THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1940-
THE BATTALION
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Annual Horse Show Saturday To Be Biggest In Event’s History
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Judges for Annual
Show Announced
Dallas Girl
Made Duchess
Sales Leader
By Major Irvin of Festival
Major W. R. Irvin, Cav. U. S. A.,
manager of the annual Texas A. &
M. Horse Show which will be held
in the show arena just north of
the campus on Highway No. 6
Saturday, has announced the list
of judges who will serve for the
show this year.
Col. Stanley Koch, U. S. A., at
present on Recruiting Service in
Houston, will judge the military
and polo mounts; Theodore Heady,
Dallas, horseman, will judge the
gaited and fine harness classes and
D. W. Williams, head of the Ani
mal Husbandry Department at Tex
as A. & M., will judge the work
stock and cow pony classes.
Major Irvin has received a larg
er number of entries than for any
show in the past and expects to
have approximately 50 outside
horses shown in addition to the
military department and college
stock.
San Antonio is sending seven
head and 17 riders to compete in
the various classes and the Canter
Club, of the University of Texas,
has sent entries for 11 more riders.
Both of these entry lists included
some for the jumping classes. Bill
Eamon, Houston, now a freshman
at Texas A. & M. and winner in the
events last year, has his jumpers
now at the college and is working
out with them daily.
There is no entry or stall fee
for any horses entered and the
committee is very desirous that as
many local horses as possible will
be entered.
Miss Daphne Jeanette Salois of
Dallas, a student of T. S. C. W. at
Denton, will represent the senior
class of A. & M. as its duchess at
the elaborate Texas Bluebonnet
Festival to be held in Navasota
April 12-15. Her escort will be J.
M. “Dan” Sharp, Band senior.
Miss Salois was selected as
duchess by a senior class commit
tee consisting of D. B. Varner,
George Smith, and Max McCullar.
She selected her own escort.
Miss Salois was also one of the
eight beauties selected by Kay
Kyser, orchestra leader of nation
al repute, for the Vanity Fair sec
tion of the 1940 Longhorn.
Miss Margaret Hollingshead of
College Station has been selected
to be College Station’s duchess at
the festival.
Genevieve Morrow of Houston
will be crowned queen of the festi
val April 12 at Navasota and will
lead a tour of the bluebonnet fields
in opening the three-day festivi
ties.
Elaine Martin of Houston will
be the duchess representing the
Houston Chamber of Commerce,
and Martha Quinn of Navasota
will be lady-in-waiting to the
queen.
From the time scheduled for the
opening of the parade Friday,
April 12, until the concluding Sun
day events, diversified entertain
ment has been arranged. The color
ful parade of decorated floats will
be led by the queen and fifty vis
iting duchesses. Four trails will
be marked for the visitors and will
STOP ■ LOOK AND LISTEN
AOCIES!
MOTHERS’ DAY and GRADUATION GIFTS
We do not have any First Run Pictures to offer but
if we did you could surely get them, but we do have
some First Run Watches, Diamonds, Silverware and
Aggie Jewelry of all kinds that would be very ap
propriate for Mothers’ Day Gifts or Graduation
Gifts. We feature Hamilton, Elgins and Gruen
Watches.
If you have not purchased your Captain’s Watch, see
us before you buy—we might be able to save you
money.
IF IT’S NEW—WE HAVE IT.
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BRYAN, TEXAS
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gives that millions have liked
for more than fifty years,— a
happy after-sense of com
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to your enjoyment of ice-cold
Coca-Cola. No wonder people
the world over say: get a
Coca-Cola, and get the feel
of refreshment.
THE PAUSE THAT
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JESS NEELY, NEW RICE COACH, A
PROUD NATIVE SON OF TENNESSEE
H. F. Owsley, ’32
“The Insurance Field,” an educa
tional news magazine for insur
ance men, recently honored Henry
F. Owsley Jr., ex-Aggie of the
class of ’32, with his picture on the
frontispiece and a feature story
covering his general success in the
insurance business. He is a mem
ber of the firm of Martin-Owsley,
Inc., at Queen & Crescent Build
ing, 344 Camp Street, New Or
leans, Louisiana. He is secretary-
treasurer of the firm of which his
father is vice-president.
Owsley’s most spectacular feat
was a campaign to sell residents
burglary insurance. In 60 days
he personally made 62 sales.
After receiving his degree in
mechanical engineering in 1932,
Owsley went with the Texas Com
pany in New Orleans, remaining
with that organization for six
years. Although making splendid
progress in the petroleum business,
he resigned in 1938 to become sec
retary of the firm of Martin-
Owsley, Inc., an old established in
surance agency in the city of New
Orleans.
In addition to his signal suc
cess in the insurance business,
Owsley takes an active part in
various civic and welfare work,
including the Community Chest,
Boy Scouts of America, Red Cross
and similar activities.
