THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 20, 1964
Guest Editorial
On the domestic front Senator Goldwater was just as
emphatic in his first campaign speech as on questions of
foreign policy. He told the National Association of Counties
that:
• The entire tax structure should be reexamined to
find ways to give a larger share of tax revenue to the states.
• Federal grant and aid programs should be reexamined
with a view to “eliminating those no longer necessary and
channeling the remainder through the states.”
• Federal lands should be turned back to the states so
they can be “used profitably” so as to produce state taxes.
He said it was “high time the federal government thought
seriously of this.”
These were his three specific initial proposals for carry
ing out his general approach to local government. This he
defined by saying, “We have for far too long seen a federal
establishment obsessed by the enlargement of its role and its
personnel.” He said he was dedicated to having “a federal
establishment just as . . . prudently concerned with turning
power over to the people as taking it away from them.” He
said it was the “whole meaning of the American Revolution”
to “reject absentee government and the centralization of
power.” And that “Whenever and wherever local govern
ments fail to respond, then Washington’s ever eager fingers
of bureaucracy are right there, waiting to grab the defaulted
local responsibility.”
As the campaign proceeds, the debate will revolve partly
around this broad proposition and partly on where to draw
the line. Arough indication of the latter comes from the
Senator’s legislative record for the current session of Con
gress. He joined a majority of his fellow Republican senators
in opposing the mass transportation bill, the bills for a youth
conservation corps and a national service corps, and the farm
bill. But he remained opposed to a group of bills where the
majority of Republicans joined in bipartisan approval with
the Democrats. He opposed, and they favored, the civil-
rights bill and the cloture, the tax cut, college aid, wilderness
conservation, and the railway arbitration board.
These are merely indicators. We hope both candidates
will say what they do and don’t want the federal government
to do, as specifically as possible.
—The Christian Science Monitor
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Covers Lady 106
The Texas 65 Health Insur
ance Association thought it had
written health insurance to the
oldest citizens of Texas when,
during the first open enrollment
period last year, two Texans
102 and 103 years old were cov
ered under the voluntary health
insurance plan. However, during
the recent enrollment period a
106 year old was insured.
Mrs. Dionicia Alrnager, of Del
Rio, is now the oldest holder of
Texas 65 health insurance. In
fact i Texas 65 officials believe
she be the oldest ■insured
Texan.
Her policy was purchased by
her 69 year old granddaughter
Mrs. Burk Rose, with whom Mrs.
Alrnager has lived for many
years.
Del Rio insurance agent Reid
W. Webb took the application.
He has been writing insurance
in the area for nearly 50 years.
Deaf and almost totally blind,
Mrs. Alrnager has been in ill
health for many years, though
according to Mrs. Rose she has
never been confined to a hospital.
She is able to move about the
house with some help.
Though not sure of the exact
date, Mrs. Rose believes her
grandmother came to Texas
around 1875, when she was about
17 years of age. She migrated
to Texas from Monclova, Coa-
huila, Mexico.
Mrs. Alrnager is one of 9,830
Texans, over 65 years of age, who
enrolled in the Texas 65 plan
during the recent open enroll
ment period. Ninety two were
past 90 years of age.
No additional open enrollment
period has been scheduled, how
ever H. Lewis Rietz, president
of the Texas 65 Health Insurance
Association, states another will
be scheduled for those who did
not enroll in the program dur
ing the first two open enrollment
periods.
Any resident of Texas turn
ing 65 between open enrollment
periods has 31 days folowing
his 65th birthday in which to en
roll through his insurance agent
or with the Texas 65 Health In
surance Association, in Dallas.
During open enrollment periods
any Texan may enroll regardless
of age and without physical ex
amination.
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CADET SLOUCH
by jim Etiriv Highlights And Sidelights
From Your State Capital
“I believe you do better if you spend as much time studyin’
as you spend studying how to study'”
Liquor Control
Operates In Black
Revenue collected by the Texas
Liquor Control Board over and
above its operating expenses for
the last 11-year period has netted
a $332,483,997.45 profit to the
State of Texas.
