Sports Queens To Hand Out
Texas A. & M. College
Battalion
Medals
Number 58
Aggie Mothers
To be Honored
During Week-End
Aggie mothers will be honored
guests on this campus this week
end, as the tradition of Mothers
Day is revived at A. & M. after
a war-time lapse. The schedule of
events follows:
Saturday
3:00 to 5:00—Tea for Parents at
YMCA, given by Brazos A. &
M. Mothers Club. Southwest Con
ference Track Meet at Kyle Field.
5:30—Supper at Duncan Hall.
All guests of Cadet Corps admit
ted free to dining hall Saturday
and Sunday.
7:00—Free movie at Guion Hall.
9:30—Aggie Party at Sbisa in
honor of parents. Everyone invit
ed. Refreshments, dancing and
novelty numbers. Tessie Serenad-
ers. Floor Show and dance.
Sunday
7:30—Breakfast in Duncan Hall.
8:15 to 9:00—Pinning of flowers
on cadets by organization com
manders’ Mother and sweetheart.
9:30 to 10:15—Review of Cadet
Corps.
10:30 to 11:45—Program honor
ing mothers and fathers in Guion
Hal,l featuring a program by the
Singing Cadets.
12:30—Dinner in Dun'can Hall.
1:45—Reception for visiting par
ents at President’s Home.
2:30—Concert by Aggie Band on
President’s lawn.
A large number of parents, many
of whom have never seen the A. &
M. campus, is expected to attend
this, the first Mothers Day pro
gram since 1941. Feature of the
celebration will be the cadet re
view on Sunday morning.
To Consolidate
Dorms 17, 14
During Summer
The housing office announced to
day that dormitories 17 and 14
would be consolidated. The mar
ried couples now living in 17 will
be moved to 14 for the summer
session. Everyone who is now liv
ing in 17 is requested to go to
the Fiscal Office and pay his June
fees, and then make room reser
vations in Goodwin Hall. This
arrangement will be for the sum
mer sessions only, but everyone
will be given ample notice as to
when they will have to move.
Records May Fall
Saturday Aft. at
SWC Track Meet
T. u. Band Will Play for
Broadcast; Coupons
Not Valid for Event
Something new has been added
to the doings at the Southwest Con
ference track meet, and for a
change charming young ladies from
several of the member schools will
present the trophies and medals to
the winners instead of the usual
handing out by one of the coaches
or team managers.
Topping the list of beauties is
the host queen, Miss Dale Daird,
whose home is in Coleman but who
now is a member of the staff at
the Aggie Athletic Department and
who won the awards job by unani
mous vote of the Aggie athletes.
Baylor is sending Miss Clair Col
lier; T.C.U. will be represented by
Miss Mary Lou Halstram; Texas
university is to be represented by
Miss Norma Ruth Strattan, and
Miss Bonnie Taylor will come all
the way from the Ozarks to make
the awards to winners from the
University of Arkansas. S.M.U.
and Rice had not replied to invita
tions by late Thursday but may
have their queens present by start
ing time.
Added to the list of new innova
tions will be the appearance of an
official band for the meet, but it
will not be the Texas Aggie band.
'The University of Texas Longhorn
aggregation has been invited to
substitute for the Aggies, who had
accepted a prior engagement to
play at the Centennial Celebration
at New Braunfels. The Aggie band
will be back in time for the Moth
ers Day program on Sunday.
The meet will be broadcast over
a Texas network, including WTAW
at College Station, with Kern
at the microphone.
Qualifying heats in the various
events will be held at 3:30 Friday
afternoon, with admission free. A
charge of 25 cents for students and
faculty and 50 cents for others will
be made for admission to the com
petition on Saturday.
Field events will begin at 1:30
on Saturday, while the running
events will start at 2:00. Programs
will be furnished without charge by
the Conference organization.
* SENIOR FAVORS *
Ring Dance favors for the *
* Class of ’47 are available in *
* limited numbers at the Stu- *
* dent Activity Office. Only 22 *
* remain. Please order before *
* Senior Ring Dance or extras *
* will be sold for Mothers’ Day *
* gifts. *
Athletic coupon books will not
be valid for the track meet, since
it is an all-conference affair. Ad
mission charge for students and
faculty members is 25 cer- + «~~ -
others will be admit*-',''
Plans Made For Flight Training
Course, Meeting To Be Called Soon
Volume 45
Ring Dance Tops
Social Careers
Of ’47 Seniors
Sbisa Event Tonight,
A Gay Event, Is Also
Most Solemn Ceremony
“This is it,” say the seniors.
