The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 48 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1949 Number 131
‘Men Of Year’ Selected For Batt Awards
Churchill’s Son
Speaks Monday
To Issues Class
Randolph Churchill, Eng
lish journalist and son of the
wartime prime minister, will
discuss “Europe Today” in
Guion Hall Monday evening
at 8, S. R. Gammon, head of
the History Department, said
Thursday.
The lecture, which is the sec
ond in the Great Issues Class se
ries, will be open to all students
without admission charge, Gam
mon said.
Churchill’s syndicated column,
“Europe Today,” is published in
the U. S., Great Britain, France,
Belgium, Switzerland, Swed e n,
Norway, Portugal, Spain, Austra
lia, Palestine, Iraq, and in several
of the Latin American countries.
Advance notes on Churchill’s
lecture indicate that he will sum
up the record of the Labor gov
ernment, discuss its present trends
and probable future role. He will
describe the reaction of the Brit
ish citizen to its policies, the ex
tent industry is being nationalized,
and the progress of socialized med
icine.
He is expected to discuss the
scope of endeavor remaining to
private enterprise and the ex
tent to which British liberties
have been affected.
Churchill has traveled extensive
ly in Europe and his background
includes personal interviews with
Tito, Molotov, Franco, and DeVal-
«ra.
Queen Cotton
Finalists Are
Picked at TSCW
Nominees for Queen Cotton
of the 15th annual Cotton Pa
geant and Ball to be held here
April 29 have been selected
at TSCW.
From the 32 girls chosen as
nominees nine A&M agronomy ma
jors will choose the Queen. The
judges will include Robert Smith,
who is King Cotton; Don D. Deck
er, W. L. Townsend, Arch K. Ja
cobson, J. E. Troublefield, Conrad
Ohlendorf, Roy C. Cook, and Ray
mond Kunze. They will leave March
4 for Denton to make their choice.
Nominees for the senior class at
TSCW are Barbara Crippen, Pa
tricia Dillman, Diana Hofmeister,
Rosemarie Kleypas, Margaret Lu
cas, Patricia Pettus, Beth Street-
man, and Ann Walberg.
Junior class candidates include
Joy Bess Averyt, Nancy Butler,
Mary Lou Ficke, Antoinette Gratz,
Dorothy Hester, Marilyn McCarty
Dale Randals, and Da Lee Smart.
The sophomore class elected as
nominees Joan Billingsley, Bever
ly Elliott, Carrie Fenichis, Bar
bara Griffith, Gretchen Glitsch,
Jea nKyle, Dorothy Mangum, and
Maudine Huckaby.
Freshman class selections are
Barbara Bogy, Sue Carleton, Caro
lyn Jung, Ann Kelley, Jo Ann
King, Linda Landress, Marline Mc
Queen, and Charlotte Williams.
DR. GEORGE SUMMEY
PRESIDENT F. C. BOLTON
FRITZ HENSEL
Student Senate Sponsors
Campus WSSF Fund Drive
The World Student Service Fund
campaign on the local campus was
outlined at a meeting of the Stu
dent Senate last night. The Sen
ate is sponsoring the local cam
paign with a committee headed by
Aubrey Sprawls who is handling
the detailed planning of the drive.
Sprawls announced that next
week, February 28 to March 4, the
student senators and their volun
teer helpers will conduct area and
dormitory drives to raise $3,000
for the fund. He added that this
goal can be reached if Aggies will
contribute 50^ each when the soli
citors canvass the students’ living
areas.
Some background material on
the organization and purpose of
WSSF was given by the committee
chairman. He stated that such
widely recognized groups as the
Association of American Colleges,
the Association of American Jun
ior Colleges, the Newman Clubs,
the Hillel Foundation, and numer
ous other religious and service or-
Aggie Debaters
Enter Tournament
In Nacogdoches
Four debaters left A&M this
morning for Nachogdoches to par
ticipate in the Piney Woods Foren
sic Tournament there this after
noon. Jimmy Stephens, A. J. Shep
herd, John Shortal, and James
Farmer will enter the senior mens
division of the tournament.
