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Wednesday
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND: Will bring its own special
style of Dixieland Jazz to Texas A&M's Rudder Auditorium at 8:15
p.m. Tickets for the show are on sale in the MSC Box Office in
Rudder Tower and will be available at the door tonight. Box Office
hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday.
DESIGNERS AND DRAFTERS: AIDD will meet at 7 p.m. in room
304, Engineering Building. Guest speaker will be Dr. James H.
Earle (creator of Slouch). Discussion will be on developing charac
terizations and graphic illustrations. Students, new members and
guests are welcome.
ABILENE HOMETOWN CLUB: Will have a meeting at 7:30 p.m.
in room 308. Rudder Tower.
gOCIAL DANCE CLUB: Will meet from 7-8:15 p.m. in G. Rollie
White for lessons and from 8:30-10 p.m. for exhibition group prac
tice.
IMITH COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: Will have a meeting at
7:30 p m. in room 229, MSC.
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN: All interested members of the Saddle and
Sirloin Club are asked to help with the tours of the animal centers
by area elementary schools from 9 a.m.-noon today and tomorrow.
Tours begin at the swine center.
MANAGEMENT SOCIETY: Will hold a wine and cheese party at 8
p.m. in the Treehouse Apt. Party Room.
TAMU ROAD RUNNERS: Will have a general meeting at 6 p.m. in
room 226, MSC. New members are welcome to attend.
Thursday
PREMIERE SHOW: Stage Center’s 1978-79 premiere show, “6
RMS RIV VU,” will open tonight with a Gala Opening Night.
Tickets are $7.50 for the opening night bash, which includes cham
pagne, hors d’oeuvres, and the show, all of which start at 7 p.m.
TTiis lighthearted look at life and love will also be shown on Oct. 13,
Oct.15, and Oct. 19-21. StageCenter is located at 304 W. Villa
Maria, just south of South College Avenue in Bryan.
POLITICAL FORUM: Cecil Andrus, U.S. Secretary of the Interior,
will speak on “Interior Department’s Perspective on Energy,” at 8
p.m. in Rudder Forum.
OFF CAMPUS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: There will be a party
for off-campus students interested in working with OSA and for
those interested in running for zone representatives 8-11 p.m. in
the Country Place Apartments party room.
DEADLINE: For entering racquetball doubles tournament is 5 p.m.
MSC ARTS COMMITTEE PRESENTS: “A Night of Poetry with
Dave Oliphant,” at 8 p.m. in the MSC Basement Coffeehouse.
Admission is free and there will be a reception following.
SPEECH: Howard Boyd will speak as a part of the 1978-79 Visiting
Executive Speaker Series. Boyd will speak on “Business Decisions
in a Political Climate,” at 2 p.m. in the Rudder Forum.
0PAS: Irl Mowery, Director of Planning and Development with the
Houston Ballet, will give a “prevue” on ballet. Coffee will be
served at 10 a.m. and the program will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the
Fellowship Hall of the First Presbytarian Church at 1100 Carter
Creek Parkway. A question and answer period will follow.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: Will meet at 8 p.m. in room
504, Rudder Tower.
Il'SSIAN CLUB: Will have a slide presentation of Dr. Michal
Barszap’s latest trip to the Soviet Union at 7 p.m. in room 123,
Academic Building. New members are invited.
TAMU SURF CLUB: Will show a movie presentation, “Standing
Room Only,” at 8 p.m. after a general meeting at 7:30 p.m. in
room 223, MSC.
MOVIE: “Animal Farm,” a satire, where farm animals evict the
farmer and his wife and take over the operation. Peace and coop
eration exist until the pig leader turns into a dictator. This ani
mated cartoon will be shown at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Rudder Theater.
TELL PRACTICE: There will be a yell practice for the Texas
A&M-Houston game at 7 p.m. in the Grove.
SOFTBALL: The women’s team will go to the TAIAW State Tour
nament in Canyon today through Saturday.
V0LLEYRALL: The women’s team will play at the Houston Tour
nament in Houston today and Friday.
