Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 48
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1949
Number 137
Dorothy Mangum Is Queen Of Cotton Ball
Directors To Hold
Meeting Thursday
The A&M Board of Directors will meet in Stephenville,
March 10, at 7 p. m. for the'executive session, according to
R. Henderson Shuffler, director of information of the A&M
System.
The board will continue with the regular session at 9
a. m. Friday morning and will be-f
the guests of the Stephenville
Chamber-of Commerce at a dinner
Friday evening.
Issues on the agenda for this
meeting are the following items of
special interest to the Aggies,
Shuffler said.
The board will recommend al
lotment of fees to Student Acti
vities and decide upon the distri
bution of the profits of the Ex
change Store. They will probably*'
approve the Student Life Commit
tee’s recommendations in respect
to the latter, Shuffler said.
In addition, the board will con
sider installation of drinking foun
tains in the dormitories, re-roofing
of the project houses, and street
improvements in the College View
area.
The board also plans to consider
additional appropriations for de
partmental fees and maintenance
of laboratories, as well as re-wir
ing the underground lines to the
ME Shops, and building a new
milking barn for the Dairy Hus
bandry Department.
The board will make arrange
ments for receiving bids on the
new Science Building to be con
structed and will hear a report
on the water supply for the var
ious institutions in the system.
Other than the routine details,
the board will discuss moving the
:wool scouring plant from the A&
M Campus to the Bluebonnet Farm
■ and in this way increase the avail
able space on the campus, Shuffler
.concluded.
Lindley Named To
Head Press Group
i
; Vick Lindley of the Information
' Office, was elected president of the
! Professional Press Club at its or-
j ganizational meeting Thursday. D.
jD. Burchard, head of the Journa
lism Department, was elected sec
retary.
Membership in the club is open
to present and former newspaper,
radio, and photography people of
College Station and Bryan, includ
ing members of all department of
the college.
Otis Miller of the Jurnalism De
partment, led a panel discussion on
readability formulas. The concen
sus of opinion was that improve
ment of readability is an import
ant step being taken by most
newspapers, but most readability
formulas were merely mathemati
cal expression of good writing
practice.
Twenty-three members were pre
sent at the initial meeting with
most of the departments being
represented.
Ropsevelt To
Appear On
Great Issues
Kermit Roosevelt analyst of
Middle Eastern and Palestine
problems, will speak to the
Great Issues class Wednesday,
March 9. Roosevelt, a gran-
son of Theodore Roosevelt,
will speak on “The Near
East.”
He is the fourth distinguished
speaker in the Great Issues series.
This will be an excellent oppor
tunity to compare Roosevelt with
Randolph Churchill, who spoke
here last week, according to Dr.
J. R. Gammon, chairman of the
Great Issues course.
During the war, Roosevelt serv
ed with General “Wild Bill” Dono
van in the Office of the Co-ordina
tor of Information. He then trans
ferred to the State Department as
a special assistant to Dean Ache-
son until he enlisted in the army
in Egypt. Serving with the army
in the Middle East and Italy, Roos
evelt was invalided and sent home
in June, 1945.
After being sent home, Roose
velt and his wife toured Egypt,
Saudi Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Ir
an, and Ethopia. He visited all the
countries of the Middle East, and
in December, 1947 his article “Will
the Arabs Fight?” appeared in
the Saturday Evening Post, at
tracting world-wide attention. He
said in the article that many Arab
leaders had told him they would
fight for their country.
Roosevelt will appear in Guion
Hall at 8 p. m. March 9. Anyone
desiring to hear his talk will be
welcome, Gammon stated. No ad
mission will be charged.
Who’s Who Elects
To Contact Berry
Members of A&M’s Who’s Who
should contact Howard Berry of
the Photographic, Visual Aids La
boratory in the Administration
Building to make arrangements
for having their pictures made,
Truman Martin, co-editor of the
Aggieland 1949, announced today.
Berry has all information con
cerning the type of picture de
sired for the annual. Members of
Who’s Who should have their pic
tures made within the next two
weeks, Martin stressed.
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So You Know A&M?
