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Che Battalion Cadels Ready For Rice... See Page 4 Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1962 Number 34 Aggies Turn Work Efforts To Bonfire Wire Review By The Associated Pres WORLD NEWS HAMILTON, Bermuda — Crew- len abandoned a burning Greek leiKhter in the storm-tossed At- ' Intic on Thursday night as flames ivept near her cargo of high ex- losives. Rescue ships picked up seven len but said one lifeboat cap ped and they had lost sight f the other 18 crewmen in the pater. •k ir ir NEW DELHI, India — In dian forces have opened their irst major offensive of the un declared Himalayan border war with Red China, killing- an un known number of enemy troops entrenched in the northeastern sector, the Defense Ministry re ported Thursday. A Red Chinese broadcast heard in Tokyo said, however, the at tacks — made under heavy artil lery fire — were being repulsed by Communist troops still hold ing; their positions. U.' S. NEWS WASHINGTON — A conference : 170 industry, union and civic aders has overwhelmingly en- lorsed President Kennedy’s pro- losal for a quick and substantial |ax reduction. After two days of discussion, an Itpanded meeting of the Presi- lent’s Labor-Management Advis- y Committee came up Thurs- |ay with a majority conclusion at the tax cut should be perma- lent and should emphasize lower personal income tax rates, with orporate rate reductions” on a mailer scale. NEW ORLEANS — The federal ppeals court Thursday ordered the ustice Department to institute riminal contempt proceedings a- tainst Mississippi Gov. Ross R. iamett and Lt. Gov. Paul B. John- on Jr. I The order was issued here by ■he 5th U. S. Circuit Court of Ap peals, which earlier held Barnett , Ind Johnson in civil contempt for lllheir efforts to block the enroll- rent of Negro James H. Mere- lith at the University of Missis- lippi. Toil Will Begin Early Saturday Both students and professors will take to the woods after convocation activities this afternoon—professors to hunt deer, students to begin full-scale work on this year’s bonfire. Three short days stand between almost all necessary student work and the time for igniting the bonfire Tuesday night. And work crews will not be at full strength Saturday since many students will attend the Rice football game in Houston Saturday afternoon. The center pole, almost exactly 100 feet tall, was put in place Thursday afternoon. Logs are expected to begin arriv ing in the stacking area during the day Saturday and stack ing crews are being prepared to work around-the-clock Sun day and Monday to complete* CENTER POLE—ON THE WAY UP . . . workers strain at bottom CENTER POLE—STANDING IN PLACE . . . signifies beginning of work Lyons Admits Medicals Abused Medical exemptions from the Corps of Cadets and “assembly- line medical treatment” given at the college hospital were two con troversial subjects discussed in Thursday night’s Student Senate meeting by Dr. Charles R. Lyons, director of student health services. The doctor said that the college hospital grants medical exemp tions from compulsory Corps part icipation for only two reasons — a decision by the hospital staff that a student would be physical ly harmed by further participation in the Corps, or a letter presented by a student in which his person al physician states that the stu dent would be mentally or physi cally harmed. The letter provision is much abused, Dr. Lyons said, “but I will not question his doctor’s opinion.” POLICY FOLLOWED by the De partment of Military Science to ward exempted students is to drop them from their military science courses with a failing g-rade if the exemption is based on a letter from their doctor. Students who are granted ex emptions by a decision of the hos pital staff are dropped from their military science course with the grade which they had actually earned in the course. flF 1919 TURKEY DAY CLASSIC Prof Remembers First Grid Broadcast The 1919 Thanksgiving foot ball game between A&M and the University of Texas long has been Southwest Conference his tory. Old grads of bother schools find it difficult to remember who won the game — much less the score and other details. For H. C. (Dutch) Dilling ham, now an electrical engineer ing professor here, the 1919 spectacle was more than a foot ball game. Dillingham, then a student, refers to an “incident” during the grudge battle 43 years ago that became a significant part of American life. He was one of several engi neering students involved in the ■world's first radio broadcast of a football game. Dillingham quickly points out, however, that he had a “lesser role” in what was thought of at the time as a “stunt.” The 1919 game was described on a telegraph key in Contin ental code of dots and dashes,’ Using a long list of initials for each movement of the football. The Aggies’ first telecast is credited largely to the late Wil liam A. (Dock) Tolson, who later became an eminent re search engineer at the Prince ton, N. J., laboratories of Radio Corporation of America. Tolson was the key man in Assembling the station. When the actual broadcast took place, however, he tooted a trumpet in the Aggie band. Events leading up to the ori ginal sportscast are mentioned in a letter written by Tolson. Tolson pointed out that the original telecast took some do ing, finding equipment for radio operations when none was avail able. Some of the material had to be “borrowed” from other de partments. “One vital part,” he wrote, “came from an electric fan which just accidentally fell from the window-sill of this profes sor’s office. The fan’s blades were ruined in the two-story fall, but the motor worked fine.” Once the station was assem bled, other preparations had to be made. Dana X. Bible, A&M’s foot ball coach then and later coach and athletic director at the Uni- SPORTSCASTER