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INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
(Aggidand), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12,1950
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‘ Number 126 Volume 49
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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
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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*
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code’s bid
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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