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M The Battalion Number 5: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 19554 * Price 5 Cents Two Aggies Killed in Crash QUEEN CROWNED —Miss Ann Fleming - , center, was crowned homecoming queen or A&M Consolidated high school Friday night during half time of the homecoming game at Tiger field. Others in picture, left to right, are Princess Anna Beaty, Co-captain George Litton, Queen Ann, Co-captain Travis Engel brecht and Princess Ann Cleland. Cadets Start Drills for Hogs After 7-20 Loss to Baylor « By JERRY WIZIG Battalion Sports Editor The reserves and freshmen got most of the attention in yesterday’s plactice session as Coach Paul fcryant gave a near-rest to the players that saw most action in the f-20 loss to Baylor,.Saturday. A&M plays undefeated Arkansas Saturday night at Kyle field to climax Dads day. The players’ fathers will be seated along the sideline. If they can get past the Aggies, and they will be heavily favored, the Razorbacks will be the- best bet to win the Southwest con ference title. Arkansas gets Rice and SMU in Arkansas after the A&M game. Yesterday the reserves staged a muddy 30-minute scrimmage against a team of ineligibles and freshmen using Arkansas plays. Arkansas is the only team in SWC that uses the single wing. The first-stringers ran through offen sive plays. Fullback Don. Kachtik and end Jack Pardee, hurt in the first quar ter'against Baylor, didn’t take part in the workout. Bryant said he is awaiting a report from the doctor on their condition. Kachtik suf fered an injured nose and Pardee an injured leg. Trainer Charles (Smokey) Har- er was back at practice after l missing the Baylor game. He was slightly injured last week when a freshman accidentally hit him on the sideline during a scrimmage. Bryant called the Baylor game “our best game,” and said, “I thought our kids put out a lot of effort.” He added, “Now we’re thinking ahead to .Arkansas, not back to Baylor.” • Too much Billy Hooper, too many fumbles and too many strong Baylor linemen were the big fac tors in A&M’s 7-20 loss Saturday, the seventh straight time the Ca dets have failed to beat Baylor. Hooper and Baylor’s pass pat terns tore apart the Aggies’ pass defense, best in the nation before the game. The senior from Sweet water carried the Bears to three straight touchdowns after the Ag gies almost completely dominated the first half. It’s doubtful if Hooper compares with his fellow townsman, Sammy Baugh, but Saturday he was all he needed to be as he completed 11 of 13 for 126 yards after his first two went incomplete. Rush ed hard in the first half, Hooper seldom had to hurry his pitches in the last two quarters, and his re ceivers most of the time had a big- jump on the A&M secondary. Aggie fans probably will contend News Briefs FLINT W. REED, former A&M student, has been graduated from the U. S. Naval Pre-Flight school in Pensacola, Fla. He is the son of Mr. and Mx-s. Flint W. Reed of Lufkin, Tex. * sfc SECOND LT. Martin H. Schaief, a graduate of A&M, has been as signed commanding officer of the 15 6th Transportation company, New Orleans Port of embarkation. *He is a native of San Benito. Gabbard Will Head Rural Communities L. P. Gabbard of the department of agricultural economics & sociol ogy has been elected president of Texas Rural Communities, Inc. The TRC, which grew from ef forts to encourage purchase of land farmed by tennants, now di rects use of a revolving fund used primarily for loans to tenants so they may buy the land. Loans un der the plan are administered by the Farm Home administration, Gabbard said. Polzer Elected Ben Polzer was elected president of the Milam county club recently. Other officers elected were Carl Hill, vice president; Monroe Fuchs, secretary-treasurer; and Nathan Offield and Emory Crump co-social chairman. SPENCER J. BUCHANAN of the civil engineering department was chairman of two meetings of the executive committee of the U. S. Council on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering in New York City Oct. 12-22. * * * CHARLES W. GOPPERT of Palacios has made his first solo flight at the Whiting Field U. S. Naval auxiliary air station. Gop- pert is a former A&M student. * * * AIR FORCE ROTC contract checks will be given out Wednes day. Air ROTC students can pick them up between 4 and 6 p.m. in the basement of the Military Sci ence building. * * * J. K. RIGGS of the animal hus bandry department will serve as an official judge during the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport Thursday. * * * RAN BOSWELL, city manager, is attending a meeting of the Tex as Municipalities in Fort Worth. He and Mrs. Boswell will return Wednesday. Meeting Postponed The senior class meeting last night was celled off because a quorum was not present. About 60 seniors showed up for the meet ing. The meeting was tentatively re set for next Monday. The class project is to be discussed. the turning point was A.