel has
been packed by use.
Off Limits’
Rule Blocks
Outfit Hags
All the favorite places for
putting outfit flags are now
officially off limits to A&M
cadets.
The water tower, the dome
of the Academic building, the
flagpole in front of the Aca
demic building and the flag
pole in front of Duncan hall
are off limits effective Oct. 1.
“Unauthorized cadets caught
on or near these places will be
subject to military discipline”,
said Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins,
assistant commandant.
Matthews Joins
Extension Service
R. F. Matthews, safety director
at the Texarkana, Red River arsen
al for the past nine years, recently
joined the staff of the Engineer
ing Extension service.
Matthews has been in industrial
woi’k since 1935, when he went to
work as safety engineer for the
wood preserving division of the
Koppers Company.
Matthews, on leave from the Kop-
per Company, came to A&M in
1941 as an instructor in industrial
safety. He served two years in this
position.
Matthew’s home is in Bryan. His
son is a sophmore student here.
Passing To Be
of
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Large
Georgia-A&M
Factor
Game
Aggie Rodeo
To Be Held
Oct. 23 - 24
The annual All-Aggie rodeo,
sponsored by the Saddle and
Sirloin club will be held Oct.
23-24 in the Aggie rodeo
arena.
Performances will be held at 8
p. m. Friday and Saturday.
Stock will be furnished by Duke
Gibbs, owner of the Triangle Bell
rodeo ranch at Belton.
“This stock is professional, RCA
-approved rodeo stock that will
provide many a spill for the con
testants,” said Bobby Rankin, rodeo
chairman.
The competitive events open to
anyone enrolled in Texas A&M will
include bareback bronc riding, sad
dle bronc riding, bull riding, steer
wrestling and calf roping.
There also will be a girls barrel
race.
Tickets may be purchased from
any member of the Saddle and
Sirloin club. Advance tickets are
50 cents for students and $1 for
adults. Tickets at the gate will be
60 cents for students and $1.20 for
adults.
Services Planned
For Mrs. Daum
Funeral services will be held at
10 a. m. Monday for Mrs. John
Daum, formerly of College Station,
who died Monday at her home in
Great Neck, N. Y.
Mrs. Daum died suddenly after
a cerebral hemorrhage.
She was in New York with her
husband, who was doing research
at New York university. He is on
a one-year leave of absence from
the mathematics depai’tment here.
Services will be at St. Joseph’s
church in Bryan. Rosary will be
recited Sunday night at the Hillier
Funeral Home, which is handling
arrangements. Mrs. Daum will be
buried at the Mt. Clavarjg ceme-
tary jn Bryan. -
Before coming to College Sta
tion, Mrs. Daum lived in Omaha,
Nebraska.
She is survived by her husband,
her son, 7 year-old John A. jr.; her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Firois;
brother, Gabe Fii’ois; and a sis
ter, Mrs. Simone Dittrick.
Forest Service
Plans Lockout
For Plotrodders
The Texas Forest service plans
to uproot a group of hotrodders
who have been using its runway
for a racetrack.
It’s going to lock the gate.
But in order to lock up, it must
lease an entire airport.
Here’s what happened.
The Forest service has been
using part of the Jackson county
airport near Kirbyville to store its
planes used to spot forest fires.
The Forest service reports that
hot rod speedsters have been dam
aging the runways by racing on
them. It says the runways have
been made unsafe for aircraft.
But Jackson county, which owns
the airport, says it can’t finance
the runway upkeep. The Forest
service says the county will not
keep the speedsters outside.
The Forest service asked the
board of directors Saturday to let
it lease the airport from the coun
ty-
The board approved.
Aggies
POSSIBLE SHOWERS
.Cloudy with possible light show
ers. Low this morning 71. High
today 94. Low tonight 64.
Aerial Duel to Feature
Bratkowski and Ellis
Over 30,000 fans may see the air fille<j with passes in the
Cotton Bowl in Dallas Saturday night when the Aggies meet
the Georgia Bulldogs in the first college football game of the
season in Dallas.
Don Ellis, the nation’s leading major college passer with
22 completions in 39 tosses, will match passes with Zeke
Bratkowski, seventh in the nation with 13 completions in 24
attempts.
Two Ellis passes have been good for touchdowns, while
Bratkowski has connected for one touchdown pass. Ellis has
totaled 248 yards by air with two interceptions and Bratkow
ski has passed for 224 yards and one interception.
^ Total offense figures as re
leased by the National Collegi
ate Athletic bureau indicate
that Ellis has the edge run
ning with the ball. Ellis ranks
third in the nation with a total of
fense mark of 299 yards, while
Bratkowski is 14th with 221 yards,
three yards less than his passing
total.
The starting Aggie lineup for
the game will probably be the same
as that which started against the
University of Houston, although
two of last week’s starters have
been taking it easy this week with
minor bruises.
Don Kachtik and Joe Boring are
both nursing injuries, but will pro
bably play. Billy Hurdleston and
Bill Schroeder are also slightlly in
jured, but will be ready Saturday
Three Out
The only Aggies definitely out of
the contest with injuries are Half
back Charlie Hall, End Donald
Robbins and Center Cooper Rob
bins.
Starting for the Aggies will be
Eric Miller and Bennie Sinclair,
ends; Lawrence Winkler and Dur-
wood Scott, tackles; Marvin Tate
and Sid Theriot, guards; Fred
Broussard, center; Ellis, quarter
back; Boring and Connie Magouirk,
halfbacks; and Kachtik, fullback.
