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— UICROFIU SERVICE 4, SALES P.O. BOX 8066 4jfe2 ame I ' V, See Story Page 6 Thursday — Cloudy, wind weaUrly :$ 10-16 nup h. Hifth 68, low 54. £: Friday |— Cloudy, intermittent liirht S v: rain, wind aouth 5-10 m.p.h. Hi*h 66, £: 1 low . 1 VOLUME COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1967 ! ir ^ ■>. , . _ / ■ % $ '' ":\i ' £ V \f \5 i i ’ H ‘ H ' ' 1 '' i • ; . , *1, '■ i 1 Bonfire 7:30 J 1 • T Hi ‘ * . \ V Timber Expected To Top 90 Feet The traditional Thankagivmif bera of Company A-l, B-l, C-l Day game bonfire, tyrabolizing and D-l will comprise the guard Aggiea’ “undying lovt for their ring, school and the desite to beat Texaa,” will be ignited at 7:30 to. night. The Bonfire will highlight the urn : *‘f r r • wM 1*'v.y * t '•* :% Aggie Band Adds oo Complex Maneuver THIRD STACK BEGINS Bonfire workers begin the third stack of logs in this picture, taken Tuesday afternoon. Yell Leader Wayne Porter said he hopes the logs (will reach a quadruple-stack, 90-foot height by late this afternoon. The torch is to be put to the stack at 7:30 tonight, begin ning the annual Bonfire Yell Practice for Thursday's football game with the University of Texaa. r ' | , d 1 • / Tech Can Go To Cotton Bowl, / Conference President WACO -t- Dr. Monro* S. Under the rules when more Carroll, President of the South- than two teams tie fir the title, west Conference, said Tuesday and they have defeated each night Texas Tech had been de- > other, the one in the Cotton dowl c la red eligible for the Cotton p the longest time off would get Bowl in the event it should tie the Cotton Bowl bid. with Texas and Texas A AM and Texas Christian for tha cham pionship. Dr. Carroll said the question had been raised by Texas A AM, which pointed out that Tech had been a member of the conference only since 1960 whereas Texas A AM was last in the Cotton Bowl in 1942. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A AM" —Adv. the confy^ence longer than an other. Tends A AM leads the race and can, win the title Thursday if it b^Ats Texas. But a loss would throw Texas, Texas AAM and Tech has been in the Cotton / Texas Tech, in the event it should Bowl but that was 1939 when U was a member of the Bonjed Conference. / The conference found it fad no specific rule to cover the situation of a school coming intn the con- frence ofter another fad been in the Cotton Bowl prior to that time. y' “We met at phllas to interpret yCarroll said. “We t it would apply school had been in heat Arkansas at Little Rock Saturday, into a three-way tie. In that event. Tech would get the Cotton Bowl bid since it beat Texas and lost to AAM. Texas was last in the Cotton Bowl in 1964. Texas Christian could also tie for the title should it win its re maining two games but even in that event, Texas Tech would get the bid. TCU was last in the Cot ton Bowl in 1959. Thanksgiving activities, along with a Wednesday night Town Hall featuring SimoB and Ger- funkel and the Hollie*. All of the festivities will be capped by the 1:30 annual Turkey Day spec tacular with AAM fighting for the Cotton Bowl against the Uni versity of Texas. The stack of timber just south of Duncan Dining Hall will in clude 3,130 logs quadruple-stack ed. a “tea-house” furnished by the Aggie Band. 2,00 gapens of avia tion fuel, thousands of barrels of sweat and 25,000 blisters, ac cording to students completing < ep—miction./ THE BONFIRE gets under way officially at 7:30 p.m., acording to head'yell leader Neal Adams of T/ier. The Aggie Band will step off at that time. After marching around the bonfire, leaving torch-bearing yail leaders at strategic points, the bonfire will be lighted. The yell practice,. conducted from a trailer-stage on the west side of the fire, begins at 7:35 and will continue a little past 8, Adams added. The bonfire will be almost 650 feet in diameter at the base and about 90 feet tall, according to latest estimates by Adams. Stack ing will be completed by 3 p.m. Wednesday, when ditching opera tions to contain the fuel will be completed. Firemen’s Training School work men under the direction of in structor John Rauck, will douse the stack with Avation fuel. THE CADET Corps* First Bat talion will guard the stack until the procession headed by yell leader and band approach Mem- “No one will be allowed through the circle,” Adams said. Following the Bonfire Yell Prac tice, Town Mall will feature Sim on and Garfunkel whose hits in clude “The Sounds of Silence,” "Homeward Bound” and “I am a Rock.” They will be double billed with a fast raising English group, The Hollies. PEACEFUL COEXISTANCE Cadets snd civilians collaborated in this effort, a sifirn stretching between the northern and southern wings of Hart Hall. Members of Squadron 8, occupants of the south side of the dormitory, and civilians living in the remainder of Hart Hall put up the sign Tues- TU Students Try To Alter Draft Status SAN ANTONIO Two Uni versity of Texas students who last month mailed their draft cards to their draft board here formally applied for conscientious objector status Tuesday in a closed hearing. The pair, George Loper, 20, and Bill Langley, 21, both of San Antonio, were accompanied by an attorney, a minister and the mother of Langley to the draft board meeting. The board, how ever, interviewed the two sepa rately and alone. A draft board spokesman said no announcement on the board’s decision would be made before Wednesday. Loper and Langley will be notified by mall, the spokesman said. The two