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CIRCULATION 5,200—Studeht Semi-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & 1
TION -5,200
GETS EDITORSHIP
Valedictorian To Be
med
Cotton Court and Crowning of King and Queen
Voting
All Seniors May
Vote Through Poll
In Battalion . ?
Seniors tonight and tomorrow
morning will aoloct the rmledictor-
’] urn of 19S9. Through a poll con
ducted' through The Battalion,
classified seniors will choose one of
the 10 scholastically highest sen
iors in school to receiTs the highest
honor offerod. }•
On the editorial pngs of this
issue of The Battalion is the bel-
- lot to be used. Seniors who desire
to vote should scratch all hot one
name on the list and bring or send
their ballots, signed, to the Stu
dent Publication* office, 1 . ,( i Ad
ministration, before noon Wedi
day-
The valedictorian will be an
nounced in Friday's Battalion.
• Following is the list of the 10
highest seniors and their grade
point averages.
< Andy Roiina, civil engineering,
IM*.
W. R. Cowley, aciculturel educa
tion, USD.
Eugene Pliant, agronomy, 11.817.
Edward Kluender. electrical en
gineering, H.7HA
Harry Goodloe, agronomy, 2.761.
Dorsey MeCrory. agricultural ad
ministration, 2.748. |
Ernest Sample, liberal arts, 2,756.
Joe Evans, agricultural admin
istration, 2.711
Bobert Ehrke, etgim-vrmg ad
ministration, 2.710.
Archie Sherrod, dvfl t-npiru-ennK
1704. ’ ‘ 1 i
mm
Battalion Seeks
Yearly Fund tor
College Library
Williams and
Haines Get I 1
positions
Voting Lightest
In Recent Years;
1332 Votes Cast
Be
CIVIL EH01HEERS
MEET MV MID
VMESDM
LoU of rrotrainx took place on the A. A M. campus last Friday night when the eighth cotton pageaat *ml ball held the sttentiou of all sta-
dent* and many visitor*. The upper picture shows the king ind queen of the cotton pageant sad hall with the Isdies-ia-waKiag.
Lower left is Kiag Best Hargrove crowaing his consort. Rath Gordon, student of Sophie Newcomb College ia New Orleans, and from Bryaa.
The lower right iMcture feature* Governor W. Lee CDeaM crowaing the king of the cottoa shew. Beal Hargrove.
Two meetings of the A. S. C E.
are scheduled this week to hear
outstanding men in the engineer
ing profession wba will be here to
day and Wednesday
D. G Forrest of Dallas, who was
chief engineer of the Teams Cen
tennial and who is mow consulting
engineer for the New York World’s
Fair, will address the student as
relation of the A- S. G E. here
tonight
Hr. Forrest will speak on his
varied engineering experiences.
Allan P. Richmond, amiatant to
the Secretary of the A. 8. C. E
will be hers Wednesday to address
*11 civil engineers at a meeting
to be held at 2 p. m. in the lecture
room of the citil engineering build
ing. Mr. Richmond is on hia way
to attend the Texaa Section of the
*/ A. S. C. E. to be held in Corpus
• Christ! Thursday through Sotur
day. His subject wil be on the
• organisation of thf A. ^
All civil engineers are urged by
- the student chapter to attend these
■wettaf*- j !r.M
i
ROBERT ALLAN McELROT.
“A” Signal Cerpt, ’28, died Satur
day morning following a Uiyr oi<1
operation. The funeral was »t
4 Sunday afternoon in San/Marcos
and interment was in
cemetery.
Cadeta G A. JoWston. A
Johnston, B. E.
Wimer and L. E-
honorary
Keeton and Bland Chosen By Soj
Juniors As Next Assistant Yell Leaders
E. R. (Buster) Keeton and C. J/ r
i Foots) Bland were elected junior
yell leaders at a joint meeting of
the junior and sophomore daaeeb
Met night ia the Assembly Hall.
Keeton is in “A’l Signal Corps
gad Bland Is in M A” Field Artil
lary. Both art from Houston. Bland
majoring hi Industrial Educa
tion, and Keeton is majoring In
asetrieal Engineering.
The election last night was a
runoff between the six remaining
candidates who were choeen from
the original thirteen ad a meeting
of the sophomore class April 18.
