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Congressmen to Accompany Ike On Trip Here 4- Texas A. & M. College BATTALION A distinguished group of Texas congressmen and officials will ac company General Dwight Eisen hower to College Station, April 20 for the Aggie muster. Included in the party, will be Speaker Sam Rayburn, Congress men Ewing Thomason, Luther Johnson, Wright Patman and Eu gene Worley. Rep. Worley is a former A. & M. student, and Rep. Patman’s son, V. O. Patman, is a student here now. Also in Gen. Eisenhower’s party will be Col. Oscar B. Abbot, one of 29 former Aggies who served as general officers during the war and who will receive honorary degrees at the muster. Gov. Coke R. Stevenson, will be on hand with college officials to meet Gen. Eisenhower’s party when it arrives at the college air port from Denison. Engineer Prof to Receive Education Award Annually Westinghouse Will Confer $1000 Prize This year, for the first time, an award of $1,000 will be given by the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education to the col lege or university professor ad judged to have contributed the most to the successful teaching of engineering students. The prize, to be conferred an nually, will be known as the George Westinghouse Award in Engineer ing Education and will be the only one of its kind to date. Established ’ to commemorate the 100th anni versary of the birth of the famed inventor, the award has been made possible by the Westinghouse Foun dation. In announcing the plan, Dr. Har ry S. Rogers, president of the Society and of the Polytechnic In stitute of Brooklyn, stated that the primary purpose of the award is to inspire teachers to bring crea tive ideas to educational service. Texas Art Exhibit To Open Sunday Formal opening of an exhibit of works of eminent Texas artists will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Sun day in the Texas A&M College architectural library, under spon- ship of the Ex-Servicemen’s Wives club. The exhibit consists of 23 oil paintings, lithographs and etch ings loaned Texas A&M College by the State Fine Arts association from its Elizabeth Ney Museum in Austin. VETS MAY REINSTATE LAPSED INSURANCE Veterans who let national serv ice life insurance policies lapse may reinstate them without physi cal examination if they submit a signed statement that they are in as good health as at the time of the lapse, according to Don C. Pray, director of insurance service in the Veterans Administration at Dallas. Beware! Bryan’s Parking Meters Now Working Bryan’s parking meters are now in operation again, as a number of students and veteran’s wives have discovered too late. Fines are being assessed for parking in the metered district without drop ping the proper coin in the slot. Moral: take some nickels and f pennies along when you motor to Bryan, and beware of the red flag! Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Friday Afternoon, April 12, 1946 Number 47 TEXAS A. & M.—T. S. C. W. COTTON ROYALTY KING MARTIN VICK, of Con roe, who will reign at the Texas A. & M. College Agronomy Society Cotton Ball and Pageant tonight has chosen for his Queen, Miss Jeanette Hudson of Ola, Arkansas, one of the beauties of the Texas State College for Women at Den ton. King Martin and Queen Jea nette will be surrounded by a pul chritudinous court of beautiful Duchesses and handsome Dukes representing many sections of the State of Texas. The Texas A. & M. boys selected Queen Jeanette from nine contestants recently at the TSCW Redbud Festival, and the eight runners-up will serve as Ladies-in-Waiting to the Queen at Colelge Station tonight. Delos James Talks To Ag Seminar Delos L. James, manager of the Agricultural Department of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, who is taking part of the policy in the agricultural policy meetings in Texas, visited the campus of A. and M. College yesterday. Tyrus R. Timm, exten sion economist in farm manage ment, was host to the visitor. Director Ide P. Trotter said that Mr. James’ visit “is in furtherance of the policy in the graicultural economics program of the Exten sion Service to bring outstanding leaders to the campus to join with economists in the Agricultural Experiment Station and teaching division of the College in discus sing mutual ideas on national poli cies and problems.” Other national leaders are expected to visit the campus, he said. Mr. James, now a “top hand” for Eric Johnston, president of the Chamber, was a county agricultur al agent after being graduated from the College of Agriculture, Univer sity of Illinois, took a leading part in the development of dairy ef ficiency and improvement of farm methods. Subsequently he served eight years as dairy and poultry marketing specialist in the U. S. Department of Agriculture and as Dairy Extension specialist at the Massachusetts Agricultural Col lege. In the afternoon he talked to the graduate seminar of the depart ment of agricultural economics as guest' of Dr. J. Wheeler Barger and members of the ag-eco staffs of the college. A.