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HEXltf CITY, April 10 4-^1
Alpnrjid toy reports of 1 pospiblie
Co aim| mist sabotajft „
other4 omltn'es, leaders ! of 25
Cojmiri mi*> organizations^-;
Sa|tuhjay jto combine In a singli
ly- I ;-' mi
_>ersons incl|u4ing pom
fDm othir cities, discussed* the
dange -s .off. a threatened national
eli otr cal tetrike, the linfest fthely
blime upjn, seveml (left jiving
groups ani the-revelation today of
a Cot imui list' plot to cut all |telc-
grfaphf lin4s in MexijcO.
HCKEN OS EV
PfG [>N ; EVERY
i OMAHA, April
|ick<n An eve:
porker or[every $5
pj-opo ial faf Cec
ai :er of he 0:
Cpmnjercf . A
rent,
Meins [said the
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ci outhtjto be ij-tipbJpe (to-
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A GREATER A & MC
MONDAY, APRIL IS, 1948
Thousand Spect
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cun'en
isti'l'. t iat piakej? if a strong
edhira ( f exchange—Agriculture.
He proposed that a picture of a
COTTON ROYAL!
LANGSTON, are sur
Fieldhouse.
hickdn h ; printed Ion each ?!' bill;
t(iat i 6 l ills can-yf a picturefaf a
h)og gnd that eve:
yfa * , . t ,
ry $101 bill tarry
a< pie urd of a hefeforal -stetfr.
“Iti wo ild be g Sot better to liet
the ptOopfe know that there’s 'some
livesUeklahd f ood ibehiind the; bills,
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Lr court at thg Cotton
Queen of Cot ton, WALLACE HACKLER and MARTHA J1
Pageant held Friday night in OeW’are
IF.AN
es Lower
- rhthefi thian a pile lof gold at; Foi t
Ifnoxi, ’ Means said.
Than 1946, Report Shows
1ELES - PHHvLY
IN DALLAS i__r
rO^ 4Y IN DALLAS
DA .LAS, April 19 The
as nglles Rams and' the ^hiia-
jelpH a Eagles will play iv pro-
sssi) ial football game here! Sept.
l(o un ler sponsors! ip of the Dallas
ile^i ial ishipt Cldl• 'll U '
Thg g ime, proci eds from-' which
rill jao *o the clul’s.ciimp'fdr tm-
i erpf vil »ged boys, wil he at; night
nd uil be in the Cotton; Bowl
i f vet ail ling of th j bo(wl haH boon
' lomp ete i by the n. The Cotton
Jowl is being ehlhrgeiii* to ajeapa-
:ity I )f j 62,000 ffom its present
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\MB IS JADORi siAYS USSR
1»RA« yn CES “EQUALITY”?
W YORK, April 19
Sovig, ^ .mbassador Alexander S.
Panjj is! kin said ;hati equality of
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only been p
illy beer p
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has id
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tiona ]
ved a-
Pl Th: fmbassadi; i
Russ a diaye bjOe i
deve op !freely th
tul’d mf to pavtic|^at(! on aif equal
basisi wfth all atKe'rjp?
if
skin saiid Rulssia i$ “the
^Itinatiipniil state 'pi the
pf. mankir (| where the na-
oblem hajsfbeen fully sol-
in tereqtf of all tbfe peo-
sjaid J^ws in
lermittdd “to
IOR OF SOUTH f
INA SPIAKS MAY 10
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on aif equal
ojplesbf our
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goaIe
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JACrfSON, Miss,. April 1$ —<A>)
The I keynote speaker of tpe-.con-
fere ice ;of states' rights democrats
herf on May IjO will i be Governor
J, sirbm. Thurmond of South Caro
linaJ F '■ | ■?',
H s ^election for the position
was announced , ointilyi by! Judge
Hei| ipr| Holmes < f Senatobih, Mis-
sissi: pptj and-Arthur L. Adonis of
Jomsbqro, Arkhrsas, chair|nen in
thei raspective s :ate(i of the Deni-
ocratic]Executives Ctiinmitfees.
