Don’t Miss It!Watch for it!

Compare prices of other college cafeterias in this area with those of A. & M. Soon to be released, the results of the A. & M. American Veterans Committee’s food price survey. In it will be included the latest cafeteria prices of A. & M., TCU, SMU, Texas Uni­versity, and the Universities of Tulsa and Oklahoma, and maybe Rice and Texas Tech.

True, unbiased, unpadded food price survey. Judge for yourself. Coming March 15.

All-College Dance Tonight To Tunes of Aggielanders

AVMA Ball Scheduled for March 8; Three Organization Dances FollowAn All-College Dance will be held in Sbisa Hall tonight

as a follow-through of the weekend activities which included the Junior Prom last night. The Aggieland Orchestra will swing out the music for the affair scheduled to begin at 9 p. m. and ending at midnight.

This is the last weekend in the+ series of class balls which have currently been held. Next on the Social Calendar is the Veterinary Medicine Association Dance on March 8. This will be followed by three organizational balls on suc­ceeding weekends. Each of these last three wil be augmented by an All-College Dance on the Sat­

urday night after.Then comes a highlight of the

season, the Annual Cotton Ball, sponsored by the Agronomy Soc­iety. One of the most complete social seasons in a number of years, the calendar for this term has featured on it some 20 dances between February 21 and May 30.

Eight Aggies Visit TSCW To Select Cotton Queen

Her Highness, Queen of the Texas A. & M. College Agro­nomy Society Cotton Ball and Pageant to be held here April 18, will be chosen this week-end at Texas State College for Women in Denton.--------------------------- ;----------------------- f

VSA Names ‘Councilmen’

New line-up of the Board of Representatives was an­nounced this week by Bill Williams, president of the Veteran Students Associa­tion.

Under the constitution of the association, elections are held in September and terms run for a full year. However, due to grad­uations and to moving of many students from one building to an­other at the end of the fall term, it was necessary to revamp the roster of the board. The consti­tution provides that this may be done by the board, in a manner similar to appointment of short­term senators or representatives in civil government when a vacan­cy occurs.

Next meeting of the board will be Wednesday, March 12, in the association offices in Goodwin Hall. The meeting will be open to all veterans.

The list of representatives is now as follows:

New Area: Dorm 1, unfilled;Dorm 3, R. P. Saunders; Dorm 5, John Ballentine; Dorm 7, Edgar H. Peveto; Dorm 9, unfilled.

North Gate Area:, Dorm 14, Hardwick; Dorm 15, unfilled; Dorm 16, V. C. Marshall; Dorm 17, Dan McAnnally; Walton, B. M. Ander­son.

Central Area: Hart, Robert E.Costellow; Bizzell, J. L. McAtee; Law, R. G. Shearer; Puryear, J. G. Handcock; Leggett, T. A. O’Dwy­er; Milner, Scott Hood; Mitchell, John Oliver.

Apartments: College View, Bud­dy Brennan; Veterans Village, un­filled; Trailer Village, Pat Wil­liams; Project Houses, C. L. Slo- very; Bryan, Tommy Tighe, Frank Yates.

Peruvian Official Visits Campus

Dr. Oscar Quiroga, director of mining and petroleum in the Per- u v i a n government, visited the campus Wednesday afternoon to observe how petroleum and geol­ogy training is carried on in the United States.

Harold Vance, petroleum engi­neering department head, and S. A. Lynch, geology dpartment head, accompanied Dr. Quiroga on the inspection tour of laboratory equipment and facilities.

He has been inspecting Humble011 Company installations in the Houston area, and came to A.&M. just to satisfy a desire to view training in the two branches.

Kenton Booked For One-Hour Concert

Stan Kenton will play a one-hour concert in Guion Hall Saturday evening, April12 before the All-College Dance, Grady Elms, acting director of Student Activities, announced Thursday.

The program, beginning at 7:15 p. m., will cost 60 cents for students and $1 for adults. The performance. Elms stat­ed, will be especially for the benefit of those people who do not wish to attend the dance.

Eugene Vacek, of Weimar, sel­ected King Cotton by members of the Agronomy Society, headed a committee of eight A. & M. stu­dents who went to Denton yester­day to select the queen and eight members of her court.

A total of 32 girls representing eight from each of the four classes were 'in the running for queen. Before leaving, Vacek said that the queen and eight ladies-in-waiting would be selected from the 32 girls.

DeWare Field HouseThis year’s pageant will be held

in DeWare Field House, and over 200 duchesses will be represented from the various campus clubs and former student groups and mothers’ clubs over the state. The purpose of the annual pageant and ball is to finance trips for several students of the agronomy depart­ment on a general cotton tour of the United States and Mexico.

