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From Nothing . . . They Heaved . . . Hauled. . . And Hoisted. Battalion Number 21: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1954 Price 5 Cents World’sLargestBonfireBurnsTonight A&M Will Try To Break Jinx 12 Play Last Game UT Builds Spirit By JERRY WIZIG Battalion Sports Editor A&M’s Thin Thirty, short on ability but long - on heart, tries Thursday to crack the oldest jinx in the Southwest con ference. For the 16th time in 30 years, the Aggies try to beat the University of Texas in Austin’s Memorial stadium on Thanksgiving Day. Nearest the Cadets have come to a vic tory in the state capital since* the stadium was built in 1924 was a 14-14 tie in 1948. That ’48 team of Harry Stiteler’s took the field with nine straight defeats. This year’s Aggies go into the game with a 1-8 record, but their 41-9 loss to Texas Tech in the season opener » was the only game in which the Cadets looked bad. A&M’s other seven losses have * been by a total of 45 points. Three of the five SWC defeats were by a total of 11 points. Twelve Cadet seniors play their last college game Thursday and five are listed as probable start ers by Head Coach Paul Bryant. For Big Game Kachtik At Halfback A&M’s probable starters are Bennie Sinclair and Gene Stallings at ends; Larry Winkler and Dee Powell at tackles; Ray Barrett and Dennis Goehring at guards; Herb Wolf at center; Elwood Kettler at quarterback; Don Kachtik and Joe JSchero at halfbacks; Jack Pardee at fullback. Sinclair, Winkler, Barrett, Kach tik and Schero are seniors. Others are ends Billy McGowan and Paul Kennon, guards Norb Ohlendorf, Sid Theriot and Maiwin Tate, half back Charlie Hall and fullback Richard Vick. Light Drill Today The Cadet starters have a light 35 minute workout set for today and will leave for Austin by bus at 7 p.m. Wednesday.- Yesterday the first stringers worked for 40 minutes in a no contact offense and defense drill. Then they practiced extra points, kicking and field goals. Saturday morning the Aggies went through a light drill in sweat clothes. Bryant said of the Longhorn g'ame, “It’s our 10th tough game of the year; it’s just on a Thursday instead of Saturday.” Kettler, the Aggies’ much-im proved man-under, lost his total offense leadership over the week end to Baylor’s Billy Hooper. Ket tler has gained 852 yards rushing and passing to 886 for Hooper. Kachtik is A&M’s leading run ner with 332 yards in 75 tries. Sin clair has caught 18 passes for 233 yards, Schero 7 for 78. A crowd of about 55,000 is ex pected. Construction On Agenda For Meeting Next to talking about the football game, receiving bids for campus construction will be the main order of business when the A&M System board of director's meets Wednesday in Austin. The meeting will be at 2 p.m. in the Di’iskell hotel. Job bids to be received include remodeling Sbisa hall, remodeling the Exchange store, air condition ing the library, and construction at the farm serwice center. Contracts may be let on some of these projects. The board will also consider i’ec- ommendations for increasing the electrical power supply on the cam pus. The board will pass on the dis tribution of Exchange store profits for the last fiscal year. The pro posed distribution is Memorial Stu dent Center, $20,000; intramural athletics, $1,000; and band, $2,900. Also on the agenda are the usual appointments and promotions, and acceptance of gifts and grants. The board meets in Austin every time A&M plays Texas there. The annual Turkey Day game between A&M and the University of Texas is a big thing for the Texas students, too. They have parades and bonfires and parties just like the Aggies. Or almost like the Aggies. The University will have its big pep rally and bonfire-buming Wed nesday night at 7 at a park near the campus. Miss Shirley Strum, editor of the Daily Texan, did not know how big their bonfh'e is, but she said there is n contest between all the campus groups to see who can col lect the most wood for the bonfire. A contest is also sponsored for the best ‘Beat A&M’ sign put up by campus groups. The Longhorns will have their Orange and White automobile pa rade Wednesday afternoon. The decorated cars will go from the uni versity through the down-town area. A prize is given for best car decorations. During the half-time of the game, the Longhorn band and a 200-voice chorus from two Austin high schools will put on a program in memory of the Texas war dead. The