Topic of the debate is Resolved:
That the Federal Government
Should Adopt a Policy of Equaliz
ing Educational Opportunity in
Tax Supported Schools by Means
of Annual Grants. Tournament de
bating requires that the partici
pants debate both sides of the
question.
The men are paired in two teams
for the debate. Farmer and Steph
ens form one team, and Shepherd
and Shortal the other. They will be
guests of Stephen F. Austin State
Teacher’s College, sponsors of the
tournament, at a dance tonight.
First debate for the Aggies was
held at 1 p. m. today. The finals
will be held Saturday night at 7.
Faculty sponsor for the trip is
Lee J. Martin of the English de
partment.
ganizations have endorsed the | the Student Memorial Center Corn-
fund. mittee, were instructed to confer
with President Frank C. Bolton
Funds For Food on the progress of considerations
of their respective committee re
ports.
During the talk it was explained
that funds from the drive will be
used to purchase food, clothing,
medical aid, books, and other
school equipment. These supplies
will be sent to students who need
them because of the war-ravaged
conditions in their homelands,
Sprawls said.
The committee report revealed
that the destination and point of
purchase of the supplies can be
designated by the contributing
agency or, if it is desired, a re
gional office of the organization
will aid the recipient in converting
the funds into needed supplies.
The Senate Committee will submit
their proposals about the matter
to the Senate for consideration and
action.
Don McClure was introduced to
the group to tell of the conditions
he had observed in Europe on a
WSSF-sponsored trip last summer.
McClure stated that in his visits
to France, Switzerland, and Eng
land he learned a great deal about
the poor conditions in most sec
tions of the continent.
School Supplies Needed
The speaker said that school
supplies were the most urgent need
since the students themselves were
working on the rebuilding of par
tially or wholly destroyed school
buildings. Rest centers and TB
sanitariums are badly needed be
cause poor health standards which
are the aftermath of the war are
affecting many students, McClure
added.
“I felt that one of the most re
markable things I observed at the
student conference held in the
French Alps was the desire to aid
Germany’s students by those who
had so recently suffered at the
hands of the Germans,” McClure
said. Austria, next to Gei’many,
was reported to be in the worst
condition so far as educational fa
cilities were concerned, he observ
ed.
A letter from a student at a
German teachers college in Bre
men to Charles Kirkham was read
to the assemblage. Kirkham read
what the German youth felt was
most needed at the educational in
stitutions as typified by the Bre
men conditions. The president of
the Senate added his own plea for
the fund on the basis of his ob
servations while traveling on a
student tour of Europe last sum
mer.
George Edwards, chairman of
the Campus Security Committee,
and Fred Hambright, chairman of
Engraver HARDY ROSS uses a magnifying glass to check the
relief on a cartoon he is engraving for the Commentator. Behind
his are two negatives on the drying disk.
Grad Students
To Hear Aero
Research Head
Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, director
of aeronautical research of the
National Advisory Committee fop
Aeronautics, will lecture to grad
uate students at 8 p. m. Monday in
the Physics Lecture Room, P. B.
Pearson, dean of the Graduate
School, has announced.
An international authority in
the field of aeronautics, Dryden,,
will speak on “Research Methods
in Aeronautics.” The lecture is
sponsored jointly by the Graduate
School and Sigma Xi Club.
Dr. Dryden received his A.B.,
M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in physics
and mathematics from the Johns
Hopkins University. He has been
with the National Bureau of Stan
dards, serving as chief of the aero
dynamics section, chief of the me
chanics and sound division, and as
sistant director and associate di
rector of the Bureau.
Dr. Dryden gave the first
Wright Brothers Lecture of the
Institute of Aeronautical Scien
ces and in 1940 received the Reed
Award of the Institute.
During the war he guided de
velopment of the radar homing
missle, “Batt,” used by the Navy
against the Japanese. He is now
chairman of the Guided Missile
and Pilotless Aircraft Panel of
the Scientific Advisory Board to
the Commanding General, U. S.
