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BONFIRE CENTER POLE GOES UP
Spider D erects 95-foot pole as construction progresses.
CEREMONIES PLANNED
Architects To Dedicate
New Home Thanksgiving
A&M University will dedicate
its new $l-million architecture
building during ceremonies and
open house Thanksgiving Day,
Prof. E. J. Romieniec, chairman of
the School of Architecture, has an
nounced.
The three-story glass enclosed
structure, the first permanent
home of architecture since the pro
gram was established in 1905, was
completed last June.
The new building contains a
200-seat auditorium, 14 classrooms
and laboratory spaces for classes
in architecture, landscape, engi
neering, history and a proposed
urban planning program.
In addition, the structure houses
a library, exhibit hall, faculty of
fices and seminar rooms. Adjoin
ing the classroom wing is the re
search and graduate center, which
contains laboratory rooms and a
"simulated sky” dome.
THE DEDICATION services will
begin at 10 a.m. with an invoca
tion by Rev. Bill Oxley of St.
Thomas Episcopal Church in Col
lege Station.
Sterling C. Evans of Houston,
chairman of the Board of Direc
tors, will be the main speaker.
Other talks will be given by Chan
cellor M. T. Harrington, President
Earl Rudder, Dean of Engineering
Fred J. Benson and Ernest Lang
ford.
Langford, who served as head of
architecture from 1929 to 1956,
is now the university archivist.
SPECIAL CREDIT will be given
to others, including Dallas archi
tect Harwood K. Smith, a former
student who planned and designed
the structure.
Student projects will be exhibit
ed on the second and third floors
throughout the day. The dedica
tion and open house will last until
noon, and the building will be open
until 8 p.m. for the campus visi
tors.
Another outstanding feature of
the building is the use of “grey
glass” that hangs almost the en
tire length of the building. The
tinted glass, separate from the
windows, allows natural lighting
and prevents glare.
Two large landscaped courtyards
will be used by students prepar
ing and displaying their assign
ments. The research and graduate
center is connected to the class
room wing by second and third
floor walkways and an outdoor lab
oratory work space.
All A-O. K. For Work
On Best Bonfire Ever
Traditional Fire
Well Organized
+ * * BULLETIN + * *
Connally Critical;
Johnson Not Hurt
DALLAS (JP) — President John F. Kennedy, thirty-six
th president of the United States, was shot to death today
by a hidden assassin armed with a high-powered rifle.
Kennedy, 46, lived about an hour after a sniper cut him
down as his limousin|e left downtown Dallas.
Automatically, the mantle of the presidency fell to Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson, a native Texan had been
riding two cars behind the chief executive.
There was no immediate word on when Johnson would
take the oath of office.
Kennedy died at Parkland Hospital where his bullet-
pierced body had been taken in a frantic but futile effort to
save his life.
Lying wounded at the same hospital was Gov. John
Connally of Texas, who was cut down by the same fusillade
that ended the life of the youngest man ever elected to the
presidency.
Connally and his wife had been riding with the President
and Mrs. Kennedy.
The First Lady cradled her dying husband’s bloodsmeared
head in her arms as the presidential limousine raced to the
hospital.
“Oh, no,” she kept crying. Connally slumped in his seat
beside the President.
Police ordered an unprecedented dragnet of the city,
hunting for the assassin.
They believed the fatal shots were fired by a white man,
about 30, slender of build, weighing about 165 pounds, and
standing 5 feet 10 inches tall.
The murder weapon was reportedly a 30-30 rifle.
Kennedy died of a gunshot wound in the brain at ap
proximately 1 p.m. CST according to an announcement by
acting White House press secretary Malcolm Kilduff.
The horror of the assassination was mirrored in an eye
witness account by San. Ralph Yarborough, D-Tex., who had
been riding three cars behind Kennedy.
“You could tell something awful and tragic had hap
pened,” the senator told newsmen before Kennedy’s death
became known. His voice breaking and his eyes red-rimmed,
Yarborough said:
“I could see a Secret Service man in the President’s car
leaning on the car with his hands in anger, anguish and
despair. I knew then something tragic had happened.”