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Clinkers Prepared
Pictorial Contest Backfires
For Aggies Too Observant
Eight Court Duchesses
Chosen by Agronomists
By BILL BILLINGSLEY
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Telephone Problem Discussed
By Student Senate Committee
Telephone facilities of the College were discussed Fri
day at a meeting of the Student Senate Telephone Committee.
The group met with W. L. Penberthy, Dean of Men, and M.
C. Ackins, division manager of the Southwestern States
Telephone Company.
The present facilities include, 10
lines to Houston, 9 lines to Dallas,
By FRANK CUSHING
The spirited upholder of truth
and knowledge known far and wide
as “The Battalion” is now con
fronted with a dilemma. It all
started some days ago when a
broke photographer shuffled into
the luxuriously (?) furnished of
fice of the editors and a?ked if
anyone wanted to buy some pic
tures.
As soon as the fact came out
that his pictures were not of the
French post card variety, the rush
subsided and the staff went back
to work.
The seedy-looking individual ad
mitted that the photos were point
less. They had merely been snap
ped at. random upon the campus.
He didn’t think they would do any
one any good, but he was desper
ate, and there was no harm in
trying to sell them.
As the editors put their hands
upon the interloper, in prepara
tion for a bum’s rush, one of
them was struck with an idea.
“Eureka!”, exclaimed the smit
ten-one in the tone customarily
employed by fiction heroes when
they see the light, “I have it.”
“We shall take these over-de
veloped and under-exposed mon
strosities and use them for a con
test,” he said. “Prizes will be do
nated by The Cave and Campus
Corner. Two fat birds will be ex
terminated (He hated to use
clich’s verbatim.) with one frag
ment of metamorphic sedimenta
tion.”
First, since no one will be in
Morgan Will Speak
To SAM Tuesday
Lucian M. Morgan, assistant di
rector of the Placement Office,
will speak to the Society for the
Advancement of Management at
7:30 Tuesday night, Tom Barton,
society president, said today.
Morgan, an A&M graduate in
the Class of ’35, was a battalion
commander in the Field Artillery
and a member of the Ross Volun
teers. After serving in the army
four and one-half years, he re
turned to A&M to receive his mas
ters degree in agricultural econo
mics. Morgan began working with
the Placement Office in 1939.
He will speak op the functions of
the Placement office and include
factors of what industry is looking
for in regard to hiring personnel,
Barton said. The meeting will be
held in Room 301, Goodwin Hall.
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Queen Cotton Dorothy Mangum and K ng Cotton Bob Smith, who
will head the royalty of the 15th Annual Cotton Ball and Pageant.
Market & Finance
Clubbers to Meet
Members of the Marketing and
Finance Club will meet Tuesday
night to select a Cotton Ball Duch
ess, according to Willis L. Sutton,
president.
Also to be discussed are the
inspection trips to Houston and
Dallas for the senior members of
the Agricultural Administration
Department, and social plans for
the spring semester. The meeting
will be held in Room 312, Agri
cultural Building.
All members are urged to bring
pictures of the girls that they wish
to enter, Sutton added.
terested enough to. enter the con
test, the prizes will have to be
split up among the members of
the staff here. Next, we’ll be able
to take up all sorts of space in the
paper running the fool things.
That’ll take some of the pressure
off . us by people who object to too
many advertisements.”
AH agreed that the smitten-one
indeed “had it”—an inspired idea!
All was glee. Happiness abounded.
Thus was born the “So You Know
A&M” contest—and thus too was
born the dilemma now facing The
Battalion.
All is not joy among the staff
now. In fact, all is glum. Not
only have the un-expected entries
flocked in, but at the present
time 30 contestants are tied for
first place. Each has a perfect
Graduate Student
Wolfe Will Speak
At AIChE Meeting
Paul J. Wolfe, Class of ’42, will
speak to the AIChE at its next
meeting. Wolfe’s subject will be
“The Graduate Engineer in Indus
try.”
The meeting will be held in the
Chemistry Lecture Room at 7:15
p. m. Tuesday. Students from all
departments will be admitted.
Wolfe is employed by the Mag
nolia Petroleum Company, and has
been the leader in a program to
find how industry can best help
the new engineer in his transition
from college to industry.
