THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 17, 1963 Legislature Civil Rights Group Asks cadet slouch by Jim Earle Tax Habits JFK To Cut U. S. Aid ‘My zipper stuck!” BATTALION EDITORIALS Senate Election Debate Reveals Need For Color The hearty call for more colorful election campaigns on campus in a recent Student Senate meeting was most re freshing. In recent years election rules, and the application of those rules, have placed an increasing number of restrictions on candidates. Election rule changes calling for more strict policies, were presented to the Senate in the April 4 meeting and rejected by a two-thirds vote of the senators. During the discussion of the rule changes one rep resentative stated, “It seems we have reached the point where we must decide whether we want strict election rules or more interesting campaigns.” We feel that this remark was backed up by the embrass- ing lack of candidates for student offices which forced the election commission to re-schedule filing and the election date for the up-coming general election. Elections on the A&M campus have lacked the color and excitement that usually accompanies any election and especially those on college campuses. At the same time there has been a noticable lack of enough qualified candidates to really offer the voters desirable slates. We realize that it is probably too late to make any changes in campaign policies to effect this year’s general election, but we sincerely hope that the idea of better cam paigns on the A&M campus will not be forgotten. We feel there definitely must be some rules for any election. However, if students seeking student government offices cannot completely express themselves during a cam paign, when will they have the opportunity? PLAN YOUR BANQUETS —NOW— Try Our Luncheons . . . They Fit Your Budget For Quick Courteous Service Dine At TRIANGLE RESTAURANT 3606 So. College TA 2-1352 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-supportmg educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a college and community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. McGuire, School McMurry, The Battalion, a student news; tion, Te: per at Texas A.&M. is published in Colie as daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, ! her through May, and once a week during summer school. re Sta- eptem- spontaneous in are also ghts of republication s posh at College Station, Texas. 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Tijerina Photographer Inconsistent (Special to The Battalion) AUSTIN — While legislators begin consideration of tax in creases to help finance state government activities, mainly the growth in higher education, two industries are about to get tax cuts. Both houses of the legislature have passed a bill to reduce the tax on sulphur producers. The House also has passed, and favorable Senate action is ex pected, on a bill to exempt state banks from the sales tax and the corporation franchise tax. Both groups are putting up per suasive arguments. Sulphur lob byists say that Louisiana’s tax on sulphur is only $1.03 a ton, so Texas should cut its rate to that level. Owners of state-chartered banks argue that national banks are exempt from states sales and franchise taxes, so state banks ought to be, too. Apparently, the tax progrni£y)f Gov. John Connally for the rest of the Texans is gathering sup port. It calls for expansion of the new sales tax by eliminating exemptions on low-cost 'clothing and farm implements, and for ex tending the corporation franchise “surtax” which has been in ef fect on a “temporary” basis for four years. New Texas Congressmen Disagree WASHINGTON GP) — The battle of the salt cedars con tinues between two Texas House freshmen — Reps. Joe Pool, De mocrat, and Ed Foreman, Repub lican. The issue is whether the fed eral government or local residents should finance eradication of the water-consuming scrub from along the Pecos River. Pool was asked by those who want the government to do the work to introduce legislation on the subject. In complying, Pool contended the project is too big and too costly for local interests. Pool, a Dallas lawyer, said he introduced the bill because Fore man, who represents the Pecos Valley, turned down the pleas of his constituents to back it. Foreman, at 29 the youngest member of Congress, said the people who would benefit from the salt cedar clearing job — the irrigation farmers and ranchers — should do the work. His mail, Foreman said, is about 40 to 1 in support of his position. Pool, asserting he could ’’stir up 90 to 1” mail in support of his bill if he tried, has made public a report describing how the spread of salt cedars along the Pecos in Texas and eastern New Mexi co has had disastrous effects. NOW SHOWING Gienn, , Hope FcrodfineerMnn ^ Boysf CIRCLE TONIGHT 2 COLOR HITS “SODOM & GOMORRAH” & “JET PILOT” WASHINGTON (A 5 )—The Civil Rights Commission called on President Kennedy Tuesday for an all-out effort—possibly in cluding the withholding of fed eral funds-—to force Mississippi to protect the rights of its Negro citizens. “There is an overriding consti tutional obligation to make cer tain that federal funds are ex pended in a manner which bene fits all citizens without distinc tion,” the commission said in a special report to the President at his Palm Beach, Fla., vaca tion home. The commission has been study ing the Mississippi situation closely for several weeks. Staff Director Berl I. Bernahard flew to Jackson Tuesday for a special session of the Mississippi Ad visory Committee. There was no immediate reac tion from the vacation White House. “Since October 1962,” the re port said, “the open and flag rant violation of constitutional guarantees in Mississippi has precipitated serious conflict which, on several occasions, has reached the point of crisis . . . Each week brings fresh evidence of the danger of a complete breakdown of law and orUcr.” The report cited a long list of incidents and said that despite vigorous action by federal author ities, “the nation must be con cerned that the pattern of unlaw ful activity shows no sign of abat ing.” SOPHOMORES Here is a FREE gift for you, too. Choose among the following — 1. Cigarette Lighter, 2. Sunglasses, 4. mg er, 2. Nail Clipper, 3. Kayex Sunglasses, 4. Gold Plated Tie Bar and Cuff Link Set. 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FIESTA NITE” Future Dates- Pan TODAY American observance THURSDAY Graduate Lecture, Biological Sciences Lecture Room at 8 p.m.. Dr. Leslie John Audus FRIDAY Baseball, Aggies vs. SMU at College Station Texas and Southwestern S Packers Association (through Saturday) SATURDAY Reunion, Class of 1923 Baseball, Aggies vs. SM College Station Golf, Aggies vs. Universitj Texas at College Station On Campos with flfeSMman {Author of "/ Was a Teen-age Dwarf”, “The Mant] Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.) An A&B lip across i ply escape Dr. Guy HOW TO SEE EUROPE FOR ONLY $300 A DAY: NO. 1 Summer vacation is just around the corner, and naturally all of you are going to Europe. Perhaps I can offer a handy tip or two. (I must confess that I myself have never been to Europe, but I do have a French poodle and a German shepherd, so I am not entirely unqualified.) 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