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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3. 1963
Number 92
otton Pageant
Fo Be Topped
ly Coronation
Joseph S. Mo^ford, originator of the Cotton Pageant and
all, will crown King Cotton during coronation ceremonies at
e29th annual event Saturday.
Nathan R. Roles, 21-year-old senior agronomy major
im Winters, was chosen for the-*-
ior of King Cotton by the Ag-ro-
my Society members in recog - -
ion of his student activity record.
Johnny Watkins, farm director
KWTX-TV in tVaco and KBTX-
in Bryan will be the master of
monies.
bocal musical talent, The Way-
ryant, Butts
Juilty Assert
nvestigators
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ATLANTA — Atty. Gen.
igene Cook reported undisputed
idence Tuesday that Wallace
itts of Georgia piped advance
Brmation on his state univer-
;y’s plays to Paul Bryant of Ala
nia last fall which might well
ive affected the final score in a
•d Alabama victory.
IN' AN OFFICIAL report to
it, Carl E. Sanders, which di
nted a two-weeks investigation,
rok said the information which
itts gave Coach Bryant was “un
real and improper and unsports-
inlike.” Butts recently resigned
Georgia athletic director.
“The furnishing of such informa-
j m might well have vitally af-
j tted the outcome of the game
i points and margin of victory,”
mk said in an official report
lich Sanders ordered filed and
j corded in the minutes of the
j teutive department. The gover-
1 if said a copy will be forwarded
' Commissioner Bernie Moore of
ie Southeastern Conference.
BUTTS’ ATTORNEY, William
• Schroder, said after reviewing
Mk's report that the findings and
inclusions “are emphatically de-
‘ (d." He issued a lengthy state-
rat in rebuttal.
The report climaxed an investi-
j ition ordered by Sanders as , a
(suit of a March 23 Saturday Eve-
Post story that the football
sme had been rigged by Butts
id Bryant. Both have issued
: tong denials and Butts has filed
HO million libel suit against the
k
“There is no evidence,” Cook
4 “to the effect that any con-
! Oration passed to Wally Butts
'kr directly or indirectly be-
Wse of the transmittal of foot-
*11 information concerning the
! ®e to Paul Bryant preceding
Sept. 22 game.”
IN BIRMINGHAM, attorneys
St Bryant quickly attacked parts
ItheCook report as “unwarrant-
Iand inaccurate.” They singled
“I the attorney general’s report
5 'a letter written by Dr. Frank
k, Alabama president, to Dr.
] I-C. Aderhold, Georgia president,
**t March 6.
Took said the letter established
"d corroborated evidence that a
^phone conversation between
I «s and Bryant prior to the
S| oe was “not casual and gen-
1 ^ football information.”
Handers played football in the
“ ” at Georgia when Butts was
1 ^ coach. In a brief prepared
Foment read to an afternoon
conference, he said no furth-
i ’action can be taken by the state.
HOOK SAID he concluded after
’ Nioning scores of witnesses
1 ^ obtaining numerous exhibits
! ^ documents that George Burn-
■ ^ an Atlanta salesman, did in
3 accidentally get cut in on a
^ distance telephone conversa-
ij ^ between Butts and Bryant.
’ Jmett sold his story to the Post
5 * 25,000.
Ihe information which was
>tr Wd being given by Butts
i not casual in nature but it re-
| ^ to football plays, of the
^fia football team formations
^ Patterns and was of vital con-
and importance,” Cook said.
farers and Mrs. Ann Harrison, will
he special attractions during the
pageant and ball.
THE FESTIVAL IS one of the
social highlights of the school year
and is sponsored by the Student
Agronomy Society in honor of the
states main cash crop, cotton.
During the pageant, a queen and
eight members of her court will
be selected from more than 150
young women representing col
leges, universities, clubs and other
organizations.
Pag’eant activities begin at 7:30
p.m. in Guion Hall and the ball
begins at 9:30 p.m. in Sbisa Hall.
The Wayfarers, with three gui
tars, a banjo and bass as accompan-
Mrs.
Board To Eye
Dining Change
King
iment, are folk music singers.
Harrison is a singer who has per
formed on television. The Way
farers were winners of this year’s
Aggie Talent Show. They also
were seen in the recent Intercolle
giate Talent Show.
MOGFORD IS CHIEF cotton
breeder for Northern Star Seed
Co. of Waco and a retir-ed A&M
agronomy professor. He originated
the Cotton Pageant and Ball in
1932.