He will attempt to answer some
of the questions that confront all
new engineers when they leave
college.
Short Course For
Engineers Begins
Thirty state and city highway
engineers will address the annual
highway engineering short course
here March 9 and 10, according to
Fred J. Benson of the Civil Engi
neering Department.
Chairman of the first session
will be Dr. S. R. Wright, head of
the Civil Engineering Department.
Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist will
give the address of welcome. Re
sponse will be made by D. C.
Greer of Austin, state highway
engineer. The session! will also
hear three members of the Texas
Highway Commission, chairman,
Fred A. Wemple, A. F. Mitchell
and R. J. Potts.
Third Payment
Fees Now Due
The third installment of fees
is now payable to the Fiscal
Office. This installment is good
until April 20.
Board is $33.60, room rent
$10.65, and laundry, $3.40. The
total payment is $47.65.
Saturday, March 19, is the
last day fees may be payed
without penalty.
score.
If that news is not disheartening
enough to the Batt workers who
are eying the “Boot” lighter, cam
era and pocket lighter prizes, more
discouraging facts face them. Sec
ond place is being fought over by
17 individuals who have only one
miss against them.
The pictures featured last week
helped only slightly. Too many
people again arrived at the cor
rect answers as to the location of
the items. The sad-looking bovine
in Monday’s Batt was tagged cor
rectly as an ornament on the roof
of the Vet Hospital.
The bit of a roof run Tuesday
was readily identified too, as Fer-
mier Hall, or the Mechanical En
gineering Building. The contest
judges weren’t too discouraged
over the fact or that most every
one knew the location of Von Lie
big’s quotation —The Chemistry
Building.
Frowns appeared, though when
Thursday’s airplane on the
North Gate Post Office proved
no problem to the contest com
petitors. And when most of the
entries calmly stated that the
pictured numeral three in Fri
day’s paper could be seen at
Kyle Field where it was a sec
tion marker—tears flowed.
A hurried meeting of the editors
was called. Perhaps the problem
has been solved. New pictures
have been taken. The staff affec
tionately refers to the recently
snapped photos as “clinkers.”
The clinkers are guaranteed to
cut down the field. The general
opinion around The Batt office
is that Pinky Downs, following
a map of A&M drawn up by
Sully Ross, couldn’t find these
subjects.
Sunshine is once more the key
note of the Batt office. No longer
will there be any danger of num
erous winners. In fact, the editors
Quiram Named Commander
Miss Dorothy Mangum, a petite, brown-eyed, brunette from Cotulla, Texas,
reign as Queen Cotton at the 15th annual Cotton Pageant and Ball on April 29.
She was chosen this weekend, along with eight other members of her court, by a 9 man
committee from the A&M Agronomy Society, sponsor of the Annual Cotton Ball. The girls
were chosen from a field of 32 nominees, selected by their own TSCW classmates.
• The eight duchesses of the court,
with their home towns and es
corts, are Charlotte Williams of
Monday, escorted by Roy Cook;
Joanne Billingsley of Fort Worth,
escorted by Bill Townsend; Bar
bara Griffith of Grand Cane, Lou
isiana, escorted by Don Decker;
and Maudine Huckaby of Pasadena
escorted by Ray Kunze. King Cot
ton Bob Smith will escort the
Queen. All of the duchesses, ex
cept Miss Williams, are members
of the Sophomore class, as is the
Queen.
From the Junior Class there ai'e
Nancy Butler of Greenville, escor
ted by J. E. Troublefield; and
Mary Lou Ficke of San Marcos, es
corted by Conrad Ohlendorf. The
two seniors are Diana Hofmeister
of Aransas Pass, escorted by Arch
Jacobson; and Rosemarie Kleypas
of Temple, escorted by Willie Kell-
ing.
The Royal Court of Cotton was
chosen by the selection commit
tee after a weekend of dining
and dancing with the 32 nomi
nees.
Three cars, carrying the com
mittee and their sponsors, left Col
lege Station Saturday morning
and after a two hour stop-over at
Dallas’ Sanger Brothers, arrived
in Denton at 4 o’clock that after
noon. Sangers, following their
yearly custom, is sponsoring a
cotton style show during the Pa
geant.
