Wednesday, May 21,1986/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
kills test for freshmen
roposed by committee
I SAX MARCOS. Texas (AH) — A
College Coordinating Board com
mittee lias adopted a proposal to re
quite all freshmen entering Texas’
public colleges and universities to
take a basic skills test after they have
enrolled.
I The test of reading, writing and
mathematics would be used to place
students who need extra help in the
jiroper courses.
I In no case would it bar college en-
trv to am student who is otherwise
qualified, although all students
■could have to pass the test by the
time thev have completed (i() hours,
or approximatelv two years, of de
gree-credit work.
Robert Hardestv. president of the
Southwest Texas State University
and chairman of the Committee on
Testing, said. "Our studies indicate
that a full SO percent of Texas stu
dents entering their freshman vear
of college are def icient in at least one
of the basic skills.
" The problem is we have no way
of identifving those students or
helping them eat Iv in their college
careers. And vet we know, from the
experience of several other states,
that students who receive remedial
instruction .are three times more
likelv to be successful in college than
those who need such instruction but
do not receive it."
1 he committee first considered a
test to be given at the end of the
sophomore vear. Hardestv said.
"But it soon became obvious to us
that the earlier we identified the stu
dents with the problems, the more
time we would have to help them,”
he said.
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Man pleads
guilty to charges
of promoting
obscene things
BEAUMONT (AP) — A man
who operated a video cassette
business in a house co-owned by
state Sen. Carl Parker has
pleaded guilty to charges of pro
motion of obscene materials and
delivery of marijuana.
State District Judge J. Neil
Daniel of Abilene on Monday
sentenced Daniel Jacob Lee, 59,
to 10 years probation and fines
totaling $6,500.
Parker, 51, a Port Arthur Dem
ocrat, was indicted by two differ
ent grand juries on charges of
promotion of prostitution, distri
bution of obscene materials and
perjury, but those charges were
later dismissed. A third grand
jury failed to indict Parker.
Parker said he bought the Port
Arthur house with Lee in 1969 as
a real estate investment, and that
he sold his interest in it after an
April 19, 1984, raid by police and
Jefferson County district attor
ney’s investigators.
Police seized more than 400 X-
rated videotapes during raids on
Happy Times Video, officials
said.
Chinese vice premier
applauds U.S.-China
economic relations
DALLAS (AP) — Economic rela
tions between the United States and
China have progressed but are far
from reaching potential. China vice
premier Yao Yilin said Tuesday.
" The trade and cooperation in the
energv field between our two sides
lias alreadv become a tide which has
promoted the development of our
present relations." Yao said during a
joint speech with Dallas Mayor
Starke I avlor.
Yao. who arrived in Dallas Mon-
dav w ith a 20-member entourage of
government and trade leaders, is the
highest-tanking China government
off icial scheduled to visit the country
this vear.
In Dallas — the fourth of live cit
ies on the lout — the delegation con
centrated on the oil industrv, tech
nology and housing and food
distribution.
” I exas holds an important posi
tion in the development of the L.S.j
economy." Yao said. "Your experi
ence has aroused great interest.
"Tm happv to know that Texas’
advantage in the energy field has al
readv played its role in China’s en
ergv development. Some of vour oil
companies nave participated in the
sniveling and exploration of
China's oil resources."
Mavor Tavlor. w ho urged Yao to
use often the city's kev he presented,
said guidelines for increased eco
nomic activitv between the two coun
tries are ah each being developed.
"It is our belief that exchanges of
information, of know-how. are pav
ing the wav for times ahead." he
said.
Tavlor cited mutual benefits in
business, tourism, science and
higher education among others.
Moreover. China "merits the at
tention of foriegn investors,” Yao
said.
Yao later was to tour the Electro
nic Data S\ stems headquarters.
Also visiting the citv are Chinese
Ambassador Han Xua and the heads
of the state planning commission
and the Foreign Ministrv's Americas
department.
After leaving Dallas, Yao was
scheduled to \ isit Seattle.
Tourist bureau prepares for busy summer
By Katherine Cooper
Reporter
The State Department of Tou
rism won't be taking the summer off.
jl bey'U be working hard to boost an
lalieach-burgeoning Texas industry
Idtat will set all-time records this
■yeai.
Tourism is one of the state’s top
live industries, savs Dave Allred, a
jfrepresentative of the State Depart-
|ment of Tourism in Austin.
This r ear Texas is expecting a re
cord 40 million out-of-state visitors
ho tire expected to spend a record
iS 16 billion, he savs.
The tin eat of terrorism is keeping
Imanv L.S. tourists at home this rear
land Allred stir s he hopes the state
I will grab its share of this rear’s larger
■market.
Also, because of the weakened
position of the L.S. dollar, people
f rom oil rich count t ies, like England
and so forth, are vacationing in the
United States because it’s a better
travel bat gam.” Alli ed says.
The Texas Tourist Development
Agencv was created in 1963, Allred
stir s, and the number of out-of-state
visitors has increased every year.
The agencv adr ertises in national
magazines but lot the most part con
fines its advertising to publications
sent to travel agencies, Allred says.
In many localities chambers of
commerce, convention centers and
visitors bureaus work to bring visi
tors to ti particular area. Alli ed savs.
"We realh work hand-in-glove
with the chambers of commerce and
the State Department of Safety and
Public Transportation's tourist in
formation bureaus." he sac s.
This summer the tourist informa
tion bureau is celebrating its 50th
anniversarv. The bureaus were
started in the summer of 1936 and
were first manned by Texas A&M
Cadets.
"In the f irst three months of 1986,
555.000 people stopped at these visi
tor information centers," lie savs.
Sin vevs conducted through these
centers show that most visitors come
from Oklahoma and Louisiana,
Allied savs. Cheaper gas prices
should contribute to heavier traffic
flowing into Texas from neighbor
ing states, he says.
The agencv has also been adver
tising on television.
"Through out promotions, tour
ists are just beginning to realize that
Texas has mote than flat deserts,”
Allred savs.
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