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Number 206: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland),.TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1954
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School Group
To Total Over 1,000
Hepburn, Holden
Get Film Awards
LEFT HALFBACK FOR MAROONS—Billy pete Huddleston, letterman from Iraan, will
start ot left halfback in the Maroon backfield in Saturday night’s intra-squad scrim
mage football game. The contest is one of the featured sports events for visiting sen
iors who will be on the campus for High School Sports Day.
Fireshmen’s Big Weekend
Will Feature Two Dances
./ Ry JOHN AKARD
r Battalion Staff Writer
The Freshman class will have its
big weekend, beginning tonight
with the Fish ball. The f irst com
posite regiment ball and Cafe Rue
Pinalle will be Saturday night.
According to an order from the
headquarters of the first composite
regiment, this weekend will take
the place of “Fish Day.” The first
year cadets will not have to make
formations from 1 p.m. today until
<1:45 a.m. Monday.
The selection of the Freshman
class sweetheart will be the high
light of the Fish ball. The ball
Will be held in Sbisa hall from 9
to 1 tonight, with the Aggieland
orchestra furnishing the music.
Finalists Selected
The five finalists for Freshman
sweetheart are Carolyn Jones of
San Antonio, Ruthie Denmar of
Ft. Woi - th, Wynne Andei'son of
Austin, Darling McCoy of Hous
ton, and Laui’a Bess Knight of
Tyler.
The selection of the sweetheart
will be made by the class officers.
James Goode, president, and Wal
ter Raynaud head the selection
committee.
Decorations for the ball will be
handled by William Fuller and
Fred Bonnell. Robert McClesky is
chairman of the dance committee.
Jack Steel and Tom Conner have
charge of the programs. The tick-
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
Cloudy to partly cloudy today
with little change in temperature.
High yesterday 79. Low this
morning 50.
et and finance committee is headed
by Berne Clark and Bahn Farqu-
har.
Uniform for the Fish Ball is
class “A” summer. Dates will wear
formals.
‘Great Southwest’
The first composite regiment will
hold a western-style ball Saturday
from 8 p.m. to 12 in Sbisa hall.
Admission to the dance will be
free to all personnel in the regi
ment and to any senior who has
contributed a dollar to the regi
mental fund.
The theme of the dance will be
the “Gi-eat Southwest.” All per
sons attending will wear loud
shirts, big hats, cowboy boots, and
other clothing of the western farm
er or rancher.
The dance committee for the ball
consists of Vic Kennedy and Ed<he
Tompson. Mel Holubec and Geoi^e
Skladal are in charge of the guests.
Joe Warrick and Phil Jacobs are
handling the tickets. The orches
tra committee is headed by Ronnie
Hudson and Robert Manner.
Roy Hickman and T. B. Fields
ai’e in charge of programs. J. M.
Hickman and Don Jordan head the
finance committee. Juniors assist
ing the committee are Pat Wheat,
Don Benefield, and Dick McCas-
land.
Visitors Invited
Kennedy invited all visitors on
the campus for High School day to
attend the dance as the guests of
the regiment.
Corsages will not be pei’mitted
at the dance.
Cafe Rue Pinalle will be held
Saturday night from 8 to 12 in the
games area of the MSC. Music
will be furnished by the Mello
Tones, a six-man combo from Sam
Houston State college at Hunts
ville. Each man in the combo plays
several instruments. One of the
combo members is a “bopster” and
another will sing.
A floor show for Rue Pinalle is
being planned said Oscar Garcia,
chairman of the MSC dance com
mittee.
Bill Kalil is in charge of the cafe.
Admission is (50 cents a person.
By BOB THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD, March 2(5—<A>)_
Audrey Hepburn, the lovely prin
cess of “Roman Holiday,’.’ and
William Holden, hard-bitten war
captive in “Stalag 17,” won the top
Oscars in the Academy Awards
last night.
“From Here to Eternity” was
announced the best picture of 1953,
and it swept awards for supporting
Two Students
Get Danforth
Ag Awards
Two agriculture students
have been selected to receive
1954 Danforth summer study
fellowships.
C. N. Shepardson, dean of
agriculture, said Fehrlin E. Tutt,
animal husbandry student from
Rotan, will receive the junior fel
lowship, and Leniel H. Harbers,
dairy husbandry student from West
Point, Texas, will receive the fresh
man award.
Tutt will join a group of stu
dents from other land-grant col
leges at St. Louis, Aug. 1. As
guests of the Ralston Purina Mills,
they will spend two weeks studying
the problems of manufacturing
commercial research, distribution,
advertising and personnel.
