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PAGE 2 Tuesday, March 17, 1959
New York Conducts
Political Experiment
CADET SLOUCH
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
New York State, which recent
ly acquired a new governor who
never before had sought elective
office, now has a new higher
schedule of personal income taxes
and a new political experiment to
watch.
Nelson A. Rockefeller,, million
aire grandson of the founder of
Standard Oil, was elected last
fall over Averell Harriman,
another millionaire heir to one of
the great fortunes left over from
the days of the nation’s pioneei'-
ing expansions.
Harriman himself had been
elected in his first political cam
paign, too.
Both previously had become
prominent political figures, how
ever, through service to the fed
eral government in Washington
and abroad.
As governor of New York, Har
riman had been a candidate for
thte Democratic presidential nomi
nation in 1952.
Rockefeller was immediately
recognized as a potential oppon
ent of Vice President Richard M.
Nixon for the Republican nomi
nation in 1960.
Then Rockefeller made a de
cision.
He said he had found the
state’s income to be far below
its outgo. To meet fixed obliga
tions and services which he felt
could not be evaded, he faced the
bigest budget in history—more
than two billion dollars.
About half of the state’s in
come passes in turn to urban
communities. New York City
alone gets about 400 million dol
lars, and the city itself was in a
bad financial fix.
The city administration is
nearly always Democratic. The
State Legislature is just as reg
ularly controlled by the Repub
licans. Rockefeller said: “All
right, we’ve got to meet these
bills. And at the same time we’ve
gt to balance the budget.”
The Democrats in the Legisla
ture, despite the city’s needs, op
posed him in a solid bloc. So
did many Republicans, whose
votes were necessary. It became
a national issue among Republi
cans, many of whom saw it as
endangering their chances in New
York State for 1960, and many
of whom began to see a boome
rang in their backing of Rocke
feller against Nixon for the pres
idency.
Rockefeller campaigned. But
he made no general charges
against those who were afraid of
the political effects *>f higher in
come taxes. He did accuse the
Democrats of having left state
finances in a mess, saying they
yielded to political experiency.
The Republicans, he said, had to
straighten things out even if it
hurt. President Eisenhower wrote
him k letter saying, that Rocke
feller was fighting the same bat
tle in the state that was going
on over the national budget in
Washington. Rockefeller com
promised with Republican legis
lative leaders on minor points of
his bill. It finally squeaked
through, with all the Democrats
opposed.
Rockefeller is credited in some
quarters with having displayed
not only a firm but also wise and
compromising leadership such as
is needed in the presidency. In
other quarters he is accused of
making the people pay for inade
quacy in a search ^ for sufficient
savings to avoid the tax increase.
Some grawing on the part of the
public is audible, but its ultimate
reaction is not yet determinable.
Rockefeller has taken the line
that the people might as well
know that when they demand
government service they are go
ing to have to pay for it. How
it will affect his standing in
state and national politics re
mains to be seen.
Social Whirl
7:30
Fifth Battalion Wives Club will
meet in Room 105 of the Biologi
cal Sciences Bldg, for a short
business meeting and a guest
speaker on rug making.
8:00
Physical Education Wives Club
will meet in the P. E. Library in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
hy Jim Earle Everyone Gets to Votes
Except D. C. Residents
“I may as well warn you—we have our suspicions as to who’s starting these waterfights.’
Better Parking Faeilities-6
Aggies Have Paid $80,082
For Parking Lots Since 9 5J?
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON <A>)_Elsewhere
the natives grow restive, and de
mand a voice in their govern
ment.
But here in Washington, for 85
years no citizen has had the right
to select so much as his own dog-
catcher.
The situation can be summed
up like this: No storming the
White House, no angry march on
Congress, no pitched battle with
the ruling classes—but a mildly
hopeful attitude that, with Alaska
and Hawaii in the Union, can the
nation’s capital be far behind?
The plight of the 802,178 vote
less residents of the District of
Columbia is curious, to say the
least.
Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa)
told the Senate: “America no
longer is a colonial power so far
as Hawaii and Alaska are con
cerned, but we still have this one
little colony here in the District
of Columbia, which we do not
permit to enjoy the same right of
home rule which the British em
pire grants to areas in darkest
Africa.”
And Sen. J. Glenn Beall (R-
Md) said: “It does seem to me
ironical and unfair. In the Dis
trict of Columbia there are as
many citizens as there are in
Hawaii and Alaska combined.
Yet Congress declines to give
residents of our nation’s capital
full citizenship rights.”
Several reasons are advanced
for the problem.
For one thing, not everyone is
eager to get his hands on a bal
lot. For another, since govern
ment is its main industry, the
District has curious and complex
tax problems.
Then, too, the Negro popula
tion in Washington—it now has
reached 50 per cent and is grow
ing — undoubtedly has caused
some congressmen to balk.
But those who work for the
Washington Home Rule Commit
tee said today they hope some
thing will give at long last in
this Congress, that local busi
ness will be returned to local
voters.
The Washington, D.C., resident
would not be able to vote for
president until the Constitution
is amended, which, of course,
would take much longer.
One compelling factor in this
reasoning: In a world bursting
into outer space, congressmen no
longer have the time, or the
patience, to fool with District af
fairs.
During the Suez crisis, when
war seemed imminent, the House
put in a busy two hours—discuss
ing how high is high enough for
overhead electric wires in the na
tion’s capital.
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(Editor’s Note: This is the
sixth in a series of articles ex
plaining the student parking sit
uation at A&M.)
By BILL REED
Battalion News Editor
Since September, 1955, $80,-
082.75 has been deposited in the
Student Parking Area Extension
Account in the Fiscal Depart
ment, said Charles A. Roeber,
business manager of the college.
This figure was recorded on
Feb. 28.
Of the total receipts from stu
dent registration fees and penal
ties, $55,096.25 has been spent on
student parking lots since the ac
count began in September, 1955.
Roeber also reported that $7,-
534.44 in contracts is still un
paid.
Presently the balance of the ac
count is $17,452.06.
“This amount is now available
and will be used for further im
provement of student lots in the
near future,” Roeber said yes
terday.
He said that $9,8.94 in rein
statement fees was collected dur
ing the 1955-56 school year. Of
that amount $5,693 was spent that
year on student parking lots.
During 1956-57, $12,823 was
deposited in the student exten
sion account, and the record
books show that $6,030 was paid
for parking improvements, he
continued.
When student registration fees
were increased from 25 cents per
year to $2 per semester during
the 1957-58 school term, the year
ly collections almost tripled. Dur
ing that year $33,998 in registra
tions and fines was deposited.
Roeber said $11,859 was paid
out during that school year.
So far this school year $23,-
367.75 has been taken in by the
Fiscal Department, Roeber said.
Following are expenditures for
the individual lots, including all
repairs and construction since
September, 1955:
Day Student $ 1,950.34
Law-Puryear 13,461.05
Walton 2,599.00
Hempstead Area .... 6,684.01
Dorms 14-17 21,422.30
Guion Hall 2,468.22
Parking Ulocks 5,884.89
Traffic Signs 626.44
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