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/ Si I Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, August 17, 1967 CADET SLOUCH Company Coming! Let's Tidy Up “Clean-Up Week” in Bryan and College Station will officially begin next week. The special week precedes the influx of the largest number of convention-goers ever in this area, the AIBS delegates and their families, on August 27. Most of the campaign will precede another large con vention, the annual TASCOE meeting on August 25. Individuals should begin now to mow, trim, and clean home and business premises before the six-day campaign gets underway. The cleaning up of unslightly trash does not have to be a lone undertaking by property and home owners in College Station. Help and advice from the city govern ment is readily available. Clean-up is a continuous process for the city government of College Station. Trash and garbage collections are made all year; mowing operations are a continuing thing. City and campus grounds and maintenance equipment and personnel are already involved in full-scale operations to prepare for convention visitors. The Texas Highway Department and county officials are planning to draw in equipment and men to help trim and clean the roads and roadsides leading into the community. The codes of government of both Bryan and College Station have ordinances concerning cleanliness and main tenance of private property. All property owners should do their utmost to comply with the ordinances. In regular operations, the city of Bryan does not mow or clean private property. Not so in College Station, where the city mows all vacant lots. College Station crew start at one end of town and mow all roadsides and vacant property areas to the other side. It is a successful way of cutting down on fires and eli minating rodents and other pests. by jim Earie Trapping Doves Is Simpler Than Shooting Them, Says Ag “It’s depressing to buy books early and realize that some how all of this is going to hafta be in my head after one semester.” Trapping and banding white wing doves is much simpler than trying to shoot the fast fliers, contends a wildlife science senior at Texas A&M. Fred G. Lindzey of College Sta tion was part of a six-man team which caught 23,000 doves in Mexico during a six-week span this summer. “One of our big problems was recatching birds we had already banded,” Lindzey chuckled. “We must have caught some birds 10 to 15 times. They must have liked the free grain in the traps.” The students were working on a research project headed by Dr. James Teer, associate professor of wildlife science at A&M. This is the first year of a four-year project funded by a $10,000 U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service grant. Aim of the long-range study is to determine effects of Mexican doves on the Rio Grande Valley white-wing population. Prelim inary studies indicate a migration pattern of 300 to 400 miles to Texas. Surprisingly, the traps netted few other birds. Red-eyed cow- birds, grackles, inca doves and ground doves were among the unwanted guests. Most unique catch, however, was a Texas tor toise which the wildlifers prompt ly turned loose. Lindzey teamed with Miles Locke Jr. of Bryan to nab 11,200 birds near San Jose. Ronnie Mc Pherson of Normangee and Les lie Carruth of Dallas covered the San Fernando area, while Dan Boone of Dripping Springs and Art Bowers of Palacios covered an area near Ciudad Mante. All trapping sites were rough ly within a 100-mile radius in the state of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico. “We pitched our tents in the right of way of a road soon to be built,” Lindzey explained. “Peo ple were always stopping by try ing to buy birds or traps. We told them it was illegal to do either. Generally, they were pret ty understanding.” “Mostly we set traps baited with maize around water,” he continued. “We checked traps Mail Commu Memori three times a day. Usually,! Hall Se would remove all the birds; Serie cept one. He helped attract oti orders white wings.” Hall, B 1 Texas Lindzey said the natives!!; friendly and neighborly. | than g, brought their youngsters to v of ort j e and the students entertained^ by letting them release after banding. “We had our eyes on vo! watermelons growing near camp,” Lindzey recalled, truckload of men came by day and spirited them away, of the men kept guard wilt shotgun while the others the melons. Luckily, they left a couple of green ones.” The Mule: A Vanishing Breed Carruth and McPherson ^ had a brush with a thief. R r chaser. f light-fingered villain lifted camera, watch, radio and ot Luther Joi items, but local police quh' Guaranty made an arrest and returned house ^i7-> stolen goods. The Aggie clean, tii. searchers soon changed their of operations after learning the bandito was released in sb| 9 x 12 conditione slidin? do ■titer 6 p. Coordinator for the proM?