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Redistricting changed by court decision THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MAR. 9, 1976 Page 3 ‘Mount Aggie’ Workout Texas A&M students practice basics of skiing on a synthetic surface attached to aslope next to G. Rollie White Coliseum. The slope was given to the Health and Physical Education Department by the Aggie Snow Ski Club. Associated Press WASHINGTON — In a ruling on a Louisiana case, the Supreme Court said Monday that reapportionment plans approved by federal district courts no longer must follow proce dures outlined in the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The court said that under previous rulings a plan of single-member dis tricts should have been adopted in stead of a plan for multimember dis tricts. The court rejected Justice De partment and NAACP arguments that the plan was invalid because it had not been cleared under the Vot ing Rights Act. The act has been extended by Congress to cover reapportionments required after the 1980 census. The act requires changes in voting pro cedures to be approved either by the ggies learn snow skiing Dn artificial snow turf Justice Department or by a special three-judge federal court in Wash ington. In 1971, the Supreme Court said reapportionment plans formulated by a federal court are exempt from tbis requirement because it would interfere with the responsibilities of the judiciary. Monday’s decision broadened the 1971 decision, saying the exemption applies to plans “adopted pursuant to a court order.” A spokesman for the Justice Department’s civil rights di vision said the decision means that many plans the division thought had been covered by the act no longer are. The Voting Rights Act applies in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas and parts of California, New York, Arizona, New Mexico and North Carolina. Now In Stock Texas Instruments SR- 56 and SR- 52 LOUPOT’S BOOKSTORE Northgate - Across from the Post Office That Place PROGRESSIVE PRECISION HAIRCUTTING 707 TEXAS 846-6933 r > ■exas A&M students with a yen Idifferent climes and snow skiing |ea new training aid. |t is a 30 by 30-foot special As- irf ski “slope for beginners. The e is operated by the Health and peal Education Department. Students are learning to vplow, side step and other basics Isnow skiing four afternoons a p, under the instruction of Dr. prge Jessup and Tish Husik. Jlie elective physical education |rse is one of several department cialized offerings, along with enezuela bduction 11th day Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela — The rch for kidnaped Ohio busi- an William F. Niehous en- led its 11th day today without ■ id from the abductors. I)espite the lack of hard contact will the kidnapers, an Interior II nistry spokesman said he was op- Mstic that “positive news” would h forthcoming soon. He did not iborate. Persons claiming to be the kid- rs sent a communique to a acas newspaper Feb. 28. The ament accused Niehous and his pany Owens-Illinois Glass Co., [interfering in internal political and momic affairs and said the execu- e would be held for trial. SCUBA diving and fencing. The fledgling skiers’ “hill’’ is tem porarily located on Houston Street across from G. Rollie White Col iseum. It was purchased by the 180-member Snow Ski Club and given to the department. “Mount Aggie,” as students label the slope site, is used only for course instruction. Developed by Monsanto two years ago, the synthetic ski surface is a white, longer-pile version of regu lar Astroturf. Special additives in crease its slipperiness. Teflon beads are poured on it, providing a surface “like corn snow.” “This is a type of snow that occurs in spring. After some daytime melt ing, it freezes at night causing ice crystal granules on the surface,” Jes sup explained. “It’s a slow and easy skiing surface.” We also can get a silicon spray to “further reduce the coefficient of friction,” he added. “It works, ” the prof said, “and the kids are excited about it.” They have enough room to make snowplow and stem Christie turns, 9-er they learn to properly adjust bindings, put on poles, balance on skis and get up after a fall. “Time in Colorado is expensive,” Jessup said. “Time that would nor mally be spent there learning basics can be put in here.” EPISCOPAL STUDENT CENTER 902 JERSEY (SOUTH SIDE OF CAMPUS) EUCHARIST & SUPPER 5:30 P.M. TUESDAYS. DAILY EUCHARIST IN LENT — MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 5:30 P.M. 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A Sorry Record First let’s look at Bentsen’s record in the Senate. • One of the first things he voted for was a provision to weaken the filibuster, thus making it easier to push through hasty, ill-considered legislation that could run contrary to the long term interest of the American people. • Back in early June he teamed up with New York’s Senator Jacob Javits to co-sponsor one of the first “bailout” bills for New York City. Governor Carey of New York publicly praised Bentsen for his help. Later in Houston Bentsen de nied he was for a bailout. A few weeks later in Washington he voted for it. How’s that for con sistency? • Bentsen voted to end the de pletion allowance, thus depriv ing Texas of hundreds of mil lions of dollars that would have been invested in new explora tion and new jobs. In handbills he passed out in Washington he bragged that this showed he had “guts.” But when he comes back to Texas he poses as a friend of the oil indus try—one of the most important in the state. , • Bentsen voted for the McGovern Amendment that would make it easier for ineli gible people to get food stamps—at the taxpayers ex pense! • Bentsen spurned appeals by the Governor and voted to im pose the punitive and dis criminatory provisions of the Voting Rights Act on his own state. Now every slightest change in every election pro cedure dating back to 1972 can be overruled by Washington bureaucrats. Appointed offi cials in the Justice Department who may never have set foot in Texas (and were certainly never elected by anyone in Texas) have the power to re vise precinct boundaries — even to void municipal annex ations which have taken place over the last five years. • On two separate occasions Bentsen voted against the in terest of Texas cattlemen by granting the President power to impose a price freeze on beef. The 1973 price freeze dis rupted the beef market, caus ing at first shortages and then a market glut The