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' 1 C3ty Of College Station Official Newspaper v lr i Volume 49: Number 96 l HI -ll rj : ' - : 1 : " " j ■ 1 ' ! ' ! ■ ■ 1 . ; ■ i j " i , i 4. ! , ■: ' ■ i • _ Battalion ; • •• lv. I Nation’s Top Collegiate Daily NAS 1949 Survey i V . ”« V- v PUBUSUED IN THE INTEREST A GREA'i A&M COLLEGE COLIEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1960 -2u- Price Five CenU All College Day Plans Made By Ag Engineers Mark Gordon, vice presi dent ot the Student Society of Agricultural Engineers, has been appointed overall chair man for the agricultural en gineering exhibits to be displayed on All College Day. Thu appoint ment was made by Charlie Modi- sett, president, at a meeting of the Agricultural Engineering Soc iety Tuesday evening. i . Jack Hodges was appomted chairman of a farm machinery committee which will \york with the machinery exhibits on All Col lege Day. Gilbert Shrang was ap pointed to supervise andIdirect the activities of the irrigation com mittee. The rural electrification program Will be under the direc tion of E. W. Smith. Other men appointed ;as chair- mc*n of committees Were Ray S$ermer for farm building exhi bits and Alvin Hurd for conces sions. rBilly Welch and Stanley Kuch- erka volunteered to serve in the agricultural - engineering farm shop during All College Day. The society decided to enter n volleyball tepni ii\ the intramural competition. Aj motion was made and passed to select a duchess for the Cotton Pageant at ! the next society meeting. J. S. Mug ford, professor of Ag ronomy, showed two reels of col- oreit'films whieb were mode during the - cotton tour to South America tvyo years ago, j. At the rlosit of the meeting, on- ’ ebn and doughnuts were served to everyone present. Summer Travel Tour Planne’d For AH Majors ’ A summer travel tour has been planned for AH majors and students of related-de- Offleers for the spring semester were elected Wednesday night by the Architects Wives [tub. Shown (left to right) Dorothy Thomas, secre tary; Martha Williams, treasurer; Martha Burch, refreshment chairman; Beth Denman, social They Call Him ‘Cotton Joe’ chairman; and Patti Jones, president. Not shown are Virginia Lemmon, vice-president; Mildred Elkins, parliamentarian; Peggy Williams, chair man Of the program committee. Father jof the Cotton Ball Retires After Full Career By JOHN WHITMOKK This year J. 8. "Cotton Jo«" Mogford Is retiring as sponsor of the annual Cotton Ball and Pag eant. This sponsorship began 15 years ago' when a group of Texas cot ton growers and brokers offered the agronomy department $1,000 for a foreign travel and study tour. This donation was given to: him use because he was the 01 “SK partsments, according to Bi R. teacher of cotton processing at Dana of the AH Department. I time. ! , , , The tour will edver from &500 to I future father of the Cotton, .got to&ett er and paid ten to 4,500 miles, and carries four heurs Ball looked over the expenses and ty-flve cejits apiece for an o credit. \ | decided that $1,000 wop Id not be tra. Approximately four weeks will ^^vho He was then confronted with the problem of how to raise the funds. He looked back at his own days ajs a cadet here—“Cotton Joe” was in the Class of 1916—and recalled how well dances went over then. Then he imagined how a cotton style show would stir up still more interest. be required to, make the trip, with students paying their own expenses. The QI Bill is applica ble, he added. Tentative plans call for the trip to cover the breeding and grazing areas of the western states, the corn belt, and southern livestock production areas. Although .live stock production is of maior in terest, representative feed pro ducers and processing plants will be visited. Biological and phar maceutical houses, packing plants, and similiar phases of livestock production will also be inspected on the trip, he added. The result of the first year’s tr was only a $125 profit, but proceeds of the next year wei more, and the scheme continued' tt grow until now the foreign trij made to study cotton abroad a«^ paid for. entirely by the Ball. The first year of the trips, Mog- AH AH students and any others 1 ford took a group of three students interested in the tour are request-’ to Europe to -study the cotton i ed to leave their names and ad-i growing and processing. Since dresses at the Animal Husbandry that time various groups have office! Dana concluded. studied in Spain, France,| Italy, At Church Sunday You Will Find ... . COMPILED'BY BATTALION CITY STAFF In observance of Laymen’s Day the Ai&M Methodist Church will ' Mr. Pohn Hutchinson lit its The Bible School of the A&M Church of Christ will begin at 9315 Sunday morning followed by the morning worship service at 10:4ft. The Young People's class will meet