Friday, September 19, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5
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opportunity to get counseling
Tom an immigration law special
ist Iree of charge tonight at 7
pan. in 501 Rudder.
Dallas attorney Samuel M. Tid
well. who normally charges $50
^^■tour for his consulting serv
ices. will begin with a 30-minute
Hon the rights and obligations
jf Aliens and foreign students in
/H United States, says interna-
:io|jal student adviser Tina Wat
kins
Watkins says Tidwell will then
field questions concerning the
special problems faced by aliens
and foreign students. The ques-
tion-and-answer session will con
tinue as long as questions are
forthcoming.
Tidwell, who worked with the
Immigration and Naturalization
Service before becoming a private
attorney, will be available for pri
vate consultation Saturday morn
ing at his usual $50 per hour rate.
TAES economist:
Farmers to benefit
from tax overhaul
Septemberfest set for Saturday
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doors in March
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^fcundreds of people will be
sprayed with 10,000 gallons of
foam mixed with a rainbow of
colored coins in Bryan’s Haswell
Park, Saturday. These foam-cov
ered people will then make a mad
dash for coins which are color-
coded to coincide with prizes, Di
ane Donica, recreation program-
Hr for Bryan Parks and Recre
ation said.
^■he event, the Silly Super-
Suds Sift, is part of Bryan’s
founh annual Septemberfest.
Sponsored by Bryan Parks and
Recreation and KORA radio, it
will be from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Attendance is free.
Live entertainment will be pro
vided throughout the day begin
ning at 11 a.m.
At 1:45 p.m. the Haswell Rede
dication Ceremony will begin,
recognizing recent major im
provements to one of Bryan’s old
est parks, she said.
The No-Talent Talent Show,
sponsored by KORA radio, will
begin at 6 p.m., Donica said.
MSC fills positions on Council
^■'our vacant positions in the
Memorial Student Center Coun
cil have been filled and the new
appointments will be officially an-
j^ftnced at the council’s meeting
Monday at 7 p.m. in MSC 216T.
{■'he MSC Great Issues pro
gram, “Sex in Advertising," is
slated for approval by the council.
Other programs requesting ap-
-prm ,1 are the MSC Political Fo
rum's E.L. Miller Lecture Series,
MSG SCONA’s "L’nitecl Nations
— Purpose vs. Politics,” a new
format proposal from the MBA
Law Committee and the Wiley
Lecture Series program entitled
“U.S. Constitution - Separation of
Power and American Foreign Po
lice."
Various committee reports also
will be presented at the meeting.
Regents to consider museum
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he Texas A&M University
Btkird of Regents will meet Mon
day at 1:30 p.m. to consider pro-
pos f to construct a flight mu-
selm at Easterwootl Airport and
esliblish a center for historic re
sources.
iff L. Wain ip, chairman of the
bird of Waltrip Enterprises,
Int., asked for the Board's autho-
ri|ition to construct a museum
for the care, restoration, custody
and control of livable, vintage air-
crlft.
■According to the Regents’
||tnda. the facility will be man
aged by AIR-SRV, Inc. and
oined on a contract basis by a do
nor The donor would provide
for construction of the facility
and maintenance of the aircraft,
the agenda stilted.
The Center for Historic Re
sources was recommended by a
core group of A&.-M faculty mem
bers representing several A&M
colleges.
A release from the Regents
said the center would be located
in the College ol Architecture
and Environmental Design and
administered by a director.
Objectives of the center in
clude:
• Establishing a repository for
architectural drawings, photo
graphs and manuscripts.
• Providing hands-on experi
ence and training for students in
professional programs.
By Jo Ann Able
Stuff Writer
Despite the T exas Farm Bureau’s
opposition to the proposed tax re
form bill currently awaiting appro
val in Congress, an economist at the
Texas Agricultural Extension Serv
ice says most farmers and ranchers
will likely benefit from the bill.
“While there are both pluses and
minuses in the bill as far as farmers
and ranchers are concerned, gener
ally 80 percent (nationwide) should
come out ahead,” Dr. Wayne
Hayenga of the TAES says. The bill
is expected to cut individual taxes by
an average of 6.1 percent, he says.
However, S.M. True, farm bu
reau president, says the elimination
of capital gains and income averag
ing and the reduction in investment
tax credit carry-forwards would off
set any gains that farmers and
ranchers might get from the lower
tax rates.
“When you weigh against all that’s
taken away, farmers will still be pay
ing more taxes although they’re in a
lower tax bracket,” True says.
Hayenga says livestock producers
will lose the most on the treatment of
capital gains, with the elimination of
its benefit on raised breeding stock.
He says the benefit of the 10 percent
investment tax credit on purchased
depreciable tangible property will be
missed especially by purebred
breeders and crop farmers.
On the good side, Hayenga says,
farmers and ranchers will be able to
deduct 25 percent of their health in
surance costs under the new tax
plan. He says the income level at
which no taxes would be paid will in
crease, making it possible for a fam
ily of four to make up to $13,000 a
year and pay no taxes, compared to
the current cutoff point of $ 10,000.
Those with modest incomes will
benefit the most, Hayenga says. For
example, families with annual gross
incomes between $10,000 and
$30,000 would see about a 10 per
cent reduction in taxes.
Budget cuts hurt state
drug-abuse program
AUSTIN (AP) — Hundreds of
substance-abuse patients are being
deprived of alcohol and drug pro
grams by budget cuts and a policy
change that halved Austin State
Hospital’s treatment services, staff
members and patients say.
The cutbacks at the hospital’s Al
coholism and Drug Abuse Treat
ment Center took effect April 1. The
residential treatment program was
reduced from 60 to 20 beds, the cen-
ter lost one of its two buildings and
the staff was cut from 76 to 31.
The cuts came as hospital officials
ordered the unit to quit admitting
patients who volunteered for treat
ment, said unit director Dr. Carl
Morgan. Under that change, only
court commitments — patients who
ate ordered to the center by a judge
— are accepted for treatment.
Staff members say the cuts left
people requiring treatment walking
the streets, deprived the unit of
highly motivated patients and re
sulted in patients sleeping on mat
tresses on the floor when the unit ex
ceeds its capacity.
“We get complaints all the time,”
said Llewellyn Harris, one of four
remaining counselors on the unit.
Clifton Clark, a 22-year-old pa
tient from Austin, believes about
four-fifths of the indigent drug and
alcohol abusers in the city would
check themselves into the facility if
they could.
But even when volunteer admis
sions were accepted, not all appli
cants were taken into the program.
I he center screened applicants to
make sure potential volunteer pa
tients required residential treat
ment, first sought treatment from
community resources and were re
ceptive to rehabilitation.
Dan Bowie, executive director of
the Greater Austin Council on Alco
holism and Drug Abuse, said, “It’s a
tragic situation. We are talking about
people’s lives, not just shifting num
bers.”
Bowie said state hospitals are
obeying state legislative desires to
move the services into more cost-ef
fective community-based programs.
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