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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1950)
I ^ -r ■;l| ! ■'-l- i -i J,: City Of College Station Official Newspaper ;, 'i / ' ; ; r ^ •j ! . ■z 1 /, PUBLISHED IN INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE (Aggidand), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12,1950 • • . T- Price I live Centi Nation’s Top Collegiate Daily NAS 1949 Survey r i- f. ‘ Number 126 Volume 49 COLLEGE STA y - Election , Twentyon« etudentu had filed •awdicatlone by 6.p. m. yenterdny •ftentoon for 10 off Ice* to b« Xilled In th* aprlng eampu* elec* tlona »ch»dultKl for thU month. * ■ u ”''i n f ^® p non?rorp» editor of 7’h* Battalion aroi Hid Abernathy, Junior ag Journallam, RuNk; Kan Barnhanlt, nanlor, accounting, Port Arthur: Ray William^ junior; CE, rort Worth: and Jerry Zubor, nan- lor, Journallam, Bellwlla. Dnve Coalett, junior, Journallam, Mllaa; and Clayton Helph, Junior, " Journallam, Houaton, have filed for corpa editor of The Batalion. Magaaine Editors Six students have filed for the four editorahipa open on student magazines. George Charlton, jun ior, journalism, Dallas; and Her man Gollob, junior, English, Hous ton, have filed for editor of The Commentator. " Filing.for editor of The Agricul turist are Alfred Hardin, junior, , ag eco, Amarillo; and Jim House, junior, ag ed, Goldthwaite. -t. Homer-Finch, junior, ME, Dallas; and Jrm Kadel, Junior, ME Hous- tonf have filed for editor of The Engineer. • No candidates have yet filed for .editor of The Southwestern Veterinarian. > Editors of* student magazines . are selected by th^ Councils of the 1 individual schools' sponsoring the ; publications. C v, Entertainment Managed Four students have; Tiled for Student Entertainment Manager '■(formerly Town Hall Manager). They are James Boyles, junior, ME, El Paso; Albert Dennis, jun ior, ag eco, Lampasas; Douglas Heame, junior, prelaw, Blanco; and Dick Kelly, junior, pre-law, Ranger. *' Next year’s senior class elects 'the Entertainment Manager, j Only three men have thus far fil&i forjfive yell leader positions. •Bill Richey, junior, GE, San An tonio,- has filed Jor senior yell leader. L. E. Jobe,"sophomore, eco- nomjes, Amarillo, has filed for I Oilmah/ Ag Ex Slated to Talk Michael T. Halbouty, Cladb of '80, former Longhorn edi tor and'founder of the Schol arship Honor Society, will speak to members of the Pe troleum Club tomorrow . night at 7:30 in the Petroleum Lecture Room. A consulting geologist and inde pendent oil operator/Halbouty has given four fellowships to students •doing graduate study in geology and petroleum engineering pt A &M. halbouty formerly-was chief pe troleum engineer and a vice pres- "ident in Glenn McCarthy Enterpris es. / ‘He is listed in Who’s Who Among Young Men of America, Who’s Who in Engineering, and Who’s Who Among Men of Achiev- ment in Texas. During his enrollment, at A&M, the Houston ex was active in many campus organizations. He was a first lieutenant on the Corps Staff, member of the Executive Cabinet, a four-year member of the Geol ogical Society, and a student asso ciate of the AIMME. .* He was also a member of the Society of American Military En gineers and the National Scholas tic Press Association. He was ac tive in both varsity and intramural athletics. Halbouty will be<a guest of the e Cadet Corps tomorrow evening in Duncan Hall for dinner. 21 File Junior yall leader. Ed Fulbrighl, senior, CE, Waco, has filed for veteran yell leader. Yell leader i are elected by the, grouiis they re. present. . i Filing for non-corps representor tave to the Athletic Council are David Elston, senior, Vet med, M« Kinney: and. Wallace Moon, Jun lor, PE, Bay, Arkahsas. No car( dtdatee have yet filed for corpjs representative to the Council, Yearbook Editors Also to be elected are n corps and. non-corps editor of The Ag- gleland 1961. At five yesterday afternoon, no candidates had filed for either post. Deadline for all applications is noon, Saturday, April 16.lNone df the election dates have been se according to Student Senate Pres: dent Keith Allsup. Cadet Trackmen Win Over Rice Judy Mtin roe Judy, a senior at Jefferson High Hchool ih San Antonio, will rep resent the Battalion as their duchess in. the Cotton Pageant and