The Battalion
Number 49: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1955
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FIRST LOAD—The first truck load of wood brought to the drill field this year was driv
en by Frank Gajewsky and Earl Hall, Class ’55 civilian students. The truck was furnish
ed by North American Van Lines. This load was stacked before dark and gave freshmen
the first look at what will finally turn out to be the world’s largest bonfire.
Last Performance Tonight
Court-Martial’ Well Acted
By JIM NEIGHBORS
Battalion Staff Writer
The Aggie Players performed
the “Caine Mutiny Court-Martial”
with ease and professional ability
at their second performance of the
drama last night.
Playing to a spare, but appre
ciative, audience in the Memorial
Student Center ballroom, the stu-
Job Calls
Thursday
‘ CARRIER CORPORATION—op
portunities in Sales, application
engineering, service, factory, re
search and development. Some
openings in Texas. Will interview
mechanical, industrial, chemical
and electrical engineering majors.
FIRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER
CO.—business adminstration, agri
cultural economics and economics
majors will be interviewed for
openings in sales and office work.
PAN AMERICAN PRODUC
TION CO.—openings for trainee
geologists in district offices.
STANDARD OF TEXAS —me
chanical and petroleum engineer
ing majors will be interviewed for
general engineering work.
TEXAS ELECTRIC SERVICE
^ CO.—January graduates in electri-
tal, mechanical and civil engineer
ing and accounting and finance
tvill be interviewed.
KERR McGEE OIL INDUS
TRIES INC.—'Will interview me
chanical and petroleum engineer
ing majors for drilling and pro
duction and Geology and geologi
cal engineers for Geological De
partment.
dents did an excellent job on one
of the most difficult plays to be
produced in the round.
Special mention must go to Harry
Gooding, who played the exacting
role of Capt. Queeg, the ship’s ty
rannical captain, for his profes
sional performance. Other out
standing characters were those
played by Don Powell, as the advo
cate general; Charles Ware, the
defense attorney; and Bill Swann,
the accused Maryk.
The supporting cast gave con
vincing characterizations which ad
ded to the enjoyment of the famed
Herman Wouk play. Toby Hughes,
Hugh Lanktree, Roy Eckard, Don
Ta^lii ban a Elected
Richard Tachibana, senior ani
mal husbandry major, was elected
president of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley Club recently. Other offi
cers elected are E. B. Gray, vice-
president; Eddie Priest, secretary;
Warren Tenney, Treasux-er; Ronald
Parker, reporter; and Tommy Rob
erts, sergeant-at-ai’ms.
Fisher, Jim Leissner, Les Coch
ran, Ted Castle, Roger Alexander,
Rpy Cline, Ward Boyce and Roger
Clark did not have many lines, bxit
their respective acting was an as
set to the overall pei’formance.
C. K. Esten, dix’ector of the play,
desei’ves a lot of credit for the
smooth performance, which was
the resxilt of many weeks of pa
tient and painstaking?' rehearsals.
He has another successful produc
tion to add to his long list of 'suc
cesses.
Tonight is the last night the
play will be given. Curtain is at
8, and admission is 50 cents for
student and 75 cents for adults.
Weather Today
COLDER
A low of 28 or 30 degrees is
expected tonight from the cold
front that moved in eaxdy this
morning. Yesterday’s high of 85
degrees dropped to 48 degrees
early this moi-ning. Temperature
at 10:30 a.m. was 51 degxees.
UN Security Council
To Settle Membership
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—The
United States late yesterday called
for a meeting of the U.N. Security
Council soon to consider the dead
locked new membership question.
If all those bidding for member
ship ai'e accepted the U.N. roll
would increase fi’om 60 to 78 coun
tries.
UP SHE GOES—The center pole, 60 feet tall from the
ground up, was raised yesterday and some logs stacked.
Squadron 21 volunteered to guard the bonfire area last
night as the pole went up sooner than was expected. The
pole was donated by Dr. S. J. Buchanan of the Civil En
gineering Department.
But the various characteristics
of the countries knocking for ad
mittance and the means of getting
them in have been for years sub
ject to dispute between the West
ern and Soviet poweis.
The new U.S. move to take the
bids once more to the Security
Council was challenged in some
quarters.
Under the rules the Council pro
vides the real test because any of
thp big five powers—the United
States, the Soviet Union, Britain,
France and Nationalist China—can
veto any applicant. Russia has
vetoed many, and repeatedly, in
the past.
