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’Twas two months before
Christmas
And all through the nation,
Holiday planners preached con
servation.
Santa’s bright lights, his greet
ings for Yule,
Were cut back and dimmed by
the shortage of fuel.
The Arts Committee of the MSC Presents
directing one of his greatest films, at
7:30 and 10:00 p. m. in Zachry Engi
neering Center Lecture Room 1, Thurs
day, November 1.
Admission: $1.
You are cordially invited to experience:
An Associated Press survey
showed that with a little less
than two months to go before
Dec. 25, many civic and business
groups have canceled or cut back
on plans for Christmas decora
tions in an effort to conserve
power.
Even Bethlehem, Pa., known as
“The Christmas City,” is in an up
roar. Mayor H. G. Payrow an
nounced that Christmas decora
tions would be cut back by 80
per cent, saving 52 million watts
of electricity.
Businessmen and residents ob
jected, however, saying the cut
back would hurt the tourist busi
ness and officials are still trying
to work out a compromise.
The problem stems from a gen
eral fuel shortage, complicated
by cutbacks in Arab oil produc
tion because of the Middle East
war.
Officials in Austin, Tex., where
shortages of natural gas have
affected electricity production,
said Christmas lights will be turn
ed on as usual on Nov. 21 and
will be burned until Nov. 25, but
then will be shut off until Dec.
14 when they’ll be relit.
In addition, holiday lighting
displays on bridges across the
Colorado River will be eliminated
this year and businesses have
been ordered to restrict their hol
iday spectaculars.
A business association in Pitts
burgh announced that because of
the energy crunch, the lighting
of 60 downtown buildings, a tra
dition since 1960, will be canceled
this year.
The Building Owners and Man
agers Association said that al
though the city has enough pow
er, the cancellation was intended
“as a meaningful gesture to the
rest of the nation whose energy
situation is far more critical.”
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By The Associated Press
State
HOUSTON—Two former vice
presidents of the defunct Sharps-
town State Bank were sentenced
Monday for making illegal loans
totaling $4,364 to a state banking
examiner.
Douglas N. Lane, 36, and Her
man Nelms, 29, had entered pleas
of guilty in September.
U.S. District Court Judge Carl
O. Bue sentenced Lane to nine
months in prison. Lane also drew
a $5,000 fine and an additional
five-year probated term.
Nelms received a five-year pro
bated sentence and a $5,000 fine.
Bue said Nelms was not as in
volved in the transaction as
Lane.
passed by the last session of the
legislature forces Houston to con
tribute more money to firemen’s
pension funds.
Welch also said, “We must
continue to operate city govern
ment from city hall by the elect
ed representatives of the people
and not let them be run from the
union hall or the welfare office.”
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—Mayors
from two major U.S. cities urged
delegates of the Texas Municipal
League Monday to stand up to
what the mayors believe are over
bearing federal and state govern
ments.
Houston Mayor Louie Welch
and Mayor E. J. “Jake” Garn of
Salt Lake City, Utah spoke to the
61st annual conference of the
league here.
Welch’s target was the Texas
Legislature, which he says “di
vides us by legislation of special
interest and thus raises the cost
of local government.”
He said a local interest bill
AUSTIN—Speaker Price Dan
iel Jr. assured a House subcom
mittee Monday that public senti
ment in the wake of Watergate
will force Texas lawmakers to set
up an independent agency to en
force a state ethics bill.
“We will overcome. We will
win,” said Daniel. “The public
sentiment for an ethics commis-
Paperwork
Pulp and paper work. It is one
of the top five U.S. industries.
Eastex is one of the industry’s
fastest growing companies.
Our rapid growth makes it
possible for you to get respon
sibility quickly. We need
graduating technical and
professional students who are
interested in pulp and paper
work, not paper shuffling.
Make an appointment at
your placement office now to
see the Eastex representative
on campus. In the meantime,
write for our brochures.
At Eastex you will become
part of a relatively small but
highly trained and technically
oriented management group.
You will work with some of the
newest developments in the
industry, such as America’s
first complete paper machine
and stock preparation system
specifically designed for direct
digital computer control.
You will also become a
guardian of our great natural
resources. For while we work,
we replenish the forest,
conserve the environment.
We are concerned about
the air we breathe, the water
we drink and the origins of our
raw material. We are concern
ed with pulp and paper work
and your career with Eastex.
