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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 40: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1957
Price Five Cents
This Dodge pickup was a vehicle of death for Corps freshman William Sidney Rogers,
who was killed in a head-on collision last night. A Battalion staff writer holds the door
open to allow a better look at the steering column, which was pushed almost to the truck’s
ceiling.
Number One Team Slot
Makes Aggies Feel Great
It feels great to be Number One
team in the nation, seems to be the
consensus of most Aggies on the
day after their team was voted into
first place by the Associated Press
weekly poll.
Most of the Aggies interviewed
yesterday by a Battalion reporter
said they felt that A&M ha-s the
number one team and should wind
It appears that Rev gave the
furry mascot from Baylor a hard
time Saturday in Kyle Field.
The maroon and white shepherd
spotted the bruin from across the
field and ran at him, growling and
everything.
Well, the hank-a-hair, honey
comb-type mascot nearly panicked.
He lunged at the chains around his
neck and finally rolled over on his
back and waved his' feet in the
air.
I guess he shouldn’t feel bad
though. The ol’ Baylor line had a
rough day too.
★ ★ ★
Overheard in a Thursday after
noon “Tiger Lab”: “I say it’s evil.
Man wasn’t meant to fly.”
Student Directory
Expected Nov. 15
This year’s Student Directory is
expected to be off the press be
tween Nov. 15-22.
All copy has been set and final
corrections are being made. The
book is now being paged up with
some of the press work due to start
this week.
The directory will contain the
name, year of study, major, local
and home address of all students
plus a listing of college staff and
offices.
Copies will be sold in Room 4,
YMCA, and at the main desk in
the MSC at $1 each.
up the season as national champ
ions.
Thomas A. Player, freshman
Aeronautical Engineering major
from Houston, believes the team is
capable of doing that.
“I think we can go all the way
with the kind of team we have if
the Twelfth Man stays behind
them,” said Player.
Whether we can retain that top
spot or not for very long depends
a great deal on what Oklahoma
can do in their remaining games,
is another prevailing opinion.
Norman Crocker, senior Educa
tion major from Hull, commented,
“If we keep winning and Oklahoma
keeps playing close games or loses,
we should stay in first place. But
if Oklahoma starts winning their
games by lopsided scores they’ll
remain first.”
Flu, for the second time this
year is making an uninvited visit
to the A&M campus.
The flu bug seems to have sneak
ed into College View and the Civil
ian dormitories, especially Mitchell,
according to a report from Dr. C.
R. Lyons, College Hospital super
visor, last night.
Dr. Lyons said there is no im
mediate crisis and no serious prob
lem has developed, although the
hospital now has more than twice
the normal number of patients due
to the new virus attack.
He said the outbreak does not
seem to be affecting the Corps
this time. Although thei’e are a
lot of coughs among Corps stu
dents, he said it is no worse than
could be expected following the
previous flu epidemic which swept,
the Corps.
“The present outbreak is defi
nitely on the upsweep,” Dr. Lyons
said, “but we are not becoming too
concerned over it yet.”
Most of the College View stu
dents are remaining in bed and
letting their wives care for them,
he said. They also receive treat
ment frotn college doctors who visit
the reported cases.
Civilian students, as a whole, es
caped the epidemic which swept
the Corps about a month ago, over
flowing the hospital and sending
William S. Oliver, freshman Me
chanical Engineering major from
Houston, said, “I believe Oklahoma
will lose and we’ll win the rest of
our games.”
There was a dissenter to this
opinion, howevei\
Joe Middleton, sophomore Arch
itecture major from Shreveport,
La., observed, “It would be hard
to say that we’re the number ope
team in capabilities. The only
real test of whether we’re number
one or not would be a game with
Oklahoma.”
Charles Brod, junior Mechanical
Engineering major from San Bei-
nito had this comment, “If we can
play at top strength the rest of
the season as we ; did against. Bayf
lor, we should be able to keep our
first place rating.”
many cadets to bed in their dormi
tories. The first outbreak saw al
most 2,000 Aggies in bed at one
time with the virus.
Senior AF Cadets
Paychecks Arrive
Checks for senior Air Force ca
dets under contract may be picked
up in the record section of the Tri-
gon starting today.
Announcements will be made in
the Air Force classes on the length
of time the checks will be available
at A&M. If not picked up in the
specified time the checks will be
sent to the student’s home address.
Checks for junior cadets under
contract will be available at a
later date.
Club Pictures Due
For '58 Aggieland
Campus organizations may sche
dule pictures for the club section
of the Aggieland ’58 in the Office
of Student Publications, ground
floor of the YMCA, any time be
tween now and December 13.
Clubs are urged to have their
pictures made in locations signifi
cant to their activities.
Flu Back Again,
Hits Civilians
In Head-On Collision
fj ea res Sch oo L
Enroute Home
A Corps freshman on his way home after resigning
from school was killed last night in a head-on collision on
Texas Avenue. .
