By DICK PRETS champions, will give the Rice de- his man. Besides the total offense depart- Barring practice injuries the This week Bowden Wyatt's fenders all they can handle with The 190 pound senior, who was ment, McHan is second in tht con- Owls should be in the best physical giant-killers from the Ozarks will their smooth-functioning, Tennes- an all-conference performer as a ference in punting and punt re- condition in many weeks. Injuries attempt to do to the Rice Owls see-patterned single wing attack. sophomore, currently leads the con- turns, and is fifth in scoring with that slowed up Dan Hart and John just what they did to the Texas Against the Aggies they picked up ference in total offense, and ranks 28 points on four touchdowns and Hudson for the Kentucky game are Aggies—knock them out of the 25 first downs, completed 15 of 19 third nationally in the same de- four PAT's. healed, and Carl Johnson and Bob Southwest Conference picture — passes, and gained 445 total yards, partment. Actually McHan could be The chief target for McHan's Garbreeht should see much-awaited when the two teams collide tomor- in one of the most explosive at- classified as the second best since tosses is Floyd Sagely, a 180- action. row night at Rice Stadium. It will tacks seen this year. his immediate superior excels him pound, glue-fingered end who is Kos.se Johnson, Rice's new gol- be the first conference game on When Coach Wyatt brought by only scant yardage while having equally adept at hauling in his own den boy, could feel the effects of home soil for the Owls, as well as his new offensive formation to played an extra game. team's passes as well as the oppo- a back injury, but lately nothing their final ngiht appearance of the Arkansas from Tennessee, by After last week's performance, sition's. Sagely is first in the con- seems to be able to stop the sen- season. way of Wyoming, it was obvious during which he ran for 73 yards ference in pass receiving with 16 ior from Baytown. Dick Chap- The Razorbacks, who have not he would need a better-than-av- and passed for 184, McHan has a catches for 280 yards and two man was on the receiving end of won a conference, game in Texas erage tailback to guide the at- total of 325 yards rushing and touchdowns, and second in inter- a mild sprain of an elbow, but since 3946 when they were co- tack. In Lamar McHan he found 612 passing, for 937 yards. ceptions with three thefts. (Continued on Page 6)
Art All Student '53 Homecoming To 77w2 Newspaper Honor Mc Cants By BILL GORDON TU1II? Homecoming '53, this year's major alumni celebration, which will honor John T. McCants, recently retired Bursar of 1 rlrvriy the Rice Institute and will feature the initial showings of the Rice film "Through the Sallyport," will begin next Thursday Volume Forty-One, Number Seven HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1953 evening and will continue through next Saturday. Mrs. Archie Hood is general Lit Pledges To Make chairman of Homecoming '53 and On Friday evening the annual Players To Present John McClintock, Councilman-at- alumni dinner will be held in the Debut Sunday Night Large of the Rice Student Council Commons following a reception The debut of literary societies' irs in charge of student homecom- on the lawn near the Commons; Three One Act Plays pledges will be held ths Sunday ing plans. the dinner will be dedicated to night. The introduction to Rice male Homecoming activities will be in- Mr. McCants who came to the The Rice Players have announced the Sonnets will include Fred society of new members will take itiated with a business meeting Institute in 1910 two years be- that they will present their first Woods, Jean Youngblood, Bob Fry, place in the form of the Open which will feature the first showing fore it opened and continued in production on Wednesday and and Barbara Alfie. Houses to be given from 7:30 to of "Through the Sallyport." The his position as Bursar until his Thursday, November 18 and 19. The Joel Erdwinn, whose staff is yet 10:30 November 8. An invitation is color-sound film depicts in 134 retirement this summer. scenes the progress of a Rice stu- program will consist of a collection to be announced, is in charge of the extended to all boys at Rice. Saturday morning's activities in- dent from entrance to graduation. of three one-act plays, by the mod- technical production. The make-up Below are listed the addresses of clude a reunion breakfast in the ern dramatist^ Wedekind, Williams will be done by Rose Marie Black the Open Houses: Commons, a wreath laying cere- and Shaw. and Doris Neal. Pat Moore is in CRLS 3465 Inwood