Students comprising the selec­tion include: John P. Stanford, Linden; Andrew F. Moore, Bossier City, Louisiana; Robert L. Moore, Clarksville; Bertis L. Richey, Abi­lene; Olan E. Anderson, Waco; Douglas S. Kuehn, Alice; Herschel B. Ellis, Omaha; and Roy H. An­derson, Brookston.

J. S. Mogford, Mrs. Manning Smith, D. B. McCombs, V. P. Ben­nett, Roy H. Anderson, Mason Bris­coe II, G'. W. Kunze, and E. J. Vacek are serving as members of the steering committee in charge of the arrangements.

Can’t Read Music, But She Sings For Stan Kenton

By Charlie Murray

Whether her name is June Christy or Shirley Luster, she will appear with the Stan Kenton Or­chestra at the All-College Ball April 12. 21-year-old June, nee Shirley Luster, was chosen by U. S. music fans as their favorite band vocalist of 1947.

From Decatur, Illinois, Miss Christy owes the “Band Vocalist” title to such versions as TAMPICO and DON’T WANT THAT MAN AROUND.

It all began eight years ago, when June began working with a dance band after school. Wages for a night’s work amounted to $2.50—if the band was traveling, $5. Boyd Raeburn was her first big band leader when she was 17, but scarlet fever interrupted. A vacancy in the Kenton clan left June an open field, and it didn’t take her long to hit the road with Stan.

Today, the 21-year-old miss is earning $200 a week with Stap Kenton, During her leisure, she has to keep track of her ten even­ing dresses and convince her moth­er back home that show business is her business is her business.

June Christy is just ONE of the attractions in the Stan Kenton ag­gregation. No telling how many others Kenton has in store for April 12.

She can’t read a note of music either!

To Be Published March 15Compare the prices of the

A. & M. cafeteria with those of SMU, TCU, Texas University, and the Universities of Tulsa and Oklahoma. March 15 is the release date.

Don’t miss that issue of The Batt.

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VOLUME 46 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1947 Number 44

HEAD FOOTBALL COACH HOMER NORTON

NORTON STAYSWill Continue as Head Football Coach; To Drop Duties as Athletic Director; “Director of Athletics” to Be Named

Homer Norton, A & M Athletic Director and Head Football Coach for the past thirteen years, will remain as head football coach, with no salary change, relinquishing his duties as athletic director, the Board of Directors un­animously agreed last night. This decision was based upon the recommendation of President Gibb Gilchrist and the Athletic Council.

An “Athletic Director” will be named by the President of the school upon recommendation of the Athletic Council, and such an appointment will be subject to the approval of the Board of Directors. The “Athletic Director” will not coach any major sport, but will be in direct charge of all intercollegiate athletics.

Section 6 (a) of the rules gov­erning the athletic organization of the college was changed to read as follows:

“The Athletic Council shall be composed of four (4) mem­bers of the Academic Council, appointed by the President of the College and approved by the Board of Directors; The Director of Athletics; two (2) members of the Former Stu­dents Association, elected an­nually by said association; and two (2) members of the Sen­ior Class, one elected by the seniors of the Corps of Cadets and one by senior veteran stu­dents. The Chairman of the Athletic Council shall be a

member of the Academic Coun­cil and shall be nominated an­nually by the President of the College and submitted to the Board of Directors for confir-' mation at its annual May meeting.”

Another paragraph was added to this section to provide:

“A ‘Director of Athletics’ shall be named by the Presi­dent of the College upon re­commendation of the Athletic Council subject to confirma­tion by the Board of Directors. He shall be given the status of a department head, be a (See NORTON on Page Four)

An Editorial. ..

Commissary Plan Receives Student Life Approval

Cash-and-Carry Grocery to Sell At Wholesale-Plus

by David M. SeligmanRecent approval by the Student

Life Committee has been given Carey Clark’s plan to organize a student cooperative commissary to aid both married and single stu­dents in avoiding the rising cost in retail food products.

Extensive plans are being made to begin service to expected pur­chasers. At present a limited space for the concern confronts the manager. A garage at 214 Houston Avenue, which is the street running along the side of the stadium, has been obtained for operation. Remodeling and instal­lation of the building must be com­pleted before service can begin, it was stated.

Planned as a cash-and-carry

Allied Control Council Gets A VC Backing

WASHINGTON — Charles G. Bolte, national chairman of the American Veterans Committee, urged Secretary of State George C. Marshall today to move quickly at the Moscow Conference to set up a civilian Allied Control Coun­cil in Germany with the Allied Armies of Occupation serving merely as police forces to be called upon in emergency.

Assuring General Marshall of full support and confidence on the eve of his departure for Moscow, Bolte asserted that the core of the German problem is the reeducation of the German people. “We think that real democratization will take at least a generation — perhaps longer,” he said. “We do not think that any army—no matter how good an army—can teach democracy.”

