THE BATTALION
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THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940.
Bernie Cummins Makes Success
Of Composite Regiment’s Frolic
By George Fuermann
Not only one of the best or
chestras on the campus thus far
this year, but probably one of the
best to play for A. & M. dances in
recent social seasons, maestro Ber
nie Cummins and associates can cut
one more notch of success in their
respective horns after playing for
the Composite Regiment Ball and
the corps dance last Friday and
Saturday night.
Attractive and lovely Connie Bar-
leau can write her own ticket as
far as the Aggies who heard her
or saw her are concerned. Together
with a fine voice and a capable
stage personality, she was tops—
as singers have gone at Aggieland
—and could win'the Aggie vote for
anything she might choose to run
for.
But so it was with the whole
orchestra. Ballad-singing brother
of Bernie, Walter Cummins carv
ed his own niche this past week
end . . . Drummer Fred Benson
brought the house down on both
nights . . . The antics of trumpeter
Chet James were highlights in a
widely varied program of danceable
music . . . And Bernie himself was
one of the best front men to ap
pear on the Aggie campus in many
a day.
Bernie believes in common sense
in music—that is, an orchestra
should play for the spot it happens
to be in. Sixteen years in music
have given him a wide experience
and today he is one of the most
versatile orchestra leaders in the
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►business. Personally, he likes swing,
but he always tempers his music
to agree with the particular audi
ence he is playing for.
A fanatic, on sports, he is a
walking record book on every va
riety of athletic data. One of a
family of ten children, he and
brother Walter are the only two
in the music business. More than
that, they’ve recently bought into
the doughnut business. Opening a
place in Columbus, Ohio, the boys
plan to soon open more of the
stores throughout Ohio.
So mark one up for the Com
posite Regiment. The combined ef
forts of the Signal Corps and the
Chemical Warfare Service blended
to perfection in presenting one of
the most enjoyable and entertain
ing dances of the year. And it was
one which will be hard to beat.
More than six hundred persons
attended Friday night’s prom which
was the third of the Composite
Regiment Balls. Committeemen re
sponsible for the successful func
tion were Joe Snow, H. W. Heit-
mann, E. G. Amundsen, J. G. Hines,
L. H. Grasshoff, E. B. Wheeler,
H. F. Warnke, L. F. Jaggi, E. H.
Ivey, Harold Hausmann, Bob Hoff,
and D. C. Wilson. All Composite
Regiment juniors, however, helped
plan and execute the dance.
Texas Leads U. S.
In Mineral Sales
The State of Texas led the na
tion last year in mineral product
ion, with annual sales of $740,141,-
000.
Oil took first place among the
thirty minerals on the market,
$475,850,000 barrels being sold for
$539,150,000. Natural gas was sec
ond with 882,473,000,000 cubic feet
sold for $133,486,000 at the points
of consumption. Over six hundred
million gallons of natural gas-gas
oline brought $19,781,000 to take
third place.
Seven million barrels of cement
sold for $11,885,494. Miscellaneous
minerals, including sulphur, basalt,
helium, mercury, natural sodium
compounds, and sand-lime brick,
reached $22,543 in sales. Sulphur
companies reported production of
more than two million tons.
Six million cubic feet of helium
were produced.
Also above the $1,000,000 sales
level were sand and gravel, lime
stone, clay products, and refrac
tories. Silver, salt, lignite, lime,
and fullers earth sales amounted
to approximately $500,000 per pro
duct.
Northwestern University has a
special foundation for the financ
ing of efforts to promote inter
national peace.
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Wins A. & M. Pageant Design Contest
Hal W. Moseley of Dallas, fifth-year student of architecture at A. & M., is shown here as he was
putting a few finishing touches on his winning design for the annual Cotton Pageant and Style Show to
be held at the college April 19. Moseley took first prize over 18 entrants in the contest, who prepared their
designs under direction of Professor C. J. Finney of the Department of Architecture.
Cotton Pageant Floor Show
Will Feature Kotchetovsky
* By Bob Nisbet
The success of the Floor Show
for this year’s Cotton Pageant has
been assured. Alexander Kotche
tovsky and his troup of dancers
from Houston have been selected
to perform before the court of
Wesley Seay, the king, and his
queen, Miss Mamie Tramonte.
