■ **
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. CHOICE BONDED BEEF
Shoulder Steak
LB.
LB.
U. S. CHOICE RED RIPE
WATERMELONS
22 to 26 Lb. Average 26 Lbs. and Over
49. 59.
ARMOUR STAR
Big Bologna
LB.
Baby Soft
FACIAL TISSUES
box of 200
Still time to Complete your
Set of
Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedias
EACH VOLUME 2 - 24
C EACH
Great Music in Your Own Home!
PHILHARMONIC LIBRARY OF MUSIC
Volumes 2-13 only 1.39 each