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D. B. COFFER COLLEGE ARCHIVIST MSC, FE 3 COPIES 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 145: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1953 Price Five Cents Freshmen To Hare Run-Off Tuesday For Five Positions Elections for freshman class of ficers yesterday narrowed the field down to run-offs for the top five positions. Three men who were running unopposed were elected. The run-off election will be Tuesday in front of Sbisa dining hall. Hours for the election have been tentatively set for from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Men in the run-off for president, and the number of votes they re ceived yesterday are. I. J. (Buddy) May jr., 71; W. L. (Don) Win- ship, 58; and James Wallace Gary, 96. Twenty four men were running fox 1 the position. In the run-off for vice president are Douglas R. DeCluitt, 111; Paul M. Bass jr., 95; and James E. Goode, 161. Ten men were running for vice - president. Men in the run-off for recording secretary are Jack T. Steel, 161; Edward E. Scott, 170; and Brad Crockett, 164. Six men were in the election for this position. In the run-off for social secre tary are Robert W. McCleskey jr., 212; and John D. Selensky, 167. Pour men were running for social secretary. Men in the run-off for treasurer ai’e Jon F. Cobb, 214; and Berne Clark, 219. Five men were running for treasurer. Men elected without ©position Were William O. Fuller, parli- mentarian; James E. Carrell, re porter; and O. H. Pullin jr., serge- ant-at-ai’ms. The numbgr of men in the run off for each position varies be cause of an election commission ruling that if there are more than five men in an election, the top three men are in the run-off, ac- eordit^^uto Leo Draper, election tommissioh chairman. If there are less than five in the election, the Jerry Wizig Associate Sports Editor Wizig Is Sports Associate Editor Jerry Wizig, junior journalism major from Waco, has been ap pointed associate sports editor of The Battalion. He is in his third year as a member of the Battalion sports staff. Wizig wrote all of A&M’s intra- tnural athletic news in his fi'esh- man and sophomore years. He is a member of the Pi’ess Club, Jour nalism club and the Waco-McLen- nan County A&M club. top two men are in the run-off. Approximately 738 men voted in yesterday’s election. Freshmen yell leaders were not elected yesterday as scheduled be cause all of the names of men run ning were not given to the election commission to be put on the bal lot. ^ There were names of five men for the position on the ballot. There are supposed to be more than 20 running. The names will be put on the run-off ballot, and four yell lead ers will be elected then. Bonfire Chief Names Heads Of Committees Committee chairmen for the bonfire were announced Thursday by V. M. (Monty) Montgomery, head yell leader and bonfire chief. All committees will work under the direction of Montgomery and James Tyree, senior yell leader. The entire operation will be di rected by Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant commandant. Committees and committee chairmen are as follows: Wood cutting, Wayne D. Fin ley; center pole, Cax-l Wilson; transportation, Clarence Woliver; building supervisors, Job West, Sam Akard, and Glen Langford. Bonfire guard duty, Stan Bell; communications, Joe MacAllister; freshmen, Ronnie Hudson; oil, Ted Ritchey; guard post firewood, Elmer Kilgore and Charles (Chuck) Fenner; emergency, Don Quast; supply, Tom Theriot. The consolidated band will build the outhouse to be put at the peak of the bonfire. Aggies to Exhibit Art in Houston A&M students will exhibit 34 drawing and paintings in the Al lied Arts Festival in Houston Saturday and Sunday. The students are membei'S of Mi’s. Emalita Newton Teri’y’s art classes held in the Memorial Stu dent Center. The exhibit will be held in the Martel Auditorium and will be open to the public from 2 to 11 P- m. Saturday and fi’om 1 to 8 p. m. Sunday. This is the thixd year A&M has been invited to exhibit in the an nual show. Members of the Ax-t Gallery Committee helping with the pack ing and shipping of paintings are Jules Vieaux, chairman; Bob King, Tom Williams, Gary Bourgeois, Louis Hampton and Raymon R. Arhelger. Editorial Staff For Magazine To Be Chosen The editorial staff of the new English department pub lication will be chosen at 7:30 p. m. Friday, Nov. 20, in the student senate chamber of the Memorial Student Center. Charles T. Donohue will serve as temporary chairman of the organi zational meeting. All interested students are encouraged to attend, said R. W. Feragen, faculty ad visor. “The object of the publication will be to give students who write well a chance to see their woi'ks published,” Fei’agen said. “Too many times a piece of good writing has no other