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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1960)
*y le ! Ags with m has .500; louchin has .333; and ut the over- lf of Rice- weekend as utow at 2 S t. i2 roductc » Cream ’A 2-3768 j msm Own ee tion .k ?as Co. IE i\.L '’TS ONS & ood" 3RARY 12 COPIES The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1960 Number W Information Cards Made . Available for Spring Break fl ■ I Ijl M M l Diane Scoggins Named Queen Miss Diane Scoggins. 17, of Spring Branch was crowned l\ Queen Cotton at the 26th annual Cotton Pageant and Ball 111 Friday night. The brown-eyed, brown-haired junior in Spring Branch High School was selected fronrt : •' — - * - ■ ■ : ■ r • Harold Henk Kisses New Queen Cotton . . . Diane Scoggins crowned Friday night Announced at Staff Meet Syd Heaton Appointed Corps Sergeant Major Sydney N. Heaton, junior math- • ematics major and Corps Intelli- Igence Sergeant from Tyler, was . named Corps of Cadets sergeant major last night by Col. of the Corps William B. Heye. ;; The appointment of Heaton was announced by Heye at a dinner L;meeting of the Corps Staff and the |two seargant major finalists who ? are not members of the Corps 1 Staff. The five finalists were selected I from an original group of more . than fifteen Corps juniors who ■ were interviewed for the position. Jim Gibson Named A&MReviewEditor Jim Gibson, junior journalism major from San Antonio has been l appointed editor of the Texas A&M k Review for the 1960-61 school year. Gibson has worked for the Re- || view, formerly the Commentator, ■ for three years. He held the posi- | tion of art director and layout manager of the magazine this p year. Heaton, Corps Communications Sergeant Brantley Laycock, Corps Operation Sergeant Harvey Bar- Fish Drill Team To March April 23 In Fiesta Parade The A&M Freshman Drill Team will appear the night of April 23 in San Antonio’s Fiesta Flam beau. The parade will climax the San Jacinto Fiesta celebration held in the Alamo City each spring on the San Jacinto battle anniver sary on April 21. The 33 member drill team is commanded by Royce M. John of Houston. Sponsor of the group is Capt. Grange S. Coffin Jr. of the Department of Air Science. Membership on the drill team is limited to freshmen students in the Corps of Cadets. They are chosen on a competitive basis from among 250 to 300 applicants. ber, 2nd Wing Sergeant Major Bobby McDaniel and 1st Brigade Sergeant Major Richard Meadows were the five finalists for serge ant major. The five were interviewed by the wing, brigade and Corps com manders, other members of Corps Staff, Commandant Col. Joe E. Davis and President Earl Rudder. Heaton, 20, was vice chairman of SGONA V this year and also a member of the Ross Volunteers. He was recently selected to the RV permanent firing squad. During his sophomore year, he was guidon bearer for B-AAA, a Memorial Student Center Direc torate Assistant, outstanding soph omore in B-AAA, distinguished student and a member of the Great Issues Committee. His freshman year, Heaton was a member of the Great Issues Committee and a dis tinguished student. Heaton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Heaton of Tyler. The Corps sergeant major nor mally becomes corps commander his senior year. among 188 duchesses in the pag eant. She is 5 feet 4 inches in height, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Scoggins and was spon sored by the Spring Branch Home town Club. Spring Branch is near Houston. Teague Crowns King Earlier in the evening, Harold Henk, 22-year-old senior agronomy major from Seguin, was crowned King Cotton by Cong. Olin E. Teague of Bryan. Duchesses, representing A&M Mother’s Clubs, A&M Exes Clubs, Texas colleges and universities, Texas Woman’s University campus clubs, local women’s and civic clubs, student wives clubs and A&M campus and hometown clubs were presented to the king in the cere mony in Guion hall. Crowned by Henk After her selection the Queen was crowned by King Henk. Johnny Watkins, farm director of KWTX-TV, Waco, and KBTX- TV, Bryan, was master of cere monies for the pageant, which w^as concluded with the Grand March led by the King and Queen to sig nal the opening of the Cotton Ball in Sbisa Hall. The Queen and the eight runners- up who became princesses of the court were selected by Miss Dorothy Sinz of the Dallas Times Herald; Mrs. Kim Dawson, direc tor for the American Fashion Lions Club Preps For Austin Meet Slated April 17,18 The College Station Lions Club held its weekly meeting Monday and discussed plans for the Lions Club District Convention in Austin April 17-18. President Archie Flowers pre sided at the meeting held in the Memorial Student Center. Flowers announced that the Lions Club District Convention will begin at 5 p.m. Easter Sunday at the Villa Capri Motor Hotel in Austin and will continue through Monday. He urged all members in terested in attending the conven tion to make reservations as soon as possible. With Five Provisions Aggie Players Join Council The Memorial Student Center Council last night accepted a