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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County)', Texas PAGE 2 1 Tuesday, April 21, 1959 Highlights Legislature Struggles Over Taxes, Must Do ‘Many Things’ in 3 Weeks By VERN SANFORD Texas Press Association AUSTIN, Tex.—With just about three weeks left in the reg ular session, legislators will be under much pressure—to do many things and do them fas.t. Each day that passes without agreement on financial matters heightens the possibility of a special session as soon as this one ends. Many measures will be tramp led under or pushed aside until ’61. But as Speaker Waggoner Carr told the House, the problem of raising some new money “won’t go away. It has to be faced.” Taxes Recommended Like every other tax proposal made this session, the huge “something for everybody” omni bus tax bill recommended by the House Tax Committee brought howls of protest. It would raise an estimated $151,000,000 a year by raising some old taxes and placing new taxes on hundreds of items. Tabbed for increases are natural gas, motor vehicles, cigarettes, liquor, wine, beer licenses. New targets include hotel rooms, restaurant meals, cigars, chewing tobacco, snuff, aircraft and auto parts, dozens of luxury items (jewelry, furs, cameras, watches, silver, etc.), radio and TV parts, business machines, commercial rentals, club dues, construction materials, dance stu dios, reducing salons. Officially, the bill is known as the Tax Committee substitute for H.B. 727. Unofficially, it’s called a lot of other things. House members showed no .more eagerness to rally behind this broad-based approach than they had for Gov. Price Daniel’s less “spread out” plan. Give a Little. . . Two appropriations bills of varying sizes have been passed by the House and Senate. Dif ferences will be adjusted by a conference committee of mem bers from the two houses. Both bills call for spending nearly $2,500,000,000 during the next two years. House bill is slightly larger. It calls for ap proximately $333,000,000 from general revenue. Senate would spend only $307,000,000 in gen- 1 era! revenue. To satisfy both houses, the con ference will try to reach a com promise -between these two fig ures. However it’s woi’ked out, it’s already clear that spending will considerably exceed the $281,000,000 spent from general fund for 1958-59. Governor Daniel’s “abandoned property act” barely squeaked by its first test on the House floor by a 71-69 vote. Measure would allow the state to take over money and property unclaimed for seven years or more. Estimates of how much it would bring in immediately range from $20,000,000 to $50,- 000,000. Many bankers fear that such a law would cause people to be afraid to put their money in banks and decide to stick it in a sock instead. Backers of the measure say the banks and other businesses are holding and getting the benefit of property that does not belong to them, should be used to bene-, fit all the people. Coop Bill A bill to allow rural electric coops more “elbow room” has been sent to the Attorney Gen eral for an opinion. Rep. Alonzo Jamison of Den ton, sponsor, protested to the House State Affairs Committee that this would kill the bill. This late in the session, delay is usu ally fatal. Highly controversial, the bill would allow coops to add new customers after the area of their lines is annexed to a city. Ad Bill Advances A state-financed advertising program for Texas moved close to final enactment despite heat ed opposition from an advertising man in the Senate. Proposed bill would create the Texas Development Board to supervise tourist advex’tising by the Highway Department and in dustry advertising by the Texas Industrial Commission. Sen. George Parkhouse, an ad vertising man from Dallas, ob jected, not to the idea of state advertising, but to the way it would be handled. He declared the proposed $100,000 appropria tion would be wasted. But the bill gained final ap proval in the Senate and next-to- final passage in the House. Fire, Police Bill Gains A shorter work week for many city firemen and policemen is near to legislative approval. Senate has passed the bill fi nally, and a House committee has recommended passage. Bill limits firemen’s working hours to 72 in cities of 10,000 to 60,000 population, 63 hours in cities of 60,000 to 125,000 and 60 hours for all larger than 125,000. Policemen would work the same hours as other city employees. -JUNIORS- # Time To Order —BOOT BREECHES— —WE CARRY— Sabres—Spurs & Chains—Sabre Cords— Sabre Chains ZUBIK'S Uniform Tailors North Gate THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in 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. 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The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telepiSning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the tutorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. JOE RUSER EDITOR Fred Meurer Managing Editor Gayle McNutt Executive News Editor Bob Weekley Sports Editor Bill Reed, Johnny Johnson, David Stoker, Lewis Reddell.