Mr. and Mrs. Owsley make their
home at 2119 Audubon Street, New
Orleans. He was a cadet officer
in the Field Artillery as a student
at A. & M.
Vocational Guidance
Series Sponsored By
Baptist Students
Beginning April 9, the Baptist
Student Union of Texas A. & M.
is sponsoring a series of discus
sions embodying the Christian ap
proach to vocational problems.
During the period from April
9 to April 21 inclusive there will
be six discussion periods. These
meetings will be held at the First
Baptist Church of College Station,
on Tuesday and Friday nights at
7:30 p. m. and Sunday afternoons
at 3:00 p. m. during the above
period. Rev. and Mrs. R. L.
Brown, faculty members, and oth
ers of the church leaders will be
in charge of these discussion
periods.
The first discussion at 7:30 p.
m. on Tuesday evening, April 9,
will be on the subject “Planning
a Life” and will be directed by
Rev. R. L. Brown. All are cordi
ally invited to attend and all
Baptist students are especially
urged to take advantage of these
discussions.
If Tennessee were to brag upon
its favorite sons, it would boast
as loudly of Jess Neely as Jess
boasts that he is a native of Ten
nessee.
In 1898 on one of the many
plantation-like farms of Tennessee
a baby boy was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Jess Neely. The baby’s grand
father, J. C. Gooch, was a very
proud man as he limped around
his Rutherford County home mak
ing preparations for the new ar
rival’s comfort; but the Civil War
wound that had caused the limp
did not bother him as much on
that day. He was perhaps think
ing that the new baby boy would
inherit some of the fine qualities
that had gained for himself the
position of Lieut.-Colonel in the
Confederate Army at the age of
19, or that had enabled Mr. Neely,
the baby’s father, to grab the vil
lage anvil by the nose and hold it
at arm’s length to the astonishment
of the neighboring farmers. But
this large man who was known
for strength and kindness soon
died and left the baby, Jess, with
out a father.
Jess was reared on Grandfather
Gooch’s farm, and there learned
to handle the pigskin before even
the bristles had been removed. As
education became an issue with
the growing lad, he attended sev
eral prep schools, playing foot
ball and baseball at each. Then
Jess entered Vanderbilt in 1920
as a sophomore. In 1922, his sen
ior year, he was chosen through
the love and confidence of his
teammates to captain the Commo
dore team. And what a team!
The Vanderbilt squad of 1922
was referred to by a review as:
“A Moleskin Micawber . . . always
waiting for something to turn up
... a machine, aptly termed, a
co-ordination of heart, brain, and
muscle . . . and Captain Jess Neely,
admittedly the most magnetic lead
er in all Vanderbilt history.” In
an excerpt from a report of the
Michigan game: “Captain Neely,
his injured left arm limp at his
side, urged his men to hold ’em
. . . the Commodore forewall threw
back the next thrust. No one
knew it at the time, but Michi
gan was tied right there.” And
from the Texas game: “Although
the entire varsity was crippled
from the Michigan game, the Com
modores defeated Texas at Dallas,
20-10, with the lovable Neely
again the inspiring force, as he
limped on the field with the score
13-10 in Vanderbilt’s favor and
rifled a 40-yard pass to Bomar,
clinching the game.”
After graduating from Vandy,
Jess turned to pro baseball in one
of the minor leagues in Tennessee,
but realizing that his true love
was football, sought a position as
football coach. This he found at
Southwestern ( a small school)
where Joe Davis, present end coach
at Rice Institute, was one of his
players. In 1928 he acted as as
sistant baseball coach at Prince
ton. Later he was assistant foot
ball coach at the University of
Alabama, where he met a pretty
young miss who was later to be
come his wife. Of this marriage
it has been said, “The first time
that anyone in the Neely family
has ever been captured by a
Publisher
SAY-
AGGIES—
“Yes, Sir! I’ve been a-
round this school long
enough to have tried
them all, and I can tell
you this. When you want
the very best there, is in
barber service then go to
Aggieland Barber Shop.
The barbers there know
what you want and how
to do it, and I’ve noticed
that more and more of
the fellows who want
good haircuts are going
there.”
AGGIELAND
Barber Shop
Across from P.O.
North Gate
Yankee rebel.” Jess then went to
Clemson, in South Carolina, where
he acted as head football coach for
nine years.
Rice in December, 1939, seeking
a new coaching staff, looked to
Clemson for Jess Neely, Auburn
for Dell Morgan (line coach), and
again Clemson for end coach Joe
Davis. Bob (Red) Sharpe, captain
of next year’s Clemson team,
wrote shortly after Jess had ac
cepted the position at Rice In
stitute, “I believe that every per
son connected with Coach Neely
will, in time, come to love and re
spect him as we do . . . if that is
possible.”
