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Number 193: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1956
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UP AND OVER —goes A&M’s devastating fullback. Jack Pardee (32), to score the
second Aggie touchdown from a yard out against Rice on Kyle Field last Saturday. Vis
ible for A&M are Loyd Taylor (45), John Tracey (80), and Lloyd Hale (50). A&M
won, 21-7, cinching a tie for the SWC title. —Photo by Don Bisett
Bonfire Center Pole Up;
Safety Being Stressed
Work on the bonfire began in
Kirnest as the center pole was
yaised yesterday morning. Measur
ing 66 feet in height, the pole con
sists of two telephone poles spliced
together and sunk into the ground
about eight feet.
The safety committee, an im
portant factor in every year’s
bonfire, already has been at work
for some time preparing for the
actual cutting, hauling and stack
ing problems.
Posters are being placed in the
dormitories carrying safety slogans
and safety men have been appoint
ed by each unit to instruct in the
safe way of working on the bonfire.
Approximately 70 corps juniors
identified by green arm bands will
circulate through working areas
acting as safety officers. A sound
truck, donated by American
Laundry in Bryan will stay at
the cutting area continuously
broadcasting safety warnings and
pointers.
In addition to prevention of ac
cidents such as cuts, bruises and
broken bones, this year’s safety
committee is making an effort to
eliminate the many cases of poison
ivy that accompany each bonfire.
To do this, workers are orient
ing students on ways to prevent
poison ivy and distributing strong
laundry soap to use in the showers
as a means of preventing poison
ivy. If used right away, the soap
is supposed to greatly reduce the
chances of getting poison ivy,
workers said.
Oceanographic Group
To Meet Friday Night
Oceanographic Society will meet
at 7:30 p. m. Friday in room 2-C
of the Memorial Student Center.
This will be the group’s final
meeting of the year. Items on
the agenda include election of
officers and year-end business mat
ters.
Weather Today
Cloudy weather is expected all
day, with a cold front moving in
about 7:30 this evening, possibly
accompanied by rain showers. This
morning’s temperature at 10:30
was 75 degrees. Yesterday’s max
imum and minimum readings were
81 and 68 degrees.
Dick Wall, chairman of the
safety committee, said.
“If we can save one man a
broken leg, the efforts of the bon
fire safety committee will be
worthwhile. In past years, one out
of every 100 cadets has suffered
an injury requiring hospital care.
Let’s try to make this the safest
bonfire we have ever had.”
Statistics for last year from the
College Hospital show that during
the bonfire construction period,
th'ere were 37 hospital cases and 67
cases of poison ivy.
Safety committee members are
RV’s To Add
69 Members
Tonight At 7
Ross Volunteer Company initia
tion banquet for 69 junior cadets
will be held at 7 p. m. today in
the main ballroom of the Memorial
Student Center. Guest speaker
will be Brig. Gen. J. Earl Rudder,
commander of the 90th Infantry
Div. and presently Texas land com
missioner.
Distinguished guests will be Dr.
M. T. Harrington, chancellor of the
A&M System; Dr. David H.
Morgan, president; Col. Joe E.
Davis, commandant; Lt. Col. Taylor
Wilkins, assistant commandant.
Col. Henry Dittman, PAS; Col.
Delmer P. Anderson, PMST; Mrs.
Irene Claghorn, vocational nurse,
College Hospital; P. L. Downs Jr.,
information assistant, College In
formation Office; J. B. Hervey,
executive secretary of Former Stu
dents Association; Lt. Col. George
H. Watson and Maj. Charles M
Taylor, Ross Volunteers military
sponsors.
Vet Check Forms
Need Signatures
About 40 to 50 veterans have not
signed for their October checks,
according to the Veteran Advisor’s
Office.
These checks, normally due to be
delivered on the 20th of each
month, will be late and will not
be delivered at all if the concern
ed students do not sign the neces
sary forms. •
Missing Records
ALBUQUERQUE —CP)— After
recently examining the income tax
returns of two New Mexico ranch
ers involving a joint venture, a
U. S. Internal Revenue Service
agent here requested records from
the pair to verify the transaction.
One of the partners sent the fol
lowing reply: “Well, I’ll tell yuh
We sat on a corral fence and fig
ured the deal out on a piece of
board. Then I gave Sam a check
for his part and threw the board
away.”
Wall, chairman; Roy Johnson, Bill
McCarty, Ronnie Briggs and Bob
Sullivan plus every supply sergeant
in the corps.
Members of the A&M Pre-Med
Society say they are planning to
erect a first aid station during
the bonfire building period. Pre-
Med students interested in work
ing at the station may contact Bob
Yeager at Dormitory 1, room
218.
As in the past coffee will be
served from trucks during the
guarding hours. Serving hours
will be from 12-2 a.m. and 4-6
a.m. In addition to the bonfire,
the trucks will make rounds to
Kyle field and “Sully,” where
guards will also be posted.