It was the first death of a president in office since Frank
lin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm
Springs, Ga., in April 1945.
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Paris Match Editor
Tells Of Chinese
Attitudes, Ideas
Serge Lentz, a traveling editor
of the Paris Match, a world wide
picture news magazine, charmed
an attentive audience of some 500
persons with a lecture and slides
of Red China, last night in Guion
Hall.
Lentz, one of the few Western
journalists who have managed to
enter China and get out again, let
alone with pictures, gave the au
dience an informative talk on the
people, industry, and general
character of Red China today.
Copimenting upon Sino-Soviet
relations, Lentz said that Russians
are actually hated as much as
Americans. He related that fre
quently he was harrassed by young
Chinese “pioneer” groups, who his
guide was embarrassed to explain,
thought he was Russian.
Lentz gained entrance to Red
China under the pretext of being
a French textile buyer. According
ly he was given the red carpet
treatment.
“The Chinese today, contrary to
popular opinion are not to be
compared to the more backward
society of the Congo or other
recently independent African na
tions, but are in my opinion one of
the most intelligent races in the
world today. The Chinese learn
very quickly, as demonstrated by
; the fact that they are currently
j working on an atomic bomb using
only their own technicians.
Dining Hall Director Faces
Million Do lla rFo od Pro b lent
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Battalion News Editor
Frank F. Nugent, A&M Uni
versity Food Services Director, is
a man with a big job.
In a short speech to the Student
Senate Thursday night, Nugent
said, “Individually satisfying each
of our over 4,000 customers 21
times a week is difficult, to say
the least.
‘We both want the same thing—
satisfied customers and satisfied
employees. To be successful in
this, we need to have communica
tion.
“THE OLD ADAGE ‘An ounce
of prevention is worth a pound
of cure’ always holds and, since
our satisfaction is your satisfac
tion, we have been working on im
proving communication and under
standing.”
“The Corps staff has agreed to
monitor and pass on suggestions
or dissatifactions from Corps
members. The civilian students
are setting up a dining hall liaison
committee table in the dining hall
to monitor and pass along sug
gestions or dissatisfactions from
civilian students.
“With such communication ef
fectively established, we can be
increasingly responsive to your de
sires and taste—within the limits
of our budget, our style of food
service and the talents of our per-
Architects To Attend Meeting
During Thanksgiving Holidays
Four students from the School of Architecture will
attend lectures in Washington, D. C., during the week lead
ing up to Thanksgiving, Nov. 23-28.
The trip sponsored by the Design Students’ Society of
the School of Architecture is to the ninth annual Student
Forum sponsored by the American Institute of Architects.
The lectures will be given by prominent men in the
profession. The students attending the conference are
Ronald Brame, president of the DSS, Mike McChesney, vice
president, and Joe Elbrich, secretary of the club.
Leo Reel, president of Buckeye Supply of Texas in
Houston has donated 50 per cent of the needed funds for
the trip. The other funds are from the Memorial Student
Center club aid, and the DSS funds.
Although these men will not be here for the University
of Texas game, the students said, “Beat the hell out of T.U.!”
sonnel.”
“WE ARE FORTUNATE in hav
ing a hard core of dedicated and
hard working dining hall em
ployees. The majority of our over
200 employees are on a six-day
week and are working a single or
even double split shift daily in or
der to cover our operation from be
fore 6 a.m. until after 9 p.m.
“We have difficulty in securing
the calibre of young trainees we
would like because of the long
hours and low nay scale. We are
attempting to solve this problem
by introducing labor-saving equip
ment.
“FAMILY STYLE service
severely limits the element of
choice as well as requiring the
cooking of food further in advance
than is desirable. We are con
tinuing to do what we can, both
in menu planning and in the in
troduction of additional hot food
holding equipment.”
Other problems faced by Nu
gent and his staff include clean
liness of equipment, eating uten
sils, chairs and tables; serving
three meals daily at the A&M An
nex; preparing and serving three
meals cafeteria style; buying the
most feasible supplies at the low
est possible prices, as well as
many other difficulties.
