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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1949)
.If? ■ I’lJ •’ 1 u ■i ’ j w i :ll> By A&M’s W« ing Bhal ; rapidly af "pay 6n May' . T HighlighM | ■~1mi include:| " ern Liyealt 4 lies, and • hibits. Fobs: '• will be tele High ,; vited to *1 by A&M « who spoki schools di Their s| tional gui A&M has fields, f Invitations! taf' of students reports. ( Students tending 0 will be h doimitortes meals in Du of elch imeal Mai^y^ coll huvo exhibi' and all depi able for con the types tovevttl and of Engineer Wi An electr If* featured lin' neerimi De calculelor, solve m\ hi with 100 i j, The Meeh] hlhlt will li Uie smeltin an Piii elcome Mat Being en House Day ! i o; ' DfIHm HtrlkPH FALKHT Stutevlllu n Ing a waUi,, five miM I ... , His khitl fur as WakkpIffJf gas bubble! I pi j J 1 f. d. r Worker,- cb as a gas pressure ! I in- Day lives high days, ♦duca- what paitional •arents grade 161s at- monies cMrge in * served . Price M 'V s yin itions, avail- itive of ted are School ! Bngl* The . will HNlonM Ing ex* Ulitf of ■ ■dHfMBaHMM* -M V. iat| drill* >ro party (tilurc Ho -instead, ail field ish it up ited gas ht be as Square ces, Ahe Dei Economics, Modern La Education will tion by visitors! The Departments of Scien- English, Mathematics, Physical fdr inspec- Geography, Business ticfh, Chemisti will display se •if The School Physics, Adminifetra afism will present a poultry auction, the Little Southwestern. Livestock Show, the Spring Dairy Show, and displays by various depart-; ments. Tours through the various de partments of the School of Veteri nary Medicine will start from the lobby of the Veterinary Hospital every half hour. ' ' ’ In the afternoon visitors may see the Little Southwestern Live stock show, has challenged all deans to enter the pig-roping contest That night the Aggie Players and members of the faculty under the direction of George Dillavou will pfesedt “Aggie Follies of 1949” ist of variety d a-*$$$§: theme. Costumes, cur- x 1/ \ yle’s Column N. Shepardson rent fads, and popular sayings of the time will be included in the will be 50 editor of in charge of program. Admissf chbw.” Larry the Commentator, is ii the Follies Committee. the Open House eiury. Other eynand, T. I. Phillips, James Miss Mary Bell will be escorted by Clifton Greenwald at Cotton Ball and Pageant. the She will be the duchess for the Cor pus Chriati A&M Club. Shivers t® Crows bong Cotton if'' \\ V' X 15th Annual Cotton Pageant To Feature 200 Duchesses Over two hundred Southern girls in beautiful cotton gowns wjlll be duchesses of King Cotton’s court at the fifteenth Annual Cotton Pa geant to be held in the horseshoe of Kvle Kieltr Friday night, J, 8. ford of thr Agro» ment, said yestei'dhy. Mttgford of the Agronomy Depart ont, said yestefday. The audlencii will be entertained The audience will be entertained by the bands from A&M and from Allen Academy prior to ami during the pageant. .1. J. Wooiket, head of the Modern Language* Depart ment, will preside as master of ceremonies. L ^ Mis* Dorothy Mangum of Co* tulla, TSCW eophomoie, will be crowned 'Queen of Cotton. Bob Smith, an agronomy major, wilt be crowned King Cotton by Texas Lt Governor Allen Shivers. Smith is from Rhle, ; Texas. New Feature usiness concerns and on the north end of Kyle Field. Three decorator* accompanied the prepared by b social and student groups of Bry an and Collogo Station. Tho floats will move along the cinder track On Kyle Field between the formation A new feature of this year’s yesterday loaded with de pageant Will a parade of fjjjtatgj for the stage wnjch is to j | r • f f- -- ^ kVle f the King's Court ami the presen tation of the style show. Sixty models from TSCW. HMU, and o«er college* will take part In a style show to be sponsored by Sanger Brothers from Dallas. This group will arrive at A&M some time Thursday evening. Miss Sue Howell, National Maid of Cotton, will model several cot ton garment*. Leave Friday Miss Mangum and her eight duchcwse* win leave TSCW at (1:30 Friday morning, traveling by bu*. They wjU stop in Dallas for break fast as guests of Sanger Brothers. A truck from Dallas arrived here decorations be built II UK A&M ve claSsj of west Win of informatij fuddled oiJ(q.