Keeton 686
Bland 273
Nelson , . 179
Mil.II ,| n, JIT
Ball 102
Muahaway
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Mounted Review, Governor O’Daniel and Family, Pageant
And Ball, Attracts Big Crowd to Campus During Weekend
TITLED “TRB TEXAS STATE
Network Lends a Hand,” a prospec-
s of college and university plans
r a 1989-40 was recently receiv
ed by President Walton of Tessa
A. A M. College. The brochure,
hich Included a questionnaire for
school, was prepared by For-
W. Clough, education director
(he network of which Station
Houston, ia s member; also
Others over Texas.
Plans outlined call for: college
•variety broadcasts, debates, for
ums, and other features of educa
tional and civic interval, it
' mhmwmmL ' |
Featuring W. Let O’Daniel andf
his family, the eighth annual Cot
ton Pageant and Ball was held last
Friday night in Memorial Gymna
sium and the Mess Hall, with a
record-breaking crowd on hand for
the events.
In the late afternoon a mounted
review of the entire corps was
held in honor of the governor who
arrived at College Station after
attending the dedicatory services
of the San Jacinto Museum near
Houston. Following the re*
Governor O'Daniel and his fsmily
were taken on a tour of the cam
pus by President Wslton and Col. j
Ashburn.
The Pageant, which began short
ly after 8 o'clock, opened as Dean
Kyle made an introductory address
tnd introduced President Walton
Who in turn introduced Governor
O'Daniel. The governor, in his ad-
di '•**, praised A. A M. highly and
qioke of his plans to help the
cotton Industry by finding new uses
for the important Texas product.
The ceremonies began as Gover
nor O’Daniel crowned Beal Har
grove King of the Cotton Pageant
The seventy-five duchesses and
their eseort* were then presented
(Continued on page 4)
PETROLEUM
ENGINEERS MAKE
INSPECTION TRIP
SIXTH ANNUAL
DAIRY SHOW TO BE
HELD SATURDAY
Mothers Clubs W#
Asked to Contribute
<500 Annually to Project
Within the Sett few days The
Battalion will mail an jtppaal to
all A. A M. mothers' clubs for sap-
port in a drive to estpbiiah an
annual $600 general reading fund
to carry on the work sow being
done by the money obtained earlier
in the year by cMtributtons from
mothers’ Hubs and th<( student
body. -
The Battalion will slab presen
a request to Mrs. T. 0^ Wslton
fgasl^ant ' sf the Federation of
A. A M. Mother’s Clubs; for time
on the federation club meeting pro
gram to he held here jiist before
Mother’s Day. This tims will be
used to review the past hampaiyn
of The Battahon, to show the need
for the establishment of f general
reading fund, and to ask the sup-
port of the clubs for the-fund
Under the plan p o ^-.d, the
fifteen stqte dubs wsuld be asked
to pledge s $600. a year gUnml
fund to the bbi ary to carry
oa the work of huying popular
reading material, which Is said to
be badly needed by the 1 hrary, and
that is now being purchased out of
funds obtained by an easier drive
of The imitation. j \
Principal, contributors j to the
present temporary fund were tbs
San Antooid Mother * • lub and the
Sonora Mother's Club, wiich gave
$100 and 860, respectively, The rest
of the fund, which totaled 4206, was
made up by contributions from the
members of the student body dur
ing the second term registration
kasseTplaysKS
FOR COMPOSITE
BALL FRIDAY |
Art Kassel and his batmnalh
famous •‘Kassels in the < Air” or
chestra will play at the annual
Composite Regiment Ball to ba held
this Friday night from M until 1
in the Mass Hall.
Kassel and his orchestra arc
widely kaown through their play
ing on radio broadcasts over both
CBS and NBC ft* ia pefaenal ap
pearances throughout the country.
“ 1 is weD known as a com
poser as well as an orchestra lead
er. jj 11 |I
The dance committne ia-oompos.-d
of A. T HIngle and W A- Adams,
(Continued on pagv 4)
BUI Murray became next yvnr*»
.■ditnr in-ehief Of The BatUlion,
Mick Williams senior representa
tive on the Student Publications
Board, ahd Paul Haines junior rep
resentative, in the run-off election
held heft yesterday. Thirteen him
dred and thirty-two votes were
in the prir
cast; 1/468
mary election last Monday.