Boles is social secretary and
past vice president of the agronomy
society and a distinguished student.
Members of King- Cotton’s court
will be Jim Griffith of Paint
Creek; Vincent Haby, Castroville;
Bob McMichael, Chillicothe; Robert
Heine, Thorndale; James Bartak,
Temple; James Connor, Evant;
Kindred Caskey, Weslaco; and Roy
L. McClung Jr. of Seymour.
Faculty advisors are Dr. H. E.
Hampton, T. E. McAfee, J. F.
Mills and J. R. Justin of the Agro
nomy Section of the Department of
Soil and Crop Sciences.
Name Change
Hearing Set
The bill which proposes to
change the college’s name to
Texas A&M University will come
under discussion in Austin Wed
nesday, according to Rep. David
Haines of College Station.
Haines told the Battalion, the
bill will be reviewed at 7:30 p.m.
in the House of Representatives
chamber by the state affairs com
mittee.
Most likely, he said, it will
be referred to a subcommittee
to iron out technical difficulties.
This group of agronomy students makes up
King Cotton’s Court and will be seen during
the 29th annual Cotton Pageant and Ball
Saturday night. Left to right in the fore
ground are Vincent Haby of Castroville;
Kindred Caskey, Weslaco; and Richard Con-
Cotton’s Court
ner, Evant. Left to right in the background
are R. L. McClung of Seymour; Bobby Mc
Michael Chillicothe; King Cotton Nathan
Boles, Winters; James Bartek, Temple; Bob
by Heine, Thorndale; and James Griffith of
Paint Creek.
TO DISTRIBUTE $1 BILLION
House Debates Hoover-Type
Commission On College Aid
(By The Collegiate Press Service)
WASHINGTON — More than $1
billion in federal funds for col
leges and universities each year
would be affected by legislation
currently being studied by the
House Committee on Science and
Astronautics.
Hearings will be scheduled soon
on the legislation calling for a
Hoover-type commission on science
and technology. The commission
would determine the best way for
the federal government to spend
money for research and develop
ment programs.
During the past fiscal year, $1.2
billion in federal funds went to
U.S. institutions of higher educa
tion for research. Education offi
cials have bitterly complained
about the imbalance in distribution
of these funds.
The House committee is study
ing several similar bills including
a Senate-passed measure sponsored
by Senator John L. McClellan, (D-
Ark.) chairman of the Senate
committee on government opera
tions.
THE LEGISLATION provides
for a 12-man commission of rep
resentatives from Congress, the
White House, science, engineering
and institutions handling scientific
research.
It would be up to the commis
sion to determine.
—how to reorganize federal
agencies conducting or financ
ing research prog-rams to in
sure performance.
—eliminate duplication of agen
cies in such fields as informa
tion storage, processing and
distribution; research projects;
and use of Resources of pri
vate industry and nonprofit
organizations, such as colleges.
—make maximum efficient use
of engineering and scientific
manpower.
-And, most important, the need
for a department o f science
and technology, and what pro
grams, functions and funds it
would handle.
A SIMILAR BILL introduced by
Rep. George Meader, (R-Mich.,)
would ask the commission to go
one step farther. Meader’s bill
wants the commission to determine
the impact of government research
programs on the conduct of science
and other scholarly research in
the United States. i
His measure would also deter
mine the indirect costs to colleges
for research program overhead,
and academic freedom and federal
High School Choir
To Present Play
The A&M Consolidated choir
will present the musical comedy
“Little Mary Sunshine” -in the high
school auditorium Thursday and
Friday at 7:30 p.m.
The comedy is a take off on the
Nelson Eddy - Jean McDonald
movie “Indian Love Call”. The
musical is directed by choir direc
tor Frank Coulter.
Aggie Quarter Horse Show
To Award $700 In Prizes
The fourth annual Quarter
Horse Show sponsored by the Ag
gie Rodeo Club will be held Sat
urday at the college arena.
Approved by the American Quar
ter Horse Association and the Na
tional Cutting Horse Association,
the horse show — which attained
a Class “A” rating on its first go-
round—will again be supervised by
the 48-member Aggie Rodeo Club.
Site for the horse show will be
the new rodeo arena, if the weath
er is good. The livestock pavilion
is available in case of rain. Show
time will be 9:30 a.m.
