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Che Battalion Baseballers Drop Opener, See Page 4 Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1963 Number 78 House Committee Eliminates Maritime Academy’s Funds vlis SUZANNE SORENSON m VF . ■ MISS SANDRA POWELL Action Gives TMA Only 4 Slim Chance’ By RONNIE BOOKMAN AUSTIN—The Texas Maritime Academy’s budget for 1964-65 has been torpedoed by the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. David Haines of College Station confirmed Thursday night. Haines, a member of the committee, said the fledgling maritime school, a branch of A&M. was eliminated from the Legislative Budget Board’s recommendation in line with a general tightening up on expenditures. Two other reasons Haines listed were: —Failure of the academy, now in its first year of opera tion, to attract students. —Political overtones resulting from Sen. A. R. Schwartz of Galveston’s feud with the^ CAPTAIN. B. M. DODSON ... no money for him THE KILGORE RANGERETTES will open and close 12th annual Intercollegiate Talent Show. EVENTS FOR EVERYONE Pound ^ Pound 0 1 MISS LINDA SALM ITS, Dances Begin Weekend Full Of Varied Activities :: ; 3 Bun- ■ Mm flii! MISS SANDY HUGHES ■ ini 16-Oz- |l .... PkA QlMNj kkX! BESE« u ' I p Til Pill 111 m fss BRENDA BERTRAND IONS g Te^ jgecres^ V 1 L i MISS MERRY MARTIN The Intercollegiate Talent Show in G. Rollie White Coliseum at 6:30 p.m. Friday will kick-off a weekend loaded with a variety of activities. The Combat Ball and “MidnigTit in New Orleans,” sponsored by the Dance Committee, will begin im mediately after ITS. Saturday’s events will get under way at 1:30 p.m. when the Corps of Cadets passes in review. The Aggie baseball team will host the University of Houston team at 3 p.m. The series of events will be concluded Saturday night with the Military Ball. The 12th annual ITS will fea ture ten acts from sonthern school®. The Masters of Ceremonies will be the Gaylords, night club en tertainers from Houston. INCLUDED IN THE show will be The Wayfarers, folksingers who won the Aggie Talent Show; Pat Eakins from Texas Tech who does a slap-tick comedy routine; The Deltas, a banjo band from the University of Texas; Judy Hardy and The Nomads from Oklahoma State University; two vocalists and a military comedy routine from Louisiana State University. Also included in the show will be Carol Lea, a western vocalist from Oklahoma University and Lynn Borochoff from Sophie New comb who does modern jazz danc ing. The Kilgore College Ran- gerettes will open and close this years show. The Combat Ball will begin im- mediatelv after ITS for all Army cadets and senior Air Force ca dets. Fatigues must be worn by both Air Force and Army cadets. Dates are asked to wear oriental costumes in keeping with the theme of Viet Nam. The Army’s Com bat Cutie will be selected from six finalists. THE FINALISTS ARE Sandra Powell' of Huntsville, Sandy Hugh es of Houston, Merry Martin of Georgetown, Suzanne Sorenson of Austin, Linda Salm of Weimar, and Bi’enda Bertrand of San Mar cos. The Memorial Student Center Dance Committee will also sponsor its dance Friday night in the Ball room of the MSC. “Midnight in New Orleans” will feature an erea band. Tickets for the dance are $2 per couple. Lt. Gen. W. H. S. Wright, chief of -reserve components, will take the salutes at the spring military review Saturday. Honored guest for the review will be Congressman and Mrs. Olin E. Teague, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. W. J. Sutton, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Robert Travis, A. F. Mitchell and Col. and Mrs. William C. Lindley. The formal Military Ball will begin at 9 p.m., featuring Buddy Brock and his orchestra from Hous ton. The Military Ball will be open to both Air Force and Army ca dets. : : ¥ - rest of the Senate over secret sessions. Schwartz has been one of the main backers of the Maritime Academy which was | to be based in Galveston. A total of *$222,000 for the biennium had been asked for opera tion of the academy for the general revenue fund. The amount re quested for 1964 was $112,00 and the amount for 1965 was $110,000. HAINES, A 1951 graduate of A&M, said the budget still remains to be fought out in the House and Senate before becoming final. Said the freshman legislator: “Some of the funds may be re stored to the Maritime Academy. This isn’t final. But I’d say the chances for getting funds for the academy are pretty slim.” Capt. Bennett M. Dodson, super intendent of the academy, was sur prised that the legislature had just cancelled the school. He said: “It’s hard to believe. The federal government has given us a $10 mil lion ship, $75,000 a year and $600 per student per year. Now the state backs out. “ALL OF THESE deals with the federal government mean we have some responsibility.” He said the Appropriations Com mittee move had “practically elimi nated the academy.” Rep. Haines said all four budgets submitted to the legislature in cluded appropriations for the aca demy. Budgets were offered by outgoing Gov. Price Daniel, the Texas Commission on Higher Edu cation, the Legislative Budget Board and Gov. John Connally. Con- nally presented his budget only | Thursday. Haines said Dodson testified be fore the Appropriations Committee when it was considering the Mari time Academy appropriation, and (See ACADEMY on Page 3) Lecturer