“Germany is the place* where four-power cooperation is now most deeply committed and most critically on trial,” Bolte. declared. “Its failure to date is not the fault of the men on the spot. So far as we can judge, they have worked well together. But their efforts have been frustrated by the ‘ab­sence of basic four-power agree­ment as to what kind of Germany is to be recreated. We believe that you are the man to bring about such an agreement—keeping what is good in the Potsdam plan and scrapping what has shown it­self to be mad.”

“The nature of the German peo­ple cannot be quickly changed,” he said. “Denazification is not dem­ocratization; it is a necessary first step, at best a negative measure to separate the sheep from the goats.”

Bolte urged that in the parent- teacher training program the best available allied teachers be used as well as selected German teach­ers given careful training in Allied countries.

“business, the commissary will have- a low overhead due to minimum costs on student labor, no rent, and few utilities. To wholesale prices will be added only operating costs, salaries, and spoilage losses with the exception of a small em­ergency fund, a report said. Some­thing new in this area, the idea of the store is based on the operation of army and navy commissaries.

No Refrigerated ItemsNo meats or articles needing

refrigeration will be handled at first, since equipment for this pur­pose would call for a large initial investment, but it was stated that future plans include arrangements for buying these products directly from the producers (farmers).

A branch store in the area of the new apartments on the former polo grounds is being considered. This will help to alleviate the anti­cipated crowded conditions due to the large number of potential cus­tomers in the small double gar­age. It is expected that until such time as the space is enlarged, shoppers will not be able to make personal selections. The plan is for customers to place orders on one day and pick up their groceries the next.

If necessary, days will be assign­ed to buyers to reduce the crowded conditions. It was admitted that this was an inconvenience, but it was added that the saving on the grocery money should offset this.

Group to Keep TabThe Student Life Committee

has appointed a sub-committee to keep tab on the new venture. They will meet with Clark twice each month until the store is operating

Did She Arrange a Murder?

SYBIL CLAIR BANISTER, as­sistant radio editor of the A. & M. Extension Service, caught at her mike! She will play the part of Mrs. Ragg in the Thespians’ “A Murder Has Been Arranged”, to be held in the Assembly Hall March 12-14.

Negro, Russian, Now Cockney—

Sure, Why Not?By Ferd English

First Location In Garage Will Not Carry Meats

“smoothly”, and then once each month. The purpose of these meet­ings will be to help the manager with his various problems and to check the financial status of the business.

Taylor Wilkins, veterans advisor, says that the basic policy of the commissary will be to lower the veteran’s high cost of living by lowering'the cost of groceries, and Clark has promised to do all that is in his power to meet that end. He added that Clark has so far re­ceived wonderful assistance and cooperation from the authorities and the students, he believes that one of the best things that can be done for veterans and married students here at A. & M. will be carried out.

‘Yets Should Be Permitted To Air Views’

WASHINGTON — Asserting that the recent action by the House Veterans Affairs Committee barring AVC from presenting tes­timony before the committee “pre­vents nearly 100,000 veterans from giving heir own opinions on mat­ters which affect them vitally.” Charles G. Bolte, national chair­man of the American Veterans Committee, said March 6 that AVC chapters throughout the nation were protesting the action to their Congressmen.

“We cannot allow Rep. John Rankin’s hatred and fear of us and the principles for which we stand to prevent us from doing our job for the veterans,” Bolte said.

“The Washington Post stated editorially that ‘it is frightening to think that the majority of Mr. Rankin’s colleagues are complete­ly under his thumb in their sup­pression of the democratic right of expression,’ he said. The Post added: ‘. . . in following this nar­row line the House Veterans Com­mittee makes inordinately more difficult the broad, constructive approach to veterans’ problems which distinguished the AVC.’ ”

“The New York Herald Tribune stated: ‘The American VeteransCommittee, the most original, the youngest and probably the most vigorous of the more important veterans’ organizations, found it­self in the curious position of be­ing debarred from a Congression­al committee hearing on a veter­ans’ bill which had been drafted in its own office.’ ”

“T h e Army Times, nationally circulated independent veterans newspaper, stated: ‘. . . we don’t think there is any decent or law­ful reason for barring AVC from testifying before the Veterans Af­fairs Committee or any other Com­mittee of Congress.’ ”

Bolte. said that AVC expected to testify before other Senate and House committee^ dealing with veterans and other problems.

Homer Norton will coach the 1947 football team. Wheth­er you supported him or opposed him in the past few months is no longer important. The fight is over and we must all get together, forget past differences, and work for a championship team in ’47. Soon this school will have an athletic director, a new official. The thing is now to get the best man available for this position, a man who has the know-how and ability to get the job done—the job of help­ing Texas A & M write football history again.

Sure and Begorry It’s Half Mule . . .