bxljis, Mississippi and I South
Carriina thus j( in hands ! in. the
statfs’ Irights fiirht as plins for
the cotiference a-e bjeitig complet
ed, w Judge ' Hoi mes added. “All
thre! states have been] solidly
Dem icijatic for mSnjy yean’s and
have always been: countqdf in the
‘soli( lyj democrat id south’,;’^
“US CANNOT^ IFFORD
two Air forces^ :|
M NNEAPQL1S, ^pril 19 —(A>)
Jam :b J Doolittle told hL«t famed
“Tol yoj Raideifa” ■ that the] United
Stat is cannot af 'ord two Air For-
CCS. |f : j' 1 .]] '
H i! galled for a strong; coordi
nate d A> r Force operating under
one directing held in order to ac-
con' pli*h the air, missioii effec
tive y pnd eccmi inically.
tit obvious ;o all bf US,” Doo-
id,| “that we shouldii’t have
ies pr tvjo navies, ft shouW
dannot
Losses for Fall
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Main Campus
Annex .
Total No.
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988 AI
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Total Students Percentage
/ MifM* Losses
/ 373 48.0%
74 36.0%
Main Campus
Annex
.521
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Main Campus
Annex .
PS
447
136
121
256
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131
162
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Cattleman
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46.2%
26.0%
22.0%
24.0%'
27.Q%
15^%
16.7%
20.0%
274)%
27.0%
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The Kream and Kow Klubhvill team up with the Saddle
Night
to bring to Sbisa Hall the
will furnish the music
littli
two aj
be
__ lly obviois that we c
aff<|rd;[ two Air Forces. Our
arei liijni cd.”!
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SHINGTON, April
tent sei( ntists
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Gqve:.
day a 1 new dev ilopment fn paper
i- jtia dng 1 will qd(| vatst amounts of
wo< d
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real
tec u
ma e
inc i
the njatlon'fj ‘critical sup-
satisfjat mry pulpHimber.
al-chdrsi o ! th^ National Bii-
if Standards i si id the new'
uc—-usinj: pla itic J bonding
,1 to stver gthen pajier+-may
e by as much as \ 75 per-
ie use ol such “deciduous”
evergHon-
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Aggie Band to
Held in Cuion H;
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The spring concert givqn sin*
nually by the Aggie Band Will be
held in Guion Hall, April 27 at
7:30 p. m. f according to Lt. Col.
E. V. Adams, band director, f
Plans for this year’s concert ii
elude “The Barber of Seville” 1
Rossini, “Curtain Raiser and Cou:
try Dance” by Goldipan, “The
Mad Major March” by Alfopd, and
selections by Cole Porter, j
Two solos, a vocal rendition of:
“Beelzebub,” and “Tarantella” on
the clarinet will be presented.
Some novelty numbers involving
popular radio jingles, the current
ly popular, “Now Is the Hour,”
rand , Tschaikowsky’s “Sypiphony
No. 4” will round out the [ Varied
program.
No admission charge prill
made for the concert! Col. Adams!
stated.
and Sirloin C|ub Friday nigh
Annual Cattleman’s Ball.
Jesse Jarrfes and “All ThejBoys
for this year’s ball-which will feature, in addition tp the r
~ 1 — gqlar activities, the presentation
two i honorary memberships
the Saddle and.Sirloin Club.
[ The Intercollegiate Champion-
hip Rodeo trophy will be present-
jl to! Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the
apimal husbandry department, by
he rodeo team. The team won the
i ophy : at j the Annual Intercolle-
iate Rodejo held in Tuscon, Ariz.
