pi ip-r. "7 j ' ; '■f - City Of College Station r Official Newspaper •> A h Volume 49 i Louise files TOisa Lilen will represent the 't Sophomore Class at the annual /Cotton Pageant and Ball April 5 *8. An 18-year-old freshman at the University of Houston, she ^ is from CroSby. Miss Liles, who was chosen class sweetheart at /. ..the recent ’Sophomore Ball, will he escorted by Charles Maeh- ala, an A Plight Air Force soph omore frpm Crosby. New Aggieland Has Aggie Ring On • A' | • The land and p is pi accord: co-editor. Maroon colors fo) will rei ver Again ver for the Afcgie- has been selected on the annual ne on schedule to Chuck Cabaniss, ■> and white will be the the coyer. The ring in and the band along tha bottom of the page will be nar rowed. The title, jAggieland, will be in rawed block letters diagon ally acyoiui the top. The letters and band, will be in white and the background will be maroon. J The 490-page edition will have flva dlvls ions.. The division pages will be a combination picture and drawing at the particular phase of collegi activities that the sec tion will deal With. The mtge art Is baihg Worked up by Bob Cullen. Tim only section that Is heMnd .schedule is the club section, ac cording to Jimmy Woodall, eo-tdi-. tor. The lag Is because presidents, or rapreaentatlves of organlaa* Mens are not turning in club rot- WM. *' ■ Class sections are completed and engraved end only clsss offices ara Incomplete for that paction*, ficfcifWatld’“for the vanity fair pagea wHI be orchids and ribbons in.msroon with shading toward the center of the page. This year the Aggieland section and pictures of phases of student life are being consolidated into 23 paged called “Pass in Review.” This is a new section to the an nual. j The usual sections like military, sports, Who’s who,, and clubs will be treated the same this year as in the past, except for the maroon color tneme. . The Battalion and Aggieland will have a two page spread show- ng various phases qf work on the ublicattohs. ; : In all: the book will contain 458 pages ajnd about 32 pages of ad vertising said Cabaniss. published in the interest or A' greater a&m COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), WEDNESDAY, 19, 1950 Set For Thurs By B. F. ROLAND U General spring elections wfyil be held Thursday, co-chairmen" BUI Moss and Roy Nance of the Stu dent Senate election committee said this morning. 1 ! Student senators In each dormi tory will distribute all ballots at 8 p. m. and will colloct them at 10, the chairmen said. The election committee will tabulate all votes and announce the results as soon as possible. Non-corps students will elect a representative to the Athletic Council and yell leader, while tl entire student body can vote on Battalion co-editors. Zimmerman, Jack Solether, and LoVun Massengale. Candidates applying' yesterday for senior vice-president were Jack Raley, business major from Dallas, E Air Force; and Joe Johnson Jr. petruleum-meehanica! engineering student from Rockport, B Field Artillery. Others now in the race art Incumbent Bill Parse, Braden McAllister, and Ralph Gorman. Pi|ing for social secretary yes terday were John E. Gossett, Hous ton business student, Corps Staff; R. Joseph, business major Dallas, E Air Force, and Wil- R. Cornish; f)on R. Healdth, business student A CAC. Two concurrent baccalaureate services and ona commencement exercise, with the principal add ress by General Ontar Bradley, are included in the June gradua tion plans released today by the faculty planning committee. One baccalaureate for engineer, ■Iph, for Dave Coslett and Clayton Selph, however, have no opposition the latter two positions. Fulbright Unopposed ‘ ' j • With the disqualification E. Taylor, only Edward B. bright remains as a candidal non-corps yell leader. The corps will choose between Moon .Jind incumbent David Elston'for Athletic Council re sentalive ■“ ay’s candidates included Ken- W. Schaake, Jes D. Mclver, ve./ Overshadowing the anemic I gen eral election-are two others. The present sophomore class will j elect their junior officers and two yell leaders next Tuesday, with a run off scheduled for Thursday, April 27. The Class of ’51 will chc ose its class officers, two yoll leaders, a corps representative to the! Athle