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THE BATTALION MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1978 Page 3 wClayton )f over B United Press International S lip USTIN — The House Approp- ioas Committee will not begin nts have is n'ngs on its proposed budget for dmet law,i!next two years before late this ers has coil'Ik,I but already the House and can be prt ate are almost $500 million apart ■ar helmets heir spending proposals. &M andththtf Senate Finance Committee jnhelmetedLdy has begun its hearings, and •re likely to|si|g the $20.8 billion budget Keil by the Legislative Budget Has the basis for its spending IVd ut Speaker Bill Clayton said the ise will trim more than $400 mil- predicts cuts $400 million jortions wi! r the fundi ‘cause itwii mentcutof from that bill before beginning get hearings, including an be more conservative in member ship than in a number of years,” he told reporters. “This may be more reason to be lieve that these reductions can be kept in the final appropriations product and that a half billion can be returned to the people of Texas through tax relief. House committees are required to give five days notice before con ducting public hearings on legisla tion, making it unlikely any major bills could be heard before next week. But Clayton said preliminary administrative work is being done to get the session into high gear as quickly as possible. “I think you can see that the Legislature as far as the House side is concerned is ready for action, and we’re going to try to give the people of Texas what they were asking for in the November election.” The speaker interpreted the November election, in which voters elected a Republican governor and overwhelmingly approved a tax re lief amendment to the state constitu tion, to be a mandate for lower taxes and more efficient government op erations. Women volunteer gladly Chimp will get human milk United Press International NORMAN, Okla. — Dozens of women responding to a public plea volunteered this weekend to provide mother’s milk for Sequoyah, a 13-day-old chimpanzee who researchers hope will be the first to learn sign language from his mother. Researchers said they did not expect such an enthusiastic response, but a telephone at a private home rang all day Saturday with calls from women. “I’m not surprised women offered to come out and nurse the chimp — it just takes a healthy respect for animals,” said Diana Davis, a graduate assistant at the Institute for Primate Studies. The call for mother’s milk went out after Sequoyah’s mother, Washoe, the first chimp to learn American Sign Language, refused to nurse the infant. Researchers separated the two last week and used human mother’s milk as a substitute for chimp milk. They said the two kinds of milk have a similar chemical composition. But researchers at the Institute for Primate Studies, a private re search facility where Washoe lives, ran out of mother’s milk Friday. After the human milk ran out, a commercial formula was used, but researchers said it was more difficult for Sequoyah to digest. But a plea through local newspapers and radio stations brought a Hood of calls from volunteers. Dr. Roger Fonts, Washoe’s owner and research chief on the Sequoyah project, said Washoe has a vocabulary of about 200 words and communicates complete sentences and thoughts to laboratory workers. Sequoyah, appropriately named after an Indian who invented the Cherokee alphabet more than a century ago, consumes 12-16 ounces of milk a day and demands feeding, much like a human infant, every three hours. ;athofRosit ss |the-board 2.5 percent redue- in spending for state agencies aifreeze on the hiring of any on welfarei s|ite employees. )ld daughlebyton’s proposal is sure to find ie could no:>'with Gov. Bill Clements, who irman Fra; proposed a 25,000 reduction in lidwife suse number of state employees and ■z Fundniti billion tax reduction, ree abortic utl Lt. Gov. Willim P. Hobby expressed concern that the LBB get is already a bare-bones , ( uling plan, and that further cuts ram (1 jeopardize state programs. lay ton reappointed Rep. Bill police dH' D - B,y;ln ’ as chaB ' man of don officials H j U ' st ' Appropriations Conm.it- • turnedoiii' stacked the panel with fiscal t n ceuppirM a ? ves - . nf . , , re asked tii m * • , ° u VV1 inc ir >nkeup v vote"oiid le Appropriations Committee to >r the city's L 11 - 468agai, Ope DlaStS now would B-*- President’s budget will reflect tough balance of needs, promises Teachers’ ’ violence B United Press International ATICAN CITY — In a speech ,ch set bis theme for the forth- *T)GY(l church conference in * HP’ Bo P e J°hn Paul II Saturday ‘•i-i dcmned violence as a means to HKC a SO. i , t . ' 'W’tol a P ro R ress ,n ;l speech to Com- x years thefe and Socialist legislators ’ i I though he did not mention ‘d 1 ^ iimunism or the Marxist “libera- l„.. 1 theology by name, the Polish L . imo " y » called on vouth especiallv to k the actorijj 1 deaf ear to preacher 0 f "' vio . i. 1 l0nsart !e as the only means of social and progress." ,>* s im ! t\|iv so much violence today? uflectedkB^ asked rhetorically. iolence begets violence, hate ets hate, and both humiliate and ast the human person, ” he-said. 1 a speech to the Communist- ialist regional government of io, the province which includes United Press International WASHINGTON — The 1980 budget that President Carter un veils today will be a major political statement rather than a dry account ing of the billions of dollars needed to keep the federal government going for one more year. The columns of numbers will re flect Carter’s answers to such tough political questions as how to balance defense needs against the needs of the poor and how to control inflation while avoiding a recession. At stake will be the fate of thousands of government programs: ranging from missile silos to meat inspectors, highway construction to health services, college tuition aid to crop supports. The budget also will mark the opening of a debate between the executive and legislative branches of government, with the life of every American affected in one way or another In the outcome. The budget presented by the ad ministration will be poked, sliced, scjueezed and fattened over the next eight months as Congress writes the final version of the government’s game plan for the 1980 fiscal year beginning in October. The national concern over infla tion, the anti-spending mood sym bolized by Proposition 13 and the approaching presidential election have made the 1980 budget more of a political creature than most recent ones. Two of Carter s potential Demo cratic rivals have zeroed in on it al ready: Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has warned against ex treme cuts in social programs while California Gov. Edmund Brown has called for a balanced budget. An unusually large number of legislators contended for seats on the House and Senate budget com mittees when the 96th Congress convened last week. That s where s, ’’ he said. est Blizzard dl .turdayaadL ti le p 0 p e blamed ideologies rd-batterwifc, f 01 - an outbreak of violence atleastow; h as claimed two political n ice stont: n g s and a waV e of shootings and 0 deaths itjomhings in the new year, ss. Anotheilthough the pope was speaking 1. old. 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