peti tion of the Aggie Players to be come a regular activity of the MSC Directorate. A list of five provisions were added, all of which were approved. The first was that the Players will be assisted by the council fi nancially like any other standing committee. The Executive Com mittee recommended the Players carry two accounts, one from MSC Council funds for capital expendi tures and one from the Council revolving funds. The second provision was that the Council solicit advice from’ the head of the Department of Eng lish before making major policy moves concerning the Players. They stated that the Council will still have final authority in con sideration of policy. Thirdly, the resolution asked the Players to make and submit a com plete inventory of physical equip ment now on hand. It will become the official property of the MSC. Another provision was that the director of the Aggie Players be named by the MSC director and mine policy regarding productions. In other action, the Council ap pointed a committee to talk with C. E. Tishler, head of the Depart ment of Physical Education, con cerning the music committee’s use of G. Rollie White Coliseum for the Town Hall presentations. The action was taken in response to a letter from Tishler stating that the show’s success in the past years did not justify, the exclusion of physical education classes held in the Coliseum for three days. The Council pointed out that for the past four years, beginning in 1957, the attendance each respec tive year was 2,388 (estimated); 2,140; 2,806 and 3,738 this year. It was pointed out that the next that the Players director deter- ; largest building was Guion Hall( which will only seat 1,775. The evaluation presented a rec ommendation stating they wanted to foi’m two new committees to replace the Recital Series and Mu sic Committees. The recommenda tion called for the two to be named the Talent Committee and the Mu sic Committee. It was passed unanimously. The Talent Committee would primarily handle the Aggie Talent Show and the Intercollegiate Show. The Music Committee would be in charge of records in the Browsing Library, music played on the pub lic address system in the MSC, records on the Fountain Room juke box, live music presentations during periods when a large num ber were visiting, presentation of musical groups from other schools, and well-known professional class ical and semi-classical musical presentations. The Music Committee will issue a card to the students paying ac tivity fees similar to the one pres ently issued by the Recital Series. Assn.; and George Dawson, fashion photographer, all of Dallas. Princesses Named The princesses were: Adrienne Conway, sponsored by the Fort Worth Hometown Club; Sug Conn, Aglaian Literary Club of Texas Woman’s University; Barbara Ann Polk of Houston, East Harris County A&M Mothers’ Club; Sharon Watkins, Kilgore, Southern Methodist University; Sharron De Lowis English, Pasa dena,' Pasadena Hometown Club; Janice Schmidt, Abilene, Abilene A&M Mothers’ Club; Virginia Smith, Bryan, Bryan-College Sta tion Club of TWU; and Barbara Schroeder of Brenham, represent ing Blinn Junior College. Aggie Players Lose Statuette After Play Someone walked off Saturday night with a bust from the lower level of the Memorial Student Center. Harry Gooding, director of the Aggie Players’ production of “The Tender Trap” last week, reported Monday that shortly after the final presentation of the play Saturday night, he dis covered an 8-inch bust missing from the decorations used in the outer foyer of the MSC Lower Level in which the play was pre sented. Gooding asked that whoever took the bust please return it and no questions will be asked. Gooding can be reached in the A&M System Architect’s Office at VI 6-4123 or C. K. Esten, pro ducer of the play, can be reached at VI 6-6617. The bust was borrowed by the Aggie Players and as it is an original work of the owner, it cannot be replaced, Gooding said. Haas Named Head Of Brush Control Robert H. Haas has joined the staff of the Department of Range and Forestry as assistant professor in the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. He is a specialist in nox ious plant control and will assume leadership in phases of the brush and weed control re-> — search program on range lands, acording to Dr. R. A. Darrow, acting head of the department. Prior to joining the A&M staff Haas was research agronomist with the Crops Protection Research Branch of the Agricultural Re search Service at Twin Falls, Idaho. He has conducted research on the control of halogeton, an important poisonous plant on Western range lands and of sev eral other rangeland brush and weed species. He is author or co author of 18 technical articles and publications on research conducted in his field since 1953. Haas obtained his B.S. in agron- Apartment Council Sponsors Egg Hunt Approximately 250 children of all ages frolicked in Hensel Park last Sunday in pursuit of the Eas ter • bunny during the second an nual Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by the Apartment Council of Col lege