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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Thursday, April 20, 1961
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle f INTERPRETING
Sales Tax Bills
Up For Debate
By The Associated Press
AUSTIN—House members will
try to figure out Thursday how
to raise close to $1-60 million a
year in new taxes.
They voted Wednesday to set
up a special debate on two sales
tax bills with only about 40 dis
senting.
House passage of either of the
bills to the Senate this week
would greatly increase chances
of the 57th Legislature being able
to close out its business in one
regular session. The mandatory
closing date is May 29.
“I don’t think anyone desires
to postpone debate any longer on
the tax question,” said Rep.
Charles Wilson, Trinity, author
of one of the bills, a two per
cent levy on retail sales with
food, farm feed and drugs ex
empted.
HB590 is a two per cent levy
on sales at the wholesale level
by Rep. W. H. Miller, Houston.
“We don’t need to wait until
the House appropriations bill is
passed,” said Rep. George Hin
son, Mineola. “We can add $4
or $5 million to the bill that
passed the Senate and I think
we will hit the House bill on the
button.”
The Senate-passed spending
bill, calling for $364,288,408 from
the general revenue fund in 1962-
1963, is pending in a house com
mittee.
Rep. James Gotten, head of
the House Appropriations Com
mittee, estimated the House
spending bill would be ready
either Saturday or Monday. He
said a Senate-House compromise
has been reached on a job classi
fication program for state em
ployees.
While the House settled the
debate date, the Senate took up
the touchy House-passed measure
(HB533) that would let an ale
or beer brewery continue opera
tions even if the precinct in which
it is located votes dry. The bill
advanced one step on voice vote
but did not get enough margin
for final approval. The measure
will be ready for final considera
tion Thursday.
The House went into an after
noon session with a bill (HB11)
to make the University of Hous
ton a fully state-supported school
on top of the agenda. However,
after giving the measure prelim
inary approval 84-34, representa
tives refused to give the measure
a final decision. A similar meas
ure (SB2) is in the same position
in the Senate—temporarily ap
proved but waiting a final vote.
A final vote on the Senate meas
ure is expected Friday or Mon
day.
The Senate began debate but
took no decision action on an
other House-approved bill (HB-
645) to change the name of North
Texas State College to the Uni
versity of North Texas.
Sen. Hubert Hudson, Browns
ville, claimed the “half of the
courses taught at North Texas
can not be transferred to half of
the leading colleges in the coun
try.”
“Are we going to go blithely
along every session and change
the name of all the state colleges
to universities,” asked Sen.
Charles Herring, Austin. “It’s
nothing but a teachers’ school.”
In the midst of arguments the
Senate quit until 10:30 a.m.
Thursday.
The House also had another
brief furor over horse race gam
bling. Rep. W. E. Heatly, Padu
cah, tried to get a bill (HB777)
calling for a statewide public
opinion poll on parimutuels sent
back to a committee. The meas
ure is now ready for floor debate.
At the request of Rep. V. E.
(Red) Berry, San Antonio, au
thor of the referendum bill,
Heatly’s motion was tabled 68-58.
Berry’s bill continues available
for debate.
“We have only 44 days left
and our number one problem is
taxes,” protested Heatly. “We
should devote our full time to
that. It is time we put this
little matter in a resting place.”
East- West Power Fight
Indicates Red Tactics
“ .. . I just wanted to be sure that I made it back from th’
Civilian Weekend!”
Social Calendar
The following clubs and organ-
izations will meet tonight:
The Red River Valley Home
town Club Anil get together for
a steak fry in Hensel Park at 6
p.m.
The Odessa Hometown Club
will meet in the cafeteria of the
Memorial Student Center at 6:15
p.m.
The Pasadena Hometown Club
will hold a meeting at 6:15 p.m.
Members will go out to eat and
will meet behind Dorms 5 or 17.
The Fayette-Colorado County
Hometown Club will meet in
Room 307 of the Academic
Building at 7:15 p.m. ,
The Abilene Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room
206 of the Academic Building.
The Lavaca Hometown Club
will get together in Room 128
of the Academic Building at 7:30
p.m.
The Aggie Band Wives Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the home
of Mrs. A. W. Dunlap, 706 Welsh
in College Station.
The El Paso Hometown Club
In terroga tion Tape Played
At Adolf Eichman Trial
By The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Adolf Eich-
mann portrayed himself in a
tape recorded testimony as a
doomed man who should have
hanged himself for the mass
slaughter of Jews in the Nazi
reign of Hitler.