Stalinists Gain Power
As Pravda Blasts Tito
ArchitectsHear
Dallas Official
Tonight at 8
Marvin R. Springer, direc
tor of city planning in Dallas,
will lecture on “Problems of
Our Urban Revolution” to
night at 8 in the biological
sciences lecture room.
Sponsored by the Division of
Architecture, Springer is the first
speaker of the architectui’e divis
ion’s new lecture seines, designed
to bring top names in architec
ture to A&M for the purpose of
getting new ideas and exchanging
ideas with other schools and prac
ticing professionals.
Charles R. Colbert, head of the
division of architecture, said “Be
cause of the increasing occurrence
of problems in planning, zoning
and traffic, this lecture should be
of great interest to anyone con
nected with physical environment.
“With the background Springer
has, both students, faculty and
practicing professionals in archi
tecture, city planning and munici
pal law are sure to find his lec
ture worthwhile,” he added.
Ma lenkovMay Oust
Bulganin as Head
LONDON—UP)—Pravda’s attack on Yugoslav President
Tito is viewed here as new evidence that the Stalinists, prob
ably with army support, are gaining in the Kremlin struggle
for power.
Pravda, the Communist party newspaper in Moscow, at
tacked Tito for blaming “Stalinists” in the Kremlin for Rus
sia’s troubles in Hungary and Poland. It accused him of
trying to split the Communist world.
This could mean Stalinists are shaping the paper’s edi
torial line and thereby signaling their ascendancy.
An unconfirmed report reaching British diplomats sup
ported his theory. The report suggested that Georgi Malen-
^kov may step back as premier,
replacing Nikolai Bulganin,
and that V. M. Molotov, form
er foreign minister, may oust
Cherry Represents
Texas At Tax Meet
Robert G. Cherry of A&M’s Ag
ricultural Economics and Sociol
ogy Department last week was in
Los Angeles, Calif, as Texas’ del
egate to the National Tax Confer
ence.
Cherry had earlier been appoint
ed by Gov. Allan Shivers to rep
resent Texas at the conference.
State and national tax prob
lems were to be discussed. Other
topics were to include property
and highway user taxes.
Air Force Sophs
Set Contract Quiz
Air Force sophomores are sche
duled to take their qualification
tests for an advance contract on
Sunday and Monday afternoons at
1.
These tests are necessary for an
advanced ROTC contract.
Those sophomores whose names
begin with the letters A - Q are
supposed to report to the chemis
try lecture room for their exami
nation'.
Those whose names begin with
the letters R - Z plus all other per
sons eligible for the test and who
desire an advanced contract are
supposed to report to the biologi
cal sciences lecture room.
These two dates are the only
times this year the tests are sche
duled to be given.
Tow cry Says Service
Is Journalist’s Target
By DAVID McLAIN
Today’s journalists should trj
to be a service to mankind by find
ing the facts and enlightening the
public with truth, Kenneth Tow-'
ery, Pulitzer Prize winning mem
ber of Capitol Bureau of Newspa
pers Associated told delegates to
the fourth annual conference of
the Texas Junior College Press
Association at their banquet Mon
day night in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
“When you get printer’s ink on
your fingers, and it permeates in
to your bloodstream, you’re never
good for anything else,” said Tow-
ery to the journalists-to-be.
Towery, while editor of the
Cuero Record, was the main fac
tor in the expose of the 1954 land-
grab scandal involving Bascom
Giles. He delivered his speech to
more than 130 delegates, faculty
members, journalism majors and
members of Sigma Delta Chi, na
tional professional journalism fra
ternity and sponsors of the con
ference.
The banquet was the climax to
the first day of panel discussions
and talks by professional men in
the field of journalism.
After the invocation by Roy
(Connie) Eckard, general chair
man of' the convention, Donald D.
Burchard, head of the A&M De
partment of Journalism gave a
welcoming address. Master of Cer
emonies and President of this
year’s conference was Miss Raye
Cochran, journalism student at
Odessa College.
Dave McReynolds, president of
the A&M Chapter Sigma Delta
Chi then presented awards to win
ners of the Junior College Press
contest for outstanding work on
school publications.
An informal dance was held af
ter the banquet with the Bob Are-
valoz Quintet, a local band, pro
viding the music.
Purpose of the conference is to
benefit junior college journalism
students and provide facilities and
professional assistance for the bet
terment of journalism at those col
leges, said Burchard.
Member colleges represented
were Allen Academy, Tarleton
State, LeTourneau Technical, Am
arillo, Blinn, Kilgore, Odessa, Ar
lington State, Paris, Howard Coun
ty, and Southmost College. Whar
ton County Junior College, a non
member, was also represented.
Speakers at the conference in
addition to Towery were, Tom
Murrey of Taylor Publishing Co.;
Dallas Morning News’ assistant
city editor, W. A. Payne; Joe Ken
drick, national advertising manag
er of Waco News Tribune; Jones
Ramsey, sports publicity director
at A&M; and Otis Miller of the
A&M Journalism Department.
