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1966 Auto Prices: Are Costs Really Higher?
By SAM DAWSON
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Will the 1966
model car really be cheaper than
!;he 1965 or costlier? It depends
on who is doing the figuring —
the auto maker, the dealer, the
tax collector, or the customer.
That’s because the 1966 base
prices include built-in safety
items that were optional in 1965,
because the federal tax is lower
than a year ago and going still
lower Jan. 1, because some
models have other changes with
the cost doubtless included but
not specified.
On top of all that, deciding if
the new models are bargains
depends on whether you’re lis
tening to the makers or the
union. Management says its pro
duction costs are rising because
of higher wage scales. The un
ion says they are falling be
cause of increased mechanization.
Also, some customers and
congressmen are wondering out
loud whether the record profits
in the auto industry wouldn’t
cover the new standard safety
devices and still leave the com
panies well off.
The customer, as always, will
have to take into account what
the dealer will allow him on his
turned-in old model. For the car
buyer that’s as much a part of
the real cost of a new car as is
the suggested list price the
makers are announcing. The
customer also is faced with ar
bitrarily paying for safety de-
vies which formerly he did or
didn’t want to buy. So, this
year’s prices aren’t strictly com
parable with last. The price of
these safety items last year
was put by the makers and
dealers as anywhere from $50 to
$70.
The federal excise tax is in
cluded in the list prices being
announced. But a year ago it
was 10 per cent. That is. if the
maker figured a model was
worth $2,500 he added $250 to it
to cover the tax to the U. S.
Treasury. But effective as of
May 15 this year the rate dropped
to 7 per cent, or $175 of
a $2,500 pre tax price. The first
of next year it drops to 6 per
cent, or $150 of the $2,500 model.
Jan. 1, 1967 the rate falls to 4
percent; to 2 percent in Jan. 1,
1968, and to 1 per cent Jan. 1,
1969.
The auto industry says that
all prices since May 15 have
been adjusted to pass this sav
ing along to the buyer, and it
promises to continue the prac
tice.
On taxes, this year’s customer
is definitely ahead.
The cost of new safety devices
being made standard on the 1966
models are figured differently
by individual makers and differ
ently on models by each maker.
Part of this is due to lowering
of production costs this year.
Chrysler figures that by ad
ding five safety devices as
standard equipment it is incur
ring an average cost of $49.
General Motors is adding six
devices and puts the average
cost to it as $56. More expensive
models carried some of these as
standard last year, so that this
year’s price hasn’t gone up as
much as on some of the cheaper
models.
Some dealers figure that a
year ago a customer would have
paid closer to $70 for all these
devices. That would make the
new 1966 prices look better-
assuming that you agree that
the devices are both desirable
and necessary.
But as always in comparing
one year’s price tag with the
previous one, there is the indus
try’s talking point that the new
models are better and worth
more — if the final cost to the
customer higher — or a bargain,
if the price is lower.
Cbc Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1965
Number 204
News Analysis
World Powers
Urged India,
Pakistan Peace
By CONRAD FINK
Associated Press Writer
NEW DELHI, India — Strong pressure from abroad
and utter astonishment at home over what they had started
were among the factors that led India and Pakistan to call
off their war after 22 days.
Except for Red China, almost every power of note in the
world, plus the United Nations, was calling for a cease-fire.
Neither India nor Pakistan had the diplomatic or economic
power to resist.
But, perhaps more important, it was becoming clear in
both nations that people can get hurt in a war and this one
wasn’t going to be a pushover.
As they huffed and puffed at each other throughout
the 1950s and early 1960s, they gave conflicting estimates
of how an all-out conflict would go.
The Indians, reflecting their conviction that they were
morally right, spoke of swamping Pakistan, destroying its
armed forces and perhaps even causing such an uproar
that Pakistani President Ayub Khan would be tossed out.
Not a few Indians had visions of victorious Indian columns
whipping into Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi.
Pakistan’s generals talked of riding their American
made Patton tanks, under a canopy of American-made jets,
south through the Punjab plains to knock on Delhi’s city
gates—just as their Moslem forefathers did periodically for
centuries.
None came true.
The Indians did not fold up. The Pakistanis didn’t
either.
Armored offensives involving scores—perhaps hun
dreds—of tanks hit all of five miles into Pakistan and
bogged down.
The cost skyrocketed—by New Delhi’s count, 3,840
Pakistanis were killed, and 449 captured, along with 1,157
Indians killed. Pakistan says 7,000 Indian troops were killed
and more than 800 captured.
This alone made the war pall a bit, but in addition
international pressure was getting extremely heavy.
The United States and Britain cut off military aid.
Pakistan and India feared that economic aid, seemingly
essential to the economies of both, might also be reduced.
