•age 10 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1979
Senate doesn't act on several bills,
approves Williams commendation
By DILLARD STONE
Battalion Staff
As expected, most of the bills
ilated for second reading at Wed-
lesday’s Texas A&M University
itudent senate meeting were not
icted upon.
—A bill recommending institu
tion of a graduated system of park
ing violation fines. Tbe first two of
fenses would cost $5 per violation
with third and subsequent violations
costing a $10 fine. The bill was ta
bled until the next meeting.
—A recommendation to increase
student participation on certain
University committees, also tabled.
George Black, junior business
senator, asked the senate to table
the bill until further research has
been done to see if it is necessary.
One of the two bills still to come
before the senate, one which would
change the allocation of student
seats at home baseball games, was
not reported out of the student serv
ices committee and thus was killed.
Kevin Patterson, vice president
for student services, said his com
mittee failed to report the bill be
cause reserve seats have already
been sold in the places that the bill
would affect.
—A bill to change the semester
honors system was not reported out
of committee. J.C. Colton, vice
president for academic affairs, told
the senate that further study was
needed on the bill, since it would
have long-range effects on the Uni
versity honors system.
Several changes were incorpo
rated into the General Election
Regulations in time for this spring’s
elections.
The senate heard for the first time
a bill that would make programming
fees in programmed dormitories op
tional for residents of the dormitory.
Several changes were incorpo
rated into the General Election
Regulations in time for this spring’s
elections.
Also heard for the first time were
certain recommended changes in
senate by-laws.
The other bill, approved by ac
clamation, recognizes former Chan
cellor Jack K. Williams for his serv
ice to the University.
Several other bills either were ta
bled, or were not reported out of
committee. They included:
The bill would replace the cur
rent system of recognizing Distin
guished Students — those with 3.25
or better grade point ratio — with
an honor roll system based on per
centages. The top 5 percent of each
class in each college would be
placed on the President’s Honor
Roll, and the second 5 percent
would be placed on the Dean’s
Honor Roll.
U.S. congressmen fly
to see Viet refugees
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BANGKOK, Thailand — Three
members of Congress flew into
Hanoi Wednesday to investigate the
problem of Vietnamese refugees.
Heavy fighting between Vietnam
and China forced postponement of
the congressional trip, which origi
nally was scheduled for Monday.
U.S. Embassy officials in Bangkok
refused to allow the group to use the
embassy plane for the trip. The offi
cials cited “heavy air activity” by
warplanes of both sides.
The delegation, led by Reps.
Elizabeth Holtzman, D.-N.Y.,
Hamilton Fish R-N.Y., and Billy
Lee Evans, D.-Georgia, re
scheduled the trip aboard a com
mercial Air Vietnam flight today.
Tax agencies overlap
(Continued from page 1.)
Under the Texas Constitution, the
counties are supposed to assess and collect
taxes. That is why the new bill, unlike
previous ones, has a provision allowing a
county to contract its assessment to the
new appraisal board.
The reason the combined appraisal
function was not automatically given to the
counties is historical, Winn said. Though
urbanized counties have no problems, he
said, many counties have inadequate tax
records.
“In many counties, the smaller towns
and school boards have better books and
records. They have always depended on
more of their money from property taxes.”
Most counties will take advantage of the
plan, he said, though he did not say if
Brazos County would do so.
Combining appraisal functions may save
the Brazos area taxpayers quite a bit of
money by reducing the number of ap
praisers, Winn said.
“I think I can take six appraisers and do
a good job in the county.”
Brazos County employs three appraisers
costing around $40,000 per year, Winn
said. The City of Bryan normally has three
appraisers, BISD and Consol have two
each. The other districts did not say how
much their appraisal staffs cost.
College Station usually has some part-
time appraisers, Glenn Schroeder, tax as
sessor for College Station, said. But for the
city’s present reappraisal program, some
temporary appraisers have been hired, he
said.
Schroeder doesn’t think dollar saving
will be too high initially if the appraisal job
is to be done correctly.
“My idea would be: combine the pres
ent appraisal staff so they can do every
thing well.” Schroeder said future savings
would increase; the other tax assessors also
felt savings would be considerable.
The bill will also save money by keeping
appraising up to date. Fine added.
This might seem strange. Since new ap
praisals are higher than old ones, one
might think out-of-date appraisals would
mean lower taxes. Not necessarily so,
Schroeder said. Good appraisal is the only
way to ensure people don’t have to pay
more than their fair share of taxes.
He cited an example of several acres of
land which had been appraised for a few
thousand dollars in the sixties. After access
roads were built, the land’s value rock
eted, but because the appraisal remained
the same, the property taxes were ex
tremely low.
All the time the appraisal remained too
low, the other citizens had to pay more tax
money to make up for it. The inequity was
only discovered during College Station’s
recent program of reappraisal.
The three are members of a
House Judiciary Subcommittee on
Indochinese re hi gees who are com
pleting a long-planned tour of
Southeast Asian countries to study
the problems of Indochinese ref
ugees.
Ag Eco Club seeks sun, credits
on trips to California, Mexico
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California earning credits exploring
the aspects of international trade.
Thirty-six members of the Ag
ricultural Economics Club will visit
various American firms such as Del
Monte, Kellogg’s and Ralston-
Purina. The students will observe
the operations and supervision of
the companies and explore innova
tions in agricultural research and
development.
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Dr. Vernon E. Schneider, distin
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economics and organizer of the trip,
said, “It gives us a chance to rein
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real thing. We take the talk of inter
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“At each company the students
will be given a chance to ask and
learn about the very occupations
many of them will pursue,”
Schneider said.
Schneider said students may earn
two credits for the trip.
“Each student going for credit
must prepare a research report om
specific area of the trip such as the
training of personnel in the com
panies. They must do a lot of re
search on their subject before we
even leave, so they will be total)
prepared when they arrive, he
said.
The group will leave College Sta
tion on March 8 and go by bus to leveloping
San Antonio, where they will board ditical course
a plane to Mexico City.
At the same time, another 36
members of the Ag Eco Club willbe ng to date, sail
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search agricultural marketing and
food production.
Schneider said this trip has the
same purpose — to learn how major
producers operate.
This will all complement the work
we do in the classroom,” he said,
Schneider said the group will visit
firms such as Sunkist, Armour and
Co. and Lindsey Olives.
Schneider said the trips may lead
to jobs for some students.
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