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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.
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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
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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.
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Services of the A&M Church of
Christ will begin with Bible School
in the YMCA Chapel and regular
class rooms at 9:45 a. m. Sunday.
Morning worship at 10:45 a. m.,
Young People’s Meeting at 6:15
p. m. and the evening worship ser-
Adce at 7:15 p. m. will be held in
the YMCA Chapel.
“Paul, The Christian” is the
title of the sermon to be delivered
at the morning Avorship service.
First Baptist Church
Services at the First Baptist
Church Avill begin with Sunday
School at 9:45 a. m. and will be
followed by the morning worship
service at 10:50 a. m., Training
Union at 6:15 p. m. and the even
ing Avorship at 7:15 p. m.
St. Thomas Episcopal Chapel
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