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:' ■&' 9 City Of College Station t Official Newspaper Tm. • , , / •. j ‘ * I /' ' ■ ' I Tie Bath 'f ■ PUBUSH ED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER !: COLLEGE i I . rf S ■ ].: v , Nation’s Top Collegiate Daily NAS 1949 Survey Volume 49 J McCarthy and Mai Highlights of Juni COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1950 Number 87'; om Two Prom I V. ■'r By GEORGE -CHARLTON ^ One of Texan’ mo«t colorful «haractern calmly atood up, cleared hlN throat, and apoke to memberM of the Claaa of '51 and their date* unaembled in HkiMN Mena Hall Friday niirht for the annual Junior banquet. =, s ^ Glnnh f McCarthy, Mouaton oil and millionaire and owner of the Shamrock Hotel, told the group that it wan an honor and a privilege 16 be Invited to ASM and that he would return anytime if naked. He alao aaid that It hud been 21 yeara afnce he hud eaten In Sblaa and that for eure the ateak nerved him at the banquet wna much better thun that “bull- neck” served him while atill an A&M student. •/ 1 Arriving at 5:45 p. m.; on a i DC-3 at Easterwood Airport, Mc Carthy was met by class officers and an honor guard of Ross Vol unteers. He was driven to the campus in a shiny brown Chrysler 1950 model furnished by Bemath Motor Company ip Bryan. That night he reviewed the corps at supper formation. 7 Introduced by class president Wilrrtan “Pusher” Barnes, McCar- thy presented orchids to the six finalists for Junior Sweetheart. Barnes introduced other honor guests and the main speaker, Cayce Moore of- Hearne. Moore, known heretofore in publicity as the “eminent Dr. Klipp,” spoke on humorous remarks with the H. Bomb interspersed; Menu for the enjoyable affair included broiled filet mignon, demi french potatoes, pineapple and cot tage . cheese salad, tomato juice coektajl, green peas, coffee, .and coffee, and chocolate - cream pie. The dance began promptly at 9 p..m. to the much improved musi cal arrangements of the Aggie land Orchestra. For some reason, the music was a good deal faster than usual. During one of the first inter missions, the six finalists for sweetheart were again presented. They were \Ahre Maleom, Docia Schultz, Jo Ann Whittle, Doris Ellis, Zanna Landers, and Wan da Jean Kerchaval. During tha next intermission, beautiful brownette, brown eyed Aiin Malcotn. of Abilene and a stu dent at Hockaday Junior College, Nr A&M - Arkansas Tilt on KORA Station KORA, will broadcast the A&M - Arkansan banket hall at 7:45. Coach gam i Marty Karow and hln bankctball squad left by train at 6 p.m., n tonight arty uod .Saturday for Fayetteville, where 'they will meet the Porkers. Earlier In the day cage star Jewell McDowell had been tak en to Houston for x-rays of his shoulder which Is still quite, sore. He Is .expected to play, but still will not be at full effi ciency. j. Currently Arkansas is a half gome behind the Cadets in the SWC standings. However, the Maroons must win this tilt In order to remain Ut the head of the. pack. A loss to the Razor- backs would definitely hinder A&M’s title aspirations. was hanied Junior Sweetheart. Ann was the date of J. D. Hinton. She was presented a huge corsage of black orchids and a gold scribed compact by McCartny, stjjlj adorned by a. pair of dark glasses which he had; worn during the en tire evening. : McCarthy also, pre sented the other five nominee* with; gift* from th* Class of ’01. After the presentation, dancing underway again. Hblsa’s floor be came crowded during slower, more • omiintlr ballads which Wcro fur- shed in not plentiful enough mbers, but during the various j tterbug arrangements the djmee f oor offered ample space to w lirL ifg dervishes. When the dance ended at 1 a. m. H sturday morning, there were « mugh people on the floor to Aost- ig>ne those final notes for at oast an hour longer. This had been cfie of tho best attended da sees t its year and, to a majority of t lose present, the best'shlndlgl the (lass of ’61 has ever held. ~ still Crane Opens RE Week With Onion Talk Today High rqliglion is life, not just 0 way of life, but life itself. It’s the way you live your total life—the spark of vitality you give your life. The degree you are alive is the de gree you are | deeply, ethically rer ligious,” Dr. Henry H. Crane told some 1,200 students in Guion Hall this morning at 10. “Life and death are not opposite i but relative terms, Dr. Crane said. No one is all alive or