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™ ' ■ "f. S’" : ' ; r ' ^ i:U t 1' /-• City Of College Station Official Newspaper 'T»I Ihe | Battalio COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1950 h 1% • Collegiate DaJljr NAS 1949 Survo; c- - 11 : ,f !n h Volume 49: Number 107 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1! Price Cents I Docia Schultz Selected 1950 Cotton Queen ■ - ': r - ; T-p. ' i Eight More Tessies Named to Reign In Court of April 28 Agronomy Show 1 h Miss Docia Schultz, a 19-year- and style show. old, blue-eyed brunette from Gar land is 1950’s Queen of Cotton. Sh'e, along with eight more of TSCW’s most beautiful daughters, was chosen this weekend by the nine Aggie members of the Cot- tori Court to reign in the Royal Court of Cotton for the 16th an nual Cotton Ball on April 28. A junior merchandizing major at TSCW, Docia is active in school activities, has been recognized as a beauty since her freshman year at AdtM’s sister school and has had two years of modeling exper ience. V rj ■ ' . - ; On the} TSCW campus she is a member of the MEB social organ ization; soloist for the Modern CHoir, and has achieved the out standing scholastic recognition of the dean’s honor list. She was a model’for; the 1948 Cotton Ball and has done professional modeling with Sanger Brothers, producers of the Cotton Pageant style show, for two yearn i- _ Duhesses Named < The eight duchesses of the court were also announced by the A&M committee at the Sunday morn ing breakfast which revealed the Queen’s identity. Norma Beth Cooke, a senior costume design major from Waxahachie, will be escorted at the Pageant and Ball by Conrad Ohleridorf. Marjorie Cupples, a junior music education major from Dallas, will be escort ed by Jim Troublefield. Patricia St. Clair, a sophomore busings education major' from Sulphur Springs will ^have Dave Rives \ as her escort. ‘ . Jean Bond, freshman speech major from Hawkins, will be es corted by Ray Kunze. Imogene Newton, a senior home economics major from Cross u Cutt, will be .Leo Mikesko’s duchess, Pat Her ron, a sophomore clothing major -jfrpm San Gabriel, will have Tom mie Duffie ns her escort. ■ Sally Witmer, a junior education, major , from Bay-City, will be escorted by Roy Cook. Nan Hassler, a fresh man - sociology major from Mem- nhii, Tenn., twill be escorted by Don Hegi. Weekend’s Entertainment Selection, of the TSCW court members came after a full weekenl of entertainment on the Dentoi campus by the\ 32 nominees wh|i served as hostesses to the niii Agronomy students of (he court, composing the' 1 selection commit tee. _ Activities included} a concert the Singing Cadets in the TSCV auditorium Saturday night at 7: and a private dance in the recrea tion toom of Stoddard dormitoryv later that night in which the 32 beauties made up the “stag line”, cutting in pn the Aggie dancers, ' In addition^ the,Aggies had din ner Saturday wilfh the nominees in the Brackenridge dining hall, and had breakfast with the same group Sunday morning in Virginia Carroll lodge prior to the an- nouncement of the TSCW court I members. , i*- Accompahying the nine Aggies were their faculty sponsor, pro- • fessor Eli Whiteley; his wife; Mrs. * Joe Mogford, wife of last year’s sponsor and a Battalion publicity _ representative. | Pageant Plans 1 ^ At Sanger Brothers, where the group stopped on the way to Den ton, that store’s fashion directors told of their plans for the Pageant .1 Dresses for the Queen and the eight duchesses are already com pleted and have only to be fitted to the, court members this week. Sanger^ would release no pictures or description of the dresses, but the Aggies in the court who saw them said they were extremely at-, j tractive, but “would' look bettjer with girls in ’em.” Sanger’s, style staff, including fashion director Mrs, Elizabe|th 'Wedell, head designer Gred Zim- merli, and his assistant Bill Reed, \ will be on the campus April 3' to decide details of the stage, back grounds, and style show for the Pageant By Sportsmen For Publicity Dub King, A&M sports pub licity director, was honored today for outstanding work in the field of sports publicity by the National Association of Interscholastic Basketball. The award was made at a session of the N^IB’s first national col lege sports publicity clinic being held in connection with the na tional intercollegiate basketball tournament at Kansas City. King came to A&M in mid* Sept- tember, 1948 from the Fort Worth Star Telegram where he worked for ten years In the sports depart ment. He served 42 months in the army during the war and was discharg ed as a sergeant. King has two children, Karen, four, and a son, v Robert, one year old. Duties of.