audience than the in- structor who grades it.” Matei’ial for the publication will come fi’om students and student papers submitted by insti’uctors. Instructors from every depai’tment are encouraged to submitt their students’ well written papers. The plan is an annxxal publicat ion of student creative wi’itings with a self-suppoi’ting non-profit financing program. “This publication will not be a humor magazine or^a campus poli tical oi-gan,” Fei’agen said, “but it will try to pi’esent serious literary efforts.” PICKIN’ AND SINGIN’—Jim Harrison, senior from San Antonio, practices for the Aggie Inter-Collegiate Talent show try-outs which will be Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday in the MSC assembly room. Today is the last day to sign up for the tryouts. Applicants may sign in the MSC program consultant’s office. Harrison was one of A&M’s representatives in last year’s talent show. Mess Hall To Serve Coffee at Supper Coffee will be served at the evening meal in the A&M dining halls beginning Monday. This is. the - first in a series of improvements in service proposed by the mess hall committee of the student senate. In addition, waiters may now be instructed how much food to bring for second helpings and after Christmas vacation the dining halls will begin serving breakfast food in the evenings. Sophomores or other cadets who ai’e seated on the corner of the table where the waiter pickes up empty dishes will be responsible for taking a count of persons who want second helpings. The students seated on the coi’ners will also be responsible for taking a count of students eating at that table who will not be on campus over weekends. New Area Blast Is Not Explained An explosion rocked the new area last night at about TO. The cause of the explosion has not been determined. The Officer of the Day investigated and re ported that he did ■ not find the cause. Wayne Showers, who lives in doi’mitoi’y two, said the flash lit up his room. He said he felt the concussion. Melvin Duke, in dormitory one, told the same stox-y Showers did. Both men agreed that the explos ion occurred between dormitories one and two. In the past, the waiter has been responsible for taking the count. In many cases, the count has been hui'ried and inaccux-ate because the waiters couldn’t take time out from their jobs to make a close count. This new system of responsi bility, said Jay Peniston, head of the college subsistence office, is expected to reduce waste in the mess halls resulting from food left on tables and from too much food being prepared for weekend meals. Students can get other improve ments and suggestions acted upon if they will only cooperate with the subsistence department on the new counting and serving systems, Peniston siad. Peniston asked that students re member the mess halls are doing the best they can on the money they have to work with. In addition, Peniston told the committee he would like to see bread throwing in the mess hall stopped as it was wasting money also. If the freshmen units could get into Sbisa hall faster, said Penis ton, waiters could improve service there and keep food from growing cold while it was on the tables The students responsible for ob taining these new mess hall pro cedures are C. E. (Chuck) Fenner and Pat Wheat of the student senate. Parents Club Sees New School Plans Sketches and dx-awings of the proposed A&M Consolidated high school building will be shown to the Mothers and Dads club at 7 p. m. Monday in the school cafe teria. W. W. Caudill, school architect, will explain the drawings and take the club on a “guided tour in pic tures”, said Mrs. C. G. (Spike) White, publicity chainnan. The meeting will start promptly at 7 and end at 8, she said. Caudill will answer questions about the proposed building after the meet ing. A movie will be shown in the elementary school for the children. Late Delivery Of Balt Caused By Broken Press Don’t jump on your delivery man or say bad things about the post office’s service if you got yestei’day’s copy of The Battalion late. It was our fault. The press broke down sever al times, and only a few copies were out before very late yestei’day aftei’noon. Town Hall Opens Tuesday in Guion “The American Album of Famil iar Music” will give two perform ances Tuesday night at Guion hall. The first show will stai’t at 7 p.m. The second program will be at 9 p.m. Voted one of radio’s top 10 pi’o- grams, “The American Album of Familiar Music” opens the year’s Town Hall season. The show is noted for playing the country’s fa vorite music ranging from classical to popular. Bob May Start At Fullback Saturday Ags Try to Break Eight Year Jinx By BOB BORISKIE Battalion Sports Editor Bob Easley may get the starting assignment at fullback Saturday before his home folks when the Aggies face the Rice Owls in Houston. A John Reagan