Air Force.
The lecture is of special interest
to men studying engineering and
physical sciences, but is also of
interest to those in other fields,
Pearson said.
Rodeo Society
Selects Teams
The Texas Aggie Rodeo Asso
ciation met Monday night for the
discussion of plans for selecting
the rodeo team.
The group decided a roping
team would be made up of the
winners of an elimination contest.
Each contestant will rope five
calves.
The Aggie teams for bare back
bronc, saddle bronc, and bull rid
ing events will be selected by an
appointed committee subject to
the approval of the rodeo club.
The next meeting will be' Mon
day night in the library of the
Animal Industries Building at 8
p. m., club president, Carl Guthrie
announced.
LOUISIANA HIGH COURT
UPHOLDS VETERAN BONUS
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 25 —(A>)
The Louisiana Supreme Court
Thursday upheld the “full faith
and credit of the state” to finance
the payment of a veterans’ bonus.
Times Listed For
‘College Speaks’
The following program is an
outline for the next week of “The
College Speaks” series which is
presented on Radio Station WTAW
each afternoon except Saturday
and Sunday at 4:45 p. m.
Feb. 25 — The Editor Speaks,
D. D. Burchard.
Feb. 28 — Thermometry, E. G.
Smith.
March 1—“The Romance of Sul
fur”, A. D. Frenzel.
March 2— “Geometry”, J. R.
Hillman.
March 3 — “What Is Spectro
scopy” R. W- Mitchell.
March 4 — “The Editor Speaks”
D. D. Burchard.
FFA Chapter Will
Have Meet Monday
The Collegiate Chapter of the
FFA will meet in the lecture room
of the Agricultural Engineering
Building, Monday, February 28 at
7:30 p.m., John Bradford, presi
dent, announced today.
Committee assignments will be
made to all Agricultural Educa
tion majors.
Business will include, program
of work for this semester, and se
lection of a Duchess to represent
the club at the annual Cotton Pa
geant and Ball.
W. C. CAUDILL
Third Annual Presentation
Made By Publication Staff
By ROLLY KOLBYE
Eight faculty and staff members were
presented with the Battalion Honor Awards
for 1948-49 last night.
Dr. George Summey, Jr., Dean M. T.
Harrington, William C. Caudill, President
Frank C. Bolton, Art Adamson, Dean J. P.
Abbott, Fritz Hensel, and Dr. Ralph W.
Steen were honored at a banquet in Sbisa
Hall. This is the third year that The Bat
talion has recognized outstanding members
of the college administration and faculty.
“The Battalion Award is presented an
nually on behalf of the students of A&M Col
lege to those persons who have performed
continuous outstanding services to the bet
terment of a greater A&M College,” said
Tom Carter, co-editor of the Battalion.
Carter, who gave the history of the
award, said the idea originated three years
ago when a group of The Battalion staff
members were discussing the merits of var
ious college officials and teachers. It was
decided that some token of appreciation
and recognition was needed — a professors
“Who’s Who.” Thus evolved the annual Bat
talion Award.
The presentation of this years awards
— 4-were as follows:
Bus Drivers Beware . . .
Air Force Will Be Black And
Bine After September, ’50
By DAVID HAINES
Bus drivers will be getting more
salutes in the future than they
have in the past. The Air Force
has adopted a bus driver’s uniform
which will be the despair of the
Greyhound Company.
The new fly-boy outfit will be
a natty slate color called “Shade
84 Blue.” The bus drivers use
shade 78, but the difference is not
at once apparent to anyone but a
prism.
All the leather accessories are
scheduled to be black. No specific
shade number has been released.
Shoes, cap visors and belts fall
into this pitchy category.
The Air Force displayed unex
pected imagination in designing
its buttons. Many people have as
serted that everyone in the Air
Force has lost his buttons, but the
Corps Snapshots
To Attend Unit
Pictures Are Due
All snapshots to be printed on
the page with the company pic
ture must be turned in by March
15, according to Truman Martin,
co-editor of Aggieland 1949.
