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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL. 16, 1974
Supreme Court to
rehear obscenity
WASHINGTON <^> —The Su
preme Court grappled Monday
with applications of its most re
cent decision on obscenity, with at
least some indication that local
communities will be setting their
own standards.
A decision is not expected un
til late June. The court heard oral
argument on two obscenity cases
Monday in which the question of
applicable standards plays a key
role.
One case questions the stand
ard to be used when applying
the federal law against mailing
States urge antibusing move
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thirteen states have passed res
olutions urging Congress to call
a constitutional convention to con
sider an antibusing amendment,
an Associated Press survey shows.
Similar measures are pending in
four other states.
Two-thirds of the 50 states—
34—are required to petition for
a constitutional convention in or
der for one to be called.
The AP survey showed that
Nebraska and Virginia have asked
Congress to pass an antibusing
amendment, but did not call for
a convention; a similar measure
is pending in Ohio. The issue of a
constitutional amendment to pro
hibit busing has not come up in
the remaining 30 states.
The busing issue has spurred
debates, protests, boycotts and
court suits with proponents of
busing arguing that it is neces
sary to end discrimination in
schools. Opponents say they do
not want their children bused out
of their neighborhoods and con
tend that it is more important to
improve over-all quality of edu
cation.
President Nixon, in an address
in March, urged Americans to
support legislation that would
curb what he called excessive
busing. He said parents value
neighborhood schools and are
“naturally concerned when the
courts, acting on the basis of
complicated plans drawn up by
far-away officials in Washington,
D.C., order children bused out of
their neighborhood.”
Two antibusing provisions were
included in a school aid bill passed
by the House on March 27. One
provision restricts the power of
the courts to order busing; the
other would prohibit the use of
federal funds for busing to over
come segregation. The bill is now
pending in the Senate.
The 13 state legislatures that
have passed resolutions, either
this session or in previous years,
calling for a constitutional con
vention are: Mississippi, Indiana,
Tennessee, Delaware, Georgia,
Nevada, Alabama, Texas, New
York, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Ken
tucky and Michigan.
Resolutions on the subject are
pending in Pennsylvania, Califor
nia, Rhode Island and Massachu
setts.
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WASHINGTON <A>) — So you’
ve rushed to meet the midnight
deadline for filing income taxes,
spoiling your Easter weekend,
and worrying yourself to a physi
cal frazzle in the process.
But what were you risking if
you had taken your time and filed
your tax returns a day or two
late?
Not much, says the IRS, which
indicates that returns filed only
a little late will not result in a
big penalty for the taxpayer, and
perhaps no penalty at all.
Nevertheless, midnight on April
15 was the tax deadline and the
taxpayer who filed late cannot be
absolutely sure he won’t be pen
alized. To be on the safe side,
said an IRS spokesman, he was
best off filing on time.
The IRS said five million tax
payers filed their returns after
the due date last year, but noted
that this included 900,000 persons
who had been granted extensions
for filing, plus military personnel
and other persons overseas who
klso received extensions.
As of April 6—the last date
for which figures were available—
the IRS had received 55.7 million
returns out of an estimated total
for the 1973 tax year of 81 mil
lion.
Taxpayers with special prob
lems making it difficult for them
to meet the April 15 deadline
could file for an automatic two-
month extension.
The White House said Presi
dent Nixon—whose tax problems
have been the best publicized of
any taxpayer this year—has re
ceived a 60-day extension for his
1973 returns.
The penalties for late filing add
up quickly if the taxpayer waits
too long. First, there is a delin
quency charge of 5 per cent a
month, or fraction of a month,
to a maximum of 25 per cent.
There also is an interest charge
of one-half per cent a month, or
6 per cent a year, to a maximum
25 per cent.
A question in the mind of many
taxpayers after April 15 is whe
ther they will be audited, and
what this means.
Again, chances are that the
average taxpayer will not be aud
ited. The IRS says that it concen
trates its audits on returns where
experience shows there is the
highest probability of substantial
underpayment, such as returns of
professionals and the wealthy.
But it also routinely audits a
few returns even in the low prob
ability areas.
The IRS audited 1.8 million re
turns in 1973.
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A number of Student Govern
ment members attended the Tex
as Student Association Confer
ence in Ft. Worth.
The annual spring convention
included speakers, workshops and
election of officers. John Nash
was chosen as TAMU’s repre
sentative on the Board of Direc
tors for the association.
obscene material. The other deals
with a decision holding the R-
rated movie “Carnal Knowledge”
obscene by the standards of Al
bany, Ga.
The arguments were heard af
ter the court announced its de
cisions. In one, it agreed to con
sider whether a person charged
with selling obscene magazines
may refuse to produce them in
court on grounds of self-incrim
ination.
In a series of 5 to 4 decisions
last June, the court discarded a
national standard for judging ob
scenity but left doubt as to what
was to replace it—local or state
wide criteria.
At Monday’s hearing, Justice
Potter Stewart said he felt the
standard was local. It is, he said,
“self-defining” as the area from
which the jury that passes on ob
scenity is drawn.
Stewart’s declaration came in
an exchange with attorney Louis
Nizer who represented the movie
chain operator, Billy Jenkins, who
was fined for showing “Carnal
Knowledge.”
To find the movie pornographic,
Nizer said, was to demonstrate
“cultural illiteracy.” Nizer said
publishers and film producers and
distributors would prefer a state
wide standard to a local one.
It would be less inhibiting to
worry about 60 states than to
worry about standards in some
7,800 local jurisdictions, he said.
Arguing on the question of the
federal law, assistant solicitor
General Allan A. Tuttle said the
government supports local stand
ards.
Obscenity would be judged, Tut
tle continued, by the standards of
the community in which the dis
semination took place.
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Candidates report
election expenses
AUSTIN — It’s show and tell
time for political candidates, and
many of them don’t have as much
to show as they would like for
their fund-raising efforts.
Governor Dolph Briscoe ran
second to Republican gubernator
ial candidate Jim Cranberry in
campaign spending up to March
25, according to the contributions-
spending reports filed with the
secretary of state.
Cranberry reported contribu
tions and loans of $171,425 and
spending of $171,425 since last
summer when he began his race.
Briscoe’s spending—including a
$120,000 loan of his own money—
was pegged at $153,754.
Frances “Sissy” Farenthold re
ported some $40,865 in expendi
tures and debts. The effort is far
below that of 1972 when Briscoe
spent nearly $1.6 million in the
primaries and Farenthold spent
$672,441.
Comptroller Candidate Bob Bul
lock has reported spending of
about $60,000 in his Democratic
race, and Hugh Edburg said he
has outlays of about $12,900.
Edburg acknowledged he is
using about $7,000 of his own
money. Bullock said he has used
$12,600 from his own resources,
and has $38,300 in loans from his
business partner.
One of the big-spending groups
so far has been the Texas Citizens
for Parimutuel Horse Racing,
which reported a $7,000 cost cam
paign to get the issue of legaliz
ing race track betting on primary
ballots.
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