The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 48
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1949
Number 135
Committee To
Visit TSCW;
Choose Queen
The committee for the se
lection of the Queen for the
annual Cotton Ball and Pag
eant will leave here for TS
CW at 8 Saturday morning.
Members of the committee are
Don Decker, Arch Jacobson, Billy
Townsend, Bob Smith, Carl Ohlen-
dorf, Ray Cook, Jim Troublei'ield,
Ray Kunze, and Willie Kelling. Ac
companying them will be Mrs.
Manning Smith, Mrs. J. S. Mog-
ford, and J. S. Mogford, faculty
adviser for the gi’oup. Bill Billings
ley will represent the Battalion.
Traveling in three cars, the
group will arrive at TSCW by
noon. They will meet the 32 girls
who have been selected from the
four classes. After introductions
have geen completed, the girls and
the committee will have dinner.
They will spend the afternoon
looking over the campus, and Sat
urday evening there will be some
form’ of entertainment, Mogford
said.
Sunday morning the committee
will meet the girls, eat break
fast, and then announce the
Queen and her eight attendants.
The announcement is expected
sometime before noom.
After the announcement, two
cars of the group will return to
A&M, and the third will remain
until later that evening.
On the way up to TSCW, mem
bers of the group will stop over in
Dallas at Sanger Brothers. They
will discuss details of the Pageant
and Style Show with representa
tives of that organization.
E Veterans Company selected
MISS ANNE MARTIN of Dallas
to represent them at the Sixth
Regimental Ball in Sbisa Hall
on Saturday night. She will be
escorted by George Brown.
Tyler Comes From
Behind to Defeat
Lon Morris, 95 - 70
Tyler Junior College moved into
the finals with a hard earned 95-70
win over Lon Morris of Jackson
ville in the first game of the final
r ~ und.
Lon Morris jumped into the
lead early in the first quarter
of play and continued to domin
ate play until midway of the
second quarter when the super
ior height began to pay off for
the Tyler Apaches.
Long shots from far out kept
the L~n Morris team very much
in the game the first half with
Burroughs and Renta providing
most of the fireworks; however,
Tyler managed to forge ahead with
only six minutes of the first half
remaining.
Second half play opened with
Tyler leading by a score of 41-
35 and they slowly increased this
lead into 68-52 margin after 10
minutes of play.
Burroughs for Lon Morris was
high point man with 19 points and
Palefox led the Tyler scorers with
a total of 19.
TYLER
Name
Fg
Ft
Pf
TP
Miller, f
.. 9
0
1
18
Richardson, H. f ..
.. 3
5
2
11
Richardson, W. f ..
.. 0
0
0
0
Mathews, f
.. 0
0
1
0
Rodriquiz, c
.. 6
3
2
15
Orona, c
.. 3
2
4
8
Palefox, g
.. 8
3
5
19
Revill, g
.. 3
0
2
6
Champion, g
.. 6
0
5
12
Pemberton, g
.. 3
0
0
6
Totals
41
13
22
95
LON MORRIS
Name
Fg
Ft
Pf
TP
Linares, f
.. 7
2
1
16
Deliz, f
.. 0
0
2
0
Wilson, f
.. 0
0
1
0
Soler, c
.. 3
0
5
6
Crews, g
.. 0
2
2
2'
Renta, g
.. 7
3
3
17
Henderson, g
.. 5
0
1
10
Burr ughs, f
.. 5
9
1
19
Totals
27
16
16
70
Half-Score—Tyler 41;
Lon
Morris
MISS ALICE MILLIKIN, Burkburnett senior at TSCW, will
be mistress of ceremonies with the Modem Choir concert here
March5.
Forty-five Tessies
Will Sing Saturday
By GEORGE CHARLTON
Forty-five Tessies, all members of the TSCW Modern
Choir, will make the much too long trip to College Station to
present two consecutive concerts Saturday. The first show
will be given in the Annex Student Center at 5 p. m. and the
second show will be held in Guion at 8.
Music for the show will be cho-+
35.
sen to appeal to long hairs and
short hairs alike. Opening selec
tions will be “Hymn to the Night,”
“Sea Moods,” and “The Old Boat
Zion.” Closing numbers will be
“Jealousy,”' “Begin the Beguine,”
and “The Donkey Serenade.”
