The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 28, 1975, Image 4

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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1975
Fuel access, board study
The Congressional Technology
Assessment Board has begun a
study of institutional constraints and
incentives affecting access to fuel
minerals such as oil and gas.
The board is chaired by local
Texas Democrat, Congressman
Olin E. Teague.
The results of the study are in
tended to provide Congressional
policy-makers with balanced and
objective information pertaining to:
(1) future supply and demand fore
casts for key domestic minerals; (2)
the importance and impact of exist
ing State and Federal regulations
affecting mineral accessibility; (3) a
range of alternative legislative
strategies and their expected im
pacts, and (4) the flexibility of such
School officials
to be abolished
by bill
A bill is on its way for Governor
Briscoe’s signature which woidd
terminate the office of County
School Superintendent in many
Texas Counties,' including Brazos
and Robertson.
The bill terminates state fiscal
support of a county school superin
tendent, county school trustees,
and a county school board in coun
ties that contain no common school
district with less than 150 students
in average daily attendance.
Independent School districts of a
county, may, under this bill fund
the county school offices and boards
by voluntary contract. The bill
abolishes the county school offices
and boards which are not supported
by ad valorem tax revenue or by
voluntary local contract on Sep
tember 1, 1977.
2,500 years
of kissing
still enjoyable
Man s (and woman’s) preoccupa
tion with kissing has been around at
least 2,500 years even though few of
the world s cultures kiss, says a
Texas A&M University an
thropologist.
Dr. Vaughn Bryant Jr. says that
the Romans were probably the most
avid artisans of the kiss, dividing
them into a virtual triumvirate ac
cording to the the purposes served.
One kiss was for greetings (os-
culum), another for close friends
(basium) and the kiss of passion was
called savium.
Bryant notes, It s hard to trace
the origin of kissing. We ve never
found anything like a pair of lips
imprinted on a cave wall.
“But we have kissing going very
strong by 5(X) B.C. in the Greek
culture and soon after in the* Roman
Empire, he says.
Touch, taste and smell were a
strong reason for kissing, he thinks.
“The inner skin is sensitive, the
most sensitive part of the body. The
lips are merely an external part of
that skin. More neuron endings are
exposed and the lips are more sensi
tive, explains Bryant.
Today, man has lost most of the
sense of smell that could be derived
from kissing primarily through dis
use of the nose for survival. But
phrases describing the taste of a kiss
are all through literature, he adds.
Cross religion
marrying means
less church
One in every four American cou
ples stating a religious preference
has a so-called “mixed marriage,
one crossing lines of major religions
or denominations, says a Texas
A&M University social survey
analyst.
A, major trend, says Dr. Jon P.
Alston, is that couples under 30
years of age have the highest rate of
such marriages, 40 per cent.
The sociologist believes such
cross-marriages often result in the
couples attending church less often
and in feeling less interest in relig
ion generally.
From his analysis of a 1974 sur
vey, the figure could go as high as 30
per cent overall, with Lutherans
and Presbyterians demonstrating
the highest rate of line-crossing in
marriages.
Catholics and Protestants show
little difference in the ratio of mixed
marriages, having roughh 22 per
cent and 26 per cent ratios respec
tively. The sample of Jewish per
sons was too small to be reliable,
Alston adds.
The rate of Catholic and non-
Catholic marriages matches closelv
the rate of Baptists and Methodists
in the 22 per cent figure.
Education, occupation or size of
urban residence make no difference
in the ratio. People in the southern
region of the U.S. or those living in
rural areas, compared to the rest of
the nation, show a higher tendency
not to cross religious or denomina
tional lines when marrying.
strategies in the face of changed
conditions in the future.
Objectives of the study include an
examination of the effects of reg
ulatory modifications, including
possible new State and Federal con
straints and incentives, affecting
exploration for, and development
of, domestic resources of vital in
dustrial materials.
Also within the scope of the study
is an assessment of the potential
role, and impacts, of environmen
tally protective technologies for
mineral extraction and land recla
mation.
The assessment will focus on
Federal and State influences on the
accessibility of 15 important hard-
rock and fuel minerals believed to
exist in large quantities on Federal
lands, exclusive of the Outer Con
tinental Shelf, in the Western Un
ited States and Alaska. The OTA
study will include a detailed exami
nation of State regulatory influences
in Alaska, Colorado, and Wyoming.
Particular attention is being fo
cused on Federal lands, because
their utilization is subject to a wide
variety of restrictions, including
classification for wilderness preser
vation and administrative with
drawals of tracts from mining for
such purposes as military reserva
tions.
In this assessment the term "ac
cessibility refers to all necessary
steps leading to and including the
application of technology for the
purposes of mineral exploration,
development, extraction and initial
processing and delivery.
The assessment is scheduled for
completion in April, 1976.
O. O. Haugen (far right) pre
sents letters of appreciation to
Texas A&M custodial workers
with 25 or more years service,
and still going. Recipients are
(from left) Ness Washington,
with 30 years; Floyd Woodfork,
25; Dennis Watson, 30; Lizzie
Tubbs, 25; Elija Mitchell, 27,
and Margaret Bray, 28. Velma
Parish, with 25 years, is not pic
tured.
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