Friday
TAMU RACQUETBALL CLUB: The doubles tournament begins at
6 p.m. in Deware Field House.
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Accountants’ dream?
Minicomputers may soon prepare income tax returns
United Press International
NEW YORK — The income tax
preparation business is due for
another shakeup with the introduc
tion of freestanding minicomputers
and terminals to be used by private
tax accountants in their own offices.
One new system, called Instant-
Tax, will be introduced during the
next 12 months by Programmed Tax
System, Inc., of Garden City, N.Y.,
which pioneered the on-line compu
ter prepared return for small tax
payers ten years ago.
PTS President Ed Horowitz said
his company will sell or rent the
free-standing minicomputer with
keyboard, cathode display screen
and printout machine, together with
a package of specially designed
software, to accountants in 15 major
marketing areas.
Horowitz, who also is on the fa
culty of Pace University, estimates
that any accountant who normally
prepares 500 or more returns during
the tax season between January and
mid-April can afford the system and
also can use the minicomputer the
remainder of the year for other ac
counting tasks.
“This will enable the average ac
countant and his typist to do com
puterized returns for smaller tax
payers instantaneously instead of
sending the data to us to be
punched into our on-line computer
and waiting two to three days to get
the returns back,” Horowitz
explained. “Depending on his vol
ume, it also will cut his costs sub
stantially compared with what it
costs to have the return done on our
on-line computer or by manual cal
culation.”
But Horowitz said he doesn’t ex
pect any substantial drop in the
number of tax returns done on PTS’s
on-line computer, or any big reduc
tion in the working force of 300 that
PTS employs at Garden City during
the tax season. He said 90 percent of
PTS’s present business is done
through accountants whose small
income return volume is not big
enough to justify the purchase or
rental of the free-standing
minicomputer.
“We believe, though,” he said,
“that there are 10,000 accountants
in the country who can use the new
system, and if we can sell a substan
tial proportion of these we will do
well.”
He said there will be limits to the
degree of complexity of the returns
the minicomputer can handle. “The
accountant who has one probably
still will prefer to send out 20 per
cent or more of his more compli
cated returns to be calculated by the
on-line computer.” Depending on
volume, he said, the accountant
probably could prepare less com
plex returns on the minicomputer
instantaneously at a cost of $3 to less
than $1.
PTS created a quite a stir when it
was founded as a public company 10
years ago by Horowitz and Royce
Kanofksy, then in their early 20s, to
challenge the nationwide manual
income tax preparation business of
H & R Block, by turning a substan
tial share of the tax preparation bus
iness back to the professional pri
vate accountant.
It succeeded in this endeavor, but
like many other companies started
by eager youngsters, it grew too fast
in its early years and made some di
versifications that didn’t work out. It
had to cut back on its operations.
PTS is now profitable and started
declaring modest dividends in
mid-1978.
PRESEWATION HAU
JAZZ BAND
TAMU MSC TOWN HALL
SPECIAL ATTRACTION
Gen. Public $6 $5 $4
Student $4 $3 $2
Tickets & Info: MSC Box Office 845-2916
October 11, 1978
Rudder Auditorium
8:15 p.m.
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Living with the law
I’ve got a leak in my ceiling. I’ve asked the manager to fix it
several times. What can I do?
Your rights and duties are fixed in part by your lease agreement.
Many leases require that written requests for repairs be given to the
manager, then a written notice of intent to terminate the lease unless
the repairs are made within a week.
The apartment owner may have breached a warranty of habituality
implied under Texas law. If your apartment may be termed “unfit for
living,’ a suit for money damages in Small Claims Court is possible.
Editor’s note: Answers are general and should not replace the
personal advice of an attorney. Questions for this column can be
addressed to The Battalion or students’ legal advisers in 211 YMCA.
Getting
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846-5794
MSC ARTS COMMITTEE
presents
A NIGHT OF POETRY
WITH
DAVE OLIPHANT
THURSDAY OCTOBER 12
8-00 p.m.-
MSC BASEMENT COFFEEHOUSE
ADMISSION: FREE
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KENNEDY INSTITUTE OE ETHICS
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
THE PHILOSOPHY OF
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