The head of this “million dol
lar business, stressed to members
of the Senate his desire to co
operate with A&M students in
working out any undesirable sit
uations existing in the campus
dining halls.
Maritime Academy
Cancels Dedication
Dedication ceremonies for the
Texas Maritime Academy in Gal
veston will not be held Satur
day, A&M President Earl Rud
der announced Friday afternoon,
following the death of President
Kennedy.
The academy program had been
scheduled for Saturady morning.
The new date will probably be
announced next week.
By MICHAEL REYNOLDS
Battalion Staff Writer
The bonfire guard roster for the coming week was
announced Thursday by Mike Marlow, chairman of the bon
fire committee and Head Yell Leader.
The first brigade took the first night’s duty from
8 p.m. until 6:30 a.m.
Each outfit must report 15 minutes early for their hour
and a half turn at sentinel duty.
Friday night, the second brigade through F-2 will stand
guard. Saturday night, G-2 and the third brigade through
G-3 will have their turn.
Sunday night will find
and Squadrons 1-5 on duty.
Monday night, Squadrons 6-
12, and Tuesday night, Squad
rons 13, 14, 17, the Maroon
and White Bands and the civilians.
AFTER CHOW Saturday morn
ing students going to the cutting
area will board trucks behind Dun
can Dining Hall. Army outfits
will leave from the east side and
Air Force from the west side of
the dining hall.
First-aid stations will be located
in tents in both the cutting and
stacking areas. In addition, safety
officers will be in the areas to keep
a lookout for careless practices.
Students riding on trucks to and
from the cutting area will keep
arms and legs on the truck and will
lock arms.
A SAFETY FILM will be shown
Friday at 6:00 p.m. in Guion Hall
for all freshmen. Seniors and Jun
iors have previously viewed this
film which is concerned with last
year’s bonfire operations and safe
ty precautions, said Marlow.
The Texas Highway Department
has donated flags for the roads
and “SLOW” signs for the work
area, said Herman Bate, safety and
traffic chairman of the bonfire
committee.
SHARING THE first aid tents
in the cutting area and the stack
ing area will be members of the
communications committee, using
walkies-talkies in the fields, mobile
units where necessary and field
phones to direct traffic.
The members have planned to
have two bands available on the
Army loaned equipment in case
of a breakdown of one of the
bands, said Terry Griffin, com
munications chairman of the bon
fire committee.
MEMBERS OF the bonfire com
mittee and men in charge of the
work will wear red helmet liners
and will have jurisdiction over all
workers.
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Days Left Until
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Indian Counselor
Visiting Students
The educational counselor of the
Indian Embassy in Washington,
L. R. Sethi, is presently on cam
pus to visit Indian students and
various university officials, Rob
ert L. Melcher, A&M foreign stu
dent advisor, said.
A luncheon arranged by Presi
dent Rudder’s office and visits
with several department heads are
scheduled before the Indian leaves
for Austin Friday afternoon.
Turkey Day Report
Planned Tuesday
A special “Aggie Turkey Day
Report” will be broadcast over
radio station KORA Tuesday
night from 8-11, Aggies Chuck
McGuire and Clyde Bickham an
nounced Friday morning.
The three-hour show will fea
ture interviews with Aggie play
ers and coaches, Pinky Downs
and yell leaders and sidelights
on the bonfire construction and
the A&M-TU football game
Thursday afternoon.
KORA and the sponsoring
merchants have been great in
helping us arrange this program,
the two Aggies said. “They
also want to beat TU,” Bickham
said.
Consolidated Air Force Scholars
Five students from A&M Consolidated High
School have made perfect scores on the
Airman Qualification Aptitude Test, given
all Consolidated seniors. Sgt. Howard R.
Rasmussen, Air Force recruiter in Bryan,
congratulates Principal E. P. Ozment, as
seniors, left to right. Bill Duck, Russell
Hanna, Charles Dodson, Daivd Kent and
Lee Sicilio, look on.