chorus will sing the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” while the band forms a cross on the field. The band will also honor Ed Olle of the University athletic staff, who had been with the school 25 years. Texas has a few traditions too. One of them will be observed if they beat A&M Thui'sday—the tow er will be orange from the bottom up, instead of just the top part be ing orange as it is when they win other games. The students there are also try ing to usurp an A&M ti’adition. According to Miss Strum, there is now a petition circulating on the campus to allow the students to have an extra day’s holiday if Tex as beats A&M. The petition now has about 1,000 student names on it, but it has not been presented to the administra tion, she said. More than 11,000 student tickets for the game have been sold at the univei’sity, but this is not a sell out for them. Miss Strum also said that no acts of vandalism on their campus have been reported. Will We Get A Holiday If We Win? One of A&M’s “traditions” is that the students get a day’s extension of the Thanksgiving holidays if A&M beats Texas in the annual Thanksgiving day football g,ame. Needless to £ay, this tradi tion has not been used too much in the last few years— the last time was in 1951, when A&M beat Texas, and M. T. Harrington, then president, announced that the next Mon day would be a holiday. President David H. Morgan was asked yesterday if the tradition would hold this year, and all he said was “Let’s win the game first.” “I shall be prepared to make a statement when we win the game,” he said. The catch is that the presi dent can’t declare a holiday without the approval of the Executive committee. Legally that is. , But the light in the presi dent’s eyes seemed to indicate that the tradition would be good again, “when we win the game.” Biggest One Yet Says ‘Pinky’ Downs By BILL FULLERTON Battalion News Editor Blisters and aching muscles will be forgotten tonight when the torch is set to what P. L. (Pinky) Downs calls “the largest bonfire in the world.” A&M’s annual University of Texas bonfire will be lit at 7:30 tonight, said Howard Childers, head yell leader and bonfire chief. The burning will be earlier than last year, to allow students to study for tomorrow’s classes, he said. “Everybody who worked on the bonfire did a wonder ful job,” he added, “but, there are still logs to be put on and we will work until 7:30 tonight to finish, if we have to.” D. P. JRed) Dowling, head of log stacking, said that the bonfire as of noon yesterday was larger than last year’s. Guards will continue their*- watch fight up to the time Amendments Studied By Civilian Council Local Seal Drive Now In Progress The 1954 Brazos county tuber culosis Christmas seal sale started yesterday and will run through Dec. 25. Joe H. Sorrels, president of the board of directors of the associa tion, is also a member of the board of directors of the Texas Tuber culosis association. Miss Malcolm Mclnnis is this year’s chairman for Brazos county. Letters containing the seals will be handed out to students and are to be returaed by mail. Each let ter will contain two sheets of seals at $1 per sheet although any amount is appreciated by the as sociation. Address of the Brazos County Tuberculosis association is Ma sonic Building, Bryan. Squadron 15 Wins Best Sign Prize Squadron 15 was awarded first place for the best sign around the drill field this year. Second and third place awards went to C field ai'tillery and squad ron 17. Cash awai’ds of $10, $5 and $1 for the first three places were do nated by Eugene Rush, local insur ance man. The winners of the dormitoi’y signs for the Texas game were C field artillery, A ordnance and A signal corps; first second and third, respectively. Two amendments to the Civilian Student Council’s letter of intent were discussed at the group’s meeting last night. One amendment would limit un excused absences of council mem bers to two each semester. Any councilman violating this rule would be removed both from his position on the council as a dorm itory representative and also as a floor representative in the dormi tory. The amendment was refer red to a committee. Another amendment proposed would include a civilian member of the Battalion staff on the coun- MSC Will Hold Auction Tonight The Memorial Student Center will hold an auction from 7:30 to 8 tonight of all articles left rooms. Articles wull be sold to the high est bidder, but may be claimed be