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i i rci -OiJ.ij y To 90 Per Cent Of T..oea.I Best dents # Pnbiished By A &:M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 150: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1953 Price Five Cents mm. m | 8 k False Alarm Raises Corps Sunday Night It was all a false alarm Sunday night. The report of 35 cars “full of tea-sippers” coming from Austin to A&M is believed to be a prank, according to Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, as sistant commandant. A man who identified him self as a highway pati’olman telephoned the Memorial Stu dent Center and said that the cars had left Austin at 9 p. m., on their way to College Sta tion. Other phone calls and re ports were received, giving the route and time of the “invas ion.” The cadet corps guard was alerted and increased, just in case the reports were true. The alert was called off about midnight, after attempts to validate the reports failed. Clark Case Closed; No Action Planned College Officials Make Investigation President David H. Morgan said yesterday in a press release that the college has made a thorough investigation of the John Clark incident and “no further action is contempla ted by the college.” Clarke is the junior from Odessa who left school Thurs day night after he was visited by several students in his room in dormitory 2. “After a thorough investigation of the recent action of certain students at A&M in asking another student to leave,” Morgan said, “we have reached the following conclusions: “The student (Clark) wrote a highly inflamatory let ter to the student newspaper about A&M. ♦ “The letter aroused other students who have a high re- Elephant Walk Set Wednesday Mor nmg. 11:16 YEH MAN—Vocalist Sally Ann Summers will add the swing to the sway Wednesday night when she sparks Sammy Kaye’s band with some of the top hit songs. The dance is set for 1 9:30 p.m. in Sbisa Dining hall. Slerziiig Gets RV Administrative Post Bruce Sterling was elected ad ministrative officer of the Ross Volunteer company last night. He replaces Charles (Chuck) Fenner who resigned. Sterzing is a senior pre-law major from Austin and commander of the third bat talion, first regiment. The RV’s will go to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans again this year, announced the company com mander, Bill Reed. He said that the executive committee of the college l T Returns 700 Tickets; 30 Left Seven hundred tickets to the University of Texas—A&M foot ball game were returned to the athletic department Sunday by UT. The tickets went on sale yester day. All but 30 were sold, said a Epokesman for Pat Dial, business manager for the athletic depart ment. The spokesman said the tickets were returned because Texas stu dents did not buy as many as were anticipated. No other reason was given. The remainder of the tickets went on sale today. Most of them were single seats, the spokesman said. A&M students may buy the tickets as long as they last at the booths adjoining the athletic of fice. has approved the trip, which will be March 2. The company has received an in vitation to march in the Illuminat ed Parade in San Antonio. The in vitation has not yet been brought before the executive committee for its approval. “Approval is expect ed,” Reed said. Applications for new RV mem berships were discussed at the meeting. Reed said that 117 jun iors applied but that only 80 can be selected, according to the RV constitution. “The final selection of new mem bers should be completed before the Thanksgiving holidays. The men will be notified by mail im mediately”, Reed said. A grade point ratio of 1.5 and a B average in military science is required of all RV members. Lost And Found Auction Planned An auction of lost articles will be held in the Fountain room of the Memorial Student Center im mediately after the bonfire Wed nesday night. Unclaimed articles from the M SC lost and found department will be auctioned by Col. Walter Brit ton of Bryan. The auction is spon sored by the House Committee to raise money for the television fund. North Gate Fire Causes Little Damage A fire yesterday afternoon about 2:40 p.m., did slight damage to clothes in a dryer at the Aggie Cleaners on Col lege Main at the North Gate. R. N. Smith, manager of the cleaning establishment, said the fire started when the dryer burst into flames from an un known cause. The College fire department answered the call and put out the fire. Some damage to clothing may have resulted from the dense clouds of smoke caused by the fire. Each dryer has a capacity of about 20 pieces of clothing. News Flashes By ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt—Egyptian police have arrested a British journalist, Tom Clarke, in Alexandria. He was the third British subject picked up by the Egyptians within a week. Clarke was arrested yesterday but the British Embassy here said it had not been informed of the charges against him. WEST POINT, N. Y.