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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 102: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1951
Price Five Cents
Foster Destruction
Planned by College
l Foster Hall, one of the oldest
buildings on the campus, will be
demolished in the near future. Built
. in 1899, Foster was used primarily
as a dormitory until it was declared
untendable.
E Permission to demolish the struc
ture was given by the A&M Sys
tem Board of Directors last week.
T. R. Spence, director of physical
plants for the system, has not an
nounced plans for wreckage of the
building.
H L. L. Foster, for whom the build
ing was named, was president of
the college for almost three years
•—from 1899 until his death in of
fice in December, 1901.
Little Operations Now
|| Now housed in Foster Hall are
the text library of the Military De
partment and the photo-engraving
laboratory of Student Publications.
The laundry station which has
been located in Foster was recently
moved to B ramp of Hart Hall.
The military library will be
moved to the YMCA basement, Lt.
Col. M. P. Bowden, assistant com
mandant, said yesterday.
Tentative plans have been made
to move the photo-engraving lab to
the basement of Bizzell Hall.
Elected to Legislature
President Foster, a brickmason
by trade, became a very success
ful politician. He was elected to
the State Legislature and was
named speaker of the House in the
late 1890’s.
He was buried near what is now
the site of Duncan Hall and the
Infantry Drill Field. Upon con
struction of the 12 “new area”
dormitories and Duncan, his body
was disinterred and was reburied
in the New Cemetery south of the
railroad tracks.
Sgt.-Major
Eric W, Carlson
Carlson Is Appointed
Corps Sergeant-Major
Eric W. Carlson has. been named ser
geant-major of the corps.
His promotion was announced this morn
ing by the Military Science Department, af
ter approval by the president of the college
and the dean of men.
A .junior economics major from Elgin,
Carlson was selected by a board of officers.
The board’s decision was based on scholastic
proficiency, leadership ability, and cadet ac-
Annual Cotton
Ball, Pageant
•Slated May 4
The Cotton Ball and Pag
eant, sponsored annually by
the Agronomy Society, will be
held May 4, Tommie Duffie,
Society social secretary, an-
•; pounced this morning.
- “Any organization which did not
I receive an invitation to send a
v duchess to the Ball and Pageant
last year may insure one this year
-by checking with me or leaving a
; note with the Agronomy Depart
ment, Room 201 of the Ag Experi
ment Building,” Duffie said.
Invitations will be sent to or
ganizations next week, the social
secretary said.
King Cotton, who will reign with
*his queen over the Cotton Ball and
: Pageant festivities, will be chosen
here March 13. A group from A&M
/ will journey to TSCW March 31
# to select the queen and her court.
President of the Agronomy
Society this year is Leo Mikeska.
Faculty sponsor is Eli Whitley of
the Agronomy Department.
Other officers of the Society
are Billy C. Gunter, vice presi-
*dent; W. E. Watson, secretary;
: Charles W. Wendt, treasurer; Ber-
win J. Terrell, reporter; E. B. Dan
iel, parliamentarian; and Don Hegi,
assistant social secretary.
AF Promotes
Former Student
William K. Boyd ’38 has been
promoted to the rank of major,
.United States Air Force officials
announced this week.
Major Boyd is currently assigned
to Kelly Air Force Base at San
Antonio.
Symphony Changes
Date to March 6
The San Antonio Symphony
which has scheduled to appear
on the Town Hall program on
Monday, Mar. 5 will be heard,
instead, on Tuesday, Mar. 6.
Spike White, assistant to the
dean of men for student activi
ties, said the date was changed
at the request of the visiting
symphony to conform with a
tour planned by it.
tivity factors. All junior cadets under con
sideration for the post were personally in
terviewed by the board.
Carlson’s appointment makes him the
first sergeant-major who is an Air Force
ROTC student. Previous sergeant-majors
have all been Army ROTC cadets.
The tall, blondehaired Carlson owns a
grade point ratio of 2.9—a fraction short of
a straight “A” average. On Mother’s Day
last year, he was named outstand
ing sophomore of the corps and of
his unit, then H Flight Air Force.