Ball. Her escort will be George Charlton, junior jour- y nalism major from Dallas. nor jour- and Texas By RAY HOLBROOK The fightin’ Aggie track tea came from behind with a terrific finish and caught Texas U. the last event to win the annu Quarterback Relays by two points; in Corpus Christi last Saturdft night. A&M had 66 1/3 points 64 1/3 for TU, with Rice trpilir on 39 1/3. Texas was leading by 16' points on the basis of the after noon broad jump and javelin: events as the night meet began;; the Aggies had not gained a single point in these events. At the worst point TU was leading by 21 points: before the powerful Cadets begin whittling at the lead.' The situation looked hopeless at first, butwith only the mile de lay remaining, the ‘Sippers led by a single point. Since only the firtst' two places counted in the relays, A&M needed only a second to v —and tbe Maroon relay da through with the runner-up poi as Rice won in 3:18 for a record. (- , - i It looked as if the Aggies mi: edge the Owls in the last ev< with Don Cardon and Buddy Shaijf fer bringing in about an eight-y lead. However, Red Brown of tj Owls overtook Bernard Place a ? ;ave Tom Cox a slight lead oVei )on Mitchell which he held easijy: Cadets Crack Records Seven records were broken Sut urday night with the Cadets break tng three and Texas and Rice tw apiece. Besides the milcj relay, th< “ ~ “ ‘ lave* ■‘i the j: code’s bid ir d1( Owl’s Tobin Rote thre' lin 204’ to crack Bob record. Charley Parker ran the 220 21.0 for a new record and anchored the 440 relay to a {new standard o] 42.0. He had earlier won the 100 9.8 for a 11 1/4 point total high point honors; George Kadera broke his discus record with a 159’ 3V4 toss. He also won the shot, puttl it 46 2”. Bob- Hall continued low hurdle monopoly, winning record time of 23.0. Simpson Sets Mark Jack Simpson again showed way. in the pole vault for the gies by going 13’ 6” and toppfn the old record by a foot. He hi ly missed at 14’, but will be after that mark again every week and should get it before the season is over. J. D Hampton was the only other double winner, taking the mile jinid two-mile though not approaching his mile mark due to a strong wind that slowed all races from jthe 440 up. \ The Aggies showed their, disi Jcjhn Garmany taking second- and third in the mile and Herring and Jerry Bonne# garnering third and fourth ih the two-mile. Leming Wins Again Paul Leming won the high hur- dljes in 14-7 with Billy Bless fourth, blit these jtwo boys were surprised by Persoiis of Texas in the lows, as the Steer hurdler took Second. Bless and Leming finished third and fourth. Buddy Davis tied with Vern Mc- Grew of Rice and Bob Walters of Texas in the high jump-at 6’ 4”. Bob Hail came in a surprising third in tfie 100 and Dave Yiengst and Jack Bond picked up some much needed points by taking third and fourt|h in the 220. Tom Cdx won easily *n the 440 in 48.1’Svith Aggies Mitchell, Shaeffer, and Place behind in that order. Mitchell ( didn’t seem up to the expected duel as he faded on the last turn. Don Sparks took the 880 for TU as the Aggies failed to scratch. JlZj ,1 Don Grave* tied for second In the pole i vault to complete the scoring for the maroon and white. Investor’s Talk Due in YMCA Victor Dykes, vice presi dent and director of Texas Fund, Ihc., will speak on in vestment funds tomorrow night at 7:30 in the YMCA Chapel, D. R. Fitch, associate pro- fessof in/the Department of Bus iness and Accounting, said today. Dykes iis one of the founders of Texas FUnd, a Houston fund re search and management firm. A graduate of Lehigh Univer sity, Class of 1926, Dykes has been in the investment business since 1931.| From that year until 1946 he was a partner in the Boston firm of Endersbn and Cromwell and was one of a group of men who formed the Fidelity Fund in the early ’30’s. three; years as j ja combat intelli gence officer with the Army Air Forces irt the South Pacific. From' 1946. until 1949 he was with another Bostorf firm, Rus sell, Berg and , Company, which served as an investment counsel or and managed a mutual fund. Early in 1949 ;he joined a group of Houston business men and es tablished the Texas Fund, Inc. Texas Fund currently holds se curities representing 46 Texas and strength with Julian Herring land Southwestern industries. IL 12, Tau Beta Phi Sets Banquet, Initiation by DALE WALSTON Fifty-two undergraduate stu dents, . 