all dead. We are alive in certain areas and there we are deeply, ethically religious. A man who can appreciate a beau tiful sunset is that much more alive than a man who accents it with indifferehce. The same holdis true all through our lives.” The talk by Dr. Crane, pastor of the Central Methodist Church of Detroit, Michigan, was the first of a series of five such talks tb be given by him in Guion during the coming week. Classes will be dismissed for these talks which will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m.; Wednesday and Thursday at ligand Friday at 9 a. m. Today’s session was presided over by Cadet Colonel Allan Eu bank, senior geological engineer ing major from Dallas and presi dent of the ■! Inter-Church Coun cil of A&M students. Eubank introduced Dr. Crane; and the seven discussion leaders who will hold discussions in var ious lounges i of the dormitories every night at 9 p. m. i? Today’s activity schedule calls for Rev. Paul G. Wassenich, di rector of the Texas Bible Chair, to hold a forum bn "Men and Women Relations” In the 'YMCA Chapel 7rom 4 to 5:30 p. m. this after noon. In addition to this fonim, Rev. Wassenich will hold r Idls- cusslon In tho lounge of Puryear Hall atp. m. Tho discussion in the dorm fl lounge will bie conducted by Dr. Crane. The Rev. Bertrand Abell, Cath- Dean Will Address University Women Dean T. D. 'Brooks will address the local branich of the American Association of University Women at their regular meeting Monday evening. -- — Dean Brooks will speak on trends in modern education. The meeting will take place in the small assembly room of the YMCA, Mrs. Robert Darrow, chair man of> the educational commit- e has announced. pic Priest of Holy Name Retreat O 1 Houston, will be in the lobnge 0 ' dorm 10 to conduct the nleet- ii ig there. Dorm 5’s discussion will be held by Ned Linegar, regional secre tary of the YMCA from Dallas, j Rabbi William S. Malev, spiri- ti lal leader of Congregation Beth Yeshurun of Houston, will hold t »e discussion in the dorm 1 1c unge. Rev. R. B. Sweet, minister of the 1 niversity Church of Christ of ■Austin, will be in the band room ojf dorm 11 to conduct the dis cussion there. : The lounge of Legett Hall will be the place of a discussion to bp conducted by Major Steve P. Gaskins, post chaplain at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. j^The Rev. Grady Hardin, RE eek speaker here at A&M dur- 1 jpre- sfnt pastor of Chapelwood Mjeth- ist Church of Houston, will pre side over the jdiscussion. to be held the lounge Of dorm 14. As Scouts Brew, Veteran Eyes Stew No, enrollment at A&M hasn’t reached a point that tents are being stretched on the campus for students. The tent you may, have seen pitched a block west of tjhe post office Saturday weren’t N ftiled with overflow from the local housing office. They contained Imembers of College Station Scout Troop 102, observing national scout Scoutmaster BUI Manning was putting his Klwanls- which included cooking a pot [ C '■ week. troup through a program laying a vigorous softbnl Or 11 game/ One veteran watched minutes, and then added thoughtfully, “If the checke ar month, they'd better keep itew and ihls an eye on that pot of itew." group late thl K berts Killed In ‘Tin Crash of BT13 Saturday su .1 I Ki Ik & f • | yN- /.Nr fonor Society ipproved For All SMU Regrets Fight Incident &MAg School!Tate Reports To Penbertby- ;The possibilities of getting a lo- c|l chapter of Alpha Zeta, the‘Na tional Honor Society for the School o| Agriculture In land grant col lages, and plana for the All Col lage Day program were discussed by Dean Shcpurdson and members of the Agricultural Council at a regular meeting Wednesday, Feb ruary 8, at 7:30 p.m. Dean Shcpurdson reported that tile merhbershtp requirements of pha Zfetu have been modified In er to admit A&M to the Society, nization of a chapter has roved by the college pffi- ah<l action will be takeh to ,t affect in the near future, ac cording to the Dean. 1 11 Charles Modisett, chairman of e All College Day planning com- ittee, asked that each club in the hool of Agriculture submit a riport to Dean Shepardson’s office by March 15. This report IS to include the nature! and scope of ( exhibits and activities that are nned for the All. College Day igrami These reports are neces- ' in preparing programs, which to be sent out with the invita tions this year, Modisett explained. le organ en appr I BILLINGSLEY Reagan