The group will then attend a
two weeks’ leadership training
camp on Lake Michigan. Travel
and living expenses will be paid.
Harbers will attend a leadership
training conference at the Ameri
can Youth foundation camp in
Michigan Aug. 16-29. Camp ex
penses will be paid, but he will pay
his own travel expenses.
J. Wheeler Barger of the agri
cultural economics and sociology
department served as chairman of
a seven-man committee which se
lected Tutt and Harbers from
among three juniors and six fresh
men applicants.
“All candidates were outstanding
and any one would have been a
worthy representative,” Barger
s a i d”. Scholai'ship, leadership,
activities and general culture were
the basis for selection.”
Other committee members were
G. L. Robei-tson, R. E. Leighton,
R. C. Potts, M. N. Abrams, F. R.
Brison, and D. F. Martin.
Wild and Mean
Rodeo Set Here April 1-3
Wild horses and mean bulls will
take top billing here April 1-3,
when rodeo teams from more than
20 colleges and universities will
gather on the campus for the Ag
gies’ spring Intercollegiate rodeo.
Professional rodeo stock will be
furnished by Duke Gibbs of the
Triangle Bell ranch at Belton.
Events will include bareback bronc
and saddle bronc riding, calf tie
down and ribbon roping, bull-dog
ging 4nd bull-riding.
Added attractions listed by
Bobby Rankin, president of the Ro
deo club, will be barrel-races for
girl contestants, and a cutting
horse contest approved by the Na
tional Cutting Horse association.
The cutting horse contest, for
which entries close Tuesday, March
30, is open to anyone who belongs
to the national association, Rankin
said. There will be no elimination
trials. First go-i’ound will be at
1 p.m. Thursday, Aprtl 1.
The top 16 horses will work their
second steer at some time during
the four rodeo, performances. Oth
ers will work their second steer
Friday morning, April 2.
In addition to about 70 A&M
students, there will be teams fi - om
Texas Tech, Sul Ross State college,
The Rodeo club will compete
in a triangular meet with Sam
Houston State college and the
University of Houston this
weekend in Tomball.
Representing A&M will be
Bobby Rankin, Lowie Rice,
Billy Steele, James Dickey,
Kenneth Beasley and Buddy
Fincher.
The show is being sponsored
by the Sam Houston State Ro
deo club and the Harris County
Fair and Rodeo association.
Baylor university, the University
of Idaho, Texas A&I, Schreiner in
stitute, Southwestern State Teach
ers college, McNeise State college
at Lake Charles, La., Arlington
State college, Kilgore Junior col-
legej the Univei’sit^ of Texas, Col
orado A&M, New Mexico A&M,
Hardin-Simmons, the University of
Arizona, Oklahoma A&M, Sam
Houston State college, the Univer
sity of Houston, Tarleton State col
lege.
Clowns will be George Fehrmann
of Houston and Buddy Black of
Iran. Pick-up men will be Cullen
Robinson of Hallettsville and Billy
Hanover of Bryan.
Judges will be Johnny Boren and
Johnney Mellon, both of Belton,
and the announcer will be Blake
McCreless of radio station KONO
in San Antonio.
Billy Steele, secretary of the
Rodeo club, said contestants will
be working for a long list of prizes
in addition to day-money. Tom
Montgomery of Big Spring is chair
man of the club’s publicity commit
tee.
Proceeds from the rodeo will be
used by the Rodeo club to help fi
nance trips of livestock and meats
judging teams from the college to
competitive meets all over the
country during the coming year.
players Frank Sinati’a and Donna
Reed, director Fred Zinneman and
writer Dan. Taradash. It won
eight awards in all, tying the all-
time record of “Gone With the
Wind.”
The program started out like a
Walt Disney night. The cartoon
wizard picked up four of the first
six Oscars for his documentary
short and feature, “The Alaskan
Eskimo” and “The Living Desert,”
and his cartoon “Toot, Whistle,
Plunk and Boom” and his two-
reeler “Bear Country.”
A special Oscar was presented
to Joseph Breen, long-time head
industry censor.
Special awards also went to
Darryl F. Zanuck for his presenta
tion of Cinemascope and to Fred
Waller, inventor of Cinerama.
The coveted Irving Thalberg
Award for consistently high qual
ity of production went to George
Stevens, director-producer of such
films as “Shane” and “A Place in
the Sun.”
The best song award went to
“Secret Love,” which Doris Day
sang in “Calamity Jane.” It was
written by Sammy Fain and Paul
Francis Webster’.
