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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1960
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Touchdown, A&M
Franklin Fisher, sophomore Cadet end, leaps maxed an 80-yard A&M drive in 12 plays,
high to make a spectacular catch of a Ronnie Rice defenders Bob Wayt (24) and Billy Cox
Brice pass late in the first half against the (14) close in on Fisher, but to no avail as
Rice Owls to mark up the Ags first touch- the Aggies narrowed the Rice lead to 14-7
down. The play covered 13 yards and cli- at the half.
United Chest Drive Lags;?
Coffers Lacking $4,065
LeeRoy Caffey,
Rob Hope: A
Pair of VIPs
There were a lot of important
people in Houston during the
week preceding the Rice-A&M
football game. Among the
VIP’s were Bob Hope, Mickey
Mantle and Jerry Lewis, all who
performed at half-time of the
Owlet-Fish clash.
Coach Jim Myers related a
weekend “story” about one of
the Aggie football players and
Bob Hope.
It seems that Lee Roy Caffey
was coming down the hotel ele
vator after the game and on the
same elevator was Bob Hope.
Caffey said, “Hello, Mr.
Hope,” and Mr. Hope replied,
“Well, hellos Lee Roy, how’s
Sam’s leg?” (Sam Byer missed
the Rice game with a Charley
horse.)
Lee Roy was quite astounded
as well as everyone else on the
elevator.
One thing about the little in
cident, it shows that important
people know other important
people.
A&M Marksmen
Drill Rice For
Third Straight Win
The A&M .22 caliber rifle team
has defeated the Rice University
team by a score of 1,427-1,333 out
of a possible 1,500. The shoulder-
to-shoulder match was held at
Rice over the weekend.
The Cadets are undefeated in
rifle matches this fall.
McCloud Bradford Hodges, III,
fired the highest individual score
for both teams with 291 out of
300.
World Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
Secret Service Moves Into Austin
AUSTIN—Secret Service agents met with officials of
Bergstrom Air Force Base, yesterday to complete arrange
ments for the visit this week of president-elect John F.
Kennedy.
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Death Plane Not Airworthy
WASHINGTON—The Federal Aviation Agency said the
C46 airplane which crashed Oct. 29 killing 16 California
Polytechnic College football players and six other persons
was overloaded and was riot in airworthy condition. The
crash was at Toledo, Ohio, airport.
The FA A filed a complaint with the Civil Aeronautics
Board against Arctic-Pacific Inc., the Oakland, Calif., sup
plemental airline operating the twin-engined plane.
Checks Accepted
Past Deadline
Hope still remains for the meeting of the $15,150 goal in
the College Station United Chest Drive Chairman Dale F.
Leipper declared last night as he viewed today’s final con
tribution proceedings.
As of Friday, the chairman said, a total of $11,085 was in
the group’s coffers. A good amount was collected over the
weekend, Leipper added, but figures have not as of yet been
tabulated.
Will Be Accepted
Even though 5 p. m. this afternoon is the official dead
line, contribution checks will be accepted as long as all citizens
have not been heard from, Leipper added.
These late contributions 4 '
may be mailed to Mike Krenit-
sky, the drive treasurer, at
Cushing Memorial Library on
the A&M campus.
Leipper said he was still fairly
optimistic the goal will be reached
because of the large amount of cit
izens not yet heard from. He added
nearly 200 members .of one faculty
department alone have not con
tacted the organization.
College Staff Leads
According tQ the figures re
leased Friday, the college staff
leads in contributions with a total
of $8,708. The goal from the staff
members was set at the beginning
of the drive at around $10,000, 90
per cent of the total of $12,297 col
lected in last year’s drive.
Friday’s figures also revealed
some departments in the college
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Three Credit School Speakers
.. (left to right) Johnson, Sartwelle, Coke
Work Schedule
For Bonfire
Released
The working schedule for this
weekend's bonfire building has
been announced by the Executive
Committee of the Academic Coun
cil and is practically a repeat of
the schedule used last year.
A memorandum from the office
of President Earl Rudder released
yesterday revealed undergraduate
classes will be dismissed Monday
and students will be permitted to
work Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day.
No graduate classes will be dis
missed and the day will not be
considered a holiday for college
employees, the memorandum said.
In addition to the weekend, jun
iors and seniors will be permitted
to work Thursday and Friday dur
ing off hours in the cutting area.
This work will be preliminary
clearing of land and the initial
cutting of timber.
Freshmen and sophomores will
not be permitted to work before
Saturday.
The huge blaze, annually around
70 feet high and the world’s larg
est, will touched off Tuesday night
behind Duncan Hall.
