COTTON QUEEN Jeanette Hudson poses for the royal photo
grapher. Queen Jeanette, a Tessie Senior from Ola, Ark., will be the
consort of King Martin Vick at the Cotton Ball and Pageant April 12.
Texas A. & M. College
BATTALION
Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Friday Afternoon, March 29, 1946 Number 41
Food Fuss Finished?...
We indeed hope that it is. All indications point toward
an early settlement of all the grievances of the Cadet Corps.
As a result of numerous bleeds among the Corps, the Stu
dent Council, and representatives of the Senior Class, met
with Mr. J. G. Peniston,. Director of Subsistence, last night in
the new area “Y” for a complete discussion of the food sit
uation between all parties concerned.
The major points that were thrashed out at the meet
ing were these:
Galveston Club
Names Duchess
Miss Joan Connolly, a senior at
Texas u., has been selected by the
Galveston A. & M. Club to be
their duchess at the Cotton Ball
and Pageant April 12.
Miss Connolly, a bacteriology
student, is president of the Alpha
Phi Chapter at the university. She
is also one of the fifteen candidates
for election as the Texas u. sweet
heart for the annual round-up and
ball to be held in Austin April 5.
Jack Moore, *46, president of the
Galveston club, will escort Miss
Connolly.
LEGION OFFERS $2,500
IN JOB ESSAY CONTEST
The American Legion is offering
$2,500, with the top prize $1,000 in
cash, for the winner of an essay
contest. Essays are to be based on
the Legion’s “Jobs for All” pro
gram. Information is available at
local posts.
By Sam Nixon
What makes company command
ers and first sergeants inspect so
much ? Is it that they are just
sleazy as all get-out? No, we don’t
think so. How about being ram-
happy as the devil ? That’s out, too,
in most cases. Well, just what is it
that makes a C. O. traipse up and
down the halls, in and out of rooms
during most of his off hours?
Why not take a tour of your out
fit sometime .... and see what
makes it tick so much. You open
the first door: what hits you smack
in the eyes—girls, ten or twelve of
them, of various sizes, shapes, and
colors. Go on to the next room (no
telling what untold wonders it
holds), look in—wham, girls, ditto.
Try a third—great gollywobbles—
still more beautiful lassies all over
the place. How about just one
more? Omigosh what’s happened
here? Only one . . . .“Rest, Fish
Mtzplk, how come you just have
a single picture on your desk? . . .
You, engaged! Anything can hap
pen.”
Room decorations are really
quite the thing at Aggieland. They
range all the way from .... guess
what, girls to childhood pictures
and Aggie pennants. One room
we know of even has a “Sing-Sing-
on-the-Brazos” banner hanging up
on the wall.
Old dance decorations, duly in
scribed with the vital statistics of
dates, parties, and dance-bands are
Brazos County A&M
Clubs Plans Party;
Selects a Duchess
The Brazos County A. & M. club
in their monthly meeting Tuesday
night, voted unanimously to pay
homage to all of the 1945-46 Texas
Aggie intercollegiate sports parti
cipants, other than football, with a
party on the night of May 20. Pres
ident W. R. Carmichael appointed
an arrangement committee for the
event comprised of J. E. Roberts,
Breezy Breazeale, Mike Barron,
and Holloway Hughes.
Four generations of the Wip-
precht family were represented,
being Walter Wipprecht, Sr., class
of 1884, Read Wipprecht, class of
’16, David Kernodle, son of the
former Miss Ida Wipprecht, class
of ’42, and Rudolph Wipprecht,
father of Walter Wipprecht.
Other business of the evening
included selection of Miss Mary
Munnerlyn as Duchess to repre
sent the club at the A. & M. Cot
ton pageant.
in many holes. Restaurant and
night club menus are in evidence
everywhere. These were bought on
request, naturally.
Wolves, Aggie species, proudly
display their conquests in the form
of lipstick stained handkerchiefs.
Beside, there are, perhaps, girls
neckerchiefs, and maybe even shhh,
a garter or two. These are the
rooms with the several dozen “one
and onlies” snapshots, or full color
portraits decorating the walls, and
in one room we know of, even the
ceiling is covered. There’s the one
in Dallas, the only one in Denton,
the true love in Houston, the high
school sweetie still in the ole home
town, and the one and only in Aus
tin, all surrounded by a lot more
of the lesser satellites.
Then there’s the Aero Engineer’s
room. He has gleaned all of his
trade magazines for the pictures
of the prettiest planes in the lot.
Some super-duper balsa models of
his own design and making might
be placed in strategic positions on
the desk and dresser, with one of
the larger, gaudier jobs hanging
from the ceiling right in front of
the door, to cause the visitor to
make some kind of remark about it.
That isn’t all the kinds of deco
rations one finds on inspection
tours, there are many other varia
tions on the same general themes.
But, getting back to the first ques
tion .... we think the captains
and top-kicks are either just plain
jealous or lonesome.
Courses May Be
Added to Summer
List If Needed
Further claritication of the op
portunities for ex-servicemen in
the 1946 summer session at Texas
A. & M. was announced yesterday
by Registrar H. L. Heaton. The
proposed schedule of courses for
the summer school was published
in Wednesday’s Battalion.
“Veterans needing courses not
listed in The Battalion but need
ed as prerequisite to courses they
wish to take in the Fall Semester
or to enable them to make rea
sonable progress toward gradua
tion, should confer with the heads
of their major departments about
the possibility of offering addi
tional course^,” Heaton said.
“Heads of Departments will pre
sent the essential facts to their
deans and wherever possible all
reasonable requests will be met.
“Requests should be made with
in one week of this date.”
Simultaneously with Heaton’s
statement, Veterans Advisor Ben
nie A. Zinn issued the following
announcement:
“Veterans attending summer
school will receive full benefits
from the ‘G. I. Bill’ if they take
four or more semester hours work
each summer school period.”