-ithe sports publicity director include preparation and distributiomjbf press" releases for all the athletic teaihs and players. During football ^season he pre pares pre*gjii^e “color” material for radio arthouncers and sports writers. He} also supervises activ ities in the/Kyle Field press box. [Schultz and Nelsop Brunneman smile happily after her »n as first lady of the 16th Annual Cotton Ball and Pa- . [Docia, a TSCW junior, comes from what she describes as 8g line of Aggie andjA&M fanciers” since her father, John Real) a , , . F, Schultz, ’27, designed the current A&M'senior ring and helped formulate plans for the first senior ring dance. Her mother, the former Statira Thornton, was also a campus beauty and senior favorite at TSCW. Dub King Cited Szigeti In Guion Concert Tuesday I EORGE CHARLTON iGuijh’i will closii Trackmen Wallop Fayored Win Border Olympics in Lay A&M won eight first places, failing t> sprints and board*jump. Defending champion Texas showed c By RAY HOLBROOK A&M’s cindermen surprised the Texas Longhorns and state spurDwriterh by re-fcupturing the Border Olympics crown in Laredo Saturday night, amassing 64 points. since some of their stars failed to eomeui Texas, premeet favorite, was well behind the Aggies with &pd won only three events, the 100, 200, 40 Vi points. Twc isllyiln only The overs! to come u|j> to ei and relay. « jj' I. I [ o of A&M’s thinly-clads set new records in the first Records were set in each of these events major track and field meet of the year. George Kadera horns, however. Charley Parker of Texai was weakn ated form Ite 440-yard heaved the discus 165’, while Bob Hall barely nipped team- performer of the border affair, breaking both mate Bill Bless in setting a new low hurdle record of 23.1 —a 9.4 100-yard time and a 20-flat in the 2! seconds. time exceeds the world record of Jesse Gwens Baylor, TCU Dual Winners At A&M Debate Tournament it Major General H. Miller Ains worth, commander of the 36th Infantry Division, Texas Na tional Guard, will be on the campus this weekend as one of the honor guests for the Mili tary Ball. - Late Wire Briefs - ' _ . \' - ' i, _ Washington, March 13—WPt—Rep. J. Frank Wilson (D-Texas) said last night Southern Democrats hope to pick up enough support from Republican members of the Judiciary Committee to defeat an anti lynching and anti-discrimination bill. The measure, sponsored by Chairman Celler (D-NY)> of the House Judiciary Committee,-has already been approved by u subcommittee. It would make lynching a federal offense and would set up a com mission empowered toj prevent discrimination in employment because of race, creed or color, j ^ j Rruasels. Belgium, March 13—UP)—Exiled King Leopold’ III was declared winner today In a plebiscite on whether he shall return to the Belgian throne. However, his margin of victory in , yesterday’s balloting was slim. 1 Hoi received 57 per cent of the vslld ballots. However, some 151,000 i ballots Were declared invalid. If the invalid ballots are counted^:Leopold received only 54 per cent of the 5,236,740 votes 3 } .cost* 1 i ■ *: — 1 Lake Success, March 13—<A>)—U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie has put himself squarely on a spot in championing the Chinese Com munists’ claim to the right to represent China in the United Nations. He held his ground in the face’ of newspaper criticism. There is little likelihood that attacks by U. S. senator)* will alter his stand. The Norwegian chief executive of the U.N. has raised a standard of “saving the U.N." he says "I am working for a solution based on Hective interests of the