He received an engraved Cup for
the corps award and a key for the
flight honor.
The Second Air Wing’s liaison
sergeant to the Corps Staff, he
holds the rank of cadet master
sergeant. He is a member of the
Ross Volunteers, the Arts and
Sciences Council, the Town Hall
staff, and Phi Eta Sigma.
Carlson was graduated from El
gin High School in 1946. He en
tered the Army upon graduation
and served until July, 1948. During
this period he was overseas for
19 months, which included a tour
of duty in Japan. He attained the
rank of corporal while in the Army.
Cadets Edged by TU, 42-40
To Become Tri-Champions
Meeting in Austin
Will Set Play-Off
Ags
But
Finish
Steers
Fast,
Win
By FRED WALKER
Batt Associate Sports Editor
The A&M bubble burst last night in Austin as Long-
honj forward, 6’ 5y%” Joe Ed Falk snared a tip-ki with only
5 seconds remaining in the game, to beat the Aggies 42-40.
Fighting tenaciously to keep in the game, the Aggies
brought forth every degree of push and fire that was in their
power, but the clock finally ran out on them and the South
west Conference championship ended up in a three-way tie.
A&M had gone to Austin with the hopes of obtaining
their first SWC basketball title since 1923, but as fate would
have it, only a third of that crown was brought back to Col-
•Hege Station.
It had been 17 years ago, when
present Texas Basketball Coach
Jack Grey was looping the nets
at Austin, that the Maroon and
White had been able to beat the
Steers on their own court.
Into the lion’s den went the Ag
gies with the determination to i
snap two displeasing records with
one blow, but a too-tough combi- two field goals by Falk.
A&M is Host
For ‘Operation
High School’
A&M will play host to sev
eral hundred selected high
school students Saturday for
“Operation High School.”
Sponsoring the event are
Aggie student home town clubs,
former student clubs and the Stu
dent Inter-council Committee, with
the Student Activities Department
serving as the connecting link.
The college will hold open house
for selected student leaders of
Texas high schools to show A&M’s
functions, facilities and advantages.
Members of the student home
town clubs have sent invitations to
outstanding high school seniors in
their home towns. The number of
high school students invited was
determined by the amount of funds
available for the sponsoring organ
izations to spend on transportation. 10-3 lead on three charities and
John Floyd
. . . in his first season as A&M
head basketball coach, will send
his team to a conference play-off
as tri-champions.
Texas held their lead until only
six minutes remained in the first
half. After the superb Leroy
Miksch had ringed a floor shot to
narrow the lead to only one point,
Davis repeated the performance
and A&M lead, for the first time
in the game, 16-15.
Held 10-Point Lead at Half
It was point for point the next
No matter from what four miifutes, but with the clock
the bystander gazed, reading 2:20 and the score 20-19,
nation of clock and miraculous
Longhorn shooting proved too
much for them.
Gregory Gym had never seen a
crowd such as overflowed her walls
and corridors last night. Better
than 7,000 Texas and A&M fans
sat, stood and hung from the iron
girders to witness forty minutes of
basketball that meant so much to
each club,
standpoint
the contest meant sudden death to the Steers ran completely berserk
each club. In that two minute period, they
A&M drew first blood in that no- ^ lled U P mno points blanked the
quarter fight when its great center ^ he fl00r at half -
Walter “Buddy” Davis swished a ^^he oSge and White ralliers
free throw through the net, but the , , comDl( f te c h ai .n. P an d their
Longhorns came roaring back to J f jj A & M f” echoed and
go ahead °n a Held goal by flashy re _ echoed for ten minutes .
guard Frank Womack. A&M was trailing by 10 big
After A&M’s valiant little guard points, but they hadn’t given up
Woody Walker had tied it up with by a long shot. But what loomed
two points, Texas roared into a largest and blackest were the four
(See JINXED, Page 3)
They 11 Puff for $280 in Prizes
Batt Pipe-Smoking Contest Tonight
By ROGER COSLETT
Tobacco will be king tonight as
the slaves of the “Leaf of Para
dise” huff and puff to win their
share of prizes in The Battalion
annual Pipe Smoking Contest.