11 ataff members, and 81 alumni are to he Initiated into the Texas Delta Chapter of Tau Beta Phi in a ceremony at 6 this after noon in the Chemistry Lecture Room] / Following the Initiation, a ban quet will be held In Sblsa Hall at 7 9. m. Regular officers will conduct the Initiation. These officers Include President Don Jarvis, Recording Secretary Bill Wise, Vice Presi dent Douglas Sewell, tredsurer Tom Reynolds, and corresponding Secretary Otto Kunze/ Chevalier to S^peak Coll. Willard Chevalier, executive vice president of McGraw-Hill Publishing; Co, and a member of “Who’s Who in Engineering,” will be gqest speaker. Col Chevalier, a civil i engineer and prominent in the world of technical publications, will Speak on the topic, “Are En gineers Human?” Following Col. Chevalier will be Miss Doris Turek, playing the ac- cordion, and a vocal group from the Singing Cadets. President Jarvis will be in charge of the program, and Dean of Engineering Howard W. Barlow, faculty sponsor of the chapter, will welcome the guests. The local chapter of Tau Beta Phi, ja nationally recognized hon or society for engineers, was or ganized in 1948. The first initia tion Iwas held in October of that year, with three subsequent ini tiations. Present membership in the Four Debater^. In TU Tourney Four members of the De bate Team will leave Thurs day morning to compete in the University of Texas Spring Forensic Tournament to held in Austin, April 13-16, according to Harry Heirth, acting Director of Debate. Those making the trip will be Douglas Hearne of Blanco and Joe Perry of Ozona, who compose the affirmative team; and James Fargier of College Station and Dan Davis of Lubbock, who com pose the negative team. Fanner is also entered in the impromptu spekking conteat, Heirth said. Tljie question to bo debuted is “Resolved, That the Nations Which Sigrjed the Atlantic Pact Should Form a Federal Union Within the Framework of the United Nn- tionli.” The program calls for eight rounds of debate, with each team debating the same side of the question in each round. 6th Regiment Ball Planned Saturday The second annual Sixth Regi- metit Ball will be held Saturday night in Sbisa Hall, Willy Bohl- mahn, cadet colonel, said: today. Bill Turner and the Aggieland _ Orchestra will provide the music During the war Dykes served for dancing. - - --- Invitations to the ball are avail able from all first sergeants in the regiment, Bohlmann said. He invited all former members of the Sixth Regiment to attend. Plans for presenting the regi mental sweetheart are being com pleted, Bohlman said. Her name will be announced before Saturday night. Included in the Sixth Regiment are the veteran companies, ath letic companies, and day student companies. chapter la 370, with 91 active members. These members were se lected on the basis of their out standing scholarship as well as their qualities of leadership, chi acter, and Integrity. —T- \X National Pistol Match Firing Finished Here The A&M Pistol Team has fust completed firing in the National Intercollegiate Pis tol Matches, Lt. Col. Frank Swoger, said this morning. Firing was done in competition with 60 other college teams from throughout the nation. Final results for the matches will not be known untjd summer time, Swoger said. All score cards are sent to the National Rifle As sociation headquarters for tabula tions and winners are announced when results are complete. In addition to the team firing, Swoger continued, Team Captain A. W. Benefield and H. Q. Haile, both pistol team members, have completed individual firing for the National Intercollegiate Pistol Match. They are firing; in compe tition. with members of the col legiate teams in the nation. f The A&M team has j fired in 43 matches this year, Swoger said, and has won 36 of them. Matches Won During the last two weeks A&M has won matches against the Coast Guard Academy, Princjeton, U. of Mass, U. of Arizona, Chib State, and Camp Hood. A&M is the only Southwest Con ference School with a pistol team. Four other matches remain on the Aggie schedule. ‘They! are with Utah State, U. of Wisconsin, U. of Illinois, and Michigan State. Members