FREE STALLS WILL be pro
vided for exhibitors at the show
grounds and the auction barn on
a “first come, first served” basis,
according to Ken Dorris, show
chairman.
To be eligible for the show, all
entiles must be registered with
the AQHA (Permanent, Tentative
or Appendix). NQHBA horses are
eligible. Halter classes, foals,
yearlings and two-year-olds listed
in the Appendix are eligible. Stal
lions and mares three years of age
or over must have a registration
number. Geldings need Appendix
Registration only.
“F o r registered performance
classes, Appendix reg-istration only
is necessary for all horses,” Dorris
said.
THE SHOW WILL FEATURE
a NCHA championship cutting
horse contest, which will have a
$100 purse added.
There will be a high point trophy
awarded to the best all-around
horse of the show. To be eligible,
a horse must show in halter and
at least three of the registered
performance classes, Dorris ex
plained.
Registered performance classes
will include: junior western pleas
ure, senior western pleasure, jun
ior reining, senior reining, junior
barrel race, senior barrel race,
pole bending, roping contest, jun
ior cutting horse event and senior
cutting horse contest.
APPROXIMATELY $700 worth
of trophies and ribbons will be
awarded to winners this year. In
1962, a total of $4,305 was award
ed in cash prizes—made up pri
marily from entry fees, plus $100
added purse in the open cutting
horse contest — to performance
class winners. This year’s total
prizes will be determined by the
number of entries, officials have
explained.
The initial Quarter Horse Show
sponsored by the Ag-g-ie Rodeo Club
made the Class A bracket with a
total of 248 entries, and in 1961 it
maintained its Class A rating with
286 entries. Last year, it remained
in the Class A ranks with 237 en
tries.
control of research programs.
The Brookings Institution and
other independent investigators
have repeatedly pointed out the
g-rowing imbalance of federal funds
for higher education. During the
past fiscal year, more than 95 per
cent of government funds for col
leges and universities came from
five agencies.
THE ATOMIC ENERGY Com
mission gave 27 per cent; Defense
Department, 24 per cent; Health,
Education and Welfare Depart
ment, 23 per cent; the Space Agen
cy, 13 per cent; and, 8 per cent
from the National Science Foun
dation.
The lion’s share of the money—
71 per cent—went for research in
the physical sciences. Only 26 per
cent went for projects in the life
sciences, two per cent for the psy
chological sciences and one per
cent on the social sciences. Human
ities, for all purposes, are almost
completely ignored by federal re
search programs and funds.
Of more than 2,000 colleges and
universities in the nation, only 100
schools managed to devour more
than 95 per cent of the federal
funds. For the most part, “the
100” are located in Southern New
England and the Mid-Atlantic sea
board, a cluster of large state uni
versities in the Midwest, and a
handful of highly developed pri
vate and public institutions on
the Pacific coast.
Legislation remedying these im
balances is expected to get strong
support from education and White-
house officials.
Certificates Available
Certificates for those students
who were selected to Who’s Who
in American Universities and Col
leges are available at Dean of
Students James P. Hannigan’s of
fice.
The certificates may be picked
up at the office on the second floor
of the YMCA Building.
For Civilians
Cafeteria-Style Is Suggested,
New Director Will Have Say
By DAVID MORGAN
Battalion Staff Writer
Plans to change the A&M dining hall operation for civil
ian students will be considered by the Board of Directors Tom
D. Cherry, director of the Office of Business Affairs, said
Tuesday.
At the next meeting of the board at the end of this
month there will be discussion of a proposal to allow civilians
to eat cafeteria-style in the basemen of Sbisa Dining Hall, if
they so desire. According to the proposal, those students who
want to continue eating family-style will be allowed to buy
meal tickets as they do now.
CHERRY WAS QUICK to add, however, that these ideas
have not been decided upon, rather, they will be first con
sidered by the new food serv-"-
ice director. Frank Nugent.
A retired Navy lieutenant
commander formerly in
charge of coordinating naval
food logistics, Nugent will be the
latest food administrator of the
college in 35 years, replacing John
G. Peniston.
Peniston said that for some
time he has been in favor of allow
ing the civilians to choose between
buying- a meal ticket or eating on
a pay-as-you-come cafeteria basis
in the basement. He said that it
had been seriously considered some
years ago but the idea was dropped.
NUGENT’S MILITARY career
began in 1941 when he serevd dur
ing- World War II aboard cruisers
and major fleet support vessels.