&M’s fail ure to score early in the final quar ter after picking up a first down one the Baylor one-yard line. Plays that were just as important were 1. the Ag fumble on the Baylor 35 that stopped a promising march and started the first scoring drive for Baylor; 2. Hooper’s 14-yard pass on a fourth down, seven sit uation that set up the Bears on the Aggie 19. Kachtik was hurt late in the first quarter, suffering a nose injury, missed the entire second quarter, but started the second half. He had to go,out again in the third quarter, came in once more and jarred many a Baylor back before the final gun. Baylor’s much-publicized left tackle, James Ray Smith, played a fine game, but at times Kettler and Kachtik went over him for nice gains. The Cadets, wearing their gray uniforms with maroon numbers for the first time, scored late in the first quarter after a Baylor fumble. Center Lloyd Hale blasted Bear fullback Allen Jones, and guard Sid Theriot fell on Jones’ fumble on the BU 29. Kettler got 5 on a keeper and on the next play faked a handoff, rolled out to the left and threw to Huddleston in the left corner of the end zone for the touchdown. End Jack Pardee had decoyed Bil ly Hooper, and the pass dropped just over the Bear quarterback. Kettler kicked good, and Baylor didn’t get over the 50 until 6 min utes, 10 seconds were left in the second quarter. Baylor scored like this: Hooper passed 7 yards to end Charlie Smith to end a 65-yard march which started after Bob Easley fumbled on the Bear 35. In the third quarter, J. R. Smith recov ered Kachtik’s fumble, and the aroused Bears knifed to the go- ahead score. Hooper, from the 4, ran to his right and passed to fullback Wel don Holley for the score. The Aggies ran a series of downs after the kickoff, then Baylor went 56 yards in four plays. Hooper pass ed to end Excell Amyett for the last 27 yards. Halfback Bobby Di’ake Keith, missed his tackle at about the 15, and Amyett outran Billy Huddleston. Steel Wins Honors In Horse Judging Billy H. Steel, a senior animal husbandry major, was second high individual in horse judging at the Amei'ican -Royal Intercollegiate Judging contest in Kansas City. The senior livestock judging team of the school won seventh place in cattle judging. Steele is a member of the team. Other members are Robert L. Kemp, Sam D. McAnally, Frank S. Pax-ker jr., Kenneth G. Killion, Lowie K. Rice and Allan E. Turner. Dr. W. M. Warren of the animal husbandry department is coach for the team. On Way to Baylor Game Band Will Get Kither Hats Or Money The Texas Christian uni versity band will get back either the hats that were tak en from them by A&M stu dents or money to pay for them, said J. Frank Ford, cadet colonel of the coi'ps. Ford said he had “some new leads” on the location of the 11 missing hats, taken after the A&M-TCU football game Oct. 16. One sophomoi'e cadet has been given disciplinary action for par ticipating in the incident. He was given an official repri mand, eight hoxxrs extra duty, con duct probation, campused until Christmas, and prohibited from at tending out - of - town football games for the rest of the season. The college received a Letter from the vice-president of TCU, giving the number of hats that were missing. The letter said the hats cost $5.50 apiece. Ford said a collection would be taken up among the military units to pay for the hats if they could not be found. President David H. Morgan and Student Senate President Jerry Ramsey have written letters of apology to TCU officials. Aggielands Arrive Today For Pickup Aggielands may be picked up on the first floor of Good win hall beginning today, the office of student publications announced. The yearbooks were due to arrive earlier this year, but technical difficulties at the publisher delayed delivery un til now, according to the office of student publications. Students must present their identification cai’ds in order to receive their Aggieland, said Karl Elmquist, acting manag er of student publications. Freshman Injured Friday In Crash Near Denton By BILL FULLERTON Battalion News Editor Silver Taps was held last night for William Taylor, 19, sophomore from Laird Hill, and Rex Hudson, 19, sophomore from Henderson, who were killed about 9 a.m., Saturday when their car and a truck crashed headon in the rain 12 miles east of Corsicana. They were headed toward Waco for the football game between A&M and Baylor when the accident occurred. Taylor was driving when the car ran off the road and onto the soft shoulder. When he tried to get back on the pavement, he apparently lost control and hit an oil-field truck. The driver of the truck was not hurt. Funeral services for Taylor were held yesterday morn ing in Kilgore. He was bur ied yesterday in Atlanta, Tex. Taylor is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Tay lor, of Kilgore. Hudson is survived by his moth er, Mrs. A. A. Hudson, five broth ers and two sisters. Funeral seiwices for him wei - e held yestei'- day afternoon in Hendei’son. Members of their unit, Squad ron 2, acted as pall bearers at the funei’als. The entii'e squadi’on at tended both services. Freshman Injxired Victim of another weekend acci dent, Jack Albert, freshman fi’om San Angelo, is recovering from a badly cut ai’m and other lacera tions received in a headon collis ion a half mile south of Lake Dal las Friday night. Albert was taken to the Denton hospital where he was to remain several days before going home for a couple of weeks to recover. His injuries are painful, but are not considered serious, said Hadley Foster, commander of C infantry, Albert’s unit. A Negro in the other vehicle was killed in the collision, and Bruce Capers, a student at North Texas State college who was with Albert, was also hurt. Albert and Capers were on their way to Denton to pick up their dates for the game in Waco. William Taylor Rex Hudson Funeral Services Held For Reid Davis ’55 Clai’ence Reid Davis, class ’55, died Sunday in the Anderson Re- seai-ch Clinic in Houston with can cer. Davis left school at mid semester last year with cancer of the thi'oat. He went to a Baptist hospital in Awards Announced For Two Classes Scholastic awai*ds for this year to be given one freshman and one sophomore electrical engineering major have been announced by the electrical