In the general election climaxing
a heated race, Murray reostvsd a
majority of 746. James "Myrnis”
Grits, his nearest contender in the
primary and opponent in the run-
off election, received 380 votes.
In the-race for Senior Represen
tative on the Student Publkationn I
Board, Mick WiUiams polled f>65'
votes u> 656 for Jimmy Cokiaoe. K 1
Paul Haines was elected JtMdXj
Represea tative with 668 vetea trij
688 for Earle Shields.
Scattering ’‘johs’’ votes, toclud. |
tag tallies for Mickey Mouse and
W. Lee O'Daniel for Senior Repre
sentative and F. D. Roosevelt for
Junior Representative were cast
Votiag this ysar wab considerab
ly lighter in both the primary and
the runoff than in last ysar** heat
ed campaigns. Voting last ysar
approached the 2,000 mark in each
election, with 1,466 in the primary
this year being high.
\
A. A M.'s senior petroleum engi
neers begin their inspection trip of
four days Wednesday morning
when they go to Lufkin, and from
there to Houston to viMt other in
dustrial concerns as well as to at
tend the 81.000,000 Oil-Worid Ex
position.
They will visit the Lufkin Foun
dry and Machine Company plant
and afterwards have lunch at the
plant That afternoon they will
visit other Lufkin industrial plants
leaving immediately for Houston
where they will be present at the
reading of the student technical
papers in the Convention HalL
Thursday will he spent looking
at the various exhibits at the Ex
position.
The Senior class will inspect the
Hughes Tool Company plant and
the Gulf Brewing Company after
wards, being the guests of the
Hughes Tool Obmpaay for dinner.
MURRAY MAKES
PLANS FOR NEXT I
YEAR’S PAPER
RestoraUoS sf Kadet Kapmq ■
a new and better form, e5Ubli*h-
ment of a dormitory-wide navis
coverage, increasing tin tit* of
the sports staff as well as procur
ing the best spofts editor possible,
starting an intramural sports col
umn, and attempting to secure bet
ter coverage of club news are IMto
of the plans of Battalion editor-
elect Bill Murray.
He said last night that he con
templates no drastic changes in
makeup of The Battalion, but that
ha hop<* to improve the general
i and feature value of the
paper. ] \ Ij
”1 intend to Diake the
column* thoroughly
he said, “and 1 brant to
with every class and
t urea great number of things
that A. A M. wants , and needs. I
shall work consistently to attain
them.”
*1 want to work for eoppletely
unbiased elections and
, * (Continued on page 4)'
Mini-Minton, llew Parlor Game
Invention of A. & M. Graduate
Twenty students majoring in
dairy husbandry will compete for
both cash prises and medals Sat-1
urday afternoon when the sixth
annual dairy show will be held
at the college dairy.
Animals to be shown in five
different classes were picked by
the stodeats in February end have
been fitted and trained for the
show since that time by the con
testant ander the supervision of
the professor in the department.
Some fifty animals will be shown
in the various classes which in
clude calves, junior yearlings, sen
ior yoarlings, and two ysar olds
in milk and which include both
Holstein and Jersey animals. Piss
ing will b** done on 8 nto: fifty
basis, one-half being given for th^
animal itself and one-half on its
condition and the showmanship of
the contestant
BY GEoKt.K I I F MANN
Mini-Minton, a new gskne that is
rapidly gaining popularly nil over
JOHN W.’BRASi: ION
the nation, to the invention of an
ex-Aggie, John W, Brass)ton, ‘*8.
lettered in football at
center and In baseball as eatebar.
A liberal arts student, he also serv
ed as president of the Y. M. Q A.
Cabinet hia senior year.
Mini-Minton to a combination of
and badminton, bvirst
played with table tennis paddle*
and the. badminton shuttle. The
fame to played in the same manner
as in badminton, eleven points eoa-
stituting ■ game. Scoring to as in
handball or volleyball and only the
server can score.
Branelten to now Physical Direc
tor of tile Tulsa Y. M. G A. where
It Mi been located for the part
Aba MMA A frequent visitor to
College Station. Mr. Braaelton has
been president of the Tulsa A. A M.
Club for the past several years.