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during the Rotary - Town Hall presentation Tuesday night. (Photo by Randy Freeman)
AUSTIN <A>) — Gov. Preston
Smith asked quick action Tues
day on Texas’ water problems
as the lawmakers braced them
selves for the governor’s second
round of recommendations for fi
nancing state operations in 19 , 72
and 1973.
A joint session of the House
and Senate was called for 11 a.m.
Thursday to hear Smith’s second
address to the 62nd legislature.
In his first address, Jan. 20,
Smith proposed to finance state
operations the next two years,
without new taxes, by a series
of unprecedented state bond is
sues and a “temporary deficit.”
The key Smith administration
financing issues were quickly de
feated — a $450 million public
school bond issue and a plan to
use oil and gas lease income off
public school land for current
school operations.
Another of Smith’s recommen
dations, college construction bonds
based on student tuition income,
was stalled in a Senate commit
tee Tuesday after Sen. Don Ken-
nard, Fort Worth, protested that
it would hand college administra
tors “a blank check.”
Smith originally asked a bond
issue for $71 million in new col
lege building but by the time the
House-passed bill reached the
Senate finance committee it had
grown to $185 million. Sen. A. R.
Schwartz, Galveston, estimated
the ultimate cost to the state
would be - $370 million, counting
30 years of interest while the
bonds were paid off.
The Senate committee agreed
to send the measure to a sub
committee, at least until after
Smith’s Thursday speech.
In a special message to legis
lators, Smith asked full support
of senators and representatives
in getting voter approval of two
constitution amendments on the
May 18 special election ballot.
One would raise the interest ceil
ing on water development bonds
from 4 to 6 per cent and the oth
er would let the state issue $100
million in bonds to help cities im
prove sewage treatment facilities.
Smith urged the legislature to
go ahead and authorize $200 mil
lion in bonds already approved
by voters for “high priority wa
ter supply construction projects.”
He also asked that the ceiling on
the amount of state money spent
on a single water project be lift
ed.
Smith said he believed that
state agencies needed a definite
set of guidelines on environmen
tal issues “not a new super-
agency.”
Senators adopted, 30-0, the so-
called women’s equal rights
amendment.
Kennard sponsored the pro
posal, which now goes to the
House. If approved by the legis
lature, the proposed constitution
al amendment would go on the
November 1972 ballot.
It provides that “equality un
der the law shall not be denied
or abridged because of sex, race,
color, creed, or national origin.”
As a practical matter, the
measure would, for example, en
able a married woman to buy a
car in her own name or take out
a charge account. Some stores
now require the husiband to sign
the application.
“This is a hallmark day in the
Senate,” said Kennard. “It’s been
a long hard fight for a lot of
ladies, a lot of women. It should
have been written in the consti
tution many years ago.”
Senatcirs, however, refused to
suspend the rules to debate a
bill creating the Texas Commis
sion on the Status of Women.
The commission of nine mem
bers, with two other persons
serving as ex-officio members,
would study the employment of
women and state laws affecting
employment or the political life
of women. It would make rec
ommendations to the legislature
and governor.
KAMI] to broadcast
Perot, Bayh addresses
APO to push bathtub for funds
KAMU-TV will present live coverage of
addresses by Dallas philanthropist H. Ross Perot and
Senator Birch Bayh at the 16th Student Conference
on National Affairs.
Mel Chastain, manager of the educational televi
sion station, said coverage will begin at 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday for Perot and 1:30 p.m. Thursday for
Bayh.
Chastain said the station also will tape a
Thursday evening panel discussion and former
astronaut Frank Borman’s Friday morning talk for
rebroadcast Friday night, beginning at 8:30.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Dr.
Frank E. Vandiver of Rice and include Kent
Caperton, student body president; John Gaventa,
student body president at Vanderbilt, and David A.
Ifshin of Washington, D.C., president of the National
Student Association.
A wheeled bathtub powered by
APO members will join Bryan
traffic on Highway 6 Saturday.
A&M’s Xi Delta Chapter of the
Alpha Phi Omega national serv
ice fraternity will join chapters
from Houston, Beaumont, Prairie
View and Huntsville in pulling
the bathtub toward Austin.
The “bathtub with a heart” will
be the receptacle for contributions
to the American Heart Associa
tion said A&M chapter president
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Bill Cronrath of Hazlett, N.J.
Stops will be made at the Man
or East Shopping Center, Town-
shire Shopping Center and down
town Bryan near Main and 26th
Streets.
Projects vice president David
Russell of Corpus Christi said the
tub will be at each location about
30 minutes.
Confined for the last two years
to APO chapters of 11 East Texas
colleges and universities, the
bathtub pull is going statewide
in 1971.
