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THE BATTALION Pag-e 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 1, 1967 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle IRS Strikes Again It has been said that not too long ago the Internal Revenue Service experimented with simplifying the standard income tax form. After carefully studying the present forms, they found they could simplify the annual two-page report into seven pages! There may be some doubt as to the validity of this humorous episode, but to the person who must file such a report with the government each year, there may be more truth than fiction. Every year some new blank or form appears and must be answered. Recently, a blank was added to give the taxpayer a choice of how he would like his refund; (if he was for tunate enough to get one) in money or government bonds. Next year, a blank will be added for the taxpayer who wants to volunteer $1 for payment of Presidental political campaign expenses. The latest addition to the growing list of questions is directed toward the students. According to the New York Times, a “task force of educators,” with the aid of experts from one federal bureau and two departments, is working on a plan whereby stu dents could borrow money on which to attend college and then pay it back in extra income taxes over the course of their careers. A key feature of the plan would fix a sliding of re payment. This means that students who receive lower paying jobs would have to pay back less than he borrow ed, while the student in a higher paying job would have to pay back more than he borrowed. A student would not have to work overtime very long to memorize all such federal programs that have been successful. Computer ApproachCautioned In Solving Cities’ Problems A Texas A&M authority on electronic computers urged city managers in a recent seminar here to assume a careful ap- UAC (Continued From Page 1) “I’ve never seen a guy so attached to his foot locker! been that way since th’ Freshman Ball—I wonder if He’s Just To Stay Even Inflation comes at us in increments announced as a fraction of a percentage point per month, which doesn’t sound like much. Taxes move upward, but the politicians try to find ways to make them as painless as possible. Social Security taxes keep moving upward also, but gradually. It is only when someone puts these all together, as the Tax Foundation has recently done, that the size of the jolt is truly discernible. The tax-research organization has compiled comparative figures on the cost of welfare government to a representative taxpayer, married, with two children. Engineers Can Take Heart! Studying Will Be Worth It If his income in 1956 was $3,000, says the founda tion, he now has to make $3,655 just to stay even, an in crease of 21.8 percent. If he made $7,500 then, he must earn $8,825 now, or he has actually lost real income. If he made $10,000 then, he must earn $11,764 now to stay even. For those who shrug off the rising cost of inflation and taxes as a burden that affects chiefly the rich, the Tax Foundation offers convincing rebuttal. In fact, it is the lower end of the income scale that has suffered worst from the past decade’s cost. The $3,000-a-year wage-earner’s cost increase, as a percentage o fhis pay, is nearly three times that of what the $10,000-a-year man has to pay due to taxes and inflation. And this does not count either increase in Social Security tax this year or the proposed six per cent in crease in federal income tax. This will mean the American taxpayer will have to run even faster to stay even in the years to come. —The Dallas Morning News Engineer majors, take heart! All those nights that are spent studying will be well worth it. At least that’s what a recent survey by the College Placement Council asserts. Engineers and other technical students with bachelor’s degrees received aver age starting salary offers of $706 per month. Non-technical graduates will be paid an average of $596 per month. The survey was based on salary offers at 116 colleges and uni versities last semester. Mrs. Gladys Bishop, Placement Office secretary, revealed that Texas A&M participated in the survey. Ray Mariana, technical re cruiter from Union Carbide, made the statistics available during a recent visit to the Placement Office. Chemical engineers topped the list with a $717 offer. They were followed by electrical engineers, $716; aerospace engineers, $710; mechanical engineers, $708; in dustrial engineers, $694; civil engineers, $691, and metallurgical engineers, $689. Sherpas believe their ancestors migrated from Tibet to eastern Nepal about six centuries ago. ■sap Free to TEXAS A&M Students 25<p to others A new booklet, published by a non-profit educational