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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 133: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1953 Price Five Cents ]\an-Jieg8 Must Have ID Tags To Get Seats Non-millitary juniors and sen- “All non-regs will still have to iors who do not have seating identi- wear seating cards so as to dis- fication cards will positively not be admitted Saturday to their respec tive seating sections in Kyle field,” said S. J. Smith, seating committee chairman. Cards may be obtained from non military dormitory senators or housemasters, he said. The Hous ing office in Goodwin hall will issue cai’ds to non-military stu dents not living in college dormi tories. It will be necessary for them to show the college identification card and athletic season ticket to receive the seating cards, Smith said. Wives’ cards will be issued at the Kyle field gates and the hous ing office. Student wife athletic season tickets must be shown. Pinned to Lapel “Non - military student seating cards should be pinned to the right lapel until the game is under way,” Smith said. “It is suggested that a safety-pin be used to hold the cards since they will not be re-is sued if lost.” When questioned about Thurs day’s Battalion letters to the edi tors which were critical of the seating arrangement, Smith said a more satisfactoi-y arrangement might be worked out if people with complaints would contact their stu dent senators. “Apparently everyone was happy until recent publicity aroused the boys,” Smith said, “because there was but one dissenting vote, which was by a corps senior, when the plan was presented.” “If there is any gripe coming, it Is because so many people did not aven bother to speak to their stu dent senators about it.” People Have Arguments The plan was in effect at the A&M-Houston game, but -the non- military students disregarded the class boundaries, Smith said. “I realize some people have good arguments,” he said, “and I am especially in sympathy with the veterans who wrote the letters in Thursday’s Battalion. “In view of this dissention, I wish each and every senator re presenting non-military students would take a poll and find out how the majority feels about it, and I am sure the seating committe will act accordingly. “Remember, however, that the issue at stake is whether or not the non-military section should be divided along lines of academic classification,” Smith said. He explained the seating cards were issued to keep people other than Aggies and their guests from sitting in the student section, and not to cause friction between the students. “It will be impossible for us to change our plans now, and the seating arrangement will be car ried out Saturday as outlined,” the seating chairman said. Smith explained if the committee decides to have an open non-mili tary section for the remaining home games, it will have to be a section along the top from the 50 yard-line to the end of the stu dents’ section. Ray Anthony Set For SMU Game Ray Anthony will play for the dance after the Southern Metho dist university-A&M football game. He will play a concert at 6:15 and for the dance at 9:00 p. m. The bonfire dance and concert on Nov. 25 will be the date for Sam my Kaye and his orchestra to come here this year. The concert will be at 6:30 and dance will be at 9:00 p. m. There have been no other bands set but one or two more other than Town Hall may be expected next Spring, said Spike White, assistant dean of men for student activities. Moving Date Set For Animal Clinics The Large and Small Animal Clinics will not move into the new veterinary hospital before Novem ber. Heating and ventilation in the new hospital has not been complet ed the veterinary medicine depart ment disclosed. Only the clinics will be moved to the new building. The other offices of the department will remain in the old building on the campus. tinguish them from former and high school students and other unauthorized invaders,” S mi t h said. Smith will contact non-military student senators Friday to find out the results of his proposed poll. “I will gather the information at 5 p. m. that day.” he said, “and the majority polled at that time will rule.” About a week will be needed to have anything changed, he said. Seven Aggies Go to Houston Sales Clinic Seven students and four professors represented A&M Wednesday night at the an nual Sales Clinic in Houston. Fred Smith, vice president of the Gruen Watch Company, spoke to the thousands of sales executives from the southwest. A&M students at the clinic were Don Gentry and Bob Palmer, Hous ton Sales Executive club scholar ship holders; Mitch Spadachene Clancy Wolliver and Dave Shaw, business society representatives; Dutch Dutcher, Aggieland ’54 co editor; and Bob Hendry, editor of the Commentator. Herb Thompson, T. R. Yantiss, L. W. Sherman and D. J. Lenehan, all of the business department, were the professors from A&M. “The most important asset a business man may have is a good personality”, Smith said. “The col lege grade-point man is foi'ced to take a lower paid position in the business world than the man with a good personality who engaged in many extra-curricular activities.” Some points to remember in achieving a good personality, Smith said, are to always look a person in the eye, smile and be pleasant, be sincere in every way, and always seem interested in what a person is saying. OVER AND OUT—Harold Schadel, squadron 20 senior, receives instructions on what to do during his ROTC orien tation flight. Cadets are being flown in either one or two engine training planes at Bryan air force base. FSA Mail Work 1 loom By JOHN LINTON Battalion Staff Writer The Former Students association mailing room handles 500,000 pieces of mail a year to be sent to A&M ex-students throughout the woi’ld. The mailing room is located in the southwest wing of the Memor ial Student Center. It is operated by