Calls U.S. Writers ‘Innocent’ Dr. Perry Miller, professor of American Literature at Harvard University, told students, faculty and guests attending a graduate lecture series last night “No matter how many times we have strived to assert our cultural independence, we are a satellite of Europe still.” In his discussion of “Ideas and Environment in American Liter ature: Puritanism, Romanticism, Realism,” Miller pointed out that in each period of American Litera ture our writers have remained in nocent in their creative efforts. We have drawn our ideas and con cepts from Europe, he said, but have not reached the depth of the European writers. THE SCHOLAR opened his lec ture by commenting on Emerson’s Phi Beta Kappa address, “The A- merican Scholar,” in which Emer son related that there wasn’t any thing in the past worth evoking a- gainst the rise of technology and the industrial revolution. Miller went on to say that Emerson and his contemporaries looked toward the ideas of Byron and Coleridge to form their revolutionaiy hope ful concepts. When Henry James and William Howells appropriated a new real ism to America. Miller stated, they found their models in George Eliot. While attempting to write and picture people who were real people, their efforts were innocent in comparison. MILLER REVEALED similar patterns in the formation of the ideas of American -writers from the Puritan period down through the post World War I period. “America has had a few ex ceptions,” he said. Miller called Poe an exception to the ftmocence of American literature. The author of six books, Miller is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, School of His torical Studies, Princeton, N. J. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago and first joined the Harvard faculty in 1931 as an instructor. Anchored Benches Sought By Senate An all-out-effort is being made to have benches returned to the dormitory areas according to Jerry Vion, chairman of the student life committee of the Student Senate. Vion told the Senate at its Thurs day night meeting that his com mittee’s request has been eyed pes simistically because, “Those that : Connally Budget Sends Solons Scrambling To Raise $$$$$$ * HOUSTON ENTERTAINERS .. Gaylords will set show’s pace AUSTIN (A?> — Gov. John Con- nally’s budget message Thursday sent legislators scrambling for ways to raise $35 million. Connally submitted a budget calling for $3.1 billion to be spent in the next two years, a record and about $400 million more than is being spent in this biennium. Connally told the lawmakers that he wants a one-year extension of the present temporary corporate franchise tax level through 1965. It is estimated to raise $11 mil lion annually. Rep. Elig-o de la Garza, Mission, introduced the bill shortly after Connally’s talk. CONNALLY SAID the major share of the money he needs to “finance growth and progress” would come from sales tax changes recommended by the Commission on State and Local Tax Policy. These are estimated to raise $23.8 million during the two-year period. Most of the increase would result from removal of present ex emption for farm machinery and implements. A measure to carry out these changes is in the House Revenue and Taxation Committee. were located were frequently dam aged beyond repair.” HE REPORTED that Tom D. Cherry, director of business affairs, has requested W. Howard Badgett, manager of physical plants, to “make an estimate of the cost of constructing and locating 40 inde structible type of benches that would be secured in place so that they can neither be moved or dam aged.” Forty benches have been request ed to be distributed in civilian and military areas. Vion said that preliminary estimates for the benches range from $50 to $100. The Alpha Phi Omega fraternity, a service organization composed of former Boy Scouts, was awarded a cei’tificate for outstanding seiwice to the campus community. Bei-t C ONNALLY FOLD the joint ses-j'j' err jjj > chairman of the public sion that the basic policy behind ; re ] a tj 0 n committee, presented the his budget recommendation calls j certificate to Charles King, presi- for taking care of the eloerly, sick dejvt of the organization, and Dean and dependent; placing a greater j of students James P. Hannigan, emphasis on investment pro- ! S p 0nsor . grams; and seeking more efficien-; 4 REPORT Sl’BMITTED by cy and economy in government. | vion in behalf of the student life Connally put in a plug for giving j committee revealed that the stu- $40,000 “to activate a vigorous dent custodian program initiated program of advertising and pro- last spring has met with “favor- motion of our state to tourists.” | able results.” He said the work A tourist bill be second on the | had been normal in all but two House calendar Monday. I cases. There are presently 34 stu- Connally’s backers won Thurs- ? dent custodial positions on the cam- day an initial test on his request pus. to name a 25-member committee to study education beyond the high school. An amendment let ting Connally name only 15 mem bers, with the House speaker and lieutenant governor naming the other 10 lost 124-23. Vion pointed out that because some students have taken doubled positions there are only 21 stu dents working in the 34 positions. He added that there are 11 appli cations for custodial positions on file currently. ; 1 T i