Prizes to go up in smoke to-
ian hand carved pipe, of Sir Walter to runners-up in the cigarette con-
Raleigh’s face to be used as prizes tests.
A complete listing of the con
tests include large, medium, small,
miniature and metal bowl pipe
smoking; a calabash and church
warden section; a corn cob pipe
smoking contest, a cigar smok
ing contest.
Also a contest to see who can
since yesterday.
The Raleigh pipe and a pound
of Sir Walter Raleigh Tobacco will
be given as a special prize in the
pipe collections division. Another
pound of Raleigh will be added to
night at 7 in the Memorial Stu- the first place prizes in the profes-
dent Center Assembly Room will sor’s division. The remaining six
amount to over $280 when the cans will be added to various con- blow the most smoke rings with a
first match is lit. tests as prizes. single “drag” on his cigarette;
Fire engines and pulmotor squads Three cartons of Old Gold Cigar- a large ring smoke ring blowing
are standing by waiting for the ettes were added to the P. Loril- contest; cigarette rolling for pro
match that might go astray and lard Company of Houston contribu- fessionals and amateurs—profes-
any contestant or spectator that tion of a Stanhope Pipe, twelve sionals will use a rougher cut of
might be overcome by the smoke, half pound humidors of Briggs Pipe tobacco. And a contest to see who
Mixture, and a pound humidor of has the best pipe collection
Briggs already presented.
One carton each of Old
can keep his pipe lit the longest.
A predetermined amount of to
bacco apportioned in accordance
with the size of the pipe will be
given to each contestant.
The Memorial Student Center,
co-sponsor of the contest, and The
Battalion will provide corn cob
pipes which the contestants may
keep, and tobacco for pipes and
tobacco, pipe, and novelty manufac-
turers and dealers.
Marxman Pipes of New York is
the donor of two Marxman Pipes
and a matched set, in a leather
case, of collector item Marxman
Pipes.
A Kaywoodie Calabash has
been donated by The Ely Com
pany of Dallas.
Thirteen Certified Purex Pipes
has come from the L&H Stern
No one will leave the contest
empty handed. There will be tob
acco for spectators to fill their
pipes with and free cigarettes
for those who prefer them.
The Brown & Williamson Tobac
co Corp., of Louisville, Ky., donat
cigarette rolling.
Six persons have been designat- Company of Brooklyn, N. Y.
ed to disperse justice and prizes Rothenberg & Schloss Cigar
in the smoking fray. They are: Company, of Kansas City, Mo., has
Dean of the School of Veterinary contributed a Demuth Aristocrat
Medicine, Dr. I. B. Boughton; chair- pjp e , a Hollycourt Pipe and a Cer-
r . i ._ m en of the judges; C. G. “Spike” tified Purex Pipe to be used as
A special division has been set White, director of Student Activ- prizes.
Gold aside for professors and instructors jries; John ^Cummings, chemistry A&M Chesterfield Cigarette re
ed six one pound cans of Sir Wal- smoke x-ing blowing contest. The
ter Raleigh Tobacco and an Ital- remaining packs will be distributed
Cigarettes will be added to the only. Any or all of the above con- instructor; D. E. Newsom, journal- presentative, Autrey Frederick, has
first place prizes in the pi’ofession- tests may be held in this section i sm . instructor; Corps Executive donated seven cartons of Chester-
al cigarette rolling contest and the providing there are sufficient ap- Officer, Waymond Nutt and “Nita” fields.
successive ring section of the plicants. Keai'by of Nita’s News Stand fame. Two Roger’s Air-tite Tobacco
The object in all pipe smok- Prizes to be given have been don- pouches have come from Rogers
ing contests will be to see who ated by both local and national (See PIPE-SMOKING, Page 4)
La Motte Talks
To Journalists
By DEAN REED
Representatives of A&M, TCU, and Texas University
will meet in Austin Thursday to decide how and where the
Southwest Conference basketball play-off will be held.
