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Aggies Win From T. u. and Buff Reserves Aggies Win Dual Meet From Texas The Texas Aggies came from | behind to defeat the Texas Long- f" horns, 63 to 59, in a dual track | meet here Tuesday with the final § event—the mile relay—cinching 1 the first Aggie win over Texas I since 1943. Texas led from the first event | when Desmond Kidd won the 440- I dash from Art Harnden in 51 sec onds. These two tied into each other again on the anchor lap of the relay. Harnden had a lead set up by Bill Fischer, who had picked " up the loss left him by D. D. Wil- liamson. Lindy Benson held about (See CINDERMEN, Page 3) Col. Chevalier I Will Address Student Officers Col. Willard Chevalier, vice \ president of McGraw-Hill publica tions and publisher of Business Week, will speak to all cadet of- l ficers at Texas A. & M. at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Y. M. C. A. chapel. Subject of his talk will be I ^Leadership”. Col. Chevalier visits A. & M. I College annually to deliver a ser- | ies of lectures, and his appearances' are always well attended because he is considered one of the best informed men on public affairs | in the United States. A civil engineer by profession, he holds a reserve commission in the 11th U. S. Engineers, and was ; a Lt. Col. in the first World War | serving in France. College Sanitation Rating State’s Best, Kiwanians Hear Work of the Brazos County Health Unit in food sanitation was outlined by W. W. Clarkson, direc tor of the unit, at yesterday’s luncheon meeting of the College Station Kiwanis Club. Clarkson listed 17 points which are used in the classification of public eating places and stated that the sanitation rating for the College-Bryan district is the high est in the state, Clarkson stated with a composite classification of 80%. He added that the rating for the city of College Station is high er than that of Bryan. State Milk Inspector Clanton also appeared on the program, pointing out that milk is the most nearly perfect food known but is also second only to water as a vehicle for the communication of disease. He stated that both Bryan and College Station are members of the Standard Milk Ordinance Program, designed to insure the .purity of retail milk. Holloway Hughes, who is em ployed by the Texas A. & M. Ath letic Department, was introduced as a new Kiwanis member. Barbara Haden to Be Houston Duchess Miss Barbara Haden, sophomore beauty from Hockaday School in Dallas, has been chosen to repre sent the Houston A. & M. Club this month at the Cotton Pageant and Ball. Miss Haden is well known in Houston and Dallas circles as an outstanding model for collegiate girl’s wear, and has been screen tested by MGM pictures of Holly wood. Escorting her in the Pageant will be Ed Brandt, Social Chairman of the Houston A. & M. Club. Texas A. & M. College BATTALION Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Wednesday Afternoon, April 3, 1946 Number 43 LANGFORD REELECTED MAYOR Ames Wins Race For Councilman In Ward Three Ernest Langford is still mayor of College Station today as the re sult of a 19-vote victory over Ralph W. Steen in yesterday’s city election. Langford received a total of 182 votes to Steen’s 163 in one of tiie largest turnouts in College Sta tion’s short history. The vote by wards was as follows: Ward 1, South of campus—Lang ford 108, Steen 85. Ward 2, College Hills—Langford, 51, Steen 49. Ward 3, North Gate—Langford, 23, Steen 29. Steen asked The Battalion this morning to express his apprecia tion of the support given him in the election and called upon the community as a whole to cooperate with the city administration in working for the betterment of the community. In the only other race on the city ballot, E. E. Ames displaced E. E. Brown as councilman for Ward 3, by a close vote of 28-23. Ames is agent for the Greyhound Bus Lines and operator of the Col lege Station Taxi Company. Brown has served on the Council since 1943. Other councilmen who were elected without opposition are J. A. Orr from Ward 1 and M. T. Harrington from Ward 3. N. M. McGinnis was elected city secre tary without opposition to fill a vacancy created by S. A. Lips comb’s refusal to be a candidate for reelection. To Speak Here Reeves Leaves for Central American Corn Investigation Dr. R. G. Reeves, corn investiga tions scientist for the Texas Agri cultural Experiment Station, will leave here Wednesday for a two- months study of corn varieties in Central America. He is hopeful of finding