The Soviet Union, which New Delhi considered to be a
friend, publicly called for a quick peaceful settlement. Then
the United Nations Security Council demanded a cease-fire.
Atop all this, Communits China got into the quarrel,
backing Pakistan and making menacing gestures at India.
Fear of Chinese intervention was a powerful influence on
New Delhi’s final decision to call of the fighting.
Despite the lessons learned in this conflict, there is no
assurance that fighting won’t erupt again. The basic hatreds
and jealousies underlying it have not been changed.
Student Senate
Approves New
Constitution
FIRST BONFIRE LOG
Eight first-year veterinary medicine stu- right, Doug Matthews, Scotty Briggs, Mike
dents Thursday morning brought in the first Martin, Tommy Godwin, Wesley Leftwich,
log for this year’s Aggie bonfire. Left to Gary Crouch, Bob Hase and Slim Dunavant.
Parttime Jobs
Open For Ags
The Placement and Student
Aid Office Building has ap
proximately 100 part time jobs
available through the Econo
mic Opportunity Act of 1964.
Wages range from 75 cents
an hour to $2.90 per hour
for graduate assistants.
Logan said students from low
income families are eligible to
work 15 hours a week and 65
hours a month. Seventy stu
dents are already participating
in the work-study program.
He clasified a low income
family as parents with one
child and an income of $3,200
per year, or parents with two
dependents and $4,000 annual
income.
Applicants must have “satis
factory” grades, usually a mini
mum “C” average.
Dean Hubert
To Address
Educators
Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, dean
of the College of Liberal Arts,
will be the main speaker for a
regional teacher education council
meeting Tuesday at Texas A&M.
“Challenges for Councils of
Teacher Education” will be the
topic of Dean Hubert’s 9 a.m.
address to representatives of ten
universities and colleges in South
east Texas.
Dr. Chris H. Groneman, co
ordinator for the hosting A&M
Council on Teacher Education,
will preside at the opening
session in the Memorial Student
Center.
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, vice presi
dent for academic affairs at
A&M, will greet council repre
sentatives from Beaumont, Prai
rie View, Houston and Hunts
ville.
Dr. Milo Kearney of the Texas
Education Agency also will speak
in the morning session.
A panel, “Work of the Council
in Providing Leadership in Re
solving Problems in Teacher
Education,” set for 1:30 p.m., will
be moderated by Dr. William
Stokes, assistant professor of
education and psychology.
Panelists include Dr. Cliff S.
Harris Jr., director of education
and psychology, Houston Baptist
College; Dr. Arvin N. Donner,
dean of the College of Education,
University of Houston; the Rev.
Hugh J. Haffey, head of the
department of education, St.
Thomas University, Houston;
Sister Mary Matthew, chairman,
departmentof education, Sacred
Heart Dominican College, Hous
ton; and Dr. Jack S. Staggs,
head, department of education,
Sam Houston State College,
Huntsville.
A summary of the discussion
will be made by Dr. William J.
Graff, dean of academic adminis
tration at A&M.
Harrington Fete
Tickets On Sale
Tickets for the M. T. Har
rington testimonial dinner were
distributed throughout Bryan
and College Station this week,
according to Robert G. Cherry,
general chairman of the event.
The ticket may be purchased
as any of the community’s five
banks or three savings and
loan associations, he said. Cam
pus personnel may obtain tick
ets through departmental of
fices, Cherry added.
The dinner, set for Oct. 8
in Sbisa Dining Hall, honors
the former chancellor of the
Texas A&M System for his 41-
year record of service to A&M,
the local community, and the
field of higher education. Spon
sors of the event include A&M’s
Board of Directors, faculty and
staff members at A&M’s loca
tions around the state and oth
er friends.
The Student Senate unani
mously approved Thursday night
a new Constitution requiring the
election of three new Senators
from the newly created College
of Sciences.
The Senate adopted the Con
stitution which was revised and
approved by the Academic Coun
cil June 29.
The new document provides for
three representatives from each
degree-granting college and thus
includes the College of Sciences,
formed when the College of Arts
and Sciences was divided last
spring.
Senate President Roland Smith
said the new Constitution appar
ently will require an election in
the near future to fill the three
vacancies, but no date was set
for an election.
Another revision calls for offi
cers of each class to serve as
ex officio members of the Elec
tion Commission.
However, most of the changes
were minor revisions aimed at
strengthening the old document,
which had been in effect since
1958.
The Senate also considered a
proposal for a meeting of A&M
student leaders with representa
tives of each conference school
prior to each Aggie home game
in an attempt to encourage
sportsmanship at games.
The proposal will be studied
and reconsidered at a later meet
ing.
