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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1963
Number 78
House Committee Eliminates
Maritime Academy’s Funds
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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^
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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.
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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
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Connally Budget Sends Solons
Scrambling To Raise $$$$$$
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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.
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