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Four Return to
Agronomy Staff
Four members of the staff of
the department of agronomy of
Texas A. & M. College have re
turned, according to announcement
of Dr. Luther G. Jones, acting head
of the department.
Lieut. Col. L. M. Thompson, in
service since 1942, has rejoined
the staff and his specialty is soil
mapping, soil conservation and pe
dology. He will work on his Ph.D.
degree this fall.
Newest member of the staff is
Dr. Carl E. Ferguson, a specialist
in soil fertility. He received his
doctor’s degree from the Univer
sity of Missouri in 1941 and spent
three years in the army. He taught
at the American Army University
at Biarritz, France.
Professor R. C. Potts has re
turned to the department after
nearly three years with the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station
working with winter legumes and
grasses. Mr. Potts is taking a
prominent part in training Exten
sion Service agents, vocational
agriculture teachers and candi
dates for Soil Conservation Service
posts.
Major Larne C. Chapman has re
turned after an absence of four
years with the Army Air Forces,
engaged in training of pilots and
other air force personnel.
Spring Styles to be
Shown by Vet Wives
Two meetings of the Ex-Serv
icemen’s Wives Club have been
scheduled for April 1 and 2.
The Sewing Group meeting at
Sbisa Hall Lounge Moflday, April
1, 7:30 p. m., will have Mrs. A. E.
Salis as speaker on "Patterns.”
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Sbisa
Ball room, the club will hold its
regular meeting. The Style Show
Group will give its spring style
show at that time and all veterans
and veterans wives are invited.
DANCE DATA
Freshman Ball
Friday Night, 9—1
Sbisa Hall
Aggieland Orchestra
Corps Ball
Saturday Night, 8-12
PROBLEM
The Cadet Corps has been neg
lected in the past month in favor
of the cafeterias.
There has been too much corned
beef and cabbage lately.
The bacon at breakfast has been
almost raw.
Why can’t drinks, such as punch
and chocolate milk be served at
the noon meal?
Why were cold cuts served as a
weekday meal?
The poached eggs that were serv
ed in the morning have been over
cooked, and in some cases, inedible.
There has been too much gristle
in the hamburger, meat loaf and
chili.
FBI Agents Will
Offer Students
G-Man Career
Special Agent Henry A. Ons-
gard, F.B.I., will be on the Camp
us April 3 to visit with students
interested in knowing the quali
fications for assignment with the
F.B.I. He is particularly interested
in talking to Pre-Law and account
ing students. All other students are
welcome, however.
The meeting will be held at 4:00,
April 3, in Room 207, Agriculture
Bldg.
Mass-Production
Machine-Shop to
Be Set Tin Here
A full-fledged production-line
machine shop, designed to give
engineering students actual expe
rience in modern plant design and
methods, will be in operation at
Texas A. & M. College before year’s
end, it is announced by C. W.
Crawford, head of the mechanical
engineering repartment. •
Expansion of floor space adja
cent to the present standard ma
chine shop has been approved, and
the first shipment of modern pro
duction tools, obtained from war
surplus, has arrived on the campus.
Crawford said that when the
new shop becomes operative, stu
dent engineers will be able to de
sign machine tools and methods of
production for specific articles, and
then actually “tool up” and see
their plans carried out on a minia
ture mass-production basis.
SOLUTION
Mr. Peniston admitted that it
was possible that the situation ex
isted, but that he had added a
steward over both dining halls to
alleviate this condition.
This will be served for only more
meal, then it will be cut out en
tirely. This meal was only used
for variety.
This will be corrected immediate
ly.
When sufficient sugar is avail
able, this will be done.
It was decided that cold cuts
would make for more variety as a
weekday meal instead of the Sun
day night supper.
Poached eggs will be dropped
from the menu, and eggs will be
served in a more appetizing man
ner.
This will be eliminated to a
large extent.
Army May Select
A&M for Special s
Engineer Course
Post-Graduate Work Would
Train 150 Regular Army
Engineering Officers
There is a strong possibility that
Texas A. & M. College will be
among a group of schools to be
selected by the Chief of Engineers,
U. S. Army, for post-graduate
training of engineer officers, it is
revealed by Dr. H. W. Barlow, dean
of the school of engineering.
Cols. A. D. Chaffin, Jr., and L.
C. Urquhart, of the Office of the
Chief of Engineers, recently in
spected facilities of the college civ
il engineering department, Dr. Bar-
low said.
The visiting officers revealed
that the War Department has un
der consideration a plan to provide
post-graduate study, leading to a
master’s degree in civil engineer
ing, for 150 selected Corps of En
gineers officers each year for the
next three years. The plan was in
effect, on a limited scale, prior to
the war.
Decision as to whether Texas
A. & M. will participate in the
training program depends on the
release of the selected officers, the
majority of whom are on foreign
duty, it was said. Hope was ex
pressed that if the trainees can be
released, study will start in June.
Rooms Are Resplendant With Many
Pictures Of Girls; Pennants; Programs
Mr. Peniston also expressed an invitation for represen
tatives of the Corps to sit with the planning committee every
Wednesday afternoon at four p.m. Bob King, president of the
Senior Class, and president of the Student Council, agreed to
appoint a committee of five to help plan each week's menus.
Another point was also brought out, in that the Corps
would be willing to pay a little more for better food. Mr.
Peniston said that the quality of the food was the best ob
tainable, and couldn’t be better if the Corps paid more, but
that the error was sometimes in the preparation of the food.
Let us hope that the solution has at last been found
to cut down gripes on both sides of the fence about the mess
hall. The Student Menu Planning Committee should be able
to work a lot of problems out, with the help of Mr. Peniston
and his associates.
It would be nice.