Time and Location mony at the tomb of William Marsh This production will be the Play- charge of properties. EBLS 2331 Belfontaine Rice which will be conducted by the ers' most ambitious presentation to 0 MELLS 2210 Bolsover O f Rice Follies Set Class of 1928, and a Homecoming date, with the exception of their OKLS 5303 Doliver The Rice Follies of '54, will defi- coffee in the Weiss' Hall Lounge Shakespearian festival of last OWLS 618 Rocky River nitely be presented on Friday and sponsored by the EBLS. A pep ral- spring. Player advances claim the PALS 5616 Sugar Hill Saturday nights, December 11 and ly will be held in front of th£ Fon- present production will offer "dis- SLLS 3752 Harper 12, in Lamar High School auditor- dren Library at noon with campus tinctive settings, authentic costumes Schedule Speaker VCLS 2022 Swift ium, according to Follies Director, tours and showings of the Rice and talented acting." Neil O'Brien. film preceding it during the morn- Sunday afternoon the Young Re- 0 On December 3 an abridged ver- ing. Sandy Havens, director of The publicans will have their second sion of the Follies will be presented Tenor, by Wedekind, has announced meeting of the year at 2:00 in the Slime Parade Tonight The dormitories will hold their at Texas A&M. For the most part that his cast will include Duke Fondren Library Projection Room. annual open house beginning at Tonight the frosh pass another acts making the A&M trip will bt Howse, St. Claire Cook, Annot Mill- Mr. Monty Levine has been engaged noon. milestone in freshman guidance as solos. wee, Mike Horowitz, Jane Warner, to speak on the topic of "Youth's Homecoming football game will they participate in the annual slime Boasting a newspaper theme, the Fred Lux, Tom Olcott, and Mark Place in Political Parties." be the Rice-Tevas A&M game and parade through the streets of down- Follies will be presented iiv^three Morris. as usual kick-off time will be 2:00 This topic should be of- vital in- town Houston. Uniforms for the acts and eight scenes. Howara Mar- Tennessee Williams' The Long M. At half-time the student Home- terest to all Rice students for it evening are green dresses and white tin, a senior, will be master of cere Goodbye will feature Sandy Havens, fresh- comin£ Queen, who was selected by will stress why we young people pinafores for the girls and pajamas monies and Phil Shannon, a Helen Morris, Bob Civita, George secret ballot of the Student Associ- should interest ourselves in a pol- for the boys. The female conting- man, will be orchestra leader. Nyfeler, Marion Boone, Bill Hanley, ation Monday and the two Princess- itical party at this stage of our ent will be fortunate enough to ride Rehearsals began Wednesday for and Erwin Groner, according to di- es will be crowned. Following the lives. in convertibles. the approximately seventy students rector Mark Morris. game the 'traditional reception at The parade will culminate with selected in tryouts during October. Mr. Levine is well qualified to Cohen House will be held. Bill Hall has announced that the speak on this in the light of his own the Rice cheerleaders leading a pep Acts will be presented by the EB- cast of Shaw's The Dark Lady of experiences. After two tours of rally in front of the Rice Hotel at LS, SLLS, OWLS, PALS, and the .Ian Garber and his band will duty with the Air Force, he has the intersection of Main and Texas. modern dance group; Carolyn 1 play in the Homecoming Dance returned to Houston to take an ac- Freshmen will le^ve the school on Thomas will direct one complete j which will be held in the Crystal Tau Beta Pi Meets tive part in the Republican party.' chartered buses at 6:00 pm. dance act. i (Continued on Page 5) At the present time he is Precinct I At Clemson College Chairman of No. 221 and is a mem- «• » At its forty-eighth national con- ber of both the Public Relations Committee and the Nominating vention at Clemson College, South Committee. Carolina, during October Tau Beta 1 0 Pi admitted four new chapters, bringing its local chapter roster to McBride To Deliver 96, and took its first official step toward the admission of women to Next Faculty Talk membership in the organization. Dr. Guy T. McBride, dean of Rice After many years of discussion in students, will deliver the fifth ad- the organization the convention fin- dress iri*the Sunday afternoon ser- ally voted to admit women to mem- ies by Rice faculty members at 4 bership, subject to approval of lo- p.m. on November 8 in the Fondren cal chapters. lecture lounge. Dean McBride, Tau Beta Pi is a national engin- whose field is chemical engineering, eering honor