at 6:15 U> be followed by the even ing worship service at 7:15. ★ . j "More of Christ For Thle Christ ian" will be the subject of R«V. Fred Mgebroff In this Sunday , 1 "'«rnlng’s service to bei held at of the Methodist Churches 10M n int he Lutheran Student Ceh- hear morning worship service, this Sun day at 11. Mr. Hutchinson, a mem ber oil the First Methodist Church of Bryan, Is a professor In the Horticultural Department of A*M. Dr. O. W. Bradley, stiperinten dent of the Methodist Churchei of the Bryan district, V’Nf apeak at the evening service a 7:00 The young people of the First Baptist Church of College Station are sponsoring. a "slngspirbtion’’ and socikl hour fn the lounge of the new student-educational building Saturday evening at 7:30. Games will be provided and re freshments will be served. All stu dents and young people of the community are invited to come and join in the fellowship. This Sunday morning service by Rev. R. I,. Brown will begin at 10:50. The training union will start at 6:15 p. m. followed'by the evening worship service at 7:15. , A l The Sunday morning service of the College Station Presbyterian Church will be held at 11 o’clock at which time Rev. Norman Ander son wlU speak on "Four Things That are Vital”. The evening ser vice is at 7:30. Sunday school starts at 9:45 and the Westminister Student Fellow ship will meet a^ „ 6:30 Sunday evening to complete the day’s ac tivities. Norway, Portugal, England,! Dc»- tftark; Sweden, Japan, Egypt, and mfiny other countries. ; Dr. J. C . Beasley, who Int^r be came ine of the greatest authori ties In ttc cotton research I field was one of the students o|n the first tHp. When ‘Cotton Joe’ first came to A & M in 1912 there were only ,t.vvo dances a year on the campus —that is, dances with giifls at them. ”Cf course in those Mogford said, "we had what called Sta g Dances. The f got togetl Jays,” were ellows twen- rches- When asked who they tjanced with, he replies, “With the other boys—College Station was a long way from any other place ini those days.” Those were the days when the cadets wcjre high necked, bh|e uni forms, similar to those theji wear at West | Point. “Of course, we . Aggie Debaters Discuss States Rights in Waco Aggie debaters Joe Fuller and Chajrles Kirkham, with Rebate sponsor Harry Hjeirth, returned yesterday from a de bate at Waco with students Ciom Baylor. ! They ! md sapper in thej Bay lor Stud mt Union, took dart in la formal debate on states Irights, and listened to a radio discussion on how fir United States military jpreparatians should go. On the discussion pane] « Buv. lor girl mpported complete paci fism while Fuller voiced j senti- pvitt wh ch bordered near j u de cide for a preventative war. Kirk- ham wavered, and never complete ly made in his mind, j The A 4M debaters took | u n.e- gative stand on state’s Rights, feeling (hat they are outmoded. No decision Was made on the de- only hail to wear the blouse dur ing the winter months,” he adds. Following his graduation from A*M he went to work for the Ag< rlculture Experiment Station. This walj in 1916. The following/year he went into the army amf served two and .i half years, one of which was yversegs. After his- tour in the service he returned t«j the Experiment Sta tion!‘and worked there until 1925 when he went to work in the Ag ronomy Department as the cotton processing instnictor. Now that he has retired from the Cotton Ball he is going to de vote his time to his teaching, and a few other jobs he holds such as consulting for several big seed manufaeturring firms and running a farm of his down in the Brazos River Bottom. Attlee Wins, Loses Ground In Parliament London, Friday, Feb. 24.— (JP) — Prime Minister Attlee and his top Labor ministers won re-election -to the House of Commons in Britain’s gen eral election but some of his junior ministers lost out. Attlee more than doubled the vote of his Conservative opponent, John Paul, In the Walthamstow West District of greater London. In the four-cornered race, the vote was Attlee 21,095; Paul 8,988, A. W. Pim, Liberai 4-102 and Les ter Hutchinson, Labor Independent, 704. ' r Attlee hailed the results as ‘pret ty satisfactory, 1 ” At 4:45 a.mj, 10:45 p.m. Thurs day, CST he told Labor Party of ficials at party headquarters: “I should say while one never likes to anticipate a result before the finish, the results are pretty satisfactory and the vote is up.” The 67-year-old leader seemed tired, but was in good spirits. "There will be a labor govern ment in power in Britain tomor row," declared Morgan Phillips, Labor Party secretary. Phillips, the Party strategist, said the Labor vote would be the highest in the 50-year history of his party. He predicted that La bor’s majority in the new house would be at least 60 seats. Labor had fully expected that