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A HAND FROM SPACE
Despite appearances, it’s not a hand from outer space trying to disrupt a city’s trans
portation system, but a model railroad enthusiast putting finishing touches on the Twin
City Model Railroad Club’s St. Paul, Minn., display. (AP Wirephoto)
70 Auto Tags Available
In Mail-Order Fashion
Texas automobile owners can
register their vehicles by mail
this year for the first time.
A. new registration system de
vised by the Texas Highway De
partment now makes it possible
for owners to either receive their
1970 license plates in the mail or
find shorter waiting lines if they
pick them up in person.
A spokesman for the depart
ment said they expect more than
seven million vehicles to be reg
istered during the year.
During January, motor vehicle
registration renewal applications
will be mailed to every vehicle
owner in Texas. The registration
period begins Feb. 1.
The renewal application will
arrive in the mail in a slender
envelope marked, “Important —
This is your license plate renew
al application.”
The application has instructions
printed on it. It is a three-part
form which should not be torn
apart.
When the registration period
begins, the vehicle owner need
only take the application, and the
fee, to the county tax office, or
send it to his county tax collector,
with the fee plus a $1 handling
and postage charge.
Although owners can register
their vehicles in person until Ap
ril 1, there is a Mar. 1 cutoff
date for mail registration. This
allows 30 days for delivery be
fore the plates must be displayed.
With the application, an owner
will no longer need to present his
certificate of title or the last
year’s registration receipt.
If the address on the renewal
application is incorrect, he should
print his correct residence ad
dress on all three parts of the
application.
When the application is re
ceived, the clerk will need only
to receive the fee, affix a sticker
showing the registration number
and other data to the application,
and return the 1970 plates.
Another change this year is the
color scheme of the plates. They
will be a light blue on a reflective
white background.
The economic impact of Texas
A&M on the Bryan-College Sta
tion area total $70,680,000 last
( year, announced A&M President
Earl Rudder.
Rudder said the total increased
more than $8 million over the
previous year. This growth, he
said, is equivalent to a large in
dustry moving into the com
munity.
The figures, part of a univer
sity survey, included a payroll of
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
$42 million for more than 5,000
permanent A&M university sys
tem employes residing in Bryan-
College Station. The A&M pay
roll totaled $38 million the year
before.
A&M added approximately 100
faculty members in 1969 and 225
staff, research and support per
sonnel.
Students contributed more
than $21 million to the local econ
omy, up about $2 million. Major
expenditures included food and
housing for the increasing num
ber of graduate and married stu
dents, as well as clothing, school
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Vernee Wiesen, 20, scoots among- huge airplanes on roller
skates delivering blueprints at the 345-acre plant of the
McDonnell Douglas Corp. in Long Beach, Cal. She calls it
"a fun job” despite the hazards of hairpins, cigarette
butts and ruber bands which cause spills. Girls in a num
ber of plants in Southern California use rolled skates to
speed up their work. (AP Wirephoto)
supplies, recreation and miscel
laneous expenses for all students.
Enrollment jumped approxi
mately 1,000 students from last
year, to 14,042.
The study also indicated that
the university spent about $2.5
million locally for utilities, serv
ices and supplies.
Expenditures in this category
rose about $500,000.
An additional $3 million was
brought into the Bryan-College
Station community by visitors
attending athletic events, confer
ences and short courses at the
university, the survey revealed.
Most expenditures in this cate
gory were for food, housing and
entertainment.
Taps Tonight
For Davidson
Silver Taps will be held to
night for Paul H. Davidson,
sophomore animal science major
from Prescott, Ark., who died in
a Christmas holiday auto acci
dent.
Davidson, 20, was killed in
stantly in a one-car accident near
Prescott. Cause of the Dec. 23
wreck is believed to have been a
blowout.
Services for the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H Davidson, route 23,
box 139, Prescott, where held
Dec. 26 in Emmet, Ark.
Davidson lived at the Varsity
Apartments in College Station.
WEATHER
Thursday — Cloudy to partly
cloudy. Wind South 10 to 15
m.p.h. High 46, low 29.
Friday — Cloudy to partly
cloudy. Wind South 10 to 15
m.p.h. becoming northerly late
afternoon 10 to 20 m.p.h. High
48, low 33.
Nixon May Request
Excise Tax Boosts
By Sterling F. Green
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (^—President
Nixon may seek increases in sev
eral federal excise taxes, includ
ing a possible steep hike in the
cigarette levy, to help keep his
promise of a balanced budget.
Government sources disclosed
the Treasury has drafted and
sent to the White House “a num
ber of alternatives,” including
higher excise levies, for boost
ing tax revenues in fiscal 1971.
Some of the proposals will ap
pear in Nixon’s budget message
Jan. 27.
The federal taxes on gasoline,
automobiles, liquor, tobacco, and
telephone service—which togeth
er provide the bulk of the $16
billion in excise revenues col
lected each year—were all men
tioned for possible increase.
One high official also mention
ed a possibility that “socially de
sirable” objectives might be
sought. “The increase asked for
tobacco might be higher,” this
source said.
But the value-added tax that
has long intrigued Nixon—in ef
fect a sales tax imposed on the
value added to a product at each
stage of its manufacture—appar
ently has been ruled out com
pletely.
Congress dislikes the device
and critics of the tax contend it
fosters price increases instead
of dampening inflation.
