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Number 122: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1951
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32 to Pick From
King Colton and Courtiers
To Make Queen Selection
fly BOB HtICHSON
Bait Campus Editor
The Queen of the 1951 Cotton
! Pageant and Ball and her eight
^ .duchesses will be chosen this week-
; end from 82 nominees of the
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and
Senior Classes at TSCW.
The King of Cotton Ray Kunze
\ and his eight man court will make
| the selection during a trip to Tes-
sieland Saturday and Sunday.
Tessie nominees from the Senior
Class are Julianne Brownlow, Caro-
i lyn Cummins, Carrie Fenichis, Nell
Maulidin, Lepha Jo Oates, Mary
. Chilton Potts, Barbara Taylor, and
! Ceorgean Rahal.
Junior Nominees
Contestants from the Junior
Class are: Marilyn Bodden, Marilyn
| Faucett, Ina Hubbard, Barbara
Luther, Margaret Kreig, Ann Mies-
onbach, Carla Weber and Charlotte
Williams.
Sophomores have nominated
?rudy Aston, Colette Clifton, Mary
Fenichis, Dorothy George, Ann
Herring, Paula Muller, Jean Put-
; nam and Betty Ann Timmerman.
Nominees from the Freshmen
'Class are: Beverly Bezoni, Wanda
Harris, Patricia Hepinstall, Julia
Isley, Joan Jopling, Ann Logan,
Geraldine Rowland and Mollie
Wheeler.
Eight Girls
Each class selected eight girls
to represent their class in the se
lection at a meeting held before the
Easter holidays.
Plans for entertaining the Aggie
selectors have been made by the
Tessies. They plan a dinner and
llance Saturday night and Little
Chapel Services Sunday.
This year’s Cotton Ball will held
in the Grove again, if weather per
mits. In case of rain the cotton
dance will be held in Sbisa Hall.
As in the past years, Sanger
Bros, of Dallas will sponsor the
Cotton Pageant and Style Show,
Jvhich will be held on Kyle Field
preceding the Ball.
Jeanine Holland, 1951 Maid of
Cotton, has tentatively planned to
be present for the festivities. Miss
Holland was a 1950 Vanity . Fair
beauty and Aggie Sweetheart.
Accompanying the Cotton King
will be his Court members, Robert
Hill, Bill Gunter, Tommie Duffie,
George McBee, Anton Bockholt,
Dale Fischgrabe, Bill Lewis and
Don Hegi.
Eli Whiteley, faculty sponsor of
the Cotton Pageant and Ball, and
Mrs. Bill Turner, director of the
Pageant, will also make the select
ion trip.
Stop At Sangers
The group plans to stop at Sang
ers where they will discuss further
arrangements for the Style Show
and Pageant.
The Agronomy Society has nam
ed seven committee chairmen for
UIL Meeting
Set Tomorrow
The Spring Meet of the
3951 University Interscholas
tic League gets underway to
morrow at 10 a. m. at Consol
idated School.
Its purpose is to organize and
direct, through properly supervised
and controlled contests, desirable
school activities, and thereby assist
in preparing pupils for citizenship.
Declamation contestants are giv
en a list of subjects from which
to choose. They then give talks
within a time-limit on their chosen
subjects.
Winners of the spelling and writ
ing division to make a perfect score
on their papers will have them sent
to the state office for re-grading.
Awards given for turning in these
papers are league certificates for
spelling and writing.
First Arts-Science
Week Begins Today
* A meeting today of the Texas
Conference of College Teachers of
English will begin the first Arts
find Sciences Week to be held at
A&M.
The week-long celebration is ex
pected to bring approximately 700
guests to the campus who will
take part in educational, scientific,
religious, and political questions.
Tonight at 8, T. V. Smith, phil
osopher, former congressman, and
radio speaker and debator will lead
a discussion on “The Real Issue
with Russia.” Professor Smith’s
talk is being sponsored by the
School of Arts and Sciences and
will be held in the MSC.
The English conference will end
Saturday with a luncheon, at which
the philosopher will speak on “Phil
osophy, Politics, and Poetry.”
The Sunday portion of “Arts
and Sciences Week” will be high
lighted by Rabbi Arthur J. Lely-
veld’s talk on “The Place of Re
ligion in Civilized Society.” Rab
bi Lelyveld is national director
of B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation.
