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work began Monday afternoon on the second level of the 1968 Bonfire. By the time light
ing ceremonies begin at 7:30 tonight, a third stack is expected to be added. (Photo by
Mike Wright)
Singing Cadets May Also
Sub For Pageant Orchestra
The Singing Cadets may find
themselves in a new role—that
of an orchestra—Saturday on the
nationally televised Miss Teenage
America Pageant.
The A&M glee club of AO stu
dents will have usual duties as
in previous appearances on the
^BS spectacular beamed out of
Fort Worth. They also may have
to. sub for striking musicians.
THE MISS Teenage America
Fageant will be carried by KBTX-
TV of Bryan (channel 3) Satur
day, from 9 to 10:30 p.m.
Cadets under the direction of
Robert L. (Bob) Boone will es-
cort the 59 contestants, partici-
Pnte in the pageantry and have
a two-minute plus solo appear-
a nce on camera.
THE TEXAS producer of the
show, Charles R. Meeker Jr., also
has worked the 60-voice Singing
Cadets into two production num
bers.
“The Singing Cadets have be-
c ome a regular traditional part
°f the Miss Teenage Pageant,”
Meeker said. “And we plan to
keep it that way, whether the
show is done in Fort Worth, Dal
las or anywhere else.”
If the musicians’ strike isn’t
settled or CBS and Teenage
America Associates can’t arrange
for an orchestra, the cadets and
pianist - accompanist Mrs. June
Biering may be called on to sub
stitute.
“THIS COULD send us into
24-hours-a-day rehearsals,” esti
mated Boone, who has already
been getting overtime practice
from the organization.
As the “orchestra,” the Singing
Cadets would “sing-on” and “sing-
off” pageant participants, pro
vide fanfares and interlude mu
sic.
“It would mean 23 seconds of
music here, 16 seconds there and
30 seconds in another spot, in
addition to the present numbers
we’re scheduled to do,” Boone ad
ded.
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MARIACHI routine in som-
— behind guest star Trini
Lopez is one of the Singing Ca
dets’ specials for the 90-minute
Students Rejoining Corps
Should Pre-Register Now
Texas A&M students wishing
re-enter the Corps of Cadets
a t the beginning of the spring
Dniester should start pre-regis-
fration procedure now.
A number of inquiries have
received, noted Army Col.
H. McCoy, profesor of mili-
science, and Air Force Col.
er non L. Head, professor of
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav-
aerospace studies.
“Cadets who had to drop out
of the corps for various reasons
should contact either Colonel
Head or myself for information
on how and when to apply for
re-entering the corps,” McCoy
said.
“To facilitate pre-registration,
this should be done immediately,”
he added.
Computerized pre - registration
the spring semester began
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pageant.
As an orchestra, they would
be required to furnish support
for Trini’s performance of a med
ley of his hits, including “Mi
chael Row Your Boat Ashore”
and “America.”
Rehearsals at the Fort Worth
convention center are scheduled
Wednesday afternoon, a 11 day
Thursday and Friday and Satur
day morning. Dress rehearsal will
be Saturday afternoon.
IN ADDITION, the Cadets will
give the 59 contestants a 45-
minute concert Wednesday even
ing following Thanksgiving din
ner at Arlington’s Inn of the Six
Flags, where the ca.dets and con
testants will be staying. The Ag
gies will escort the girls to the
coronation ball following the Sat
urday night pageant.
Boone said on-campus rehear
sals have included lengthy ses
sions with Meeker and a choreo
grapher and a local former col
lege dance major, Mrs. Donna
Dale Smith.
MEEKER, CBS producer Paul
Levitan and director Vem Dia
mond have promised 10 TV sets
will be placed in the convention
and rehearsal Thursday after
noon will be worked around the
cadets so they’ll be able to watch
the A&M-Texas football game.
The Singing Cadets added three
former members to round out
the organization to 60 voices.
They are Ross Finley of Richard
son, Steve Esmond of Odessa and
Mark Satterwhite of Sinton.
Pageant hosts will be Dean
Jones and Michelle Lee, co-stars
of the latest Walt Disney movie.
Among judges will be former
Miss America Marilyn Van Der-
bur; Broadway columnist Earl
Wilson; Greg Morris, co-star of
the TV series “Mission Impos
sible,” and Cybil Shepherd, cur
rent “model of the year.”
