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PAGE 2 Thursday, August 6, 1959 The Battalion Colley Station (Brazos County), Texas CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “So I Asked Myself, What Am I Doing In This Ole Classroom?! By VERN SANFORD Texas Press Association AUSTIN, Tex.—With the bottle neck broken on a tax bill for regu lar spending, legislators began to look down the road. Rep. Murray Watson of Mart proposed a resolution that pointed up the lawmakers’ uneasiness about having more rough decisions before the year is out. Watson’s resolution called on Gov. Price Daniel to say immedi ately whether he would call an other session to raise money for the Hale-Aikin school improvement program. Hale-Aikin proposals, which in clude an $800 a year salary boost for teachers, would cost an esti mated $120,000,000 a year. There have been repeated rumors that the governor will re-call the Legis lature next fall to enact Hale- Aikin. Also floating around is the rumor that a 1 cent per gallon hike in the gasoline tax is being “saved” for that purpose. Watson charged, “I think there’s been a definite deal made with the Texas State Teachers Association . , . Somebody else should know what’s going on here instead of just the governor and the. teach ers’ lobby.” Gov. Daniel’s supporters called this unfair. They declared that the governor, like everyone else, could n’t tell how it would be until after dust settled from the fracas over raising money for the basic budget. AT LAST—-When the Legisla ture finally voted out the new $185,000,000 tax bill, it voted it out in a big way. Tally was 29-to- 2 in the Senate and 115-to-24 in the House. This is well over the require*! two-thirds to make the bill effec tive immediately on the governor’s signing. &</ V«rn So rtfo ret. House, which had been ham strung for seven months on the tax issue, came unstrung so sud denly it surprised the bill’s advo cates. Voting ended good naturedly with “yea” votes recruited in the atmosphere of an old-fashioned re vival meeting. Most talked-about feature of the new bill is a severance beneficiary tax of 1.5 per cent on natural gas. It was the first time the Senate had approved this tax. Many House members had said they would not vote for any bill that didn’t in clude it. It will bring in an esti mated $15 to $18,000,000 over two years if not ruled unconstitutional. Three-fourths or more of the bill’s revenue will come from se lective sales taxes. Newcomers are a 3 per cent tax on jewelry and furs, a 3 per cent tax on hotel and motel room rentals, 3 per cent on boats, motors, cameras, air condi tioners, 25 per cent on tobacco products other than cigarettes. Taxes on cigarettes will go up S cents a pack; liquor and wine, 20 per cent; motor vehicle sales, from 1.1 to 1.5 per cent. Utility gross receipts will go up 20 per cent, and the corporation franchise tax will go up by 75 cents per $1,000 capital for one year, 50 cents per $1,000 there after. PRODUCER-PLAYWRIGHT TURNS DIRECTOR NEW YORK i^P)—George Axel rod, who also writes and produces plays, is concentrating for a while on directorial assignments. Martin Gabel and Henry Mar- golis have signed Axelrod to stage two productions next fall, “One More—With Feeling,” and “My Face for the World to See.” The latter is Axelrod’s adaptation of a novel by Alfred Hayes. THE BATTALION Opinions oppressed m The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College." Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewall, director of Student Publications, chairman; J. W. Amyx, School of Engineering; Harry Lee Kidd, School of Arts and Sciences; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M.. is published in College Sta tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday,- and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem ber through May, and once a week during summer schoel. Entered as second - class matter at the Post Office In College Station, Texas, ander the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER; The Associated Press Texas Press Ass’n. Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles, and San Francisco' Mall subscriptions are $3.50 per semester, $6 per school year. $6.50 per full year. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, Col- lege Station, Texas. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited io it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Bights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserve,a. News contributions may be made by telepllbning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at th« Jditorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. DAVID STOKER EDITOR Joe Steen, Dean Hord, Ernesto Uribe, John Wayne Clark....Staff Writers Francis Nivers Photographer Russell Brpwn ^ Sports Correspondent SOURCE FOR AMATEURS ...NEW YORK UP)—The booming off-Broadway theatrical scene is now becoming a source of material for amateur stage production. Eight scripts have recently been taken over by Dramatists Play Service, the agency established by the Dramatists Guild to handle leasing of plays for non-profes sional groups. The acquisitions include “Broth ers Karamazov,” “Everyman To day,” “Mary Stuart,” “Me, Can- dido,” “Palm Tree in a Rose Gar den,” “Simply Heavenly,” “I Knock at the Door,” and “Tevya and His Daughters.” Records Swinging Era Gone ut Not Forgotten By HUGH MULLIGAN AP Newsfeatures Writer MUSICIANS SPEAK of Hie “big band era”’ with the same proud nostalgia that entertainers use in 'iscussing the golden age of vaudeville. The term “big band era” con jures up thoughts of block long ines around New Y'ork’s Para- nount Theater, of hookev playing teen-agers shrieking for auto graphs, of one night stands and all night bus rides, of week long engagements at such musical meccas as the Glen Island Casino, the Totem Pole and Frank Daley’s Meadowbrook. There’s hardly a bandsman blowing today who doesn’t boast of having once been a smeman with Tommy Dorsey or Benny Goodman or any of the other name bands in the day when swing was king, just as every television comic traces his pedigree to an act that led the bill at the Palace. The era left such a mark on the musical world that few realize how short it was. It lasted less than a decade, roughly from 1935 to 1943, or from the, middle of the depression to the middle of World War II. Wartime travel restric tions and the draft decimated most of the big bands. Those that survived the war or regrouped after it depended more on steady hotel dates and television than personal appearance tours and could never again exude the same excitement. Several new record ' albums dealing with the Dorsey Brothers, Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, recreate the magic of this passing phenomenon and make mighty en joyable listening. The Dorsey Brothers, trained to play a dozen instruments by their music teacher father in a Penn sylvania coal mining town, were in on the swing movement from the beginning, predating Benny Good man, and lasted longer than most of their contemporaries. After playing with Paul White- man, Ted Lewis, Vincent Lopez, Joe Venuti and other dance bands of the 1920s, they formed the “Dor sey Brothers Concert Orchestra” arid put out their first recording in 1927. The baton was wielded by Eugene Ormandy, then in the string section of the Capitol Theat er pit orchestra, now conductor of che Philadelphia Symphony. Jimmy, who had worked in the soal mines at- 13, was easy going and friendly. He played the clari net and the also sax, made Rip ley’s column by playing the “Flight of the Bumble Bfee” in two breaths. Young brother Tommy, a gifted trombonist, was moody and iras cible, a perfectionist who had his own ideas of what and how the band should play. The inevitable storm broke at the Glen Island Casino in 1935 when Tommy blew a raspberry on his trombine and walked off to form his own band. For the next 18 yeai’S the brothers went their separate suc cessful ways, hut joined forces again in 1953 to do the Jackie Gleason show with their “Fabu lous Dorseys” orchestra. “Tommy Dorsey’s Greatest Band,” a disc 20th Fox album presents the best of “Sentimental Gentlemen of Swing” in his best years, the early ’40s. Included are original tapes of such T. D. trade marks as “Boogie Woogie,” “Song of India,” “Marie,” “Opus No. 1,” “Swanee River’” and many others^ Epic’s “Jimmy Dorsey’s Great est Hits” features the band as it carries on today under the baton of Lee Castle. The arrangements profess to preserve “the original mood but with an up to date touch,” although few changes have been made in such favorites as “Tangerine,” “Marie Elena,” “The Breeze and I,” “Amapola” and “I Hear a Rhapsody” beyond substi tuting instrumental parts of the vocals. 1305 JULY’59 M.P. 13 Mrs. Tucker's SHORTENING 3 lb. can 75c 4G Oz. Cans—IJbby's TOMATO JUICE can 31c No. 2i/ 2 Cans—Libby's SLICED PEACHES can 31c No. 2V2 Cans—Libby's FRUIT COCKTAIL can 35c Nabisco Premium CRACKERS 1 lb. 25c Maryland Club INSTANT COFFEE Ski.. 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S MARKET NORTH GATE —WE DELIVER- COLLEGE STATION Coach Bradley, Family Hurt In Arizona Auto Collision Dough Bradley, A&M backfield coach, suffered a broken nose, cuts and bruises when the car in which he was riding collided with another automobile near Mesa, Ariz., Fri day. His wife, Sally, and their two daughters also were injured in the collision. Mrs. Bradley sustained two severe cuts on the body and several on the face. The Bradleys were returning to College Station from Los Angeles where they had been visiting rela tives. Mrs. Bradley was driving the car. Bradley talked with Coach Jim Myers of A&M Saturday by tele phone and said they were “very fortunate” to have come out of the wreck without more serious injury. The Bradleys probably will fly back to Texas sometime next week. u u of th*. Mart NEW 1959 PHILCO DUOMATIC It's a washer, H's a dryer, 2 in one! Combines the best features of deluxe washers and dryers ... and outperforms them both! 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