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Number 141: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1953
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Aggie Offense
Vs. Pony Defense
In Crucial Battle
Clearing skies yesterday gave
promise of ideal football weather
for the A&M-SMU game Saturday
afternoon on Kyle Field.
A crowd of about 25,000 fans are
expected to witness the test be
tween the Aggie offensive game
and the rugged Mustang defense.
Louis Capt, Aggie guard, joins
Elwood Kettler, halfback, on the
doubtful list because of injuries.
Capt was hurt in scrimmage dur
ing the week. Kettler was injured
in the Arkansas game.
The Aggies polished up on
offense and defense Thursday, and
worked on punting in preparation
for the fourth conference tilt of
the season.
In a team meeting held Mon
day night, Dui-wood Scott, senior
tackle from Munday, was elected
team captain.
Two Mustang staiters may miss
Saturday’s game. Jerry Norton,
SMU back, and Tiny Goss, tackle,
were injured in the game with
Texas and probably will not play.
Starting in the backfield for
the Aggies will be Don Ellis,
quarterback, Joe Boring and Con
nie Magouirk, halfbacks; and Don
Kachtik, fullback.
The Cadet line will be Bennie
Sinclair and Bill Schroeder, ends;
Lawrence Winkler and Scott,
tackles; Marvin Tate and Sid
Theriot, guards; and Fred Brous
sard, center.
With the Aggies out of the run
ning for the conference title be
cause of losses to Baylor and Ark
ansas, SMU will be battling to re
main in the race with a victory.
The Aggies opened the con
ference schedule with a victory
over the TCU Horned Frogs, but
dropped the next two league tilts.
SMU scored a sensational last
minute touchdown in their con
ference opener to defeat Rice, but
was tripped by Texas last week.
The Mustangs must win this one
to stay within reach of the high-
riding Baylor Bears and to stay
even with Texas and Rice.
An Aggie win and a Baylor de
feat by Texas would throw the
race wide open with six teams
having a chance for the title.
And A&M would be one of those
six teams.
Where Are
Other 81,000
Prisoners?
Wednesday’s edition of The
Battalion quoted Major Clyde
Hesse, “The Communist priso
ners of war were the most
exasperating ornery group of
people I ever worked with.”
Hesse was a little exasperat
ed himself when he called The
Battalion and said, “I thought
your story was fine, but I was
in charge of the records ,pf
9,000 prisoners of war—ndt
90,000, as you stated in the
story.”
He said, “I know it’s a
typographical error, but what
will I tell the government
when they want to know what
happened to those other 81,000
POW’s?”
Ushers to Enforce
Stadium Seating
Rules for strict enforcement of
the Kyle field seating plan will
start at tomorrow’s game with
ushers patroling the aisles to see
that they are obeyed.
The student senate seating com
mittee made the rules to make sure
everyone sits in his assigned sec
tion.
Chains will be stretched across
the ramp entrances. Ushers will
stop anyone there who tries to en
ter the wrong section.
Only female guests can sit with
students. No one else can enter
this section with a student guest
ticket. This rule was recently
passed by the Athletic department.
Turned Away
People will be turned away from
the student section who try to en
ter with a ticket to another part
of the stadium. “They will only be
wasting their time, as well a^ the
ushers’ and people waiting behind
them,” said S. J. Smith, head of
the seating committee.
Ushers will patrol the borders
separting the cadet and non-mili
tary section. They will stop any
one who tries to cross from one
section to another. Ushers will
take I.D. cards from students found
sitting in the wrong section. The
cards will be turned over to the
dean of men.
Ushers also will guard the sec-
Game Traffic Calls
For Added Police
College Station will have extra
police help this weekend to handle
the traffic coming to the A&M-
SMU football game.
Twenty-four highway patrolmen
helped during the weekend of the
A&M-Baylor game said Ran Bos
well, city manager. There or four
extra city policemen will also be
added to direct ti’affic. College
Station has two I’egular patrolmen.
“Thei’e are 11 major roads leav
ing the campus,” Boswell said.
“We need to have someone sta
tioned at each of the intersections
to keep traffic flowing.”
The traffic has been handled
well, he said.
‘The Fan’ Will Be Shown
Tonight by Film Club
The A&M Film Society will show
“The Fan” tonight at 7:30 in the
Memorial Student Center ball
room.
Starring Jeannie Crain, George
Sanders, Madeline Carroll, the film
is based on Oscar Wilde’s “Lady
^Windermere’s Fan.”
tion reserved for visiting students.
A&M students will be barred from
sitting there. Former students who
try to cross thnough this section
to sit with the Aggies will be stop
ped.