The good news of this average
annual $30,225,817.95 profit to
Texas taxpayers was disclosed
Monday in release of official
figures by the Texas Liquor Con
trol Board. These summarized
the Board’s operations for the
11-years, 1963 to 1963, inclusive
During the 11 years the Board
spent a total of $18,202,589.19
for operating expenses while col
lecting $350,686,586,64.
The $332,483,997.45 profit to
the state has been apportioned
annually by Legislative formula
to support numerous state serv
ices. These include the Avail
able School Fund, the Old Age
Assistance Fund, the General
Revenue Fund, the State Hospi
tal Funds, the Employees Re
tirement System, aid to needy
blind, child assistance, farm-to-
market roads, the teacher retire
ment fund and the Foundation
School Fund.
The record revenue collected
for 1963 raised to more than half
a billion dollars the total collect
ed by the Board since its was
established by the 44th Legisla
ture on November 16, 1936.
Although its work has increas
ed considerably with the rapid
growth of Texas during the past
decade, the Board’s operating
profits to the taxpayers have ac
celerated even more. In 1953 the
board collected $18,792,228 while
spending $1,259,641. By 1963,
expenses had increased 81 per
cent over 1953, but revenue more
than kept pace, gaining 125 per
cent.
By YERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN, Texas — All avail
able money and manpower of the
Texas Water Commission is be
ing dedicated to a long-range
state water master plan.
Gov. John Connally authorized
the agency to transfer money al
ready appropriated by the Legis
lature for other purposes. Exist
ing state plans, in Connally’s
opinion, “fall short of satisfying
the water needs for all of Texas.”
In 1961, the Commission pro
duced a plan for meeting Texas
water needs to the year 1980.
Both the U. S. Bureau of
Reclamation and the U. S. Army
Corps of Engineers, are coming
up with their own long-range
plans covering parts of Texas.
They propose diversion of water
from surplus areas like the Sa
bine to water-shy areas like the
Nueces.
Connally said the federal gov
ernment is considering a water
pollution control bill which would
supplant state authority in the
field.
He urged the Commission to
explore “all reasonable alterna
tives,” including those contained
in preliminary reports of U. S.
Agencies.
The Governor indicated he will
authorize other state agencies
to cooperate in the crash pro#
gram. He also pledged his help
in any way possible and to rec
ommend to the Legislature “nec
essary funds to fulfill this im
portant responsibility.”
STIFF GUN LAW URGED —
Pressure from prosecuting attor
neys is beginning to sift through
to legislative candidates who are
being urged to pass a gun regis
tration law during the 1965 ses
sion in an attempt to reduce the
crime rate and help police solve
crimes.
Latest of the recommendations
along this line comes from Dal
las District Attorney Henry
Wade. Gun registration is on
the list of the most-controversial
issues a legislature can tackle and
proposals on the subject frequ
ently are skirted.
TEXTBOOK PROTESTS PILE
UP — About 600 individual let
ters and 39 petitions bearing
some 3,398 signatures concern
ing three high school biology
books have been received by
Governor Connally, Education
Commissioner J. W. Edgar, and
the State Board of Education.
And more are arriving every
day.
Most protestors claim three of
the eight biology books being
considered for public school adop
tion by the State Textbooks
Committee have “an excessive
amount of evolution in them.”
All letters and petitions are
being filed for the State Text
books Committee to review, since
Connally, Edgar and the State
Board have no say on textbooks
selection.
15 - mei «ber committee has
the task of picking five booh
each in 18 subjects from the 226
books under consideration.
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The TLCB’s figures showed
that during 1963 the Board spent
$2,284,761, including staff salar
ies and Board operating ex
penses. Taxes, fees, licenses
and other revenue collected from
the alcoholic beverage industry
during the year totaled $42,278,-
303.
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