Wednesday, July 30, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3
Texons favor spending cuts
over tax increase, poll says
AUSTIN (AP) — Reccm Texas
opinion polh show that a majority
pi I exam favored spending cuts
Am her than tax increases to bal
ance the state government budget
and support different positions
on the "Star Wars" nuclear de
fense system than do their con
gressmen
The budget survey was con
ducted bs Arthur J. Finkelstem
and Associates of Irvington. N.Y.,
for the Foundation for Education
on Free Enterprise, which made a
copy available to The Associated
Press on Tuesday.
The poll, conducted June 14-
19, found 5S percent of respon
dents favoring spending cuts,
while onh 10.4 percent called for
higher taxes.
Another 27.9 percent favored
a combination of cuts and taxes,
the poll found, while 2.1 percent
said the budget shouldn't be bal
anced and 6.6 percent either
didn't knot* or (feclined to an
swer.
Foundation spokesman Joe
Wsatt, a former Texas congress
man. said the telephone survey
interviewed 606 Texas voters. Its
accuracy was pegged at plus or
minus 4 percent.
The foundation is a recently
established, tax-exempt organiza
tion.
It savs its activities include re
search and publication of infor-
matHm on how the free enter
prise sy stem relates to Texas.
“Most 1 exam would cut slate
spending to balance the budget,"
said an analysis that accompanied
the poll results.
“Spending cuts were favored
over tax luxes by Texans who
vote for Democrats as well as by
those who vote for Republicans."
the analysis added
The poll was conducted when
the, slate's budget deficit was
about S2.S billion.
l^Mt week. Comptroller Bob
Bullock said the deficit had bal
looned to S3.5 billion, and a spe
cial session of the Legislature be
gins Aug 6 to try to balance the
books.
The poll also found respon
dents saying state government's
workforce is too large.
The "Star Wars' defense sys
tem poll was conducted by the
National Endowment for the
Preservation of Liberty, a pri
vately supported Washington or
ganization
NEPL president Carl Russell
told a news conference. "Clearly,
the public is in tune with the pres
ident and supports the research
for development of and deploy
ment of a strategic shield against
nuclear attack."
He said approximately 3,000
“regular voters" in four Texas
congressional districts were asked
44 questions each concerning
support of President Reagan's
Strategic Defense Initiative, often
called”Star Wars "
He said the poll showed 62
percent of the voters questioned
in the 10th District of U.S. Rep
J.J. “Jake" Pickle. D-Austin, had a
favorable opinion of Reagan
He said 78 percent of the same
voters said they approved devel
opment of a defense system to
protect the nation against a nu
clear missile attack
In the 15th District of Rep. Eli-
em> "Rika" de la Carza, D-McAI-
ien. 81 percent favored Reagan
and 90 percent were for St)I,
Channel! said.
Easterwood to get terminal, taxi way
By Greg Calvin
Reporter
A three-phase construction pro
ject is underway for a new terminal
and taxi way at Texas Air M’s Eas
terwood Airport.
The first phase of construction
will consist of building a taxiway, an
access road and some underground
utilities, said Earl Fratus, project
manager of the Texas AlcM facilities
department
Construction inspector Stewart
Cushon of the facilities department
said the taxiway is being added to
•the north end of the new runway.
The new runway has been length
ened once to approximately 7,150
feet, which Cushon said still isn’t
king enough to accommodate large
planes
Fratus said. “We can land a 747,
but there is no way of turning it
around or parking it." The taxiway
will give large planes the needed
space to turn around, he said
Cushon said the access road will
serve as the entrance to the new ter
minal building and will be connected
to F.M 60 across from Turkey
Creek Road The road exit will be
completed during the second phase
of construction, he said
Fratus added that the Quonset
Huts will be torn down to make
room for the access road.
Cushon said an electrical system
will be connected into the AJcM Re
search Park’s system Water, sanitary
sewer and storm drainage systems
also will be installed, he said
Phase one is contracted to Young
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finished by the end of November.
Fratus said
“Things have run smoothly and
we haven't faced any problems yet."
he said.
Tony Heger, manager of the fa
cilities and administration division at
A&M. said the Federal Aviation Ad
ministration has contributed to the
project and applications have been
sent to the FAA requesting mon
aid.
He said Brazos ( .tinr\. Bryarl
and College Station also have coni
tnbuted money to the University for|
construction
Nuclear protest group makes stop at Rudder
By Robert W. Rizzo
Reporter
of and
supporters
750-mile buyclin
About fifteen su|
partMipants in a
pilgrimage across Texas used
speeches, songs and flyers to protest
nuclear weapons at Rudder Foun
tain 1 uesday.
Participants in the “Pantex Pil
grimage. who ranged in age from
11 months to 53 years, carried a ban
ner reading "Peace Depends on Us"
and wore shirts reading “One Earth,
One Sky. One Ocean during the
lunchtime activities.