&AA Club Formed On T. u. Campus By Transfer Students It couldn’t happen, but it has! The newest A. & M. exes club has been formed—on the campus of Texas u.! For various reasons, number of former Aggie students are now en rolled at Austin. But whatever the reasons—such as to get completely away from uniforms after an army life, or to take work not offered at College Station—the exes still re tain their loyalty to A. & M. How ever, according to the Associated Press, they have sworn not to car ry on fifth-column activities at Forty acres—not even next Thanks giving Day, when the Aggies go to Austin for the Texas football class ic. Student Help Is Needed for Muster Assistance of students and stu dents’ wives is urgently needed in registration and other functions connected with the Texas A. & M. Muster program. Those who wish to help are re quested to contact Mr. Locke in the office of the Former Students Association on the first floor of the Administration Building. FOREST SERVICE ISSUES LTST OF BULLETINS A new list of bulletins and other materials on forestry designed specially for use by school teach ers throughout the state has been prepared by the Texas Forest Serv ice, A. & M. College. Cotton Congress Plans Are Made Plans for the Cotton Research Congress, which will meet in Dal las, July 8-9, were made at an all day conference on the A. & M. Campus this week. Attending the meeting were the following members of the program committee of the Congress: Chair man Gibb Gilchrist, president Tex as A&M College; Dr. A. B. Cox, director Bureau Business Research, University of Texas; Dr. Ide P. Trotter, Extension Service director; A. L. Ward, director Educational Service, National Cottonseed Pro ducts Association; L. P. Gabbard, Farm and Ranch Economics, Tex as Agricultural Experiment Sta tion; John Leahy, director, Texas Cotton Research Committee; Jas. D. Dawson, president, Texas Cot tonseed Crushers Association. Others in attendance included Fred Elliott, Extension Service; Dr. F. L. Thomas, Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station; J. T. Rouse, U. S. Cotton Spinning Lab oratory at Texas A&M College, and A. Cecil Wamble, Cottonseed Products Laboratory at Texas A. & M. College. EX-SERVICEMENS CLUB TO ELECT NEW OFFICERS The Ex-servicemen’s Club will elect new officers when it meets Monday night at 7 p.m. in the Assembly Hall. Pres. Howard urges all members to be present to vote for their chosen candidates. Plans for a future barbecue will also be dicuMisspd Movies* of the 1945 A. & M.- Arfkansas football game will be shown at Monday night’s meet Coronation and Style Show Will Precede the Ball 100 Lovely Duchesses To Form Court of Honor In Pageant at Guion “Cotton is King; Long Live King Cotton!” Tonight in the royal chapel (Guion Hall) the most imperial monarch of the southwest will be crowned. Martin Vick, King for a night, will receive his golden symbol of monarchy from Prime Minister Gibb Gilchrist, and then in turn will place a royal chaplet on the head of Miss Jeanette Hudson, his Queen, from the neighboring Land of the Tessies. Their majesties will receive hom age from loyal courtiers including more than a hundred lovely duch esses selected by A. & M. Clubs and by other colleges all over the south west area. For the pleasure of court and visitors, King Cotton will then or der Dame Manning Smith, mis tress of the revels, to parade the finest new dresses made of - his favorite material—cotton. Moving from Guion to the im perial banquet hall (Sbisa) the court will make merry and dance to the strains of the Royal Aggie- land Orchestra, led by Bill Turner, His Majesty’s master of music. The immediate court of the cot ton monarchs will include Mary Ann Barrier, Margaret Ann Browning, Peggy Hendricks, Kath erine Reeve, Laura Sessions and Norma Walker. Joe Brannen, O. E. Anderson, Bill Sammis, Karl Wal lace, Forrest Caraway and Howard Anderson. The event is presented by the Student Agronomy Society. J. S. Mogford is sponsor and general chairman. A new song, “Sweethearts of Aggieland” has been written for the occasion by Catherine Phillips of Brenham. The regular Corps dance will be held at Sbisa Saturday night. Duchesses Named by Three Campus Clubs Edith Babcock, T.S.C.W., will represent the AMVA as duchess al the Cotton Ball, and will be es-* corted by Robert H. Kokernot, veL erinary senior. Mary E. Johnson, T.S.C.W. will represent the Saddle and Sirloin Club. Her escort will be Shelby King. Mary Anne Pankey, T. u., rep resenting the Southeast Texas A. & M. Club, will be escorted by Bill Pollard. HOUSTON GIRL TO REPRESENT SOPHS Miss Betty Shannon, of Houston, Texas, has been selected to be the Duchess representing the Sopho more Class at the Annual Cotton Ball and Festival to be held to night. Miniature Golf Links Install Night Lights You can now get your outdoor recreation at night! How? The B&H Miniature Golf Course has had overhead lights added this past week. Bill Bradley, half-owner of the sawdust traps, states that ideas on how to improve the course are welcome at all times. He and his partner have already used several of the many suggestions told to them by patrons. The course is located one block east of the Campus Theater on Boyett Street. Prices have been set at fifteen cents per game for daylight play, and at twenty cents if you want to play under the lights.
