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the University Q-drop policy.
The resolution, which will be
read to the Senate but not voted
on at this meeting, calls for the
extension of the time period al
lowed for Q-drop each semester.
Hays said.
Another bill to be presented to
the Senate calls for a longer time
period for campaigning in Stu
dent Government runoff elec
tions. If passed by the Senate in a
future meeting, the bill will allow
for a minimum of seven days of
campaigning between the pri
mary and the runoff elections.
Some senators don’t think the
time available for runoff cam
paigns is sufficient, Hays said.
This year there were two days be
tween the primary and runoff.
The Texas A&M Student Sen
ate will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday in 204 Harrington to
vote on a measure to urge the
A&M Board of Regents to add a
student representative to the
Board.
If passed, the bill, which was
presented to the Senate at its last
meeting, will create a committee
consisting of six members, three
of whom will be from A&M’s Leg
islative Study Group, to research
and lobby for a student seat on
the Board.
Jay Hays, speaker of the Sen
ate, said he expects the bill to pass
easily.
The Senate also will consider a
resolution that calls for a study of
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amaging beetle outbreak
decreases, foresters report
ATLANTA (AP) — An outbreak of
Southern pine beetles has done $500
inillion worth of damage to timber in
nine Southern states, but reports in-
’ijicate the insects are becoming less
active, the head of the region’s larg
est forest landowner group said.
I B. Jack Warren, executive vice
^president of the Atlanta-based For
est Farmers Association, said a sur
vey of state forestry agencies and
data collected by the U.S. Forest
Service show beetle damage to be de-
Icteasing sharply in areas that were
hardest hit over the past four years.
■ The beetle, no larger than a grain
of rice, attacks trees en masse, bor
ing into the bark and feeding on the
cambium layer just beneath the
bark. This interrupts the normal
flow of nutrients through the trees,
causing them to die.
The area of beetle infestation ex
tended along a 200-mile-wide belt
from eastern Texas, across Loui
siana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, South Carolina, North Car
olina and Virginia, Warren said.
Warren cautioned that the latest
cycle of the Southern pine beetle at
tack is not entirely over.
“The higher elevations of Tennes
see, Virginia, Alabama and Georgia
and the Piedmont and Mountain re
gions of North Carolina are still re
porting high levels of. . . beetle dam
age,” he said, estimating damage to
public and private forest lands in the
South at $500 million.
DALLAS (AP) — Margurette
Troutman didn’t decide to go to col
lege until she was 32, divorced and
mother of a young child.
Now in her eighth year of teach
ing 10th- and llth-grade English at
Highland Park High School, Trout
man has been honored as Secondary
School Teacher of the Year by the
Texas Education Agency. She will
represent Texas in the National
Teacher of the Year contest.
Troutman, 59, finished four years
of college in 2'/2 years, graduated
with honors and is now in her 23rd
year of teaching.
She borrowed money and rode a
school bus 100 miles a day to and
from the nearest college because
there was no college in her small
hometown in Arkansas.
“Every day I stepped aboard the
school bus I grew younger,” she
wrote in a biographical essay about
her life. “I fell in love with young
people, with the magic of learning.”
Jimmie Rose Driver, a first-grade
teacher in the Agua Dulce school
district in Nueces County in the Rio
Grande Valley, was named Elemen
tary School Teacher of the Year.
Driver has been a teacher for 16
years, the last 1.0 in Agua Dulce.
This year was the first time in the
19-year history of the contest that
winners were named in two catego
ries.
They were chosen from more
than 80 entrants who submitted a se
ries of essays on such topics as the
philosophy of teaching, personal
teaching style and perceptions of na
tional education issues.
Six finalists were interviewed in
Austin over the weekend. The two
winners will receive a cash award
and a plaque, and they will be recog
nized at the state board of education
meeting in May.
William Kirby, Texas education
commissioner, said, “Mrs. Troutman
and Mrs. Driver represent the thou
sands of fine dedicated teachers
throughout Texas. We will be proud
to have them serve as examples of
the very best of the teaching profes
sion throughout the coming year.”
Troutman wrote in an essay on
the philosophy of teaching, “Teach
ing, to me, is a way of life. The re
wards have been great and far-
reaching.
“To see the light of understand
ing for the first time in a child’s eyes;
to see a youth grow physically, men
tally, emotionally and psychologi
cally; to see the successful devel
opment of a selfhood emerge in a
child — these are some of the re
wards of teaching.”
She wrote that teaching “is not an
easy life.” And in an essay on educa
tional trends she said teachers are
often looked upon as “a parent, a
friend, a moralist, a psychiatrist, a
nurse and a humanist.”
Troutman taught English for 15
years at Robert E. Lee High School
in Tyler before coming to Highland
Park.
Purchasers raise North Texas crude oil price
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WICHITA FALLS (AP) — Eight
major purchasers raised the price
thev pay for North Texas crude oil
from $18.50 to $19 per barrel and
■ght others probably will follow suit,
an oilman said.
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■ The eight purchasers still at
$18.50 will probably go up soon, said
William T. “Bill” Thacker, a past
president of the North Texas Oil &
Gas Association.
“I would think they would go up
before long,” he said Monday.
“They generally have followed suit
in the past when some have taken
the lead and gone up, and I don’t ex
pect an exception at this time.”
Sun Oil Co. and Permian Oil in
creased their postings in North
Texas from $18.50 a barrel to $19
Friday after about 10 days of an up
ward trend in the futures markets.
On Monday, Conoco, Geer Tank
Trucks, Marathon Corp., Pride Oil
Co., Unocal Oil and Koch Oil Co.
also increased their prices from
$18.50 to $19.
The price of West Texas Interme
diate crude oil in New York Monday
closed at $20.20 per barrel, up from
$19.80 per barrel Friday. The West
Texas price is that paid by oil com
panies to purchasers of oil and
North Texas oil prices generally fol
low increases on that spot market.
Thacker said he doesn’t expect
Monday’s virtual free fall in the
stock market to have a strong impact
on oil prices because the oil and gas
industry already is in a weakened
state and therefore doesn’t have as
far to fall as other segments of the
economy.
What happens in the Middle East
is more important to oil prices than
the stock markets, he said.
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