A string trio composed of a vio
lin, cello, and piano, will appear
with the Choir playing “Serenade”
and “Russian Dance.” Members of
the trio are Winona Perkins, viol
inist from Evansville, Indiana;
Margaret Bebb, cellist from Wich
ita Falls, and Mary Loyce Webb,
pianist from Seminole. Other in
strumental numbers will be two
piano solos by Miss Bebb.
Soloist warblers for the concert
will be Shirley Carradine of
Memphis, Tennessee; Carolyn
Griffith, of Grand Cane, Louis
iana; Delores High of San An
tonio and Alice Millikin of Burk
burnett. Miss Millikin will also
be mistress of ceremonies for
the program.
The TSCW Choir is noted for its
radio-like informality during its
performances and differs from the
traditional choral ogroup in that it
stresses freedom of expression. The
group has given many out-of-town
concerts each season, and goes on
spring tours to music centers each
year. The Choir has also given
programs for leading professional
convent!“ns over the state. A
three day tour to cities in Louisi
ana and Arkansas was recently
made by the group.
The choir is under the direc
tion of Dr. William E. Jones,
prominent for more than a de
cade in the musical history of
the Southwest.
Dr. Jones was born in Wales
and reared in the atmosphere of
the “Eisteddfod,” an institution
which has made that country fam
iliar as the “Land of Song.” He be
gan playing the piano at the age
of six and gave public perform
ances at the organ when he was
nine.
Other selections for the Tessie
program will be “Romance” from
“The Desert Song,” “In the Still
of the Night,” and “Through the
Years.”
No additional charge will be
made for the Tessie concert which
will be presented between regular
shows at Guion.
Life Postpones
Publication Of
A&M Pictures
Pictures of the A&M Mili
tary Ball originally scheduled
for March 4 publication in Life
Magazine will not be in either
the March 4 or March 11 issue,
according to information recei
ved by Henderson Shuffler, di
rector of information of the
A&M System.
Life has definitely stated now
that the pictures will be in the
March 18 issue, Shuffler said.
Publication was originally post
poned from March 4 to March
11.
HUGHES SELLS CHAIN
HOLLYWOOD, March 3 —OP)—
Howard Hughes is selling his in
terest in RKO’s theater chain, but
retaining his stock in the produc
tion end of the business.
Pre-Law Society Honors T. U.
Open House To
Feature A&M
Hospital Show I Aggie-Ex’s With Dinner Today
The college hospital and its
facilities will be open to par
ents and visitors during the
A&M Open House, Dean Har
rington announced at the A
&M Open House Committee
meeting Tuesday evening.
An invitation to visit the hospi
tal will appedr in the program to
be published for the Open House,
Mother’s Day weekend.
Alvin Price, president of the
American Veterinary Medicine As
sociation on the campus, was wel
comed and installed as a member
of the Open House Committee.
Heretofore, the School of Veteri
nary Medicine did not have a rep
resentative on the committee.
The program and scheduling
committee reported that final in
formation on programs is being
gathered from the various depart
ments. It stressed that all depart
ments which have not turned in
their programs must do so before
March 4 or the activities of the
department will not appear in the
Open House, Mother’s Day week
end program.
Bob Weynand, chairman of the
publicity committee requested
that any department planning
some peculiar, unusual or excep
tionally good program should
notify the publicity committee of
its intentions. The committee
hopes to publicize these events
as much as possible.
T. D. Carroll, chairman of con
cessions, requested that the com
mittee define the activities which
will be included under concessions
on Open House Day. After a short
discussion the committee decided
on a definition given by Dean Bar-
low stating that any endeavor
scheduled for Open House Day
which will make money for a club
will be considered a concession.
Carroll said all clubs planning to
have concessions should contact
him immediately.
The Open House Committee will
have its picture remade at the
next meeting which will be held
Tuesday evening. Robert Mayes,
photographer, requested that all
members wear coats for the occas
ion.
ID Card Proposal
Passed By Senate
a
By CHUCK MAISEL
The Student Senate, at its monthly meeting last night,
empowered the Executive Committee to rcommend to Presi
dent Bolton that identification cards be made for all stu
dents next semester.
The recommendation carries the stipulation that it
will not be compulsory for students^
to carry the cards at any time.
This measure passed after a re
port of Fred Hambright on infor
mation the Executive Committee
had gathered.