characters in the corn of Southern Mexico and Guatemala which will be beneficial to the Tex as hybrid corn breeding program, especially the transmission of more resistance to heat and drouth. There are two age-old centers of corn production—Guatemala and Peru—to which all corn traces, Dr. Reeves said. Native varieties of Central America, he believes, like ly will come nearer giving Texas growers more useful corn on ac count of the voluntary hybridiza tion that has taken place through the centuries with relatives of corn which are resistant to heat and drouth, as well as to insects and diseases. Dr. L. C. Norris, professor of nutrition at Cornell University, will be one of the principal speak ers on the program of the 1946 Texas Nutrition Conference to be held at Texas A. & M. College April 8 and 9. The conference is being held for manufacturers of livestock and poultry feeds', and for any others interested in the latest advances in the science of of feeding. Other outstanding speakers will include Dr. Paul H. Philipps, pro fessor of biochemistry at the Uni versity of Wisconsin, and Angus Tresidder of Louisville, Ky., an au thority on nutritive value of dis tillers by-products. GI Wives Bring Spring to Campus Spring really was in evidence on the Aggie campus Tuesday night i when nearly 300 veterans’ wives, ’ the husbands, and guests attended the fashion show sponsored by the Style Group of the Ex-Service men’s Wives Club. West coast fashions and New York styles were shown in play suits and dresses, bathing suits, afternoon dresses, evening wear, and lounging pajamas. The Col legiate Shop furnished clothes from California ordered for the occasion and Montgomery Ward & Co. out fitted models in styles flown from New York especially for the show. Lester’s Smart Shop had several exclusive models from noted de signers. The Easter Parade was rep resented by Ludy Sullivan with Master Joe Cris Sullivan and Mari lyn Fritts with Master Freddie Fritts and little Ann Brennan. Races Develop in A&M Consolidated Trustee Election Breland and Godbey, Hickman and Hampton Are Candidates Saturday With yesterday’s city election behind them, College Station citi zens are turning* their attention today to the election of school trustees set for Saturday, April 6. Two places are vacant on the school board this year, as L. G. Jones has announced that he will not be a candidate for re-election as trustee-at-large and Major J. E. Breland has moved his residence from the College Hills district which he has represented since 1940. There are two candidates for each of the two positions, their names having been presented by petitions signed by five or more qualified voters. Breland has been placed on the ballot for trustee- at-large and will be opposed by Chauncey B. Godbey, professor of genetics at Texas A. & M. College. Breland is attached to the Military Department of the College. Candidates for the College Hills post are H. E. Hampton, profes sor of agronomy, and Ray Hick man, director of the College Place ment Office. Polls for the school election will be located at the A. & M. Consoli dated School in College Station, at the Southern Pacific depot in Well born, and at Bon’s Store on High way 6 in the Rock Prairie com munity. The polls will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and all qualified voters of the school district may vote. Aggies Hit Well Against Texas League Pitchers Piling up twelve hits—four dou bles, three triples, and a homer— the Texas Aggies took the measure of the Houston Buff reserves yes terday 9-6. The game was played at Kyle Field. Four Aggie hurlers allowed only four hits to the Texas League team, one of them a circuit clout by Ban Hill, Buff first sacker. Earl Beesley started for the Cadets and was credited with the win, leaving the mound after three in nings with the score showing 4-2 for the Aggies. Art Newman took up the chunking chore for the next three stanzas, during* which the Buffs ran across two more tallies while the Aggies added four. Bardwell pitched the seventh and eighth and Shufford finished the last inning. Sanchez and Betenz hurled three innings each for the Buffaloes and (See AGGIES WIN, Page 3) HILLEL FOUNDATION SELECTS DUCHESS Miss Miriam Brounes will repre present the A. & M. Hillel Foun dation as Duchess of Hillel at the A. & M. Cotton Ball April 12, es corted by her fiance, Jack J. For man. Miss Brounes attended the Jul- liard School of Music in New York and also Columbia University. She has appeared as vocalist in many musical