Can’t Save Seats
Non-military students who ar
rive early will not be allowed to
save seats. Ushers have, keen or
dered to assign people to these
seats.
Non-military students who can’t
find seats in the center of their
section will have to move toward
the end zone. But they must stay
within their 10-row limit.
GO, MAN, BLOW—Ray Anthony gets into practice before
playing- at a dance here tomorrow night. Anthony is a
favorite with colleges throughout the nation.
Starts Big Weekend
Hula Gals to Sway
AtPinalle Tonight
The swaying hips of two pretty
SMU coed hula dancers at Rue
Pinalle tonight will start the week
end’s activities.
The door will open at 8 p. m.
and the floor show will start at
9:30. Admission is , 60 cents a
person.
Barbara Rhodes and Peggy
Scott will perform their version
of the Hawaiian dance in 6ne of
four acts scheduled at A&M’s con
ception of a French nightclub.
Allen Jones, vocalist from SMU,
also is slated for the show. He was
a hit attraction last weekend at
the annual Pigskin Review at
SMU.
Georgeanne Timms, vocalist, and
Don Barnes, impersonator, will
make up the remainder of the floor
show. They also are from SMU.
Anthony to Play
Ray Anthony, “the young man
with a horn”, makes his second
trip to A&M Saturday. He will
give a concert at 7:15 p. m. in
Guion hall and will play at all
college dance at 9 p.m. in Sbisa
hall.
Senators Decide
U. of A. Innocent
The student senate voted last
night to send a letter to the stu
dent body of the University of Ar
kansas clearing them of any blame
for the “moving incident” which oc
curred at the A&M-Arkansas foot
ball game last Saturday.
V. M. (Monty) Montgomery, stu
dent senator and head yell leader,
told the senate, “I don’t think A&M
students should blame Arkansas
students.”
The body of the letter will say
A&M holds no hard feelings to
ward students of the University of
Arkansas and that the sooner the
incident is forgotten, the better re
lations between the two schools will
be.
Seating Caused Trouble
Montgomery said he felt the
trouble was caused by lack of
knowledge on the part of those who
planned the seating. The diffi
culty was heightened by a few fans
who were outspoken in their de
mands that cadets be seated.
Perhaps, said Montgomery, an
orientation program could be car
ried out in the future among Ar
kansas newspapers and radio sta
tions by the university’s sports
manship or welcoming committee.
This, he thought, would help
prevent any recurrence of the
Saturday night incident.
However, Montgomery said, the
playing of “Taps” by the Arkansas
band was distasteful and not in the
spirit of good sportsmanship.
A committee was formed by the
senate to investigate the blame for
the incident. Some senators rec
ommended the committee write a
letter to the stadium manager in
Little Rock,
The senate also heard reports
from standing and executive com
mittees.
Seating committee chairman,
Seymour Smith, was given a stand
ing round of applause for his work
in improving the seating situation.
In a committee report concern
ing the possibility of a veterinary
medicine dormitory living are next
year, a survey showed that 107 of
the veterinary medicine majors now
in school, favored such a plan.
The senate suggested it be hand
led through the local chapter of the
American Veterinary Medicine as
sociation.
Dorm 1 Valves
Still Missing
The 10 flush valves that were
removed from toilets in dormitory
1 early Thursday morning have
not been found.
The first and second floors of
the dormitory received slight wat
er damage.
Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of
men, said the water was stopped
before much damage was done.
This is the fifth case of dormi
tory flooding this yeai’, Zinn said.
Flush valves were removed
from two toilets on the first
floor of dormitory 12 about 5
a.m. today, flooding the south
end of the first floor.
The water was cut off within
a few minutes, restricting dam
age.
Tickets are 75 cents a person for
the concert and $2.50, stag or date,
for the dance. They may be bought
at the student activities office in
Goodwin hall or at the doors.
Disc jockeys voted Anthony’s
crew the top dance band in Amer
ica. He is famous for his show
manship, using such devices as
parading the band through the
audience.
Accompanying Anthony will be
Tommy Mercer, Marcie Miller, the
Skyliners and the Anthony Choir.
The band will play many of its top
hits, such as “Dragnet”, “Sound-
Off”, “Mr. Anthony’s Blues” and
others.
The Aggies will try their can
non on the SMU Mustangs at 2
p. m. Saturday in Kyle field after
a backfire against Arkansas last
week.
The Farmers will be trying for
their second conference win after
beating TCU 20-7 and losing to
Baylor and the Razorbacks. The
famous Aggie “T” will be formed
during half-time by the cadet corps.