tic Council, student entertainment manager and Aggieland editor by secret ballot April 27, Voting will be held ij-a poipt meeting of corps and nonlcorps juniors, although non-cofps men will not vote for the two yell headers nor the Ath letic Council representative, j ; " . Seven Sophs File I - With filing opening yes morning for the Class of '5 ior officers, seven aophomon Applied by 5 p. in. when tie! Stut dent Activities office do doom; Deadline for filing it day noons Aspirant* for next yvai’a! Jun ior class preeidont art! John T. Hightower, a* engineering student from San Augustine. G Air force; J Harold Hugnta, Abilene buMlne* major, 0 Field Artillery; and I)« Reed, Journall*m major frtjtu Pi Don from Ham Okla Monda; neth and Joseph D. Hinton. i i Secretary-Treasurer Secretary - treasurer applicants are 'Gale Brundrett, animal hus bandry student from Refugio, B QMC; David G. Haines, College Station--business major, Corps Staff; and C. R. (Bob) Ruble, McCamey business student, B Field Artijlery. Candidates filing Mon day were Herb Mills and Herman Gollob. Two men challenged first-filing George Charlton for historian. They were James T. Brown, civil engineering major from San Ben- jto, B Engineers; and JameS^ W. Porter, another civil engineering student from Dallas, A Engineers. Deadline for filing for next Monday, April 24. Tuberculosis gets a sock in the jaW as James D. Maberry steps before the X-ray machine set up in the YMOA. He was one of over 1400 people who had their chests x-rayed during the first day the unit operated in College Station. Sportsmanship Trophy Award Plans Revealed for vice-president are nano “Van” VandenbergL .Hous ton business student, B Air Force; Hobte Fatheree, animal husbandry major from Pampa, C Field Artil lery; and Gerald D. Campbell Jr., pre-med student of B Veterans Tony Margoitta, business major from Marlin, A ASA, has filed for social secretary. Other offices for which candi dates may file are secretary, treas urer, parliamentarian, sergeant-at- arms, and reporter-histo; Juniors Filing Eleven more juniors have filed for next year’s senior class offices For president, Lloyd Manjeot, bus iness major from Hereford, A Vet erans; and W. R. (Bill!) | Moss \Bryan History student, A .j’osite, have announced. Ot ^ _— , didates who filed earlier a^ej Bryan Bigger ’n Better Than Ever . 1 . 'otton Pomerat Talks To Architects, Phi Eta Sigma Phi Eta Sigma, national honorary fraternity, in con- nection with the Architecture^ 1 Society, will present Dr'. Charles M. Pomerat, noted author, scientist and artist, Wed- '>*Kl»y April 19 in tho Physios. Lecture room at 7:30 p. m. / Dr. Poanrat'* talk will bo "Ar- chttoctural Notes on Mexico”. Col- ored slides will be presented along with the talk, according to Voris Burch, prinildent of the Phi Beta Sigma. Dr, Pomerat is president of the Texas Academy of Science and is past professor of Zoology at; the University of Alabama and Clark University. {n addition to his biological work he has made extensive stud ies in medieval architecture. He is also an artist of note and has made numerous sketches and line drawings of scenes in Europe and America, Burch said. A part of Dr. Pomerat’s collec tion of water colors may be seen in the Architecture Department library on the fourth floor of the academic building, Lowell Holmes, Phi Eta Sigma program chairman, said. These paintings were done during Dr. Pomerat’s travels through Europe and Mexico. They include some examples of Gothic Architecture and views of Aztec ruins in Yucatan. The winner of the 1949-1950 Southwest Conference Sportsman ship Award will be announced May 13 in Austin, Ben Hammond, chair man of the sportsmanship dommit- tee, said today. The huge, three-foot trophy, one of the largest in the conference, will be presented at the confer ence track meet. The winner will be selected by students and staff members of the seven conference schools and by officials of the Southwest Athletic Conference. Ballots have already been mailed to each school! and to the conference officials. | The school ballots are completed by the editor of each student paper, trophy during I ii. <-• By ;GEORGE CHARLTON Promptly at 7:30 p.ipi., April 28, King apd Queen Cotton plus hun dreds df duke* and duchesses re