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Friday, March 25, 1988/The Battalion/Pge 5 cut along dotted line and present at time of purchase X f+X-J+i+X 1 , - 1C© II mi mm Corps to raise money in Brazos march ifStOff; ig Rai idwes* iSISSlK ahea:. the iter- xthwas latior after™ enohra lyasr; ght rinds a' atwtr letecra rveKf ;ton; if r.,atio meriii' The Corps of Cadets will raise funds for the Brazos Valley March of Dimes during its annual March to the Brazos on Saturday. Corps Cmdr. Patrick Thorn- asson said the cadets solicit dona tions from local business, faculty members, former students and parents. In the last 1 1 years the Corps has raised about $250,000 for the March of Dimes. The 14-mile march, seven miles out and seven miles back, originated in 1908 on April Fool’s Day, he said. “The cadets were rowdy, so the school administration organized an activity to get them out of town and out of trouble,” he said. The march was stopped in 1915 because a student drown, but it was started again 60 years later as a means of helping the March of Dimes, he said. Current company command ers will announce leadership posi tions for next year during the march, he said. “This day is a big step in a Corps career,” he said. “Sopho mores will gain most of the recog nition, because they are stepping intojunior positions.” Jay Kregel, Corps administra tive sargeant and sub-chairman for March of the Brazos commit tee, said, “The seniors will march out and then will ride back, the juniors will lead the Corps back and the juniors, sophomores and freshman will all be wearing their new rank and insignias.” The cadets will compete in a tug-of-war competition, stretcher races and foot races. The Confederate Air Force will put on an air show and mili tary reserve organizations will simulate ground assaults, he said. A Bradley fighting vehicle, a tank and an Apache helicopter will be on display. The Dallas Cowboy Cheerlead ers will be there to sign auto graphs and T-shirts, he said. A&M to see Mexican-American impact By Anita Rodriguez Reporter A two-day conference on the “Mexican-American Impact on Politics,” featuring former Gove- norof New Mexico Toney Anaya speaking on the future of politics, will take place at Texas A&M Monday and Tuesday. The conference is sponsored by CAMAC and will cover in- depth views concerning Mexican- Americans by a variety of local and state politicians, as well as key figures in Mexican-American or ganizations. The conference, which is free :o the public, will include the fol iowing programs: Ernesto Cortez, A&M Class of'63 and the founder of Citizens Organized for Public Service, will speak on “Local Politics” Monday at 3 p.m. in MSC 206. • Sen. Hector Uribe of Brownsville and Sen. Carlos Truan of Corpus Christi will speak on the “Texas Legislature” Monday at 7:30 p.m. in 701 Rud der. Uribe and Truan will be available to answer questions at 4:30 p.m. Monday in 206 MSC. Uribe currently serves as vice chairman of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, while Truan is involved wit h both the Finance and Education Com mittees. • Tony Bonilla, who serves as the head of the Texas League of IroinSi United Latin American Coun tries, and Andrew Hernandez of the Southwest Texas Voter Regis tration will speak on “History” Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in 206 MSC. LULAC is a non-partisan organization, which assists needy Mexican-Americans and has es tablished educational and com munity programs. STVR pro vides voter information on issues concerning Mexican-Americans. • Norma Cantu, who serves as the head of the San Antonio Mex ican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Bryan City Councilman Helen Chavar ria will speak on “Women in Poli tics” Tuesday at 3 p.m. in 206 MSC. MALDEF serves to protect the rights of Mexican-Americans by providing legal council and de fense, and to aid Mexican-Ameri can youths who are studying to become lawyers. • Pedro Ruiz Garza, the presi dent of Policy Research Group, Inc. and Anaya, who is a former governor of New Mexico, will speak on “The Future of Politics” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in 201 MSC. Anaya and Garza will be available to answer questions Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in 206 MSC. Cathy Valenzuela, chairman of the MSC Committee for the Awareness of Mexican-American Culture, said the conference is unique in that this is the first time that CAMAC has used outside funding of approximately $1,500 from individual donations to help curb program expenses. The do nation revenue will be used to supplement the funds from CAMAC’s MSC budget. Anniversary ball marks 50 years of incorporatbn By Mary-Lynne Rice Staff Writer More than 200 people will help celebrate College Station’s 50th an niversary of incorporation at a golden anniversary ball tonight. The sold-out formal dinner and dance, sponsored by the City of Col lege Station and the College Station Community Center, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the center. Decorations will include