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we’ve got to do something drastic.
We’ve got to compete.”
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A&M’s chapter of the National Engi-
jeering Society, Tau Beta Pi, and
ither students in a Zachry building
Jcture room that America has lost
its competitive edge in international
business and many Americans don’t
have the will to compete to regain it.
He challenged the audience mem
bers to work towards recapturing
merica’s status as the world’s eco-
lomic leader.
He said one trend in Amercian
usiness hurting the economy is the
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focus on services instead of man
ufacturing.
“The service industry is like play
ing poker, money just changes
hands,” he said. “Manufacturing is
how we make a profit and create
more wealth. But Americans’ objec
tives (in the recent past) have been
not to have an everlasting product,
but to take the money and run.”
To highlight his point that Amer
ica is in the midst of serious eco
nomic problems, Earle presented
slides of newspaper articles featur
ing bank failures and companies in
financial disarray.
Earle said the commonplace oc
curence of two companies merging
together to make themselves look
richer is another practice in Ameri
can business that is detrimental to
the economy. A merger can make a
company look a whole lot richer but
in actuality no real economic growth
is accomplished by two companies
combining, he said.
“Have you ever heard of jobs be
ing created once two companies
merge together?” Earle stated rather
than asked.
“They start at the top,” Earle said,
referring to heads of the merged
company firing employees. “They
start with the management, and the
people that are left are running
around scared. This could be an es
calating snowball right here; there
will be more and more mergers.
“A lot of people on Board’s of Di
rectors of companies that merge
don’t really own a piece of the busi
ness or have a committment to it,
they’re just there as fair-weathered
friends and a lot of these folks are
setup to be taken over,” he said.
Earele called for people to sup
port American business, as well as
make money, through the purchase
of stock.
“This is America,” Earle said of a
slide picturing a graphic display of
stock market trends. He told the stu
dents they should all own stock in
American companies and not think
getting rich is something to be
ashamed of.
“We have gone through an era of
time when people thought that mak
ing money was sinful, they thought
that making money indicated the es
tablishment to which they were op
posed,” he said. “That is an upside
down way of looking at things.
“Our country is based on earning
money, so everything we do has to
be based on capitalism.
Another problem area in the
economy that must be dealt with is
the growing number of failing finan
cial institutions, Earle said. He said
that although many people are
snickering at the misfortune of
America’s financial institutions, it is
essential that people support the
banks if America is going to recover
from its economic woes.
Earle stressed four basic factors as
essentail to an individuals’ and to
Americas’ recovery. Work hard, be
honest, work with integrity and take
risks are the secrets to success, he
said.
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By Kim Sanders
Reporter
I The Heritage Singers, an interde
nominational Gospel singing group,
brought their upbeat music ministry
to an audience of all ages last night
in Rudder Auditorium.
Adventist Christian Fellowship, a
:ampus organization, invited the
ingers here because “they travel
orldwide to spread the Gospel of
Jesus Christ through their music
inistry,” Maxine Dawes, a sopho
more premed major and the vice
president of Adventist Christian
fellowship explained.
Audience participation was en
couraged by the singers and enthu
siastically returned. The program
included children’s songs, humorous
songs and spiritually uplifting songs.
This year they have begun to do
songs written specifically for them
by composers in the Gospel field,
music director Bruce Grecco said.
Eight singers and three band
members, ages 20-35, make up the
Heritage Singers. Their style ranges
from a Manhatten Transfer-type of
jazz and harmony to Gospel. The
group travels 11 months out of the
year and does approximately 300
concerts on each tour. Since they be
gan, the singers have been to 40
countries and won nine Angel
awards from Religion in Media.
The Heritage Singers was started
by Max Mace 17 years ago and is
based in Placerville, Ca. Mace trav
eled with and directed the group un
til when he was forced to stop for
health reasons recently. Both his
daughter, Val Mace, and son, Greg
Mace, still tour each year.
Proposal to merge
B-CS causes conflict
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Forecast:
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southerly at 10-16 mph through the morning, becoming northerly at 12 mph
gusting to 18 mph in the afternoon. Expect a 30 percent probability of rain.
Tonight. Continued Cloudy and cooler. Low temperature of 53 degrees, with light
northwestrly winds.
Wednesday. Becoming partly cloudy and mild, high 67, winds will be southerly at
seven to 10 mph.
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By Kimberly House
Staff Writer
Travis Bryan said that his pro
posed merger of Bryan and College
Station would be advantageous to
A&M because one large community
would be supporting the University.
However, others, such as former
mayor of College Station Gary Hal
ter, College Station Mayor Larry
Ringer and Bryan Mayor Marvin
Tate, said the merger would have
little effect on A&M.
Bryan, whose ancestors founded
the city of Bryan, is a local banker
and currejpt member and past presi
dent of the Bryan school board.
Bryan said he thinks the one large
city would have a better chance of
getting industry to the area and
A&M would have a better “drawing
card” for getting students if Bryan-
College Station were one town of
110 thousand people rather than
one town with 50 thousand and one
with 53 thousand.
“One community would be more
likely to be able to attract industry
which would make for a larger town
and make for more things to do for
the students of Texas A&M,” Bryan
said.
Ringer said he has not been told
of any and does not see any direct ef
fects on the University by the
merger.
“I’ve heard that the merger might
attract people to A&M but I can’t see
anything that would suggest what it
would be about a large city that
would attract people to the Univer
sity in terms of programs that
couldn’t be supported by the com
bined communities and still remain
two cities,” Ringer said.
Halter, a political scientist and ex
pert in municipal government, said
he does not think this would effect
A&M because most of the city ordi
nances do not apply to the univer
sity. However, he said, the fire pro
tection provided to A&M by College
Station would effect the cities.
“College Station now provides fire
protection to the University and if
the cities merged then Bryan would
have to begin to pay for the services
that College Station provides to
A&M,” Halter said.
Halter said he did a study several
years ago on 18 cities in the U.S. that
had consolidated and in every case
either one or both cities were de
clining in population. Halter said he
suspects this to be one of the reasons
for the sudden action.
Halter said that nationwide,
mergers generally do not fare well
mainly because people would rather
have small decentralized govern
ments, not large centralized ones.
Tate also said he does not see that
the merger would have any effect on
A&M getting professors or students.
“I really don’t think the students
would be effected as much as you
might think think they would be and
I don’t think it’s going to have any
thing to do with A&M getting pro
fessors or students,” Tate said. “I
think Texas A&M, on its own, has a
great reputation from the stand
point of research and soforth, but
they’re going to come because they
think they have a better opportunity
for whatever field of endevor they’re
in. It’s not going to make any differ
ence to them if Bryan-College Sta
tion is a better place to live in than
somewhere else.”
The city of Bryan, incorporated in
1871, is older than the 1938 incorpo
rated College Station. Bryan is con
sidered by most to be more conser
vative than College Station, and is an
“old family” type of town. College
Station is considered by most to be
the more progressive of the two.
According to the Brazos Valley
Almanac, Wiliam Joel Bryan’s family
was one of the first 300 families in
Stephen F. Austin’s initial colony.
Bryan was an important cotton
and trading center in its early days
and the city developed and pros
pered greatly.
The almanac said Brazos County
residents donated $50,000 and
2,000 acres to establish a land grant
college in what is now College Sta
tion under the Morrill Act of 1862.
In October 1876 the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas
opened.
College Station eventually became
a city with an early population of
professors and college students.
When Post Oak Mall came to Col
lege Station, it put College Station in
the dominant position of the two cit
ies while downtown Bryan was fight
ing hard times with thier oil-industry
businesses and crude prices at their
lowest in years.
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