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TEA Critics Lauded By Rural Texans
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AUSTIN (A*) _ Rural Texans
applauded critics Wednesday of
Texas Education Agency’s pro
posal to eliminate all public
school districts with fewer than-
12 grades.
A. J. Wallace, Potter County
school superintendent, pleaded
with the Senate Education Com
mittee — “When you lose the
school in these small places,
you’ve lost everything.”
Ben Howell of El Paso, chair
man of the State Board of Edu
cation, said the proposal was de
signed to give Texas school kids
a better chance at getting a good
education, and he added that the
small districts often provide “tax
havens.”
The bill was sent to a sub
committee after nearly two hours
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of testimony. An illustration by
Lynn Moak of the TEA staff,
specifically mentioned an “ex
treme example” in Wharton
County, where the Provident City
Independent School District has
only three students with a rich
gas field which gives the district
property worth $30 million and
a tax rate of “almost zero.”
He said the district conducts
classes every other year to avoid
a law which would require it to
consolidate if it missed classes
for two consecutive years.
The average tax rate of the
153 districts with fewer than 12
grades is 21 cents on $100, he
said, compared to the statewide
average of 63 cents.
In Titus County, Moak said,
Mount Pleasant is the only school
district with 12 grades and it
has a tax rate of 73 cents and
the six districts in the county
with fewer than 12 grades have
an average tax rate of 14 cents.
Former Sen. Bill Tippen, an
Abilene lawyer, led one group
opposing the TEA bill, and he
insisted, “We’re not here to pro
tect tax havens—we’re here for
the best interests of the children.”
He said he was surprised at
the crowd, which overflowed from
the Senate chamber into the bal
cony, applauding when a speaker
made a point they liked.
“Us older folks who have gone
to small schools haven’t done too
bad,” said Sen. Raul Longoria,
D-Edinburg, and a question for
Howell was drowned out by the
applause.
“We don’t want to drown the
dog to get rid of a few fleas,”
said Sen. W. E. Snelson, D-Mid-
land, and there was more sus
tained applause.
It was noted that there is a
law, adopted in 1949, allowing
smaller districts to consolidate,
and there were several thousand
consolidations in the early 1950s,
but this trend has slowed down.
“Is the almighty dollar going
to rule education,” asked Domi
nick Greco of Fruitvale, in North
east Texas. In the small schools
“we give something you cannot
get in the large cities—personal
attention — I’m talking about
love ...”
Wallace said he had been Pot
ter County superintendent for 15
years, and the three rural dis
tricts there had turned out six
valedictorians and two salutato-
rians at Amarillo high schools
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The alternative to the small
schools, he said, is transporting
children to schools farther away,
and “I’ve never seen a student
get very much education on a
school bus—” Interrupted by ap
plause, he continued:
“We don’t apologize to nobody
about the quality of education
our students receive,”
“Keeping our small ones close
to home is our plea,” said Mrs.
J. E. Pybas, whose children have
gone to the Sivells Bend school.
“I don’t think they are being de.
prived . . . the school is the most
vital unifying factor in our am
—it’s the heart of our common,
ity.”
James Cunningham, school si.
perintendent in Spearman, said
the high school there takes sti-
dents from three rural schools,
and “they are quality students,"
He said the average grade of tts
transfer students in the ninti
grade is 87.7 per cent.
“We are literally your grass
roots,” said Mrs. Pybas.
Conventional Fan To Vanish
If ME Project Successful
Fans and conventional cooling
devices will possibly become a
thing of the past if a new re
search project in A&M’s Mechan
ical Engineering Department is
successful.
The project, titled “Investiga
tion of a Dry Cooling System
Based on Corona Wind Cooling,”
will be an attempt by principal
investigator Dr. Ronald Holmes
to develop cooling techniques that
will obsolete the conventional
fan.
Dr. Holmes said the basic idea
of the project is that electrical
fields might possibly be used to
increase heat transfer from air
cooled surfaces.
“Initial experiments indicate
that initial heat transfer factors
be increased by a factor of as
much as 40 over the factors for
conventional cooling systems,”
Dr. Holmes noted. “A system
such as we are working on could
be used to replace fans as a
means of cooling in many differ
ent systems.”
He said the uses for such a
system would be virtually end
less. He said, for example, that
fan-less cooling could be used as
a heat rejection system in elec
trical power generation. Air con
ditioning systems would no long
er have to blow to cool a room
and radiators and fans could pos-
sibly be eliminated in automobilt
engines.
Dr. Holmes completed bask
work on the program before jolt,
ing the Mechanical Engineering
Department staff. He previously
researched the problem at Bat
telle Memorial Institute in Co-
lumbus, Ohio.
The project has been initially
funded with a $17,000 grant fron
the National Science Foundatioa,
Dr. Holmes said the grant woulj
fund the project for 18 monti!,
sufficient time to lay soliJ
groundwork for more details!
studies.
“In the early phases of tbs
project,” he continued, “we art
really concerned with defining
heat transfer coefficients and lit
termining any economic advan.
tages the system might have.
“Some of the potential advan
tages of the system would be low |
noise levels of operation, higl
heat transfer coefficient and var
iable heat transfer capabilities."
Initial efforts on the project
will find researchers working
with thin tubes to define heat
transfer coefficients over a large
range of conditions. They will
move to bundles of tubes, then
use their overall findings to ar
rive at preliminary designs of
a practical working system.
Alcoholism l ops Herion
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accidents and deaths, suicide,
broken marriages and job ab
senteeism.
Heroin is also a serious prob
lem because it is strongly habit
forming, attractive to slum youth
and others who are unhappy or
bored and often leads to thefts,
burglary, drug-pushing or pros
titution as means of paying for
the expensive drug.
But the commission said that
only a tiny percentage of Ameri
cans ever try heroin, fewer than
half of them keep on using it, it
seldom is associated with violent
crime and the extent of heroin-
related stealing is often exag
gerated.
The commission was sharply
critical of governmental efforts
to curb drug use. It said hasty
reaction to public outcry had led
to a massive “drug abuse indus
trial complex,” a federal bureauc
racy that spends nearly $1 bil
lion a year on questionable pro
grams.
This bureaucracy may be per
petuating drug use, rather than
discouraging it, the panel said.
The commission urged a new
federal antidrug agency that
would absorb the law enforce
ment, treatment and prevention
functions now spread through
nearly a dozen agencies.
The commission also suggest
ed ways to streamline law en
forcement, including precautions
against corruption of policemen
by drug pushers, and urge!
states to set up treatment sys
tems paid for mainly by the fed
eral government.
But it said drug use is often
an “illness of the spirit" that
police and doctors can’t cure, it
said the cure lies in changing
public attitudes about drugs and
in improving the social, economic
and cultural factors that lead ta
drug use.
“The most important change in
the present response should be a
vigorous reinvolvement of the
private sector and the reactiva
tion of informal and nonlegal
controls on drug-abuse behavior,"
it said.
Among its recommendations te
private citizens were advice ta
the alcoholic beverage industry
to advertise the harmful effects
of their products, and to com
munications media to examine
whether drug use is being en
couraged by their advertising,
programs, antidrug announce
ments and news coverage of drug
stories.
The report w a s unanimously
supported by the commission, ex
cept for the recommendation to
create a new federal agency.
Sens. Jacob K. Javits, K-N.Y.
and Harold Hughes, D-Iowa, said
they agreed with criticisms of
present federal antidrug policy,
but felt President Nixon’s year-
old Special Action Office on
Drug Abuse Prevention deserved
more time to prove itself.
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