society which has pres- will speak on "The American Sul- ently some seventy-eight thousand phur Industry." members. Students are elected to The talk will cover the history of ^membership by the chapters from the industry and modern methods j DRV CLEANING VVASHATEHIA LAUNDRY ONE DAY SERVICE WHEN REQUESTED TEXAS NATIONAL Bank A MERGER OF it SOUTH TEXAS NATIONAL BANK AND UNION NATIONAL Stadium Jacket" in warm wool flannel! -F OF.FF A«_ DEPOSIT INSURANCE COUP. §lll=lll=lll=HI=l 910 TEXAS 3512 SO? MAIN Men's Furnishings — Second Floor in y ISIIIslllslllslllslllSIIISIIIalllSlllslllStllslllSIIISIKSIIISIIISIIISIIIslllalllslllslllslllSIIISIIll * FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1»5S THE THRESHER Three Frosh Girls Carry Out Rice Another Colorful Halftime Tradition With Annual Skit Ceremon, ' ' " ' " • . y Due Saturda" * y Night By FREDDIE FREDERICK "Freddie" Frederick as Stanley, Roberts, Mary Wheeler, and Ann By CHARLES TAPLEY America, too, the card section will "S.L.I.M.&. T.V. now presents Merle Zinn as Max, Sharon Jones Westerfield. After thrilling to the fire-baton reveal the liberty bell, moving clap- the great Freshman Skit," an- as Ma Hardy, and Martha Lou "One out of every five girls uses performance of Dave Kesling dur- per and all. nounced Erlene Hubly, Mistress of Musgrove and Janie Spier as the stay-put lipstick," stated Sally ing the Kentucky game, Rice fans Prior to the entrance of the band, Ceremonies on Thursday night, Oc- men in white. The skit was written Rogers, Martha Jenkins, Rita Mil- can expect another colorful half- the Army drill squad will make tober 29. The freshman girls car- by Mark Morris and directed by ler, Barbara Forester, and Joan time ceremony Saturday night in their first appearance of the year ried out an old Rice tradition by Fred Woods. Mason. They gave the between-act which the card section, the band, with a precision drill. Rice's new giving the skit and dance at A- Anita Moore, Ellen Pietravalle, commercials and proved the above and the Army and Navy drill teams born card section will be repeated House. Bennie Kincaid, Patsy Botts, fact with the help of Fred Woods. will all collaborate simultaneously. again this week by the Rally Club The first act was a take-off on Elaine Illig, and Jayne Heyke The commercials were written by Mr. Kesling, who once was Drum sponsors after a surprisingly good "Streetcar Named Desire" showing were dressed in red sweaters, red Harriet Calvin and Maureen Bell. Major of the US Marine Band, and showing last week, and plans have some aspects of a freshman's life— shorts, and high heels and repre- The can can line of the Follies was national twirling champion in been made to continue it indefinite- biology 100 lab, Math 100, Ma Har- sented the static. Bergerac consisted of Pat Shee- 1947 at Ohio State, lit up the dark- ly- dy, and the architects. "Nut Brown Maid" and "Moun- han, Dorothy Dobbins, Lannie ened stadium with a flaming baton Starring were Helen Morris as tain Gal" were the ttitles of two Price, Elaine Schwinger, Patsy that he rolled over the back of his Stella, LaNelle Ueckert as Blanche, songs sung by a new trio of Nel Botts, Angela Jones, and Naomi neck and flipped through his legs Friday Nite Forum Robbins. Sophomores Jane and' with greatest ease. He had been in (Continued from Page 2) Joan Ryba, Marilyn Webb, and Houston, away from his Dallas of- Coming Up Barbara Veyon were the choreog- fice, for a week to practice with ; in Ohio, and the Speaker of the a raphers. the band for the show. • House thundering at a chamber FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Another singing-dancing routine Although there won't be any fire ; packed with about six drowsy Rep- Freshmen—Slime Parade at 6:00 Practice—Women's Glee Club in the was done by Donna Faye Thomas, this week-end just about everybody | resentatives. Our politics often pm at Sallyport. Fondren Library Exam Room at Beth Henderson, Elaine Illig, Dixie will get into the act in one way or seem hypocritical, but he thinks our j democracy is the world's hope. