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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.