founda tion, tells which career field lets you make the best use of all your college training, including liberal-arts courses —which career field offers 100,000 new jobs every year —which career field produces more corporation presidents than any other—what starting salary you can expect. Just send this ad with your name and address. This 24-page, career-guide booklet, "Oppor tunities in Selling," will be mailed to you. No cost or obli gation. Address: Council on Op portunities, 550 Fifth Ave.,New York 36, N. Y., WHATABURGER 1101 S. College — Across From Weingarten “WORLD’S LARGEST PURE BEEF BURGER” • 14 Lb. Pure Beef In Every Whataburger • MADE WITH 100% PURE BEEF GROUND DAILY AT WHATABURGER PHONE 823-1864 — Your Order Will Be Ready LEGAL HOLIDAY Thursday, March 2, 1967, being a Legal Holiday in observance of Texas Independence Day, the undersigned will observe that date as a Holiday and not be open for business. First Bank & Trust University National Bank City National Bank First National Bank Bank of Commerce Bryan Building & Loan Association Community Savings & Loan Association First Federal Savings & Loan Association Other average offers in tech nical fields were $674 for chem ists, $672 for mathematicians, and $664 for physicists. Top salary offer in a non technical field was for account ing majors, $617 per month. General business graduates were offered $592, while those in mar keting and distribution were to receive $574. Humanities and social sciences students were of fered $558, lowest starting salary in the survey. portions of its profits back into such campus activities as the Apartment Council.” THE COUNCIL received $800 from the Exchange Store with the requirement that the funds be spent solely for recreational purposes. “We are going to send letters to the people in the apartments and ask for any suggestions con cerning additional equipment,” Christy added. “Any suggestions can be relayed to the council through the representatives in each apartment area.” Christy noted that all such activities undertaken by the Apartment Council in the past had been made with the children in mind. The only real exception being the council’s participation in Civilian Weekend. “WE HOPE to establish more activities for the students them selves, such as block parties,” Christy said. “And with addi tional money we would like to build badminton or basketball courts for the married students.” Up until this year the council’s only method to raise money was through the activity cards sold to day students during registration. One of the results of more recog nition for the council may be more money to gain more recog nition to get more money, ad infinitum. According to Christy, this year is only the start. The council wants to wake people up and let them know there is such a thing as the University Apartment Council. “I’d like to think of this year being the real start of the Apart ment Council,” Christy said, proach to applying computers to solutions of municipal problems. “The approach to the use of highly sophisticated computers should be slow,” commented Rob ert L. Smith, director of A&M’s Data Processing Center. “Too many people believe a computer is going to solve all of a city’s problems in one fell swoop,” Smith emphasized. “Jumping head-first into computerization causes more sinking than any thing else.” The DPC director’s caution was voiced in the final Community Service Seminar meeting of city managers from the East Texas Gulf Coast area. SMITH SAID city managers need to become familiar with the computers their cities use in order to intelligently face day-to-day problems. “Some city managers are not altogether satisfied with the com puter results in municipal opera tions,” Smith remarked. “They need to realize that people make transitions slowly. More com puter operations are sabotaged by little old ladies in the back room than anything else.” “Poor results usually indicate a lack of internal communica tion,” he continued. “City offi cials make the decision to buy a computer in private, without in forming the little old lady who must operate it. She hears ru- more that the city fathers are go ing to replace her and decides the machine won’t work.” SMITH ADVISED city man agers to keep employes informed of changing situations and to change the pattern of work in order to funnel proper informa tion into the computer. The speaker said municipalities in a given area should work out cooperative agreements to obtain sufficient computing facilities to handle billing, tax records, pay rolls and other problems. Costs would be reduced to all, he added. “Computers are not going to replace everybody,” Smith noted. “Employees can be freed of mun dane tasks to work on special problems that arise daily.” 