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 6-7:30 pm. Sick, Helen Lehmann, Celine Mc- another. The band will march on I David Dowler, from Britain and Football game—Rice vs. Arkansas Study Group—Dormitory Bible Stu- Allen, and Shirley Dittert. The girls field in a letter formation spelling , Cambridge, had a sad experience at 8:00 pm in the Rice Stadium. dy Group at 6:45 pm in the Sen- were dressed in typical freshman "Rice," and will then yield into the ior Commons. fashion—green dresses, white pina- letters UA while the card section | on a bus in New York; when he got SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 Meeting—Engineering Society in fores, and slime caps. forms a jug. As the band serenades ! his change, he assumed his fare Meeting—Young Republicans a t Andersob Hall at 7:00 pm. I was paid, and the bus driver was "Dum-de-dum-dum," The fin- Arkansas fans with the "Arkansas 2:00 pm in the Fondren Library Film—The Rice Film Society at Traveler," the XXX on the jug will j an Irishman. Otherwise, Americans ale was a melodrama written by Projection Room. 8:00 pm in the Fondren Library melt into "ARK." | have been kind and generous. He Juanita Jones and Linda Woolley MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Lecture Lounge. finds the British are better in- entitled "Coffee In The Lounge," In keeping with Armistice Day Practice—Men's Glee Club in the WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 formed. and radio commercials or "Stagnet." Sharon Jones and the band will form a shield into Fondren Library Exam Room at Meeting—The Debate Club in An- stunned him. One reason England Janie Spier were the narrators, which the Army Drill team will 7-8:30 pm. derson Hall at 7:00 pm. march and foym a U, while the is Merrie: at home, lectures are not and "Freddie" Frederick, Betty Navy drill team forms an S. With compulsory and classes start around Arnold, Edda Kennedy, Merle all of this and the playing of 11:00. Zinn, Helen Lehmann, Marjorie Winn, St. Claire Cooke, Roberta McKinsey, and Charleton Greene i6 99 pantomimed the action on stage FO* EXCLUSIVEty Nancy Sullivan and Dee Dee j ONE'S A MEAL FINE Meek, sophomores, were in charge BROOKS SYSTEM SANDWICH SHOPS TAILORING of the production. and Fine Food For Everyone EXCELLENT CLEANING HOLT'S IN THE VILLAGE IN ERAESWOOD SPORTING GOODS 2520 Amherst 2252 W. Holcombe Fannin at Lamar 4821 SO. MAIN LY-9166 mm % Star! Maureen O'Sullivan says: I was 17 when they picked me for a small role in a smoking film. It was four years of hard work and experience before big roles came.Then I KNOW WHAT I WANT Camels marriage and children IN A CIGARETTE AND CAMELS (seven darlings!) — and film roles again! So I'm HAVE IT'. TO ME NOTHING COMPARES yourself! enjoying two wonderful WITH CAMELS FOR MILD, careers!" Smoke only Camels for ENJOYABLE SMOKING. 30 days and find out why TRY THEM YOURSELF' C? Camels are first in mild- ness, flavor and popular- ity! See how much pure pleasure a cigarette can iJ give you! for Mjldh&& MEIS AGREE WITH MORE PEOPLE THAW ANY OTHER. CIGARETTE 1 \ Four THE THRESHER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER I, IMS Campus Close-ups By Aleorn Parking "2/ You Just Drive Around And Around And Around...... Parking—2 is second in a series. The purpose Clayton Stone—At ten I tried for 30 minutes of the series is to call attention to the acute parking to find a place to park. I ended up down by the situation on the Rice campus in an optimistic attempt Field House, late for class. to achieve some definite action from the powers that Mary Beth James—It is just grim. Really, you usually provide new parking lots. The Thresher plans can never find a place to park. to run Parking—x until something is done. Bob Zapalac—If you get here any time after The above sounds pig-headed, but as was men- 8:00, you've had it. I'd like to see them build a new tioned last week, the purpose of The Rice Thresher lot or extend one of die old ones. is to recognize and try to alleviate student needs. Rice Bill Bullen—If the Proctor doesn't let up on students want and need a new parking lot—just ask those fines, I won't have enough money to graduate. one. Therefore, as a student organ, we shall try our I think a new parking lot would be die greatest thing best. since bottled beer. To back up the above paragraph, we asked Jerry Nicholas—To conquer the problem I just several: get here at 7:30 every morning. They should do some- Gus Schill—It's terrible. Something ought to be thing about it. done with all the money Rice has. I can't think of Carol Smith—I don't like it; it makes me late / anything better to spend money on—we need another to class. I just drive around, and around, and parking lot. around Flash Card Section Is Flashy Some students might remember the tragic result 1 o be a success, it is necessary that the section Rhythm, Jones . . . Rhythm of tli.'i attempt at putting a flash card demonstration in used for the tricks be completely filled. Last week 1 >.st year's I exas Christian game halftime ceremonies. the section had an empty spot that ruined the first I !io;e who saw it from the other side of the stadium trick. Many people were asked