presenting campus organizations a* well as SWC schools will as sume their places or royalty on a canopied four foot high platform in Kylq Field. The ; platform carrying out a “world of cotton” theme will con sist of two levels for seating the * court, a throne, and a hugh hack- drop of dark purple material. The r backdrop will be topped by a globe representing the world, with flags of the United Nations sur rounding it. To the left and right of the stag*, trill be Ideated potted greenery/- . Beside "the regular style show , directed by members of the styU . «Uff of Sanger .Brothers In Dallas, the psgeont will feature a wide variety .of entertainment • From TSCW will come to Modern Dancers gnd the Caperettes, a tap dancing team. The Prairie View it upder the direction of R. Von Charlton, head of the music ! department at that school, wUl furnish two selections. Pre viously the quartet has sung at several banquets on the campus and wjas featured in 1930 at the State Fair of Tens. - j r A trumpet-trio from Arlington State! College will play “Throo pro tent*- undo Kings,” a semi-classical num ber, and “Three Jacks,” a mod ern swing selection. Bill “Pop Turner once again will pick up the baton to lead (he Ag gieland Orchestra in mufical sc- eompsniment for the pageant, and later/or the boll beginning at 9. Leonard Perklno Wif vide organ music' interls i Plans also have been le tively for the Tumbling Tea: the direction of Nick I ontheiujc, Athletic Department, to present program before the pageant. Docia Schultz, this year’s Queen of Cotton, will share the throiie during the pageant witi Nelscn Brunneman, King Cotton, Miss Schultz, a 19-year-old, blue-eyed brunette from Garland is a TSCW junior and comes from what she describes as a “long line of An gie and A&M fanciers.” She and eight other lovely Tei- sics were chosen by nine Aggie members of the Cotton Court to reign in the Rbysl Court of Cotton for this 16th annual event. Follow ing the custom originated last year, the 23 Tessies not chosen the cotton court will 1 e models in the style show. The r dresses have been designed by members the Sanger’s style staff. Another precedent set in last year's pageant will again be rti- peated when Elisabeth McGee the 1959 national maid of cot toe, : . , ' . j’ And Stage Events will be presented during the style show. King Cotton, Nelson ’^Nellije” Brunneman, is a 22-year-old kep- ior from San Benito. A veteran student and an agronomy major, he was elected to his royal posi tion by members of the Agronomy !Society. Tickets for the pageant will cost $1.25 for reserved seats and $1 for general admission while ball tickets are $1.50 for couples or stags. Ihey may be obtained at the Agronomy Department, WSD Clothiers in Bryan, Blacks Phar macy at East Gate, Lipscombs Pharmacy at North Gate, Student Activities office, Student Lounge at the Annex, and Beverly Braley’s at Bryan. Directing this year’s Cotton Pageant and Ball is Mrs. Bill Turner. Her work whkh began in January will not be completed until after the ball. Included in her work is the job of arrang ing sets and details of the style show with members of the San ger Brothers staff. Worklrv in conjunction, with Mrs. Turner for the presents of the show is Professor E. Whitely, faculty supervisor; David Rives, social secretary, assistant Tommy Duffy, and the Cotton Committee. This committee is com posed of Frank Zabcik, Ray Kunz, Earl Smith, and Jack Runklou. . Lois Wilson Lois, from College Station, will represent as duchess the Pales tine A&M Club at the Cotton Ball Pageant and Ball. Her es cort will be Bill “Tex” Thornton, senior PE major from Palestine. Duchess Picture Deadline Friday The deadline for turning pic tures of duchesses into the Bat talion office for publication has been set for, Friday, April 21. If pictures are to be run be fore the Cotton Pageant and* Ball they: musl be turned in by this time; - Pictures may be brought to the Battalion office, located on the second floor of Goodwin Hall. head yell leader, dean of men, athletic director, secretary of the former students’ association, and the Student government of each school. Conference officials are select ed by the secretary of the con ference. | ji Voting will be completed by April! 