Page 2 THE BATTALION Friday, March 20, 1953 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS Track Team Overlooked In Sports Staff Coverage Editors, The Battalion: I think it is about time some one let you know that A&M has a track team, in fact, a very gnod track team, Anyone who reads your sports page would not know if we did or not. For two consecu tive days there has not been one word mentioned about the track team or any of its meets. .Wednesday’s Battalion was fill ed with news about the swimming team, the tennis team and even the basketball team, but it seems that the track team wasn’t impor tant enough to take the time and space to mention something about it. Basketball season is over, swim ming and tennis are minor sports —track is a major sport and is in season. The A&M track team has won six of the last seven South west Conference championships and has been defeated only three or four times in its last 50 meets. It’s a good team, there’s no get ting around that, pi-obably the sec ond best in the nation. Why don’t you tell someone about it? A&M has something to be proud of in its track team and now when A&M needs a shot in the arm, you com pletely overlook it. You are sup posed to give a complete and un biased report of the news. You are doing a poor job as far as your sports page is concerned. During the fall your sports page is full of football, football, and football. Where did they finish A. R. Russell Will Crown Cotton Court Albert R. Russell, ^assistant to the executive vice-pi’esident of the National Cotton Council of Am erica, will crown King and Queen Cotton at the 19th annual Cotton Pageant, April 24, in DeWare Field House. Russell will also give a short sketch of the cotton industry, said Clarence Watson, faculty sponsor of the pageant. Queen Cotton, Jane McBrierty, at TSCW junior, and her eight ladies-in-waiting recently made a trip to Neiman-Marcus in Dallas where they choose dresses for the coronation. Dale Fischgrabe, president of the Agronomy Society and student coordinate for the pageant, said plans for the event are progress ing according to schedule, and predicted this years’ pageant and ball should be the greatest ever produced by the Agronomy Soc iety. Eller’s Band to Play For FFA Dance Jimmy Eller’s five-piece band will play fox' the annual FFA Westeim Dance Satui'day, Api'il 18, announced Tom Milligan, chair man of the band committee. Sponsoi'ed by the A&M Col legiate FFA Chapter', the dance will be held in Sbisa Hall. High light of the dance will be the se lection of two sweetheai'ts, one repi-esenting high school FFA chapters and one the A&M chap- tei's. Everyone is invited, especially high school FFA boys, Milligan said. Tickets ai’e $2 stag oi' drag. this year in the conference? Then it was basketball and whei'e did they finish? Now tx*ack season is here and you have a team that wins, and wins consistantly but few write-ups about ti'ack appear in your paper. Maybe ti'ack meets do not di'aw as many fans as does football games and basketball games, but you have no one to blame but yourselves. A little publicity and praise in A&M‘s own paper would help tremendously. I do not intend to cxiticize the football, basket ball or other teams hei’e at A&M. My criticism is directed solely at you and youx* staff. Track is a good, clean spoi't and the coaches and membei'S of the track team have put in lots of hai'd work to build it up to what it is. Why don’t you give them a bx-eak ? The track coaches scheduled one home meet fox' this season. Why only one ? Pi'obably because A&M’s own-paper doesn’t think enough of the team to give it a decent pox- tion of the spoi'ts page. • Poor Judgment, Perfect Timing Editors, The Battalion: This letter refers to your ai'ticle “Senioi's Okey Beei', Deny Juniors Ring” in The Battalion of Fi'iday, March 13. It is my opinion that you are making fun of the senior class in this article. That’s ali’ight with me but why not use a little judgment when you wi'ite such an article. Your timing was peidect; the article appeared the day that many of the high school students wei'e arriving on the campus and in the edition of the papei' that was di- x'ected towards them. I can see whei'e you would be tempted to i’un such an article and realize that it is the policy of a paper to print facts, but let’s use some com mon sense in pi'esenting these facts. The article won’t have much ef fect on the high school boys, but you can rest assured that it will cause some of the boys’ pax^ents to wonder about the integrity of the senioi's and of the school. Don R. (Bubba) Heath ’53 EDITORS’ NOTE: While you ai'e pei'fectly right in stating that many pai’ents may doubt the in- tegi'ity of the senior class