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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number. 123.: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1951
Price Five Cents
City Officials
Sign Contracts
For Electricity
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion City Editor
Tie City of College Station be-
eame owner of electrical facilities
in College Hills Friday afternoon,
climaxing attempts by local author
ities for more than five years to
obtain the lines.
Mayor Ernest Langford of Col
lege Station and Mayor Roland
Danlby of Bryan signed the con
tract which has been eight months
in the making. Bryan and the
Rural Electrification Administra
tion! jointly owned the power lines
in this East side area of College
Station.
The REA office in Washington,
D.C|approved the sale of the lines
recently and their okey on the con
tract drawn up between the two
cities was received by Bryan offi
cials Friday.
Signatures of Langford and As
sistant City Secretary Nestor Mc
Ginnis of College Station, and
•Pansby, City Manager H. A. Thom
ason and City Secretary Noah
Dansby of Bryan made the docu
ment official. After the contract
was signed, Langford presented
the Bryan authorities a check for
$.'18,109.37, the. sale price agreed
upon in the contract.
* Water Contract
In another contract between the
officials of the two cities, it was
agreed that College Station would
purchase water and electric power
from the City of Bryan for a per
iod of five years,\ with College
Station retaining option for re
newing or discontinuing that agree
ment at the end of five years.
The electric power will be sold to
College Station for one cent per
kilowatt hour, with a charge of
13 and one-half cents per thousand
gallons for the water.
“1 believe this sale of power lines
by Bryan will do well to establish
a lasting friendship between the
two neighboring cities and will
serve as a basis for future trans
actions which both may be involved
in,” was the mayor’s comment con
cerning the power line purchase.
The power lines will beconie the
property of College Station April
15, with the much cheaper local
rates for domestic power to go into
effect at that time.
Langford said although commer
cial rates in College Station are
Engineers to Hear
Chevalier Tonight
... Col. Willard Chevalier will meet
with the Student Engineers Coun
cil'tonight at 7:30 in the MSC and
’peak on the subject, “The Defense
-f America.”
T.He will be on the campus all
week and will' speak at noon, Tues
day, to the Kiwanis Club on the
present world situation, and at 7
pan. in the Assembly Hail to the
freshmen.
. I On Friday, in the Chemistry lec
ture room, he will present a lecture
to which students, faculty, and the
general public are invited.
Commentator Special
Meeting Called Tonite
A special meeting of The Com-
mentator staff will be held tonight
at 7:30 in Goodwin Hall, accord
ing to George Charlton and Her
man Gollob, co-editors.
| Plans will be discussed for the
upcoming May issue, and pictures
of the staff for The Aggieland will
be taken.
slightly higher than charged pre
viously in College Hills by Bryan,
a study will be made immediately
to adjust charges for business con
sumers.
Work will begin today on a new
line to parallel the existing REA
line now running through the city,
the mayor announced. This new
power line will connect with the
REA-Bryan high line at a point
located near the intersection of
Highway (i and Sulphur Springs
Road.
With the purchase of power from
Bryan now, the college will be re
lieved of its burden of supplying
most of College Station with elec
tric power. Only consumers souih
of the college and at a few points
around the North Gate will con
tinue to use electricity from the
college power plant.
The mayor pointed out that fig
ures computed by local officials
show the City of College Station
should realize additional profits of
$1,300 to $1,700 each month Iron
College Hills electrical facilities.
Abbott to Head
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Dr. J. P. Abbott, dean of
the School of Arts and Sci
ence, will serve as chairman
of a work-study group at the
sixth annual National Con
ference on Higher Education to be
held in Chicago today through
Wednesday.
The conference on higher educa
tion is the largest annual gather
ing of administration and faculty
leaders from colleges and univer
sities throughout the United States.
“This year the problems to be
considered grow out of the na
tional emergency as higher educa
tion prepares for a long range per
iod of semi-mobilization,” Dean
Abbott said.
From Chicago, Dean Abbott will
journey to San Antonio where he
will attend the annual meeting of
the Texas Junior College Associa
tion Thursday and the annual meet
ing of the Association of Texas Col
leges Friday and Saturday.
Since the association meetings
are attended by junior college ad
ministrators who also attend the
annual junior college conference
sponsored by A&M, Dean Abbott,
as conference committee chairman,
will consult with them regarding
the program for this year’s con
ference to be held October 8-9 in
the MSC.
Wanda
is Selected
A&M Cotton Queen for ’51
‘Antigone 9 Begins
Aggie Player Run
When the curtain rises for the
Aggie Players’ production of “An
tigone” at- 8 tonight in the As
sembly Hall, theater-goers will see
a play that is neither entirely
classic nor completely modem but
a delightful blending of two re
mote eras.
“Antigone,” third episode in the
tragic “Oedipux Rex” written by
Sophocles 2400 years ago, ful
fills the three unities of time, place
and action traditional to the an
cient Greek theater, but the actors
will speak in modern dialogue in
stead of the classical poetic form.
