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Number 51: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1957
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US, Western Nations
Plan Compromise
On Disarm a n i c n t
Up, Up and Away ... To the Drill Field
—Battalion Staff Photo
A group of Corps supermen prepare to lift
one of the first logs for the 1958 bonfire
scheduled to burn Nov., 27.
Biggest, Safest Bonfire
In A&M History Begun
By GAYLE McNUTT
Once again the sound of axes
biting into trees echoed through the
woods, trucks ground into gear and
fatigue-clad Aggies swarmed to the
task as work began in earnest yes
terday on the annual Thanksgiving
bonfire.
The centerpole, approximately 60
feet tall, went up yesterday after
noon, marking the first big step
in the construction of the world’s
largest bonfire.
Although yesterday’s work con
sisted mostly of cutting trees, rais
ing the centerpole and making
preparations, hauling and stacking
was scheduled to begin today to
build the huge Stack of logs which
on the night of Nov. 27 will form
the blazing symbol of every Aggie’s
Even Teasips recognize and ack
nowledge the football prowess of
Texas Aggies,
At the national Sigma Delta Chi
convention Saturday morning in
Houston, one “Sip,” proclaimed the
power of the boys from Bryant
far and wide.
A sports editor for the paper
printed on the campus at Austin,
Bob Greenburg proposed the fol
lowing resolution at the final ses
sion of the convention:
“Whereas, the Texas Aggies are
currently rated No. 1 in the nation
and several other whei’eases, . . .
let us recognize and congratulate
that fine team and wish them the
best of luck.”
Either this Greenburg:
1. Secretly wishes he went to
college
2. Couldn’t get a ticket for the
coming game in Kyle Eield
3. Has a brother at A&M
4. Secretly wishes he went to
college
What ho, Teasips?
love for his school and his desire to
beat Texas University.
Only one accident was reported
after the first day’s work was com
pleted. Bill West, Corps sopho
more received an axe cut on the
foot requiring several stitches.
This year the bonfire safety com
mittee’s theme is “The Biggest and
Safest Ever,” stressing personal
safety throughout building.
Each year, about one out of eve
ry 100 Aggies working on the bon
Japanese Jury
Gives Girard
Three Years
MAEBASHI, Japan, (7P) —
A three-judge Japanese court
convicted GI William S. Gi
rard yesterday of killing a
woman brass scavenger on a
“childish whim” and placed him
under suspended sentence for three
years.
Either prosecution or defense
may appeal within 14 days, but
there were strong signs that both
were satisfied.
Girard and the U. S. Army and
Japanese metal scavengers who
trespass on American firing ranges
all drew rebukes in the decision
of the three black-robed judges
for the circumstances that led to
the death of Mi’s. Naka Sakai, 46,
last Jan. 30.
Girard, 22, a specialist 3.C. from
Ottawa, Ill.—whom the court de
scribed as a simple soldier, imma
ture in his thinking—must show
good behavior for four years as
an aftermath of the case that
strained Amei’ican-Japanese rela
tions.
If the appeal period passes with
out an appeal, Girard may return
to the United States with his Jap
anese bride, Haru Candy Girard.
Weather Today
Local forecast issued by the col
lege weather station calls for clear
to partly cloudy and cool through
Wednesday.
A low of 39 degrees was re
corded at 5 this morning, with
yesterday’s high being 60 degrees
at 3 p. m.
fire receives an injury of some
kind, Armon Hewitt, head of the
five-man safety committee, said.
This year, the committee hopes to
make the average much lower by
stressing safety, he said.
Most injuries occur in the cut
ting area, and poison ivy also takes
a heavy toll each year, Hewitt said.
Enthusiasm ran high among
workers as the first day of build
ing got underway, he said, espe
cially among freshman.
“The freshmen are determined
to make this the biggest bonfire in
A&M’s history,” he stated. “I over-
heaz’d many freshmen wanting to
bet seniors this year’s bonfire
would be bigger than theirs was.”
Ted Lowe, head yell leader and
student leader of the building com
mittee, said enough trucks were
available for this year’s hauling,
but urged all others with trucks, or
who are qualified to drive trucks,
to contact him at Corps headquar
ters in dorm 2.
Lowe said roads were muddy in
the cutting area, but it would not
impede hauling- unless there was
more rain. The cutting area is lo
cated south of the college in the
same area as last year.
Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assist
ant commandant, is in charge of all
bonfire organization.
Corps Seniors
Meet, Draw Up
Orientation Plan
Corps seniors met last night and
drew up definite plans for begin
ning oi'ientation on the honor code
initiated by them two weeks ago.
Plans were laid for beginning
the orientation on the group and
battalion level, with one senior
heading- the orientation in each.
This senior, who will be elected
at large from the group or bat
talion, will select three other mem
bers, one from each of the three
underclasses, to serve with him on
the honor orientation committee.
Also discussed at the meeting
were the problems of Corps orien
tation and efficient means of solv
ing them.
Jon Hagler, Corps commander,
was designated to see if classroom
time in military science classes was
available for orientation.
House Urges
Twelfth Man
To Come Out
A resolution urging the Aggie
12th man to come out of hiding
wherever it may be, was passed by
the Texas House of Representa
tives yesterday.
The brief session could have been
called “Legislative sports in re
view”—or some such title.
First, before Speaker Waggoner
Carr could start the proceedings
he had to untangle a Texas A&M
pennant, draped with black rib
bon, from his rostrum microphone.
Numerous floor comments let Carr
know the display pertained to
Rice’s defeat of the Aggie Satur
day.
Second, Rep. Sam Bass, of Free
port offered a resolution to exempt
crab fishermen from the recently
passed universal fishing license
law. It was sent to committee.
Third, Rep. H. J. Blanchard of
Lubbock offered a resolution of
sympathy to Texas A&M which
called upon “The 12th man to come
out of hiding wherever you may
be.” By amendment Oklahoma, de
feated by Notre Dame, was added
to the resolution. Ignoring a chor
us of “noes” Carr announced the
resolution was unanimously passed
and presented a large black draped
wreath to Rep. B. H. Dewey of
Bryan, an outspoken Aggie sup
porter.
Dewey was allowed to make the
motion that the House adjourn un
til tomorrow morning.
“That’s all he can do now, after
Saturday,” Carr commented.
Board Member
RV Initiation
Speaker Tonite
H. B. Zachry, member of
the A&M board of directors,
is guest speaker tonight for
Ross Volunteer initiation cere
monies when 71 Corps juniors
become members of the company.
Ceremonies will be held at 7 p.m.
in the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom.
Zachry, class of ’22, was a mem
ber of the RV’s when he attended
A&M as a civil engineering ma
jor and member of “B” Field Ar
tillery.
Zachry, is president of the H. B.
Zachry Contractors, of San An
tonio, president of the Associated
General Contractors of America,
and president of a Laredo bank. He
started his business career in La
redo after graduating here, and re
mained there until moving to San
Antonio in 1941.
Besides being a business execu
tive, Zachry is also a family man.
He is married and has two sons
and three daughters.
2 Suspended By
Military Board
Two first classmen, found
guilty of “conduct unbecoming a
cadet and a gentleman and their
influence harmful to the moral
and successful operation of the
Corps” have been indefinitely
suspended by a military board
of officers.
Names of the two cadets dis
missed were withheld.
Suspension provided for appli
cation for re-admission to the
college no earlier than Septem
ber 1958.
Both students had been involv
ed in “repeated disciplinary
action,” according to Col. Joe E.
Davis, commandant.
May Slave Off
Soviet Boycott
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., —The United States and
other Western powers yesterday accepted a compromise plan
for expanding the U.N. Disarmament Commission to 25 na
tions. Diplomatic sources said it would stave off a Soviet
boycott of fuure disarmament negotiations.
The U.N. General Assembly is expected to meet today to
give quick and perhaps unanimous approval to a six-nation
resolution offered in the hope of assuring continuance of
East-West efforts to resolve the long-standing disarmament
deadlock.
A Canadian source said he had been informed that the
Soviet Union was awaiting instructions from Moscow on a
Beaumont Editor
Stresses Truth
Each person’s ability to discover
the truth is the most valuable fac
tor in a democracy, the Beaumont
Enterprise and Journal editor said
last night.
Speaking to Texas Junior Col
lege Press Association members
in the Memorial Student Center,
Robert Akers emphasized the value
of newspapers in ferreting out the
truth for its readers.