Hambright said the cards would
cost about 15 cents each and that
cost would be added to the stu
dent activities fee of the individ
uals. The initial cost of a machine
to take the pictures is $1036 and it
can take 800 pictures per day,
Hambright said. He outlined the
advantages of the cards saying
that the Memorial Student Center
and Exchange Store in particular
needed a more positive form of
identification.
The selection of the school to re
ceive the money collected from the
WSSF drive now in progress was
tabled until the next meeting.
Dick Denny suggested starting a
drive later to collect out-of-date
books the students have for dis
tribution overseas.
Lou Loupot, local businessman,
spoke before the Senate sug
gesting that Aggies replace the
present negro janitors in the
dormitories. He said that money
was getting harder to get and
this would give 100 Aggies jobs
with one to each floor of the
dorms. That was the system for
merly used at A&M, Loupot ad
ded.
George Edwards made the mo
tion that a committee be appoint
ed to investigate Loupot’s proposal
and also all other ways to in
crease opportunities for student
labor. The motion carried unani
mously and the Executive Com
mittee was assigned to the task.
Charles Kirkham, president of
the Senate, reported that all
Southwest Conference s c h o o 1
newspapers or student govern
ments had come out in favor of
A&M’s proposal to distribute
Cotton Bowl tickets among the
member student bodies. Only
Arkansas hasn’t been heard from
Kirkham added.
Hambright said that President
Bolton had told him that a meet
ing of the Academic Council would
be called in the near future to take
action on the government of the
Student Memorial Center. George
Edwards added that Bolton also
promised to call a meeting of the
Sixth Regiment W ill Dance,
Select Sweetheart Saturday
The A&M Pre-Law Society will honor former Aggies | Arrangements for guests from Austin are being made by
who are now attending the University of Texas Law School | Rep. Andrew Rogers of the 121st District, Lampkin added,
with an informal dinner at 6:30 tonight in the banquet room The society president reported that Rogers, a 1948 business
of Sbisa Hall. A number of notable guests are expected to graduate of A&M of Childress, intends to bring a group of
attend, President Ben Lampkin said. J about a dozen law students to College Station for the dinner.
•Two other state legislators who at
tended A&M in 1947-48, Peyton
McKnight and James K. Presnal,
will be among the visitors, Rogers
announced. McKnight’s home is in
Quinlan and he represents the 34th
District composed of Wood Coun
ty.
Although the official directory
of the legislature lists Presnal’s
home as College Station, he
came to A&M from Tabor and
the 26th District which he rep
resents includes both Brazos and
Grimes Counties.
Co-sponsor Arthur Stewart has
invited another Aggie-ex, State
Senator W. T. Moore of the 14th
Senatorial District, to attend and
Lampkin reported that Moore will
make a short talk after the dinner.
Moore’s district covers Brazos,
Robertson, Burleson, Washington,
Lee, and Bastrop Counties. When
not acting in his capacity as a
state senator he is a practicing
attorney in Bryan.
Rogers himself represents the
121st District, Motley, Cottle, Hall,
and Childress Counties, and hails
from Childress. Lampkin said that
a number of law students besides
the legislators will be present.
Either Chancellor Gibb Gil
christ or E. L. Angell of the
Chancellor’s Office will be among
the society’s honor guests at the
dinner, co-sponsor Phillip Goode
announced. He stated that R. L.
Elkins, executive assistant to
the president, will represent
President F. C. Bolton at the din-
H. C. MICHALAK
It is slightly early for spring
flowers, but the Sixth Regimental
Ball will have paper spring flow
ers draped all over the bandstand
in ‘ole’ Sbisa Hall Saturday night.
Who’s Who at A&M
A highlight of the Ball will be
the presentation of eight lovelies,
one of whom will be selected to
represent the Sixth Regiment at
the Cotton Ball in April.
The Aggieland Orchestra, direct
ed by Bill Turner, will furnish
melodious music and rhythm for
the Sixth Regimenters and their
dates when the dance begins at
8:30.
Each of the eight companies in
the regiment have chosen one girl
to represent their outfit at the
Regimental Ball.
Girls who will vex the judges in
their choice of one to represent the
Regiment are the following:
Who’s Who at A&M
BOB McCLURE
College Traffic Committee to act
on Senate traffic proposals. Bol
ton has been too pressed to act
sooner on the matter, Edwards
said.
Bob Weynand of the Mess Hall
Committee briefly outlined data he
had received on the food situation
at the college. There was much
discussion of the general dissatis
faction pertaining to prices.