AND RADIO RECEIVER ... portable miniature would do job today versity of Texas, helped the en gineers work out the code. The idea was to make up a list of abbreviated terms to trans mit, instead of using complete statements. Time would not per mit too much explanation in a play-by-play account of the game. The A&M station was given the call letter “5YA,” forerun ner of 5XB and the present amateur station W5AC. With equipment “borrowed” from one soui’ce or another, Station 5YA began operations. The actual broadcast apparent ly was successful, judging from the way the report w”as received in Waco. The manager of one of the radio stations in the Central Texas city obtained permission to install his receiver in the office of one of the newspapers, Tolson wrote. The report sent by the Aggies was received in the newspaper office long before Associated Press accounts. The rival paper put a Magnavox speaker in a car and drove to the other newspaper plant where AP re ports were being given out. ‘They announced that they were giving out reports as they happened,” Tolson said. “The re sult was a near riot.” Who won the 1919 game? The Aggies, 7-0. “The least important thing a student gets from participating in the Corps is a commission,” Dr Lyons said. He stressed that learning to meet and work with people in civilian life is the biggest advantage of Coi’ps life. DR. LYONS explained that the granting of medical exemptions was a greatest problem when the Corps was not compulsory than it is today. He said that, at that time, once a student had signed up for the Corps, he was bound to a two-year obligation. Regai’ding the quality of medical service, Dr. Lyons said that the doctors who are on duty at the college hospital are the same ones who work at Bryan’s St. Joseph Hospital. Pointing out that an average of 6,500 visits per month were made to the college hospital during the last three months, Dr, Lyons said: “We try to keep things mov ing, so it is true that we have to conduct an assembly line proce dure for such cases as colds, ath lete’s foot and blisters. “But nurses who handle these cases have had at least three year’s experience in that type of work.” The nurses, he said, refer many cases to a doctor if it is necessary, or any student may request to see a doctor if he wishes. the stack. Work in the cutting area began on a volunteer basis this week, with much of the time being- devoted to clearing heavy underbrush in the area. THE CUTTING area is located to the left off Farm Road 60 ap proximately five miles from cam pus. The turn off FM 60 is im mediately past a Negro church four miles from the railroad tracks wast of campus. Gates to the act ual cutting area are one mile from the FM 60 intersection. Parking for workers in the cut ting area will be in a field near the far right gate into the area. Original plans were to park cars in three different areas farther back from the gates. CIVILIANS AND day students are expected to carry a heavy part of the wox-k load between now and Sunday morning w-hen all Corps students will be able to work. Members of these two groups are already guarding the center pole and are planning to form cutting and stacking crews for work all day Saturday. Many other civil ians and day students are planning to work with Corps units, espec ially Saturday. Corps units will begin work Sun day and Monday at 5:45 a.m. and continue in all areas until dark. According to Head Yell Leader Bill Brashears, who also serves as chief bonfire coordinator, there appears to be no way to avoid having to work in the stacking area throughout the night both nights. Finishing touches will be put on the stack Tuesday, despite the re sumption of classes after a holi day Monday. Oiling will be done at the latest possible time Tuesday before the fire is ignited, with the Department of Petroleum Engi neering assisting student workers. United Chest Drive Passes $17,000 Goal The College Station United Chest passed its goal Thursday when $17,160.57 w r as reported in the coffers at 3 p.m. by drive treasurer Pieter Groot. The goal for the 15-day drive was $17,000. Several firms and ci tizens of the community had not brought in their checks, Groot announced. Dr. W. J. Graff, chairman of the campaign committee, requested that those who have not contri buted do so as quickly as possible. Funds raised above the goal will be used for emergency needs and for campaign expenditures, Graff noted. . Graff expressed appreciation to the 87 campaign workers in the city who devoted their time and ef forts to the drive, and to those in the community who cooperated by contributions that made the drive a success. A meeting of the board of di rectors of the Chest was called by Dr. G. M.' Watkins, general chairman, Thursday afternoon to canvass the results of the drive, j The directors authorized the treasurer to pay one-half of the funds allocated to the agencies immediately, with the remainder to come as pledges are met. Watkins was authorized to call a meeting of the board of direct ors before Dec. 15 for acceptance of the state charter of the organi zation and for adoption of the arti cles of incorporation and by-laws. Dr. Johp C. Calhoun, genei-al chairman of last year’s drive, was named acting chairman until Dec. 15 while Watkins is out of the country on an assignment. jysaaBB m MSC To Conduct Lost-F ound Auction Tuesday Afternoon The MSC Council and Director ate will conduct its annual Lost and Found Auction Tuesday in the Fountain Room of the MSC from 1 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. or later. As in the past, Keyes Carson will be the auctioneer. Items to be sold will be on dis play in Room 2-A of the MSC all i day Monday and part of Tuesday i morning before being moved down to the Fountain Room for the auc- i tion. . . . That bird was mostly feathers and very little meat!’