Killed almost instantly when his pickup collided with
a 1957 Dodge Coronet was William Sidney Rogers, of Trini
dad. Also killed in the accident was the driver of the other
car, Connor (). Armstrong, 44, from Giddings.
The accident occured at 8:30 just south of Del Marmols.
Investigating officers from the Bryan Police Department at
tributed at least part of the blame for the accident to the
new center stripe markings dividing the recently widened
street. They found no skid marks to indicate either car had
attempted to avert the acci-+
dent. There were no eye wit-
Food and Fun
Slated For CHS
Band Carnival
Fun, frolic, good food and
a good time is promised by
Consolidated High School
Band Boosters to anyone at
tending the CHS Band Carni
val Saturday night.
Band Boosters are sponsoring the
event to raise money for new uni
forms, instruments and band activi
ties. The carnival begins at 5:30
on the high school campus. Bill
Card is chairman of the affair.
“The old country store, fish
pond, snake show, pony rides, spook
walk and dunking stool are only
some of the major attractions
planned for the carnival,” said
Card.
“For a reasonable price, carnival
comers can enjoy a meal of hot
dogs, hamburgers, homemade cakes
and pies, Ice cream and soft
drinks,” Mrs. K. R. Bailey, chair
man of the food committee adds.
The 57-member band is active
throughout the year both in march
ing and concerts. Robert Boone is
band director at CHS, having held
this post for the past six years.
Boone gives credit for the band’s
success to support from the par
ents, such as their staging the
carnival.
Five beauties playing five harps
will appear on the Town Hall stage
tomorrow night at 8. Known as
the Angelaires the five attractive
girls will play classical and semi-
classical music for the entertain
ment of the Aggies.
The lasses’ are destined to charm
the Aggies with their fast moving
fingers hitting the harp strings
with an angelic touch.
Proclaimed from coast to coast
for their charm with the harps
which gives “the tonal effects of
one giant harp” making the per
formance “not only beautiful but
exciting ... an emotional exper
ience we feel sure the audience
will long remember”, said the Con-
nersville (Indiana) News-Exami
ner.
They have appeared on televis
ion’s “The Ed Sullivan Show” and
“The Steve Allen show.”
Two of the girls are native Tex
ans one being a University of Tex
as graduate and the other a past
musician with the Texas All-State
Orchestra.
Songs like “Black Magic”; “Hal-
Chest Talk Given
To Luncheoners
“Do We Really Like the Amer
ican Way,” was the topic of a talk
for the Community Chest drive
made by Mrs. Marie Heritage to
the College Station Kiwanis Club
yesterday.
Mrs. Heritage spoke to the lunch
eoners for the last time yesterday
ending a four year public service
in the Bryan-College Station area,
the club president, John Longley,
said.
She urged everyone to take an
active part in “giving from the
heart and not the pocketbook” to
the Community Chest in “true
American spirit.”
Before the meeting was over
Mrs. Heritage had slipped out to
help load the van which was to
take her back to New York.
Her husband has been stationed
at Bryan Air Force Base for the
last four years.
nesses.
Rogers completed with
draw! from the college only
hours before the accident. He said
he was leaving because he was dis
satisfied with architecture and
planned to join the Navy. Among
his personal belongings was a Navy
enlistment brochure and a ticket
to Chicago for an audition with
the Navy Band.
Armstrong, a truck driver for
Southern Pacific Transport Co.,
had recently received a three year
safe driving award.
Both of the vehicles were esti
mated to be total losses.
Silver Taps for Rogers will be
held tonight at 10:30.
lelujah”, from “Hit the Deck” and
“Holiday for Strings” will be play
ed at the performance.
“Perfect timing and coordina
tion—soloist capacities in each of
the five performers” are just two
comments about the five harpists.
Admission to the perfoimance
will be by Town Tall season ticket
or $2 for general admission, $2.50
for reserved and $1 for high school
and younger seating.
A&S Dean Names'
SCON A Delegates
A&M’s delegates to SCONA ITT
wei*e announced last week by W.
H. Delaplane, dean of the School of
Arts and Sciences.
Selected to attend the conference
were Robert L. Hudson, senior
education major from College Sta
tion; James F. Dempsey Jr., senior
history major from Fort Worth;
George N. Ragsdale, senior engi
neering major from Memphis,
Tenn.; John W. Warner, senior
journalism major from Pampa; Joe
David Ross, fifth year veterinary
medicine major from Sonora;
Charles T. Tucker, senior chemistry
and math major from San Antonio
and Don R. Cloud, junior economics
major from Kerens.
Hart Hall Council
Chooses Officers
Hart Hall council officers for
1957-58 have been elected, it was
announced yesterday.
Bob Ring was elected president,
Roger Shandley, vice-president;
Bob Jones, secretary and Louis
Conant, treasurer.