the whop ping 148 majority It had in the last House would be reduced. The last House had 640 seats, 15 more than the new bne will hava. The indications were that the vote was the heaviest In Britain's history—somewhere in the neigh borhood of 26,000,000. Late after noon and early evening rainstorms which caused Labor some dismay apparently had little effect on the size of the outpouring of voters seeking to say their say on the Is- slu* J>f more or less socialism. Evil-Omen Birds Invade Britain We’re wondering if the little Associated Press release from London, below, could have had Any thing to do with the resuIts of yes terday’s British election. What do you think? * London, Feb. 23 —OP)—Super stitious Britons were worried to day because millions of waxwings, birds usually only found in arc tic areas, have invaded this coun try. In the old days the arrival of waxwings in mild weather was regarded as an omen of war, death or the plague. $26 Million Allocated For Hospitals, Schools pate. Fuller March 11 is reedy said. He ter of the American - Lutheran. k Church of College Station. The' thernsclvos evening vesper service will begin I cfbate toj at 7 p. m. in the student center. Sunday school and Bible class begin at 9:45 Sunday morning. ★ The A&M Christian Church will hear Rev. James Moudy speak on "The Christian and the Race Prob lem”, Sunday morning' at , Si. Church school starts at 9:45 ai On. The DSF supper group will meet at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon. 1 ! and Heirth arc bjusying s in preoarution 4or the ornament to be held here and 12. N<> definiti* work for publication Fnllei- is president of thej A&M “Discussion and Debate Cluib. The Sunday services of the St. Thomas Episcopal Chapel, Rev. ip. G. Helvey, Vicar, include Holy Communion at 8 Sunday morning, Church school and the Aggie Cof fee Club at 9:30, morning prayer and sermon at 11, and evening prayer at 6:30 p. m. The Young People’s Fellowship and YPSL will meet after the evening service. •fa The Christian Science Society, under the direction of Chairman Phillip Goode, will hold services in - ‘ ~ ' the YMGA the Assembly Room of at 11 Sunday morning. n Late ■> '? T 'V. Austin, Tex., Feb. 24—lA*!—The legislature yesterday laid 26 mil lion dollars on the line to brush the cloud Pf neglect from Texas’ state hospitals and special'schools. Whopping majorities of the House and SenapPfinally' passed tax and appropriations bills, fin ishing up the main business of the 51st Legislature's first called ses sion. Gov. I Allan Shiver’s signa- tui-e of the bills was promised. The next move of putting the money to work for such wards of the state as the mentally ill— is up to lihe board for hospitals and special schools whose request for added funds was answered al most in full by the lawmakers. Opposition Crumbles Opposition to the administra tion’s plunf for raising the money crumbled (in the 24th day of 30- day special session after yester day’s deadlock In the House. This came over a Senate plan to net up an agency to handle surplus fed eral cotfimoditlen. The Senate gave way to the House to speed the special j session toward finishing its primary task. In |every resncct, the session thus ifar has been a elear-eut victory fn^ Gov. Shivers and his floor | leaders in the House and Senate. Shivers called tfte special session, to|d it what its first job was and knirgested tax increases to pay the bill. ire Briefs - if London, Friday. Feb. 24——Winston Churchill’s son Randolph lost his bid for a seat In Parliament, election return* showed today. Randolph, 38. was defeated In the Devonport District by Michael Foot, Laftorite who represented the constituency in the old parliament. During tile campaign the elder Churchill spoke in the dlstrk-t to bol ster his i mars' race. j ; ' Aust n, Tex., Feb. 24 </Pi A $1,350,000 appropnation for an atomic ex iergy laboratory and radiological institute at M.D. Anderson Cancer Hospital was approved unanimously by the House Appropria tions Committee last nighty 13-0. The biU, introduced by the Houston legislative delegation, now goes to tie House floor for consideration. H Diego, Calif., Feb. 24^—U¥1—Six crew members of the 27.000 ton aircraft carrier Valley Forge suffered minor bums to day as a flash of gasoline fire enveloped the aft starboard side. I Damage was clnflned to blistered paint and destruction of half a dozen balsa life rafts. 