Kieth Allsup told of a recent
“buyers’ strike” in Duncan Cafe
teria. He said that hot dogs
were selling for 30 cents apiece
at Duncan, so the men who us
ually ate there did not go to the
mess hall the next time the hot
dogs were served.
Denny gave the opinion that the
trouble with the mess hall was
organic with the college—namely,
each department has to make its
own profits. Therefore, Denny said
the college farm can’t sell the
mess hall its produce for anything
below market prices.
The Battalion was criticized
for its alleged lack of coverage
of the recent election held to re
place vacancies in the Senate.
After a lengthy discussion on
complaints pertaining to the col
lege hospital, the meeting adjourn
ed. Areas not represented were
Leggett and Dorm 14.
Storm Co. Awarded
‘Aggieland’ Job
The E. J. Storm Printing Com
pany of Dallas was awarded the
contract to print the Aggieland
1949 yesterday by a sub-committee
of the Student Life Committee.
The only other bidder for the
contract was the Hurley Company
of Camden, Arkansas.
Members of the committee were
Earl Rose and Truman Martin,
annual co-editors; Kenneth Bond
and Tom Carter, co-editors of The
Battalion; Sid Wise and Roland
Bing, assistant director and direc
tor of Student Activities; C. G.
White, director of Student Acti
vities; and W. L. Penberthy, Dean
of Men.
New Bandstand
To Be Finished
In Thirty Days
The bandstand shell under
construction on the west side
of the Grove will be complet
ed in approximately thirty
days, F. J. Kubin, Jr., ’39,
foreman of the job, said yes
terday.
Though seventy-five working
days have been allocated to the
construction, Kubin believes it will
be completed in half that time.
The construction began February
14.
The contractors are R. B. Butler
Inc., A. G. Nixon, ’33 is the gen
eral superintendent and Gordon
Hill, ’35, is the job superintendent
Kubin said.
The building will be about 60x
30x22 feet. The stage will be 32
feet wide and 21 feet deep. The
bandstand is to have two rest
rooms and three storage rooms.
The walls will be of concrete
tile and the roof will have 2x3 inch
rafters with asbestos shingle roof
ing.
There will be a column on each
side of the stage supporting the
roof which will slant back at an
angle of 22 degrees. Though the
color of paint has not been decided,
two coats of paint will be used,
Kubin said.
DON KASPER
College Employees
Get No Added Pay
College employees are not in
cluded in the recently passed bill
raising state employees’ salaries.
A bill to give state college em
ployees a pay boost for the rest
of the fiscal year is in the legis
lature. It has not been brought out
of committee for floor discussion
yet.
Appropriations for college sal
aries are not made separately.
State institutions are given lump
sums with which to operate, and
salaries come out of that fund.
Shirley Strickland, East Texas
State sophomore, escorted by Bill
R. Wilhite, A Yet.
Dorothy Lovelace, Atlanta, Tex
as, escorted by Joe E. McConnell,
B Vet.
Martha Lou Jones, Dallas, es
corted by Roy C. Jones.
Hope Kincannon, Baylor senior,
escorted by Fred Walters, D Vet.
Anne Martin, Dallas, escort
ed by George Brown, E Vet.
Emilie Folds, Del Mar College,
senior, escorted by Kenneth Shobe
A Athletic Company.
Patsy Williams of New Orleans,
escorted by Glen Cummings, A
Composite Company.
M. T. Harrington, Dean of Arts
& Sciences, will present commis
sions to cadets who have been
commissioned in the new Sixth
Regiment since January.
TSCW’s Modern Girl Choir has
been invited to attend the Sixth’s
dance after they put on a per
formance in Guion Hall Saturday
at 8:00. Seniors with dates are in
vited.
Judges who will be given the
difficult job of determining the
representative to the Cotton Ball
are Col. H. L. Boatner, command
ant; Coach Harry Stiteler, Lt. Col.
William S. McElhenny, Col. Frank
S. Valden Jr., Capt. Lester W.
Stiles, and Col. M. T. Bowden.
Who’s Who at A&M
JIMMY STEPHENS
Plane Engine Quits
Fliers Forced Down
Representative Rogers will in
troduce the visitors and after the
members of the legislature have
spoken a few words, the group of
pre-law students will take part in
a round table discussion with
them. Lampkin said that subjects
for the discussion will probably in
clude bills pending in the legisla
ture and problems at the Austin
law school.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements for the informal din
ner reports that tickets for the
meal will be purchased at the din
ner for $1.25. All society members
and any other students interested
in hearing the law students and
legislators discuss problems in
Austin which concern Aggies have
been invited to attend the dinner
by the committee.
