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LIBHAR? The Battalion Volume 69 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1960 Number 32 Chest Workers First Bonfire Work to „ to Due Next Week Preparing roi Stretch Drive Even though the scheduled beginning for work on the bonfire isn’t until next weekend, quite a bit of work will most likely be done this week as anxious Aggies head for the timber regions south of College Station. Those going home this weekend'* ' By BOB MITCHELL Every dollar collected in the week-old United Chest drive was counted in a coffee this afternoon in the Memorial Stu dent Center as the workers evaluated the progress made thus far in the drive. With this information the work-^ ers, both committee chairmen and volunteers, are due to get a better prospective of the progress of the drive and plans for the stretch drive coming up next week. The deadline has been establish ed as Nov. 15, next Tuesday. Less Than 50 Per Cent As of Wednesday afternoon funds collected totaled $7,503, less than 50 per cent of the desired goal of $15,150. The money already reported came in two separate reports. The first, submitted Monday, totaled $5,800, while Wednesday’s second report added only $1,703 to the total. Drive Chairman Dale F. Leipper cited the election day Tuesday as the apparent reason for the lag in the latter repoi’t, but expressed hope for rejuvenated response through the weekend. “The next few days will show whether or not we will pull out of the slump or not,” Leipper said. The organizations belonging to the United Chest are the College Station Community House, the Sal vation Army, the Texas Rehabili tation Center, the Brazos County Hospital Fund, the Crippled Chil dren’s Therapy Center and the College Station Recreation House. The final amount collected will be divided among these organiza tions. are reminded that this will be their last chance to garner work clothes and materials for the three-work day weekend ahead. Especially useful will be axes, power saws and other heavy tools and devices for cutting and clear ing timber. Once again this year, it will be a junior privilege to use an axe and a senior privilege to use a power saw—if they have one in access. As the schedule stands now, classes will be dismissed Monday and workers will work all day Sat urday, Sunday and Monday. The actual burning is slated Tuesday night, with classes to be dismissed Wednesday for the holi day. The game and pre-game activi ties are a Corps Trip, with the Corps of Cadets to parade in Aus tin Thursday morning. The grid battle in Austin’s Memorial Stad ium is scheduled at 2 p. m. "Must’ Victory Faces ‘High - Flying’ Owls World Wrap-Up i Entrants Urged For Irs. A&M’ All wives of students currently enrolled at A&M are invited to enter the contest to find “Mrs. Texas A&M.” The Aggie Wives Council is sponsoring the search. “We want all Aggie wives to en ter the contest,” said Mrs. Jean Vaught, chairman of the event. Anyone wishing to enter the contest should send her name and address, along with a $2 entry fee, to Mrs. Vaught at 801 Fair- view Ave. in College Station. En tries must be received as soon as possible. w f mm A: if 7 Cadets Battle Owls Tomorrow By JOE CALLICOATTE The Aggies will head for Houston this weekend to take on the “high-flying” Rice Owls in a game that Rice must win to keep its Southwest Conference championship hopes alive. Coach Jess Neely has worked his Owls hard and long this week in preparation for the Cadets, who are several rungs below Rice on the SWC ladder. Past Visions As Neely was sending his team through their tough practices this week, he probably still has visions of A&M-Rice tilts in the past several years where the outcome was usually a surprise. Neither the Aggies nor Rice will be at full strength this weekend as both teams have^ a long list of ailing men. By The Associated Press Seven Machine-Gunned in Paris PARIS—Seven persons were machine-gunned to death in a suburban cafe last night in an attack by three Algerian terrorists. Two terrorists sprayed the interior of the cafe with gun fire while the third stood by with a hand grenade threaten ing to throw it if anyone tried to escape. All victims were Algerians. Police said it appeared to be a raid on a group of supporters of the National Liberation front—FLN—by members of the rival Algerian National Movement—MNA. The FLN and MNA are the principal political organiza tions behind the Algerian rebellion. They are bitter rivals and frequently battle in similar