His talk is being sponsored by
^the Department of Religious Edu
cation. The talk will be given at
4 p. m. in the Ballroom of the
MSC.
Monday night, the Great Issues
•Course will present Felix Larkin,
general counsel for the Department
of Defense, who will speak on “Our
Current Defense Problem.” The
speech will be in the MSC Ballroom
and will begin at 8,.
Since 1947, Larkin has held sev
eral high positions in the Defense
Department. Prior to this, he was
vice-president of the Naval Gen-
*eral Court-Martial Sentence Review
Board, and Assistant Counsel to the
Senate War Investigating Commit
tee.
A discussion of “The School
Plant” will be held in the As
sembly Room Wednesday at 7:30.
This portion of the week’s activ
ities is sponsored by the Depart
ments of Education and Psychol-
logy and Physical Education, in
conjunction with the Architecture
Department. Besides the discus
sion, a movie and several exhibits
showing the building needs of
public schools will be shown.
The president of Southland Life
Insurance Co. in Dallas, W. C.
McCord, will speak at a banquet
given by the Department of Busi
ness Administration at 7:30 Wed
nesday night in the MSC. McCord,
a graduate of the University of
* Michigan, is active in numerous
civic and state organizations, as
well as in national insurance or
ganizations.
Approximately 150 of the state’s
religious journalists will be on the
campus Thursday to take part in
the Church News Conference spon-
* sored by the Journalism Depart
ment.
The sessions will get under way
at 9 a. m. in the MSC, and will
last throughout the day. Lynn
Landrum, editorial writer for the
Dallas Morning News will give a
talk at 7:15 p. m. in the MSC Ball
room which will climax the day’s
program.
The scientists will be in the
spot light when the regional
meeting of the Texas Academy of
Sciences is held on the campus
Friday and Saturday. The meet
ing will be held in the new Sci
ence Building.
Arts and Sciences Week will end
Sunday, April 8 when the Singing
Cadets present a concert especially
arranged for the student body. This
concert will be held in the Ball
room and will begin at 2:30 p. m.
the occasion. The chairmen are:
Kunze, publicity; Duffie, social sec
retary; Walter Tanamachi, busi
ness manager; William Watson, ad
vertising; Bill Gunter, social com
mittee; and Quinton Johnson, head
usher.
Other committee members will be
named later.
Judy Holliday,
Ferrer Win
Top Awards
Hollywood, March 30—UP)
Judy Holliday, the junk deal
er’s squeaky-voiced babe in
“Born Yesterday,” won the
Academy Award last night
from two mature actresses, Gloria
Swanson and Bette Davis.
Jose Ferrer was given the top
male Oscar for his swaggering per
formance as the bulbnosed “Cyrano
de Bergerac.” For the first time
in motion picture academy history,
neither winner was present. Both
Miss Holliday and Ferrer are in
New York.
Statuettes for the best support
ing roles in 1950 were bestowed on
Josephine Hull, the flittering sis
ter in “Harvey,” and George San
ders, acid-tongued critic of “All
About Eve.”
“All About Eve” captured hon
ors for the best film of 1950, win
ning five other awards as well.
Its writer-director, Joseph L. Man-
kiewicz, walked off the platform
with two Oscars, duplicating his
feat of last year (for writing and
directing “A Letter to Three
Wives.”)
Ferrer, another newcomer to
films, spoke his acceptance from a
New York party: “This means
more to me than the honor to an
actor. I consider it a vote of con
fidence and an act of faith, and
believe me, I’ll not let you down.”
For Miss Hull, it was the climax
of a theatrical career that began
in her native Boston in 1902. The
6‘6-year-old comedienne won the
warmest applause from the 2800
spectators at the Pantages Theater.
Sanders, usually stoical, was
moved to tears by his award. He
made no acceptance speech, mere
ly grabbing his Oscar and rushing
offstage.
Corps to Go
Into Khakis
Members of the Cadet Corps
will go into summer uniform
Monday at 8 a. m.
Winter clothing can be turned
in after Federal Inspection. The
schedule for returning clothes
to the Military Property Custod
ian will be announced later. All
items must be cleaned and re
paired before returning them.
