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Pag-e 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 7, 1967 Six Amendments On Nov. 11 Ballot by Jim Earle SENATE TOPICS FOR SALE PIPES T t . =. 1 11— 1 1 II—— 1 November has become a month for big decisions. Next November the nation will decide the course of foreign and domestic policy when it chooses a President. And this Saturday Texas voters will have the oppor tunity to either support or reject six amendments to the state’s constitution. With each individual’s vote hangs the balance of more than $275 million worth of state programs, plus the oppor tunity for state employes to represent institutions such as Texas A&M nationally. Brazos County residents will join with residents from 253 other counties in exercising their freedom of choice. The day will also represent the opening of deer season, which may keep some from the polls, and Veteran’s Day, which may draw some veterans who will have an amend ment for their benefit on the ballot. Although Saturday provides a full and work-free day to reach the polls, only a light to moderate turnout is expected. A public informed only that there is a great deal of money involved in six proposed amendments to their state constitution will not be enough to draw a first-day hunter from the field or motivate a resident to vote. To vote and vote intelligently an individually must know and understand the issues at hand. For students who will soon join adults with the right and responsibility of voting, the issues in Saturday’s election are also impor tant, for similar issues will be encountered in the future. The six constitutional amendments on the ballot are: • To authorize counties to place all their tax revenues in a single general fund, rather than separate, special pur pose funds. • To let local political subdivisions which have hospital districts spend tax money for mental health and mental retardation services. • To revive the veteran’s land program through an additional $200 million bond issue, permitting war veterans, including those of the Vietnam conflict, to purchase land of a low-interest, 40-year-payback loan. • To permit counties to pay medical benefits for their law enforcement officers injured in the line of duty. • To authorize a $75 million state bond issue (supported by an admission fee at selected parks) for park land buying and development. • To permit non-elective state officials and employes to serve on state and federal boards and commissions if there is no conflict of duty. An “X” will indicate your choice. VOTE. com>o OOuX. p-7T 'l 1?l0£ a»</«7 Three guys are already making arrangements for rides to th’ Cotton Bowl!” By Robert Gonzales Through Corps Channels Sound Off Editor The Battalion: Monday afternoon at the close of my classes I returned to my dorm to leave my books, but in stead of taking them directly to my room I placed the attache case containing them in the dorm lounge. I then went to the hos pital for some medicine and to pick up my laundry. Approximate ly 30 minutes later I returned to find my attache case containing my Physics and English texts, lab book, slide rule, and two spiral notebooks containing all this se mester’s notes gone. Needless to say I was shocked in disbelief that they were gone. I have three major quizzes this week that will help decide whether or not I return to Texas A&M next semester. Without these ma terials to study by it will be difficult to make acceptable pass ing grades on a quiz, especially on a Physics quiz. I would greatly appreciate the return of these materials to me. Ronald O. Barker Editor, The Battalion: The carom billiard table in the Recreation Room of the M. S. C. has been in a state of desuetude for lo these many moons. (You could look it up, players). Apparently it cannot be * put in playing condition pronto be cause necessary parts are un available (you can’t hardly get them any more,) and also be cause labor has been so overbur dened carrying all those signs around while on strike. Despite all these known dif ficulties, cue pushers, ever op timistic, believe that by making a Herculean effort the table could be made whole. While no bulletins have been issued and there has been no re port of progress, hopes run high that relief is in the offing. Ed. Bloese Only 15 more days ’til the larg est bonfire in the world is lit by the five yell leaders and the three drum majors. Work on the huge tree structure, which symbolizes the burning desire to beat t.u. and the underlying spirit each student has for A&M will begin this week and with the Cadet Corps remaining here to cut and haul logs. The cutting area is located some 18 miles north of College Station. “Outfit assignments have al ready been made,” Head Yell Leader Neal Adams said, “and we will be working towards an 85-foot high stack.” Elments of the Corps will re turn early from the Rice Corps Trip November 18 so that work can be continued Sunday and greatest sensations to hit the Texas A&M campus will be pre sented by Town Hall in G. Rollie White Coliseum at 8 p.m. All cadets are urged to attend and listen to MANTOVANI and his orchestra play such movie themes as EXODUS, MOON RIVER, and WESTSIDE STORY. This past Saturday was desig nated as Sportsmanship Day in the Southwest Conference. There has been a growing interest in the Southwest Conference Sports manship Committee and there