Jess did not have to wait for
the opening of the 1940 football
season for his baptism of fire
but received it on February 7 at a
successful banquet given jointly
by the Association of the Rice
Alumni and the “R” Association.
R. C. Patterson, who introduced
Neely, said, “I believe Jess Neely
will do as much for Rice as Sam
Houston did for Texas, and as I did
for Houston.” Said Jess, “I’ve
just got a suspicion that five years
from now we can have another of
these fine parties and a real rea
son for having it.”
Recent Candidates
Pledge Allegiance
And Good Feelings
I will always remember the days
of the election as being pleasant
as well as exciting ones. There
are no regrets because I know
that both the campaign and the
election were fair to all and hon
estly conducted, but I want to
express my deep appreciation to
all those persons who did put their
confidence in me. Bob has worked
hard for The Battalion and I feel
sure that we will be able to speak
of him as a good editor.
—A. J. ROBINSON
Even in these days of triumph
there come slight pangs of re
morse for my opponent, A. J. Rob
inson, who fought such a hard and
clean fight. I’m certainly glad to
know that he holds no regrets or
no grudges because he will certain
ly fill a big hole in next year’s
staff. That we would work to
gether on The Battalion for 1940-
41 was an agreement before the
election; I certainly intend to ful
fill my half of that agreement.
That two boys could run such a
hard race and still wind up the
very best of friends is to my mind
a good sign indeed; and as far
as I know this election was con
ducted fairly and entirely free
from dirty politics and cut-throat
tactics.
To all the boys who worked that
I might be elected, thanks a mil
lion. I promise to repay the debt
in part by doing my darndest to
put out a newspaper and magazine
that they will be proud to read and
to send home.
—BOB NISBET.
take them not only to the bluebon
net fields, but also to historical
points of interest.
Baroque Setting Is
Planned for Cotton
Pageant This Year
Hal Moseley, who is in charge
of arranging and designing the
setting for the Cotton Pageant this
year, has achieved a Baroque set
ting for the military theme around
which the designing has been bas
ed. Moseley has achieved this fan
tastic design by adopting a sculp
turesque attitude towards plain
architecture. The Baroque design
is worked out in curves, scrolls and
drapery with motion.
The gown which is to be worn
by the queen of the pageant, Miss
Mamie Tramonte, will be designed
by Brooks of New York and was
arranged for by “The Fashion” at
Houston. The royal robe is of
white cotton pique trimmed in
braid, and all the accessories nec
essary for a military costume. Over
this she will wear a gold cloth
cape which will form the train.
The seven maids will also be
gowned in white pique with their
dresses styled along princess’ lines,
trimmed with gold buttons and
pockets. Cocky hats and corsages
will complete the military effect
of their costumes.
Glenville State Teachers College
basketball teams have traveled
more than 250,000 miles in the
past 14 years.
J. Bernard Baty, ’25
J. Bernard Baty, ’25, professor
in the civil engineering department
of Queens University at Kingston,
Ontario, Canada, and an expert
in sanitary engineering, has been
appointed editor of a monthly mag
azine “Water And Sewage” pub
lished by the Canadian Engineer
publications. He went to Queens
University in 1938 as professor in
charge of municipal and sanitary
engineering. Mr. and Mrs. Baty
will continue to make their home
at Kingston, Ontario.
After receiving his degree in
civil engineering in 1925, Baty
spent two years with the Texas
Department of Health; then pur
sued graduate work at Cornell
University for two years. He later
served as sanitary engineer in the
New Jersey Department of Health
for seven and a half years. He was
with the Pennsylvania Salt Manu
facturing Company as sanitary en
gineer in the technical service de
partment prior to going to Queens
University.
Baty is rated as one of Canada’s
outstanding municipal and sani
tary engineers, and although a com
paratively young man has become
one of America’s leading authori
ties in this field.
Morgan To Address
Meeting of Chemical
Society Here Soon
“Some Practical Applications of
Corrosion Testing” will be the sub
ject of a talk by Mr. B. B. Morgan
to the local section of the Amer
ican Chemical Society on Friday,
April 26. The meeting will be held
at 8 p. m. in the lecture room of
the Chemistry Building and all in
terested are invited to attend.
The talk will be illustrated with
lantern slides. The question of cor
rosion is exceedingly important, as
it affects metallic water and sew
age lines, pipe lines for oil, and oth
er metal structures. Mr. Morgan is
chemist for the Development and
Research Division of the Interna
tional Nickel Company with head
quarters in New York City.
This is the third prominent chem
ist secured by the A. & M. chapter
since it was organized last year.
WSUI, radio station of the State
University of Iowa, is on the air
2,496 hours per year.
Dartmouth College registers all
automobiles owned by students.
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