of the A&M team are, besides Benefield and Haile, [J.. E. Brown, B. P. Lowry, J. V. Aalto, N. M. Kenny, C. G. Hunt, !P. F. Means, and H. D. Witcher. Top five team members are Haile, with 278 points out of a possible 300, Aalto, 274; Benefield, 277; Lowry, 208, and Means, j 260. Mrs. Mn.M. L. Caahlon of ColUgo Station will be Honor Mother of tho Year at the Oban House Cere monies Sunday, Mky 14,,She was named for the honor recently by the State Federation of A&M Mothers’ Clubs. Each year this organization chooses a parent they feel pos sesses the qualltib* of the Afflr mother. Mrs. Casiilon nominated for the position b i the there 1 M. Brasos County 'A&M Mo ClUb.- J Th* wife of YMCA secretary M. L. Cnshlon, she caine to the |A&M campus nearly a quarter of a cen tury ago. Since that time sht> has taken port body and its actlv Joining the Bras (J other’s Club shortly tg the student (vies. ji is County A&M after Its through the years as chairman several committees. In 1944 sne was elected to the vice-presidency Inw* ' •pi of the local group and the fol year was moved to the office president. ‘ as state fifth Ihc State Krile-v lathers' CiubaA treasurer in she was patron- th 1047, she ser vice president of ration of A&M She became s' 1948. During the war. bhe was patron ess for the A&M Student Wives ciub. . r Two Sons Here Mrs. Canhion is; the mothe two boys, both presently on in the college. Jimmy, the e graduates this June. A three-year football lettermaji,:he was qua back on the 1649 jAggie team; Mason Cashion entered A&M last fall as a freshmar). Presently try-, iilg out for the baseball team, he was a football standout on the 1948 A&M Consolidated High School team. Much of Mrs. Cjashion’s contact with the student body has cpme through her long fj servictf; on j the hospital committee of the Hospital. Describing thi Mrs. Jane Wheeler chairman of the local. Comm for Mother, of the Day, nay!) her letter of nomination: “When a boy is sick he wants his mother, and often because of low finances and great ;dis- tances, mothers have not been able to come to tbldr boys sick in 4, but they did for Mrs. Cash- thefe witH\j her.‘- ■h to fill thc\pla- hem.” i, ^ Mrs. M. L. Cashion Mrs. Cashion, wife of YMCA Secretary M. L. Cushion, was re cently chosen by the Federation of A&M Mothers’ Clubs os the Honor Mother of the Yefer. She has been associated with activities on the A&M campus for the last quarter century aijd has two sons presently enrolled here. Dan forth Fellowship A war Winner Selected Tomorrow By L. O. TRIDT Four juniors in the School of Agriculture will face a six-man se lection committee tomorrow at 3 p. m., which will give the nod to one of the foiir to reservp the month of August for important doings. | , j This committee is the faculty se lection committee for the Dan- forth Summer Fellbwships to be awarded to the most outstanding junior in the School of Agriculture. Before the committee for con sideration for this honor will be Burt H. Gibbs, animal husbandry major from Justin; Layton L. Lomax, agricultural engineering major from Ft Worth, John M. Oglesby, agricultural education major from Goldthwaite; and Jack McCarley, dairy husbandry major from Denison. Expenses Paid One of these men will receive an all-expense paid tr|p, both educa tional and entertaining, to St. Louis, the Ralston-Purina. Mills, and the Experiment Farm at Grey Summit, Mich. After two weeks in St. Louis, tho winner will Spend two weeks ut Camp Miniwancn, American Youth Foundation Leadership camp on Lake Michigan. During the course of his stay at St. Louis, the selected junior will tour and inspect the breed ing, .feeding, mpnagement, and sanitation phasep at the experi ment station near the city with agriculture studerits from the other 47 states. Time will also ing the research be spent inspect- laboratories and mills of the RaUton-Purina Com pany. i Extra-curricalar Activity Night life for the group has not been neglected for the trip win ners. According to Bobby Bland, win ner of the trip last year, “They (the Danforth Planning Commit tee) plan your entire day, includ ing the nights, and you don’t miss a thing.” After St. Louis, there is the encampment on Lake Michigan. Mornings at camp Miniwanca are. spent in class, but the afterndbns