to move from other cringed and wondered why such a thing was ever attempted ui the first place. seats to fill the voids, and most complied. However, As a result of that display of inept school there were a few that refused. spirit, the students who worked on a similar project T he students who have worked to make the By THE SORCERESS this year toiled under a terrific handicap. card section a success deserve the. thanks of the entire The Black Art is all powerful. It is also very demanding, Last Saturday night, the "new" card section school. John Lyle, director of the affair, has worked and anyone contemplating an excursion into the field of sorcery wis unveiled and the result was indeed gratifying. particularly hard, as has Judy Fuller, in charge of and witchcraft must be courageous and willing to donate his 1 here were some mistakes and mixups, but these the designs and the mechanics. Plaudits also go to soul to the cause. were held to a minimum. the Rally Club as the sponsors. For those who have a desire for revenge against certain individuals — professors, for " , , ,, < a wt he D and tb 1 a example— the following sure- !"? 1 ' ° "f ? •••I | a " . 6 screetch-owl, compounded during I nreshino It Outfire reciPes are ^lven from the the dog-days. 3 w Black Book. If you are really desperate. To the Editor: an Council To accomplish nefarious deeds tim4 , desiruse ethis th,e thdeate mosh oft y#|powerfur vie l In reply to Carrie Nation's letter under the cloak of Invisibility, all that you need do is carry the spell of all. Mold a small, pure in last week's issue, I would like heart of a bat, a black hen, or a waxen image about one foot in By FOREST RALPH competition up there. Murf Bledsoe to put up a defense for the Bum's frog under your right arm. height of your victim. To make collapsed when he heard how much Rush. First I would like to point this image doubly effective, take There was a mellow meeting of A very effective method of ren- they wanted. out some wrong assumptions the a page from the book of the the Student Council Wednesday dering proposed victims helpless is letter-writer made. great snake-god, Vodu (or Voo- night, should have been there. Fred- Brad pointed out that such com- by displaying to them the Hand of The profits from the dance were doo), and imbed in the image dy Roehr brought up the point that petition would bring Rice prestige Glory, which renders them as mo- in excess of the damage charges, some hairs, nailclippings, or a HILLSBORO SLEEVELESS — Reversible — one side solid IN THE VILLAGE IT'S color Calisheen; other side, check pattern. Matches jacket and shirt. AH worsted knit back. S, M, L $7.50 DALEWOOD — Luxurious Kobbins rayon and acetate For A Complete Showing Of shirt. Shrink controlled, hand washable. Attractive check pattern to match jacket and sleeveless. S, M, YOUNG MEN'S WEARING APPAREL ' XL. $5.9" "5 2 BLOCKS WEST OF THE RICE STADIUM 2507 TIMES LI-5876 SHUDDE BROS., 628 Main ZINDLER'S, 1019 Congress FRIDAY, NOVEMBER S, IMS THE THRESHER Seven Baylor Leads SWC With Undefeated Record; Predictors' Average Drops By THRESHER SPORTS STAFF backs. After playing fairly low foec Texas' best quarterback and his With Baylor now the only SWC 5 games, Arkansas pepped up l^st precision passing may turn the tide team unbeaten in conference play week to smear A&M 41-13 behmd against the Bears' surprisingly the Bears can look down at the rest the long-awaited leadership of all- pass defense. Baylor 20— of the teams scrapping among around tailback Lamar McHan. Texas 14. By J. FRED DUCKETT themselves. Rice, T&tas, and SMU This young man runs, passes, kicks Texas A&M vs. SMU—The Ag- are all tied for second place with punts, and extra points, blocks, and With only one month of the 1953 football season remaining, gies and SMU are both due to re- one win and one loss, while Arkan- plays defense savagely and seems bound aftfti;, last week's defeats, but the time has come to think about the next sports season. SWC sas is 2 and 2 and TCU is winless to inspire his teammates to similar onlookers wonder if Ray George's "basketball practice for all seven teams began this week. From in league play. deeds. He will probably be the best Aggies can take a 41-13 defeat in the standpoint of last year's record and players v-returning, de- However, this weekend will prob- back the Owls face this year. Rice stride and play a good game the fending champ T.C.U. and runner-up Rice appear the most ably see quite a change in 'the will enter this in good physical next week. A&M's only other loss standings. Baylor faces a possible shape, with the return of Carl John- was to