P«>- Che Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1966 Number 366 Tower Wins, Two GOP Congressmen Elected KICKING UP THE DUST An Aggie Polo player kicks up dust as he strikes the ball during last Sunday’s match. Polo Tries For Texas Comeback h About 2,000 spectators were entertained by a polo game Sun day afternoon at Texas A&M University. The game was the beginning of A&M’s 6th annual Horse Short Course being held this week. Polo was once a popular sport in the Southwest during the days of the horse cavalries. Dr. O. D. Butler, head of the Animal Science Department at A&M, says interest in polo is being re vived and the fast-moving game is making a comeback in Texas. The game Sunday matched students and former students of A&M against students and for mer students of Texas Tech. The Raiders from Tech won over the Aggies 4 to 2. Scoring is done by knocking the bamboo ball through the uprights at the end of the field. The game was made up of six, five-minute pe riods. . The U.S. Modern Pentathlon team from Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, gave jumping and riding exhibitions during the breaks. Playing for the Aggies were John Armstrong of Armstrong, Morty Mertz of Big Lake, L. J. Durham of Norias Ranch, and Dr. Frank Yturria of Browns ville and Tobin Armstrong of Armstrong. Playing for Tech were Stephen Kleberg, Charles Armstrong and Joe Stiles, all of Kingsville, and Bart Evans of Alpine. H. T. (Toby) Hilliard of Mid land, Southwest Circuit Governor of the U.S. Polo Assn., was ref eree. Morty Mertz of the Aggies was awarded a trophy for mak ing the most valuable play of the game when he took the ball from the center of the field and moved it almost single - handed downfield to score. Apollo Manager Counsels Senior Aero-Space Meet The manager of the nation’s most complex engineering job- landing three men on the moon —told Texas A&M aerospace en gineering seniors Tuesday to simplify. “The way to do a complex job is to keep the various parts as simple as possible,” Dr. Joseph Shea counseled a senior seminar. The Project Apollo manager of the Manned Spacecraft Center addressed 40 seniors in the semi nar, lunched with President Earl Rudder, Engineering Dean Fred Benson and the aerospace engi neering faculty and met with department professors and grad uate students as a visiting pro fessor. Shea described numerous Apol lo hardware development situa tions in which the best solution was the simplest. The three-man space exploration program launches its first shot at Cape Kennedy Thursday. The NASA scientist said de velopment of fuel cells, circuitry, fuel storage and injection sys tems, firing chamber cooling de signs and other systems of the Apollo project are kept as simple as possible. “We made some conservative decisions early in the program,” he noted. “Engineers and scien tists try to take too complex an approach.” “You need to know technology though,” Shea warned. “Golf can’t be played with one club.” Bush Price Wins In In West Houston, Texas AEROSPACE CONFAB Dr. Joe Shea, Project Apollo manager, elaborates a senior seminar point with Texas A&M aerospace engineering majors David Cohen (left) and Phillip Newton (right). Dr. Paul Weiss SpeaksT onight Bonfire Changes Construction Sees Over The Years BY PATRICIA HILL Texas A&M’s Bonfire, in all its blazing glory, is not the same Bonfire that it used to be. Although it is still the pride of Texas A&M when Turkey Day rolls around every year, there is definitely something different about it. Long ago, well, maybe only 14 or so years ago, the Bonfire was built entirely by hand. The Aggies who worked on it then put every log on by sheer manpower. Agreed, it takes a whole lot of manpower to put the giant con struction together now, but may be we ought to stop and give a cheer for the cranes that lift the logs up to the lofty height of the mass pile! The whole town used to gather ’round for the raising of the center pole, because it signified the start of a two-week process which was climaxed by a huge Art Exhibit Will Come To A&M A U. S. Air Force art exhibi tion will be hung in Texas A&M’s Architecture Building Nov. 14- 18 by the Aerospace Studies De partment. The unique exhibit of more than 40 original paintings will be open to the public 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the five-day period, an nounced Col. V. L. Head, profes sor of aerospace studies. There will be no admission charge. Paintings from the USAF Art collection portray contemporary life of the Air Force. Societies of Illustrators artists of New York, Los Angeles and San Fran cisco were flown all over the world to record their impressions on canvas. The A&M exhibit is representa tive of more than 750 paintings donated during the past 10 years. The