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K ^ *’' if i^paga«i3iilaii«ifti *i>*iS«ia8S&*6SIW Number 18: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1957 Price Five Cents Hits 45 Another ‘Jarring John’ John Crow, G-2, 210-pound, senior from Spring-bill, La., an almost unanimous choice for All American honors this year, promises to be a potent and effective spearhead in the Aggies battle with Maryland tomorrow in the Cotton Bowl. Aggi c Tr adi I ions I .o With Football By JOE BUSER Texas Aggies travel, to Dallas Saturday to meet Maryland in the Cotton Bowl and are hopmg for a high scoi’ing victory. The Ags had a tremendous sea son last year, and many dates dis covered why the boys from Col lege Station were not satsified just to win: they wanted lots of touch downs to spare. And last year College Assies .In Search r in 1 i Tackle of Fame Employment Meeting Set Group meetings for seniors and graduate students inter ested in receiving current in formation on the employment situation have been sched uled by Student Personnel Services. These meetings are set for 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, and at 4 p.m. Tuesday, October 1 in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. • Comments on the new College Placement Annual will be made along with a question period and discussion of matters of interest to those attending. , Faculty members that are espe- .nally concerned with the counsel ing of students in their employ ment plans are particularly invited to attend these meetings. Since the problems and inter- Ests of those majoring in engineer^ ing and science may be different from those majoring in agriculture and liberal arts officials suggest that engineering and science stu dents attend the Tuesday meeting, and the agriculture and liberal arts students attend the October 1 meet ing. their team did just that, and touch down amour flourished in the stands. A&M football games are a spec tacle, like an Ed Sullivan show with guidons. The 12th Man, the famous Aggie Band and the zeal ous Reveille II make for an in teresting show, even for people who care nothing for football. The Ags are well known for the respect and courtesy away from the Brazos bottom, except when an opposing team is in a huddle. The incessant barrage of noise that is directed at them has resulted in several teams considering sign language for calling plays. On one occasion last year, a distraught referee who had tried unsuccess fully several times to silent the Corps, called one of the yell lead ers aside. “Do something with them,” he pleaded. “I can’t.” The Ags captured the ball on the next play, and needless to say, the stands were quiet. During those lean times of yes teryear when the good word was “wait until next year,” the Ags had to do their winning after the final gun was sounded.. One. story on the campus tells of a farmer who sent the following wire home: “Dear Folks, We lost the game but won the fight afterwards.” Present day Aggies need not wage war with the opposition as the team has done more than an adequate job for the last two years. Rather, it falls their lot to celebrate victory and win those parties. And the Aggies always win, whether it’s a football game, a halftime or a party. And this Saturday in Dallas will be no ex ception. Bryant's Eleven Seeking Na lion a l Championship By GARY ROLLINS Battalion Sports Editor Fall has arrived, and the Texas Aggies proceed on a well-planned journey into football fame. Three years ago, a chalked notice was placed on the Aggie dressing room for all to see: “In two years, conference champions;” in three years, national champions!” This is the third year, and doing things in Bryant’s best fashion, the Aggies will play “this week’s game” first. Af ter turtle soup next Monday, the Farmers can set their sights on Texas Tech. Depth is not really too much of a problem, because in the first two teams can be found an abundance of talent equalled by none. - 1 J o h n David Crow, All- American senior halfback from Sprlnghill, La. will be gin his last and greatest sea son as a Texas Aggie. He should erase all the records before him. The giant of a boy that is “still growing” and possesses the quick ness of a cat is another All-Ameri can, Charley Krueger, 220-pound tackle from Caldwell. As eai'ly as his sophomore year, he began to be noticed — by a senior UCLA tackle that complained of some “big kid” that wouldn’t stay down. This is the year