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library FE 12 CORIES Cotton, Sophomore Dances Highlight Weekend BY LEWIS REDDELL Battalion News Editor Hundreds of beautiful women will grace the A&M campus this Weekend when they converge on the college to attend a'series of activities including the annual Cot ton pageant and Ball, a Cafe Trop ical and the Sophomore Ball. First in the series of events is „ , the Cotton IV:eant and Ball. The pageant will begin at 7:30 tonight in Guion Hall. Selection of the 1959 Queen of Cotton will high light the Student Agronomy So ciety’s 25th annual event. Georgy W. Pfeiffenberger, exec utive vice-president, Plains Cotton Growers, Inc., Lubbock, will crown the King of Cotton Kent Potts, senior plant and soil science ma jor from Bryan. Potts will then crown the Queen of Cotton from among the duch esses, who will be here as repre sentatives of various clubs, col leges and universities. The duch esses will be selected on their beauty and poise by three judges from the Robert Powers School of Modeling, Houston. The eight run ners-up will become princesses of the court. Leading the parade of duchesses will be the Agronomy Society Sweetheai’t, Miss Beverly Jane Goodbar, a freshman at Sam Hous ton State College. Miss Goodbar will make the presentation of flow ers to the queen and her court. Jack Timmons, commercial man ager for Radio Station KWKH, Shreveport, La. will be master of ceremonies for the program. Also featured during the pa geant will be a program of enter tainment including the Blotters, a pantomime group of A&M Con solidated High School students. Suzanne Sorenson, Janet Harrow, Donna Hale and Blair Perryman compose the group. Also included will be the Silvertones, an A&M group composed of Robert Blake- Wood, James Hickey, Ramion Per ez, Dionicio (Sonny) Flores and Mrs. Ann Harrison. Music for the program will be provided by the Aggieland Orchestra under the di rection of Bill Turner. During the program, the Agron omy Society will honor Joe S. Mogford, who was responsible for promoting the first Cotton Style Show and Pageant in the early thirties. Mogford retired in Feb ruary after more than a third of a century of service to the col lege’s Department of Agronomy. Immediately following the pa geant, a ball will be held in Sbisa Hall. For those persons not attending the Sophomore Ball, Cafe Tropical will be held in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center starting (See COTTON on Page 3) Filings Under Way In General Election, Voting Set April 30 '* BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 103: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1959 Price Five Cents High School Day Saturday Pan American Week Display Tommy Sikes inspects one of the displays ing the week have included displays, films in the Memorial Student Center this week and special talks. The observance ends Sat in connection with the observance of Pan urday. American Week. The special activities dur- To Be Honored May 10 Mother of Year Nominations Must Be Filed Wednesday Review by Corps To Begin Activities With the tremors not yet quiet ed after Wednesday’s class elec tions, politics are in the air again as public spirited students began filing yesterday for the campus general election to be Held April 30. Ten positions will be filled in the Research Projects Get $102,560 Grants A check for $102,560 in support of six research projects in chem istry being conducted in the A&M College System, has been received from the Robert A. Welch Foun dation, Houston. The check brings to $788,717 the total amount the foundation has contributed to chemistry research within the A&M System during the past five years. Latest funds from the Welch Foundation will go to support six projects involving studies of micro- wave spectroscopy, proteins and amino acids, poultry nutrition, amino sugars and their reactions, structure of polymers and prop erties of rare earths. election, eight of them on the Student Senate. The remaining two positions are for class agent, class of ’59 and civilian yell lead er. Only qualification for the class agent post is that candidates be a member of the class of ’59. Candi dates for civilian yell leader must have a 1.25 grade point ratio over all. The offices are president, re quired to be academically a senior next fall; vice president, who must be a junior next fall; parliamen tarian, required to be a senior; and recording secretary, who must be classified as a sophomore at the beginning of the fall semester. The remaining four positions to be filled on the Senate are for for all positions require that can didates be classified as a junior or senior for the 1959-60 term and have an overall grade point ratio of 1.25. Chairmen will be elected for the Issues Committee, Student Life Committee, Student Welfare Committee, and the Public Relations Committee. Filings will close a week from tomorrow, April 24, at 5 p. m. A&M’s Mother of the Year nom inations must be turned in to the Office of Student Activities by 5 p.m. Wednesday, the Student Sen ate decided last night at its regu lar meeting in the Senate Cham ber of the Memorial Student Cen ter. Screening will begin at 5 p.m. on that date and the Mother of the Year will be honored at the annual Parents Day review and convocation, May 10. Don Rummel, chairman of the Senate’s Student Welfare Commit tee, said last night that selections will be made from nominations in letter form containing all support ing information concerning quali fications for Mother of the Year. To qualify one must: 1. Be the mother of a student currently enrolled at A&M. 2. Be able to attend the presen tation ceremonies on Parents Day. 3. Must have made unusual sac rifice to