This years Cotton Pageant is to
follow a Mardi Gras then:
will be held on Kyle Field; the
first outdoor show of the long and
colorful series.
In addition to their regular mod
els, the Dallas store will use 60
girls from several other Southwes
tern schools; principally TSCW
and SMU.
When the Agronomy Society
judges arrived at TSCW and were
shown to their rooms, they as
sembled in the Stoddard Dormi
tory living room and were intro
duced to the 32 beauties. After
dinner in Brackenridge dining hall
the group went into the Stoddard
Recreation Room for an informal,,
record, dancing and “acquaintance
polishing” session.
The dance was something most
Aggies dream about. Three hours
of almost non-stop dancing, with
32 beautiful women trying to
charm 9 Aggies off their feet.
By midnight the judges were
both charmed, and danced, off
their feet and retired to their
quarters to make their selections.
This year’s nominees were so
beautiful as to require a second
conference after breakfast Sun
day morning, at the conclusion
of which the winners were an
nounced.
The remaining 23 contestants
were consoled by the announce
ment that Sangers would bring all
of them to A&M as models in the
Cotton Pageant.
After lunch in Brackenridge Hall
the group returned to College Sta
tion. Sponsors for this years trip
were Professor J. S. Mogford, of
the Agronomy Department, and
Mrs. Mogford; and Mrs. Manning;
Smith a former Cotton Duchess
and annual advisor to the group.
The Cotton Queen is a speech
major and member of Zeta Phi Eta
the professional speech fraternity.
She was a Red Bud princess in her
freshman year and is a nominee
for this years Red Bud Ball. She
was a duchess in last years Cot
ton Pageant and Ball and is one
of the four Sophomore beauty nom
inees at TSCW this year. Her par
ents are Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Mangum of Cotulla.
2 lines to San Antonio, and 3 lines
to both Austin and Waco. There
are a total of 15 toll trunks be
tween College Station, and Bryan.
Twenty more ai'e to be added in
the near future, according to Ac
kins.
The inadequacy of telephone ac
commodations of the College were
also discussed. Ackins said that 2
additional phones are to be in
stalled at the A&M Annex where
one phone now serves approximate
ly 1200 students. Also two phones
are to be placed in Room 100,
Goodwin Hall.
Ackins commended students for
the noticeable absence of slugs
used in, the local telephone boxes.
However, he did recommend that
when a long distance call is made,
it is advisable to hang up the re
ceiver when the operator asks the
person to wait. This prevents one
person from monopolizing a booth
for a long period of time, he said.
The Senate Telephone Commit
tee is composed of Keith Allsup,
senator of Dorm 3 and Bob Wey-
nand, senator of Dorm 17.
Extension Service
Names J. A. Deer
New Entomologist
The appointment of James A.
Deer as assistant entomologist for
the A&M Extension Service was
recently announced by Dr. H. G.
Johnson, head of the Department
of Entomology.
Deer will work with county
agents throughout the state. His
work will deal with animal para
sites and fruit and vegetable in
sects.
He was born at Lott in Falls
County. He graduated from high
school at Beeville and received B.S.
and M. S. degrees from A&M in
1948 and 1949. He entered the
Army in November 1940 as a ser
geant, and was discharged as a
first lieutenant in December 1945.
Deer was employed by the Good-
land Farms, Hearne as an infesta
tion counter during the summer of
1947. He was a graduate assistant
in the Department of Entomology
at A&M from February to June
1948 and from June to September
Felix McKnight
To Speak Here
Tuesday Night
Felix McKnight, assistant
managing editor of The Dal
las Morning News, will speak
to an assembly of journalism
students and publication staff
members at 7 p. m. Tuesday,
March 15, in the YMCA assembly
room.
All students and faculty mem
bers interested in hearing Mc
Knight are invited to attend, ac
cording to Prof. Donald D. Burch
ard, Journalism Department head,
who arranged the meeting.
The Dallas News editor is gen
erally rated as one of the out
standing speakers in the state, and
an authoi’ity on writing and news
paper problems, Burchard said.
McKnight’s talk is one of a se
ries of monthly programs sponsor
ed by the journalism department
featuring Texas editors and writ-
ei's.