Participants in the cycling pilgrim
age were joined by Brazos Valley
Peace Action members who pre
sented local issues associated with
nuclear weapons research and devel
opment
BVPA member Dale Nave, Class
of ’80, said, “T exas A&M, for the last
100 years or so has been a place
where people worked hard to try to
make more food and a better way of
life for people. Now we are being
asked to use our great minds to find
a better way to destroy people."
The cycling trip started in Hous
ton on July 2 / ana will end August 8
at the U.S. Department of Energy
Pantex Nuclear Weapons Assembly
Plant north of Amarillo.
The Pantex plant is the final as
sembly facility of all the nuclear war
heads produced in the United
States, said Bob Henschen, a mem
ber of the cyclists' support group.
Henschen’s group will join
around 300 others attending an In
ternational Peace Witness confer
ence and workshops at a Peace
Camp near the gates of the Pantex
Facility
PartK ipant Jimi Clark, 18, said the
focus of the workshop at Pantex is
economic conversion, which he said
means taking a community such as
Amarillo and converting tne indus
try to that of a peacef ul nature.
Other activities at the conference
will include a Nuke-Watch stake-out
at the Pantex gate to photogragh nu
clear weapons traffic and a non-vio
lent protest blockade on August I0. -
“If America is going to decide that
the way to be secure is determined
by how many people we can destroy
in another country then perhaps we
have misplaced priorities," Clark
said.
Two engineering department heads named
University News Service
The Texas AKcM (College of Engi
neering has two new department
heads, vice chancellor and Dean of
Engineering Herbert H. Richardson
announced
Dr. C. Kemble Bennett, chairman
of the Department of Industrial and
Management Systems Engineering
at the University of South Florida,
»%ill head the Department of Indus
trial Engineering.
Dr. Jo W. Howze. interim depart
ment bead since June .1984, was
named to head the Department of
Elcctiial Engineering
Richardson said. “Industrial engi
neering is one of our strongest de
partments and is targeted to play a
ke\ role in the svstems-oriented fo
cus of our new engineering progam
at AlcM. As we move to inc rease em
phasis <wi manufacturing, transpor-
tatMHi. energy and other systems that
are critical to Texas' economic diver-
Dr. Jo W. Howze
sification and future prosperity, this
department has an increaaingpy im
portant contribution to make in edu
cation and research I am delighted
that we have attracted a person of
Dr. Bennett's stature and proven
leadership record
Bennett received a bachelor’s de-
Dr. G. Kemble Bennett
gree in mathematics from Florida
State University in 1962, a master's
in engineering mathmetics from San
Jose University in 1968 and a Ph D.
in industrial engineering from
Texas Tech University in 1970.
He had been on the faculty of the
University of South Florida since
1974 and was made a department
c hairman and director of the Data
base Management Systems Center in
1979. Along with his academic post,
he held a part-time position as prin
cipal engineer of the Logistics Engi
neering Technical Staff of Honey
well Avionics in St. Petersburg. Fla
Howze was educated at Rice Uni
versity. receiving degrees of bache
lor of arts and bachelor of science in
mechanical engineering and a Ph D.
in electrical engineering there. He
joined the A&M faculty in 1972 after
serving as visiting professor at the
Pontificia L'mversiclade Catolica in
Rm> de Janeiro, Brazil. He has indus
trial experience with Shell Oil and
has consulted numerous other com
panies.
During his tenure as interim
head. Howze worked to shift the de
partment's emphasis toward in
creased research and graduate
study.
What’s up
Wednesday
TAMU SAILING CLUB: will meet at 7p.m. in 302 Rudder.
For more information call Tim, 696-8o42.
GREAT COMMISSION STUDENTS: formerly A&M Chris
tian Fellowship, will present “When You Look in the Mir
ror, Do You Like What You See?” at 7:30 p.m. in 102
Blocker.
COMMODORE BRAZOS USERS’ GROUP: anyone inter
ested in free tutorial on Commodore 64 or 128 systems can
call David Gruben at 845-8889.
Thursday
CAESAREAN PREVENTION MOVEMENT/VAGINAL
BIRTH AFTER CAESAREAN: CPM/VBAC is an interna
tional support network for women healing from past births
and those preparing for future births that meets the last
Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. at 4109 Brompton
Court in Brvan. For more information call 693-4953 or
776-5657.
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: Any junior or senior in the depart
ment of biology, chemistry, mathematics or physics who
entered his current major prior to catalog 107 and who has
not previously taken the English Proficiency Examination
should plan to do so this semester. The exam will be ad
ministered by the English department on August 7. Please
contact Marilyn Radke in 152 Blocker for details. Advance
registration is required.
KANM RADIO: KANM 99.9 FM Cable has repaired its tech
nical problems and is broadcasting again. Program guides
are available at several local businesses. For more informa
tion call Georgette, 693-0513.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT: applications for External Com
munications and Public RelationP’will be available through
the summer months. Please come by 221 Pavilion from 9
a m. to 5 p.m. to pick up applications. For more informa
tion call 845-3051.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion.
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