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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1975)
Bentsen wants Ford to pay THE BATTALION Paqe 9 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1975 TOPEKA, Kan. — Sen. Lloyd Bentsen said Tuesday night he be- jlieves President Ford’s political I travels between now and Jan. 1 [should be charged against Ford’s [campaign spending limits under J federal law just as they are for other I candidates. The Texas Democrat, who an nounced his bid for his party’s nomination for president more than six months ago, told a Topeka news conference he would regard it as a serious breach of the spirit of the law for Ford not to be charged with ! campaign expenditures for the Pres ident’s trips around the country. The taxpayers of this coun try...are going to be paying for his trips from now until next year, and they should be charged against his campaign expenses just as we are charged, said Bentsen. Bentsen brought his campaign to Kansas, he said, to get better ac quainted with the people of Kan sas.” He said he hopes to build an or ganization within the state ahead of next year s nominating convention. Mrs. Nell Blangers of Salina, na tional Democratic committeewo- man for Kansas, arranged a recep tion for Bentsen Tuesday night at a local hotel. Bentsen held a news conference ahead of the reception. Besides Mrs. Blangers, among those attending were Robert Brock, Topeka businessman and former state party chairman whose wife al ready is listed on the Kansas com mittee of former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, and present state Democratic Chairman Henry Lueck. Bentsen said he wants to be pres ident because he thinks this nation is facing some very serious economic questions in the future and he believes his business experi ence would put him in good stead to tiy to solve them. He said he regards the race for the Democratic presidential nomi nation as wide open. “People are looking for someone; I hope it’s me,” he said. He said he wasn’t worried about the relative obscurity in which he began his quest for the nomination, noting that when he started he had “about 3 per cent name recognition, and the latest poll I ve seen put it at 39 per cent. He said he has no idea if Carter has gotten a jump on him in Kansas by visiting Kansas Democrats at a luncheon during the Kansas City miniconvention last December and already appointing a Kansas com mittee to work for him. “This is August of 1975. That’s a long way ahead of the election,” Bentsen said. Bentsen said he believes Mas sachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy is out of the 1976 presidential race. “He’s reiterated that statement from time to time,” Bentsen said of Kennedy’s disavowal of any inten tion to seek the Democratic nomi nation next year. Bullock holds pay? AUSTIN (AP) — Comptroller Bob Bullock said Tuesday he will not issue September paychecks to state officials and em ployees whose salaries are supplemented from outside sources unless they comply with his reporting guidelines. Bullock said the outside sources must be identified as a specific individual, corporation, foundation or charitable trust, The appropriations bill says the comptroller cannot issue the state portion of a salary unless the maount and source of supplemental pay is disclosed. Bullock said he is requiring the payroll officer of every state agency and university to certify with their September payroll the names of every employe receiving supplements. A&M Scholars named for ’76 Thirty-five President’s Scholars have been named in Texas’ high schools for Texas A&M University’s Class of 1980. High school seniors selected for TAMU’s most prestigious scholar ship will enroll in the fall of 1976. The President’s Scholars receive $1,250 a year for four years of un dergraduate study. The award is designed to recog nize outstanding scholarship and leadership among high school seniors. Texas A&M’s most lucra tive scholarship, it helps keep Texas’ best students in the state for their university studies. With this year’s scholars, TAMU has recognized about 235 students with the award since its inception in 1967. Several hundred nominees were considered by the Faculty Scholar ships Committee in selecting the Class of ’80 President’s Scholars. At TAMU’s invitation, they were nominated by principals of every accredited high school in the state. Factors for their selection in cluded high scholastic ranking and, through church, school and com munity activities, evidence of non- academic interests and leadership ability, noted Robert M. Logan, TAMU student aid director. “These students are exceptional scholars and better-than-average leaders who are expected to develop into well-rounded adults through contributions to various extracur ricular interests,” Logan said. Among the 35 recipients are nine women. The group represents all geographic areas of Texas. The committee also named alternates, to become President’s Scholars if awards are vacated. Past director succumbs at 74 Roy B. Davis of Lubbock, former member of Texas A&M’s board of directors and recipient of the institution’s “Distin guished Alumni Award,” died Sunday in a Lubbock hospital after a short illness. Funeral services were conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the First Baptist Church of Lubbock. Burial was in Lubbock’s Resthaven Memorial Park under the direction of Rix Funeral Home. Davis, 74, served on the Texas A&M board of directors from 1935 until 1939 and was a- member of the blue-ribbon “Century Countil” appointed by the board in 1961 to assist in long-range planning for the institution. He was a 1927 A&M graduate and was named “Distinguished Alumnus” in 1968. Three years later the Roy B. Davis Distinguished Professor ship in Agricultural Cooperation was established in TAMU’s Agricultural Economics Department. He retired in 1972 as manager of the Plains Cooperative Oil Mill, the world’s largest cottonseed processing plant. The McGregor native, widely known as “Mr. Cotton, was president of the National Cotton Council in 1968 and had pre viously been named “Man of the Year in Texas Agriculture” by Progressive Farmer Magazine. Survivors include two sons, Roy B. Davis Jr., of Houston, and Dan Davis, of Lubbock; two brothers, J. Walter Davis, of Bryan, and Orville L. 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