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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1966
Number 352
Aggies Out To Break TCU Jinx
Team Looking
To Outscore TCU
For First In Ten
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.. . ready for Frogs Saturday
Corps Bonfire Plans
Still Tentative
Plans for the 1966 Bonfire are
still tentative this week, but Pat
Tomberlain of the Bonfire Com
mittee said last night that defi
nite information on the amount
of equipment to be used will be
released in a week or two.
“We’re still lining up trucks
and other equipment, and we
really don’t have any definite fig
ures yet," Tomberlain explained.
He said he had talked with a
representative of the Heavy
Equipment School here and had
secured a commitment for the
use of a 60-foot crane for stack
ing the logs.
Tommy Stone, Bonfire chair
man, called a meeting Tuesday
for all Aggies who could supply
and operate chain saws. The
saws will be used by cutting
crews to fell timber shortly be
fore the Corps and civilian units
arrive to haul the logs to trucks
for transport to the stacking area
behind Duncan Dining Hall.
Bonfire preparations will be
concentrated during Nov. 19-21.
Tomberlain said the cutting
area has been moved for this
year’s bonfire from the Kidwell
Farm, two miles south of the
campus, to an area six miles out
on South College Drive.
Carey B. Wilson, a senior in
Squadron 10, Dorm 6, is in
charge of communications for the
project. Stone has asked anyone
with either considerable experi
ence in communications or radio
equipment to contact Wilson.
“Remember, this is your bon
fire, and the one you will most
remember,” Stone wrote in a por
tion of the second Bonfire bulle
tin which was directed to fresh
men. “Take pride in yourselves
and be prepared to work harder
than you ever have."
By BOB JONES
Battalion Sports Editor
It was just two weeks ago to
morrow that the Texas Aggies
broke their five-year scoring jinx,
plastering Texas Tech 35-14, on
Kyle Field.
The Aggies tied a road game
with Louisiana State University
last week, 7-7.
Tomorrow night the determined
Maroon and White returns to
Kyle Field and Southwest Con
ference play to break another jinx
when they meet Texas Christian
University. The Aggies have not
beaten TCU’s Horned Frogs since
1957.
In 1960 and 1963 A&M tied
with the Frogs, 14-14.
Last year the Aggies led 3-0
at halftime, but fell to a 10-3
deficit in the third period. A&M
scored in the fourth quarter and
attempted the two-point conver
sion. The conversion failed and
the Aggies trailed, 9-10. Late in
the final period the Aggies gave
up the ball on their own eight-
yard line after trying for the
first down on a close fourth down
situation.
TCU took over from that point
and scored again for its final 17-9
margin.
This week’s outcome might not
be quite as favorable as the last
home game with Texas Tech, but
the Aggies will still have the same
dedicated personnel and the finest
coaching staff around when they
square off with TCU.
A win Saturday night would
leave the Aggies in fine shape for
the remainder of the conference
race. The Aggies have always
been respected for fielding teams
that could possibly upset their
opponents, but it has been a long
time since the Maroon and White
carried the threat of just plain
beating its opposition.
But Coach Stallings has re
turned that threat with his Aggie
eleven. Tomorrow night TCU
will be facing A&M’s finest foot
ball team in years.
It will be a team of battered
and bandaged, but hard-fighting
Civilian Students To Organize
For Bonfire Work With Corps
Richard Grimes, executive of
ficer of Company B-2, has been
designated by the 1966 Bonfire
Committee to organize the civil
ian students’ bonfire work.
Grimes said a meeting of in
terest civilians will be held about
a week before Bonfire, at a time
and place to be announced later.
“My job is to organize this
and then turn it over to compe-
Stone Outlines
Yell Practice Route
Head Yell Leader Tommy Stone
announced Thursday that the
'‘Fighting” Texas Aggie Band
will lead students into Kyle Field
for Mtidnight Yell Practice to
night at 11:30.
The band will take a new route
from the Duncan area to Kyle
Field.
The new route begins between
dorms 1 and 2 with the band
making its way north to the Trig-
and march toward the Memorial
on, at this point it will turn left
Student Center.
“From there the band will eith
er march in front of, or behind
the MSC, depending on comple
tion of construction between the
MSC and the drill field,” Stone ^
said.
Stone suggested that civilian
students gather either in the
Duncan Area or in the parking
lot behind Guion Hall. “Then
when the band passes, these stu
dents can fall in behind the band
without confusion.
“Students should be reminded
that it is an Aggie tradition to
follow the band to Kyle Field,”
Stone continued, “and students
should not walk on the grass at
Spence Park across from the
Duncan area and at the MSC.”
It was also announced that one
gate on the northeast corner of
Kyle Field will be opened prior
to the Yell Practice for those
who do not wish to follow the
band.