Baylor by one point, eonsid- likely to come through on top. Both of these clubs were hurt son and Bob Garbrecht to full very little by graduation, especially among key players. The upset against Texas in Austin, as eted by many to be a huge moral does SMU when they face the still speed. The Owls still need the pass- victory for the Farmers. If Coach tragic death of Billy Wohn will hurt the Owls considerably, fired-up Aggies in Dallas. Rice is ing attack, but Rice's 2 deep line George can whip his team back into but such stars as Gene Schwinger, Don Lance and Monte Robi- favored over Arkansas in Houston, should be able to wear out manpow- mental shape, they can whip the cheaux should be able to take up the slack. T.C.U. returns ace but after the Razorbacks' slaughter erless Arkansas. Rice 21—Arkansas Mustangs who are hurt by injuries center Henry Ohlen to lead them again. of A&M last week, Owl fans are a 13. to star halfback Jerry Norton and little apprehensive. The other con- fullback Dale Moore. The Cotton Texas should be about the third best team. The Long- Texas vs. Baylor—Baylor comes ference team, TCU, travels to Spo- to Austin riding high on a wave of Bowl battle between these two horns expect much of sophomore Philip Kidd, to go with their kane, Washington to take on the success and publicity. Currently should be the closest game of the veteran lineup. S.M.U., Arkansas, and Baylor are question- Washington State Cougars. ranked third in the nation, the weekend. SMU 14—A&M 13. marks, with the Mustangs having perhaps the best ball club. Last week, the staff's prediction Bears' "big 4" backfield of David- TCU vs. Washington State—The Poor A&M is still rebuilding after their magnificient 1952 average dropped back below .700 to son, Coody, Jones, and Dupre, has poor Horned Frogs have now lost championship team. .696 on 23 correct guesses in 33 run easily over all opposition. T6x- 5 straight games, and are hopeless- Shortly after, he neatly outmaneuv- tries. The disgusting upsets of Rice as, although they looked quite good ly out of SWC pennant competition. The Owls will journey to New ered Kentucky's tricky quarterback and A&M caused the loss. in the second half against SMU, However, they have given all their York City to play powerful St. Bob Hardy to race wide open into Rice vs. Arkansas—Things must can't afford to plav Baylor a first opponents a hard game, often com- John's in fabled Madison Square the end zone, only to have the pass be brewing in the Ozarks as coach half like they did SMU. This week ing close to victory. This week in Garden before Christmas as a part intended for him sail several feet Bowden Wyatt preps his Razor- its Charlev Brewer's turn to be (Continued on Page 8} of an extended road trip. They,will out of reach overhead. return to Houston for Christmas Big Don's blocking was more than and to prepare for the Southwest adequate, as was his defensive play. Conference basketball tournament With the rapid improvement of Cos- which is to be held in the Rice gym ta, Coach Neely now has four ex- from December 28 through Decem- cellent ends to rely upon. ber 30. Regular season champion- ship play begins shortly after Many Ov\fl students and fans will school resumes in January. remember James Timmons, burly lineman on the '50, '51, and '52 Owl In spite of the Rice Owls' rather Good squads who entered the Marines uninspired showing last week, two after his graduation last June. Tim- players did stand out—fullback- mons is stationed on the west coast, halfback Mac Taylor and end Don where he naturally went out for the Costa. Taylor, one of the state's Connections football team at his base. most sought-after players in the Big Jim,, was playing regularly summer of 1951, has been bothered until he was stopped last week by by defensive shortcomings, a trou- ...electrically speaking a broken leg. Rice players will re- ble "not uncommon in this year of call that Timmons spent much of the one-platoon system. last season with an injured knee However, the Toy Bulldog's ag- which finally healed sufficiently. S'ei>' solderless method permits the I.lectrically powered "wire wrap" gressiveness and desire plus his making of very closely spaced con tool (above) and compressed a\r That is the leg that is' broken, how- nections, as shown on this experi- tooI (below) for making wrapped natural ability have aided him to ever it is reported that the fracture mental terminal block. solderless connections. improve immensely so that Rice is not serious, and the scrapping ex- fans should expect to see much Owl should be back on his feet more of the stocky back. In three