by read ing the article concerning senioi's wanting to have a pai'ty and serve beei’, the fact is they did just that. As for timing, we admit it was a pei'fect job, for had we waited until the next issue (four days later) the news would have been old. If membei'S of the senior class ai'e to do such things as vote to have beer pai'ties, we see no i’ea- son why steps should be taken to cover up such things for visiting parents and high school students. If the pai’ents and students ai'e not adult enough to know such things, exist at all colleges, prob ably at other schools more than A&M, we aren’t going to take the responsibility of painting a rosy picture only for them to be disil lusioned later. Perhaps if you and some other members of the class had been at the meeting such a motion would have not passed and there would be nothing for which to be asham ed. You are missing a golden oppor tunity to give A&M a little pres tige among the nation’s colleges when you fail to publicize your own track team. Glenn Blake ’54 EDITORS’ NOTE: A quick check reveals that since March 5 (the first track meet was March 7) only three issues of The Battal ion have gone without stories about the track team. We admit, two of the three were this Aveek. We certainly realize what a great team A&M has, and by all means the players and Coaches Anderson and Putnam deserve much noteriety for their accomp lishments. We publicize other sports heavi ly in season, true. But they are practically the only Aggie teams competing at the time. Members of the track team have the unfor tunate circumstance of being in season the same time as a num ber of minor sports, as well as baseball, a major sport. Space limitations prohibit us from making a general rule that track shall receive a place on the sports page every day. We owe obligations to our readers and par ticipants in other sports to print stories concerning them also. As the season continues, we feel sure that no important news about the Aggie track team will be over looked. We also hesit.ate to agree that with more publicity track meets could draw crowds equal to foot ball and basketball. Incidently, good luck as you compete with the Aggie track team Saturday in Baton Rouge. Debate Team Sets Louisiana Match The Texas A&M debate team will debate in the Northwest Louisiana State College Tournament March 20-21 in Natchitoches, La. The A&M teams were judged excellent at the Piney Woods Tournament March 13-14 in Nac ogdoches. The senior team, composed of John Samuels and Kenneth Scott, Avon three out of four of its pre liminary debates, but Avas defeated in the second elimination round. Bud Whitney and John Wilson, members of the freshman team, also Avon three out of four of their preliminary debates. They were defeated in the first elimination round. The tournament was held at Stephen F. Austin College in Nac ogdoches with 24 teams entered from Texas, Louisiana and Okla homa. N. W. Louisiana State College was the winner of the tourna ment. Local Hospital Gets New 62 Bed Wing Construction xvill begin within 30 days on a 62-bed addition to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan. Bids have been forwarded to the State Health Department in Austin for aAvarding of contracts. Based on tabulated bids, total construction will cost $585,796, in cluding six separate construction phases. Eitze-Kitchens Construction Co. of Austin was low bidder on gen eral construction. Ray R. Gauger, architect for the hospital, said Eitze-Kitchens Company’s bid was $337,734. With $800,000 available, plans are to equip the new Aving with modern facilities. In addition to the new 62-bed Aving, 12 beds will be added by remodeling the present building after completion of the new section. Eleven Boy Scouts Receive Awards Eleven Boy Scouts from Troop 386N, sponsored by Lincoln High School, have received ad\'ance- ments in rank. AAA r arded the rank of first class scout were Howard Baker, Moses Boone, Faress Johnson and Roose velt Watson. Those receiving rank of second class scout were Charles Washing ton, Walter McGruder, Robert Thompson, Donald Caldwell, Ray mond Williams, Donalbert Simms and Ralph Whiefield. AVMA Auxiliary Hears Mrs. Hanna Mrs. Louis B. Hanna, Children’s Librarian at the Carnegie Library in Bryan, gave an illustrated lec ture about Easter in the Holyland before the Student AVMA Auxil iary Wednesday in the MSC. Mrs. Rachel Moore AA r as elected to represent the auxiliary as duch ess to the Cotton Pageant and Ball. i The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods. The Battalion is published twice a Aveek. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. 