“This is for those persons who
want to attend Yell Practice but
not the march,” Stone said.
Stone stressed that for the best
effect, students must cooperate
by following the band. Also stu
dents must conduct themselves in
a respectable Aggie manner,” he
added.
The yell leader concluded by
calling for full cooperation be
tween Corps and civilian students
to make it “a successful yell
practice” and accomplish the in
tended goal of having a great
weekend by “beating the H— out
of TCU!”
First Bank &
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tificates.
and dedicated gridders, playing to
break a nine year jinx and to
return winning football to Texas
A&M.
The Aggies, presently tied with
Baylor and Texas for the SWC
lead, will be making their bid to
remain at the top of the confer
ence race. A&M made a slow
start this season, losing its first
two games to Georgia Tech and
Tulane. Two weeks ago the Ag
gies made some changes for the
better, winning over Texas Tech
and last week tied a strong LSU
team.
Tomorrow A&M will be run
ning against possibly the toughest
defense it has faced all season.
The Horned Frogs have their en
tire defensive secondary back
from last year along with five
other defensive starters.
Head Coach Gene Stallings
turned to the most qualified man
(See Aggies, Page 6)
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SATURDAY’S SEATING CHART
The Student Senate released this Kyle Field
seating chart for Saturday’s game with TCU.
Seniors and graduates will enter Ramps
O and P. The bottom halves of sections 130
and 131 will be reserved for Corps seniors.
Juniors will enter through Ramps N, sopho
mores through Ramp M, and freshmen
through Ramps J and L. All civilian stu
dents must present seating cards in order
to be admitted to the proper section.
Last Lecture Series Monday
YMCA Offerings Lively
tent senior civilian supervisors,”
Grimes emphasized.
“Right now, I’m looking for
people with previous experience
in building the Bonfire, to serve
in a platoon-leader-type capaci
ty,” he went on.
The civilian group will be or
ganized along the lines of a Corps
unit with regard to designation
of work, for safety purposes,
according to Grimes.
“We’re looking for people who
really want to work,” Grimes
pointed out. “We don’t want any
body out there who doesn’t want
to work hard and follow the
rules.”
The civilians will be needed
primarily at the cutting area and
in the loading of logs onto trucks.
Grimes said, but some might be
called on to help with stacking
the logs at the Bonfire site south
of Duncan Dining Hall during the
final day of preparation.
Grimes said the preliminary
meeting will be followed by a
safety meeting to explain the
dangers involved in loading and
stacking the timber.
“We want this to be an all-
Aggie bonfire,” Grimes noted.
“Any civilian who really wants
to work and is interested in find
ing out the procedures in build
ing this bonfire is invited to the
meetings. Also, any seniors who
want to supervise the crews
should contact me.”
Last year, the civilian Bonfire
organization, dubbed “F-Troop,”
included about 50 to 75 students
who, according to Grimes, “prob
ably carried out as many logs
as any Corps unit.”
Trust now pays
on savings cer-
—Adv.
By ROBERT BORDERS
Batt Staff Writer
The YMCA, almost outdoing
itself in an effort to present a
highly varied program for A&M
students, will offer a wide range
of lively and informative activi
ties in the coming months.
The next of these will be sec
ond of the “Last Lecture” series,
and will feature Dr. C. H. Rans-
dell, assistant dean of the School
of Engineering.
Ransdell received a B.S. de
gree from Texas Tech in 1937
and another from A&M in 1953.
He earned a Sc.D. degree at
Howard Payne College in 1956,
and a M.Ed. at the University of
Texas in 1957. He is a registered
professional engineer.
The final “Last Lecture” of the
semester will be on Oct. 24. The
speaker for this meeting will be
Richard “Buck” Weirus, execu
tive secretary of the Association
of Former Students.
The Apollo Club of the YMCA
will present a series of four lec
tures by prominent faculty mem
bers, each followed by an open
forum on topics of interest as
selected by the students of the
University.
Town Hall’s
Severinsen
Show Tonight
“Doc” Severinsen, a trumpeter
who has been called “an A1 Hirt
with taste” appears Friday as a
Town Hall extra at Texas A&M
University.
Familiar to television fans as
a performer on Johnny Carson’s
“Tonight” show, “Doc” also is a
popular recording star.
His latest hit is “Fever,” a fast-
moving catchy rendition. Others
include “High Wide and Wonder
ful,” “Tempestous Trumpet” and
“The Big Band’s Back in Town.”
Friday will mark Severinsen’s
second visit to Aggieland. He
played with the Tommy Dorsey
band for a Ring Dance back in
the days of Jarrin John Kim
brough.
“Doc” has been mentioned as
Skitch Henderson’s replacement
as director of the NBC Orchestra
next year. He joined NBC in
1949 and has played on the Kate
Smith, Eddie Fisher, Steve Allen
and Dinah Shore shows, plus
NBC Bandstand.