“I know I should have hanged
myself in public so that all the
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City National Bank
First State Bank & Trust Company
College Station State Bank
Bryan Building & Loan Association
Community Savings & Loan Association
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anti-Semites in the world would
have had these terrible events
emphasized for them.”
The words, slow and measured,
boomed from the loudspeaker
Wednesday in the coui't where he
is on trial for his life, charged
with crimes against the Jewish
people and crimes against hu
manity.
“I know I may face a sentence
of death,” said the man charged
with responsibility for sending
millions of Jews to the Nazi death
camps in World War II. “I can
not claim mercy because I know
I am not worthy of it.”
His recorded statement sent a
surprised stir through the court.
Eichmann himself seemed affect
ed by what was taking place in
court for the first time since the
trial began.
He took off his earphones
through which the court’s He
brew proceedings are translated
into German, and seemed to relax
in his chair behind the bullet
proof glass in the prisoner’s dock.
The statements were taped in
an interrogation by Israeli secu
rity officers after his capture
last year.
Eichman, 55, ex-chief of the
Gestapo’s Jewish affairs section,
told of a prophecy made to him
in January 1960—four months
before his capture—but did not
identify the prophet.
“I was told that I would be
brought to trial and that I would
not live beyond my 56th year,”
he said. ^
Eichmann insisted he was not
the architect of Nazi Germany’s
campaign of extermination.
“I cannot claim that I had
clean hands. Those who planned
and gave instructions, however,
got off cheaply by suicide.”
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will meet in Room 3-C of the
Memorial Student Center tonight
at 7:30 p.m. All members are
urged to attend.
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
The United States and the So
viet Union are now involved in
a great power fight over Cuba
and Laos.
In former times, such a con
frontation would have led almost
inevitably to war. It is not ex
pected to do so now. But the
issues of Communist expansion
ary tactics, and the defense
against them,, are clearly drawn.
The Soviet Union not only
makes threats regarding Cuba,
but makes Laos a part of the
same conflict with a promise to
make things worse there unless
the United States leaves the Com
munist-leaning Fidel Castro
alone.
President Kennedy has replied
in tones reminiscent of typically
American reactions which raised
Harry S. Truman above the ranks
of just ordinary presidents, as in
the cases of Greece, Turkey and
Korea.
Two sentences of Kennedy’s
reply will be remembei'ed as long
as the trial of strength continues:
“In the event of any military
intervention by outside force we
will immediately honor our obli
gations under the inter-American
system to protect this hemisphere
against external aggression,” and
in connection with the Soviet be
lief in the inevitability of Com
munist world domination:
“What your government be
lieves is its own business; what
it does in the world is the world’s
business.”
During the exchange of mes
sages the Soviet-sponsored attack
in Laos was intensified, despite
the continued Soviet participation
in diplomatic negotiations with
Great Britain and the United
States designed to stop it.
The urgency of the Laotian
situation was enhanced by the
request of the royal government
for military aid, opening the way
for invocation of the SEATO
treaty protocol promising defense
of the country.
Part of the request, for Amer
ican military advisers *to go to
the front to help loyal troops,
was immediately granted, and
several hundred Americans will
be involved in this way. It is
direct confrontation of commun
ism.
The United States already is
being criticized in Allied coun
tries in Europe for her support
of the Cuban invaders. She is
being attacked for using tactics
in defense which have long been
a standard practice for Commun
ists on the offensive. Rut one
British paper, the Daily Mail,
asks, “Is freedom always to be
blackmailed into abandoning its
rights ? Must democracy every
time give way to tyranny.
A good many people have been
itchy lest President Kennedy’s
attempts for a new and open-
minded approach to East-V/est
relations should downgrade the
intensity of the Communist threat
in the mind of the world.
Instead, Tuesday’s statement
about Cuba, and his news confer
ence statements about Laos,
place American power squarely
across the path of Communist
expansion.
The statements are backed by
700,000 men in the armed forces
stationed around the Communist
perimeter abroad, meaning that
the United States is directly in
volved at almost all points where
aggression may be attempted,
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Garth Fig Preserves . 18-Oz. Jar 29c
Libby’s—Beef, Chicken or Turkey
Meat Pies 5 - 8-Oz. Pies $1.00
Grade A Med.
Light Crust y Flour . . 5-Lb. Bag 39c
Purex Bleach % Gal. 29c
Del Monte Corn . . . 3 - 303 Cans 50c
Pard Dog Food . . 8 Tall Cans $1.00
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