| of the wars! The cigar? gie veter; in Barry, to high si of Corsic; in the us frolic. Varnell] where he ■ pany Infi al in fia and waa : the next and the iw bafl. 0,n r ' ed right lino haclfet waa cdai and Matfy thli.nox bit for For Varnellj atlEfetl With Upon! > | !VA Representative 0 Graduate In Ag Ed »! mni* I iki #«sj Ration for Varnell, is in the j|dl is full II e for be- # f. ■•“'i i j :l fllinci id of Ag- m a farm He went irby town krticipated sports and in 1926, e»|of H Com- ,im numcr- : basketball faquada for basketball in foot- m he play- iffenHo and X. Bible fi»h year, hlW mentor for hn did his white, esra that he waa htramura) In Ifl.tH rleultural rom A&M, er! as the high school ! agriculture teacher. He was there until July 1934 when he went to Rosebud, still teaching agriculture. Rosebud remained his home until he went into the Army in November 1942 ah a second lieu tenant. He was a reserve officer due to the fact that he received a reserve comnkission when he grad uated from A&M. H; For a jo|blin the army, Varnell settled for the Camp Hood sand dunes and became an athletic offi cer. He wasj there for 21 months. He was then sent to Camp Clai borne, Louisiana, where he stayed one month before being discharged from' the arrpy {September 16, 1944. • On December 1, 1944, Varnell went to work With the Soil Conser vation Service at San Marcos. He was only with this outfit for three mdnths when he began work for the Veterans Administration on March 1, HMG. He was a contact representative in Waco for the Veterans Administration until he was sent to set up the Bryan of fice In November 1^45. Since Varnsll took over in Ilryan and College Station, he has kept the info flowing lo the vetrranH in a pretty informative stream. Ju*t before one of the dead tines for re-inatating Nat ional Service Life Insurance last year Varneira office re-lnstated over a million dollara worth of insurance In two nlghta and one day. The Veterans Administration of fice., headed by Varnell, furnishes information pertaining to any ben- eflta provided fot by the G. I. Bill or any of the other fifty-odd laws pertaining to veterans benefits. Varnell is in his office in the west wing of Bizzell Hall on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and in his Bryan office on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I truck to dli'dtt 75 agronomy Htu< dents in the work of beautifying the stage. Adequate Lights Spotlights and flashlights will be placed in appropriate place* to give adequate illumination. All rumps and platforms will be rais ed to enable the spectator* to see the duchesses and the models. Tickets for the pageant are on sale In Romp 201 of the Kxperl- ment SUtloni In the Looby of the YMCA, at Libscombs Pharmacy, and at W$Q Clothiers in Bryan. AH tickets on sole arc reserved and sell for |1 and gl.50. Nipe Cpdets Visty Jones in Houston Nine freshmen from A&M who hold Jesse H. Jones Scholarships left Tuesday morning for a visit with Mr. Jones in Houston, accept ing his invitation, said E. E. Mc- Quillen, executive director of the scholarships for the college. The group left the Annex Student Cep- tep at 7:30, Tuesday morning, and left “George’s” as the campus at 8. Students now enrolled as fresh men who received the invitations were Lowell A. Holmes, Carroll W. Keese, James Lehmann, H. W. Van Cleave, Carl A. Peterson, and Grady Lee Smallwood, all 1948 winners. Others were Luis F. Do minguez ahd Herbert M. Gorrod, 1948 Military Award Winners, and Thomas R. Hicks, 1948 Achieve ment Award Winner. ATKINSON STARS IN N. V. NEW YORK —<*>)_ Of the 7 racing meetings in New York state during 194jJ, Jockey Ted Atkinson whs the leading rider at five and tied for honors during another. The Slasher rojle 198 winners and his mdunts earned $1,164,412. Eddit Arcaro, femr-time Kentucky Derby winner, r^Be 108 New York win ners. An Amazing Offer by HOLIDAY Pip# Mixture lb* pips #•< mrr wind dana. i kra jSp*, wlih brightly polithtd rtumfl Hbgak—4HWIg<l>ShM>WH4|Kt**| Years, Found NEW YORK, April 28 (Ah—A shaggy-bei rded man of 33, dug out after ten years of fantastic solitude in a dank cubbyhole, yearned to day to retjum to the tomb-like cu bicle in which his mother sealed him when [war broke out. 7v r Shoelessj, filthy, his clothes in rags, Paul Makushak, one-time col lege student, stood on wobbly legs and blinked into the unaccustomed glare of Electric lights. “I liked it in there,” he said. “I’d like to go back. I don’t care about the outsu e world.” Police took hospital. a strange story of exile since 1939—when sealed him off from the world with a wall of wood and plaster a< the outbreak of World War 2. His father w ^° 11108 a tailor shop in t ic same building said he never kmw the man was impris oned in the house. Police said his mother presum ably wanted him to escape being drafted. MakusHak, however, was vague about the war. “The di pft?” he replied to ques tioning y Brooklyn district at torney M fes F. McDonald. “I don’t know about the draft. That was in 1917, wnim't it!’’ The. stcryof Makuslmk’s Impris onment tanie to the attention of By HAL BOYLE YORK, —bPl— Or nysterious things about the myi NEW YORK, —W— One of th erious east is that comparatively him to a The ma voluntary his mothel” Chinese Food R< For Heart Dise Suey fto only-*Ni€ 'ew Chinese have heart disease or Hcers. [j This cheerful fact is partly re sponsible for a boom in Chinese restaurants. People come- to them in the hope that if they eat like the Chinese they'll feel as good as the .Chinese. pi ' I- ! “Now there are more than a thousand Chinese restaurants ', a- round New York,” said Jimmy jb- eng, a patriarch in this field. Jimmy, a smiling, ageless gnome who weighs only 110 pounds wi ia chops tick in each hand, islg^ haps the man here Who did mofet to transform the old off-the-bo.We Chinese chop suey parlor. He hi' ed it uptown, kicked out the tei wood and mother-of-pearl tgb)4s, modernized it, and put in dance band music. Oioj standbys of the oldtin restaurant—Chop ;Buey. mein. 1 •J “People now wapt Chinese dishes—tha dii ourselves.” His own favorite is gai pan, described on restaurant menu »s ‘ meat of chicken ddiel with hearts of bok ch shoots, water chestnuts, rooms and a torn Heart Disease 1 American doctotls hi rate of heart di: haps more than a < 'toinc that many of Jiihiily’s doctors. CAUOHT WITH HIS ONITS police lukt plght after the mother, 58-yeai-o d Mrs. Anna Makushak, entered » hospital. Hhe asl ed a nelghhorhood woman to go am care for her son—whose only contact with the world was a hole In tie top of his tomb, through which he was fed. The neighbor, unidentified, told police nl out him. As a result of quarrels the fath er said Ms wife moved to the third floor while he remained in his floor tailor shop. He said his wife never let him go to the third floor. Traffic Deaths in Texjas AUSTiNr—(A?)—Texans are trav elling morel in their cars, but few er persons are being killed this year thkn last year, state police reported ttklay. rJ' I rn c APE B 5 JOHHN* _ for many of I to them a feiw l whit is cantonese cook- iest i» the work’ variety, knd l*dai Injs vegetables wit Cbinfese Versatile Amerifan cooking meat U riedl baked or bifoiled,” . VBwt Chinese cooks can ttieat>from 50 4lo 75 differ- •irarilOT ’« stomarii ills is “moderation.’ 1 xm •v liVii !i ■! ■ TpM,VWR hfcioivism VARSITY LETTER AS ** BALL TEAM. THAT N. VOU A MERE LA#N CONVERTIBLE FOR T WIN VOUR ER OF THE POP MAY GIVE INSTEAD OF A BIRTHDAY m m It lliB fbsraoh, • u ,lwl be ll»t duchess iliini t Otudent 1) unlur » .mm pi M Ittuilsnl Unlnn , tlhn tall and rataanl, di Wmw.. w . ■ j .ht.wi i»mmn |j| '.FjiuirrFUL tH,i®r ; LUS, April 27 (A’l-Mr* i’t*l or Dallas Is an tac- Itttillg lady. She! says If tin wtW tilok her new $150 pow lain omwer will come b.j j icf irillf shffw hlf hdw to operdh m ied overlooked a book o uctnons f — Ar •ill' 1 • r ii n]:. 1 f ! It’s — Picnic TiuijB — ut — jJ. > Martin’s Place ^ if" I. * . * • i I Prepare your needs with quality barbecued meats at. Special Rate Call at ^ r • , 8405 at Midtfa; . > »»** j; ; . r i.! ! j j i Wed- >ride and rles. ,'i at ST t w ;X liAg Rings 12.50 PARK t E B llj Bryan College Road y or Phone 2-8039 f-il- • ♦; MIsm Allyce Christian will be the duchraa for the East Texas A&M Club at the Cotton Dali and Pa geant. She will be escorted by Doyle Griffin of A Engineers. Forty Volumes Shown In Texas City Suits Houston, Texas, April 27 —(A**— Forty bound volumes of witness, depositions and exhibits were whee led into federal court yesterday as the $200,000,000 Texas City dis aster damage suit mass, trial en tered its second day. The depositions were taken from witnesses throughout the country by attorneys representing the gov ernment and the several thousand plaintiffs involved in some 300 suits consolidated into the mass trial to determine the govern ment’s liability for the disaster. Federal Judge T. M. Kennedy yesterday overruled a government request that the mass trial be postponed. It' had been postponed several times previously. and pop wont forget . THAT HE USED TO CAPTAIN HIS TEAM. BUT I FEEL SO ?IBL£ MATORv' f<>K ' if i- L i i XiM.WHEW SMOKING LEAVES VOUR THROAT RAW AND IT FEELS ON FIRE, ITS 7ME TO SWITCH TO PHILIP MORRIS vouu wvr TO V CKLcTHAT JOB WITH N ) OSARfTTf HANSOVCR V WELL I’LL Si VOUR RIMAI RING tm n MUMT rnsun M fwr DANA MSI DOUG’S CAFF College and 27 th r J' |* ^; * ; /.i | Specializing In /! . •s ' vi%:4 i I MEXICAN DISHES CHICKEN FRIED STEAK DINNERS AGGIES ALWAYS WELCOME Watch Repair At It’s Best I a \ i • • f i Our | Watch Repairing costs no more than 7* ordi iary repairing. REMEMBER ONlE DAY SERVICE ON MOST ENGRAVING R. L. 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