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Personnel Director Eastex Inc.
P.O. Box 816, Silsbee,Texas 77656
An Equal Opportunity Employer
sion is tremendous.”
He estimated that eight out of
10 Texans favor such a commis
sion, although the 1973 legislature
rejected the idea in enacting an
ethics bill for legislators, judges
and other top state officials.
National
AUSTIN— Land Commissioner
Bob Armstrong said Monday he
personally will try to get a new
mortgage insurance program for
Veterans Land Program purchas
ers approved as soon as possible.
The Great American Reserve
Insurance Co., which has offered
mortgage insurance on Veterans
Land Program loans for 12 years,
served notice July 31 it would
no longer write such insurance
after Nov. 1.
The Tennessee Life Insurance
Co. was chosen last Friday as the
best bidder to succeed Great
American. However, the rate to
veterans will be considerably
higher.
WASHINGTON — The Nixon
administration was reported Mon
day to be putting the finishing
touches on a legislative proposal
calling for action to cope with
any petroleum supply emergency.
An Interior Department spokes
man said the proposal was sent
Monday to the White House Of
fice of Management and Budget,
which coordinates agency com
ments and acts as the administra
tion’s clearing house for all leg
islative proposals.
WASHINGTON — Ousted Wa
tergate prosecutor Archibald Cox
testified Monday that a new spe
cial prosecutor by law should be
able to bring court action to ob
tain evidence from the White
House.
Cox told the Senate Judiciary
Committee that frustrations and
delays he encountered in trying
to get evidence from the White
House make it imperative a new
prosecutor have such legislated
power.
International
MOSCOW—The Soviet Union
suggested Monday that the U.S.
military alert was an attempt by
the Nixon administration to di
vert attention from domestic
problems.
The official Soviet news agen
cy Tass indicated the Kremlin
line by quoting from a column
by James Reston in the New York
Times. It said it was Reston’s
opinion “the administration needs
a 'crisis a day’ to shield itself
from criticism at home.”
Speaking of the alert and the
Watergate tapes in an Oct. 26
column, Reston wrote: “ . . . But |
now if he hands over the tapes,
people say he has doctored them,
and even when he staggers from
one move to another, he is met j
with the cynical remark: 'A crisis
a day keeps impeachment away.’
VIENNA, Austria — Hurting
from a sharp split over the Mid
dle East, the United States and
most of its European allies meet-
the Soviets on Tuesday for their
first talks on mutual troop cuts
in central Europe.
Last week Defense Secretary
James R. Schlesinger threatened
to review the U.S. commitment to
West Germany, where some 200,-
000 U.S. troops are stationed. Ap
parently he was not inclined to
wait for the result of the confer
ence. That could take years.
Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Com
munist party leader, says the So-
vie Union will be ready for “real
istic steps” in 1975.
Building supervisors in Minnea
polis decided to discontinue a pro
gram of outlining structures in
the downtown area in lights dur
ing the holiday season and the
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
urged businesses to cancel Christ
mas displays this year.
McGuire Air Force Base in New
Jersey canceled its Christmas
lighting display, as did Vineland,
N.J.
A spokesman for the Vineland
utility company estimated tie
lights would have used up 65,01
kilowatts of electricity, or enougl
power to supply 10 homes fora
year. “With the current energj
crisis and the supply of oil, we
feel that the city should set a
example for conserving power,
said Mayor Joseph H. D’Ippolito,
72 Countries Represented at TAMU
More than 900 international students representing 71
countries are attending TAMU this fall.
Students from the Far Feast make up the largest
centage of the group, since 259 of TAMU's 911 international
students come from Eastern Asia.
Two hundred fifteen students are from Central
South America and the islands of the Caribbean. The
largest group, 136, is composed of students from I
Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Students from the Middle East number 109; those from
Southeast Asia, 83; Europe, 45 and Africa, 35.
Australia and the Philippines are also represented.
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The MSC TRAVEL Committee is sponsoring a trip to the
New Braunfels Wurstfest. Leave Saturday, November 3
from MSC Post Office at 12:30 p. m. Arrive in New Brunsfels
at 3:00 p. m. Dress informal. Ticket: $7.00. This includes a
2-way bus ticket & Entrance Ticket to Wurstfest Hall &
Dance. Leave New Brunfels at midnight Saturday.
Call 845-1515 For Your Seat!
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