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Page 4 THE BATTALION I” - Tuesday, July 17, 1951 A Bale in 7 Days; Can He Pick It? Twelfth Annual Cotton Congress To View ‘Research in Harlingen, Tex., July 17—— In the Valley, the great debate is over whether Ed (Boll Weevil) Keane can do it. Ed says he can pick a bale of cotton in seven days. The coffee shop cotton camps are about evenly divided on wheth er he can or not. He expects to start within two weeks. It matters not to him that he’s not especially famous for his brawn (he weighs in at 135 pounds) .... Or that he got his first close look at what a field of cotton real ly is last week (he’s an announcer at radio station RGBS here) . . . Or (hat he just found out that picking a bale of cotton means picking approximately 1,450 pounds field run. Undaunted, he’s going ahead planning to practice a little bit each day. He’s also shopping about for the best fields. “I want that field to look like Sox Slap (Continued From Page 3) waited too long as Stallings picked up the ball just as it went fair and touched first for the final out of the canto. Seale “Was Robbed” In the third frame, with two men on the hassocks, Hugh Seale was robbed of at least a two base rap by Potts who raced far to his left in center field to drag down a line drive and retire the side. The Sox had won their sixth straight game Friday afternoon by downing the Seven-Up Tigers 8-1. Potts received credit for this victory. He is undefeated in play in the second half. Reliefer Hub- ache was charged with the Tiger loss after coming to the aid of starter Joe Campise in the fifth inning. College Station’s other Little League entry, the National League Marion Pugh Lumber Co. Cubs were edged by Lester Smart Shop’s Giants 5-4 in a contest played Thursday afternoon. The line score of yesterday’s victory: Athletics 000 110—2 6 1 Red Sox 103 lOx—5 7 1 The Cubs tangle with the Cor busier Cardinals this afternoon at 3:30 and close the regular season against the Conway Phillies at 3:30 Thursday afternoon. a busted cotton mattress,” he said, “so | can shovel it in the sack.” So far he*’s gotten these offers: 1. Prize money that totaled $1,600 last weekend, mostly contri butions from the doubting Thom ases. 2. A bid of five cents per pound above the matjcet price for the cot ton he picks. 3. Free chiropractic treatments from Dr. A. D. Ebarb to keep him going through Lis ordeal. 4. Donations totaling 90 days of free hospitalization. 5. A cotton sack presented by Evan Hurst of the First National Bank. 6. And a challenge—Typewrit ten note was delivered to the Har lingen Valley Morrting Star office. It read: “This goes to Mr. Ed Keane . . . “If you think you can pick a bale of cotton in steven days, I could do likewise in the same length of time and without start ing any practice in advance. “If you want to know who I am, I am a lady.’ A view of “cotton research in action” will be given delegates to the 12th annual Cotton Research Congress when they meet at A&M July 26-29. The Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station, which has as one of its principal activities the study of cotton, will show each phase of its research in fields and labor atories. Cotton Belt Agriculturists Attending the congress to see what Texas is doing with its No. 1 cash crop will be agricultural leaders from all over the Cotton Belt, representatives of nationwide manufacturing concerns and many cotton farmers. First stop in the inspection of laboratory research will be the Beasley Laboratory, headquarters for regional research in cotton genetics for the Cotton Belt. All the available wild cotton species of the world are maintained at the laboratory, in addition to hundreds of specific hybrids and special cytogenetic stocks, consti tuting the largest collection of Aggie Grid Star, species hybrid material in the Uni- tritive value of cottonseed meal— which has been studied intensely ted States. The wild cottons and hybrids are grown in an affort to produce improved varieties by hybridiza tion. Strains with almost twice the fiber strength of ordinary cotton have been developed through these studies, but their yields are not yet satisfoctory for commercial pro duction. Visit Laboratory Later the cotton men will visit the Cotton Genetics Field Labora tory at the Main Station Farm, where the same type studies as those conducted in the Beasley Laboratory are conducted on a field scale. Following an explanation of the effects of processing on the nu- by the Biochemistry and Nutrition Department of the station—the group will be shown the research of the Cottonseed Byproducts Re search Laboratory, where solvent extraction of cottonseed oil has been pioneered for Texas. The Cot tonseed laboratory currently is studying ways to improve solvent extraction processes. To See Ag Works will go to the Brazos River Valley Laboratory to see experimental work in the cotton fields. They will inspect experimental oil bearing crops—which may soon keep cot ton oil mill machinery busy during the off season—and will visit cot ton insect Control experiments. Methods of cotton insect control Insect Control and the results obtained this year will be shown. The congress will be given a summary of the station’s work with systemic entomology, whereby the insecticides are car ried from seed or soil into the sap of the plants, making the plants poisinous to certain in sects. With Texas growing 40 per cent of the nation’s cotton acreage and one-third of the nation’s production, the Texas Experiment Station has led in development of mechanical equipment, especially mechanical harvesters. The visitors will see cotton mechanization plots, where fertilization, weed control, spray ing and dusting, defoliation and harwesting are done by highly- developed mechanical means. Cotton disease resistance studies and cotton breeding and perform ance trials also will be shown. Ag Plane Demonstration Bride Live Here Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Smith are at home in College Station following their Saturday night wedding in the First Presbyterian Church, Houston. Bruisin’ Bob, star fullback of Texas Aggie gridiron fame, and Miss Betty Lu LaFarge culminat ed a romance that began when they were Houston high school students with their wedding Saturday. Mrs. Smith is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G. A. LaFarge of Houston. For the past two years she has been a student at Southern Methodist University. Parents of the Aggie football star are Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Smith, 836 Third, Houston. Gowned in magnolia satin and imported French lace, the bride entered the church on, the arm of her father. Her dress was fashioned with a deep tulle yoke edged with tiny lace flowers and extended in to a diamond shaped bodice also frosted with lace. The bodice of the dress fastened down the back with tiny satin buttons. The lace sleeves tapered to points over her hands. Her skirt extended into a formal length train. The fingertip veil was of il lusion and fell from a satin bon net frosted with lace and em broidered with seed nearls. Mrs. Smith’s bouquet was a fan of French lace made of stephano- tis, lilies of the valley and white orchids. Bob’s attendants were Cletus Brown, Jr., best men; Jack Miller, Jim King, Jeff Jefferies, Jim Har rell, Robert Paine, III, Mason O’Keiff, Jack Simpson and Robert Hall, ushers. The bride was attended by Miss Barbara Alexander as maid of honor and by Miss Louise Neely, Miss Betty Willetts, Mrs. G. M. O’Keiff, Miss Sara Lou Moore, Miss Sally Sutton and Miss Made line Milner as bridesmaids. They wore identical gowns of blue taffeta frosted with white organdy embroidered in a rose pat tern. The gowns had tiny cap sleeves, bouffant skirts and deep oval yokes. Their bouquets were fan-shaped. The group also will see the work being done in the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Cotton Fiber and Spinning Laboratory, which is working cooperatively with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Tests are made in the lab oratory of tensile strength of cot ton fibers, fiber length, length var iability, fineness and maturity. Other tests on commercial textile machinery determine manufactur ing waste, yam strength, yam ap pearance and general processing performance. After seeing the work being done in the laboratories, the cotton men Jim Wells (Continued From Page 2) that area are beginning to come out from under that web he has so neatly woven over the polls of that sector ? Only time can answer those questions. But the South Texas politician who inherited his prov ince from father Archie Parr has let it be known far and wide that every vote counts . .. but we aren’t one to say whether or not they are all legitimate. Highlighting the tour will be a demonstration of the first airplane designed exclusively for agricultur al use. The plane, which contains numerous revolutionary features, was designed and built at the A&M Personal Aircraft Research Center. Capable of lifting a 1200-pound spray of dust load from an unpre pared field, the plane has built-in tanks and hoppers which facilitate the handling of agricultural chem icals. It has special safety features aimed at reducing the mortality rate of pilots on agricultural mis sions, including improved maneu verability and vision. Designed for easy maintenance and repair away from base, the plane can operate for more than three hours without stopping to refuel. A third tour will take the group to the cotton poison division of Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company at Bryan and to the storage facilities of the Texas Planting Seed Association for an inspection. Discussion of Studies Aside from the tours, the con gress program will include a dis cussion of world-wide cotton stud ies by top authorities. Dr. R. D. Lewis, director of the Texas Agri- Action’ cultural Experiment Station, will discuss “Cotton Research in Ac tion.” Dr. Dysart E. Holcomb, dean of engineering, Texas Technologi cal College, will talk on “Textile Research in Texas,” and Dr. A. B. Cox of Texas University will re view “Cotton Merchandising Re search in Texas.” A discussion of cottonseed processing research in Texas will be given by Dr. A. W. Melloh, vice director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. Knox T. Hutchinson, assistant Secretary of Agriculture, will ad dress the Congress on “Cotton Re search and Mobilization.” Others on Program Others on the program will be Dr. Aaron M. Altschul, head of the protein and carbohydrate divi sion, Southern Regional Research Laboratory, New Orleans; Dr. M. K. Horne, Jr., chief economist, Na tional Cotton Council of America, Memphis, Tenn.; Read P. Dunn, Jr., director of foreign trade, Na tional Cotton Council of America, Washington. E. D. White, chief of the cotton fiber division, Economic Coopera tion Administration, Washington, and Winthrop G. Brown, director, Office of International Materials Policy, Department of State, Wash ington. Official Notice Summer students to be graduated at the end of either six weeks terms are remind ed that July 20, 1951, is the last day on which they may order graduation an nouncements. Walton D. Hardesty, Bus. Mgr. Student Activities NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS The Board of Trustees of the A. & M. Consolidated Independent School District will receive competitive sealed bids for the erection of a five classroom Elementary School and Cafeteria on the Jersey Street Campus and a two room Negro Science Building at the Lincoln School Campus until 3:00 P.M., July 31, 1951 in the Library of the A. & M. Consolidated High School on Jersey Street. Plans and specifications will be avail able after July 10, 1951 at the office of the Architects, Paul G. Silber & Company, 1919 Cinncinnati, San Antonio, on deposit of $30.00. All bids must be submitted on forms prepared and supplied by the Architects. A certified check or bid bond made pay able to the Board of Trustrees of the A. & M. Consolidated Independent School District in the sum of $2,000.00 for the Elementary School and Cafeteria, and $500.00 for the Negro Science Building must accompany bid on the general con tract, $500.00 on the Plumbing and Heat ing, $250.00 on the Electric Wiring and $400.00 on the Kitchen Equipment. The Board of Trustees reserves the right to accept any and reject any or all bids. Signed: L. S. RICHARDSON, Supt. A. & M. Consolidated School* USE BATTALION CLASSIFIED ADS TO BUY, SELL, RENT OR TRADE. Rates , ... 3c a word per Insertion with a C5o minimum. Space rate In classified lection .... 60c per column-inch. Send 111 classified to STUDENT ACTIVITIES IFFICE. All ads must be received In Stu- lent Activities office by 10 a.m. on the lay before publication. • WANTED • CHEAP second-hand bicycle or reason ably priced motor bike. Phone 6-6146. • HELP WANTED • • HOME REPAIR • ALL TYPES home repair work—additions, roofing, siding, painting, concrete work, and redecorating. 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