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WASHINGTON — Many motor-
|ts start paying the extra nickel-a-
tllongasoline tax today but industry
)kesmen say the drop in the price
If gas during the past year will help
aase the pain.
Vic Rasheed, executive director of
ie 60,000-member Service Station
(! tlealers of America, said most sta-
lons, many of them hard pressed,
|ould raise their prices immediately.
I He said dealers now have their
lowest profit margins in history, and
15,000 of the nation’s 226,000 service
Rations have gone out of business
Ince 1974.
I Rasheed predicted the increase in
Irice would not affect the volume of
ales. He said the price of gasoline has
propped about 15 cents a gallon in the
hast year and motorists have cut back
Iheir driving as much as they can.
T “They’re prepared to pay their
|’ay,’’Rasheed said. “I think motorists
lealize they’ve had a pretty good ride
as far as gasoline prices go and I don’t
think anyone expected them (low
pees) to last forever.”
But the American Petroleum Insti
tute said the higher margins of many
gasoline dealers and refiners last year
“suggest the motor fuel industry
might be able to absorb a portion,
even a large portion, of the nickel in
crease.”
The intensifying competition, API
economists said in an analysis paper,
could delay the increase and “result in
rising prices for motor fuels in late
1983 and 1984, as the long-run bur
den is shifted to consumers.”
Norm Nicholson, chairman of the
API’s marketing committee and vice
president of the Ohio-based
Marathon Oil Co., said he expects
greatly intensified competition
among gasoline retailers in the next
few years.
“There will be a whole range of
ways to buy gasoline, from conveni
ence stores right on to full-service sta
tions,” Nicholson said.
The Energy Department predicted
that U.S. oil consumption will rise in
1983 for the first time in five years as a
result of lower oil prices and in
creased economic activity.
The new law increases the tax on
gasoline 5 cents a gallon, with 4 cents
going for highways and 1 cent for
mass transit — at an estimated cost of
$30 a year to the typical motorist. The
law also permits longer, wider and
heavier trucks on the nation’s high
ways.
Congress passed the bill after the
Democratic wins in the November
election and it survived a conservative
Republican filibuster in the Senate to
gain final passage on Christmas eve.
John Berard, spokesman for the
Associated General Contractors, said
the law will go “a long way” toward
repairing the nation’s highways and
bridges as well as put up to 300,000
persons back to work.
“It will mean fewer potholes, fewer
weight-restricted bridges, fewer de
tours, and quicker delivery of goods
and services, ” he said.
The law is adding about $4.4 billion
to this year’s highway program, mak
ing total federal spending of about
$12.5 billion. Federal aid provides a
third of the money, so total highway
spending in the nation will be about
$37 billion.
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The results of the student body
elections have been invalidated be-
Wse of computer problems, election
ommissioner Les Asel said today.
Student government workers are
leveloping another program to run
he ballots through the computer
fgain.
The results should he announced
y 6 p.m. Monday.
“The results were not wrong be
cause of the ballots but because of t he
jomputer,” Asel said.
Asel presented the election results
to the Judicial Board Thursday night
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A&M, may join faculty
and recommended that the results be
invalidated because of computer
problems. The board approved the
recommendation.
Candidates were notified of the
decision and were told they may keep
their campaign signs up over the
weekend in case their races end up in
runoffs.
The results were scheduled to be
posted by Thursday morning.
However student government was
unable to run the program at that
time. A consultant then was called in
to help with the program.
After the results were completed
last night, Asel verified some of the
races and said they looked good. But,
he said he decided to rerun all of the
ballots to assure correct results.
Runoff elections, which were to be
Tuesday, have been rescheduled for
April 12.
Asel said a decision has not been
made as to what to do about the three
races where candidates names were
left off the ballot. He said that he will
talk with all the candidates in the
three races after the results are in be
fore deciding if they will be included
in the runoff.
from staff and wire reports
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Norman
iorlaug, who in the 1970s was known
is “the father of the Green Revolu-
ion,” says he will spend two weeks at
Texas A&M in May to look into the
Jossibility of joining the faculty.
Borlaug will arrive here May 13
md said he plans to spend the rest of
:he month looking into “everything
hat’s going on in wheat research” on
his campus.
“This is an exploratory thing to see
if I can be useful to A&M in their
research on wheat and small grains,”
Borlaug said Wednesday.
The Iowa-born Borlaug, 69, now a
onsultant to the international wheat
consortium in Mexico, has lived out
side the United States for 39 years.
Texas A&M officials say he may be
ready to move on to a university posi
tion now.
Dr. H.O. Kunkel, dean of the Col
lege of Agriculture, said: “I think he
wants a place he can continue his re
search in a dynamic atmosphere like
we have here.”