shortly. IDOO CONNECTIONS are mighty important to us solderless connections. Shown above are two type-, carries against Kentucky, Taylor for, you see, we make more than a billion elec- of "wire wrap" tools now used at Western Electric -0- G trical connections each year. It takes that many to manufacturing locations. They literally shoot wire averaged over five yards, and his SEASON STANDINGS 39 yard scamper through center Team W L T Pts Op Pt* manufacture and install complex telephone equip- onto terminals . . . and do it surer, faster and ie>. Hay lov 6 0 0 148 46 1.000 set up the Owls' second score Rice 4 2 0 122 67 .667 ment in the Bell System. expensively than conventional methods using solder Texas AM 4 2 1 109 108 .84:: That's not afl. The new "wire wrap" tool keeps against Texas. Southern Methodist 3 2 0 57 42 .600 That's why the revolutionary new method of making Texas 4 3 0 125 90 .571 equipment free from solder splashes, wire clip- Costa, a converted fullback, has electrical connections without solder — a method Arkansas 2 4 0 74 85 .333 pings and reduces bent and distorted terminals had a hard time picking up the rud- Texas Christian 1 5 0 73 111 .167 created by Western Electric engineers together with CONFERENCE STANDINGS their teammates at Bell Telephone Laboratories — Electrically, the "wire wrap" tool tjives a far better iments of offensive end play, par- Team W L T Pts Op Pts is indeed one of the significant engineering achieve- connection than can be made manually . . . the high ticularly blocking. However, jf his Baylor 3 0ft 53 27 1.000 Texas 2 1 0 45 32 .667 ments of recent years. pressure contacts are stronger, cleaner, more com pdVformance last week is any indi- Rice 1 1 0 25 25 .509 Southern Methodist 110 19 23 .500 pact and more uniform. cation, the powerfully built junior is Arkansas 2 2 0 68 50 .500 Like most really creative engineering jobs, the de- Texas A&M 1 2 0 47 62 .333 velopment of a tool to make solderless connections In keeping with the Bell System policy of sharing tech now re&dy. Texas Christian 0 3 0 20 58 .000 grew out of a problem. We had to find a way to nical know-how with all industry. Western Electric Against Kentucky, Costa showed LAST WEEK'S RESULTS Texas 16, Southern Methodist 7 connect our newly designed wire spring relay to will make this tool commercially available t.< his alertness by recovering a Wild- Baylor 25, Texas Christian 7 other components in giant bays of switching equip- electrical manufacturing companies, such as radio cat fumble deep in Cat territory. Kentucky 19, Rice 13 Arkansas 41, Texas A&M 14 ment. This new relay—something of an engineering television and communications producers, through THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE licensed tool manufacturers. Saturday: Texas A&M vs Southern Meth- achievement itself — can have as many as 36 ter- odist at College Station, Arkansas vs Rice minals in an area only 1-3/8" by 11/16". Obvious- at Houston (night), Baylor vs Texas at You're right if you think we're more than a tittle Patronize Austin, Texas Christian vs Washington ly, the conventional method of hand-wrapping and pleased with our accomplishment. And as we have State at Spokane, Wash. soldering wires onto the terminals is extremely dif- LEADING SCORERS been many times before, we're proud of the engi- THRESHER Player TD PAT PG TP ficult in such a small area. neers in all fields - electronics, mechanical, elec Don Ellis, A&M 6 1 0 37 Dicky Moegie, 'Rice 6 0 0 38 After mora than five years of research and experi- trical, metallurgical, chemical, industrial — who Advertisers L. G. Dupre, 'Baylor 5 0 0 30 Lamar McHan, Arkansas 4 4 0 28 mentation, the engineers came up with a pistol-like uphold our reputation for leadership in fundamen- Jerry Coody, Baylor 4 1 0 25 tal manufacturing teehniques. Leroy Fenstemaker, Rice 2 12 0 24 power tool capable of making mechanically sound How a solderless connection is made: (J) Skinned wire approaches Review For Hour Quizzes With ihe small flared opening in the tool tip. (2) Wire is inserted in hole. (3) Wire is bent and anchored bv BARNES AND NOBLE means of notch in side of gun tip. (4) Gun tip is slipped over rect- COLLEGE OUTLINE REVIEWS angular wire terminal. (5) Spindle V of gun tip rotates to wrap wire around terminal. (6) Six wire See The New Juvenile wraps around terminal complete electrically sound joint without Rice T-Shirts In Yellow ik soldering. That Have Just Arrived THE RICE INSTITUTE \ A UNIT Of THE 8CU SYSTtM SINCt 1331 CO-OPERATIVE STORE Manufacturing plants in Chicago, IH. • Kearny, N. J. • Baltimore, Md. • Indianapolis, lad. • Allenfown, Pa. • Winston-Salem, N. C. * Buffalo, N. Y. • Haverhill, Mass. * Lawrence, Mass. * Lincoln, Neb. • St. Paul, Minn. • Ouluth, Minn. Distributing Centers in 29 cities and Installation headquarters ip 15 cities. Company headquarters, 195 Broadway, New York. . v—. ... # • Eight THE THRESHER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6. 