D. "Tiny" Roberta, 19-year-old junior from Moran, waa killed at Coulter Field at 2:40 p. m. Saturday when the planeX* waa piloting noaed in aharply from An alti tude of 1(H) fe*t, after it had been in the air only a few aec- / This close-range, front shot of the. cockpit of the BT 13 surplus army plane in which Reagan “Tiny” Roberts was kiped Saturday afternoon, shows the terrific impajet with which the plane/ struck the ground. The propeller and engine were completely buried, and the tall section (not shown) was telescoped into the fuselage. The earth in the foreground was trampled by persons inspecting the wreckage after Saturday night’s rain. Southern Methodist University deeply regrets the incident which occured Tuesday night after the A&M-BMl’ basketball gnnjm, Dean of Students W. L, Penbertby said this morning. Citing it letter h« had received this weekend from \Vlllls Tnte, dean of - mien at’ SMU, Pcnberthy said the authorities of thj< hilltop school were making a full Investi gation of the fight which took place between three Aggies and a gang of SMU students. Dean Tate said the students at SMU took their sportsfnanship seriously and all regretpd that such an incident had happened. Penberthy <|ontinued. The Aggies involved in tjhe fight were Bill ‘‘jlTex” Thornton, veter an yell leader; J. A. “Bitsy'' Davis, former cadet captain, and Bob Mc Clure, colonel of the corps |in 1948- 49. The Associated Press reported I &Y W: -m p m m m J Glenn McCarthy, Houston’s muitl-nUlttonaim In dustrialist, Is honored by n Ross Volunteer guard of honor at Easterwood Airport Friday even ing. Escorting McCarthy Is Wllinna "Pusher” \: .. . ^f' Barnes, president the Junior Class. McCarthy and Banes is Data P. McClure, commander of of the- RV Com pa ly. .tl i. 7 ^ Adams to Nominate Graduate Teachers Dr. J. E. Adams, head of the Agronomy Department, has been asked to nominate spring or sum mer graduates in his department to be awarded assistantjship- at Washington State College. Six assistantships in the farm crops section of the agronomy de partment at Washington State are available to agronomists with a bachelor’s or master’s • degree. There are a few similar Openings in the soils section. Afost of them are research as sistantships, with one or twfo teach ing assistantships to be offered. A stipend up to $1,800 per year may be received by a marl with a master’s degree. Tjhe State of Washington is re claiming a million acres jfor irri gation which offers an opportun ity jfor a student interested in ir- —j j, j ater use in Texas or elsewhe: £ rigstjon and agronomy h Sales Forum Plbns Drawn in Houston j Elans for a sales forum to conducted on the campus in Ma Houston I March this wore i completed weekend. T. W. Inland and E. H. Bulow of the Business and Accounting Department and W. D, [Horsley, director of the Placement) Office, attended a meeting of the [Houston Sales Executive* Club Saturday where arrnngcmenta for the forum were made. The club is also planning to help build the A&M business library through contribution of hooks in the sales field, JBiilow 8a j^ The sales forum is scheduled from 1 to 4 p. m. on March 22. I Lii, Sunday that Dean Tate had mailed apologies to Dean Pcnberthy; he was preparing apologies to be sent to each of the Aggies involved; SMU Student Council President Bob Gibson had apologized to the Aggie Student Senate president, and the SMU Athletic Department had apologized to the A&M Ath letic Department. None of those apologies had been received nt press time this morn ing. May File Charges Thornton, according to an Asso ciated Press dispatch from Pales tine, Sunday said he and the other Aggies attacked at SMU planned to file “aggravated assault char ges” against the SMU football players unless the school; apolo gized. SMU Paper Reports One of the athletes inVolved in the fight was interviewed by Bob Andrews, editor of The SMU Cam pus, Mustang student newspaper. “My girl called me a brute and a bully,” the athlete said; He con tinued, “we felt kind of bad about it afterwardsj.” The Campus also interviewed an SMU girl escorted by McClure the night of the fight. She said a group of 8 or 10 boys followed them when they left the gymnas ium. “Someone grabbed Thornton by the shoulder and caught hold of the dog’s leash,” the girl; said. “Thornton said, ‘Hello, Army’, thinking the hoy was another Ag gie.