1 ■ ' N Here is what the legislature did yesterday: Passed finally and sent to’ the governor a bill increasing the omnibus tax levy 10 per cent across the board for hospital and school support and improvement during the next 18 months. Passed finally and sent to the governor another measure boost ing the three cents per pack on efgarettes to four cents for the next seven and one-half years, both for buildings and mainten ance. Passed finally and sent to the governor a bill appropriating $20,612,128 for hospital and school maintenance for the remainder of the current fiscal biennium—until S^pt. 1, 1951. Included were funds for build ing and support also of the state iwhools for juvenile delinquents. This money will be administered by the Youth Development Council. Marketing-Finance Seek Affiliation Affiliation with the American Farm Economics Association was voted for by the A&M Marketing and Finance Club Tuesday, Joe M -Connell, president, said today. Purpose of this association is to create and stimulate student in terest, in agriculture economics. McConnell, also asked that mem bers be present for taking the Aggieland club picture on Friday at 6:20 p. m. on the steps of the Agriculture Building. Shepardson At Land Grant Meet Dean Chas. N. Shepardson. head of the department of agriculture, left Tuesday to attend a I.and f^rant meeting in Gainesville, Flor ida. The meet is a regional meeting of resident instruction section of the division of Agriculture of the Association, of Land Grant Col leges and Universities. Dean Sheoardson is expected to return Sunday night. Fish Ball, Tessies Are Highlights of Weekend By BILL BILLINGSLEY The Freshman Ball, a game- length football scrimmage, and a Concert by the !TSCW Modern Choir will highlight this week end’s entertainment, for What pro mises tq be one I of the quietet! semester ends-of-the-week. Ponds May Be Dug Soon For Coflege Use “If we can prove that- mosquitoes can be controlled by natural means there is a strong possibility that a large number of ponds for college use will be constructed in the 1 ; very near future’’, said Frank T. Knapp, head of the fisheries sec tion of the Wildlife Management Department. These ponds would have a great recreational value, providing fac ilities for fishing, swimming, and boating, he added. Also research in fisheries biology and pond man agement Could be earned on. At present the mosquito situa tion at fish lake is l>eing studied/ This lake was chosen because it 1 provides more different types of asquntie habitat than any other lake In the urea. Detailed weekly samples have beep taken since Sept. 1940 and no mosquito larvc have been found. Stomach ana lysis of fish for the period havy shown nit larva, though some have been found in small puddles and holes In the imm. Traps have been set to (rap! [adults but thus far none havBj been caught although the traps are checked dailyl U Success of this experiment do-j pends on cooperation of people using fish lake, he said. Nets have been stolen and n jbont sunk, caus ing unnecessary delays. Last week a lock was shot off the depart ment’s boat. i i f Annex Survey Set In Air School Hunt Bryan has been selected, along with 19 other Texas cities, as a! possible site for the proposed Uni ted States Air Academy, and will be surveyed in the near future, the Air Force Tuesday informed Sen ator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. The surveys aiy to be made by the office of the (Southwest Divi sion Engineer at Dallas, the Air Force told Johnson. Dallas, Fort Worth, and Ran dolph Air Force Base at San An tonio have already been surveyed by Army Engineers. The other proposed sites in Tex as to be surveyed are Camp Bul- lis near San Antonio, Sherman- Denison, Alice, Beaumont, Gon^ zales, Harlingen, Kenedy. I-uft-i bock, Granbury, Odessa, Waco; Bracketville, Brownwood, Uvalde; San Angelo and Lampasas. With melodies by maestro Bill Turner and his Aggieland men of music, the first year students’ an nual night of revelry will begin formally in Sbisa Hall at 8:30 anjl continue on to the midnight cui 1 - few. As with all class Balls, the dress will be formal, with Number 1 uniform considered the thing for During the night the Freshman Sweetheart will be selected from six young ladies, already choscei, who will be introduced at the dance. Identity of the fair final ists will not be revealed until dance time, the Freshman wheels say. After the Sweetheart presenta tions, the TSCW choir will make a brief appearance at the dance, - Their main performance of the night, however, will be a! 7:30 concert in Guion Hall. Under the Consultant Will Speak at S.A.M. Meet Tuesday Meeting Tuesday evening in Room 301 Goodwin Hall, the Society for the Advancement of Management will hear a talk by Fred V. Gardner on controlling production costs, an nounced Bob Fluke, president of SA M. Gardner, head of tl|e manage ment consulting firm- Fred V- Gardner and Assoc la ie^ ip Ml). Wnukno, will bo on tha! campus to address' the third annual con ference of tho ’ Management En- glneerlivtr Department March I and 2. His/experience in the np- pjication of principles iof variable budgeting and breakeven points in production costs equips