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■ ** PAGE 2 Thursday, July 9, 1959 The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas By VERN SANFORD AUSTIN, Tex.—About the only cheerful remark heard around Tex as Legislative halls of late is, “Think how bad it would be if it weren’t air conditioned!” (House and Senate chambers are cooled this year for the first time, though most of the rest of the Capitol is not as yet.) Many remember summer ses sions in the pre-air conditioned days. Scorcher extraordinary was the one in 1949 which ran to July 6, longest regular session in Texas history. Lawmakers and reporters com plained that the huge granite blocks in the Capitol walls col lected heat like a dutch oven. Coat and tie rules in the legislative chambers added to the misery. Some observers said that the 1949 Legislature (which also had a tax problem) didn’t really quit. It just sort of melted down. A spe cial session was called the next winter to clear up money prob lems. For all its comforts, air condi tioning hasn’t taken the sweat out of passing a tax bill. Both House and Senate have passed tax bills, and a new con ference committee was put to work to piece them together. But the floor action preceding passage gave no indication that any of the. conflicting groups is ready to give an inch. House membership is split three ways into (1) those who don’t want the majority of new taxes to fall on business, (2) those who don’t want a majority to be sales taxes and (3) those who apparently don’t want any new taxes. Each of the first two groups has bqen able to defeat the other’s pro posals with the help of the “no taxers.” Hence, despite public im patience and their own weariness, lawmakers have been ensnared in in a one-step-forward-and-two- backward pattern. SOMETHING OLD, SOME THING NEW—Given to the con ference committee on taxes were a new bob-tailed bill from the House and an old, nearly full-size bill from the Senate. House bill would raise about $106,000,000 over two years—about $70,000,000 less than is needed. Senate bill, designed to raise about $160,000,000 is the same one passed by the Senate in the first special session. It contains more sales taxes than business taxes which the House refused to accept on the last round. Cut from the House bill before passage were the $50 deductible Social Whirl Sunday Architectural Wives Society will have a barbecue at 4 p.m. Sunday at Hensel Park. Both old and prospective members and their families are urged to attend. * * * Tuesday University Dames Club will hold its regular monthly meeting Tues day in the South Solarium of the YMCA at 8 p.m. TYPEWRITERS Rental - Sales - Service - Terms Distributors For: Royal and Victor Calculators & Adding Machines CATES TYPEWRITER CO. 909 S. Main TA 2-6000 St/ Verti Sanford, sales tax ( a 2 per cent levy on costs over $50) and the natural gas severance beneficiary tax. Both fell by the wayside in one of the “if you kill my tax, I’ll kill yours” sessions. Remaining in the bill were levies on which the House has been able to agree all along—on cigarettes, liquor, auto sales and corporation franchises. “New wrinkles” added were (1) a licensing fee for private clubs that sell liquor and a 10 per cent tax on mixing drinks and (2) a 1.5 per cent sales tax on boats, motors and airplanes. Bill also contains a provision to cut the sulphur tax from $1.40 to $1.03 a ton. House conferees, none of whom served on the committee last ses sion, are Reps. Menton J. Murray of Harlingen, Frates Seeligson of San Antonio, Wesley Roberts of Lamesa, Joe Ed Winfree of Hous ton and John Allen of Longview. Senate conferees include four who served before, Sens. Rudolph Weinert, Dorsey Hardeman, Bruce Reagan and Jimmy Phillips, plus one new member, Sen. Wardlow Lane. SENATE OKAYS BEACH BILL —After considerable haggling and several close votes, the Senate passed a bill to guarantee public access to public beaches. Mustang and Padre Islands are exempted from the provisions of the bill. Sen. Bruce Reagan of Corpus Christi, who sponsored the amendment, said that the islands were being developed with a sys tematic plan for public parks, beaches and recreation areas. ' Opponents to the exemption said it would allow at least one-third of the beaches on the islands to be under private control. As passed by the Senate, the bill does not try to define boundary be tween state and private land, but simply affirms the public’s right to come and go from state beaches by way of roads. FEE BILL ADDED TO CALL— A bill to let state colleges charge a $30 a semester activity fee got a new lease on life when Gov. Price Daniel submitted it to the Legis lature. Bill had been introduced twice, but fizzled out in the Senate when Sen. Henry Gonzalez challenged it on two points: (1) it was not “within the governor’s call” for the session and (2) in order to be considered “within the call,” it would have to be regarded as a rev enue-raising measure which must originate in the House. If You Have a Car, A Home, A Family One man can solve all of your insurance problems. He is your friendly State Farm agent. See him soon. U. M. Alexander, Jr., ’41 215 S. Main Phone TA 3-3616 State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company State Farm Life Insurance Company State Farm Fire and Casualty Company NOME OFFICES—BLOOMINGTON. ILLINOIS / / , J 9 /? [j . , Where the Art of | ^rrotard & K^cij^eteriCL Cooking Is Not Lost B 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. Member* of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewall, director of Student Pub'fcations, 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. Sintered as second • class i matter at the Post Office In College Station. Texas, «nder 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' Mall subscriptions are 93.50 per semester, $6 per school year, 96.50 per full year. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, Col lage Station, Texas. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein, nights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the Jditorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. DAVID STOKER , EDITOR Joe Steen, Dean Hord, Ernesto Uribe, John Wayne Clark....Staff Writers Francis Nivers .* Photographer Russell Brown Sports Correspondent CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle >: >$V h; HI ‘A Beatnik! Heavens No I’m Just A Slob!” Hagler Replaces Late E. W. Hooker Roy W. Hagler has been named chief clerk of the Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station, succeed ing the late E. W. Hooker. An employee in the chief clerk’s office since 1942, Hagler served the past five years as its auditor and accountant. He was born at Eureka and graduated from Mildred High School, both in Navarro county. He attended A&M for two years, specialazing in agricultural educa tion. Hagler and his wife, Mary Lee, live at 1104 Marsteller Dr. in Col lege Station. They have two children, a son, Eldon Ray Hagler, a junior at A&M Consolidated High School, and a daughter, Mrs. James B. Bond of Navasota, and one grandchild. 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 CONWAY & COMPANY 103 N. Main Bryan MSC Schedules ‘Den’ and ‘Hideaway’ Dances Dancing is again the headline attraction in the Memorial Stu dent Center as the Summer Direc torate continues to offer students dance opportunities twice a week. Tonight will find the regular “Den Dance,” beginning at 8:30 in the MSC Fountain Room, with jukebox music. The “Hideaway” dance will travel to the terrace Monday night, and persons attending the dance should use the outside terrace steps for access to the dancing area, according to Decorations Chairman Dorothy Berry. Music for the dance will be pro vided by jukebox. The Rev. Leonard Simco, minis ter of the Apostolic Church of Pentecost in Manitoba, Canada, is the grandson of an Ojibway Indian chief. BETTER FOODS FOR LESS lemgafctenfa These prices good July 9-10-11 in Bryan only. We reserve the right to limit quantities. IMPERIAL PURE CANE SUGAR FLOUR Snowdrift 3 FOOD CLUB LB. CAN T omatoes Elna 303 can U. S. CHOICE BONDED BEEF ROAST U. S. 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