high product, Easley has been alternat ing with Don Kachtik in the Aggie backfield. He often handles the punting chores and has an average of 37.5 yards for 16 kicks to closely trail Joe Boring, who has an average of 38.1 yards in the same number of punts. The Aggies will be striving to break an eight-game Owl win streak. Not since 1944 have the Aggies tasted victory over Rice, although they hold an all-time edge of 20 wins to 14 for the Owls, with three games ending in ties. Starting in the backfield for the Aggies will be Don Ellis-, quarterback, Joe Boring and Connie Magourik, half backs, and either Kachtik or Easley, fullback. The " line will show the same startei’s who have opened the con test for the Aggies in the past several games. The ends will be Bennie Sinclair and Bill Schroeder; at tackles will be Dui’wood Scott and Lawrence Winkler; guai’ds, Marvin Tate and Sid Theriot; and Fi’ed Broussard, center. Coach Ray George, his coaching staff and about 35 players will leave Satui’day moi’ning by bus for Houston, with Foster Teague, reserve tackle, listed as a doubt ful player because of an injury suffered in practice. - With a confei’ence recoi’d of one win and three losses, the Aggies are out of the conference title pic ture, but will be trying to jar the Owls out of a foui’-way tie for first. Prelude to the Saturday clash will be a Friday night encounter between the Aggie Freshmen and the Rice Slimes. The Freshmen have a season re cord of one win, one loss and one tie. They trampled John Tarleton 34-0, lost to the Baylor Cubs, 14 7, and battled the TCU Pollywogs to a 6-6 tie. . Wins over the Texas Shorthorns and the SMU Colts constitute the undefeated Owlets’ record in two games played thus far. Still looking for a quax-terback that can make the Fi’eshmen of fense click, Fish Coach Willie Zapalac plans to start Bobby Holli day at the position. Holliday has been woi’king from the man-under slot dui’iixg recent woi’kouts, and Zapalac is pleased with his ball handling. Probable starters ror the Fi’esh men will be John Ray and Eugene Stallings, ends; Bobby Lockett and Houston Green, tackles; Billy Pip- pen and Jim Martin, guai’ds; and Walter Griffith, center. In the backfield will be Holliday, quarterback; Bobby Keith and Don Cai’penter, halfbacks; and Jack Pardee, fullback. Man Needs Nine Lives To ‘Skin the Cat" A man needs nine lives to “skin the cat.” At least Richard Forrester thinks so. Foi’i’ester, Sqdn. 20 sophomore, decided he needed the daily work out. He placed a bai’ between the closet door facings in his room. He hosted himself up and stai’t- ed pulling his feet between his ai’ms. The bar broke. Forrester was taken to the col lege hospital and held as a patient for 24 hours. “I guess I was lucky,” Forrester said as he looked out from behind a black eye. Bryan Man Offers $125 Design Prize One hundi-ed and twenty - five dollars in prizes for designing a wai’ehouse has been offered to sophomore architecture students by Don Dale of Bryan. Dale is general contractor for Jake Davidoff, Bryan magazine distx-ibutor. Richard Vrooman, instructor for the students competing, said the warehouse must contain about 1,200 square feet of floor space and cost a maximum of $6,000. Students must select low cost materials and suggest efficient methods of construction, he said. All proposed designs will be ex hibited in the hall of the fourth floor of the Academic building Nov. 14-21. First prize is $50 and second pi’ize is $25. An additional $50 will be divided among the runner-ups in the contest. Corps to Get $180 Bill For ‘Float-Outs’ The corps of cadets is being billed $180 for flush valves missing in recent ‘float-outs’ in the dormitories. The bill will be divided among the two regiments and the wing in the cadet coi’ps, said Fred Mitchell, cadet colonel of the corps. This figure represents only a small poi’tion of the total damage done to doi’mitoi’ies by float-outs and does not include damage to personal belongings and to t h e buildings, said Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant. Flush valves cost $11 each. More than 45 have been reported miss ing this year, but some of them have been found, acoi’ding to the buildings and campus utilities de- partnxent, which presented the $1 K ^ bill. There have been more dormitor vo float-outs this year than e v e x before, and everything possible is . being done to stop them, Mitchell .. said. If a student is caught flooding a doi’mitory, stern disciplinary action will be carried out, said W. L. Pen- berthy, dean of men. Aggie Band Adds Members for Game The A&M band has increased its marching sti’ength from 160 to 200 membei’s for the A&M-Rice football game. This increase was made possible by the addition of forty members from the fi’eshman band. The band will pei’form a semi countermarch type of entrance, two