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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, December 7, 1962
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle TO HIKE TOTAL INCOME
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| Looking Back . . .
At This Week
SCONA SELECTS
Delegates, Speakers
Final plans rapidly neared com
pletion during the week for the
beginning next Wednesday of
SCONA VIII. Main steps taken
were the selection of 24 A&M
delegates to the conference and
the announcement that the presi
dent of the Council of the Organ
ization of American States will
be among the speakers.
The local delegates included 16
UJInS. citizens and eight interna
tional students. They were select
ed by a staff-student committee.
The OAS president is Gonzalo
J. Facio, who will speak next
Wednesday night on “Tensions in
Latin America.” Facio is also
Costa Rican ambassador to the
United States.
The fellowships are on a con
tinuing basis for the three years
of study necessary for a stu
dent with a bachelor’s degree to
complete a doctoral program.
The stipend is $2,000 for the first
year, $2,200 for the second and
$2,400 for the third year, plus an
allowance of $400 for each de
pendent.
Graduate School
Awarded Grants
Ten graduate fellowships worth
more than $90,000 were awarded
to the Graduate School during
the week from the National De
fense Education Act.
9 Fish Win,
9 In Run-Offs
Nine freshmen won class officer
positions and nine others ad
vanced to run-offs in Wednes
day’s first election of the school
year.
Winning positions on the Stu
dent Senate were Bill Camp, Ro
bert G. Cole, Boyd I. Miller and
William S. Moore, Named to the
election commission were Rando
lph C. Aldridge, Peter B. Belin
sky, David E. Graham, James
C. Hansen and Larry R. Martin.
Run-offs next Friday will de
termine winners for president,
vice president, secretary and so
cial secretary.
Sound
Editor,
The Battalion:
We feel it
situation that
Sales Tax Changes Due
(Special to The Battalion)
AUSTIN — Twenty changes in
Texas’ two per cent sales tax
law are recommended by the
Texas Commission on State and
Local Tax Policy.
Some changes would result in
decreased revenue and some
would mean an increase. But
the total outcome of a legislative
put-and-take would produce an
additional $10,500,000 a year from
a tax that is expected to bring
$170,000,000 into state coffers
this year.
A large addition to income —
if recommendations are adopted
— would come from applying the
state sales tax to motor vehicle
sales in place of the selective
excise tax now levied on vehicles.
The commission recommended
repeal of the exemption of farm
machinery and equipment.
Some recommendations were:
1. Apply the sales tax to all
clothing sales, which would up
revenue $10,000,000 a year.
2. Exempt vending machine
DANCE
Snook Hall
“ . . . I had no idea our sign would attract so much atten
tion!”
Bulletin Board
time for the
presently be
ing so heatedly discussed on our
campus to be explained. We, of
course, are speaking of the inci
dent which took place outside
Sbisa Hall concerning the break
ing’ off a civilian student’s car
radio aerial. It seems the dis
cussion is getting completely out
of proportion and many untrue
assumptions as to the true facts
of the case have been made.
First, the driver of the car was
a member of the A&M varsity
football team — & group whose
school spirit we feel should not
be questioned.
Second, he was returning: from
choW after a late pradtice prepar
ing for the SMU game — which
A&M (and I suppose it’s all
right for the team to consider
themselves part of A&M, even
though most of them are civil
ians) won, 12-7.
Third, concerning another route
that the driver supposedly should
have taken. For anyone who has
ever driven on the A&M campus,
it should be quite clear that there
are only two ways to leave the
Sbisa parking lot — right or
left. In this case the driver turn
ed right trying to return to Hen
derson Hall, which, despite, Mr.
Armstrong’s recent recommenda
tions, is still a dormitory.
Fourth, since the driver of the
car was, according to all other
reports, about to commit mass
murder, we feel it is time to
present his side of the story. He
wasn’t speeding through but, in
fact, never put his foot on the
accelerator and was moving by
simply taking his foot off the
brake. Unless his ear is quite
different from any we have ever
driven, it seems quite improbable
that any tremendous speeds were
accomplished by this action. If
anyone was being pinned against
another car, the driver was com
pletely unaware of it and the
National Safety Council does not
recommend the. breaking off of
car aerials as the ideal method
of attracting a driver’s attention.
Fifth, in regard to the driver’s
inattention during the singing of
the Spirit — we know he, as
well as most other members of
the team, is usually quite affected
by the song, but since the mem
bers of our team do not receive a
$10,000 a year salary, as many
people seem to think, the callous
destruction of personal property
can tend to overshadow the af
fects of most anything.
Sixth, it seems a shame that
so small an incident, one that was
settled by the participants within
a matter of hours, has snowballed
into such proportion as to cause
a major misunderstanding on the
campus. The fact still remains
that whether we are members of
the Corps, civilians or athletes,
we are Aggies. — a group known
for loyalty and friendship to each
other. Is this characteristic slow
ly disappearing ?
In conclusion, the purpose of
this letter is not to add fuel to
an already-existing fire, but to
try to clear up a bad misunder
standing. We r*ealize that we may
not have spoken for the entire
team, but as past members, we
feel that we are speaking for
the great majority; and as per
sonal friends of the driver of
the car, we know we are speaking
for him.
Keith Huggins. ’63
Dallas Kuhn, ’63
★ ★ ★
Editor,
The Battalion:
As is well known, India has
been subject to the most provo
cative aggression by communist
China on the northern Indian
border. There has been some mis
understanding among our A-
merican friends about Prime
Minister Nehru’s China policy.
A humanist by temperment, he
has dedicated himself to the cause
of welfare of some 450 million
of our people since he took of
fice in 1947.
As a direct result, India’s re
sources have been mostly gear
ed toward economic development
rather than on arms and am
munition. Until four years back,
the Chinese government has been
making peace overtures, at least
with India. Our country could not
help but believe in the bona-
fides of the Chinese out of the
exigencies of Sino-Indian geo
graphical proximity. But our
trust and friendliness are being
piad back with barbaric force.
At this tragic turn of history
in Asia, it would not help those
who care for freedom to criticize
Inda’s military unpreparedness to
overcome the Chinese menace,
or to take an unsympathetic view
point. Therefore, on behalf of
the Indian Students’ Association
at A&M, I appeal to the readers
of The B^talion for voluntary
contributions to the following ad-
mount may be, to India’s National
Defense Fund.
Donors may please send their
contributions to the following ad
dress by check' or money order
dawn in favor of The National
Defense Fund or The Border
Operation Relief Fund, Embas
sy of India, Washington, D. C.
Mail to Debabrata Ghosh, In
dian Students’ Association, Box
5502, College Station.
Debabrata Ghosh
Hillel Foundation will meet at
7:30 p.m. Friday in the Hillel
Building.
Range & Forestry Club will
hold turkey shoot from 1 p.m.
until dark Saturday and Sunday
at the Research and Development
Annex.
Aggitj Wives Council will meet
at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Brooks
Room of the YMCA Building.
United Nations Club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Dr. Sidney
O. Brown will give a lecture and
show slides.
Church News
A&M Presbyterian
Sunday — Aggie welcome cof
fee, 9:30 a.m.; Church school,
9:45 a.m.; morning worship, 11
a.m.; and youth fellowships, 5
p.m.
Monday — Session meeting, 7
p.m.
Wednesday —• Chancel choir
rehearsal, 7 p.m.
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