Board
School Contract
Building Details
Need More Study
By JON KINSLOW
Battalion City Editor
Contracts will be awarded “very soon” on the proposed
A&M Consolidated school plant.
After a bid-opening meeting last night, the school board
of trustees decided to delay the final awarding until details
can be worked out with the contractors.
“We will be able to award the contracts very soon,” said
L. S. Richardson, superintendent of schools. He indicated
they might be awarded today.
Apparent low bidders are Andrews-Parker, general con
tract bid, and W. E. Kutzschbach, plumbing, heating and
electrical contract bid. Both bidders are Bryan firms.
After less than an hour of discussion in a closed meet
ing, the board decided to wait'*'
before they award the con
tracts. At the open meeting
when bids were read, about
40 people were present.
“Awards will not be made for
several days until architects and
board members have time to study
alternate proposals and several
different propositions,” Richardson
said.
He explained the alternate pro
posals concerning the details of the
construction. There is to be no
change in space planned.
“We are getting more space than
we originally planned for,” Rich
ardson said.
The board did not release the
amounts of the low bids.
Classrooms that are to be con
structed must be finished by the
time school starts in September,
1954, Richardson said.
“Although the auditorium may
not be ready by the time school
opens, the classrooms have prior
ity and must be ready,” he said.
Discussion began at 8 a.m. this
morning with the contractors and
architects. The group discussed
details of the buildings.
The bond election for the build
ing program, passed in May, was
for $385,000. Richardson did not
say last night how much would
probably be spent for the proposed
building.
All the buildings and space plan
ned in the proposal would be pro
vided, Richardson said. He said
only details of construction would
be changed.
Donations
Accepted For
TV in Center
Students and campus visitors
will have a chance to help
bring television to the Me
morial Student center.
The MSC house committee
will sponsor a drive tomor
row to buy at least two 27 in.-
screen TV sets. People may
leave their contributions in
tubs placed throughout the
Center.
The MSC plans to install its
television aerial on top of the
new physical education build
ing.
Aggie Players Give
First Play Monday
Aggie Players present their
first play of the year Monday
night when the curtain goes up on
“Mister Roberts”, a story about a
U. S. navy cargo vessel in World
War IT.
There will be two performances
in Guion Hall at 8:15 p. m. Mon
day and Tuesday. Richard Black
stars in the title role of Mr.
Roberts, executive officer of the
ship AK 601.
Black will be supported by an
other regular of the players, Harry
Gooding, the captain, who has been
in more Aggie Players productions
Talent Show
Tryouts Start
November 16
Auditions for the Aggie Talent
Show will be held Nov. 16-18 in the
MSC Assembly room.
Acts will be selected then for
the annual talent show sponsored
by the MSC music committee.
Winnei's of the talent show will
participate in the Intercollegiate
Talent Show in Guion Hall next
spring.
All students interested in audi
tioning should register with Miss
Margaret Long in the directorate
office of the MSC.
Applications for auditions must
be in by Nov. 13, said Bob Kink,
chairman of the talent show.
A&M winners entered in the
Intercollegiate Talent Show last
year were Ernie Martelino, pianist
and Jimmy Harrison, folk singer.
than any other member of the
organization.
“Mr. Roberts”, a two-act play
by Thomas Heggen and Joshua
Logan, played on Broadway for
two years. It is directed by C. K.
Esten of the English department.
Carthell Perdue plays the part
of “Doc”, B. B. Smith will be seen
as Dowdy and Ted Castle is cast
as Ensign Pulver, the ship’s
laundry and morale officer.
Crew Members
As crew members will be Raoul
Roth, John Sara van ja, Alan Soefje,
Pat Crosland and William Stewart
playing Insigna, Mannion, Lind-
strom, Stefanowski and Wiley.
Dennis Bishop will double as
Reber and Payne, Harold Craig
will appear as Chief Johnson, Tom
my Decenport will be/ Dolan and
Harry Espey will be Gerbart.
Dorothy Bell, the only woman
member of the cast, will take the
part of Lt. Ann Girard, an army
nurse who likes Scotch whiskey.
Gayle Klipple will be seen as a
military policeman and J. David
English, a shorepatrolman. Jerry
Neighbors is cast as a shore patrol
officer.
Rudy Stanislav, who designed
the set for the play, is serving as
stage manager, with Bill Williams
and Raoul Roth as assistants. John
Shanks is handling lighting ef
fects.
Assisting Mr. Esten in directing
the play is Mary Mackin. Lt. Col.
Taylor Wilkins, William L. Tid
well and B. C. Moore are technical
advisors for the production.
Jerry Neighbors is in charge of
publicity and Mrs. Eleanor Burch-
ard is property manager.