Members of the Junior and Sen
ior Intercollegiate Judging teams
of 197: will be presented medals
arned in the various judging con
ests in which they have partici-
ated. I « \
The two honorary memberships
ip the Saddle and Sirloin Club will
be given to R. L. Underwood of
Wichita Falls and Edgar Hudgins
of Huiigerford. These two men are
;h outstanding contributors to
respective fields of agricul-
Underwood is noted for his
rk in the breeding of quarter
orses and Hudgins has done out
standing work in improving Brah
man! beef cattle through breeding.
Sbisa Hall will be decorated' by
members of the two clubs in typi-
»1 western style. The western
heme will be carried out by those
ittending; the ball for they will
11 drfess in cowboy fashion, The
en must wear levis or frontier
nts and boots, while the women
lay wear frontier pants or cotton
resses.,
Losses of corps freshmen
for the fall semester total
16.7 percent, a report iss
today by the Dean of M^n’b
Office revealed. This com
pares with 46.2 percent ost
through resignations for
causes during the first
mester of the 1946-47 school
yean x
The report, coni piled at the
quest of thq Senior Class,
tailed losses of both corps
noq-corps freshmen for eae!,
the fall semesters,.!
Of alTthe percentages computed,
the greatest differences from one
year^to the next lies in a compari
son *)(f r corps members
corpi students. In the
46.2% of the corps f:
on the main campus and at
Annex dropped from school
was reported above. During |that
Same semester, only 24% ofi the
non-corps freshmen on both cam
puses resigned. I '
Last fall, however, the trend
was •? reversed. Of the 969 first-
year corps students who began
the year on both campuses, ionly
16.7% bad left by the end of the
semdstMsOn the [other hand, [27%
of the ^85 non-corps ifrestymert
dropped out of school.
The complete table, as
the Dean of Men’s Office,
produced to the left,
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Mid - semester figures fox' the
A&M Annex freshman were re
leased yesterday by Dr. Jolfin' P.
Abbott, dean of the Annex.
He reported that 984 stuients
registered for the spring sen: ester
at the Annex, of which 144 were
first semester freshmen or trans
fers. Of the 984, a total of 17, or
2.74% have resigned up tc the
present time.
Included in the 27 who haje re
signed are 8 first semester fresh
men, or 5.5% of the number who
enrolled in February.
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Representatives of fourteen col
leges of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers began a
two-day meeting on the campus
this niomin ?.
Professor M. C. Hughes, head
of A&M’s electrical engineering
dapartment, delivered the welcom
ing address, after which a discus
sion: on electronic circuits was
hrid. Louis D. Stevens lof Texas
Tech spoke on a study i pf the
cathod follower.
Other speakers this morning in
cluded R. C. Hansen of Missouri
Schodl of Mines, W. E. N. Doty of
Oklahoma, and A. S. Badger of
Rice.
'Phis afternoon’s speakers in
cluded Paul Harton of SMU, Earle
rtutnenter of Missouri School of
Mines, and Carl D. Jackson of
Oklahoma University.
A barbecue and program this
evening at Bryan CSty Park will
conclude the first day’s sessions.
Tuesday meetings include an ad
dress by H. R. McKenzie of A&M,
Who will speak on the D- C, Cal
culating Board. J. E. Galloway and
F. A. Tatum, both of A&M. will
follow McKenzie oscillographic an
alysis of transformer core loss,
i Triple frequency harmonics in
three-phase transfoi-mer banks will
be Jimmie Remley’s topic for dis-
clission. Remley is representing
Kansas University at the regional
meeting. X
Tomorrow afternoon delegates
will be taken on a tour jof the col
lege and watch the cojrps march
ip to mess for the evening meal.
; A banquet in Sbisa Hall Tues
day evening will conclude the
conference. Professor J. Wheeler
Barger of the A&M s
ai economics departm*
Uflndpa! speaker.
