Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1957)
Cadets Cace Kiee'OwI Bow In Houston Feature Clash Tomorrow Ags Pitted Against Top S WC Offense THE BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 50: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1957 Price Five Cents C j i vi! im i s 1 vi To Proposals BY ROBERT WEEKLY Civilian Student Council mem bers last night met to discuss problems currently affecting Civil ian students at A&M, only to find the problems not ready to be brought before the council. The big discussion period sched uled to take place on the Civilian students’ part in the honor code failed to materialize. The repre sentative scheduled to make the report was unable to attend be cause of work conflictions. The second big question of the night also met with dismal failui’e as yell leaders Ted Lowe and Don Houston failed to appear in their icheduled discussion of bonfire preparations. Meteor Study Urged by Panel At AMS Meet Encouragement of meteor ological research was stressed yesterday to 160 meteorolo gists here for the American Meteorological Society nation al convention. In a panel discussion, continuous 'research and high school training, in fundamentals were accented by panelists. John R. Gerhardt, Electrical En gineering Research Laboratory, University of Texas, said that all too often meteorological research is started only because of a disast er. Dr. D. P. McIntyre, meteorolo gical branch, Canadian Depart ment of Transport, expressed con cern over high school training in fundamentals. “I think the high schools of this country—-and my own—need to get back to the fundamentals. It now is possible to go all through high school without exposure to science or mathematics.” Dr. Morris Neiburger, Depart ment of Meteorology, University of California, struck out at contract research. “Contract research has its place but it is limiting on the bright youngsters who do it. It causes a tendency to follow a predetermined path, whose goal is simply the sat isfaction of the contract.” He added that it “causes a ten dency toward ‘hack’ research.” The bonfire in general was dis cussed by the traditions committee as they made recommendations for the guarding and building of. the bonfire. A resolution was passed declar ing that civilian students will be assigned three-hour periods to help guard the bonfire. As to construction of signs for bonfire week. Representative Pen dleton said: “I believe only those dormitories that help build and guard the bon fire should have the privilege to erect signs on the drill field.” The council encourages all stu dents to stimulate their interest and help build and guard the bon fire. Bennie Zinn, head of student af fairs, warned against the wearing of high school letter jackets at A&M, since it is against college regulations. Lester Berry, vice president of the council, said the 12th Man Bowl won’t be held at the regular time this year since the varsity won’t be able to provide coaches and trainers because of the expected post season game. Tentative plans call for a replacement of the bowl by a “post season basketball game.” The council held a spirited de bate on the merits of a letter di rected to those civilian students that dress as “scrounges”. The most sincere retort given last night in answer to a rebuttal on the question was a representa tive’s directive: “Publishing this letter will only hurt those scrounges, Let it hit the Battalion as such.” Big Turkey Shoot In Offing Sunday The A&M Range and Forestry Club will sponsor its annual turkey shoot on Kyle Field Tuesday from 2 to 8 p. m. The shoot is open to all nimrods, including students, faculty mem bers or anyone else interested. Par ticipants will be divided into groups of 10, with each of these 10 get ting two shots at a target. The per son with the two best shots in each group will win a turkey. Proceeds from the shoot go to the Range Plant Identification Team, for help in paying their trip to the National Plant Identifica tion Contest. The team has won this contest for the past two years and can permanently retain the plaque if it wins this year. Tickets may be purchased for a dollar at the Student Activities Of fice, the Range and Forestry De partment, or from any member of the Range and Forestry Club on the campus. Ag Student to Get Scholarship From Borden Foundation The annual presentation of the Borden Foundation agricultural scholarship will be made at the next meeting of the Kream and Kow Club Tuesday night at 7:30. W. W. Echols, ’3G, of the Borden Southern Division, will present the award. This award, first started in 1946 and awarded by the Borden Foun dation ever since, is a $300 scholar ship given to a senior student in agriculture. Purpose of the award is to create more interest in the dairy industry and to promote and reward superior scholarship in this area. Similar awards are given in each of the land-grant colleges offering a ma jor field of study in dairying, and in each of the accredited veterinary schools in the country. Faculty Fellowship To Meet Tuesday The Faculty Christian