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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ac<epting
ite in Houston, lias been a
or in theology at the South-
Baptist Theological Sem
inary,! and he currently serves, on
the Executive Committee of the
Southern Baptist Convi ntion.
Bishop Hines was orenined into
priesthONod in 1933, and has since
served as Rector, Trini v Church,
Hannibal, Mo.; Rector, St. Paul’s,
Augusta, Ga,.; and Rector at his
reset t Houston church. He has
so been a member of both the
of Trustee* of Virginia
gical Seminary and the
for Texas State Hospital
pecial Schools.
Released by Chairman
Plans for the graduation cere
monies were released by D. GwW.
Schlesselman, head of the (ro-
graphy Department and chairnan
of the graduation committed, j
Other members of that gnup
are Bennie Zinn, assistant dsnn
of students; H. L. Heaton, roris-
trar; Bob Murray, assistant to
the dean of studenta; Col J din
Kelley, executive officer; C. G,
“Spike" White, assistant dear* of
*tudctjta for activities; and Virgil
Fnlres, head of the Miuiagen ent
Engineering Department.
.. _rk on MS(
In Final Stag.
The genoral contract;
electrical contractor, a j
plumbing contractor are
In the final atagea of their
work on the Memorial Stu
dent Center and are expected to
complete their part of the i«n-
atructlon within another mo ith,
according to J. Wayne Stark, di
rector of the, Memorial Stu, ent
Center.
Carieton W. Adams, jA&M Sys
tem architect, said yesterday 1 hat
work has gone forward quite ap-
idly on sending out spbeificat ons
and requests for bids on furnish
ings and equipment necessary to
finish the building.
All persons who want to observe
the progress being made are Incited
to join one of the tours w)iich
will be conducted through the
building by members of thei Mem
orial Student ! Center -on Friday,
April 21, Stark said.
One will bq conducted from 4
p. m. till 5 p. hi. and another from
6 p. m. till 6 p. m. .Those who Wish
to attend are linstructed to be at
the west end of the building at trie
ime one of thh ours begins. {
The building has been Ikept
locked recently to/avoid PP*
damage to wet paint and fin
surfaces by onlookers.
Last Payment Due
'Fourth and final payment _
semester is now payable at
Fiscal Department in the A
istration Building, the denar
reported this morning
be paid without pena
Thursday, Apyil 20. , ,
Total for thte fourth install
is $72.25 for board rent and
dry, and $19.55 for rent and
dry only.
ake a
A local Journalism pri>f 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."