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The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1959 Number 36 /■ Area @ parJh'wfir ms Here Full Bonfire Docket To Begin Tomorrow Monday Holiday From Classes Area ® £*}girn K«ae Oal field (Stay out!) Mo one i4 leave car Between 1or»<tae and *1* • A. 'JnUh^jri^c.'nu^ t*- 11 fttalfrirt:—s»k^juaiiiliMhkMH Map of Route to be Followed to Cutting Areas Corps Collection Dec. 5 Campus Chest, Seating Discussed by Senate The Campus Chest collection date was scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5, by the Student Senate at their third meeting of the year last night in the Senate Chamber of the Memorial Student Center. Also, the Senate discussed the seating arrangement for the Thanksgiving Day grid contest be tween the Aggies and the Universi ty of Texas Steers and slated the 12th Man Bowl for Wednesday, Dec. 1G. The Campus Chest, through the Corps of Cadets, will be collected in the dormitories on an outfit basis. A parade is also slated that day and commandery time may conflict with the Chest but Marvin Schneider, chairman of the drive, said the collection probably could still be taken. Collections will be made in civilian dorms on the nights of Dec. 7-8. A confliction also exists in the scheduling of the 12th Man Bowl with an approval from the College Executive Committee to excuse classes from 3-5 p.m. necessary CORRECTION All students who have com pleted Military Science and ex pect to receive an Army commis sion upon successful completion of their academic course are re quested to report to M. Sgt. Ad rian A. Allen in Room 209 of the Trigon not lated than Dec. 18. The Battalion previously re ported that the deadline was Noy. 18. to conduct the annual contest. The Bowl will again be a grid clash on Kyle Field with the Air Force meeting- the Army. How ever, this year the teams will be called the Maroons and the Whites. Senate President Jake Serkerka also said there is actually no seat ing arrangement problem due to the pre-game ceremonies given by the Corps this year. The Corps will assemble on the field prior to the game for the in vocation and “The Spirit,” before breaking for the stands. Serkerka said the Senate could only aid in the seating of the class es in their respective sectors in the stadium, since the melee of the break would prohibit seating de tails. Aggies again go on a full work schedule tomorrow the annual Bonfire construction begins. The full docket will be in effect until Monday with work beginning at daybreak and ceasing at sunset. Work will continue until Wednesday at 5 p.m. Morning meals through Wednesday wall be served at 5 a.m. with crews moving out to the cutting: and stacking areas at 5:30 a.m. Outfit Basis for Meals The noon meal at the cutting and stacking area will be served on an outfit basis with Aggies again receiving two -♦■sandwiches, coffee, fruit and cookies. The evening meal will be in the respective mess halls at 7 p.m. Joe Leeper, chairman of the Bonfire Committee, said five—and as many as seven—trucks will be used to haul logs for the blaze. Guard fire wood was taken to the stacking area yestei’day and the first logs were to begin arriving at the stacking area today. 95-foot Center Pole The center pole was scheduled to go up this morning. The pole is 110-feet tall and 95 feet will rise above ground level. Wednesday at 5 p-.m., the mas sive blaze will be turned over to crews headed by Robert L. Whit ing, head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering, and John L. Pedigo, associate professor in that department, for fueling. 500 Gallons of Fuel The pair will apply some 500 gallons of kerosene to the Bonfire with a $35,000 rig from Hallibur ton Well Servicing. Whiting said the entire operation would take but 45 minutes at the most with the Bonfire ready for ignition as early at 5:45 p.m. Whiting and Pedigo urged stu dents and bystanders to keep clear of the 200-foot area around the Bonfire which will be roped off during and after fueling. Deeper said authorized cadet of ficers would be put in charge of the area during this time to make certain no one entered the area during the hazardous operation. Cutting Underway Juniors and seniors will begin cutting timber Thursday. Cutting- will be done again this year on land owned by Tommy Arhopulos. Leeper heads the Bonfire Com mittee under the supervision of Col. Frank S. Vaden. No guards will be placed at the statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross or at Kyle Field as in past years. Eighteen guard fires will surround the drill field to protect the Bon- fore from vandalism, according to Leeper. McGee Joins College Staff At Hospital Borden M. McGee has joined the staff of Student Health Services at A&M, Dr. C. R. Lyons, direc tor, announced today. “This brings our full-time staff of doctors to four,” Dr. Lyons said. “In addition the hospital has three part-time specialists in surgery, internal medicine and ear, nose and throat.” Dr. McGee joins the staff after 22 years of general practice in Rosenberg, Tex. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago School of Medicine and interned at the Crippled Children’s Hospital in Roanoke, Va. Prior to going into the medical profession, he graduated from the University of Arkansas with a de gree in electrical engineering. The new staff member did his pre-med woi’k at Baylor University. A native of Henderson county, Dr. McGee served in the submarine service during World War I. He is a member of the American Med ical Assn., the Texas and County Medical Assns. He and Mrs. Mc Gee are members of the Baptist Church. Liebhafsky to Give Paper in Florida Dr. E. E. Liebhafsky, associate professor in the Department of Economics, will present a paper at a meeting Saturday and Sun day of the Southern Economic Assn, at Jacksonville, Fla. His talk is entitled -“Implica tions for the Texas Trade Union Movement of Some Projected Changes in the Texas Labor Force.” Liebhafsky is the author of an article “A ‘New’ Concept in Wage Determination: Disguised Produc tivity Analysis”, published recent ly in the Southern Economic Jour nal. Down Goes Another Tree Renato Ramirez downs a tree Thursday afternoon while Bud Driver looks on in the background. Corps juniors and seniors moved into the cutting areas Thursday afternoon to begin initial work on the 1959 Bonfire. Chest Collection Totals $16,209 The College Station United Chest final drive total is $16,209, according to a repoi-t from J. B. (Dick) Hervey, chairman. The chest goal was $13,150, which was reached on the 13th day of the drive. The final figure represents 123 percent of the goal. In making the announcement Hervey stated that so far as he knows this is the first time the United Chest drive in College Sta tion has been completed in less than two weeks. “This indicates a broader base of participation of citizens of Col lege Station than ever before,” he said. Hervey expressed his apprecia tion to the citizens of the area for their whole-hearted support of this year’s drive. The chairman especi ally expressed his appreciation to the three drive chairmen: E. L. Angell, who headed the A&M Col lege System solicitation; H. E. Burgess, who directed the city of College Station section; and to Irvin Lloyd, head of the drive among Federal Agencies. Also, Hervey thanked the department and area chairmen and the cap tains for their work. Both Chancellor M. T. Harring ton and President Earl Rudder joined in thanking the College and System personnel who participated in the drive. Said Chancellor Har- i-ington, “The liberality of the A&M personnel in helping the Col lege Station United Chest drive surpass its goal of 23% is most commendable.” President Rudder stated: “The response demonstrates once again that the college personnel can be (See CHEST on Page 3) Monday Night in White Coliseum Town Hall to Present Waring Town Hall will present their third production of the year Mon day night at 8 when Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians launch their Stereo Festival in G. Rollie Whie Coliseum. The music presented on this program will be of a world-wide theme. Music with a Russian ac cent, presented in the Pennsylvani an style, along with some Latin American strains, a bit of authen tic Americana representing our own United States in both words and melodies and the African back ground of the great Negro Spiri tuals will comprise the major part of the program. Naturally, there will be a Chi’istmas group, and the animal kingdom will be well rep resented in a realistic series called “Who’s Zoo”. The grand climax to the pro gram will be the original Waring interpretation of the historic “Bat tle Hymn of the Republic.” If time premits, the audience can take part in the program by re questing the Pennsylvanians to sing their hits of past years. Vari ety, versatility, vim and vigor are the key notes of a typical Fred Waring show. In a career that has spanned four decades Waring has conquered vaudeville, Hollywood, radio, Broadway and television. While still a youngster, he formed the “Banjazzatra”, a banjo band of four including the famed frog voiced Poley McClintock with whom he grew up. The “Banjazzatra” which he gradually enlarged and later called “Waring’s Collegians” played for fraternity parties and club affaii’s, singing as they played. As engagements came pouring in for the colorful combo, Waring, who had been attending Penn State in the daytime, put aside his banjo for the leader’s baton and manag er’s date book, and decided that entertaining people was to be his life’s work. In the 20’s the name “Fred War ing’s Pennsylvanians” was offici ally adopted. Under this title they first became a national sensation and later an international institu tion. They toured the country in tri umph, finally becoming the rage of Hollywood where they starred in ‘ ‘Syncopation” the first big musical of the “talkie” era. After a tour of Europe they smashed many records on Broadway in the hit revues “Hello Yourself” and “The New Yorkers”. Later they went into radio and their per formances in this medium compiled one of the most glorious chapters in broadcasting history. During World War II the group did their part in maintaining the spirits of fighting forces by ap pearing at Army camps and Naval training- stations. Tickets for the show Monday night are on sale in the Memorial Student Centex*. Adult tickets are $3 and $2.50 each. High school and elementary student tickets are $1. Town Halil season tickets are good for this performance. Running a Race Don Ocker, left and Renato Ramirez appear seniors moved into the cutting - areas to to be a running race to see who can cut their start chopping down the first tree's for the tree down first. This picture was taken 1959 Bonfire. Oh yes, Ramirez won as Thursday afternoon as Corps juniors and shown by the picture at the top of the page.