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Number 110: Volume 52
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1952
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Blood Drive
Receives Boost
With 197 Pints
The blood donation goal of 300 pints set for the area
of College Station received a boost today with 197 persons
each scheduled to give a pint of blood tomorrow.
With facilities set up in the YMCA, the Red Cross
Bloodmobile sent here by the Southeast Texas Defense Blood
Center will operate from 12 noon until 6 p. m. both tomorrow
and Wednesday.
This trip is the Bloodmobile’s third visit here this year.
In the two previous trips, 173 persons donated blood.
“This is an opportunity for individuals 18 years or
1 ♦'older to make a real contribution
_ to their country,” W. L. Penber
Shepard
Tells 4 4th R’
To TISA
Pat Martin Named Queen.
For Cotton Pageant & Bali
“Responsibility” was stress
ed by Texas Secretary of the
State John Ben Shepard at
the closing meeting of the
Texas Intercollegiate Student
Association held on the Campus of
Texas Western College in El Paso
this past weekend.
More than 200 delegates from 34
colleges and universities from all
parts of Texas heard Shepard’s ad
dress at the TISA banquet.
Earlier in the meeting, the dele
gates elected new officers. Lew
is Stephens of Hardin Simmons
University replaced Baylor’s Frank
Lady as president of the Associa
tion.
Also elected to serve during
1952-53 were Don Young of A&M,
parliamentarian; R. G. Wells,
North Texas State College, vice-
president; Julie Bourg, Texas
State College for Women, secre-
taary; and Bob Hunter, Abilene
Christian College, treasurer.
Young was unopposed to his of
fice and elected by acclamation.
Rice—Next Host
The campus of Rice Institute
was chosen as the convention site
for 1953.■
Other business on the program of
the afternoon session included the
report of the Resolutions Com
mittees of the TISA.
A resolution commending Texas
Western College for a “pleasant
and worth while convention” was
unamimously adopted by the del
egates, and the executive officers
of the organization were given a
standing ovation for their work in
making preparations for the meet
ing.
(See SHEPARD, Page 4)
Former Student
Is Promoted
With U. S. Forces In Japan—-
Two San Benito, Texas, soldier's
have been promoted to the rank
of corporal while serving with the
382nd General Hospital, Kanaoka
Barracks, Japan.
They are Aaron Garcia, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Roger A. Garcia,
and Edd Thomas, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Adolph Thomas, 824 N. Milam
St.
Both men joined the 382nd at
Fort Lewis, Wash., in January,
1951 before the unit was sent to
Japan.
Garcia was employed by the San
Jose Pharmacy in San Benito be
fore he entered the Army, While
Thomas was a student at Texas
A&M during 1950.
thy, dean of men said. “Blood is
a constant and vital need of our
men on the battle fields.”
People who have had recent maj
or operations or certain diseases
were rejected for donations. Jun
iors who are now receiving their
shots for summer camp were also
not allowed to donate.
Donors should not eat a heavy or
fatty meal within four hours of
the scheduled time for the dona
tions, according to Dr. Raymond
O. Dart, director of the Bloodmob
ile.
Light refreshments, without but
ter, milk, cream, mayonaise, salad
oils, fats or fatty meats may be
eaten, Dart said.
The schedule of donors for Tues
day is as follows:
12 (noon)—Gertrude Timmons,
(See LIST, Page 2)
Russia Supplies
Chinese Reds,
Ridgway Says
Tokyo, March 10 — (TP) —
“The main source of supply
for present Chinese Commun
ist forces ... in Korea . . .
is from Soviet furnished ma
teriel,” a hitherto secret report in
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s head
quarters asserts.
Although the United Nations
command never has announced the
capture of a Russian soldier, prac
tically all of the equipment now in
use by the North Korean Army
(NKA) and the Chinese Commu
nist Forces (CCF) is Russian-
made.
So too is the swift jet intercep
tor plane, the MIG-15, which pa
trols northwest Korea from Man
churian bases.
A staff officer at Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway’s headquarters today
made available to the Associated
Press a hitherto secret report con
taining a list of captm'ed guns,
vehicles and other war machinery
which the Soviets have turned over
to the North Korean and Chinese
Communist armies.