Stephen F. Austin, Southwestern,
Lamar Tech, Sam Houston State,
Texas A&I and Texas at Austin
will participate in the East Texas
pull.
The Hart Fund benefit is one
of numerous projects carried out
by A&M APO members. They
manned barrels for the Campus
Chest Fund Drive at home foot
ball games, operated a ticket ex
change booth, assist the campus
blood drive, adopted 38 Houston
orphans in a Big Brother Proj
ect, provide floral sprays for
funerals of all students who die
while enrolled at A&M, distrib
uted gift-packs to A&M students,
erect drill field flags for major
campus events, conduct campus
tours for visiting groups, assist
in the local annual Scout-A-Rama
and sponsor a Bryan Boys’ Club
scout troop, among other projects.
Manners forum to be tonight
The Battalion erroneously re
ported that the Dudes ’n Dolls
fashion show would he tonight.
It will be at 8 p.m. Feb. 24. The
Battalion also said that Laura
Sorenson was committee chair
man of the Host and Fashion
Committee. Glenda Freeman is
the committee head.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
About 900 APO fraternity
brothers on 48 state campuses
will join forces for the first
Trans-Texas Bathtub Pull. Three
wheeled tubs will journey from
North, East and West Texas,
meeting in Austin Sunday, Feb.
21, according to Kent Whitaker,
U-H student and chairman of the
statewide pull.
APO members of U-H, Texas
Southern, Prairie View A&M,
Texas A&M, Texas Lutheran,
Moore Hall opens fourth floor
to Freshman Weekend dates
Moore Hall will open its fourth
floor to freshmen who need a
place to keep their dates Fresh
man Weekend, according to Stu
Hirsh, head resident advisor of
Moore.
The rooms, which will be open
to dates of students who do not
live in Moore Hall as well as
those that do, will cost $3 per
night for each woman, Hirsh said.
Reservations must be made in
person by the woman’s date at
room 314 in Moore Hall, Hirsh
added.
The entire fourth floor will be
reserved for the dates, he said.
The Student “Y” Association
will present the first of four
“Man Your Manners” programs
at 7:30 tonight in room 113 of the
Biology Building.
Publicity Chairman Dan Mc
Queen reports two changes have
been made in this year’s series.
A&M coeds will join Texas Wom
en’s University students on the
panel and 1 the series has been ex
panded from three to four ses
sions.
“The series now covers the as
pects of dating from introductions
and better writing to forgotten
manners and family decisions aft
er marriage,” McQueen said.
Topics for the first panel in
clude letter writing, telephone
manners, driving etiquette, smok
ing and appearance.
The girls are Kendra Ward,
Debbi Kennedy and Honi Wahr-
mund, all of Houston; Linda Mc-
Ginness and Barbara Rogers,
both of Fort Worth, and Mary
Hanak of Ehnis.
McQueen said each girl will
speak on a selected topic for about
10 minutes, followed by a ques
tion-answer period.
Three similar sessions were
held earlier this semester on the
TWU campus featuring Aggies
on the panel.
The remaining sessions are
scheduled Feb. 24, March 3 and
March 10.
The series in past years has
attracted standing room only.
Silver Taps for senior
will be held tonight
Silver Taps will be held tonight
for Richard A. Hanes, a senior
Company 1-1 cadet officer and
Fish Drill Team advisor.
Hanes, 21, died early Sunday
in a one-car auto accident be
tween Cleveland and Huntsville.
Hanes, of San Antonio, and his
roommate, David R. Smith of
Cleveland, were returning to the
campus from Smith’s Cleveland
home. Hanes apparently lost con
trol of the car on a curve.
Smith, like Hanes a senior civil
engineering major, received a
broken leg and lacerations. The
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy B. Smith
was released from intensive care
in a Houston hospital Sunday
afternoon.
The inquiring Battman
What bothers you most of all about A&M?
Robert Barker
freshman
“The food is terrible. I don’t
like paying for “good.” food which
you don’t receive.”
Scott Zinnecker
junior
“Inadequate handball facilities
—not enough courts for those
who have a chance and want to
play during the week day.”
Carroll G. Maclin
sophomore
“Lack of girls on the campus
to make a well-rounded social life
for the Aggies.”
Fausto B. Alvarez
senior
“A lack of academic atmo
sphere. Too much close-minded-
ness.”
Bill Garcia
j unior
Quizes on Monday morning.”
James R. Karhan.
junior
“The lack of interaction in the
classrooms, student-teacher inter
action.”
James Gohlke
senior
“The parking situation—taking
from day student parking and
giving to staff parking. These
lots are not filled by staff and
should be given in accordance
with the number using them.”
(Photos by Patrick Fontana)