Fine Arts
• ' 77W
Looking over the oil paintings of Texas scenes,
donated by Ford Motor Company to the College
are, left to right, President M. T. Harrington, H.
O. Kelly, and W. D. Wood, district sales manager
for the Lincoln Mercury division. Wood made the
presentation to the college in behalf of his com
pany. Kelly is a retired cowboy, who only began
painting four years ago, but whose work has re
ceived national recognition. The paintings were
preserved at a ceremony held Wednesday in MSC.
SHSC Orchestra to Play
T? T?
Lurope rears
Russia and US,
Shirer Reports
French and German Youth
Are Not Anxious to Rearm
By CLAYTON SELPH
The big prize being eyed by
Russia today is Western Europe,
but Europeans are not particularly
anxious to build armies of de
fense in alliance with the United
States. The Europeans are uneasy
about Russia, but also uneasy
about us. “They are not so friend
ly to us as people here think.”
William L. Shirer, noted news
analyst for Mutual Broadcasting
Company, made these statements
last night to a Great Issues audi
ence filling the MSC Ballroom.
Shirer has some twenty-five years
experience as an European news
correspondent to back up his opin
ions on the European situation.
Atom Bombs Important
“The Russians were powerful
enough to overrun Western Europe
when the U. S. first entered the
Korean War.” Curious to know
why they didn’t, Shirer interviewed
European observers and found that
they believed the United States’
supply of atom bombs was the only
thing that held Russia back.
Europeans pointed out, too, that
Russia could profit more from little
Composite Regiment, Band
Hold Annual Ball Tonight
By BILL A A BERG
Tfie Junior G-Men in the ASA
will put Sherlock Holmes back on
his shelf and the Chem Corps will
quit raising a stink for a while,
when the taxi drivers in the TC
line up to carry a gay crew to
the MSC Ball Room.
The QM will stop stacking socks,
the Sig Corps won’t wag any flags,
and the boys in the Band won’t be
blowing tomorrow night at the
Band-Composite Regiment Ball.
This Ball is unique in that it
will not feature a queen for any
body to kiss. This is not a draw
back, however, because there
won’t be anyone there to kiss her
anyway.
Ray Kunze, commander of the
Composite Regiment, is also King
of Cotton this year and will be in
Tessieland to choose A&M’s Queen
of Cotton.
The “Houstonians,” the 18-piece
campus band from Sam Houston
State College, will play for the
dance.
The Band features “Music With
a Beat” with Charlie Roberts as
vocalist. Ralph Hardy on tenor sax,
Bishop Smith Consecrates
Cornerstone of Sanctuary
west Texas Methodist Conference,
deliver the principal address.
The $200,000 sanctuary, which is
in its final stages of construction
is the second of a proposed three
unit physical plant for the church.
The first to be completed was the
Before an estimated crowd of mony were the Rev. Jesse Thomp-
500 persons, the cornerstone of the son, pastor of the church from
A&M Methodist Church was put 1924-1932; the Rev. R. L. Jackson,
into place, ending the year long pastor for 1932-1936; the Rev.
second step in the proposed build- James Carlin, pastor from 1936-
ing program. 1942; and the Rev. James Jackson,
With the combined help of six of present pastor. The Rev. Bert
the past ministers of the church, Smith and the Rev. Bob Sneed also $150,000 Educational Building. Con-
the cornerstone was cemented into took part in the consecration. struction will start in the near fu-
place after a short prayer, “We Hear Smith ^ Ule on $150,000 recreation
lay this cornerstone in the name of k building and bell tower,
the almighty God, Father, Son, and Methodists from as far away as r , , p,.
Holy Spirit, unto the ages, world Beaumont and Corpus Christi came vmuicn uinner
without end. Amen.” to hear Bishop A. Frank Smith, Following the formal ceremonies
Those who helped in the cere- bishop of the Central and South- was a dinner prepared by the
church for those attending the dedi
cation.
Music for the occasion was pro
vided by the Singing Cadets, un
der the direction of Bill Turner.
Prelude to the worship service was
played by James Rollins at the con
sole of the Woodson Memorial
Bells.
The Rev. Jackson and Dr. Glenn
Flinn, seei’etary of the Methodist
Student Movement, are the central
figures in the operation to build a
new church on the present site.
Through their efforts, money was
raised and constructiion begun on
the $500,000 project.