View and Project Housing. According to James B. Beal, chairman of the hunt and co-pres ident of the Apartment Council, the egg chase was divided into age groups of one to three, three to five, and five years up. The first prize of a wading pool was won by Paul Parks with a red egg. Cindy Murray found the yel low egg and won the second prize of an Easter basket. Third and fourth prizes of gift certificates for one dollar were won by Steve Heffner and Kent Ball who dis covered the pink eggs. The next five prizes were silver dollars and were won by Meinir Williams, Glenn Chandler, Fred Baron, Randy Martin and Sonny Schrader for finding one of two green, two purple and one blue eggs. Prizes ten and eleven were bun nies and were won by Steve Man ning and Natalie Rice for finding cracked blue Easter eggs. omy at Oklahoma State University in 1952, following graduation from Cleburne (Texas) High School. He took his M.S. degree in agronomy at the University of Nebraska in 1953 and did additional graduate work at the University of Idaho. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from August, 1946, to July, 1948. He is a member of Alpha Zeta, honorary agricultural society, Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic society, Sigma Xi, honorary re search society and Gamma Sigma Delta. He is affiliated with the Weed Society of America and the American Society of Range Man agement, national professional so cieties. Corps, Civilians Can Get Forms By BILL HICKLIN Battalion Managing Editor , An extra quantity of “Every Aggie Get An Aggie” cards allowing high school seniors and junior college students a true picture of A&M, are being distributed to students in the Corps of Cadets and civilian students for use during the spring recess, according to Dean of Students James P. Hanni- gan. Purpose of the added surplus, said Hannigan, is to obtain the names of prospective high school and junior college stu dents to send literature and information concerning the col lege. ‘with full knowledge ...’ Choice of college for future attendance is up to the in dividual, said Hannigan, buP*— “this choice should be made with a full knowledge of what is available rather than being based on rumor and misinfor mation.” The cards are to be distributed to the company and squadron level n the Corps and to the dormitory 'evel among the civilian students. The cards are to be given to each man in the unit or dormitory or kept in the first sergeant’s or the housemaster’s room where they may be issued to students desiring them prior to departure for the spring recess. New Names Needed Hannigan emphasized the college doesn’t wish to again be given the names of students submitted for High School Career Day or names which have been previously sub mitted. After the spring recess, cards bearing the names of potential students will be turned in through channels to the Commandant’s Of fice for Corps students and to the Director of Student Affairs for ci vilian students. Assembled cards will then be turned into Hannigan’s office. 15 with 50 or More A recent survey, in connection with the added issuance of the cards, revealed there are 23 coun ties across Texas which do not claim students at A&M. And there are but 15 counties across the state which boast 50 or more stu dents. Hannigan that the areas which do have more than 50 A&M students are those in the heavily populated areas. Brazos County, with 841; Harris County, with 792; Dallas County, (See CARDS on Page 3) High School Students Enter ED Contest More than 6,000 high school stu dents from throughout Texas have entered in the Texas State Draw ing Competition, sponsored by the Department of Engineering Draw ing, Dr. W. E. Street, head of the department, announced today. “This is the largest number ever to compete in this annual contest, which has been held for the past 18 years and represents entries from 150 Texas high schools,” Street said. The contest is divided into two separate categories: First year drawing and second year drawing —^depending on how many years of drawign the student has had in. high school. With the cooperation of the high, school drawing teachers, the best solutions of tthe contest problems are mailed to A&M for judging. Every drawing receives close study from the judges in the selection of three winners in each category of the contest. The three winners of each divi sion will be awarded a plaque to signify his respective all-state hon ors won in this statewide competi tion. Winners will be named in the near future. r 4 ■■ V ■ m — IS I ****!$$* imq • * J? 2 t lay. •**>'**•< Two A&M students look over the itinerary for the visit to Houston, today and Wednes day. They are, left to right, Guyle Gavin, Amarillo a senior agricultural major, presi dent of the Agricultural Economics Club, and George Ohlendorf, Lockhart senior rural Tour Itinerary sociology major and president of the Rural Sociology Club. They will be in a group of 30 senior students, who will be in Houston for a two-day inspection of the financial and commercial institutions serving agri culture in the Port City.