fashion. ★ ★ ★ Farmers Warned Of Federal Control DALLAS—The president of the Texas Farm Bureau Yesterday listed wheat as the farmers’ number one commodi ty problem and cautioned of the danger of domination from government. J. H. West of Bishop declared “We are going to be faced with much pressure for a supply management program that could place farmers under the complete domination of orders from Washington and eventually destroy commercial agri culture.” He reviewed the wheat program in an annual message to the membership at the organization’s annual convention. “The lure of security for the farmer and cheaper food for the consumer has a strong political appeal.” ji Pulling Owl Feathers .. slated tomorrow in Houston BY COLDER WEATHER ‘Winterset’ Timing To Be Given Special Significance CSC ACTION Civilians Seek ‘Summit’ Better representation of civilian students at functions involving the entire student body, and better relations between Corps and civil ian students as activly debated at Thursday night’s Civilian Stu dent Council meeting. “We have done a good job—no, an excellent job—this year in bet tering relations between the two parts of the A&M studeht body,” CSC President Mike Carlo told the Council, “but there are still some problems that need to be worked out.” Some of the problems cited were the deletion of any civilian student representative from the welcoming committee that met Aggie Sweet heart Louis Kuehn on her first i Dave Beauchamp, reporting for official visit to the A&M campus Civilian Yell Leader John Garner Nov. 3, lack of cooperation by both asked that civilians desiring to Corps and civilian student with | work on the 1960 Bonfire contact student ushers at home football games, and intergration of Corps and civilian student pictures in the class section of the Aggieland. Work Through Senate The Council decided to work through the Student Senate to set up a “Summit Meeting” between the Corps and civilian student body leaders to work out some of the problems. It was decided to “put in writing certain precedents con cerning Civilian-Corps relation ships to be used as guides in the future.” In other Council action: Murphy Leads FIP Cadets Who Have Already Soloed Three of the 25 A&M cadets enrolled in the flight in struction program this semester have already soloed, Maj. Charles B. Wells, officer in charge, announced yesterday. The three are Charles C. Murphy, Robert P. Lee and John H. Parks. Maj. Wells declared* Murphy soloed after only two hours and 45 minutes of dual in struction. Other cadets enrolled are Alvin R. Adamcik, Duane Ayers, David J. Bailey, John C. Blevins, Charles E. Brame, Charles E. Cole, Don W. Copley, Aubrey C. Elkins, Edward J. Francis, Rodney S. Griffith, David N. Lupot, Harry H. Price, Thomas H. Plummer, Richard M. Powell, Frederick L. Riggle, David G. Webb, Glenn A. Jones, David R. Bene, Doyle W. Krauss, Charles C. Pale, R. E. Thomasson and R. W. Vanderstucken. Garner as soon as possible. Civil ian students are needed to drive trucks and jeeps and to operate chain saws in the cutting area. Volunteers Civilian dormitories have vol unteered to guard the bonfire Sun day, Monday and Tuesday while the Corps is eating. Sunday morning Milner and Hart Halls will guard the fire, with College View guarding it Sunday evening. Monday morning Mitchell Hall 'will guard, and Mon day evening, Puryear Hall. Tues day morning the Civilian Student Council members will do the guard ing, with Law and Leggett Halls taking over Tuesday evening. The Bonfire will be burned at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday. Carlo said call slips will be sent to the dorm presidents the day before their dorm is to guard the fire. The SCS Executive Council plans to invite several persons who have helped the Council in the past to eat Thanksgiving Dinner with the civilian student body Nov. 21 in Sbisa Dining Hall. Bill Nolen, Walton East council man was appointed a committee of one to obtain the tickets from the dining hall. With cold weather prevailing, the timing of the play, “Winter- set,” to be performed in Guion Hall Monday through Friday nights by the Aggie Players, has gained sig nificance. Starting at 8 p.m. each night, “Winterset” will offer the greatest of American tragedies, performed by a cast of 19 and directed by C. K. Esten. Theme for the production is an individual’s desire for revenge against society, a Mio, victim of social condemnation because of his father’s reputation, strikes out against his world in New York City. Scenes