- Then lji e yelled, “Army! Army!’ when! he realized the boy was trying to take the dog. “Not many Aggies showed up,” she said, ‘[[and Thornton was knocked down.” The athlete who hit Thornton told The Campus that the fight began when about 20 Aggies ap peared to help out. “McClure took a swing at I me,” he said “and somehow I h|t Thornton,” “We started out just to get the pennant off ^he dog, and it ended un in a fight,” the athlete said, “My girl friend won’t even speak to me now.” The Campus carried (he story as its lead in the Saturday edi tion. It was headlining "Athlete Regretful After Aggie Fight” Burton’s Column Charles Burton, sports Columnist for The Dallas Morning News, commented On the fight In his Sunday column. “I don’t knpw exactly ^hat hnp- pened,” Burton wrote. “It has been variously described as ’a little scuffle over the AAM dog mascot’ and ’an unprovoked gang attack’ on three A&M studenta, two of whom were accompanied by SMU coeds. Whatever It was,” Burton continued, “it wasn’t good.” The Columnist referred to a let ter he had received from J. A. “Bitsy” Davis, one ojf the three Aggies; involved in the fight.'“His letter,” Burton sajd, “is one of remarkable poise and was written' with commendable spirit.” Davis wrote Burton,\”All three A&M students made statements to the A&M student body asking that no retaliation he attempted.” The three Aggies also made nn\“. . . appeal to the SMU student body and to all schools to help us pre vent another incident of this na ture. “Black eyes (Hid cht faces al- N ways heal,” Davis wrote. “School relations arc somewhat different. “I dp know things,” Davis con cluded, “(1) That my own school is guilty of attacks,. but not on boys accompanied by dates, and we try to eliminate ajl such inci dents. (2) That, to my knowledge,' this is the first breach an A&M student has encountered on th£* SMU campus in five years. “This last ip itself is a fine rec ord, so let us all refnember this as an isolated ihcidenjt . . . none of us must commit ajgain ...” Six Aggies Hurt In Car Wreck Wear JMavasota Six Aggies suffered injuries Frijlay afternoon as the result of ah accident on Highway 6 near Navasota as they were bound for Houston. In the car were Wilbur Lippman, Bill Lee, Francis Otken, Gijlan D. “Jeep” Reddell, Robert Schawe, and T. J. Anderson. ■ Otken, a junior pre-med stu dent from Falfurrias, suffered a broken left leg. Anderson, senior, received a compound fracture of! thej upper right thigh bone. Both weife taken to the Bryan Hospital immediately after the accident. Lee, pre-med junior from Weath erford, suffered slight lacerations of the face and. abrasions of the khe(e cap. Lippman, Galveston jun ior, received a split lip. Schawe,. jar [or biology major from Hous-| tpnl and Reddell, junior business major from Texas City, both bad badly bruised and lacerated faces. The accident occurred at 2:45 Friday afternoon about five miles outride of Navasota. According to’ Schjawe, the Aggie occupied car wao driving over a hill when it suddenly confronted a slow mov ing! car at the bottom of the,hill. Corhing from the- other direction waij another car, Schawe says. In ordjer to avert the impending crackj the Aggie car swerved off to road’s slick, muddy shoulder. ’49 Ford slid for^ about 50 up, the Th4 Tho piano, * surplus BT IS Con- mil Muted lw«-HS»tor, crashed Just oast of tho runway, going Into n loft bank after It took off Into a south wind. Motor failure dua to a lark of fuol was believed to havo beep tha oaiisa of tha oraoh, as- cording to airport personnel, al though no official report has been issued by the CAA. / Engine Burled The plane,'owned by Allan Aca- de(ny student Billy Price, crashed at n sharp angle, bOrying its en gine in the soft earth and tele scoping the tail section up against the trailing edge of the wing, The Silver Taps for Roberts will be held Tuesday at 10:30, L,t. Col. Joe E. Davis, assistant commandant, said this morning. Members of Roberts flight, G Air Force, will be in Moran for the funeral and have requested that Silver Taps be „ postponed from Monday night so that they may attend. feet into a tree. “We could see it .wa* going to happen, but it was all so Sudden, X® couldn’t do anything," Schawe mmm »■■■ ■ . a Agronomy Prof Works in Paris (barl E. Furgoaon, aaaoclate profesHor of agronomy, on ieaye from A&M, is working in the Paris headquarters 'of the Marshall Plan as part of a team helping Europe to regain economic strength. He is a specialist in the food and agriculture