William W. Ward kc]
the section; E. H. Anderson k vice
dhairman; R. W. Denney k secre
tary-treasurer; and N. jF. Rode is
qounsellor,
Reburial Services
field for Aggie-Ex
Reburial services' were held for
, r — S/Sgt Raymond L. Merritt, Ag-
/ 11 gie-ex, in Wharton, April 11. A
i issupd by! group of eight A&M students par-
ice, is re- ticipated in the service. %
Mprriff •nti/mftarl AftlMT from
Merritt attended Aj&M from
1940 until 1943, and Altered the
Army in March, 1943. He was a
radar: operator with a 1 B-29 crew
jin'"rim Pacific. He was killed in
air combat on hip 20th mission
over Japan. !
A full military funeral was con
ducted at the Wharton cemetery
•with the Aggie pall-hearers and
buglers and the Wharton VFW
Firing Squad. Chaplain Sam Hill
of A&M assisted in the services.
Aggies attending the funeral
were Wayne Dunlap, L. R. Burrow
Jr, Frank J. AJbreqht, Frank
Haines, Bobby Kleace, Taylor
Walker, Jack Leddy, and Eddie
Hauler, i
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Scarlett O'Hara Days
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By LOUISE LI!
Fashion. Editor,
Cotton is still King in College Station!
Four thousand persons turned out to prove
nual Cottton Pageant was presented in DeWare
as the theme.
Upon invitation of the sponsoring group, thf
girls of Texas, representing as many clubs, coll
Singing Cadets
Town Hall Toes
Sixty Singing Cadets, under the direction
ner, will appear Tuesday, April 20, on Town Hal
Featuring a complete new repertoire, the cadets
ied program of songs prepared for their aj
Some of the songs that will be sung by thei I
be two sacred songs, the patriotic
piece, “This Is My Country”, and
the rhythmical spiritual, “Dry
Bones.”
Buddy Boyd, baritone from Fort
fcrid
Idhdi
Ip
udeh
ami
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H!'
♦ anothi
'Irt
“am
tied
mart!
Worth, will sing the solo part in,
the oajrly American song, “Eric
Canal”, and Harry Doran, tenor
from San Saba, will sing the solo
in the spiritual “Poor Wayfaring
Stranger”, arranged by Tom Scott
balladeer who appeared on Town
Hall earlier this year. ,
Two Negro Spirituals that will
be presented are “Nobody Knows”
featuring Ralph Wheat, tenor from
Eastland, and “Set Dpwn Servant”
with Hany Doran, tenor, and Hel
mut Quiram, bass from Waco. Too,
there will be Sir Arthur Sullivan’s
“Lost Chord” with Leonard Per
kins as baritone soloist.
Also to be presented Will bo
Ken Darby arrangements of Ag-
«*, “I’d «*** : fe A
Aggie”, “Twelfth Man”,
and “Spirit of Aggieland”.
During the intermission, the
Aggie-nizers, Agieland Barbershop
Quartet, made up of four of the
Singing Cadets, Will appear with
their special show. Members of
the quartet are Whitney Wilson,
Ralph Wheat, Buddy Boyd, and
Helmut Quiram.
tie
NEWMAN S
DONALD R. JA
the • Immaculate
Church of Bryan,
the A&M Newnml
evening 4t 7:15 in
of St. Mary’s Cha
'A.
IlDut in Theme
,
rhen the fourteenth an-
‘[bbiys of Starlet O’Hafa” f
y Society,: 63 glamour-
ons, flounced one after V
her down the runway betweep,
banks of spectators, i drew!,
"land whistles as they pirouet*
the spotlights’ glare, then
away to jqin their Aggie
ring top honors were Cpt-
(ueen Martha Jean Lang*
i!{ of TSCW, King Wallace
Uler of A&M. and Matilda
of Fort Worth, National
of (kitton.
j Cqnltributing
to the enteilain
Were the Singing Cadets (in ;
face as plantation workers), „
Aggielqnd Orchestra, Jack,
bp’s Sweetwater Square Dane-
hnd Johnny Mersky’s Melody
The intricate figures done
square-dancers were roundly
lUded.
mger Brothers pf Dallas, whoee
" artists converted the Ficld-
j into an antotbellum planta-
for the evening’, presented a
itylio show in which it was shoWn
whit Cotton item* the well-<lres»e<f
trouha woman will find indkpehsi- , [
ble next year. '
,[ Jesiie • Booth worth, Sanger*’
fashion expert \yho com mental
during the wtyle show, intimated
that sun-back dresses with bolero
jackets will be the top Hern among
cotton wear next season. Under; .