Fellow- shipi will hold its November meet ing in the A&M Chapel Tuesday morning beginning at 6:30 a. m. Opening with individual medi tation and organ music by Dr. Murray Brown, the program in cludes a devotional by Dr. R. E. Leighton and ends with coffee and doughnuts in the YMCA South Solarium. Weather Today Cloudy skies are expected this afternoon, with thundershowers in the early evening. Relative humidity at 8 this morn ing was 100 per cent, and the tem perature, 66 degrees. Aggies Leave Early For Houston Wayne Yeager (left) and Jim Hanna, sixth year students from Puryear and Legett Halls, pack their clothes preparing to leave for the Rice-A&M game in Houston tomor row. In ME Shops $97,000 Atomic Reactor Aiding Science on Campus By LEWIS REDDELL An unimpi’essive looking ma chine located in the mechanical engineering shops could produce an amount of energy almost be yond human comprehension if its power was fully unleashed. The machine is an atomic re actor called an AGN-201, which has been in operation at A&M since September 1, of this year. Although the word reactor is a familiar part of everyday vocabul ary, few really know what it is and what the purpose of the machine is. Reactors are machines that pro duce neutrons, which are small un charged parts of atoms, and gam ma rays, which are similiar to x- Reservists to Hear Lecture on Missiles A mobile instruction team from Fort Sill, Okla., will give an, orientation on Army missiles used by the field artillery Tuesday night in the auditorium of A&M Consolidated High School The orientation will include his- toi'ical development, tactical em ployment and capabilities of the surface-to-surface missiles used by the field artillery. Heading the instruction team at College Station is Maj. Woodrow W. Wiltse and Capt. Robert J. Ellison, instructors from the U. S. Army Artillery and Missile School. Lt. Col. Veon M. McConnell, unit advisor for the College Station reservists, announced that all re servists and interested individuals are invited to attend the two-hour presentation. rays and heat. These are produced through the fissioning or splitting of atoms of uranium. The reaction that takes place in the machine is carefully controlled, and it is in this respect different from an atomic bomb. Reactions are occurring in the reactor at all times, for the atoms continue to split constantly. The process can be speeded up by in serting control rods in the ma chine. These control rods are simply small amounts of uranium which cause the splitting of the atoms to speed up. The purpose of the machine is to make radioactive materials for scientific research and gamma rays for use in medical treatments. Although the machine is owned by A&M, the Atomic Energy Commission determines the amount of uranium the reactor may use and what amount of watts may be generated. A&M’s reactor operates at a maximum heat of one-tenth of a watt, although it is capable of producing several million watts. The reactor, however, will be used for training and research for hundreds of years before generat- Auditions Planned For Talent Show Auditions for the Aggie Talent Show are scheduled for Moiiday and Tuesday nights at 7:30. Persons who have previously signed up for auditions are asked to go by the Directorate Office in the Memorial Student Center and schedule an exact time for their audition. ing as much heat as one average sized home does in a night. Cost of the reactor owned by A&M was $97,000. Richard E. Wainerdi, associate professor in nuclear engineering is reactor pro gram coordinator, and Associate Professor Ed. Andrew of the Electrical Engineering Dept, is co ordinator of the nuclear education program. All persons interested in the reactor will have an opportunity to see it in operation at an open house in the ME shops Nov. 27, from noon until 6 p. m. BY GARY ROLLINS Battalion Sports Editor The lease to the Cotton Bowl for January 1 will be placed on the sacrificial stone tomorrow at Rice Stadium when the powerful Cadets encounter the Rice Owls. The Aggies are riding an eight-game winning streak this season, and haven’t seen defeat since the final game of 1955. The largest crowd in Houston football history will gather to see if the Aggies from College Station are really the nation’s number one team. Upwards of 70,000 people are ex pected, and tickets for the game are as scarce as hen’s teeth. Rice has waxed both hot and cold this year, proving every week that they were the “dark horse” of the con- ♦Terence. They won their first two games, and then bowed to Duke’s Blue Devils, 7-6. The following week, they eased by the Mustangs by a 27-21 score, only to have Texas’ sassy Longhorns trip them up 19-14. Since that defeat, they have seen defeat at the hands of Clem- son’s Tigers, 20-7 and tasted sweet success by skinning Ark ansas, 13-7. In a conference vein of thought, Jess Neely’s Owls have a 2-1 rec ord. If they are unable to stop the Cadet point-making machine, they will have to satisfy their desires by watching television when the Aggies play in the Cotton Bowl next January. The hard-fighting Farmers