With council approval, an appli
cant needs only the usually per-
functox-y okay of two-thirds in the
General Assembly.
The call for a council meeting
shortly came as support mounted
for a Canadian move to admit 18
applying nations, including Outer
Mongolia, a satellite neighbor of
both the Soviet Union and Red
China.
The U.S. request caused a com
motion in diplomatic quai’ters. Del
egates of 22 countries sponsoring
the Canadian Resolution immedi
ately- caucused and decided some
expression of opinion by the As
sembly should be made before the
council acts.
Some diplomats said at least 42
of the 60 U.N. countiies would
vote for the Canadian plan.
Rog ers Elected
Mori’is R. Rogers has been elec
ted president of the Howard County
Hometown Club. Other officers
elected axe Jimmy Poi’ter, vice-
president; John Dorsey, treasurer;
Pat Ci’ossland, secretary; Charles
Fox, reporter; and Herbert W.
Whitney, social chairman.
Bonfire Center Pole Raised;
Guarding Starts Tonight At 7
Blisters Lead Injuries
As Cutting Area Cleared
Blisters, blisters everywhere, and all the hands were
sore; blisters, blisters everywhere and there’s sure to be
some more.
That’s the story of the A&M student body as work gets
underway on the annual bonfire. One cutting area has been
cleared and the other was to be entered today as work goes
on its third day.
The center pole and about 20 logs went up yesterday.
Squadron 21 volunteered to stand guard around the bonfire
area last night as the center pole was raised earlier than
expected this year.
Two boys were injured in the cutting area yesterday.
'♦'Names were unavailable at
the time, but one student had
a serious cut on his foot while
the other student was less
seriously i n j u r e d. Blisters
took the spotlight this week as
axes flew in pxeparation for the
big week ahead.
Power saws are still needed in
the cutting area. The new cut
ting area has bigger trees and
to save time, power saws are of
necessity. Anyone in the Col-
lefe Station-Bryan area, who
would like to donate a power
saw for use on the bonfire should
get in touch with Roy Woodle
at 6-7724.
Juniors are still needed in the
woods. Paul Holladay, head yell
leadei’, said there wei'e a good
many juniors out yestei’day but
moi’e were needed to manhandle
axes and saws. Sophomores are
still needed to supexwise freshmen
in carrying logs from the woods
to trucks so they can be hauled to
the drill field.
Life Magazine may run pictures
on this year’s bonfii’e. Pictures of
the center pole going up were taken
yestei'day, along with several other
action shots in the area.
The center pole, which was do
nated by Dr. S. J. Buchanan of the
Civil Engineei'ing Depai’tment, is
60 feet from the ground up and set
eight feet in the ground. Last
yeax^’s center pole was 73 feet tall
before 15 feet was sawed off to
allow the familiar “tea house” to
be placed on top.
Guarding assignments for to-
morx-ow are as follows:
Milner Hall, Area I, from 7 to
11 p.m.
Law Hall, Area I, from 11 p.m.
to 3 a.m.
Puryear Hall, Area I, from 3
to 7 a.m.
Units guarding the outer x*ing of
the bonfii’e will permit no one to
pass within the ring without proper
identification and no. one will be
allowed inside the inner ring under
any condition at any time, accord-
(See BONFIRE, Page 4)
January Grads
Will Discuss
Ceremonies
In a recent poll of 66 Janu
ary graduates, 80 per cent
voted in favor of January com
mencement and baccalaureate
exercises, said Robin K. Ran-
sone, a senior who has been or
ganizing the drive for ceremonies.
If they are held, both baccalau
reate and commencement will be
scheduled Jan. 20 or 21, before fi
nal examination week. If it could
not be held befox-e final week it is
assumed that no one would be in
terested.
Should the College Administra
tion approve the ceremonies, it
would become mandatory for all
candidates to attend the baccalau
reate and commencement exercises.
All Januaxy graduates will meet
tonight in room 2-A of the MSC
to discuss the program.
Gadkari Elected
Prabhaker Gadkaid of India has
been elected px-esident of the Unit
ed Nations Club. He is a gx-aduate
student. Other officexs elected in
clude Ivo M. Ferreira, vice-presi
dent; Max A. Casalta, treasui’er;
and Luis A. Lopez, secretary.
Notice Received
A notice has been received
from Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Koym
and daughter Vivian, parents
and sister of James Buimis
Koym, who died of a heart at
tack at A&M Nov. 2. The
notice expressed gratitude for
the kindness and sympathy
shown by students at Texas
A&M. The deceased was a
freshman from Pasadena, Tex.
