The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 03, 1946, Image 1

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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.