Further details may be obtain
ed by contacting Ben Lampkin, 6-
B Law, the president stated.
Who’s Who at A&M
Club Will Meet To
Pick Ball Duchess
The Marketing and Finance club
will meet Tuesday to select a Cot
ton Ball Duchess, according to Sam
Rowe, social committee chairman.
Social plans and the inspection
trip to Houston will also be dis
cussed at the meeting. The club
will meet at 7:30 p. m. in Room
312 of the Agriculture Building.
All members are requested to
bring pictures of their girls, he
added.
Final Who’s Who
Member Given
Bob Smith, senior corps stu
dent from Rule, Texas, is the
twenty-ninth member of Who’s
Who at A&M.
According to the editors,
some unknown printing grem
lin removed his name from the
list in yesterday’s Battalion.
Bob, secretary of the Student
Senate, has been named King
Cotton for the coming Cotton
Ball, Show, and Pageant.
By C. C. MUNROE
Three A&M students made a
forced landing twenty miles out
of Huntsville at 5 p.m. yesterday
when the Fairchild F-24 in which
they were flying had motor fail-
I ure.
The plane was piloted by Tom
Reynolds, CE major from Gates-j
ville, who is on the corps staff.
His passengers were Allen Lan
dry, a cadet from Port Neches ma
joring in CE; and Phil Parker, an
other CE major from El Paso.
The plane was just ten minutes
out of Huntsville when the engine
developed a loud pounding noise.
Reynolds decided to turn back to
Huntsville, but just after circling
for the return trip, the engine
began to labor so he decided to look
for a field in which to bring the
ship down.
Just as he spotted a clear
place the engine stopped. The
clear place turned out to be a
muddy rice field with trees and
brush on all sides. By this time
the ship was too low to change
plans, so Reynolds slid into the
mud.
The plane sunk deep into the
field and headed for a fence at
Citrus Commission;
Tax Bill Approved
The A&M Experiment Station
and the Citrus Experimental Farm
will split one-fourth of the pro
ceeds from the citrus processing
tax. Both of them are near Welas-
co.
one end. Just five feet short of
the barrier the ship came to a
stop.
The three Aggies, after inspect
ing the area, went to a nearby
farm house and phoned the plane’s
owners at College Station. Rey
nolds also phoned his roommate,
William Beatty, a junior A.H. ma
jor from Dallas who is on the
staff to inform him of the acci
dent.
After phoning, Reynolds, Lan
dry and Piarker returned to the
plane. The farmer in whose field
they had landed had arrived on
the scene. He informed the three
that he had mistaken them for
a neighbor who had a habit of
buzzing the farmer’s cattle ev-
erytime he took on a little too
much to drink.
The owners of the plane arrived
in record time and were much re
lieved to find their plane undam
aged. They assured Reynolds, who
is a weather beaten pilot with a
well used two-week old pilot’s li
cense, that if he had been flying
a lighter plane it would have turn
ed over as soon as it hit the
ground.
The group returned to College
Station and was greeted by the
entire corps staff who, by this
time, had all heard of the news.
Reynolds and party assured the
welcoming committee that they
were all alive and ready to go
again.
Asked if he would give up fly
ing, Reynolds answered, “No, I’ll
keep right on with it. This thing
today just gave me more confi
dence.”
Landry and Parker didn’t com
ment.
J. B. ROCHELLE
Proposal Made To
Organize Brazos
County Press Club
Newspaper men, writers and
teachers will meet at 6:30 tonight
at the Fin Feather Club to dis
cuss organization of the Brazos
County Press Club.
Prof. Otis Miller of the Jour
nalism Department will talk on
“Readability Formulas Are a De
lusion,” after which the meeting
will be thrown open to discussion.
About 20 men from the Bryan-
College Station area are expected
to attend, according to Professor
Donald D. Burchard, who is head
ing up the organization movement.
“This started last fall when a
number of writers, and men inter
ested in writing, deplored the lack
of a discussion group on the cam
pus” Burchard said. “The meeting
tonight is exploratory. If there is
enough interest we will form a
permanent organization with regu
lar meetings open to anyone who
is interested.”