All action of the drama takes
place in one of the rooms of
the royal palace of Thebes, and,
in deference to the early Greeks,
who used no scenery, the set
has been designed with rigid
simplicity.
A gray cyclorama, exits flanked
by fluted pillars, a table, two
chairs and a low stool complete
the stage furnishings, and onto
this suggestively ancient scene will
move the players in modem even
ing dress.
As the curtain rises all of the
characters will be seen on the
stage where they will remain until
they have been introduced by the
chorus. The chorus of Sophocles’
day, consisting of from 9 to 13
men, has been stream-lined for
contemporary audiences to a single
character and will be personified
by Harry Gooding.
Chorus Relates Story
The audience will know from
the start what the play is all about
because it is the duty of the chorus
to tell them. He will show them
Antigone, the tragic heroine, (Mary
Eleanor Vaden), her sister Ismene
(Barbara Hodges), their nurse
(Florence Farr), Creon, the relent
less dictator, (Bill Guthrie), his
wife, Eurydice, (Adele Gooding),
his son, Haemon, (Jack Cockrum),
the three guards (Carl Stephens,
Bob Travis and John Caple), the
messenger (David Haines), and the
page (Donald Burchard).
Miss Vaden, Mrs. Hodges and
Mrs. Gooding will wear evening
dresses of classic mode specially
designed by Prof. C. K. Esten, fac
ulty advisor to the Players, and
made by Mrs. Esten. Miss Fair
will appear in a conventional
nurse’s uniform in gray, while' the
men of the cast, with the excep
tion of the page, will wear tuxe
dos.
Directed by Alice Burke
Alice Burke has directed the play
and the back-stage boss is M. C.
“Pete” Carson with Donald Demke
as assistant stage manager. Wanda
Rohr, assisted by Elizabeth
Cpowr, is responsible for the de
signing of the set.
Make-up artists Christine Oper-
steny and Mary Carpenter, and
lighting technicans Darwin Hodges
and John Caple complete the pro
duction crew. Publicity has been
handled by Mrs. D. L. Belcher,
radio, and Mrs. Donald D. Bur
chard, newspaper.
Tickets for the production, which
will be repeated tomorrow night,
are being sold by members of the
AAUW with Mrs. Arthur Melloh in
charge and are also available at
the MSC. Admission price is 50
cents and there will be no reserved
seats. Aggie Players’ season tickets
will be honored for this play ac
cording to Professor Esten.
Freshman Beauty
Chosen from 32
By BOP, HUGHSON
Battalion Campus Editor
Pretty blue-eyed, auburn-haired Wanda Harris, fresh
man speech therapy student at TSCW, will reign as queen
of the 17th Annual Cotton Pageant and Ball May 4.
The Cotton Queen and her eight duchesses were selected
by the King, Ray Kunze and his Court during a trip to the
Denton College, Saturday and Sunday.
Wanda, who hails from San Antonio, was a Redbud
princess, and has been named a Freshman Class beauty.
She also participated in the Children’s Theater and ranks
in the upper one-third of her class.
^ The Freshman beauty is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clellan
W. Harris of 1343 Ellsmere, San
Antonio. She is five feet, five
inches tall and tips the scale at 122
pounds.
After being chosen as consort
for King of Cotton, the San An
tonio Tessie expressed complete
surprise at being chosen. Her sel
ection was the second time in the
history of the cotton event that a
freshman has been picked for the
royal position.
The Queen’s court will consist of
Marilyn Fawcett who will be es
corted by Bill Lewis; Ina Hubbard,
escorted by Billy Gunter, Dorothy
George with Don Hegi, and Paula
Muller escorted by Bob Hill.
Beverly Bazoni accompanied by
Tommie Duffie; Joan Joplin with
Tony Buckholt; Charlotte Williams
escorted by George McBee, and Pa
tricia Hapinstall with Dale Fisch-
grabe will comprise the remainder
of the royal family.
Wanda Harris
Raymond Kunze
Polls Open at 8 A. M. Tomorrow
Voters to Pick City Council
Polls open at the City Hall to
morrow morning at 8 for the an
nual College Station municipal elec
tion. Seven candidates will be seek
ing one of the three vacancies on
the council. All three of the in
cumbents are running for re-elec
tion.
Homer Adams, incumbent H. W.
Badgett, and J. W. O’Brien will
vie for the Ward I position, while
L. G. Berryman, G. W. Black, in
cumbent, and Harry Boyer are the
aspirants for councilmen from
Ward II. Only W. D. Fitch, in
cumbent from Ward III, will be
unopposed in the election.
Polls will close at 6 p.m. in com
pliance with a state regulation
which sets the hours of a munici
pal election, city authorities said.
L. E. Boze will be judge for the
election, with Mrs. A. P. Boyett
and Mrs. P. W. Burns appointed to
serve as his assistants.