TB Seal Sale
Plans To Cover
All Dormitories
Christmas Seals to fight
tuberculosis will be made
available to students at A&M
as well as to permanent res
idents of the county who will
receive seals by mail, according to
Mrs. John Q. Hays, county chair
man.
“In view of the late appearance
of the student directory, it was not
practical to get letters addressed
to each dormitory student,” she
said, “But packets of envelopes
each containing a sheet of seals
will be distributed through the
dormitory organizations, so that
all students may have the oppor
tunity to buy one or more sheets
of seals.
“The seals are $1 a sheet, just as
they were in 1907,” Mrs. Hays
said, “but any amount may be
contributed.”
Students living in College
apartments will be mailed individ
ual letters, she said. Their letters,
however, will contain only one
sheet of seals while those to oth
er residents contain more.
The seal sale committee, Mrs.
Hays explained, decided to ask
students to buy one sheet of seals
in hopes a larger number of stu
dents would participate. Of course,
anyone wishing to buy more may
do so.
In a recent meeting, the Stu
dent Senate moved to back the
Seal Sale on the campus 100 per
cent, according to Larry Piper,
president.
The Seal Sale began Thursday
and will continue until Christmas.
It is the sole means of support
for the work of the Brazos Coun
ty Tuberculosis Association and
its state and national afiliates.
Nikita Khrushchev as boss of
the Soviet Communist Party. Re
cent actions show a “velvet glove”
line possibly inspired by the
Khrushchev faction, as contrasting
“iron hand” tactics which perhaps
can be ascribed to the Stalinists,
believed led by Molotov.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia —
The Belgrade District Court said
today that an investigation had
been opened into the writings of
Milovan Djilas, former Yugoslav
vice president. It confirmed re
ports from the family yesterday
that he had been arrested.
Djilas, 43, formerly was Presi
dent Tito’s closest friend, biogra
pher and aide. He was reported
one of the driving forces behind
Tito’s break with Moscow eight
years ago.
He split with Tito two years
ago when he began advocating a
two-party system and greater
freedom. He lost his government
and party positions and in a trial
last year was sentenced to 18
months in jail on charges of con
spiring against the government.
He did not go to jail but was
placed on probation.
His arrest was considered by
some quarters here to have been
caused by an article which appear
ed las week in the New Leader,
an anti-Communist publication in
New Yoi’k.
In that article Djilas declared
the Hungarian revolution was the
beginning of the end of commu
nism. He charged that Yugoslav
Communists had surrendered their
basic principle—the right of the
various, national Communist par
ties to seek the road to socialism
independently of Moscow—by their
failure to whole heartedly condemn
Moscow’s use of force in Hungary.
Navarro JC
Coeds Injured
In Bus Wreck
Two Navarro Junior Col
lege students, traveling with
a group on the way to Texas
Junior College Press Confer
ence held here yesterday and
today, were injured yesterday
morning when their school bus
overturned near Hearne.
Injured were Donnie Mills, 18
and Elizabeth Coker, 18. Hearne
hospital authorities said that Miss
Mills was treated for a broken
shoulder and Miss Coker for
shock.
The bus, a converted 1955 Chev
rolet panel truck, was carrying
10 students when it went out of
control on the slippery highway
at 8:15 a.m. yesterday and over-
tumed five miles south of Hearne.
Driver of the car, Clarence Lu
cas, a student, suffered cuts and
bruises, according to State High
way Patrolman Charlie Hodges.
The group’s sponsor, Mrs. R.
L. Arnold, was unable to continue
the trip, and Kenneth Martin, Dir
ector of Guidance at Navarro, took
her place as sponsor.
Other passengers in the car, all
students, included Richard Grim-
mett, Aletha Carr, Virginia Mc
Cormack, Linda Traweek, Delores
Bartula and Jerry Worsham.
Shrimp Bowl
Sends Invite
To Ag Team
GALVESTON, (^) — Texas
A&M, banned from bowl game
competition by an NCAA pro
bation order, yesterday was in
vited to the Shrimp Bowl
game.
The coaches and Aggie play
ers were invited to attend the
game Dec. 8 as spectators.
A spokesman for the Shrimp
Bowl said, “We feel Texas
A&M should have been allow
ed to play in the Cotton Bowl;
we would like this to be a con
solation trip for the squad.”
The Aggies already have
clinched a tie for the South
west Conference champion
ship and would probably get a
Cotton Bowl berth if the pro
bation were not in effect.
The Shrimp Bowl game will
math the Ft. Hood Tankers
against Bolling AFB, Wash
ington, D.C.
ALMOST BLOCKED—is Roddy Osborne’s punt as Rice’s Buddy Dial (84), Jim Cauley
(79) and Gene Jones (37) move in after Osborne fumbled the snap from center. Roddy
got the kick off however, for 33 yards midway in the third period.
j —Photo by Don Bisett