25, Hammond, who is also president of the Rice Students’ Association, said today. Each voter is allowed to name first, second and third place. For purposes of choosing the winner, each first place vote equals five pointjs, each second place vote three] points, and each third place vote | one point. The school receiving the; great est tjumber of points receives the trppl/y for one year. SMU First Year Southern Methodist University won the trophy two year* ago, the i/lrwt time It was awarded. A&M has held the the second year. A4M received the trophy at the Texas Relays. NO conference school can vote for Itself In the balloting. This new regulation was adopted last pur at the annual committee meet- The Idea of a conference sporta- manshlp trophy was originated by Jimmie Nelson, corps editor of The Battalion in 1947-48. He interview ed Students and officials of each conference school and received suggestions from conference offi cial^. The Battalion donated $300 to buy the trophy and presented it to the conference. Committee in 1948 The first year of the award there was no sportsmanship com mittee. In the fall of 1948, repre sentatives from every conference school met on the A&M campus and formed the committee. A Sportsmanship Code was drawn up and the committee- de- cidejd to use it as the basis for determining the winner of the trophy each year. The committee meets once or twice each year to consider revi- siotis of the code and to make re- commendations for improving re lations between the conference schools. ! | The last meeting was; held at Rice in the fall of 1949. [ The chairman of the committee is selected each spring at a com mittee meeting. Hammond re placed C. C. Munroe of A&M who was first chairman of the com mittee. Annual Federal Inspection Set For Next Week The annual Federal Inspec tion of A&M ROTC units will begin Wednesday afternoon, April 26, with the inspection of records of examinations and quizzes, according; to Col. John H. Kelly, executive officer of the Military Department. . Twelfth Air Force inspecting officers from Brooks Field, headed by Col. Charles W. Sullivan, will include Maj. John W. Blalock, Mrs. Ralph O. Heatly, Maj. Claude A. Babb, and Capt. Robert E. Whel- don. Col. Kelly said. ; Col Albert H. Homer will head the 12 officers and one civilian comprising the Army inspecting team from the Texas Military Dis trict in Austin and the Fourth Army. Inspection of main campus cadets will begin Thursday morning with preparation of the dormitories for inspection scheduled from 8 to 8:30. The actual inspection will take place from 8:30 until 9:50. Inspection of instruction will take place from 10 to ll.land will be continued from 1 until 3 Thursday afternoon, Col. Kelly said. From 3 until 3:30 Thursday af ternoon preparation for the corps parade is scheduled, wtth the parade from 3:30 until 6:00. In spection of instruction is sched uled ell -day Friday.! At tha Annex activities will be gin wtth Inspection cjf Instruction Thu •flection" will take p! until 9:00, with the io»u*v»ivn irvm 9:00 until 9:30, according to Col. Kelly. Inspection of the j freshmen In ranks Is scheduled from 9:30 to 10 that morning, and e Formal Guard Mount will be presented from 10 to 10116. The Freshmen Regimental Parade Will be from 10:15 to 11:30, and the Freshmen Exhibition Drill. Teem will peri form from 11:80 to 18:00. Friday afternoon InspecUon of Annex ilistruction' Is scheduled. Chevalier Asks For More Production “The United States must work for more production rather than fearing over-production,” Col. Wil lard Chevalier told a record audi ence of the College Station KJ- wanis Club at its regular Tuesday luncheon. Col. Chevalier, vice-president of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company of New York, is au annual cam pus speaker. “This excess production must go for the use of the other nations of the world,” Col. Chevalier said. “We can choose between com plete isolation or trying to spread our sphere of influence into the eastern part of the world,” he con cluded. Net profit of the Kiwanis Ben efit Show April 10 was" $123, Joe Motheral, club president, report er. All of the money, which will be used for Consolidated High School band uniforms, was aot in, Dick Hervey, entertainment com mittee