during the three acts are set under a bridge, with the sky line of New York in the back ground. The weather is cold, Dec. 21, as winter is setting in. Amid this atmosphere, a play of suspense and deep emotion emits on the stage. parts include Sue Abbot as Piny, David White as Mio; John Paxton, Trock; Richard Reiser, Shadow; Ray Simmons, Garth; Marlene Rushing, Mirianne; Harry Good ing, Esdras; Sam Cely, the hobo; Libby Alexander, first girl and Gale Wilson as the second girl. Others include Jack Gladwell, Judge Gaunt; Gerald Fletcher as Carr; Juan Lobo as Herman; Al fredo Garcia, Lucia; Bob Ham mons, a sailor; Dudley Griggs, a radical; Mike Yates, a sergeant, and Charlie Hearn and Dave Wood ard, two men in blue serge. Following the “Winterset” pro duction, the players will launch into another play for the enter tainment of all interested. This will be “The Fourposters,” a sophisticated comedy concerning hazards of married life. Three Scenes The play will involve three scenes “along the road of a marriage,” and will be done in the round, in the Lower Level of the Memorial Student Center. Only two persons will act in the play, the man and his wife. It will be directed by Harry Gooding. The biggest injury gap in the Cadet squad is at left end. Ralph Smith, who hasn’t missed starting all year, injured a knee late in the SMU game and is very doubtful. Smith’s position is exected to be filled by Senior Don McClelland, who saw consider able action at the left end spot last week. Also Bobby Huntington has about recovered from a knee injury and will be running with McClelland. • Murphy Out Starting left halfback Jim Murphy is out for Saturday’s game and Randy Sims will be fill ing in for him. Aggie fullback Sam Byer missed a couple of practices this week with a bruised hip and although Lee Roy Caffey is expected to start, Byer will be available. George Karam is the Owls’ ma jor injury loss for Saturday and is not expected to see any action. Rice lost their first SWC game last Saturday to Arkansas by a last minute field goal. That’s the main reason that ever a tie would hurt the Owls championship chan- Arkansas tackles the last place Ponies this weekend and next to last place Texas Tech next week end, while the Owls are still in competition with the top of the ranks from now on out. Next week the Owls play TCU and the next week take on Baylor. SCONA VI Applications Being Taken Applications are now being re ceived in the Director’s Office of the Memorial Student Center from students wishing to represent A&M as official delegates to SCONA VI. The forms can be picked up in the Commandant’s Office, the Of fice of Student Affairs and in the Post Office Area of the M.S.C. They must be turned in to the Director’s office no later than Wednesday. A four member selection com mittee, made up of faculty and student members of the Memorial Student Center Council and SCONA advisers, will pick eight national students and seven inter national students as delegates. They will be selected on the basis of their interest and ability in the field of national and international affairs, their grades, and their leadership in campus activities. When the student turns his ap plication in at the Director’s Of fice, he will arrange an interview date with the selection committee. The interviews will be conducted the following Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 17, 18, 21 and 22, according to Dr. Lee Martin, chairman of the committ- tee. Comparable to Greats “This play is comparable to the great Greek tragedies,” said Esten. “It is different from the Shake spearian sequence of events in tragedy, especially in its ending, and it incorporates the ancient and the modern concepts of tragedy, making it the greatest American tragedy on stage today,” he added. The entire play is written in blank verse, and is one of the very few plays to become a great suc cess written in such style, said Esten. On the backstage, design and set crews have been actively at work for the past month and a half pre paring stage props and lighting, costumes and arrangement for the mammoth production. The Players casted for “Winter- 5' set” during the last of September, U and since then have been hard at work three times a week, prepar ing for opening night next Monday. Outside Depth Outside depth of the play can be seen in its cast: Persons having «.■ i m ■ ■- 'M Fish, Rice Game Wrapup Gale Wilson and Libby Alexander ... In “Winterset” Monday night Things Get Rough In “Winterset” ... Mio threatens enemy