—The Army admitted today it really had got the Navy’s goat. And, with tongue in cheek, it announced it was sending it back to Annapolis. The pure blue Angora mascot, Billy the 12th, was heisted early yester day from Thompson Stadium on the naval academy grounds. It showed up last night in the military academy mess hall. ★ ★ ★ SAN ANTONIO—A suicide verdict was returned today in the 11-story plunge of M. T. Birch, 64, whose body hit so hard it jarred Station KABC off the air for 15 seconds. Birch, a power cost engineer, crashed onto the roof of the station’s control rooms. ★ ★ ★ DEL RIO—Two jet trainer planes collided in flight to day, sending one hurtling 18,000 feet to the ground and kill ing the pilot. The dead pilot was identified as 2nd Lt. Thomas Gordon Yarbrough, 22, of Lindale, Ga. * A * NEW YORK—With New York City’s reservoirs down to 45 per cent of capacity. Water Commissioner Dominick Pa- duano has asked citizens to conserve supplies. It was the first such appeal since 1949-50, when the reservoirs fell to 33 per cent of capacity. Fish Victory Means Long Hair Freshmen can now let their hair grow out, according to Victor R. Kennedy, commander of the first composite regiment. The 14-13 victory of the Fish over the Texas Shorthorns Satur day allowed the freshmen this privilege. Fresmmen may let their hair grow to two and one half inches on top but it must be close on the sides and neck, Kennedy said. Kaye To Play Here For Bonfire Dance Sammy Kaye swings and sways his way to A&M Wednesday to play the type of music that has won his group the title of the “top sweet band in the nation.” Kaye and his band will give a concert at 6:30 p. m. in Guion hall, and will play for a dance at 9:30 p. m. in Sbisa hall. The con cert will end at 7:45 p. m. so the audience may watch the burning of the bonfire. Tickets are 75 cents a person for the concert and $2, stag or couple, for the dance. No reserve seats or tables will be offered, and both the dance and the concert will be operated on a “first come, first served” basis. Tickets are for sale in the stu dent activities office in Goodwin hall or may be bought at the doors. Featured in three radio shows, Kaye is famous for his renditions of “Harbor Lights,” Easter parade,” his Irving Berlin and Stephan Foster albums and other hits. Kaye writes songs as well as plays them. He has written “Un til Tommorrow,” “Remember Pearl Harbor,” “I Want to Wish You a Merry Christmas,” “Ha waiian Sunset” and “Wanderin’.” The swing and sway man was recently voted as having the top sweet band in the nation by the National Ballroom Operators as sociation. The selection is made by the nation’s bookers, the band’s chief source of income. To The Student Body Within the last week there have occurred several things in Austin, which have probably been pretty hard for some freshmen, as well as the rest of the school to take. Everyone has gotten pretty well “keyed up” over these instances, and they have good reason to be. However, we have to look further than the present and see that what we do today will remain with this school for a long time. Wednesday and Thursday will bring many students from the University of Texas to A&M’s campus. Although there is a rather tense feeling among students here, let’s remember that a single incident can have a great effect on this school. That mass of timber on the drill field symbolizes many hours of hard work—it in itself reflects the feelings of sev eral thousand men. In a similar way these men stand for a truly great school. When that bonfire is lighted Wednesday night, let us keep in mind that we are out there to stand behind those Aggies and to win that ball game. PAT WOOD ’54 President, Senior Class Freshman Reports Being Beaten Here Allan Newberry, Sqd. 22 fresh men reported Friday that he was attacked and beaten by two uniden tified persons while I’eturning from track practice. Newberry said he was stopped between the Grove and freshman area by a car containing four male passengers. He was asked if he was an Aggie. He said he was. Then Newberry said, two of the occupants got out of the car and beat him. He was not seriously hurt. CS Police Force Adds Five Special Patrolmen Four or five men will be added to the College Station police force for Thanksgiving day. Extra state highway patrolmen will also be on hand. The highway patrolmen will handle traffic on all main roads to the College Station area while the local police will work in the immediate vicinity of the campus. Vision 7 Tells Score Of UT Tussle A “white mist vision” has probably come as close to pre dicting the score of the A&M- University of Texas football game as anybody. Four A&M magicians, Jeri’y Schnepp, Dean Duncan, L. A. Sutherland and Tom Tolson held a seance yeasterday. They said a vision appeared to them after they put their hands together around a table. The vision was a white, cloudy mist—“I can’t exactly describe it,” Duncan said. When the vision went away, it left the score of the game in clouds behind. The magicians wrote down the score, locked it in a wooden chest, sealed the chest in a cardboard box, and left the box in The Battalion office for safekeeping. The box will be open publicly after the game, and we’ll see how good a prognosticator the white cloud is. Okay Needed To Stop Cars At Entrances BonfiVe road guards at the entrances to the ^campus must have permissionfrom the com mandant’s office before stop ping cars, said Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant commandant. Guards should not stop cars because people do not like to be stopped and because the guards do not know the proper procedure for stopping cars, Wilkins said. As an example, Wilkins said one car window was broken Sunday night. According to Wilkins, the duty of the entrance guards is to re port suspicious-looking cars to the main drill field area by the com munications system. “The guards at the drill field have the authority to stop anyone entering that area”, he said. “That is the place to catch anyone