chairman, reported. irsday afternoon. Friday morn- preparation for barraoks in- ctJon will take plaice from 1:00 Dtion from The throne of King set up on Kyle Field and Queen next week the annual Cotton Pageant, organization will Duchesses from be presented here. Nation's Top Collegiate Daily NAS 1949 Survey veterinary medlcl ced degree candidal in the Assembly June 9, with Dr. pastor of tha First of Houston, delivsi Ths second bui be held at that sat: Hall for agrlcullu tclencss degree Rt. Reverend John Price: Five Cents ne2 andS and advan- wjll be held 1 at 10 a. in., Boyd Hunt, Baptist Church ng the address, ralauirruto will time In Gulon umj arts-and- andii ates. The . Hlnei, Rector Bonnie Keathley Bonnie, a sophomore from SHSTC, will represent the Sing ing Cadets as their duchess in the Cotton Pageant and Ball: She will be escorted by Dick Adams, graduate math student from Vencennes, Ind. Nourse Chosen ssue Talk Monday Dr. Edwin O.: Nourge, out- •tanding. economist and re sent chairman of the Council of EconomiCM Advlaem to the Preaident, will addresw the class In Great Issues In the Chem istry Lecture Room on Monday, April 24, at H p. m., according to Dr. 8. R. Gammon, head of the history department. The title of hi* talk will be f.The Danger In National Deficit Financing," Dr. Nouree studied at Cornell University and the University of Chicago. He began his college teaching at the Wparton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the field of marketing and pri ces. - ' He served as vice president of the Brookings Institution’ from 1942 to 1946, participating active ly in an extensive series of studies of national production and income, which began With “America’s Capacity to Produce” ,nnd ended with “Price Making in a Demo cracy.” The speaker is a past president of the American Economic Asso ciation. and a former chairman of the Social Science Research Coun cil, Dr. Gammon: said. When the Employment Act: of 1946 was en acted, he was iijvited to become the first chairman °f the Council of Economic Adviisers to the Pres ident; where he served from Aug ust 1946 to November 1949, Eh\ Gammon said. . Hg resigned from this position of Economic Advi ler to the Pres ident of his own volition and main ly because he was tion a policy of financing, j L Dr. Gammpn sa d that every, interested is invited, and that th will be no admiss unable to sane- national deficit d that everyone Ore on charge. ' ' I n Wl ,r Veteran fay Cut In Summer School The Veterans Administration has announced several changes in its summer schodll policy, accord-' ilkins, Veterans cah no longer '’re paid vacation after s x weeks summer its summer scr ing to Taylor Advisor. iVrai i reive a 15-dky ] completion of a semester according to the new rul ing. ! This will not undsrgraddate^ Wilkins that a HMa; be allowed sion of lesis not more than be allowed durii iod of instruc Up to now been paid for after completing mer to the 11 complete mester, or of the six of the A&M, tion! states II not r ses* s, and shall r per-, „, have vacationl (ks sum- entitled if they 1 lete*both sessions. of the Christ Church Id Houston, will be the speaker. Commencement exercises will begin on Kyle Field thav night at 6, with General Bradley as spank er. Presentation of cdminissiims will be held at L p. m in Gulon Hall. Also the nrrsldent’e . reception will be held for all vraiiuuto* and their families In the ;tr**ideiit'* home from 2:30 until 4:.'I0 tiat afternoon. The Final Review will conclude the twlo-day program tin next day, June J, at 9:30 a. m. on the Mtln Drill Field. ! General Bradley, cur-ent ar]my chief of staff, is a five- star gien- Snd aa such is the highest military- flgu4 r y rr to ie A&M campus. era! rank! visit z Dr. Hunt Committeeman Dr. pastern profesk weste; his in Board Theolo Board and S Hunt, prior to acf has en up the habit of ektinW his lunch with a group of electrical engineering profs. , During a recent noon-time! con 1 rsbJtion the subject of p vers_ spelling was newsinen and lame ited spelters union* subject discussed. Bot ! the shark Tpe journalism prof put the EE men to asked six of them to shell “niiety.” Fouif of the six missed out. Afi EE student, latily tur journalism, chuckled learn how to spell pass out a few more it if of theta."