“. . . Ground of the Truth”
The litany for the laying of the
cornerstone began “We lay the cor
nerstone of this church for a build
ing of which Jesus Christ is the
Chief cornerstone, the pillar, and
the ground of the truth. We lay
this cornerstone for a church that
shall exalt not a religion or creed
of authority, but a religion of sav
ing grace, of personal experience,
and of spiritual power.”
The consecration was completed
with the benediction read by the
Rev. P. T. Ramsey.
Wesley Foundation Director, Bob Sneed, Bishop A. Frank Smith
and Pastor James Jackson look over the Cornerstone.
and Zelly Sokoll on the piano are
soloists.
The “Houstonians” are under
the direction of Charles Lee Hill,
who is known for his high school
and college dance band arrange
ments of popular songs.
Honored guests at the Ball will
include Chancellor and Mrs. Gibb
Gilchrist and President and Mrs.
M. T. Harrington.
Honored guests from the School
of Military Science will include
Col. Und Mrs. H. L. Boatner, Col.
and Mrs. E. W. Napier, Col. and
Mrs. C. M. MacGregor, Col. and
Mrs. W. H. Parsons, and Col. and
Mrs. E. F. Sauer.
Other military guests will be Lt.
Col. and Mrs. E. V. Adam^, Lt. Col.
J. J. Kelly, Lt. Col. and Mrs. S. H.
King, Lt. Col. and Mrs. W. S.
Lewis, Lt. Col. and Mrs. L. S.
Moore, Lt. Col. and Mrs. S. T.
Meyers, Lt. Col. and Mrs. J. V.
Roddy, Lt. Col. and Mrs. L. S.
Walker, and Lt. Col. and Mrs.
M. P. Bowden.
Maj. and Mrs. W. R. Blake and
Maj. and Mrs. Patrick Brennan
will also be honored guests from
the School of Military Science.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. “Spike”
Insurance Head
Will Speak At
BA Banquet
W. C. McCord, president of
the Southland Insurance Com
pany of Dallas, will be the
speaker at the annual banquet
of the Business'Society to be
held Wednesday in the MSC Ball
room.
McCord is a graduate of the
University of Michigan with de
grees in actuarial science and bach
elor of arts. McCord studied actuar
ial mathematics under the late
James W’. Glover, whose students
are found in a great number of
life insurance companies today.
He is a member of Phi Eta Sig
ma and Delta Sigma Pi.
Upon graduation from the Uni
versity of Michigan, McCord enter
ed the life insurance business, first
as actuary for an insurance com
pany in Oklahoma, then as actuary
for the Gulf States Life Insurance
Company in Dallas.
Later' he became secretary-ac
tuary and director of Southland In
surance Company. In March, 1942,
he was elected executive vice-pres
ident and treasurer, and six months
later he was chosen president of
the company.
McCord is a member of the
American Life Convention and an
executive committeeman of the sen
ior section of the Texas Life Con
vention. He is also a member of the
Medical Information Bureau and
the Dallas Association of Life Un
derwriters, and a director of the
Dallas Association of Life In
surance Executives.
The banquet will begin at 6 p.
m. and McCord will speak at 7:30.
White and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Stark are others of the honored
guests.
Bryan E. Zimmerman is chair
man of the general arrangements
committee.
Bill Boddeker and Henry Wickes
are co-chairmen of the program
committee, and Ferris Brown is
chairman of the invitations com
mittee.
Other committee members are
Gordon Keller, orchestra; Bob
Hughson, publicity; Charlie Neely,
refreshments; and Billy Hoskins,
ticket committee.
Bids for the Ball are being sold
by the first sergeants of the Band
and Composite Regiment. They
are two dollars and include escort
and date.
State Library Head
Visits High School
Miss Nattie Ruth Moore, presi
dent of the Texas Library Associa
tion, and Library Service Con
sultant, for the Texas Education
Agency visited the A&M Consoli
dated High School library and the
elementary class library yester
day.
Accompanying Miss Moore was
Mrs. A. W. Melloh, Miss Emma
Louise Wills, catalogueist at Cush
ing Memorial Library, Mr. M. V.
Krenitsky assistant librarian at
Cushing Memorial Library and
Mrs. Lynn Blaylock, librarian of
Bryan Carnegie Library.