Bonfire To Burn
At 7:30 Tonight
Ags, TV To Wage
’68 Turkey Pull
By JOHN PLATZER
Battalion Sports Editor
The Aggies start and end their
“second season” Thursday after
noon in Austin’s Memorial Stadi
um against arch-rival Texas Uni
versity with the golden oppor
tunity to knock Darrell Royal’s
legions all the way to New Or
leans.
Coach Gene Stallings’ gridders
ended their “first season” with a
3-6 record but will attempt to
erase the painful memories with
a perfect 1-0 “second season”
slate.
A win by A&M would give the
undisputed Southwest Conference
championship and a trip to the
Cotton Bowl New Year’s Day to
Alpha Phi Omega will run an
exchange booth for the A&M-TU
game tickets Wednesday, accord
ing to Vernon Bartle, APO ticket
sales representative. The booth
will be located in front of the
Memorial Student Center post of
fice. Bartle said the booth will
open at 8 a.m. and stay open as
long as there are tickets to be
traded.
the Arkansas Razorbacks while
dropping Texas into a second
place tie with the Southern Meth
odist Mustangs. The best that
TU can hope for is a tie with
the Hogs should they get past
the Aggies, but that would be
good enough to insure them the
Cotton Bowl trip.
A LOSS in the nationally-tele-
vised Turkey Day game would
probably send the Longhorns
(7-1-1) packing to New Orleans
and the Sugar Bowl on New
Year’s Day against the Georgia
Bulldogs (7-0-2).
The game between the defend
ing Southwest Conference cham
pions (Aggies) and the SWC
champion pretenders (Texas)
could shape up as a duel between
A&M’s Edd Hargett, the greatest
passer in SWC history, and the
Horns’ Chris Gilbert, the confer
ence’s all-time top rusher.
Talent will be everywhere in
the contest as a total of 20 1968
Associated Press All-SWC play
ers (11 from A&M and 9 from
Texas) will participate. Aggies
on the first team were Hargett,
All-America linebacker Bill
Hobbs, defensive end Mike De-
Niro, defensive tackle Rolf Krue
ger and punter Steve O’Neal,
while halfback Larry Stegent,
middle guard Lynn Odom and
rover Ivan Jones are second team
selections and ends Barney Harris
and Tommy Maxwell and center
Jack Kovar are third team picks.
ANCHORING the Texas drive
will be first teamers Deryl Comer,
an end, halfback Gilbert, fullback
Steve Worster and defensive
tackles Loyd Wainscott and Leo
Brooks. Other Longhorn stand
outs are second teamers Danny
Abbott, a guard, Corby Robert
son, a defensive end, Glen Halsell,
a linebacker and Ronnie Ehrig, a
defensive back. Texas had no
players on the honorable mention
squad.
Twice in the last three years
the Aggies have surprised Texas
with a trick play, Texas Special
No. 1 in 1965 and Texas Special
No. 2 in 1966, and each has re
sulted in a touchdown for Coach
Stallings’ forces. The Aggie
coach said at Friday’s press con
ference that his team was pres
ently working on Texas Special
No. 3 but that this year “Darrell
might have one too.”
STALLINGS says that “Texas
has the finest running attack in
college football” but that A&M
will have a chance if they can
succeed in two fields. First the
Aggies must get possession of
the ball and not allow Texas to
drive the length of the field and
second, A&M has to move the
ball themselves once they get it,
according to Stallings.
Hargett is rapidly closing in on
the national collegiate record for
number of passes in a row with
out an interception. The Marietta
senior has tossed 171 while the
record of 198 was set by Tulsa’s
Jerry Rhome.
“He is an outstanding quarter
back. In fact, I think he is a
great quarterback,” Stallings says
of the 6-0, 190 pound signal
caller.
Someone once said that there
are only two true rivalries in
college football and one is the
Army-Navy game while the other
is A&M-Texas and this is not
far from (wrong).
“Every game is a big one in
college football there’s not just
one game but for all the rivalry
games. I’ll pick this one,” Stall
ings said.
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
The Bonfire, the annual symbol
of each Aggie’s burning desire to
beat t.u. on Thanksgiving Day,
will be lit at 7:30 p.m. tonight.
A Yell Practice at 8:00 will follow
the lighting.
Bob Segner, stacking area chief,
said last night that stacking
would continue through the night,
and will cease sometime Tuesday
afternoon.
“Things have been going very
well,” Segner said, “in both the
stacking and cutting areas. The
only problem is lack of trucks.
