Congressmen to
Accompany Ike
On Trip Here
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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.