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TEXAS POLITICS
Now Hear This;
There’s Money At Stake
Students and their parents will have money at stake
during - voting on the pending tax bill, H.R. 8363 in the U. S.
Senate. Sen. John Tower of Texas has introduced four
amendments to the bill which would provide tax credit for
citizens who support educational facilities through taxes,
grants, or tuition.
While all of the proposed amendments are designed to
ultimately encourage more money for education, there are
two which are of particular importance to the student and
his parents.
The two amendments would provide tax credit:
“(1) for taxpayers who are themselves students or
whose spouses or children are attending college. College
expenses covered by this amendment would include tuition
and fees; books, supplies, and equipment; and room and
board. Total expenses would be limited to $2,000 for each
student attending college, and the cost of room and board
would be limited to no more than $90 per month. A progres
sive limitation feature would curtail the amount of credit
granted to taxpayers in higher income brackets.
“(2) to parents for tuition and fees incurred by their
dependents attending college. In this approach the maxi
mum credit allowance would be $420 with credit for tuition
and fees allowed on the following schedule: (a) 100 per cent
of the first $100 ; (b) 30 per cent of the next $400; and (c) 20
per cent of the next $1,000.”
Sen. Tower had the national educational program in
mind when he introduced these amendments and the two
that accompany them (they deal with grants and property
taxes). However, with just the individual student’s pocket
book in mind the amendments above could mean the differ
ence between obtaining an education and not obtaining an
education in many cases. In those cases where the tax
credits woud not be a decisive factor, they would certainly
go a long way to lifting some of the financial burden of
obtaining an education.
There are more than a few families who have house
hold appliances, furniture, clothes, automobiles, etc. that date
back to a year or so before Junior or Sis entered college.
While it is true enough that the exemptions suggested by
Sen. Tower would not move anyone to a larger home, it is
also true that it might enable Mom to get a new Easter
bonnet and make way for Dad a new fishing plug.
We encourage students and their parents to let the
Senate know that they support these two amendments sug
gested by Sen. Tower—unless, of course, they have an excess
of money. Even if the Senate does not accept the amend
ments on this trip, the more support the amendments get
the more likely the idea is to be remembered in the future.
Goldwater Says Johnson
‘Failing;Fumbling’His Way
MINNEAPOLIS (A*) _ Ari
zona Sen. Barry Goldwater, woo
ing - Minnesota Republicans in
his bid for the GOP presidential
nomination, accused President
Johnson Monday of “fumbling”
and “failing” his way into crises
in South Vietnam and Panama.
In his toughest campaign at
tack on Johnson’s foreign policy,
Goldwater said the administra
tion is “off making promises to
buy votes at home while the
world smolders and burns.”
“I charge that this adminis
tration is fumbling, is failing,”
he told some 1,900 who crowded
a Goldwater luncheon. “I charge
that freedom is falling around
the world.”
More than 1,200 people pack
ed the banquet hall where Gold-
water spoke and a overflow
crowd listened in two other
rooms.
The Arizona senator got en
thusiastic applause from his
Twin Cities crowds, and the
luncheon gathering ave out with
cheering and whistling as he was
introduced.
As the party took off at 6:05
p.m. CST for Washington, a
spokesman for the senator called
his visit the most successful af
fair since Goldwater announced
his candidacy for the presidency.
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Midnight Deadline Revea\\ |f|
Texas 9 ’64 Political Cast
By The Associated Press
Texas politicians set the stage
on Monday, the filing deadline,
for light ballots in the May 2
party primaries.
Democrats in all statewide
races combined totaled only
slightly more than the 24 Demo
crats who battled for only four
key offices in 1962.
Fourteen Republicans have
filed for statewide races to pro
vide only two contested GOP
races — Governor and U. S.
Senate.
Gov. John Connally and Hous
ton attorney Don Yarborough
will have only the second two-
man Democratic gubernatorial
primary in 46 years.
Republicans are making a dif
ferent type of party history with
a new high of three candidates
seeking a statewide race, the
U. S. Senate seat.
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Connally Recalls
All November 22
AUSTIN UP) — Severely
wounded by the second of three
shots from a sniper’s rifle, Gov.
John Connally said Monday he
was alert enough Nov. 22 to re
alize immediately an attempt
was being made to assassinate
President Kennedy.
Connally, shot through the
chest and lying on his side in
the same car with the President,
said he was still conscious and
saw the third and fatal shot
strike the President in the head.
Connally said he heard the
first shot, turned quickly to
check on the President, then
felt a blow “like a short jab to
the back” and slumped over as
his wife frantically tried to cov
er him.
“I saw the effects of the third
shot—the shot to the head—and
I assumed then there was no
hope for him,” Connally said of
Kennedy.
“I thought I had been killed
too,” he said.
The governor’s remarks came
during a question-and-answer
session at the annual meeting
of the Texas Associated Press
Managing Editors and followed
his delivery of a prepared speech
to the editors. It was Connally’s
first public address since he was
Bulletin Board
TUESDAY
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wounded.
Connally said there is “cer
tainly no question in my mind”
that Lee Harvey Oswald, accus
ed of assassinating the President,
fired the fatal shots.
The governor also said since
the assassination, “I’ve received
letters that blamed me for not
protecting the President . . . for
not handling the Secret Service
protection better.”
Other letters have revealed,
Connally said, that the attitude
of people who at first partially
thought the city of Dallas was
responsible for Kennedy’s death,
is changing gradually.
He said, however, “It may
well take a decade to erase the
last remnants of blame.”