double minstrel turns, a double delayed countermarch, and a “lost indian” countermarch. The drill will be concluded with the spelling of “Rice Owls” and “Texas AMC” to each side of the stadium. News Briefs THIRTY FIVE animal hus bandry 303 students will make a field trip to Houston Tuesday. They will inspect the meat process ing depai’tment and bakei’y of Henke-Pillot Stores, Inc. and will tour the Houston Packing plant. * * * WY CHANG, 42, gx-aduate stu dent fi’om China, was seriously burned Wednesday when the Benzene fluid he was working with caught fii’e from an electi’ic torch. He was making an experiment in bio-chemisti’y. He is now in ; the college hospital. * * * FRED HICKMAN, chief of cam pus secui’ity, said yestei’day that there are no new developments on the $70-dollar robbery of Mitchell hall last Wednesday. Campus se curity is still investigating the case. * * * THREE MEMBERS of the Argentine house of deputies will visit here Saturday to tour the col lege’s research facilities. The men, Victorio Tommasi, Enrique Osella Munoz and Agustin Sibaldi, are members of the Argentine legisla ture’s committee on agriculture. They are making a tour of the United States. * * * WALLACE BERRY stars in “A Message to Garcia” which will be shown tonight in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. Spon sored by the A&M Film society, the show starts at 7:30. * * * CHARLIE PARKER, junior from Amarillo, will speak on the status of the republican admini stration at the next meeting of the Junto club Dec. 8. Parker is sports editor of radio station WTAW. * * * A NATIONALLY TELEVISED football game is shown each Satur day afternoon in the former stu dents lounge of the YMCA. This week’s game is between Michigan and Michigan State. , * * * A 40-HOUR COURSE in super vision will be held here Nov. 16-20. The course, directed by L. K. No Plans for Grass Improvement on Field No definite plans have been made to improve the grass on the main drill field, said Fred De- Werth, college gardener and head of the floriculture and landscape department. He said he wasn’t planning on improving the grass “as long as people keep parking cars on it, driving trucks over it, building bonfires on it, and walking across it.” Jonal of the engineering extension service, is for supervisors, superin tendents, managers, foremen, per sonnel men, gag pushers, squad foremen and their assistants of cities, town and companies in Texas. * * * D. A. ADAM of the agricultural extension service will appear on the program of the National As sociation of Radio Farm Directors at their annual meeting in Chicago this month. * * * THE THIRD ANNUAL Texas Farm and Ranch Credit School for Commercial Bankers will be held here Dec. 6-9. The school gives the county bankers a chance to discuss the important problems involved in meeting the credit needs of their communities, said C. N. Shepard- son, dean of agriculture. * * * MAJ. GEN. A. A. KESSLER, commanding general of the Fourth Air Force will be here Nov. 24-28 to visit his son, A. A. Kessler, a squadron 20 freshman. * * * A LARGE CLOCK has been donated to the dormitory 12 guard room by the Coca-Cola company of Bryan. This clock will be the of ficial timepiece for all formations, said Fred Mitchell, cadet colonel of the coi’ps. Center TV Tubs To Be Replaced The tubs being used for the TV fund in the Memorial Student Cen ter will soon be replaced said President John Samuels of the MSC council. A better looking container will be installed soon and will be lined with cork or some other noise re ducing material. The money already collected has not been counted. The goal will be about $2000. This amount is thought to be enough to buy six 21-inch sets, an aerial, and to pay for necessary installation costs. McNeely to Visit Louisville Nov. 16 Dr. John McNeely, agricultural economics department, will go to Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 16 for a national agricultural economics conference aimed at developing and improving markets for agricul tural products. He will be representing the State Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment station. McNeely is a member of a com mittee studying livestock market ing. He will give a speech on the research work he has conducted on livestock auctions. Senior Aggieland Pictures Start Monday Senior Aggieland ’54 pictures will be taken beginning Monday, said B. C. (Dutch) Dutcher, co editor. Corps seniors should wear blouses and green ties, and, non military students should wear coats and ties. The schedule is as follows: Seniors who last names begin with A-C, Nov. 16-18; D-F, Nov. 19-20; G-H, Nov., 23-25 J-L, Dec. 1-2; M-N, Dec. 3-4; O-R, Dec. 7-8; S-T, Dec. 9-11; and U-2, Dec. 14* ^, Weather Today Clear today and tonight. Nice weather for the game tomorrow. High yesterday 71. Low this morn- ning 47.