Mayor Ernest Langford said this
morning he expected the vote to
exceed the total number of ballots
cast in the election last year.
Langford pointed out that he had
heard several people discussing the
upcoming vote and believed the
heavy ballot in Wards I and II
would cause more voters to visit
the poll.
Only the ballot box at the City
Hall will be used for the entire
city of College Station during the
election. Voters will ballot on
only the representative from their
respective Wards.
Ward I is the South section of
College Station which includes Col
lege Park, Oakwood, and West
Park. Ward II is the College Hills
and Woodland Estates addition in
the East part of the city, while
Ward II includes all citizens who
live in and around the North Gate
area.
Councilmen elected to the three
positions on the council will serve
two year terms.
Appreciation Tickets
In Activities Office
A new order of Guion Hall “ap
preciation” tickets has arrived and
may be obtained in the Student
Activities office, second floor of
Goodwin Hall,
Eligible students who have not
received their tickets for the 1950-
51 school year may receive them
now, W. R. “Pete” Hardesty, Stu
dent Activities business manager,
said this morning.
Felix Larkin
Defense Talk In
MSC Tonight
Felix E. Larkin, general
counsel of the U. S. Depart
ment of Defense, will speak to
students and faculty on “Cur
rent Problems of Defense” to
night at 8 in the MSC Ballroom.
During the early part of his
political career, Larkin served as
Law Secretary to Judge James
Wallace of the Court of General
Sessions of New York County from
1939-47.
In 1946, Larkin was vice presi
dent of the Naval General Court-
Martial Sentence Review Board,
and in 1947 he became Assistant
Counsel to the Senate War Inves
tigating Committee.
With Defense Secretary
Joining the legal staff of the
Office of of the Secretary of De
fense in 1947, he was appointed As
sistant General Counsel in 1948
by the late Secretary James For-
restal.
Former Secretary of Defense
Louis Johnson appointed Larkin
Associate- General Counsel in June
1949 and General Counsel of the
Department of Defense in Septem
ber of the same year.
Larkin, as General Counsel, di
rects the activities of the Office of
Counsel and acts as the legal ad
visor to the Secretary, the Deputy
Secretary and the three Assistant
Secretaries of Defense, and all of
fices of the Office of Secretary
of Defense and its boards, agencies,
and committees.
Larkin is a member of the bars
of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States and the Court of Ap
peals of the State of New York.
Fordham Graduate
During his educational career as
a student, Larkin received a Bache
lor of Arts degree from Fordham
University, where he later taught
as a lecturer in law and finance.
He also holds the degree of Mas
ter . of Business Administration
from the New York University
Graduate School of Business, and
the degree of Bachelor of Laws
from St. Johns University.
All interested students are in
vited to attend his address which
will be one of the leading ones on
the program for “Arts and Sciences
Week.”
Thirty-two Candidates
The Tessie portion of the Cotton
Court was selected from a group
of 32 nominees, eight from each
of the four classes.
The rest of the nominees, if they
choose so, will be models in the
Style Show.
The King and his Courtiers ar
rived in Denton Saturday for the
selection after a stop in Dallas,
where they were shown the Queen’s
gown and had luncheon at Sanger’s
which is spohsoringt he Style Show.
The Court, accompanied by Eli
Whiteley, faculty sponsor of the
event and Mrs. Bill Turner, direct
or of the pageant, were entertained
by the nominees Saturday night
with a dance and an informal re
ception, during which time t h a
judges were to meet and lay the
basis for their selections.
The final selection and naming
of the Queen and the eight duches
ses was held after the two groups
attended Little Chapel services and
had breakfast in Virginia Carroll
Lodge.
Vaughn Monroe
To Salute A&M
Vaughn Monroe and the Camel
Caravan will give a “Salute to Tex
as A&M” on their regular Satur
day evening program May 19.
The program, broadcast each
Saturday night at 6:30, will feature
traditional songs of A&M, includ
ing “The Spirit of Aggieland” and
“The Twelfth Man.”
The Vaughn Monroe Orchestra
and entertainers from the Camel
Caravan furnished music and en
tertainment for the first annual
Military Ball here two years ago.
Candidates for College Station Council Positions
An Editorial
Vote!
V'ES.VOTE — Because you
citizens of College Station
numbered only approximately
170 voters when last year’s
city council election was held.
And that was out; of a near-
500 eligibility list. Tomorrow,
from 8 a.m. till 6 p.m., the
polls will be open at the City
Hall. Make your c hoi c e s
wisely and VOTE!
Homer Adams
Ward I Candidate
H. VV. Badgett
Ward I Candidate
J. W. O’Brien
Ward I Candidate
L. G. Berryman
Ward II Candidate
G. VV. Black
Ward II Candidate
Harry Boyer
Ward II Candidate
W. D. Fitch
Ward III Candidate