programs in Houston, and has sung with the Houston Sym phony Orchestra. Jack Forman, Veteran Aggie, a Captain in the Army now on terminal leave, is back at A. & M. after spending 30 months in the European theatre of operations. Population Only 623, But . . . SENIOR ENGINEERS Mr. R. N. Dyer and staff of the Humble Oil Company will be on the campus for a joint meeting of all senior engineers, Thursday, April 4, 7:15 p. m., in the Mechanical Engineering Lec ture Room. Mr. Dyer and his staff will in terview those seniors interested in employment with Humble Oil Company on Friday. Interview schedules^ will be made after e meeting Thursday evening- Omaha, Texas, Is Horn of Plenty of Pulchritude Home ofAg., T, u. Sweethearts Barrier, Farrier The Texas Almanac says Omaha in Morris county has a population of 623, and it goes on to tell about the iron ore deposits and the Dain- gerfield State Park, but it doesn’t say a word about the pretty girls. But mister, you can bet your bottom dollar that Omaha has ’em. And here the compilers of the Al manac missed a bet; because Omaha has the distinction of having two of its young ladies chosen as Sweethearts for the two largest shools in Texas, and also as Duh- esses in the Twelfth Annual Cot ton Style Show and Pageant to be held at A. & M. on April 12. Miss Mary Ann Barrier is the Aggie Sweetheart and attends Tex as State College for Women at Denton. Miss Sammie Nancy Farrier is the Texas University Sweetheart at Austin, and incidentally, the sis ter of former Aggie student Mar shall Farrier, ’48. Miss Barrier is one of the six girls chosen to be on the Cotton Queen’s immediate court while Miss Farrier was chosen as a duchess and wil represent the University of Texas. There’s pulchritude and beauty in common, their names are simi lar and both are five feet six inches tall and weigh 120 pounds. Yes sir, Omaha, Morris county, Texas, rings the bell with its beauteous damsels—in the eyes of the Aggies and Longhorns as well. Work Begins On 128 Low-Cost Apartments Here Construction worK has already begun on the first 128 apartment units to be built by the Federal Public Housing Authority for mar ried veterans at Texas A. & M. College, it was announced today by T. R. Spence, manager of the col lege’s construction program. It is expected that the F. P. H. A., which already has made avail able 32 apartments at Bryan Field to veteran students, will have the 128 units ready for occupancy be fore next September, Spence said. The units, which are located east of Kyle field, were started March 25. They extend along Houston street opposite Anchor hall in the area where the obstacle course was located during the war. A shipment of seven barracks- type buildings of ready-cut ply wood, obtained by the FPHA from government storage at Baton Rouge, where they had been packed for export, have been received and are going up, Spence said, and 23 more are expected soon. Each of the ready-cut buildings will be converted into standard two-bedroom apartments, two to the building, by the McCann Con struction company of Fort Worth, which will furnish them. The McCann company also has a FPHA contract to move seven two- story buildings from the the Orange Shipyard housing project to the campus, and to convert them into 60 one-bedroom apartments and eight two-bedroom units. Rents at Bryan Air Field, at the request of the college, were set at $18 monthly for one bedroom, $20.50 for two bedrooms and $23 for three bedrooms, including fur niture and utilities. The difference in rates takes into account the expense involved to students travel ing the 13 miles from the air field to college. All of the 160 apartments owned by the FPHA will be operated and maintained by Texas A. & M. Col lege, Spence revealed. Any surplus funds left after paying for utilities and maintenance will be turned over to the FPHA. Aggie Rand to Play As New Braunfels Fetes Centennial The Aggie band will be an out standing feature of the New Braun fels centennial celebration, when that community celebrates its 100th anniversary May 10 and 11. The band will appear in concert Friday night, May 10, and will then play for a street dance lated in the evening. On Saturday the band will be in the centennial parade. The Aggies, led by director Vergne Adams, will leave College Station by bus, and will stay near New Braunfels at Camp Warnecke, a summer resort. Excused absences will be granted members. The band will return to the campus in time % to plav for the Mother’s Day cele bration Saturday evening.