45 Fire Fighters To Take Course Here March 1-3 Forty-five persons are expected to enroll for a special course by Texas A&M‘s Firemen’s Training Division March 1-3. “Emergency Care and Trans portation of the Sick and In jured” is being held for the thH time at the A&M Engineering Extension Service Firemen’s Training Field. Tom Robinson, a Firemen’s Training School instructor, will coordinate the school to be con ducted by representatives of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and Baylor Medical School in Houston. In addition to lectures, the school features field exercises in which participants rescue “vic tims” from simulated automobile accidents and airplane crashes. Among topics are common medical emergencies, use of trac tion, splints, bandages and dress ings, first aid and law, emergency driving, police and ambulance crew, and the importance of im mediate care. \ ] t>p< da: ne d It 3ity Registrants will include ambu-iii 84 lance and funeral home personnel, t VO aii fire department emergency crews,* 1 tw and emergency personnel from arch agencies and ; emergency law enforcement industry. The school is endorsed by 15 organizations, including the Tex as Medical Association. Engineers • 1 • 1 • c • 1 • c • c • I Enjoy a successful career in America’s most exciting city... HOUSTON! HOUSTON IS THE ACTION TOWN! It’s the only city in the Southwest with both major league baseball and major league football. You and your family can enjoy sunny Gulf beaches . . . hunting . . . fishing . . . the Domed Stadium . . . fine art galleries ... opera, sym phony, ballet, theater, in the magnificent new Jones Hall for the Performing Arts . . . low-cost housing . . . great restaurants . . . metropolitan shopping . . . year —round golf . . . the excitement of living in America’s most dynamic growth area. —c* —Co —S-w —L. —Dr —C« —Fu -vv! —Lo HOUSTON LICHTING & POWER IS THE ACTION COMPANY! Already one of America’s largest electric pow er companies, HL&P is in the midst of a five- year expansion program that will double the power available to the Houston-Gulf Coast area. At one plant alone, a new 450,000 kw unit is now in operation, another will be completed in 1967, and construction has already begun on a third unit that’s even larger—565,000 kw! We’re investing $270,000 each working day on our ex pansion program that includes a revolutionary computer-op>erated Electric Energy Control and Dispatching Center that is creating excitement throughout the utility industry . .. new generat ing and distribution facilities . . . and a new sky scraper headquarters building in the heart of Houston. (Steelwork is already going up for this new building, but you may have to wait a few months before you move your office from our present building.) STAT >d We, 110. GU Sales Servi 240 Fi 341 ENGINEERS CAN PROSPER WITH US! An electric utility is built on engineering skills, and engineers carve great careers with HL&P. (Our president started as a transmission engi neer with the company.) Right now we need BS candidates in Electrical, Mechanical or Chemical Engineering for growth positions in our Power Department and Industrial Sales Di visions, and our Engineering Department offers opportunities to people with BS, MS or PhD de grees in either Electrical or Civil Engineering. T Zei A1 713 THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for ;blieati< * c nbl lerei Second-Cli republication of all news dispatches credited otherwise credited in the origin published herein, matter herein are also reserved. es cn paper and local news of spontaneou Rights of republication of all othe lass postage paid at College Station, Texaa. News contributions or 846-4910 or at the editorial office. 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Los Angeles and San Publisher Texas A&M University Student Editor Winston Green Jr. Managing Editor John Fuller News Editor Elias Moreno, Jr. Amusements Editor Bob Borders Features Patricia Hill Sports Editor Gary Sherer Sports Writers Jerry Grisham, Charles Rowton Staff Photographer Russell Autrey WANT MORE FACTS? & Our representatives will be on the campus March 6 and 7. Sign up at the Placement Office for your interview with one of these men: ENGINEERING POWER SALES R. M. McCUISTION, P. E. General Supt. of Engineering C. M. RIPPLE, P. E. Operating Supt.-Power Department R. P. SMITH Industrial Engineer G. W. OPREA, JR., P. E. Svipt.-Planning Division K. L. SKIDMORE Coordinator of Operator Training D. G. TEES Junior Engineer HOUSTON LIGHTING An Equal Opportunity Employer Ha3 lie. We S 1 Wh er Qi Par Filt 10,0 96<3 25 - & POWER COMPANY a Texas taxpaying, investor-owned electric service company Bra 2 Auto AC - PEANUTS By Charles M. 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