The Aggies and the Corps of
Cadets will invade Austin Thurs
day for the Corps Trip and the
University of Texas battle in Me
morial Stadium.
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FOR BANKERS MEETING
School Speakers Announced
Three speakers have been an
nounced for the 10th annual Farm
and Ranch Credit School for Com
mercial Bankers to be held here
Nov. 28-30.
They are J. D. Sartwelle of
Houston, executive vice president
12,500 TB Association
Letters Mailed Yesterday
For the postman the Christmas mail began yesterday
with the delivery of 12,500 letters containing the 1960 Christ
mas Seals sent out by the Brazos County Tuberculosis As
sociation.
The association’s campaign will>
continue through the month of De
cember according to Mrs. Charles
N. Smith, Brazos County chair
man.
Mrs. Sml^j said that she was
counting on increased contribu
tions this year to help in the fight
to control tuberculosis in Brazos
County,* where 69 residents are
known to have TB at the present
time. Twenty-four new cases were
reported last year, and five vic
tims went to the State TB Hospi
tals the past month.
Funds raised during the cam
paign will be used to promote
tuberculin testing in the schools
of the county, furnish X-rays for
needy family contacts of known
TB victims, help rehabilitate TB
patients when discharged from the
hospital, push Health Education
and support tuberculosis research
projects.
and general manager of the Port
City Stockyards; Earl Coke, vice
president and agricultural repre
sentative of the Bank of America
in California, and Dr. Richard B.
Johnson, chairman of the South
ern Methodist University Depart
ment of Economics.
Coke is a former assistant sec
retary of agriculture to Ezra T.
Benson and was a director of the
Commodity Credit Corp.
Livestock Feeding
Sartwelle will speak on livestock
feeding and its relationship to de
velopment of agricultural indus
tries. He will be one of five pan
elists contributing to a symposium
on the topic, “How Can Agricul
tural Industries be Developed in
19 61?” Panel moderator is
Charles Ball of Farm Journal mag
azine in Dallas.
Sartwelle has been associated
with Port City Stockyards since
1938 and has worked in all phases
of meat packing and plant admin
istration, specializing in interpret
ing market trends and conditions.
In 1956, he was selected Hous
ton’s Outstanding Young Man of
the Year.
Coke will be banquet speaker 4
during the conference and his top
ic is “The Agricultural Program
of the World’s Biggest Bank.”
A Senior Executive
The speaker is one of the senior
executives closely identified with
the Bank of America farm loan
program encompassing every
phase of California’s vast agri
business industry. He is respons
ible for the bank’s relationships
with farmers, ranchers and private
co-operative agencies engaged in
growing, processing, handling and
marketing farm products.
His activities also include super
vision of the bank’s co-operation
with and encouragement of agri
cultural organizations, 4-H Clubs,
Future Farmers of America and
similar groups.
Coke began his career as a farm
adviser in the Agricultural Exten
sion Service of the Universiay of
California after graduating in
1923.
Johnson, who also is director of
the Southwestern Graduate School
of Banking, will discuss “How
Prosperous Will We Be in 1961?”
Why Don’t The Aggies Win?”—Page 4
Foreign Trade
Executive
To Speak Here
Dr. Stanton S. von Grabill, vice
president of the American Insti
tute for Foreign Trade, will be on
campus tomorrow to talk to stu
dents interested in a career abroad
with American business or the
US government service.
On-campus appointments to
meet von Grabill may be made
through W. R. Horsley, Placement
Director. Hours during which von
Grabill will be available for inter
views with interested students are
from 8:30 a.m.-l p.m. While on
campus, von Grabill will also con
fer with college administrative of
ficers and faculty members.
At the present time, there are
two A&M graduates on the AI FT
campus working toward their
post-graduate degrees in foreign
trade. They are William Bennett,
’48, and John C. Schultz, ’58.
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A Tragic Ending
Miriamne, (Marlene Rushing) crouches over Mio (David
White) after he has been gunned down by enemies lurking
in the darkness. Tragedy is paramount in this scene, for
she advises him to enter the dark alley to escape his ene
mies. The picture shows the result of his following her
innocently-given advice.
GREA T AMERICAN TRA GED Y
NBCs “Monitor
Goes Calling”
Coming to A&M
. “Monitor Goes Calling” will call
upon A&M this weekend.
The radio program is a feature
of the National Broadcasting Co.
and will broadcast nationwide, ac
cording to Elliott Drake of NBC.
Details of the program have
been worked out by NBC in co
operation with the A&M Depart
ment of Information.