These pictures should be turned
in to the “Aggieland 1949” office
in an envelope with the name of
the outfit and the names of indi
viduals submitting the pictures on
the back of the envelope. This
will make it possible for the un
used pictures to be returned, Mar
tin said.
Martin also said that he would
like to have the location of the
place where the pictures were tak
en, name of persons appearing in
the picture and any anecdote that
might be associated with the in
dividuals or snapshot written on
the back of the picture.
“If snapshots are not submitted
in sufficient numbers to fill the
space allocated to each outfit,
snapshots from other outfits will
be used to fill in that space” Mar
tin warned.
Senior Favors
Deadline Near
Deadline for obtaining senior
'avors in time for the Ring
Dance is Tuesday, March 1, ac-
:ording to Helen Roberts, sec-
•etary of Student Activities.
The pin costs $2.50. It is $3.50
yith the guard and chain added.
Favors may be ordered any
;ime this semester but Tues-
lay will be the last date to get
;hem in time for the Dance,
VIrs. Roberts concluded.
new issues will be distinctive, and
it is expected that the buttons will
be firmly sewed on to keep so many
of the men from losing them.
The buttons are to be oxidiz
ed rather than gilded and will
consist of a shield with an eagle
perching on it and thirteen
twinkling stars on the peri
phery. The stars wil not be
neon.
A light blue shirt will cover the
upper portions of the Air Force
and a midnight blue tie will chafe
the Air Force neck. Shirt buttons
will be white.
Gone will be the wing and pro
peller insignia of song and story.
Lapels and shoulders will hence
forth be insignia-less and patch
less. The officers will sport only a
“US” on the lapels and bars,
leaves or stars on the shoulders.
Local Air Force representa
tives have had no word concern
ing change in the ROTC Air
Force uniform. They doubt, how
ever, that any but regular troops
will be equipped by 1950.
Local bus drivers will be wise
to keep their extra outfits under
lock and key during the coming
days. Some ROTC men might de
sire immediate haberdashing in
the slate blues.
Camera Club Will
Organize Monday
The reorganization meeting of
the Camera Club, previously sche
duled for February 14, will be held
Monday, February 28, Roy Mayes,
president of the club, has announ
ced.
A salon will be held concurrent
ly with the coming reorganization
meeting and it has been announ
ced that the entry fee will be 50
cents for from 1 to 3 entries.
All members ai‘e requested to be
present as well as all men inter
ested in photography Mayes said.
He reminded members they must
attend at least one meeting each
month in order to continue in the
club.
The meeting, which had been
scheduled for February 14, was
postponed because of Religious
Emphasis Week, Mayes said.
WTAW Schedules
Round Table Talk
J. D. Hampton, Harold Garrett,
and Jack Donaldson will conduct
a round table discussion on orch
ard management, range manage
ment and farm expenses over WT
AW at 4:30 this afternoon.
This is another series of weekly
farm programs presented by agri
cultural education majors of the
FFA chapter here.
DR. J. P. ABBOTT
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A&M Anniversary
Stamp Introduced
In Congress Today
A joint resolution was offered
in the House of Congress today
authorizing a special issue stamp
on Sept. 17, 1951, commemorating
the 75th anniversary of the es
tablishment of Texas A.&M. Col
lege, according to a telegram re
ceived from Congressman Olin
Teague. Jack Happy, business
major from Dallas, initiated the
move to get the stamp, and it was
actively supported by Former Stu
dents and the College Administra
tion.
The text of the telegram read:
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE OF
STAMP COMMEMORATIVE OF
THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF
A&M COLLEGE OF TEXAS ON
SEPT. 17, 1951, TO BE INTRO
DUCED IN CONGRESS TODAY.
.... OLIN E. TEAGUE, CON
GRESSMAN, 6TH TEXAS DIS
TRICT.