Nixon recently promised that
the budget would be balanced and
hinted that tax increases might
be proposed to achieve that end.
A deficit would he “irresponsi
ble and intolerable” in these in
flation-ridden times, he told re
porters in San Clemente, Calif.
Actually Nixon had hoped for
a substantial surplus in the gov
ernment year starting July 1,
but rising costs and uncertain
revenue prospects have sent his
aides scurrying for enough addi
tional revenues to cover safely
the expected record spending lev
el of more than $200 billion.
Congress shut the door on any
increase in income taxes in en
acting the massive tax reform
bill last month. The quest for
revenues therefore has focused
largely on excises and “user
charges”—taxes on the users of
highways, airways, airports, and
waterways to help defray the
government’s financial support of
those facilities.
The user charges seem likely
to provide little help in Nixon’s
dillema; every 'President since
Franklin D. Roosevelt has urged
substantial increase in them but
Congress seldom has obliged.
However, the House approved
a bill last session to increase the
tax on airline passenger tickets
from 5 per cent to 8 per cent,
and Nixon is expected to urge
the Senate to act promptly on
that measure.
The excise taxes on liquor,
beer and wine produce about
$4.5 billion a year. The tobacco
tax provides $2.1 billion of rev
enue annually, the excises on au
tos, trucks, and parts about $2
billion, and the tax on telephone
and telegraph service about $1.1
billion.
The federal gasoline tax is
four cents a gallon and the ciga
rette tax $4 per thousand. The
tax on distilled liquor is $10.50
a proof gallon, and the tax on
beer and malt liquors is $9 for a
31-gallon barrel.
There may be little enthusiasm
for increasing the excises, es
pecially the automobile and tel
ephone taxes. Congress had voted
to “repeal” both of these in year-
by-year stages, but the process
was halted by the soaring costs
of the Vietnam war.
The auto tax, formerly 10 per
cent, got down to 7 per cent be
fore it was frozen. The telephone
levy, after a very brief period of
reduction, was restored to 10
per cent. Trucks and buses are
still taxed at 10 per cent.
The reference by one official
to “social” considerations in the
tax proposals suggested that
sizeable excise increase might
be asked for liquor, wine and
beer as well as for tobacco prod
ucts.
Friday Deadline to Pay
Spring Registration Fees
Finals Schedule
Final exams for the fall semester, 1969, will be held Jan. 16-24
according to the following schedule:
Friday is the deadline for A&M
students to pay pre-registration
fees for the spring semester, re
minded Registrar Robert A. La
cey.
All fees must be paid by mail
or deposited in the drop box in
front of the Fiscal Office in the
Coke Building. The Fiscal Office
will not accept payments at the
cashier’s window.
After the student’s fees have
been paid, Lacey said, the spring
schedule will be mailed to his
local mailing address.
If the fees are not paid by Fri
day, he noted, the student’s pre
registration will be subject to
cancellation.
Pre-registration was held Dec.
1-12. Delayed registration is
scheduled Jan. 26-30 and late reg
istration is set Feb. 2-6.
The drop-add period will begin
Jan. 26. Feb. 6 is the last day to
add courses and Feb. 17 is the
last day to drop courses with
no grade.
Spring semester classes begin
Monday, Feb. 2.
Date
Hour
Series
Jan. 16, Friday
8-11 a.m.
MWF8
Jan 16, Friday
1-4 p.m.
MWF12
Jan 19, Monday
8-11 a.m.
TThSFl
Jan. 19, Monday
1-4 p.m.
MWTh2
Jan. 20, Tuesday
8-11 a.m.
MWF9
Jan. 20, Tuesday
1-4 p.m.
M3TThl0
Jan. 21, Wednesday
8-1 1 a.m.
TF2 or TWF3 or TThF3
Jan. 21, Wednesday
1-4 p.m.
MWF10
Jan. 22, Thursday
8-11 a.m.
TThl2
Jan. 22, Thursday
1-4 p.m.
M4TThl 1
Jan. 23, Friday
8-11 a.m.
MWThl
Jan. 23, Friday
1-4 p.m.
TTh9F2
Jan. 24, Saturday
8-1 1 a.m.
MWF11
Jan. 24, Saturday
1-4 p.m.
TF1
Record Number of Ags Apply
For Mid-Term Graduation
NOTE: Final examinations in courses with only one theory hour per
week as shown in the catalogue will be given, at the discretion of the
department head concerned, at the last meeting of either the theory or
practice period before the close of the semester.
A record 1,079 students have
applied for mid-term graduation
at Texas A&M announced Regis
trar Robert A. Lacey.
Lacey said the number of stu
dents applying for January grad
uation this year represents an
increase of 159 over last year,
the previous high.
Included in the totals are 257
students applying for master’s
degrees and 138 for doctorates.
Graduation exercises will be
conducted at 9:30 a.m. Saturday,
Jan. 17, in G. Rollie White Coli
seum, followed by military com
missioning ceremonies at 1:30
p.m.
Dr. David W. Mullins, Univer
sity of Arkansas president, will
be commencement speaker. Gen.
Bruce K. Holloway, Strategic
Air Command commander-in
chief, will be the featured speak
er at commissioning.
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yacht heads toward the open sea from Sydney, Australia, (AP Wirephoto)
in the recent South Cross Cup race. The craft was the