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60: Volume 53
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1953
Published Ey ^
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price Five Cents
use Approves
r Boost Bill
'• Second Time
A.prir-24—</P)—A $f)00 vote was 93-42, short of the needed
Day boost for teachei's
) was further along-
final passage today,
faced the big barrier
money’s coming from.
; toiled doggedly on
pproved measure for
"Straight hours yester-
anced it to third and
against rugged oppo-
lit
n second reading was
bill—just as the Sen-
Then its backers,
rol, balked at mak-
because they wanted
7 up a tax bill to fi-
; week.
Million Cost
i estimated the $600
ost the state 66 to 70
s in two years. Right
eral fund 'has avail-
nding a little more
)|iown to the necessity
s if the comptroller
lere is money in hand
t support it. Several
in committee or sub-
t none has been sent
j.
the $600 pay raise
ild try next week to
ion on a tax bill,
y not only includes
, e pay bill, but a tax
.ed 4/. r > Vote
final passage of the
>rday would have re-
ir-f ifths vote. Op-
1 -ently hoping to put
3 measure in the po-
ig a bill but nothing
1 tried to suspend the
uires that a bill be
separate days. The
majority.
The bill is now pending on final
passage and its backers said their
next move may be to try to get
the House to transfer one of the
tax bills from the cautious com
mittee on revenue and taxation to
one that might move faster on a
money-raising measure.
The $600 boost backers won their
first major victory late in the aft
ernoon when they got a 72-62 vote
against Rep. H. A. Hull’s amend
ment trimming the Senate bill’s
raise to $300.
Then it turned down an amend
ment to change the plan of com
puting the economic index under
which local districts’ share of state
program is figured.
Hull of Port Worth withdrew
the final committee amendment,
one pegging the local district’s
share at 20 per cent, the state’s
at 80. Opponents have said it
would actually increase the dollar
amount to be put up locally.
That left the bill just as the Sen
ate approved it.
Crowd of 1,800 Will View
Coronation of King Cotton
REIGN TONIGHT — King Cotton Harold
Scaief looks down on his Queen, Jane Mc-
Brierty before preparing final arrange
ments in the coronation ceremony tonight.
Adjunct Mixes Counseling
And Study During Summer
By JERRY BENNETT
Battalion Managing Editor
High school graduates who plan
to enter college next fall can start
adjusting this summer to college
life at the A&M Junction Adjunct.
Directed by the Basic Division,
the Adjunct is 411 acre summer
camp located on the South Llano
River near Junction, Texas. Al
though it contains all the facilities
for outdoor recreation, its main
purpose is not directed toward
sports.
The basic objective of the camp
is to help prospective college stu
dents develop themselves educa-
u
Hi^il
CLASS—R. R. Lyle of the mathematics department, instructs some of last
.unction Adjunct students in one of several outdoor sessions included in the
ion’s annual summer camp acadmic program. ,
3RIEFS
Steps’ Film Here Monday;
Posts Camp Assignments
FILM Society will A&M Board of Directors will meet
dt
night “The Thirty-
Alfred Hitchcock’s
oviesj said Ed Hold-
the society.
11 begin at 7:30 in
'f the MSC.
* *
ION, assistant pro-
cultural education,
'v Thursday for the
parent-son banquet
ty in Fort Bend
ewer and Walter
agricultural edu-
accompanied Jack-
‘LLTB plans to spin-
olarship next year
.i-H Club member,
J y of Nacogdoches,
organization.
*
TIC Council and the
at 3:30 p. m. today in an informal
session.
At 9 a. m. tomorrow, the Board
of Directors will meet in the board
room to discuss schools budgets,
street improvements and water
lines to a new well. Bids will be
received for the new dairy breed
ing center 4 here as well as probable
approval of the faculty members of
the Athletic Council.
* * *
AWARDS WILL be presented
members of the Singing Cadets at
their annual banquet at 7:15 p. m.
Saturday in Sbisa Hall banquet
room.
Next year’s officers also will be
named at the fete. Keys will be
presented to four semester and
two semester members. Eight and
six semester members of the
Cadets will receive letters.
* * *
THREE HONORARY member
ships in the Saddle and Sirloin
Club will be awarded Saturday Building.
night at the Cattleman’s Ball.
Dancing begins at 8 p. m. in Sbisa
Dining Hall. Music will be furnish
ed by Jesse James’ cowboy band.
Proceeds will be used to sponsor
judging trips.
Persons receiving the member
ships are J. M. Jones of the animal
husbandry department, Dr. H.
Schmidt of the School of Veteri
nary Medicine and John A. Tulia
for his work as a Poland China
breeder.
* * *
MRS. TAYLOR WILKINS, wife
of Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assist
ant commandant, is doing better at
the Scott and White Hospital in
Temple. She underwent a lung
operation last Friday. Mrs. Wil
kins is expected to return home
sometime next week.