Bridge Tourney
Scheduled Tonight
Edgar McMurry took first place
in the elimination bridge contest
last Tuesday night, and will be
one of the eight players to repre
sent A&M in the Intercollegiate
Bridge Tournament tonight. This
tournament will be staged at 7:30
in the YMCA.
Eighteen sets of pre-delt dupli
cate hands will comprise the con
test. Each hand will have a cer
tain correct bid, and a failure to
make the contract will count
against the bidders and for their
opponents.
Other members of the team
are as follows: Frank Simpson,
J. H. Bothwell, Tommy Split-
gerber, C. K. McGown, Guy Nor
fleet, R. C. Lyon, and Royce
Brimberry.
President Bolton
TO PRESIDENT F. C. BOLTON
“for 40 years of devoted service
to A&M, during which time he
served in all capacities from in
structor to president of the Col
lege.”
President Bolton first came to
A&M as a young professor. After
13 years he had become Dean of
Engineering and in 1932 assumed
the top academic post of Dean of
the college. In November of last
year he was inaugurated as the
fifteenth president of the college.
Dean Harrington
To DEAN MARION T. HAR
RINGTON “for his progressive
work in improving the quality and
standards of the School of Arts
and Sciences and for his sympa
thetic and cooperative attitude to
ward each student.”
A native Texan, Dean Harring
ton entered A&M in 1918. By the
time he had graduated his activi
ties included captain in the In
fantry Shock Troops, president
of the Collins County Club, and
membership in the Y Cabinet, the
Chemistry Club, the Dramatic club
and Tau Beta Pi. He began as an
instructor in 1924 and during the
next few years he taught and did
graduate work taking his M-S. in
Chemistry here in 1927.
In the next 14 years he advan
ced to associate professor, and in
1941 received his Doctor of Philo
sophy Degree at Iowa State. Up
on his return to A&M in 1942 he
was appointed professor of chem
istry. In 1946 he was appointed
assistant to the dean of the college
in charge of the Annex, and in
1947 he was apointed dean of the
School of Arts and Sciences. Last
November he was appointed dean
of the college.
Dr. Abbott
To DR. JOHN P. ABBOTT “for
his capable administration of the
A&M College Annex and for his
untiring work with the Freshman
students.”
Dr. Abbott has been acting' dean
at the annex for the past two
years. He came to the English De
partment in 1926. In 1939 he re
ceived his Doctor of Philosophy
Degree from the University of
Iowa.
Dr. Abbott and Dr. Summey
Were co-authors of the “Manual
for College English.” Dr. Abbott
is adviser of the Phi Eta Sigma.
Dr. Steen
To DR. RALPH STEEN “for
being an outstanding author and
teacher of Texas history, and for
being an active leader in civil af
fairs.”
Dr. Steen is one of the most
prolific and highly regarded au
thors on Texas history, having
written numerous books on that
subject. He is active in civic af
fairs as president of the local Ki-
wanis Club, and as a member of
the Student Life Committee.
Dr. Summey
To DR. SUMMEY “for his
explorations and developments in
the field of written and spoken
English and for his long service
to the English Department.”
Dr. Summey came to A&M in
1922 as head of the English De
partment and remained in that po
sition until 1944 when he retired
to half-time teaching services.
Known as the Shakespearean
scholar and teacher, Dr. Summey,
in conjunction with Dr. Abbott, au
thored the “Manual of College En
glish,” which is used by the col
lege. He has since authored two
other texts on the English lan
guage.
Dr. Summey is a native of Ken
tucky and has traveled through-out
Europe. He received his B.A. de
gree from Southwestern Pi'esby-
terian University and Doctor of
Philosophy Degree from Columbia
University. I aj.l
Mr. Adamson
To MR. ARTHUR D. ADAMSON
“for his promotion of aquatic
sports and for his interest in the
physical instruction and welfare of
the children of College Statiom”
Adamson has been at A&M since
1934, the year he turned profes
sional swimmer. He started his job
as swimming coach at the same
time he started to college, grad-
(See MEN OF YEAR, Page 4).