For tonight, at the Senior Ring
Dance, they take the first stqp
toward leaving A. & M. College
as graduates. Only a few weeks of
college life remain. The Ring
Dance has been looked forward
to eagerly during four long years,
and will be looked backward upon
nostalgically for all the years to
come.
The dance tonight is a gay af
fair, but it has a touch of solem
nity too. In one event, it embodies
many of the Aggie traditions, soon
to be left behind.
Child Cripples
To Be Examined
At Free Clinic
Four Galveston Doctors
At College Hospital
AH Day Monday
An all-day clinic for crippled
children will be held Monday in
the basement of the College Hos
pital under the auspices of the Col
lege Station Kiwanis Club. Dr.
Daniel Russell, chairman of the
committee, announces that four
physicians from the State Medical
College at Galveston will form the
clinic staff.
Parents are urged to bring to
the clinic any children who may
benefit from the examination. The
Kiwanis Club is working in coop
eration with the Brazos County
Health Unit, the Brazos-Robertson
County Medical Society and the
State Health Department on the
project. This is the second such
clinic to be held here, and it is
planned to have them annually, it
was stated. About 70 surgical cas
es were examined last year.
The staff coming from Galves
ton includes Drs. G. W. Eggers,
Robert Gardner, W. H. Ainsworth,
and John L. Otto.
Bennett and
Youngblood Win
Danforth Awards
Danforth Foundation Fellow
ship awards have been resumed at
Texas A. & M. College and this
year’s winners have been announc
ed by D«an of Agriculture Charles
N. Shepardson. They are Verlin P.
Bennett of Henderson, winner of
the award for Junior students; and
Walton M. Youngblood of Roby,
winner of the Freshman award.
Bennett is 23 years old and is
majoring in agronomy. He served
in the Army Air Forces 18 months,
and his scholastic proficiency has
earned for him two weeks at Pu
rina Mills experimental farms and
plant at St. Louis and two weeks at
the American Youth Foundation
camp at Shelby, Michigan, with all
expenses paid.
Youngblood is only 16 and is a
husbandry major.
College Station, Texas, Friday
Ambassador Kyle
To Visit Here;
Address Students
E. J. Kyle, Ambassador to
Guatemala and former Dean of
Agriculture at A&M, will be on
the campus on Sunday, May 26,
and will address the student body
at this time. It is undecided at the
present time as to what his topic
will be, but it is possible that he
will speak on either “Internation
al Affairs” or the “Possibilities of
South America”. He is well qual
ified to speak on either subject.
Cotton Winners
Announced; Will
Tour the Country
Professor J. S. Mogford of the
Department of Agronomy has fin
ished totaling the grades on the
12th Annual Cotton Contest and
finds that Howard Anderson,
James Ed Melson, Le Roy Hen
dricks, and Martin Vick, alternate,
are the 1946 winners. Mr. Ander
son being the highest point man
will also receive receive the San
ger Brothers Traveling Fellow
ship Award.
Three of these boys and an in
structor from the Department of
Agronomy will leave on June 2
for a study tour which will carry
them to several points of cotton
interest in the United States. The
proposed route for their travel will
include Houston, Dallas, Memphis,
Tennessee, Mississippi Delta,
Southern Research Laboratory,
New Orleans, Tuskogee Institute,
Auburn, Alabama, Clemson Col
lege, South Carolina, government
offices and laboratories in Wash
ington, D. C., Cotton, Commodity
and Stock Market New York City
and other points of interest along
this route.
From New York City the party
plans to travel north and west
going into Southern Canada for
a visit to Niagara Falls and travel
through the agricultural sections
of Ontario. They will re-enter the
United States and spend sometime
in Chicago studying the grain ex
change and agricultural interests.
Their return will be through the
Great Plains region where they
will observe crop condition, soil
conservation practices, etc. They
will return to College Station about
the middle of July.
