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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1957
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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
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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.