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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1952 ■
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A&M Students
For 74 Years
Price Five Cents
A&M Men
Leave For
West Point
J. W. “Doggie” Dalston,
commander of the infantry
regiment, and Grady L. Small
wood, commander of the
freshman regiment, leave to
day to visit the United States
Militai-y Academy at West Point,
New York.
They arrive at West Point Thurs
day morning and will be indoctri
nated for their two and one-half
day stay. On the return trip they
will visit New York City for a
day arriving in College Station
Tuesday, April 1.
Dalston and Smallwood will
join 112 ROTC students from other
colleges for the West Point trip.
These students are making the trip
in order to become familiar with
the life and training of a cadet at
the Military Academy.
While at West Point, the stu
dents will live as cadets. They will
have cadet escorts who will take
them "to classes and to meals.
They will also live in cadet bar
racks during their stay at the
academy.
Also scheduled are military dem
onstrations by the 1802nd special
regiment, a tour of the post, and
entertainment in the form of mov
ies, athletic events, and a dance.
Reviewing the Troops
Pace Re-Schedules
Visit to Aggieland
Secretary of the Army
Frank Pace has advised
PMS&T Col. Shelly P. Myers
that he tentatively plans to
visit A&M Thursday.
Col. Myers said the army
secretary will probably arrive
at Bryan AFB early Thursday
afternoon from Fort Hood
where he is to observe the
Longhorn maneuvers.
After a conference with the
PMS&T Thursday, the tenta
tive schedule calls for a review
of the cadet corps, Col. Myers
said.
Watching the corps march by at the Annual
Military Day parade are these distinguished mili
tary guests who visited the campus Friday and
Saturday. The group included five foreign mili
tary attaches from Washington, D. C.—(Battal
ion Photo by Cashion).
Duchess Entries for Pageant
Total 150, Deadline April 3
Over 150 girls from most parts
of the state of Texas will appear
as duchesses in the 18th Annual
Cotton Pageant, April 25, accord
ing to Don Hegi, social secretary
of the Agi'onomy Society. The
girls, selected by former student
groups, mother’s clubs, and cam
pus organizations, will join in hon
oring King and Queen Cotton, Bill
Lewis and Pat Mai’tin.
Duchess entiles are still being
accepted and will be taken up to
the time of the presentation. To
appear in the program, however,
the names must be turned in be
fore April 3, Hegi said.
To Build Stage
Student members of the Ag
ronomy Society will construct the
stage and the background for the
royal coronation. Theme of the
pageant has not been revealed but
will be announced soon.
Aggie Wife Contest
Deadline Is Saturday
The deadline for nominating Ag-
}ie wives for competition in the
Mrs. Texas A&M Contest sponsor-
>d by The Battalion and the MSC
Dance Committee is Saturday at
hoon.
Twenty-one wives have already
been nominated. All nominations
should be in the hands of Peggy
Maddox, The Battalion, Goodwin
Hall, by Saturday noon, Nomina
tions can be made by phoning
4-5444 or by mailing a nomination
blank to The Battalion.
Anyone may nominate the wife
of a student who has been married
at least one year. She must have
lived at A&M since September,
1951, and be an exceptional home
manager or employed outside the
home, or both. She should be the
mother of at least one child.
The candidates will be mailed
questionnaires to be filled out and
returned to Mrs. Ruby Nell Seale,
Social Office, MSC by 5 p. m. Fri
day, April 4. Mrs. Seale, an Aggie
wife, is chairman of the judging
committee.
The judging committee consists
of two Aggie wives, Mrs. Seale
and Mrs. Marilyn Jaccard; MSC
representative, Mrs. Ann Hilliard;
Battalion representative, Joel Aus
tin; athlete and single student rep
resentative, Dick Frey; and mar
ried student representative, James
C. Mullins.
Following the coronation and
presentation, DeWare Field House
will become a fashion center as
Beverly Braley’s Shop from Bryan
i presents the annual Cotton Pag
eant Style Show. All of the girls
nominated for queen who are not
in the court will appear as models
in the show.
Entertainment for the royal
couple will be provided by local
and imported talent. A modern
dance group from TSCW willl be
a feature of the program. The
Harmonaires Quartet from the
Singing Cadets will also appear
on the program.
Mrs. Bill Turner serves as di
rector of the pageant while Dr. H.
E. Hampton acts as the group’s
faculty sponsor and advisor. Quin
ton Johnson is in charge of ticket
sales.
Dance to Follow
Festivities will move to The
Grove following the entertainment
as guests join in honoring the new
ly crowned pair with a dance. The
Aggieland Orchestra will provide
music. In case of rain, the dance
will be held in Sbisa Hall.
Tickets for the pageant will be
on sale soon through the offices
of the Agronomy Society and local
business firms. Reserved seat tick
ets will be on sale at $1.25 while
all other seats will sell for $1. Tick
ets to the ball will cost $2.
All proceeds from the pageant
A&M Rifle Team
Wins Match Here
A&M’s number one rifle team
took the National Rifle Association
sectional match Saturday after
noon by defeating St. Mary’s, Bay
lor, and Arlington State College.
