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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1975
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White announces
Voting plan apparently OK’d
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas elections were discussed. Texans
Secretary of State Mark White said
Tuesday that a plan to implement
new Voting Rights Act provisions in
the state by distributing instruc
tional information in English and
Spanish to all potential voters has
apparently found favor in the Justice
Department.
He said the proposal was revealed
at a meeting here where potential
guidelines for incorporating
amendments to the 1965 act in fall
vote on a new constitution this fall.
White objected to the plan as un
necessary and nearly twice as ex
pensive as the election information
project the state is starting this
week. Texas is mailing a 24-page in
struction booklet in English to 5
million households where the
state’s approximately 7 million vot
ing age residents live.
White said the booklet carries a
Meany, chiefs
talk about grain
WASHINGTON
AFL-CIO over maritime subsidies and the
President George Meany and two
maritime union chiefs met for two
hours Tuesday with Labor Secret
ary John T. Dunlop, to discuss the
union leadership’s objectives to the
sales of U.S. grain to the Soviet Un-
As the labor leaders and White
House officials left the Labor De
partment, a spokesman for Dunlop
said they would have no comment.
Later, Meany and Dunlop ar
ranged to go to the White House for
a meeting with President Ford, who
requested the session before return
ing from a working vacation in Vail,
Colo.
Also at the Dunlop-Meany meet
ing, a Labor Department spokes
man said, were director William
Seidman of Ford’s Economic Policy
Board, president Thomas Gleason
of the International Longshore
men’s Association, president Paul
Hall of the Seafarers International
Union and AFL-CIO secretary-
treasurer Lane Kirkland.
Under orders from Meany and
Gleason, after a meeting last week
of the heads of all maritime unions,
longshoremen in Houston refused
to load grain bound for the Soviet
Union. The shipments have re
sumed, however, under court or
der.
Meany had said he would block
the shipments until he received as
surance from Ford, agriculture Sec
retary Earl L. Butz and Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger that Soviet
grain sales would not harm either
American consumers, facing higher
grocery prices, or the American
seamen, watching the grain move
on Soviet vessels.
Butz’ economists have calculated
that the sales to date would contri
bute a 1.5 per cent boost to retail
food prices over 16 months. But he
has said that the unions’ concern
amount of cargo moved in U.S.
ships is the real issue.
The Soviet Union, which had
been substantially out of the U.S.
grain markets the last two years,
re-entered them in July with orders
to U. S. firms for a total of9.8 million
metric tons of wheat, corn and bar
ley. A metric ton is about 2,200
pounds.
That brought Russian purchases
from the new crops — which are at
record levels but have suffered
some weather damage — to a total of
10.3 million tons.
The Agriculture Department,
meanwhile, reported that “benefi
cial rains’ and favorable tempera
tures over much of the Corn Belt
and upper Great Plains last week
continued to provide badly needed
moisture for feed grain crops.
“In the north central states, corn
development progressed favorably,
much ahead of 1974 and the usual
level in nearly all states,” the
weekly weather and crop bulletin
said.
Bullock gives
raid notices
AUSTIN — Comptroller Bob
Bullock served notice Tuesday that
his raiders would be in the Corpus
Christi and Laredo areas before
Labor Day to “visit outstanding de
linquent taxpayers.
He gave no names or times.
“In other cities some of them
feigned surprise when I walked
through the door,” Bullock said in a
statement. “Well, there’s no excuse
for that this time. They know I’m
coming and they know who they
are.”
Bullock said any of the estimated
2,400 delinquents could get right
with the comptroller by contacting
his office in Corpus Christi and or
his office in Laredo and arranging
payment.
Bvdlock claimed he had already
located more than $1 million in back
taxes in his raid in other cities “and
probably scared up twice that
amount from nervous delinquents.
TAMU dean
in Switzerland
Dr. Earl Bennett, accounting
professor and associate dean of bus
iness administration, has assumed
duties at an international manage
ment school in Switzerland. He will
be on a leave of absence from
TAMU as visiting professor to the
IMEDE, a management develop
ment institute, in Lausanne.
Bennett will serve on the staff of
the Program for Executive De
velopment. He will be chairman of a
seminar on planning and control
systems.
Bennett came to TAMU from the
University ofTexas at Austin where
he was accounting department
chairman and director of business
research. Since 1965 he has written
over 120 business cases, two
casebooks and two texts.
IMEDE, established in 1957
with aid from Harvard, is an inter
national leader in developing ex
perienced personnel for manage
ment posts in business and govern
ment.
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statement in Spanish saying that the
information is available in Spanish
on request!
White said the proposal the Jus
tice Department is considering
would require that two copies of the
booklet - one in English and one in
Spanish - be mailed to each house
hold.
“Their suggestion is merely to
mail to all the people without regard
to their need,” he said. “It’s an in
credible waste of resources. ”
chides resident aliens, illegal aliens,
lunatics and criminals, all of whom
are ineligible to vote.
He asserted that a figure of about
6.5 million potential voters should
be used.
Recently passed legislation ex
tending the Voting Rights Act in the
Southern states it covered also ex
panded coverage to include states
with large non English-speaking
minorities. The legislation renewed
a provision forcing the states tli e | I
affects to clear any changes> y, J
election regulations with the {\
attorney general.
White said he was concernedt|J
if Texas does not implement wlJ
ever guidelines the Justice l),,l
partment sets, its election results!
coidd later be judged invalid.
He said the dispute could wii^
up in the courts, but he I
not have to go that far.
White said J. Stanley Pottinger,
assistant attorney general in charge
of the Civil Rights Division, did not
make many comments on the prop
osal. But some of Pottinger’s staff
members indicated that “a high de
gree of proof is necessary to show
that this would not be an acceptable
way to proceed. ”
He said Judy Teichman of the San
Francisco city attorney’s office also
objected to the plan. The city also
has a large Spanish-speaking popu
lation that would be affected by
whatever guidelines the Justice
Department issues within the next
two weeks.
White said the proposal appa
rently came from staff members of
the congressional committees
which wrote the 1975 amendments
and who attended the meeting-
His primary objection is the cost.
He said the state has spent about
$480,000 printing the 24-page book
let and that the publicity campaign
planned to accompany the instruc
tional information will push the cost
well over $500,000. The legislature
allotted only $600,000 for the voting
information project and is not due to
reconvene for another I‘A years,
White said.
“We have no funds to make this
mailing. Without a call for a special
session of the legislature, those
funds will not be forthcoming,” he
said.
White said he is not even certain
that Texas should be covered by the
Voting Rights Act. He says so far,
the Bureau of the Census has re
fused to explain to him the formula
it is using for computing the state’s
voting age and Spanish-speaking
populations.
He said tin? bureau should dis
card the estimate of 7.6 million po
tential voters it has used in some
instances because the figure in-
Science seminar slated
A trio of health educators from Texas A&M University will
host a two-hour behavioral science seminar Friday.
The 3-5 p.m. program at the Pizza Inn Restaurant dis
cusses the roles of health and physical education in the be
havioral sciences.
On the program are Dr. Richard Magill of the Motor Be
havior Laboratory, speaking on theory and research of motor
learning; Dr. Robert Hurley of the Health Education Program
on health education as a behavioral science; and Dr. George
Jessup of the Human Performance Laboratory on behavioral
aspects of physical performance.
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