for the seniors: Gilbert, Stanley, Brown, Krueger, Crow, Simmons, Conrad, Osborne, Taylor and Wright. They’ve fought on championship teams be fore, but this year’s team will be their team. Saturday’s victory over Mary land is their first step on the way to the national crown. Players Complete Prodiiclion Casting Casting for “The Hasty Heart”, the Aggie Players’ first produc tion of the year, has been com pleted, according to C. K. Esten, director of the production. The play in three acts by John Patrick, is a close examination of wounded men in a front-line Brit ish hospital during World War II. It will be viewed in the round at the Memorial Student Center Ball room for five nightly performances beginning November 4. The cast includes Don Reynolds, Dave Dannenbaum, Don Demming, Henry Lyle, Bob Dunn, Jim Best, Ward Boyce, Bob Wink and Alice Butler. ows Cases Not Proven As A sian Variety Flu cases on the campus skyrocketed from 45 Wednes day to more than 450 yesterday, according to a count made by College Hospital Superintendent Dr. Charles Lyons last night. For the past two days, a case per minute during work ing hours has been treated at the hospital, Dr. Lyons said. He reported that cases first began getting severe yesterday afternoon. Dr. Lyons commented he did not think the flu was of the Asiatic variety but added be had no way of knowing for certain. The doctor explained a 10-day period of diagnosis was needed to ascertain that a case was Asiatic. “If we get 500 cases tomor-* row, we know it’s Asiatic,” he Leggett Hall Elects Heps To Council Game On TV In MSC For those unable to make the trip to Dallas this weekend, tele vision sets will be on during game time throughout the Memorial Stu dent Center, MSC officials an nounced this week. Sets will be in the Fountain Room, Serpentine Lounge and in Rooms 2C and 2D. Gametime is 3 p. m. Ninety-five per cent of Leggett Hall Civilian students yesterday chose four class representatives to the Leggett Dormitory Council at a dormitory election. Charles Abendroth was elected to represent the fifth and sixth year and graduate students; Bob Sifford, senior; Bill Lynch, junior, and Champ Grona, sophomore classes. Freshmen representatives Harry Goss and Jimmie Stewart were elected during New Student Week. Freshmen representatives to the council are ineligible to hold any other dorm position while council members. Yesterday’s voting was strictly voluntary on the part of the stu dents, a dormitory spokesman said. In past years, cards were passed out to all dorm residents for the election, making a virtu ally compulsory vote from each student, be said. For this - election a booth was set up at the dormitory front door and opened from noon until 1 p.m. and again from 5 to 7 p.m. New class representatives will take their places as members of the 17 man Leggett Hall Council. The council is dedicated to better organization of the civilian dorm itory, the spokesman said. In winning his position on the council, Abendroth defeated Char lie Wiseman. Sifford won against Cliff Card, Ricardo Guerra, Worth Nowlin and Pat Kutch. Lynch out tallied Sam Estes, Tommie Peuri- foy, High McLeland and Jimmy Jones. Grona was chosen over Carrol Osbourne and Billy Meach- am. Eight members for the Leggett council will be chosen Thursday as seven floor representatives from the four floors are elected plus an athletic officer. Council men selected in these two elections then will appoint a com mittee to choose a dormitory chap lain. The chaplain will serve as a non-voting council member. said Rooms in the hospital are filled. Due to a flood of ill Aggies pouring into the hospit al, beds from the storage room have been set up in hallways and crowded into rooms. Dr. Lyons said there were plenty of beds in storage and the staff would make room for anyone with temperature over 102 degrees. Crowded conditions have forced Dr. Lyons to send inflicted per sons running a temperature of less than 102 degrees back to their dorms, with special insti’uctions for treatment and rest. Only patients with an excess of 102 degree fever are being retained in the hospital. A total of 250 patients were in the hospital last night, and about 200 had been . ordered to bed in their dorms. At the present, 80 students have a temperature of ov er 102 degrees, and as more of these cases come in, other students with lesser temperatures are be ing sent to their dormitory. The last dose of the 500 cc’s of Asiatic flu