with intentions of lighting the bonfire.” gard for the college and foi its rich heritage. “With understandable in dignation, but improper procedure, certain students decided that they were morally obligated to ask him to leaver “He was therefore asked to leave, and readily did so, with their assistance in packing and loading his possessions into his car. Their monetary contribution was accept ed. The entire pi’ocedure was order ly.” The student may return at any time, Morgan said, since he “is still enrolled at the college and has indicated that he will do so to com plete this semester, provided he is accepted for admission in the Spring semester of this year by the university in which he has been interested for the past several years.” “Thei'e was no act or threat of violence of any nature, and no abusive language was used. In addition, there was no evidence of intent to use force in case of re sistance. “While it is not to be expected that the students involved will change their attitude toward the remarks made by Clark in his letter, or toward the author, the student may be assured of no further action by an organized group of students. “No further action is contemplat ed by the college.” Dr. Morgan’s statement was a result of information compiled by him nd came after an investiga tion of the incident with students and observers. Clark told The Battalion from his home in Odessa, “I will come back under one condition—if Presi dent Morgan can positively guaran tee 1 will be admitted to OU next semester.” He said Morgan’s statement that he was asked by the students “to leave,” and that he “readily did so, with their assistance in packing and loading his possessions into his car,” was true. Clark added, “I didn’t see any use in resisting, so 1 didn’t.” He said concerning Morgan’s press release, “There wouldn’t be any organized group, but there al ways will be those die - hards around that feel they are morally | obligated to get rid of people who J don’t see things their way.” “I don’t agree 109 per cent with his (Morgan’s) statement that there was no act or threat of violence of any nature, or that no abusive language was used. “They (the students) told me they couldn’t force me to leave, but that if I stayed, it would be so miserable for me that 1 would leave of my own accord in two or three weeks.” Clark said he would know if he is coming back to A&M as soon as he is assured of admission to OU. He said if he does come back, it probably will be Monday or Tues day after the Thanksgiving holi days. T h e traditional Elephant Walk, for all seniors, will form at 11:16, a.m., Wednes day, at the flag pole in front of the Academic building. Monty Montgomery, head yell leader, said the Elephant Walk was a senior function and was the duty of all seniors to attend. As an old elephant will wander- off to some secluded spot to await death, the seniors will be symboliz ing that they are spending their last year at A&M and will be of no use to athletic teams as part of the “Twelfth Man” any longer, Montgomery said. “The Elephant Walk will be held Wednesday not only to permit sen iors to participate, but also to give underclassmen a chance to see the meaningful event. I feel the Ele phant Walk is something for Ag gies and by Aggies and not some thing for visitors who do not know the meaning of the function,” Montgomery said. Montgomery said he thought too many seniors would be unable to participate Thursday because of having guests on the campus. be L M S C Makes Safety Plans For Bonfire Safety measures will taken this year to prevent fire damage to Memorial Stu dent Center property during the burning of the bonfire, said J. Wayne Stark, MSC direc tor. The chair cushions and the um brellas behind the main lobby will be taken inside while the bonfire is burning. When the bonfire col lapsed last year, burning sparks caused extensive damage to these items of property, Stark said. “Although this property w a s covered by insurance, it was put out of commission for several months,” Stark stated. Stark has one other problem which might result indirectly from the bonfire. If it rains before the burning of the bonfire Wednesday night, forgetful students and vis itors might track mud into the MSC, causing damage to the floors, he said. Stark also advised that persons owning convertibles be careful about parking them, since several tops were burned last year on con vertibles parked behind the MSC. Students Caught In Austin Punished Th'e five A&M students caught in Austin Thursday, Nov. 19, with paint brushes and highway signs were given 24 extra duty hours and were campused until Easter. As yet, no action has been taken on the six A&M -students hazed by University of Texas students on the same night, according to Lt. Col Taylor Wilkins, assistant com ma ndant. Weather Today Shivers to Present Gilchrist Portrait Gov. Allan Shivers will present a portrait of former chancellor Gibb Gilchrist Thursday to A&M on behalf of the board of directors. The presentation will take place at 10:30 a.m. in the Texas Engi neers library where the painting will remain. President David H. Morgan will accept the painting for the college. Members of the A&M board and the University of Texas Board of Regents will attend. The Board of Directors w ill hold | day and its second meeting of the semester cloudines: tomorrow. | day 72. WINDY Winds this afternoon diminsh- ing tonight. Clear and cooler to- tonight with possible : tonight. High yester* Low this morning 52.