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Wednesday, January 16, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
S councilman stresses
nity, pride for residents
>nd hopes for more citizen involement
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By Carol Ellison
Reporter
my years ago, a new choir di-
tOi at Texas A&M Consolidated
li School knew he had to get the
lest of the athletes to have a suc-
ssful choir program. His first re-
uil was a 160-pound guard on the
l>all team.
Biat guard, James Bond, now is a
Bge Station city councilman. He
ns the choir director changed his
■ Bond says singing became one
hi favorite hobbies because of his
icii director and he’s spent 13
a* singing in church on Sundays.
“Icould be eternally happy simply
Hngin the church choir,” he says.
Bund’s choir director 35 years ago
E ob Boon, who is now the direc-
the Singing Cadets at Texas
Hr Boon has remained close
■ids with Bond, and sang in
■d’s wedding.
• "l and was the first recipient of
iel\rion Music Award, which I in-
James Bond
“College Station has grown faster
than it can keep up with,” he says.
“We are now at a plateau.”
In order to solve that problem.
Bond would like to see the residents
"ad like to see the residents of College Station rally
wund the 'high school’ and its accomplishments. ”
— fames Bond, College Station city councilman
£en«
e sai! pied
at A&M Consolidated,”
Re:® 1 says. “He wms a very hard
( or! er, so I gave him a solo.
'onecB‘ nce * le school, he has
j i ■i very active in church work. He
etieves in his fellow man, knowing
Me
S he has weaknesses, but he is
t iou tere to help and not to criticize.”
theiMrjnd is in his first term as city
;« Bicilman, but he has been active
dcserSther areas of government. He
hebield a position on the Navasota
ill HaiW 0 ! board of trustees as well as be-
kj se!i -fe Navasota’s city attorney from
r lip*) t° 1976.
In 1973, he was appointed to the
■ tate Industrial Commission — now
! le Texas Economic Development
10 # mission — by former Governor
e sce tolph Briscoe. He served on the
was 'fflrnission until 1978.
Bond says he wants College Sta-
agan on to become a unified city. He has
[y.fii; deep interest in College Station, he
r Bui Ip-
Amen®
of College Station find a common in
terest. Bond calls himself the “cheer
leader type” and he says he wants
the city to become unified, full of
good attitudes and pride.
“I’d like to see the residents of
College Station rally around the
‘high school’ and its accomplish
ments,” Bond says.
Besides his involvement with the
city council, Bond is the deputy
chancellor for legal and external af
fairs at Texas A&M.
Bond graduated from A&M in
1958 with a bachelor’s degree in
physical education. He attended law
school at the University of Houston
from 1964 through 1968.
Bond has been with the Texas
A&M University System since 1976
except for two and a half years when
he went into private law' practice in
Bryan. Before he left, he was the
vice-chancellor for legal and public
affairs.
“1 had no notion of coming back
to A&M after I went into private
practice,” he says. “I am not a person
who looks back, and I wasn’t excited
about coming back.”
The members of the Board of Re
gents asked Bond to return to A&M
before former chancellor Arthur
Hansen left, Bond says.
“I never said I would come back,”
he says, “but I left the door open to
the possibility.
After Dr. Hansen left, they began
to search within for a new chan
cellor. I was interested in working
with the people they were consid
ering, especially Dr. (Perry) Adkis-
son.
“Now 1 am delighted that I re
turned. Private practice was good
for me, but I think I am more of the
public servant type.”
Bond describes himself as a sensi
tive person: “I care about people. I
think I am a sociologist at heart be
cause I love to think about people.
“I find at this age, people’s feel
ings are very important to me.”
Bond carries his sensitivity into his
position of city councilman.
He describes his feelings on the
proposed budget cuts in Texas:
“I am sensitive about cutting pro
grams that were never overfunded
to start with. They can find fault
with programs but they must have a
substitute for what they take away.
Someone benefited from those pro
grams and you can’t just take them
away.”
Bond says his sensitivity while he
was practicing law probably helped
him become a better lawyer. It made
him feel good to know that he
helped people in some way, he says.
Law is still a hobby for Bond, even
though he is not in private practice
anymore, he said.
“It is an ever-emerging, wonder
ful exercise of great minds at work,”
he says. “I never get caught up with
studying law. 1 enjoy reading and
considering it.”
Although Bond describes himself
as a caring man, he tries not to take
his job too seriously. He says he likes
to be able to laugh at himself and
others.
“I see humor in a lot of things, but
I can make a decision,” he says, ref
erring to his position on the city
council. “I am never without facts
for making a decision and 1 don’t
like to wear the subject out.”
islature opens session
facing $5.8 billion shortfall
> vies -mUSTlN (AP) — Low-hanging
i vvitiK ain douds and die state’s money
;rful\Bs offered a gloomy counterpoint
;torslif the typically colorful ceremonies
jy old iff king Tuesday’s opening of the
lunch w as Legislature.