engineei’ing department. The awards to each winner will be a framed certificate and a one- year paid membership in the Amer ican Institute of Electx-ical Engi neers. They will be presented to the freshman electx-ical engixxeer- ing major who has the highest gx-ade point ratio for the regular freshman programs, and to an elec trical engineering sophomox-e se lected by the staff of the depart ment on the basis of scholarship, personality and extra-cuiricular ac tivities. The awards will be known at the Eta Kappa Nu awards. Denison Elected William V. Finn of Denison was selected president of the Gx-ayson County Hometown club. Other of ficers ax*e Richai-d C. Reynolds, vice-president; Brooks Williford, secretary; and Nox-man Gx-igg, bus iness manager. Beaumont, his home town, where his condition impx-oved. Later, he became worse and was sent to the clinic in Houston where he died. He was a member of battery 8 when he was a freshman and A anti-aircraft artillex-y when he had to dx*op fi-om school. Seniors who knew Davis are tak ing up a collection for his mother to help pay hospital bills. Jai’s will be placed in front of the Aca demic building later this week for anyone wanting to help. His fath er was killed in Wox-ld War II. His funeral was held Monday at 4 p.m. in Beaumont. Arkansas Tickets Go Off Sale Friday Student and student date tickets for the A&M-Ax-kansas football game Satux-day will go off sale at 5 p.m. Fx-iday, Pat Dial of the athletic depax-tment announced. Student date tickets are $2 when purchased with the student activi ties card. Band Chib Carnival Termed Success Mox-e than $400 was taken in at the Band Booster club carnival Saturday night. “Everybody was pleased,” said Luther Jones, co-chaix-man of the caraival. “Hot dogs and hambux*- gers went over good,” he said. The carnival was termed a suc cess even though the weather was bad and Aggies were out of town. Day Students Have Election Tomorrow One student has filed for day student representative to the Civilian Student Council election to be held tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in room 1-H, Puryear hall. The student who filed is John C. Hendex-son, senior day student. The election is to fill a vacancy on the council caus ed when no day students filed for the previous election. The day stxxdents ax-e allowed one representative on the council. Write-ins will be permitted in the election, said W. G. Breazeale, civilian counselor. Brown Addresses Science Academy Dr. S. O. Brown, of the biology department, gave a demonstration speech of the electron microscope and its operation to the A&M chap ter of the Texas Collegiate Acad emy of Science Thursday night. Art Hex-zog was elected social secretary at the meeting and Har old Fox reportei’. Plans for a bar becue to entertain a delegation from Maxy-Hardin Baylor were made. Saddle and Sirloin To Meet Tonight Entries for the all Aggie Rodeo will close at 7:30 p.m. today at the called meeting of the Saddle and Six-loin club in the Animal Indus try building. Sam McAnnaly, president of the club, said it is important that all members be present, even though the meeting conflicts with Town Hall. It will be a short session. Duo-Pianists Play Tonight For Town Hall Alfred and Herbert Telt- schik, duo-pianists, will be the attraction at Town Hall at 8 p.m. tonight in the G. Rollie White coliseum. Seats are on a fix-st come first sex-ved basis. Individual tickets may be purchased in student ac tivities office until 5 p.m. today and after 7 p.m. at the door. The Teltschik brothers began their musical training under the guidance of their father. They were born in Floresville, Tex., and attend the Julliard School of Mu sic in New York. They wex-e called to active duty dux-ing Wox-ld War II. While in the army they gave numerous re citals at home and overseas. Back to civilian life as a full- fledged two piano team, they pur chased a small bus converted to tx-ansport their luggage and two concedt grand pianos, which they maintain, tune and repair them selves. They have completed their sec ond transcontinental tour of the United States and Canada. Six Engineers Get Scholarships Six chemical engineering stu dents have received senior scholar ships of $250 each, Dr. J. D. Lind say, head of the chemical engineer ing department announced. The award winners and sponsor ing companies were John E. Fran- dolig and Robert E. Zumwalt, Dow Chemical company, and Thomas M. Campbell, Edward B. Field, Jimmy Dale May and Ray Ben Nesbitt, Universal Oil Products company. The awards were presented re cently at a meeting of the Amer ican Institute of Chemical Engi neers. Twelve top students in the de partment" were interviewed for the scholarships, Lindsay said, and a committee of staff members made the final selection. Biggest Dance Set Saturday Night The biggest dance of the year, “Midnight in New Orleans,” is set for Saturday night in the Memorial Student Center immediately after the A&M-Arkansas football game. Margai*et Long, program direc tor for the MSC said three groups would play for the dance. The Aggieland Orchestra will play fox trot music in the ballroom, the Ca pers Combo will play Latin Ameri can music in the serpentine lounge, and the Prairie View Collegians will play blues and rhythm'in the assembly room. The entire second floor of the MSC will be decorated for the dance. Tickets are $1.25 and are on sale at the main desk in the MSC and at the booth next to the post office. Weather Today CLEAR The weather outlook for today is broken skies with no rain pre dicted. Yesterday’s high was 84, low 66. The temperature at 10:30 this morning was 77.