Mr. Kotchetovsky gives to his
audience the many years of exper
ience of his artists in the theater.
He himself is a graduate of the
Imperial ballet school of Moscow,
and world-famous as a solo dancer
and member of the Liagheleff
ballet Russe. For the past eight
years he has confined his activi
ties to the city of Houston, but
even here his success has been
marked. His pupils have attained
such perfection to be presented
with the Houston Symphony Or
chestra, the only school in the
South to accomplish as much.
There will be six members pre
sented in the Floor Show, consist
ing of acrobatic stunts, gypsy,
oriental, and Spanish dances.
About his own act, Mr. Kotche
tovsky says, “I am going to make
the very act steal the show which
you may expect the least to do
so. We will have what your audi
ence will like. The girls are fin
ished performers, their costumes
artistic, and they are beautiful.”
Aggie Tracksters
Have Six Meets
Yet On Schedule
With four meets behind them
and victory in only one, the Ag
gie track team will be bearing
down from here out in their next
six meets to make a creditable
showing for the season.
So far the Aggie thinly-clads
have competed in the Border
Olympics at Laredo, the Fort
Worth Fat Stock Show and Expo
sition, a quadrangular meet with
Abilene Christian College, Sam
Houston State Teachers College
and Southwest Texas (San Marcos)
State Teachers College here, and
a dual meet with the University
of Texas in Austin. The only vic
tory came in the quadrangular
meet and in winning that by four
points over San Marcos they eased
the sting of defeat given them
by the Bobcats at Laredo.
Probably the toughest competi
tion before the Aggies will be in
the Texas Relays at Austin on
April 6 and in the Drake Relays
at Des Moines, Iowa, April 27.
Texas, which Coach “Dough” Rol
lins rates as the top 1940 South
west Conference team, will be faced
in the Texas Relays and again in
a triangular meet along with Rice
at Austin, as well as in the con
ference meet in Houston in May.
Here is the remaining schedule:
April 6—Texas University Re
lays at Austin.
April 13—Rice, Howard Payne,
at College Station, triangular meet.
April 20—Baylor, T. C. U., S.
M. U. at Fort Worth, quadrangu
lar meet.
April 27—Drake Relays at Des
Moines, Iowa.
May 3—Rice and Texas at Aus
tin, triangular meet.
May 10-11—Southwest Confer
ence meet at Houston.
Meanwhile action is being taken
on other phases of the Cotton
Show. Work has been started
on the setting as designed by Hal
Moseley, and it should be ready
before long. Mrs. Fouraker goes
today to Denton to inspect the
queen’s gown, and to give counsel
to her and her court about gen
eral details in the conduct of the
Pageant. Names of duchesses
from various clubs and organiza
tions continue to pour in to the
social secretary, Harry Forbes. In
fact, the whole organization is
working in close harmony, and
those in charge maintain the
claim that the Cotton Style Show,
Pageant, and Ball of 1940 will be
the biggest ever.
Twin Convention
At Baylor Expects
Large Attendance
The largest congregation of mul
tiple births in Texas history is on
slate Friday and Saturday as the
second annual Texas College Twin
convention meets on the Baylor
University campus.
Lois and Loise Bailey, presidents
of the host Baylor twin club, esti
mated that more than 100 sets of
twins from 25 to 30 Texas colleges,
five sets of triplets, and twin dele
gates from 16 other states will be
in attendance.
Scientific tests will highlight the
convention, with Dr. D. C. Rife,
professor of entomology of Ohio
State University, joining Dr. Iva
Cox Gardner, professor of psy
chology at Baylor, in tests dealing
with both physical and mental
characteristics of twins. Dr. Gard
ner will make a special study of
like thought patterns with a view
to later findings in telepathy.
Twins named by the governors
of their states to attend the con
vention as official delegates will
come from Alabama, Arizona, Ark
ansas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa,
Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minne
sota, Nevada, New Mexico, North
Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah,
and West Virginia. North Caro
lina is sending two sets and Min
nesota four.
Photographers and writers from
the leading news services and mo
tion picture concerns have already
written, making arrangements to
cover the convention.