were neatly dressed in suits and ties as they appeared ' at the federal building. One car ried a book entitled “Conscien tious Objectors Handbook.” They declined comment to re porters, but handed out a quote from the Methodist Church Social Creed. It stated that the church believed conscientious objection to military service is s right of the individual snd that “non violent resistance can be a valid form of Christian witness.” Bryan Building A Loan Aaaeciatiea, Year Sav ings Center, since 1»1». —Adv. A Town Hall Spokesman said Tuesday night that ticket sales had already exceeded those of the Johnny Rivers show last month and that they expect to sell out early Wednesday. If tickets are left, they will be on sale at the door to G. Rollie White Itefore the performance. TOWN HALL WILL be follow, ed by an “All-University” Dance sponsored by the Civilian Student Council. Tuesday night, the Aggies be gan preparing for the Turkey Day clash by forming a “gpirit line” for the team to walk through to super. The Corps and Band marched to Henderson Hall and formed a double line from there to Sbisa Mess Hall. Game time conditions include 64 degrees, 50 per cfnt relative humidity, winds north at 10 to 15 mph, clear to partly cloudy and no rain in sight, CONDITIONS won’t be as suit able for the bonfire. The Wednes day evening forecast has cloudy skies with intermittment light rain, winds southerly 10 to 15 mph and 70 degrees. The tempera ture will drrp gradually with the front's passage. 4 Three special services will be conducted in the All Faiths Chaple on Thanksgiving for students and visitors attending the football game. The YMCA sponsored 45 minute services will be given by three local ministers, at 8, 9 and 10 a.m. The decision on whether classes are to be held Monday if the Aggies outscore the Longhorns has not been announced by Presi dent Earl Rudder. The Texas Aggie Band will feature • new movement Thurs day during its halftime perform ance of the 1:30 p.m. AAM-Texas football game. The mineuver—a crisscross of halves of the band—will be part of a complex performance'involv ing a revised, never-before used handling of the block T.” Directed by the dean of Booth- west Conference bandmasters, Lt. Col., E. V. Adams, the band will perform under the batons of Head Drum Major Richard C. Westbrook of Beaumont, White Band Drum Major James W. Criswell of Brady and Maroon Hand Dram Major Marc A. Shei- ness. During pre-game ceremonies, the Start and Stripes flowp on four combat missions in Vietnam will be raised at the south end of Kyle Field to the band's ren dition of the National Anthem. The half-time crisscross voices a unique pattern in which *like folding 4 handkerchief di agonally and pulling it through, Itself.” The drill is being installed in tour days.- Practice on the band’s own football field next to Dorm 11 began at 10 a.m. Monday and was set to music at 5 p.m. The Aggie musicians practiced twice t'uesday and have single work- ♦uts on Wednesday and Thurs- ♦»y- v The appearance will mark the Conclusion of Adams' 22nd season ks Aggie Band director. Bulletin Texas AAM University's board of directors stated Wednesday it would favor a telecast of the AAM-Univeraity of Texaa foot ball game if it could be shown statewide or nationally. The board members noted, how. in- fw, thsl National Collegiate Athletic Association regulations individual members of the band n neB-ont will not pass behind other bands men as in other crisscrosses. The pattern was not discovered until the band marched through the maneuver. j Adams described the band's final maneuver as “pulling the shell off the ‘T and putting it back.” Alto to be employed will be three minstrel turns and the five-way countermarch, a 16-step execution during which the band ceases playing. / Aggie Freshmen Rank Among Best Almost half of, the entering freshmen at Texas AAM this fall ranked in the top 25 percent of their high school graduating classes, report* AAM Registrar H. L. Heaton. Heaton said a record 49 per cent of the AAM freshmen ranked ia this top category. He added that 84 per cent graduated from high school in the top half of their classes. The band's minstrel turns were described- by one announcer as game, such as the AAM-Texas classic, caa oaly be televised ia the home cities of the two schools galeaa it were scheduled for rov- erage prior to the start of the asaaon. This meant, the board pointed out. the Thanksgiving Day game oould have been telecast in the Bryan-College Station and Austin areas oaly. AAM’a board announced Friday there would be no telecast of the game and reaffirmed its decision after receiving numerous calls for reconsideration. “We simply do not think it fair to telecast the game only ia these two area*,’’ emphasized a state ment by the board. “Roth Texas AAM and the University of Texas' are state-supported institutions and wo. feel all citizens of the mate should have the privilege of Nreing the game on television, if any of them do.” If a statewide or national tele cast were possible, the Texas AAM hoard of directors would be for it 100 per cent, the statement concluded. First Bank A Trust now pays 6% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. feH 1 THROUGH THE Aggie Quarterback Edd Hargett and tackle Rolf Spirit of Aggieland" aa the football team goes to Behind Hargett are, from left, tackle Tom Chaffe The “Spirit Line” sti-etched from H LINE’ w r walk past cadets singing “The Hall for Tuesday’s evening meal. ■ defensive halfback Lynn Fister. Hall to the dining hall.