“We started out with 12, and
we now have about seven or eight
working. The Bonfire would have
been bigger, but we don’t have
enough trucks.
“We also had to train more
loading crews,” Segner continued.
“The original ones weren’t enough
to handle the number of logs
we’ve had.”
Bill Youngkin, head yell leader,
said last week that 18 trucks
would be needed this year.
Aggies of all types, cadet, ci
vilian, and coed, have been work
ing this year. This is the first
time coeds have worked on the
Bonfire. They are working in the
stacking area first aid tent, and
are serving coffee and cookies
supplied by the YMCA.
“They’re doing a great job,”
Segner noted. “They’ve allowed
some men that normally would
have had to serve the food to
work on the Bonfire itself.
“Civilians have done a good job
also. They’re giving us lots of
cooperation. Many are coming
from the cutting area when they’re
through and wanting to help on
the stack.”
Injuries are down this year,
Segner commented. He said that
no major injuries had been re
ported in the stacking area.
At the same time, Youngkin
reported that there had been only
minor injuries in the cutting area.
“We did have one man cut his
knee with a chain saw,” he said,
“but it wasn’t too bad. He re
quired eight stitches.”
In the cutting area, work was
going on early this morning. Just
(See Bonfire, Page 3)
WEATHER
Wednesday — Cloudy, intermit
tent rain. Winds Southerly 10
to 15 mph. High 64, low 48.
Thursday— Partly cloudy wind
North 15 to 25 mph. High 55,
low 38.
There will only be one Batt
this week. Drive carefully and
have a happy Thanksgiving
season.
‘Sea Aggies 9 Give Bonfire
Norwegian Wood 9 Flavor
Never before have such pains been taken to burn
one log.
But Texas Maritime Academy cadets maintain
theirs isn’t just any log.
The cadets bought the 40-foot pine for $84 in Oslo,
Norway, while on their summer cruise and toted it some
8,000 miles back across the Atlantic and Caribbean.
Sole purpose: add it to the Bonfire here preceding the
Thanksgiving Day football game with the University
of Texas at Austin.
For awhile, it seemed the TMA students might
have to conduct their own bonfire if the log was to be
ignited this year. Getting it up to College Station
proved to be a considerably tougher task than getting
it across the ocean. For that jaunt, they had their own
transportation, the “Texas Clipper,” a converted ocean-
liner.
Just when the prospects appeared dimmest, Atlas
Truck Lines of Houston volunteered to haul the log to
Aggieland, delivering it Saturday in plenty of time for
the Tuesday night lighting.
The only way we could use it was to saw it up in
two sections—using one end for a first stack log and
the other for the second stack.
Grand Jury Here To Consider
Charges Against SNCC Member
By TOM CURL
Battalion Staff Writer
Charges arising from the ar
rest of an organizer for the Stu-
d e n t Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) were sched
uled to be considered by the Bra
zos County Grand Jury today.
Terry Lewis Ardrey, 20, of
Austin, was arrested Oct. 31 in
College Station and charged with
carrying a prohibited weapon on
AFTER-BONFIRE TREAT
The Union Gap, featuring a general, sergeant, corporal and two privates, turns on Tues
day at G Rollie White Coliseum after the annual Bonfire yell practice. The Town Hall
special attraction curtain will be at 8:45 p. m., noted chairman Louis Adams.
licensed premises. He was stopped
by officers of the Sheriff’s De
partment after he made a phone
call at the U-Tote-Em store at
105 Walton Drive.
According to reports of the
sheriff’s office, two officers met
the bus ' because of information
from the Houston Police Depart
ment that “a colored male with
a gun” was on a bus headed for
College Station.
Ardrey told investigating offi
cers he had come from Houston
on a bus to make a speech to the
Students for a Democratic So
ciety. At the time of his arrest,
he had a list of local people to
contact.
Brian Foye, an A&M student
and a member of the SDS was on
the list. He said Tuesday night
that Ardrey had come to College
Station to speak to the Afro-
American Society, an off-cam
pus organization.
“I was supposed to take him
to the (Afro-American Society)
meeting, but I wasn’t home when
he called. I talked to him later
when he was at the sheriff’s of
fice,” Foye said.
“He did not come here to speak
to the SDS,” Foye emphasized.
Ardrey was held in the county
jail overnight and left town after
posting $1,000 bond the next
morning. Bond was posted by
Harmon Bell and Elmer Grays,
professional bail bondsmen.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—A dr.