Mrs. Mary S. Muth of Bryan. She is the only person who works in the mailing room. But she has several modern machines to assist her. These include Multilith, Grapho- t y p e, Addi’essograph, automatic letter folder and automatic envel ope sealer. Keeps Busy Newest addition to the associa tion’s set of mechanized helpers is the Multilith press. With its aid, the office has taken over many printing jobs which pre viously were done by other sources. This press prints letters, pamph lets and full-color reproductions at a rate of 6,000 sheets per hour. The Addressograph addresses about 750,000 envelopes a year. The envelopes are then sealed automat ically. One of the biggest jobs is keep ing up with former students who are always on the move. More than 1,000 address changes a month are recorded. Ags Meet Bears Here Tomorrow CS City Tax Payment Percent High College Station has one of the best tax-payment records in the state, according to City Manager Ran Boswell. As of June this year, 96.03 per cent of the city’s tax pay ers have paid their taxes. The city’s collection percentage has been over 97 per cent since 1944. Montgomery Leads Game To Match Undefeated Teams By BOB BORISKIE Battalion Sports Editor One of the few major college football games pitting un defeated teams will be played Saturday afternoon on Kyis Field when the Aggies meet the Baylor Bears. Over 40,000 fans are expected to watch a team picked to finish sixth in the conference, and one of the pre-season favorites for the title. As game time approaches, the Aggies are only slight underdogs to the Bears, and the home field advantage could make the contest a toss-up affair. The starting Aggie line will be the same group that opened the game with the TCU Horned Frogs, with Bennie "♦■Sinclair and Bill Schroeder, ends; Durwood Scott and Cadets-Ath letes Improve Relations By BOB HENDRY Battalion Feature Editor A policy stressing better real- tions between A&M cadets and cadet athletes is underway, said V. M. (Monty) Montgomery, head yell leader. The policy which was started at the beginning of this year is “really coming along”, Montgo mery said. The need for stressing better relations between the two groups arose years ago when many non athlete upperclassmen began com plaining that the athletes “could get away with anything, and noth ing would be done about it.” These upperclassmen said that the athletes, or Hart hall men as they are called, did not respect A&M’s traditions and that their cadet officers would not punish them when a custom was broken. First of Year g Weekend Opens Today The first big weekend of the year opens tonight with the Cafe Rue Pinalle in the Memorial Stu dent Center, the Aggie rodeo at the rodeo arena, and the Service ball in the MSC ballroom. Saturday activities will kickoff with the A&M - Baylor football game followed by the Tex Beneke concert and dance. The Service ball will feature the 16-piece Aggieland orchestra for dancing from 8:30 to 11:30. Mem- bers of the service ROTC units will attend. The service units are the tran sportation corps, signal corps, army security agency, quarter master corps, chemical corps and ordnance. Officials Will Be Honored College and military officials will be honored guests. The All-Aggie rodeo holds the first of its two performances for the weekend at 8 p. m. tonight in the rodeo arena. Tickets are 60 cents for students and $1.20 for adults. Student riders will compete for prizes in all events. Girls will enter the rodeo for the first time. Girl representitives of this area will compete in the ladies’ barrel race. The final perfoimiance of the rodeo will be at 8 p. m. Saturday night. A parade through Bryan this afternoon opens the rodeo festivities. The Cafe Rue Pinalle floor show tonight will feature oriental harem dances by Carolyn Graves, a high school senior from Hamilton. Will Play Blues Also on the program are the Bopsters, dance team; Fred Gibbs, western singer; John Sutton and Corland Thurman, singers; and Don Dart, who will play blues music on the piano during intermission. Jer ry Schnepp will be master of ceremonies. Rue Pinalle will open at 8:30 p. m. and close at 11:30 Tickets are 60 cents apiece. No stags will be admitted except for the floor show. Highlight of the weekend will be the A&M - Baylor football game at 2 p. m. Saturday on Kyle Field. The event rated as this week’s leading Southwest conference game, is expected to bring a cap acity crowd to College Station. After the game, Tex Beneke and his orchestra, will take over. They will give a concert at 7:30 in Guion hall. Admission price will be 75 cents a person. Starts at 9 p. m. Beneke will play for an informal dance in Sbisa hall Saturday night. The dance starts at 9 p. m. and ends at midnight. Admission will be $2, stag or drag. Featuring “music in the Miller manner”, Beneke will play such record hits as his “St. Louis Blues March”, “Stardust”, “Everybody Loves My Baby” and others. Walton’s Lounge Being Repainted Repainting of Walton Hall Lounge will be completed by Satui’- day, said Ronald Hudson, first com posite regiment intelligence officer. The repainting of walls and trim will be finished Saturday, before “Open House”, he said. The project was started by freshmen and upperclassmen of the regiment, who are furnishing the labor themselves. Joe Whitaker, First composite I'egiment supply officer, is supervising the project. Paint was furnished by the building and college utilities de partment and additional supplies were purchased from the dormi tories coke fund. Plans call for complete refinish ing of walls, furniture and blinds, installing of new curtains and lamps. The band has Shirley Jones and Jack Carroll doing the vocals. Beneke will sing some numbers himself. The freshman area will hold an open house Saturday. Parents and girl friends of students living in the cadet freshman area can visit them in their rooms. The rooms will be open from 11:- 30 