* * *
CAMP ASSIGNMENTS for Air
Force juniors have been posted on
the Air Force bulletin board on the
second floor of the old Ag. Ext.
tionally and per’sonally befoi’e ac
tually enrolling in the strenuous
and sometimes confusing world
which is college life.
The Adjunct works toward this
goal in four ways which include
an educational program to give
students an adequate sampling of
what college studies are like; indi
vidual counseling; physical train
ing; and vocational and aptitude
tests to help them find the course
of study for which they are most
suited.
Series of Tests
When a boy first arrives at the
Basic Division camp, he is given
the series of aptitude, achievement,
and interest tests. Using these
tests as a guide, the Adjunct’s
staff of A&M instructors and
trained counselors is able to help
the student prepare for problems
college may hold for him.
After completing these tests the
student may register for courses
which total seven hoims for each
of the two semesters. Consequent
ly he may complete as many as
14 hours before enrolling in col
lege during the fall. Courses in
clude English, algebra, trigono
metry, college orientation, reme
dial reading, and physical educa
tion.
Preparatory courses for college
writing, mathematics, and chemis
try are also offered for students
who need them. These courses
carry college credit but do not
count toward A&M degree require
ments. Attendance at the Adjunct
does not obligate a person to enroll
at A&M.
Help with Studies
Counselors and instructors are
available at all times to help boys
with their studies or personal
problems. At night the instructors
visit each cabin to help students
with their homework.
(See ADJUNCT, Page 3)
Old Southland
Set as Theme
More than 1300 persons are expected at
7:30 tonight to watch the 19th annual Cot
ton Pageant in DeWare Field House unfold
around life in the South with cotton.
A southern colonial mansion and a side
wheeler river boat will set the stage for
music by the Aggieland Orchestra and enter
tainment and the presentation of the Royal
Court and the coronation of Queen Cotton.
Following the Pageant, the Cotton Ball
will begin in The Grove with the Aggieland
Orchestra furnishing the music.
Albert Russell, assistant to the executive i
vice president of the National Cotton Council
of America, Memphis, Tenn. will crown King
Cotton, Harold Scaief of San Benito to start
the Pageant.
King Cotton Scaief than will crown his
■Queen. She is Jane McBrierty of
TSCW and Ennis.
Presentation of the Southwest
Conference duchesses and their es
corts will follow. They are Pat
Potts of TSCW, repi’esenting A&M,
escorted by Joel Austin of Alice;
Marillyn Holt of the University of
Arkansas, escorted by W. L.
Holmes of Dallas; Wanda Lou
Petty of Baylor escorted by R. D.
Rabon of Houston.
Carolyn Coy of Rice Institute, es
corted by Sam H. Harper of Hous
ton; Rosanne Dickson of Southern
Methodist University, escorted by
Ray Graves of Stephenville; Mary
Spencer ,of Texas Christiant Uni
versity, escorted by Jack Hall of
Amarillo; Pat McGinn of the Uni
versity of T’exas, escorted by James P llll:
Harrison of Houston.
Mary Spencer
Texas Christian University
Wanda Lou Petty
Baylor University
Former Aggie
A mong PO Ws
Returned
Thomas H. Wadill, 19, formerly
of Co. 9 here and of the Class of
’55, was one of the returned prison
ers of war released this week.
Wadill attended A&M for a
semester before resigning and
joining the US Marine Corps.
The Associated Press reported
that his mother, Mi’s. T. E. Wadill
of Fort Worth, who was watch
ing television, fainted and fell off
her chair Wednesday night when
the name of her son was announc
ed as a returned POW.
A moment after she awoke and
asked her husband:
“Was I dreaming?”
“No, you weren’t dreaming,” he
answered. “They don’t say where
he’s from, but I know where he’s
from; it’s our boy.”
Wadill was majoring in agricul
ture while at A&M. He was report
ed missing March 26 when the
Communists took Bunker Hill.
Corps’ Duchess
Joann Kirkpatrick will be the
duchess for the Agronomy Society,
sponsors of the annual Pageant.
She will be escorted by William E.
Floyd of Honey Grove.
Clarie Williams, Aggie Sweet
heart, of TSCW and San Antonio
will represent the Corps of Cadets,
the Student Senate and the senior
class. She will be escorted by
Cadet Col. of the Corps Weldon
Kiaiger of Austin.
TSCW representatives who form
the Royal Court and their escorts
tonight will be: Barbara Ann
Stewai't of Hargill and Ernie M.
Enloe of Daisetta; Gloria Bendy
of Smithville and Jerry O. Buster
of Wayside; Jonetta Lovett of
Memphis, Tenn. and
Thornton of Temple.
