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* PAGE 2 Thursday, July 2, 1959 The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Tfcvo ■' ' ' ' - % • L'- ^; >■ . <■ ■ * ■ i A \\' xK |V|* 11^ wm ‘I realize these 7:00 classes are hard on you, but please make more effort to stay awake!’ By VERN SANFORD Texas Press Association AUSTIN, Tex.—Much more than just taxes is being written now at the State Capitol. Political careers are being shap ed—or broken. Climate is being determined for business develop ment—or freeze. Cost of living for every Texan is involved. That’s what the edginess, tem perament, fussing and name-call ing is all about right now. Seldom, if ever before, have law makers been so sensitive to crit icism—from governor, from press, from public. - For the first time in years, the House met on a Saturday (June 20) to work on the long overdue tax bill. Knuckling down had come reluctantly—but surely—after gov ernor and press had chided law makers for long Thursday-to-Mon- day recesses during the short 30- day special sessions. Lawmakers fussed back earlier in that week— but they stayed late. For the most part, the fussing was all bark and little bite. House members who threatened to evict Capitol news reporters from their Capitol quarters and House floor press table in reprisal weren’t taken seriously. Reporting of leg islative affairs is fundamental to the democratic processes—and no one realizes it better than do law makers. In brief: pressuses mounted—a safety valve blew—and work was resumed in earnest. NEW TAX PROPOSAL — A 2 per cent “luxury tax” on items costing more than $50 is the prin cipal new feature of a House com mittee-approved revenue bill. Tax committee voted 12-to-6 to send the bill by Rep. Frates Seelig- son of San Antonio to the House floor. Like several previous bills, it was an attempt to compromise the conflicts between the “sales taxers” and “business taxers.” It would raise an estimated $170,000,000 for the biennium. About $36,000,000 would come You Can Have The Best FRIEDRICH Window Air Conditioner JOE FAULK ’32 Auto & Appliance Furniture 214 N. Bryan Cavitt at Coulter £</ Vertt SortforcL from the luxury sales tax. About $6,100,000 would come from a one per cent severance beneficiary tax on natural gas, and about $13,000,- 000 from increased franchise taxes on corporations. Rest would come from increased levies on gross receipts of utilities and sales of automobiles, tobacco, wine and liquor. In the showdowm on taxes last session, the House refused to ap prove a bill heavy on sales taxes. Some committee members voted against this bill on grounds that a 2 per cent sales tax, even though it was only on $50 or more items, would be ruinously unpopular. A majority of the Senate, how ever, has shown definite disap proval of loading too much of the new burden on business. They feel heavy business taxes would shut out industry and cut off the source of new prosperity. SPENDING BILLS RE-PASSED —Both houses re-passed the ap- proiation bills that went through the first special session. They went to same conference committee that worked before the adjust differences. House bill was some $20,000,000 higher. Conference committee reportedly did most of the routine work on the bills and set them aside until a tax bill could be passed to make spending possibilities more defin ite. STILL FEEDING — Abandoned property bill, which provoked some of the most heated legislative de bate this year, is having its third round. Rep. James Bates of Edinburg, sponsor, told the House tax com mittee the bill wouldn’t change the escheat laws that have been on the statute books for years. He de clared it would make the old law more workable. Bates’ bill, as introduced this session, would require banks and others holding money or property unclaimed for seven years, to re port it to the state within 60 days after passage of the bill. It also would give state agencies authority to examine the books and records of businesses to see if they are holding such property. Bankers labeled it a “free hunt ing license into all bank accounts” and “unconstitutional search and seizure.” Bill was sent to subcommittee. 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. 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 school. 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' Mail subscriptions are 53.50 per semester, 56 per school year, 56.50 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 to 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 reserved. News contributions may be made by teleplSining vi 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the Jlitorial 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 Brown Sports Correspondent C. F. Hall Added To A&M Faculty Dr. C. F. Hall has joined the faculty of the School of Veterinary Medicine, as an associate professor in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology. The appointment was effective Wednesday, Dr.' L. C. Grumbles, head of the department, says. Before coming to A&M, Hall was a member of the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University. He received his Doctor of Veter inary Medicine degree from Kan sas State College in 1951. From 1951 to 1952 he was veterinarian i ncharge of a commercial biologi cal testing laboratory. . Later he joined the staff of the University of Arkansas where he also did graduate work. He receiv ed his M. S. degree in Veterinary Pathology at Michigan State Uni versity in June, 1959. Hall will be a joint staff mem ber of A&M and the Texas Agri cultural Experiment Station and will devote the major part of his time to research and teaching in the field of poultry diseases. Numerous Faiths Represented Here The denominational preference of the students attending the first term of summer school has been announced by Gordon Gay, coor dinator of religious life. It follows: Baptist, 667; Methodist, 540; no card, 270; Catholics, 326; no prefer ence, 204; Presbyterian, 144; Church of Christ, 100; Episcopal, 93; Lutheran, 87; Christian, 73; Protestant, 16; Jewish, 13; Assem bly of God, 10; Mormon (LDS), 8; Moslem, 8; Czech-Moravian, Naz- azene, United Church of Christ, 5 each; Unitarian, Greek Orthodox, Christian.Science, 4 each; Congre gational, 2; United Brethren, An- blican, Christadelphian, Church of Beracha, Christian Catholic Apos tolic Church, Seven Day Adventist, Independent Gereja, 1 each. The Swedish “Sven Salen” is the largest diesel-driven tanker in the world. She measures 700 feet over all. BE A MAGICIAN WRITE MEYER-BLOCH DIR.-CONJURORS’ CLUB 240 RIVINGTON ST. N. Y. C. 2 Jf You Have q, Car, A Home, A Family One man can solve all of your insurance problems. He is your friendly State Farm agent. See him soon. C. M. Alexander, Jr., 215 S. Main Phone TA 3-3616 Stale Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company State Farm life Insurance Company State Farm Fire and Casualty Company HOME. OFFICES—BLOOMINGTON. ILLINOIS Board Accepts Funds at Meet Here Saturday A total of $234,727.59 in funds supporting fellowships, scholar ships, awards and grants-in-aid for research within the A&M System was accepted by the board of di rectors here Saturday. The board also accepted a num ber of loans of livestock, machinery and materials for use by various parts of the system. Of the total funds, received $146,669.87, of which $24,909.87 was for scholarships and fellow ships. Grants-in-aid amounting to $102,860, special gifts totaling $9,000 and loans of $9,900 were also accepted for the college. • The Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station received 18 grant-in- aid, amounting to $62,350; eight gifts adding up to $6,563.50; lonas of equipment and materials valued at $16,304.50. Tarleton State College received two gifts amounting to $617 and a gasoline engine; Prairie View A&M received two gifts amounting to $314; the Texas Engineering Experiment Station received a power unit for the IBM-650 com puting machine used in the Data Processing Center. The Texas Transportation Insti tute received 17 gifts amounting to $1,908.72, supporting establish ment of the Thomas H. MacDonald Chair of Transportation. The latest gifts brought to $82,430.47 the total funds received in support of the MacDonald Chair. IFee Aggies We Aggies like to read about Wee Ag gies. When a wee one arrives, call VI 6-4910 and ask for the Wee Aggie Edi tor , A future Aggie Sweetheart, Cat- rina Lynn, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Schafroth of College View, Apt. C-18-B. , BRAKE . SAFETY NEWSREEL In an emergency , situation, how far would YOUR car travel AFTER you put on the brakes? TOO LATE? B DON'T GUESS... be safety sure! 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