State officers, elected at the
founding of the state association las-
spring, are Irene and Florence
Rushing, Baylor, presidents; Elvin
and Melvin Franklin, then of Tex
as and now of Baylor, vice-pres
idents; and David and Douglas
Crow, Hardin-Simmons, secretar
ies.
Plans for '40
English Tests
Being Made
Dr. George Summey, Jr., head
of the English Department, has an
nounced that plans are now being
made for conducting the 1940 Eng
lish contest for freshman and soph
omore students. In the past years
interest in the contest has shown
that the purpose of encouraging
superior English work has been ef
fectively carried out. The prizes
in each contest are being offered
by A. & M. alumni who appre
ciate the value of good English in
life.
Dr. F. M. Law, President of the
Board of Directors of the college,
has offered two cash prizes of $20
and $5 to the winners of the fresh
man contest. The prizes are to be
awarded on the basis of a competi
tive examination which will be held
late in April or early in May. To
be eligible to enter the contest,
the student must have: grade A in
English 103 and Distinguished
Student rating for first semester;
grade A or B in English 104 to
April 1, and satisfactory oral work
in the same course to April 15.
To encourage superior work in
sophomore English courses, Wil
liam Morriss of Dallas is offering
similar prizes to the sophomore
student who is declared winner of
a similar competitive examination.
The conditions for eligibility in
this contest are: a grade of A in
English 203 or 231 and Distinguish
ed Student rating for the first se
mester; a grade of A or B in Eng
lish 207, 210, or 232 to April 1 of
the current semester, and Grade
A on any course paper or book re
view that may be required in the
sophomore course the student con
cerned is now taking. If a student
is otherwise eligible but did not
take an English course the first
semester of this year, the grade of
the last previous college English
course will be counted. Students
who were allowed to substitute
English 328 or other courses for
the usual sophomore courses may
count the elective course as an
equivalent so far as the English
Contest is concerned.
English students who are so far
eligible to participate in either
contest are asked to give their
names promptly to their instruct
ors in order that projects for re
quired papers may be promptly ap
proved.
The University of Pittsburgh has
announced a $6,000,000 expansion
program.
The Mississippi State College
power plant generates 2,000,000
kilowatt hours of electricity a year.
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College Station To Undergo Blackout
Sunday, April 7—But Have No Fear!
College Station will be near the
center of an unusual type of black
out, when on April 7 between 3:48
p. m. and 3:53 p. m. the moon will
cross in front of the sun for the
most extraordinary eclipse in 75
years.
To College Stationites the ring
eclipse, cast by the fast-moving
shadow of the moon (movirig at
1,000 miles per hour), will be vis
ible for nearly 5 minutes and the
whole city will be turned into
twilight, tinted and lightened by
an eerie greenish yellow due to the
small ring of the sun left around
the moon.
A 150-mile shadow will be left
by the eclipse and will be visible
to nearly 2,000,000 people along
its path and a partial eclipse will
be seen all over the U. S. and Can
ada, except Alaska. The path of
the eclipse will enter Texas at the
Big Bend and will run through San
Antonio, Houston, and Beaumont.
Peculiar to the eclipse, which is
perhaps more extraordinary than
.a total eclipse, is the fact that
local folks will view the eclipse
a day before it starts. Reason for
this paradoxical statement comes
from the fact that the eclipse
starts west of the International
dateline in the middle of the Pa
cific which marks the line between
today and tomorrow. East of the
line is tomorrow. The annular or
ring eclipse starts on April 8, west
of the date line about 300 miles,
when the moon traveling from
west to east across the sky comes
between the earth and the sun and
for almost four hours cuts off a
portion of the sun’s light.
This unusual phenomenon last
viewed in 1865 will not appear
again until May 10, 1994.
Main path of the eclipse in the
United States (which will be view
ed by many people in South Amer
ica) will be from lower Southern
California through Texas and Lou
isiana to Georgia and Florida.
Dr. D. F. Weekes of the Physics
Department, conductor of many
star-gazing sessions, has announc
ed that he will be using the tele
scope in the Physics Building Sun
day afternoon, and he will be glad
to offer its use to any visitors
to view the eclipse, which he will
accompany with explanations.
Exactly 659 University of Pitts
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make New Year’s resolutions for
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