Harry Gayden, A&M freshman,
took first place in the individual
matches with a raw score of 283.
T. H. Pfeuffer of St. Mary’s was
second, and T. Burchell, also of
St. Mary’s placed third.
The Aggie number one team
placed first with a team score of
1,386. St. Mary’s was second with
1,378, and A&M’s number two team
came in third. Baylor was foui'th,
and Arlington was fifth.
A&M’s winning team was com
posed of Gayden, J. G. Rowe, R.
L. Lyon, C. S. Vance, and R. G.
Durrill.
and dance will be used to help
send the winners of the annual
cotton .contest on a trip through
various cotton producing areas. In
stead of the usual lengthy tour,
a shorter trip in which more stu
dents might participate is planned,
said Hegi.
Contest winners are selected on
the basis of an examination con
cerning various phases of cotton
production, such as classing, breed
ing, insects, and diseases.
Campus Chest Drive
Ge Is U nderway Monday
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Associate Editor
The 1952 Campus Chest Drive
gets underway here Monday with
an extensive campaign planned to
finance a Twelfth Man Scholar
ship and further finance the for
eign aid scholarship awarded for
the first time this year.
A total of $1,600 will be needed
to send an outstanding Texas boy
through A&M for four years
through the Twelfth Man Scholar
ship. All money received in ex
cess of $1,600 will be applied to the
Foreign Student fund which re
ceived $600 last year to start the
education of Trend Lund Krokann
of Norway.
Scholarship May Be Stopped
Campus Chest chairman Bobby
Dunn said Krokann’s scholarship
will be discontinued unless ample
contributions are made to the fund
to pay his educational expenses
next year.
Two showings of the movie
“We’ve Never Been Licked,” filmed
on the A&M campus, will be held
in Guion Hall Monday at 7:15 and
9 p.m. Admission will be 50 cents
and all money received will go to
the Campus Chest.
One of the biggest money-raising
plans of the campaign will be en
forced Tuesday when coffee will be
upped five cents at all College Sta
tion restaurants and drug stores.
The MSC will also boost the price
of coffee, with the additional nick-
le going to the Campus Chest Fund.
Dorm collections will be conduc
ted Wednesday and Thursday of
Third Aggie Rodeo
Planned April 3-5
The Third Annual Intercollegiate
Rodeo will be held April 3-5 in the
Aggie Rodeo Arena.
Calf roping, bareback riding,
saddle bronc riding, steer wrest
ling, ribbon roping, bull riding, and
a cowgirl’s event will be included
in the rodeo which is sponsored
by the Aggie Rodeo Association.
A championship team trophy do
nated by the rodeo association will
be awarded in addition to prizes
for the first four places in each
event.
First Place Buckles
A Trophy buckle will be award
ed to the first place winner in
the bareback riding event, a west
ern hat to the second place win
ner, a pair of spurs and a west
ern shirt to the third and fourth
place winners respectively:
In the calf roping event the fol
lowing prizes will be given: first
place, trophy buckle; second place,
western hat; third place, pair of
roping spurs; fourth place, west
ern shirt.
The first place winner in the sad
dle bronc riding event will re
ceive a trophy buckle; second place,
western hat; third place, pair of
bronc spurs; fourth place, western
shirt. Awards given steer wrest
ling winners will be first place,
trophy buckle; second place, west
ern hat; third place, a pen and
pencil set; fourth place, western
shirt.
Ribbon Roper’s Prize
In the ribbon roping event, the
awards are as follows: first place,
trophy buckle; second place, west
ern hat; third place, pair of spurs;
fourth place, western shirt.
First place winner in the bull
riding event will receive a ti’ophy
buckle; second place, western hat;
third place, pair of spurs; fourth
place, a hand tooled belt.
Rodeo Club Buys Prizes
Prizes will be bought by the
Rodeo Club from the money re
ceived for advertising space.
Schools attending are member
schools of the National Intercol
legiate Rodeo Association. NIRA is
composed of 44 member schools
over the nation which comete at
rodeos at each of the member
schools. At the end of each year,
10 top teams are selected on a
point basis and they represent
their schools at the NIRA finals
in Dallas May 6-10.
Bennett Elected
Journalists’ Veep
Jerry Bennett, sophomore jour
nalism major, was elected vice-
president of the Southwest Jour-
n a 1 i s m Congress for 1952-53
during the congress’s convention at
TSCW last week-end.
Bob Hollis, University of Hous
ton, is president, and Mary Helen
Jackson, Texas University, secre
tary of the congress.
The University of Houston will
be host for the meeting next year.
At the Military Ball
next week by company command
ers. The company which turns in
the largest amount of money per
man in the unit will receive a
maroon streamer for the company
guidon. Four white streamers will
be awarded to the next four high
companies.
Letters are being mailed to all
faculty members and to Bryan and
College Station merchants, asking
them to donate to the Campus
Chest fund.
“Students Help Students”
Chairman Dunn pointed out,
“This is our chance to do some
thing for another boy, to give some
deserving Texas high school grad
uate a chance to come to A&M.”