William L. Shirer
. . calm your fears
Congress Extends
E Bond Maturity
Congress has just completed
legislation that will postpone
“writers cramps” and other incon
veniences for millions of Americans
who bought Series E US Defense
Bonds during and since World War
II.
The bill provides for a 10 year
extension period for accruing in
terest on the bonds.
National Rodeo
Will Feature
Sixteen Teams
The Aggie Rodeo Team will
play host to sixteen rough
riding teams from all over the
nation at the National Inter
collegiate Rodeo to be held
April 5-7.
The rodeo will bq hteld in the
new Aggie Rodeo Arena.
Sixteen colleges from all parts
of the country are expected to send
six man rodeo teams to participate
in the contest, Dr. R. R. Shrode,
j sponsor of the Rodeo Club 1 said
yesterday.
Prizes ranging from a quarter
horse colt for the all around champ
ion cowboy to boots, belts, and
buckles for other winners will be
awarded.
An open cutting horse contest
and a sheep dog demonstration are
to be additional attractions, Dr.
Shrode pointed out.
This weekend the Aggie Rodeo
team fs participating in the South
west Texas Teachers College In
tercollegiate Rodeo in San Marcos.
Aggie contestants are Maxie
Overstreet, Mackey Trickey, Bill
Lockridge, and Don Tabb in the
riding events, and Bunky Selman
and either Jack Willingham or
Roy Pate in the roping.
wars around the world and that the
Reds knew it would be years be
fore any real military strength
could be built in Europe.
“Iran,” Shirer said, “is a logical
place for Russia to start one of
these little wars next month.”
Germany Not Democratized
As for Germany, the soft spoken
commentator said, they are
not ready for, nor do they want
democracy. When questioned about
Naziism, their answer is that it
was a good system, but badly ad
ministered, because it lost the war.
Naziism seems to be coming back,
Shirer said, if the number of for
mer party members and SS men
being elected to office is any indi
cation.
“The hope I see in Germany lies
with the youth,” the newsman said.
The German youth have had enough
of war and at present they say they
will not fight in any army regard
less of what side it is on.
The German people are refusing
to raise an army at all unless the
country is given equality with other
nations, and the force they raise
is commanded by German generals
and guided by the old German Gen
eral staff, Shirer told his listeners.
Of course, he said, the Western
powers are unwilling to allow the
old German staff to be reorganized
j since it has been blamed for much
of the suffering in the world to
day.
Don’t Want Communism
' Even after rearmament, the audi-
| once was told, the Germans would
■; likely not fight on our side. How-
| ever, they do not want Communism,
Shirer said. German Communists
told Shirer while he was in Europe
last Fall that a free election in the
Russian controlled sector would
probably reveal about 95% oppo
sition to Communism.
Shifting his comments to the
French; Shirer asked, “Even if we
re-equip France, can we count on
them to help us in a war with
Russia?” Answering his question,
he said that French leaders told
him that less than half the young
Frenchmen today would bother to
answer a call for mobilization.
“They have become violently pa
cifist and neutral,” the commenta
tor explained.
British Will Help Us
“Despite their steps toward so
cialism, the British are the only
Europeans who will give this coun
try substantial economic and mili
tary. aid in a war with Russia,”
Shirer said.
In a brief look at the Asian sit
uation, Shirer justified the war in
Korea both as a moral necessity
and an eye opener for the Ameri
can people. “We have shown in
Korea that aggression doesn’t pay,
or at least that it costs plenty.”
Shirer appealed to the American
people to calm their fears so this
nation would be strong in time of
stress.
“The next five years will perhaps
be the most crucial epic in the
history of our Republic. What
will happen depends on how well
we rise to the difficulties,” the
correspondent said in closing.
K of C Schedules
Post Lent Dance
The first annual Post-Lenten
Dance will be given by the Knights
of Columbus in Bryan’s K. of C.
Hall, Saturday, at 8 p. m.
All members of the Newman
Club, the Knights of Columbus and
their friends are invited to attend
this dance, announced Emil Rich-
ers, treasurer of the K. of C.
Admission will be charged.
K. of C. Hill is located on Leon
ard Road.
Music Makers
m
The Sam Houston State College’s Houstonians
Will play tomorrow night at the Composite-Band
Ball to be held in the MSC Ball Room.