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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.
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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.
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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*.
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