have been questions on just how it functions. The purpose of the Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Com mittee is to discuss any matters pertaining to Southwest Confer ence athletic contests, especially the furtherance of sportsmanship, and to evaluate the sportsman ship of each member school. The committee consists of an executive secretary, who is select ed by the student body of the chairman school, and the members of each school’s sportsmanship committee. Each school sends four voting representatives to the meetings of the committee. THE CHAIRMAN school of the committee is the host school for the Southwest Conference track meet during the year in which it is chairman. SMU is the present chairman school. The chairman ship is assumed on Jan. 2, and relinquished after one year. At least two meetings must be held each year. The first comes in the spring on the weekend of the SWC track meet at the host school. The second is in Dallas immediately preceding the Cotton Bowl game. IN THE INTEREST of further ing friendly relations and a spirit of cooperation among the colleges and universities of the Southwest Conference, each conference school, through the Sportsman ship Committee, subscribes to the following “Code of Good Sportsmanship” and pledges to prin- endeavor to live up to its ciples at all times. 1. Each member of competing teams shall endeavor to: a. Abide by fair and proper means of conduct as de termined by the rules of the contest. b. Treat contest officials with due respect and ci tesy and accept thei ficials’ decisions wi good spirit. c. Be gracious in victory defeat. Members of the student boi Bulletin Board Be su :30 to d MSC animar ‘own T; ording ar of E TUESDAY American Nuclear Society will meet in Room 211 DuHerty at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Dvorak of General Dynamics of Ft. Worth will speak on “Research Reactors.” MSC Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Stu dent Center. Business Administration Wives Club will meet at £,'30 p.m. in the Cushion Room of the YMCA. Student American Veterinary Medicine Association will have a joint meeting with the auxiliary in the MSC Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY Cooke County Hometown Club will meet in Room 109 of the Ag riculture Engineering Building at 7:30 p.m. DeWitt-Lavaca Hometown Club will meet in Room 203 of the Academic Building at 7:30 p.m. Fashion Group of A&M Wom en’s Social Club will meet at Chapman’s Paint and Wallpaper at 7:30 p.m. El Paso Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3C of the MSC. Have ewardir shall endeavor to: a. Avoid discourtesies of j sort toward their oppj ents, other visitors, t spectators and be hosts and/or guests at contests. b. Demonstrate respect farell, he opponents, their sell songs, and their traditij c. Accept the officials'j cisions with good spirit The members of the Soij west Conference Sportst ship Committee should ust committee to its fullest tent in order to establish ter school relations! schools outside the confer^ an be as well as in the confers) a y S Mr THE DELEGATES to the« lab mittee evaluate, in accordsMire A with the Sportsmanship Code, 1 hould sportsmanship demonstrated each school in basketball andij ball. The school which displj the outstanding sportsman! /ashing according to the qualities forth in the Sportsmanship ft &M N< Barnacles cannot attach them selves to objects moving more than two knots, so fouling of a hull usually occurs when the ship is in harbor. shall be presented the Sportsit ship Trophy for that year. I ere scj presentation is made amra ae. Soi preceding the Cotton Bowl p iy class in a ceremony on the field. I might take this opportat to commend the student body Texas A&M for its outstamj een se. performance in the area of spr tore si manship this year and it is in which we can take it; ) the 1 pride. Monday. Civilian students will guard the bonfire. The fighting class of ’68 will have a special interest in the entire affair. This will be their last chance to outscore t.u. Scores of the past three occasions have been 7-26 in ’64, 17-21 in ’65 and 14-22 in 1966. News from the Memorial Stu dent Center centers around talent and entertainment. Tonight from 7 to 10 in the Singing Cadet rehearsal room in G. Rollie White Coliseum, audi tions will be held for any cadet who is willing and wanting to be in the MSC Talent Committee’s Fall Production on December 16. Sound Equipment and a piano will be furnished. The Talent Commit tee’s chairman is Mike Curd, who is also a junior cadet in the Aggie band. Tomorrow night one of the , What the interviewers oing b ears. A ph “Durii ears af In he nalyzes /hen tl won’t tell you about ee that als and idicatec THE rown ears. - ears ai of tl g her jssistan - | Thing; the 1 all one /as rat ame ini unning “I lef unning ind out lone. ‘‘Anot jng the Richard: nalytie ord. It bout ei hen sh iomethi: THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student ivriters 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 neivspaper. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for licath— ~ c i - 1 — jsx-j e < ub lerein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. republication of all news dispatches credited to otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneoi origin published herein. 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