Other new council members in
clude Walter F. Hartman and Phil
McEvoy, fi-eshman representative;
Bob Singletary, sophomore repre
sentative; Fred Hartman, Hart Hall
Civilian Student Council; Eugene
Buie, dormitory chaplain and
Wayne Schmidt, housemaster.
CS Lion’s Club
Sets Plans For
Ag Blood Drive
College Station Lions Club
members voted unanimously
Monday to sponsor bringing
a blood-mobile to the cam
pus from the Wadley Re
search Foundation, of Dallas, Nov.
12 to collect 300 pints of blood for
hemophilia patients.
Lions will supply $100 to bring
the mobile unit to the campus in
cooperation with the Student Sen
ate, which will line up donors. Ag
gies are relied upon to do most of
the contributing.
Hemophilia is commonly known
as free bleeding, and the charity is
a very worthwhile cause, Charlie
Haas, Lion president told the or
ganization Monday at their lunch
eon meeting.
Haas also told the Lions that
$250 had been given to the Brazos
County Crippled Children’s Clinic
on behalf of their group.
The Lions made final arrange
ments for sponsoring several
booths at the Consolidated High
School Band Carnival Saturday
night at CHS. The club will have
several booths and games to help
raise money for the band.
Other Lion activities over the
past week included purchasing five
capons at the Bryan FFA Live
stock auction last Tuesday. The
capons are frozen and will be used
as prizes or raffled, off in future
Lion activities.
This weekend is homecoming for
Consolidated High School as the
CHS tigers play host to Cypress-
Fairbanks in their second district
game Friday night.
Highlights of the homecoming
weekend include the crowning of a
homecoming - queen, a television in
terview and a bonfire and yell prac
tice.
To kick-off homecoming festivi
ties, CHS cheerleaders and home
coming queen candidates will be
interviewed on KBTX - TV, in Bry
an, Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. Then
Thui’sday night at the school the
bonfire and yell practice begin at
Wea th er Today
College Station can expect part
ly cloudy skies and slowly rising
temperatures thi’ough tomorrow,
according to the college weather
station.
The mercury dipped to a low of
58 degrees at 5 this morning. Yes
terday’s high was 72 degrees at
3:45 p. m.
The 8 a. m. temperature reading
was 62 degrees, and the relative
humidity, 86 per cent.
Sophomores
Face Charges
In Cadet Court
Four sophomores faced
Group B Cadet Court last
nig'ht on charges of violating
college regulations pertaining
to physical hazing.
Accused of violating Article 44a
of College Regulations and Article
12e of Articles of the Cadet Coi-ps
are Thomas R. Hamilton and Mil
ford M. Reid, “B” AA A, and Floyd
H. Chi’istian and Ingle C. Trimble,
“C” Engineers.
Final decision on the case will
not be known until the court’s opin
ion has been studied and approved
by the commandant.
Both articles charged as being
violated prohibit physical hazing
or submission to physical hazing
in any form. College regulations
indicate discipline could result in
dismissal or suspension from the
college.
‘Too Many Tickets 9
Campus Cops Say
Aggies are receiving far too
many parking fines this semester,
Fred Hickman, head of Campus
Security, said yesterday.
Hickman said there was no way
of telling how many fines had been
given, but 2,008 had been paid al
ready this semester. Fines that
have been paid average about $2
a piece.
“We were hoping the number of
tickets given would drop this year,”
Hickman stated, “but instead they
have increased.”
Since school started $3,584 has
been collected from numerous park
ing violations.
NOISE PLEASE
LOS ANGELES 0T>—Architect
Richard J. Neutra says school
libraries should take down their
“Quiet” signs and—
Provide television coverage of
current events.
Install news teletypes and stock
market ticker tapes.
Set up outdoor reading rooms
and informal lounges.
Neutra made the suggestions to
the University of Southern Cali
fornia’s Library School.
6. Friday night at 8 the Tigers
meet Cypress-Fairbanks on Tiger
Field. The homecoming queen will
be announced and crowned at the
game’s halftime show.
At the Thursday yell practice,
talks will be given by Margaret
Weedon, yell leader of the class of
’53, Garland Andrews, a last year’s
football co-captain, and CHS coach
Dick Gardemal.
Friday night’s halftime cere
mony, will see the homecoming
queen and two princesses introduc
ed. The selections are being made
by “penny voting” for two candi
dates from each of the four high
school classes.
Candidates for queen are Ann
Cleland and Millie Caughlin, senior;
Pat Jackson and Margaret Huff,
junior; Nancy Rae and Marilyn Mc-
Elroy, sophomore, and Suzanne
Sorenson and Sue Ross, freshman.
Jars will be placed in stores
throughout the community with
each candidate’s name on her jar.
All money dropped into the jars
will count one vote for each penny.
The girl receiving the largest num
ber of votes will be named queen
and the two runners up named
princesses.
Angelaires Play
For Next Town Hall
Queen Picked At
CHS Homecoming