Two weeks ago four members of
the Houston chapter of the Socie
ty of Associated Industi’ial Editors
led an industrial writing clinic on
the campus. On March 30 Lloyd
Gregory, general manager of The
Houston Post is scheduled to speak.
at the present time are drawing he served as research assistant for
straws to see who gets which the USD A at Kerrville and spec-
prize. ialized on the Gulf Coast ear tick.
Kropp Will Discuss
Job Opportunities
Ben Kropp, head of the Swift
and Company Dairy and Poultry
Department, will speak to the
Poultry Science Club Tuesday eve
ning in Room 412 of the Agricul
ture Buildin,g Bob Mayfield, club
president, has announced.
Membei’s of the Kream and Kow
Klub will be special guests at the
meeting. Freshman poultry and
dairy majors from the Annex have
also been invited, Mayfield said.
Kropp will discuss job oppoi’-
tunities an future employment with
Swift and Company in the Dairy
and Poultry Department. He plans
to show a sound picture of the
company’s plants in operation.
Refreshments will be served,
Mayfield added.
New Regiment Holds Dance,
Picks Cotton Ball Duchess
By C. C. MUNROE
The newly formed Sixth Regi
ment got off to a flying start Sat
urday night when its first regi
mental duchess was presented in
Sbisa Hall.
Miss Emily Folds, 19-year-old
DelMar College senior fx*om Corpus
Christi was pi'esented a large bou
quet of red roses on behalf of the
regiment. Chosen fi’om a field of
eight beauties, she will have the
honor of representing the corp’s
newest regiment at the annual
Cotton Ball to be held in April.
Miss Folds, who was escorted
by Kenneth Shobe of “A” Ath
letic Company, was introduced
to the large crowd by Captain
Curtiss Y. Erck of “E” Veteran
Company.
Cadets from five veteran com
panies, “A” and “B” Athletic com
panies, and “A” Composite Com
pany made up the majority of the
crowd which danced to the music
of the Aggieland Orchestra. Spec
ial guests for the evening were
members of the TSCW Modern
Choir which presented a concert
in Guion at 8:30 Saturday night
and a concert at Bryan Field An
nex at 4:30 Satui'day afternoon.
Another highlight of the ball was
the awarding of cadet commissions
to the officers of the new regi
ment. Dean of the College M. T.
Hari'ington presented certificates
of commission to Cadet Colonel
Helmut Quiram, commanding offi
cer of the new regiment, and to the
officers of his staff and regiment.
Quiram is a senior Wildlife
Management major from Waco
and was formerly commanding
officer of the Veteran Battalion.
Colonel H. L. Boatner, PMS&T,
introduced the regimental officers
to the cadets and guests, and Lt.
Colonel *W. S. McElhenny admin
istered the oath of office.
The eight company sweethearts
who were presented to the judges
who selected the regimental duch
ess were, in addition to Miss Folds,
Shirley Strickland representing ‘A’
Veteran Company; Dorothy Love
lace from ‘B’ Veteran Company;
Martha Lou Jones of ‘C’ Veteran
Company; and Hope Kincannon of
‘D’ Veteran Company.
Anne Martin repi'esented ‘E’
Veteran Company; Patsy Williams
‘A’ Composite; and Martha Ann
Gill represented ‘B’ Athletic Com
pany.
The judges who selected the
duchess were Colonel H. L. Boat
ner, Coach Harry Stiteler, Lt. Col.
W. S. McElhenny, Colonel F. S.
Valden, Jr., Colonel M. T. Bowden,
and Captain L. W. Stiles.
Art Club Meeting
Tonight in Bizzell
The Art Club will meet at 7 p. m.
tonight in Room 157, West Wing,
Bizzell Hall, according to Boyce
M. Bennett, senior chemisti’y ma
jor.
Art enthusiasts interested in
painting with oil, pencil, pastel or
charcoal ai'e invited to attend the
meeting.
J. W. Stark, director of the stu
dent memorial center, said that
Art Clubs are usually a part of
Student Centers.
Even though A&M’s student
center is not yet completed, the
art club is being oi’ganized.
The group plans to di'aw land
scapes, still life and real life paint
ings.