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18,430 READERS THE BATTALION Bonfire Injuries 13 Number 196: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1956 Price Five Cents HIGHER AND HIGHER STILL^-Standing watching- stacking- on the Thanksgiving- bon fire are Raymond Dalezel, left, and Jim Leisser, front. Helping guide the logs into place are Floyd Hardimon, left, and Travis Johnson. All four men are seniors. Consolidated Grade School Sees Folk Play Elementary students at A&M Consolidated will see “Johnny Appleseed”, a play for children in two acts pre sented by the Children’s The atre of the West tomorrow at 12:30 p. m. in the Consolidated auditorium. All students in grades 1-4 will attend the play. They are all asked to bring 25 cents to cover cost of bringing the production here. “About 100 additional tickets will be available at the elementary school office,” Mrs. H. S. Creswell, principal, said. Prices are 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for childi’en. Local talent in the production will include Barbara Ewens, Kim Alexander and Dick Pewthers. Alternates are Christine Glass, Vikki Vrooman and Don Musa. They will play minor roles in the production. Johnny Appleseed, one of the most popular figures in American folklore, has one of the few true tales in our folk stories. The original character, born in 1776, went about frontier America, planting apple orchards, many of which exist today. MSC Shows Lost Articles Before Sale Have you lost anything in the MSC this past year? You’ll have a chance to re trieve it next week. All the articles turned in to the MSC main desk and the Campus Security will be on display in Room 2A be ginning Friday at 1 p. m. The only catch is that on Tuesday, the MSC House Group will hold its annual auction in the Fountain Room and dispose of all the un claimed articles. Proceeds from the auction will be used for Christmas decorations in the student cen ter. The auction will begin at “around 6 p. m.” before the bonfire and will continue after the bonfire has been ignited. On Schedule LITTLE ROCK (A 3 )—Eight fire trucks raced to a downtown fire alarm box. The firemen saw a startled woman standing beside it. She told them: “Someone said if I pulled the lever I would get a schedule of city buses.” Appreciation Shown Faculty By Aggie Exes Former students have sent about 2,500 to 3,000 messages to members of the faculty whom they had while in school, according to Dick Her- vey, executive secretary of the Former Students Association. Messages were sent by exes af ter they received a card and let ter from the Former Students As sociation asking if they would like to write a message to a professor whom they had in college to show their appreciation. The letter also announced the winners of the Fac ulty Achievement Awards, H e r - vey said. This program was sponsored by the Association to celebrate Fac ulty Appreciation Month in Oc tober, he said. Cards were received by the As sociation and have been distribu ted to the professors. Costly Bee KITCHENER, ONT. (^—Motor ist Ross Steeves escaped a bee sting, but it cost him $500 in auto repairs. He was fighting of the bee when he rammed into a parked car on a city street here. INDIANS AND PILGRIMS—Twelve members of A&M Consolidated Elementary School third grade rooms of Mrs. Carl Landiss and Mrs. C. K. Leighton strike poses on the Con solidated stage following a Thanksgiving play entitled “Grateful Pilgrims”, given by the group to a recent meeting of the Consolidated Mothers and Dads’ Club. The play was also presented in the weekly elementary assembly held last Friday. Cast members are: (kneeling) Howard Nelson and standing, left to right, Susie Brown, Dianne Bell, Gwen Mountney, Clem Alexander, Breton Rice, Scott Hervey, Ricky Crow, Dennis Cha- ney, Mark Quick, Linda George and Duke Butler. hting Suez Area Leave -—♦- Nehru’s Visit To Conference Very Doubtful It is extremely doubtful that Premier Nehru will trav el to Texas and speak at SCO- NA II next month, according to Jack Nelson, vice chairman for the conference. Brad Crockett, in a telephone conversation from Washington yes terday morning, said that he had spoken to G. L. Mehta, Indian ambassador to the U. S., and was told that Nehru’s schedule was al most completed and it would be hard to change it now. Nehru will leave for the U. S. on Dec. 14. However, there is a possibility that he will make a visit to England before arriving in the states. The conference runs from Dec. 12-15. President David H. Morgan, Chancellor M. T. Harrington, Gov ernor Allan Shivers, both senators and most of the congressmen have sent telegrams to Mehta inviting Nehru to visit Texas on his forth coming trip to the U. S. While in Washington, the four man delegation planned to ask Victor Andrade, Bolivian ambas sador to the U. S., to be one of the principal speakers at the con ference. Brad Crockett, Bud Whitney, Don Kirby and Jack Dreyfus are the SCONA members who went to Washington to present the in vitation to Nehi-u through Mehta. Burnet Freshman Wins 4-H Award Hudson A. Glimp, freshman animal science major from Burnet won the State Sheep and Goat Raisers Award for 4-H Club lead ership and achievement. The award, given annually by the Association, consists of an all expense paid trip to attend the National 4-H Club Congress which will be held in Chicago, Ill., begin ning Saturday and lasting until Thursday, Nov. 29. Glimp won the award on records showing that 10 years ago he bought two registered ewes from his father, G. A. Glimp, and now he owns 20 head of registered stock valued at $2,000, and has $750 in the bank as the profit from his stock. While at Chicago Glimp will visit the International Livestock Exposition and will participate in all the activities of the 4-H Con gress. Bonfire Injuries Total bonfire injuries at 11 this morning stood at 13. Of this total, five were cases of poison ivy with the remaining eight being injuries which re quired no hospitalization of the individual. Ranging from strains and bruises to foreign bodies, as ashes in student’s eyes, hospital authorities de scribed the injuries as being minor. Only two patients with lacerations have been treated with just one of these inquiring stitches to close the wound. Weather Today Clear to partly cloudy is the forecast. Low last night was 39 degrees, and yesterday’s high, 69. The temperature at 10:30 this morning was 57. 