Mik ISoUthworth’s direction, mo<l
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tp fro"' 1 Collegiate
Is Commentator’s Marchf Iss
By R. L. PILSNER ' | li • |
The March issue of the “Commentator” (Sine
press Friday with another of student publications
sional-appearjng covers, a particularly gbod ranm of a
and some long pages that could stand brightening Mil)
The substance of the edition is made Up; ff? two
stories and eight articlelt dealing4 ill
with everything from earth-mov
ing machinery to the “Visions of
Swedenborg,” in verse form.
“Giant Movers” is the title of
a release from the Longview com-
paijy of R. G. LeTournedu, which
haq attained national prominence
thrbugh its house- producing
tUIJi
ith?
oodp as ma-
rToplar.
at
■nit.
lets
j|ClMsesjr»r
mbers of the
be excused
p. nil. W4d
in-'the
Idjeaji of, the ri>Uege-
Mu:
rdiiig
Saddle-Sirloihers
To Discuss Ball
adejt 1 Corps
om; classes
y to parti-
r Bay re-
Ci Bolton
1
and the
Show
of dis-
Sirloin
ning. ,
The club will meet alt 7:30 p. ip.
The Cattleman’s Ball
Little Southwesem | Stock
will be the main top
cussion at the Saddle,a;
Club meeting Tuesda;
leet
in the AI Lecture Room
The Cattleman's Ball will
held ip Sbisa Hall Friday, April
starting at 9 p. m. Music for the
occasion will be furnished by Jes
se James and All the BOys, and
dress will be typically
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Admission will be $1.20. Only
nimal husbandry and dairy hus-
andry majors may attend the ball.
Kream-Kow Klub
To Hear Stiteler
l r
The Kream and Kow Club will
hear Coach Harry Stiteler Tues
day evening at 7:30 in the Petro
leum Engineering Lecture Room.
J AH dairy husbandry majors are
mvited to bring their wives
V* /u V-l. vsix; llVdllWJp W IIV/ T*«*S»*X»*| UMVSV j j JlMWtVMIWI
enrolled in February. / Pauler. ■ \V through its house-
(tuy, Overly Named Winn
Of Humble Oil Fellowships
Athur Lee Guy Jr., of Port Ar
thur and Charles R. Overt p of
White Oak have been awarded
Humble Oil and Refining Com
pany fellowships for 1948-49.
The fellowship program was es
tablished in March, 1947i and
each award carries with it
$1,250. The awards are ef
fective September, 1948. to June
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1949, and are given to graduate
students in mechanical and civil
engineering, j. ’I
Guy entered A&M in June, 1943,
after graduation from Jefferson
High School of Port, Arthur. He
joined the army in 1944 and was
a member of the 17th Paratroop
Division that saw service in France
and Germany. He received his hon
orable discharge from the army
in April, 1946, and re-entered A&
M ill September, 1946.
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Married and the fx ther of one
Child, he will graduate from the
civil engineering department in
June with a BS degree. Guy will
take up saw mechanics in hk
postgraduate work.
He is a member of the Scholar
ship Honor Society aind American
Society of Civil Emjineejw. Quy
also is 11 student assistant in civil
engineering teaching [strength ma-
md does part time work
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Qverl; r. a graduate of White Oak
h School, has received a BS
nautical engineering
receive a d ;gree in me-
engineering in June.
degree in aeronaut!