division of the Economic Cooperation, Administra tion and has been with the EGA in paris for six months. ! As an agronomist, Ferguson aids in the tas)c of advising Marshallj Plan countries of measures to in-) crease production and in review ofj farm mechanization arid other ag ricultural programs under EGA aid crashed was witnessed by Harrison G. Harper, an A&M student who is Coulter Field’s shop foreman and C. A. A. maintenance inspector, and Roberts’ roommate, Thomas W. McAshun, who saw the crash from the air in an Aeronica he had taken off in just in front of Rob r erts. , Roberts was killed instantly In the crash and his body was thrown partially clear of the cockpit. Har per said. The plane was banking to the left, Harper said, apparent ly trying to regain the runlvay when it Tost airspeed and crashed. Witnesses based their beliefs: of the gas failure on the fact the plane’s fuel selector was on Pre serve” position, which opens ; the wing tank flow Xo the motor, and the fact that both McAshan land Price had reportedly warned Rob erta that the plane was low! on fuel. Body Bent Home ' Roberts’ body has been sent hi* homo, which is 50 miles Abilene, where funeral ser will be held this afternoon alt 3, Assistant Dean of Students Bennie A. Zinn said last night. Robarts’ younger brother, a sophomore In K. battery field, has returned to Moran for the services. Arrangements were being made by Zlnn’s office for transportation for other members of Roberts’ outfit, G Flight Air Force, to tho funeral. Roberts was the holder of a Stu dent pilots license rind, according to Harper, had about 30 hours flying time.^ien of which work In the type plane in which he Was killed. , A. C. Reed, C. A. A. inspector from Houston, was at Coulter Field Sunday afternoon, inspecting the wreckage prior to making:his report. Nelson Brunneman Elected King Cotton for April Show By BILL BILLINGSLEY Nelson “Nellie” Bmnneman, a 22-year-old senior from San Beni- ta, has been chosen King Cotton to reign over the 16th! annual Cot ton Pageant and Ball. He is a veteran student, with two years infantry service in Korea, and is a former secretary of the Agro nomy Society) Joining Brunneman as the cen tral Student figures: in A&M’s most colorful agricultural produc tion are the following’eight mem bers of the cotton court: Seniors Jim Troublefield, Quanah; Conrad Ohlentlorf, Lockhart; ! Roy Cook, Waller; and Dave “Rlverboat" Rives, Rrookston. Juniors are Tom mie Duffle, Vernon; Raymond Kunse, Glddinge; and Leo Mikeska, Temple; and the only Sophomore la Don Hegi of Petersburg. All Elected The King and liar* of hi* court ire of the Agronomy Society, and are elected each year by members of the society. Announcement of their selection wes made by Rives, soc ial secretary of the Bad and Pa geant. ' ! April 28 ie the date for this yesr’s Cotton Ball, and the king and hts court will ge to Denton March 11 to select the cotton queen and the eight duchesses. They will chouse from a field of 32 beautiful the eight mem- all members Tespies, eight from each of th# foup classes, also elected by their classmates to vie for the honor, j New Management ..The 16th Annual Pageant and Ball will be under completely new management, but promises to re tain its past polish and glamour. Professor EH Whitley, an Agro- y department instructor and pongressional Medal winner, replace professor Joe Mogford a* faculty advisor. Mrs. Bill Tur- ner, wife of the director of the Singing Cadets, amj Aggieland Orcjhestra will succeed Mrs. Man ning Smith as director of tha Pageant Sanger Brothers of Dallas will agailn handle the style show which accompanies each year’s pageant. ' Tewte Medela 'Hollowing the custom originated 14*1 year, the 23 Tessle* not cho sen In the cotton court.will bo niMels In tho style show, Rive* nother customary note In the nt, which Is repeating this Is the appearance of the national maid of cotton, Mias Elisabeth McGee, hi the style show, the way to Denton the selec committee, made up of the ilty advisors and the 9 male irs of the court. Will sto; to confer with 1 top in I* garet Wedell, Sanger’s style show director, on production details i of the show. \; •t! I ;., ,, Nclaon "Nellie" Hrunneman, nen- lor Agronomy Major from Ban Benito, has been named at King Cotton for the l«th Annual CoS ton Ball and Pageant. The color ful cotton show, sponsored each year by the Agronomy depart ment. will be held this year oh A « wU “• : : /i, L v