depictions of each of the five decades of the city’s history. Proceeds from the ball will sup port a lecture series and historical vi deo, said Gracie Calbert, supervisor of the center and ball coordinator. “We’re looking for people who lived here in 1938,” she said. “We’d like to hear the memories of these people, who were perhaps born on campus, who went to school during the military days, who grew up in that lifetime.” Television and radio monitors will record each lecture, which will be used for a multi-media slide presen tation, Calbert said. “That way, we can also include music and pictures from history and from the archives while the speaker speaks,” she said. The ball is one of several com/ memorations of College Station’s iri corporation, she said, which include a calendar of homes and a pictor/1 history book — College Statih, Texas: 1938-1988 — by DebcAh Lynn Balliew. Balliew’s book trees College Station history from th es tablishment of A&M through^ach of its administrations to the preent. Since 1876, when 106 students ar rived at the Agricultural ai?l Me chanical College of Texas, College Station has grown steadily — now with almost 53,000 resided and a University student body / nearly 40,000. With the completion o Highway 6 in 1936, the small colleg town that began as a railroad dept opened a future of population ,rowth and community expansion. As the college grew so did resi dential and business ,reas. By the 1930s, residents saw tfe need to cre ate a municipality tcoffer govern ment services. Bailie^ writes that in March of 1938, a goup represent ing different cormunity and cam pus interests preseited an incorpo ration proposal tethe A&M Board of Directors. If ajproved, they said, the government ould focus on the community and not interfere with the college’s adbnistration. The benefitsoffered by the cre ation of a murcipality included the improvement )f public health and sanitation sty»dards, regulation of 8-year-old lemonade salesman mey lose business in move jor tof £ |FORT WORTH (AP) — Famed 8-year-old jree' lemonade salesman J.J. Merrick beat City Hall to keep his lucrative stand open, but he may have /er; trouble going up against his parents, lines V The Merricks must decide in the next few months whether they want to buy the house they have been renting on one of Fort Worth’s most- ^ .. traveled residential thoroughfares, or move to t ten /test be'-I /tflllil another home. For J.J., that decisio the end of his business. ould mean J.J. and his brothers, Chip, 15, a<d Ty, 6, have sold lemonade and homemade ;hocolate-chip cookies from a stand in front ofcheir home on Hulen Street for the past three ytirs. Considered the “driving force” behind the enture, J.J. has raised money for family vacations and a home computer through his sales. This week, JJ- was bringing in about $25 a day from his stand, which has brought in as much as $110 in a single day. Last year, the stand attracted considerable me dia attention when the city closed the operation for a zoning violation — operating a commerical enterprise on residential property. Authorities later decided the zoning ordinance did not apply to single-station lemonade stands operated by children. Coupon INTERNATIONAL HOUSE RESTAURANT $2.99 IS I Mon: Tues: Wed: Thur: Fri: Sat: Sun: Burgers French Fries Buttermilk Pancakes Burgers St French Fries Hot Dogs St French Fries Catfish Nuggets St Fries French Toast Spaghetti St Meat Sauce j iii ALL YOU CAN EAT $2" 6 p.m.-6 a.m. /Yo take outs • must present this ai ■ mmmmmmimk Expires5/1/88 mBBMHHivRMia Rooty Tooty $2 4 * 2 eggs, 2 pancakes, 2 sausage, 2 bacon good Mon.-Fri. Anytime International House of Pancakes Restaurant 103 S. College Skaggs Center TAX REFORM CHANGES FILING REQUIREMENTS In the past, tax filing season hasn’t meant much to most college students. Gener ally, their standard deduction, or “zero bracket amount” as it was called before tax reform, combined with their personal exemption, relieved most students of the obligation to file a return, even if they held part-time jobs. When college stu dents did file a return, it was usually just to obtain a refund of taxes withheld. Tax time worries were something gladly left to the older generation. Unfortunately, thanks to tax reform, college students may now join their elders in grappling with the Internal Revenue Service. This year, millions of collegians who have never filed a federal tax return before will need to do so, and what’s worse they’ll probably owe some tax. Why the change? The answer lies in the dual concepts of personal exemption and standard deduction. A general rule (with some exceptions) of ufxation is that a person need not file a federal return until his or her income exceeds the com bined total of his or her personal exemption and standard deduction. Under the old rules, a college student, assuming he or she wasn’t married, could claim a f ersonal exemption of $1,080 plus a standard deduction of $2,480 for a total of 3,560. Thus, as long as the student's gross income remained under that figure, no