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7 Friends help Bentsen campaign THE BATTALION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1975 Page 5 I House passes ‘winner-take-all’ primary bill md i dsevm AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — Sen. den tial primary bill. Texas, has announced as a candidate A primary receives national news tion. Para BJoyd Bentsen's presidential cam- An 83-52 vote sent it on to the for the Democratic Party’s presi- coverage, and the bill as it passed The bill Bentsen wanted-and Mr Ipaign got a little help from his Senate, which is generally favora- dential nomination in 1976. He has the House probably would give him got-would put on the ballot only the Hii [frit nds Thursday with House pas j ble. stated that a Texas presidential nearly all of the big Texas delegation presidential candidates who actu- pge of a “winner-take-all” presi- Bentsen, junior senator from primary would help him. to the Democratic national conven- ally pay a filing fee to run in Texas. (IEBRATION CONTINUES! OWNERSHIP OF <fOM & MOATES, INC. 3 1 he., College Station! 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FREE Layaway No Service Charge boys' BRIEFS OR TEES -49 for Tee shirts, sizes 2 to 18 Brief sizes 2 to 18 Men’s Cotton UNDERWEAR BRIEFS TEE SHIRTS Sizes S-M-L-XL Sizes S-M-L-XL There would be no head-to-head test of candidate strength, since voters would vote directly on na tional convention delegates from congressional or state senatorial dis tricts. Presidential candidates’ names would appear only in parentheses following names of de legates pledged to support them. If a district is entitled to three dele gates, then the top three vote- getters wuld be elected to attend the convention-hence the “winner- take-all” label. At least 75 percent of the Texas delegation to a convention would be chosen by in that manner. The rest would be elected at a party’s state convention. The big fight in the House — which probably will be repeated in the Senate — was waged by those who believe all candidates for a party’s nomination should be on the ballot, with each candidate’s dele gate strength directly proportional to his popular vote in the primary. House members first voted for that proportional representation approach, but enough votes were switched Wednesday to restore “winner-take-all.” Rep. Wayne Peveto, D-Orange, explained his switch by saving Bentsen’s legislative troops con vinced him it was more important to have a Texan in the White House then a delegate distribution that re flected the voters’ preferences. “This is the only way we can stop Wallace,” he told a reporter. House members added an amendment, 92-41, enabling a de legate to become a free agent if the candidate to which he was pledged failed to win at least 20 percent of the convention vote on the second ballot. “This prohibits one man, even a native Texan, from controlling all the Texas delegates in a convention that might have become dead locked,” said Rep. Carlyle Smith, D-Grand Prairie. Sen. Don Adams, D-Jasper, the Senate sponsor, said he had no timetable to get the bill moving in that chamber. Department heads resign DR. VERGIL G. STOVER has been named acting head of the De partment of Urban and Regional Planning at Texas A&M University. Dean Raymond Reed of the Col lege of Architecture announced the appointment Thursday, effective until a permanent department head is named to replace Dr. J.H. “Chuy” Hinojosa who is on leave of absence. C.J. LEABO has stepped down as head of the Journalism Depart ment, effective Sept. 1, 1975. His successor has not yet been named. Leabo resigned has administra tive post in favor of teaching and research. Tower holds split views on industry tax policies Congress should not repeal the percentage oil depletion allowance or pass a windfall profits tax on the nation’s oil industry, Senator John Tower of Texas stated in a press re lease this week. Tower said oil companies could be forced to cut back on exploration and production of oil and gas. Loss of the depletion allowance, he said, would fall more heavily on the inde pendent producer. Many of the small producers have said they can not afflbrd to stay in business if the allowance is abolished, Tower said. The allowance given oil com panies by the government is 22 per cent of the selling price of oil and gas products and is intended to repres ent recovery of the capital invested in oil and gas production. The al lowance was 27% per cent until 1969, when it was lowered to its present level. Tower said it is the small produc ers in the nation which develop most of our domestic sources of oil and gas. He said the depletion al lowance provides an incentive for increased production by such com panies. If the allowance were abolished, he said, the additional cost of oil and gas products would have to be paid by the consumer through higher prices. Tower said he is opposed to the windfall profits tax because those profits are poured back into more production and not “into the pock ets of fat-cat oilmen.” The senator said the tax is based on the assump tion that oil companies are earning excess profits and that such profits are not being utilized. Chase Manhattan Bank, he said, reported that in the last five years the nation’s major oil companies have invested more than 80 per cent more money in domestic operations than they made in_profits. 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