Losing to Texas last night by a 42-40 score, the Aggie
cagers were knocked into a three-way tie for the conference
title, with the Longhorns and TCU. Each team now posses
ses an 8-4 record in conference play.
The A&M-TU game last night, together with the SMU-
Rice battle, finished the conference’s regular season. SMU
defeated Rice, 58-46.
— + When decisions are made for the
play-off, the three teams will en
ter the post-season contests, with
the winner emerging as the South-
w e s t Conference’s representative
to the NCAA—National Collegiate
Athletic Association — national
tournament.
Last year’s SWC representative
to the NCAA play-off was Baylor,
whose team reached the semi-fi
nals. Baylor and Arkansas wound
up their regular conference season
with records exactly like the tri
champs this year—eight won, four
lost. Baylor defeated Arkansas in
the conference play-off and went
to the NCAA meet.
The champion of the Pacific
Coast Conference will be the first
opponent for the 1951 Southwest
Confei’ence representative. T he
two teams will meet in Kansas
City March 21.
The 16-team NCAA meet will
open in Raleigh, N.C., and New
York on March 20 and in Kansas
City March 21. Its field will be
made up of 10 conference cham
pions and six other teams picked
at random outside these major cir
cuits.
Choosing now between
sports writing and news writ
ing is like choosing “blondes
or brunettes,” Clyde Lo Motte
told about 50 members of the
Journalism Club last night.
La Motte, former Houston Post
sports editor, is now a staff writ
er for the Houston Press. Con
sidered by club members as one
of the outstanding writers in the
Southwest, he was invited to hold
a general discussion on newspap-
pers and sportswriting.
After his “blonde-or-brunette’
answer regarding choices' of writ
ing, La Motte listed three major
points for good newspaper work
in the sports field.
“You must watch for ‘false’ stor
ies,” the Houston newsman said.
“By this, I mean stoxies which give
different meanings and implica
tions than the facts show.”
“Don’t hide your best news deep
down in the story. Using color
ful phrases and beautiful descrip
tive adjectives can’t 1'eplace telling
the reader just exactly what hap
pened.”
Speaking of the ethics involved
in sportswriting, La Motte said the
acceptance of money or gifts for
“plugs” is deci’easing. “At one
time about 75 per cent of our
sports sditors could be bought.
Now I believe that number has de-
cx-eased to about 25 per cent.”
La Motte flailed the writer who
fails to uphold the dignity of his
profession, tending, instead, to be
little it and be “one of the boys.”
Bandy Conducting
Training School
W. A. Bandy, chief of water and
sewage training for the Texas En
gineering Extension Service, is
conducting a water school at Cam
eron. The school began Feb. 12 and
will continue through March 2.
The school meets three nights a
week for two hours at the county
health unit. Twenty-four water
plant employees from nine Texas
towns and the Little River Water
Works, the Milam County Health
Department and Foi't Hood are en
rolled.
Towns represented include Rock
dale, Cameron, Hearne, Rosebud,
Marlin, Temple, Lexington and
Bartlett.
Tessie Groups
To Give Show
Friday Night
Singers and dancers from
TSCW will present a show on
the Guion Hall stage Friday
night.
The Caperettes, dancing en
semble, and the Singing Stars,
song group, will begin their pro
gram at 7:30 p. m. The Singing
Stars are under the direction of
John Murray Kendrick, associate
professor of music at TSCW.
Miss Bettigene Slover is soloist
for the Singing Stars.
Friday nights program will con
sist of Rogers and Hammerstein
numbers, Cole Porter selections, a
group of American Folk Songs and
numbers by Gershwin, Hupfield,
Arden and Charles.
Included in the program will be
“You’ll Never Walk Alone,” “If I
Love You,” and “People Will Say
We’re In Love.”
Also on the program are “Night
and Day,” “In the Still of the
Night,” “Careless Love,” “Ida
Red,” “Inconstant Lover,” and “I
Wonder When I Shall Be Mamed.”
The last group of songs will in
clude “Clap Yo’ Hands,” “As Time
Goes By,” “I’ll Get By,” and “Let
My Song Fill Your Heart.”