Paasssjt
lean Society
pincers, the Society of Automo
tive Engineers, and the Insti
tute of American Sciences.
He entered A&M in Jpne, 1942.
He joined the Navy in June, 1944,
seeing service as a radar officer
in the Pacific. He was discharged
in August, 1946, as an ensign and
re-entered A&M ’ in September,
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CHARLES
“Tournalayer." The
the Tournalayer as
mainder of the LeT$$
machinery on a 1:
Lead space k
article on Dallas’
Jones and her
Round,” which is <i
ing exhibit$ in that
culture. Miss Jonei
example of local gi
[having gone from
to directorship: of
New York stages
and she is now rap:
Dallas group u 1
ladder.
Short stories
Morgan and Dr.
and concern the
soldier in Mmapi
in the Philippi
tration difficul
suffering studen
Center spread
voted to Carmen:
hectic Valentine’s
is symmetrically
all three shots oi
managed to
The two most t!
articles are those
entitled “Who’s
an unknown auth
the possibility of
nities on the cam
Educated?” piece
(See COLLEGIA
7
si of th 1
%
makir
Eton’s
kp dkplayed 'four-piece hath-
pUrt ensembles (vociferously
uded hy the Aggies) and v
1 evening wear. f
authentic hundred-year
ses worn by Sanger models
[ seen to be startling similar
'e newest evening styles, and
similar to many of the gowns
by the duchesnes, most of
' llowed i the “Scarlett
oscly.
duchess’s cos-
foUowed
” theme cl|
1: pf the
were originals created for
i
n i of
tion!
laro
the
iibii,
e fia*
Walton W
At Baptis
T. O. Walton,
postmaster, will t,
lege Station First
, . J411ege
will g [»k at
at 7:20 p. m., Tues y, J. II
' I ken’i
president of
zatRm, announced Bjaturdb
Walton wil spe, Xor
He will na J
discussing
feet the I
Christian can do
invites all
ity to attend. >
iaptis:
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ne,
caaion by couteriours and
drCsHmakers all over Texas. About
ha f ; were billov y, hoop-skirted
or| ;andie in tonei of ping, blue or
ye tow. Chintz a tid various other
co ton fabrics were also in c'Vt-
deice. One dress drew comment
by ijts bouncing bustle. Quite a
few j duchesses itore long gloves
an|d -carried fans \
Matilda Nail, Maid of Cotton,
displayed several cotton outfits
designed for hei by leading styj-
isisljof Paris an) London during
her I recent European trip. Moiri
striding was a striped gold and
blick'evening tress from Paris
quite in the “ne v-old look.”
~n. Mannin r Smith waa' di-
of the pageant, and J. 8.
ford general chairman.
Fearing tha
Cotton Style snow
t, the Battalion aaked Louise
’ey, wife of wire editor
Bindley, to accept jMtem*
whim iri
largest
le shows in the nation should
|»e!a product of the world’s larg-
male school!)
m
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a ring that no male review*
ild be able to do jnstiee to
lit ton Style Show and Pa*
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hort Courses. A|
o Attract 3,000 J
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Seven abort courses and confer-
enqes and class reunions scheduled
fpr A&M this month, will bring
more than 3,000 persons, to the
campus within the next 15 days.
first meeting is that of tljo
J M erican Inst tutc of Electrical
rineers, April 19-20. On April
I a short course for motor ve-
supervisors will be held.
or College conterenjCC
be held April 23-24. , u.
first class reunions of the
year will be held April 24 and 25
When the classes of 1913 and 1923
meet ;i|
workshop will bo
gh May 4. The
conference will
li
April 26
28.
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y G. S, Salter
G. S. Salter, representative If
midwestem American Society
Civil Engineers, will speak at
0 p. m. Tuesday, in Room 11,
A'
snts papers for the Corpus
meeting will be