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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1979
Page 13
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ouse vote supports private tuition bill
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ISTIN — House members
day gave overwhelming tenta-
Bapproval to a bill doubling the
tint of state hinds students in
ate colleges may receive under a
equalization grant program.
;; jleanwhile, Senate action was
gld almost to a standstill by a
luster. Sen. Lloyd Doggett,
istin, assisted by a handful of
Senate liberals, filibustered
ast a proposal that would repeal
[isions in the state’s Deceptive
Practices Act automatically
Jding consumers triple damages
ey prove they were defrauded
[lerchants.
tuition equalization grant bill
would increase from $600 to $1,200
per year the amount of state aid a
student attending a private college
or university can receive, and also
would make part-time students eli
gible for aid for the first time.
The bill, already passed by the
Senate and facing one more House
vote, was tentatively approved
123-19 despite arguments it would
further reduce enrollment at some
state colleges that already are strap
ped for students.
The program was originated in
1971 at a cost of $1 million, but if the
Legislature votes to fund it at its
maximum under the guidelines con
tained in the bill by Rep. Lynn
Nabers, D-Brownwood, the cost
could swell to $44.3 million in the
next two years.
Rep. Bill Hollowell, D-Grand
Saline, argued against the measure,
saying single shot spending bills
being approved by the House
endanger the prospects for enact
ment of a state budget bill later in
the session without increasing taxes.
“Last summer when everybody
was campaigning we heard a lot
about economy in government from
those running for the Legislature
and those running for governor,”
Hollowell said. “But when it comes
time for us to stand up like men and
be counted, we find a lot of bills
being passed for big spending.”
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authoritative petroleum news-
says nothing short of a police
could keep the nation’s service
ns from charging prices in ex-
of federal ceilings, and a lead-
conomist has called for World
Il-style rationing to control
s at the pump.
e Lundberg Letter, a private
letter specializing in oil market
sis and statistical gasoline data
lished in North Hollywood,
., stopped short Monday of cal-
the practice “price gouging,”
isaid its latest survey indicated
than half the nation’s service
ns are ignoring federal price
gs-
y ample evidence, gasoline
controls are bankrupt,” the
• said. “It would take a virtual
; state to keep gasoline retail-
ithin control limits.”
e federal ceiling price is based
on the allowable dealer profit mar
gin, which Lundberg estimates is
about 11 cents a gallon.
The latest Lundberg survey,
which monitored 12,100 service sta
tions on March 23, found 61.9 per
cent of the full-service outlets were
selling unleaded gasoline above the
U.S average ceiling price.
At self-service stations, 27.2 per
cent were above the ceiling for un
leaded regular and 7.9 percent had
failed to comply with price regu-
for regular leaded grades.
In Detroit, economist John Ken
neth Galbraith called for World War
Il-style gas rationing as the only
feasible alternative to the sharp
runup in pump prices.
Worldwide, price pressures
mounted on the oil market in de
velopments that mean still higher
gasoline prices for motorists, who
pay between 2 cents and 2.5 cents
more a gallon for every 10 percent
rise in crude oil prices.
In Nicosia, Cyprus, the authorita
tive Middle East Economic Survey
said most OPEC nations will impose
surcharges on top of the cartel’s offi
cial hike of 9 percent that raised a
barrel of crude oil to $14.54 on April
1.
In Abu Dhabi, the United Arab
Emirates Monday added a 13-
percent surcharge to its top-quality
crude oil, pushing the price to
$18.39 a barrel.
In Tokyo, Iran informed Japan it
will boost its oil prices by 32 percent
on long-term contract shipments to
about $17 a barrel for Iranian light
crude and $16.50 for Iranian heavy
crude.
The initial impact of the Iranian
oil cutoff and the global oil squeeze
has been most evident at the gas
pump.
In the midst of the 1974 Arab oil
embargo, the government imposed
a ceiling on gasoline prices under
which dealers cannot exceed their
March 1973 margins.
“An increasing number of
gasoline retailers, forced to live with
the same margins they could obtain
five years ago, have evidently de
cided that the risk of being found in
noncompliance is less than that of
going out of business,” Lundberg
said.
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propriation committee, said he has
worked in that committee to hold
the line on state spending despite
recommendations by other commit
tees for new spending programs.
“There are some of us who have
been trying to hold the line for you
on appropriations, but if you’re
going to start shooting it out $40 mil
lion at a shot, you can count me out
and start worrying about a tax bill,”
he said.
Rep. Foster Whaley,
D-Plainview, tried unsuccessfully to
limit the tuition grants to full-time
students, and to limit the amount
each student could receive to $900
or less.
The program is designed to help
students pay the cost of attending
private colleges, and supporters
contend it is cheaper for the state to
pay part of the students’ tuition at
private schools than to have them
attend state colleges where tax rev
enue would be used for their entire
education costs.
Whaley said that argument is in
valid.
“It’s a myth to say you’re saving
the state money,” he said. “The
state could take all 20,000 of the
students in this program and it
wouldn’t increase enrollment in
state colleges by 3 percent and we
could easily handle the students
without any additional expense to
the state.”
The bill tentatively approved
Tuesday does not appropriate addi
tional money for the tuition equali
zation grant program, but authorizes
the College Coordinating Board to
increase the allocations per student
if funding for the program is in
creased in the general state budget.
In other action Tuesday, the
House approved and sent to the Se
nate a bill by Rep. Bill Messer,
D-Belton, authorizing the Bell
County Child Welfare Board to offer
adoption services with fees based on
the income of the prospective par
ents.
The House also approved bills re
vising the state’s strip-mining regu
lations and establishing a $50 mil
lion program to guarantee loans to
young farmers and ranchers to pur
chase agricultural lands. House
members, and Texas voters, must
approve an amendment to the state
constitution before the farm loan
guarantee program can be im
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