Tickets for the 8 p.m. Friday
performance at G. Rollie White
Coliseum are on sale at the Stu
dent Program Office in the Me
morial Student Center and also
will be available at the door.
Since the performance is billed
as an “extra”, Town Hall season
tickets will not apply for this
performance.
Interested students may sign
up for the Apollo Club at the
front desk of the YMCA after
Oct. 22. Membership will be
granted on a first come-first
serve basis, as space is limited.
Each member will be asked to
pay for his meals in advance.
Cost is $5 for the four programs.
The club will hold its meetings
in the Memorial Student Center.
Members will pass through the
cafeteria line, secure meals, and
go on to a meeting room. The
speaker will give his presenta
tion after the meal, and there
Dorm Students
Requested To
Remove Cars
With another large crowd ex
pected for the Saturday night
game with TCU, Campus Securi
ty Chief Ed Powell is again urg
ing students to remove their cars
from the parking lots near the
stadium so that visitors may use
those facilities.
“We can only request now that
students remove their cars from
the lots on the weekends when we
have football games,” Powell
said. “It isn’t required in the
university regulations that they
do so this year. But next year
the regulations will specify these
lots be reserved for visitors to
the campus.”
Powell again asked that stu
dents move their cars Saturday
to the day student parking lots
and staff lots east of Asbury and
north of Ross.
will be 30 minutes of discussion.
Dr. William Luker, Business
Administration professor, will be
the speaker Oct. 27. His speech
will be entitled “How Good is
Our Education?”.
The second meeting will be
Nov. 3, and will feature Dr. Carl
E. Shafer, associate professor of
Agricultural Economics and So
ciology. The theme of his lecture
will concern current collegiate
morals and ethics.
On Nov. 10 members attending
the third meeting of the Apollo
Club will hear Dr. David R.
Woodward, assistant professor
in the Department of History and
Government. The title of Wood
ward’s presentation will be “For
eign Policy in the Atomic Age.”
Maury Maverick Jr., a lawyer
from San Antonio, will end the
fall lecture series with “The Val
ue of Dissent to Constituted Au
thority” on Nov. 17.
Guides Ease
Game Traffic
Plans to ease campus traffic
congestion and parking problems
for Saturday’s football game with
TCU will follow the procedures
used for the Texas Tech game
two weeks ago.
Directional signs will again be
used prior to the game to route
southern traffic through Jersey
Street and the east entrance of
the campus.
Radio-equipped traffic guides
will also be utilized again to di
vert cars around traffic jams.
POLE POLISHERS
“Fish” members of Company H-2 polished the flagpole in
front of the Academic Building for the first time this year.
Seating Option
For Graduates
The Texas A&M Athletic De
partment has again announced a
seating option for graduate stu
dents for the Aggie-TCU foot
ball game Saturday.
Graduate students have the op
tion to sit in the seats already as
signed them, or in section 139 on
the east side of Kyle Field.
The Athletic Department ap
proved the option at the request
of the Graduate Student Council.
RV Induction
Of 77 Juniors
Slated Tuesday
Induction of 77 new junior
members into the Ross Volun
teers is scheduled Tuesday at 7
p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center ballroom.
Guest speaker for the ceremony
will be Tom S. Gillis, class of
’42. Gillis was Corps Commander
and a member of the Ross Volun
teers while attending A&M. He
is now president of Best Indus
tries, Inc., in Houston.
Highlighting the event are the
presentation of the yellow and
white shoulder cords to the new
members and the reading of the
history of the Ross Volunteers,
which was recently compiled by
Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, retired sec
retary of the commandant.
Special guests will include
James P. Hannigan, dean of stu
dents, and Col. D. L. Baker, com
mandant of the Corps of Cadets.
Selection of new members is
based on character and leader
ship, military bearing, and over
all achievement. The incoming
juniors will join 33 seniors to
make a total of 110 members. The
Ross Volunteers will be headed
by Tommy Stone, commanding
officer, and Robert Holcomb, ex
ecutive officer.
The major event in which the
group will participate during the
coming school year is the gover
nor’s inauguration, where they
act as the governor’s honor
guard.
The RV’s will also be the lead
unit in the Mardi Gras Rex pa
rade in New Orleans and will
march in the Cotton Bowl parade
in Dallas.
Cooler For Game
Cooler weather is now being
forecast for the Aggies’ Satur
day night game here with TCU.
Jim Lightfoot, manager of the
Meteorology Dept, weather sta
tion, said the temperature will be
63 to 65 degrees at game-time,
with northerly winds and clear
skies.
He is predicting however, some
rain tonight or early Saturday
morning.
Acceleration of a front caused
the revision, Lightfoot said.