1958 scores and one extra point. Intramurals The Boarding House Brewers Predictions Gordon Elected To Thresher Post; downed the Ropers 84-0 as* Dale (Continued from Page 6) (Continued from Page 7) Aulbaugh passed for three touch- The play in intramural tennis is downs and three EP's and ran over Spokane, Abe Martin's Frogs should Runoff For Campanile Position progressing. However, several play- for another score and extra point. return to the victory train. Wash- ers are behind in their scheduled Buzzy. Bryan passed to Don ington State is not strong this year In . the all school elections held—idrend Library exam room. games. Lance for two touchdowns and to though they have won games over Monday, November 2, Bill Gordon**5 Each candidate will be required In football, ten games were Gino Biasatti for another as the College of the Pacific, Oregon and was elected assistant editor of the to pay a 50 cent fee to cover the Yellow Dogs beat the Eight-Dings- ! played between the cloudy skies Idaho while losing to powerhouse Thresher. A run off for assis cost of ballots. Nominees must and-a-Dong 20-6, for the leadership that forced postponement of Sat- UCLA, Iowa, and USC. With Ron editor of the Campanile will be keep an expense account showing in the Tuesday league. urday and Monday action. Weather Clinkscale and Ray McKown lead- Monday, November 16. The candi- the total cost of their campaign, The Hot Tamales won their permitting, seven make-up games ing the Purple and White split T dates are Bill Manger and Fred which may not exceed $25. will be played tomorrow afternoon. third straight game, a 41-0 drub- Duckett. bing of the hapless Aarvarks as attack, TCU should win. TCU 27— It is required that expense ac- Monte Robicheaux and LaDon Roy Mellor and French paced the Washington 19. The annual Freshmen elections counts be turned in to the Student Cox took turns tossing and re- attack. Mellor passed for three for president, vice-president, sec- Association office no later than one ceiving touchdown passes as the TD's and two PAT's and ran it iary-treasurer, and two Student pm on the day preceding the elec- Hepcats downed the Pointmakers over for another one-pointer. Council representatives will be held tion. 14-0. Robicheaux also passed for Roy Johnson put on a one man sometime in December of this year. 0 both extra points. The exact date will be announced. show as the Could Be's shut out Payne, Litherland, and S a v o i e the Rally Club 26-0. Johnson scored In order io qualify for the of- Rifle Team were the big guns as the Wolves two touchdowns and passed for the (Continued from Page 6) fices, students cannot be on pro- defeated the Campus Cats 28-6. other two as well as both extra bation. They must present a peti- Trophy Match, Fourth Army Area Litherland passed for two touch- points. Ution for election, which has been Match, and American Society of downs and two PAT's, while Savoie In the closest game, the 4F's signed by ten members of the Military Engineers Match. Those scored two TD's and Payne one. edged the Rubes 13-12. William freshmen class, to the chairman teams firing in the upper third of Kenneth Whitmire ran for a Rice scored both touchdowns for of the election committee of the the Fourth Army Area Match are touchdown and Jack Verheyden the Rubes while G. Tollerens turned Student Council, Bill Allen. eligible to fire in the National RO- passed to Steve Sims for another the same trick for the 4F's. The nominees must sign a pledge TC Trophy Match. as the Monsters tied Kay's Cow- m the petition stating that they Last year, the two groups initi- boys 7-7. The game went to Kay's 'have read the Constitution of the ated a series of matches to deter- Cowboys on penetrations 3-2. • Dresses STEVENS • Millinery Studen Association. It is very im- mine the champion team at Rice. Fielder and Jones led the B- RECORDS • RADIOS • TV portant that this pledge appear on The winner receives possession for Bar-B Riders to their third • Sportswear SALES & SERVICE 2519 UNIVERSITY the petitions. Copies of the consti- j one year of a large marksmanship straight victory, a 26-0 verdict RALPH BELL—Owner lotion may be found in the Student | trophy, of which the Army team is over West Hall. 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