The Aggie line averages 204
pounds, while the backfield aver
age is 177 pounds.
For the Bulldogs, the starting
lineup is John Carson and Joe
O’Malley, ends; Jerry Griffin and
Francis Malinowski, tackles; Bruce
Wimberley and Sam Mrvos, guards;
Derwent Langley, center Bratkow
ski, quai’terback; Jimmy Campagna
and Charlie Madison, halfbacks;
and Bob Clemens, fullback.
Line Averages 201
The Georgia line averages 201
pounds and the backfield average
is 187 pounds.
Georgia Coach Wally Butts is
enthusiastic about his current ace,
• Bratkowski, who Butts believes has
a good chance to break the all-time
college passing yardage record of
2,005 yards, set in 1948 by Heath
of Nevada university.
Bratkowski led the nation last
year in yards gained passing with
1,824 yards in 11 games, and in
1951 set a Southeastern conference
record for 10 games, with 1,578
yards gained passing.
Since Georgia’s pass patterns
are considered among the best in
college football, Aggie Coach Ray
George has had his charges work
ing this week on defensive patterns
against Georgia passing plays.
If the field is dry for Saturday’s
clash, fans who prefer the wide-
open type of game should be in for
an evening of football where the
emphasis is on the pass.
Business Society
Elects Officers
The Business society elected J.
M. (Mitch) Spadachene president
Thursday night. .
j; Other officers elected were Bill
Utzman, vice president; Alien
(Bootsie) Hohlt, senior representa
tive to the Arts and Sciences coun
cil, Glenn Langford, junior repre
sentative to the A&M council;
Richard (Red) Harris, reporter;
Clancy Woliver, chairman of the
membership committee; and Dale
Topperwien, athletic director.
Student Senate
To Review f
Seating Plan N
Discussions on what to do
about settling seating pro
blems at football games and
who should take care of
Reveille took up much of the
the debate at the student senate
meeting last night.
Andrew Gary, vice president of
the senate, took over chairman
ship of the group in the absence
of President Ide Trotter.
The question of whether or not
to allow seniority to prevail in the
selection of Student Senate com
mittees was discussed at length
and defeated.
Ideas Vary
Suggestions for easing misun
derstandings in the Kyle Field'
seating plan were sent to the seat
ing committee.
Ideas varied from the use of
ropes to mark off sections to the
wearing of different colored cards
by non-military students to separ
ate them by academic classes.
The Senate discussed the prob
lem of whose responsibility it was
to take care of Reveille. Last
spring, when another discussion,
was held concerning A&M’s mas
cot, the Senate recommended that
the band take care of the dog.
Senators who were here for
school last summer said Reveille
wandered around the campus, lost a
lot of weight and was missing once
for several days.
She was also hit by a car and
was taken to the small animal
clinic of the veterinary hospital for
treatment.
Reveille Fund
To remedy the situation, sena
tors passed a motion setting up
a committee to investigate what
should be done and authorizing a
Reveille fund be set up to take
care of the dog’s needs during the
school year, during the summer
and between semesters.
Announcement of the fund drive
will be made Tuesday at noon in
the two mess halls. Waiters will
collect contributions at the even
ing meal Tuesday.
Concerning the problem of non-
military students who eat in Dun
can hall interferring with corps
meal and retreat formations, one of
the non-military senators explained:
that a schedule has been set up*
which will prevent interruptions.
The non-military students will
go to breakfast after the corps has
finished and will eat lunch before
the corps is formed.
A committee was set up to inves
tigate the possibility of having a
public telephone put in every dorrp-
itory.
Local Den Mothers
Selected Last Night
Den mothers were selected last
night for College Station Cub Scout
Pack 102.
_ This year’s pack has 116 boys in
•t) making it the largest in the
state. It had about the same num
ber last year.
“We still need a den mother for
|he den in the Oak Terrace-Col-
i e ge View area,” said Capt. Charles
L. Byrd, packmaster.
There are about seven to nine
boys in each den.
den are ^elected from their
graphical location.
Den mother's selected last night
^ere Mesdames I. G. Adams,
Richard Balrauf, Jack Fugate,
°hn H. Pruitt, George W. Rey
nolds, J. Wayne Stark, J. K. Riggs
an d George L. Huebner.
.j^he next pack meeting, which
ul have an Indian theme, will be
c ‘ ; ’ 29. The dens meet each week.
Members in each
geo-
Tuesday Pass-By
Results Announced
Squadrons 2 and 13 tied for first
place in the 1st wing at the patss-
by Thursday night. B infantry, A
armor and B armor tied for first
in the 1st regiment.
Other places in the 1st wing
were squadron 14, third; squadrons
11 and 6, fourth; squadrons 7 and
5, sixth; squadron 3, eight; squad
ron 4 ninth, squadrons 10 and 15,
10th; and squadron 9, 12th.
Other 1st regiment places were
A anti—aircraft, A chemical corps
and A quartermaster corps, fourth;
A infantry, A engineers, A field
artillery, B field artillery and A
army security agency, seventh;
and A transportation corps, A
signal corps and A ordnance, 12th.
Mayo Gives Talk i
On European Trip
“Europe Revisited” was the title
of a speech given by Dr. Thomas
E. Mayo of the English department
at a meeting of the Hillel founda
tion Wednesday.
“I had heard,” said Mayo, “that
Americans are disliked in Europe
an countries, but I found things
quite to the contrary. People went
out of their way to be friendly.”
During his tour Mayo visited
with several authors whose books
he had read. He said he also had a
chance to discuss with them the;
outline of a book he is planning" t<4
write.