Reserve Unit Plans
Recruiting Drive
A recruiting drive for members
of the artillery reserve will be
gin Tuesday.
An army reserve recruiting
sergeant will be at a recruiting
table in the lounge- of Walton hall
from 1 to 5 p. m. Tuesday, Wednes
day and Thursday.
The drive is for headquarters
battery, 75th infantry division
artillery and headquarters battery,
897th field artillery battalion.
These two units have about 30
vacancies. They meet here at the
army reserve training center.
Col. C. M. Simmang, executive
officer of the 75th infantry divis
ion artillery, announced the drive
and said all army ROTC students
are eligible to enlist regardless of
the military science course they
are taking.
News Briefs
Students Escape
Injury in Accident
Two students escaped injury
last night when the car in which
they were riding overturned at
College avenue and Sulphur
Springs road.
They were Lee N. Blocker and
Jerald E. Hord of “A” Armor.
Blocker, owner of the car, was
driving west on Sulphur Springs.
He was unable to make a right
hand turn after passing another
car. His car hit a curb, turned over
on its left side, and slid approxi
mately 11 yards.
The accident happened about
8:40 p. m. Damage to the car is
estimated at $1000.
Company Picture
Schedule to Begin
Company pictures for the Aggie-
land ’54 will be made starting
Monday.
The pictures will be made at
noon each day on the east steps of
the System Administration build
ing. Freshmen units will have
pictures made first.
Seniors should wear boots and
company commanders will carry
sabers. Juniors should wear gar
rison caps and green ties. Soph
omores should wear garrison caps
also, but freshmen should wear
oversease caps. All students will
wear blouses.
A complete schedule will be dis
tributed to all units later this
week.
SMU Student
Headquarters
Set in MSU
SMU STUDENT headquarters
this weekend will be in the social
room of the MSC. The MSC house
committee is sponsoring the room,
which will be open at 8 a.m. Sat
urday.
* * *
RECORD MUSIC will be played
at a listening party in the MSC
social room at 7:30 p.m Monday.
The program includes “Malague-
na,” “Wyoming” and selections
from “South Pacific.”
TICKETS for the A&M Fish-
Shorthorns football game Nov. 21
will go on sale Nov. 16. The
game will be played in Austin and
profits will go to the Ben Hur
Shrine Temple for charity uses.
* * *
RANGE AND FORESTRY 412
classes will make a field trip to
Victoria Nov. 12 and 13 to study
I'ange conditions and practices
there. Approximately 60 senior
students will make the trip, said
G. W. Thomas, instructor.
A' CASH AWARD of $500 will
be given by J. B. Matthews Testi
monial Dinner committee for the
best 3,000-word essay on “Com
munism and Academic Freedom”
written by an undergraduate stu
dent. Essays should be mailed to
the Matthbws Award Editor, Amer
ica Mercury magazine, 11 East 36th
street, New York.
:\z % *
LT. COL. ARTHUR O. Stout,
management officers, Brooke Army
hospital, will speak on hospital
management procedures at a joint
meeting of the College Station ar
my and navy reserve research un
its. The meeting will be at 7:30
p.m. Nov. 9 in the lecture room of
the Biological Sciences lecture
TWO A&M Students, R. B. Bell
and R. B. Landrum, escaped injury
recently when the car they were
riding in overturned near Lake
Buchanan dam. They were return
ing from a wildlife management
field trip there. Damage to the
car was estimated at $600.
* * *
THE DARK ROOM in the Me
chanical engineering building is be
ing modernized. A new enlarger
and a steel sink have been install
ed, and a counter and cabinets are
planned.
* * *
A FINANCE club for A&M is
being planned. If enough students
show interest in the organization of
a club, steps will be taken to get a
charter, according to Dr. L. E. Da
vids of the business administration
department.
* * *
THE GEOLOG V department, in
ct operation with the Houston Tech
nical laboratories, has set up in
the MSC an exhibit of gravity me
ter models. Gravity meters are
used to detect underground forma
tions, which sometimes indicate the
presence of oil.
* * *
A PICNIC for band members and
theor dates will be planned at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday at the home of Mrs.
Dan Alexander by the Band Wives
club.
Investigation Of
Robbery Continues
The Campus Security office is
continuing the investigation of the
Mitchell hall robbery.
A sneak thief stole more than
$70 from seven students living on
the second floor of the non-mili
tary dormitory early Wednesday
morning.
“The investigation will continue
until we catch the robber,” said
Chief Fred Hickman of the Cam
pus Security officers.
Weather Today
Cooler and clear to partly cloudy
today and tonight. High yester
day 64. Low this morning 43,