The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 24, 1950, Image 1

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COLIEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1960
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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
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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.
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"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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Cotton Joe
Cotton
purpose of
ton tours
pnrta (
j the
Ball for the
the money
the world.
of the annual
paat 18 years. The
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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. ]
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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
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