News of the World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA—The Western Allies turned down last night
a new Soviet bid for a European security pact based on the
continued division of Germany. They also rejected a draft
declaration by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov which
would commit the Big Four powers to consider the disarme-
ment problem in future with emphasis on the Russian ob
jective of banning atomic weapons. Molotov’s repeated ef
forts to divorce European security from German unity got
a chilly Western reception.
BUENOS AIRES—Provisional President Pedro Ar-
amburu’s “get tough” policy with Argentine labor shook
the foundations of the once all-powerful General Con
federation of Labor, CGT, yesterday and stopped a
threatened nationwide strike dead in its tracks. The
CGT’s Peronista bosses rallied thousands of workers for
walk-outs in major meat-packing, glass-works, rubber,
tire and shoe manufacturing industries but tens of
thousands of anti-Peronista laborers boycotted the
strike.
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WASHINGTON—Two railroad presidents testified yes
terday at a closed-door inquiry apparently aimed at deter
mining whether there was a “conflict of interest” on the
part of an unnamed government official. The first phase
of the Senate Investigations subcommittee’s inquiry resolved
about the awarding of a contract for shuttling passengers
behind Chicago railroad terminals. Neither Paul E. Feucht,
president of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co., nor
Wayne A. Johnston, president of the Illinois Central Railroad
Co., would disclose what he told the senators. But each told
newsmen he had no part in negotiations giving between-depot
transportation rights to Railroad Transfer Service Co., Inc.
GETTYSBURG—Feeling fine after a “topnotch
night,” President Eisenhower slipped quickly yesterday
into the easy ways of a country squire. It was a combi
nation of leisurely physical activity and bits of official
business for the convalescing President on his first full
day at his country estate on the edge of Gettysburg’s
Civil War battlefield.
UNITED STATES, N.Y.—The United States yesterday
called for an early meeting of the U. N. Security Council to
consider applications for U. N. membership from 18 countries,
including controversial Outer Mongolia. This sudden move
came as nearly two-thirds of the 60 U. N. members lined up
behind a Canadian resolution urging admission of all 18 ap
plicants.
★ ★ ★
HOUSTON—The Houston District Bank for Coop
eratives is to be sold to Texas Farmers for 10 million
dollars. The last Congress authorized sale of 12 such
government-owned hanks, a depression born project de
signed to provide easier credit for marketing coopera
tives.
★ ★ ★
KANSAS CITY—Single shots of Salk polio vaccine for
many millions of children might “prevent epidemics next
year”—because the vaccine works so well, a government
scientist said yesterday. Twice as many children could get
protection if each received one rather than two shots from
available supplies of vaccine, he said.
Town Hall
Four Freshmen Here Friday
Probably the only freshmen on
the campus this Friday who will
not be wox-king on the bonfii’e for
the Texas game will be Ross and
Don Barbour, Ken Ex-rair and Bob
Flanigan.
No, they’re not sick, hurt or two-
percentei’s; these four ai’e here for
entex’tainment purposes. For Fri
day night at 8 in White Coliseum
the Town Hall series will present
the Four Fx-eshmen, vocal and in-
sti’unxental stars for Capitol rec-
oi’ds.
The doors open at 7, and Town
Hall tickets, part of the activity
card package-deal, are good for the
show. Individual tickets ai’e as
follows: General admission, $1 for
students and $2 for non-students;
reserved seats, $1.50 for students
and $2.50 for non-students.
Reserved seats will be sold at
the door Friday night, but general
admission tickets axe now on sale
at the Office of Student Activities,
second floor of Goodwin Hall.
There ai’e still some season tickets,
both general admission and x’esei’V-
ed, on sale.
The quartet had its beginning in
1948 at the Arthur Jordan Con-
sei’vatory of Music in Indianapolis,
where, having discovered that they
had mutual tastes and a happy
blend of voices, the boys decided to
apply their talents commei’cially
as a group.
The foursome is especially noted
for its versatility. Ross, the drum
mer, doubles on trumpet. His
brother, Don, the guitarist, splits
vocal solos with Ken, who handles
trumpet, bass and French hoi’n.
Bob plays both bass and trom
bone.
Among the songs scheduled for
the program are “It’s A Blue
Woild,” “It Happened Once Be-
fox*e,” “Seems Like Old Times,”
“It Never Occui’i’dd To Me,”
“Please Remembei’” and “Day
Isn’t Long Enough.”
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The Four Freshmen
To Be Here With Town Hall