He urged the young journalists
to choose the newspaper field as
2 AH Profs Head
Fat Stock Show
F. I. Dahlberg, professor of ani
mal husbandry, and A. L. Darnell,
retired professor of dairy husban
dry, have been named department
superintendents for the 1958 South
western Exposition and Fat Stock
Show.
Dahlberg will head the swine
department and the junior pig
show; dairy cattle and the junior
dairy calf show will be supervised
by Darnell.
Ike Declares
Discrimination
Can Hurt U. S
AGUSTA, Ga., L3>) —Presi
dent Eisenhower said yester
day that with U. S. strength
being tested at every
point, the nation can ill af
ford any discrimination on the
basis of race, creed or color.
The President, in a statement is
sued at his vacation headquarters,
appealed for the greatest possible
use of the talents of all Americans
as he made ready to confer here
today with Secretary of Defense
McElroy.
At the conference at the Augusta
National Golf Club, Eisenhower
and McElroy will discuss how
much defense spending must be in
creased in the fiscal year starting
July 1 to meet the Russian chal
lenge in development of space era
weapons.
Eisenhower’s appeal against dis
crimination was set forth in a
statement noting that tomorrow,
the anniversary of Lincoln’s Get
tysburg Address, has been desig
nated as Equal Opportunity Day.
“One of the ringing declarations
of our time,” the President said, “is
that ‘All men are created equal.’
their professions so they could be
a part o fthe public service of find
ing the truth.
Following the banquet the A&M
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi spon
sored a short variety show which
included a pianist, Charles Hol
man; and a male and female vocal
ist, Don Royall and Anita Mowery.
After viewing the talent, the
delegates danced to the music of
the Dave Woodard Combo.
Yesterday’s program included
talks from Fred Hartman, editor
of the Baytown Sun; James N.
Allison Jr., vice president, The
Midland Reporter - Telegram;
Woody Barron, reporter, Waco
News Tribune; Rigby Owen, pub
lisher, Conroe Daily Courier, and
Charles Carder, sports editor, Bry
an Daily Eagle.
This morning delegates were
taken on a tour of the student pub
lications and Journalism Depart
ment quai’ters.
Colleges attending were: Tarle-
ton State, LeTourneau Technical,
Tyler, Amarillo, Blinn, Kilgore,
San Angelo, Odessa, Arlington
State, Navarro, Panola, Paris, Ho
ward County, Henderson County,
Whai’ton County, Schreiner Insti
tute and San Antonio.
The TJCPA is jointly sponsored
by the A&M Journalism Depart
ment and undergraduate chapter
of Sigma Delta Chi, Professional
Journalistic Fraternity.
’♦request that its delegation
here vote in favor of the com
promise plan, rather than ab
stain. Many U.N. diplomats
conceded privately that the
Soviet Union had got what it
wanted.
Canada, India, Japan, Sweden,
Paraguay and Yugoslavia spon
sored the compromise resolution
to add 14 nations to the disarma
ment commission for a one-year
period beginning next Jan. 1; Ar
gentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil-
Burma, Czechoslovakia, Egypt,
India, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Pol
and, Tunisia and Yugoslavia.
Originally the West had given
its support to a Japanese-Ca-
nadian proposal to add only 10
members to the commission. Mex
ico, Norway, Egypt and Poland
were not on the list.
The Soviet Union let it be known
it was not satisfied. It expressed
an unofficial desire to see at least
Egypt and Poland added. A ma
jority of the Latin-American coun
tries proposed addition of Mexico.
India and Yugoslavia played a
leading role in negotiations which
finally resulted in the compromise
resolution adding the new coun
tries to the 10-nation list. The
western nations gave it their en
dorsement yesterday.
Diplomatic sources said the So
viet Union will not hold out now
for its proposal to expand the
Disarmament Commission to in
clude all 82 members of the United
Nations.
One of the results of expanding
the Disarmament Commission is
expected to be a change in its sub
committee, made up now of the
United States, Britain, France,
Canada and Soviet Union.
Grants Given For
Organic Research
C. K. Hancock, professor of
chemistry, has received a one year
extension of his research grant
from the Robert A. Welch Foun
dation of Houston.
The extension provides $13,720
for studies on the effect of struc
ture on the reactivity and proper
ties of organic compounds and will
support the research of three pre-
doctoral fellows, Louis A. Jones,
Morris Rapoport and John S. West
moreland.
Robert Akers