tax return was required and the student escaped federal income taxes alto gether. Now let’s look at the new rules. First, most college students will no longer be al lowed to claim their own personal exemption. Under tax reform, anyone who is claimed as a dependent on another taxpayer’s return may no longer claim his or her personal exemption. Because most collegians are dependents of their par ents, their personal exemption is gone. The situation with the standard deduction is a bit more complicated. The stan dard deduction of a dependent college student, or any other single dependent for that matter, is the larger of $500 or his or her earned income, but cannot ex ceed $2,540, the 1987 standard deduction for single taxpayers who are not de pendents. Thus, with no personal exemption and reduced standard deduction, many college students who had no need to file a 1986 return will need to file a 1987 return. Here’s an example. A sophomore at Dismal Seepage Ag and Tech, we’ll call her Esmerelda, is dependent on her parents’ tax return. During summer vacation, she earned $700 working a part time job. She also received $22 taxable interest from her savings account. Esmerelda’s personal exemption is zero (she’s a depen dent) and her standard deduction is $700 (the larger of $500 or her earned in come). What’s left over? The $22 interest income, of course, and she’ll have to pay tax on that amount. Esmerelda must file a federal tax return, and what’s more, she’ll pay two dollars tax to Uncle Sam. Most college students, even if they must file a tax return, will be like Esmerelda— they won’t actually pay much tax, but they will have the hassle of filing. For help with your tax return H&R Block has two locations in the Bryan-College Station area to serve you. At Sears Post Oak Mall we are open seven days a week during regular store hours and reached by calling 764-0395. We also have an of fice in Bryan at 1012 Texas Avenue which is also open seven days a week and can be reached at 823-8241. H&R Block offers appointments but the) are not re quired. Come in today and let the “Income Tax People” at H&R Block help with you. ALL YOU £ !TlOO OFF! c.» E „ i NO-WAIT LUNCH BUFFET $2.99« • Pizza • SpaGatti • Salad Bar Served 11 am to 2 pm every day. Not valid with any other coupons or special otters. Good only at participating Mr. Gatti's. Price shown is per person. Coupon may be used by 1 or 2 people. Offer Expires 5-15-88 268-BEST with coupon Save $1.00 ott reg. price Xbe best pizza in town. Skaggs Shopping Center traffic, provisiot/of police and fire protection andptablishment of a school district. After more /an 60. years of exis tence, an Oct</er 1938 vote of 217- 39 approvedihe incorporation of College Sta/>ri. The city’s first mayor, JohtA- Binney, and five al dermen we£ elected, all of them A&M faetty members. In 1939, Balliew wres, they drew up College Station’s /rst budget — allotting $4,320 fq/city expenses. Althdgh A&M has remained CollegcStation’s focus in following decady. it has become more inde- pend<*t and has taken a less promi nent ole in municipal affairs, said Car^Halter, mayor from 1980-1986 andhairman of the Historic Preser- vatjn Committee. College Station has gone from a c/nmunity where the University is a central focal point for life, so- /al activity and recreational activity now playing a much smaller role,” le said. “A&M is still a very important part of the community, but now it is becoming an independent entity,” he said. “And College Station is be coming an independent city with its own identity.” Museum owner in North Texas dies at 101 McKINNEY (AP) — Bessie Heard, who endowed her hometown with a wildlife sanctuary and natural science museum, has died at the age of 101, a museum spokesman said Wednesday. “She will be missed,” said Steve R. Runnels, the Heard Museum’s direc tor of development. A funeral was scheduled 30 miles north of Dallas today for Heard, who died Tuesday night at her home. In 1964, she endowed the mu seum that sits on a 266-acre wildlife sanctuary^ including more than five miles of nature trails. Volunteer guides take groups ranging from Cub Scouts to senior citizens on one of six different trails showing native North Texas vegeta tion, wildlife, geology and ecology, Runnels said. More than 40,000 visi tors tour each year. AM/PM Clinics CLINICS Minor Emergencies 10% Student Discount with ID card 3820 Texas Ave. Bryan, Texas 846-4756 401 S. Texas Ave. Bryan, Texas 779-4756 8a.m.-11 p.m. 7 days a week Walk-in Family Practice KETTLE Restaurants $1 OFF BREAKFAST SPECIAL sw Our 2 Eggs Your Style, 3 Golden Brown Pancakes, 3 Crispy Strips of Bacon (Regularly $2.99 NOW $1.99) expires May 31, 1988 1403 Universtiy 2712 Texas Ave., Bryan 2502 Texas Ave., C.S. Apply for Chancellor’s Student Advisory Board Applications available in Office of Vice President for Student Services, Student Activities, Student Affairs, Commandant's Office, MSC Direc tor’s Office, Student Government Of fice. Application Deadline: Wed. 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