Red staff officers drafting truce
(See RED SUPPLIES, Page 4)
By JOHN WHITMORE
Battalion Editor
Denton, March 9—A pert 19-year-old
bownette from Mississippi was named Cotton
Queen and will reign over the 18th annual
Cotton Pageant and Ball. She was named by
King Cotton Bill Lewis, and his court.
Miss Elizabeth Pat Martin, who trans
ferred to TSCW in the Spring of 1951, was
announced as queen at noon Sunday at Den
ton. Queen Pat is from State College, Miss.,
and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Mar
tin.
The nine man cotton court selected the
She Picked Cotton
In Mississippi
This year’s Cotton Queen—Miss not believing it.”
Pat Martin—says she has really
picked cotton. She did this, she
said, while on her father’s Missip-
pi farm.
When Dr. H. E. Hampton, fac
ulty sponsor for the Cotton Pag
eant and Ball, made the announce
ment of the cotton court and fi
nally the queen, Miss Martin just
Miss Martin, who is a trim 5’6”,
was born and raised in Mississippi.
Her father, Mr. V. G. Martin, is an
queen and eight royal duchesses from 32 can
didates selected by the Tessie student body.
King Bill Lewis will escort the queen at the
ball, and they will reign over the pageant
which will be held April 25.
Miss Martin is a junior costume design
and fashion illustration major and trans
ferred to TSCW from Mississippi State Col
lege.
The eight duchesses will be escorted the
weekend of the Cotton Pageant by members
of the court.
Don Tschirhart, senior agronomy
major from Hondo, will escort Miss
Janice Bowden. Miss Bowden is a
senior occupational therapy major
from Lampassas.
John Burke, senior agronomy
major from Rochelle, will escort
Miss Betty Jo Webster. Miss Web
ster is an accounting major from
Grosbeck.
Bill Floyd, junior agronomy ma
jor from Honey Grove, will escort
Miss Betty Doan. Miss Doan is a
sophomore business major from
San Benito.
Harold Scaief, junior from San
agriculture education instructor, in Benito, will escort Miss Ann Hemp-
the southern state. It was on his hill who is a speech major from Al-
farm she learned to pick cotton— bany.
though she will admit it wasn’t Cotton Court
much.
This is the first year at TSCW Don He 8'h senior from Peters-
sat in her chair with her hands for the Mississippi lass. She trans- bmg- will escort Miss Joan Jop-
ferred to the all-girl school in the . M 1SS Jophng is a sophomore
Pat Martin
Queen Cotton of 1952
Nine-Foot Monster Kirk
Wins ‘Madness’ Award
ASABAB’s “Madness” went off
in the regular style of the famed
A&M Architect’s annual ball, al
though decoration chairman Jack
Brandt named past Saturday
night’s affair “as the best, wildest
and maddest in the past five
years.”
Bob Kirk won first prize in the
costume contest. He came dressed
as a nine-foot monster with a
Spanish-moss-dirt mixture for a
head and a body cloaked by large
burlap bags.
Second place went to Mr. and
Mrs. Glenn LaRue, both of whom
were also dressed in a monster
fashion. Larue, portraying a head
less createure, carried his head on
a dagger.
Other “mad” costumed couples
were present at the dance in Sbisa
Hall where 180 architects and
guests danced to the music of the
Aggieland Combo.
Alex Monroe, portraying a doc
tor, covered the dance floor with a
pair of delivery tongs, while Dick
Fitzgelard and date Mary Ann
Walter came as a “fire plug and
dog.”
Among the guests were students
from Arlington State College and
Rice Institute.
f§ over her face for several minutes.
1 After that she was mobbed by the
jj 32 candidates for Cotton Queen.
“I was flabbergasted when they
announced I was queen,” she said.
“I was sitting there thinking what
a nice bunch of girls they had se
lected for the court and didn’t even
think I had a chance to be selected.
I didn’t know it was me until the
doctor (Dr. Hampton) said it was
me. I just sat there for a while
MSC Talent Show
Draws 550 People
With shows from the University
of Texas, Southern Methodist,
TSCW, the University of Houston,
North Texas State, as well as
A&M, the stage variety show was
well received by both students and
College Station residents.