BA Department
Lists Speakers
Speakers for the Api’il 9—10
Accounting conference have been
announced by the business admini
stration department.
Those who will deliver talks at
the conference are J. R. Mulvey,
Humble Oil and Refining Co.; W.
M. Jensen, Touche, Niven, Bailey
and Smith; R. M. Chan, Magnolia
Petroleum Co.
Marques G. Eaton, Eaton and
Huddle; G. H. Hetley, General
Motors Corp.; W. A. Patton, Uni
versity of Michigan; H. W.
Luenstroth, Mallinckrodt Chemical
Works.
Sports Activities
To Highlight Day
Southwest conference football, baseball, track, tennis
and swimming besides the draw of A&M itself will attract
more than 1,000 high school seniors to the campus Friday
night and Saturday for the annual High School Day activities.
The day will officially begin Saturday morning at reg
istration in Guion hall at 8 a.m. At 9, President David H.
Morgan will give a speech of welcome.
“We Are The Aggies,” a 30-minute color film of life at
A&M, will follow the president’s address. Then the students
will be taken on guided tours of the part of the campus they
most want to see as far as academic work is concerned.
Guides from the major clubs of every school will be on
♦hand to show the visitors the
Schedule For
Seniors Day
Announced
, The schedule for high school
day tomorrow is as follows:
8 a.m., registration, Guion
hall lobby.
9 a.m., orientation meeting,
Guion hall. This meeting will
include a welcome by President
David H. Morgan and a 30-
minute color movie about life
at A&M.
10 a.m., group tours on the
campus.
12, dinner, Duncan or Sbisa
mess halls.
1 p.m., free time for visiting
with home town friends.
2 p.m., sports day, as guests
of the “T” Association. Base
ball game, Rice vs. A&M, ten
nis match, Baylor vs. A&M and
a track meet.
5:30 p.m., supper, Duncan or
Sbisa mess hall.
7:30 p.m., intra-squad foot
ball game on Kyle Field.
The mom than 1,000 high
school seniors expected for the
day will be guests of students
from their hometowns.
HOWDY, PODNER—J. B. Casey shows James S. Cassity
a picture of his date for the freshman ball and the com
posite regiment ball this weekend. Both freshmen in
squadron 18, they are dressed in the Southwestern clothes
they will wear Saturday night. The girl is Clara Schell
of Longview.
part of the campus they most
want to see. The tours are
expected to last all morning.
Following lunch in the two
dining halls, the guests will have
an hour to look up “hometown bud
dies,” and other acquaintances.
Then the sports activities begin.
At 2 p.m. the freshman swimming
team meets Highland Pai'k (Dal
las) Scotties. At 1 p.m., the vai'-
sity tennis team will cross rac
quets with Baylor on the clay
courts west of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Also at 2 p.m., on the Kyle field
diamond, the twice-defeated Ag
gie nine will compete against Rice
a seven-man committee which se-
Institute’s Owls in their second
conference game of the season.
At 2:45 on the Kyle field track,
the varsity track team will oppose
the freshman thin clads in an in
trasquad match.
Saturday evening at 7:30 under
the lights of Kyle field, the Mar
oons will play the Whites in a
sneak preview of A'&M’s football
might for 1954.
Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant has
introduced many innovations at
A&M and has done much shifting
of players and positions. This will
mark the first chance for the ma
jority of the college community to
view the nearly-finished product.
“The purpose of high school day
is to give outstanding high school
senior’s a preview of life on our
campus,” said W. L. Penberthy,
dean of men.
Cotton Court
Will Select
TSCW Queen
King Cotton and his court
will go to Texas State Col
lege for Women this weekend
to pick a Queen of Cotton and
her court to reign at the Cot-
to Ball April 23.
The group will select their
queen from candidates selected by
the classes at TSCW.
King Cotton is Davie Lee Rich
mond of Raymondville. Senior
members of the court are Bill
Andrews of Harlingen, Jimmy
Altus of Harlingen, Andy Cuellar
of Laredo, and Hal Hegie of
Petersburg.
Junior members of the court are
Muray Milford of Honey Grove,
Frank Ford of Lubbock, and Alton
Keith of Rogers.
Kenneth Dichmond of Raymond
ville will represent the sopho
mores.
C. C. (Chuck) Neighbors will
represent The Battalion.
Bulletin
Lt. Gen. Weyland, com
mander of the Far East air
force during the Korean war,
will be here for Federal in
spection.
The inspection will be next
Wednesday and Thursday. A
corps review will be held
Thursday afternoon.