The College’s history, customs,
traditions and facts and informa
tion will be interspersed with pop.
ular and college songs, Drakf
stated.
The program will be heard ove?
NBC stations at the following
times:
Friday, Nov. 18, 8-8:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 19, 11:30-12 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2-2:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 19, 5-5:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 19, 8-8:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 20, 5:30-6 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 20, 8:30-9 p.m.
According to the announcement,
each half-hour program will be
completely different from any pre
ceding half-hour.
Ag Players "‘Winterset”
Mixes Pathos With Hate
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Opening performance of “Win-
terset” in Guion Hall by the Aggie
Players was staged in typical ex
cellence last night.
The great American tragedy by
Maxwell Anderson reflected the
two-month preparation of the
Players, and the magnitude of the
play was felt by the audience in a
higher than normal degree.
Theme for the production was a
young man’s yearning to avenge
the execution of his innocent fa
ther, convicted of a murder he
didn’t commit.
A seige of conflict develops as
Mio, son of the falsely convicted
man, lands in the home of Garth,
a member of the trio committing
the murder 14 years hence.
High-pitched emotions emerge
when Mio falls in love with Garth’s
sister, Mariamne, preventing him
from exposing her bi’other.
Written in free verse, “Winter-
set” combines the base language
and conversation of its setting, an
alley and basement apartment
near a large New York bridge,
with heights of poetic beauty from
Mio.
In his role as Mio, David White
filled his acting with full char
acter; Marlene Rushing performed
in like accord as Miriamne, pa
thetic figure of a girl with no
beliefs.
Equally well done were the roles
of Trock and Shadow, played by
John Paxson and Richard Reiser.
These two provided the sinister
element for the play, in the parts
of two murderers holding Garth
under their power through his im
plication in the crime as a witness.
A special tribute goes to John
Gladwell, playing- Judge Gaunt,
the magistrate responsible for the
conviction of Mio’s father. Driven
insane by the guilt that rests
within him, Judge Gaunt rambles
many lines of legal jargon to all
who will listen, trying to prove
his stand on the case.
Gladwell’s handling of the role
was done in professional caliber,
and remarkably well for opening
night.
Bouquets should go to the en
tire cast, for each was totally in
(See ‘WTNTERSET’ on Page 3)
Mrs. Texas A&M
Search Underway
A hunt is now underway for Mrs. Texas A&M. The
Aggie Wives Council is sponsoring the event, with all wives
of students now enrolled at A&M invited tp enter.
Mrs. Texas A&M will be named at a dance to be held by
the council Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. in the 4 ■ ;
Ballroom of the MSC. The Aggie-
land Combo will furnish the mu
sic at the affair. Tickets are $2
per couple.
“We want all Aggie wives to
enter the contest,” said Mrs. Jean
Vaught, chairman for the dance.
“All clubb on the campus are
invited to sponsor entries,” she
added.
“The only requirement is that
Aggie Architect
Wins Annual Prize
For the sixth time in seven years the Division of Archi
tecture today holds the plaque for producing the best bro
chure of fourth year design work done by an individual stu
dent. The Clay Products Association makes this award an
nually to schools of architecture 4
in the Southwest.
In addition a grand prize of $400
is given for the outstanding bro
chure in the region.
The winner this year is Paul
Pate, fourth year student from
Fort Smith, Ark., who also woh
the local prize of $100 for his
brochure. Pate, who is presently
enrolled in the Graduate School
of Design at Harvard University,
also won the Texas Concrete Ma
sonry Association competition
problem, a $100 prize for the best
individual problem at the school.
Six A&M students also won the
$400 Featherlite Corporation of
America prize for a resort hotel
design project.
the entry must be the wife of a
current student at A&M,” she said.
Any Aggie wife wishing to en
ter the contest should send her
name and address, along ,with a
$2 entry fee, to Mrs. Vaught at
801 Fairview Ave. in College Sta
tion. All entries must be in by
Nov. 24. Anyone wishing informa
tion on the contest is asked to call
Mrs. Vaught at VI 6-6109.
All entrants in the contest are
asked to be at the Battalion Office
at 7:30 p.m. Thursday to have pic
tures made.
No Profit
Mrs. Vaught said the council
will not make any profit on the
dance. She said the council will
give all money over expenses to
charity at the end of the year.
Judges for the contest include
representatives from Lester’s Wo
men’s Wear stores and Tino’s
Hair Stylists. Also included in
the list of judges are Mrs. M. J.
Pergerson and Virginia Erickson.
A member of the Battalion staff
will also serve on the panel.
Mrs. Vaught said the dance is
not restricted to married students,
but only couples will be admitted,