him to speak with authority, Flake said. This is" 1 the first maeting of SAM during Uio new ocmaatar. Qn hand at the meeting are expected other/ management men who have come hero to attend the confer ence beginning the following day. In addition to hisi professional consulting firm activ|ties Gardner is on the board of j directors of seven corporation in the mid-east. He has written articles on expense control and is the author of “Var iable Budget Control”, a well- known text on the Suhjject. For the last eight years Gardner has lectured in the ' accounting school of Northwestern Univer sity in Chicago, on /the subject “Work of the Comptroller” and also conducts seminajrs for the Industrial Management Institutes of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Attendance at these ses sions consists of top management men from various: industries throughout the state pf Wisconsin and adjoining states, j In the spring of 1049, Gardner also conducted his own Business Seminar ih Chicago attendance at which included e^st^rn and mid- western business executives. The Tuesday evening meeting of SAM will begin at |7:30 F 1 a k e said. 5 ,iw •• s Cotton Joe Cotton purpose of ton tours pnrta ( j the Ball for the the money the world. of the annual paat 18 years. The for the anfuial eot>| \ K ■■ -'L -pr direction of Dir. William E. Jones, TSCW professor of music, the for ty-five voice, sister, school ensem ble will present a program of pre dominately lighter modern music-. The choir will lie remembered by many Aggies from their appear ance here of two seasons ^back when their informal style, evening gown attire rather than stuffy choir robes, and blended voices./ made a Guion Hall hit. Saturday afternoon at 2, H Coach Harry Stitelbr and kpring training assistants will put their early!- season footballer^ through the Second of the game type scrimmages that Concluded each of the four weeks of spring' training. The same Maroon and White squads that opened tl)e ses sions last weekend will oppose each other, With only minor changes made due to injuries. All the players have been Ibok- ing much ^harper, in scrimmage during the papt week than in the opening six flays now that the soreness and rough edges have lessened, and the end of the week,. clearing skids point to a top form game tomorrow. ’ Line ups and a complete story may be found on today's sports page. In an athletic event of lesser Student interest, the College Sta tion Swim Club will meet the Lamar High ] School aquamen the Downs Natntorium qt 3 p. Saturday. Speaker Feels Secure After Visit to A&M 1 “I even atopped worrying: about Joe .Stalin" said Henry Qoddard Leach to the Hous ton Chronicle after his recent visit to the A&M campus. While at A&M Lluch delivered sn address, to thel Great Issues Class and also conducted a ques tion and answer sejssion. The topic !of his add Cess was “Scandinavian vs. American De mocracy.” The formejr editor of Foruhi magazine and president emeritus of the American Scandinavian Foundation tpld the Chronicle he is feeling betfer about the interna tional situation since his-,, visit here. > “I spoke if" Texas A&M' and then had lunch with 3,000 stu- ■ dents. It was| wonderful to see all those young! men in uniform, I even stopped | worrying about Joe Stalin. J think they can handle the situation”, he. explained. 1 Leach is currently on a lecture tour of the West and the South west. ‘ Student Life Plans Tentative Programs plans for the summer entertainment pro* gram were discussed by a sub- committee of the student life committee yesterday at 4 pi jh. in C. G. White's, assistant dean of students for activities, office. Much the same schedule is to be followed this summer as was followed last summer/ 'Monday: Tuesday, and Thursday there wilt be a movie. Sunday and Wednes-v day nights roller skating and ort Fridays, them will be square danc4 mg. The Aggieland Combo will play for round dancing on Haturduy nights, There will be four feature pre-C sentations oni being local and the: other three will be talent from; the entertain nent circuit. Names: of the groups to appear will be. announced at a later date, White said. : ■ : Jarvis Mlllir, town hall manu-: ger, Wllman Barnes, president of: the junior class, Bob Pag*.' non-: mHlt&ry representative on Student- Life Committee, Dr. Fred Jaggl; Jr, BiU Turnnr, director Aggieland: Orchestra, ard Tom Puddy, Guion;: Hall manager were present at the’ meeting. ] • -T" 1 ' 1 ■' Studei Get About on both mllitai have failed ID cards, th office said Students up their ca: mediately. ' up from tl Dean’s off! office hours Us 'Should 1 ID Cards b hundred students, y and hon-military, to pitfc up their e Dean Of Students’s this morning, who haven’t picked ds should do so im- They msy be picked je secretary in the :e any time during : .J