United Nations as a whole, rather than the maroon velvet curtain for the final time Tues day ifight on another successful Town Hall season and on thi* peri foripajnci of Joseph Szigeti, ac knowledged internationally ss one of the Half dozen great violinists in the|i:o}itemporary music wbrld. Szigeti, with violin tucked un der (chin, has achieved .Wide- spread fante as the result of American Icoast - to - coast and armuid-the-world tours, born in Hungary, taught by h|s father, then placed the euidunre of a noted vl /’and teacher, Jeno Hubay. Whin i Szigeti was 12, lie was brought before Joachin, tht[ great vlolinm.;of the 19th Century, who aceonlpunied the hoy at the piano, as hi* performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto. Afterward, he en- thusiiitttically predicted for! him a great future. Veling to Germany and Eng land 11 he performed us jt» chiRi preidigy, For six years he con* 1 certiwM [ in England, and touring in Europe, he established j himself as a jnsjor virtuoso, of thp violin. After numerous tours, he| accept ed [ the professorship [of Violin at the Geneva Conservatory. He; made his American debut in December, 1925, with the Phil adelphia Orchestra under Leopold Siokowski. 1 During this pkst year, the long of honors! accorded: the vio linist has continued to grow. Once again in Musical America’s nation al riidio poll, 600 music critics of the United States and Canada nominated Szigeti, Kriesler, and Heifetz as dominating violin per sonalities of the year. His Brahms Violin Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra, under Eugene Ormandy, was chosen by a nationwide poll of critics as best concerto of the proceeding year. Szigeti doesn't have a “style". He plays music according to its own style rather than in per sonal manner. His musical in terests are varied, and he enjoys playing all music from a Bach specialist to something ultra modern. Thousands have filled the Hol lywood Bowl, Lewisohn Stadium, Robin Hood Dell and Ravinia Fes tival tq hear him play. Millions have watched him on the screen. Equally at home in the classics and the moderns, Town Hall’s last artist ftW this season “has really packed them in.” ruff man T Payroll fie of Best ashington—< Ah—Rep. (R-Mich) says Presi Wood- lent Tru- [ is, “one of the bent, if not world to- ;he best paid man in the ’■i&'i i ! Woodruff figured it Jiis way, in! a statement Sunday. "/.'private citizen, to Hiatch the stan lard of living now enjoyed by! t ije President, would n »ed an In- como! of between |3,000,000 and “500,000 a year.” off, Woodruff jiaid, Mr. has take-home pay of a year out of hii| $150,000 ‘rtt>W many other men have a te home pay of $100,000! a year?” loldruff inquired. Then he listed presid^ntal vice*; which included: , eationing and entertaining—. Iheh ding planes, 35 White House automobiles, the Yacht Williams- burk, private Pullman car, and rest, Fla., y v ’•! | ■h Forty-two “facilities” for tra- rivate Pullman J ’P 1 vacation retreats in Key aqd, Maryland. White House salary $99f ,254 a year for a j “Ily comparison,” W( ed, "President Roosevelt had a staff of 63 costing and president Hoover’s s 27 at a salary bill of costs of ff of 225. Iruff add in 1945 $256,431, total- 1127,200.” Mrs. Sherwood Talks Tonight For Seniors The second in a series of four lectures in the Senior Class’ etiquette course .will be given tonight in the Chemis try Lecture Room. Mrs. R. M. Sherwood wilj talk on “Manners in the Home,” , The talk will begin at ‘•7:15 p. m., Bobby Byington, class presi dent said this morning. The etiquette, course was opened last week when Mrs. Fred Smith spoke on “The Value of Courtesy in Everyday Life.” All four lectures are open to the public, Byington said. He also invited all students and peo ple of the college community to attend the showing of men’s cloth ing which will be put on by Foley’s of Houston later this month. Representatives from thhe store will be on the campus Tuesday to make preliminary arrange ments for the show. They will eat in the cadet mess hall during the noon meal Byington said. The tRlks, in the Chemistry Lec ture Room and the clothing show are two bases of the etiquete. course, The third consists of a series of ten minute talks on man ners and socitl behavior which will be Riven in the military science classes after the four “master” lectures have been concluded. These class talks will be given by senipr cadets, Byington said. They will be based on the “mas ter” lectures. 