fore the auction in room 2A. Ags To Win Says Batt Staff Sports Editor Jerry Wizig tossed up the coin and former sports editor Bob Boriskie called it right, so the Aggies will down the Longhorns Thursday for the first time in Austin’s Memorial stadium. Wizig, whose percentage of ac curacy on his weekly predictions is between 20 and 60, predicted a score of 20-17. (Sports Shorts, with predic tions on Saturday’s games, will appear in the Thursday paper.) cil as a voting representative. This amendment was also referred to a committee. The council also voted in favor of asking the colonel of the corps to appoint one man from his staff to sit with the council as an ex- officio member. In other action, the group voted against discussing any further the civilian discipline at college func tions. The council’s action was in accordance with the report of a committee appointed earlier to study the matter. Lolan Pullen, Aggieland co-edi tor, told the council that he would ‘like to include more civilian ac tivities in the yearbook.” A civil ian section is being considered, he said. John Cozad reported that a large majority of civilian students polled indicated they would be in favor of having a dance for civilian stu dents. A committee was asked to study the matter further. Weather Today Forecast for today is clear with an expected cold front. Yesterday’s high was 62, low 35. The temperature at 11 this morning was 59. that the senior yell leaders, Bob Carpenter, Frank Davis and Childers, apply the torch es to the ciude oil and kerosene soaked logs. The armor units will apply the oil and kerosene. This job is un der the direction of Ted Richey. The oiling will start about 5 p.m. today. Speakers for the bonfire cere monies are Downs, senior football players, and the yell leaders. The speaking stand will be the bed of a truck parked in the southeast corner of the drill field. 10,000 Expected “I expect at least 10,000 persons will be watching,” said Childers. Cutting site for this year’s bon fire was donated by Dr. W. E. Street, head of the engineering drawing department. Trucks were borrowed and students pitched in to cut and haul logs. The 73-feet tall center pole was donated by Dr. Spencer Buchanan of the civil engineering department. Although “hundreds” of stu dents suffered cuts and bruises, only one boy was hui't bad enough to be hospitalized, reported hos pital authorities. The weather for the work on the bonfire has been excellent with just enough coolness to keep stu dents from getting too hot. Cut ting was finished this past week end and the logs hauled to the bonfire area. Two Units Punished Two units, the band and squad ron 12, were punished for steal ing commercial signs to put up around the drill field. They had to pay for and replace the signs and .were not allowed to put an other sign up on the field this year. Fire trucks from the city will be standing by in case the fire should get out of hand. It will be allow ed to burn and then will be cleared aw'ay by the Building and College Utilities department, said Child- Corps Parade Set Thursday For Austin The A&M corps of cadets will parade for the city of Austin Thursday. The biennial Austin corps trip parade will begin at 10 a.m., and move out down Congi'ess street to the state capitol. Units will begin foiming for the parade at 9 a.m. on East 2nd Street, from Congress to Red Riv er. Uniform will be Class A winter, with blouse, green cap, and white gloves. Sabers and boots will be worn. The reviewing stand for the graded parade will be in front of the Austin hotel. Order of march for the parade will be corps staff, band, first regiment, second regiment, first wing, second wing. The 240-man A&M band will also perform during the 2 p.m. game’s half time with a longer than usual show. The band will use the serpentine entrance used at the SMU game, moving up the field and bi-eaking into two units, with the units then crossing .each other. They will also spell out ‘Long horns’ and ‘Texas Aggies.’ The band will form the ‘T’ and do a minstrel turn off the field from the ‘T’ to end-the performance. Other Aggie activity in Austin for the corps trip will include the Austin A&M Mothers club dance in the City coliseum Wednesday night, and many private parties. A&M To Be On TV Humble Oil Company’s “Texas in Review’” television program will feature A&M tonight. The show will have films taken at the Fall Military Day corps review Nov. 6. Fifteen stations will carry the pro gram.