- order. David Blankenship, a wildlife |prtatior ' ence Ph.D. candidate from M roost sites of new colonies. enmor< and Bamh Dents. $6 The College Station code includes four ordinances for safe-guarding health and welfare of its residents and for providing them with pleasant surroundings. Ordinance No. 67 requires weeds and grass to be cut upon premises and rubbish and trash to be removed from them and fixes a penalty for failure to comply. One ordinance, No. 175, defines a nuisance and an other definition with prescribed penalty is in Ordinance No. 488, which defines “kitchen garbage,” “dry kitchen refuse,” and “trash” and regulates their storing and collect ing. This ordinance also forbids scattering contents or pilfering with trash and garbage receptacles and cans. The latest ordinance concerns junked motor vehicles and provides for declaring them a public nuisance. College Station is not unsightly or unclean, but it 1 1 After all, does need trimming, mowing and picking up. company is coming. Nobody Likes A Tax Increase Nobody likes a tax increase — not the President, who must propose it ; not the Congress, whose members will have to act on the President’s request; not the public, which will have to dig down and pay for it. Nevertheless, a tax increase now faces the nation, and there seems little doubt that the nation’s most urgent bills will have to be paid. The President’s tax proposal, as outlined to Congress, calls for a 10 per cent surcharge on individual income taxes, effective on Oct. 1. This means that a person who would ordinarily pay $500 in taxes would have to pay $550 for a full year — or $12.50 more this year. Some 16 million in the lowest income brackets would be affected by the in crease. Also included, would be a 10 per cent surtax, effective July 1, on corporate income taxes and charges in automobile taxes and telephone excise taxes. Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler, testify ing Monday before the House Ways and Means Committee, believes that the proposals for increases are less heavy than those enacted under similar circumstances in the past. He said that personal income taxes were raised by the equivalent of 730 per cent in World War II and that taxes associated with the Korean War were equivalent to about 28 per cent surcharge. DALLAS, Tex. UP) _ What has a disposition that makes a moth er-in-law seem sweet, a voice that makes a drill sargeant sound like Perry Como and is disappearing at a rate that makes the whoop ing crane populace look like a population explosion ? It’s that animal that built the West and tilled the soil for dec ades — the long-eared, much- cussed and over-worked American mule. Few modern Americans have seen a mule, much less worked behind one. One who has worked with them and still retained an affection of sorts is Clarence R. “Cowboy” Wise, a Dallas restau rant manager who dabbles as a part time mule and horse dealer. “The mule is on his way out,” Wise says. He sold 35 of them last year and says there are now less than 100 mules left in Dallas County. “He’s on the decline all over Texas,” says Wise, “the tractor replaced him and nobody’s raising mules any more.” Wise, 40, says he used to sell mules in lots of tens and twenties to farmers. Now, most of his sales are to suburban property owners and some farmers who want something non-mechanical to work their gardens. The horse, it seems, is the mules’ worst enemy. “People who don’t need a horse will keep one for the fun of it. Nobody’s going to put up with a mule for nothing,” Wise said in an interview. Melvin Pinson of Dallas, a horse-shower, echoed Wise’s feel ings about the cussedness of mules. Pinson refuses to shoe a mule. “Last one I shod kicked with his hind foot while I working on a front one,” Pinson said. “I’ve got no use for them.” The average age of the mule population is going up and Wise says the ethics of mule traders is going down. Some unscrupu- lou traders use acid to burn stains into a mule’s teeth, thus making it appear the animal is years younger than he is. of looking into his Even that play is not too ef fective, however, Wise says, since there are few potential buyers around now who can tell an ani mal’s age by the time-honored tradition mouth. Wise says the mule has many good points, when compared to the horse. Part of the mule’s stubbornness is actually a bent for self-protection. “A horse can be made to go in to a dangerous place against his better judgment,” Wise says, “you can even ride one off a cliff.” Not so with the mule. “Mules are good pack animals,” he says. “They are more sure footed and not horses.” And with the mules, the mule trader is also on the way out. Wise says a good mule trader, however, can go into other lines of business. “A good mule trader normally makes a good used car salesman,” he notes. Teer said research teams prtf ^ sri ® ter ably will band more than 60,®DispoeUlor white wings before the proje 1 1967 ^ ends. He noted the 23,000 bir «ondition. banded this summer represei i- the largest number of flying;. iL 6 ^ c £* 1 white wings ever banded in Ma tire res. of J And, above all, tractor drivers may develop ulcers they would never get if they had a good, orn ery mule to cuss. “It’s a little hard to work up a good mad at a tractor,” Wise said. That’s easy with a mule. Just re< nlies ; oils , Varsity Town Suits man'^Pa i at ff r >- an - 3im Starntjh ^ w men's iumi toon UMIII . MM" null Sept MM Til MAIN Wfuf A/otQet WTHO- P*/-; " A IX I T-i > - /l \QajtiT/Ty BIGGER BAGFUL (yyi J4omu? The nation now faces costly commitments in Vietnam and on the domestic front. They are the nation’s commit ment and our responsibility. The bill has been presented and it must now be paid. Doubtlessly, there will be many in Congress who will use the issue of a tax increase to score points along the lines of their own political orientation. The President well knows the game of politics; if he had wished to play, a controversial proposal for a tax increase hardly represents a piece of nicely-timed gamesmanship. Congress and the nation will do the necessary thing. The Houston Post CASA CHAPULTEPEC 4 DAY SALE THURS., FRL, SAT., SUN. Fiesta Dinner Guacamole Salad, Beef Taco, Three Enchiladas, Beans, Rice, Tortillas and Hot Sauce, Candy. 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