1 Third Talk The third talk in the series will be given Wednesday evening by Wendell Horsley, director of the Placement Office. He speaks oh “Getting That Job You Want,” Ll. 1^. L. Williams Receives Air Medal First Lieutenant Harry L. Wil liams, of College Station, who served wth the United States Marine Corps during World War II, today was awarded permanent citation* ! for the Air Medal with one Gold Star. Lieutenant Williams Box 1708, College Station, was decorated for his heroic achievements in the face of heavy opposition while serving as a pilot of a Marine Fighter Plane against the Japanese in the Nansei Shoto Area. Lieutenant Williams’ citations were forwarded to him by Colonel E. L. Hutchinson, USMC, Director of the Eighth Marine Corps Re serve District. Lieutenant Williams is a member of the Marine Corps Reserve. A&M’s first debate tournament wound up Saturday morning with two teams from TCU and two teams from Baylor capturingl Sen ior and Junior division honors re spectively. Rather than “battle it out within the family” the winding teams in the^rSsB&finals of both divisions prefer^Wfo call the tour nament championship in each di vision a draw, Harry E. Hierth, co-sponsor of the A&M debate Club reported. This unexpected turn of events closed the tournament earlier than was anticipated. Many spectators were on hand in the YMCA at 1 p. m. Saturday to hear that the final rounds of the debate toijrna- ment had been cancelled. Winning Teams Worth Dalton, James Cunning ham, Austin Denny and Jerry Heltzell, all from TCU were, win ning debaters in the senior divi sion. Junior winners were Cal vin Cannon, William Doirill, I Hen ry Brady and Pierce Matheney, all from Baylor. Friday afternoon and eVening the tournament pitted 18 Senior division teams against one, .an other, each team degating f o u r times. Also 18 'junior division teams debated a total of four times saeh. The top eight teams in both di visions progressed into the f)nal eliminations held Saturday morn ing. Only one girls team in each division won n place in the final eliminations. The Sfnior girl’s team was from Baylbr; the junior girl’s team was from the Uni- - Who's Who at A&M. Bruce Thompson yersity Of Houston. The Baylor team faced ope [ of the TCU teams in the first round of eliminations, and was defeated- 01 eliminations, ana was aereatea, by TCU, The University of Haus-* • ton girl’s team lost in the j first elimination to a Midwestern _Uni- Versity team which was then beat en by the junior Baylor team of Cannon and Dorrill. Of four Aggie teams entered in the senior division, only the dark horse team of two freshmen Went ih the final eliminations. A&M’s only entry into the junior division withdrew after winding one debate and losing one. A mem ber of the junior team from A&M Was unable to continue debating because of sickness. The Aggie team then forfeited its last two debates.! • ; t Freshman Team . The Aggie freshmen who got as far as the first round of the final [eliminations were Charles La Rue and Robert Huffman. Freshman debate coach Milford F. Allen ex pressed satisfaction with ; his freshmen teams, especially the freshman team which came oijd better than upperclassmen teams entered by A&M in the senior divi- Moore to Address Business Society William T. (Bill) Moore, State Senator from district 14, will speak to the Business Society Tuesday night on the “Problems of Taxa tion in Texas.” They will meet ip the YMCA Chapel, j, I Moore graduated from A&M in 1940 as a pre-law major. He also did graduate work here before he entered the service. After the war he received his law degree from Texas Univrsity. Following his graduation' from; TU he became well known for his work /in the legislature. Kream - Kow Klub Hears Shepardson “Dependability and responsibility e the main things employer* are nleletcv 4r\** Sri