He began food administration in
1953 as officer in charge of food
service at the U. S. Naval Air
Station in Pensacola.
In 1956 he served in Japan as
control and material officer for
the naval air station Atsugi. In
1958 he was .named naval repre
sentative on the staff and faculty
at the Army quartermaster school
at Ft. Lee, Va. For this he receiv
ed the Army Commendation Medal.
JUST PRIOR TO retirement Nu
gent served as commissary officer
in charge of the Naval Training-
Center, Great Lakes.
Peniston came to A&M in 1927,
first serving the college as a store
keeper. From that position he
worked as a dining hall steward,
and in 1944 he was appointed food
service director.
Need Culture?
Dallas Trip
Has Openings
All students and faculty mem
bers interested in joining- the new
ly-formed Cultural Leadership
Committee on a trip to Dallas to
see two operas are urged to place
their names on a list in the Stu
dent Programs Office in the Me
morial Student Center.
Lee Walker, chairman of the or
ganization, said transportation to
the May 10-11 affair has not yet
been decided on, but if enough stu
dents register their cars, expenses
will be cut down.
He said tickets will be $4.70
and $6.70, and transportation, if
on college busses, will cost $5 a
seat for the round trip.
Walker explained that no defi
nite plans have been made for the
trip, but several students and fac
ulty members have expressed in
terest in the cultural excursion.
The Dallas Opera Association
will present “Boris Godunov” with
Jerome Hines Friday night, and
“Madame Butterfly” Saturday
night.
Tickets have been ordered for
both performances and may be
purchased in the programs office.
Lavatory Turnstile Debate
Rocks House Of Commons
LONDON DP) — A debate over
penny turnstiles in women’s lava
tories flooded the British House
of Commons with laughter.
Both Conservatives and Labor-
ites are agreed that the turnstiles
must go because they make life
unnecessarily difficult for preg
nant, plump, or package-laden
women.
The conflict is over who’s to
get the credit.
Rer-haired Laborite Barbara
Castle claimed Tuesday the Con
servative governemnt had tx-icked
her out of raising the question so
that it could be raised instead by
Dame Ix-ene Ward of the Conserv
ative ranks.
Detei-mined not to let the Con-
sedatives steal her thunder, Mis.
NASA Selects Two Aggies
For Astronaut Training School
Two A&M graduates have been
selected for astronaut tx-aining at
the United States Manned Space
Craft Program at Edwards A i r
Force Base, Calif.
Capt. Russell J. Scott, ’54, and
Capt. Frank D. Fraziex - , ’51, were
among 15 candidates appointed to
attend the fourth class which will
begin June 17.
While at A&M, Scott was the
executive officer of Squadron 24
and was awarded the Consolidated
Vultee Awax-d for “outstanding
judgment and interest in air pow
er and air cx-ew training.” Scott
is originally from Bowie.
Scott is married to the fonner
Miss Janice Nalley of Big Spx-ing.
They have two daughtexs, ages 5
and 6.
Frazier was a Distinguished
Military Student, a member of the
Fish Drill Team and w-as a major
on the 4th Battle Gi’oup staff.
He and his wife Barbara have
five children, thx-ee boys and two
girls.
Castle put in a bill of her own to
abolish the turnstiles. But the
Conservatives probably will beat
her to the gate. Their bill was
put down for debate April 5, hers
Apx-il 26.
Whatever the outcome, British
women still will have to pay their
pennies-into slots on the doors in
stead of tui-nstiles.
Rosprim, Orr,
Rhodes Elected
To CS Posts
Winners of the College Station
City Council election held Tuesday
are J. A. Orr, Wax-d 1; Robert R.
Rhodes, Wai-d 2; and A. L. Ros
prim, Ward 3.
Candidates and results ax-e as
follows:
Ward 1: Orr, 150; M. L. Cash-
ion, 141.
Ward 2: Rhodes, 116; Gene
Sutphen, 84.
Ward 3: Rosprim, 63; E. C.
Gamer, 18.
Both Rospx-im and Orr were
candidates for re-election. Rhodes
is an assistant professor in the De
partment of Range and Forestry.
Cashion is with Burgess, Cash-
ion and Haddox Insurance Co. and
Garner is owner of the Sands Mo
tel and Student Co-op. Sutphen
owns trhe Aggieland Studio.
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