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Page 4 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1975 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1975 Clayton promises Texas austerity A I ISJTT N v /AF^ Rill xx/rkr'kinor Farmer \x/Kr» f 1 ~ A Cl ^ i-Z.. ^ t-n 1 • 1 . r* • . t 1 * r t _ • .1 /''<1 . i . - „ . _. . 1 ,. _ i. . 1 • AUSTIN, lex. (AP) — Rep. Bill Clayton, the new speaker of the Texas House, is a rich, hard working farmer who doesn’t take vacations and promises two years of austerity with no comic relief. MEDICAL SCHOOL ASPIRANTS Over 40,000 men and women will apply to American medical schools this year, but only about 14,000 will be accepted. Qualified candidates have a valid alternative: medical education in Europe. 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But he is expected to use his in fluence to pass rules tightening de corum on the House floor and to come down hard on clowning that he believes has hurt the legislature’s image. And his committee appoint ments, expected next week, proba bly will give a more conservative tone to bills reaching the floor than was seen during Daniel s one-term administration. He intends to load the House Ap propriations Committee with penny pinchers who will try to keep the state budget low enough to avoid a tax bill while still increasing state aid to public schools. Clayton worries a lot about the legislature’s image, even seems ob sessed by the way the House ap pears to the gallery -— “It looks like an ant hill. ” “You don’t go to the board room of a large corporation and see the clowning around and some of the other things we do,” he says. He has been in the House for 12 years and was a part of the “team” system by which former Speakers Ben Barnes and Gus Mutscher ex erted control. In 1967 he successfully blocked attempts to keep Texas from joining the rest of the nation under uniform Daylight Saving Time. He chaired the committee in 1969 that, in ef fect, killed a bill to legalize pari mutuel horse race betting. Last year he won House passage of a bill raising bank rates on $300-$1,000 loans from 8 to 9 per cent, but it died in the Senate. His chief legislative interest, however, has been water and he is a devout believer in the need for im porting water — from other states if necessary — to the South Plains, where he farms 2,000 irrigated acres of com, cotton and sorghum. He pegs his net worth at $574,000. Clayton is slightly less than the average height, standing 5 feet 714 inches. His blue eyes are framed by steel-rimmed glasses. Unabashedly chauvinistic, he displays on his office bulletin board such bumper stickers as “TEXAS OIL FOR TEXAS — SECESSION NOW” and “DRIVE 90 AND FREEZE A DAMN YANKEE.” * Clayton wears a copper link bracelet on his right wrist and swears “it works” as a cure for bur sitis. Despite a severe heart attack in 1968, Clayton bustles about in bursts of energy. Until the Federal Aviation Agency found out about that heart attack and yanked his pilot’s licenses, late last year Clayton flew a twin-engine Piper Aztec. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in agricul tural economics and took over man agement of the family farm. He is a deacon of First Baptist Church of Springlake, but admits to an occa sional cocktail. Unlike previous speakers, Clayton does not plan to live in the apartment provided for presiding officers behind the House chamber. He and his wife, Delma, will live in a house they own in Northeast Au stin, about 20 minutes away from the Capitol. Clayton says he does not plan to undermine the procedural reforms passed in 1973 to weaken the con trol of the speaker and slow the pace of legislation. “The reforms, if you are a conser vative, are one of the best things that ever happened because a con servative doesn’t like to rush things. So when you have to put up five days’ notice for a committee hear ing, that slows things down. If they think I am going to change that, they are crazy,” he says. Senators vote ‘no’ to access AUSTIN (AP) — Texas’ four new state senators all cast “no votes Tuesday in their first Senate test — to open to the public and press the secret sessions held to debate ap pointments by the governor. Sen. Oscar Mauzy, D-Dallas, proposed making the closed-door sessions public, but failed 10-21. Voting against Mauzy’s proposal were the four first term senators — Ray Faramee of Wichita Falls, Kent Hance of Lubbock, Frank Lombar- dino of San Antonio and Lindon Williams of Houston. All are Demo crats. 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As the rituals of swearing in members whose terms actually started Jan. 3 proceeded before gal leries packed with family members in both Houses, the Senate promptly became enmeshed in a battle over its disputed New Hamp shire seat. The debate was set off when Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield moved to send the entire matter, including rival election certificates for Democrat John A. Durkin and Republican Louis C. Wyman, to the Rules Committee for a recommen dation. Neither was seated as 33 senators, including 10 newcomers. Only Continental gets you a flight, a chalet, a car, and lifts for $264. Our exclusive new Rocky Mountain ski packages feature luxury furnished chalet studio condominiums a short walk from the lifts. It’s the Ultimate Lift Ticket! 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