are devoted to swimming, diving, Bailing, and sandldune climbing. The two freHhjmm winners also to be selected tomorrow will join the junior winners for the two week cncampmeiit at Camp Mini- •wanca. [ ' - ! ! No FreahVn^n Applicants At 5 p. m. yesterday, no fresh men had applied for the award. One of the freshmen winners must be studying Preparatory Veter inary' Medicine, ; while the other can be a major in any of the ag ricultural courses. On the selection committee are professors Price Hobgood, H. E. Hampton, A. V. Moore, O. E. Sperry, J. 1|. Schrum, and J. Wheeler Barger, chairman of the group. The junior winner must be prepared to provide his own trans portation from here to St. Louis and from Michigan back home, but will be reimbursied for trip expen ses. The freshnian winners must pay their traveling expenses to and from Michigan. All in all, the; trip can be sum med up in a statement made by Bland, “It’s thh best thing that can happen the hospital at A& not need to worrj ion was always loving mother toUfl ces vacated by Auxiliary Head A member of tie A&M Preshy-/ terian Church, Mrs. Cashion is president of thal church’s Ihdies/ auxiliary. - ! \ / \ j She was born in Wills Pdln(, f-_C Texas and attended Baylor for two '” years. She met hfr hWibaoi Vrijile he was a student at Austin Col lege. They Were married in 1925. Mrs. Cashiidn will ho prelsent Honor Mother of ,the Day ut special ccremohy in Gtiion Hall on Mother’s Day. The cdreibony will be part of i) full day of ac tivities (Icdleated tp the parents of the men of A&M, Mrs. Randolph Lee Clark, Hr. of Cisco, Texas, wap honored utl last year’s ceremonies. Hike • Is . tho mother of nine children and has two grandsons, both A&M men. Take Listening in on « casual conver sation between two well-known campus elbow benders we heard two suggestions worth pushing on if only rer the laughs. One of the friends of John Bar leycorn said he was considering having an observation trap door installed on his person so he might keep constant check 'on the pro gress of his ulcers. The other imbiber agreed and added a second thought on alter ing the anatomy of indulgers. Ho recommended the use of hinges and latches on heads to permit .easy removal of the “little men” who in sisted on playing handball ihsfde the cranium after an evenihg of brass rail calesthenics. FAMOUS CAMPUS QUOTES: Harold Vance, Petroleum De partment—“You can’t get crude oil with a French curve.” Tin&GtfeKory Una, a student at Sam Houston » State Teachers College and hail ing from Mexia, will represent the institute of Aeronautical Science*^as their duchess in the Cotton Pageant and Ball. Her escort wtlL Jbe Jim Kelleher, senior aero major from New Cumberland,. Pa. «• <• Patsy Brown Miss Brown, sophomore at I SC, has been chosen os duchess for the Discussiion i Debate Society in the Cot Pageant and Ball. Her Will be Bill Stephenson, CE major. Both are from SI man, Texas. I i Tiney SeetsutiM Tiney, a graduate from East Texas Baptist College and from Dallaa, will represent the Caas County Club in the Cotton Pa geant and Ball as their duchess. She Will be escorted by Donald Ayers, senior Ag Ed major from Linden, Texas. France* Smith f Frances, whose home is Gunters- ville, Alabama, will represent the A&M Creative Writing Club at (he Cotton Pageant and Ball. Her escort will be Bob Lane, senior petroleum engineering major from Lima, Peru. --L Jeane Kentodto Mrs. Kernodle will represent the Aggie Players as their duchemi in the Cotton Pageant and Ball. She will be escorted by her hus band, John, graduate chemistry student. Miklred Klenel Miss Kleeel, s freshman journ- aliam major at TU, will represent the ASCB as their duchess in the Cotton Pageant and Bull Rhe will be escorted by Willy F. Bohlman. senior CE majo*. Both hail from Schulenburg, Texas. Marilyn Mnldowney Mrs. Muldownry will represent rsjey the Entomology Society an their duchess fit the Cotton Pageant and Ball. She will be escorted by her husband T - J. Mnldowney, senior entomology student from Houston. Geneva F.lliolt I 9 . ‘ ' j 'j . c !: •; Geneva will represent the Hell County A&M Club in the Cotton Pageant and Ball as their durh- eta. Her escort will be her hus band Carl L. Elliott, senior ag riculture major. Both are from Temple, Texas. *