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MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN Co-Editors Ed Holder, Jerry Bennett '....Managing Editors Harri Baker. - City Editor Feggy Maddox Women’s News Editor Bob Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck Neighbors /. .News Editors Gus Becker, Bob Bortskie, Jerry Estes. Sports News Editors Vernon Anderson, Frank Hines, Bob Alderdice,Al Leroy Bruton, Guy Dawson, W. P. Franklin, R. D. Gossett, Carl Hale, Donald Kemp, Alfred McAfee, Bill Rogers, Ray Smith, Jerry Sonnier, Edward Stern, Roy Sullivan, Jon Kinslow, Dick Moore, Lionel Garcia, John Moody, Bob Palmer. Bill Shepard Staff News Writers Jerry Wizig, Jerry Neighbors, Hugh Philippus, Bill Thomas Sports News Writers Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry . . .Amusements John Kinslow, Dick Porter, Calvin Pigg City News Writers Conrad Stralu Circulation Manager Lawrence Casheer, Jewell Raymond, J. R. Shepard, Fred Her- nhndez, Charles F. Chick. ....Circulation Staff Bob Godfrey, Davey Davidson, Roy Wells, Keith Nickle, Melvin Longbofer. Herman M«iners r/. ... Photo Engravers Gene ftydell. Perry ' Shepard, John Merrill Advertising Representatives Dean Kennedy File Clerk At College Station Churches & “The Cords of the Cross” is the title of the sermon to be delrtered by the Rev. Nolan R. Vance, pas tor, at the morning worship ser vice of the A&M Methodist Church beginning at 10:55 a. m. Sunday. Sunday School will be taught at 9:45 a. m. The Wesley Founda tion will meet at 6 p. m. Thd even ing worship service will begin at 7:30 p. m. A&M Presbyterian Church The Rev. Forrest Eisenbise, di rector of the Southwest Section of the American Leprosy Mission, aauII show a movie and speak at a special service in the sanctuary of the A&M Presbyterian Church at 7 p. m. Sunday. Church School will be taught at 9:45 a. m. The morning worship service will begin at 11 a. m. The Presbyterian Student League will meet at the church at 6 p. m. Wednesday and go to Hensel Park for a picnic. Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church “Procuring and Practicing For giveness” is the topic of the ser mon to be delivered by the Rev. N. C. Renslo from Texas Luth eran College, Seguin, at the morn ing worship service of Our Sav iour’s Lutheran Church at 10:45 a. m. Sunday. Poultry Judgers Ready for Meets The Junior Poultry Judging Team is readying for competition in the Southern Intercollegiate Contest to be held in Memphis, Tenn. April 16 and 17, said team coach C. B. Ryan. Purpose of this contest is to stimulate interest in poultry pro duction and also to teach potential poultry producers to distinguish betAveen the grades of poultry products. The theme of the mid-week Len ten service Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. will be “The Crucifixion.” Bethel Lutheran Chumrh “Christ Is Our Sympathetic High Priest” is the title of the ser mon to be delivered at the morn ing worship service of the Bethel Lutheran Church at 10:45 a. m. Sunday. Sunday School will be taught at 9:30 a. m. “Joseph of Arimathea” is the title of the sermon to be delivered at the Lenten service be ginning at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday. The Aggie Walther Club will meet in the MSC 7 p. m. Wednesday. A&M Christian Church copal Chapel Avill begin Avith Holy Communion at 8 a. m. Sunday and Avill be followed by Church School at 9:30 a. m., Morning Prayer and sermon at 9:30 a. m. and 11 a. m. The Rev. Charles G. Workman, A&M Presbyterian student worker, will delrter the sermon at the worship service of the A&M Christian Church beginning at 11 a. m. Sunday. David Edens, A&M student, will be the moderator. Sunday School will be taught at 9:45 a. m. CYF and DSF will I meet at 5 p. m. A&M Church of Christ St. Mary’s Catholic Chapel Masses xvill be said at the St. Mary’s Catholic Chapel at 8:30 and 10 a. m. Sunday and 6:45 a. m. Friday. College Heights Assembly of God Sendees at the College Heights Assembly of God will begin with Sunday School at 9:45 a. m. Sun day and Avill be followed by the morning worship service at 11 a. m., Christ’s Ambassadors at 6:30 p. m. and the evening worship ser- Adce at 7:30 p. m. Church k; Svinday i Jesus Chri will be 10:30 a. ment sen- p. m. in :.i BORIS will be L News Ik Meeting: th xushed a Christif.f the nh The h 7 to REI Triangte Drived n g LICA II/ and NDER C Lively Arrow Sports Shirts Add “Local Color” To Campus \ a', Look for a highly-colored style picture this season — thanks to the new crop of Arrow sports shirts. Smart solids in rayon gabardine, checks and plaids in “Sanfor ized” cotton and other fabrics, will be seen on campus from coast to coast. Available at all Arrow dealers. 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