He asked all students to con
tribute generously and to think of
the value this money can accumu
late as the scholarship student con
tinues his studies here.
Students previously admitted to
A&M through the Twelfth Man
Scholarship have consistently been
good students and top men in the
college, Dunn said.
No Definite Goal
He pointed out that no definite
goal was set for this year. His
only plea was that students re
member that the Aggie from Nor
way would be forced to return
without more than one year of col
lege work if more than $1,600 is
not raised. All funds in excess of
this initial amount will finance
Krokann’s education, Dunn empha
sized.
Members of the Campus Chest
committee are Carroll Jones, Guy
Shown, Wallie Brisco, Don Buck
ner, Bob Layton, Bobby Jones, Rob
ert Travis, Buddy Russell, Ted
Uptmore, Robert Schwarz, Gene
Steed, and Lyle Wolfskill.
Hundreds Pour In
For TR Chest X-Rays
By noon yesterday, 750 students
and College Station residents had
gotten chest X-Rays from the mo
bile unit set up in the YMCA. Mrs.
A. A. Blumberg, secretary of the
Brazos County Tuberculosis Asso
ciation, estimated that 1,500 X-
rays would be made before the
day was over.
All freshman and sophomore PE
classes are meeting in the YMCA
yesterday and today, to get X-
rayed.
X-Rayed Yesterday
Among those who had their chest
X-rayed yesterday were Ernest
Langford, mayor of College Sta
tion, dean of agricultui'e Charles
Shepardson, and Dean of Arts and
Sciences J. P. Abbott.
“We have been running at our
full capacity of 200 people an hour
so far,” Mrs. Blumberg said. “Af
ter the PE classes are all through,
the line will let up.”
The X-rays will be made all this
week, through Saturday, in the
YMCA. They start at 9 a.m. and
continue until 5:30 p. m. “Because
thei-e are two men operating the
machine in shifts, we can work
straight through the lunch hour,”
Mrs. Blumberg said.
The machine will be at 217 S.
Main Srteet in Bryan next week
from April 1-11.
Women from the College Station
area are serving as volunteer host
ess and clerks. About 100 will be
used during the week the machine
is dt College Station.
Volunteer Workers
Volunteers Friday, March 21,
were Mrs. Raymond Reiser, Mrs.
M. T. Harrington, Mrs. A. D.
Adamson, Mrs. W. G. Breazeale,
Mrs. Jack Sloan, Mrs. J. E. Loupot,
Mrs. Frank Vaden, Mi’s. Fred Hick
man, Mrs. C. C. Doak, Mrs. Peggy
J
C. Owens, Mrs. Bishop Clements,
Mrs. Joe Woolket, Mrs. Spike
White, and Mrs. James Sullivan.
Yesterday’s volunteers were Mrs.
Don Young, Mrs. Louis Hanna,
Mrs. Tom Taylor, Mrs. S. R.
Wright, Mrs. A. G. Magee, Mrs.
Lee Richardson, Mrs. E. H. Temp-
lin, Mrs. W. H. Turner, Mrs. J. P.
Abbott, Mrs. Joe Fagan, Mrs. Ray
Oden, Mrs. E. V. Adams, Mrs. C.
B. Godbey, and Mrs. Emest Lang
ford.
MSC Council
Filing Begins
Filing for the two student
body elective positions to the
MSC Council begins Wednes
day morning at 8 a. m., Dan
Davis, Council President, an
nounced this morning.
Students interested in the of
fices may file in the Directorate
Office across from the Browsing
Library, Davis said.
One councilman will be elected
from each of two categories. Fresh
men and sophomores may file in
the “four semesters or less” class
ification, and juniors and seniors
who expect to return next year
may file in the “four semesters
or more” bracket.
Qualifications for the office are
a grade point ratio of 1.00 or bet
ter and one full semester complet
ed at A&M at the time of filing.
Candidates must also be returning
for both semesters next year.
Filing will close at 5 p. m. Mon
day. Exact date of the election,
which is scheduled for next week,
will be announced, Davis said.
Reg Uniforms
The Infantry Regiment colors go by the reviewing stand during
the Annual Military Day Parade Saturday. Color guards and
color bearers are, left to right, Bob Butler, John Kreiger, Harvey
Miller, and Rowe Caldwell.(Battalion Photo by Cashion).
Brig. Gen. Gunnar Moller, military attache from Sweden (right)
tells A&M Cadet Corps commander Eric Carlson and Maj. Helen
Odea, WASP, about life in his country during the annual Military
Ball in Sbisa Hall Saturday.—(Battalion Photo by Cashion.)
Singer A1 Galanti of Dick Jur
gens Band goes through a com
ical number during the Military
Ball Saturday.
Putter Jarvis, junior from Brownwood, and Miss Sue Wiggins,
Lon Morris co-ed from San Augustine, chat at the Combat Ball
Friday night. The Armor-Infantry-Engineer-Artillery Regiments
danced to the music of the Aggieland Orchestra in Sbisa amid
authentic battlefield decorations.—(Battalion Photo by Peeples).