entire library includes 2,500 pictures and drawings dating to World War I. Some of the works hang regularly in the White House, Pentagon, Air Force Academy and Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. orange and purple (please don’t get shook because I mentioned the orange in there—) blaze that stood in the middle of the campus. The tradition of rushing out and bringing in the first log began months ahead of time, just as it does now. Each day before supper time a dozen little bonfire fans and I would drag our daddies out to see how much the thing had grown. It always kind of overwhelmed me that something that big could possibly be put together in only two weeks, but then, when one is kindergarten age, everything seems big, especially when it’s surrounded by people in uniforms, and when it takes a while to walk around it. We were always taken by the hand by an Aggie who was guard ing it, and he would amaze us with great tales of the big hunt for logs, and all the excitement of trapseing off into the big dark woods and chopping down the tall timbers; and, oh gosh, there it all was, right before my eyes, and only eight more days and it would catch fire from the big torches! It was all too much! Of course the greatest treat was getting to put a twig . . . stick ... on all by myself, which made me feel like I had really done a swell thing ... Even the signs that surrounded the Bonfire were a little different “back then.” In order to get to the Bonfire you had to crawl through hundreds of big signs de noting the next day’s event. It was rather amazing that nearly all the signs managed to disap pear by the next morning, mainly because after the blaze had de creased to a glow, little creatures out of the night always came and took them home for souveniers. I never figured out how they did it, but somehow the Bonfire was rigged, so to speak, to fall in a pattern, usually in a swirl of some sort, so that the flame came out'of the middle of it when it fell. Every gate was guarded closely, and you had to give your name, age, and marital status if you looked over 16, before y)_Paced by actor Ronald Reagan’s election as California governor, Republicans won spectacular individual vic tories across the nation in Tues day’s balloting while making in roads into the Democrats’ control of Congress. While Reagan was inundating Democratic Gov. Edmund G. Brown in California, a new GOP star was rising in industrialist Charles H. Percy’s trouncing of veteran Democratic Sen. Paul H. Douglas in Illinois. In Michigan, Gov. George Rom ney barged into the 1968 Republi can presidential nomination con tention with a landslide third- term victory which swept GOP Sen. Robert P. Griffin and the party’s state slate into office. Edward W. Brooke claimed a voice in GOP councils by getting elected in Massachusetts as the first Negro ever chosen by popu lar vote as a member of the Senate. In Tennessee youthful Howard H. Baker Jr. won a seat in the flock shepherded by his father-in- law, Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois. Robert Taft Jr., seeking a come back to Congress after being de feated for the Senate two years ago in the Goldwater debacle, held a slim lead over his Democratic opponent, Rep. John J. Gilligan with two-thirds of the vote count ed in Ohio’s 1st District. There were stunning GOP gov ernorship victories for Winthrop Rockefeller in Arkansas and for Claude Kirk Jr. in Florida. Since Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller won re-election in New York, future governors’ conferences will have a brother act for the first time in memory. Democrats, with holdover ma jorities from their 1964 landslide, retained top-heavy numerical con trol of both houses of Congress. But a Republican gain which could reach 45 seats—33 were nailed down — threatened to change the political atmosphere of the new House, boding ill for future “Great Society” proposals of Presdent Johnson. Gone would be the current Democratic major ity of 295 to 140 over the Re publicans and with it the fine edge of support needed for several presidential programs. A potential Republican gain of three in the Senate would not provide too much political pain for the Democrats, now holding a 67-33 margin there. Student Condition Said Satisfactory Jose Ulmpiano Barnes, an 18- year old freshman civil engineer ing student at Texas A&M Uni versity, was listed in satisfactory condition Tuesday at St. Joseph’s Hospital as a result of injuries suffered in a Monday accident. Barnes suffered a broken arm and bruises when his motorcycle collided with a car at 5:57 p.m. Monday on Texas Avenue. His guardians are Mr. and Mrs. Ul- tions, community officials, news piano Barnes of 2324 Carter media or other informed sources. Creek Parkway, Bryan.