4- Three Nations Pull Token Forces Out UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (A*)—The U. N. General assem bly was formally notified to day that Britain, France and Israel had begun to withdraw their forces from the areas they held in Egypt. Secretary General Dag Ham- marskjold sent to the 79-nation Assembly letters from the three governments reporting: A&M President Scoops Experts On Predictions Sports scribes and their so- called crystal balls on the var ious papers over the state don’t have a thing on Presi dent David H. Morgan. The sports winters have only re cently conceded the fact that the Aggies have a chance of beating Texas University Longhorns in their own back yard down in Aus tin, but Dr. Morgan, back during the summer was predicting such a victory when the All-College Cal endar went to press. It was at this time the presi dent decided to give the students Monday, Dec. 3, as a holiday for the victory in Austin. “This is just our year to break that jinx,” Dr. Morgan said yes terday. “With the firm conviction that A&M will win the A&M-TU game on Thanksgiving Day, Monday, Dec. 3, has been set aside for a special holiday to celebrate this oc casion. That same day will be a holiday for most college employ ees,” Dr. Morgan said. Contrary to widespread rumors, only Monday Dec. 3 will be given as a holiday after the game. 1. France has withdrawn ap proximately one-third of the for ces it had landed in the Suez Ca nal area. 2. Britain had decided to with draw one battalion as a , token measure pending further develop ment of the U. N. Middle East po lice force. 3. Israel has withdrawn its for ces “for varying distances along the entire Egyptian front.” All three governments indicated the complete withdrawal of their forces would be delayed until they were fully satisfied with arrange ments for the U.N. force to carry out its peace-supervising func tions. Hammarskjold, in submitting the communications, withheld com ment. In his accompanying re port, he merely said: “At the present stage the sec retary general does not wish to present any observations concern ing the state of compliance re flected in the replies received. Nor does he find it to the pur pose now to discuss the views ex pressed on the circumstances un der which compliance was to be established.” The French communication de clared the French government is studying plans for withdrawal, but said “it is difficult to make them final until the necessary con tacts have been made between the Franco-British command and the command of the international emergency force.” It added: “The French government re mains ready to proceed with the withdrawal of its forces as soon as the international force, which is being established, is in a posi tion to discharge the functions which have ben entrusted to it un der the General Assembly resolu tions of 2, 5 and 7 November.” Free Insurance Replaced By New Law Effective Jan. 1, 1957, the usual $10,000 free insurance for American servicemen will no longer be in existence. Although first glance shows no compensation to offset this, Public Law 881 provides for across the board increases in pay ments to include additional Social Security payments not found in the old provisions. Under this new law, widows of all commissioned officers receive $112 monthly plus 12 per cent of the officer’s base pay. For example: the widow of a second lieutenant with less than two years active duty would re ceive $139 per month. The scale is graduated directly with, the number of years of ac tive duty. The more time spent in the service, the more money payed per month. Enlisted men with less than two years active duty also get the $112 per month plus 12 per cent of base pay for their survivors. This to tals to $122 per month for less than two years active duty. Aggie Talent Show Stresses Variety Stressing variety for this year’s Aggie Talent Show, the MSC Group has extended the time for audi tions to give more people the op portunity of signing up for a try out, according to Shirley Cannon. In the show there will be 10 acts. However, only 15 acts had auditioned up until yesterday and even though the group could select the program for the show from this number, they felt that more variety would be available if they scheduled one day next week for auditions. Anyone interested in auditioning for the show may sign up in the MSC Directorate Office. FFA WINNERS—Ten members of the A&M Consolidated Future Farmers of America chapter are shown with their sponsor Jim House, and the awards they won in the Dis trict 1 leadership contest held Tuesday in Conroe. The group were runners-up in the meet. Two of the teams, the radio team and the farm skill team, were coached by A&M Agriculture Education students. Shown kneeling are, left to right, Dan Davis, Sidney Greer, Henry Lee Wine and Charles Gentry, members of the farm radio group coached by Jack LeFaver who place first in that contest. Standing are, left to right. Garland Andrews, James Arnold, Keith Kidwell, House, Billy Mac Miller, James Barker and Raymond (Rip) Barker. Andrews, Arnold and Kidwell are members of the farm skill team that took a second and were coached by Bobby Hardee. The quiz group, coached by House, won second. All three teams will attend the Area 3 contest at Blinn College in Brenham Saturday,