Kunkel said the University has
been talking with Borlaug about com
ing to Texas A&M for about a year
and is happy about the prospect of
having him here.
“He (Borlaug) is deeply dedicated
to science and agriculture and he
would bring us (the University and
the agriculture college) a global in
sight,” Kunkel said.
Borlaug’s research has taken him
to Pakistan, Italyr Mexico, India and
many other nations.
He won the 1970 Nobel Prize for
his work in developing high-yield
wheat and rice seeds that quickly
boosted agricultural production in
many of the world’s poorer nations.
Borlaug is the second Nobel Prize
winner to show interest in coming to
Texas A&M in recent months. Har
vard physicist Sheldon Glashow
announced recently after months of
negotiations that he would spend part
of his year-long sabbatical doing re
search here.
Kunkel said he expects that Bor
laug will be made available to students
through classes and seminars.
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with a 30 percent chance of thun
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low near 40. For Saturday, clear
skies with a high of 68.
by Karen Schrimsher
Battalion Reporter
Former Texas A&M Regent John
R. Blocker, Ft. Gov. Bill Hobby and
Houston Post columnist Lynn Ashby
will deliver spring commencement
addresses here. About 950 degrees
will be awarded at three ceremonies
May 6 and 7 in G. Rollie White Col
iseum.
Blocker, president of Blocker
Energy Corp. and a member of the
Class of ‘45, will speak at ceremonies
for master’s, doctoral and undergra
duate degree candidates from the col
leges of agriculture, geosciences and
liberal arts at 2 p.m. May 6. He has
served as vice chairman of the Board
of Regents.
Hobby will speak to undergradu
ate degree candidates from the col
leges of architecture and engineering
at 7:30 p.m. May 6.
Hobby, a graduate of Rice Univer
sity, is serving his second term as
lieutenant governor. He has served as
member of the Texas Air Control
Board, the University of Houston
Board of Regents and the board of
directors of the Houston Chamber of
Commerce.
Ashby will speak to undergraduate
degree candidates from the colleges
of business, education, science, and
veterinary medicine, and from Texas
A&M University at Galveston at 9
a.m. on May 7.
Ashby, a 1962journalism graduate
of the University of Texas, has writ
ten many of his daily columns about
Texas A&M. He was named an hon
orary Aggie by the Association of For
mer Students after a long relationship
with the University. He spoke at a
1977 graduation ceremony.
Special units a major part
A&M Corps life, traditions
Blocker, Hobby, Ashby
to give addresses
Editor’s note: This is the last of a Five-
part series on the Corps of Cadets.
By Michael Raulerson
Battalion Reporter
Special units, numbering about a
dozen in all, are a major part of the
traditions of the Texas A&M Corps of
Cadets. Some of the major units are
the Ross Volunteer Company, the
Texas Aggie Band, Parsons’ Mounted
Cavalry, the Fish Drill Team,
Women’s Drill Team, the Black Hats
and Rudder’s Rangers.
“Special units give you a chance to
do something extra,” said Mitch Win
ters, the leader of the Black JJats, a
group of about 20 seniors in the Army
program.
The Ross Volunteer Company, the
oldest student organization in Texas,
was organized in 1887. It originally
was called the Scott Volunteers, in
honor of Col. T. M. Scott who was
business manager of the college and
agent of the board of directors at that
time. The name was changed in 1891
to the Ross Volunteers in honor of
former Texas A&M President Lawr
ence Sullivan Ross.
Boyd Smith, commanding officer
of the Ross Volunteers, said: “We try
to model ourselves after Lawrence
Sullivan Ross. Lawrence was a guid
ing figure.”
Applicants for the Ross Volunteers
are screened for character traits,
academic and military standing, in
terest in participating in extracurricu
lar activities and disciplinary records,
Smith said.
“We like to think the Ross Volun
teers are the elite of the Corps and we
try to uphold the highest traditions of
the Corps,” Smith said.
During the spring banquet, a firing
squad of 21 members is selected from
the 144 members — 72juniors and 72
seniors — in the company. The
seniors select the juniors each year.
Smith said.
The squad’s services are available
to the University for the annual Aggie
Muster and Silver Taps, Smith said.
The company also serves as honor
guard for the inauguration of Texas
governors and it participates in the
March Gras parade in New' Orleans,
Smith said.
The Aggie Band, with more than
300 members, is the off icial Universi
ty band. It performs at athletic events,
military ceremonies, parades and
other functions.
Shayne Doering, the commander
of the Aggie Band, said the band
usually starts wdth more than 300
members, but loses a few students
w'hen they find out they have to be in
the Corps to be a band member.
During the fall semester, the main
activity of the band is preparation for
football game halftime perform
ances. The band, which practices six
to nine hours a w'eek, changes its half
time drill each week, Doering said.
“It’s a challenge being in the Aggie
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