“AlBonvening just after noon, mem-
nin£"W th 6 House and Senate quickly
h iere reminded that during their
j|B-day session they must balance a
Be budget that Comptroller Bob
Mock says is $5.8 billion in the red,
‘ ll jl e| y b ecause °f collapse of oil
id anu g as p r j ces
la shoo® i n t ] le ij est 0 f times and in the
aid Mwst of times, dif ficult choices must
be made,” Secretary of State Myra
McDartiel told the House after gavel-
ing that chamber into session.
“Your mission in the next 139
days is to operate as a rather large
Ways and Means Committee for the
state of Texas,” she said. “It is never
easy to determine the course of gov
ernment which will best serve all the
people of the state.”
The secretary of state wields the
gavel on opening day until the
House elects a speaker. As expected,
Speaker Gib Lewis, D-Fort Worth,
easily was re-elected to a third term
in that job.
> after s 1 -
y r jters Gf
n
Church leaders: SMU
may face probation
in a pH'
ilt ohl f I DALLAS (AP) — Officials of
“Neat 1 lie United Methodist Church
--so# llniversity Senate say Southern
in the to Methodist University may be put
Bn probation if the school does
■e#fl ot c °mply with criteria required
■f Methodist-affiliated colleges,
the sill ddif senate, which has author-
’ it' over a college or university’s
a ° Benominational affiliation, has
A Jr nt t h ree investigative teams to
i'# 1 the SMU campus over the past
lusbar, 1 .year, officials said Monday,
bathe. | The group met Friday in Aus-
nt MBit and, after studying the team’s
^ho iisflndings, reported that the school
B “at the very least on an alert”
e roasi ttygarding its affiliation with the
. VOU d Urch -
’ tfinj(l B Senate President Roy B. Shil-
‘11 rli l n S sa id the agency is not only
,1 - tl * f |' ou hled by allegations of NCAA
fi veca lies violations in SMU’s football
[y has 1 program, but is “seriously con-
rny h 1 ferned about broader institutio-
ver. hUi Sal issues.”
Trent, e Senate members would not
ecify the investigation’s focus,
an official with the senate in
few York told the Dallas Morn-
ig News that the allegations of
proprieties in SMU’s athletic
H, I
( the saj
you
program are seen as “only symp
tomatic” of greater concerns.
The Southwest Conference
school’s football program has
been racked with allegations of
player payoffs and illegal booster
activity.
The official, who asked not to
be identified, said the senate
“doesn’t give a hoot about a win-
loss record.”
“We care only about the issues
that impact on colleges, universi
ties and seminaries,” he said, indi
cating that the investigation is
concerned with finances, SMU’s
relationship with the church,
ethics and standards.
Shilling, who is also president
of the Methodist-affiliated South
western University in George
town, said a report of the senate’s
findings is being compiled and
will be sent to interim SMU Presi
dent William Stallcup.
Stallcup said he had not re
ceived the report, but said he un
derstands its interest “goes far be
yond the football program.” He
added that the senate’s concern is
“definite and understandable,”
1 rhe T
and in<|
, Killeel
With his 149 colleagues seated at
their desks, Lewis gave lawmakers
the gloomy forecast.
“I wish I could welcome you to a
session in which our greatest chal
lenge would be the management of
plenty,” Lewis said. “Unfortunately,
that is not the case.
“You come here from every cor
ner of the state and you know the
problem.”
Urging legislators to show “re
solve and courage,” Lewis said the
1987 session would be marked by
tough choices, late hours and pres
sure from those who favor the nu
merous state programs that will be
under scrutiny.
Urging consolidation of some
state agencies, Lewis pledged that
before any tax increase will get con
sideration in the House, “We will
have made the hard choices . . . and
said no many, many times.”
At the top of the lawmakers’
agenda is the state government bud
get for the fiscal year that ends Aug.
31.
Bullock has projected that it is still
$1 billion in the red.
Bullock also is projecting that rev
enues will fall $4.8 billion short for
the 1988-89 budget which lawmak
ers also must write this year.
Compounding those problems is a
projected drop in tax revenue, with
1988-89 income estimated at 2.9
percent less than 1986-87 income.
That’s the first revenue drop since
the mid-1950s.
In addition, a near $1 billion in
crease in the state sales and motor
fuels taxes passed by lawmakers last
summer is scheduled to expire on
Aug. 31.
Sen. Grant Jones, D-Temple,
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, said, “It’s obvious we’ve
got major problems.”
The magnitude of the trouble al
ready had lawmakers talking about
the possibility of special sessions be
ing held this summer. Jones was
among those saying he hasn’t yet
planned his summer vacation.
Next week, Republican Gov.-elect
Bill Clements — who has promised
to offer lawmakers a budget that will
require no new taxes — will be sworn
into office.
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