A & M’s Irish Stableman Has Made Horse History in His 32 Years Service

Owen Garrigah, a recent sub­ject of a feature in the “Dallas Morning News”, knows his horses as well as most men know their wives. Garrigan, who became an assistant at the stables of the college’s division of animal hus­bandry thirty-two years ago and is now its superintendent, is look­ing sadly toward September, when he’ll be sixty-five and will face semi-retirement under state law.

The little Irishman—he is 5 feet 4, and weight 140 pounds— came to this country in 1888 on the invitation of United States Senator Joseph Bailey to work with the senator’s string of horses at Gainsville.

After eighteen years with Bail­ey, Garrigan became stable super­intendent here where he has re­mained, making horse history, ever since.

Take, for example, the former Dallas mare that kicked him under the right ear and left him un­conscious for nine weeks. Veter­inarians and breeders had tried unsuccessfully to get her in foal, whereupon she was sold to A. & M. and Garrigan brought about the foaling.

Then there is Pat Murphy, the amazing now-blind stallion that can do just about every trick but talk. The amazing thing about Pat is that he was bom of a mare mule and is part horse and part mule.

Garrigan’s experience with hor­ses stems from infancy in Ireland, where his father (as had his grand­father and great grandfather) raised polo horses and fine charg­ers for the famed British cavalry regiments. When he met Senator Bailey, young Garrigan was in

Survey-Mapping Conference Set March 26 - 27

An estimated 125 persons will attend the Surveying and Mapping Conference, slated for March 26- 27, Lucian Morgan, assistant dir­ector of the Placement Office, predicts. The parley, sponsored by the General Land Office and the Department of Civil Engineer­ing, will be held on the campus, and meetings will be conducted in the Civil Engineering Lecture Room.

A registration fee of $1 will be charged the enrollees; registra­tion will take place in the YMCA lobby from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., Wed­nesday, March 26. At the same time registrants, if so desiring, will be assigned rooms in Post Graduate Hall, to be opened at 5 p.m., March 25 until 4 p.m., March 27.

Banquet SlatedA banquet has been arranged

for 7 o’clock Wednesday evening, March 26, Morgan announced. To be held in Sbisa Dining Hall, tickets will cost $1.50 per person, and may be purchased upon regis­tration in the YMCA lobby. Ex­pected attendance at this banquet is 100 persons.

For those persons arriving on the campus March 25, rooms may be secured in PG Hall by register­ing to the Aggieland Inn.

charge of a great jumper and pre­vious winner of the Grand Nation­al at Liverpool, that was then running in the races at Dublin.

“Well, I played the part of a Russian in ‘You Can’t Take It With you’, and a Negro in ‘The Male Animal’, so I guess I can handle the part of a Cockney in ‘A Murder Has Been Arranged’.” That was Miss Sybil Clair Banister’s first remark when asked how she liked her role in the forth­coming Aggie Players’ pro­duction.

Mrs. Ragg, the stage version of Miss Banister, is now assistant editor of the A. & M. Extension Service. A member of the exten­sion service for two and a half years, she has contributed regular­ly to WTAW programs. Her work includes script and broadcast writ­ing, participation in programs, close liaison with county extension service representatives.

Her association with “The Tex­as Farm and Home Hour” has re­sulted in many fan letters from radio audiences. Among these let­ters she received two proposals from middle-aged men who stated that they just couldn’t keep their bachelor abodes in order without the help of her “Household Hints”. Another gift, from Mrs. C. Will­iamson of LaPorte, was a fur hat made from homegrown rabbits.

Two Banister brothers, John and Bill, are Aggies all the way. John was company commander of F. Infantry in 1942, and younger Bill is now taking advantage of the GI Bill of Rights at A. & M.

Don’t forget the Thespians’ Brit­ish play, “A Murder Has Been Arranged”, being staged in the Assembly Hall March 12-14. You’ll enjoy seeing the Cockney from London take time out from her Extension Service duties.

New Social Club To Be Opened For Aggies and Dates

In April, Pete Slaughter, a rural sociology major, plans to open a modern, dinner-dance club at the Pin Feather Country Club. For the primary purpose of providing a nice place for Aggies and their dates to dine and dance, Slaughter plans to have a seven-piece band at the Pin Feather club several nights a week; however, there will be dancing every night.

The club will be open to every­one, and membership is available to those who desire the privileges accorded members.

He plans to open the club at 3 o’clock each afternoon, with both an outdoor terrace and an indoor dining room and dance floor. Dec­orations will carry out the theme of hunting and fishing.

Slaughter may be remembered by many Aggies who saw him play football from 1940-42. Upon en­tering the armed forces, he served in the European Theater in the 22nd Tank Battalion, the 11th Armored Division, and the Third Army. He was in the service for 3% years.

Southwest Club to Meet

The Southwest Texas A. & M. Club will elect a Cotton Ball duch­ess Thursday evening, March 13, at 7:15 o’clock. Members will meet in the Ex-Students’ Lounge of the YMCA.