need but one more victory to cinch the championship, but it’s a foregone conclusion this game with Rice will not be an easy victory. The number one offense in the conference is pitted against the number one team in the nation. King Hill and Frank Ryan team up with Buddy Dial to travel the airways. They will match skills with All-American John David Crow and a squad of title-hungry Aggies. The ' game will be locally tele vised on Houston Channel 2, KPRC-TV. 1957 Bonfire Officers Named Via Committees The newly organized 1957 Thanksgiving Bonfire Com mittee, with all its committee heads, was announced this week. Heading the whole organization is Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assist ant commandant. Student leader for the committee is Ted Lowe, head yell leader. Coordinator of the committee chairmen is Jerry McGown, while assistant coordina tors are Don Houston, George Shepard, John Ligon, Donald Kir by and Arvill Newby. In charge of labors supervision is a four-man committee composed of B. L. Kelley, Sonny Ellen, Dave Cox and Jack Heald. Other com mittee heads, include Ray Sims and Glen Nerren, wood cutting; John Mayfield and David Bonnen, transportation; Tom Miller and Bob Williams, building supervision; Travis Johnson, stackers; Armon Hewitt and Ronny Kimball, sup ply and safety; Joe Vinincasa, communications; John Foster, emergency first aid. Others are: Jim Groves and Dave Bagley, guard duty; Don McGinty and Curtis Schulze, re freshments; Charles Smith and Carroll Lam, guard fires; Bob Burkhard and Richard Whitmire, oil; Jim Brady, publicity; Jerry Roberts, center pole. GOG Members Put On Ready Reserve WASHINGTON, 6*P)—The Air Force informed state civil defense directors yesterday it is putting the entire Ground Observer Corps on a ready reserve basis Jan. 1. Technological advances in radar warning systems were cited as one reason for the change in status. This will mean the closing of 29 filter centers and numerous GOC observation posts where thousands of civilians serve around the clock on a voluntary basis watching the skies for unidentified planes. Center Pole Set Up For Annual Bonfire Reaching skyward behind Dun can Hall is the center pole erected today to support the world’s largest bonfire. Aggies Monday will begin over a week of sweat and strain to pre pare the huge campfire for the torch the night before the annual Thanksgiving Day fracas with the University of Texas. With thoughts of the outcome of tomorrow’s game with Rice still fresh on their minds, Aggies will grab saws, axes and trucks and race for the woods to cut down the biggest trees possible to throw against the center pole. Freshmen will be working especially hard trying to beat pre vious freshman classes by building the tallest bonfire yet. The bonfire record was set in 1954 when the present senior class were freshmen. That year the center pole sti-etched 75 feet into the air. Its base covered 11,810 square feet; its circumference was 150 feet and its diameter was 48 feet. An estimated 30,150 cubic feet of wood was burned in that tremen dous blaze. Bonfire officials this year are putting special emphasis on safety. Last year’s efforts kept accidents to a minimum. Since 1955, when James Sarran died from injuries received while guarding the bon fire, special efforts have been made to prevent other accidents. When the bonfire blazes, it will be representing the burning desire of every Aggie to beat the Uni versity of Texas on Turkey Day. 15 Bodies Found in Hunt For Airliner HONOLULU UP)—Fifteen bodies from the lost air liner “Romance of the Skies”—one still strapped in a seat and two reported wearing lifebelts —were found yesterday floating amid wreckage scattered widely over the Pacific Ocean about 850 miles northeast of Honolulu. The tragic discovery was made by a search plane from the air craft carrier Philippine Sea. The carrier and escorting vessels sped to the scene and put over boats which began fishing for the wreckage and bodies. The Pan American Stratocruiser with 44 persons aboard, vanished last Friday afternoon on a routine flight from San Francisco for Honolulu. The Philippine Sea, reaching the scene with the destroyer Epperson and Coast Guard cutter Bering Strait, immediately put over motor launches while its helicopters di rected the recovery operations. A radio message, intercepted at Navy and Coast Guard headquar ter's in Honolulu, was taken to in dicate that the bodies and wreck age were scattered over a wide area. One of two American search planes which had gone out on the hunt early yesterday radioed at about the same time that it was over the area and that two of the bodies were wearing life jackets. The carrier pilot who made the original sighting said one body remained strapped in a seat of the lost plane. The discovery was made at 8:40 a. m. Hawaii standard time and the carrier reached the scene about three hours later. Rear Adm. Thomas A. Ahroon, task force commander aboard the Philippine Sea, indicated he plan ned to return the bodies and re covered wreckage to the carrier’s home port. Long Beach, Calif.