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 / PMASI I \> COMSTMUCTIOM \ \ \ \ NORTH \V^ 7A7 expect* 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 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. 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