vaccine received at the hospital Sept. 1 was given today. Dr. Lyons sajd they were trying to get 1,500 more doses next week. “Everyone’s trying to get it,” Ly ons said, but he indicated the col lege should have no trouble since “we already bought it and paid for it in June.” “We’ll have to have at least 2,000 doses next week if the epi- (See INFLUENZA, Page 2) Dorm Two Modernized As Experiment New furniture, rubber tile flo®rs, acoustic tile ceilings, curtains and Venetian blinds may be in all A&M dorms in the future if the experiment in Doi’m two works out, according to Jack Nelson, Corps public in formation officer. “If the Aggies take care of this dorm the school will remodel the other dorms starting next sum- mer,” Nelson said. “I think we will be able to do it.” Dorm two has also been re painted in addition to having new equipment installed. Ken W. Davis of the Mid-Conti nental Supply Co. of Fort Worth donated desks, swivel chairs, filing cabinets and equipment for a con- ference room including wall-to-wall carpeting for the Corps staff. He also gave new desks for the guard room of Dorm two and new beds with i uners pring mattresses for privates of the guard who have to spend the night there. Raymond L. Rogers, assistant manager of the physical plant, has been in charge of the remodeling. Mi lila ry ()rdered To Cut Forces Battalion Staff Photo Unofficial Corps Trip Begins Getting an early start to Dallas for the A&M-Maryland game after drill Thursday is Ray Roycroft, senior geology major from Goliad. WASHINGTON— CP)—Secretary of Defense Wilson, to save money, yesterday ordered another 100,000 man cut in the military forces. He said, too, that 35,000 to 40,000 civilians will have to be dropped from defense payrolls. “We couldn’t wait any longer,” Wilson told a news conference. “We are so close to the debt limit that the Treasury can’t even bor row the money.” The legal limit on the national debt is 275 billion dollars, a figure set by Congress. While he cited the debit limit as a pressing factoi’, Wilson did not seem concerned by security aspects. He said the reduction can be achieved “without impairment of our national security.” The reduction was approved by President Eisenhower, the secreta ry reported. Last July 16, Wilson ordered a 100,000 man cut in the military forces. That reduction, coupled with the new one yesterday of the same size, would save an estimated one billion dollars. The Defense Department is try ing to keep all spending within 38 billion dollars. The two cuts together would bring the total armed strength down to 2,600,000 instead of the 2,800,000 which had been authoriz ed for the fiscal year which began last July 1. Wilson, who is retiring next month, said it would seem fair to assume that another cut will he attempted, perhaps in connection with budget plans to be submitted to Congress in January. Yesterday’s 100,000 man cut is to be put into effect as soon as possible and not later than next June 30. The reduction of 35,000 to 40,000 in the number of civilian employees of the armed services would be on top of a 53,000 cut announced ear lier. The combined reduction of 88,000 to 93,000 civilian jobs would be from a total of 1,160,000 such posi tions. Student Senate Hears Kamm At First Meet “You are more than par rots of changing majority views, rather you are the su- dent body’s elected represen tatives and you should act as you think best for all concerned, Dean Robert B. Kamm charged members of the Student Senate last night in their first meeting for the year. Dean Kamm outlined the new Senators with their responsibilities to the college and to the students who had elected them. He warned them to place personal obligation to the men that elected them be fore pressure from influential groups and to give prime consider ation to the fact that the Senate is the governing body for all students, not any small group. Two members were selected for a pair of newly created offices on the Senate: Bill Wafer was chosen as chaplain and Ray Anthony, cor responding seci’etary. Staff Photo Weather Today At 11 a.m. the temperature was 87 degrees. Yesterday the mer cury rose to 100 degrees, dropping to 70 degrees early this morning. Hospital Makes Room Beds are put in the halls of the campus hospital by Fresh men Jim Weems and Delbert Donelson (background) to take care of a large number of flu victims. Of 250 cases, 150 were returned to their dorms with excused classes to recuperate.