The assassination was also
the subject of a discussion by
three veteran newspapermen —
Robert H. Johnson Jr., chief of
The Associated Press bureau in
Dallas; Felix McKnight, execu
tive editor of the Dallas Times
Herald and Tom Simmons, as
sistant managing editor of the
Dallas Morning News.
Johnson said it was not until
Monday afternoon when Ken
nedy was buried — three days af
ter he was fatally shot — that
he finally felt emotional impact
from the President’s death.
“We felt we turned in our best
effort on the assassination
story,” Johnson said of The AP’s
work.”
AUSTIN (JP) Gordon B. Mc
Lendon, Dallas radio executive,
filed as a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for U. S.
Senator 30 minutes before the
filing deadline Monday night.
McLendon, 42, walked into the
state Democratic executive com
mittee office and said “Where
can I pay my filing fee?”
McLendon told newsmen he
would not have entered the race
if U. S. Rep. Joe Kilgore of Mc
Allen had decided to run against
U. S. Sen. Ralph Yarborough.
“I felt Texas could use a new
conservative with no ties to any
group,” McLendon said.
He explained that he has no
support from such Democratic
leaders as former Gov. Allan
Shivers or Gov. John Connally.
Viet Nam has been divided
politically since Vietnamese of
all persuasions succeedede in
ousting the French, who main
tained a protectorate from the
end of the 19th Century to the
middle of the 20th.
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Connally and U. S. Rep. Joe
Kilgore added drama for Demo
crats on the final day of filing.
Connally filed for re-election
after saying he had considered
dropping out of the race, and
Kilgore dashed conservative De
mocrats’ hopes by declining to
oppose U. S. Sen. Ralph Yar
borough.
Republicans, meanwhile, quiet
ly accepted the filings of four
more candidates for statewide of
fices.
GOP leaders hope to create
more interest in their primary
with a Presidential preferential
primary. The proposal will be
considered at a March 9 meet
ing.
Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr,
Treasurer Jesse James, co%
troller Robert S. Calvert, Bail
road Commissioner Ben Rap.
sey, Supreme Court Associaii
Justices Ruel Walker and Ha.
bert W. Hamilton and Court oi
Criminal Appeals Judge K. [
Woodley are unopposed in tti
Democratic primary.
All but Ramsey, Woodley ar:|
Hamilton must face Republics
in the November general eltt.|
tion.
Sen. Yarborough will mett
John Van Cronkhite, a fon®
campaign organizer for forme
Gov. Allan Shivers, in a prj.
mary race which many con®
vative Democrats had hopd
would include an experience!
candidate such as Kilgore.
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THE INNER MAN
College is fun and frolic and fullfillment—except for one
melancholy omission: we don’t get to enjoy Mom’s home
cooking. (In my own undergraduate days, curiously enough, I
did not undergo this deprivation; my mother, a noted cross
country runner, was never home long enough to cook a meal
until her legs gave out last Arbor Day.)
But most of us arrive at college with fond gastric memories of
Mom’s nourishing delicacies, and we are inclined now and then
to heave great racking sighs as we contemplate the steam
tables in the campus cafeteria. Take, for an extreme example,
the case of Finster Sigafoos.
Finster, a freshman at one of our great Eastern universities
(Oregon State) came to college accustomed to home cooking of
a kind and quantity enjoyed by very few. Until entering
college, Finster had lived all his life in Europe, where his father
was an eminent fugitive from justice. Finster’s mother, a
natural born cook, was mistress of the haut4 cuisine of a dozen
countries, and Finster grew up living and eating in the Con
tinental manner.
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hot chocolate, and brioche. (It is interesting to note, inciden
tally, that brioche was named after its inventor, perhaps the
greatest of all French bakers, Jean-Claude Brioche (1634-1921).
M. Brioche, as we all know, also invented croissants, French
toast, and—in a curious departure—the electric razor. Other
immortal names in the history of breadstuffs are the German,
Otto Pumpernickel (1509-1848) who invented pumpernickel
and thus became known to posterity as The Iron Chancellor;
the two Americans, William Cullen Raisin (1066-1812) and
Walter Rye (1931-1932) who collaborated on the invention of
raisin rye; and, of course, Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
who invented Danish pastry).
But I digress. Finster, I say, breakfasted lightly at ten a.m.
At eleven a.m. his Mom brought him his elevenses. At twelve
she brought him his twelveses. At 1:30 she served his lunch:
first a clear broth; then a fish course (porgy and bass); then an
omelette; then the main course—either a saddle of lamb, an eye
of sirloin, or a glass of chicken fat; then a salad of escarole; and
finally a lemoa souffl6.
At three p.m. Mom served Finster low tea, at five p.m. high
tea, and at ten p.m. dinner—first a bowl of petite marmite (she
trapped the marmites herself); then a fish course (wounded
trout); then an omelette of turtle eggs; then the main course—
either duck with orange or a basin of farina; then a salad of
unborn chicory; and finally a caramel mousse.
And then Finster went off to college, which reminds me of
Marlboro Cigarettes. (Actually it doesn’t remind me of Marl
boro Cigarettes at all, but the makers of Marlboro pay me to
write this column and they are inclined to get surly if I fail to
mention their product. Mind you, I don’t object to mentioning
their product—no sir, not one bit. Marlboro’s flavor is flavor
ful, the filter filters, the soft pack is soft, the Flip-Top box flips,
and the tattoo is optional. Marlboros are available wherever
cigarettes are sold in all fifty states of the Union. Next time
you’re in the U.S.A., try a pack.)
But I digress. We were speaking of Finster Sigafoos who went
from Continental dining to dormitory feeding. So whenever
you feel sorry for yourself, think of Finster, for it always lifts
the heart to know somebody is worse off than you are.
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