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Accounting fraternity hosts
2-day conference on taxes
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l, " es ' VlBeia Alpha Psi are hosting a two-day
,lv ity Otis tax conference here Oct. 25-26.
mone yl)t«U'S. Rep. Bill Archer (R-Texas), a
'"ty caiK, member of the House Ways and
( fund-:/ Means Committee, will speak at the
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““^Archer will discuss tax reforms at
al mcheon Oct. 25 at the Aggieland
Inn. His talk will begin at noon. The
cost is $10 per person.
jThe conference will focus on new
tax developments and how they af-
s m the
feet corporations, business income
and deductions, estate planning, oil
and gas, employee benefits, prop
erty transactions, partnerships and
tax accounting.
Speakers also include practition
ers from all of the Big Eight account
ing firms: Arthur Andersen & Co.;
Arthur Young & Co.; Coopers & Ly-
brand, Deloitte; Haskins 8c Sells;
Ernst and Whinney; Price Water-
house 8c Co.; Peat, Marwick, Mitch
ell 8c Qo.; and Touche Ross.
The conference is open to tax
practitioners at a cost of $100 for
both days or $75 for one day.
Participants may register Thurs
day from 7:45 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Excluding a break for lunch,
meetings will last from 8:30 a.m. un
til 5 p.m.
Friday’s registration is from 8 a.m.
to 8:30 a.m. and meetings will last
until 5:20 p.m. with a 30-minute
lunch break.
The conference is
faculty and students.
free to A&M
A&M forum
on Reagan
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Coordinators are expecting a
large crowd for the second Texas
A&M Forum this fall which will
take place today at 7 p.m. in 601
Rudder.
The topic of the debate is “Re
solved: Ronald Reagan should be
elected in November for a second
term as president.”
Officials in charge of the de
bate say doors will be closed
promptly at 7 p.m. Participants
are encouraged to arrive early.
The Forum is designed to al
low people in the audience to par
ticipate in the debate.
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United Press International
OUSTON — A 6,000-square-
foot section of the roof in the main
■<1 sevn concourse of the Memorial City
lipping Mall collapsed with a noise
like “loud thunder” Tuesday,
slightly injuring two people.
jj s ^'j^Biolice officer J.W. Harris, who
' as security director for the
:' eri ' f inall in his off-duty hours, said offi-
vmieinmp cjjp don’t know what caused the
roof to fall and will not know until
thev talk to a contractor renovating a
movie theater next to the collapse
site.
were believed to be construction
workers. P.E. Riehl, an assistant ad-
minstrator for Memorial City Hospi
tal, said a man in his 30s was hit in
the back by an unknown object, but
was not expected to be kept in the
hosptal overnight.
The other man, in his late 20s,
had a cut on his right hand and
“probably needed a few stitches” be
fore he was released, Riehl said.
A woman was also taken to the
hospital after she was hit by dust
from the collapse. She asked to be
checked for glass fragments. Riehl
said she did not require treatment.
Harris said he had no idea if the
heavy rain that pelted Houston
throughout the day caused the col
lapse.
Steel girders and wires stretched
from the floor of the mall to the ceil
ing, leaving the mall open to the sky.
Pools of water formed in several
places shortly after the 5:44 p.m. col
lapse.
Officials closed between 15 and 20
stores near the collapse for safety.
Authorities also shut off power be
cause of the exposed wiring, forcing
other stores to lockup early.
Dean Morris said he had been in
the hallway less than two minutes be
fore the collapse and was in a record
store when the roof caved in.
“Everything started shaking at
first,” said Morris, a Houston resi
dent. “It sounded like a loud thun
dering noise.”
Officials said the collapse created
a 60-by-100 foot hole in the mall ceil
ing on the west side of the huge
shopping center in West Houston.
Air conditioning units were among
the debris on the mall floor.
The movie theater was closed to
be converted into retail space, Harris
said.
ible He said the two injured people
Kids’ consumer behavior researched
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By LISA SPILLER
Reporter
ifficultybBSociety deems children con-
ictly wfiaia signer trainees,” marketing expert,
take with I: Dr. James McNeal, said Tuesday,
position oi “Cl did re n will go into stores and
letelvset,LS thev need to have a welcome mat.”
iris Gavresi':| McNeal lias been doing research
ne concm|pr 20 years on the consumer behav-
i students si for of children. He has found that
: whether} the 28 million children in America
fee and bn spend about $4.2 billion a year as
stable; if ft consumers.
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McNeal is working on a decal sys
tem to identify retail merchants who
are willing to help young consumers
become smart shoppers.
“Something needs to start taking
place,” McNeal said. “Many organi
zations are concerned about chil
dren as future consumers.
“Research shows that about one-
third of the major retailers are chil-
dren-oriented already and 20 per
cent want to be. *
The certification system is merely
a concept of identification of the
stores that claim to be child cen
tered. Some criteria for child-cen
tered stores needs to be developed
first.
“There must be a conscious deci
sion on the part of the store exec
utives to treat children as consumer
trainees. They must consciously and
deliberately serve these children.
“Information is all we need. Many
children have bad experiences in
some stores.”
Children tend to make generaliza
tions, but with additional informa
tion we can guide them so that the
information is correct, he added.
McNeal has published a book on
the consumer behavior of children.
He is completing a study on the
relationship between retailers and
children, and is also analyzing some
of the children’s games. “It’s nothing
earth shattering,” he said.
Westmoreland’s chief of intelligence testifies
■ United Press International
..NEW YORK — The man who was
Gen William Westmoreland’s chief
ofjhtelligence shortly before the Tet
offensive testified Tuesday he was
ffivtr contacted by CBS for its re
port on Vietnam War troop counts.
■Gen. Phillip Davidson, whose tes
timony came in the third week of the
trial of Westmoreland’s $120 million
libel suit against CBS, replaced Gen.
Ipsepli McChristian as chief of intel
ligence in June 1967 after West
moreland rejected McChristian’s in
telligence reports.
Davidson said he was never con
tacted by CBS prior to the 1982
broadcast about Vietnam which
claimed Westmoreland distorted
troop figures before the crucial Tet
offensive in January 1968.
CBS News President Van Gordon
Sauter said in a report on produc
tion techniques used in the broadcast
that it was a “lack of journalistic en
terprise” not to have contacted the
general.
Sauter said it was believed at the
time that Davidson was not available
for an interview.
In the broadcast “The Uncbunted
Enemy: A Vietnam Deception”
McChristian said Westmoreland was
“disturbed” by a large increase in
enemy figures developed by his in
telligence analysts.
McChristian said in the broadcast
he got the impression Westmoreland
felt that if McChristian sent the fig
ures back to President Johnson at
the time of increasing protest against
the war in United States “it would be
a political bombshell.”
The “CBS Reports” documentary
claimed that dropping “hamlet guer
rillas” from the troop count was part
of a plot to persuade Johnson to
commit 200,000 more troops to help
defeat North Vietnamese regulars
and Viet Cong guerrillas.
Westmoreland said in the broad
cast, “I was not about to send to
Washington something that was
specious. And in my opinion it was
specious.”
He said he disagreed with McCh
ristian’s estimate and said other
members of his staff also disagreed
with McChristian.
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