Pat McGinn
University of Texas
Pat Potts
A&M
Poll Shows 14 of 18
Past Cotton Queens
Married, Forgotten
By PEGGY MADDOX
Battalion Woman’s Editor
Being selected Cotton Queen of
Leonard the A&M Agronomy Society’s an
nual Cotton Pageant and Ball is
Mary Winston 'of Mount Pleas- one of the highest honors that can
ant and Thomas L. Payne of Stan- be bestowed upon a girl by Ag-
ton; Lucinda Bailey of Bartlett gies. However, it seems as though
(See COTTON, Page 6) these young ladies are almost for-
■ ♦■gotten after the last dance has
ended the big weekend of enter
tainment.
Trying to trace the whereabouts
of the former Cotton Queens show
ed the Agronomy Society had kept
no records of them. After finding
names of the “queens” in past is
sues of The Battalion, and for
warding them to the TSCW Ex
student’s Association, that group
was able to supply most of the
former queens’ addresses.
All but two of the 18 queens at
tended TSCW at least one semes
ter. The first Cotton Queen in
1932, Miss Justa Peters, and Miss
Ruth Gordon, 1939 Queen, were
not from TSCW. Miss Peters
married the king, Tom M. Drew,
an A&M graduate, and they now
live in Huntsville.
Miss Gordon married Dr. A. G.
Rue Pinalle Slates
Singers, Dancers
A vocalist, dancer and Latin
American Trio will perform Satur
day at Rue Pinalle, said Betty
Bolander, MSC program consult
ant.
The MSC night club will open at
8:30 p. m. Carmen Hinds, a radio-
TV singer from Ft. Worth will
sing. Billie Biggs, of SMU, will
do some modern jazz dances. She
was here at the Intercolleriate
Talent Show in March.
The Latin American Trio which
will supply the music, is composed
of Malcolm Stephen, Jerry Lindner
and Severan Schaeffer.
John O. (Dukey) Childs will act
as master of ceremonies.
No More Rain Seen Today
For College Station A rea
Little or no rain is forecast for College Station and
vicinity tonight, said the CAA Weather Bureau at Easter-
wood Airport.
Although thundershowers are possible, the weather is
expected to clear up early this afternoon, the bureau added.
Rain fell here last night for about three hours during
gusts of winds, ranging from 45 to 50 miles per hour, the
Weather Bureau added.
Only .76 inches of rain fell.
The minimum temperature last night was 69 degrees
while the maximum was 76.
Violent spring weather, heavy rains, and tornado and
king-size hail hit other parts of Texas. Fort Worth reported
2.25 inches fo rain, Grand Prairie 2.62, Dallas 1.58, Sonora
3.71.
Highways were flooded near San Angelo on the Sonora-
Del Rio highway.
McGill, a Bryan physician. They
have two children, Ruth Gordon
McGill, age 6, and John Gordon
McGill, age 4. Mrs. McGill listed
her occupation as housewife as did
seven other former queens in a
reply to questionnaires sent to
them.
The other “queens” are students,
models, teachers and civil service
employees according to the replies
received.
Fourteen of the 18 former queens
are married. Two of the girls who
are not married are Misses Pat
Martin, student at TSCW and 1952
Cotton Queen, and Miss Wanda
Harris, 1951 Cotton queen, former
Aggie Sweetheart and now-enroll
ed in UT. Possibly the other two
ladies, Miss Mamie Tramonte of
Galveston, 1940 Queen and Miss
Connie Bindley, 1941 Queen, are
married. Their questionnaires
were not returned.
Seven of the married queens who
returned their questionnaires have
an average of two children each.
The other former Cotton queens,
the year of their I’eign and their
addi’esses are the following: Miss
Phyllis Matlock, 1933, now Mrs.
Carlyle Smith, Grand Prairie; Miss
Will Anne Staude, 1934, now Mrs.
Joe Hardesty, Fort Worth;
Miss Elizabeth Poole, 1935, now
Mrs. R. L. Rhea Jr., San Antonio;
Miss Nolle Bone, 1936, now Mrs.
Eugene Carter, Fort Worth; Miss
Dorothy Ehlinger, 1937, now Mrs.
Edward W. Penshorn, San Anto
nio ;
Miss Mary Ann WalKer, 1938,
now Mrs. Travis Lee, Munday;
Miss Ernestine Ashe, 1942, now
Mrs. Robert R. Bridges, Austin;
Miss Jeanette Hudson, 1946, now
Mrs. Roy B. Caviness, living in
Germany;
Miss Joann Dobbs, 1947, now
Mrs. John David Manley III, Dal
las; Miss Martha Jean Langston,
1948, now Mrs. David Tips, Dallas;
Miss Dorothy Mangum, 1949, now
Mrs. Dan Kinsel, Cotulla; Miss
Docia Schultz, 1950, now Mrs.
Stanley G. Southworth Jr., Nash
ville, Tenn. No pageant was pre
sented from 1943-45,