The first MSC sponsored Inter
collegiate Talent Show was over
flowing with both talent and peo
ple Friday night as 550 spectators
Sponsored by the Music Com
mittee and under the direction of
Betty Bolander, MSC program con
sultant, the 13 student-actors pre
sented acts of male and female vo
calists, individual and dual pian
ists, modern jazz dancers, Spanish
dancers, hillbilly, classical, and
semi-calsical vocalists and a pre
sentation of individual dialouge.
spring of 1951 on the recommen
dation of her sister-in-law.
“This year,” she said, “certainly
is full of surprises.”
While a student at Mississippi
State College, she was a class
beauty during her freshman and
clothing and costume design ma
jor from Paris, Texas.
Bibb Underwood, senior from
Mesquite, will be the escort of Miss
Jane McBrierty. Miss McBriety is
a sophomore secretarial service ma
jor from Ennis.
Glenn Black, junior from Briggs,
sophomore years. The brown-eyed wag name( j to escort Miss Phyllis
19-year-old beauty was also spon- Blackwell who is a freshman secre-
sor for a military ball held at MSC. tary education major from Shreve-
After she gets out of TSCW port, La.
next year Miss Martin plans to go And Kert Goode, sophomore from
into the fashion illustration field. Bertram, will escort a Freshman,
When asked what her irapres- Miss Ann Morris who is majoring
sion of the Aggies was she quickly in Child Development and nursery
said, “They are wonderful.” This education. Miss Morris is from Dal-
will be the first time she has been las.
invited to the A&M campus. (See QUEEN, Page 2)
Great Mentalist’s Show
In Guion Hall Thursday
By BERT WELLER
Battalion News Writer
Dr. Franz J. Polgar, Amercia’s
greatest mentalist, will fill the
Guion Hall stage Thursday night,
March 13, as he presents his amaz
ing two-hour show, “Miracles of
the Mind.”
Born in Hungary, Polgar attract
ed the notice of Ferenczi, a psy
choanalyst friend of the great Dr.
Frued. Hearing of the young man’s
possibilities the “father of mod-
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ern psychiatry” invited the young
Polgar to come to Vienna to par
ticipate in some of his classes.
Perhaps the greatest influence
on the hypnotist’s life was his con
tact with a Professor Nemeti in
Budapest. Although the teacher
has been called the “seediest look
ing man I have even known” by
Polgar, he taught him the basic
techniques of hypnosis and mental
development.
While still in Europe, Polgar
had the opportunity to meet and
observe the trickery and charla
tanism of Hanussen. This trick
ster later became infamous as the
astrologer who bolstered Hitler’s
sagging ego. Polgar is one of the
few men who know the inside
story of the tricks used by this
wizard.
Coming to America, young Pol
gar had to start at the bottom as
a waiter in speakqasies. He soon
advanced to giving demonstrations
of his abilities as a mentalist and
a hypnotist. Here he discovered
that his powers were potentially
great as an entertainer.
(See POLGAR, Page 4)
Members of the 1952 Cotton Court are, first row left
to right, Janice Bowden, Ann Morris, Joan Jopling,
Queen Pat Martin, King Bill Lewis, Phyllis Blackwell,
Betty Joe Webster, and Jane McBrierty. Top row left
to right, Don Tschirhart, Kert Goode, Don Hegi, Ann
Hemphill, Harold Scaief, Bill Floyd, Betty Doan, Glenn
Black, John Burke, and Bibb Underwood. The Court
was selected Saturday and Sunday in Denton. Each
class nominated eight candidates for the court.
Bryan Artists
4th Program
Set Tuesday
A string quartet will be the
fourth program of the Bryan Art
ists series and will be presented to
morrow evening at 8 in the Stephen
F. Austin Auditorium.
Members of the quartet will be
Jack O’Brien, second violin; Phil
lip Burton, viola; Colin Hampton,
violin cello; and Sidney Griller,
first violin.
The group will play two quar
tets—“Hyden” by the well known
English composer Sir John Ewen,
and a four movement quartet by
Dvorak.
Tickets will be sold at the door
with prices at $2.40 for adults and
$1.20 for students.