NOTICE VETERANS *
* Veterans should secure fee *
* waiver slips at the office of *
* the Veterans Advisor and se- *
* cure receipts at the Fiscal Of- *
* fice as soon as possible. *
* Bennie Zinn, *
* Veterans Advisor. *
$15,000,000 BONDS
ASKED FOR BUILDINGS
The committee on permanent
buildings for all state supported
colleges and universities, meeting
in Waco, has recommended a $15,-
000,000 bond issue for benefit of
A. & M. and Texas u. A constitu
tional amendment will be required
for the program.
CHANGE TIME FOR MASS
AT CATHOLIC CHURCH
Mass will be said this Sunday
at St. Mary’s Catholic Church at
7:00 and 11:00 instead of at the
usual times.
Afternoon, May 10, 1946
Gen. Moore Trophy
Will Be Awarded
Sunday Morning
White Banner With Red
Letters Will Go to
Best Outfit in ROTC
By noon Sunday, one of the
18 ROTC outfits at Texas A. &
M. will be proudly bearing the title
“General Moore Trophy Winner”.
For they will have qualified as the
best all-around outfit on the cam
pus.
During the review Sunday morn
ing, while Aggie parents look on,
the winning organization will be
presented with a banner of red
letters on a white satin field. This
flag they will carry in all reviews
during the coming year, until the
next Moore competition is held
twelve months from now.
Members of the outfit will be
authorized to wear a distinctive
shoulder patch on their uniforms,
certifying that they belong to “the
Moore outfit”. Outgoing seniors,
who will not have the chance to
wear the shoulder patch, may be
given a special gold medal under
present plans.
Sunday’s presentation will be
the first award of the new trophy,
which is expected to become an
important part of A. & M. tradi
tion. Presence of parents at the
review makes anxiety to win all
the greater in the hearts of the
cadets.
Two Cafeterias To
Feed Students
In Summer Term
Both Duncan and Sbisa halls
will operate during the summer in
cafeteria style only, in view of the
fact that there will be no ROTC
this summer, and no meal forma
tions.
Some classes will be held from
12:00 noon until 1:00 p.m., which
means that meal-times will be
staggered.
What’s Cooking
FRIDAY
9:00 p.m. Senior Ring Dance,
Sbisa Hall.
SATURDAY
1:15 p.m.: Auction technical
pamphlets, Ag. Eng. Building.
1:30 p.m.: SWC track meet fin
als. 25tf, students and faculty.
9:00 p.m.: Party at Sbisa—see
separate Mother’s Day schedule.
Graduate Club barbecue, home
of Dr. Chas. LaMotte.
SUNDAY
(See separate Mother’s Day
schedule).
2:30 p.m.: Brazos County Ken
nel Club at AH Pavilion.
MONDAY
All day: Drilling Fluid Confer
ence. Registration at Petroleum
Eng. Building. Meetings in P. E.
lecture room.
All day: Clinic for crippled child
ren, College Hospital.
7:00 p.m.: Non-regs and non-
vets meeting at Architecture Li
brary.
7:00 p.m.: Aggie Airborne Club
at Sbisa Lounge. Election of offi
cers. Wives invited.
A general meeting of the more-
than-200 students who have expres
sed interest in flight training will
be called soon, Dean H. W. Bar-
low of the engineering school prom
ised today, and at the gathering
complete information regarding
pilot-training plans will be given.
At present, plans are being
worked upon to begin operation of
the flight department at Easter-
wood field June 4, pending final
decision by the Veterans Admin
istration to bring the training un
der the GI Bill of Rights.
Dr. Barlow already has confer
red with state V. A. officials, whom
he reports “enthusiastic” about
Texas A. & M.’s air plans, and
will present a final contract for
V. A. signature within the next
two weeks.
A change in the original curri
culum has been made, eliminating
a commercial refresher course and
adding a basic flight coursd 1 be
tween the private pilot and advanc
ed pilot stages, Dr. Barlow said*
Costs of the course, which will
be the same for the G. I. student
and the regular cadet, are being
computed. The V. A. has agreed
to accelerated spending of the G.
I. students’ educational grant,
based on a figure of $722.22 year
ly, in order that they may take
flight training, Dr. Barlow reveal
ed.
The cost, when finally arrived at,
will include the price of an ade
quate insurance policy and pay for
transportation to and from Eas-
terwood field.
Veteran students taking flight
training probably will not have to
apply for an additional certificate
of eligibility, Barlow believes, if
they have already are in school.