—News Editors Bill Hicklin Assistant Sports Editor Robbie Godwin, Ken Coppage, Bob Edge, Jack Harts- field, Joe Callicoatte, Bob Saile, Jim Odom, Sam Spence, Leo Rigsby, Bob Roberts Staff Writers Texas Cherry Blossom Texas Cherry Blossom Princess Susan Rog - - D. C. She is surrounded by cowgirls in the ers of Pampa rides in the honor position at float portraying “The Heart of Texas.” (AP the top of Texas’ float in the National Cher- Wirephoto) ry Blossom Festival parade in Washington, Interpreting Chinese Reds Demonstrate Disdain for Communists By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The Chinese Reds, having dem onstrated once again the disdain of Communists for their own agreements, face a living fact which is a serious obstacle to their attempt to brazen out what has been happening in Tibet. It is the presence in India of the Dalai Lama in exile. He is not in Lhasa, where the Reds promised in 1951 that he could maintain control of the in ternal affairs of Tibet. He says that such control has always been a fiction—that at all times the local government has been subjected to dictation by the Reds. This does not surprise the world, long familiar with the pat tern of Red control wherever the forces of liberty are weak. Peiping now attempts to make it appear that it had to act in Tibet because the balance be tween Communist control of ex ternal affairs and Buddhist con trol of internal affairs was upset by imperialist plotting. The Dalai Lama says no at tempt to establish such a balance was made. He denies that his flight was involuntary, in the sense that he was abducted by rebel Tibetan forces. Instead he makes it plain that he and his party took different routes, in disguise, to escape the Reds. The Red version of abduction apparently is based on the fact that the Dalai Lama’s party was given a rebel escort after it was united in the border area. There is nothing to suggest a basis in fact for the Red claim Social Whirl Wednesday Chemical Engineering Wives meet at 7:30 p.m. in the South Solarium of the YMCA. Mem bers are urged to attend this meeting to elect officers. A game social will follow. SAVE EAT AT HOTARD’S Cafeteria 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.—5 p. m. - 8:30 p.m. Look your best at formal affairs Look your best on gala occa sions in formal clothes cleaned to perfection by us. Your “audience” will applaud! Try us soon. Campus Cleaners that his statement was forced from him by the so-called abduc tors or anyone else. Despite the timidity of the In dian government, which displays sympathy for Tibet along with fear of saying anything to dis please Peiping, the Indian press accepted the Dalai Larpa’s state ment at face value. His story of Communist de portation and enslavement of political opponents, and the exe cution of others, fits the pattern so well that the, rest of the world will hardly doubt. The whole story is given in re strained terms, perhaps at the behest of Indian officials, and therefore may be taken as under statement. Peiping has been caught so flat-footed that the best report it could make on the spur of the moment was to call the Dalai Lama a liar. 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MAY 9 FOR Graduation Weekend Australian Joins Oceanography Staff Brian W. Logan of Perth, West ern Australia, has been appointed to the research staff of the De partment of Oceanography and Meteorology, Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of the department, said yes terday. Logan will be associated with Dr. R. G. Bader, associate profes sor of oceanography, on a research project dealing with certain as pects of ecology and despositional environments of the Campeche Bank off the Yucatan Penninsula. The study will be conducted from the research vessel “Hidalgo.” Logan received his B. S. degree in geology in 1955 and his Honors degree in geology in 1957, both from the University of Western Australia at Perth. He recently completed the requirements for a Ph.D. degree in geological ocean ography at the same university. He formerly served on the staff of the University of Western Aus tralia as a lecturer on paleontol ogy. Logan has conducted researci onsedimentation and micro-organ, isms in Shark Bay off the coast of Western Australia and has stu died stratigraphy and sedimentary petrology of the sedimentary rocks in the Midlands Region of Australia. W v ‘ - tv, TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY Doris Day in “THE TUNNEL OF LOVE” Plus James Stewart in “VERTIGO” TODAY and WEDNESDAY “OSS 117 IS NOT DEAD” Also “HIDDEN HOMICIDE” CIRCLE TODAY and WEDNESDAY “The Restless Years” Also “The Kettles On Old MacDonald’s Farm” TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY smo&w deatu on Gusuham’s waus' KATHRYN GRANT • JAMES DARREN with MICKEY SHAUSHNESSY FREE HI-FI On Display in the MSC Bowling Alley SAVE YOUR CIGARETTE PACKS AND BOXES Marlboro Parliament Philip Morris Put your name and ad dress on the back and drop in containers at MSC Bowling Alley, Exchange Store or North Gate. Contest Ends May 11 Drawing - May 12 Students Only In haste or leisure ... HOTARD’S Cafeteria 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.—5 p. m. - 8:30 p.u. 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