In other action the Senate
voted to temporarily discontinue
the yearly Campus Chest drive
but instead orient students and
area residents about the merits
of the project.
Welfare Chairman James Mor
ris pointed out that the fund now
totals $4,000 but only one couple
made use of the fund last year.
The Campus Chest is adminis
tered through the Senate Welfare
Committee to provide interest-
free funds for needy students
and their families. About 10 per
cent of the available revenues are
donated to various local chari
table organizations.
The Senate also heard a com
plaint that civilian students in
Hart Hall made no attempt to
conceal lights after Tuesday
night’s Silver Taps ceremony.
A letter to the president of
Hart Hall asking that the situ
ation be corrected was sanctioned
by the Senate.
CSC Appoints
Committee
For Election
Terry Norman, president of the
Civilian Student Council, Monday
night appointed a four-member
committee to conduct a dorm
president election.
The election will be conducted
with the help of housemasters
and will fill five vacancies on the
council. Dorm presidents auto
matically hold a position on the
CSC.
Committee members are Jake
Kinnard, Bob Miller, Dick Barrett
and Larry Schuelke. This group
will hold an election by Sept. 30
in Dorms 13, 21, Walton, Mitchell
and Milner.
One committee, composed of
three CSC members and two
Texas A&M staffers, will review
applicants for civilian chaplain,
and the other, composed of three
council members, will meet with
Col. Fred Dollar, director of Food
Service, to discuss civilian prob
lems at Sbisa Dining Hall.
Larry Claypool, Darrell Smith
and Buddy Bullock from the
council and J. Gordan Gay, direc
tor of the YMCA, and Bennie A.
Zinn, director of Student Affairs
Department, make up the chapel
committee.
The committee which will con
fer with Dollar is David Glass-
ford, Miller and Ralph Ofcarcik.
Community Leaders Urged
To Solve Local Problems
VALLEY FORGE BOUND
Mrs. C. K. Leighton, principal of College
Hills Elementary School, and student Rich
ard C. Ryan boarded a plane at Easterwood
Airport Thursday for Valley Forge, Pa.,
where they will participate in the annual
Valley Forge Pilgrimage. The school was
awarded the honor for a scrapbook on Amer
icanism projects compiled last year. Thirty-
seven other schools across the nation also
won trips, which will include tours of his
toric sites in Valley Forge, Philadelphia and
Washington.
Two Profs Join
Industrial Ed Faculty
Dr. Glen Self and Leonard R.
Lamberson have joined .the in
dustrial engineering department
faculty at A&M.
Both men will be assistant
professors.
The president of Southwestern
Bell Telephone Company Fri
day challenged community lea
ders to redouble efforts to find
local solutions to problems.
“Leaders of the community’s
business and professional life
must help stem the tide of re
quests for help that seems to
be flowing from every comer
of our nation to the Potomac,”
R. A. Goodson told delegates at
tending the Texas Industrial De
velopment Conference on cam
pus.
“Most community problems
have a community solution,” he
noted, “Whatever the needs of a
community might be . . . hous
ing, streets, an auditorium, a
hospital, parks, traffic control,
welfare to help the indigent or
a historical marker . . . there are
suggestions that the solution be
sought in Washington.”
“That is not the way to pre
serve and strengthen freedom,”
he added.
The 1927 A&M graduate voiced
confidence in the future of Tex
as.
“My company would never be
spending the money it will spend
here in the next few years if
all of us didn’t believe this is
an up-and-coming area,” he said.
“You have your water supply
problem fixed, a good climate for
business, a good tax situation
and a satisfactory labor situa
tion.”
To assure continuing industrial
Aggie Orchestra
Auditions Slated
Auditions for the Aggieland
Orchestra will be at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday in Room 119 of G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Students and staff and faculty
members may try out for a posi
tion in the dance band. Piano
and drum players are needed the
most.
The orchestra is planning a
Christmas tour in addition to
their regular campus engage
ments.
development in the future in Tex
as, Goodson suggested a strong
overall economy, maintance of
fair tax laws, equitable labor
laws, good government and good
racial relations.
“Every business expects to pay
taxes, wherever it locates,” he
commented. “Its owners want
only to assure themselves that
they will pay no more than their
share. It isn’t wise to try to
gouge a new company for more
taxes. Neither is it fair to ex
cuse a new company from taxes
altogether and place more of a
burden on existing taxpayers.”
Goodson expressed concern
about the apparent weakening of
personal ethics and respect for
law and order. He cited busi
nessmen who cheat on taxes,
lawyers and accountants who
help them do it, and employes
who pilfer pencils, stamps or
small office supplies.
“When a lack of ethics and a
loss of respect for law becomes
the way of life, the state or
nation is doomed,” he declared.