trekisne* m^i|q ^ Jy <m M •mbers b at ti , Morel 1 ! ^ a pr neas ngj c China Report ‘Great Issues Speakers Topic “Reports from Red China” will be the subject of an address to be delivered to the Great Issues Class tonight by Harrison [For man, traveler and explorer ddring fifteen | years in China. Fornian will deliver the address in the (Physics Lecture Room at 8 o’clock.; He is the author of “Can We Save China from the Krem lin?” a series of articles i which recently appeared in Colliers; maga zine. Forman’s background of exten sive travel and exploration; in China has given him a first-hand knowledge of the length ! and breadth of that land, such ds have few other living men jn the world, today, according to Dr. S. RL Gam - mon, Head of the History Depart ment. ; He has been a foreign corres pondent for the New York Times, the London Times, Colliers! Maga zine, and the National Broadcast ing Company. He is a fellow of the American Geographical Society, of the Explorers Club and; the Overseas Press Club. Anyone wishing to hear Forman speak is invited to attend, accord ing to "Dr. S. R. Gammon, head of the History Department. Hierth said that the freshman team of La Rue and Huffman filial in the place of the Aggie senipr debate team of Joe Fuller and Charles Kirkham. They announced earlier last week that fuller’s ill ness which ^ept him in the hospi tal several days prevented thehi from entering the tournament. ! Many students were pleased Bet ter hearing their first debates. “I learned a lot, got a lot pf pointers,” one Aggie told Debate Club Co-sponsor Lee Martin. rT can see where I have a lot pf short-comings after seeing debat ers from other schools speak.”; . Tournament Enjoyed Both Hierth and Martin were pleased with the general success of the tournament. “Our students got a lot opt of it, and the debaters seemed to like our tournament, Hierth said. “A number of debaters and debate coaches told me that they enjoyed and appreciated the friendliness that everybodiy on the campus showed them,*’ he add ed. The tournament debate subject was “Resolved: That the United States should nationalize ite n<j>n- agriculturpl basic Industries.” debater*, Aggie ill meet u team One team of not yet selected, wif here from West Point on Sutp day, March 18, Martin spld. The subject will be the same as (he tournament subject. looking for In^oung men,” Dean ind Kow 1 regular meeting Tuesday, Shepardson membe the Kream and Kow KluN of heir -- v He added that class cuts and grades are the only criteria pros pective employers have for measur ing these two traits in young; coif lege graduates. After a short business meeting coffee and cookies were se; ’ Duchess Deadline Moved to April! 1 Deadline for turning in names of U^hesses for the 1950 Cotton Ball has been “Ex tended to April 1, cotton social chairman Dave Rives announ ced this morning. The former deadline was March 15. Any campus club, regiment, exesdub, or mother’s club may submit Duchesses names to him at his room 231 (Dorm il|0; or at the Agronomy Department office Rives added. Senior Duchess j. Photos Wanted Unly a very few pictures of Senior Class nominees for Cot ton Ball duchess have been sub mitted, Bobby Byington, class president, said this morning. ^ The selection of class duch ess will be made tonight, ington said, and all enti must be submitted by 7:30 p. m. Pictures may be given to any member of the selection committee. _' Members of the committee are: Glen Ramey, 427-2; Doggy McClure, 309-12; Max Griener, J5-Hart; and Gene Schrichel, 314-17 J i _ ends, ulthout h it wi nized beta UK'' of u e Texas’ 44; l-yard Smashed the r own ping the lap in 42.1 J. D. Hampton followed lux'winf ning ways to taking the ante and two-mile events, though fVilipg to ciack either of his prevfous rec ords. He trailed’"Parker as second high point man of the meet. ■, j Relying on a lust-minute apurt, Hampton bested Oklahoma Aggte Paul Elaw i i the two-mile. Team} mates Julia n Herring and J| o h it Garmany finished two-three in the mile, sweeping all points in thifs event for A&M. Jerry Bo men finished fourth in the two-mile. Da rig Surprises > Sophomorn Walt “Buddy” Davia provided the meet with one. of ite biggept sunrises in| tying Verb McGrew, Rice star and Ol team member,' in the high Davis clean d the bar at t Fresh fn m basketball Dayis barely missed a 6’ 6 1 division was the pole vault, the Aggies again notching 11 with Jack Simpson went over at 13’6", his best yet. Don Graves tied fdr a,I —■» e ll Q* y ’ mm m m 1 m. ! at..'1 ympic lump. 4 >47. season, jump. second at jl3’. Graves a 1 so for third in the high Jump. Simpson's! jump was the tidd be ht (C performer in seV- sonsil- evaijt made by eral years. Ljeming Wins Paul[ Lething, sophomore tion, took the high hurdles in 14.7 seconds. , . Bernard Place was a mil l sur prise in winning the 44>-yaiid dash In 48.7, while Don Mjltchell labored In a chopped-up finjt lain* to take a close second. > The Mitchell-Tom Cox dufl failed, to develop when Cox, Ripe captain, dropped out to concen trate ori the mile relay. Rice took this relay event with the Maroon and White teupi sec ond. The! Owls, ho waver, by four seconds to}tie the :i:i7j record, setiby A&M last year. Adding valuable points Lo tl)e Aggie total_iy*re Ed Hooketj, third sep faibiil , 8:17i3 1 in the disciis tossing, am Judk Simpson, hurling the javelin fir (ourth. I " Illegal Action Cadet t!alf-tnilers failed to place when other contestants Htajggenld legoil. ■ I the A&M men. This action, which cost tqe Af- around the first curve andjlfeg^l* ly cut in ahead of the A&M meh. gies yardage, went unnoticed by the judges. ‘ Kareda’s record in the s iot-piit event was broken by a hnlf-inch at 46’ 11 Vi”. Kadera placed fourth; Hall, in smashing the low hurdje record of 23.6, has' noty broken every major low hurdle record the Southwest. \ Complete statistics for the meet are on the sports page. Famed ‘Texas’ Divisio General Due Satur “Texas’ Own” 36th Lntfantry Di vision will be represented at the second annual Military Ball this weekend by its commanding gen eral. :[ j Major General H. Miller Ains worth has accepted an invitation to attend the ball and participate in all the activities of the week end, John Taylor, chairman of the guest committee, said today. Gen. Ainsworth has seen exten sive active service in both World Wars, Receiving his commission in August 1917, he served with the Allied Expeditionary Forces in w as* a ’ * France first lieutenant from One Chance Wins From Thousands Through overlapping whi rolls of newsprint were I j Boulder, Colo., March 13—— here two sprint were pasted to gether the Boulder Camera chan ced to leave out the name of a jewelry store in its: advertisement. The omission occured in just one copy of the paper. On that day the press run totaled 6,834 copies. And where was the one; copy with the omission delivered? On the front porch of A. W. Whitting- ham, owner of the ' ’ I - ! /* Jan., 3 1918 until Sept, 1919. He was active in the Officers Reserve Corps from 19210 until 1988, holding the ranks of Drat lieutenant and captain. Fur many comihan* npsny Infan to* Nfl* yean he was s com der In the 141st. went. 1 , I 1 Promoted to major Ii Gen. Ainsworth assura mend of the 3rd. Battsili Infantry Regiment. In 1948 he was promoted to ant colonel and assl sistanl G-l In 8th quarters. He serv< acity until Jan., Gen., Ainsworth's next! ussign- ent v * * ~ ' ment ten of he was / : was Fot jf Fort Army Hesdq Houston noted to the rank IJ *,! In R. ras colonel. In October, 1945 be • was released from active duty. On May 6, 1.948 Gen. Ainsworth was appointed assistant division sommander of the 36th Infslnty Di vision with the rank of brigadier (See AINSWORTH, Page 4) : a Break’- The “day-dodgers” haw identification problem if a overheard at a recent c formation U any ihdieativ-.. - remarltO-"Why don’t you guys turn out a little earliiir and l«4rn 1 who Is IN this company?” BORED WITH LIFE DEPART* MENT—Claude ThoHnh played for u dance In hills bund the Uni versity’s Gregory ’Gym rjot Iqng Only students «ttendted. agtfc H We’ve [seen more people than thai drinking coffee i ing a ;slo?v period -Why was everybody wear raincoats Saturday? The Batt said Friday the weekend skin oyer College Station would be dear. Have you no faith? i i- 1 1 :■