make possible an educa tion for her son. A student may nominate his mother or the mother of another student. Nominations may also be made by non-students, Rummel said. “A letter is being sent to unit commanders and housemasters urging them to encourage nomina tions from their groups,” he con tinued. The convocation meeting will'be held in Guion Hall at 11 a.m. Sun day, May 10, as a tribute to the Mother of the Year and other par ents who will be visiting on the campus. “All students who don’t take their parents to local churches are urged to bring them to the 30 or 40 minute meeting,” John Thomas, Senate president, said. “We feel that a meeting- of this nature is in place.” Aggie Muster Plans The Senate approved the 1959 (See MOTHER on Page 3) A review by the Corps of Ca dets at 8:30 a.m., followed by an exhibition by the Freshman Drill Team, will open the 11th annual High School Day here tomorrow. Some 1,200 high school seniors are expected to attend. At 9:15 a.m. a get-acquainted meeting featuring various pro grams will be held in Guion Hall with Vice President Earl Rudder giving the welcome address. Cadet BULLETIN No official announcement had been made at noon today as to the fate of tomorrow’s review. The weather station has fore cast more rain for today and Saturday. Inclement weather drill will be held if the review is rained out, according to the Comman dant’s office. Phi Eta Sigma Tuesday Night The Rev. W. P. Deatherage, pastor of the Second Christian Church of Houston, will speak on “The Greatest Life” at the annual banquet of Phi Eta Sigma, fresh man honor society to be held in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Center Tuesday at 7 p. m. The Rev. Deatherage has been pastor of the Second Christian Church for the past 20 years, be; fore which he was an evangelistic singer for several years, staff artist for several radio stations and is well known as a humorous and inspirational speaker through out Texas. H. A. Luther of the Department of Mathematics will be initiated as an honorary faculty member of the society. He was chosen by the members as the “Outstanding Fish Prof.” He will take the position of faculty advisor to the group after the banquet. Maj. John G. Thomas of Hereford, president of the Student Senate, will preside. The invocation will be given by Cadet Lt. ' Col. John Partridge, Corps Chaplain, from Corpus Christi. “Military Life and Its Advan tage” will be discussed by Col. Joe E. Davis, Commandant. C. H. Ransdell, Associate Dean of the Basic Division, will talk on “Academic and Guidance Advan tages at Texas A&M.” “We Are the Aggies,”, a sound, color movie, will be shown and announcements will then, be made by Cadet Maj. Thomas. All former students on the cam pus in connection with High School Day are requested to meet with Vice President Earl Rudder and Dick Hervey in Rooms 2A and 2B in the Memorial Student Cen ter at 9:45 a.m. tomorrow. Group tours of the educational facilities of each school will fol low. Each high school student has been asked to tour the school of his choice — Engineering, Agricul tural, Arts and Science and Vet erinary Medicine. Following dinner in the college dining halls, a high school golf tournament, a tennis match be tween A&M and Trinity and a tri angular track meet between SMU, Rice and A&M will be held. At 5:30 p.m. supper will be served in the college dining halls. The annual inter-squad football tilt, Maroon vs. White, will get un der way at 7:30 p.m. on 'Kyle Field. All visiting high school seniors are guests of the “T” Association for Sports Day. Tickets will be distributed as the students enter the Guion Hall assembly tomor row morning. Those students interested in band work have been invited to have dinner with the Aggie Band. After registering they will meet the band members at Dormitory 11 before noon. Persons registering early who need housing accomodations should seek aid at the A&M Housing Office, basement of the YMCA. News of the World By The Associated Press House Passes Texas Military Bill WASHINGTON—The House passed and sent to the Senate Thursday a bill authorizing $28,674,000 in Texas mili tary construction. Total national bill was $1,252,608,001. The funds will be split up among the following Texas in stallations : Ft. Bliss, $7,260,000; Sheppard AFB, $7,741,000; Ft. Sam Houston, $840,000; Biggs AFB, $416,000; Carswell AFB, $1,484,000; Dyess AFB, $292,000; Connally AFB, $216,000; Kelly AFB, $1,303,000; Lackland AFB, $1,307,000; Perrin AFB, $408,000 plus; Webb AFB, $2,9.13,000; Ellington AFB, $823,000. Facilities for Army Reserve centers at Brownsville, $152,000; Dallas $64,000, Galveston, $152,000; Odessa, $152,- 000; San Marcos, $152,000; San Antonio, $520,000. National Guard Armory at Donna, $99,000. Naval and Marine Corps reserve training center in Beau mont, $65,000. Naval Air Station, Dallas, $348,000. Naval Reserve training center, Galveston, $204,000. Naval Reserve electronics facility, Kingsville, $35,000. ★ ★ ★ Dem’s Leader Predicts Integration Support WASHINGTON—Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler predicted Thursday the 196-party platform will stand behind the Supreme Court’s school desegregation decision. In a political debate before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Butler said Democratic party leaders are prepared to fight against straddling of the civil rights issue in 1960. His prediction was drawn out by a question on whether Butler no longer considered the South important to the Demo cratic party—and if so whether Southerners would find a welcome in the Republican party. Butler denied with emphasis that he had ever implied or suggested the Democrats were not interested in keeping the South in the party fold.