net result was a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to Texas cattlemen. • Bentsen voted three times to cut off debate, thus assuring the passage of the common situs picketing bill, a bill which would have damaged the already de pressed construction industry by permitting a minor dispute between one subcontractor and one union to close down an entire construction project. Has Bentsen Become A Liberal? Back in 1970 Bentsen called Ralph Yarborough a “free-spending liberal.” When Yarborough left of fice we had a $6 billion deficit. Today we have a $70 billion deficit. And if all the spending bills Bentsen voted for had become law the deficit would be even higher. For example, in 1971 Bentsen voted to extend OEO two years at a cost of $6.3 billion— including the creation of a “Com prehensive Child Development Program” that columnist James Kil patrick described as “the boldest and most far-reaching scheme ever advanced for the Sovietization of American youth.” Bentsen again voted for a similar program in 1972 which would have cost another $2.9 billion. Fortunately, both bills were vetoed. The first time Lloyd Bentsen ran for the Senate he bragged he was a conservative. Remember? That’s how he got himself elected. Have five years in Washington turned him into a liberal? That’s what Elinor Guggenheim, the McGovernite New York City Consumers Affairs Com missioner, thinks. In her endorse ment of Bentsen for President she described him as a man “who has seen the light of liberalism.” He fooled her, but he hasn’t fooled Texas liberals. Bentsen The Opportunist The truth is that Lloyd Bentsen is not a liberal. He’s not a conserva tive. He has no principles, no politi cal philosophy. His only commit ment is to his own overweening am bition. He doesn’t care about Texas. He cares about what he thinks will help his pitiful drive to become Pres ident. It would be tragic if the best Texans could offer to America in this Bicentennial Year were to return such a transparent opportunist to the U.S. Senate. Fortunately the chance that he will become President is now virtually nil. As the Orlando Sentinel-Star summed it up on December 9th, “the Senator from Texas was an early entry and has been fading steadily. His own Texas backing is evaporating.” And then they went to the heart of the matter. “If the oil wells of Texas were as shallow as he is politically, there would never have been any oil millionaires.” Phil Gramm Speaks For Texas It is also fortunate that this year Texans have an exciting alternative to Lloyd Bentsen. Bentsen, after all, doesn’t really want to be a Texas Senator. He wants to be President. Of course he’d rather be a Senator than out of a job. But that’s not say ing much. He doesn’t work very hard at being a senator. According to Congressional Quarterly Bentsen missed more than one out of every four record votes in 1974, tying for ninth worst attendance record in the Senate! Texans deserve a full-time senator who is fully committed to the needs of Texas and the philosophy most Texans share. Texas needs Phil Gramm. The national weekly, Human Events, in a recent major ar ticle on the Gramm-Bentsen race, described it bluntly: “One of the most forthright, outspoken, no nosense conservatives in the land is out to unseat one of the double- talkingest office-holders this side of New York City Mayor Abe Beam.” The article, written by a leading Dallas commentator, describes Gramm as a “dynamic defender of free enterprise.” And the Longview News & Journal noted that “The message he is spreading across Texas is that the only way to curb inflation is to quit spending money we don’t have and to quit running the Federal Reserve System’s pres ses overtime to make up the slack.” Rescue The Economy From The Politicians “Dr. Philip Gramm may be some thing of a rarity among economists,” marvelled the Denton Record- Chronicle. “He preaches econo my.” As Gramm sees it our econom ic problems are very real: inflation, unemployment, soaring taxes and energy shortages. But he has also seen that it has been the politicians who have caused the problems— politicians who are ignorant of economic realities and seek only to buy votes by bribing special interest groups with more and more deficit spending. Gramm saw politicians block the Alaskan Pipeline for five years to humor pressure groups that seemed to care more about wild caribou than they did about the mil lions of human beings who have suf fered and will suffer because of fuel shortages. He warned the Congress in his testimony, but no one listened. Gramm saw politicians give free rein to bureaucratic busy-bodies who have all but strangled business, in dustry, and state and local govern ments with endless regulations, red tape, and demands for meaningless reports: disincentives causing waste, inefficiency, and higher consumer costs—pouring out of Washington. Phil Gramm had had it. He deter mined to launch a crusade to rescue the economy from the politicians. An Uphill Fight And so Phil Gramm became a candidate for the Democratic nomi nation to the U. S. Senate. He knows he’s in an uphill fight. His op ponent is an incumbent and a mil lionaire who boasts that his cam paign coffers (thanks to an election “reform” law he supported!) will soon be enriched to the tune of some $800,000 from the Federal Treasury. Gramm Is Gaining It’s an uphill fight. But that’s the kind Texans fight the best! And Gramm is gaining—fast. Recently the Houston Post quoted political observers as saying that Gramm is already leading Bentsen in two of the four most populous counties in the state. And Gramm is waging one of the most hard-working face-to- face campaigns in the history of Texas He has spoken in scores of communities large and small in every part of the state. Everywhere he goes he is greeted with en thusiasm and wins new supporters. You Can Help—Now! But in order to win Gramm needs your support. Please fill in the coupon below and send it in. Do it for Texas. Do it for America. Do it now. YES! I want to help Phil Gramm get his message across to my fellow-Texans. I enclose my maximum contribution of... □ $5 □ $10 □ $20 □ Other □ I want to work as a volunteer for Phil Gramm. Name Address. City or Town. -Zip. Mail to: Phil Gramm for Senator P. O. Drawer AO College Station, Texas 77840 A copy of our report is filed with the Federal Election Commission and is available from the F.E.C., Washington, D.C.— Dennis Goehring, Treasurer. B VOLUNTEERS SHOULD CALL DAVIS McGILL 846-7703