a. m. until game time, and after the game until 5:30 p. m. This is the area’s second open house of the semester. They plan to have one for every A&M home game, according to Vie Kennery, first composite regiment com mander. HE’LL BE LISTENING—Jerald (Jerry) Wilson underwent surgery last week, and is still in the college hospital. He is one of the unfortunates who will miss the big weekend, which will be climaxed by the Aggie-Baylor football game. Wilson says he will have his ear to the radio at about 2 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. He is a freshman student from Nov ice majoring in agriculture. Montgomery says this is not always true. “Too many people meet one Hart hall cadet who is guilty of this,” Montgomery said, “and then say he is typical of all of them. Sure, there are some athletes like that, but there are people like that in every outfit. “When upperclassmen meet a good Hart hall cadet, most of them don’t even know he’s from Hart hall. For instance, I was walking with some friends of mine, when a freshman from Hart hall met us. “Some of them remarked later about how good a freshman he was. I asked them if they knew where he was from. They didn’t. They would have never known he was from Hart hall if I hadn’t told them.” Montgomery says that incidents like this are what hurts the rela tion between the athletes and other students. “When someone meets an exception to the average Hart hall cadet, they ask him what outfit he’s in. He says ‘Hart hall’, and they go back and tell every one how sorry Hart hall cadets are,” he said. Will Be Punished Cadet athletes will be punished when they break rules too, Mont gomery said. “If anyone sees a Hart hall underclassman violating regula tions, he should report the offense to that man’s commanding officer,” he said. “The commanding officers over there are really cracking down on discipline, and if anyone gets out of line, he’ll get what’s com ing to him. “Hart hall men do have some privileges other cadets do not have, but they deserve them. If anyone doesn’t think so, he ought to go down to Kyle field some afternoon and bat his head against four other guys for four hours each day, and then see what he thinks. “But if they are really violating regulations, the CO’s over there will see that they are punished, and they’ll get just as much punishment, if not more, as other cadets,” Montgomery said. The yell leader praised the work of the commanding officers of the Hart hall units. “Jerry Robinett, Dutch Ohlendorf and Louis Capt have really done wonders over there. I think Robinett’s outfit is one of the best in the corps.” He also spoke highly of 1st Lt. James Cashion. “He’s really help ed in putting this policy through,” Mongtomery said. Starts New Policy 1 Montgomery stai'ted the new policy immediately after school be gan. He and other seniors urged cooperation from everyone in car rying out the idea. Cooperation continually is be ing asked at yell practices, but Montgomery says better relations can only come about by the in dividual actions of everyone. “For the idea to work, both sides are going to have to go more than half way,” Mongtomery said. “Athletes are just as much a part of A&M as everyone else and just as important. “We are actually one corps and one school.” Lawrence Winkler, tackles; Marvin Tate and Sid Theriot, guards; and Fred Broussard, center. But the starting backfield will depend largely on the game situa tion. If the Aggies lose the coin toss, or elect to kick off, Coach Ray Gorge will probably start a backfield combination of Don Ellis, quarterback; Joe Boring and El- wood Kettler, halbacks; and Don Kachtik, fullback. Connie Magouirk may replace Joe Boring in the backfield if the Aggies receive, since Boring is re turning to action after leaving the Georgia game with an injury and may be used sparingly on of fense. Coach George is very proud of the Aggie record for the first five games, but says that the games are getting tougher each Saturday. “We’re playing a great team when we meet Baylor, but evei’y team we play, we play to beat ’em. We know we’ll have to play our best football to win,” George said. A look at the record of Baylor’^ Golden Bears shows why George calls them a great team. In bowling over California, Miami, Arkansas and Vanderbilt, Coach George Sauer’s Bruins have piled up 107 points to 26 for the opposition. This brand of football has earned the Bears sixth place iri national standings compiled by the Associated Press. They are seventh in the nation both in total offense and passing offense. To balance the offensive threat presented by Baylor, A&M ranks 10th in the nation defensively, with Ellis sixth on the national list of passers. Saturday’s winner will be the conference leader in league play with two wins and no losses. Bay lor downed Arkansas 14-7 in its only conference tilt, and the Ag gies won from TCU Saturday, 20- 7. Snakes Scare Baylor Coeds WACO—(A*)—It took a psycholo gy student working on his master’s thesis to find out what women are afraid of. SNAKES. Ninety-five per cent of 700 Bay lor University co-eds scientifically questioned said that’s what they feared most. Communism and polio and spid ers got in on the list but didn’t get a shudder compared to snakes. Robert D. Wickham, a graduate psychology student from Waco, said some of the girls cringed even when they heard the word. Wickham questioned 40 per cent of the co-ed enrollment in each undergraduate class. He found out 50 per cent had a conscious fear of “aggressive dates.” Wickham interposed ha believed some of the fears were due to ignorance on the subject. He found out further: 40 per cent feared being an old maid, 47 per cdht feared they wouldn’t find A husband best suited to them. He’s going to put it all in a the sis for a masters degree. ^ Weather Today Thunderstorms and moderate rain showers. Cooler tomorrow. High yesterday 85. Low this morn ing 68. Low tonight 60.